Bridget (Meade) Anderson - Edgar - Denham [Free Settler "Red Rover" 1832]

Bridget MEADE was born c1813 

Bridget arrived in Sydney Cove in August 1832 as an assisted immigrant on "Red Rover".
Bridget married William ANDERSON in 1832 at Sydney City and they had the following children

• William 1833
• David 1835
• Jessie 1837
• Jane 1839

Following William's death in 1839, Bridget married James EDGAR in 1839

Bridget married / had a relationship with George Edward DENHAM c1840 and they had the following children

• George Alexander 1841
• Caroline Smith 1843
• Thomas 1846

Bridget died in 1872 at Port Macquarie, NSW

LINKS

• http://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I23146&ged=purne...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meade-275
• https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=4004&p=locali...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Meade-269

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New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896

• Arrival Registration for Bridget Meade
• Name Bridget Meade
• Birth Year abt 1813
• Age 19
• Gender Female
• Arrival Date 10 Aug 1832
• Vessel Name Red Rover

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• Transcript: DATE: 3 April 1832
• - Limerick Evening Post and Clare Sentinal New wives for New South Wales - a vessel, we believe the Red Rover, has been taken up by the Government, for the purpose of conveying 200 free female emigrants from Cork to New South Wales, who are to be provided with situations, or husbands, as chance may offer, on their arrival. [Note passenger list with native place and occ]
• Detail
• Source: CGS5 312 (4/4822; microfilm copy SR Reel 2795, photocopy [City] COD399).1 vol.]
• Title
• WOMEN ON THE RED ROVER AND OTHER EARLY MIGRANT SHIPS 1832

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• Transcript: DATE: 10 April 1832
• Title: Geocities
• Note
• Departing London 1832, Cork on 10 April 1832. RED ROVER carried merchandise and 202 young ladies aged 16-24 bound for the colonies. The Red Rover arrived in Sydney on 10 August 1832.
• Repository Information Name: * Red Rover 1832; Red Rover 1832

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• Transcript: DATE Saturday 11 August 1832
• From Cork, yesterday, the ship Red Rover, Captain Christie, with 202 free female settlers and two children-one born on the passage. The Surgeon, Mr. Alexander Russell, died of decline on the 29th June : he had been unwell some time. The whole of the females have arrived in the most perfect state of health : they appear to be between the ages of 16 and 24.
• Detail
• 11 August 1832 The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on Saturday p.2

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• Transcript: DATE 20 August 1832
• NO NEWS BY THE RED ROVER. The Red Rover free transport, Captain Christie, from Cork, which it is reported she left on the 10th of April, arrived in our harbour yesterday, with 202 free adult females on board, and 3 children. These females will be very useful servants up the country, if country women, as we suppose they are. But we hope Lord Gode- rich will not send us all from one country. We should wish to see a lot of English country women, by way of letting us have an assortment. Irish settlers like Irish servants, and English settlers like English servants. However, every description of females, English, Scotch, or Irish, will be most acceptable in the country to the amount of 1,000 and upwards. The Red Rover fell in with the brig Waterloo,bound from Liverpool to Hobart Town, in lat. 40°S. and 109° long.E., all well. Also with the Britannia, Ramsey, master,from Sydney 90 days, in 1° 30'S. and 23° long. W. all well. The Red Rover brings nothing new.
• Detail
• The Sydney Monitor Saturday 11 August 1832 Edition: AFTERNOON p 2 Article

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• Transcript: DATE: 20 August 1832

"The women per Red Rover have gone off pretty generally to various services, at from £10 to £15 per annum."

• Detail: * 20 August 1832- The Sydney Herald on Monday p.3

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• Transcript: DATE: 13 August 1832
• From Cork, same day, having sailed from that port on the 10th of April, the ship Red Rover, Captain Christie, with 202 free females, und 2 children. Dr. Russell died at sea.
• Detail
• 13 August 1832- The Sydney Herald on Monday p.2

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• Transcript: DATE: 14 August 1832
• "The Female Emigrants from Ireland, per Red Rover, were landed yesterday, and conducted to the Lumberyard, which has been fitted up for their temporary accommodation. Several of them have been delivered to respectable inhabitants who had made application for them, according to orders previously issued. It is to be hoped, that these young women, who presented as they passed along the street a neat and respectable appearance, will be so treated by tho families who apply for them, as to effect that important amelioration in the moral condition of our woiking population, which the measure is intended to accomplish."
• Detail
• 14 August 1832- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on Tuesday p.3

