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Alexander Robert Tod (1853 - 1909)

Alexander Robert Tod
Born in North Adelaide, South Australia, Australiamap
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Son of and
Brother of , , , and
Husband of — married 13 Feb 1877 in Adelaide, South Australia, Australiamap
Husband of — married 1894 in Colony of Victoriamap
Descendants descendants
Father of , , , , and
Died at about age 55 in Australiamap [uncertain]
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Biography

Born on the 26th August 1853 at North Adelaide, South Australia, to Mary Ann Leach and Robert Tod[1]

Jailed in 1872 at the age of 19 for stealing money. Tried in Melbourne, he was released in 1876. The release docket gives his details as being: native of Adelaide, a clerk by trade, 5 feet 9 inches tall, 'fresh' complextion, brown hair, blue eyes.[2]

Career

  • 1872: Clerk[3]

Trustee

  • 1877, May: A notice in the South Australian Register shows Alexander Tod as being a trustee for Edward Armstrong.[4]

Stockbroker

  • 1888: Alexander Tod was operating as a stock broker. Not only is there a notice in the South Australian Register about a case in which he is owed money for Broken Hill shares[5], but in October, 1888, a notice in the South Australian Register shows Alexander Tod as being a stockbroker at the Royal Exchange.[6]. Another notice, one about a meeting of creditors for Alexander Tod, stock broker, was in the South Australian Register on Wednesday 12th September, 1888, stating that the estate was assigned to Mr. Shierlaw for the benefit of the creditors.[7]

Importer

  • 1899: Zwicker, Tod, & Co., importers, of Niagara Lane, Melbourne[8][9]
  • 1903 Census lists Alexander as an importer[10]
  • 1906 Census lists Alexander as an importer[11]

Residences

  • 1878: Queenstown, (Adelaide), South Australia, Australia[12]
  • 1897: Larundel, Maribrynong Road, Moonee Ponds (near Melbourne), Victoria, Australia[13]
  • 1903: 21 Lorne St, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia[14]. His son, Arthur, and a Louisa Tod were living with him at this time.
  • 1906: 86 Maribrynong Rd, Moonee Ponds, Victoria (importer)[15] His daughter Beatrice, and a Louisa Tod were living with him at this time.

Marriage

Married Eliza Annie Timbury, youngest daughter of the late Charles James Timbury, of Richmond, Victoria, on the 13th of February 1877 at the St John's Church in Adelaide, South Australia.[16] The Rev F.S. Porte officiated.[17][18]

  • On May 30, 1877, the South Australian Police Gazette reported that two white twilled sheets and three towels, all marked "Timbury" in the corner, were stolen from Alexander Tod's yard in Queenstown.[19]
  • Eliza Annie died in 1892.[20]

Louisa Leach married Alexander Tod in the Colony of Victoria in 1894[21] She was his second wife. Their son Rupert was born in 1897. Rupert is mentioned in his father’s Will given £1 per week for his maintenance until he turns 21.[22]

  • There is a newspaper article about his son, Travis Alexander, that mentions that Alexander remarried[23]

Children

  1. Travice Alexander Tod, b 1 Feb 1878[24], was found guilty of disposing of the body of a woman who died due to an abortion attempt Melbourne in 1899[25] [26]. Alexander Tod was estranged from his son Travice for 14 months during 1897 and 1898, although he did visit his son in the Melbourne Gaol in 1899[27]
  2. Florence Eliza Tod, b. 3 Mar 1879
  3. Arthur Seymour Tod, b. 1880
  4. Beatrice Isabel Tod, b. 29 Sep 1882[28], d. 25 Dec 1957
  5. Effie Alice Tod, b. 24 Sep 1884

Interests

  • 1878: Presided over a meeting of footballers and cricketers, held at Sayers's Port Hotel, Port Adelaide, on the evening of Thursday September 12, 1878. The meeting was held to consider the advisableness of the various cricket and football clubs in the Port and suburbs combining to acquire the oval belonging to the Queen and Albert Cricketing Association.[29]
  • 1890: One of the principal suppoeters of the Presbyterian Church at Ascotvale (the Rev. A. Stewart was a warm personal friend of the family)[30]

Death

Died aboard the Ulimaroa near Wellington, New Zealand, on September 15, 1909. A memorial was posted the next year by his loving wife and family.[31] Another Alexander Tod died in Melbourne in 1910.[32]

