Legal record - Power of Attorney, 18/02/1862

Historical information

Captain Mackenzie Luckie was born in 1821. From 1853 he commanded eight ships. He died on board the Michael Angelo off the coast of New Zealand in February 1875. After the ship arrived in Nelson, The Argus (Melbourne) reported on 12 February 1875 that Captain Luckie was found dead in his cabin, from heart disease.
His appointed Attorney Mr George William Knight selected land in Sunbury in 1860 and then arrived in Bendigo on 2 April 1870.
For more information about George William Knight see
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/227853797?searchTerm=george%20william%20knight

Physical description

Captain McKenzie LuckieĀ 
a. Document appointing George William Knight of Sunbury or elsewhere in the Colony of Victoria as a lawful attorney to act for Mackenzie Luckie of 15 Tredegar Square, Bow in the County of Middlesex (now London), Master Mariner.
Dated 18 February 1862. Witnessed by William Charles White.
Five page document - two blue flimsy sheets, one light card sheet and two grey flimsy sheets.
b. Transcript from The Age (Melbourne) 27 November 1937. The letter from H. Daniel, Monte Video, South America, is responding to an earlier letter from the grand daughter of Captain Mackenzie Luckie. It includes a record of the career of Captain Luckie from 1853.

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