Log of the Ship Dauntless · Electric Scotland
Transcription of an 1840 shipboard log kept by James Falconer aboard the 'Dauntless' (Greenock to Adelaide/Port Phillip/Sydney), original held at the Mitchell Library, Sydney. Page appends 'Additional details on the family by Lina Moffitt', family-tree notes from descendants Paul Falconer (Sydney) and his father Ken Falconer.
Log of the Ship Dauntless · Electric Scotland
For Mcvey Napier Falconer (1820–1884)
McVey was the first Station Master at Homebush Railway Station and was the Station Master at Orange Railway Station when he died. He was also Station Master at Newtown Railway station in 1867 when James fell under the train.
Career detail: Homebush -> Newtown (1867, when his brother James died there) -> Orange (where McVey himself died in 1884, per reg 12903/1884 above).
Log of the Ship Dauntless · Electric Scotland
For Robert Falconer (1790–1850)
Robert Falconer and Mary Bruce had the following children: Robert Falconer born 30 Jul 1817 Edinburgh James Boyle Falconer born 13 May 1818 Ed. McVey Napier Falconer abt 1820 Ed. William Falconer 1826 Ed. (Stayed in Scotland I think and haven't been able to trace what happened to him) First 3 emigrated to Australia. Robert and James on the Dauntless 1840 and McVey Arrived Australia in 1855 on the 'LORD BURLEIGH'.
Descendant-compiled family note; confirms the tree's existing family #827 (Robert Falconer x Mary Bruce, 4 children) independently of the GEDCOM-imported Ancestry compiled-tree citation. James's birth date matches the tree's own '13 MAY 1818' exactly; the log itself elsewhere quotes James's own diary entry 'I was born 13th MAY 1818 at 11 p.m.'
Log of the Ship Dauntless · Electric Scotland
For Catherine Milligan (1820–1869)
More about James: Married Catherine Milligan who was born 13 Aug 1820 St Cuthberts Edinburgh, died 1869 Dubbo NSW of a gallstone only 5yrs after the birth of her 10th child and two years after the horrific death of James in a train collision (will send obit on this next as it is also interesting - the way it was written) Catherine Milligan Falconer Catherine's parents were: William Milligan and Elizabeth Forsythe
Gives Catherine's own birth/death and her parents (William Milligan and Elizabeth Forsythe - not created as person records here, no further identifying detail). Also states she had 10 children with James by 1869; none are named in the source, so none are added.