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2/5/1916 Occupation Labourer

STEWART, John (I82)

4421/1884

Born on voyage

SPALDING, Alexander McDonald (I151)

8751/1944

NSWBDM 4454/1889

COX, Harry (I045)

Actual date of death unknown
Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, John (I159)

Actual date of death unknown
Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, John (I160)

Address at marriage 6/4/1920 Melbourne Cottage, 13 Falside, Paisley
Occupation Civic Engineer

MCKENZIE, John R (I76)

Address at marriage Eddlewood, Falside, Paisley
Occupation Clerk

HANNAH, Margaret (I73)

Albert was listed on the 1881 British Census as aged 15 years old, born (8th April 1866) in Horsforth, York, England. Occupation: Jobber Text. He and his family at the time resided at 12 Orleans St. Keighley, York, England.

Family History Library Film: 1343029.
PRO Reference: RG11
Piece Folio: 4349/63. Page No. 32.

The Kitching family consisting of mother, Jane Kitching and 5 brothers, William, James, Robert, Herbert and Moses arriving in Sydney on the "Orontes" on 19th August 1882. During the voyage out Albert formed a friendship with 18 year old Scottish lad Thomas Hannah. They appeared to have remained good friends for some time after, at least until the untimely death of Thomas, who accidently drowned on the 8th April 1889 at Rozelle whilst prawn fishing. Unfortunately for Albert , Thomas' death would be a constant reminder of his 23rd birthday. One can only imagine the sadness Albert must have felt upon hearing the news of his friends death.
Albert was the witness/best man at Thomas' wedding to Jane Jack in 1888. He signed the wedding certificate as a witness.

Albert was described as being of average height, with dark brown hair, brown eyes and a moustache.

He, his wife and family resided in a neat little cottage on the corner of what is now Vaughan Street and Auburn Road, Auburn. The house remained within the family until the death of Albert and Elizabeth Ann's 3rd daughter Grace in 1994. The house stood on a fairly large block which was later sub- divided, the land being sold to Grace's son Alfred and his wife who still reside there, the old cottage still sitting where it always was.

All 10 Kitching children were born in the house, sadly some died. Eight of Grace's ten children were also born there. And not surprisingly so were numerous and various grandchildren.

Albert was renowned for wearing a rose in his coat lapel, on one particular occasion he ventured into his local pub bragging about how beautiful were the roses he grew, only for him to be shot down in flames, everyone knew that it was his wife Annie who grew the roses, for which she had won prizes at various flower shows.

Albert worked as a Sexton at Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe. He originally dug graves in the Catholic Section but went to work in the Jewish Section because they paid more money.

Unfortunately not a lot is remembered of the uncles, apparently the only one's to visit were Uncle Bill (who always brought some sweets with him), and Uncle Bob, whom everyone thought was funny, it's also said that his wife, aunty Ada was nice, though she apparently only visited a couple of times. The younger children could not remember their father having ever played with them.

Albert died in the Vaughan Street house on the 25th August 1921, from cancer. Some of his friends would visit him but would only be allowed stand on the verandah and talk through the bedroom window as apparently the smell from the room was quite bad.

It is with our thanks to Bruce Hannah and his extended family for including our Albert in their family story, without which information we would never have known anything of his voyage here nor his friendship with Thomas.

Contributed by Jim & Van Townsend (2004)

KITCHING, Albert (I219)

Appears in the 1851 census. No birth record as pre SI registrations, does not appear in the 1861 census, and no record of death between 1855-1861

HANNAH, Janet (I35)

Arrived with husband William and family 1884 aboard Stirlingshire

MCDONALD, Ann (I146)

At time of marriage (May 1916) listed occupation as Flour Packer.

Migrated to Canada c. 1919

-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Hannah [mailto:bchlct@ozemail.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 4:45 PM
To: Billie Winfield
Subject: [Fwd: Fw: Family connections]

Hi Billie,

Thought you might be interested in this email I received today.

Hope all is well with you and family. All fine here, weather is hotting up. I think it is going to be a hot, dry summer with lots of bushfires. The thought of knee deep snow has it's attractions.

Cheers,

Bruce

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Fw: Family connections
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 08:40:27 +1000
From: Bruce Hannah
Reply-To: Bruce Hannah
To:

----- Original Message -----
From: "Isabella Karrim"
To:
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: Family connections

> Hallo Bruce,
>
> Sarah Gilfillan Stewart who marrried Robert Duncan Hannah in 1916 was my
> Great Aunt
>
> Her mother was Agnes Wylie her Father John Stewart 1866 - 1934 her
> siblings were..
> Matthew died 1917 in the Great War, Margaret, Agnes and John my
> Grandfather.
>
> My father Matthew Stewart was brought up by Sarah's father who married
> again in 1920 to
> Annie McLaughlan after his mother died when he was only 18months
>
> I have a photo of John, Margaret and Agnes.
>
> I have birth, marriage and death certificates to confirm details
>
> Hope this is of some help.
>
> Isabella

STEWART, Sarah Gilfillan (I81)

At time of marriage (May, 1916) listed occupation as Private, 31st Battalion, Canadians. On active service in Belgium.

