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Jane (Jean) HAMILTON

Jane (Jean) HAMILTON

Female 1802 - 1885  (83 years)

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  • Name Jane (Jean) HAMILTON  [1, 2] 
    Nickname Jean 
    Born 24 Feb 1802  Hamilton Lanarkshire Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4] 
    • It is not certain that Jane was born on 24th Feb 1802, nor that her parents were William Hamilton and Janet Lockhart - nor that this was in Hamilton (Lanarkshire). This needs to be corroborated or explored further.
      Also a few other births have been suggested by other sources (MyHeritage etc) - with a birth year of 1804 - but it is unlikely that she would have been as young as 12 years old when she married James Dawson in 1816:-
      * 23rd May 1804 in Stonehouse - parents were William Hamilton & Janet Pollock.
      * 18th April 1804 in Falkirk - parents John Hamilton & Margaret Potter.
      This note by Don Gordon on 22nd April 2019.

    Christened 8 Mar 1802  Hamilton Lanarkshire Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Female 
    Biography Notes Arrived at Adelaide Australia on "Fairfield" 4 May 1839 with children Catherine, Eliza, Ann, Jean (Jane), and Archibald.
    When Jane died in 1885 she was Strathalbyn's oldest inhabitant.
    She left her old servant Mary O'Loughlin her chest of drawers, armchair and £50.
      [5, 6] 
    Biography Notes Death: Dawson - On the 9th August, at her residence, Springfield, near Strathalbyn, Jane, relict of the late James Dawson, of Strathalbyn, aged 84 years.
    (Southern Argus, 13th August 1885, p2)  [7] 
    Died 9 Aug 1885  Springfield SA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 8, 9, 10] 
    Buried Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location  [11, 12] 
    Person ID I-780  Christina and Donald McLean
    Last Modified 8 Apr 2021 

    Father William HAMILTON,   b. 1777,   d. 1850  (Age 73 years) 
    Relationship -2678 
    Mother Janet LOCKHART,   b. Scotland UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Relationship -2678 
    Family ID F-2678  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family James (snr) DAWSON,   b. 00 May 1785, Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 May 1865, Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 80 years) 
    Married 16 Feb 1818  Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 8, 13, 14] 
    • Irregular marriage:
      A marriage by declaration was perfectly legal in terms of Scots Law until 1939 [but] it wasn't at all "legal" in terms of the canonical "laws" of the Established Church of Scotland. ..... A proportion of those who underwent a marriage by declaration did so in the presence of a minister of a secession church, or a minister who had at that time no "charge", ie wasn't the minister of any church. .... It could have equally been the case that the minister involved here, unnamed, was a secession church minister, but the couple still wanted the marriage recorded in the Old Parochial Register ... of the Established Church of Scotland.
      (Source: DavidWW, 28th Feb 2007 in http://talkingscot.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=8203)


    Children 
    +1. James (Jnr) DAWSON,   b. 28 Jan 1817, Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 Jul 1868, Akatore NZ Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 51 years)  []
     2. Archibald DAWSON,   b. 28 Jan 1821, Tehran Persia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Nov 1851, Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 30 years)  []
     3. Catherine DAWSON,   b. 1825, Tehran Persia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Jan 1892, Hackney SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  []
    +4. Eliza Willock DAWSON,   b. 13 Feb 1830, Tehran Persia Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 28 May 1926, Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 96 years)  []
     5. George DAWSON,   b. 2 May 1832, Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 May 1832, Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)  []
    +6. Jane DAWSON,   b. 15 Jun 1834, Falkirk Scotland Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Jun 1903, Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 68 years)  []
    +7. Ann DAWSON,   b. 28 Oct 1836, Scotland UK Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 27 Aug 1914  (Age 77 years)  []
     8. Jean DAWSON,   b. 1838,   d. c Apr 1839  (Age 1 years)  []
    +9. Mary DAWSON,   b. 1840, Strathalbyn SA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 24 Aug 1937, Clare SA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 97 years)  []
    Last Modified 30 Jun 2021 04:57:44 
    Family ID F-257  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Photos

