Mary MacDonald

Mary MacDonald arrived in Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, with the Oakes family in 1824. She married at St. David's Hobart 5 July 1825 to Major Suetonius Todd (or Tod) of the Bengal Infantry, age 44. He later became General and the Army Museum file states that he was born in Islington in 1780 and died at Whitehouse, Edinburgh in 1861. There is no record that children were born in Tasmania. Their son, Ewen MacDonald Todd may have been born in NSW, India or Scotland. Major Todd was 22 years Mary's senior and could have been married before becaus David Burn in his book, 'A Picture of Van Diemen's Land', metiona a son of General Todd (no Christian names given) as being a member of a walking tour to penetrate the mountain tiers near Launceston in the north, in 1830 or '31. A person with the surname Tod was also mentioned as having property near Carwood. This Todd/Tod would have been far too old to be Mary's son. There are entries in the Tasmanian index for the births of children of John Tod and his wife, Mary Anderson. Two entries are for their sons Sutonius Anderson, b. 1846 died aged 13 in 1859. Both entries are at Bothwell.

Source: Edith Van Driel (nee Oakes).