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Hello Loraine, and welcome to the boards. There's still some big gaps between the dots!

What else do you know about Elspeth Calder and Annie Calder? Who were their parents, spouses, children? When and where were they born?

Have you used the Search Trees facility above to look for likely connections?

For reference:

Australian Convict Transportation Registers – Other Fleets & Ships, 1791-1868

Name: Lewis Calder
Vessel: Norwood
Convicted Date: 4 Oct 1860
Voyage Date: 13 Mar 1862
Colony: Western Australia
Place of Conviction: Inverness, Inverness-Shire, Scotland

Sentenced to 6 years, doesn't say what crime was.

Australian Convict Index, 1788-1868

Name: Lewis Calder
Age: 1839
Year: 1860
Trial Place: Inverness
State: WA
Ship: Norwood
Comments: d. 1885 Vasse
Alias: COCKCROFT David
Occupation: Shepherd

So did he change his name at some point?

This death seems to tie in with the Convict register:

Australia Death Index, 1787-1985

Name: Louis William Calder
Father's Name: Lewis
Registration Year: 1885
Registration Place: Western Australia
Registration Number: 13223

Loraine - can you confirm if he had a middle name and if his father's name was Lewis?

Is this the 1841 you have?

CALDER, Alexander M 40 1801 Farmer Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, Elspet F 35 1806 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, James M 10 1831 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, John M 9 1832 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, Alexr M 6 1835 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, Ann F 4 1837 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
CALDER, Lewis M 2 1839 Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
REID, Mary F 19 1822 F S Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)
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Registration District:
Civil Parish: Cromdale
Municipal Borough:

Address: Crannichen, Crannichen, Cromdale County: Haddingtonshire (East Lothian)

If so, is his mother the Elspeth in your opening post, and is Annie the daughter shown here?

Same family in 1851:
CALDER, Alexr Head Widower M 47 1804 Farmer Of 9 Ac With 4 Of Pasture Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, James Son Unmarried M 20 1831 Farmers Son (Empld On The Farm) Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, John Son Unmarried M 18 1833 Baker Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, Alexr Son Unmarried M 16 1835 Scholar Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, Ann Daughter Unmarried F 14 1837 Farmer's Daughter Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, Lewis Son M 11 1840 Farmers Son Inverallan Inverness
CALDER, Isabella Sister Unmarried F 62 1789 Genl Servant (Spinster) Cromdale Inverness
CALDER, Peter Son M 7 1844 Farmer's Son Cromdale Inverness
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Registration District: Dava & Lochindorb
Civil Parish: Cromdale
Municipal Borough:

Address: Easter Crannich, Easter Crannich, Cromdale County: Invernessshire

Loraine, have you done any research on Scotland's People? It's pay per view but very reasonably priced for credits.
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/

It's difficult to take this any further until you answer the questions and provide some further info.

A submitted record on Family Search (a free site http://www.familysearch.org)

Lewis Calder
Sex: M
Event(s)
Birth: 1839 Inverness, Scotland
Parents
Father: Alexander Calder
Marriage(s)
Spouse: Susannah House
Marriage: 1873 Bunbury WA
Notes and Sources
Notes: Available on CD-ROM Disc# 143
Sources: None

(If you go onto FamilySearch the submitter has given their name and address so you could always write to them to check their sources)

This marriage record ties with the submitter's info:

Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1950

Name: Lewis Calder
Spouse Name: Susan House
Marriage Place: Bunbury
Registration Place: Western Australia
Registration Year: 1873
Registration Number: 3539

This must be his sister's baptism, note mother's maiden name:

ANN CALDER Female

Event(s):
Birth: 20 SEP 1836
Christening: 10 OCT 1836 Cromdale And Inverallan And Advie, Inverness, Scotland
Death:
Burial:

Parents:
Father: ALEXR CALDER
Mother: ELSPETH LAWSON

Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date.

There are numerous trees on Ancestry that have the calder family but one in particular has all the Jardines, too.

It would be worth contacting them to share info. If you're not a member of Ancestry then you can join Mundia (a spin-off) for free http://www.mundia.com/gb/.

You can search and view trees and contact owners.

Seeing as Loraine's new to the boards I've sent a pm advising her she needs to check back here.

Lorraine,

lot's of information has been found for you, but I notice in your post you asked for help in trying to find information.

To search old newspaper reports etc for Australia, a good source to access is this site: http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=

This enables you to select newspapers from a particular State or Territory and is very useful, as you can search all sorts of things.

best of luck with your search :-)

Hi Marie

The Calders of 1841 census you put on here - that is the one that I found and is related to the Calders i am researching.

Elspeth and Annie are much later around 1890's for Elspeth and 1900 - 1910 for Annie. Annie married John Logan and had a daughter Mary and a son John? Mary and Annie moved to Canada. Mary had married at least once before going to Canada.

They live in Coalburn/Lesmahagow area before going to Canada, John Logan stayed in Coalburn/Lesmahagow - he had a handlebar moustache - is the only thing I remember of him - I was quite little when there was some sort of family reunion - around about 1970's

Loraine

PS thank you for this wow I didn't expect to get so much response

Thank you all of you for the responses, it is quite overwhelming an hopefully I'll be able to fill in some of the gaps.

I had not thought of using the message boards before. ALso as mentioned before I stopped using the Genes reunited site some time ago - but will start using it more now :-)

thank you again

Hi Marie

I have used the maudai site and found the missing link - one of them to link up with the Jardines - I even remember seeing the photo in my Grannies photo box of Cousin Jean - she was a lovely person and Charles her husband too - I really enjoyed their visits to Scotland

I also understand now why I could not find her birth in the Scottish records - she was born in England

Thank you so very much

Loraine