Ross
Beattie's BEATTIE
Genealogy Page
including the Christy
connection
[please contact
Ross Beattie for further details of
this lineage, especially for details regarding more recent generations]
This Page was Last Updated on 4th March 2004
1 John McGregor Beatty (c1810…?) m. Dorothea — (c1810…?)
1.1 Sarah Betty (c1832…1904) m. Robert Coleman Eaton (1827…1898)
1.2 Rebecca Beatty (c1836…) m. David/Daniel Christy (…)
1.2.1 John Rowland Christy (c1857…)
1.2.2 Lucinda Christy (c1863…)
1.3 Dorothy Betty (1836…1912) m. John Robert Henderson (1835…1913)
1.4 Mary Jane Betty (1839…)
1.5 Lucinda Betty (1842…1920) m. Jeremiah Wilson (1839…1907)
1.6 John Roland Beattie (1843…1931+) m. Sarah —
1.7 William David Beatty (1845…?)
1.8 Eliza Jane Beatty (1846…1942) m. Henry Brien (1837…1921)
1.9 Guy Beatty (1849…1921) m. Sarah Beatty (c1857…1941)
1.9.1 William John Beatty (1877…1946) m. Nellie Wright
1.9.2 Lucinda Beatty (1880…1947) m. William Fr. Thurston
1.9.3 Sarah Elizabeth Beatty (1882…1939) m1. William George Wright (…1922); ?m2. Johnson
1.9.4 Roland Beatty (1885…1966) m. Cora Hunter (…1964)
1.9.5 Vicars Andrew Beatty (1887…1972) m. Hazel G Beacock (1887…1970)
1.9.5.1 Muriel Hannah Beatty (1920…) m. Wilford Strome
1.9.5.2 Aileen Victoria Beatty (1923…) m. Harold Fredrick Poulsom
1.9.5.3 Harold Andrew Beatty (1925…) m. Betty L Goodhand
1.9.6 Dorothea Adelaide Beatty (1889…1953) m. Wilson/Nelson Thurston (…1971)
1.9.7 Agnes Edith Beatty (1892…1970) m. Ezra C Thurston (…1970)
1.10 Andrew McGregor Beatty (1851…1925) m. Matilda Bailey (1846…1926)
1.10.1 George Rowland Bailey Beatty (1885…1971) m1. Rosa Mary Batcheldor (1888-1921), m2. Dorothy Amy Ann Wilson (…1951)
1.10.2 Dorothy Jane Beatty (1887…1981) m. David Cleland (c1886…1930)
2 John Beatty (1851…) m. Jane Woods (…) [Kilskeery, Co Fermanagh]
3 Margaret Dorothy Beattie (…1948) m. Alfred Forster (1882c…) [Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh -> Sydney NSW]
John and Dorothea Betty remained in the Enniskillen area after several of their children had emigrated to Australia, Canada or the United States of America.
[Miscellaneous Notes:
¨ Some confusion exists as to whether Mary Ann and Eliza Jane were the same person.
¨ Maria Beatty or Beattie of nearby Killimitten in 1893 sent a photograph (of herself) to Andrew McGregor Beattie, then in New South Wales, inscribed "Uncle Andrew, Your Loving Niece, Maria Beatty, Killimitten"; it is not yet clear whose child she was.
¨ Margaret Dorothy Forster nee Beatty (see Section 7 on page 52) was also related, though the relationship is still not understood.]
Sarah Betty, 25, spinster of Canine, married Robert Coleman Eaton, 30, bachelor farmer of Carron at Kilskeery on 27 October 1857. When Sarah [Beatty] was born, circa 1830-1832, her father's residence was recorded as Bigh, which was "1 mile of Killymitten" . Robert was the son of JOSEPH EATON and his wife REBECCA BRIEN. Robert and Sarah Eaton emigrated to Australia, arriving in Port Phillip in February 1858 aboard the Shooting Star, apparently proceeding later that year to New South Wales. Robert and Sarah had seven children. Robert died 3 January 1898 at Oberon. Sarah died 30 March 1904 at "Apple Grove", Fish River Creek near Oberon NSW. [For further details of this family see the Eaton file.]
