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William Hay Ferguson of Koronavia, Ranga, Flinders Island County, TAS Australia was born to William Ferguson and Elizabeth Holcroft (Hay) Ferguson. He married Elizabeth (Coupland) Ferguson, and they were married until Elizabeth's death. He would also marry Katherine Ferguson, and they had children John Alexander Ferguson, William Ferguson, Keith Ferguson, Jean (Ferguson) Russell, Kenneth Ferguson, and Mary Beatrice (Ferguson) Carter.

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    William Hay Ferguson was born to William Ferguson and Elizabeth Holcroft Hay of "Blair Atholl", now known as "Manresa" in Sandy Bay, Hobart Tasmania. The fine yellow sandstone home still stands and is classified by the National Trust. He was probably born in Royal Hobart Hospital. His father William was a former merchant seaman from Scotland and established himself as a wealthy merchant, proprietor of "Ferguson & Co" in Hobart, Tasmania.

  • Early Life & Education

    Raised in a wealthy merchant family presupposes he had a solid education, but to what level is not known.

  • Professional Career

    His early adult life would appear to have been that of a self-indulgent playboy of sorts, possibly a "professional" but not successful gambler. Once relocated to Koronavia on Flinders Island, he became a sheep farmer.

  • Personal Life & Family

    William Hay Ferguson developed a gambling problem and accumulated debts. His father moved him out of Hobart to that large property holding on Flinders Island known as "Koronavia" and supplied high quality building materials (sandstone) to establish the Koronavia homestead, which William instead sold to settle gambling debts. The homestead was therefore constructed of weatherboard. He was first married to Elizabeth Coupland, with whom he had no children before becoming widowed, when she was lost at sea somewhere in the waters around Flinders Island. He subsequently married Katherine Ayres, with whom he sired William, John Alexander, Keith, Jean, Mary and Kenneth. He also sired Dorothy with Katherine's sister Isabel Ayres, who resided with William and Katherine at Koronavia. Since their deaths, all three have occupied partitions in an above-ground concrete grave at Koronavia close to the Trousers Point Road near the foot of the Strzelecki Peaks in the southern part of Flinders Island, Tasmania. His pedigree is studded with famous historical figures like Robert The Bruce, Brian Boru, Cleopatra VII of Egypt, Julius Gaius Caesar, Tiberius Augustus Germanicus Caesar; legendary figures like Demne Fionn MacCumhaill, Nimrod & the giant Gilgamesh; mythological figures like Zeus and according to some genealogies, certain exotic beings, too. It traces back firstly to the peerage of Scotland, including the Lairds of Craigdarroch as recently as William I Robert Ferguson MP, 9th Laird Craigdarroch and these trace back to the Kings of Galloway before that minor kingdom was assimilated by Scotland under Malcolm IV; and by various intermarriages among his forebears to the Royal Stewarts of Scotland, the most recent king known in his ancestry being King James IV Stewart of Scots. The ancestry also includes the Plantagenet and Beauclerc kings of England, Welsh & Brythonic kings including the Saxon King Harold killed at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Dalriada kings of souwestern Scotland and noreastern Ireland including Domangart Reti MacFergus & titular progenitor of the Fergusons, Fergus Mohr MacEirc; and at least 57% of the Irish High Kings, such as Con of the Hundred Battles and Niall of the Nine Hostages. The lineages trace all the way back through ancient Gaelic, Tuatha De Dannan, Fomorian, Scythian, Egyptian, Phoenician, Semitic and other lineages to Adam through all four of Noah's known sons Ham, Japheth, Shem and Melchi. It further includes the Seneschals De Dol, Carolingian, Merovingian and Fisher kings of France and through over 30 of these lines, to Jesus and/or his brother James; German, Spanish, Danish & other Aaryan/Viking/Vandal/Gothic kings including Norse god-king Odin Borrsson; Italian, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Polish, Russian (Rus) kings, Emperors of Rome and Holy Roman Emperors of France & Germany; Turkish, Kumar & Hun kings; Chinese Emperors of the Han & Sui Dynasties; and even to the Greek Pantheon. The pedigree merges through dozens of lines with those of Queen Elizabeth II around the 1400s AD, from whose father King George VI's pedigree, William is removed in lesser ranked family branches by about 13 generations. The ancestry is also studded with admirals, generals, archdruids, saints and senior clerics. The Ferguson clan's