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Margaret FITZGIBBON (1854 - 1928)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Mary Ellen (Helen) CHESSOR (1873 - 1874)
Alexander James CHESSOR (1874 - 1940)
David John CHESSOR (1876 - 1965)
William Henry CHESSOR (1878 - 1915)
Mary Edith CHESSOR (1880 - 1961)
Charles Sydney CHESSOR (1884 - 1959)
Eileen CHESSOR (1886 - 1902)
Albert CHESSOR (1890 - 1941)
Archibald Joseph CHESSOR (1891 - 1961)
Francis Granville MANDERS (1893 - 1954)
Margaret FITZGIBBON (1854 - 1928)

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Alexander James CHESSOR (1848 - )

William MANDERS (1851 - 1925)

Edmund TAYLOR
Archibald FITZGIBBON (1830 - 1858)











Mary Ann MADDEN (1832 - 1898)












b. 1854 at Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia
m. (1) 16 Jul 1872 Alexander James CHESSOR (1848 - ) at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
m. (2) 1893 William MANDERS (1851 - 1925) at Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia
m. (3) 1902 Edmund TAYLOR at Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
d. 1928 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia aged 74
Parents:
Archibald FITZGIBBON (1830 - 1858)
Mary Ann MADDEN (1832 - 1898)
Siblings (1):
John Henry FITZGIBBON (1856 - 1936)
Children (10):
Mary Ellen (Helen) CHESSOR (1873 - 1874)
Alexander James CHESSOR (1874 - 1940)
David John CHESSOR (1876 - 1965)
William Henry CHESSOR (1878 - 1915)
Mary Edith CHESSOR (1880 - 1961)
Charles Sydney CHESSOR (1884 - 1959)
Eileen CHESSOR (1886 - 1902)
Albert CHESSOR (1890 - 1941)
Archibald Joseph CHESSOR (1891 - 1961)
Francis Granville MANDERS (1893 - 1954)
Grandchildren (30):
Kathleen MEAD CHESSOR (1900 - 1982), Eileen Pearl CHESSOR (1904 - 1941), Arthur Lewis CHESSOR (1907 - 1961), Gladys H CHESSOR (1909 - ), Walter David CHESSOR (1915 - 1996), Margaret Faith CHESSOR (1917 - ), William Henry CHESSOR (1911 - 1918), Eileen Lillian M TAYLOR (1901 - ), William Cecil David TAYLOR (1903 - ), Charles Edward John TAYLOR (1904 - ), Alexander James TAYLOR (1906 - 1967), George H (Pete) TAYLOR (1907 - 1960), Enid M TAYLOR (1910 - ), Sydney Roy TAYLOR (1910 - 1966), Frederick Jack TAYLOR (1911 - 1961), Sylvia Pearl TAYLOR (1913 - 1967), Alice Verleen TAYLOR (1914 - ), Violet Rose TAYLOR (1920 - ), Edward C CHESSOR ( - 1916), Noel Bryce CHESSOR ( - 1977), Eileen May CHESSOR (1911 - ), Sydney William Oliver CHESSOR (1912 - ), Leslie Ronald CHESSOR (1915 - 1988), Geoffrey Thomas CHESSOR (1924 - 1980), John CHESSOR (1901 - ), Sydney C CHESSOR (1901 - 1901), Francis G MANDERS ( - 1920), George B MANDERS ( - 1919), Keith Alexander MANDERS ( - 1960)
Events in Margaret FITZGIBBON (1854 - 1928)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1854 Margaret FITZGIBBON was born Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia Note 1
abt 1858 4 Death of father Archibald FITZGIBBON (aged 28)
16 Jul 1872 18 Married Alexander James CHESSOR (aged 23) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Note 2
bef 13 Jul 1873 19 Birth of daughter Mary Ellen (Helen) CHESSOR Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 17569/1873
28 Feb 1874 20 Death of daughter Mary Ellen (Helen) CHESSOR Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia 4072/1874
01 Jun 1874 20 Birth of son Alexander James CHESSOR Bungendore, New South Wales, Australia 18134/1874
1876 22 Birth of son David John CHESSOR Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia 15767/1876
1878 24 Birth of son William Henry CHESSOR Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia 17126/1878
06 Dec 1880 26 Birth of daughter Mary Edith CHESSOR Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 9508/1881
1884 30 Birth of son Charles Sydney CHESSOR Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 13000/1884
1886 32 Birth of daughter Eileen CHESSOR Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 14262/1886
1890 36 Birth of son Albert CHESSOR Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 14055/1890, father not named
1891 37 Birth of son Archibald Joseph CHESSOR Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 14404/1891, father not named
1893 39 Birth of son Francis Granville MANDERS Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 14752/1893
1893 39 Married William MANDERS (aged 42) Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 3518/1893
1898 44 Death of mother Mary Ann MADDEN (aged 66) Newtown, New South Wales, Australia 6446/1898
1902 48 Married Edmund TAYLOR Redfern, New South Wales, Australia
05 Feb 1902 48 Death of daughter Eileen CHESSOR (aged 16) Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 1416/1902
13 Oct 1915 61 Death of son William Henry CHESSOR (aged 37) At sea Note 3
1925 71 Death of husband William MANDERS (aged 74) Wellington, Western Australia 18
1928 74 Margaret FITZGIBBON died Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Note 4
Y Death of husband Alexander James CHESSOR Note 5
Note 1: The Roman Catholic Church was know as the Church of Rome pre 1856 and there appears to be few if any BDM records for Roman Catholics. The State took control of records from 1856 0n.
According to marriage certificate.
Note 2: Margaret listed on marriage certificate age 18 therefore born 1854 parents Archibald and Mary Ann Madden . (Sharon Hardy)
Note 3: Died of pneumonia aboard H.M.A.T. Argyllshire and buried at sea
Note 4: NSW BDM fathers name (-Fitzgibbon) mothers names 74 years Sydney
Note 5: bef 14 Mar 1893 as his wife remarried at this date
Personal Notes:
Alexander James Chessor married Margaret Fitzgibbon in Queanbeyan in 1872. She then remarried a William Munders on 14th July, 1893.
I would like to know her status at the second marriage.
Was she Widowed, Divorced or Abandoned?
The reason I ask this question is I can find no death or burial details on Alexander in any state of Australia.
I did find a advertisement in the personal column of a Perth newspaper looking for him in 1916 where the person said
“Alexander James Chessor” who lived in the Goulburn area of NSW, 36 years ago and I believe moved to Western Australia.
I am thinking he could have done a ‘runner’. In those days very few people owned their own houses and for a man it was simple to get on a train
in Goulburn as “John Smith” and get off the train in Melbourne as “John Brown”.
Source References:
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = K&M Williams 5 Feb 2014 (Marriage, death)
- Notes: looking at Margaret s marriage certs she called herself a widow in both her marriage to Manders and to Edmund Taylor.
My grandfathers elder brother !!! She died as a Taylor. William Manders also left her and went to WA where he died in Wellington WA 1925.

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.
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