Unconfigured Ad Widget

Collapse

Announcement

Collapse
No announcement yet.

Hendersons with a wanderlust

Collapse
X
 
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

  • Hendersons with a wanderlust

    James Henderson b. abt. 1822 Aberdeen (from English censuses 1861 to 1901)
    married
    Anna Maria Clarissa (unknown) b. abt 1826 Dublin (together as a married couple on all the above censuses).

    Marriage is likely to be in South Australia, given as place of birth for first 2 children:
    Hamilton Gerald Henderson b. abt 1849 and
    Charles B Henderson b. abt 1851.

    They must have returned to England almost immediately because the next child is
    Mary Louise Henderson b. q4 1852 Southampton.

    They had 5 more children between 1855 and 1866, all born Truro.

    I have most of the family in Cornwall in all the following censuses - 1861 (Truro), 1871-1901 Kenwyn.

    So can sks please find the marriage and the first 2 births. I have no experience at all with Australian records. I'm pretty certain James was a mining engineer.

    The next generation also went walkabout.

    Hamilton Gerald Henderson (see above), also a mining engineer, is in Kenwyn in 1861, 1891 and 1901.
    Between 1861 and 1891 he got married (Isabelle M unknown), went to India (first 2 children Constance and Millicent born 1876 and 1877 in Madras) and then to St Croix, Danish West Indies (next 2 children James and Charles born there 1883 and 1885), returned to England (next child Marjorie born Folkestone q2 1886) and finally to Kenwyn where last child Robert was born q1 1890.

    I have had a poke around Indian records without success but I have no clue where I'll find the St. Croix births. Until I started on this branch I had no idea the Danes colonised the West Indies.

    Any news or ideas on this lot will be most welcome. I'm confident I've found everyone via the English censuses, linked by grandchildren being boarded out while their parents were abroad.
    Last edited by Uncle John; 19-12-07, 00:12.
    Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

  • #2
    UJ

    Silly Q, but have you looked in the IGI? They do have some records for St Croix, but as my geography is sadly wanting, I don't know if this is YOUR St Croix, sorry!

    OC

    Comment


    • #3
      I can't find any reference in the IGI to the West Indies (Lesser Antilles to be more precise). Hugh Wallis hasn't indexed that region. St Croix is at the western end of the Lesser Antilles (Windward Islands), nearest to Puerto Rico.
      Last edited by Uncle John; 18-12-07, 23:45.
      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

      Comment


      • #4
        Is this one of yours? (IGI, extracted record)

        James Alexander Henderson
        Male

        Event(s):
        Birth: St Croix, , , Caribbean

        Christening:
        Death:
        Burial:

        Parents:
        Father: Alexander Henderson

        Marriages:
        Spouse: Angelina R. Plaskett
        Marriage: 03 APR 1898 Manhattan, New York, New York

        Comment


        • #5
          I don't think there's anything online for South Australia. If you're a member of GR, Kerri's doing SA lookups on the Records Office board.

          Comment


          • #6
            IGI (extracted)

            Millicent Catherine Seton Henderson
            Female

            Event(s):
            Birth: 18 MAY 1876

            Christening: 15 JUN 1876 Saint Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu, India

            Death:
            Burial:

            Parents:
            Father: Hamilton Gerald Henderson
            Mother: Isabella Jessie Muluady
            Last edited by Mary from Italy; 19-12-07, 01:58.

            Comment


            • #7
              IGI (extracted)

              Constance Mary Leton Henderson
              Female

              Event(s):
              Birth: 13 APR 1875

              Christening: 13 MAY 1875 Saint Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu, India

              Death:
              Burial:

              Parents:
              Father: Hamilton Gerald Henderson
              Mother: Isabella Jessie Mulready

              Comment


              • #8
                Familysearch ancestral file:

                Hamilton HENDERSON (AFN: 1TZT-7QX)
                Sex: M

                Event(s)
                Birth: 1844
                , S-Australia

                Parents
                Father: Thomas HENDERSON (AFN: 1RVD-H35)
                Mother: Sarah HAMILTON (AFN: 1RVD-H4C)

                The pedigree contains ancestors of Sarah Hamilton.

                The name's quite a coincidence, but the parents seem to be wrong.
                Last edited by Mary from Italy; 19-12-07, 03:06.

