George and Isabella Grecian , Geelong Australia

[Dundee]

Is this young George's 25th anniversary?

No, this George was aged 85 when he died in 1946.  He was the eldest son from the second marriage to Jane.

14533 / 1861
Family name: GRESHAM
Given name(s): George
Place of event:  GEELONG, Australia
Mother's name: Jane  STEWART
Father's Name:  George

So I wonder if. Young Georgewas born in Geelong or even Australia ? My mother says that she was told that a wife and children died by drowning and she thinks it was when dissembarkingfrom a ship . She is very old and can’t remember where she heard this story .

If you look back at the first reply from Jorose, George and Isabella were married in 1850 in Victoria and their son George was also baptised in 1850 in Victoria.  George had immigrated 6 years earlier in 1844.

Debra 

[Dundee]

This is George's mother Alice who had remarried and also immigrated in 1844 on the same ship as George and Thomas. 

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/149827821

24 June 1862, Geelong Advertiser

MISSING FRIENDS, ETC.

IF this should meet the eye of George GRECIAN, stonemason, formerly of Austin street, Chillwell, North Geelong; or any one knowing his address would confer a great favor by sending it to Alice Faid, Rushcutters Bay Post Office, Sydney.

The FAID family are on the second image, George and Thomas on the second last image.

https://search.records.nsw.gov.au/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=61SRA&lang=en_US&docid=INDEX3101054

You have the whole extended family together in 1841 - the FAIDs, George and Thomas, and Alice's mother who is also Alice.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M7WD-PFV

Debra 

[sparrett]

On George's second marriage, he was widowed in 1853 (no exact date) and had three deceased children.

Debra 

Three deceased children.

From 1841 , the census sighting with family through to 1850, there does not seem to be a marriage for George GRECIAN.

In 1850 he married Isabella  and there was one recorded birth to the couple with the son's middle name reflecting George GRECIAN's maternal family, HILL (s).

1853 is the year he states he is widowed.

Unless Isabella had his children before their marriage, she needed to have had 3 full term pregnancies by 1853, and all three including George Hills to have died.

 Sue