Robert McMicking (aka Robert MacMicking Esq) was born August 12, 1826 in Crook, Stirlingshire, Scotland and died June 7, 1908 in Mannus Station, NSW, Australia. He was buried in Mannus Station, Upper Murray, NSW, Australia. He was the son of Thomas McMicking of Miltonise  and Jane Morin. He married first Jane White. She was born 1835 in England and died January 18, 1868 in Upper Murray, Nsw, Australia. He married second Eleanor Jane Nicholson, daughter of Germain Nicholson and Eleanor Joplin. She was born May 21, 1845 in Melbourne, NSW, Australia and died 1926 in Australia.

 

 

Children with Jane White:

1 Thomas McMicking/MacMicking  (b.July 9,1853 - d.July 12,1853)

2 Robert Thomas McMicking/MacMicking (b.Apr 29,1854-d.Feb 16,1855)

3 Jane Annabella McMicking/MacMicking  (b.Dec 5,1856 -d.Feb 9,1857)

4 Gilbert Torrance McMicking/MacMicking   (1857-1936)  

 

Children with Eleanor Jane Nicholson:

1 Germain Nicholson McMicking   (1870-1921)

2 Robert St Ringan McMicking  (1871-1943)

3 Thomas William McMicking   (1873-1934)

4 Eleanor Jane Maitland McMicking  (Oct 3, 1876 - June 3, 1962)

   - married George Murray Black (Feb 28,1874 - Nov 2, 1965)

5 May Quinta Wilhelmina McMicking   (1877-1889) *

6 Helen Henrietta Germain McMicking  

7 Cuthbert Douglas McMicking   (1892-1968)

 

* May Quinta Wilhelmina was born March 12, 1877 at St Kilda, NSW, Australia and died February 14, 1889 at Huyton, Liverpool, England.  She is  buried at Mannus Cemetery, Australia.

 

 

 

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Sources:

Records of R G McMicking Collection

Records of T A McMicking, Research files

Records of Penny Turnbull (Emails to Reg McMicking)

Ref: McMicking Family Cemetery, Mannus, Australia

Document: Recollections of Manila and the Philippines, 1848,1849 and 1850 by Robert MacMicking

Document: Biography Profile, Robert McMicking

Document: Death Notice, The Advertiser, Adelaide, South Australia