Andrew Bruce (1832 - 1913)

Born 2 Jul 1832 in Islington, Middlesex, England

Ancestors

Husband of Lydia (Ladd) Bruce — married 11 Jun 1857 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 7 Feb 1913 at age 80 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Born in England.

He migrated to Australia with his parents and most of his siblings on the Lord Raglan in 1854.^[1]

He married Lydia Ladd on 11 June 1857 at the residence of A Bruce (likely his widowed his mother) on 11 June 1857. He was 24, son of Andrew Bruce (deceased) and she was also 24, daughter of John Ladd.^[2]

They had six children at Norwood, Victoria Township (now part of Hamilton, north of Kapunda) and Kapunda:^[3]

• Anna Maria Bruce 24 October 1857 - 27 June 1949, Adelaide (91, unmarried)
• Andrew Henry Bruce, 27 March 1860
• Caroline Eliza Bruce 8 June 1862 - 1 August 1949, Adelaide (87, unmarried)
• George Paxton Bruce 7 August 1864 - 9 May 1897, Mile End (32, husband of Florence E Bruce, 4 children)
• Rebecca Jane Bruce 22 August 1866 - 1 July 1869 (age 3), Kapunda
• Alfred Arthur Bruce 21 August 1868 - 18 February 1869

He died aged 80 at Adelaide on 7 February 1913.^[4]

Newspaper Articles

• Death Notice for Andrew Bruce^[5]
  • BRUCE.— On the 7th February, at his daughter's residence, 191 Carrington street, Adelaide, Andrew Bruce, builder, late of Mile-End, after a short and painful illness, leaving 1 son and 2 daughters, 14 grandchildren, and 3 greatgrandchildren, to mourn their loss, aged 80 years and 7 months. Arrived in the Lord Raglan, 1854. A colonist of 59 years. Peacefully sleeping.
• Obituary for Andrew Bruce ^[6]
  • The late Mr. Andrew Bruce was born at Islington, England, on July 2, 1837, and was educated in London. Upon leaving school he was brought up to the monumental trade with his father, who carried on business as a monumental mason at Islington, where he worked for many years before coming to South Australia in the Lord Raglan, arriving in 1854. He settled in Norwood, and followed the occupation of a stonecutter, being engaged on the Adelaide Hospital and police barracks buildings. About the time of the extension of the railway to Kapunda he went, north and worked on the Light-bridge and Kapunda Station, and settled in Kapunda, where he engaged in contracting and carried out many buildings, as well as the big cutting at Taylor's Gap on the Clare road. He went to Victoria about 1870, and on coming back to South Australia started a brick company at Kilkenny with patent kilns of his own invention for the Adelaide and Port Brick Company. Afterwards he entered into partnership with the late Mr. J. Paul, of Paul & Bruce, builders and contractors. He was one of the founders of the Builders' Association, and was on the council for some years. He also sat as councillor for Torrens ward in the Thebarton Council for several years.

Sources

1. ↑ Lord Raglan, 923 tons, Captain M. Flanagan, from London 16th July, Plymouth 27th July 1854, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 24th October 1854 Accessed 31 July 2017
2. ↑ BRUCE, Andrew, South Australian Marriage registrations index, Adelaide 30/507, accessed 31 August 2023 via Genealogy SA
3. ↑ Search Surname=bruce&Father=andrew&Mother=ladd, South Australian Birth registrations index, accessed 31 August 2023 via Genealogy SA
4. ↑ BRUCE, Andrew, South Australian Death registrations index, Adelaide 372/106, accessed 31 August 2023 via Genealogy SA
5. ↑ Family Notices (1913, February 13). The Register (Adelaide, SA : 1901 - 1929), p. 6. Retrieved July 31, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article59724043
6. ↑ OBITUARY. (1913, February 22). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 46. Retrieved July 31, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article88736293

• London Metropolitan Archives, Islington St Mary, Register of Baptism, p83/mry1, Item 1175
• Source: S307607887 Repository: #R300449205 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Ancestry Family Tree https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/108033340/family

• Trove Newspaper Article:

Bruce V Ladd

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/108261978?searchTerm=Bruce%20v%20Ladd