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John Graham MACDONALD (1834 - 1918)
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John Graham MACDONALD (1834 - 1918)

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Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM (1834 - 1902)

Esther Elizabeth SAMPSON
 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)
John Graham MACDONALD Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM
John Graham MACDONALD John Graham MACDONALD John Graham MACDONALD
Pic P1. originally submitted this to MacDonald Family Tree on 16 Aug 2008

Pic S1. Ancestry - MacDonald Family Tree

Pic 1. originally submitted this to MacDonald Family Tree on 16 Aug 2008

Pic 2. MacDonald Family Tree - Ancestry

Pic 3. MacDonald Family Tree - Ancestry

b. 05 Sep 1834 at Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
m. (1) 1856 Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM (1834 - 1902) at Campbelltown, NSW, Australia
m. (2) 01 Jan 1903 Esther Elizabeth SAMPSON at Queensland, Australia
d. 29 May 1918 at South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia aged 83
Near Relatives of John Graham MACDONALD (1834 - 1918)
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 James GRAHAM 1808 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1852 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 44
Mother in Law Mary Ann WARBY 1813 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1904 Surrey Hills, NSW, Australia 91

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 John Graham MACDONALD 05 Sep 1834 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 29 May 1918 South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 83

Wife Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM 1834 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1902 Sydney, NSW, Australia 68
Wife Esther Elizabeth SAMPSON

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 Alexander Cameron MACDONALD 09 Aug 1828 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 18 Jun 1917 Prahran, Victoria, Australia 88
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
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 Margaret Rainey ROBERTSON 1901 Prahran, Victoria, Australia
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 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 John Graham MACDONALD (1834 - 1918)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
05 Sep 1834 John Graham MACDONALD was born Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 1 52
26 Feb 1847 12 Death of father Alexander Cameron MACDONALD (aged 50) Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 2 52, 54, 60
1856 22 Married Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM (aged 22) Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 3 52, 60
06 Jan 1893 58 Death of mother Sarah (twin) WARBY (aged 86) Campbelltown, NSW, Australia Note 4 7, 52, 54
1902 68 Death of wife Adelaide Mary Anne Amelia GRAHAM (aged 68) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 5 52
01 Jan 1903 68 Married Esther Elizabeth SAMPSON Queensland, Australia Note 6 52
29 May 1918 83 John Graham MACDONALD died South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Note 7 52
30 May 1918 83 Burial Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia see picture of death cert
30 May 1918 83 Burial Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Australia Note 8 60
Note 1: Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about John Mcdonald
Name: John Mcdonald
Birth Date: 1834
Father's Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1834
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Volume Number: V1834689 18
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 John Mcdonald
Name: John Mcdonald
Spouse Name: Adelaide M A Graham
Marriage Date: 1856
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1856
Volume Number: V


Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jan 1856
MARRIAGE.
At Campbell Town, on Tuesday, the 8th instant, by special license by the Rev. W. McKee, John, fourth son of the late Mr. Alexander McDonald, of Campbell Town, to Adelaide Mary Ann Amelia, second daughter of the late Mr. James Graham, of the same place.
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: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about Adelaide M A A Macdonald
Name: Adelaide M A A Macdonald
Death Date: 1902
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's Name: James
Mother's Name: Mary A
Registration Year: 1902
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration number: 142

Brisbane Courier 10 Feb 1902
DEATHS
MACDONALD.-On the 20th January, at her sister's residence, 480 Crown-street, Surry Hills, Sydney, Adelaide Mary Ann Amelia, Wife of J. G. MacDonald P.M., and F.R.G.S., Warwick, and mother of Mrs. E. B. Wareham, Belmont, Sussex-street, South Brisbane, aged 67 years.
Note 6: Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about John Graham Macdonald
Name: John Graham Macdonald
Spouse Name: Esther Elizabeth Samson
Marriage Date: 1 Jan 1903
Marriage Place: Queensland
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1903
Registration number: 002141
Page Number: 15788
Note 7: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about John Graham Macdonald
Name: John Graham Macdonald
Death Date: 29 May 1918
Death Place: Queensland
Father's Name: Alexander Cameron Macdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah Warby
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration number: B 027296
Page Number: 1216

see notes

Brisbane Courier 30 May 1918
FUNERALS
MACDONALD -The Funeral of the late J G MACDONALD (late Police Magistrate and Visiting Justice) will move from his residence, "Kotoro" Merivale street South Brisbane THIS (Thursday) AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock for the Toowong Cemetery
Note 8: Brisbane Courier 30 May 1918
FUNERALS
MACDONALD -The Funeral of the late J G MACDONALD (late Police Magistrate and Visiting Justice) will move from his residence, "Kotoro" Merivale street South Brisbane THIS (Thursday) AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock for the Toowong Cemetery
Personal Notes:
See notes for his father - from which the following is taken
John G. MacDonald, so well-known in Rockhampton and the Central and Northern districts, was born in 1831. He was always a prominent character in public life. Like his brothers he engaged in exploring and pastoral occupation, in partnership with the late Sir John Robertson. He was a notable Stipendiary Magistrate for forty years, and during all that lengthy experience he only had three appeals against his decisions, two of which were dismissed. At one period he was a Gold Commisioner in charge of one of the Northern fields. He died on May 28, 1918, aged eighty-four years.

