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Glass House Books

Black McIntosh to Gold

Lois Shepheard was born in New South Wales to a father from Scotland and a mother descended from Scots. Lois was sent to learn the violin to play reels and hornpipes, and became a professional musician. Her lifetime in music included study at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music and the Talent Education School of Music, Japan. She has played in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and was a
lecturer at the University of Melbourne and the State College of Victoria Institute of Early Childhood Development. For a time, she was Professor of Viola and Director of the Suzuki Program at Western Illinois University in the US.

In recent years, Lois was introduced to the fascination of family history. As she looked into the lives of her ancestors, she realised that each was a tale waiting to be written. Loiss fist book on things Scottish won the 2011 IP Picks competition for creative non-fiction.

This great, great, great granddaughter of Black McIntosh from Scotlands Black Isle, has a son and two grandsons in Melbourne and a daughter in Cologne, Germany.

Other books by Lois Shepheard published by IP: The Rag Boilers Daughter and Memories of Dr Shinichi Suzuki Son of His Environment .

Glass House Books

Brisbane

Black McIntosh

to Gold

Lois Shepheard

Glass House Books

Brisbane

Glass House Books

an imprint of IP (Interactive Publications Pty Ltd)

Treetop Studio 9 Kuhler Court

Carindale, Queensland, Australia 4152

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First published by IP in 2014

Lois Shepheard, 2014

All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.

Printed in 11 pt Book Antiqua on 14 pt Book Antiqua.

National Library of Australia

Cataloguing-in-Publication entry:

Author: Shepheard, Lois, author.

Title: Black McIntosh to gold / Lois Shepheard.

ISBN: 9781922120823 (paperback)

Subjects: McIntosh family.

Gold mines and mining--New South Wales--19th century.

Scottish Australians--New South Wales--Genealogy.

Australia--Social life and customs--19th century.

Scotland--Emigration and immigration.

New South Wales--Genealogy.

Scotland--Genealogy.

Dewey Number: 929.20994

In memory of my grandmother, Elizabeth Jamieson,
born Elizabeth Ann McIntosh on the banks of the Shoalhaven.

Elizabeth Ann McIntosh, aged about 18

Acknowledgments

Cover Image: April30

Jacket Design: David P Reiter

Author Photo: Justine Clark (Melbourne)

Dredge Photo (back cover): gold dredge owned by Messrs McIntosh, Lester & Co., in 1900 at Limekilns, near Braidwood NSW

A thousand thank yous to Marie Hartnett for her valuable research on the Braidwood goldfields area and its families.

I am grateful for the glimpses of family and former times given me by my late mother, Flora McAllister, and by the late Kate Genge.

Thank you to Vilma Dyball for her trust in this book and for encouraging me to write it.

Contents

Prologue

Characters in This Book

Messrs McIntosh, Lester & Company

Still will we be the children of the heather and the wind,

Far away from home, O its still for you and me,

That the broom is blowing bonnie in the north countrie.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Donald and Hughina McIntosh

Prologue

From the end of the 18 th century, two distinct groups of people came to Australia from Britain. There were the poor wretches transported as convicts and the luckier ones who came free. This story is based on the lives of two Scots, Donald and Hughina, who of their own free will, left a fishing village in the far north of their country and headed for New South Wales.

You may wonder, as I did, why they chose to leave the safety of a Scottish village and travel to the other side of the globe. If you know that the lives of their fishermen forbears were woven together in clanship like the most complex fishing net, and that today many Scots live in cottages their ancestors occupied, still surrounded by kin, you may wonder even more.

The Scottish clan is a sense of kindred and has existed for about 1,000 years but from the beginning of the 17 th century, it reached beyond family members and could even include friends who shared political views or land or military connections. Here then, in this saga of some 100 years, is the story of Donald and Hughina and how they built a version of clanship in the goldfields of New South Wales. The characters mentioned in this book did really exist. They were fellow gold miners, landowners, Scots, Englishmen, ex-convicts and free settlers, all of whom became the couples closest of friends members of their Australian clan.

The excitement, tragedies, joys and disappointments of Donald and Hughinas lives were enacted on the goldfields of Braidwood, New South Wales. They were played before a backdrop of 19 th and early 20 th century Australian society and historical events.

The couple remained Scottish at heart and kept their innocent belief in the fairies and visions of Scotlands Black Isle. But for all their faith in Scottish ways, Donald and Hughina bravely adapted to the customs of a young Australia. Their story is typical of the emerging concept of an Australian.

Later, when you peep into their childrens lives (they were all born and reared in New South Wales) youll find they were Aussies through and through.

Characters in This Book:

Donald McIntosh and Hughina Sutherland, husband and wife.

Alice. See Cook.

Cantle, Will: Husband of Kate McIntosh; brother-in-law of Donald & Hughina.

Cook, Alice: Wife of Alec McIntosh; daughter-in-law of Donald & Hughina.

Davis, Ted: Husband of Kate McIntosh; son-in-law of Donald & Hughina.

Hardy, John: Ex-convict. Father of Mary Ann Hardy; fellow gold miner & friend of Donald McIntosh.

Hardy, Mary Ann: Daughter of John Hardy; second wife of Donald McIntosh.

Jamieson, Walter: Husband of Lizzie McIntosh; son-in-law of Donald & Hughina.

Lester, James (George James): Gold mining partner & friend of Donald McIntosh.

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