James McElhinney, 1827–1899 (aged 72 years)
- Name
- James /McElhinney/
- Given names
- James
- Surname
- McElhinney
| Birth | 1827 Bohillon, Burt, Ireland Latitude: N55.058889 Longitude: W7.502222 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ BIRTH Born abt 1827, according to death certificate, in Bowhillin (Bohillion or Upper Bohullion) Burt, Donegal, Ireland to Samuel McElhinney (Farmer) and Elizabeth (nee McElhinney) Born abt 1831, age given as 26 yrs on his immigration record June 1857 Born abt 1830, age given as 28 according to his marriage certificate of February 1858, Born to Samuel (Farmer) and Elizabeth McElhinney. |
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| Marriage of parents | Samuel McElhinney — Elizabeth Smith — View this family November 30, 1847 (aged 20 years) December 11 1847 |
| Emigration | Emigrated to Australia from Ireland - ship "Red Jacket" June 15, 1857 (aged 30 years)EMIGRATION Aged 26, James arrived in Port Melbourne Australia on board the ship "Red Jacket" on the 15th June 1857. Listed as MCELHINERY, James, there were no other McElhinney's travelling with him. Eliza arrived 4 weeks earlier 22nd May 1857. RED JACKET Red Jacket was a clipper ship, one of the largest and fastest ever built. She was also the first ship of the White Star Line company. She was named after Sagoyewatha, a famous Seneca Indian chief, called "Red Jacket" by settlers. She was designed by Samue l Hartt Pook, built by George Thomas in Rockland, Maine, and launched in 1853. Like many other fast clippers it is claimed that she is an extreme clipper, but this is technically incorrect. Extreme clippers were some of the clippers built in the period 1850 to 1852 only, and had at least a 40" dead rise at half floor. Being known as an extreme clipper was to be known as fast, and it became popular to call all fast clippers "extreme". Voyages On her first voyage, Red Jacket set the speed record for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic by traveling from New York to Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes, dock to dock. She left Rockland under tow, and was rigged in New York. Her captain was a veteran packet ship commander, Asa Eldridge of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,[2] and she had a crew of 65. On the passage to Liverpool, she averaged 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h), with sustaine d bursts of 17 knots (31.5 km/h). A Collins Line steamer arriving in Liverpool (which had left New York two days before Red Jacket) reported that Red Jacket was just astern. As she entered the harbor, tugs tried to get lines aboard the clipper but she was traveling too fast. Thousands, al erted by the Collins Liner, watched as Eldridge shortened sail and backed the vessel into its berth. At Liverpool she had her bottom coppered and cabins fitted out for the Australian immigrant trade. Red Jacket was purchased by Pilkington & Wilcox and other Liverpool investors with registry changing on April 24, 1854. (Most secondary sources say that the vessel was bought by the British a year later, copying a mistake made by earlier historians.) She was then chartered by the White Star Line for a run to Melbourne, Australia. Under Captain Samuel Reid (who owned 1/16 of her), she reached in Melbourne in 69 days. Only one clipper, James Baines, ever made the run faster. Red Jacket served in the immigrant trade until 1861, when she became an Australian and Indian coastal freighter. Fate of the shipEdit In 1872 Red Jacket joined clippers Marco Polo and Donald McKay, which "ended their days in the Quebec lumber trade,"[3] and became a lumber carrier from Quebec to London. In 1883 she was sold to Blandy Brothers, a Portuguese shipping company in the Madeir a Islands as a coaling hulk. She was driven ashore in a gale in 1885. Reference: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Jacket_(clipper) Red Jacket LITHOGRAPH The Australian clipper ship RED JACKET Maker: John R Isaac c 1856 D 4 x W 61 x H 79.5 mm Lithographic print on paper. ANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds 00019511 This lithograph depicts the White Star line's clipper ship RED JACKET under full sail at sea. The three-masted square rigged vessel is flying a house flag from its mainmast and an ensign from its spanker mast. In the 1850s RED JACKET gained fame as one of the fastest clipper ships on the ocean, setting the record for all ships traveling between Liverpool and Melbourne. http://emuseum.anmm.gov.au/code/emuseum.asp?id=29948 |
| Marriage | Elizabeth Johnston — View this family February 18, 1858 (aged 31 years) Donnybrook, Bourke, Victoria, Australia Latitude: N53.321944 Longitude: W6.231944 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ MARRIAGE Married Eliza Johnston (24yrs) on February 18th, 1858 in Donnybrook, County Bourke, Victoria (Aust Marr Index Reg # 814) Members of the Church if Scotland Parents: John and Esther (Easter) Johnston. Officiating Minister: Andrew Grahame. Witnesses: John Johnston and James Woodside James 28 is servant residing at New Grove, Property 14km north of Melbourne, Eliza 26, is also resdining at New Grove, which is owned by John Johnston, (her father or relative). Eliza had arrived in Australia 2 weeks before James. NOTE: James' death certificate states he married Eliza in Donnybrook, Ireland - which is an error. Check - Victorian Pioneers Index on CD-Rom (1836-1888) |
| Birth of a son | James Marshall McElhinney November 9, 1860 (aged 33 years) Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.349722 Longitude: E144.532500 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Birth of a son | John McElhinney 1863 (aged 36 years) |
