Family of John Cairncross, married Elizabeth Brown, in 1777. (F-T-42)

a. Jessie Pearson Dove Cairncross, born May 8, 1841, christened May 30, 1841. Married George Taylor. George was an interesting character, and this story was taken from a book, "The Land Boomers, by Michael Cannon. “From all over the world came rovers and adventurers, to settle thankfully in the promising colony of Victoria. One such rover was George Nicholson Taylor, son of the Rev. Henry Taylor, a clergyman of The Church of England in Jamaica. The boy, born about 1830, rebelled against his strict religious upbringing and ran away to sea. Another such rover was a merchant captain, William Cairncross, who married Miss Davina Dove in Melbourne. They had a daughter who they named Jessie Pearson Dove Cairncross. George Taylor, the sailor lad from Jamaica, landed in Melbourne, met Jessie, fell in love and married her in 1863. Under his wife’s prompting, Taylor studied accountancy and other landsmen’s secrets. In 1880 he succeeded in getting the post of manager of a fairly new institution, the Land Credit Bank, at a salary of £350 a year. The Taylors enjoyed an idyllic life in boom-time Melbourne. George opened accounts for his wife and son at the Land Credit Bank, and during the next ten years they managed to syphon off more than £100,000 of the bank’s money. Taylor spent it all on property speculations, with the avowed intention of making a million ponds. At his trial in 1892, when he was sentenced to eight years’ hard labour, he told the judge that he fully intended to pay back the money he had taken, ‘after he had made his fortune’."

b. John Dove Cairncross,

c. William McGregor Cairncross, born 1845. Married Mary Jane Retallack, born circa 1859-1947, in 1879.