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Title: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: honeybun on Sunday 09 October 22 17:49 BST (UK)

I've been looking for this person for years and recently found him in the Western Australia Court Records in Bunbury, where he was fined for disorderly conduct. I had lost track of him in England after the 1891 Census but I knew he was thrown out of the Navy after striking his commanding officer, and assumed he had gone abroad.  He was born in Chatham, Kent, in January 1875 and his parents were Julia and James Bigg, who were my paternal great-grandparents.

I think he was working as a deck hand on coastal shipping in West Australia, but I can't find anything else.  Is he in your tree, or is anybody else researching him please?

Thanks in advance.


   

Title: Re: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: CaroleW on Sunday 09 October 22 23:58 BST (UK)

Incoming passenger list September 1891.  Departed Brazil arrived Southampton 5.9.1891.
1881 shows Amos had sisters Martha & Julia

Mrs Bigg 39
Martha 16
Julia 14
Amos 13

1881

Julia Bigg 32
Martha 5
Julia 3
Amos 2

Title: Re: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 10 October 22 01:22 BST (UK)

1901

Piece   740
Folio   83
Page number   13
Household schedule number   1


Stoker HMS Pembroke

Navy record I presume you have even though you say lost sight after 1891 census.
Says discharge was 12 February 1909

W.A. Record is August 1910

Title: Re: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: wivenhoe on Monday 10 October 22 05:37 BST (UK)

"...found him in the Western Australia Court Records in Bunbury, where he was fined for disorderly conduct."
When was this event?. I am looking to see it in a newspaper.


"I think he was working as a deck hand on coastal shipping in West Australia"

Where does this information come from? Is it related to the court appearance ay Bunbury?

Title: Re: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: maddys52 on Monday 10 October 22 06:00 BST (UK)

The record of the Court appearance is on Ancestry. It is the same chap - description of his tattoo matches. I had a look at news reports but couldn't find it, unless included as one of several disorderly conducts which were just noted generally. Not at my computer now, from memory it was August 1910.

Title: Re: Amos Nathan Bigg
Post by: honeybun on Monday 10 October 22 14:15 BST (UK)

Thanks for your replies.  ALL the information I found about him has come from Ancestry, and there is an original copy of his court martial and an original copy of his Court appearance in Australia on their site.  It was noted generally with other disorderly court reports.  I have copies of these in my file.

The passenger lists details I do already have - the family went to Brazil for a short time as coffee pickers.

I'll keep looking ....

Honeybun