Person:James Bassett (12)

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James Bassett
b.Abt 1833 Breage, Cornwall, England
d.20 Mar 1879 Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Parents and Siblings
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m. 15 Mar 1812
  1. John BassettAbt 1814 - 1815
  2. William BassettAbt 1816 - 1869
  3. John Bassett1820 - 1865
  4. Francis BassettAbt 1823 - 1839
  5. Anne Bassett1826 - 1904
  6. Martha BassettAbt 1828 - 1907
  7. James BassettAbt 1832 - Abt 1833
  8. James BassettAbt 1833 - 1879
  9. Samuel Bassett1838 - 1839
Spouse and Children
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m. 9 Jan 1862
  1. James Bassett1862 - 1862
  2. James Bassett1864 - 1866
  3. William Bassett1865 - 1865
  4. Eleanor Bassett1867 - 1929
  5. Mary Bassett1868 - 1943
  6. James Bassett1871 - 1930
  7. Martha Bassett1874 - 1940
  8. John Bassett1876 - 1917
  9. William Bassett1878 - 1945
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Facts and Events
Name[1] James Bassett
Alt Name[2][3] James Basset
Gender Male
Birth[4][5][6] Abt 1833 Breage, Cornwall, EnglandTroon Tanner
Christening[7] 5 Oct 1834 Breage, Cornwall, EnglandSaint Breaca, Breage Parish Church
Census[6][27] 7 Jun 1841 Breage, Cornwall, EnglandBlowing House Stamps
Census[5][28] 1851 Breage, Cornwall, EnglandGodolphin Mine
Occupation[13][29] 1858
Other[30] Aug 1859 Mining Lease or application
Marriage 9 Jan 1862 Sandhurst, Victoria, Australiato Eleanor Symons
Other 10 Jan 1862 Bendigo Advertiser Newspaper
with Eleanor Symons
Other[14][31] 4 Jun 1862 Police Gazette Theft
Other[15][32] 14 Jun 1862 Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaSailors Gully Road - Signatory on Petition to have Eaglehawk (Sandhurst) proclaimed a Municipal District Mentioned
Residence[16][33] 1863 Sailors Gully, Victoria, Australia
Residence[17][34] 1864 Sailors Gully, Victoria, Australia
Other[18] 12 Jan 1866 Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaHodgson Street (purchased property)
Other[19][35] 12 Jan 1870 Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaElm Street (purchased property)
Residence[20][36] 1871 Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Residence[20][37] 1872 Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Residence[20][21][38] From 1875 to 1878 Eaglehawk, Victoria, Australia
Death[8] 20 Mar 1879 Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaHodgson Street; Cause: Bilious Diarrhrea of 10 days
Other[22][39] 21 Mar 1879 Bendigo Advertiser Newspaper
Burial[9][25] 22 Mar 1879 Eaglehawk Cemetery, Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaE-Mail: [email protected] URL: http://www.bencemtrust.com.au/Eaglehawk_Cemetery.htm Eaglehawk Cemetery 5 Victoria Street, 5 Victoria Street, Eaglehawk,, Victoria 3556 Australia (Grenfell Street, Reserve and Victoria Streets, adjacent to Neangar Memorial Park, Eaglehawk) The Government gazette dated 9th December 1863 stated "A site for a cemetery at Eaglehawk has been reserved by Order of the Government on 28th September 1863". The area reserved was 5 acres fronting Reserve Street. The Eaglehawk Old Monumental Section is laid out in orderly rectangular plats. It has all denominations and a Paupers section. There are many magnificent trees lining the roadways such as Bunya Pines, Morton Bay Figs, Oak, Hoop Pine, Canary Island Pine and Silky Oak. The first recorded burial at the Eaglehawk Cemetery is that of 21 year old John Edmond McDonough. He was interred in Grave 1 Section C on 6th July 1864. Today there is still a monument standing that was erected in his memory. There have been 6 Sextons live in the Sextons Residence formerly located near the front gates of the old monumental section. The cottage was built in the 1870's and was demolished in the 1970's.
Probate[23][40] 5 Jun 1879
Other[9][10][11][12][26] Eaglehawk Cemetery, Eaglehawk, Victoria, AustraliaSection: MON G, Grave Number: 15 Gravesite

(Research):In the Eagle Hawk Pioneers Register they said that Granted Allot 2 Sect 6B Hodgson St, Eaglehawk Parrish, Nerring was purchased by James Bassett Pioneer #417 this infact is incorrect in further research we have found that this allotment was purchased by John Bassett his brother.

References
  1. ↑ Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia. Death Certificate John Bassett. (Reference Details Year 1868, # 8567, Original a certified copy in possession of Sandra Williamson)
    listed on father's (John Bassett) death certificate.
  2. ↑ St Peters - Eaglehawk Entry of Baptism. (Transcribed by the AIGS Bendigo Branch)
    Reg number 68.
  3. ↑ St Peters - Eaglehawk Entry of Baptism. (Transcribed by the AIGS Bendigo Branch)
    Reg number 69.
  4. ↑ Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia. Death Certificate James Bassett. (Reference Year 1879 #1108 Original a certified copy in possession of Sandra Williamson).

