[Index]
Mary Eliza MERRIMAN (1836 - 1918)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Emily EVENNETT (1861 - 1928)
Charles Clements EVENNETT (1862 - 1912)
Frederick EVENNETT (1866 - 1941)
Florence EVENNETT (1870 - )
Ernest EVENNETT (1872 - 1952)
Ada JAMIESON (1875 - )
Arthur JAMIESON (1877 - 1878)
Mary Eliza MERRIMAN (1836 - 1918)

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Charles Clements EVENNETT (1829 - 1873)

William JAMIESON (1843 - )
Simon Peter MERRIMAN (1802 - 1883)











Mary Eliza GRAYSON (1813 - 1847)












b. abt 1836 at Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England
m. (1) 26 Jul 1860 Charles Clements EVENNETT (1829 - 1873) at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
m. (2) 16 Dec 1874 William JAMIESON (1843 - ) at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia
d. 12 Feb 1918 at Cooktown, Queensland, Australia aged 82
Parents:
Simon Peter MERRIMAN (1802 - 1883)
Mary Eliza GRAYSON (1813 - 1847)
Siblings (7):
William Grayson MERRIMAN (1832 - 1896)
Maria MERRIMAN (1833 - )
Mary MERRIMAN (1836 - )
Robert MERRIMAN (1838 - 1911)
Joel MERRIMAN (1842 - 1907)
Samuel MERRIMAN (1844 - 1913)
Jane MERRIMAN (1847 - )
Children (7):
Emily EVENNETT (1861 - 1928)
Charles Clements EVENNETT (1862 - 1912)
Frederick EVENNETT (1866 - 1941)
Florence EVENNETT (1870 - )
Ernest EVENNETT (1872 - 1952)
Ada JAMIESON (1875 - )
Arthur JAMIESON (1877 - 1878)
Grandchildren (27):
Jessie Evelyn CRAIG (1879 - 1958), Emily Adeline CRAIG (1880 - 1948), Thomas Ernest CRAIG (1883 - 1960), Florence Henrietta CRAIG (1885 - 1888), Cecil Fordyce THOMSON (1889 - 1923), Wilfred Evennett THOMSON (1891 - ), John Colin Craig CLUNN (1902 - 1983), Daisy Eleanor EVENNETT (1887 - 1954), Arthur Ernest EVENNETT (1891 - 1953), Effie Florence EVENNETT (1893 - 1956), Charles Frederick EVENNETT (1889 - 1919), Elsie Jane KENNEDY (1897 - ), Ivy Merriman KENNEDY (1898 - ), Florence Tessie (Jessie) KENNEDY (1900 - ), Hilda Elaine KENNEDY (1903 - 1923), Andrew Alexander Thomas KENNEDY (1909 - ), Ernest Frederick Ceicel KENNEDY (1910 - 2001), Joseph Charles EVENNETT (1902 - 1952), Ivy Florence EVENNETT (1904 - ), Louisa Emily EVENNETT (1906 - ), Annie Merriman (Mirrie) EVENNETT (1908 - 2006), Jessie Eliza EVENNETT (1911 - ), Effie Edna EVENNETT (1915 - ), Roy Frederick EVENNETT (1919 - ), Ivy Jane Miriam CARDINAL (1903 - ), William Charles CARDINAL (1906 - ), John Harold CARDINAL (1908 - )
Events in Mary Eliza MERRIMAN (1836 - 1918)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1836 Mary Eliza MERRIMAN was born Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England 18
11 Dec 1836 Baptism Surfleet, Lincolnshire, England 18
1847 11 Death of mother Mary Eliza GRAYSON (aged 34) Spalding, Lincolnshire, England 18
22 Feb 1858 22 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per "Stebonheath" 18
26 Jul 1860 24 Married Charles Clements EVENNETT (aged 31) Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia Note 1
05 Apr 1861 25 Birth of daughter Emily EVENNETT Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 1861/C783
20 Aug 1862 26 Birth of son Charles Clements EVENNETT Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 1862/C900
24 Dec 1866 30 Birth of son Frederick EVENNETT Princhester, Queensland, Australia 1867/C1886
28 Apr 1870 34 Birth of daughter Florence EVENNETT Princhester, Queensland, Australia 1870/C2392
08 Nov 1872 36 Birth of son Ernest EVENNETT Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 1872/C2771
30 Dec 1873 37 Death of husband Charles Clements EVENNETT (aged 44) off Cairns, Queensland, Australia aboard the schooner "Rose" 11
16 Dec 1874 38 Married William JAMIESON (aged 31) Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1874/C78, Evenett & Jamisons 11
06 Mar 1875 39 Birth of daughter Ada JAMIESON Cooktown, Queensland, Australia Note 2 18
1877 41 Birth of son Arthur JAMIESON Queensland, Australia 1877/1715
26 Feb 1878 42 Death of son Arthur JAMIESON (aged 1) Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1878/C393, Jamison 18
03 May 1883 47 Death of father Simon Peter MERRIMAN (aged 81) Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire, England 18
05 Jun 1912 76 Death of son Charles Clements EVENNETT (aged 49) Samarai, New Guinea 11
12 Feb 1918 82 Mary Eliza MERRIMAN died Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 1918/C246
13 Feb 1918 82 Burial Cooktown, Queensland, Australia 18
Note 1: 1860/C171, his age 31, her age 22
Note 2: 1875/C294, Everett, father Charles Edward mother Mary Eliza Merriman. The 1875 date does not fit with Charles' death in Dec 1873. By Rod Fogarty's note, she was William Jamieson's child, and that makes more sense.
Personal Notes:
Mary, widow, married William Jamieson in Cooktown.

According to wedding certificate, Mary was a widow & 35yrs when she married William Jamisons, or spelt Jamieson. According to ages on certs. Mary was born about 1838, however, I have found a baptism for 11/12/1836 at Surfleet, where her siblings were baptised. She was 22 when married to Charles Evennet in 1860. 1841 Census shows Mary aged 5, & 1851 she is 13. Found 2/4/2009 shipping record for Mary Merriman to Australia. N.S.W. Assisted Immigrant Shipping records states the following:- Mary Merriman aged 21 born abt 1837, Housemaid from Spalding, Lincoln, arrived in Botany Bay, N.S.W. 27 February 1858 from Plymouth, U.K. on the ship 'STEBONHEATH'. Her father was Simon still living, & her mother Mary was deceased. Mary was C/E & could read.
According to newspaper, the ship left Plymouth 30 Sept.1857 , & arrived Thursday 22/2/1858 Botany Bay, Sydney. The Sydney Morning Herald 1/3/1858 details an inquest held into the death of Ann Cox, & the poor treatment handed out to the single girls by the matron. The single girls were taken in a carriage to Hyde Park on embarkation. The Stebonheath was struck by a hurricane in the Bay of Biscay on its long voyage to Australia. Mary was married in Rockhampton in 1860.
Source References:
11. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Ancestry dot com, Title: Ancestry
- Reference = Message from MryaFogarty 27/3/09 (Marriage)
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Rod and Myra e-mail attachments 5-4-09 (Immigration)
- Reference = Rod and Myra e-mail attachments 5-4-09 (Birth)
- Reference = Rod and Myra e-mail attachments 5-4-09 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = Rod and Myra e-mail attachments 5-4-09 (Baptism)
- Reference = Rod and Myra e-mail attachments 5-4-09 (Burial)

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