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Copyright © 2009 Archive Digital Books Australasia All Rights Reserved For Generations Yet Unborn The JAM I ESON Family 1747-1978 The History and Family Tree of Alexander JAMIESON 1816-1912 and his Wife Janet nee GILMOUR and their Descendants Copies available from executive officers of the JAMIESON Family Reunion Committee Printed by Lutheran Publishing House, 205 Halifax Street, Adelaide, S.A. 78-1528 ISBN 959-6545 I Margaret JAMIESON 1846-1933 and active life. She left school at an early age, and was soon well trained in household duties by her mother . Being especially talented with her needle, she was soon travelling about the neighbourhood doing household sewing, for which she was paid 1/6dper day. On 11th April , 1871 Margaret married Wi lliam PHILP , the fourth son of William and Ma ry PHILP , who had come to South Australia from Cornwall in 1838. Margaret and Wi lliam settled on a small property at Forreston, and a family of four sons and two daughters were born to them there, between 1873 and 1886. These were busy years for the capable and industrious Margaret - she helped in the dairy and garden , kept bees (which she could handle with complete ease ), made butter and cheese, cured bacon and ham and made her own candles and soap . Always too , Margaret sewed for her family - dainty, embroide ry-trimmed garments when they were babies, and later work clothes for William and the boys. In 1886 Margaret bought a "Singer" sewing machine . At first she was afraid of it, so her second son, John, then aged eleven, had to show her how to use it. Soon she had the machine in constant use, making all the family clothes, including moleskin trousers - even the binder canvases were brought in to be repaired on Margaret and William PHILP Margaret's machine. When she was an old lady, Margaret said that Margaret, the first child of Alexander and the years at Forreston when her children were Janet (nee GILMOUR) JAMIESON, was born at young, were the happiest of her life . In 1888 the Kilwinning, Ayrshire on 3rd March, 1846. The family was grieved at the death of Mary Jane, the family moved to Beith - 7 Main Street, much loved youngest daughter , aged one year Gateside, and lived there until they left for South and seven months. Australia in 1854. Margaret with her parents and Believing the North might hold greater brothers James and John, left Glasgow on 28th opportunity for their younger sons, Margaret and March for Liverpool, to join their ship the William bought a property , Section 14, Hundred Nuggett for Adelaide. Alexander JAMIESON's of Morgan , north of Peterborough , in 1893, and diary records that Margaret and her mother were moved there with their four younger children. very sick during the first part of the voyage. Janet returned to the Hills districts on her Arriving in South Australia early in July 1854, marriage , and James also, to work in the orchards the family settled at Forreston, and Margaret was when he was nineteen. However , John and George educated there - at North Gumeracha School. spent the rest of their lives in the Peterborough Margaret seems to have been regarded as rather district , George taking over the property known frail in health, as a child, for on 1st August 1856, as "Ringwood Farm " on his parents' retirement. her grandfather James JAMIESON writing from This property is now owned by George 's son, Reg, Stewarton, Ayrshire to his son Alexander at having been in the same family for over 80 years. Gumeracha, South Australia says: "I'm sorry to William and Margaret moved to the North after hear that Margaret is in bad health, I could have several years of exceptional rainfall and found the wished that you had been more particular about count ry in great heart, but by 1896 they were her, as she was a great favourite with me, and I faced with drought. So severe was it, that in 1897 believe with all in this place ... Write me very William and John took their horses to particularly about Margaret." Time has revealed Oodnadatta and kept them there for six months. that her grandfather need not have been so Again during the 1914 drought they sent their concerned, for Margaret was to have a very long horses to N.S.W. for some months, to save them. 15 II James JAMIESON James, the eldest son of Alexander and Janet (nee GILMOUR) JAMIESON was born at Gateside, Beith on 2nd February 18481, and came to South Australia with his parents, sister Margaret and brother John, in 1854. Aboard the Nugget the JAMIESON family met Robert and Marion BARRIE, also travelling to South Australia, with their children, Helen and Robert. The two families became good friends, and the boys, shipboard playmates. Six year old James's personal memory of the voyage, was being threatened with "the rope's end" by the sailors when he and Robert jun. leaned over the side of the vessel. The association between these two families continued, when in the 1870's, James and John JAMIESON selected land at Black Rock Plain, and the BARRIE'S, father and son, at Willowie. James was educated at North Gumeracha, but left school at an early age to assist his parents in providing for the family. On 1st November, 1872, James was married to his first cousin Agnes Montgomery HARVIE, born at sea aboard the Marco Polo on 4th June, 1855, the daughter of John and Margaret (nee GILMOUR) HARVIE. They were married at the residence of the bride's father, and the witnesses were the groom's brother John JAMIESON and the bride's father, John HARVIE, both farmers of North Gumeracha. In 1874 James selected land at Black Rock Plain (Sections 158, 165 and 166 containing 395.5 acres, purchase price £396). Agnes and their two James and Agnes JAMIESON with baby Alexander children Alexander and John, joined him there in 1875, being driven from Gumeracha in a buggy by early days when a J.P. and a lone constable were a young friend, Jesse BOWERING. James called upon to administer most local justice. accompanied them in a cart, carrying furniture James's Magistrates Guide - South Australia and supplies. These earliest years at Black Rock 1879 is still in the book shelf in the family home at Plain brought many challenges and much hard Peterborough. work to James and Agnes. There were fences, a In 1888 James was one of ten ratepayers house, sheds and tanks to be built, while James appointed to constitute the first District Council commenced wheat growing, working his land with of Orroroo - he served that council for 14.5 years a bullock team.