James William Filleul 1834-1913

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James William FILLEUL 1834 - 1913

3rd Child and 3rd Son of
Jean Filleul and Marguerite GALLACHAN

James William Filleul

James William FILLEUL	Marriage Date & Place 10 July 1860 at Forth		Jane Firrier HOWIESON (See note on name)
Born 14 Feb. 1834 at "Verclut Cottage" in the Parish of Grouville Vingtaine de la Rocque - Jersey - Channel Isles. Died 26 May 1913 at Forth Tasmania. See below for some details of his life. Click here for more details of the ancient FILLEUL family.		Born 10 August 1844 Dalkieth, Scotland Died 31 August 1935 See below for some details of her life
Details of Children
Name	Born	Died	Comments
John James	1861	1942	Lived in Tasmania
Agnes Elizabeth	1862	1954	Lived in Tasmania
Jane Margaret	1864	1900	Lived in Tasmania
Adelina	1866	1960	Lived in Tasmania
James Albert	1868	1956	Lived in Tasmania
Isabella Matilda	1870	1965	Lived in Melbourne m. Alphonso Robert BUNTON
Flora Levina	1872	1959	Lived in New Zealand
Emma Amelia	1874	1921	Lived in Tasmania
Walter Wiliam	1876	1972	Lived in Tasmania m. Alice Maud McCall 1901
Ernest Alfred	1879	1972	Lived in New Zealand m. Florence Veal 1904
Lilian Lois	1882	1972	Lived in Melbourne m. Frederick Edwin Penhall (1884-1953)
Percival Clement	1883	1956	Lived in Sydney & Hobart m. Mary Emma DAVEY
Eva Priscilla	1885	1885	Lived in Tasmania
Selby Le Cornu	1887	1956	Lived in New Zealand
Gladys Priscilla	1888	1930
`Following notes on James Filleul have been taken from Hedley Bunton's family book.` James William Filleul was of French descent. His mother's tongue was French. He started his career in Jersey as a carpenter but later went to sea and became second mate on a ship which called at Launceston in Tasmania during the Australian gold rush of the 1850s. The lure of gold was too much for him and two other ship's officers and, hoping to make their fortunes on the gold fields on the mainland, they deserted their ship as did thousands of seamen in those days. His two fellow deserters were captured and he, in hiding, saw them handcuffed by the police and taken back to the ship. After the ship had left James gave himself up to police. What penalty, if any, he had to pay is not on record. But Tasmania attracted him so much that, instead of going off to look for gold, he took up farming, growing potatoes as some farmers did in Jersey. He spent most of the rest of his life on "Benacre" farm at Kondred, near Forth. Eventually he moved to another farm at Forth which he called "Verclut" after his birthplace in Jersey. `See below for more details of the ancient FILLEUL family.`		`Jane Firrier Howieson` (See note on name)`emigrated from Scotland in 1856-57 on the ship "Forest Monarch". She was 13 and one of eight children at that time.` `Her mother, Agnes, had two marriages with Jane being from the second:-` `Agnes Wilson b.1811 d.Ulverstone 1895` `# m.13 Apr 1833 Peter Gardner` `at Parish of Borthwick, Midlothian` `Children - William b. c.1834` `- Alexander b. c.1835` `- David b. c.1837` `- Isabella b. c.1838` `(Names and ages from the Register of` `Passengers of the ship "Forest Monarch")` `# m.17 Oct 1841 James Howieson` (See note on name) `(b.1818 d.at Ulverstone 1887)` `at Parish of Borthwick, Midlothian` `Children - Margaret b. 21 Jun 1842` `- Margaret b. 22 Apr 1843` `- Jane b. 22 Jul 1844` `- Agnes b. 23 Oct 1846` `- John b. 10 Jan 1849` `(1st child born at Borthwick. Others at` `Newbattle which is the parish next to` `Borthwick near Edinburgh)` `* The name "Howieson" is recorded with this spelling on the marriage certificate of Alphonso and Isabella and is used on some photos. The name is shown as "Howison" on the Register of Passengers of the ship "Forest Monarch" on which she came to Tasmania. The former spelling is therefore the most likely.`