William was born in 1845, the son of John Shearer and Catharine McKenzie. The place is not known.
His wife was Isabella Kirk, who he married in 1875 in Grafton, New South Wales, Australia. Their eleven known children were John (1876-?), David Kirk (1877-?), Catherine (1879-?), Donald Sinclair (1880-?), William Geddes (1881-?), James Hutchinson (1883-?), Sinclair L (1885-?), Bruce (1888-?), Gordon Burgess (1890-?), Annie (1893-?) and Margaret J (1894-?).
Event | Date | Details | Source | Multimedia | Notes |
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Birth | 1845 |
Note 1
!Source: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wilahu/index.html Auston-McQuire Genealogy Site Cook, Stapples, Duffy, and MacKinnon Families, and email from Lesley A McQuire of that site.