Monday, 17 October 2016

FAMILY TREE of the Dick family of Scotland-Australia

This is a 'tree' compiled from family notes, letters & journals, and from research in Ancestry and Trove.
Generation 0 is that of Alexander Dick snr who migrated to Australia in 1856. Generation 1 is that of his sons who also migrated; John is the only son who had ongoing descendants, as William never married and Alex jnr's only son never married.

       DICK Generations – from Alexander Dick snr & Isabella McLachlane


 Gen -2
Gen  -1
Gen 0
Gen 1
Gen 2











William Dick
m.
Mary Dalgleish/
Douglass

Notes: Names, ages etc. of William and Mary and their children were taken from an article written in the Melbourne Argus in 1868 by their grandson Alexander Dick

Adam Dick 1745 - ?
Notes: Bapt 1748 Gargunnock, Stirling, Scotland







William Dick 1747 - ?
m. 1799
Ann Robertson





Alexander
Dick
1802- 1869
m.
Isabella McLachlane
1802-1840


Notes: Alexr migrated to Australia with his 2 younger sons on the Euphrates  in 1856. His oldest son Alex had emigrated there3 years before.

Alexr wrote over 70 letters to son Alex in those 3 years; we still have the letters in the family; they have been transcribed and annotated.

Alexr travelled back to Scotland but ended up back in Melbourne, where he died aged 67

Alexander Dick
1834-1913
Notes: Alex sailed to Australia on the ‘Sir William Molesworth’ in 1853. He began by labouring and tried his hand at the goldfields.  Later he was an investor in mines and wholesaling. 
He married 3 times, but only had one son, Alick, who died at 41 without having married or produced any descendants.
Alex wrote 3 volumes of memoirs; the second 2 are in the State Library (and I have a copy)


m.1. Isabella  Macfie 1843-1867


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m. 2. Mary Ann Hernon 1833-1880 (widow of John Horton Sherwin;
son- John Horton Sherwin)

(Unnamed)  Still-born daughter 1876

Alexander Hernon Dick 1880-1921


m. 3. Ellen Johnstone Cunningham 1856-1908 (widow of James Davidson Hardie)


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John Dick
1836-1907
m.
Isabella  Muir
1848-1923

Notes: John Dick sailed out to Australia on the Euphrates when he was 19, with his father Alexr and his brother William, to join older brother Alex.

He later married Isabella Muir, whose family were friends of theirs from Busby.

Isabella’s sister Matilda had married John Murdoch and emigrated to Australia in 1853; her brother Samuel followed, and later, in 1862, their mother Maria emigrated with Mary and Isabella aboard the Morning Light.

Alexander Dick 1871–1953
Isabel Mary Dick 1873–1919
Lillian Mabel Dick 1874–1875
William Douglas Dick 1876–1962
John Struan/Struin Robertson Dick 1878–1917
James Harold Dick 1881–1945
Lillian Mabel Dick 1883–1956

Dorothy Marjorie Dick 
1890–1968
m.
Howard Stanley “Jim” Scales 1890-1972

William  Dick
1838-1920

Notes: William emigrated to Australia, aged  with his father and brother in 186 (see notes for John).
He became a mining manager and travelled across Australia, keeping in close contact with his brothers, but he never married. He died aged 81 in Perth, WA.



Mary Dick
1809-1863
m.
Alexander Russell
?- 1855

Alexander Russell
1844- ?


Annie Russell
1838 - ?


Jean Dick
1749- ?
Notes: Bapt 1752 Gargunnock, Stirling, Scotland





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