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Father: Daniel Thomas JARMAN (1905- )
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1 F Living (details have been suppressed)
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Husband Isaac JARMAN
Born: 4 Aug 1794 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
Christened: Sep 1794 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
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Father: John JARMAN ( - )
Mother: Jane GIFFORD ( - )
Marriage: 7 Jan 1816 - Thanet, St Laurence, Kent, England 294
Wife Ann READ
Born: - Ramsgate, Kent, England
Christened: 29 Oct 1797 - Thanet, St Laurence, Kent, England 182
Died: 10 Sep 1840 - Tasmania, Australia
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Children
1 F Ann JARMAN
Born: 1819 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
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Died: 1865 - Victoria, Australia 282
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Spouse: FIDDAMAN ( - )
2 M Richard JARMAN
Born: 1821 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
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Died: 14 Mar 1846 - Tamar, Tasmania, Australia 282
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3 M William JARMAN
Born: 1824 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
Christened: 22 Feb 1824 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
Died: 13 Jul 1905 - Stanley, Tasmania, Australia 282
Buried: - Stanley, Tasmania, Australia
4 F Jane JARMAN
Born: - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
Christened: 27 Jan 1826 - Ramsgate, St George, Kent, England 182
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5 F Sarah JARMAN
Born: - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
Christened: 14 Feb 1830 - Ramsgate, St George, Kent, England 182
Died: 11 Jun 1863 - Launceston, Tasmania, Australia 282
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6 M Isaac JARMAN
Born: 1831
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Died: 1834
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7 F Elizabeth JARMAN
Born: 1834 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 282
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General Notes: Husband - Isaac JARMAN
THE JARMAN STORY - by Eric Millington
About the same time as George Bell met and married Sarah Danby, another British family was considering the move to Van Dieman's Land. Isaac Jarman, a shipwright, has been recruited by a Mr. Griffiths of Launceston to work in his shipyard there and on the 9th, July 1835 the ship "Charles Kerr" left Gravesend bound for Launceston. She carries 227 Immigrants plus the officers, crew and cabin passengers. With Isaac Jarman was his wife (un-named on the passenger list but now believed to be Ann), children Ann (16) Richard (14), William (12), Jane (8), Sarah (6) and an un-named female infant now known to be Elizabeth.
The Jarmans originally lived at Ramsgate, Kent and Isaac's parents were John Jarman and Jane Gifford who were married at St. Laurence Church, Thanet, on the 10th April 1792. Isaac was the second child of eight and was born in September 1794. I have yet to locate a record of his marriage to Ann so her surname is still a mystery [Now known to be READ]. Apart from William, William who was christened on 22/2/1824, no birth records have been found for his brother and sisters.
There is family legend that Isaac Jarman worked his passage as a ships carpenter and Williarn as cabin boy. Ship records do not substantiate this but that does not prove otherwise as not all data was entered. I would like to think that it is true, at least regarding William as a later segment will reveal. The "Charles Kerr" was a bounty ship and the daughter Ann, being 16 years old, came as a Bounty Girl and is shown in the seconds as receiving a free passage. Of over 100 females who landed only 56 or 60 had situations or assignments waiting for them but there is no record that Ann was one of them only that she stayed with her family. Her occupation was shown as a house or child maid and strangely that is the last that we know of her.
On the 20th of November after nineteen weeks at sea, the "Charles Kerr" arrived at the mouth of the Tamar River and, having no auxiliary power, took two or three days to navigate the river and finally berth in Launceston. The immigrants disembarked and surveyed their new homeland.
Launceston, although still with a predominately convict population, was at this time an expanding, prosperous town. Batman and Fawlkner had recently used Launceston as a base for their expedition to Port Phillip and the subsequent founding of the Settlement which was to be the City of Melbourne. The first Savings Bank was open for business. There was a lively small ship coastal and interstate trade with grain and potatoes already being shipped to Sydney. There was however, no formal schooling, no street lighting and much petty crime such as drunkeness and robbery. The transportation of convicts was still in full swing and the 8 km. wooden railway, convict powered, was being built across the Tasman Peninsula. John Glower was painting his now famous scenes of Van Dieman's Land and some of the first steam vessels in Australia were operating on the Derwent.
Isaac Jarman was aged 41 when he arrived in Launceston and his wife Ann was aged 38. He worked, at 8 shillings a day for Griffith at his shipyard which was situated near where the corner of Tamar and William Streets are now. At that time the bank of the North Esk River was much different to what it is now. The first record of their life in Launceston is that an "Ann Jarman" died on the 10th Sept. 1840 aged 43. In that year an economic recession was taking it's toll, Griffith lost 70,000 pounds, an enormous sum in those days, and closed down his shipyard. The life of Isaac Jarman, having lost his wife and his employment in the same year, passes into virtual obscurity with only brief references to him in later years.
