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Submissions: The Letters of Thomas
Higgins
Descendants of Thomas Higgins and Mary Shell
Higgins
family of Currency Creek, Australia
03 Jan 2009
I am currently trying to trace my Higgin’s heritage. My
grandfather was Victor James Higgins, born in 1923,
in the Wincaton area UK . He married Kathleen Jean Morey.
They immigrated to Australia in or around 1952. I believe my
grandfather had two sisters, Una and Eve. He had four brother’s.
Edward, Jack, Leslie and perhaps George. My grandfather served on
the HMS Kelly in WW2. Any assistance you could give me would be
appreciated.
Thanks Kelly Mitchell, Sydney Australia
[email protected]
09 Feb 2008
Trying to trace Higgins family:
Patrick (born 1-1-1825) and John, sons of John
and Margaret Higgins(nee lunuy), left Sligo in 1852 for
Australia. Patrick became quite famous.(see below).
His wife died in childbirth and his son was killed at
sea. John married Frances Benham had a son William
Benham Bennett Higgins. We then lose track of them.
William married twice, First to Eve Rebecca Smart and
had a daughter. He later married Grace Peters in
Dannivirke New Zealand and had 2 sons Jack and Robert.
Grace moved to Australia with the boys after
discovering he was still married to the first wife.
We never found out what happened to him.
Did John have other children?
Can anybody help?
Regards GARY PORTER gjporter AT westnet.com.au
Source:
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A040441b.htm?hilite=higgins
Higgins, Patrick (1825 - 1882)
HIGGINS, PATRICK (1825-1882), contractor and
pastoralist, was born in Sligo, Connaught, Ireland,
son of John Higgins, farmer and tenant of Lord
Palmerston, and his wife Margaret, née Lunuy. Educated
at the Sligo Academy, he became a successful
contractor and, attracted by the gold discoveries, in
1852 migrated to Victoria with his brother John. He
followed Palmerston's advice to continue his career
and with his brother in 1853 won a contract to make
part of the Mount Alexander Road which led to
goldfields at Castlemaine, Chewton and Bendigo. He
obtained many other road-making contracts from the
Public Works Department but in 1857 changed to railway
construction and carried out the extensive earthwork
of the Melbourne and Suburban Railway Co. He also made
part of the Melbourne-Echuca line and engaged in some
profitable squatting ventures with Hugh Glass. In 1858
he became a magistrate. By 1866 Higgins was probably
the leading public-works entrepreneur in Victoria. In
that year he won the contract to construct the Lithgow
section of the zigzag railway in the Blue Mountains
west of Sydney. He completed it in 1869 and, assessing
the great economic potential of the area, promoted the
Lithgow Valley Coal Co. and the Lithgow Pottery. In
1867 he had become a magistrate of New South Wales. He
consolidated his wealth with profitable squatting
investments on the Lachlan and Murray rivers.
Higgins was not so fortunate in his personal life. In
1855 in Melbourne he married Rose, daughter of John
Lynch, of Sligo. Next year she died giving birth to a
son. In 1872 Higgins was taking the boy to Europe to
finish his education when he was lost overboard
between Sydney and Melbourne. Distraught and stricken
with heart trouble, Higgins went to Europe and America
and proved a discerning and observant traveller. On
his return to Sydney in 1876 he determined to enter
public life. By then he was recognized as an
entrepreneur whose pioneering had benefited both
Victoria and New South Wales as well as himself. An
associate of other leading industrialists and
pastoralists, including the relatively small
Irish-Catholic group headed by P. A. Jennings, he was
a director of the Sydney Tramway and Omnibus Co., the
Intercolonial Life Assurance and General Association,
the Intercolonial Board of Executors Trustees and
Agency Co. and other companies.
