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ALDOUS / STEWART / SEWARD CHRONOLOGY AND DOCUMENT LINKS
LINKS TO PAGES RELATED TO ALDOUSES, STEWARTS, SEWARDS, HAWS, WAUGHS, HENDERSONS,
Recent Ancestors (with portraits) Aldous-Stewart ancestor chart all census page links all bmd links
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ALDOUSES (NORFOLK & SUFFOLK) SEWARDS AND HAWS (HAMPSHIRE & LONDON) STEWARTS & WAUGHS (BRECHIN BELFAST & MELBOURNE)
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Ancestors of George and Isabella Aldous
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THE ALDOUSES OF NORFOLK
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There are several Parish Register entries from Starston, Denton, Earsham and Alburg in the Aldous-Stewart ancestor chart , most of this information also being in the extensive research work of family historian Doug Aldous.
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6 August 1782 - James Aldous, grocer, |
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marries Martha Whiting in the church of St Mary, Redenhall.
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7 February 1785 - James Aldous, son of |
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Martha and James Snr, is christened in St Mary, Redenhall, where he is later to be Church Warden for many years.
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8 April 1783 - Harriett Aldous (Poole) |
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is born in Mendham (maybe).
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1809 - James Aldous marries Harriett Poole |
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on 10 July 1809 in the delightful All Saints Church, Mendham (Suffolk).
Harleston / Redenhall, just on the other side of the River Waveney and where they are to live, is in Norfolk.
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10 May 1810 - James Aldous Snr, |
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rich merchant, is buried in Starston aged 53. We have an image of his original will.
Martha lives to the age of 70 and is buried beside James in Starston on 24 May 1824.
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21 January 1815 - Alexender James Aldous |
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born in Harleston, Norfolk.
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c 1825 - James Aldous (probably) lists his family on a large piece of heavy paper (23.5cm x 30.5 cm) - probably kept inside the (disappeared) Georgian family bible. The oldest family artefact we have.
The main listing in black ink seems to have been written in one go - which must have been some time after Christmas 1823.
The deaths (except Arthur) have been added in a different hand, also probably in one go. The last recorded death date is January 1866. Maybe the list was updated by Harriette, who was buried at Redenhall on 13 October 1866 but who was still alive when the list was updated.
Our thanks to Christian Mayne ("The Cuckoo's Nest") who took the trouble to locate and get in touch with us after finding this list in a box of papers he had obtained.
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full size 23.5cm x 30.5cm
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1819 - 1854 (35 years) James Aldous is
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Churchwarden of St Mary Redenhall - the "daddy church" of the area. The tower is at the west end of this great priory church.
By the time I reached the church, one of the steeple jacks, who had seen me taking photographs, had come all the way down to meet me and ask if I would like to climb up and enjoy the view - sadly, worried about an already very sore back, I wimped out - but this act of friendly kindness left a really nice feeling inside for this neck of the woods - if only Redenhall would release images of its parish registers onto the web!! Adrian Fletcher, September 2009
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Harleston Market Square c 1820 when James Aldous was 35, and (below) in 2009 (the tower is not the same as the one above and the chapel has been demolished). James' nephew William Poole Aldous (1816-1861 (44)) was licensee of the Swan Inn (big red building on the distant left) from 1851 for 10 years.
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Trade Directories for Harleston and Redenhall |
1830 & 1839 - Pigot & Co Directories of Harleston with Reddenhall include James Aldous (then aged 45) (with his brother John) as Brewer & Porter Merchant, Maltster and Wine Merchant. Our man is into vertical integration as he and (his brother) John are also the licensees of "The Grape Tap". His name reappears in the 1845 White's and the 1850 Hunt's Trade Directories - latterly at age 65 as farmer and bank trustee as well - and the 1854 Whites .
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Census records start in 1841
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1841 - James Aldous, wine merchant, |
is living with his wife Harriett and four grown up children in Narrow Street, Redenhall (a mile or so to the east end of Harleston). The stately monastic church of Saint Mary in Redenhall was the real church for Harleston, which, despite being a prosperous medium sized market town, only had a graveyardless chapel (since demolished and replaced by a "proper Victorian church"). James Aldous was church warden of St Mary's Redenhall for 35 years from 1819 to 1854. His wife Harriet Poole probably came from Mendham, equally close but nowadays on the other side of the Norfolk / Suffolk county border defined by the River Waveney. The area was rich farmland, with several mills on the river.
