Hello from Geelong, Australia

[carol8353]

I don't know if you already have this but..... on Find MY past there is a ships listing for a Leander J Johnson leaving the UK bound for Oz.

On the 26th August 1891 he left London bound for Sydney on board the PORT ALBERT ,it says he was age 8,although looking at the image it may be 3.

Travelling with him were...

Mrs J Waghorne age 58
Mrs A Johnson age 33
Leander J Johnson age 3
Edward A Johnson age 1

Could Mrs Waghorne have been grannie?

Best wishes

Carol

[bmissen]

fair call on that newbe.

might have to earbash my nan again tomorrow, try and jog her memory with some of the new info here and see what else i can get from her

G'day Carol,

thanks for that!

If the Leander J we're all speaking of is one and the same, quite possibly, I'm wondering how he went about adopting Rosetta (if this story, of course, is true).



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[deeiluka]

Two marriages for Leander J Johnson in NSW.....he married Elsie M L Wooley at Lismore in 1910
Ref = 8832

and Olive Woodland in 1927 at Bankstown
Ref = 3966

I wonder if Leander J was the son of Leander.

and the three children you had deaths for are in the births Indexes for NSW....Emell JW being born in 1893 at Balmain West....which fits with the Sands Directory address for 1893.


One of those marriage certificate transcriptions could be very interesting and informative.  

.....dee

[newbe_nz]

Don't earbash your nan too much  

Will wait and see what else your nan has to say

Newbe

[deeiluka]

Belinda, if you check the NSW deaths again, putting Leander in the father's name place, you'll see that leander J and Elsie had a daughter who died in 1914, and a son of Leander J and Olive Kate died in 1967.


Don't know if any of this is helping, but hopefully it will all fall into place eventually.     



.....dee

[carol8353]

Going back a bit further in England,Free BMD has the March 1885 marriage of Leander Johnson to Sarah Annie Waghorn in Richmond Surrey .

I wonder if he travelled out to Oz earlier and Sarah(Annie) went with her mum and the kids later.

Carol

[deeiluka]

Carol, Looks to me like the  Leander John I've been finding is indeed the son of Leander who married Sarah Anne Waghorn .....but I can't find his birth on FreeBMD.   


.....dee

[mariac]

Just to put another spanner in the works...

There is a Leander John Johnson on the naa site born in England aged 27 with a wife Elsie and 2 children.  It includes a letter from Elsie.  

http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=1827212&I=1&SE=1
Mariac

[deeiluka]

Great find, Maria. That fits with the Leander J that Carol found coming out in 1891 and the marriage to Elsie in 1910.   



.....dee