                Comment


                • #9
                  IGI submitted:

                  Hamilton Henderson
                  Male

                  Event(s):
                  Birth: 1844 Happy Valley, South Australia, Australia

                  Christening:
                  Death:
                  Burial:

                  Parents:
                  Father: Thomas Henderson
                  Mother: Sarah Hamilton

                  Comment


                  • #10
                    Deaths Dec 1916 (89%)
                    Henderson Isabella J M 69 Truro 5c 183

                    Comment


                    • #11
                      You missed one of Hamilton's children:

                      Geraldine Honoria Seton Henderson
                      Female

                      Event(s):
                      Birth: 14 JUN 1874

                      Christening: 01 JUL 1874 Saint Thomas Mount, Tamil Nadu, India

                      Death:
                      Burial:

                      Parents:
                      Father: Hamilton Gerald Henderson
                      Mother: Isabella Jessie Mulready

                      ***


                      Geraldine Honoria Seton <Henderson>
                      Female

                      Event(s):
                      Birth:
                      Christening: 01 JUL 1874 Medomsley, Durham, England

                      Death:
                      Burial:

                      Parents:
                      Father: Hamilton Gerald Henderson
                      Mother: Isabella Jessie Mulready

                      These are both said to be extracted records - don't quite understand how she got to be baptised twice on the same day in different countries.
                      Last edited by Mary from Italy; 19-12-07, 02:33.

                      Comment


                      • #12
                        There's a public member tree on Ancestry which contains the family. Isabella's named as "Isabella Jessie Mulready formerly Carter".

                        IGI, extracted:

                        ISABELLA JESSEE MULREADY CARTER
                        Female

                        Event(s):
                        Birth: 08 MAY 1847

                        Christening: 11 AUG 1847 Saint Andrew, Saint Marylebone, London, England

                        Death:
                        Burial:

                        Parents:
                        Father: JOHN THOMAS WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER CARTER
                        Mother: SARAH

                        Comment


                        • #13
                          Originally posted by Mary from Italy View Post
                          Is this one of yours? (IGI, extracted record)

                          James Alexander Henderson
                          Male
                          Event(s):
                          Birth: St Croix, , , Caribbean
                          Christening:
                          Death:
                          Burial:
                          Parents:
                          Father: Alexander Henderson
                          Marriages:
                          Spouse: Angelina R. Plaskett
                          Marriage: 03 APR 1898 Manhattan, New York, New York
                          How interesting, Mary. Wrong father (if he was a lost one of mine it would be Hamilton Gerald) and the marriage date is a few years too early.
                          Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                          Comment


                          • #14
                            Ooh Mary, what a cornucopia. Hamilton's wife's name, three Indian baps. and a possible link into another Henderson connection.

                            How did you find the baps.? I was completely stumped.

                            And I was already pretty sure Isabella Jessie was a Carter. I found her mother Sarah and sisters looking after some stray Henderson children in Cheriton, Kent.
                            Last edited by Uncle John; 19-12-07, 09:06.
                            Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                            Comment


                            • #15
                              All of Hamilton and Isabella's children seem to be Seton Hendersons. I'm now wonderig where the Seton came from.
                              Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                              Comment


                              • #16
                                Originally posted by Mary from Italy View Post
                                Geraldine Honoria Seton <Henderson>
                                Female
                                Event(s):
                                Birth:
                                Christening: 01 JUL 1874 Medomsley, Durham, England
                                Death:
                                Burial:
                                Parents:
                                Father: Hamilton Gerald Henderson
                                Mother: Isabella Jessie Mulready

                                These are both said to be extracted records - don't quite understand how she got to be baptised twice on the same day in different countries.
                                I think its a transcription error. The source call number for all three of my baps. is the Bishop's Transcripts for Madras, so the handful of Medomsley baps. must have the wrong source call number.
                                Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                                Comment


                                • #17
                                  How did you find the baps.?
                                  I found them by using All Resources on the familysearch site instead of the IGI.

                                  I found the St. Croix one on the IGI by choosing "Caribbean Islands" as the region.

                                  Comment


                                  • #18
                                    By the way, there's one reference to the family on Google book search if you search for Isabella, and a few in the Times if you search for Hamilton.

                                    I can't find Isabella's birth at all on FreeBMD, which is odd - have you tried?

                                    Comment


                                    • #19
                                      Right then, Times Archive here we come.

                                      Hamilton seems to have been an artillery officer and was posted to Madras in 1870. Then I lose sight of him until he turns up in Cornwall in 1891, a civil engineer.

                                      The only other likely refs. in The Times were to the death of the widow of his youngest son, who had acquired the further suffix Bull on marriage, and to his grandson's engagement.
                                      Last edited by Uncle John; 19-12-07, 19:32.
                                      Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                                      Comment


                                      • #20
                                        Originally posted by Mary from Italy View Post
                                        I found the St. Croix one on the IGI by choosing "Caribbean Islands" as the region.
                                        But I can't find "Caribbean Islands" as an option on the IGI. What am I doing wrong?
                                        Uncle John - Passed away March 2020

                                        Comment

                                        Working...
                                        X