James ANDERSON
1828 - 1867 (39 years) Has 2 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.-
Name James ANDERSON [1, 2, 3] Relationship with Rodney VOJVODICH Birth 1828 Warkworth, Northumberland, England Baptism 20 Jul 1828 Warkworth, Northumberland, England Christening 1829 Gender Male Certificate of Birth 1829 Wanted Census 1841 Guyzance, Northumberland, England Crime 23 Oct 1848 [4] Tried at Old Bailey, London. Accused of housebreaking (feloniosly breaking and entering the dwelling of John Holland Ray, and stealing 1 shawl and other articles, value 11s; his goods to which). Found guilty. Occupation Bef 1851 Portmanteau Maker (luggage) Census 1851 Morpeth, Northumberland, England [5] Convict Number 1851 [6] #507 Immigration: Arr. 28 Jun 1851 Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia Per "Pyrenees" Ticket of Leave 28 Jun 1851 Pardon Apr 1854 Conditional Pardon Newspaper Article 1 Jul 1863 [7] Death Record 1867 Northam, Western Australia, Australia #3577 Occupation 1867 Shoemaker Certificate of Death 1867 Have Death 7 May 1867 Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia Newspaper Article 17 May 1867 [8] Newspaper Article 22 May 1867 [9] Newspaper Article 24 May 1867 [10] Newspaper Article 29 May 1867 [11] Newspaper Article 31 May 1867 [12] AKA William Chalmers Siblings 2 siblings Siblings 1 brother and 1 sister Patriarch & Matriarch John ANDERSON, b. 1799, Warkworth, Northumberland, England d. DECEASED (Father)
Ann TAYLOR, b. 1800, Warkworth, Northumberland, England d. DECEASED (Mother)Person ID I1464 MyBradyTree | Descendant of Convict James ANDERSON, BRADY, Ancestor of Darryl William BRADY Last Modified 5 Oct 2024
Father John ANDERSON, b. 1799, Warkworth, Northumberland, England d. DECEASED Mother Ann TAYLOR, b. 1800, Warkworth, Northumberland, England d. DECEASED Marriage 20 May 1827 Warkworth, Northumberland, England - St Lawrence Church
Family ID F22820 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Sarah Ann KENNEDY, b. 1833, England d. 6 Jan 1875, Greenough Flats, Western Australia, Australia (Age 42 years)
Other Partners: Thomas ADAMS m. 1845; Hermanus Lambertus LOOK m. 1870Marriage 1859 Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Children + 1. Emma Jane ANDERSON, b. 1859, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia d. Abt 1908 (Age 49 years) ▻ Hermanus Lambertus LOOK m. 19 Jan 1877; Thomas Phillip GRANT m. 1905+ 2. Frederick William ANDERSON, b. 1861, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia d. 23 Feb 1925, Guildford, Western Australia, Australia (Age 64 years) ▻ Harriet BRANSON m. 24 May 1890+ 3. Mary Anne ANDERSON, b. 22 May 1863, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia d. 17 Oct 1940, Midland Junction, Western Australia, Australia (Age 77 years) ▻ Alfred BROWNING m. 24 May 1881+ 4. Sarah Ann ANDERSON, b. 26 Jun 1864, Newcastle, Western Australia, Australia d. 19 Nov 1905, Sawyers Valley, Western Australia, Australia (Age 41 years) ▻ George Walter TREW m. 20 Mar 18825. Henrietta ANDERSON, b. 1867, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia d. 1886, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia (Age 19 years) Family ID F317 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 5 Oct 2024
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Notes - I've been researching James Anderson the convict #507 who was 18 years old when sentenced to Transportation at the Old Bailey in October 1848. The Old Bailey court records are searchable online. He was convicted for a housebreak and enter. He was sent to Fremantle on the "Pyrenees" in 1851, then sent to North Fremantle Hiring Depot. There was a convict depot established at Toodyay and I suspect he was sent there but cannot locate the record of it, it is a small piece in my puzzle that I would like to find. He was pardoned in April 1854.
On arrival to the colony his occupation was noted by the Comptroller of Convicts as "portmanteau maker and saddler". Portmanteau = bag or suitcase. We can see that this occupation is related to his trade as a boot and shoe maker.
