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People

Gender:	male
Date of Birth:	1829
Place of Birth:	Dalbeattie, Kircudbrightshire Country: Scotland
Father:	STRACHAN Robert
Mother:	PATERSON Elizabeth
Date of Arrival:	1850, 29 Sep
Ship:	Phoenician
Naturalisation:
Marital status:	married
Spouse:	DICKSON Margaret (c1835-)
Date Married:	1857, 10 Mar
Place Married:	West Maitland
Children:	Ameila Jane (1858-), Ernest McSkimming (1860-), Gelston (1862-), Frances (1866-)
Occupations:	merchant
Places of Residence:	Maitland,
Date of Death:	21 April 1876
Place of Death:	Yorkville, California
Buried at:
Profile:
Robert Strachan’s parents were from Scotland, it seems from the same locality as David and James Dickson. In Australia, three of Robert’s sisters married into the Dickson family: Jane married David Dickson in Sydney in 1839, Agnes married James Dickson in Maitland in 1842, and Jessie married Samuel Smith Dickson in Maitland in 1850 (Powell.Ross Family Tree, Ancestry.com, Sep 2014). Robert himself married a Margaret Dickson,. The Dickson family connections explain why Robert Strachan was in a partnership with James Dickson under the name of Dickson & Co. and why, following James Dickson’s death in 1863, the partnership was dissolved and the business name changed to R. Strachan & Co (MM 3 Jan 1863: 1). Strachan continued the wholesale business until 1867 when he was declared insolvent (SRNSW Insolvency Index). At some stage Robert Strachan left Maitland and was in California when he died in 1876 (MM 24 Jun 1876).

Local Government Areas:
Maitland City
Sites:
Northumberland Coach and Buggy Factory	Maitland	Maitland City
Towns:
Maitland	Maitland City
Publications, Reports, Theses:
Ancestry.com.au Baloh, Jaki, Baseline Archeological Assessment: Maitland Technical College, High Street, Maitland, Carste Studio, Report for Maitland City Council 2012 Maitland District Pre-1900 Pioneer Register Volume 1: Contains genealogical details of pioneer families in Maitland and surrounding district, Maitland Family History Circle, Maitland 2001 Maitland Mercury NSW Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Internet Index to NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages (NSW BDM) Ryerson Index Walsh, G.P., 'Dickson, James (1813–1863)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, 1972