Co Tyrone, Ireland, Sandford & Goroke, Victoria, Australia
John McLAUGHLIN c.1827, Co Tyrone, Ireland son of ____ and ____ was married in 1852 in Co Tyrone, Ireland to Mary MILLER, b. 1832, Co Tyrone, Ireland, daughter of William MILLER and Jane DONALD.
John McLAUGHLIN, his wife Mary MILLER and seven children arrived in Victoria in 1865 on the ship "Thunderbolt" and were soon settled in the Sandford area of south-western Victoria where an additional four children were born.
Later, many members of the family moved north to the Minimay & Goroke area.
Mary died at Goroke in 1909 and was buried at Minimay, but when and where did John McLAUGHLIN die?
In 1900 one of their sons, Joseph Miller McLAUGHLIN obtained one of the new allotments in the Wando Vale Closer Settlement Scheme. He married Ellen TUFFNELL in 1900 and they raised a large family in the area.
John McLAUGHLIN & Mary MILLER had the following known family:
- Elizabeth McLAUGHLIN b. 1853, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1915, m. Archibald McINTYRE 1843-1896
- Sarah Jane McLAUGHLIN b. 1855, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1878, Sandford, Vic.
- William McLAUGHLIN b. 1857, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1902
- John McLAUGHLIN b. 1858, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1922, m. Annie DOUGLAS 1862-1900
- James McLAUGHLIN b. 1861, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1912
- Robert McLAUGHLIN b. 1863, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1927, m. Gladys Martha McINTYRE 1885-1933
- Andrew McLAUGHLIN b. 1865, Co Tyrone, IRL, d. 1944, m. ..........?
- Joseph Miller McLAUGHLIN b. 1867, Sandford, Vic, d. 1944, m. Ellen TUFFNELL 1874-1943
- Mary Ann McLAUGHLIN b. 1870, Sandford, Vic, d. 1949, m. Thomas Henry BAYLEY
- Martha Jane McLAUGHLIN b. 1872, Sandford, Vic, d. 1903.
- Samuel Henry McLAUGHLIN b. 1872, Sandford, Vic, d. 1932, m. ................?
