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Ancestors of Dr George Frederick Aldous and Isabella Henderson Aldous (Stewart)
Aldous / Stewart chronology and document links Recent Ancestors (with portraits) all bmd document links
Photos of 1915 wedding of George's daughter Clare to Jimmy Sproule and of his family
James Cooper Stewart Story James Stewart Portraits Diary of his voyage to Australia Extract from History of Mallesons James Stewart's descendants
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George Frederick Aldous
b 24 Aug 1861 at 14 Lion Terrace, Portsea.
Mother Elizabeth contracts scarlet fever and dies when he is just 1. Collects an uninterested step mother when 5.
1867 March - Florrie (9) with her brother George (5) in the earliest family photo we have.
Trained at Barts Hospital London, and became LRC P & S & Apoth in 1885. In 1897 became Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh.
Link to timeline of George Frederick's life - how did he get to meet the girl from Melbourne?
Carlton House, Plymouth - Aldous family home, now a nursing home (2009).
Working life spent as a doctor and senior surgeon attached to the West Devon and Cornwall Hospital in Plymouth, Devon. Latterly Surgeon, South Devon and East Cornwall hospitals (Plymouth).
Early 1900s, Plymouth - he photographed well, with a twinkle in his eye! A territorial (not regular) RAMC soldier, our man liked a bit of uniform and in retirement titled himself "Major, RAMC" in the telephone directory.
Retires at 60 and moves to Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1921.
Isabella & Dr George Aldous and their grandson Brian Sproule c1932, Harrow
d 27 September 1937 aged 76 whilst living in retirement in Harrow.
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Alexander James (Alex) Aldous
b 21 Jan 1815 Harleston, Norfolk.
A wine merchant who was based on the doorstep of the main Royal Navy base at Portsea where he had a (lucrative) contract to supply them with wine!
At the 1841 census, learning the family trade living with a wine merchant in Portsea. At 1851 census lodging with a surgeon / farmer at nearby Boarhunt (pron Borunt) farm.
Marries Elizabeth Seward Thursday May 24 1855 at Buriton Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, but she dies of Scarlet Fever on Christmas Day, 1862. 3 year old James had died a couple of days earlier, and daughter Elizabeth Harriett had previously died in 1857. Little children Florence and George survive and then have to endure an unsympatico step mother Mary.
d. in Portsea (/Southsea - parish of St Kevin ?!?) in early 1879 aged 64, a most unhappy man. Buried in Redenhall where his father had been church warden.
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James Aldous
b 7 February 1785 Redenhall (nr Harleston) Norfolk.
To be found in Trade Directories 1830 & 1839 Pigots, 1845 White's, 1850 Hunt's & 1854 Whites
A family register (23.5cm x 30cm) written by James or Harriette around 1820
1841 Census - family at Redenhall 1851 Census - living in Harleston with wife, 2 daughters & 2 servants
Wine Merchant, Maltster, Brewer & Porter Merchant, Publican ("The Grapes Tap") and Farmer - mostly in partnership with brother John (d1850).
d 1 May 1859 (74) Harleston / Redenhall (Depwade register) - almost certainly buried in St Mary Redenhall where he was church warden for 40 years (from 1819 to 1859).
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James Aldous
b 1757 Starston (nr Harleston)
d 1810 (53) Starston (nr Harleston)
(buried with Martha in a vault in St Margaret's Church, Starston)
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Martha Aldous (Whiting)
b 1754 Norfolk
d 1824 (70) Starston (nr Harleston)
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Harriette Aldous (Poole)
b 8 April 1783 Mendham (? or Harleston), Suffolk (just)
m 10 Jul 1809 All Saints, Mendham, Suffolk, just south of Harleston
All Saints Church, Mendham, Sussex
d 1860 (77) Harleston (Depwade register)
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Photos of the Memorial Plaques and Tombs in the Buriton Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
1 - Elizabeth Haw Aldous (Seward)
b 1825 Buriton, Petersfield, Hampshire (Seward farm at Weston).
m 24 May 1855 Alex Aldous, wine merchant, in St Mary, Buriton.
d Christmas Day 1862, aged 37 of scarlet fever caught from a child-nurse, leaving Florence (4) and George (1) motherless. Sad plaque above the Norman font where she would have been christened, in St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Buriton.