    James died in 1879 at the age of 45 years which therefore inidcates he was born in approximately 1834

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Cornwall Online Census Project—1851 - John Snr Martha Bassett exract. (Transcript of Piece HO107/1913(11) (Part 1), Enumeration District 1a, Civil Parish of Breage, Folio 245 Page 14 accessed 5.30pm 17 November 2004).
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Ancestry.com. "1841 England Census." Database Online.. (Ancestry.com Operations Inc. \i Ancestry.com. \i0 . www.ancestry.com.au : 2006)
    (www.ancestry.com.au : accessed 26 Dec 2009), entry for Joh n & Martha Bassett & family: lines 1 - 8, Civil Parish: Bre age; County: Cornwall; Blowing House Stamps; HO107/136/19.
  7. ↑ Church of England. Parish Church of Breage (Cornwall) (Main Author). Parish registers for Breage, 1559-1995. (Microfilm of original records in the County Museum (1960), and later housed at the Cornwall County Record Office, Truro, Cornwall. High reduction microfilm (42X). Use high magnification reader. Cornwall County Record Office: P18/1/1-19, 21-24.)
    Breage Parish Records. Baptisms, Christenings 1827-1959 FH L BRITISH Film Number 254177, Year 1834, Page 149, Entr y #920.

    Name James Son of John & Martha Bassett, Abode Godolphin, fathers occupation Miner, Ceremony performed by H.Todd Curate Reference number: bcb020

  8. ↑ Registry of Birth, Death and Marriages, Victoria, Australia. Death Certificate James Bassett. (Reference Year 1879 #1108 Original a certified copy in possession of Sandra Williamson).
  9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Bendigo Cemeteries Trust Website. (http://www.bencemtrust.com.au)
    BASSETT, JAMES Interment Number: 002192 Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK.

    BASSETT, JAMES
    Date of Death: not available
    Date of Burial: 22/03/1879
    Interment Number: 002192
    Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK
    Section: MON G
    Grave Number: 15

  10. ↑ Bendigo Cemeteries Trust Website. (http://www.bencemtrust.com.au)
    BASSETT, WILLIAM Interment Number: 00102 Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK.

    BASSETT, WILLIAM
    Date of Death: not available
    Date of Burial: 31/12/1865
    Interment Number: 00102
    Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK
    Section: MON G
    Grave Number: 15

  11. ↑ Bendigo Cemeteries Trust Website. (http://www.bencemtrust.com.au)
    BASSETT, JOHN Interment Number: 8707 Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK.

    BASSETT, JOHN
    Date of Death: not available
    Date of Burial: 29/01/1917
    Interment Number: 8707
    Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK
    Section: MON G
    Grave Number: 15

  12. ↑ Bendigo Cemeteries Trust Website. (http://www.bencemtrust.com.au)
    RULE, ELEANOR Interment Number: 009133 Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK.

    RULE, ELEANOR
    Date of Death: not available
    Date of Burial: 22/05/1920
    Interment Number: 009133
    Cemetery: EAGLEHAWK
    Section: not available
    Grave Number: 15

  13. ↑ Annette O'Dononhue & Bev Hanson. Eaglehawk District Pioneer Register Vol 1 ABC. (Maiden Gully, Vic. : A.M. O'Donohue, 1995-<1998>)
    Pioneer #417 p.65.
  14. ↑ Victoria Police Gazette. (VPRO)
    June 5, 1862 p.204.

    'Stolen off a clothes line near the house of James Bassett Sailors Gully Eaglehawk on the night of 27 May, 2 chemises, 2 night dresses, 2 womens night caps, 4 pairs of womens stockings, a linen sheet, 4 pillow slips, a bolster case, an inside flannel shirt, a plush vest, 2 cotton dress-bodies, a lilac cotton print jacket, 4 towels, a childs bonnet, a female inside flannel & 2 pairs of womens drawers' - 4th June, 1862

  15. ↑ Eaglehawk - Signatory on Petition to have Eaglehawk (Sandhurst) proclaimed a Municipal District
    1862, 14th June 79 G/G Pg.1025 C1 Eaglehawk - Signatory o n Petition to have Eaglehawk (Sandhurst) proclaimed a Munic ipal District.
  16. ↑ Borough of Eaglehawk Rates Book
    Year 1863 Rate # 367.
  17. ↑ Borough of Eaglehawk Rates Book
    Year 1864 Rate # 151.
  18. ↑ Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
    Crown Land Grant Vol 182 Folio 36283 on the 12 January 1866.

    Quality: 4 Reference number: LR0017

  19. ↑ Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
    Land Grant 12 Dec 1870 Vol 423 Folio 411.

