Gordon Gardner (1841 - abt. 1911)

Born 12 Oct 1841 in Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom

Ancestors

Husband of Louisa Ann (Hyland) Gardner — married 12 Jul 1876 in Australia

Died about 24 Aug 1911 at about age 69 in Palmyra, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

Gordon was born in 1841 and baptised 18 May 1842 in Bath, Somerset, England. He was the son of Lt. Col James Gardner and Helen Carnegy. Gordon was schooled at Christ's Hospital, Hertford then traveled to Australia as a young man, arriving in Melbourne 1859 on the Norfolk, returning to Liverpool on the Royal Standard in Feb 1866 and then returning again to Australia in October 1866, arriving in Melbourne on the Sussex.

He married Louisa Ann Hyland in July 1876 in Victoria.^[1] Louisa gave birth to their only child that year (Annie Veronica Gardner 1876-1963).^[2]

Gordon established himself as a land manager, as recorded in his obituary:

"The late Mister Gordon GARDNER, well known in pastoral circles of Victoria and New South Wales, passed away in Freemantle last week in his seventieth year. The deceased gentleman was at one time the manager of Sir Samuel Wilson’s Corangamite Estate at Pirron, Yalloak, Colac (Vic) where he was highly respected and regarded as an expert in sheep and wool. He afterwards took full charge of an extensive area on the Queensland border of New South Wales, on the property of Mr C. E. Fisher. Mr Gardner was the son of late Lieutenant Colonel James Gardner of the 13th Light Infantry (Somersetshire Regiment) of Bath, who died in his eighty-sixth year".^[3]

Gordon died 1911 in Western Australia (aged about 70), his wife Louisa Ann died in 1949 (aged 91).

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/G7Z4-XD9
2. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/G7CP-FXN
3. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/G7Z4-XD9

• England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915
• Somerset, England, Church of England Baptisms, 1813-1914
• 1851 England Census
• Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839-1923
• Victoria, Australia, Outward Passenger Index, 1852-1915
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/memories/G7Z4-XD9: Bible inscription celebrating the marriage of Gordon Gardner and Louisa Annie Hyland, and also obituary (newspaper not given)
• Find A Grave: Memorial #213399768