WHITE-GRIFFIN Family Tree

James GRIFFIN & Ann COATES
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Husband:
James GRIFFIN (1 2)
Baptised:
04 Jan 1824  - St. Peter's, Wisbeach, Cambridge, England (3)
Born:
04 Jan 1824  - Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England (5)
Married:
13 Oct 1850  - Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, England (25 26)
Died:
03 Jan 1864  - Brompton Park, South Australia, Australia (6 7); Age: 42
Father:
William GRIFFIN
Mother:
Elizabeth STEPHENS
Spouses:
Children:
 James Henry (1843-) Frederick William (1852-1922) SA: George John (1854-1905) Alfred Coates (1856-1929) Josiah (1858-1858) Charles (1859-1860) Joseph (1861-) [7]
Emigration:
20 Feb 1852 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia (4); Ship Amazon
Residence/Occupation:
 1851 Wisbech St Mary, Cambridgeshire, 37 Murrow. Farm labourer (census). SA: Labourer, Bowden & Plympton. 1861 Farmer, Torrens Rd. 1864 Labourer, Brompton (death).
Wife:
Ann COATES (8 9)
Born:
20 Jan 1821  - Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, England (10 11)
Died:
19 Oct 1882  - Brompton Park, South Australia, Australia (13 14); Age: 62
Father:
John COATES
Mother:
Sarah SWIFT
Spouses:
Emigration:
20 Feb 1852 Adelaide, South Australia, Australia; Ship Amazon - see husband.
Residence:
 Brompton Park (12)
Residence:
1841 Parson Drove, Cambridgeshire, England (15); Age: 21. Seadike towards Bell's Mill Bridge.
Children
01  (M):
George John GRIFFIN (16 17)
Born:
02 Jun 1854  - Bowden, South Australia, Australia (18 19)
Died:
31 May 1905  - Brompton Park, South Australia, Australia (20 21); Age: 57. Buried Hindmarsh.
Spouses:
Mary Ann RYLES

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02  (M):
Alfred Coates GRIFFIN (22)
Born:
27 May 1856  - Plympton, South Australia (23)
Died:
21 Dec 1929  - Hindmarsh, South Australia, Australia (24); Age 73. Brompton Park. No newspaper notices.
Spouses:
Catherine JONES; >>>

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Additional Information

James GRIFFIN:

Notes:

James Griffin married Ann Coates in England, and joined the Coates family in emigration to Australia in 1851/52. At that stage they had one child.

Footnotes
  1. Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;), Class: HO107; Piece: 1766; Folio: 176; Page: 9; GSU roll: 193660.
  2. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  3. Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
  4. TheShipsList Website (Location: http://www.theshipslist.com;), Emigration of Coates and Griffin families.

    barque Amazon, 767 tons [sic?], Captain Frederick Coots [sic?], from London / Plymouth 26th November 1851, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 20th February 1852.
    The Sydney Shipping Gazette (SSG) reports . . February 19 -- Amazon, barque, Cook, from Plymouth 26th November. passengers-- Mr. & Mrs Joyner and three children, and Dr. Edward Gregory, Surgeon-Superintendent, with 286 emigrants.
    The Amazon arrived on Thursday from Plymouth, which port she left on 26th November last, and we regret to learn there have been the great number of seventeen deaths on board during the voyage, sixteen of them have been children, which have been taken off by the measles and hooping cough [sic] and which we understand is still prevalent on board. —5th ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1852; five births & nineteen deaths on the passage; note spelling and name variations and age discrepancies:
    *** Families:
    Coates John 52 Agr. Labourer 289/1 Wisbeach, Cambridge with family
    Sarah 50
    Charles Henry 11
    Alfred Thomas 8
    Coates John 22 289/1 Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    Rebecca (Prestwood) 22
    Griffin James 28 Agr. Labourer 619/3 Cambridge
    Anne 30
    John 9
    son inf born at sea
    **** Single Men
    Coates Josiah 19 Agr. Labourer 289/1 Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    Coates George 14 Agr. Labourer 289/1 Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    **** Single Women
    Coates Elizabeth 20 Domestic Servant Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    Coates Sarah Jane 15 Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    Coates Mary Susannah 17 Wisbeach, Cambridge with parents
    ---

  5. Ancestry.com, England, Select Births and Christenings, 1538-1975 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
  6. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  7. Genealogy SA, GenealogySA DB & BDM Certificates (Location: http://www.genealogysa.org.au;), Death Certificate Transcription.

    Name, Age: James Griffin
    Date: 3 Jan 1864
    Where: Brompton
    Occupation: Labourer.
    Cause of Death Disease of the lungs.
    Usual Address: Brompton
    Registered: 27 Jan 1864, Adelaide.
    Ref: 15/286? 1425

  8. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  9. Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Class: HO107; Piece: 78; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Leverington; County: Cambridgeshire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 6; Page: 6; Line: 20; GSU roll: 241227.
  10. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  11. Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Class: HO107; Piece: 78; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Leverington; County: Cambridgeshire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 6; Page: 6; Line: 20; GSU roll: 241227.
  12. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  13. Genealogy SA, GenealogySA DB & BDM Certificates (Location: http://www.genealogysa.org.au;), Death Certificate Transcription.

