Joseph Alders was a convict sentenced to life transportation at the Old Bailey for the Middlesex Gaol Delivery in November 1812. The ship he came to Australia on was the 'Fortune', arriving in New South Wales in June 1813[2].
He first married Frances Bell, a fellow convict[3], in 1830 at Windsor, NSW[4]. Frances died at Parramatta in July, 1833, buried there at St Johns CofE., and Joseph took charge of her son James (born to Edward King and Frances Bell in 1827) who thereafter took the surname 'Alders'.
In 1841 Joseph applied and received permission to marry Ann Dooling, a , a fellow convict. Joseph gave his age as 44 giving a birth year of about 1790.[5] The place of application was Sutton Forest, New South Wales. Joseph had achieved his ticket of leave by this time and claimed to be unmarried. The wedding was held in April 1834 in All Saints Church of England, Sutton Forest, New South Wales (timber building, not the present stone church).[6].
Joseph died at Bannaby, NSW in 1862, his death registered in Goulburn[7] and is memorialised in the Stone Quarry Cemetery, in
Taralga, NSW[8].
↑ New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851, State Archives NSW; Series: 12212; Item: 4/4512; Page: 127; State Archives NSW; Series: 12212; Item: 4/4509
↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #1444/1834 V18341444 18
↑https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/202020974/joseph-alders Joseph Alders BIRTH 30 Jul 1789 London, City of London, Greater London, England DEATH 11 Jul 1862 (aged 72) Bannaby, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales, Australia BURIAL Stone Quarry Cemetery, Taralga, Upper Lachlan Shire, New South Wales
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