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Your connection with Scotland in the 1700s, and with pioneers in South Australia in the late 1800s
Jessie & Alexander GORDON - family tree & stories
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 1824 - 1857 (33 years)
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| Name |
Fanny MAIDMENT |
| Born |
6 Apr 1824 |
Westbury, Wiltshire,  |
| Christened |
13 Jun 1824 |
Old Meeting Independent Church, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK [1, 2] |
| Gender |
Female |
| General event |
Death : Fanny died in Bugle Ranges on 21st June 1857 - 5 days after giving birth to Esther.
DIED - On 21st inst., Fanny, the beloved wife of Henry Saltmarsh, farmer, Bugle Ranges; and, on the 24th, Esther, infant daughter of the above, aged nine days.
(source: Adelaide Observer, 27th June 1857, p4) |
| Notes for biography |
Note by Robyn Fisher: Fanny was also born in Westbury, on 6 April 1824, and she was christened on 13 June 1824 in the same church as her older brother, the Old Meeting Independent Church, Westbury. |
| Immigration |
Migration : They migrated to South Australia on the Charles Kerr which left Gravesend on 28th December 1839 and arrived in Adelaide on 6th March 1840. The captain was Harford Arnold. There were 216 passengers - this included the parents and 8 children (including Fanny). (ref : Robyn Fisher). |
| Occupation |
Occupations : Seamstress - on ships list when migrating (ref : Robyn Fisher and Hodge Index) |
| Residence |
Residences :
* Westbury
* Bradford
* Bradley
* They migrated to South Australia in 1840.
* Macclesfield
* Woodchester
* Meadows before getting married to Henry
* Bugle Range
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| Died |
21 Jun 1857 |
Bugle Ranges SA [3, 4] |
| Person ID |
I398 |
Alexander & Jessie |
| Last Modified |
29 Jul 2018 |
| Father |
Edwin Charles (Charles) MAIDMENT, b. 26 Jul 1795, Sedgehill, Wiltshire, England, UK , d. 27 Oct 1865, Strathalbyn, SA, Australia (Age 70 years) |
| Mother |
Esther Fanny DOEL, b. 1800, Westbury, Wiltshire, UK , d. 18 Jun 1866, Strathalbyn, SA (Age 66 years) |
| Married |
26 Oct 1819 |
Westbury, Wiltshire |
- Old Meeting Independent Church in Westbury, Wiltshire
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| Children |
* Charles & Esther had 8 children baptized in the Westbury Independant Old Meeting House where the parents were married.
* Note by Robyn Fisher: Together Charles and Esther had the following children: Edwin Charles Jnr (Charles) (1820-1884), Fanny (1824-1857), Harriet Jane (Jane) (1826-1890), gpi Ransom (1828-1906) my great great grandmother, Elizabeth Burbage/ Burbridge (1832-1873), William Joseph (1832-1898), Mary Ann Horrell (1837-1841), George James (1840-1916), and Julia Olivia (1845-1921). |
| Residence |
The family migrated on the 'Charles Kerr' that arrived on 17th June 1840. |
| Residence |
They lived in Westbury before they migrated in 1840. In Australia, they lived in Ashburne, Macclesfield, Tinpopt, Bugle Ranges, Bullcreek and Strathablyn. [5] |
| Wedding |
Note by Robyn Fisher: On 26 October 1819 when Charles was 24, he married Esther Fanny Doel, in the Old Meeting Independent Church in Westbury, in Wiltshire in England. According to the Nimrod Index, he put his mark, she wrote her name. The witnesses were Job and Hannah Doel. I am not sure as to the relationship the witnesses were to Esther. They were married by Rev. Henry Gwynther, Curate. |
| Family ID |
F347 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Henry SALTMARSH, b. 19 Jul 1819, Yorkshire, England , d. 17 Aug 1899, Dry Creek (Age 80 years) |
| Married |
3 Jun 1845 |
Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
| Wedding |
Wedding : 3rd June 1845 in Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide by Reverend James Farrell. |
| Children |
| | 1. Unnamed SALTMARSH, b. 24 Oct 1846, d. 24 Oct 1846 (Age 0 years) |
| + | 2. Emily SALTMARSH, b. 19 Dec 1847, d. 24 Oct 1918 (Age 70 years) |
| | 3. Mary Ann SALTMARSH, b. 22 May 1849, d. 26 Jan 1850, Died at only 2? years old. (Age 0 years) |
| + | 4. Mary Ann SALTMARSH, b. 26 Sept 1850, Mt Pleasant, SA, Australia , d. 7 May 1904, Inverness House, Owen (Age 53 years) |
| + | 5. Frederick SALTMARSH, b. 12 Mar 1852, Bugle Ranges , d. 5 Jun 1934 (Age 82 years) |
| + | 6. Annie SALTMARSH, b. 28 Oct 1853, Bugle Ranges via Hahndorf, SA, Australia , d. 4 Nov 1932 (Age 79 years) |
| | 7. Esther SALTMARSH, b. 16 Jun 1857, Bugle Ranges , d. 24 Jun 1857, She died at just 9 days old. (Age 0 years) |
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| Last Modified |
24 Apr 2014 |
| Family ID |
F139 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Stories |
 | 2.60 - Henry SALTMARSH and Fanny, nee MAIDMENT
Henry was born in Yorkshire in 1819 and, at 19 years, he migrated to South Australia. Fanny Maidment was born in 1824 and migrated at 16 years. They married in 1845 and had seven children, three of whom died very young. The second child was Mary, who married David Finlayson, and the sixth was Annie, who married Alexander Gordon.
Fanny died at the age of 33. The next year, 1858, Henry married Margaret Rutherford. Of their six children, one was adopted and one died early. Margaret died in 1894.
Henry’s third marriage was with Ann Willesee Rains in 1897.
Only nine of Henry’s 13 children (including one adopted) survived to adulthood.
Henry died in Dry Creek in 1899 at the age of 79 years.
(Notes for biography - by Don Gordon - updated in February 2020) |
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| Sources |
- [S52] RobynEllisFisher.
- [S11] Old Parochial Register, Indexing batch C07809-1, England ODM, film 0816603, RG4 2742.
- [S68] Rosemary Saltmarsh - ID 1277.
Officially registered at Bugle Ranges
- [S71] Biographical Index, SA, 1836-1885 , Under entry for Frederick Saltmarsh .
- [S75] Barbara Regan, nee Wilson - scrap book - see STORIES directory, From Barbara's family history scrap book.
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