    Glenbar House Strathalbyn SA

    Documents
    WW - James Dawson & Jean Hamilton - Marriage lines 16th Feb 1816, registered 3rd March in Falkirk    		WW - James Dawson & Jean Hamilton - Marriage lines 16th Feb 1816, registered 3rd March in Falkirk
    James Dawson and Jean Hamilton both in this parish irregular Lines dated Feb 16 - 1816.
    There is a notation of 7/2 which indicates that there was a fee of 7 shillings and 2 pence.

    OPR SP MARRIAGE 2 Feb 1816 Kilmallie James Dawson and Jean Hamilton

    Jean Jane HAMILTON birth at Hamilton 1802
    WW - James Dawson - born 28th Jan 1817, baptized 9th Feb 1817 in Falkirk    		WW - James Dawson - born 28th Jan 1817, baptized 9th Feb 1817 in Falkirk
    Child: Dawson, James (lawful)
    Parents: James Dawson & Jean Hamilton
    Witnesses: George Ritchie & William Scott
    Born: 28th January

    OPR OF FALKIRK SCOTLAND. DATED 1837 6 May C [child] DAWSON George law [lawful son] P [parents] James Dawson and Jean Hamilton W [witnesses] George Logan James Horn Born 2 current.{likely born date was 2nd and this date of 6th is likely baptism all batched together.
    James Dawson & Jean Hamilton - marriage on 16th Feb 1816 in Falkirk Kirk Sessions on 3rd March 1816    		James Dawson & Jean Hamilton - marriage on 16th Feb 1816 in Falkirk Kirk Sessions on 3rd March 1816
    Falkirk Kirk Sessions on 3rd March 1816: "Compeared James Dawson and Jean Hamilton in this parish producing lines of irregular marriage dated Feby 16th 1816"

    Headstones

    HS STRATH DAWSON James and Jane

  • Sources 
    1. [S-3] PUBLICATION BRB 'Donald & Christina McLean & Their Descendants', 1995 copies available, Copies of the BRB available Strathalbyn National Trust Museum & Library, several libraries around Australia including State Library SA, and Western Australian Genealogical Society Bayswater WA Request assistance for locating a copy through 'Contact us' on this website. .

    2. [S-137] FS Mark Brabant-no evidence provided-pending evidence, my heritage (with a log in), 17 Apr 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      Jane ( Jean ) Dawson nee Hamilton 1802 - 1885 Birth:Mar 8 1802 Hamilton,Lanarkshire,Scotland,UK Nationality:Australia Title:Mrs Religion:Protestant: Marriage to: James Dawson on Feb 16 1816 Falkirk Scotland Immigration:Apr 30 1839 Port Adelaide, South Australia Death: Aug 9 1885 Springfield, Strathalbyn, SA Burial:Strathalbyn General Cemetery SA
      Family members Parents:William Hamilton 1777 - 1850 Janet / Jannet Hamilton (born Pollock) 1777 - 1857 Husband: James Dawson 1781 - 1865

    3. [S-87] BDM Scotlands People requires own login , https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search require log on, 21 Apr 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      SCOTLANDS PEOPLE RECORDS: born HAMILTON JANE father: WILLIAM HAMILTON mother: JANE LOCKHART FR627 (FR627)
      Female b.08/03/1802 Reference 647/30 204 in parish of Hamilton.


    4. [S-245] Warren McLean - ID 1506 - family tree on MyHeritage, my heritage (with a log in), 23 May 2021 Lorna McLean Researcher.
      Jane ( Jean ) Dawson nee Hamilton 1802 - 1885 Birth:Mar 8 1802 Hamilton,Lanarkshire,Scotland,UK Nationality:Australia Title:Mrs Religion:Protestant: Marriage to: James Dawson on Feb 16 1816 Falkirk Scotland Immigration:Apr 30 1839 Port Adelaide, South Australia Death: Aug 9 1885 Springfield, Strathalbyn, SA Burial:Strathalbyn General Cemetery SA
      Family members Parents:William Hamilton 1777 - 1850 Janet / Jannet Hamilton (born Pollock) 1777 - 1857 Husband: James Dawson 1781 - 1865

    5. [S-75] BDM SA, Email on 15th Jan 2017.