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1841 - Alexander Aldous, the |
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oldest son of James, is lodging with Edmund Stokes, wine merchant, at Portsea - "learning the trade" - the first "Portsea link" (see below).
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1851 - James Aldous |
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at Thowfare (now Thoroughfare Street), Harleston - 2 daughters left at home. The Grape Tap pub, which James had run with his brother John, was around here somewhere. Down the road (the large red brick building in the left distance in both scenes) is and was the Swan Hotel, and in 1851 was run by James' nephew William Poole Aldous.
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1851 - Alex Aldous is a visitor / lodger
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at Boarhunt (pron Borunt) Farm, in South Hampshire. He will marry Elizabeth Seward of Buriton (Hampshire) in 1855. |
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28 March 1853 (Easter Monday)
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Minutes of a Vestry Meeting at St Mary, Redenhall, chaired by the Rector - the Venerable Archdeacon T J Ormerod MA - where James Aldous is elected Church Warden. |
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1 May 1859 - James Aldous dies aged 74
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and is buried in Saint Mary, Redenhall, where he has been church warden from 1819 - 1854. |
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13 October 1866 - Harriet Aldous buried
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aged 83 in St Mary, Redenhall. We have not had access to the Redenhall burial (or other) registers which seem to be guarded like secret state archives. |
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Very grateful thanks to Peter Richardson for all the help he has provided in relation to Aldous family history and how to produce reliable family research results.
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SEWARDS & HAWS, then ALDOUSES
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the Hampshire (Buriton and Weston) and London (St Pancras and Oxford St) connections |
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1748 - Thomas Seward, Samuel's father |
christened in St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, Sussex, which has a rare fresco incorporating medieval pilgrims. He was the son of Yeoman Tenant Farmer John Seward and his wife Hannah, who were based just to the north in Loxwood, which then had a little old cemeteryless chapel and relied on the Wisborough church for bmd ceremonies.
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1764 - William Haw, Samuel's father-in-law, is |
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born in London (date deduced from information on Buriton memorials). He becomes a successful carpenter then builder based in Petty's Court, Hanway Street, which (still) links Oxford St and Tottenham Court Road - then in the parish of (Old Church) St Pancras. We have copies of the ledger entries for the insurance cover for his buildings in the early 1800s (see below).
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1767 - Elizabeth Haw ( ) - William's |
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future wife is born in London (date from information on her Buriton memorial).
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1787 - Samuel Seward, |
is christened in St Peter ad Vincula, Wisborough Green, Sussex, . In 1804 Samuel skips over the county border to the farming hamlet of Weston (near Buriton, Hampshire) with his dad and family, becomes a tenant yeoman farmer on 600+ acres thereabouts, builds a humungous windmill, burns lime, plants hops, and does lots of other enterprising things, and eventually dies in Weston in 1867 aged 80 (see below).
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26 August 1791 - Elizabeth Seward (Haw) -
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Samuel's wife to be - born in St Pancras, London (third from bottom of parish register page).
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1813 - Will of Samuel's dad Thomas |
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8 July 1819 - the opening paragraph of the insurance ledger entry for property owned by William Haw et al occupied by a bookseller, jeweller, a stay maker, a Chinaman, a victualler and a jeweller.
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Sun Insurance Ledgers are kept in the London Metropolitan Archives
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1821 - Samuel Seward (34) marries |
Elizabeth Haw (29) in the Old Church, St Pancras, London on 6 March 1821. How did they meet, one wonders!
Old Church, St Pancras c 1828 and now overshadowed by St Pancras Station.
