Lorna's family forest

James Richardson¹

(18 July 1853 - 9 April 1854)

Father

James R Richardson^2,3 (Sep 1826 - Jul 1902)

Mother

Elizabeth McCulloch^2,3 (cir. 1835 - Sep 1881)

Relationship

2nd cousin 3 times removed of Lorna Henderson

BMDB data

James Richardson was born on 18 Jul 1853 Flinders Lane, Melbourne, VIC, AUS.^4,5 He was baptized on 5 Oct 1853 St James, Melbourne, VIC, AUS.^3,4
James Richardson died on 9 Apr 1854 Melbourne, VIC; cert shows Jane (sic) as an 8mth old female (sic), died of Low fever 14 days diarrhoea, certified, dtr of James Richardson, blacksmith and Elizabeth formerly McCulloch, inf. father James, of Melbourne, present at death, reg. 10 Apr, Born Melbourne.^2,6,7,8

Names

James Richardson has also been shown (incorrectly) in records as Jane Richardson it being believed that the Jane death cert is really James.^2,8

All the other info

A bit of a mystery here. The records show a birth and baptism of a son James and a death 8mths later of an 8 mth old Jane, with the cert showing her as female. All subsequent birth certificates for the siblings make no reference to the death of a dtr, only that of a son, until the dtr Catherine dies, so her dth accounts for the "and a dtr" listed on Andrew's 1862 birth cert. We know that a son James did survive, as he is mentioned in his aunt's will, but the most likely candidate for that is an 1866 James born in Dunedin, NZ. When the family emigrated to NZ, there was no child James listed as being with them, only a younger Jane. An initial theory (Ian's) was that James and Jane were twins, but I think I prefer the subsequent one that they are one and the same infant.^8,9

Charts

William RICHARDSON of Pringlestead, Eckford
RUNCIMAN of Earlston/Wanton Walls
FAMILTON

Last Edited

15 Jul 2018

Citations

PEACOCK, Catherine, Will 1890, Edin Sheriff Court (written 26 Sep 1888, proved 12 Dec 1890) SC70/4/249: Copy d/loaded Jun 2007.
Australian birth death marriage, CD Roms, Dth 1854 Jane d/o James RICHARDSON & Elizabeth McCULLOCH, reg. VIC #2454, extracted Jun 2007 (1998).
Australian birth death marriage, CD Roms, Bap. 1853 James to James RICHARDSON & Elizabeth McCULLOCH, St James C of E, VIC #18267 extracted Jun 2007 (1998).
Ian Woonton, "EM: WOONTON, Ian (RICHARDSON desc.)," e-mail to Lorna Henderson, Birth 1853 (18 Jul Flinders Lane) Bap (5 Oct St James C of E) James Russell RICHARDSON, Melbourne, VIC BDM 1853/6042 Pioneers Index 1853/18267, extract rcvd Jul 2007.
Australian birth death marriage, CD Roms, Bap. 1853 James to James RICHARDSON & Elizabeth McCULLOCH, St James C of E, VIC #18267, extracted Jun 2007 (1998).
BDM: VIC, AUS, Dth 1854 Jane RICHARDSON, reg. Melbourne #2454, copy d/loaded Jun 2007.
BDM: VIC, AUS, Birth 1860 Thomas RICHARDSON, reg. Collingwood #307, copy d/loaded Jun 2007.
"Lorna's Family History Musings", Jul 2007.
Ian Woonton, "EM: WOONTON, Ian (RICHARDSON desc.)," e-mail to Lorna Henderson, Rcvd Jul 2007.

E. & O. E. Some/most parish records are rather hard to read and names, places hard to interpret, particularly if you are unfamiliar with an area.

BMD data on all rellies

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

— Abraham Lincoln
My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

— Cary Grant
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

— E. B. White
I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

— e. e. cummings
What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

— Saint Augustine
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

— Mark Twain
If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

— Henry David Thoreau
If two things look the same, look for differences. If they look different, look for similarities.

— John Cardinal
In theory, there is no difference. In practice, there is.

— Anonymous
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

— John Adams
People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

— Abraham Lincoln
History - what never happened described by someone who wasn't there

— ?Santayana?
What's a "trice"? It's like a jiffy but with three wheels

— Last of the Summer Wine
Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened

— Terry Pratchett
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

— Terry Pratchett
.. we were trained to meet any new situation by reorganising; and a wonderful method it can be for creating the illuson of progress

— Petronius (210 BC)
The time we have at our disposal every day is elastic; the passions that we feel expand it, those that we inspire contract it; and habit fills up what remains

— Proust
So just as it is not the desire to become famous but the habit of being laborious that enables us to produce a finished work, so it is not the activity of the present moment but wise reflexions from the past that help us to safeguard the future

— Proust "Within the Budding Grove"
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.

— William J. H. Boetcker
Only a genealogist thinks taking a step backwards is progress

— Lorna
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.

— George Bernard Shaw
A TV remote is female: It easily gives a man pleasure, he'd be lost without it, and while he doesn't always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.

— Anon
Hammers are male: Because in the last 5000 years they've hardly changed at all, and are occasionally handy to have around.

— Anon
The right thing to do is to do nothing, the place to do it is in a place of concealment and the time to do it is as often as possible.

— Tony Cook "The Biology of Terrestrial Molluscs"
All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.

— Thomas Carlyle "The Hero as Man of Letters"

Click on the picture if you wish to thank me for any of my research/DNA work that has helped you.

James Richardson

James Richardson1

BMDB data

Names

All the other info

Citations

James Richardson¹