Hij is getrouwd met Ann Buckley.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 4 juni 1836 te Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia, hij was toen 31 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Bio notes: James Kershaw was born between May 1805 and June 1806 in Lancashire. The only birth record that matches is for the James Kershaw baptised on 25 Dec 1805 at St Chad, Rochdale, Lancashire, the son of weaver James Kershaw (Snr) and his wife Betty (nee Jackson).
He was convicted on 30 April 1827 at the Lancaster Quarter Sessions in Manchester for Larceny (stealing candle sticks) and sentence to 7 years transportation. He was transported on the ship Florentia which arrived in Sydney on the 3 Jan 1828, where he was assigned to George Druitt, after whom the suburb of Mt Druitt is named.
James’s had a wife and young child, who did not join him in Australia and nothing more is known of the family he left behind. He received a Certificate of Freedom No 34/ 646 on 29 May 1834.
James Kershaw and Anne Buckley married at Sydney in 1836. He was around 30 and she was 17. They were to have 16 children.
Ann and James went to Goulburn after their marriage in 1836 and he worked as a butcher. Their first two children were born there but died in infancy and the third child, our ancestor Elizabeth Kershaw, was born at Coolac in 1839.
They then moved to Tumut and James began to “grow” his own beef for his butchery – in 1842 he was granted a “depasturing licence” for the junction of Gilmore Creek and they must have been living on the land, because James (Jnr) was born at Gilmore Creek in 1841.
In 1848 and 1850, Anne gave birth to Abraham and Annie at Tumut River and Tumut Plains, suggesting that James had become a station hand on the big runs there.
In 1849 James purchased 2 acres of land in Tumut at a Crown Land Sale for £4.
The family had been in the Tumut area for around ten years when James, like so many others, went gold prospecting around Beechworth and Rutherglen in Victoria and, after the birth and death of Alfred in 1861, at the Kiandra gold fields.
A Tumut storekeeper wrote in February 1860: I am starting for the Kiandra diggings tomorrow. About 50 of us are going. A complete exodus is taking place. Tumut will be deserted next week. The roads are alive with diggers…. I am nearly sold out in Tumut. There is not a man left in Tumut excepting old codgers. Even our Dr. has bought a pick and shovel.
In the early 1860s, James gave up the dream of gold and they returned to Tumut, where he was once again a butcher.
In 1863, their sons James and Samuel Kershaw, with John Forster, were found guilty in Goulburn of robbery with arms and were sentenced to ten years on the roads. At the Sentencing hearing, the prosecutor Mr Isaacs said the father of the Kershaw's was defaulter in a situation of pound keeper which he had formerly held and that the prisoners had had no moral training; and had nothing but bad examples before them.
Son-in-law James Murdoch, Anne Marie's first husband, is named in Ned Kelly’s 1879 “Jerilderie Letter” as being the police-paid perjurer on whose evidence Ned was convicted of receiving a stolen horse and unjustly sent to prison. Ned says in the letter that “Murdock” was recently hung in Wagga Wagga but there is no record of this. However, a Peter Murdick was hanged at Wagga Wagga gaol in December 1877 and this may be an alias of James Murdoch – explaining how Ann Marie became a widow.
James died on 20 Mar 1878 in Bombowlee near Tumut NSW.
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