William James Barlow (1832 - 1862)

Husband of Christiana Caroline Stivey — married 1862 in Sandridge, Colony of Victoria

Died 22 Nov 1862 at age 30 in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Biography

William James Barlow (son of Richard Barlow and Stazliagh Mary Bartlett) was born 18 Jul 1832 in Chelsea Land, christened December 18 1836 in St Philips, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia^[1] and died 11 Sep 1886 in Melbourne, Australia. He married Christina Caroline Stivey on 22 Nov 1862 in Port Melbourne, daughter of James Rabetts Stivey and Caroline Rowett.

William James was one of the children of Richard Barlow and Siazliagh Mary Bartlett who arrived on the "Indiana" in Sydney in October 1833. Richard (who was a bellhanger, whitesmith, blacksmith, etc) had been an "armourer" on Captain Perry's ill-fated expedition to find the Northwest Passage in the 1820s. He seems to have died (in Sydney?) in 1836 (no death cert found) and Siazliagh remarried a Mr Edwards c 1838 (but no further children). She later lived with her Australian-born daughter, Maria Jane Carse, and is buried at Sunbury, having lived to 99.

William James had various occupations in Sandridge (note Barlow Street off Nott Street) and eventually formed Barlow & Sons Mantle-piece Manufacturers. Their house was in Nott Street and the factory was behind it fronting Station Street (all now gone) and they had a showroom in City Road. However the business folded in the mid 1880s - perhaps coinciding with William James' death from Bright's disease.^[2]

Children of Christiana STIVEY and William BARLOW are:

1. James Richard4 BARLOW, born 1863 in Sandridge, Vic.
2. Edward William J BARLOW, born 1864 in Sandridge, Vic.
3. Richard Thomas BARLOW, born 1866 in Sandridge, Vic.
4. Alfred John Alex BARLOW, born 1868 in Sandridge, Vic.
5. Alice Maria BARLOW, born 1871 in Sandridge, Vic; died 1878 in Sandridge, Vic.
6. Fred BARLOW, born 1873 in Sandridge, Vic.
7. Arthur BARLOW, born 1876 in Sandridge, Vic.
8. Maria Elizabeth BARLOW, born 1878 in Sandridge, Vic.
9. Lucy Maud BARLOW, born 1880 in Sandridge, Vic.
10. Harry BARLOW, born 1883 in Sandridge, Vic.
11. Albert Ernest BARLOW, born 1885 in Melbourne, Vic.

Employed as Builder, mantle piece maker, sugar and bag works etc Emigration 1833 To Sud on ship "Indiana"

Sources

1. ↑ "Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTC8-T4Y : accessed 8 June 2015), William James Barlow, 18 Dec 1836; citing ; FHL microfilm 993,951.
2. ↑ Steven Barlow, great grandson