One of Elizabeth's brothers was another Samuel Seward (known as Colonel Seward).
2 - Mary Constance Aldous (Gray), b1844, m 1 May 1866, living in Portsea in 1871. They had a son, Bertie , in 1874, though the family doubted that Alex was the father and dubbed him "Bertie Banks" in a thinly veiled allusion to his real (they thought) parentage! Alex stoked the flames by seeming strangely unhappy about the event. Mary remarried after Alex's death in 1879 - Henry Sedgwick (RN Fleet Surgeon) and had a daughter Louise. Bertie became a surgeon and did not marry.
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Samuel Seward
b 1787 Loxwood (N of Wisborough Green), Sussex, then moved with dad & family to Weston c1804 and immediately got stuck in to building a humungous windmill at Weston Farm.
1841 et seq censuses - Yeoman (tenant) Farmer of c800 acres of tithes with hops, sheep, lime burning, and of course the huge windmill in Weston (Buriton), Hampshire. 1841 1851 1861
d 25 Dec 1867 (80) Buriton, Hampshire (Petersfield register) - Tomb / Plaque in St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Buriton.
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Thomas Seward
Yeoman (tenant) farmer of Loxton (Wisborough Green) then Weston (nr Buriton).
There is a copy of his will c1813 in the National Archive's Bonham-Carter papers (the Bonham-Carters were major local landowners and have several memorials in the Buriton Parish church). Link to transcript. (easier to read!)
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Elizabeth Seward (Stevenson)
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Elizabeth Seward (Haw)
b 1792 St Pancras, Middlesex (London).
m 6 March 1821 - Old Church, St Pancras, London
Old Church, St Pancras, early 1800s
How did she meet Yeoman Farmer Seward ?
d 29 Dec 1858 - 1858-Q4 (66) Buriton, Hampshire - Tomb / Plaque in St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Buriton.
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William Haw
b 1764
l Hanway Street (links Oxford Street & Tottenham Court Road, London), but possibly just worked there and living in St Pancras. Retired to Weston after death of wife.
d 1839 (75) (Weston, Buriton) - his is probably the moolah behind the large sarcophagus tomb and burst of plaques in St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Buriton.
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Elizabeth Haw ( )
b 1767
l London
d 1829 (62) (London). Tomb / Plaque in St Mary the Virgin Parish Church, Buriton.
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► Marriage Certificate, September 1887 |
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Isabella Henderson Aldous (Bella) (Stewart)
b 5 January 1865, Melbourne (Australia).
Accompanies parents on their European Grand Tour in 1881 - 82. Did she meet future hubbie on this tour?
m 7 September 1877 (Ma's birthday) Dr George Frederick Aldous, a Plymouth surgeon, in Saint Stephens Church, Gloucester Road (London SW7). Mum and Dad come from Melbourne to mastermind the event from a South Kensington hotel.
The mid 1800s church of St Stephen, Gloucester Road, London
4 daughters, only one of whom (Clare) married.
Moves to Harrow-on-the-Hill in 1920 and provides a base for grand daughter Peggy when she gets sent to the UK for schooling.
d 5 July 1938 aged 73, living in Harrow.
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diary of his 1857 voyage to Australia
history of Mallesons (extract)
b 24 January 1836 in Brechin, Angus, Scotland. Shown living in Brechin in 1841 & 1851 census records
Departs Brechin on 1 June 1857 to travel from Liverpool to Melbourne on the famous clipper "Marco Polo" "The Fastest Ship in the World". Writes a diary on the way (we have a copy of original and transcript). Arrives in Melbourne 3rd September 1857.
► Marco Polo Passenger List Extract
1868 becomes a partner in the Melbourne legal firm that became Malleson & Stewart.