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• Transcript DATE: 16 August 1832
• "One of the females who arrived by the Red Rover, from Cork, died on Tuesday morning, in the hospital, whether she had been removed the previous day. She had been indisposod nearly the whole of the passage, and while every assistance that the common feelings of humanity could prompt was rendered by the officers, Mr Rusell, and others on board the vessel, the premature denth of the surgeon deprived her of that professional skill necessary to her recovery."
• Detail
• 16 August 1832- The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser on Thursday p.2
• Source Information Title
• National Library of Australia , Australian Newspapers
• Author: * National Library of Australia
• Repository Information Name: * National Library of Australia; National Library of Australia
• Address: * Parkes Place Parkes ACT 2600 Australia

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• Transcript DATE: 19th May 1939
• Presbyterian burials in the parish of St Andrew's Sydney in the county of Cumberland NSW in the year 1839. #2411276 NAME- William Anderson; ABODE- Sydney; WHEN BURIED- 19th May 1939; AGE- 35 years; SHIP'S NAME- Red Rover; QUALITY OR PROFESSION- Publican and Shipwright; BY WHOM THE CEREMONY WAS PERFORMED- Revd J. MsGarve*
• Detail
• Reel 5040 Vol 100 Part 102 Reg# 2411276
• Other information
• Difficult to read signature however other records show that the service was performed by Rev John McGave

Source Information Title:  * Burial Registration - NSW

• Repository Information Name: * Ancestry; Ancestry

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• Employment
• 1832 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia:
• Bridget had arrangements to work for a Presbyterian minister by the name of Rev John Vincent at his residence in * * 1828 of Bathurst St, Sydney and his wife Eliza and their children Maria, Charlotte, Caroline and a son born in 1832 * * and three daughters born 18

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• Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
• Marriage Registration for Bridget Mead and William Anderson
• Name Bridget Mead
• Spouse Name William Anderson
• Marriage Date 1832
• Marriage Place New South Wales
• Registration Place Sydney New South Wales
• Registration Year 1832
• Volume Number V A
• Household Members
• Name Age
• Bridget Mead

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• Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950
• Marriage Registration for Bridget Anderson and James Edgar
• Name Bridget Anderson
• Spouse Name James Edgar
• Marriage Date 17 September 1839
• Marriage Place New South Wales
• Registration Place Sydney New South Wales
• Registration Year 1839
• Volume Number V
• Household Members
• Name Age
• Bridget Anderson

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• Transcript for Bridget Anderson Meade and James Edgar Marriage
• I Bridget Meade, or Anderson, do hereby declare that I am a member of, or hold communion with the presbyterian church of Scotland. I James Edgar do hereby declare that I am a member of, or hold communion with the presbyterian church of Scotland. I Rev John McGarrie of Sydney Minister of St Andrew's Church do hereby certify that James Edgar, bachelor of Sydney, shipwright, and Bridget Meade, or Anderson of the? sauce? place, widow were joined together in wedlock by me on the 16th day of September 1839 at Sydney in the presence of Robert and Margaret Johnston (1), Daniel Stewart (2), Alexander Boyd (3) all of Sydney.
• Detail: ** 538
• Source Information Title: * NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages Index
• Note
• SUBQ: NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages, Nsw MarriageCertificate _BIBL: NSW Registry of Births
• Deaths & Marriages. NSW Marriage Certificate. _TMPLT:
• Repository Information Name
• Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages; Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages
• Address: * 35 Regent Street Chippendale Sydney NSW 2008

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• George Denham living in Shale Lane, Sydney in 1850-51 so Bridget would have been there as well.
• This is the "Gipps Ward" This was the Rocks area in Sydney.
• The 3 Denham children plus Jessie Anderson would also have been there. I think that William & David Anderson had probably gone by then.

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• New South Wales, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1854-1930
• Name: Mrs Denham
• Event Place: Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
• Event Type: Theft
• Publication Date: 18 Jul 1866
• Page #: 266

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• Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
• Death Registration for Bridget Denham
• Name Bridget Denham
• Death Date 1872
• Death Place New South Wales
• Registration Year 1872
• Registration Place Port Macquarie New South Wales
• Volume Number V1872976 44B

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• New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Coroners' Inquests, 1821-1937
• Inquest Registration for Bridget Meade
• Name Bridge Meade
• Death Year Abt 1872
• Inquest Date 28 Nov 1872
• Inquest Place Mudgee

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• Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
• Birth/Death/Burial registration for Find A Grave for Bridget Denham
• Name Bridget Denham
• Birth Date 1811
• Birth Place County Cork, Ireland
• Death Date 3 May 1872
• Death Place New South Wales, Australia
• Cemetery Port Macquarie Historic Cemetery
• Burial or Cremation Place Port Macquarie, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council, New South Wales, Australia Has Bio? Y
• URL http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=51349961&ref=...