    Name, Age: Ann Griffin, 62
    Date: 19 Oct 1882
    Where: Brompton Park
    Burial:
    Occupation: Wife of the late James Griffin, Labourer.
    Cause of Death Broncho Pneumonia.
    Usual Address: Brompton Park
    Birthplace
    Informant Undertaker.
    Age at Marriage
    Total Issue:
    Registered: 21 Oct 1882
    Ref: 4/293

  14. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  15. Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;), Class: HO107; Piece: 78; Book: 7; Civil Parish: Leverington; County: Cambridgeshire; Enumeration District: 6; Folio: 6; Page: 6; Line: 20; GSU roll: 241227.
  16. Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  17. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  18. Genealogy SA, GenealogySA DB & BDM Certificates (Location: http://www.genealogysa.org.au;), Birth Certificate Transcription.

    Name: Joseph Gamlen
    Date: 25 Jun 1848
    Sex: M
    Father Name & Address: Eli Gamlen
    Father Occupation: Laborer.
    Mother Name (inc. maiden): Charlotte Bidwell
    Informant name, relation, address: Eli Gamlen (X), Laborer, North Adelaide.
    Reg, date, place: 3 Jun 1848, Adelaide.
    Ref: 2/68
    Name: Hannah Maria Gamlen
    Date: 6 Jul 1849
    Sex: M
    Father Name & Address: Eli Gamlen
    Father Occupation: Laborer.
    Mother Name (inc. maiden): Charlotte Bidwell
    Informant name, relation, address: Eli Gamlen (S), South Terrace.
    Reg, date, place: 9 Jul 1849, Adelaide.
    Ref: 2/164
    Name: Mary Ann Gamlen
    Date: 25 May 1851
    Sex: F
    Father Name & Address: Eli Gamlen
    Father Occupation: Limeburner.
    Mother Name (inc. maiden): Charlotte Bidwell
    Informant name, relation, address: Eli Gamlen, Father, North Adelaide.
    Reg, date, place: 24 Jun 1851, Adelaide.
    Ref: 3/219
    Name: Eliza Gamlen
    Date: 15 Apr 1854
    Sex: F
    Father Name & Address: Ely Gamlin
    Father Occupation: Farmer.
    Mother Name (inc. maiden): Charlotte Bidwell
    Informant name, relation, address: Eli Gamlen, North Adelaide.
    Reg, date, place: 4 May 1854, 20 May 1854, Adelaide. (2 entries)
    Ref: 4/316, 4/321
    Name: William Henry Gamlen
    Date: 25 Sep 1855
    Sex: M
    Father Name & Address: Eli Gamlen
    Father Occupation: Farmer.
    Mother Name (inc. maiden): Charlotte Bidwell
    Informant name, relation, address: Eli Gamlen
    Reg, date, place: 19 Oct 1855
    Ref: 5/221

  19. Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  20. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  21. Adelaide Newpapers (Location: http://trove.nla.gov.au;), Newspaper entries of and after death.

    *** Advertiser Wednesday Saturday 3 June 1905:
    THE FRIENDS of the late Mr. GEORGE JOHN GRIFFIN are respectfully informed that his Funeral will leave his late residence, Coglin-street, Brompton Park, on SATURDAY, at 3.30 p.m., for the Hindmarsh Cemetery. F. T. ELLIOTT, Undertaker and Embalmer, Bowden.
    (F) (L) (T) OLIVE. BRANCH LODGE, NO. 17, I.O.O.F. MEMBERS of the above Lodge and Order are re- quested to MEET at the Residence of our late Brother G. J. GRIFFIN, Coglin-street, Brompton Park, at 3.30, this SATURDAY AFTERNOON, to follow his remains to the Hindmarsh Cemetery. J. ASPINALL, N.G.
    *** Advertiser Saturday 3 June 1905
    GRIFFIN.-On the 31st May, at his late resi- dence, Coglin-street, Brompton Park, George John, the dearly beloved husband of Mary Ann Griffin, aged 51 years, leaving 5 sons and 6 daughters.
    *** Advertiser Thursday 31 May 1906
    GRIFFIN.-In sad and loving memory of our dear father, who died May 31, at Brompton Park. […] Inserted by his loving daughter and son-in-law, E. E. and H. È. Hawke.
    *** Advertiser Thursday 31 May 1906
    GRIFFIN.-In loving memory of George J. Grif- fin, beloved husband of Mary Ann, who departed this life at Hawker-street, Brompton, May 31, 1905. […] Inserted by his loving wife and children.
    *** Advertiser Friday 31 May 1907
    GRIFFIN. -On the 31st May, 1905 at Hawker- street, Brompton Park, George John, dearly be-loved husband of Mary Ann Griffin, aged 51. Gone, but not forgotten -inserted by his loving wife and children.

  22. Ancestry.com, Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).

    Name: Alfred Courts Griffin
    Birth: 1856 in Plympton, South Australia
    Death:

  23. Ibid.

    Name: Alfred Courts Griffin
    Birth: 1856 in Plympton, South Australia
    Death:

  24. Ancestry.com, Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;).
  25. Ancestry.com, England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973 (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;).
  26. Ibid.
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