NameJames MCNAUGHTON
Birth14 Jan 1838, Kilmarnock, Ayr, Scotland200
Birth MemoThe death certificate for James’ shows James as her oldest child, aged 58 in 1896 so born 1838. Day and month from Ron’s diary
Death25 Dec 1910, 57 Market St, Kensington, Melbourne
Death Memo Death cert #13198, for James McNaughton d 1910, aged 72, parents named, 55 years in Aust
Burial27 Dec 1910, Boroondara Cemetery, Melbourne
OccupationCarpenter, Builder, Contractor
Misc. Notes
He probably emigrated to Australia ca 1849 with his parents when he was about 11 years old. (His death certificate stated that he had been in Victoria 55 years -since about 1855 - but his sister Sophie was born in Victoria in 1849.)
He was possibly in business with his father in Geelong in 1859, and he was married on the goldfields at Daylesford in 1863. James was 25, a carpenter, of Daylesford, when his son was born on 6 Jul 1864
Later James worked as a builder. They lived in Fitzroy, Melbourne, in a two story terrace house opposite the Fitzroy football ground in Brunswick Street.
James set up a joinery business in Lonsdale St., Melbourne, about 50 yards up from Swanson St., with a partner --- McMURTRIE.. The business did all sorts of building, carpentry and joinery. They built shops, show cases for shops, fences etc. James took his wife and sons to South Africa to join his son Ronald about 1895.
James used to attend the Scotts Church in Collins St, Melbourne every Sunday morning. The Minister suggested that he ought to have his son Ronald baptised. James wanted the Minister to come to his home but the Minister said that James had to bring the baby to him. James said he wasn't walking all that way (3 miles each way) carrying the baby and, if the Minister wouldn't come to the house, then it couldn't be that urgent. After that James stopped going to church. Ron and the later children were not baptised.
James died before the marriage of his son Ronald in 1911 so never met Aileen.
201Unless otherwise specified all information comes from Sid McNaughton
Spouses
Birth5 or 6 Sep 1848, London, England200,202
Birth MemoBirthdate recorded as 6th in baptism register but 5th in son Ron’s diary
Christen1 Oct 1848, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London203
Death28 Feb 1916, 101 Harold St, Middle Park, Melbourne
Burial1 Mar 1916, Bo'roondara Cemetry, Kew
Misc. Notes
Maria emigrated to Victoria with her parents when she was about seven.
204 She married with the written consent of her father three days after her fifteenth birthday, but the minister was told she was sixteen
205 James was 25 and it was his first marriage also. The marriage was conducted by the rites of the Church of England and Ireland in a private house in Daylesford, where both parties lived. The witnesses were John Coles and Maria's father John David Kelly.
At Daylesford, they lived in a tent with a cow dung floor which Maria polished to a fine shine with floor wax. Their first child, George Robert was born 10 months later. When the baby was registered, Maria's age was given incorrectly as 17 rather than 16.
Maria died by choking on a bone stuck in her throat. At that time she was living with her daughter, Madeline, in Harold St, Middlepark, Melbourne (between St Kilda and the city)
201Research
•1 Unless otherwise specified all information comes from Sid McNaughton
• 2
• 3 Vic. Death Certificate #2953 aged 67 parents named, she'd been in the colony for 60 years.
•4 Christening entry gives date of birth, parents names (no middle name for John) and address.
Marriage9 Sep 1863, Daylesford, Victoria
Marr MemoMarriage cert for James McNaughton and Maria Kelly gives his parents, place of birth and age
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