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Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (1828 - 1917)
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Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (1828 - 1917)

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Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON ( - 1901)
 Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (1796 - 1847) James MACDONALD



Mary STEWART



Sarah (twin) WARBY (1806 - 1893) John WARBY (1767 - 1851) John WARBY (1745 - 1789)


Sarah BENTLEY (1780 - 1869) Edward BENTLEY
Susannah (BENTLEY)
Alexander Cameron MACDONALD
Alexander Cameron MACDONALD
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b. 09 Aug 1828 at Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
m. 1852 Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON ( - 1901) at Victoria, Australia
d. 18 Jun 1917 at Prahran, Victoria, Australia aged 88
Near Relatives of Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (1828 - 1917)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather James MACDONALD
Grandmother Mary STEWART
Grandfather John WARBY 18 Feb 1767 Cottered, Herefordshire, England 12 Jun 1851 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 84
Grandmother Sarah BENTLEY abt 1780 Highgate, London 19 Oct 1869 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 89

Father in Law Gilbert ROBERTSON
Mother in Law Agnes LEE(S)

Father Alexander Cameron MACDONALD 16 Mar 1796 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 26 Feb 1847 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 50
Mother Sarah (twin) WARBY 10 Oct 1806 Prospect, Sydney, NSW, Australia 06 Jan 1893 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 86

Self Alexander Cameron MACDONALD 09 Aug 1828 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 18 Jun 1917 Prahran, Victoria, Australia 88

Wife Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON 1901 Prahran, Victoria, Australia

Brother George MACDONALD 03 Jan 1824 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 25 Mar 1924 'Glendarrwill', Maude, Victoria, Australia 100
Sister Margaret MACDONALD 10 Apr 1826 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 12 Jul 1923 Haberfield, NSW, Australia 97
Brother Peter Fitzallan MACDONALD 04 Sep 1830 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 19 Jun 1919 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 88
Sister Sarah MACDONALD 27 Sep 1832 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 26 Sep 1918 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 85
Brother John Graham MACDONALD 05 Sep 1834 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 29 May 1918 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 83
Sister Jane MACDONALD 10 Apr 1836 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 01 Apr 1837 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 0
Brother William MACDONALD 06 May 1838 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 13 Sep 1838 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 0
Brother William S MACDONALD 04 Oct 1839 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1914 Quirindi, NSW, Australia 75
Sister Jane MACDONALD 12 Feb 1842 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 27 Mar 1942 Corowa, NSW, Australia 100
Brother Charles Hugh MACDONALD 29 Apr 1844 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 23 Mar 1924 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 79
Sister Isabella F MACDONALD 24 Nov 1846 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 30 Oct 1921 St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia 74

Uncle Edward WARBY 1800 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1804 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 4
Uncle William WARBY 1801 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 18 Aug 1885 Hotham, Victoria, Australia 84
Aunt Jemima MIDDLETON
Aunt Elizabeth WARBY 1802 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1894 Albury, NSW, Australia 92
Uncle James LAYTON
Uncle James KIERNAN
Uncle John WARBY 1803 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 1826 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 23
Uncle Benjamin WARBY 1805 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1880 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 75
Aunt Elizabeth HUNT abt 1808 26 Nov 1835 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 27
Aunt Frances (Judith) BENT
Aunt Jane Agnes (twin) WARBY 1806 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1876 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 70
Uncle Michael BYRNE
Uncle Charles Cable WARBY 1810 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1876 Bathurst, NSW, Australia 66
Aunt Elizabeth DEAN
Aunt Mary Ann WARBY 1813 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1904 Surrey Hills, NSW, Australia 91
Uncle James GRAHAM 1808 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1852 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 44
Uncle Robert George WARBY 1814 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1853 Albury, NSW, Australia 39
Aunt Elizabeth Henrietta FOWLER
Aunt Eliza WARBY 1815 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1896 Ashfield, NSW, Australia 81
Uncle William FOWLER
Uncle James WARBY 1817 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1899 Albury, NSW, Australia 82
Aunt Mary Ann BOOKER
Uncle Joseph WARBY 1818 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1899 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 81
Aunt Elizabeth FOWLER
Uncle Richard WARBY 1821 1821 0