connections in the peerage make none of this, including the doubtless fact that hundreds of them actually forged the history of Mankind over the millennia, in any way remarkable. However, whether or not the ancestry is an illustrious one may be debatable, depending on one's moral perspective. Most of the kings (or queens) were cruel, ruthless, warmongering despots and the lords under them no better. The Norse god-king Odin Borrsson is depicted in legend, folklore and comic or movie fiction as the wise and benevolent fatherly ruler of Asgard, but nothing is farther from the real truth - he was if anything the most despicably vicious ruler of them all. Of course, the attribution of divinity to him was merely a contrivance to wealth and power, though he could have been more accurately ascribed the status of a demigod like that of Atlas, Hercules, Gilgamesh or the prediluvian Patriarchs descended from Adam III (Adapa), in view of his giantism. Even the Christian saints and clerics were mostly an unprepossessing lot who mainly earned their canonisations or clerical ranks through the furtherance of the Church of Rome's power and wealth - not their charity, morality or philanthropy. Perhaps the best of them, without being a perfect paragon of goodness, was Jesus himself, but even he played the game of statecraft in his unsuccessful aspirations to become the first Prophet-King of Jerusalem since Zorobabbel led the Israelites out of Babylonian exile. As History notes, Jesus did become the titular founder of no less than three distinctly different religions - the Apostolic Churches of Rome, Constantinople, Greece, Russia and Egypt through Simon Peter and Saul of Tarsus; the Messianic Nazarene Church in France through Mary Magdalene and his brother James as "Joseph of Arimathea"; and the Amadiyyah in the Kashmir. Of these, the only one he personally founded by the grace of the Kashmiri King Gopananda III who sponsored his personal temple Takrit Suleiman (Throne of Solomon) near Srinagar in northern India, was that of the Amadiyyah, which is now a Sufi sect of Islam in the present day with about 2,000 followers, some of whom legitimately claim descent from him. This is by virtue of King Gopananda having given Jesus a concubine. There is abundant evidence that Jesus lived a fairly long life of about 119 years, having passed away circa 112 AD, it being certain that he was born 7 BC, probably on 1st March and Saint Irenaeus made it clear that he lived well into the reign of the Roman Emperor Trajanus. He is interred in the Rozabal Tomb in the Kanhar District of Srinagar, where he is celebrated as Yuz Asaph, who is Jesus of Galilee, Prophet of the Children of Israel. One other thing which must be noted is that the genealogies are consistently more historically accurate than any of the Christian religions, or scholastic historians. This is being increasingly borne out time and again by Y-chromosome studies in living male populations and mitochondrial DNA in human remains recovered from archaeological sites. One might be given to wonder if William Hay Ferguson, this humbled merchant's son who became a sheep farmer, was actually aware of his pedigree, or truly appreciated its implications. Well, there is a good indication that he was aware of at least that part of it which hearkened back to roots in the Scottish peerage, because his eldest great-grandson was set to the task of researching the family's genealogy at the age of 11 by his second son, John "Jack" Alexander Ferguson. Jack deliberately planted the seed of interest in this grandson, which would ultimately pass the legacy down through the next several generations. It is suspected that Jack may have done likewise with a younger granddaughter living in Hobart and that one of Jack's siblings, Mary Beatrice (Ferguson) Carter, may have done likewise with another of William's descendants.
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Ferguson, George (Jan 25, 1874 - Mar 15, 1922) Ferguson, Worth (Born Jun 26, 1852) Ferguson, Iva (Born Jul 3, 1899) Ferguson, Nancy (Jul 11, 1874 - Aug 25, 1916) Ferguson, Earl (Born Mar 3, 1902) Greenough, Thelma (Jul 10, 1904 - Sep 20, 1950) Ferguson, Iva Myrtle (Born Jul 3, 1899) Ferguson, Belle (Born Jul 5, 1863) Kroetch, Dorothy (Oct 18, 1905 - Aug 2, 1932) Ferguson, James (May 28, 1896 - Mar 3, 1952)
Ferguson, Catherine  (Apr 30, 1854 - Feb 7, 1930) Ferguson, Rachel (Born Nov 13, 1849) Reynolds, Marietta (Born Jun 9, 1868) Ferguson, Capt. Neil Ferguson, Earl (Born Jun 10, 1901) Ferguson, Mary (Born Mar 1853) Rowland, Sarah (Born Jan 1, 1980) Ferguson, Minnie (Oct 3, 1890 - Sep 2, 1953) Ferguson, Deborah (Born Oct 5, 1953) Ferguson, Charlie
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