James Bowden, Mary Marshall Tas marriage

[Dundee]

Previous post https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=847717.0

Merlin's post reminded me that I had worked on this before.  Eventually found it and will post it here. I think I didn't originally post it because I couldn't be sure that it was relevant and it still may not be.....

There is virtually no BODEN/BOWDEN presence in Strahan.  However there was an Alfred BOWDEN who was from Taranna on the Tasman Peninsular.  He had a relationship with Mary Frances MARSHALL (I cannot see a marriage) and they had a son named Alfred Henry James born in 1895 who appears to have been known as 'James'.

https://stors.tas.gov.au/RGD33-1-80p191j2k

Mary BOWDEN also registered the birth of another child in 1894, Mary Frances MARSHALL, illegitimate daughter of Annie MARSHALL.  I think that Mary and Annie (Agnes) were the daughters of Luke MARSHALL and Jane

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/232827099

By 1898, Alfred Snr. had moved to Queenstown and then later to Hall's Creek near Strahan and worked on the Mt Lyall railway.  In 1900 he was named as co-respondent in the divorce between Margaret Jane WELLS formerly ALLEN, and her husband.  The divorce case papers are here:

https://stors.tas.gov.au/SC89-1-6-208

Alfred and Margaret Jane married in 1901.  The marriage notice is here:

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9570560

In 1906 they applied to have Alfred's son James (Alfred Jnr) admitted to the Hobart Boy's Home as he was uncontrollable.  Reading between the lines it seems to be the wicked step mother who was the problem.  The case papers are here:

https://stors.tas.gov.au/SWD1-1-309

Meanwhile while all this was going on, a Mary BOWDEN alias MARSHALL/LEONARD/Annie WHITTAKER was making a nuisance of herself in Carnarvon and Hobart.  Could this be James' mother?

https://stors.tas.gov.au/GD63-1-2p545j2k

First case

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/177559940

Second case

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/177561184

Birth?

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C95P-WW7S-D

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9LX-N9QJ-H

A lot to unpack  and I remember having issues with the surname HARDREW because it doesn't seem to be a real name.

Debra 

 

[sparrett]

And just getting back to Dora Mary for a moment (reply #8), a couple more useful records.

Marriage certificate BOWDEN/CHIVERS
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9L2-DF6C

1957 burial of Dora Mary CHIVERS
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G9JY-T9SY

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