MCCONNON, Abigail

1816 - 1882  (65 years)

• Name	MCCONNON, Abigail  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13]
  Born	8 Oct 1816	Crawfordjohn, Lanark, Scotland   [1, 2, 6, 7, 11, 12]
  Christened	14 Oct 1816	Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 6, 7, 11]
  Gender	Female
  Died	20 Apr 1882	Walnut Tree Cottage, Kelly St., Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia   [1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 11]
  Person ID	I22142	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	MCCONNON, John,   b. 1774, Lanarkshire, Scotland ,   d. 1822, Crawfordjohn, Scotland  (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	CARTER, Margaret,   b. 1785, Scotland ,   d. 20 May 1865, Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 80 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	3 Dec 1809	Crawfordjohn, Lanarkshire, Scotland   [14]
  Family ID	F5911	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	GIBLIN, Thomas,   b. 19 Feb 1808, St Andrews, Middlesex, England ,   d. 21 Aug 1880, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 72 years)
  Married	Ex. Nup. Relationship Between 1840-1846
  Children	1. MCCONNON, Grace (Putwain),   b. 26 Oct 1841, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 28 Aug 1921, Middleton, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 79 years)  [natural]   2. MCCONNON, Marion,   b. 14 Aug 1843, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 4 May 1913, West Melbourne, Victoria  (Age 69 years)  [natural]   3. MCCONNON, Claudine,   b. 14 Jan 1846, Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, Australian Colonies ,   d. Yes, date unknown  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F3209	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	DINGWALL, David,   b. 1827, Rockfield, Ross-shire, Scotland ,   d. 25 Jan 1888, At res. Walnut Tree Cottage, Kelly St., Battery Point, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 61 years)
  Married	20 Apr 1855	Kirk of St Nicholas, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland   [1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15]
  Children	1. DINGWALL, Isabella,   b. Abt 1851, Scotland ,   d. 26 Mar 1854, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age ~ 3 years)  [natural]   2. DINGWALL, Margaret,   b. 2 Nov 1855, Australia ,   d. 11 Sep 1929, 5 Napoleon St., Battery Point, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 73 years)  [natural]   3. DINGWALL, Alexander,   b. 18 May 1857, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 28 Jul 1925, At res. 317 Argyle St., Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 68 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F5932	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Photos		Abigail McConnon gravestone
  		Abigail Dingwall Obit

  
  

• Notes

  Extracted from “A Thinking Reed” by Barry Jones ABIGAIL MCCONNON AND JAMES BLACK Samuel Johnson, in his Lives of the Poets, wrote of Jonathan Swift that he ‘could write finely upon a broomstick’, and this theme was taken up by Alain de Botton in Kiss & Tell (1995), a stimulating biography of an otherwise obscure young woman friend, celebrating ‘the extraordinariness of any life’. My ghostly cavalcade of relatives, especially the early ones, passed through times of extraordinary change and reasons for non-achievement can be almost as interesting as achievement. I became increasingly intrigued by some of my unknown forebears, reflecting on how tough they must have been, far stronger than my generation or my parents’. Linkage with the family of my mother’s father, Alec Black, and his McConnon forebears was only genetic, but proved to be unusually interesting. My great great grandmother Abigail McConnon sailed in the schooner Scotia from Leith, the port of Edinburgh, arriving in Hobart Town,Van Diemen’s Land, in November 1833. In 1843 she gave birth to a daughter, Marion, followed by two more girls. Abigail was working as a domestic servant for Thomas Giblin, a widower, in Claremont House, New Town, north of Hobart.The paternity of the three girls is unknown, but when Giblin remarried in 1846,Abigail and her daughters returned to Scotland, presumably at his expense, and there is a distinct possibility that he was the father. Thomas worked for the Bank of Van Diemen’s Land, was its managing director from 1874 until his death and chaired several boards, including the Gas Company and the Tasmanian Colonial Library. Born in Holborn, Middlesex,Thomas arrived in Van Diemen’s Land in 1827 with his parents and siblings. The family, active Congregationalists, became a distinguished Tasmanian dynasty, still very active and numerous. Thomas’ nephew,William Robert Giblin (1840–87), was Premier of Tasmania, an early advocate of Federation and a Supreme Court judge 1885–87. His son, Lyndhurst Falkiner Giblin (1872–1951), an influential economist, anticipated the ‘multiplier’ theory popularised by Richard Kahn and John Maynard Keynes, became Ritchie Professor of Economics at Melbourne University 1929–40 and had a major influence on Ben Chifley and ‘Nugget’ Coombs. In 1855 in Aberdeen Abigail married a blacksmith, David Dingwall, falsifying her age in the process, then returned to Hobart. Her husband became the leading blacksmith in Salamanca Place and they lived in Battery Point with their children. Abigail became active in the Hobart Horticultural Society and was, I suspect, a woman of unusual tenacity and forceful personality.

  
  

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