Tom St. Clair - 1800s - Eng./Australia
I'm trying to track down the origins of my great grandfather Tom Percival ST. CLAIR who, so the family story goes, was a seaman, deserting ship in Australia prior to 1879. In 1879 in South Australia, he married Jessie McBain.
It is before 1879 that I can't seem to pinpoint him. Supposedly he came from Carlisle, Cumberland, his father died in the Crimean War and his mother remarried a DUNBAR. None of this I can verify. Can anyone help?