Cousin Benjamin WARBY abt 1825
Cousin Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM 1834 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1902 Sydney, NSW, Australia 68

Nephew Alexander Cameron MACDONALD 09 Dec 1845 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 08 May 1897 Woodstock, Queensland, Australia 51
Niece Mary Ann Sophia MACDONALD 1847 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1940 Penrith, NSW, Australia 93
Niece Sarah Jane MACDONALD 1848 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 20 May 1899 Lethbridge, Victoria, Australia 51
Niece Elizabeth Henrietta (Berry) MACDONALD 26 Dec 1850 Brewarrina, NSW, Australia 25 Jan 1944 Minerva Creek, Springsure, Queensland, Australia 93
Niece Margaret Isabella MACDONALD 10 Dec 1851 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 08 Nov 1944 West Australia, Australia 92
Niece Adelaide Victoria MACDONALD 1852 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1947 Queensland, Australia 95
Niece Christine Eliza MACDONALD 1853 04 Jul 1948 Springsure, Queensland, Australia 95
Niece Ellen Augusta MACDONALD abt 1858 1923 Northcote, Victoria, Australia 65
Nephew John George MACDONALD 1859 17 Aug 1921 62
Nephew Charles Hugh William MACDONALD 19 Apr 1861 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 10 Jan 1946 Glen Darriwell, Maude, Victoria, Australia 84
Nephew William A J (Jack)MACDONALD 1881 Albury, NSW, Australia 1938 Queensland, Australia 57
Nephew Henry L (Harry) MACDONALD 1882 Balmain, NSW, Australia
Niece Mary M MACDONALD 1885 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Jane (Jean) MACDONALD 1888 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Catherine McLean (Kitty) MACDONALD 1893 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia 1989 Sydney, NSW, Australia 96
Nephew Donald McPhee MACDONALD 1895 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia 1970 75
Nephew Jo McLaren (Ian McLaren) MACDONALD 1900 Quirindi, NSW, Australia 1973 73

Sister in Law Elizabeth Henrietta (DOW DOUSE DOUX) DOWSE abt 1822 New South Wales, Australia 27 Dec 1910 'Glendarrwill', Maude, Victoria, Australia 88
Brother in Law Thomas TERRY 1821 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1905 Albury, NSW, Australia 84
Sister in Law Julia Louise AYREY 1840 London, Middlesex, England 1920 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 80
Brother in Law Robert IRVINE abt 1824 Co Fermamagh, Ireland 1862 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia 38
Brother in Law William Adams JACOB 1908 Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia
Sister in Law Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM 1834 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1902 Sydney, NSW, Australia 68
Sister in Law Esther Elizabeth SAMPSON
Sister in Law Annie Ruth Ballantyne MCPHEE 1860 Albury, NSW, Australia 1913 Mosman, NSW, Australia 53
Brother in Law Ross Houston RAMSAY abt 1818 Drumro, Co. Tyrone, Ireland 1886 Corowa, NSW, Australia 68
Sister in Law Maria RAY 1878 Trinity Bay, Queensland, Australia
Sister in Law Sarah Nora CORMACK abt 1859 Ireland 1917 "Yabba", Kilcoy, Queensland, Australia 58
Sister in Law Rose Ethel LANE
Brother in Law James Wilson MCIVER abt 1841 Sanquhar, Dumfriesshire, Scotland 1919 Turramurra, NSW, Australia 78
Events in Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (1828 - 1917)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
09 Aug 1828 Alexander Cameron MACDONALD was born Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 1 52
26 Feb 1847 18 Death of father Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (aged 50) Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 2 52, 54, 60
1852 24 Married Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON Victoria, Australia Note 3 52
06 Jan 1893 64 Death of mother Sarah (twin) WARBY (aged 86) Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 4 7, 52, 54
1901 73 Death of wife Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON Prahran, Victoria, Australia Note 5 60
18 Jun 1917 88 Alexander Cameron MACDONALD died Prahran, Victoria, Australia Note 6 52
Note 1: Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Alexander Mcdonald
Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Birth Date: 1828
Father's Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1828
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Volume Number: V18288794 1C
Note 2: Reg No V1847412 104 - Campbelltown - no parents given