His popularity did not enable him to enter the
Legislative Assembly. In 1877, despite a progressive
and liberal programme, which included enlightened
nonsectarian views on education and immigration, he
was defeated at Hartley by J. Hurley. In 1879, a year
of crisis for denominational education, Henry Parkes
appointed him a commissioner for the International
Exhibition in Sydney, and in 1881 a Sydney
representative for Melbourne's Exhibition. In
accepting Parkes's nomination to the Legislative
Council in December 1880 Higgins said he was
'impressed with a full sense of the responsibility
which loyalty, duty and independence impose'. The only
Catholic member, Higgins was making a worthy mark in
the council when he died suddenly from heart disease
on 28 January 1882. With Jennings in charge, his body
was taken to Melbourne and buried in the general
cemetery. £10,000 of his estate of £44,000 was left to
his brother, John, and substantial charitable bequests
complemented similar gifts he had made when alive.
Select Bibliography
L. J. Harrigan, Victorian Railways to '62 (Melb, 1962); Bulletin, 1
Jan 1881; Sydney Morning Herald, 30 Jan 1882; Australasian, 4 Feb
1882; Henry Parkes letters (State Library of New South Wales); CO
201/591. More on the resources
Author: Bede Nairn
Print Publication Details: Bede Nairn, 'Higgins,
Patrick (1825 - 1882)', Australian Dictionary of
Biography, Volume 4, Melbourne University Press, 1972,
pp 389-390.
St James Marriage Register 1893 - 1904
http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/church/marriages/sjmr1893.html
23 25 March 1903 MCLEAN Thomas William Bachelor Castle Mountain Labourer 24 Castle Mountain Ewen McLean & Isabella Golding Farmer John Thomas Higgins & Mary Ann Elizabeth Carpenter W S Newton
HIGGINS Lilly Ann Cox Spinster Pitt Town Home Duties 22 Pitt Town Charles Emanuel Higgins deceased & Charlotte Cox Farmer
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Parliamentary Return of Landholders 1885 (District: Windsor):
http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/lists/1885Landholders_H.html
Pitt Town Pitt Town Higgins, Charles 70 5
4 � 7 p.447
Pitt Town Pitt Town Higgins, John 80 10 10 �
6 p.447
Pitt Town Pitt Town Higgins, Robert 102 1 � �
6 p.447
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August 2003
Australasia Births, Deaths and Marriages Exchange
http://www.ausbdm.org/search.php
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may provide links to complete records
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Australia: Civil Registrations: Births Records: 26
Surname Forenames Date
Place
HIGGINS Alma Margaret 20JUL1910 Melbourne VIC 653
HIGGINS Andrew 26JUL1864 Warrabine VIC 653
HIGGINS Annie Ellen 09FEB1906 Carrum VIC 653
HIGGINS Arthur Edgar 13AUG1890 Portarlington VIC 653
HIGGINS Charles John 06MAY1919 South Yarra VIC 653
HIGGINS Clarice Annie 05DEC1903 Carlton VIC 653
HIGGINS Frances Jean 28MAY1922 Port Melbourne VIC 653
HIGGINS Frank Holiday 07APR1897 Carlton VIC 653
HIGGINS Henry
05MAY1870 Little Hard Hills VIC 653
HIGGINS Henry William 26MAR1913 Melbourne VIC 653
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Australia: Civil Registrations: Deaths Records: 20
Surname Forenames Date Place
HIGGINS Amanda 02JUL1943 Northcote VIC 653
HIGGINS Andrew
07AUG1918 Cora Lynn VIC 653
HIGGINS Anne
04JUN1923 Portarlington VIC 653
HIGGINS Annie Ellen 20AUG1983 Wangaratta VIC 653
HIGGINS Arthur Edgar 30SEP1915 Warragul VIC 653
HIGGINS Bessie Elizabeth 16AUG1993 Parkville VIC 653
HIGGINS Elizabeth 24APR1897 Prahran VIC 653
HIGGINS Frank Holiday 21JAN1935 Caulfield VIC 653
HIGGINS George
13NOV1884 Portarlington VIC 653