Rebecca Beatty married farmer David/Daniel Christy in Ireland. From stated relationships of her children to other children of JOHN McGREGOR BEATTY and his wife DOROTHEA, Rebecca has been included in this Beattie lineage. The known issue of Rebecca were:
Eliza J Beatty was described as Lucinda Christy's [spinster] aunt, and Jeremiah Wilson, husband of Lucinda Beatty, as John's uncle (Eliza and Lucinda Beatty were daughters of John and Dorothea). It thus appears that Rebecca, perhaps born circa 1835, was a daughter of JOHN McGREGOR BEATTY and his wife DOROTHEA.
John Rowland Christy, aged 24, from Fenton TYR, died on 15 September 1881 at Oberon. His headstone was erected by Jeremiah Wilson (husband of John's aunt Lucinda nee Beatty) who was also the informant for John's death certificate, and described himself as John's "uncle" residing at Glyndwr, Oberon. John was noted as a farmer aged 23, the son of farmer DAVID CHRISTY and REBECCA BEATTY, born in Ireland and in New South Wales for only fourteen months [this would date his arrival in the colony to July 1880]. John death was certified by Dr John Eaton, brother-in-law of Sarah Eaton nee Beatty. The funeral was officiated by J R Read of the Church of England, and the burial by undertaker John Graham was witnessed by Frederick John Wilson and Andrew [McG] Beattie. John had not married.
"Aunt Eliz J Beatty"
of Sydney is noted as a "relation in the Colony" to Lucinda
Christy (sister of John Rowland Christy), 17, a farm servant born in
Co Tyrone, who died in a Sydney hospital on 17 September 1880. Eliza had paid
a deposit in NSW for Lucinda Christy's emigration on 30 August 1879. Lucinda
had taken ill while emigrating aboard the Peterborough on the same voyage
as Andrew McGregor Beattie and his nephew James John Henderson, and died ten
days after reaching Sydney. There were no other Christys aboard the Peterborough.
The NSW death index lists Lucinda Christie's parents as DANIEL and REBECCA .
[The NSW death index also lists the 1881 death of a Margaret Christie, lost
in a river, and whose father was 'Bailey' : was she born Margaret Bailey, and
was she related to the Christies mentioned before, or to Matilda Bailey wife
of Andrew McGregor Beattie?]
Dorothy Betty
(Dorathey in the marriage index), 22, spinster of Kinine, married John
Robert Henderson (born February 1835) on 9 March 1858, the marriage
being registered in the district of Lowtherstown (Irvinestown). The couple
continued in Ireland until their deaths, but all their children who survived
infancy emigrated, mostly to America. John and his brother Jack had property,
possibly on a 99 year lease, side by side near Enniskillen. John's property
was "Loughterush", about 1km NW of Kilskerry Bridge. The Hendersons
seemed to have been well off during their child-rearing days.
Dorothy died on the property during 1912 , and John died in 1913.
[For
more details of this family, refer to the Henderson
file].
Mary Jane Betty was born 24 February 1839, the fourth known child of JOHN BETTY and his wife DOROTHERA. John and Dorothera at the time stated their residence as Killymitten.
According to her death
certificate, Lucinda Betty emigrated to Australia about 1868
when she was 24 years old. Lucinda's brother-in-law, Robert Coleman Eaton,
paid a deposit of £3 for her immigration on 8 October 1862 (Robert had
been resident in the colony with his wife Sarah and family since 1858). John
Fleming, a neighbour of Robert in both Ireland and NSW, paid deposits the
same day for the immigration of Mary, Anthony, John and Robert Edgar , who
duly arrived aboard the John Temperley on 1 August 1863, though not
with neighbour Lucinda. Lucinda's deposit was refunded on 15 October 1863
following an application by Robert . [John Fleming first worked for the Whalans
at Gingkin prior to selecting land at Fish River Creek .]
Lucinda married Jeremiah Wilson (also of Enniskillen stock)
at O'Connell near Oberon NSW on 10 January 1868. Jeremiah was born in October
1839, the son of farmer and grazier WILLIAM WILSON and his wife REBECCA LIDDLE.