| Birth of a daughter | Esther Anne McElhinney 1864 (aged 37 years) Raywood, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S36.532778 Longitude: E144.216944 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Death of a father | Samuel McElhinney November 23, 1865 (aged 38 years) Castletown, Donegal, Ireland Latitude: N54.649167 Longitude: W8.360833 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ Full Abstract - Will - PRONI Letters of administration of the personal estate of Samuel McElhinney late of Castletown in the County of Donegal Farmer deceased who died 23 November 1865 at same place were granted at Londonderry to Mary Anne Anderson of Castletown (Fahan Derry) aforesa id (Wife of Reverend James Anderson) the Daughter and only next of kin of said deceased. Date of Death: 23/11/1865 Date of Grant: 16/12/1865 Effects: Effects under £3,000 Registry: Londonderry |
| Birth of a daughter | Mary Elizabeth McElhinney 1866 (aged 39 years) |
| Death of a mother | Elizabeth Smith May 14, 1869 (aged 42 years) Bohillon, Burt, Ireland Latitude: N55.058889 Longitude: W7.502222 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ Full Abstract - Will - PRONI Letters of Administration of the personal estate of Elizabeth McElhinney late of Castletown County Donegal Widow deceased who died 14 May 1869 at Inch were granted at Londonderry to Mary Anne Anderson (Wife of Reverend James Anderson) of Bohillon Burt ins aid County the Daughter of the deceased. Date of Death: 15/05/1869 Date of Grant: 11/09/1877 Effects: Effects under £600 Registry: Londonderry |
| Birth of a son | Alfred Samuel Joseph McElhinney 1870 (aged 43 years) Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.349722 Longitude: E144.532500 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Birth of a daughter | Alice Wilhelmina McElhinney 1873 (aged 46 years) Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.349722 Longitude: E144.532500 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Birth of a son | William Henry McElhinney 1875 (aged 48 years) Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.349722 Longitude: E144.532500 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Marriage of a child | James Marshall McElhinney — Georgina Brown — View this family August 2, 1883 (aged 56 years) |
| Marriage of a child | John McElhinney — Mary Williams — View this family 1885 (aged 58 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Esther Anne McElhinney November 28, 1885 (aged 58 years) Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.349722 Longitude: E144.532500 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Marriage of a child | John McElhinney — Elizabeth Summers — View this family 1893 (aged 66 years) |
| Death of a daughter | Alice Wilhelmina McElhinney August 10, 1894 (aged 67 years) Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.839167 Longitude: E144.941667 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
| Death | April 15, 1899 (aged 72 years) Newham, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.333056 Longitude: E144.616389 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ DEATH CERTIFICATE Victoria - Ref # 7939 Farmer "Post Mortem - Examination of the Body (Rupture of the Heart) Dr D.H.E.Lines" NEWSPAPER The Argus (Melbourne, Vic, : 1848 - 1957) Monday 10 April 1899 MCELHINNEY - On the 5th April, at his residence, Fern Vale Farm, Woodend, James, the beloved husband of Eliza McElhinney, in his 72nd year, born in Bowhillon Burt, Donegal, Ireland. A colonist of 42 years. |
| Probate | Probate documents May 5, 1899 (20 days after death) |
| Burial | 1899 (aged 72 years) Woodend Cemetery, Woodend, Victoria, Australia Latitude: S37.353333 Longitude: E144.535000 Google Maps™ Bing Maps™ OpenStreetMap™ |
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Marriage: November 30, 1847 — |
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-20 years
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1827–1899
Birth: 1827 — Bohillon, Burt, Ireland Death: April 15, 1899 — Newham, Victoria, Australia |
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1827–1899
Birth: 1827 — Bohillon, Burt, Ireland Death: April 15, 1899 — Newham, Victoria, Australia |
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1834–1910
Birth: 1834 Death: 1910 — Kensington Hill, Victoria, Australia |
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Marriage: February 18, 1858 — Donnybrook, Bourke, Victoria, Australia |
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6 years
son |
1863–1926
Birth: 1863
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29 Death: 1926 — Lancefield, Victoria, Australia |
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2 years
daughter |
1864–1885
Birth: 1864
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30 — Raywood, Victoria, Australia Death: November 28, 1885 — Woodend, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years
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1866–1943
Birth: 1866
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32 Death: 1943 — Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia |
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-5 years
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1860–1903
Birth: November 9, 1860
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26 — Woodend, Victoria, Australia Death: December 25, 1903 — Nhill, Victoria, Australia |
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10 years
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1870–1948
Birth: 1870
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36 — Woodend, Victoria, Australia Death: 1948 — South Africa |
