James DAVISON ( - )

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James DAVISON1 was born in Maybole, Ayrshire, Scotland.1 He was a Gardener.1 He married Esther SLATER on 26 Dec 1853 in St. Michael's, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire.1

 

 

Esther SLATER,2 daughter of James SLATER (c. 1778-1862) and Mary MAYALL (1776-1847), was born c. 1803 in Ashton under Lyne, Lancashire.2 She was baptised on 20 Nov 1803 in Mossley, Lancashire, England.1 She married John HILTON on 13 Oct 1823 in St. Michael, Ashton-under-Lyne, Lancashire, England.1 She died on 21 Apr 1876 in Harris and John St., Pyrmont, New South Wales.3 1 1 Informant son James Hilton, Pyrmont. Reg. No. 76 00939. Esther was buried on 22 Apr 1876 in Balmain Cemetery, C of E Sect.1 Witnesses: James Hilton (son), James Hall (nephew).

 

 

Came to Sydney 1854.

Father James " left his house to his daughter Esther Hilton, a widow whose passage to Sydney had been paid by her sister Mary Hall. (Mary Porter's mother). Esther came to Sydney in 1854 accompanied by her adult children, Martha and James and

three children by the name of Pickering, the offspring of her deceased sister Miriam.4"

 

Sources

1.

"Gardner Roots A family history The English Connection Slater/Hilton/Gardner" 2004 Edition, (Joyce Gardner).

2.

Virginia Stokes, Virginia Stokes Family Tree.

3.

Joyce Gardner, Mary Mayall.rtf.

4.

Virginia Stokes, 'Out of the Holliday Closet', information for the Holliday-Porter clan.