For much of his married life, Jeremiah was Keeper at the newly discovered
Fish River Caves, now known as Jenolan Caves. On 18 March 1879, Jeremiah wrote
from his home, "Lucindale" on Fish River Creek, to the Minister
of Lands, concerning the discovery of the Imperial Cave. One small cave within
the Chifley Cave system is called the Lucinda Cave, named after his wife.
Jeremiah and Lucinda had eight children:
Jeremiah died on 3 November
1907 at Woollahra NSW. Lucinda lived with her daughter Maggie Cummings in ?Cook
Road, Centennial Park, Sydney until she died on 5 March 1920.
[Further
details of this family are included in the Wilson
file]
John Roland Betty was born 6 April 1843. It seems that he married in the 1870s, as there were several births registered to this couple, resident at Killymittan:
John and presumably his wife Sarah emigrated to America, settling near New York. There he kept in contact with Alexander Henderson. Alex, writing to George R. B. Beattie in 1931, said that John Roland had four sons "some living in New York and some a short distance out".
William David Beatty was born in Kilskeery 30 May 1845. No other information is available at the moment.
Maria Beatty
Maria Beatty's name is written inside the cover of a New and Old Testament
book in the possession of G A Beattie. It was written 19 times as Beatty and
four times as Beattie. She was a niece of Andrew McGregor Beatty. In 1893
she sent a photograph (of herself) to Andrew McGregor Beattie, then in New
South Wales, inscribed "Uncle Andrew, Your Loving Niece, Maria Beatty,
Killimitten"; Gloria Russell-Brookes nee Bailey has the photograph
in her possession. She thought the photograph, of a charming young person,
was sent to her Aunt Amy for painting a miniature. She did not know whether
Maria ever came to Australia.
Perhaps Maria was a daughter of William David Beatty.
Guy Beatty,
son of JOHN and DOLLY BEATTY of Kynine (sic) born 5 June 1849, was baptised
at Kilskeery TYR by W E Fleming on the 13 June 1849. Guy emigrated to Canada
in 1867 (perhaps via Australia (?or South Africa?)) and settled at Bobcaygeon,
near Dunsford, ONT.
Guy Beatty married Sarah Beatty on 24 January 1877 at Bobcaygeon
ONT. Guy was stated to have latterly been resident at ?Verulam; Sarah was also
listed as a resident thereof. The officiant at the wedding was Revd Harlock
of the Church of England; witnesses were Wm Thurston and Catharine Gray.
Guy and Sarah raised seven children:
The 1881 Canadian census
shews the following:
(Verulam, Victoria South, Ontario [Dist. 129 , Sub-dist. E, Div. 1, Page 14;
Household #64]
[LDS FHL film# 1375879, NA film# C-13243])
Name Pos MS Sex Nationality Age Birthplace Occupation Religion eYoB
Guy Beaty Head M M Irish 29 Ireland Farmer Methodist 1852
Sarah Beaty Wife M F Irish 24 Ontario Methodist 1857
Wm. John Beaty Son M Irish 3 Ontario Methodist 1878
Lucinda Beaty Dau F Irish 1 Ontario B. May 11/12 Wesleyan Methodist 1880
Pos = position in Household; MS = marital status (S:single, M:married, W:widowed);
eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction
of age from Census year).
Guy Beatty died 25 August 1921, survived by his wife Sarah until 29 August 1941.
William John Beatty (Johnny), born 4 November 1877, ONT, married Nellie Wright on 12 December 1900. A daughter was
Johnny died 16 December 1946.
Lucinda Beatty
(Lucy), born 6 May 1880, ONT, married William Fr. Thurston on
10 February 1903. Lucy died on the 15 October 1947. William appears to have
been the son of GEORGE and LIZY THURSTON.
The 1881 Canadian census shews the following, neighbours to Guy Beaty (above):
(Verulam, Victoria South, Ontario [Dist. 129 , Sub-dist. E, Div. 1, Page 14;
Household #63]
[LDS FHL film# 1375879, NA film# C-13243])
Name Pos MS Sex Nationality Age Birthplace Occupation Religion eYoB
George Thursten Head M M English 24 Ontario Farmer Methodist 1857
Lizy Thursten Wife M F Irish 19 Ontario Methodist 1862
William Thursten Son M English 1 Ontario Methodist 1880
Pos = position in Household; MS = marital status (S:single, M:married, W:widowed);
eYoB = estimated year of birth (Not included in Census: based on simple subtraction
of age from Census year).
