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My Direct Line Locations
MATHEWS - McAUGHTRIE
Dublin Ireland
Ayrshire
England
Houston
Boston Cowan
Durham England Lotimer
Montreal Canada Check the others
England
Scotland
New Zealand
FLEMING Dublin
Dunnill Sheffield
Douglas Glasgow
Double check order
Douglas Kilmarnock
NEED MARRIAGE DATES
Bell (Me) (Lower Hutt
NZ 1945)
MY MATHEWS LINE
As I have travelled back in time through the
six generations of the Mathews family, I have discovered some very interesting movements within two generations. Firstly
within Britain, from Ireland to England, John Gibbons Mathews and Mary Jane Fleming, who married in Dublin, 1845.
Their son Henry Maxwell David Mathews is christened
in London, England in 1847. In 1865 he marries his English Rose, Jane Dunnill, in Sheffield, Yorkshire. Henry
& Jane & their first two children, Alice & Frederick, move to Boston, U.S.A., where more children, including my
grandfather, Robert Walter Mathews, (List names here) (from census) were born by 1881. By 1891, in
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, Jane is a widow, and we discover another child, Victor, born around 1886, which is the year that
Henry died (in Montreal). Have since discovered they they had another child in england, George, who died at only 5 months
old.
Add on - Family coming back after Henry,s death in 1886
In 1908, my grandfather Robert Mathews, appeared in Glasgow Scotland, where he
married my grandmother, Scottish born Jane Dreghorn Douglas, a widow, who was born in Kilmarnock, Ayrshire. From her
first marriage to Samuel Welsh, she already had three young children, Martin, Elizabeth & Mary Welsh.
Robert & Jane's only son, Robert Walter Mathews, my father, was born
in Glasgow, 1912. They also had a daughter, Florence. Sometime in the early 1920's Robert & Jane Mathews travelled
to New Zealand with my father, his sister Florence, and his step-sister Mary (May)Welsh. Martin Welsh, Mary's brother, was
already in New Zealand, and had encouraged them to join him there. The eldest Welsh daughter, Elizabeth, remained in
Scotland, where she was to marry and raise her family.
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