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Is this Edward BIGGAM (snr) death & burial?
http://tinyurl.com/yb6ueguk
Name: Biggam, Edward
Age: 68
Date of death: 07 Sep 1887
Registered: Hobart
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1233739
Resource RGD35/1/11 no 968
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-11p121j2k
Burial: Cornelian Bay Cemetery https://tinyurl.com/yb3f64qu
Name: Edward BIGGAM Age: 68
Date of death :
Record no: 1B 6496
Service date: 9-Sep-1887
Last residence: NEW TOWN
Grave location -
Area or denomination: Pauper
Section: A
Site number: Number 492
and is this his wife Margaret?
Tas death: https://tinyurl.com/y7wh88bc
Name: Biggan, Margaret
Age: 61
Date of death: 26 Jul 1880
Registered: Longford
Record ID: NAME_INDEXES:1162417
Resource: RGD35/1/49 no 416A
https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD35-1-49p113j2k
Look - I am very grateful for the information that you have all revealed for me - and without going into
how little information I had 3-4 weeks ago, I hope that the following helps to explain that:
BIGGAM is not a name that I have ever seen. Those relationships are entirely new to me - and I haven't yet digested that information.
From Margaret Isabella Morris Landells KEATING's letter, and from Len Meeny's information supplied to DIG website, I knew that George James Landells had father George and relatives with army service. I also knew of a Caribbean connection - and I had discovered meagre information of the birth of 2 children of George and Margaret - parents of GJ Landells.
From her married name, Keating, I discovered the marriage in Victoria and the death of both Margaret and her husband Edward Patrick also in Victoria - with parents named.
Much of the additional information I have has been revealed to me here at RootsChat in the
Research in Other Countries - JAMAICA section, under the very similar Subject as this one.
That thread was started in the hope for help in discovering the Barbados or Jamaica history of the family - if you examine that thread, you will see that a Landells sister married to a MARRACK led some very helpful RootsChat researchers to uncover their flight after Marrack's financial problems in Bendigo, with most of that family residing in San Francisco.
The presence of two other siblings in Australia I discovered just a few days ago, and was surprised that they had arrived at such young age and apparently - from the admission to a workhouse, the family circumstances were in poor shape.
Having the many siblings of GJ Landells actually in Australia - revealed to me by help here, and my own efforts - I thought it best to concentrate on Australia; hence this present thread.
My direct family connection to LANDELLS is to the Reverend William Burns LANDELLS, who arrived in Australia in 1852 from Alnwick, Northumberland. He lived in Melbourne, then in Geelong - as an Independent clergyman since Northumberland and converting to Baptism in Australia, dying in Geelong in 1871.
There has been a family "rumour" that George James Landells was perhaps related to that family - and reported in two other branches of the WB Landells tree that Rev WB Landells did also wonder about this but could not get to meet GJ Landells at the time of the Exploring Expedition's departure from Melbourne.
Len Meeny has researched WB Landells' brother Adam Landells (also in Australia, Victoria, Geelong) and assures me that that connection does NOT exist, from his investigations. But 19th and 20th century information from 3 different offshoots from the Alnwick Landells has the story of a brother who left home and was never traced, in the early 1800's. Perhaps a half-brother, is the suppositions.
That is why I have an interest in George James Landells - and know so little. And because the B&W Exploring Expedition was such a tragic failure, with aspersions caste on reputations of not just the explorers and Landells but the organizing Committee - I am interested.
OK?
