Henry
Bruce
Born in Islington, Middlesex, England
Ancestors 
Son of Andrew Bruce
and Hannah Ann (Fincham) Bruce
Brother of
Sarah Ann (Bruce) Heath, Andrew Bruce, Stillborn Bruce, Ann (Bruce) Shoobridge, Caroline Bruce, Maria (Bruce) Gamble, Eliza (Bruce) Deer, George Bruce, Rebecca Jane (Bruce) Baum and Mary Jane Bruce
Husband of
Letitia Caroline (Cardell) Bruce
— married
11 Dec 1869 in Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Descendants 
Father of
Alexander David Bruce, Winifred Anne Hempel (Bruce) March and Helen Gertrude (Bruce) Hancock
Died
at age 56
in Wallaroo, South Australia, Australia
Profile last modified
| Created 28 Jan 2017
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Biography
Henry Bruce was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 8 May 1839. His parents were Andrew Bruce and Ann Fincham.
He migrated to Australia as a small child with his parents and most of his siblings on the Lord Raglan in 1854.[1] The family initialy settled in Norwood where his older sister Sarah Ann (Bruce) Heath and her husband had settled in 1849. Henry's father died in January 1855, only a few months after the family arrived. In around 1861, the family (including brother-in-law Thomas Robert Heath moved to Wallaroo. T.R. Heath was a stonemason involved in building several of the community buildings in the developing town.
Henry married Laetitia Caroline Cardell on 11 December 1869 at Wallaroo. He was 30, she was 27, the daughter of William H Cardell.[2]
They had eight children in Wallaroo or farming land to its north:[3]
- Albert Henry Bruce, 17 October 1870
- William Andrew Bruce, 22 June 1872
- Beatrice Maud Cardell Bruce, 16 May 1874
- Lionel Charles Bruce, 8 March 1876
- Alexander David Bruce, 4 April 1878
- Winifred Anne Hempel (Bruce) March, 19 December 1880 - 27 March 1972
- Helen Gertrude (Bruce) HancockHelen Gertrude Bruce, 7 June 1883 - 18 October 1932
- Douglas Edmund Cardell Bruce, 16 May 1887
Henry lived at Tickera when he died on 11 September 1895 at Wallaroo, aged 56 years.[4]
Sources
- ↑ 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
- ↑ BRUCE, Henry, South Australian marriage registration database, Daly 81/523, Symbol=A, accessed 23 October 2022 via Genealogy SA
- ↑ Search results for surname Bruce, mother name Cardell, South Australian birth registration database, accessed 23 October 2022 via Genealogy SA
- ↑ BRUCE, Henry, South Australian death registration database, Daly 229/147, accessed 23 October 2022 via Genealogy SA
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Henry:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Henry by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Henry:
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