Migrated to Canada c. 1919

HANNAH, Robert Duncan (I72)

b. 2217/1861
d. 14949/1944

LLEWELLEN, Charlotte Annie (I017)

b. 2382/1861
d. 11146/1927

COX, Charles (I051)

b. 2457/1859
d. 18206/1915

COX, Jonathan (I050)

b. 2485/1864
d. 1470/1865

LLEWELLEN, Elizabeth (I052)

b. 2703/1866

LLEWELLEN, George (I053)

b. 2862/1869

LLEWELLEN, Sarah (I054)

b. 3142/1874

LLEWELLEN, Alfred (I055)

b. 3448/1876

LLEWELLEN, Charles (I056)

b. 3812/1879

LLEWELLEN, William (I057)

b. 4007/1881

LLEWELLEN, Emily (I058)

b. 4232/1883

LLEWELLEN, Mary (I059)

b. 5539/1892

COX, William (I067)

b. NSWBDM 2617/1865

COX, Louisa (I073)

b. Penrith NSW BDM 15539/1897

HAYES, David John (I120)

b. St Peters NSW

HAYES, Hubert Lovell (I098)

b. Taree NSW BDM 7452/1903

HAYES, Eileen (I121)

b. Tenderden UK
d. Kenthurst NSW

Marriage shows Harriet Burbridge with father shown as Thomas Fuggle (shoemaker)

FUGGLE BURBRIDGE, Harriet (I034)

b. V1853583 58/1853
d. 11091/1917

COX, William (I049)

b. Wisbech UK
d. NSWBDM 12417/1909 Balmain NSW

Reputed to be a pirate, bought Balmain for a bottle of Rum

A Margaret Cox was born Wisbech Mar 838
http://www.wisecomp.com/ccl/EngWalB1838.htm

Henry Bush Cox and Sarah Ann Cox were

COX, William (I035)

Believed to have had seven children (Christine Strak 2004)

Family: Joseph Cooper YOUNG / Christina MCINTYRE (F63)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

Lived Next to William A Hannah in Tennyson Road, Gladesville

SPALDING, Peter (I152)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

William was an informant on the death certificate for Thomas Hannah

SPALDING, William (I154)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, Annie (I148)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, Jane (I149)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, John (I150)

Born Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland

SPALDING, Thomas (I153)

Born Larkhall, Lanarkshire Scotland

SPALDING, William (I147)

Born NSW 3797/1889

SPALDING, Malcolm (I157)

Born NSW 4044/1886

Some sources have Helen as surname

SPALDING, Ellen (I156)

Born NSW 5250/1892

SPALDING, Andrew (I158)

Catherine was born the third child to Thomas Baird Hannah and Jane (Jeanie) Jack. She was born on the 11th December 1894 at 120 Foucart Street, Balmain.

Three months after the birth of Catherine, their father was tragically drowned while prawnfishing off the rocks near the Gordon Street wharf in Rozelle Bay. Although there were other family members around, for six years Jeanie would have struggled to keep her little family together. Eventually, in 1900 and with the bubonic plague closing in on Balmain, Jeanie packed up her family and travelled back to her hometown of Hamilton, Scotland.

Charles Burns Jnr, Catherine’s cousin, writes of the time around her departure as follows:

‘It was during the bubonic plague and when we got there we were told that that part of Balmain was to be quarantined, but this did not happen till two days after. I carried Agnes who was about 3 years old aboard the ship, and didn’t she play up on the way over. The youngest Cathie got thrown out of her Bunk and broke her collarbone.”

Hamilton was a major coal mining town in the early 1900’s. Just south east of Glasgow, most of it’s population was either involved in, or dependant on the industry. In March 1901 when the census was taken, the family were living at 45 Muir Street, along with Jeanie’s parents and 21 other people. The building must have been typical of the tenement style dwellings built to accommodate the mine workers. Unfortunately most of the buildings that stood there in the early part of the 20th century have now been demolished to make way for widening of the road.

On the census returns, Jeanie recorded her occupation as “washerwoman”, surely a hard, thankless and tiresome task in a town and family of coalminers. The children were all recorded as scholars.

In 1901 Jeanie remarried to William Linton in Hamilton. A daughter Janet (Jessie) was born to the couple on the 7th June 1905.

Catherine’s mother died on Sunday the 3rd of July, 1910 at 45 Muir Street, Hamilton. Catherine was 15 years old at the time.

In the 1911 census, the children are shown to be still living at the same address with their 46 year old step father. No occupation was shown for Catherine, so perhaps she had taken on the role of house keeper for the family. Catherine later moved to 114 Gairbraid Street, a tenement block in Glasgow since demolished. She probably moved to Glasgow (where she was a munitions factory worker) during the first world war.

While the war stilled raged around Europe, Catherine married James Donnelly on 31st December 1917. The marriage took place “According to the forms of the Roman Catholic Church” at St. Charles Chapel, Glasgow. James is shown as an ironturner, probably also involved in the war effort. He was aged 22, the same as Catherine.

James’ parent’s are given as Daniel Donnelly (Gasworker), and Beatrice Donnelly (m.s. Logue)

The couple were to have four children:- Daniel (1918), James (1921), Thomas (1922), and Jean (1924).

On the 28th March 1928, Catherine’s husband James died suddenly of “acute dilation of the stomach”, and heart failure.

Catherine continued to live in the Maryhill district of Glasgow. Her children grew up and had families around the Glasgow area.

On the 15th July 1955, Catherine died in the Western Infirmary, Glasgow at the age of 60. Her cause of death hypertension and cerebral hemorrhage.

Last updated April 2017 (Bruce Hannah)

HANNAH, Catherine (I14)

Christened 28th Oct 1849 All Souls St Marlebone Middlesex England

Ref C053911/13557

SUTTON, Thomas (I040)

Contractors Carter

MCNEIL, Angus (I67)

Cotton Spinner

PATON, Samuel (I46)

Customer weaver (Sarah Wallet death entry)

WALLET, Thomas (I20)

Daughter of Sophia Phipps to previos marriage

UNKNOWN, Sarah (ind00008)

DEATH: Committed suicide after an auto accident in which a small child died

FORRESTER, John (I247)

Died 1873-1875

BRIDGES, Harold (I115)