George COUTTS ca1815-1852 & Mary PEGGIE 1813-1876
Scotland, Strathdownie, Inglewood, etc., Victoria Australia
George COUTTS, b. ca1815 Scotland, son of ___ COUTTS and ___, was married in 1834 at Dron, Perthshire, Scotland to Mary PEGGIE, b. 1813, Fifeshire, Scotland, daughter of John PEGGIE and Margaret CORBETT.
George & Mary COUTTS, along with 4 children arrived at Port Phillip in 1842. A further 5 children were born in the colony of Port Phillip.
George COUTTS & family occupied the East Strathdowine Pastoral Lease from 1851 to 1856. During this period George was drowned when crossing a river in 1852. His widow Mary remarried in 1858 to Alexander FORBES.
George COUTTS and Mary PEGGIE had the following family:
- John COUTTS b. 1834, FIF, Sct, m. .....;
- Mary COUTTS b. 1835, FIF, Sct, m. Thomas STEWART;
- George COUTTS b. 1838, FIF, Sct, m. .....;
- Ann COUTTS b. 1841, Glasgow, Sct, m. Benjamin RINDER;
- David COUTTS b. 1844, Melbourne, Port Phillip, NSW m. .....;
- Jane COUTTS b. 1845, Melbourne, Port Phillip, NSW, m. .....;
- Catherine COUTTS b. 1848, Melbourne, Port Phillip, NSW, m. Alexander GRAY;
- James COUTTS b. 1849, Melbourne, Port Phillip, NSW, m. .....;
- Robert COUTTS b. 1851, Melbourne, Victoria, m. .....;
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