Sarah Elizabeth Beatty, born October 1882, ONT, married William George Wright on 12 December 1905. William died in September 1922. Sarah may have remarried, her second husband being a Johnson. Sarah died 8 November 1939.
Roland Beatty (Roly), born January 1885, ONT, married Cora Hunter on 24 September 1907. Cora died in June 1964; Roly died in June 1966.
Vicars Andrew Beatty, born 12 July 1887, ONT, married Hazel G Beacock on 4 September 1918. Hazel died on 16 September 1970; Vicars died 26 October 1972. They produced three children:
Muriel was living in Toronto in November 1992.
Aileen Victoria Beatty, born 15 April 1923, ONT, daughter of VICARS ANDREW BEATTY and his wife HAZEL G BEACOCK, married Harold Fredrick Poulsom on 1 June 1963.
Harold Andrew Beatty, born 7 April 1925, son of VICARS ANDREW BEATTY and his wife HAZEL G BEACOCK, married Betty L Goodhand on 7 September 1957. Harold and Betty operated the Sunny Valley farm at Bobcaygeon.
Dorothea Adelaide
Beatty (Addie), born 19 November 1889, ONT, married Nelson Thurston
on 8 April 1914. Addie died 27 December 1953. ?Nelson died 31 October 1971.
Grant Thurston still worked for ?atal Farmers Insurance in 1992; Joyce Thurston
had retired from nursing by 1992 because of arthritis.
Agnes Edith Beatty (Aggie), born 25 October 1892, ONT, married Ezra C Thurston on 12 December 1917. Aggie died 10 April 1970; Ezra died 17 December 1970.
Francis Cooke visited some of this family during World War II while training with the Empire air-training scheme. Richard Cantrill met the Dunsford Beattys and some in Saskatchewan in 1970. Alex Henderson said he had never communicated with Guy.
Andrew McGregor
Beatty was born on 10 August 1851 and baptised at Kilskeery. He emigrated
with his nephew James John Henderson to NSW, departing Plymouth and arriving
in Sydney aboard the Peterborough on 26 August 1880. Also aboard the
Peterborough was Lucinda Christy, 17, farm servant born in Tyrone, mentioned
in the previous chapter. Shortly thereafter he went to visit his sister Lucinda
on Fish River Creek, and later began working for George Bailey at "Bloomfield"
near Oberon. On 21 May 1884 at S. Barnabas' CoE Oberon, Andrew married Matilda
Bailey, daughter of GEORGE BAILEY and JANE ARMSTRONG and born 16 June
1846. Eliza Jane Beattie and George Thomas Bailey were witnesses at the wedding.
Having suffered some deprivations on board Andrew was physically and mentally
very ill on reaching Sydney, and was sent to Gladesville for treatment. He
was admitted to Gladesville Hospital on the 9 September 1880 as Andrew McGregor
Beatty, male, 26 years old, single, a labourer (immigrant), on advice of a
Foucart McLaurie. He was said to be suffering from Melancholia for the previous
5 weeks, said to be his first attack of the insanity. He was discharged, recovered
and cured, on the 27 December 1880, after 3 months 18 days in hospital. The
hospital Gladesville Admission Register note "uncle" in the column
titled "insane relations".
Shortly after his discharge from Gladesville Andrew went to visit his sister
Lucinda on Fish River Creek, and later began working for George Bailey at
"Bloomfield" near Oberon. On 21 May 1884 at S. Barnabas' CoE Oberon,
Andrew married Matilda BaileyEliza Jane Beattie and George Thomas Bailey were
witnesses at the wedding. There were two children to the marriage:
Andrew died at Bathurst NSW on 1 August 1925, and was buried in Oberon General Cemetery. Matilda died on 27 May 1926.
