Immigration to Australia - John SCOTT

[Roseamry]

Hi Lin,
I just this minute got  photos of the grave stones from Maldon Cemetery for both John & his son John.

It says John 5th September 1901 aged and Mary Ann 18th Jan 1938 - exactly right
 
Thanks for all your help - now you can come down out of that tree - LOL LOL
Cheers
Ro

[Lin Up a Tree]

o yay you lucky thing! 

and LOL re: coming down from the tree!    Everytime I try the darn thing calls me back 

[jreece94]

Hello,
I hope you will read this - I have JOHN SCOTT emigrated on the EMPEROR in 1851,   who I believe married my gt gt aunt Alice Anne MORRIS 1852 West Maitland and then moved to Victoria.  I have three children born to them and further information.

This would tie in with a second marriage for John.

Hoping you will make contact.

[Roseamry]

Hello and thanks for the contact.
As you can see I have got this as a reply to a request and have not been able to verify it, but am inclined to take it as correct.
The  records stated he was from "Battonend, Suffolk" or "Bottom end, Suffolk", both of which sound a lot like "Burton End" where he was born. Also that he could read but not write !

My John Scott was born at Burton End, 1828, and I have been able to verify that members of the family had lived there for many years, and many descendants are still there.

He was very disenchanted with what he found in Melbourne - hoping to find gold literally in the streets of Melbourne , but to no avail, so in disgust he booked his passage to return home as soon as he could. He went to say goodbye to some friends, but when he returned to the dock the ship had sailed along with everything he owned !

He married Mary Rash, formally of Haverhill, England, in 1870, and lived out his life in Maldon Victoria.

So nice to have contact with other researchers
regards Ro

[jreece94]

Hello Ro,

Thank you for your reply.

This is a valid message - re John Scott.  I have only recently received the information on the marriage of a John Scott  - NSW BDM V185216985/1852 to my gt gt aunt Alice Anne MORRIS at Wesleyean Church, West Maitland, NSW.  They then moved to Victoria and 3 children were born. Jessy 1853 b. Florz,  Annie Elizabeth 1855, Castelmaine,  and Walter Thomas 1856 Victoria.    Jessy and Walter died in infancy.   Then Alice left and went to America and is said to have married a man named Andrews.  I have not been able to check the records at Ellis Island as yet so I can't confirm this.

The above information is from records dated 1891 in the Clarence River Historical Society, Grafton where Alice's father and brother settled as farmers and the marriage and births from BDMs.   

While searching around for more on John I found a John Scott on the ship's indent for the EMPEROR, June 1851, the same ship as Alice and her brother Jesse emigrated on to NSW.  You have also seen that it says Bottom End, Suffolk as the birthplace, which I think is Burton End.  I have also looked at the census records and found the family in the 1841.

I do believe that this is the same John and am really interested in what I have found from your researches.  Also I have not found a death for Annie Elizabeth Scott as yet so I wonder what happened to her. 

It is a sad story but not unusual for those times.

Kind regards.

Reece

[jreece94]

Hello Ro,

I have sent a pm in reply to yours of this morning.  Hope you receive it but please let me know if not.
Regards,
Reece