Sources

  1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 4, page 199
  2. ↑ Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. AU7103-1876 Victoria Police Gazette 1876
  3. ↑ Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. AU7103-1876 Victoria Police Gazette 1876
  4. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Tue 29 May 1877, Page 4: Assignment. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[1]]
  5. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Fri 6 Jul 1888, Page 3: Local Courts. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[2]]
  6. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Mon 1 Oct 1888, Page 2, Assignments. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[3]]
  7. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Wed 12 Sep 1888, Page 4, Meeting of Creditors.National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[4]]
  8. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 5: Tod's Confession. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[5]]
  9. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Friday 13th January 1899, Page 6: Tod's History [[6]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  10. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. (Victoria, Bourke, Moonee Ponds, 1903)
  11. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. (entry 4260, Victoria, Maribrynong, 1906)
  12. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Saturday 23 February 1878, page 7. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[7]]
  13. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Friday 13th January 1899, Page 6: Tod's History [[8]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  14. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. (Victoria, Bourke, Moonee Ponds, 1903)
  15. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. (entry 4260, Victoria, Maribrynong, 1906)
  16. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 110, page 502.
  17. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Sat 24 Feb 1877, Page 1: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[9]]
  18. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume number 110, page number 502. Registration place: Adelaide, South Australia.
  19. ↑ South Australia Police Gazette Indexes, 1862-1947. Ridgehaven, South Australia: Gould Genealogy and History, 2009.
  20. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. 1892 Death certificate, registration place: Victoria, registration # 10095
  21. ↑ Births Deaths & Marriages Victoria Marriages 5247/1894
  22. ↑ 113/080 Alexander Tod: Will; Grant of probate Given name : Alexander ; Family name : Tod ; Residence : Caulfield ; Occupation : Importer ; Nature of grant : P Date of grant: 30 Oct 1909 ; Date of death: 15 Sep 1909
  23. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Friday 13th January 1899, Page 6: Tod's History [[10]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  24. ↑ South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Saturday 23 February 1878, page 7
  25. ↑ Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 3: Tod's Antecedents. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[11]]
  26. ↑ Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 3: Tod's Antecedents. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[12]]
  27. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, VIC), Friday 13th January 1899, page 6: Breaking the News [[13]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  28. ↑ Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 290, page 174.
  29. ↑ The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Sep 1878, Page 5. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[14]]
  30. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Friday 13th January 1899, Page 6: Tod's History [[15]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  31. ↑ The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Thu 15 Sep 1910, Page 1: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[16]]
  32. ↑ The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Mon 5 Dec 1910, Page 8: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[17]]
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 4, page 199
  • Ancestry.com. Victoria, Australia, Police Gazettes, 1855, 1864-1924 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. AU7103-1876 Victoria Police Gazette 1876 (released from jail 1872)
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 110, page 502.
  • South Australia Police Gazette Indexes, 1862-1947. Ridgehaven, South Australia: Gould Genealogy and History, 2009.
  • The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Sat 24 Feb 1877, Page 1: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[18]]
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Tue 29 May 1877, Page 4: Assignment. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[19]]
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Marriage Index, 1788-1950 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume number 110, page number 502. Registration place: Adelaide, South Australia.
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Saturday 23 February 1878, page 7. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[20]] (Travice born)
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 195, Page 359. (Travice born)
  • The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Sep 1878, Page 5. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[21]]
  • The South Australian Advertiser (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Sep 1878, Page 5. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[22]]
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Volume 290, page 174. (1882, Beatrice birth)
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Vol 335, page 32. (1884, Effie birth)
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Fri 6 Jul 1888, Page 3: Local Courts. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[23]]
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Wed 12 Sep 1888, Page 4, Meeting of Creditors.National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[24]]
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Mon 1 Oct 1888, Page 2, Assignments. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[25]]
  • Ancestry.com. Australia, Electoral Rolls, 1903-1980 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Original data: Australian Electoral Commission. [Electoral roll]. (Victoria, Bourke, Moonee Ponds, 1903)
  • The Argus (Melbourne, Vic), Thu 15 Sep 1910, Page 1: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[26]]
  • The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Mon 5 Dec 1910, Page 8: Family Notices. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[27]]

Re Travice Tod

  • Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 3: Tod's Antecedents. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[28]]
  • Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 3: Tod's Antecedents. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[29]]
  • The Argus (Melbourne, VIC), Friday 13th January 1899, page 6: Breaking the News [[30]] Accessed on the National Library of Australia's Trove website on August 5th, 2017
  • Port Pirie Recorder and North Western Mail (SA), Sat 14 Jan 1899, Page 3: City Chatter. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[31]]
  • South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA), Fri 13 Jan 1899, Page 5: Tod's Confession. National Library of Australia Online: Trove. Accessed 11 May 2017. [[32]]




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