Elizabeth BARCLAY [10747]

  General Notes:

Name Elizabeth Barclay
Estimated Birth Year abt 1842
Age 18
Arrival Date 25 Oct 1860
Arrival Port Melbourne, Australia
Departure Port Liverpool
Ship Merlin
Nationality Scottish

Elizabeth's occupation is given as servant.

On Elizabeth's marriage certificate to Daniel Stirrat, she gives her marital status as spinster.

Elizabeth had 2 children before she married Daniel Stirrat, John in b. 1862 and William b. 1865

The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) Wed 6 Apr 1870 Page 2 Family Notices
The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 - 1924) Fri 22 Apr 1870 Page 2 Family Notices
MARRIAGE.
Stirrat - Barclay. - At the Manse, Soldiers' Hill, on the 5th April, by the Rev. W. Henderson, Daniel Stirrat, of Egerton, son of the late Captain Matthew Stirrat, of Salt coats, Ayrshire, Scotland, to Elizabeth, daughter of Mr William Barclay, of Dundee, Scotland.

1871 Maryann Margaret Buchanan Stirrat
1873 Elizabeth Jane Stirrat
1874 Agnes Stirrat
1876 Emma Stirrat
1879 Ellen Norrie Stirrat
1882 Mary Stirrat

The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Tue 27 Sep 1892 Page 6 COUNTRY NEWS.
BALLARAT. Monday.
A woman named Elizabeth Stirrat, aged 50 years, committed suicide this morning by cutting her throat at her residence, Errand-street, Ballarat West. Deceased was observed this morning, at 7 o'clock, by her daughter, Elizabeth Stirrat, sharpening a table knife, and subsequently the daughter found her mother in an outhouse bleeding from the neck, with the knife in her hand. Deceased had been strange in manner since her son committed suicide in the Creswick district in April last. Mrs Stirrat lived apart from her husband, who is resident at Broken Hill. At the inquest the jury gave a verdict of suicide while suffering from temporary insanity.

Elizabeth married.

Elizabeth next married Daniel STIRRAT [10748] [MRIN: 3538] on 5 Apr 1870 in , Victoria, Australia ⁸³⁴⁴.^,8345 (Daniel STIRRAT [10748] was born about 1842 in , , Ireland and died in 1895.)