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McPherson Family of England to Victoria Australia

This is a brief history of the first generation
of the McPherson family from Co Suffolk, in England to Victoria .


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Donald McPherson [details unknown] married to Mary Campbell , c1844 in Ipswich, Co Suffolk.England.

The Mcphersons where tea merchants in Suffolk and along with the Campbell family where involved with the Booley men as active Chartists in Suffolk.

McPherson Children. birth places mostly unknown..poss Suffolk.

Donald McPherson
William/Angus McPherson
*Mary Catherine McPherson married Robert Booley [Ballarat]
*Sarah Harriet McPherson,bc 1831,Suffolk. married Joseph Royal in Victoria.
Henry McPherson
Ellen McPherson
Cooper McPherson
Melanie McPherson
Laura McPherson
*Kate McPherson bc 1851,Ipswich, married James Willoughby in 1872.Vict.[Ballarat.]

Little information is known of the outcome of Donald McPherson, but his wife Mary,bc 1803, was a widow when she died in Horsham in 1880 . It was stated that she had been in Victoria for about 18 years.. so she may have arrived c 1862. She is buried there at Horsham.