Record No. 27 The Family of RICHARD ALLAN & CATHERINE ROBERTSON << Parents Link >> RICHARD ALLAN (26.3.1833 - 30.12.1905) & CATHERINE ROBERTSON (1833 - 2.6.1902) Married Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland Born Alloa, Clackamanshire, Scotland 17.5.1855 Tennyson, Victoria, Australia 14470 Died Tennyson, Victoria, Australia 7568 Norwood, South Australia Pine Grove,Victoria, Australia Buried Pine Grove, Victoria, Australia 178/35 & 463/22 *** FAMILY HISTORY *** Richard ALLAN was the eldest son of Andrew ALLAN and Catherine DRUMMOND. He was born in Queensferry, Edinburgh in 1833, just before his parents moved north up to the highlands to farm. Richard's prospects looked bleak for farming, so in 1851 he emigrated to South Australia aboard the ship Thetis. Richard was a shepherd on Yorke Peninsula, Gawler and Encounter Bay S.A., then prospected for gold at Bendigo, McIvor, Forest Creek, Fryer's Creek and Ballarat. He later met up with his younger brother David in 1854. Both were present in Ballarat during the goldrush skirmish known as the Eureka Stockade, where many miners and soldiers lost their lives in an uprising over absorbitant licence fees.(Richard was apparently arrested, but released for lack of evidence). Richard married in 1855 in Adelaide S.A. to Catherine Robertson from Stirling,Scotland. By 1857 he and his brother had saved enough money to purchase uncleared, virgin scrubland in Newlyn, near Creswick. The original selection was 93 acres at 4 pounds per acre. A pioneer in that district, he was on the original Scrub Hill Church council along with his brother David and father Andrew. He brought up a family of six, with another five children dying young. In 1874 he sold out his share of land, and moved up to the Bamawn and Tennyson districts, near Rochester, Echuca Shire. He was Echuca Shire President 1896-97, and on the Shire Council from 1888-1900, and his name appears on the Rochester old council chambers foundation stone.

*** 11 Children ***

-- 1 -- ANDREW ALEXANDER ALLAN (9.3.1856 - 20.12.1889) NEVER MARRIED Born Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 1603 Died Pannoobamawn,Pine Grove,Vic. 18203 Died from Nephritis

-- 2 -- ALEXANDER ROBERTSON ALLAN (11.5.1857 - 1863) Died in childhood Born - Ballarat, Victoria 5973; Died - Creswick, Victoria, 06233

-- 3 -- RICHARD ALLAN (19.4.1859 - 1860) Died in infancy Born - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 7785 ; Died - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 5527

-- 4 -- ELIZABETH BLELLOCK ALLAN NEVER MARRIED Born 1860 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Died 18.5.1928 Creswick, Victoria, Australia 6300 Buried St.Kilda, Victoria, Australia

-- 5 -- CATHERINE DRUMMOND ALLAN (1863 -) & M J.MITCHELL of U.S.A. Married Creswick, Victoria, Australia 13747 Born - Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 6043 Died - St.Kilda, Victoria, Australia Buried -

-- 6 -- JOHN ALLAN (1865 - 1866) Died in infancy Born - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 21485 ; Died - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 01108

-- 7 -- ISABELLA ALLAN (1866 - 1868) Died in infancy Born - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 20750; Died - Creswick, Victoria, Australia 03676

-- 8 -- ISABELLA ALLAN NEVER MARRIED Born 1868 Creswick, Victoria, Australia Died 20.6.1946 Creswick, Victoria, Australia (6300) Buried St.Kilda, Victoria, Australia

-- 9 -- DAVID JAMES ALLAN 1869 - 1870 Died in infancy Born - Creswick, Victoria, Australia (21767); Died - Creswick, Victoria, Australia (03981)

-- 10 -- RICHARD ALEXANDER ALLAN (12.12.1871 - 4.9.1948) & ANNE SELINA ELLEN WINKLES (5.1.1874 - 17.1.1969) Married Creswick, Victoria, Australia 1881 12.6.1899 Born Rokewood, Victoria, Australia 12.6.1899 Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia 03981 Died Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia Bagshot, Vic Buried Australia

-- 11 -- JAMES FRANCIS ALLAN NEVER MARRIED Born 1873 Kingston, Victoria, Australia 24785 Died 10.11.1940 Heidleberg, Victoria, Australia 11311 Buried St.Kilda, Victoria, Australia