There also appears to be a record that he is the half brother of Charles Adams who established the heritage homestead of "Mangowine" in the Toodyay district; Adams was the informant on Anderson's death certificate. See my comments under "Sarah Kennedy" where Adams assumed the running of Anderson's bootmaking business on the death of Anderson.
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Gary Angel - 2009 - gary-at-gidgenet.com.au
I don't believe that Charles Adams and James Anderson were half brothers. I think that information was one of those red herrings that pops up every now and again in genealogy research. They certainly had some sort of relationship, but I don't think they were related. Adams was a special constable - some sort of honorary policeman for the remote areas out back of Northam. Anderson I believe is my convict in the family. But the records that prove he is convict 517 have not surfaced. James Anderson was convicted of a housebreak in London and sentences at the Old Bailey to 7 years transportation to Western Aust. I have records of him stationed at the North Fremantle Convict Depot - on arrival he was described as a portmanteau maker - which is a leather worker making saddles and bags. It is not drawing a long bow to suggest that he was also a bootmaker, which is the occupation of our James Anderson of Toodyay. However I was never able to turn up a record of the James Anderson of North Fremantle Depot being relocated to the Toodyay Convict Depot. It could well have been the case but its only speculation in my imagination and the hard evidence is not there. There is also no evidence that he was referred to as David or Daniel. Another red herring I believe.
Sarah Anderson has also proved very difficult ancestor to research. Once again I am speculating that she came out on a bride ship - but no records have turned up of her entry into the country and no record of her birth here. Speculating again I think she got domestic work with a farming family in Toodyay, then met James Anderson and became Mrs Anderson. Although there was no actual marriage. After Anderson's death in 1867 of a heart attack, she referred to herself as Mrs Anderson in newspaper adverts placed to collect debts relating to the bootmaking business. She married Henry Looke in Perth and described herself on the marriage certificate as Sarah Kennedy her maiden name, not Anderson. She also named her father on the marriage cert as Frederic Kennedy, watchmaker of Coventry.
I have heaps of info about Fred Kennedy's military career in Britain, his retirement from the military due to ill health and ultimately his death in 1854. Coventry was the centre of watchmaking trade in industrial England in the 19th century, with many small time operators working from home.
Sarah herself may have been born in the West Indies or Malta as her father was stationed with the military at various times in these parts and the family travelled with him. But I can't turn up a birth cert for Sarah. I also can't positively ID Sarah as part of this military family. She's 19 by the time a census occurred in 1851 and I think she's moved away from the family to work as a domestic servant or she has been sent to a girls school in London. So she doesn't show up as living in the same household as Frederic Kennedy, wife and children.
Have reached so many dead ends in my research. Tentatively close on many lines of inquiry but can't quite produce irrefutable evidence.
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Gary Angel - 2015 - marathonangel-at-gmail.com
All convicts upon death had to have an Inquest Report sent to the Comptroller General in Fremantle. I found that our James ANDERSON shoemaker who died 7th May, 1867 was indeed Convict #507 I’m convinced..
My notes contain what I could decipher from the writings back then (no mobile phones)…
“Residents Office, Newcastle
8 May, 1867
Sir,
I have the honour to transmit proceedings at our Inquest held by me here on the 8th Instant on the body of James ANDERSON of this town.
Your obedient Servant,
William J. Clifton, Resident”
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“Has the Coroner at Fremantle forwarded a report of the Inquest held last week on ……”
“The proceedings on the Inquest in the case of ? Have been sent one … By the R…. and instructions …… for further Inquiry, the depot……having dis…. Full particulars”
“The Coroner at Fremantle has no forwarded a report of the Inquest informed to by this ….
G.Z. Ensor?
Govt. Philip?
His Coloniel Secretary”
So there you go! Our Shoemaker, James ANDERSON, had to have an Inquest which report was required to be sent to the Convicts Comptroller General in Fremantle!
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Gail Pascoe - 2023 - pascoesplace-at-gmail.com
Reference Darryl Brady. "James ANDERSON". Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1464 (accessed October 10, 2024).
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