George Granger (1826 - 1881)

Born 26 Feb 1826 in Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Ann (Rawlinson) Granger — married 12 Oct 1849 in Weston Colville, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom

Husband of Harriet (Woolard) Granger — married 1 Jan 1856 in Chesterton, Cambridgeshire, England

Husband of Janet (Highet) Granger — married 8 Apr 1867 in Coromandel Valley, South Australia, Australia

Descendants

Died 9 May 1881 at age 55 in Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

George Granger came free to the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

George Granger was born in Cambridgeshire, England.

George was born in 1826 in Cambridgeshire, England to parents Benjamin and Mary Grainger. In 1849 he married Mary Ann (Ann) Rawlinson and had two daughters, Mary Ann and Emma. His wife Ann died and he married Harriet Woolard and immediately set out with his family to emigrate to South Australia, arriving in Adelaide aboard the Aurora in 1856. The family party included George and his new wife, Harriet, George's daughters Mary Ann Granger and Emma Granger and Harriet's two children, Charlotte Woolard and George Woolard. A James Granger aged 19, also an agricultural labourer from Cambridgeshire and posssibly George Granger's brother, arrived on the same ship, but he died in 1857 and is buried at the West Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide (unknown location).

The family settled in Cygnet River on Kangaroo Island. One account says they took as their home a slab hut, the abandoned office of the South Australian Company. Harriet promptly produced three children, Eliza, Harriet and Jonas. There was a sawmill at Cygnet River where railway sleepers were cut. George's wife Harriet died in 1862 and interestingly in the same year another woman, Anne Micken, gave birth to George's child. The baby, a son named William, did not last out the year.

Five years later, aged 41, George married his third wife, Janet Highet. Janet produced another 3 children, another William, Edith and George Henry. George senior died from accidental drowning in the Bay of Shoals, Kangaroo Island, in 1881. He was 55 and had fathered 9 children. George does not figure prominently in recorded history, but there are a few anecdotes eg those in the Kangaroo Island Courier of 1910, which also gives accounts of his accidental drowning. Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association

Sources

[1.] Kangaroo Island Courier1910, extracts on website of Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/history/early-days-on-k-i

• Birth Citation

Misc. internet source (Unreliable evidence) Text: http://febestribe.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?view=0&rand=654067357&pid=616&userid=febestribe

• 1841 England and Wales Census: County: Cambridgeshire, Page: 13,Family: 921Line: 5. Head of household Benjamin Grainger age 40, Ag. Lab,, implied wife Mary Grainger age 40. Sons George Grainger age 15 and David Grainger age 12, both Ag. Lab. Also, Eliza, 9yrs, Jonas, 7yrs, James 5yrs, Stephen 3yrs and Charles, 1 month, implied sons and daughters. Citation: Parish:Weston Colville, Series: HO107, Page:13, County: Cambridgeshire, Piece:0071, Family:921, Country:England, Registrar's district: Balsham, Line:5, Date:1841,Superintendent registrar's district: Linton,Image: 21, Enum. District:5. Scan of original register sighted by A. Tichborne per My Heritage
• Marriage (m. RAWLINSON, Mary Ann) Citation

Misc. internet source (Unreliable evidence) Text: http://febestribe.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=febestribe&view=0&pid=1319&ver=528
Marriages, County of Cambridgeshire, District Linton, Book # 14, page 173. George Grainger and Ann Rawlinson married Dec quarter, 1849. Source: https://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

• Immigration: Aurora, arrived at Adelaide May 23 1856. George Granger, Ag Lab from Cambridgeshire, Harriet, Emma, Charlotte, George and Mary Ann. Also on board was George's brother, James, aged 19, Agricultural Labourer. Courtesy South Australian Archives GRG35_48_1_56-9_Aurora
• Marriage (m. WOOLARD, Harriet) Citation

Misc. internet source (Unreliable evidence) Text: http://febestribe.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=febestribe&view=0&pid=9775&ver=528

• Death of James: James GRAINGER of Adelaide aged 21 yrs, died 27 Apr 1857

Reg: District: Adelaide 5/158 (South Australian BDMs Courtesy South Australian Genealogy and Heraldry Society)

• Identity of Charlotte, listed as "Granger" on the Passenger List of the Aurora:

DENCH - WOOLARD. - On the 27th June, at All Saints' Church, Hindmarsh, by licence, by the Rev. F. Garrett, John, eldest son of Mr. J. Dench, Hindmarsh, to Charlotte Woolard, stepdaughter of Mr. W. Granger, Cygnet River, Kangaroo Island. (Adelaide Register 23 July 1867)

• Marriage (m. HIGHET, Janet) Citation

SA BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 70/396 Text: Family Notices. (1867, April 9). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 2. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39184654. Also Family Notices. (1867, April 13). Adelaide Observer (SA : 1843 - 1904), p. 5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article159509772. Also Family Notices. (1867, April 27). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), p. 5. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39181899

• Occupation citation: "Mr George Granger, of the (South Australian) Company's Farm" South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900) Tuesday 9 April 1867 p 2 Family Notices
• Burial Citation

Lorraine's Cemetery Records Pages (Secondary evidence) Text: http://www.ozburials.com/CemsSA/kingscotep.htm

Research Notes

• Notes by Anne Tichborne August, 2017:

I can't find a record of George marrying Anne Micken despite fathering her child. The baby died in its first year and George went on to marry Janet Highet. I've removed Anne Micken as a spouse but her child William remains as George's child. (See Wikitree guide for unmarried parents) She could be either of these from.Rootsweb: ID: I125643 Name: Anna MICKAN Sex: F Birth: 10 May 1856 in South Australia, Australia Death: Y Note: Birth record - Father : Johann MICKAN. Mother: Christiane FRIEDE. Source : South Australian Births 1842 - 1906 Book: 5 Page: 323 District: Ade Father: Johann MICKAN b: Abt 1818 Mother: Christiane TRIEDE b: Abt 1821 OR ID: I125642 Name: Anna MICKAN Sex: F Birth: 21 Dec 1852 in South Australia, Australia Death: Y Note: Birth record - Father : Andreas MICKAN. Mother: Anna HENTSCHKAN. Source : South Australian Births 1842 - 1906 Book: 4 Page: 106 District: Ade.

• Notes by Anne Tichborne 2019. Plenty of online trees saying his parents were Benjamin Gally Grainger and Mary Ann (nee Stiff) but I haven't found an actual registry citation. Amazingly, these trees also claim that Benjamin came to Australia, but why didn't he come to the same place as his son George? Very odd. He's supposed to have died in Yass, New South Wales.

Acknowledgments

Thank you to Dianne Staples for collaborating on this profile.