George Roland Bailey
Beattie [Rowland often appears spelt Roland], son of ANDREW McGREGOR
BEATTIE and MATILDA BAILEY, was born in March 1885 at Oberon. He was educated
at Fish River Creek (later Titania) Public School. When 13½ years old
he received a Certificate deeming him to have sufficient education:He worked
on the family property "Bloomfield" all day six days a week, never
on a Sunday. His hobbies were cycling (eg the Goulburn to Sydney races) and
photography. In both he did very well. George was also an excellent craftsman,
exceptional in woodturning, and possessed a fine set of carperntry instruments.
He studied by correspondence, at night and using candlelight, and finally attained
his L.G. Certificate and Accounting Certificate, leaving "Bloomfield"
to pursue a career.
He started applying for positions about 1910, and may have sat for Auditors
and Clerks examinations about July 1911, but is not mentioned in the results.
In December 1911, while apparently employed at Gunnedah NSW, he successfully
sat for the Clerks examination, and in February 1912 was appointed relieving
Shire Clerk for Amaroo Shire based on Cumnock NSW. In September 1912 the Town
Clerk's position in Ulmarra Shire was advertised; George applied and was duly
appointed. In April 1913 he replied to an advertisment for the Town Clerk's
position at Blayney, which offered a salary of £169 per annum; it was
while he was Town Clerk at Blayney that he married, and that his first two children
were born.
July and August 1914 saw George pass the NSW Local Government Clerks and Auditors
examinations. In June 1915 he passed the Legal section and in December the other
examinations required to be admitted to the Institute of Incorporated Accountants.
On 27 April, he advertised the Blayney Town Clerk's position, with an annual
salary of £208, and about June or July 1916, aged 31 years, was appointed
Town Clerk at Molong. While in this lovely town, his third child and only son
was born in 1918, followed less than three years later by the death of his beloved
wife.
George and his family went to Cudal NSW c1923, where he was Shire Clerk of Boree
Shire. After his parents died in 1925 and 1926, he decided to hold on to his
secure position at Cudal rather than farm the family property at Oberon, and
entered into negotiations to lease the farm.
George married Rosa Mary Batcheldor on 27 December 1913 at Bexley,
NSW. Rosa was born on 25 October 1888 at "Spring Hill" near Oberon
NSW, the daughter of WILLIAM BATCHELDOR and his wife MARY JANE ROBINSON. George
and Rosa had three children:
The family house at Molong,
named "Titania", was immediately to the north of the District Hospital,
on the corner of Reynolds Street. Rosa's early death caused by a duodenal ulcer
on 1 June 1921 at Molong was a great blow to the family. She was interred in
the CoE Section at Oberon General cemetery, next to her parents-in-law. Shortly
after her death, the family moved to Cudal.
George R B Beattie subsequently married c1923 Dorothy Amy Ann Wilson
(not related to Wilsons family mentioned in another chapter). Dorothy was born
on August 1899 in the Huon River Valley, Tasmania; the family home at Cudal
was named "Huon" after her birthplace and later became the Cudal War
Memorial Hospital. There were no children to this marriage. A pleasant looking
woman, Dorothy suffered a mental condition - perhaps related to the influenza
epidemic - and made life difficult for all near her. After Dorothy died in January
1954, George retired to a house called "Clairvaux" at 16 Cecil Street,
Blackheath NSW, on the edge of the western escarpment of the Blue Mountains.
Sold soon after his death and for many years detiorating under lease, the cottage
was purchased, renovated and put on the holiday rental market in the 1990s.
On 10 September 1970 George wrote to his daughter Ruth of his intention to depart
Blackheath on 15 September to visit her in Murwillumbah, and hoping he would
not become lost at the railway station as he had on his previous visit.
On 27 September 1970 George R B Beattie, aged 85 and after suffering a stroke,
left his house and wandered, disoriented, towards the town 1.5km away. Halfway
there he may have suffered another stroke, slipped from the footpath into some
dense scrub, and lost his way. He was found the following Wednesday after extensive
searches by volunteers and police. Having survived very bleak and icy overnight
conditions, he was taken to hospital at Katoomba and later to Cudal and then
to Leura. Although he never fully recovered from the ordeal, he occasionally
remembered his location and his early life. Once at Cudal, nurses searched for
him when he went missing from his bed. They found him in the back grounds of
the hospital, and when they asked him if he knew where he was he replied "Yes,
of course I do. I lived here for 27 years". George died at Leura on 25
August 1971, and was buried next to Rosa at Oberon.
