Oldham, Christina - I48

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First Class Passenger ♀
Christina Oldham
Nationality Unknown
Genealogy Data
Person ID I48
Marriage Family/Families
Oldham Family - F205
Spouse Thomas Fulton Oldham
Nationality Unknown
Married 1866
 
Voyage Data
Voyage to Adelaide in 1865
Personal role First Class Passenger
Name on list Miss Oldham
Joined place London
Left place Adelaide

The 1865 passenger list for the voyage of the City of Adelaide from London to Adelaide, contained the name of a Miss Oldham. She occupied a first class saloon, and from the records available relating to the voyage, appears to have been travelling alone. These records give little to positively identify this young woman. She is, however, mentioned in some of the poetry written by other passengers as part of the on-board entertainment which included the instigation by Captain Bruce of a poetry appreciation group. All passengers were invited to take part, but not all did. Of those who did, their poetry survives in the form of a small printed book, published in Adelaide in 1865 shortly after their arrival, by passenger Alfred Hawker. Miss Oldham is mentioned in a poem written by the eight year old Emily Barber, and in which Miss Oldham and Miss Foale, another passenger, appear to be linked as friends.

In trying to identify the first class passenger on the 1865 voyage, Miss Oldham, the best candidate found is Christina Oldham. It seems that she may have been travelling out to South Australia to be married, which occurred only a few months after her arrival when she married Thomas Fulton Oldham in 1866. The fact that she married a person with the same surname as hers, suggests that she may have been a cousin of her husband but this has not been ascertained.

There were goods in the ship's hold on this voyage that were consigned to one Nathaniel Oldham, who was very likely to be the brother of her future husband.

Christina Oldham[1] was the daughter of Thomas Wilson Oldham[2] and Mary Anne Bradley[3]. Thomas Oldham was from Dublin, Ireland, and Mary Bradley was from the Manchester area of England. They had 11 children:

  1. Mary Oldham, b 1832; d 1892.
  2. Elizabeth Oldham, b 1832; d 1832 [possibly a twin to Mary].
  3. Jane Oldham, no dates available.
  4. Frances Jane Oldham, b 1839; d unknown.
  5. Stanley Oldham, b 1838; d 1881; m 1864 to Anne Bullen.
  6. Jessie Oldham, b 18 Jan 1841 (twin to Christina); m Mr. Croft.
  7. Christina Oldham, b c1841, UK[4] ; bapt 18 Jan 1841 at Birmingham, WKS[5]; d 23 Jun 1885, 5 Musgrave Tce., Dublin, IRL[6]; m 12 May 1866, at residence of the Rev. William Oldham, Kapunda, SA[7], Thomas Fulton Oldham[8] (b 8 Nov 1839, Adelaide, SA[9]; d 22 Jul 1881, Adelaide, SA[10]); stood as a candidate on several occasions in the Glenelg Council elections and in 1909 was elected as the representative for Glenelg Ward; 1902 he was appointed Secretary of the Shopkeeper's Defence League, the first meeting of which was held in his shop in Rundle Street; 1907 was a member of the Glenelg School Board; 1902 when son Fulton Stanley William born the Advertiser records the family as living at a property called "Garry Owen” in Miller Street, North Unley; 1912 when daughter born the Advertiser states they lived in Moseley Street, Glenelg; and had issue:
    1. Ellen Oldham, b 16 Dec 1868, Auburn, SA[11], d 13 May 1869, Auburn, SA[12].
    2. Thomas Stanley Oldham, b 26 May 1870, Auburn, SA[13]; d after 1915; m 25 Jul 1894, residence of John Wilson, Goodwood, SA[14], Catherine Cragg[15], and had issue:
      1. Henry Oldham, b 3 Nov 1894, Eastwood, SA[16]; d 5 Nov 1894, Eastwood, SA[17].
      2. Dorothy Christina Kate Oldham, b 1 Apr 1896, Goodwood Park, SA[18]; d after 1915; m 6 Sep 1920, St Peter's Church, Glenelg, SA[19], Arnold Willis Knapman.
      3. Fulton Stanley William Oldham, b 21 Mar 1902, North Unley, SA[20]; d after 1915; m 18 Apr 1936, St Peter's College Chapel, Hackney, SA[21], Lindsey Sandford Reid.
      4. George Carmichael Oldham, b 4 Sep 1906, Glenelg, SA[22].
      5. Helen Marion Oldhamb 22 Mar 1912, Glenelg, SA[23]
  8. Ellen Eliza Oldham, b 1843; d 1863, Ireland – cause of death – consumption.
  9. William Benjamin Oldham, b 1845, Monkstown, Dublin, IRL; m 1879, Maud Julia Stansham.
  10. Marianne Oldham, no dates.
  11. ???, no details.