HIGGINS Henry
10FEB1922 Portarlington VIC 653
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Australia: Civil Registrations: Marriages Records: 19
Groom Forenames Bride Forenames
Date Place
DALDRY Gordon HIGGINS Norma Amanda 11JUN1955 Ormond
VIC 653
ELLIOTT Edwin HIGGINS Jane
26SEP1908 Portarlington
VIC 653
HIGGINS Andrew HUXTABLE Amanda
12FEB1890 Portarlington
VIC 653
HIGGINS Francis WILLIAMS Doris Irene 20DEC1921
Prahran
VIC 653
HIGGINS Henry MEAD Adelaide
25JUL1900 South Yarra
VIC 653
HIGGINS Henry WIFFEN Elizabeth
31MAY1894 Drysdale
VIC 653
HIGGINS James RICHARDSON Charlotte Louisa Barbara
02APR1891 Newstead VIC 653
HIGGINS Norman Andrew
JONES Frances Emma
10JUL1926 Oakleigh VIC 653
HIGGINSON Reginald Joel Thomas
CHAMBERLAIN Clarice Lillian
25MAR1933 Williamstown
VIC 653
HUBBARD Edward John
HIGGINS Alma Margaret 04MAY1928 South Yarra
VIC 653
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Australia: Parish Registrations: Baptisms Records: 2
Surname Forenames Date Place
HIGGINS Bridget 07MAY1848 Yass NSW 386
HIGGINS Rosanna 01DEC1848 Sydney NSW 49
New Zealand: Civil Registrations: Births Records: 1
Surname Forenames Date
Place
HIGGINS Gilbert Leonard 18MAR1880 Mount Grey 506
New Zealand: Civil Registrations: Marriages Records: 4
Groom Forenames Bride Forenames Date Place
BYRNE Clifford James HIGGINSON Evelyn Helen 04OCT1947
Wellington 411
MCKEW Michael REDDINGTON Ann
14SEP1863
Christchurch 666
NEWTH Arthur William HIGGINS Lelia Bertha 08SEP1926
Spring Grove 827
NEWTH Arthur William HIGGINS Martha Harriett 06NOV1901
Wai-iti 827
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17 April 2003
http://bega.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=local&category=general%20news&story_id=222252&y=2003&m=4
Ahkin family reunion this Sunday
Thursday, 17 April 2003
The descendants of George Ah Kin and Mary Higgins are
holding a family reunion at the Bega showground on
Sunday.
George Ah Kin, a full-blood Chinese, arrived in NSW in
the 1850s and Mary Higgins, born in Sydney in 1844,
the fourth child of Michael Higgins and Ann Ryan.
The Ah Kins had 15 children, nine of whom have living
descendants.
It is probable that George and Mary met on the
goldfields and the birth of their first daughter,
Emma, has the family living as Delegate Diggins.
Margaret was born at Bendoc and George, Thomas, Agnes
Mary and Samuel were born at Craigie and it was there
that Mary and George were married according for the
rites of the Church of England.
On the birth certificates of his children, George
named himself as storekeeper and carrier.
In 1874 the family moved to Bombala and in 1875 George
set himself up as a carrier and James Joseph was born.
Wanting to buy land George had to put in a
naturalisation application and in 1861 he purchased
land at Bombala but transferred his land when he moved
to Nimmitabel.
Between 1875 and 1881 George was a hawker.
John Patrick was born in 1877, Alexander in 1878 and
Walter Henry in 1880.
In 1878 Emma (then 13) married John Ab Long and moved
to Sydney.
George and Mary moved to Nimmitybelle and George set
up business as a storekeeper and butcher.
In 1882 Elizabeth Anne was born and 1883 Mary was
born.
Their thirteenth child, William Gabriel, was born in
July 1885 but died the same year.
In 1887 Alice Maud was born but Alexander died aged
nine.
The last of the children, Violet May, was born in
1890.
In a book on Nimitybelle it was recalled that a Mr Ah
Kin of Chinese origin had two pair of dental forceps,
one side curved, the other straight, and he did most
of the extractions for local folk and occasional
travellers.
George Junior, Sam and Tom operated a coach service to
Bega.
