Possible press articles for George Judge 1831-1893

I have no idea whether these press articles relate to 'our' George Judge who died in Hobart, Tasmania but I hope that at least some of them do.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania  Tuesday 14 March 1905 JUDGE-BEDDOME. - On February 8,1905, at St. John's Presbyterian Church, Macquarie street, by the Rev J. Heyer, Poyntz, fourth son of the late George Judge, of Russell's Town House, Athy, County Kildare, Ireland, to Ethel Allingham, third daughter of the late Lieutenant C. E. Beddome (I.N.), of Hillgrove, Brown's River-road.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania  Friday 28 October 1898 JUDGE-MCLENNAN.-On October 11,1898 at Chalmers Manse, Hobart, by the Rev. C. H. Talbot, Arthur Samuels, eldest son of the late George Judge, of Hobart, to Catherine, only daughter of the late Kenneth McLennan, Melbourne.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania  Thursday 13 October 1892 Charitable Fees.-Mrs. Elizabeth Brown was proceeded against by George Judge, collector for Charitable Institutes, for the recovery of the sum of £8 8s., her portion of the amount due under the boarding-out system for the maintenance of her five grandchildren, she being a person of sufficient means. Mr. J. W. H. WALCH appeared to prosecute, and  Mr. S. T. Allwright for the defence. Geo. Judge, the collecting officer, stated that he sued Mrs. Brown her portion of the children's maintenance fees from May 26 to August 31. Mrs Brown bore two fifths of the sum charged for the maintenance of the children, which was at the rate of 6s. per week for each child, or 39s. per week for the whole. The remaining portion was paid by some other relatives. Elizabeth Brown, the defendant, said she objected to the children being boarded out, and she had contributed towards their support in a large measure for 14 months since the death of their father. During the past 10 or 12 months the mother of the children had received from witness over £58 in cash and goods, and witness had furnished a house in addition for her. There was not any necessity for the Government taking charge of the children. The mother was quite capable of taking care of them. The Bench held that there appeared to be no doubt that the children were destitute when the father died, and only for the intervention of the relatives they would have starved. There was no question as to the liability of the defendant, and it was said that it would be unfair to call the public to pay for the children when it was shown that the defendant had sufficient means to support them. An order for the amount claimed was made, the costs being disallowed.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania Saturday 31 December 1898 (year round up of obits, I think!)

Charles Edward Beddome, retired lieutenant of the Indian navy, member of the Fisheries Board  at Hillgrove Browns River road, September 1 aged 59. SEE first article on this page

George Judge Collecting Officer of Charitable Institution, New Town, at Hobart January 21 aged 67.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania  Tuesday 6 May 1873 The Superintendent of Police reported that two new constables, George Judge and Thomas Adams, had been sworn in to fill up the vacancies in the force.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania Thursday 9 October 1890 A Waif.-A boy named John Lawson, aged 10, was sent to ths Boys Home for 4 years, on the application of George Judge, Inspecting Officer for Boarded Out Children. The father and mother of the boy are both out of the colony. There are other children of the same family in different institutions about Hobart.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania  Monday 24 December 1877

DERWENT SCHOOL

ARITHMETIC.-First class, Arthur Judge; second class, Charles Hooper ; third class B, Tasman Feather stone; fourth class, George Judge.

MENSURATION.-Arthur Judge.

SPELLING AND DICTATION.-First class, H. Giles, second class, Thos. Phillips; third class. Tasman Featherstone ; fourth class, Geo. Judge.

GEOORAPHY.-First class, Arthur Judge ; second class, Joseph Meredyth.

WRITING.-First class, J. O. Wilson ; second class, John Nimmo ; third class, Herbert Atkins ; fourth class, George Judge.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania 27 April 1885 HOSPITAL ITEMS. -At the hospital on Saturday George Judge (17), was treated for a wound of arm caused by shoving it through a pane of glass.

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania Thursday 23 December 1886 GLEE AND QUARTETTE CLASH.-On Mon day evening, at the Masonic Hall, Mr. Steinbach, gave for competition to the pupils in his Glee and Quartette Class a scholarship valued at £8 8s., or six months' free tuition in singing. There were three ties in attendance, and after a very careful consideration of the merits of each competitor, the scholarship was awarded to Miss Judge, daughter of Mr. George Judge,of Warwick-street Mr. Steinbach will offer a similar scholarship for  the next twelve months. 

The Mercury Hobart, Tasmania Saturday 22 August 1874 The COLONIAL TREASURER to move that the Board of Immigration be authorized to issue to Mr. George Judge a land order warrant for 90 acres of land, being the same area of land as he and his family would have been entitled to had he been able to procure a land order warrant from the agent for the Board of Immigration in England. Contingent on the above resolution being agreed to, that the Legislative Council be requested to concur therein. (Tuesday, 1st Sept.)

Launceston Examiner Tasmania Saturday 4 June 1881 Mr George B. Penny, " Clerk at the Gaol, who has been 17 years in the civil service of the colony, will take the place of Hamer as clerk, and-will be succeeded at the Gaol by Mr George Judge, of the Charitable Aid Department.