Townsville Daily Bulletin 5 June 1912
PERSONAL.
Mr T. P. Adlam writes to the Sydney 'Daily Telegraph' as follows: 'Many of your readers will, I feel sure, be interested in perusing a copy of the record of the MacDonald family, well known In New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland. The MacDonalds, had all survived, would have, numbered 12. There are 10 of them now living, namely, George, age next birthday 89; Margaret 86, Alexander Cameron 84, Peter Fitzalan 82, Sara 80, John Graham 78, William 73, Jane 70, Charles Hugh 68, lsabella 66. A brother of the above died in 1838, and a sister in 1837, each only a few months old. Thus, there has been no death among this generation of the MacDonald family (10 in number) for 74 years. The father of the MacDonalds. Alexander Cameron, who was born in 1797, died In 1847, Sara Warby, the mother, born in 1806, passed away in 1893. Mr John Graham Mac Donald, of Brisbane, and one time of Townsvllle, who was the sixth of the twelve, is in the best of good health, and carries out the duties of his responsible office with a capacity and energy men many years his junior might well envy."' His son, Mr Wm. MacDonald is the well-known solicitor at Hughenden.
Note 3: Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Alexander Macdonald
Name: Alexander Macdonald
Spouse Name: Margaret Robertson
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Year: 1852
Registration number: 3043
Note 4: Reg No 1893/4533 - Campbelltown - John and Sarah

Death Cert
6 Jan 1893 - Campbelltown - Sarah Terry - female - 86 years
Parents - John Warby (farmer) and Sarah Bentley
Birth - Penant Hills, NSW
Marriage - 1. Alexander MacDonald, Campbelltown -
2. Joseph Terry
Children - 10 children being from previous marriage, names and ages unknown
- none by second marriage
Witness - Mr MacDonald - son - Campbelltown
Note 5: Mrs MacDonald died 15 years ago - article on death of husband in 1917 = c 1902

The Argus (Melbourne) 9 Feb 1901
MACDONALD.-On the 8th February, at Erehwon, Margaret Rainey, the dearly loved wife of A. C. Macdonald. No flowers, by request.
Note 6: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Alex Cameron Mcdonald
Name: Alex Cameron Mcdonald
Death Place: Pran, Victoria
Age: 88
Father's Name: Mcdonald Alex Cameron
Mother's Name: Sarah Warby
Registration Year: 1917
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration number: 6347
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829

The Argus (Melbourne) 19 June 1917
DEATHS
MACDONALD.–On the 18th June, 1917, at his residence, "Erehwon," 210 Punt road, Prahran, Alexander Cameron Macdonald, F.R.G.S., second son of the late Alexander Cameron and Sarah Macdonald, formerly of Campbelltown, N.S.W., in his 89th year.
Personal Notes:
the "Australian Dictionary of Biography" - Vol 5 Page 144