Their father became bankrupt and went to Sydney to
live. He died in 1905. Mary died in 1910.
It was George Junior who eventually settled in Bega
and he and his wife Edith Walker had 11 children
This family is the only one who kept the name, though
they put it together to be Ahkin.
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link found concerning this family
http://www.users.bigpond.com/donherbert1/pafg845.htm
George AH KIN/b>. George married Mary HIGGINS.
Mary HIGGINS. Mary married George AH KIN.
They had the following children:
M i George
AH KIN Jnr.
M ii Thomas
AH KIN
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A book reference about this family
Eurasian roots: a story of the life and times of
George Ah Kin and Mary Higgins and their descendants
(A.C.T.: B. Moore, 1994). by Lyons, Barbara Moore.
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http://www.satcom.net.au/mdfhs/scottish.html
Added 05 February 2002
Maryborough Pioneers 1848 - 1868
Queensland Australia)
Born in Scotland
Higgins Ann
Higgins Helen
Higgins James
Higgins Jane
Higgins Joseph Francis
Higgins Mary
Higgins Peter
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http://www.nla.gov.au/exhibitions/fence/picket_2.html
Australian Women's Art
in the National Library's Collections
Anne Higgins
Shan-a-cawbeen 1881 oil on canvas
R11086 Palmer Collection
This small oil painting depicts the slab cottage built
by Anne's son, Henry Bournes Higgins, on his selection
between Narre Warren and Gembrook, now suburban
Melbourne. Henry Bournes Higgins had a distinguished
career as a politician and judge.
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DEAKIN UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
Geelong Lawyers' Collection
Higgins Family
1849-1987
http://www.deakin.edu.au/library/colln/geelawyers/higgins_family/list.html#biognote
The Higgins Family archive by
Vivian Hill
It would be interesting to know if any other family
has served a local community with the provision of
legal services for one hundred and thirty-eight
years. The Higgins family came to Geelong when a
Congregational Minister William Higgins (1805-1876)
responded to John Dunmore Lang's plea to save
Australia from domination by Popery he feared would
come from the Irish migration occurring in the 1840s.
The minister and his family left England on the
"Larpent" in March 1849 and soon after arrival in
Geelong on 29th June his 16 year old son, also named
William, obtained work with the Irish solicitor Joseph
Belcher. After serving Articles and being admitted to
legal practice in 1856 he established his own
business. Some records of that business are held by
the Geelong Historical Record Centre. An examination
of them shows the wide range of the legal practice he
conducted. In all 8 members of the family gave good
legal service to Geelong citizens for well over a
century.
Names of the eight Higgins'
William Higgins 1 and his descendants - Jabez, William
2, Frank Vernon, Charles William, Harold Norman,
Geoffrey Frank and Russell James
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Cemetery Index - Mourambine, Western Australia
| HIGGINS, Helena
Mena |
6 years |
1900 |
| HIGGINS, Ingram |
18 hrs |
1 Jul 1900 |
. . .
. . . . . .
Cemetery
Index - Frankland, Marriot's Farm & Yeriminup Reserve, Western
Australia
| HIGGINS, Clement
Charles |
|
|
| HIGGINS, William |
|
Died 1893 |
. . .
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Cemetery
Index - Jamestown South Australia
| HIGGINS (SISTER M.
SYLVESTER), Elizabeth |
|
Interred
20-May-1894 |
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Ford and Genealogy - Ford Family 1857 - 1935
1.
Richard FORD m. Ann HIGGINS,
Children: |
2.
i Richard FORD b. 19 Jan 1857.
ii James FORD b. 9 Aug 1868,
Tradeston, Glascow, LKS, SCT.
iii Mary FORD b. 21 May 1870,
Hutchesontown, LKS, SCT.
iv Anne FORD b. 23 Feb 1872,
Hutchesontown, LKS, SCT.
v Catherine FORD b. 23 Feb 1872,
Hutchesontown, LKS, SCT.
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Ford Descendants] 28
Dec 2002
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