Margaret Dunbar Bailey [5185] ²

   Another name for Margaret was Margaret Dunbar Bayley.

   FamilySearch ID: LXSN-Y8R.

  Noted events in her life were:

• Immigration, 1837 Dec 3, New South Wales. On ship Portland as a free person.

• Emmigration, 1837 Jul 24, Greenock, England.

• Newspaper: In the Supreme Court of New South Wales, 1861 Aug 20, Sydney District, New South Wales. ⁴ In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. (1861, August 20). The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 -1954), p. 2. Retrieved January 10, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13061843>

ACCESSOY TO BIGAMY.---Margaret Christie, charged with being accessory to bigamy, was tried at the Goulburn Quarter Sessions on Monday last, and acquitted on an objection taken by Mr. Walsh, inasmuch as she was in-dicted for being accessory before the fact, while the evi-dence proved that the prisoner was present at the marriage aiding and abetting.

• Registration: Death, 1881, Gunning District, New South Wales. ³ 11283/1881
CHRISTIE, MARGARET
BAILEY
DIED LOST RIVER
GUNNING

• Newspaper: ACCESSORY TO THE COMMISSION OF BIGAMY, 1861 Jul 10, Bathurst District, New South Wales. ⁵ ACCESSORY TO THE COMMISSION OF BIGAMY. (1861, July 10). Bathurst Free Press and Mining Journal (NSW : 1851 -1904), p. 2. Retrieved January 10, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62403242>
ACCESSORY TO THE COMMISSION OF BIGAMY.
On Monday, before the police magis-trate, M. Marks, Esq., and. the mayor, Margaret Christie and James Christie ap-peared on remand, to answer a charge of being accessory to the commission of bigamy by Mary Margaret Beattie, daughter of the female defendant. 'The case, it maybe remembered, has been several times remanded, on the two last occasions owing to the non-attendance of the Rev. Mr. Burke, of Carcoar, the clergyman by Whom the second marriage had been performed. Mr. Burke, on being summoned to attend, had written to the bench, explaining that he had not the pecuniary means to enable him to do so The bench bad no alternative but to issue a warrant to compel Mr. Burke's attend-ance ; and he was, consequently, brought before the Carcoar bench, who, after hear-ing his explanation, which was, that he was unable to undertake the journey owing to the want of means and ill-health, in-structed the chief constable to forward him by mail, or some other conveyance, as soon as possible. He was accordingly brought to Goulburn, via Yass in custody, arriving here on Saturday last. He preached on Sunday evening in St. Saviour's church. \emdash Mr. Gannon now appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Walsh -for the defence. \emdash John Allan Burke deposed : I am a Church of England clergyman officiating at St. Paul's church, Carcoar; I do not know the male defendant ; I recollect marrying Mary Christie and Harry Bailey on the 6th October, 1860 ; the female defendant was present; she signed the registry as witness to the marriage; the marriage was solemnized according to the cere-monies of the Church of England by me ; I have authority to solemnize mar-riages ; [copy of the marriage certificate produced;] I had some conversation with Mrs. Christie previous to the marriage; they arrived at the parsonage on the 5th October; Margaret Christie stated that she was the mother of the person who wanted to get married; she said her daughter wished to be married by license that night, assigning as a reason that she feared some creek or river would be up, and that she would not be able to cross unless she returned immediately ; she stated that the couple about to be married were leaving the district, and were on their way to the Bathurst district; I asked her where she resided, and she said at Brewer, in the same district as Cowra, and twelve or fifteen miles, higher up the river ; I told her I could not marry them that night; they were married after eight o'clock next morning; I took an affidavit before issuing the license, but it is in the possession of the bishop's registrar ; it was made by one of the parties about to be married, but I cannot state by which ; I produce the usual declaration; no further conversation took place with the female defendant, or with anyone else in her presence ; the female defendant was the principal speaker; the daughter was very silent; I have never seen the defendant James Christie before. \emdash At this stage of the proceedings James Christie was dis-charged by the bench, and called by Mr. Gannon as a witness for the prose-cution. \emdash He deposed: I live at the Lost River, near-Wheeo ; I am a son of Mrs. Margaret Christie; I have one sister alive ; her name is Mary ; I have known her to sign her name " Mary Margaret ; " I know her hand writing ; the signature to the document produced [the declaration before the Rev. W. Ross on the occasion of the first mar-riage] is like her handwriting ; that to the declaration before Mr. Burke is, I think, also in her handwriting ; I do not remember seeing my mother sign the written consent to the marriage with Beat-tie ; my name appears as witness , to her consent, and is in my handwriting; I was present at my sister's marriage with Beattie ; I know a person named Harry Bailey ; I do not recollect when I saw him last ; I last saw him very near sour place, I have seen him at my mother's; I do not recollect when I last saw my sis-ter ; Bailey was engaged putting up a building for my mother ; I cannot say how many months it is since I saw: him or my sister ; my mother, 'I believe, lives in the Yass district, and in the neighbourhood, of Burrowa.\emdash In the course of this witness's evidence the defendant attempted twice to whisper to him, but was observed and stopped.-This closed the case for the prosecution.\emdash Mr. Walsh ; declined to cross-examine the witnesses, and reserved the defence.\emdash Defendant was then com-mitted to take her trial at the next quarter-sessions, to be held on Monday, 12th August. Bail was allowed \emdash herself in £100, and two sureties in £50 each. Mr. Christie, offering himself as one of the sureties, was objected to by Mr. Gannon, on the ground of his being a witness in the case ; but the objection was over-ruled by a majority of the bench, Mr. Marks dissenting. \emdash Goulburn Herald.

Margaret married James Christie Esq. [5184] [9JBD-FBV] [MRIN: 3475], son of James Christie [5206] [KZTF-BSG] and Janet Crawford [18434] [KZ7W-2FD], in 1835 in Ireland.¹ (James Christie Esq. [5184] [9JBD-FBV] was born on 1804 Feb 16 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland, United Kingdom ⁶ and died on 1856 Aug 12 in Lost River, Wheoo, Yass, New South Wales, Australia ⁷.). The cause of his death was Illness.