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• WOMEN ON THE RED ROVER AND OTHER EARLY MIGRANT SHIPS 1832
• Citation Information
• Transcript
• 3 April 1832 - Limerick Evening Post and Clare Sentinel New wives for New South Wales - a vessel, we believe the Red Rover, has been taken up by the Government, for the purpose of conveying 200 free female emigrants from Cork to New South Wales, who are to be provided with situations, or husbands, as chance may offer, on their arrival. [Note passenger list with native place and occ] Detail Title WOMEN ON THE RED ROVER AND OTHER EARLY MIGRANT SHIPS 1832 Repository Information Name State Records Nsw; State Records Nsw Address Globe Street, The Rocks, Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
• THESE ARE THE NOTES FROM CAROL PROCKTOR, SHE IS THE GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER OF WILLIAM JOHN (ALEXANDER) ANDERSON
• Citation Information
• Transcript Family Group Sheet 2 May 2017
• 1 Father William ANDERSON Birth 5 Sep 1804 Kingsbarns, Fifeshire, Scotland Christen on 17 Sep 1804 Kingsbarns, Fifeshire, Scotland Death 17 May 1839 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial 19 May 1839 Scots Burial Ground, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Occupation Shipwright Occupation Publican of "Jacks Delight " Public House, The Rocks, Sydney. NSW, Australia
• Marriage 16 Nov 1832 St Andrews Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Father David ANDERSON (1771-1859)
• Mother Janet HEIGS(HEGGIE) (1770-1852)
• Wife Bridget MEADE Birth abt 1812 Cork City, County Cork, Ireland Death 3 May 1872 Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Burial 5 May 1872 Pioneer Cemetery, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Church at County Cork, Ireland: Father Mother Other spouse James EDGAR Shipwright ( - )
• Marriage 16 Sep 1839 St Andrews Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Other spouse George Edward DENHAM (1809-1903)
• Marriage Not Registered: Children M William ANDERSON Birth 5 Sep 1833 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Chr 22 Sep 1833 Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Death 18 May 1920 Prince Alfred Hospital, Camperdown, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia Burial 19 May 1920 Roman Catholic Section, Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia: Occupation Labourer
• Spouse Margaret Celia ALEXANDER (1837-1891) Marriage 19 Dec 1853 St Philips Church, The Rocks, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia M
• David ANDERSON Birth 5 Feb 1835 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Chr 8 Mar 1835 Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Death 12 Oct 1912 Hastings District Hospital, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia Burial 13 Oct 1912 Presbyterian Section, Widderson Street Cemetery, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
• Occupation Shipwright Spouse Elizabeth Maria PHILIPS (1847-1927) Marriage 25 May 1866 Port Sorell, Tasmania, Australia F
• Jessie ANDERSON Birth 14 Feb 1837 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Chr 2 Apr 1837 Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Death 24 Jun 1905 Her residence, Pilot Station, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
• Burial 25 Jun 1905 Presbyterian Section, 5B16, Widderson Street Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia * Spouse Robert THOMAS Mariner (1829-1884)
• Marriage 27 Nov 1858 St Andrew's Church, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia
• Spouse William LEASK Mariner (1838-1910) Marriage 2 Sep 1886 House of Mrs Thomas, Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia F
• Jane ANDERSON Birth 2 Mar 1839 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Chr 17 Apr 1839 Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Death 26 Dec 1839 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Burial 27 Dec 1839 Scots Burial Ground, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Marriage: Preparer Comments Notes 2 May 2017 2
• FATHER NOTES: William ANDERSON General: Birth entry from parish records, Kingsbarns, Fifeshire, Scotland. 5 September 1804:
• David ANDERSON and Janet HEGGES had a son born, and baptised 17th inst. named WILLIAM. Witnesses, David ANDERSON senior, John ANDERSON and several others who came to hear the word and sacrament administered. Gravestone Inscriptions:
• Sydney Burial Ground.Book printed in 1973. Entry no.2279. WILLIAM ANDERSON, shipwright, native of Kingsbarns in Fifeshire, Scotland, died 17 May 1839 aged 35 years,
• also JANE, infant daughter of William and Bridget ANDERSON,
• Died 26 December 1839 aged 10 months. Presbyterian numbering 1918-2403. Upright stone - Fair condition. William ANDERSON was born in Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland.
• Parents David ANDERSON and ***Janet HEIGS (HEGGIE) who owned the smithy at Boars head, Kingsbarns, Fife, Scotland.
• William's occupation was a Shipwright, a natural progression from working with metals at his father's Blacksmith.
• William became crew on a ship called the """Red Rover""" bound for Australia. This ship was carrying a cargo of young Irish women from Cork in Ireland. Some from the Cork Foundling Hospital and Industrial School, a protestant institution in a strongly Roman Catholic country, situated in Cork City. The school was more akin to a workhouse for poor and destitute women for the Cork City and surrounds. The ship had a reputation on that voyage of being a floating brothel and had some very hard bitten women on board. The woman were succoured to various people in Sydney mainly as domestic servants. Cork lady Bridget Meade was chosen for her work ethic and character For a lot of these ladies this was a new beginning and a fresh start from the poverty that they had known in Cork. Bridget Meade married crew member William Anderson at Scots Church in Sydney, 3 months after the ship arrived in August 1832. She was possibly born a Roman Catholic.

