Isabella (McLean) Bennett (1850 - 1886)

Born 14 Sep 1850 in Overgate, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Died 7 Feb 1886 at age 35 in Williamstown, Colony of Victoria

Biography

Isabella (McLean) Bennett was born in Scotland.

Isabella was born on 14 September 1850 at Overgate, Dundee, Forfarshire, Scotland^[1]. She was the daughter of Donald McLean and Helen McKinnon.

At the time of the 1851 Scotland Census she was living at Overgate, Dundee, Forfarshire with her mother Helen (30) and four siblings - John (15) who was a shoemaker, Mary (12) and Angus (6), both scholars, and Murdoch (2)^[2]. She was aged 6 months.

Isabella (McLean) Bennett migrated from Scotland to Colony of Victoria.

She emigrated with her mother and five siblings leaving Liverpool on 5 December 1857 on the ship, Merchant Prince^[3]. She arrived on 17 March 1858 at Melbourne and went with her mother to Geelong.

She married Samuel Bennett in 1872^[4] probably at Williamstown.

Isabella died on 7 February 1886 at 22 Twyford Street, Williamstown^[5]. The death notice in The Age (Melbourne) dated 8 February^[6] said:

BENNETT.—On the 7th February, at her residence, 22 Twyford-street, South Williamstown, Isabella, the beloved wife of Mr. Samuel Bennett, of the Victorian Railways.

Isabella was buried on 9 February in Williamstown Cemetery, Williamstown^[7].

Research Notes

It is unknown as to whether Isabella had any children. I have not found any birth registrations for her and her husband during her years of marriage, so I assume not.

Sources

1. ↑ Annotations in Donald McLean's Family Bible held by an unknown McLean descendant
2. ↑ Ancestry.com. 1851 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006. Original data: Scotland. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1-217. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland. Parish: Dundee; ED: 80; Page: 15; Line: 12; Roll: CSSCT1851_63; Year: 1851. Accessed 11 Aug 2021.
   • View Ancestry Record 1076 #933031

   Isobel Mclean (6 Mo) daughter in household of Helen Mclean (30) in St Overgate, Dundee, Angus.

3. ↑ Public Record Office Victoria. Assisted passenger lists (1839-1871) Record Series Number (VPRS): 14 Accessed 25 Jan 2021

   Name=MCLEAN, ISABEL; Age=7; Ship=MERCHANT PRINCE; Date arrived=1858-03; Book no=13; Page=136

   Name=MCLEAN, 003 CHILDREN WITH; Ship=MERCHANT PRINCE; Date arrived=1858-03; Book no=11A Page=158

4. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources. Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888. Accessed 24 Apr 2022
   • view Ancestry Record 1780 #2668914

   Isabella Maclean [McLean] marriage to Samuel Bennett in 1872 in Victoria.

5. ↑ Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2018. Original data: Victoria, Australia, Death Index, 1836-1988. The Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths, and Marriages, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Death Records. Accessed 24 Apr 2022
   • View Ancestry Record 61650 #33285

   Isabella Bennett death 1886 in Victoria, Australia.

6. ↑ Trove: The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) Mon 8 Feb 1886, Page 1, Family Notices Accessed 14 Mar 2021
7. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images. Accessed 11 August 2021, memorial page for Isabella Bennett (14 Sep 1850–7 Feb 1886), Find A Grave: Memorial #153396227, citing Williamstown Cemetery, Williamstown, Hobsons Bay City, Victoria, Australia ; Maintained by Tanya V (contributor 49442830).

• Greg McLean, “McLean Genealogy (and related families),” database Isabella Mclean (1850 - 1886) Accessed 11 Aug 2021

Acknowledgements

• Jean Dickson for obtaining the copy of the annotations in the Donald McLean Family Bible
• Biography written by her great-niece [[Dickson-4413|Margaret Bailey Allison]