John LATHAM

[Gasser]

No, he was born on 3 Nov 1810 in Birmingham. He was baptised at St Phillip's Church. His father was Charles and his mother Sarah, possibly Sarah Jones. He was transported to Tasmania on the Woodford on 2 May 1828 for life for housebreaking and arrived in Hobart on 25 August 1828. He eventually married Mary Stanaway, who was born in 1810 probably in Birmingham, and had been transported on the Sir Charles Forbes for life for highway robbery, arriving Tasmania on 3 January 1827.
It was Mary's third marriage. Her first marriage, on 25 Oct 1830, was to John Williamson, a convict transported for 7 years for theft on the Lady East, arriving Tasmania 9 April 1825. He died, and on 21 March 1838 she married Charles Osborne, a free man. She ran off with John Latham soon after, as they had a child called Elizabeth, who died in gaol, where her mother had been sent for leaving her husband and getting pregnant with another man, on 4 Nov 1840. Mary seems to have called herself Mary Williams (after husband No. 1) and this has confused most genealogists, including me for a long time. Mary and John finally married on 3 September 1855, presumably because Charles Osborne had died. In the meantime, they'd had five more children, the youngest of whom Joseph Albert Victor Latham, born in Franklin on 2 July 1851, was my great-great grandfather.

Gasser

[trish1120]

Hi Gasser,
How fascinating your Family is and what intensive research you have gone into in tracing John and Mary.
At least all this info is now out there for future researchers.
Hopefully Kaye will reply soon 

[Gasser]

I forgot to add that Mary Stanaway Williamson Osborne Latham died on 10 Dec 1875 in Franklin Tas - I have a photo of her grave - and John remarried. His second wife was Mary O'Neill (1832-16 Nov 1902?) on 8 Sept 1880. John died in Hobart on 12 April 1885 and although he is not on the headstone is, I believe, buried in the same grave as Mary Stanaway at St John's Anglican Church in Franklin. I am in contact with descendants of John and Mary's daughter, Mary Ann Latham Hogan, and have photos of her.

If Kaye Donaher is in Tasmania, I will be there from 15 Nov to 15 December this year.

Gasser

[trish1120]

Hi Gasser,
Kaye seems to have not been on Rootschat since 11 October 2010.
If her email address is still the same as you have now made 3 posts you can PM her through here (click on her user name).
She will get an email notifying her of your interest.
She may be away and hasnt found all this yet.

Trish

[donagher]

Hi i am sorry i have not been on lately moving house etc, i have contacted gasser and she has passed a lot of info onto me which i appreciated, so now i have my lathams sorted out which is great thanks to all for your help.
I am still trying to get info on my grandmother emma cecilia latham nee donagher, she married alfred latham. Her parents were james and sarah donagher, nee williams . All the certs i have are all different spelling of donagher i have james donagan on marriage cert, i have james donagher on his death cert, i have for their 2 sons donacher and donagher. As for sarah the wife of james well her b/cert is williamson and her marriage cert is williams she was born 1861, her parents on her b/cert are john williamson and sarah harbud, but when i tried to find her on tasmania archives i found 2 sarah williams born 1861 and both of them had married different people and not james donagan.
James and sarah married 10th march 1885 at st peters church oatlands tasmania, also i have exhausted all avenues of finding a birth register for my grandmother emma, she says on her marriage cert she was born in launceston 1888, i have certs for her brothers charles and james and all their info right through to their deaths..So i think i may have to give up on looking for info on her i have tried a researcher also and she cant find anything on emma.

[Michigander]

Allow an American cousin to come in late on this conversation.  My thanks to donagher for getting it started and Trish and gasser for providing so much information at once.  My wife is a Latham descendant from EDWARD, (ch 06 February 1803) son of William and Joan and husband of Sarah Jane Stenner (of Selworthy).  I only just found their names and dates from a recently published Michigan death record.
This part of the family came to Canada for a few years, then part (brothers John and Edward [who married a Hobbs from Polock/Selworthy area]) moved to Port Austin, Huron County, Michigan.
Gasser mentioned having done a lot with the Latham line.  If it includes the Porlock family I would like to compare what I have gleaned/concluded for family units.  If that checks out then I have questions about the pre-Porlock origins of the family (I read Brenden, Devon someplace) and the quest for the maternal families which I believe to be Joan Taylor (Dunster?), daughter of Philip and Alice Beague, but that is another thread if we don't share that side of the family.
Regards

Dale the Michigander

[trish1120]

Hi Dale,
Welcome to Rootschat
Do you have access to census entries:
Joan may still be alive in 1841.
I can post if you want.

[trish1120]

As you gave gone off-line Dale I will post anyhow;

1841 Census
Porlock, Somerset
HO107/936/10/Porlock
Joan LATHAM, 75
John Latham, 9
Sarah FLOYDE, 30
John Floyde, 5
No occupations for anyone.
All born in County

Living nearby;
JAMES Latham, 25, Ag Lab
Louisa?, 25
William, 6mths

[trish1120]

LATHAMS;

Anc. has a tree with this info re William but no actual Records sited;
William LATHAM born c 1765, Lynton, Devon, died 05 March 1834, Porlock, Somerset age 69

IGI has this Extracted Christening Record;
William LATHAM, 16 June 1763, Lynton, Devon
Parents, SAMUEL/ELIZABETH
Sibings on same Batch;
ELIZABETH, 08 October 1750
JOAN, 24 Dec 1766
Large gap in ages there so others may have been Christened elsewhere

IGI has a Submitted Marriage of SAMUEL Latham to Elizabeth GRIMSHIRE,
04 Dec 1749, Lynton, Devon


TAYLORS;

Marriage;
15 June 1758, All Saints, Selworthy, Somerset
Philip TAYLOR
Alice BEAGUE
(Source FreeREG)

He may have also remarried to Elizabeth TAYLOR, 29 Jan 1785.
They are both Widowed. This is also on FreeREG.
Burial of Elizabeth Taylor age 83, 12 August 1815, Selworthy


Trish

APOLOGIES to everyone for taking over the original thread!