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• EXTRACT FROM THE SYDNEY HERALD NEWSPAPER, DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE COLUMN. Thursday..................1832/33 "Out of the 200 ***women per "Red Rover***, twenty three are now only remaining in the Lumber yard. Upwards of a dozen of them have already been led to the Holy Marital Altar by the Tars who came out in the same vessel and who have quitted their vessel for that purpose.
• William then became a publican c1838 and ran a Public House called """Jack's Delight""" in the Rocks area of downtown Sydney.
• William and Bridget had 4 children, 2 boys called William and David and 2 girls called Jessie and Jane. In the May of 1839, William died - the family story says that the cause of death was typhoid.This is very possible as Sydney in those days had open sewage drains and typhoid was rife. Daughter Jane, was just over 2 months old when her father died and she then died - No cause known - on the 26 Dec 1839.
• They were buried together in the Old Sydney Burial Ground - William aged 35 in the May and Jane aged 10 months in the December of 1839.
• This burial ground was later removed to Bunnerong cemetery - headstones and remains, to make way for the Central Station train station in Sydney. William & Jane's headstone was recorded in the book about the old Burial Ground.
• I visited Bunnerong cemetery, South Sydney, in 1997 with my 3rd cousin, Irene Robinson of Sydney. We searched for the headstone but could not find it and as many were in very poor condition (lettering and sandstone eroded) we think that William's stone had collapsed or worn down completely. There were rows and rows of relocated headstones in the area allocated to the removed stones.

