William Liston b. about August 1835 d. 30 April 1905

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Descendants (Inventory)

Lineage	Liston
Sex	Male
Full name (at birth)	William Liston
Parents ♂ William Liston [Liston] b. about June 1808 d. before 1851 ♀ Mary Russell [Russell]
Reference numbers	2066::ListonJan07.ged::INDI::@I46@

Events

about August 1835 birth: Ardrossan, Ayrshire, Scotland

21 November 1863 marriage: Melbourne, Vic, ♀ Agnes Howison Slater [Slater] b. 1847 d. 16 November 1901

16 August 1874 child birth: Skipton, Vic., ♂ Malcolm Robert Liston [Liston] b. 16 August 1874 d. 21 May 1944

30 April 1905 death: Ballarat, Vic.

Notes

William emigrated to Australia approx. 1852. "... typically it was the rural plowman, shepherd, or craftsman, the urban skilled worker or young adults from the lower strata of the middle classes who pulled up their roots and sought a new life in America or the Antipodes." (Smout, T.C. Lifestyles in the lowlands of Scotland: Seventeenth to nineteenth centuries.)

1851 Scottish Census shows William as being present in the Ardrossan household with his mother and his siblings - David (17) Apprentice ship carpenter; Robert (12), Mary (9), James (8), and Robinson (6). William's occupation is shown as an apprentice baker.

Information from Jean Roberta Liston: "One of the Listons was a protege of the Duke of Hamilton; the Listons were a noted family in the Ardrossan area." "An editor of 'The Ardrossan Herald' had researched the Liston family history and gone back 600 years." (This was apparently told to my grandmother Jean Liston by her brother Alec who was in the UK during WWII. He went to Ardrossan during this time and, I believe, spoke to the editor.) "William Liston had a farm at Spring Hill nr Skipton. His children all had to go to work at 11 yrs of age - he was a very hard man. He left 500 pounds to each of his children."

NB: Birth date unclear - christened 20 Aug 1835 (Source: Surname index to christenings in OPRs to 1855, batch C115764, serial sheet 0936).