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1824 - Elizabeth Haw Seward,
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the future Mrs Alex Aldous, is christened in the parish church of St Mary the Virgin, Buriton on 26 May 1824. |
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1825-26 William Haw, builder, of
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5 Hanway St (/ Oxford St), appears in the Pigot & Co 1825-26 London Directory. |
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1829 - Elizabeth Haw ( ) snr dies aged 63 |
in the Haw apartment in Petty's Court, Hanway St (/Oxford St) London on 18 December 1829, and is buried in the crypt of the new St Pancras Church on Euston Road (consecrated in 1822) after Bill paid £17 10s 6d. Looking at the rest of 1830 in this book, £17 10s 6d was the going rate for a new church crypt slot, the only exception being Jessie Farquhasson on this page who was, after all, very little.
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1839 - William Haw dies aged 75 |
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in Buriton (Hants) on 17 June 1839 - and becomes the first occupant of his south door sarcophagus (unless he had Mrs H moved down from the crypt of New St Pancras). Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin
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Census records start in 1841
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1841 - Samuel Seward, Yeoman (Farmer),
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wife Elizabeth, and 8 children including Elizabeth jnr are farming, hopping, milling, burning lime etc at Weston (nr Buriton, Hampshire). |
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1851 - the Seward family still working the farm |
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at Weston nr Buriton. Daughter Elizabeth Haw Seward is 26 and will become Mrs Alex Aldous before the next census.
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1855 - Alex Aldous (39) marries |
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Elizabeth Haw Seward (31), in the Buriton Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin.
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1858 - Elizabeth Seward (66), London born |
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mother of the new Mrs Aldous dies - the Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin has a memorial wall plaque in the south aisle and her body was added to the great sarcophagus vault-tomb outside.
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1861 - George Frederick Aldous born |
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in Portsea 24 August 1861.
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1861 - Census time again - Samuel Seward, |
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now a widower, hosts recently married daughter Elizabeth, her husband Alex and young children at the Weston (Buriton) farm. He is employing 38 men and 8 boys on his 685 acre farm.
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1862 - Elizabeth Haw Aldous (38) dies from |
scarlet fever on Christmas Day 1862, along with young son James William (2), leaving two little motherless children behind - Florrie (4) and George (1) - the Buriton parish church of St Mary has memorial wall plaque in the south aisle.
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1866 - Alex Aldous remarries - Mary Gray |
in March, Cambridgeshire - it does not work for Florrie and George or reportedly Alex's own happiness !
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1867 March - Florrie (9) and George (5) in the earliest family photo we have. |
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1867 - 25 November - Samuel Seward |
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dies aged 80 - the Buriton parish church of St Mary the Virgin has memorial wall plaque in the south aisle and his body was added to the great sarcophagus tomb outside the south door. The Weston farm business is taken over by his eldest son "Colonel" Samuel William Seward.
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1871 - Alex Aldous and Mary in Portsea |
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with three servants and kids off at boarding schools. He is to die an unhappy 63 year old early 1879 after Mary gives birth to a son Hubert (Bertie) whom the family are "certain" was not fathered by him, and to whom they give the surname Banks - they say the real father. Mary later remarries (not Mr Banks but RN Fleet Surgeon Henry Sedgewick) and they have a daughter Louise. Bertie, a surgeon, dies a 78 year old bachelor in 1952 and leaves £20,000 in his will to build statues of Nelson and teach sea scouts how to swim - but wait, he can't have as his estate was valued at under £16,000 - don't believe those family stories!
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1871 - Florrie (13) is at Matson House |
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School, Richmond.
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1871 - George (9) is also away |
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at Brent Bridge House boarding prep school in Hendon. Thanks to Peter Richardson for discovering him lurking under the transcript (and handwritten) name "Aldhouse". "Aldous" seems to attract transcription errors!
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1879 - Alex Aldous dies (aged 63) |
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in Portsea, a wealthy but unhappy man. He was buried in St Mary Redenhall, where his father James had been church warden for 35 years, although Alex was living in the parish of St Kevin in Portsea (no longer any trace of that - Kevins seem to come and go). His name is on some of the Buriton monuments to his wife and children.
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1881 - George Frederick (20) back in Portsea |
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as a lodger and medical student (St Barts, London) (now transcribed as Aldons), whilst Florrie (23) is visiting a retired Rear Admiral's family in Croydon.
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1881 - 1882 George Frederick just maybe |
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meets Isabella Stewart whilst she is travelling in Europe with her parents.
