GIBBS, James Dagley

(1822-1905)

James died in Bunbury. He was the son of Robert and Jane of Aylesbury (storekeeper, pawnbroker). James arrived in Western Australia on 23/05/1844 aboard the Trusty. He married on 07/01/1845 in Picton to Charlotte Narroway (1823-28/03/1862). James remarried on 30/04/1863 to Alice Mada Parkes (1843-1894). She arrived 26/12/1860 aboard the Escort as a servant to Mr Clifton. James and Charlotte's children were Emma (1846-), Panny (1847-1848), Robert (1848), Jane (1850), John (1856). Herald William (1859) Samuel. James and Alice's children were Charlotte (1864-), Amelia (1867-), Ernest Alf-red (1868-1918) (Northam). Wallace (1869), Lilian (1872), Ethelbert (1873), Athelstan (1877), James (1880). He first lived at Picton, then Australind in the 1840s and Perth in the 1850s. When James moved to Bunbury, he became a Wheelwright and carpenter in the 1860s and shipwright. He built the Star of South in 1875. He employed two ticket of leave men 1868 at Bunbury.


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