Dorothy Jane Beattie
("Dolly") was born on 14 December 1886/7 at Oberon, and had a very
rough life but lived to 95½. She was engaged to Percy Cunynghame who
died shortly after World War I (1919, Randwick NSW ), having been gassed in
France. Dolly married late to David Cleland on 28 March 1921 at
"Bloomfield" . David, born ??c1886 in Glasgow, was the son of DAVID
MOORE CLELAND, carpenter, and his wife JANET JESSIE RICHARDSON. His siblings
born in New South Wales were Amelia R Cleland (born 1891 ; married Robert Robertson,
Mosman, 1919 ), Charles S Cleland (born 1894 , married Mildred Emma Hill, Sydney,
1922 ; a son Donald Cleland died in 1924 at Mosman ), Victor Albert Cleland
(born 1897 ; married Eileen May Drew, Mosman, 1942 ), Lillian Isobel Cleland
(born 1900 ; married Albert Louis Murray, Mosman, 1943 ) and Donald B Cleland
(born 1902 ; married Myrtle E Nettleton, Mosman, 1935 ). [The death of a David
M Cleland, son of David and Elizabeth and possibly the David Moore Cleland above,
was registered at Mosman in 1927 .]
David, at the time of his marriage to Dolly, lived at 36 Glover Street, Watersleigh;
witnesses at the wedding were V Cleland and F M Luther. David died of tuberculosis
a few years later in 1930 near Newtown . The only child of David and Dorothy
Cleland was
[The following
information is from Kieran
Beattie (13 December 2002, BP2000 L390)]
Kieran Beattie's great-grandfather was John Beatty who was born
in 1851 and died in Kilskeery. He married Jane Woods (born 1860) who also died
in Kilskeery. Their sons were Francis (Kieran's grandfather, born in 1893),
Arthur, Joseph (born 1890), Andrew and William. Their daughters were Mary Jane
(born 1885) and Teresa C. (born 1896).
Margaret Dorothy Beatty
("Maggie") arrived in NSW around 1898. She was born circa 1862
(based on stated age on death certificate) or 1884 (based on stated age on wedding
certificate) in Enniskillen, Co Fermanagh, Ireland, the daughter JOHN BEATTY,
a soldier, and MARY BYERS. It is not yet clear exactly who this John Beatty
was, but Margaret was known to Sylvia Evans as "Aunt Maggie" and she
always thought of her as a sister of "Aunt (Lucinda) Wilson" and "Aunt
(Eliza Jane) Brien". Maggie wrote to G R B Beattie in 1935, signing "cousin",
though this may have been a liberal use of the term.
Maggie, 30, spinster engaged in domestic duties, married Alfred Forster,
32, bachelor labourer, at Chalmers Street Presbyterian Church, Sydney, on the
14 April 1914. The officiant was John Paterson. Alfred was born circa
1882 at Alandale, England, to WILLIAM FORSTER, a farmer, and his wife MARY.
At the time of Maggie's wedding, both her parents were deceased, as was Alfred's
father. Witnesses at the wedding were Christian Nanson and Ethel L Wilson.
Gloria Russell-Brookes said that Maggie ran a boarding house in a two storey
building at 31 Buckingham Street, Redfern, near to another run by Mrs Pierce
(seemingly a sister of Jane Armstrong who married George Bailey; Mrs Pierce
apparently emigrated to NSW about 1839 and encouraged George and Jane (and others)
to emigrate; her boarding house was for girls and had a very good reputation
and an association with S James' CoE in Sydney). In early days the boarding
house run by the Forsters was held in high esteem, but in her later years of
senility the standard declined.
Margaret Forster nee Beatty, aged 86 years, died childless at her home
in Buckingham Street, Redfern, on 23 January 1948. She was buried two days later
in the Congregational Cemetery. Her maiden name, age or birthplace were noted
as "Unknown" on her death certificate, for which her husband Alfred
was the informant.
Some others known, but not yet filed on the Web. Please contact Ross Beattie with a query.
since early 2001