I have included here a copy of a yellowing, tattered cutting found in an old family scrap book and copies of the newspaper articles relating to it . For a while I considered the possibility that this was our Isaac Jarman after returning to Ramsgate but it has found to be not so. It is now believed to be a relation as Isaac was a common name among the Ramsgate Jarmans. I have included it to give some background to life in Ramsgate at that time.
Shortly arriving in Launceston, young William Jarman became involved in a Pioneering adventure which was quite remarkable for a boy of his age. It appears that during the long voyage to Van Dieman's Land William made friends with a young girl named Jane Thompson, the daughter of Dr. Alexander Thompson and his wife Elizabeth, who were returning to Launceston following a visit to England having settled in the Colony in 1831. Dr. Thompson was well established in Van Dieman's Land by this time and was a well known and respected citizen. He was also a member of the Port Phillip Association and hearing of the successful landing by John Pascoe Fawlkner in Port Phillip, decided to settle there also so, on the 13th March 1836, the barque Caledonia anchored in the headwaters of Port Phillip Bay with Dr. Thompson and his family on board. With them was young William Jarman who was there as company for Jane and no doubt, an extra helping hand when needed. WiIliam Jarman claimed to be the first white boy in Melbourne.
A few months after landing in Port Phillip, Dr. Thompson occupied the site of the present city of Geelong as a sheep station and built a substantial dwelling there which he named "Kardinia" an aboriginal word signifying "sunrise". William stayed with the Thompsons during this time eventually returning to Launceston about 1839 or 40. Dr. Thompson, already a Surgeon. Squatter and Steam Ferry owner went on to become the founder of Geelong, Member of Parliament, director of numerous companies and a distinguished and notable citizen of early Victoria. I have no doubt that the time spent with Dr. Thompson and his family, was important for William Jarman and the experience gained influenced his future life.
Apart William there is no record of how the Jarman children grew up in Van Dieman's Land. The first record seems to be when Jane married Richard Burgess on 15/2/1842 which is only one important happening in an interesting chain of events. But first let us go back to Richard Burgess.
Then on 5/5/1837 it is recorded that 'Hannah" Johanna Burgess died at the Launceston Hospital aged 40 and still a convict having received a further 7 years in 1836 for stealing a ring to the value of 15 shillings.
As stated earlier, Richard Burgess, now a fisherman, then married Jane Jarman on 15/2/1842. Richard gave his age as 40 and Jane 19 but in fact he would have been about 47 and she 15 or 16. They had a son, James Henry Burgess on 22/8/1846
So Jane Jarman became the second wife of Richard Burgess then, on the 8th. September 1847. Richard's son William married Jane's sister Sarah Jarman and his daughter Sarah married Jane's brother William Jarman in a double wedding. There had already been a double christening, on 20/1/1847, when James Henry Burgess and Hannah Jarman. William and Sarah's first child, were baptized. William Burgess and Sarah Jarman already had two children before their marriage and I would like to think that because the Jarmans and Burgess were living at Port Sorell, which was a fairly remote area, at this time, they did not have ready access to clergymen.
I have been told that the Burgess were not permanent residents of Port Sorell which is surprising because a fair number of marriages and births were registered there and incidentally, the area was originally called Burgess but was in fact named after an early Tasmanian Magistrate of that name. When researching family history this type of confusing information can take a lot of time to sort out.
William and Sarah Burgess had ten children before she died in 1863 and in 1864 William married another Sarah (Nash) with whom he had a further nine.
As to the rest of Isaac's family. Richard, who did not marry, was drowned on the Tamar River on 14/3/1846. His death was not registered but Isaac gave evidence at the inquest. The youngest daughter Elizabeth married James Anderson, a Boatman on 4/3/1851. Isaac was a witness to this and also to the birth of their two sons James Alexander in 1853 and Francis in 1856. This is the last mention that we can find for Isaac Jarman for, even though now. aged 62. He may have left Tasmania to be with relatives on the mainland or even New Zealand. We do not know what happened to Jane Jarman after Richard died of cancer on the face on the 29th. August ,1855.
For many years, the Jarmans and Burgess families lived close to each other in Brisbane St. Launceston with the wives at home rearing their children and the men working on the Tamar River and Bass Strait as Fishermen, Boatbuilders and Seamen. I hope that some day a full account of the Jarmans and Burgess will be written for it is impossible to write about one family without including the other. For much of the foregoing I am indebted to Mr. Chester Brice Ward, a descendant of Richard and Johanna. Isaac and Ann, as we all are. He has researched the families more thoroughly than I have been able to and has kindly let me use important information, which I did not have.
We will now concentrate on the family of William and Sarah Jarman (Burgess) who had a total of thirteen children and their details are as follows.
