John (T) McCubbin

  Noted events in his life were:

• Occupation: hotelier.

• connection. Frederick McCubbin's links to me are as follows:
Frederick McCubbin (1855)
His father was Alexander McCubbin (1827)
His father was Alexander McCubbin (1794) & he also had John McCubbin (1827)
He had Hubert McCubbin (1863)
He had Hubert McCubbin (1906) who married Roma Jarvis (1915)
Her father was Frank Jarvis (1883) who married Lillie Harvey (1886)
Her father was William Harvey (1861) who married Sarah Gentle (1862)
Her father was Thomas Gentle (1827)
His father was Richard Gentle (1789)
His father was Samuel Gentle (1760) who married Elizabeth Waldock (1748)
They had Richard Gentle (1789)
He had Elizabeth Gentle (1817) who married John Goss (1817)
They had Sarah Goss (1850) who married Alfred Larkinson (1843)
His father was George Larkinson @ Malster (1817) & he also had Frederick Larkinson (1865)
He had Winthrop Larkinson (1889)
He had Dulcie Larkinson (1926) who married Colin Davies (1925)
They had me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• note. Back in Scotland, many of the brothers,(& maybe sisters) left Scotland for foreign lands.
Fred's father, Alexander, came to Melbourne, set up a bakery business.
His twin, John, went to the Otago area of New Zealand where he went into hotels..
At one stage he owned 2 hotels in central Otago, but when the NZ economy hit hard times,
he had to sell them. He moved to Hokatika on the east coast, where he owned the Robert Burns Hotel.
In his marriage, he had 2 children, the elder, Hubert John,(Jack) and then David George.
His wife died shortly after David's birth.
Maybe because he needed a married woman on the hotel premises- sometimes was a condition of a license,
he married again one year later.
Not long after this, he sold up and came to Melbourne.He must have found his own accommodation there,as shortly after he left for Darwin,to set up a hotel on the newly opened gold fields in the N.T.
However, late Jan or early Feb, 1883, he died there, basically from the effects of alcohol.
Not long after, the 2nd wife brought the 2 boys to the bakery and asked the family there if they would
mind the children while she attended sessions with the solicitors to finalise the estate. etc.

Jack, being older, never really settled with the family, became a wanderer, went to sea, also later worked on the Melbourne trams, also the Yallourn open cut, but several times worked for his younger brother David, who set up a bakery in Broken Hill, and later in Ararat.
David have lived with Fred's parents, and learned the bakery trade.
Jack worked for his brother at Broken Hill, and Ararat.
When Jack much later came down to Melbourne to see a specialist,he died in his sleep at the People's Palace there

John married Annie Taylor on 26 Dec 1863 in St Pauls, Dunedin, Otago New Zealand. (Annie Taylor was born on 11 Mar 1838 in Cranebrook, Kent England and died on 28 Dec 1868 in Dunedin, Otago New Zealand.)

John next married Mary Gillies on 12 Jan 1870 in Comely Bank, Dunedin, Otago New Zealand. (Mary Gillies was born circa 1840.)