Stephen's third son Richard, was born on 14th January 1843. The information from his descentants in Australia shows that he was born in Dorrha, Tipperary. He must have gone to Bywell in the early 1860's, probably at the same time as his brother Charles.
The families movements over this period are quite complicated but can be followed on a map, and show how the family stuck together through the hardships that they faced
His marriage to Mary Ann Bell is recorded in Dec 1866 Hexham 10b 382. Richard & Mary had only one surviving child, Charles, while in England they appear to have had 5 male and 2 female children who died.
Priestpopple, Hexham
He is in the 1871 census living at North Hexham with his wife "Mary Ann" (she aged 25 and born in Hexham, Northumberland). They had no children then. Their address is 40 Priestpopple St
1874 He had a son Charles born in Hexham Registration district. Births Jun 1874 Charles Grant Hexham 10b 284. Charles birth was more precisely at Ridley Mill, a village near Bywell
In the 1881 census below he is living at "The Forge", Tow Law, County Durham, and is working as a coke or cinder drawer. "The Forge" appears to have been a long street in Tow Law, which I think was part of what is now "Dan's Castle Street" (following the census enumerators route on the map, the enumerator goes from Dans Castle to The Forge to Blackfields)
A contemporary report reads From the rich and almost pure ore of the Ryder ironstone Mr. Attwood commenced to manufacture iron of a splendid quality, smelted with coke, manufactured at the Company's own coke ovens at Black Prince, or that made at the Blackfields ovens. So Richard Grant may have been employed in those coke ovens. The iron manufactured at Tow Law, in the latter part of the decade of 1840 and the beginning of 1850 - the early years of the iron trade in this country - obtained a fame almost world-wide for the superiority of the goods, which commanded generally the best prices in the market.
Coke Drawer, Hand performs any combination of following duties involved in emptying coke oven: Scrapes coke from coke oven, using iron rod (scraper). Forks coke onto conveyor that dumps coke in railroad cars. Picks foreign matter, such as slate and slag, from coke on conveyor. May fork coke into wheelbarrow and push wheelbarrow to railroad cars. May apply brakes or place car-stop to hold railroad cars under coke-pushing machine. May place firebrick doors in oven doorframe, using overhead hoist, to close oven. May seal doors of ovens, using firebricks and loam.
Contemporary photo of Cinder Drawers in Durham
A few months after the census the family emigrated to Australia. Richard (39 years, laborour) his wife Mary (33 years) and their son Charles (6 years) departed from Plymouth 26 May 1881 onboard the "Arthurstone" and arrived in Brisbane 1 September 1881.
1885 Mary Hannah Grant born to Richard Grant and Mary Ann Bell 1885/C2197. Mary Hannah died the same year 1885/C1510
Mary died 13 Feb 1886 in the Toowoomba Hospital of heart disease. On Mary's death certificate she was 22 years of age when she married Richard, at the time of her death she had been in the colony 4 years and Charles was 11 years old, she had been mother of 2 deceased males and 3 females (When Richard died in 1894 it says that he had been father to 5 males and 2 females. Richard's total covers his second marriage as well as his first). On Mary's death certificate her fathers occupation was a Hatter
Richard remarried to Kate Elizabeth Talbot on 26 Apr 1887 (1887/C420) at St. Johns Church, Dalby, Queensland. Richard was 42 and Kate was 20. Kate had been born in Barrow, Suffolk. They had three children as follows;
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| Rear L - R Ivy Grant, Mary Ryan, Ray Connell (Grandson of Catherine
Ryan) Centre L - R Kate Elizabeth Grant, Catherine Ryan, Front - Gladys Grant. |
L - R Gladys Jones (nee Grant) Anne Ryan (nee Grant) Mary Lee (nee Ryan) taken on 1 December 1969. |
Richard Grant died 18 Feb 1894 in the Toowoomba Hospital aged 51 years. His occupation was a lengthsman (he served on the Queensland railway maintenance division at a pay of 6 shillings per day) and his Queensland death certificate gives the informant was his son Charles, who at that time was living at Warra, Western Railway. A "lengthsman" was responsible for the regular inspection (walking the length) and minor maintenance (i..e repacking sleeperes, oiling fishplate bolts, replacing damaged rails etc) of a length of railway track. It is apparent from the map that his length covered the portion between Toowoomba and Warra
After Richard Grant’s death in 1894, his widow Kate Elizabeth Grant had a further two children by Richard’s son (by his first marriage to Mary Bell) Charles. Charles & Kate never married, as indeed they were prohibited from doing by the "Table of Kindred and Affinity" of the church. At the time of the first childs birth, Kate was 31 and Charles was 24. The children are as follows;
1912 Charles married Frances Jane Kineavy (nee Wilkins, her husband had died in 1907 and at the time of her re-marriage to Charles in 1912 she had 3 children Roy aged 9, Ruby May aged 11 (she married David Humphrey in 1925) and Martin Charles aged 13. That is the same ages as the 2 children Charles then had by Kate) on 1 May 1912 at Aubigny Toowoomba Queensland. Kate Elizabeth Talbot lived on and died 24 Jan 1944.
