Margaret Anne FORSTER

  Noted events in her life were:

• Immigration, 1852, Melbourne, Vic. ⁷ Luke (age 37[?]), his wife Anne (age 33 [listed as Mrs. - -]), and their 3 children Margaret (age 9), Elizabeth (age 7) and William (age 5) arrived in Melbourne in Oct 1852 aboard the ship "Ellen". (18 Oct 1852 to be exact )
Source: 1. the PROV index of inward passengers for unassisted immigration to Victoria (Aust)
2. Precise arrival date from biography of his son William Mark: http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040220b.htm?hilite=forster

• Residence: 1851 England census, 1851, Rothbury, Northumberland, England. ⁸

Margaret married John Hunter GOWDIE, son of Sinclair GOWDIE and Barbara HUNTER, on 14 Aug 1869 in Emerald Hill, Vic..^{1 2 3} (John Hunter GOWDIE was born in 1844 ¹ and died on 12 Mar 1928 in Queensland ^{1 9}.)