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Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1860 - 1902)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES (1891 - 1943)
Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES (1899 - )
Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1860 - 1902)

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Joseph Woodville BOLLES (1843 - 1930)
Thomas CRAIG (1821 - 1861) Adam CRAIG (1797 - )



Margaret LOW (1800 - )



Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER (1826 - 1869) Ricahrd GRONMEYER



Janet (GRONMEYER)



Joseph Woodville BOLLES

Joseph Woodville BOLLES
b. abt 1860 at Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
m. 16 Sep 1890 Joseph Woodville BOLLES (1843 - 1930) at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
d. 1902 at Townsville, Queensland, Australia aged 42
Parents:
Thomas CRAIG (1821 - 1861)
Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER (1826 - 1869)
Siblings (6):
John Adam CRAIG (1846 - 1886)
Jessie CRAIG (1848 - )
Margaret CRAIG (1851 - )
Mary Ann CRAIG (1853 - )
Thomas CRAIG (1855 - )
Daughter LUCAS (1866 - )
Children (2):
Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES (1891 - 1943)
Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES (1899 - )
Grandchildren (2):
Events in Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG (1860 - 1902)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
Immigration Cooktown, Queensland, Australia per "Merkara" 14
abt 1860 Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG was born Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 12
bef 1861 1 Death of father Thomas CRAIG (aged 40) Scotland
1869 9 Death of mother Jessie (Janet) GRONMEYER (aged 43) Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland
16 Sep 1890 30 Married Joseph Woodville BOLLES (aged 47) Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1890/C439
28 Jun 1891 31 Birth of daughter Jessie Adeline Adaleen BOLLES Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1891/C2646 12
1899 39 Birth of son Joseph Thomas Herbert BOLLES Queensland, Australia 1899/C10626 12
1902 42 Henrietta Jane (Ettie) CRAIG died Townsville, Queensland, Australia 1902/C4634 12
Personal Notes:
From Karen Thomson:
HENRIETTA JANE CRAIG
Article written about Jane ( as she was known) and her husbane, Joseph Woodville Bolles, and her brother, John Adam Craig..... The article was written by Joseph Bolles' grandson, Herb Bolles in 1993.
"Henrietta Jane Craig of Edinburgh, Bolles second wife, sailed aboard the British Indian steamship “Merkara” to Cooktown to live with her brother Capt. John Adam Craig, who was subsequently murdered by a native crew when pearling in his Cooktown ketch “Emily” in the Louisiade Archipelago, of New Guinea, on September 14, 1886. The following year, on July 26, 1887, her then fiance, William Hanson, was similarly murdered by local natives when pearling in the Cooktown cutter “Cecilia”, in Orangerie Bay of New Guinea. Bolles then married his second wife, Jane Craig in Cooktown in 1890 and they moved to Townsville where Jessie Adaleen Bolles was born in 1892, who later married Hugh Roberts and his son Joseph Thomas Herbert Bolles was born in 1899. Bolles and his family than moved to Townsville where he continued building ships until his retirement in 1915. Bolles was the owner and master of a small steam coaster in the late 1890’s, called the “Dove”. Financially, it was a disaster and today its rusted out boiler lies in mangroves at Port Douglass; used as a bollard for fishing boats
Bolles married his first wife, Margaret Ellen “Ettie” Lang from Devon, on March 8, 1883, but she died of malaria on January 23, 1899 at age 24. They had two children, Arthur Woodville Bolles, born in 1885 and Daisy Lillian Boles, born in 1888
Joseph Woodville Bolles died in Townsville, Queensland on April 8, 1930 at age 87 and was buried in the West End Cemetery in Townsville, Queensland, Australia; Block C, Row 1, Grave 1. He is buried with Henrietta “Ettie” Bowles who died at age 41 in 1902. Exploits of the whalers and Joseph Bolls can be found in the book written by his grandson in 1993, Herb Bolles, entitled "Shipwreck, Massacre and Meyhem”. "... Henrietta was also a witness at the marriage of her sister in law, Emily Craig,nee Evennett, and her 2nd husband Thomas Thomson in 1889 at Cooktown
Source References:
12. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Genes reunited, Title: Genes
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Birth)
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Name, Notes)
- Reference = Karen Davies tree (Death)
14. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: Karen Thomson e-mail 13 feb 09, Auth: Karen Thomsom, Date: 13/2/09
- Reference = (Immigration)

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
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