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The Haxtons from Scotland
William Haxton
married Margaret Kier on 7 December 1733 at Dysart in the county
of Fife, Scotland. Their son William, born 20 May 1836 and
Baptised three days later, married Helen and had two children
John and Helen. John, born in 1755, married Margaret Hutcheson
and they had four children, all born in Abbotshall, Fife.
Thomas, the second
eldest, became a seaman, and was evidently transferred to
Campbeltown in the county of Argyll, on the other side of the
country. At the time of his marriage to Elizabeth Fullerton on 16
August 1813 at Campbeltown he was a Revenue Officer on the Excise
Cutter 'Earl Moira'. They had seven
children. Elizabeth died and Thomas remarried, to Mary Taylor, on
11 August 1834, and they had another child, Donald.
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Mary Jane Bradney
(nee Haxton)
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Times were
difficult in Scotland in the 1840s and from Thomas' first family,
John and William got itchy feet and decided to emigrate to
Australia. They left from Liverpool on the 'Alice
Maud', arriving in Melbourne in 1846, settling in
Geelong. William married Helen Daley in 1858, founding a large
family. John worked for Donaghy's Rope Works in Geelong as a
carter.
John married Jane
Vaughn in Melbourne in 1850. She had emigrated from County Clare in Ireland the year before. They settled in Geelong too,
and had the following children: William 1853, Mary Jane 1854,
John Thomas 1859 (died 1860), James 1859 (died 1859), Blanche Ada
1867 (died 1876), and Ernest James 1875. John died in 1891 and
Jane in 1901, and both are buried in the Eastern Cemetery in Geelong.
(another John Haxton?)
Mary Jane met my great
grandfather, James Henry Bradney, during one of his
voyages as a merchant sailor when he stopped in at the
port of Geelong. They were married at Auckland, New
Zealand, in 1878, and the rest of the story merges with
the Bradneys.
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