Mary Nicholl

   Another name for Mary was Mary Nicholl.

  General Notes:

Jean Cameron notes:
My mother-i-l's birth certificate shows
Alexina Anderson Nicoll, born October 11, 1896, 2 a m, at Waternaugh, Parish of Mains, Forfar , mother Mary Ann Nicoll, yarn bleacher, no father shown. I wonder why Mary Ann was in Forfar, if, presumably, she worked in the Dundee jute mills ? Was her family there ? It must have been a foul job.

I think that when we went to Edinburgh to look for the records of Don's mother, that it said Illegitimate as well. But they don't put that on the copies. We were trying to get UK citizenship for our sons by showing that the ancestry was Scottish. And did.

So Mary Nicoll must have married after Alexina was born, or perhaps between marriages ?

Whether Alexina had any contact with her mother in Australia, because after Don's parents retired they left Borneo, Sarawak, and went to live in Rose Bay, Sydney. But I don't remember when that was exactly, if it was before Mary Nicoll died in 1958. Ewan was born in 1962 and they were there then, because I still have the koala bear, made from kangaroo fur, which Alexina sent. But Don threw out any letters his parents wrote, they weren't a close family at all. Don's father had a host of brothers and sisters, but there was never any contact.

  Noted events in her life were:

• fact. Mary was a widow when she married James. She had been widowed twice. Her first husband was George Spowart

• fact. 1953 Mary Sheppard (widow) went on her own, by boat to U.K.

• fact. Buried in same grave as James Spowart (son of 1st marriage)

• emigrated: from Liverpool on "Essex", 30 Mar 1907. this is only a possible guess

Mary married Robertson before 1920. (Robertson was born circa 1860.)

Mary next married James Spowart before 1922. (James Spowart was born circa 1860 in Dunfermline, Fife Scotland, died on 11 Oct 1937 in Orange, NSW Australia and was buried in Plymouth Bretheren Section Of Orange Cemetery, NSW Australia.)

Mary next married James Edwin Sheppard, son of Jesse Sheppard and Catherine Blundell, on 29 Mar 1922 in Rozelle, Sydney, NSW Australia. (James Edwin Sheppard was born in 1858 in Daventry, Northamptonshire England ⁴⁰, christened on 16 Jun 1859 in Daventry, Northamptonshire England, died on 22 Sep 1950 in Orange, NSW Australia and was buried Sunday 24th September, 1950 in Baptist Cemetery, Orange, NSW Australia (No Monument).)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• fact. Mary's parents David & Margaret were present at the wedding.