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1885 - George Frederick Aldous |
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admitted to British Medical Register on 6 May 1885. Qualifications (1885) are Lic Soc Apoth Lond, Memb R Coll Surg Eng, Lic Coll Phys Lond. He studied at Barts in London.
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1885-7 - Dr Aldous working as |
Resident Medical Officer, Middlesex County Asylum, then Surgeon, Orient Steam Navigation Co - maybe this was this how he met his future wife?
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1887 - George Frederick Aldous (26) |
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marries Isabella Henderson Stewart of Melbourne at Saint Stephens Church, Gloucester Road (London) (see below) on 7 September 1887. James Cooper Stewart and ":Ma" come over from Melbourne for the wedding.
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1891 - 1901 - 1911 Censuses |
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Doctor George F Aldous, his Australian wife Isabella, and their 4 growing daughters (Isabel (1889), Claribel (Clare) (1891), Madeline (1894) and Geraldine (1897)) in Charlton House, Compton Gifford, Plymouth.
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1897 - Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh |
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1901 - Florrie (43) is now married (1885) to |
a surgeon who rose to become a Surgeon General in the Indian Army and RAMC - William Budd (seriously, and he's not American, that's his mother's maiden name) Slaughter, the son of a doctor in Farningham, Kent. For the census she has been left with young children Cicely and Maurice in Portsea where she was brought up and the recurring town name in the Aldous / Stewart pages - James Stewart (below) is to die in Southsea ( /Portsea) in 1919 on a visit to his daughter May Watson (who married a Navy Officer). Florrie later had another daughter named Eileen Mary and possibly more sons.
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Adrian's maternal grandparents Sproule marry
1915 - Clare Aldous marries Jimmy Sproule
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in Emmanuel Church, Compton Gifford (Plymouth) - a Victorian church a couple of hundred yards down the road from the Aldous home ("Carlton House" - now a nursing home - below right).
They had met when Clare had been detailed to do hospital visiting duty by her dad and was told to cheer up Jimmy Sproule - then a patient. It was love at first sight - so much so that when Clare started feeding Jimmy a meal she absent-mindedly ate it herself whilst gazing into his eyes.
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c1921 - George Aldous retires at 60 and pretty much immediately leaves his "working life town" of Plymouth to live in Harrow-on-the-Hill. |
The family moves from Plymouth to "Deanhurst" - 1 St Johns Road, Harrow (London) (now the site of a Best Western hotel). Grandchildren Peggy and Brian Sproule stayed here during school holidays at times their parents were stationed overseas (often), but, certainly for Peggy, it was not much fun. George is described in the telephone directory as "Major RAMC" (even though he was never a regular soldier!).
Isabella and George Aldous and their Grandson Brian at "Deanhurst", Harrow c1932
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1937 - George Frederick Aldous 1938 - Isabella Henderson Aldous (Stewart) |
dies on 27 September 1937. dies on 5 July 1938. |
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STEWARTS, WAUGHS AND HENDERSONS
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The Melbourne, Brechin, Belfast connections.
NOTE: There are more early document links for James Stewart's wife, parents, parents-in-law and earlier ancestors in the Aldous-Stewart ancestor chart.
and don't overlook the richly illustrated easy to read - James Cooper Stewart (his illustrated story) which includes material about Robert and Isabella Waugh.
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c1800 - Robert Waugh
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is born in Old Park, Co Antrim (now within the Belfast area). His NSW entry papers say his father, also Robert, was a Miller, Farmer, Land Steward. If we can find his Victorian Death Certificate his parents will also be revealed.
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1803 - Isabella Waugh (Henderson)
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is born in the Belfast area, the daughter of James Henderson and Amelia Henderson (Shanks or McGill - both names appear in records). The Hendersons are a leading Belfast Presbyterian family - churchmen, proprietors of newspapers (Newry Telegraph then in the mid 1800s the Belfast News Letter) and later knighted Civic Leaders.