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• MOTHER NOTES: Bridget MEADE General: Born in Cork, Ireland about 1812 and worked as a young girl in the Cork Industrial School that was attached to the Cork City Foundling Hospital ( Orphanage)
• The school was of protestant religion but Bridget could well have been a Catholic girl who was placed in the school due to family falling on hard times. She could not read or write so she did not have an education.The school would have been a poor workhouse.The Orphanage did educated the children so the fact that Bridget was illiterate says that she was not there in early life. Cannot find any details of her birth although Neville Anderson of Port Macquarie said her father was Philip Meade and her mother Margaret Kelly, but had no proof of this, only the version from Port Macquarie where Bridget lived from about 1850s till her death in 1872. He admitted that his research had gone a little wrong regarding William and Bridget.
• I cannot find anything to prove Philip & Margaret as her parents and also think that Bridget was born Roman Catholic having found 2 RC baptism records for a Bridget MEADE that would fit her birth year. There are also no Philip names in the descendants at all and the Margaret name relates to the wife of her son William. Being Scots/Irish, the naming pattern for children was very strong and family names were used for generations. Bridget was selected from girls of good character that worked at the school to go to NSW Australia. Came to Sydney Australia on the ship "Red Rover". Left England, 10 April 1832, arrived Sydney 10 August 1832. Ship's register listing the Irish females aboard the ship.
• No.105:BRIDGET MEADE, 19 years, Housemaid. Employers name and reverence: Rev.Mr Vincent. Notes 2 May 2017 3 Yearly wages: 12 pounds. Also employed by Rev Mr Vincent for 12 pounds, ELLEN SHEA, Dressmaker and Childs maid. EXTRACT FROM THE SYDNEY HERALD NEWSPAPER, DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE COLUMN. Thursday..................1832/33 "Out of the 200 women per "Red Rover", twenty three are now only remainning in the Lumber yard. Upwards of a dozen of them have already been led to the Holy Marital Altar by the Tars who came out in the same vessel and who have quitted their vessel for that purpose."
• Death Notice, Sydney Morning Herald newspape, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Sat. 15 June 1872.
• Deaths DENHAM: May 3, at Port Macquarie, Bridget Denham, wife of George Denham aged 60 years. 42 years a resident of this colony. Headstone, Old Port Macquarie Cemetery, New South Wales, Australia. Sacred to the Memory of BRIDGET, the beloved wife of George E. DENHAM, who died 3 May 1872 age 60 years.
• A native of Cork, Ireland. MEADE:The earlier forms of this e.g. Miagh de Midia in Latin and Midheach in Irish - indicate that this well-known family came originally from Meath. They were a leading family in Cork City and County from early 14th century. Meade is also an English name. From Carol to Sharon Edgar in America (The online EDGAR group) My ggg grandmother was an Irish lady from Cork City. She was sent out to Australia on a ship full of unmarried women in 1832. The ship was the "Red Rover" I think that I have mentioned this. She married a Scots crewman from the ship when it reached Sydney.
• They had 4 children.Then in May 1839 her husband died from typhoid, bad drains etc in Sydney at that time. Also lost at Christmas 1839 was their baby daughter aged 10 months. Left with 4 young children and minimal support, a young widow didn't wait about on her own and so she remarried in September 1839 to a James EDGAR, bachelor of Sydney who could write in a fluent hand. She could only sign with a cross.
• The minister who married them was a minister called James McGarvie from Glasgow. He was an important man in the Sydney Church but didn't get on with John Dunmore Lang his chief.. This all happened in Sydney. Then in March 1841Sydney, she gives birth to a son, George Alexander, the father is given as George Edward DENHAM, a Mariner, in June 1843 a daughter Caroline Smith Denham, and abt 1848, another son called Thomas,( no birth registration) both to George. The 1st baby would have been conceived about June 1840.We have searched for ages for a marriage to George Denham, contacted NSW registry etc and none exists.
• I believe that James EDGAR and George DENHAM were two different people. James would have had a broad Glaswegian accent as he came from Glasgow in Scotland and the George an English accent. James supported the Presbyterian Church and George the Church of England. I found James EDGAR on Ancestry.com and he was a mariner who arrived in Sydney, Australia as a teenager. He ran into trouble with the law and his employer who did exploit him.I have a suspicion that he left Bridget soon after their marriage and returned to Scotland. James McGarvie came from Glasgow as a minister picked by John Dunmore Lang who was the 1st Presbyterian minister in Sydney from Greenock Scotland.