Christina Oldham married Thomas Fulton Oldham in 1866 at the home of the Reverend William Oldham of Kadina. T.F. Oldham's parents were the Rev. William Oldham and Sarah Eliza(beth) Carmichael. The Reverend and his wife had several children born in South Australia and some before they arrived:

  1. William Carmichael Oldham, b c1835/36[24], not in SA in 1858; m Marion Cowan Tod in SA – 6 children.
  2. Nathaniel Oldham, b c1836, not in SA; m 1857, SA, Ellen Maria Mulville – at least 8 children
  3. Frederick Bagot Oldham[25], b 25 Jul 1837[26], Adelaide, SA; m Marion Stock in SA – 6 children
  4. Thomas Fulton Oldham, b 8 Nov 1839, Adelaide, SA; m Christina Oldham – see above.
  5. Margaret Sarah Oldham, b 23 Feb 1842, Adelaide, SA; m 1883 in SA, Horatio Eugene Augustus O'Sullivan.
  6. Charles Oldham, b 6 Mar 1844, Gawler Town, SA.
  7. Emily Oldham, b 23 Sep 1846, Angaston, SA; m Edward Slater in 1867 in SA.
  8. Eliza Oldham, b 24 Mar 1849, Kapunda, SA

In 1859, the Reverend Oldham - father of Thomas Fulton Oldham - took over the management of the Kapunda mine from his retiring friend of many years, Captain Charles Harvey Bagot. Such was the friendship between these two men, that the Rev. Oldham named at least two of his children after the good Captain. The Advertiser of Friday 18 November 1859 carries on page 1 in the Public Notices column, letters of farewell to Captain Bagot, his replies to the people of Kapunda, and letters of welcome to the Reverend Oldham as mine manager.


References

  1. ↑ All details relating to the siblings and parents of Christina Oldham were obtained from Cari Green.
  2. ↑ Information from Cari Green's website.
  3. ↑ Information from Cari Green's website.
  4. ↑ No record in SA of a birth for Christina Oldham. However, a baptism was found at Birmingham, WKS, ENG for a Christina Oldham on 18 Jan 1841, which gives her parents as Thomas Wilson Oldham and her mother as Mary Anne Bradley. IGI Search – produced no record of a birth in Britain anywhere for her. A further search of the internet produced a record on the website of a person researching the BRADLEY family, in which her baptism date, marriage date, death date, parent's names, husband's name and the names of two children are listed. The owner of the website has ben contacted and they assure that the information contained therein is correct and has been verified. At present documentary details of some of the particulars surrounding this couple are awaited.
  5. ↑ Information from Cari Green's website.
  6. ↑ Information from Cari Green's website. Why she went back to Ireland is a mystery, except that her mother, after her father's death took the younger children to Ireland to be educated. Her mother died in Ireland in 1895, perhaps she went back there for a visit or perhaps she was too ill to remain in Australia and went home to Ireland so her mother could nurse her.
  7. ↑ SA Marriages 1842-1916 District: CLA Book: 67 Page: 110.
  8. ↑ His parents were William Oldham and Eliza Carmichael. His father was the Rev. William Oldham, a prominent church man in the early days of the colony. He was "of full age” when he married Christina.
  9. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: ADL Book: 1 Page: 8 – Note: see Reference 14 regarding registration of his birth and that of two siblings.
  10. ↑ SA Deaths 1842-1915 District: ADL Book: 112 Page: 290 – death record gives his last place of residence as Kapunda.
  11. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: UpW Book: 69 Page: 263.
  12. ↑ SA Deaths 1842-1915 District: UpW Book: 35 Page: 139.
  13. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: UpW Book: 83 Page: 335.
  14. ↑ SA Marriages 1842-1916 District: ADL Book: 180 Page: 292.
  15. ↑ SA Marriages 1842-1916 District: ADL Book: 180 Page: 292 gives her father as John Samuel Cragg and lists her as being 22 years of age.
  16. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: NOR Book: 551 Page: 174.
  17. ↑ SA Deaths 1842-1915 District: NOR Book: 222 Page: 372 – aged 2 days.
  18. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: ADL Book: 581 Page: 398.
  19. ↑ SA Marriages 1917-1937 District: ADL Book: 184 Page: 777.
  20. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: ADL Book: 691 Page: 35.
  21. ↑ SA Marriages 1917-1937 District: NOR Book: 367 Page: 1651.
  22. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 District: ADL Book: 772 Page: 49.
  23. ↑ SA Advertiser, 26 Dec 1912 - birth notice, states the family lived in Moseley St. Glenelg.
  24. ↑ IGI Internet search gives only his name and an approximate date of birth, with a birth location of Dublin, IRL.
  25. ↑ SA Births 1842-1915 – the first three children born in SA are all recorded on the same registration – District: ADL Book: 1 Page: 8.
  26. ↑ Leadbeater's website familyhistorysa.info gives William Oldham, his wife Sarah Eliza(beth) and a child Frederick Bagot (born at sea) as arriving on 15 Apr 1838 aboard the Lord Goderich. While it is possible that he was born at sea, his birth is recorded as having occurred in Adelaide in 1837.


Researcher

Researched by JK Stokes, July 2009



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