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1804 James Cooper Stewart's
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grandparents - James Stewart (House Painter) and Elizabeth Hamilton - marry in Edinburgh |
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1804 James Cooper Stewart's
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father, also James Stewart (House Painter), is born in Dundee. |
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1811 May Falconer,
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James Stewart's mother, is born in Montrose |
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1827 Robert Waugh (baker) marries
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Isabella Henderson in Belfast. We have not yet found a record of the event. |
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1833 James Stewart Snr and May Falconer
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marry in Brechin |
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1836 James Cooper Stewart
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1838-39 Robert Waugh, baker, and his wife |
Garrow passengers:
NSW Entry Papers (1839) for Robert Waugh, Isabella Waugh & 3 sons, and baby Waugh |
Isabella, both from Belfast (she was a Henderson), and 3 boys James, John and Robert join the 500 ton Barque Garrow to travel from Belfast to Sydney on 9 November 1838 as assisted immigrants. Two young children, Mary Ann and Alexander, have died earlier. Isabella has another son en voyage and he is 5 weeks old on arrival in NSW. The baby is named Henry Golding Waugh, after (almost) the Royal Navy surgeon who delivered him at sea - Harry Goldney. They dock at the Sydney Quarantine Station on 2 March 1839 and shortly afterwards transfer to another ship, the John Barry, to travel on to Melbourne where they arrive on the 28 April 1839.
Luckily for them a certain James Cameron and family were also on the John Barry, which means that there is now more information about Robert on the web site of all the "Barry People" put together by Cameron's ggg-grandaughter Elizabeth Jansen.
The UK National Archives have (November 2010) released a fascinating series of copies of surgeons' log books - this one relates to the Juliana which arrived in Australia just after the Waughs - May 1839 - click on the image to download (around 20 mb).
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1838 - Robert Waugh establishes a bakery
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in the newly (March 1837) named Melbourne. He is recorded in a rare surviving page from the Port Phillip section of the 1841 NSW Census, with four other males and his wife in a wooden dwelling. Also in 1841, Kerr's Almanac shows him baking in Queen Street. He was assigned convict helpers - John Heaton (came 1832 on the Camden), John Lloyd (came 1836 on the Moffat), and Patrick Tierney (came 1840 on the Recovery).
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1841 - Amelia Henderson Waugh is born
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in Melbourne (which was part of NSW until Victoria was invented on 1 July 1851, which was happily for them the start of the 20 year Victorian Gold Rush). |
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Scottish census records start in 1841
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Back in Scotland, if you want a masochistic hour or ten, try looking up James Stewart in the Scotland's People data base - and marvel at how many of them there are and of these how many were house painters! |
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1841-1851 James Cooper Stewart
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is living with his father James snr (master house painter) and family in High Street, Brechin (Scotland). |
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By 1843 the Waugh family and bakery have moved to Bourke Lane (aka Little Bourke Street) in Melbourne .....
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The properties in Little Bourke Street were rented out by Isabella after Robert's death, and are listed in her probate valuation along with her house at 44 Lygon Street, Carlton.
"Robert Waugh, Shop Bourke Lane, a Burgess in Burke Ward". Source - The Port Phillip Herald Fri 8 Sep 1843
"R Waugh, jury for Supreme Court Thur 15 Feb 1844". Source - Melbourne Weekly Courier 24 Feb 1844
"Robert Waugh did not answer when called upon for duty as Special Constable by His Worship the Mayor 21 Oct 1845. 72 were enrolled, with all publicans exempted". Source - Port Phillip Herald 23 Oct 1845
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1847 - Robert Waugh listed as a Baker
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in Bourke Lane, Melbourne (1847 Port Phillip Almanac and Directory - link to full transcript). Specifically he owned numbers 22, 22½ and 24 Little Bourke St East. |
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10 July 1856 - Robert Waugh dies in Melbourne |
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aged 56 - not discovered yet in the Victorian BMD records, but recorded in the books of Old Melbourne Cemetery where he was buried. He signed his will in a weak hand in the nick of time. He never met his future son-in-law ......
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1857 - James Cooper Stewart emigrates |
to Melbourne aboard the "fastest ship in the world" - the clipper Marco Polo, and records the experience in a lengthy diary.
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19 June 1860 - James Stewart (24) and |
Amelia Waugh (18) marry. Scottish lowlands Presbyterian marries the Belfast Presbyterian in the garden of her widowed mum in Collingwood.
