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Memorial to the McPhee and Loney Pioneers of the Natimuk district Erected on 1 December 2002, on the occasion of the centenary of the death of John McPhee, this memorial recalls the pioneering endeavours of the McPhee family and the Loney family in this Natimuk district, especially John McPhee and his wife, Bridget McPhee, and her parents Samuel Loney and Catherine Landrigan. John McPhee came from “Killiechonate”, on the Inverlochy Estate, Shire of Inverness, Scotland where he was born in 1833, and Bridget Loney was born in Melbourne in 1845, her parents Samuel and Catherine Loney having come from Whitechurch, Tipperary in Ireland in 1839. John McPhee is listed in 1863 as living at Nurrabiel in the first book of ratepayers in the newly erected shire of Horsham. John McPhee is buried in this Natimuk Cemetery, and so are his wife’s father Samuel Loney, his two daughters Janie and Alice, and his brother Archibald McPhee who died in June 1876. Bridget McPhee died in 1923, and is buried at Kenmare. John McPhee’s father, also John McPhee, who was born in Inverary Scotland in 1796, died at Little River in 1867 after just 14 years in Victoria. His wife Charlotte MacArthur had died in Scotland. This memorial plaque recalls also the family of John and Bridget McPhee: John, Alice, Janie, Charlotte (married Billy Brasier of Rainbow), Kate (married George Hassall of Wootong Vale and Coleraine), Archie (married Mary Murphy of Natimuk), Jimmy (married Julia Murphy of Natimuk), Margaret (married Harry Sisson of Natimuk), Mary Ellen (married James Bernasochi of Walhalla), Robert (married Bridget Liston of Beulah West), Emily (married John Murphy of Natimuk), and Hector (married Katie Liston of Beulah West), and this memorial recalls the fifty six grand children of John and Bridget McPhee. This memorial plaque recalls also the Aboriginal neighbours and friends, and at times protectors, of the McPhee family, especially the people of the Glenelg and Wimmera tribes, at the juncture of whose territories the McPhees once lived. This memorial recalls these following other McPhee neighbours, relatives and friends of early Natimuk: Michael Healy, Alexander McPhee, Jane, Samuel, Robert and Eugene Loney, Fabian Ryan, Agnes Ryan, Tom and Mary Murphy, Alec Scott, Mrs Lamont, Rev. Thomas Barrett, Ronald Cameron and Jessie McPhee Cameron, Michael Jackman, Henry and Frances O’Bree, William Kenny, Charles Wilson, Hector A. Wilson and members of the Natimuk Agricultural and Pastoral Society with whom John McPhee worked for the development of the Natimuk District, including E. Haustorfer, J. McClure, G. Klowss, L. Lange, A. E. Beard, W. Nichterlein, J. Naismith, W. Kubale and T. Blight. John McPhee Family
Introduction Welcome back to readers of the 1982 book: “John McPhee and his Family”. This new booklet, which I am calling “John McPhee Family” is meant to complement the 1982 collection. The new booklet contains material which I had prepared for the Natimuk Memorial Day in December 2002, and I have added to that Souvenir Booklet some ten pages of photos, old and new, with explanatory captions. A new section provides information of the Scottish historical origins of the McPhee family in Lochaber, and another article places the Garrett Liston family in a Limerick context. There has been an important development regarding photographs: following a visit to New Zealand and following conversations with Margaret Johnston from near Dunedin, and with Bob Stewart in Levin, we have concluded that one of the 1860 McPhee and Stewart photographs in Margaret’s possession is definitely a photograph of Alexander McPhee (who married Bridget Cunningham) later of Natimuk and Bealiba, and not a photograph of John McPhee as previously thought. (See page 18, in the book: “John McPhee and His Family” Edited by Bernard McPhee 1982). Other than this, there seems to be no extant photograph of Alexander McPhee, brother of John McPhee of Vectis and Natimuk. Thanks to Jane McPhee Fennessy at Blue Vapours Publishing in Gertrude Street Fitzroy for her skill and energy in putting this book together. I am a happy person now that these photographs can be held and owned by everybody, especially by friends, relations and studious young people of the John McPhee families. Bernard McPhee berniepmcphee@bigpond.com 17 December, 2008 Contents John and Bridget McPhee, 1898 John McPhee’s Scotland before 1853 2 Samuel and Catherine Loney 7 McPhee Reunion of 1982 Picture 11 Scottish Origins of our McPhee family 13 Photo Album 15 Thomas Liston of Limerick 23 McPhee the Explorer 26 Robert Campbell Scarlett McPhee 28 Tom & Mary Murphy 30 The Murphy Story 30 Tom Murphy’s Letters 34 Natimuk Properties 36 John McPhee’s Dwelling 37 Footnotes to Clement Article 38 John T McPhee and the Gartland Family 40 Page 1 John McPhee Family
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