(Any connection with Mary McGarvie, wife of Hans EDGAR from County Antrim, see below). Eventually the DENHAM family ended up at Port Macquarie and Bridget, died 1872 & George, died 1903(as DENHAMS but in 2 different cemeteries, one is earlier, are buried there plus all children apart from the boy, William. Also at Port Macquarie was Hans Edgar till he went to Terrible Vale about 1841-2 and the end result of all this is that my g grandmother Henrietta Edgar (grand daughter of Hans) married William Anderson (grandson of Bridget) at Armidale in 1882, not that far away. George Denham had an obit when he died which stated that he was one of the oldest identities of the district, he was 94. He died from infuenza. Entry of his death in the Port Macquarie newspaper. "For many years he has been a familiar figure in the town and many are the tales he could tell of days long since dead. His has been an interesting life, a life bound up in the early struggles of this (NSW) state and space will not permit a detailed account this week. We close this report with sympathy for those bereaved.." Well space was never permitted as the detailed account never happened. For one that that left behind 3 sons (2 step), 2 daughters (1 step), numerous grandchildren & great grandchildren, it was a bland statement of nothing.I think that he was a DENHAM and they have a Denham Street in Port Macquarie. Occupation was given as a sailor but he was in Port Macquarie most of the time and all parent information on death cert is unknown.Says that he was born in Devonshire, England. So there you go another stray EDGAR maybe and if not was there a connection with McGarvie and Edgar families in Glasgow - maybe. Hans and Mary's son Hans was born there about 1833. Could be a very long shot but also ……………who knows? CHILD NOTES: * William ANDERSON General:Baptismal entry at Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. No.2815. Vol.45. When Baptised: 22 September 1833 When Born: 5 September 1833 Childs Name: WILLIAM Notes 2 May 2017 4 Fathers Name: William ANDERSON Mothers Name: Bridget MEADE Abode: Sydney Quality or Profession: Shipwright. Sponsors:- By whom ceremony was performed:Reverend J. McGarvie.
• CHILD NOTES: David ANDERSON General:Baptismal entry at Scots Church, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. No.78. Vol.47. When Baptised: 8 March 1835 When Born: 5 February 1835 Childs Name: DAVID * Fathers Name: William ANDERSON
• Mothers Name: Bridget MEADE Abode: Sydney Quality or Profession: Shipwright By whom ceremony was performed:Reverend John McGarvie Obituary from "Port Macquarie News" 19 October 1912. Page 7 col.2.
• MR DAVID ANDERSON. An old resident of the district passed away, after a very short illness, on Saturday morning last in the person of Mr David Anderson. Deceased entered the hospital only a couple of days previously, suffering from heart trouble.The old gentleman who had attained the ripe old age of 77 years, and lived on the Hastings soon after his marriage and immediately engaged in his trade of ship and boat building.He did not confine himself to this alone, however, as he was a very skilled mechanic, and manifested his ability in house building, coach building &c., his work always being highly spoken of. Deceased leaves a widow and grownup family of four sons and seven daughters, all of whom, with the exception of Mr William Anderson and Mrs P.Kerr have left the district. One son, (Leslie) is engaged in Journalistic work in Queensland. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, a very large concourse of people following the cortege to the cemetery. In the unavoidable absence of the Rev.G.M. Torbett, the service at the grave was conducted by Mrv R.Davidson.This seemed patheticallly fitting, as deceased was an enthusiastic political supporter and frequent admirer of the ex- member for the Hastings and Macleay. A profusion of beautiful wreaths covered the coffin. Mr H.T.Wilkins had charge of the funeral arrangements.
• CHILD NOTES:
• Jessie ANDERSON General:Baptismal entry at Parish of St Andrew, County of Cumberland, Sydney, Australia No.286. Vol.47. When Baptised: 2 April 1837. When Born: 14 February 1837. Childs Name: JESSE Fathers Name: William ANDERSON. Mothers Name :Bridget MEADE Abode: Sydney: Quality or Profession: Shipwright. By whom ceremony was performed:Reverend John McGarvie.
• Obituary PORT MACQUARIE NEWS, SATURDAY 1 JULY 1905. PAGE 2 COLUMN 2
• We regret to record this week the death of Mrs W Leask, which occurred at her residence, Pilot Station at the age od 68 years. The deceased lady had been ailing for some years, but took a bad turn about a month ago, since which time she had been confined to her bed. All that kind hands could do was done for the sufferer, but the end came on Saturday last, heart failure being the immediate cause. She was a sister of Mr D.Anderson, and a half sister to Mrs S Strutt, Messrs T and G Denham of this town. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, the Rev. G. Torbett, M.A., performing the last sad rites. We extend out heartfelt sympathy to the bereaved husband and relations in their sad loss. Trancription from headstone in Widderson Street Cemetery, Port Macquarie,New South Wales, Australia. Presbyterian Section. In Loving Memory of JESSIE beloved wife of William LEASK, died 24 June 1905 aged 68 years. "Thy will be done".
• CHILD NOTES: Jane ANDERSON General:Baptismal entry at Parish of St Andrew, County of Cumberland, Sydney, Australia No.533. Vol.47. When Baptised: 17 April 1839 When Born: 2 March 1839 Childs Name: JANE: Notes 2 May 2017 5 Fathers Name: William ANDERSON Mothers Name: Bridget MEADE Abode: Sydney Quality or Profession: Publican By whom ceremony was performed:Reverend John McGarvie. Jane died at the age of 10 months and was buried with her father

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Arrived in Australia on the 10th of August 1832, an unassisted passenger on board the RED ROVER from Cork Ireland, aged 19. With 202 other single women.

• Information on Bridget, the Meade and Anderson Families supplied by Neville Anderson (Deceased) from a family Bible, location now unknown.
• Possible it's still at a museum where I last saw it, the museum is just north of Port Macquarie on the right hand side of the Main free way. Will check it out when next time I am up that way.

Shirley