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1861 - The Stewart family (minus James)
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James snr (master house painter) and family in 62, High Street, Brechin (Scotland). |
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1865 - Isabella Henderson Stewart is born |
at 2 Regent Terrace, Moor Street, Fitzroy (Melbourne). Regent Terrace (20-26 Moor Street) was then owned by a John Michael from whom James was presumably renting.
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1867 - May Stewart (Falconer)
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1867 - James Stewart Snr
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dies in Brechin |
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1868 - James Cooper Stewart,
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solicitor, partners up with Alfred Brooks Malleson in Melbourne. |
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12 August 1872 - Isabella Waugh (Henderson) dies, |
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"The Argus" (Melbourne) Tuesday 13 August 1872
on her 69th birthday, in her house at 44 Lygon Street, Carlton (Melbourne). They really knew how to have useful information on death records in those days in Victoria. She was buried (presumably beside Robert) in the Old Cemetery, Melbourne. The Waughs were not reinterred as the Old Cemetery was overbuilt, so their bones are still rattling around somewhere under today's Queen Victoria Market which steadily took over the cemetery site.
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1881 - 1882 James, wife Amelia |
and daughter Isabella make an extended Grand Tour + to France, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland. Somewhere it seems Bella (aged 16) may just have met medical student George Aldous (20). We have the original dairies of the trip, which are being scanned / transcribed.
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1885 - 1886 James Cooper Stewart is Mayor of Melbourne.
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7 September 1886 - Mayoress Amelia lays |
the foundation stone for the new Princes Bridge in Melbourne.
photo: Emily Bradburn (Fletcher)
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1887 - a year of marriages
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15 June 1887 - Gordon Robson Stewart (1862 - 1906 (43)) marries Isabella (Belle) Galbraith (1860 - 1918 (57)) in the garden of her parents home in Kew (Melbourne). RECORD Gordon, a partner in James' legal practice, died aged just 43 in 1906. James Stewart took over the financial support of Gordon's wife and four children, who now have many descendants in Australia.
12 July 1887 - George Alexander Waugh Stewart (1864 - 1938 (74)) marries Isabella Robina Rutherford (1866 - 1939 (73)) in the Scots' Church, Melbourne - Rev Joseph Hay officiates. RECORD. George was named after Amelia's younger brother who died of croup in 1845, aged 2. George and Belle had just one child - Aimee, who did not marry (she died in 1958) - at the end of WW II I was living with my mother, sister and grandparents in Old Bell House, Somerton (Somerset), and I remember receiving food parcels from Aunty Aimee in Australia - including "fresh" eggs in felt lined wooden egg boxes - remembered because some of them were broken! (I being Adrian Fletcher).
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1887 the Stewart trio (Dad, Ma and Isabella) returns to England
The mid 1800s church of St Stephen, Gloucester Road, London
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to marry Bella (now 22) to Dr George Aldous in Saint Stephens Church, Gloucester Road (London) on September 7th 1887 - there would have been a diary for this trip also but it has yet to emerge. At this stage we have no idea how George and Isabella met - though in the 1888 (UK) Medical Register he is described as "Surgeon, Orient Steam Navigation Co" and may have journeyed to Melbourne in this capacity. Neither do we know why the wedding was in London!
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1892 - The Stewarts build then move in to |
"Edzell" (2) at 76 St Georges Road, Toorak (Melbourne, Australia) - and still there. "Edzell" (1) had been in Barker's Rd, Kew (Melbourne). The original Edzell is a picturesque castle-town near Brechin.
This must have been just about the last big house building project from the Melbourne mega-boom times of the 1870s and 80s. In 1890 everything started to fall over and by 1892 there was 20% unemployment and much of the commercial landscape (including banks) was no more. It was over ten years before any weak signs of recovery emerged.
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1900 - Isabella's two sisters marry - |
21 July 1900 - A six months' pregnant Ethel Amelia Stewart (1880 - 1950 (70)) marries stockbroker's clerk and cricketer Cyril Vernon Grey Staples (1876 - 1936 (59)) from Melbourne, in St Michael's Church, Burleigh St, Covent Garden (London - no longer there). RECORD. Belle Stewart was one of the witnesses.
