John Galbraith, Stockman in Victoria, Australia

1804 - Aft 1848  (~ 45 years)

• Name	John Galbraith
  	Likely to have been an illegitimate son of his father, Captain James Galbraith (no marriage record can be found for his military father)
  Suffix	Stockman in Victoria, Australia
  Born	c 1804	Gibraltar
  	Birth year a rough estimate based on years of birth of known children. Birthplace as given in shipping passenger list.
  Gender	Male
  Occupation:	pre 1840	Carpenter in Co. Galway
  	(occupation as given by John on ship's passenger list and as given by daughter Rose on her marriage certificate)
  Emigrated:	24 Dec 1841	Arrived at Port Phillip (Melbourne), Victoria, Australia from Plymouth, England (sailing from Plymouth 21 Aug 1841) on the "Alexander" as Bounty immigrants
  	Identified by the following newspaper advertisement placed by James Galbraith: NOTICE. IF this should meet the eye of John Galbraith, or his daughter Rose Galbraith, who sailed from Plymouth in 1841, and lived on Lang and Elme's station in 1845, they will hear of their son and brother, James Galbraith, by addressing to J. G., "Argus" office, Geelong. [The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.) 12 Mar 1852] The ship Alexander which arrived at Melbourne in Dec 1841 lists a John Galbraith age 30 and a Rose Galbraith age 17 - note that John is an unmarried carpenter native place Gibraltar and Rose is a nurse native place County Roscommon - which borders Ballinasloe, County Galway - might possibly be her. Rose says her father is a carpenter named John Galbraith on one of her marriage certificates and perhaps John could have travelled as single and understated this age by a lot - with Rose pretending she is older - or his age may be a transcription error? False ages may have given them better immigration terms? They were "Bounty Scheme" immigrants and the relevant record shows (not listed together): Single males: John Galbraith, age 30, carpenter, protestant [note], native place: Gibraltar, both (read and write), bounty paid per head of family: 19. Unmarried females - Rose Galbraith, age 17, nurse, protestant [note], native place: Co Roscommon, read only, bounty paid per head of family: 19. I have noted that a widow was ineligible under the Bounty Scheme; the same may have been true for widowers? In addition, describing themselves as protestant (when we know that Rose at least was RC), may have helped. Larger bounties were paid for single men under 40 and for single women over [14]. This could have influenced the misstatement of their ages. See more on the Bounty Scheme and its rules at: https://soc.genealogy.australia-nz.narkive.com/yBYqwAAr/the-bounty-system-1835-1841 Melbourne had only been established in 1835 on the banks of the Yarra River, so Melbourne was, in 1841, in its early years.
  Religion:	Protestant
  	as given on the ship's passenger list at the time of John's emigration.
  Residence:	1845	Elms & Lang's station, Victoria
  	as mentioned in 1852 advertisement by James Galbraith, looking for his father and sister after he has arrived in Victoria. Elms & Lang appear to have been large landowners and so it may be difficult to trace which property, but it is highly likely I feel to be their Terinallum Station, near Darlington, which Elms and Lang sold to Clyde Company.
  Residence:	1846 - 1848	Clyde Company's Terinallum Station, near Darlington, Victoria
  	See attached document for extracts of John when he was shepherding on Terinallum Station 1846 - 1848, as published in the Clyde Company Papers Vol IV.
  Residence:	1848	Clyde Company's Terinallum Station, near Darlington, Victoria
  	The placing of this advertisement after James' initial advertisement leads me to believe that Rose Galbraith may have answered her brother James' initial advertisement, but the second advertisement suggests that Rose had lost contact with her father after 1848, when he left Terinallum Station.
  Died	Aft 1848	Victoria, Australia?
  	The last known reference I can find to John is on Terinallum Station in 1848. Did John then spend his life drifting around sheep stations in Victoria, or perhaps other parts of Australia? I have the feeling that son James Galbraith's newspaper articles did not succeed in reconnecting with John. Did John, like thousands of other Australian colonists, follow the gold rush to California in later 1848 or in 1849? Or did John perhaps die, unrecorded, in the Australian outback? Did John move on to New South Wales? There was a John Galbraith found drowned in the Parramatta district of New South Wales on 12 August 1852 (Coroner's hearing 29 Aug 1852) and a protestant Irish John Galbraith was buried at Mulgoa, near Penrith in New South Wales in 1853 (this John Galbraith was a farmer living at Greendale and died on 10 Aug 1853, buried 14 Aug 1853 age 43 (born c 1810).
  Person ID	I48	Donald
  Last Modified	1 Apr 2022

  
  

  Father	Captain James Galbraith, 13th Regiment of Foot, died on service in Martinique,   b. c 1775, likely at Cappard, Co. Galway. Ireland ,   d. 8 Apr 1813, Martinique, West Indies  (Age ~ 38 years)
  Relationship	Putative
  Mother	NN
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F71	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Adams,   b. c 1802 - 1805, likely in Galway, Ireland ,   d. Bef 1841  (Age ~ 35 years)
  Children	+ 1. James Galbraith, arrived in Otago on the "Gil Blas" 1856, M.P.C. Otago, Hotelier and property investor,   b. 3 Sep 1825, Galway (town), Galway, Ireland ,   d. 1 Apr 1892, 66 Redcliffe Gardens, Kensington, London, England  (Age 66 years)  [Birth] + 2. Rosannah (Rose) Galbraith, Hotelier in Victoria, Otago Goldfields storekeeper,   b. c 1827, Ballinasloe, Galway, Ireland ,   d. 29 Sep 1868, Dunstan Hospital, Clyde, Central Otago, New Zealand  (Age ~ 41 years)  [Birth]
  Last Modified	5 Sep 2021
  Family ID	F18	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Documents

  Mentions of John Galbraith in the Clyde Company Papers Volume IV 1846-50, edited by P. L. Brown, Oxford University Press, 1959