Margaret Telfer

Role: Sister of Francis Telfer (1809–1895), stayed in Scotland

Margaret Telfer was born ~1801 at Greenholm, near Newcastleton, Roxburghshire, Scotland. She was the fourth child of James Telfer (1761–1845), a hand loom weaver, and Elizabeth "Betty" Hutton (1774–1853).

She did NOT emigrate to Australia and stayed in Scotland.

The book From the Borders to the Bush states: "We have no further information about four members of this family; namely Isobel, Adam, Margaret and William." Like her siblings Isobel, Adam, and William, Margaret's fate after the family records is not documented.

Source: From the Borders to the Bush — pages 17–20

Family Stories

Stayed Behind

Margaret Telfer was born around 1801 at Greenholm — the fourth child of James Telfer and Elizabeth Hutton. While her brothers Francis and John crossed the ocean to South Australia, Margaret stayed in Scotland. She never emigrated and remained in Scotland.

Like her siblings Isobel, Adam, and William, the book From the Borders to the Bush has no further record of her life. While a new branch of the family took root on the other side of the world, Margaret remained in the valley she was born in — part of the old world that the emigrants left behind, though her later years are unrecorded.

(From the Borders to the Bush, pp.17-20)