    Reference number: LR0027

  20. ↑ 20.0 20.1 20.2 Annette O'Dononhue & Bev Hanson. Eaglehawk District Pioneer Register Vol 1 ABC. (Maiden Gully, Vic. : A.M. O'Donohue, 1995-<1998>).
  21. ↑ Sandhurst District Directory 1875-1876. ([Sandhurst, Vic. : C. Jones, ca.1876] Photocopy of original)
    page 152.
  22. ↑ The Bendigo advertiser (microform). (Began Dec. 9, 1853. Sandhurst, Vic. : R.R. Haverfield, -2003. Newspapers - Microfilm - Select reel(s) from cabinets NM)
    Transcribed by Robyn Tumney.
  23. ↑ Probate James Bassett, Administration of Estate 5/6/79 by Eleanor Bassett. (Public Records Office Victoria (PROV), VPRS 28 p2 91).
  24.   Vendors Books, Victoria. (Land Victoria(Natural Resources and Envirnonment))
    Town Lot Grant 4 May 1859 #1142 yr1859.
  25. ↑ Burial Plot# 15G
  26. ↑ No Headstone

    Interred at this site
    James Bassett
    William Bassett
    Eleanor Rule
    John Bassett
  27. ↑ 1. John Bassett, aged 50, Tin Miner, born Cornwall
    2. Martha Bassett, aged 45, , born Cornwall
    3. William Bassett, aged 25, Tin Miner, born Cornwall
    4. John Bassett, aged 20, Tin Miner, born Cornwall
    5. Ann Bassett, aged 15, Dressing, born Cornwall
    5. Martha Bassett, aged 12, Dressing, born Cornwall
    6. James Bassett, aged 8, born Cornwall
    7. Jenifar Moffatt, aged 15, Dressing, born Cornwall
  28. ↑ 1. John Bassett,Head, aged 60,Tin Dresser, born in Madryn Cornwall,,
    2. Martha Bassett,Wife aged 57, born in Paul Cornwall,,
    3. James Bassett, Son, aged 16, Tin Miner, born in Breage Cornwall,,
    4. Martha Bassett, Dau, aged 22,Tin Dressing, born in Breage Cornwall,,
  29. ↑ Worked in Graham & Co's Ground Sailors Gully
  30. ↑ Lease No 102 John Bassett, Francis Bassett. 148 yds quartz area 2 acres 1 rood 2 perches applied for 30 August 1859 but included in Lease 103 Bassett Brothers (John Bassett, William Bassett, James Bassett and Stephen Davey) applied for on 24 August 1859 and granted 2 May 1860. The applicants stated they were working the land as a claim(s). The areas were adjacent being 2 acres 1 rood 2 perches and 5 acres 25 perches and 5 acres 25 perches respectively and situated in Butcher's Gully at the head of Napoleon Gully and Sailor's Gully. The applicants worked the land until the 10 year lease expired on 2 May 1870 but did not apply for renewal of the lease.
  31. ↑ 'Stolen off a clothes line near the house of James Bassett Sailors Gully Eaglehawk on the night of 27 May, 2 chemises, 2 night dresses, 2 womens night caps, 4 pairs of womens stockings, a linen sheet, 4 pillow slips, a bolster case, an inside flannel shirt, a plush vest, 2 cotton dress-bodies, a lilac cotton print jacket, 4 towels, a childs bonnet, a female inside flannel & 2 pairs of womens drawers'
  32. ↑ his occupation was listed as miner. His brother was also a signatory to the petition, and his occupation was listed as quartz crusher.
  33. ↑ a weather board cottage valued at £10
  34. ↑ in a brick cottage, owned by John Bassett valued at £15. Having moved from a weatherboard to a brick house may indicate that for this year he had gone to live with another family such as his brother John Bassett who would have been quite ill by this stage, and not yet declared insolvent by the court. His wife Catherine may have needed assistance/support with his nursing care and with the raising of the children.
  35. ↑ Purchased land via Land Grant for the extension of Hodgson St property to include property behind - Allotment 12 Section 6B Elm St, Eaglehawk, Parrish Nerring
  36. ↑ Number occupying 5 according to the Local Government Valuations recorded for his property.
  37. ↑ Number occupying 6 according to the Local Government Valuations recorded for his property.
  38. ↑ House and Land Sailors Gully according to the Local Government Valuations recorded for his property.
  39. ↑ The friends of Mr. James Bassett are respectfully invited to follow his remains from his late residence Hodgson St., Sailors Gully to the Eaglehawk Cemetery, tomorrow (Saturday). Funeral to move at 4 o'clock. E.C.Brown Undertaker Eaglehawk
  40. ↑ James left no will - Administration of Estate 5/6/79 by Eleanor Bassett (VPRS 28 p2 91) Real Estate Freehold land situated in Hodgson Street, Sailors Gully Eaglehawk on which is errected a weatherboard house with iron roof containing five rooms with division errected of wood 80 pounds.
    Personal Estate
    Household furniture 15.00
    Money in Bank 40.00
    Policy of Insurance National Mutual Life Assurance on life of deceased 200.00

    Debts due by deceased
    Moorehead Merchant Sandhurst 12.00
    Johnston Butcher Eaglehawk 17.00
    Sundry small amounts 12.00
    Notice published in the Argus newspaper 3 April 1879

    Dependants at time of death
    Eleanor Bassett
    Mary Bassett
    Jane Bassett
    John Bassett
    William Bassett
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