1913 electoral roll has Kate Elizabeth Grant living with her eldest son James at Warra
1919 electoral roll at Maranoa, Dalby
1930 Electoral Rolls for Darling Downs, Toowoomba
1936 Electoral Rolls for Darling Downs, Toowoomba
1936 ( a possible . .?) Electoral Rolls for Darling Downs, Toowoomba
1937. Charles died 28 June 1937 in the General Hospital at Toowoomba, Queensland. He is buried in the Toowoomba & Drayton Cemetery at Toowoomba, Drayton & Toowoomba (Burial Number P801). There were no children listed on Charles’s death certificate. At the time of his death he was a butcher.
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1937. James (Charles brother) dies a few months later. From the inscription, the tombstone (above) must have been put up by his surviving sibblings, Annie and George. Courier-Mail 09.11.1937, p.1 - The funeral of ... James Grant will leave the funeral parlour, 17 Peel St., South Brisbane, this (Tuesday) afternoon ... for Bulimba Cemetery.
1944. Kate Elizabeth dies and is buried in the same grave as her son James. Bulimba Cemetery monumental inscriptions, p.91 Sec. 7, #198 Our brother / James GRANT / d. 08.11.1937 aged 50 years & mother / Kate Elizabeth GRANT / d. 24.01.1944 aged 78 years
1958 George Grant died 07.11.1958 / 1958/B028718 Courier Mail 10.11.1958, p.18 - The private funeral of George Grant, of 42 Hardgrave Rd., West End, ... husband of Mrs. Marie GRANT, will leave the funeral chapel, 17 Peel St., South Brisbane, ... this (Monday) afternoon for Mt. Thompson Crematorium.
1960 Charles Grant's his wife, Francis J Grant died and was buried at Toowoomba on 10th September 1960 aged 95. The plaque on the grave was put by her children, so perhaps there were children from that marriage, though she did have three children by her first marriage.
I have tried a number of GenesReunited souces
James Grant b1927 at Toowoomba and got this reply from Jude Jackson (nee Travers) I don't know anything much about the James Grant in my tree, as he is married to my father's sister Mary. Uncle Jim & Aunt Mary had 5 children, Jamie, Fiona, Libby, Angus & Kate. My father died in 1987, and we have not had anything much to do with them since then. At that time they were grain farmers from Jimbour, on a property called "Landscape", just outside of Dalby. They are of interest as they are in exactly the right place, but unless I find others related to them, it is no more than that.
Norma Constance Grant b1926 married Ivo Lawrence Eiser in Toowoomba in 1954. I do not know if she had siblings. I also do not know who her parents are. Norma & Ivo had 2 children who were also born around T'mba/ Oakey district.
From Lorna Kineavy "my husband's grandmother was frances Kineavy. Francis had three children, Denis Roy (my father in law), Martin and Ruby. She did marry Charles Grant and I have a photo of Charles together with writing on the back of the photo to prove his identity. Charles was buried at the Drayton Cemetery and I do believe he was a wonderful man. " Kineavy notes