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Margaret Higgins MITCHELL

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Vic. Birth 26430/1849 MITCHELL Margaret Higgins - William - Mary UNK - b. Collingwood, Vic.

NSW Death 5716/1932 PROWSE MARGARET H - WILLIAM - MARY - REDFERN * 20 May

Looing for more on William and Mary, thanks.
 

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Margaret Higgins Mitchell b 29 Sept 1849 baptised 2 Nov 1849 St Peter’s Eastern Hill Melb – William & Mary Mitchell

William Mitchell b 4 March 1810 – baptised 8 March 1810 Campsie Stirlingshire – lived in Falkirk – Archibald Mitchell & Margaret Higgins. - Scotland select births & baptisms
married 2 Aug1841 Barony Lanark to Mary Carr/Kerr (1816-1884)

arrival in NSW ?
Pos.. NSW Assisted – William Mitchel 24 labourer & Mary 23 housemaid, protestant, both from Argyle – arrived 30 Nov 1841 - “Marquis of Bute” also on Vic - microform copy, VPRS 3502); Series: VPRS 14

Birth of Archibald Mitchell 26 Sept 1842 baptised 27 Nov 1842 Concord NSW – William Mitchell & Mary – FHL 993954 & V18422866 26A – he died 1883 Vic – reg 9720

a pos….Mary Ann Carr baptised 12 Nov 1815 Great Hamilton Street Reformed Presbyterian Glasgow, Lanark Scotland – Hugh Carr & Nicholas Blackie

trees have death for both William & Mary in 1884 but no area...going by marriage notice of Margaret to to Robert Prowse in June 1870 – has 2nd daughter of Late William Mitchell

1 tree has 1856 Vic for William – 3 on BDM between 1854 – 1856 parents unknown..

last child for the couple
Eliza Carr Mitchell b 1854 St Kilda – correct parents – reg 6399 – she died 1860 Vic – reg 10833

Mary – died Aug 1890 Vic age 74 – reg 13999
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/196966417?searchTerm=mary mitchell
 

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18/03/1810 MITCHELL WILLIAM - ARCHIBALD MITCHELL/MARGARET HIGGINS FR1639 M 479 50 / 433 FALKIRK

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1841 William Mitchell
https://www.freecen.org.uk/search_r...ll-1841-stirlingshire-falkirk-1811-?locale=en

No baptism that would show Jean as a sister.

Marriage
MITCHELL WILLIAM
JEAN PRETTIS/FR3458
11/06/1837
479
120 / 360
FALKIRK

MITCHELL WILLIAM
WILLIAM MITCHELL/JEAN PRATIS FR3004
M
13/01/1841
479
110 / 147
FALKIRK

MITCHELL
ELIZABETH
WILLIAM MITCHELL/JEAN PRATIS FR3077
F
05/01/1846
479
110 / 391
FALKIRK

That can't be the right William in 1841.
 
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Baptisms solemnized in the Parish of St James Melbourne in the County of Bourke in the Year 1842
No. 813 When Baptised: Nov. 27th When Born: 1842 26th Sept Archibald - William & Mary Mitchell Abode: Collingwood Quality or Profession: Baker By whom the Ceremony was performed: A. C. Thomson Chaplain
 

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