McPHIE / McPHEE – John 75th Regiment – Enrolled Pensioner Force WA

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Name	McPHIE / McPHEE – John
Regiment (s)	75th Regiment
Regiment Number (s)	249
Date/Age/Place/Trade or Profession at Attestation	14th January 1824 / 20 years / Stirling Scotland Labourer
Description – Height Complexion/Eyes/Hair/Scars	5 Ft 7¼ in Pale / Dark / Dark / None
Overseas Service/Duration	Cape of Good Hope – 13 years
Length of Service	21 years 212 days
Rank/Date/Place of Discharge	Private / 12th August 1845 / Chatham Kent England
Campaign Medals	None
Intended Residence at Discharge	Stirling Scotland
Pension Districts	1845 Stirling 1846 Perth Scotland 1846 Perth 1849 Dundee 1852-1854 Western Australia 1854-1858 Victoria
Pension Paid	1/0d per diem
Date of Departure and Place England or Ireland	3rd May 1852 Plymouth, England
Ship and Date of Arrival Western Australia	WILLIAM JARDINE 1st August 1852
Date/Place of Birth	c1804 Kilmallie Argyle Scotland
Date/Place of Baptism	15th November 1805 Kilmallie Argyle Scotland
Father Date/Place of Birth	McPHEE Archibald Not yet known
Mother Date/Place of Birth Marriage	McMILLAN Unknown Not yet known
Siblings	Not yet known
1^st Wife Date of Birth or Baptism	HAY Catherine c1811 Scotland
Date/Place of Marriage	8th December 1847 Perth Scotland
Children by 1^st Wife	Jennet B 1855 Forrest Creek Victoria Richard B c1855 deduced from age at death M JOHNSTON Ann Eliza 30 September 1882 Brunswick Victoria D 6th September 1931 Brunswick Victoria
Father of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth	HAY Alexander Not yet known
Mother of 1st wife Date/Place of Birth Marriage	UNKNOWN Barbara Not yet known
Land Grants Western Australia	None
Occupation after Arrival	Appointed night warder Convict Establishment 11th February 1853 resigned 30th November 1853
Newspaper Articles	The Age Thursday 26 October 1882 page 1 Marriage of Richard McPhee The Age Saturday 19 September 1931 page 5 Bereavement Notice The Age Monday 7th September 1932 page 1 Richard’s death notice
Departure from Western Australia	1st January 1854 to Victoria
Date/Place of Death/Burial	14th August 1858 Victoria Not yet known
Date/Place of Death/Burial Wife	1857 Victoria Not yet known
Will or Probate	None known
Further Information	British Army Worldwide Index 1841 John McPhie 249 Private 75th foot location Fort Beaufort Cape of Good Hope Discharge due to rheumatism and dyspnoea On 6th July 1914 their only son Richard wrote to Chelsea Hospital asking for information re his deceased parents John and Catherine McPhee. He stated his mother Catherine Hay was born at Perth Scotland and married in 1847 also at Perth Scotland. Apparently she had worked as a matron and he asked if she had been employed at the Chelsea Hospital and whether his father had been a patient there. The hospital replied on 6th July 1914 that John McPhee had never been admitted to Chelsea Hospital and there was no trace Catherine Hay had worked there either as a matron or as a nurse between the years 1835 and 1852. Letters are attached to the WO 97 for John McPhie. He also wrote to the Brunswick and Coburg Leader looking for information about his family stating he had 2 sisters and with the further information his father had been smothered by a ‘inrush of slurry’ at Forrest Creek. An Inquest was held into the death of John McPhee on 16th August 1858, evidence was given by his mate Richard Harris and another miner Frederick Evans who helped to dig him out. Surgeon Nilham Smith pronounced his dead at the site. The jury found “ That John McPhee age 53 years was accidentally smothered in a sludge hole on the 14th August at Forrest Creek.” The report of the inquest can be found on the PROVIC website.