Extensive diaried (we have them - not transcribed yet) grand tour to France, Italy, England, Ireland and Scotland 1881-82.
Councillor, Alderman then Mayor of Melbourne 1885-86, and later City Solicitor.
► Portraits in mayoral gear and with family
Travels back to England in 1877 for the September marriage of eldest daughter Isabella in London.
Marries a second catastrophic time in 1911 (see below).
d 18 August 1919 Southsea (Hampshire), aged 83, on a visit to daughters in England.
Probably buried with Amelia in Barnes.
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James Stewart Snr
b 18 Oct 1804, Dundee, Scotland.
m 21 Dec 1833, Brechin, Angus.
Lived in Brechin (Angus) (latterly 62, High Street) and like his father was a master house painter. The Brechin building is still there (see Google Earth) - now a dilapidated shopfront.
d 27 Oct 1867 (63), Brechin, Angus
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James Stewart Snr Snr
b ?
m 10 Feb 1803, Edinburgh Parish
Another Master House Painter.
d ?
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Elizabeth Stewart (Hamilton)
b: ?
d ?
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Mary (May) Stewart (Falconer)
b 15 March 1811 Montrose, Scotland.
d 8 April 1867 (56) Brechin, Angus
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John Falconer
b ?
Agricultural labourer living in Montrose.
d ?
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Jean Falconer (Cooper)
l St Cyrus (beautiful beach place) before marriage. Note that the marriage contracts record from St Cyrus uses "Cooper" rather than "Couper" as in Laurencekirk.
This would be the origin of the "Cooper" in James Cooper Stewart
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1. Amelia Henderson Stewart (Ma) (Waugh)
b 7 September 1841 in Melbourne.
m James Stewart, 16 June 1860 in the garden of her widowed mother in Collingwood (Melbourne).
They have 14 children of whom only 6 survive into adulthood.
7 September 1886 - as Mayoress of Melbourne she laid the foundation stone of the Princes Bridge. They say the ceremony was boycotted by the largely English establishment - as a protest against a lowly Australian born (and worse, like Presbyterian) woman doing the job rather than the (wife of the) colonial governor (Sir Henry Brougham Lock).
► Photo of the Foundation Stone Ceremony
d in Barnes (London) on a visit to daughter Edith Staples in 3rd Qtr 1903, aged 62. Buried in Barnes somewhere.
2. Then on 26 August 1911 JCS (75) marries 31 year old Sydney divorcee Edith Cowling. Unsurprisingly things do not work out and an acrimonious 8 day court hearing in Spring 1916 in front of the Chief Justice of Victoria results in James getting a decree nisi on the grounds of desertion. Not clear what happened to all the money he was trying to claw back.
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Robert Waugh
b c1800, a master baker from Belfast.
m Isabella Henderson in Belfast c1827.
Sails from Belfast on 9 November 1838 with pregnant wife and 2 kids on the Government contracted 500 ton barque Garrow.
► Garrow Passenger List Extract
d 1856 aged 56 as per record from Old Melbourne Cemetery - now under the Queen Victoria Markets somewhere.
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Isabella Waugh (Henderson)
b 1803 in Belfast, Ireland, one of at least 8 children of Belfast merchant / newspaper proprietor James Henderson. Marries local baker James Waugh c1827, and later sails with him to Australia in 1838.
She has about 10 children (one born at sea en route to Australia), 7 outlive her.
Lived in Collingwood in 1860.
d 1872 (69) - 44 Lygon St, Carlton, Melbourne (buried in the Old Melbourne Cemetery, and now somewhere under the Queen Victoria Markets).
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James Henderson
b 1766 ?
"Belfast Merchant" (in Isabella's death cert). The Hendersons were a leading 1800s Presbyterian Belfast family - merchants, newspaper proprietors, churchmen, and later mayors.
d 28 July 1834
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Amelia Henderson (Shanks)
b 1771
Shanks is the maiden name in originals of Isabella's marriage and death register entries (so ignore those who say she was Amelia McGill).
d 9 April 1844
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