William and Sarah Jarman lived in Brisbane Street, Launceston until 1859, during which time William worked as a Sawyer or sometimes as a Fisherman and around 1857-58 as a boat builder. Seven children were born there and in 1859, for some reason, they all moved to Stanley where William was a fisherman for a while, then Storeman and again in 1869, a boatbuilder.
Six more children were born at Stanley and the older ones were growing up and leaving home by now. Hannah married when she was only 16 and James and John had gone to sea. Richard was helping his father with boat building and about 1870 they built "The Brothers" and used her on the coastal trade.
In February 1872, the Jarman family loaded all their possessions on "The Brothers " and sailed to Port Sorell where they stayed until 1877.William and his two sons Richard and William Jr. built a Schooner there in 1874 and, when James, recently married to Catherine (Kate) Brewer, brought his bride home to meet his family, the new ship was named "Welcome Home". Both vessels were operated by the Jarman on the Coastal Trade for many years but were event-ually sold to new owners. The "Welcome Home" traded all around Tasmania and competed in the Trading Ketch races at the Hobart Regatta. She was wrecked on Three Hummock Island in 1922. The "Brothers "ended her days on the beach at Swan bay on the Tamar, in 1929 and I can remember seeing her keel and floor timbers there many years ago.
In 1876 or thereabouts, the Jarmans moved again, this time to Latrobe where William was offered a job making furniture, but they did not stay long and re-located at Gravelly Beach on the West Tamar where William became well -known for his excellent clinker built dinghies and small river fishing boats. His wife, Sarah, used to help him by holding the iron "Dolly" on the head of the copper nails while William roved and riveted the planks to the ribs inside the boats.
Shortly after the move to Gravelly Beach William Jnr. married Annie Martin in Launceston and five days later. Susannah married Thomas Fraser in Stanley, so the family must have been split up attending both weddings, it being more than a days journey from Launceston to Stanley in those days. With only four or five children at home by now the Jarman household would he much quieter.
While at Gravelly Beach, William Jarman has associations with the Plummer family of Rosevears, well known boat builders and most likely helped each other out when needed. The following is an edited version of your Great Grand Mother, Selina's recollection of the launching of one of these boats:-
-"About this time (1884?) Father built his last Ketch, the 'Adieu".
The launching was a great day of rejoicing. Ben Collins had sent the bottle of wine and the blue ribbon down from Stanley for the occasion. All the children got on board of her and one of the Plummers knocked the wedges out for launching. One of the family smashed the bottle of wine across the bows and there was much cheering and excitement. They then found themselves adrift on the river aboard the "Adieu".
I have no details of the "Adieu" but I do have a photograph, reproduced here, of a lovely little sloop drifting in the river off Gravelly Beach. The well dressed ladies on board seem to indicate that was a special occasion and, most probably, the yacht was built and launched at Gravelly Beach sometime in the 1880's.
Sarah Jarman died at Gravelly Beach on July 21 1898 and William stayed there until about 1902. After living with his daughter Selina in Launceston for a while, he went back to Stanley to live with his eldest daughter, Hannah Collins where he died on the 13th. of June 1905, aged eighty-two.
Husband John JARMAN
Born: 14 May 1808 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
Christened: 12 Jun 1808 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
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Father: John JARMAN ( - )
Mother: Jane GIFFORD ( - )
Marriage: 3 May 1834 - Margate, Kent, England
Wife Sarah KENNETH
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Wife Phyllis JARMAN
Born: 1917 - Ryde, NSW, Australia 359
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Died: 26 Nov 1989 - Avoca Beach, NSW, Australia 13
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Father: Thomas Ernest JARMAN (1879-1961)
Mother: Elizabeth MADDISON ( - )
Children
1 M Anthony JOHNSON
Born: 1949
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2 M Richard JOHNSON
Born: Abt 1953
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Husband Richard Henry JARMAN
Born:
Christened: 8 May 1825 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 23
Died: After 1897
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Father: Richard JARMAN (1801-1875)
Mother: Mary BISHOP (Abt 1796-1879)
Marriage: Jun qtr 1845 - Thanet, Kent, England 123
Other Spouse: Anne Elizabeth Thompson OSBORNE (1832- ) - 27 Jun 1897 - Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation
Shoemaker
• Arrival In Australia, Per "Telegraph", 3 Feb 1858 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Assisted passage with wife and 6 children.
