Ada Hallett (1852 - 1927)

Born 15 Jan 1852 in Fareham, Hampshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Frederick Britten Burden — married 20 May 1879 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1927 at age 75 in Australia

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Biography

Ada was born in 1852. She was the daughter of George Hallett and Frances Pince.

Ada Hallett, plus her younger brother Charles, emigrated to and settled in South Australia in the mid-to-late 1870s. Details of how and why are scanty, but they were a seafaring family anyway (their father George Hallett was a Master Mariner and steamship captain) and Charles (a.k.a. ‘Charlie’) was on the way to becoming a seaman himself – at least, some kind of ship’s mate. Perhaps the young people sailed together, and Charlie chaperoned his sister. Not that Ada needed it, once ashore in Adelaide she soon fell in with respectable migrant families, in particular the Burdens, who had settle there a decade or two earlier. She soon fell for one of the sons, Frederick Burden, whom she married in 1879. Charlie, I fancy, continued sailing for a short while, but himself soon caught the ‘bug’ and married as well: his bride was his sister-in-law Annie Burden, younger sister to Ada’s husband Frederick.

Sources

• GRO Index: Births Mar 1852 HALLETT Ada Fareham 2b 435
• Richard Oliver (great-grand-nephew)