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4 years
daughter |
1873–1894
Birth: 1873
46
39 — Woodend, Victoria, Australia Death: August 10, 1894 — Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia |
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3 years
son |
1875–1968
Birth: 1875
48
41 — Woodend, Victoria, Australia Death: 1968 — Kyneton, Victoria, Australia |
| BirthView | BIRTH Born abt 1827, according to death certificate, in Bowhillin (Bohillion or Upper Bohullion) Burt, Donegal, Ireland to Samuel McElhinney (Farmer) and Elizabeth (nee McElhinney) Born abt 1831, age given as 26 yrs on his immigration record June 1857 Born abt 1830, age given as 28 according to his marriage certificate of February 1858, Born to Samuel (Farmer) and Elizabeth McElhinney. |
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| EmigrationView | EMIGRATION Aged 26, James arrived in Port Melbourne Australia on board the ship "Red Jacket" on the 15th June 1857. Listed as MCELHINERY, James, there were no other McElhinney's travelling with him. Eliza arrived 4 weeks earlier 22nd May 1857. |
| EmigrationView | RED JACKET Red Jacket was a clipper ship, one of the largest and fastest ever built. She was also the first ship of the White Star Line company. She was named after Sagoyewatha, a famous Seneca Indian chief, called "Red Jacket" by settlers. She was designed by Samue l Hartt Pook, built by George Thomas in Rockland, Maine, and launched in 1853. Like many other fast clippers it is claimed that she is an extreme clipper, but this is technically incorrect. Extreme clippers were some of the clippers built in the period 1850 to 1852 only, and had at least a 40" dead rise at half floor. Being known as an extreme clipper was to be known as fast, and it became popular to call all fast clippers "extreme". Voyages On her first voyage, Red Jacket set the speed record for sailing ships crossing the Atlantic by traveling from New York to Liverpool in 13 days, 1 hour, 25 minutes, dock to dock. She left Rockland under tow, and was rigged in New York. Her captain was a veteran packet ship commander, Asa Eldridge of Yarmouth, Massachusetts,[2] and she had a crew of 65. On the passage to Liverpool, she averaged 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h), with sustaine d bursts of 17 knots (31.5 km/h). A Collins Line steamer arriving in Liverpool (which had left New York two days before Red Jacket) reported that Red Jacket was just astern. As she entered the harbor, tugs tried to get lines aboard the clipper but she was traveling too fast. Thousands, al erted by the Collins Liner, watched as Eldridge shortened sail and backed the vessel into its berth. At Liverpool she had her bottom coppered and cabins fitted out for the Australian immigrant trade. Red Jacket was purchased by Pilkington & Wilcox and other Liverpool investors with registry changing on April 24, 1854. (Most secondary sources say that the vessel was bought by the British a year later, copying a mistake made by earlier historians.) She was then chartered by the White Star Line for a run to Melbourne, Australia. Under Captain Samuel Reid (who owned 1/16 of her), she reached in Melbourne in 69 days. Only one clipper, James Baines, ever made the run faster. Red Jacket served in the immigrant trade until 1861, when she became an Australian and Indian coastal freighter. Fate of the shipEdit In 1872 Red Jacket joined clippers Marco Polo and Donald McKay, which "ended their days in the Quebec lumber trade,"[3] and became a lumber carrier from Quebec to London. In 1883 she was sold to Blandy Brothers, a Portuguese shipping company in the Madeir a Islands as a coaling hulk. She was driven ashore in a gale in 1885. Reference: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Jacket_(clipper) |
| MarriageView | MARRIAGE Married Eliza Johnston (24yrs) on February 18th, 1858 in Donnybrook, County Bourke, Victoria (Aust Marr Index Reg # 814) Members of the Church if Scotland Parents: John and Esther (Easter) Johnston. Officiating Minister: Andrew Grahame. Witnesses: John Johnston and James Woodside James 28 is servant residing at New Grove, Property 14km north of Melbourne, Eliza 26, is also resdining at New Grove, which is owned by John Johnston, (her father or relative). Eliza had arrived in Australia 2 weeks before James. NOTE: James' death certificate states he married Eliza in Donnybrook, Ireland - which is an error. Check - Victorian Pioneers Index on CD-Rom (1836-1888) |
| DeathView | DEATH CERTIFICATE Victoria - Ref # 7939 Farmer "Post Mortem - Examination of the Body (Rupture of the Heart) Dr D.H.E.Lines" |
| DeathView | NEWSPAPER The Argus (Melbourne, Vic, : 1848 - 1957) Monday 10 April 1899 MCELHINNEY - On the 5th April, at his residence, Fern Vale Farm, Woodend, James, the beloved husband of Eliza McElhinney, in his 72nd year, born in Bowhillon Burt, Donegal, Ireland. A colonist of 42 years. |
| Emigration | LITHOGRAPH The Australian clipper ship RED JACKET Maker: John R Isaac c 1856 D 4 x W 61 x H 79.5 mm Lithographic print on paper. ANMM Collection Purchased with USA Bicentennial Gift funds 00019511 This lithograph depicts the White Star line's clipper ship RED JACKET under full sail at sea. The three-masted square rigged vessel is flying a house flag from its mainmast and an ensign from its spanker mast. In the 1850s RED JACKET gained fame as one of the fastest clipper ships on the ocean, setting the record for all ships traveling between Liverpool and Melbourne. http://emuseum.anmm.gov.au/code/emuseum.asp?id=29948 |
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