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Earliest among these are the numerically small but internationally diverse early 19th century inhabitants of the Falkland Islands, comprising and descended in part from settlers brought by Luis Vernet, and English and American sealers; South American gauchos who settled in the 1840s and 1850s; and since the late 1830s, settlers largely from ...
MARTIN (UE) McAVOY, Patrick (1824-1888) and his wife, Catherine DAWSON (1832-1905) were early Wolfe Island settlers. Catherine was born on the Island (daughter of John B. DAWSON), while Patrick emigrated from Ireland to Wolfe Island around 1848. Patrick was a blacksmith in Marysville.
1840: The British approve the formation of a colony on the islands. 1841: General Rosas offers to relinquish any claim to sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in return for the relief of the Argentine debt to City of London interests.
In May 1840, the British Government made the decision to colonise the Falkland Islands. Unaware of the decision by the British Government to colonise the islands, Whittington grew impatient and decided to take action of his own initiative.
Islands through Captain Onslow and the Clio, was that the one settlement, at Port Louis on East Falkland, upon Clio's departure, was left without a garrison and under the control of civilian residents, including William Dickson and Matthew Brisbane.
In 1840 the Colonial Lands and Emigration Commissioners approve the British colonisation of the Falkland Islands. Richard Clement Moody is appointed the first civilian Governor of the Islands and arrives at Anson’s Harbour in the brig HEBE on 15th January 1842.
Their main legacy in the islands has been their placenames – and perhaps a love of the sea. Successive generations became less Norse, and when the Hebrides became part of Scotland after the Treaty of Perth in 1266, the islanders became known as the Gall-Gàidheil – the foreign Gaels.
