John Allan BLAIR 1843-1935
& Hannah LARKIN c.1846-1932 Co Antrim, Ireland ; South Australia ; Melbourne, Victoria ; Bahgallah & Casterton, S-W Victoria, Australia John Allan BLAIR 1843-1935, b. Melbourne, Port Phillip, son of ...... & ...... He became a selector and farmer of Bahgallah, near Casterton, S-W Victoria, Australia in about 1870. Hannah LARKIN c.1846-1932 was born in Co Antrim, Ireland daughter of Patrick LARKIN & Mary McBRIDE and arrived in Australia before 1865. Her sister Mary LARKIN c.1834-1903 who married James "Jimmy" REID 1834-1915 and brother James LARKIN c.1840-1931 who married Bridget McNAMARA c. 1835-1902, also emigrated to Australia. John Allan BLAIR and Hannah LARKIN appear to have married before 1869 (marriage not located) as they had 7 children from 1869 to 1888 in the Casterton area. Hannah LARKIN had previously married in 1865 at Mount Gambier, S-E South Australia to Daniel MULLANE / MALANE / MILINE and they had a daughter Eliza born 1867 Mount Gambier and died in 1867 at Sandford, S-W Victoria. The seven BLAIR children attended school at Bahgallah in the 1870s, '80s and '90s and their father John BLAIR was recorded as a farmer of Bahgallah during this period. In 1932 Hannah BLAIR died at Casterton, S-W Victoria and was buried in the Casterton cemetery. Her husband, John Allan BLAIR died at Casterton in 1935 and was also buried in the Casterton cemetery. John Allan BLAIR & Hannah LARKIN had the following known family...
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