I have access to the Bairnsdale Cemetery index and do see some related burials and details of the family, including Hannah's. If there are any you require, let me know. John RICHARDSON is not there.
Sue
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Hello
There are 2 more children to the couple once they reach Australia
Hannah born Smythsdale Victoria 1863 to John and Hannah nee Allison died age 10 mths Dec 1864.
Mary Ellen born Ballarat East 1865 to John and Hannah nee Allison died age 2 1868 Victoria.
So he must have lived at least a few years after arriving.
Ciderdrinker
Dear Sue and Ciderdrinker,
Sue - Thanks for your time and offer re Bairnsdale cemetery records. Have spent a few hours there taking photos and notes late last year, but have only got half way thru.
Emerson Richardson was my great grandfather, and virtually nothing was known about him as he was an alcoholic and basically deserted Hannah his family about 1902, until I traced these Richardsons back to Alston UK in the 1790s.
Am pretty up to scratch with the Australian descendants of Emerson Richardson and Elizabeth Cochrane nee Richardson, and Sarah's second husband Joseph Race. However am totally stuck confirming anything specific re Sarah's first husband
William Bell, apart from their marriage in Vic in 1867.
William and Sarah Bell had John Joseph Bell in 1868 at Cambrian Hill, and William Emerson Bell in 1870 at Campbells Creek, whom both were living at Lucknow in 1903, both passed away much later in Bairnsdale, and I have quite easily traced their descendants.
Its probably not a coincidence, as I have numerous family members from Alston and Garrigill, who were virtually neighbours and fellow Lead Miners back in the UK, whose many children intermarried here either on the goldfields or in East Gippsland in Victoria. Emerson Richardson's mother in law was Mary Ann Bell born 1829 in Alston, and his wife Ellen's younger sister was Maria Bell Vipond born 1865 Stratford Vic who married ( I think was a cousin ) Thomas Bell Cutter from Tynemouth.
The only possible leads I have found on a William Bell at Cambrian Hill in Feb 1867 and at Ballarat in Feb 1868, are from share listing notices Re the Alston and Weardale Gold mining company, registered at Cambrian Hill in 1867, and the Daniel Webster Gold Mining Company at Ballarat in 1868.
Ciderdrinker - Thanks too for your info re the additions of Hannah and Mary Ellen to the Richardson family backs up old notes taken at the National Library 15 years ago, I had overlooked. Their location at Smythsdale in 1863, also indicates a probable connection to Sarah Richardson's first husband William Bell, who (possibly) also had shares in the Peru Gold mining Company registered at Smythsdale Racecourse in 1865, as per attachment.
Summing up, with some conjecture of course, I would say its highly likely Sarah's husband William Bell, would have been well known to my Richardson family back in Cumberland, near Alston, but its has been like trying to find a "John Smiths records in a haystack"
Any more leads or help on
John Richardson in Australia post 1865 ( Am thinking he may have died interstate )
or
William Bell ( Sarah Richardson's husband ) birth, parentage, death etc
would be greatly appreciated.
Many Thanks again for all your input
Mixo
via Warragul Victoria