Alexander Cameron Macdonald (1828 - 1917), Accountant, Surveyor and Geographer was born 9th August 1828 at Campbelltown N.S.W. third of twelve children of Alexander Macdonald, grazier, and his Wife Sarah, nee Warby. At the local school he was awarded by Governor Gipps, a set of mathematical instruments but soon after, left to help his father. In 1847-48 he made three trips to the Port Phillip district with livestock and then had charge of 600 horses on Puchelba Station near Wangaratta. In 1849 he joined Edward Barnett’s survey party near Glenrowan and quickly mastered the craft.
At Geelong in 1850 he became Assistant and then Partner of the surveyor Charles Rowand, mostly in laying out the town. In the gold rush Macdonald went to Ballarat and had some success at Fryers Creek but soon returned to Geelong. In 1852 he married Margaret Rainey, third daughter of Gilbert Robertson.
Macdonald called himself an Accountant but also practiced as a Surveyor, speculated in land and in his auction rooms sold many suburban subdivisions. In 1855 he helped to found the Geelong and Western Districts Agricultural and Horticultural Society and for many years served as its Secretary and Treasurer. He also helped to promote the Geelong Society of Architects, Surveyors and Engineers, the Colonial Bank of Australasia in 1856, and the establishment of vineyards along the Barwon and Moorabook Rivers. Later he became a Trustee of the Geelong Vineyard Company. He was elected unopposed to the Geelong Town Council in 1857 and for a second term. He was involved in extending the railway to Colac and the western district and In 1870 became Secretary of the local Railway League. He won wide repute for his energy and probity.
His many interests included the Provident Institute of Victoria which was founded on the proprietary capital in shares. In 1855 Macdonald discovered that no money had been subscribed and his correspondence with the Managing Director found its way into the Press with the result that the Institute collapsed and at least one of its executives was convicted. In 1880 Macdonald drew public attention to two other bubble Companies with similar effects. In 1871 and 1874 he was persuaded to contest the seats of South Grant and Geelong East in the Victorian Legislative Assembly, but his free trade views were unpopular and he lost both elections.
In 1862 Macdonald had invested heavily in a Company designed to search scientifically for gold in the Geelong District and in 1860 he became a Director of the Fyansford Gold Mining Company. These and other speculations collapsed in the severe depression in the late 1860s. In 1876 he moved to Melbourne as a Manager of Companies, Estate and Financial Agent and Surveyor.
Australian by birth he wanted his country to know its origins and history. He was already recognised as an authority on Aboriginal place names and customs and had compiled a vocabulary of their words and meanings. He had also met such prominent Australian explorers as Sturt and Mitchell and enjoyed the friendship of Gregory, Giles and Forrest. However, Macdonald became best known for his knowledge of Australian geography.
In October 1851 Macdonald had made a sketch map of the Ballarat Gold field, copy of which is in the local school of mines. He also compiled a large map of the Colony of N.S.W. His wide travels took him sometimes far into Central Australia. In 1886 -1898 he was active in promoting committees for exploring Antarctica though the plans were premature. In 1896 his report on the Australian milk and butter industry had been translated and published in Capetown. Probably his most important accomplishment was with the Victorian branch of the Royal Geographical Society of Australasia. Prompted by Sir Edward Strickland, Macdonald helped to form the society in 1883 and served for 23 years as Honorary Secretary, Treasurer and some times Editor and Librarian. He played a part in instituting other branches of the Society in N.S.W. and South Australia and organised interprovincial geographical conferences at Melbourne in 1884 and Adelaide in 1887. He read many papers on geographical science to the Australasian Association for the advancement of Science and was President of the Geography section at the Adelaide Congress in 1893 and Vice President twice later. He had been elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, London in 1885 and later became a member of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and the Society in Lisbon. As a Member of the Victorian Astronomical Society he contributed two papers, one on the great Comet he had witnessed in 1843.
His many other Memberships included Scientific and Historical Societies the Victorian Institute of Accountants and the Australasian Institute of Bankers. He was also a Magistrate for Queensland.
At 72 Macdonald was described as a fine stalwart specimen of an Australian with a mind as bright as ever and his energy undiminished. He continued to write extensively on Australian subjects until he died at his home in Prahran on 18th June 1917. His burial in St. Kilda Cemetery was conducted by Rev. Charles Strong of the Australian Church in which Macdonald had been prominent from the beginning.
Source References:
52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Alex Cameron Mcdonald
Name: Alex Cameron Mcdonald
Death Place: Pran, Victoria
Age: 88
Father's Name: Mcdonald Alex Cameron
Mother's Name: Sarah Warby
Registration Year: 1917
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration number: 6347
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1829
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Notes: Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about Alexander Macdonald
Name: Alexander Macdonald
Spouse Name: Margaret Robertson
Marriage Place: Victoria
Registration Place: Victoria
Registration Year: 1852
Registration number: 3043
- Reference = (Birth)
- Notes: Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about Alexander Mcdonald
Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Birth Date: 1828
Father's Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1828
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Volume Number: V18288794 1C
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