• Residence 203, 1881 - 141 Freeman St, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Wife Mary Rosa LOMAS
Born: Abt 1827 - Broadhemon, Devon, England
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Died: Dec qtr 1895 - Caistor District, Lincolnshire, England 360
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Noted events in her life were:
• Residence 203, 1881 - 141 Freeman St, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Children
1 M Richard JARMAN
Born: Abt 1847 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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2 M John Shapley JARMAN
Born: Abt 1850 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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Died: 27 May 1920 - Wollongong, NSW, Australia 101
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Spouse: Elizabeth J BIDDLES ( - )
Marr: 1871 - Redfern, NSW, Australia 102
3 M Henry Archibald JARMAN
Born: Abt 1851 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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Died: 1920 - Newtown, NSW, Australia
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4 M Charles JARMAN
Born: Abt 1853 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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Died: 1860 - Newtown, NSW, Australia
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5 F Maria JARMAN
Born: Abt 1856 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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Died: After 1881
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6 M Alfred JARMAN
Born: Abt 1858 - Kingston upon Hull, Yorkshire, England
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7 M Arthur W JARMAN
Born: 1859 - Glebe, NSW, Australia 361
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Died: After 1881
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8 M Edwin JARMAN
Born: 1862 - Newtown, NSW, Australia 362
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Died: 1862 - Newtown, NSW, Australia 363
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9 F Mary R JARMAN
Born: 1863 - Glebe, NSW, Australia 364
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Died: 1865 - Yass, NSW, Australia 365
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10 F Emma JARMAN
Born: 1865 - Yass, NSW, Australia 202
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Died: After 1881
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Spouse: James COGGAN ( - ) 49
Marr: 1885 - Bundarra, NSW, Australia 201
11 M Charles JARMAN
Born: 1867 - Newtown, NSW, Australia 318
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Died: After 1889
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Spouse: Eliza Olive SHERAR (1868- )
Marr: 1889 - Redfern, NSW, Australia 319
12 M William L JARMAN
Born: 1870 - Newtown, NSW, Australia 366
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Died: After 1881
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Husband Richard Henry JARMAN
Born:
Christened: 8 May 1825 - Ramsgate, Kent, England 23
Died: After 1897
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Father: Richard JARMAN (1801-1875)
Mother: Mary BISHOP (Abt 1796-1879)
Marriage: 27 Jun 1897 - Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Other Spouse: Mary Rosa LOMAS (Abt 1827-1895) - Jun qtr 1845 - Thanet, Kent, England 123
Noted events in his life were:
• Occupation
Shoemaker
• Arrival In Australia, Per "Telegraph", 3 Feb 1858 - Sydney, NSW, Australia
Assisted passage with wife and 6 children.
• Residence 203, 1881 - 141 Freeman St, Great Grimsby, Lincolnshire, England
Wife Anne Elizabeth Thompson OSBORNE
Born: 1832
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Other Spouse: William WINDLEY ( -1893)
Children
Husband Stephen JARMAN
Born: 25 Oct 1792 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
Christened: 25 Nov 1792 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
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Father: John JARMAN ( - )
Mother: Jane GIFFORD ( - )
Marriage: 2 Sep 1818 - Ramsgate, Kent, England
Wife Sarah JONES
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Husband Steven JARMAN
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Died: Abt 1998
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Father: Harry Sydney Meades JARMAN (1890-1961)
Mother: Ellen Maud MANNING (1888-1939)
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1 F Ellen JARMAN
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Husband Thomas Ernest JARMAN
Born: 1879 - Newtown, NSW, Australia 10
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Died: 1961 - Chatswood, NSW, Australia 11
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Father: Daniel JARMAN (1841-1900)
Mother: Elizabeth Ellen SUTTON (1854-1899)
Marriage: 1913 - Rockdale, NSW, Australia 12
Other Spouse: Jay ( - )
Wife Elizabeth MADDISON
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1 F Dorothy Marne JARMAN
Born: 1914 - Ryde, NSW, Australia 299
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Died: 3 Mar 2006
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Spouse: Living
2 F Phyllis JARMAN
Born: 1917 - Ryde, NSW, Australia 359
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Died: 26 Nov 1989 - Avoca Beach, NSW, Australia 13
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Spouse: Living
3 M Victor Thomas JARMAN
Born: 1918 - Hornsby, NSW, Australia 367
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Died: 1925 - Newcastle, NSW, Australia 234
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Husband Alexander John KENNEDY
Born: 24 Sep 1853 - Belhamie, AYR, Scotland
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Died: 1 Jan 1924 - Lendal Lodge, AYR, Scotland
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Marriage: - AYR, Scotland
Wife Janet THOM
Born: 25 Dec 1856 - Dalmellington, AYR, Scotland
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Died: 26 Jun 1936 - Kilmony, Larkend, Ballantrae, AYR, Scotland
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Father: John THOM (1816-1891)
Mother: Katherine CAMPBELL (1812-1887)
Other Spouse: David STEWART ( - ) - AYR, Scotland
Children
1 F Janet Margaret KENNEDY
Born: 1904
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Died: 23 Feb 1981 - AYR, Scotland
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Spouse: Alastair McCREA (1901-1982)
General Notes: Husband - Alexander John KENNEDY
Alexander John Kennedy of Millenderdale.