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Captain〔When he was in Australia, Currie's naval rank was Commander, but he was always addressed as Captain in accordance with the custom in the 18th and early 19th centuries - N. A. M. Rodger, "Naval Records for Genealogists" pp 13,14〕 Mark John Currie RN (later Vice-Admiral) played a significant role in the exploration of Australia and the foundation of the Swan River Colony, later named Western Australia. He explored areas in New South Wales, after which he returned to a post in England. In 1829 he married and left three weeks later for Australia on the 443-ton ''Parmelia'' with his wife and servants, arriving at the coast of what was to become the Swan River settlement on 31 May 1829. Chief among the other passengers were Lieutenant Governor Captain James Stirling, Colonial Secretary Peter Brown,〔Peter Broun spelt his surname 'Brown' until 1843, when his whole family reverted to the spelling Broun〕 Surveyor-General Lieutenant John Septimus Roe, botanist James Drummond and their families. The diaries and paintings by his wife, Jane Eliza Currie, provide a glimpse into the hard life of the first settlers.〔diary copies donated by grandson Mark Macrae are in the State Library of West Australia〕 Her painting ''Panorama of the Swan River Settlement'' shows Fremantle in 1831. From it one can begin to appreciate the magnitude of the challenge faced by the colonists. ==Family background== Mark John was born on 21 June 1795, the second of eight children of Mark Currie, Esq. of Upper Gatton, Surrey, and Elizabeth (née Close)〔Burke's Peerage & Baronetage, section Currie〕 and he was educated at Charterhouse School. A portrait by Romney of his mother, entitled ''Mrs Mark Currie 1789'',〔Tate Gallery, (''portrait by George Romney of Mrs Mark Currie 1789'' )〕 is in the Tate Gallery, London. His younger brother, Frederick was created 1st Baronet in 1847 for his services to the Government of India in negotiating the treaties of Lahore and Bhyrowal. The family descended from the ancient Scots Corrie family of Annandale and the Western Isles, through Cuthbert Currie, a cadet living in Duns in the 16th century.〔〔Duns Parish Records〕 It is not related to the Clan Currie created in the 18th century from a sept of the ancient Scots MacMhuirrich Clan. Mark John married Jane Eliza née Wood on 14 January 1829. They had six children. The first two, Jane Eliza (17 January 1830) and Mark Riddell (17 August 1831) were born in the Swan River Colony. Charlotte (1833), Henrietta Blackwood (1834), Albert Purcell (12 September 1837) and Algernon (1840) were born in England. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mark John Currie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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