Seberry Family Tree

Janet Spiers

Born : 7 January 1866, Corowa, NSW Died :

Married : Alexander John Seberry (II) at Narrandera

Born : 29th Nov. 1858, Indigo, Victoria Died : 4.10.1884, Grong Grong, near Narrandera

Married : Thomas McMahon 1895 at Corowa

Her father was Henry Spiers and her mother was Margaret.

Children

Her issue               who married                     whose issues were
=========               ===========                     =================

Alexander John (III)        Ethel Wright                Alexander John (IV) (m. Jane Cruickshank)
                                                        Jean (Wilds now Mikkelsen) d. 1999
                                                        Daphne Muriel (George)
                                                        Margaret Elaine (Atkinson)
                                                        Betti Edith (Lahiff
                                                        Helen Mabel Maude (Barrow)

Alice Maud          George Francis Truskett             Thomas
b. Narrandera                                           George
                                                        Una (Doyle)
                                                        Ronald
                                                        Dora (Dracy)
                                                        Mona G d. 1921
                                                        Patricia d. 1925

Anne                    Never Married


Further issue           who married                     whose issues were
of Janet Spiers
=========               ===========                     =================
Elsie McMahon           John Dunlop

The family owned the Globe Hotel in Corowa.

Janet remarried after the death of Alexander John and they had one daughter Elsie McMahon who married John Dunlop. They lived in Queen's St, Corowa.

Janet Speirs parents came orginally from Scotland. Her brother Duncan Spiers married Lydia Clark and moved to New Zealand. Alexander John Seberry IV says that Duncan managed a Butter Factory in New Zealand. Jean Mikkelson, Alexander John Seberry IV's sister, said Janet visited them on more than one occasion.

The information about the two youngest female children of Alice Maud and George Francis Truskett was supplied by Neville Truskett, n.truskett@tassie.net.au.

Much of the information about Duncan Spiers and Lydia Clark has been recreated with information from supplied by Karen Plunkett karenplunkett@austarnet.com.au and by Graham and Maureen Borwick gm2992@hotkey,net.au. Graham Borwick is the grandson of Alexander Speirs (Janet Spiers brother) and Rose Ann McGlede. Karen Plunkett is the great grand-daughter of John and Hannah Spiers Jennifer Seberry can remember Anne Seberry and Elsie McMahon as women about the same age as her grandmother in the 1950's.