18 December 1900 - May Falconer Stewart (1877 - 1957 (80)) marries Lt Cecil Francis Lacon Watson R.N. (1873 - 1940 (67)) from the Isle of Wight in St John's Church, Toorak (Melbourne). RECORD. James Cooper was a witness.
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1903 - Amelia Stewart (62) dies in Barnes |
on a visit to England, to see her 3 daughters (she was staying with daughter Ethel Staples). All told she had given birth to 13 or 14 babies, of whom tragically at least 7 did not make it past the age of two. After this a lonely James Cooper asks son George to give up his farm and move in to share Edzell with wife Belle and daughter Aimee. Older son Gordon, who has followed his dad as a partner in Mallesons, dies in February 1906 aged just 43, leaving wife Belle and four children to be financially supported by JC in addition to the settlements he had made for his three married daughters.
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26 August 1911 - James Cooper Stewart (75)
"An Old Bowler" - Christmas 1909 He should have stuck with the bowling!
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marries 31 year old Sydney divorcee Edith Rosa Francis Cowling (née Muston) in the Scots Church, Melbourne. George - the only Stewart son now alive (except the absent Fred) is holidaying overseas, uninformed and apoplectic with rage when he finds out what the old man has done ....... In fact for several years father and son did not speak to each other.
"The family" later say Edith Rosa is a widow with 2 daughters, though the marriage record reveals she is a divorcee and company director with no children. In fact she is English - born in Portsmouth, Hampshire in 1880, then married in Queensland in 1900 - after which she and her pearler husband John Cowling became two of the 8 (white) voters living on Maubiag (now Mabuiag) Island - in the Torres Strait half way between the top of Australia and PNG. Hubbie No 1 gets the flick after she moves down to Sydney and sets up a hair and beauty clinic called Hygeia - helped by her formidable mother Louisa who at this stage has moved to Sydney leaving two dead husbands in England.
Here's one of her ads (from a New Zealand newspaper) the second ad is just there for fun:
"Edie" later claims (probably accurately) that from the start of her second marriage she is snubbed by Stewart's surviving son George and Mrs (Belle) George, and in fact all the good burghers of Toorak, so to alleviate her loneliness she takes off, bankrolled by JC, and has a good time on the boat and in New York, London etc. - twice.
A sad contrast to the trauma his grandson-in-law is suffering on the Western Front in WWI.
No one in the Stewart / Aldous family was particularly interested in what then happened to Edith Rosa. She died (still surnamed Stewart) in Forrest Hill, Melbourne on 6 August 1940, aged 60.
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1919 - James Stewart (83) dies in Southsea |
(next to Portsea / Portsmouth, England) whilst staying with his daughter May Watson who has married a Royal Navy officer. He is thought to be buried next to Amelia somewhere in Barnes.
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The illustrated story of James Cooper Stewart |
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(1836 - 1919 (83)) and his parents-in-law Robert and Isabella Waugh from Belfast. |
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Stewart Family Portraits - 1886 |
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the page also includes a photo of Mayor James and of Mayoress Amelia Stewart laying the foundation stone for the Prince's Bridge on 7 September 1886 (though it's only Mayor James who is clearly visible) and that is not all ....... |
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"Edzell" the c1892 Stewart Palazzo |
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at number 76 St Georges Road, Toorak (Melbourne, Australia) - one of the very few grand houses remaining, it was sold in late 2008 and hopefully will be beautifully restored. |
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Descendants of James Cooper Stewart |
Details of the marriages of the three Stewart daughters and a list of descendants from the data base compiled by Adrian Fletcher - afletch at paradoxplace dot com
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1915 - Aldous-Sproule Marriage - Wednesday 28 July 1915. Emmanuel Church Plymouth, Devon. |
Clare Aldous (24) marries Jimmy Sproule (27) as England moves into trench warfare in France, where doctor Jimmy was to spend much of the 1914 - 18 World War I running Field Ambulance units, latterly serving the trenches of the Welsh (38th) Division on the Western Front. He was mentioned in despatches and decorated for bravery under fire by both England and France.
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