James GARDINER

1824 - 1879  (55 years)

• Name	James GARDINER
  Birth	1824	Wheatley, Oxford , England OR Oxfordshire; England
  Gender	Male
  Occupation	uncertain
  Death	8 Aug 1879	Geelong; Victoria
  Person ID	I503	FHC023 - Chapman Tree
  Last Modified	14 Nov 2022

  
  

  Father	Richard GARDINER,   b. Est 1801, Swalcliffe; Oxfordshire; England
  Mother	Hannah DAVIES,   b. Est 1800, Dunstew; Oxfordshire; England
  Family ID	F158	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Rose MURRAY,   b. (unknown), uncertain d. (unknown), Probably Geelong; Victoria
  Marriage	30 Aug 1846	Geelong; Victoria
  Children	1. John GARDINER,   b. 11 Mar 1848, Geelong; Victoria d. 28 Oct 1929, Melbourne ; Victoria ; Australia (Age 81 years)   2. Ellen GARDINER,   b. 1847, Newtown; Geelong; Victoria d. 31 Jul 1924, Kewell; Victria; australia (Age 77 years)   3. Hanna GARDINER,   b. 1850, Geelong; Victoria d. 31 Aug 1931, Geelong; Victoria (Age 81 years)   4. James GARDINER,   b. 1853, Geelong; Victoria d. 17 Nov 1919, Geelong; Victoria (Age 66 years)   5. Richard GARDINER,   b. 1857, Geelong; Victoria d. 21 Sep 1930, Ascot Vale; Melbourne; Victoria (Age 73 years)
  Family ID	F153	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	11 Oct 2022

  
  

• Notes

  EARLY MELBOURNE Extract from Family History Connections Spring 2022 edition of the Genealogist - article on 'In search of Samuel Roberts ' by Judith Lesley ‘Permanent settlement [of Melbourne] was delayed until 1835 when... John BATMAN negotiated a treaty with aboriginal elders...Melbourne became a town in 1842 and a city in 1847; but its first surge of growth came in the early 1850s following the discovery of gold near Bendigo and Ballarat...’ 12 In 1854 ‘the streets were well metalled, curbed and side paths in course of being paved...Not the least singular sight in Melbourne and one which sooner attracts the attention of new arrivals, is the long procession of water carts unceasingly en route in Elizabeth Street to temporary water works near the Hobson’s Bay Railway terminus’, until the Government water works at the eastern end of Flinders Street supplies water from ‘a capacious reservoir... on the Eastern Hill.’ 13 A further note is that with an ‘almost vertical sun and hot winds ...Melbourne requires to be drenched with water to keep down the dust raised by the unceasing traffic in the streets.14 Buildings included ‘the Town Hall, in Swanston-street; an imposing structure not yet completed; the new National School, at the east end of Lonsdale- street... the Exhibition Building in William-street... the Hospital in Lonsdale-street; the Offices of Government and the Courts of Law... Almost every Christian religious denomination possesses several places of worship... An University... is in the course of erection... in North Melbourne.... Visitors cannot fail to be drawn to the large and massive stores of dark blue stone... a conspicuous item...[which] suggests... the weight and importance of the great commercial interests of Victoria.15 The Government report for 1855 describes ‘Ten buildings [which] have been erected at convenient distances on the Castlemaine Road at the expense of the Government... for the accommodation of poorer travellers... it will prove advantageous, especially for immigrants newly arrived and wishing to proceed into the interior...’ 16