The Queenslander (Brisbane) 8 June 1918
DEATH OF JOHN GRAHAM MACDONALD. EXPLORER, PIONEER, AND MAGISTRATE.
A large circle of friends throughout Queensland will regret to hear of the death on the morning of May 29, of Mr. J. G. Macdonald, lately visiting magistrate, stationed in Brisbane, at the age of 84 years. He had been ill for some weeks, and died in a hospital quite peacefully after a severe ex- perience. He leaves a widow, one son. Mr. W. B. Macdonald, who is practising as a solicitor at Hughenden, and two daughters— Mrs. E. B. Wareham and Mrs. J. A. Rae of Inkerman station N.Q. John Graham Macdonald, F.R.G.S., was the last of Queensland's early explorers, and one of the last of Queens-land's pastoral pioneers. He had a loveable personality and a remarkable record of public service—surveyor, explorer, pastoralist, gold commissioner, police magistrate, and visiting justice. Mr. Macdonald was born at Campbelltown, near Sydney, in September, 1834— more than 20 years before the constitution of Queensland at a separate colony. At the age of 18 years he joined his brother, a civil engineer, in Victoria, and gained a considerable knowledge of engineering and surveying. A few years later he took up farming near Geelong, and became not only the model farmer of the district, but the chairman of a local farmers' association—probably the first farmers' association established in Australia—the chairman of the local road board, and a judge for the Geelong Agricultural Society. In May, 1859, he sold out his Victorian interests, and came to Queensland, joining another brother, Mr. P. F. Macdonald, Yaamba, near Rockhampton. Soon afterwards the two brothers start- ed on their first exploration tour. They explored the head waters of the Nogoa and Belyando Rivers, where they took up a large area of pastoral country. Two years after the constitution of Queensland as a separate colony, Mr. J. G. Macdonald explored the districts drained by the Burdekin. Einasleigh, and Lynd Rivers, and, on behalf of Southern financiers, amongst whom were John Robertnon, afterwards Sir John, and the late Captain Towns, he established the Inkerman, Strathbogie, Dalrymple, Kirknie, Leichhardt Downs, and Carpentaria Downs stations. In the following year, on behalf of this adventurous firm of station promoters, Mr. Macdonald, ac- companied by two stockmen and some black boys, explored the Gulf country, and took up great pastoral areas in the neighbourhood of where Burketown and Normanton now stand. For more than 10 years Mr. Macdonald managed Stations stretching between Inkerman, near Bowen, and the Plains of Promise near the present site of Burketown, contending against floods, droughts, and a score of privations unknown to the pastoralist of to-day. In 1872 he relinquished his pastoral pursuits, and was appointed police magistrate and gold commissioner at Gilberton. Soon afterwards be was transferred to Charters Towers. He performed splendid service at ChartersTowers, especially during the very disturbed period of 1873 on that field. During the next twenty years he filled positions of police magistrate, mining warden, and land commissioner at Springsure, Bowen, Townsville, and Warwick, and in 1903 he was appointed police Magistrate at South Brisbane, an office which he filled until his retirement under the age limit in 1905. Mr. Macdonald, though over 70 years of age when he retired from the magisterial bench, was much too active to live a life of inactivity, so he became the chairman of probably a dozen wages boards, just then being established in accordance with an Act passed by the Kidston Government. Subsequently he became visiting Justice to St. Helena, Brisbane gaol, and the various industrial schools and benevolent and mental asylums in the metropolitan district, an office which he filled with great tact and ability until the time of his death. As a magistrate, visiting justice, and chairman of wages boards Mr. Macdonald was dominated wholly by sweet reasonableness. He did not browbeat a witness, or lecture an accused person, or dictate, to the persons seeking to arrive at some agreement. Amiability was the keynote of his success - amiability combined with the rare gift of summing up human nature. As a pri- vate citizen Mr. Macdonald was much beloved. Even when Pressmen occasionally went to him, and had to leave without getting what they sought, they were able to take their leave feeling that Mr. Macdonaid's refusal was a great deal more kind and considerate than the granting of a request by many other officials. Mr. Macdonaid had no more sincere admirers In the community than the Pressmen, who so frequently met him and the officials on his own staff. They knew him to be a thorough gentleman in the truest meaning of the word.

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This was just one of many newspaper articles published across Australia on his death
Source References:
52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Notes: Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about John Mcdonald
Name: John Mcdonald
Spouse Name: Adelaide M A Graham
Marriage Date: 1856
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1856
Volume Number: V
- Reference = (Death)
- Notes: Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 about John Graham Macdonald
Name: John Graham Macdonald
Death Date: 29 May 1918
Death Place: Queensland
Father's Name: Alexander Cameron Macdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah Warby
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration number: B 027296
Page Number: 1216
- Reference = (Birth)
- Notes: Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 about John Mcdonald
Name: John Mcdonald
Birth Date: 1834
Father's Name: Alexander Mcdonald
Mother's Name: Sarah
Birth Place: New South Wales
Registration Year: 1834
Registration Place: Campbelltown, New South Wales
Volume Number: V1834689 18
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Notes: Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950 about John Graham Macdonald
Name: John Graham Macdonald
Spouse Name: Esther Elizabeth Samson
Marriage Date: 1 Jan 1903
Marriage Place: Queensland
Registration Place: Queensland
Registration Year: 1903
Registration number: 002141
Page Number: 15788
60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Notes: Sydney Morning Herald 10 Jan 1856
MARRIAGE.
At Campbell Town, on Tuesday, the 8th instant, by special license by the Rev. W. McKee, John, fourth son of the late Mr. Alexander McDonald, of Campbell Town, to Adelaide Mary Ann Amelia, second daughter of the late Mr. James Graham, of the same place.
- Reference = (Burial)
- Notes: Brisbane Courier 30 May 1918
FUNERALS
MACDONALD -The Funeral of the late J G MACDONALD (late Police Magistrate and Visiting Justice) will move from his residence, "Kotoro" Merivale street South Brisbane THIS (Thursday) AFTERNOON, at 3 o'clock for the Toowong Cemetery
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