Children of William Bagnall and Mariah Smith

How exciting that we now have more members of the Bagnall/Judge family with which to share our research and findings – welcome Gabrielle and Roger.

Taking Joyce Tremblay’s Bagnall research as a starting point, I thought it may be useful to list the children and the information Joyce gathered on those children of William Bagnall and Mariah Smith/Smythe.

  1)      George Bagnall – died Ireland

  2)      Mariah Bagnall married James Short – died Massachusetts, USA

  3)      Elizabeth Bagnall married Christopher Anthistle – died Ireland

  4)      Hannah Bagnall married John Shortt on 5 June 1846 in Rahugh, Ireland – died Ireland

  5)      William Bagnall born about 1830 in Westmeath, married Marguerite Labadie at St Peter’s Church, Tilbury East Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada in 1852 – died about 1866 in Canada

  6)      Timothy Bagnall – died Ireland

  7)    John Bagnall born about 1835 in Ireland - died 7 July 1862 in Harwich Township, Kent County, Ontario, Canada

  8)   Samuel Bagnall born 1 January 1836 Westmeath, Ireland, married Elisabeth Stephenson (died 1929) in 1857 at Blenheim Presbyterian Church, Blenheim, Ontario, Canada – died 1917 in Chatham, Ontario, Canada

  9)      Jane Bagnall married Henry M Judge – died Massachusetts, USA

  10)   Jemima Bagnall married David Brereton on 7 August 1857 in Canada. Secondly married a Mr Glazeby – died in USA

  11)   Abraham Bagnall – died Ireland

  12)   James Bagnall – died in infancy in Ireland

  13)   Charles Bagnall – died Ireland

  This list states James died in infancy although it would appear that it is incorrect unless 'our' James is from a different family?? We can now perhaps use this list to build up a true picture of the family and correct any mistakes in the list.

Sheer coincidence or something more?

In 1906 Art Bagnall and his family took a trip to the UK, apparently to get the children baptized. They returned to the United States aboard the SS Campania which docked in New York on the 19^th of May. Art and his family were, however, originally booked to travel on the SS Caronia which arrived in New York a day earlier. The Bagnall family show up on the manifests for both ships and it is the ship which the family did not travel on that has an interesting passenger. On board the SS Caronia are three passengers who gave their last place of residence as Sunderland:

Gerald F Garbett single aged 27

George E Dixon married aged 36

Wm H Thompson single aged 27

A William Harvey Thompson was witness to the marriage of Art’s half-brother, Thomas Higginson, in 1899. Is this just a sheer coincidence?

William Boyd and the Roaring Game

To curl on the ice doth greatly please,

Being a manly Scottish exercise

It clears the brains - stirs up the native heat,

And gives - a gallant appetite for meat.

In the 19^th century one of Scotland’s national pastimes was the game of curling. Almost every parish, especially in south west Scotland, had a curling team which would challenge the surrounding parishes and villages to matches during the winter months. From November to February, when the icy conditions permitted, the many frozen lochs of the Scottish winter landscape provided the perfect setting for curling matches or bonspiels.

Reports of the curling competitions in the Dumfries and Galloway Standard during the 1850’s show that William Boyd was a keen curler.  In Lochrutton, where William lived and worked, the local loch was the venue for many curling bonspiels. In 1850 William won the single-handed medal and again a few years later as, in February 1857, the Standard reported that Wm Boyd, Boot and Shoe maker of Lochfoot won the single-handed medal in the annual curling competition.  Hopefully further information on William’s curling prowess will come to light.

Barbara Jean Haliday and William Boyd the grandparents of Mary Boyd (wife of Art Bagnall)

Barbara Jean Haliday, the daughter of Robert Haliday and Margaret Steel, was born in Sept 1809 in Mouswald, Dumfriesshire and baptized “before several witnesses” on October 16^th of the same year. 

Mouswald Church where Barbara Jean Haliday was baptized

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William Boyd was born in Ruthwell, Dumfriesshire about 4 miles south of Mouswald. It is impossible at the moment to say with any certainty who William’s parents were. There were  at least two William Boyd’s baptized in Ruthwell in 1811 and much more research is needed to ascertain which, if either, is the William that married Barbara Haliday/Halliday.

Until fairly recently it was a principle of Scots Law that marriage was constituted by mutual consent and thus in many cases the marriage contract was either by an exchange of promises before witnesses or by betrothal and consummation or by cohabitation and repute. These were known as 'irregular marriages'. In Barbara and William’s case the acknowledgement of their marriage was noted in the Caerlaverock parish register:

Wm Boyd and Barbara Halliday acknowledged an irregular marriage on the 21^st November 1830  

Caerlaverock Church where Barbara and William acknowledged their "irregular" marriage

Of the seven marriages recorded by the vicar that week three were irregular. It may be useful to search through the Caerlaverock Kirk sessions as it is highly likely that these couples, including Barbara and William, were brought before the Kirk minister and elders to acknowledge and accept rebuke for their irregular marriage. They would have been in good company as Robert Burns suffered the same fate 40 years earlier in Ayrshire!

William and Barbara had at least seven children most of whom were born in the parish of Lochrutton, Kirkcubrightshire.