McLachlan, Lachlan

Lachlan McLachlan, 1808-1885




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Life Events


Born:8 February 1808Moaning Woods, Lochgilphead, Argyllshire, Scotland [01].
Arrived:27 October 1841Makunau, Colony of New Zealand, on the barque Brilliant. Departed Greenock, Scotland, 25 December 1840 [02].
De Facto:1842To Isabella Mitchell [c1805-1898] [03].
Arrived:31 December 1852Melbourne, Colony of Victoria, on the brig Spencer. Departed Auckland, Colony of New Zealand, on 27 November 1952 [04].
Married:12 March 1858Dandenong Road, St Kilda East, Colony of Victoria to Mary Smith, née Bruce [?-1895] [05] [06].
Died:6 August 1885Gipps Street, East Melbourne, Colony of Victoria [residence], aged 77 years [07] [08].
Buried:8 August 1885Boroondara Cemetery, Kew, Colony of Victoria [Grave: Presbyterian, Section A, No 0355] [09] [10].

Golden Colony Roles


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1871

Lachlan McLachlan [11]

Career


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1853-02-09Police MagistrateVictoriaPetty SessionsSandhurst

References


Notes

Notes
01 Glassary Parish Records, ScotlandsPeople (Membership required) [ 9 July 2023]
02 Barque Brilliant, at Manukao; New Zealand Herald and Auckland Gazette, 30 October 1841, p 3 [Papers Past, 9 July 2023]
03 This seems to have been a de facto relationship. Lachlan McLachlan and Isabella Mitchell arrived together on the Brilliant. There is a record of a marriage between a Lachlan McLachlan and Isabella Mitchell in Scotland on 2 June 1842, but our McLachlan was in NZ up to at least February/March 1842 and their first child was born in NZ in October 1842. Isabella and her children did not move to Australia and she died in 1898 as Isabella Mitchell McLachlan. Lachlan recorded that he was "legally divorced from former wife" on his 1858 marriage certificate.
04 Shipping Intelligence - Arrived; The Argus (Melbourne), 3 January 1853, p 4 [Trove, 9 July 2023]
05 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Marriage Certificate M1858-000922.
06 Marriages - McLachlan-Smith; Bendigo Advertiser, 31 March 1858, p 2 [Trove, 10 July 2023]
07 Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria Death Index D1885-009361.
08 Deaths - McLachlan; The Argus (Melbourne), 7 August 1885, p 1 [Trove, 18 April 2023]
09 Boroondara (Kew) Cemetery Grave Locator [ 9 July 2023]
10 Funeral Notices - McLachlan; The Argus (Melbourne), 8 August 1885, p 1 [Trove, 9 July 2023]
11 Please contact me if you are the owner of this image or have a better quality version.

Further Reading

Biography:Marjorie Petterson; The Sovereign of Sandhurst; Marjorie Petterson, Castlemaine, 1986.
Biography:Jean Gittins; McLachlan, Lachlan (1810-1885); Australian Dictionary of Biography [ 23 February 2024].

Updates

2024-10-13Page formatting revised.
2022-01-31Page created.