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Staffordshire / James Thomas Lee Wolverhampton
« on: Thursday 31 May 18 16:03 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I am looking for anyone who can help me with a James Thomas LEE born abt 1830 Wolverhampton. The story goes that he emigrated to Australia, around 1852-4 with either his brother and a friend or with his family.
We can certainly see him in Victoria, Australia, where he starts a family with our ggg grandmother and creates a whole lot of Lee descendants in Australia. He becomes an engine driver, and so do several of his sons. But we can't find his shipping records or those of a brother or any other family members.
I can see a baptism of a James Lee on 25 May 1831 at Saint Peter Collegiate, Wolverhampton, Stafford, England with parents Edward Lee and Ann. His death certificate in Victoria Australia has his Parents listed as Edward Lee and Ann Bagley. I can also find an 1851 Census with a James Lee living as a lodger with a Greatrex family still in Wolverhampton while working as a pudler. This if it him,is possibly just the year or two before his travel.
I am just wondering if anyone else is related to this family and can help me.
Thanks in advance.
I am looking for anyone who can help me with a James Thomas LEE born abt 1830 Wolverhampton. The story goes that he emigrated to Australia, around 1852-4 with either his brother and a friend or with his family.
We can certainly see him in Victoria, Australia, where he starts a family with our ggg grandmother and creates a whole lot of Lee descendants in Australia. He becomes an engine driver, and so do several of his sons. But we can't find his shipping records or those of a brother or any other family members.
I can see a baptism of a James Lee on 25 May 1831 at Saint Peter Collegiate, Wolverhampton, Stafford, England with parents Edward Lee and Ann. His death certificate in Victoria Australia has his Parents listed as Edward Lee and Ann Bagley. I can also find an 1851 Census with a James Lee living as a lodger with a Greatrex family still in Wolverhampton while working as a pudler. This if it him,is possibly just the year or two before his travel.
I am just wondering if anyone else is related to this family and can help me.
Thanks in advance.