    6. [S-137] FS Mark Brabant-no evidence provided-pending evidence, my heritage (with a log in), 17 Apr 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      Jane ( Jean ) Dawson nee Hamilton 1802 - 1885 Birth:Mar 8 1802 Hamilton,Lanarkshire,Scotland

      Immigration:Apr 30 1839 Port Adelaide, South Australia

      Family members Parents:William Hamilton 1777 - 1850 Janet / Jannet Hamilton (born Pollock) 1777 - 1857 Husband: James Dawson 1781 - 1865

    7. [S-63] NEWSPAPER TROVE Southern Argus SA, p2, 13th Aug 1885.

    8. [S-8] PUBLICATION Dawson book in Goolwa Library, Yvonne Heath of Morphettville, (Heath of Morphettville), C0461991941 - Goolwa.

    9. [S-75] BDM SA, 2 February 2017 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      DEATH:1908 RegNo:332/332 HAMILTON Jane father;John HAMILTON (DH) Daly SA
      PUBLIC NOTICE: Before using, ANY details from this website ensure YOU further research accuracy of our information to limit the effect of misdirection by any compounded human error.

    10. [S-75] BDM SA, https://www.genealogysa.org.au requires log in , 9 Apr 2020 Researcher Lorna Mclean.
      married name/widow:DAWSON Named:Jane (called Jean) Death Date: 09-Aug-1885 Age:84 Marital Status:W Place of Death: Strathalbyn Residence: Strathalbyn Relative: James DAWSON (DH) District: Strathalbyn Book/Page: 148/126

    11. [S-75] BDM SA, 2 February 2017 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      Death on Ref Certificate No 332/332
      PUBLIC NOTICE: Before using, ANY details from this website ensure YOU further research accuracy of our information to limit the effect of misdirection by any compounded human error.

    12. [S-137] FS Mark Brabant-no evidence provided-pending evidence, my heritage (with a log in), 17 Apr 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      Jane ( Jean ) Dawson nee Hamilton 1802 - 1885 Birth:Mar 8 1802 Hamilton,Lanarkshire,Scotland,UK

      Death: Aug 9 1885 Springfield, Strathalbyn, SA Burial:Strathalbyn General Cemetery SA
      Family members Parents:William Hamilton 1777 - 1850 Janet / Jannet Hamilton (born Pollock) 1777 - 1857 Husband: James Dawson 1781 - 1865

    13. [S-59] Family History Group SA-COLONISTS, Barry Leadbetter, 1.
      MCLEAN Allan, Catharine DAWSON, married 29 feb 1844 at Wheatsheaf Inn Mt Barker as this information does not match the uncited/sourced information. As it is so different I have left it for further researchers to confirm or delete. Sourced 5 Feb 2016 Researcher Lorna McLean



    14. [S-87] BDM Scotlands People requires own login , https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/record-results?search_type=people&event=M&record_type%5B0%5D=opr_marriages&church_type=Old%20Parish%20Registers&dl_cat=church&dl_rec=church-banns-marriages&surname=dawson&surname_so=exact&forename=james&forename_so=starts&spouse_name=hamilton&spouse_name_so=exact&from_year=1800&to_year=1850&record=Church%20of%20Scotland%20%28old%20parish%20registers%29%20Roman%20Catholic%20Church%20Other%20churches, 21 Apr 2019 Researcher Lorna McLean.
      DAWSON JAMES m.JEAN HAMILTON FR2560 (FR2560) on 16/02/1816 479/ 90 195 at Falkirk Scotland.saved on desktop as a snip page.


  

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