Anderson+Family+History

The ANDERSON FAMILY Photo of John Anderson taken 1901 || JOSEPH ANDERSON emigrated to Australia in 1882 from Kirkintilloch, Scotland with his two oldest children, Joseph and Elizabeth, and their spouses, and grandchild Mary Lamont. When they had settled the other three girls and second son joined them, and finally, in 1885 his wife Mary and youngest son John arrived.
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Soon after the whole family moved to wagga Wagga, with the exception of second son James, who was well employed in Sydney. Joseph Anderson set up a plumbing and hardware business in Wagga with his son-in-law Jack Lamond as partner. After a few years Joseph bought out Jack Lamond's share for his own son, Joseph, and the Lamonds moved to Katoomba to set up a similar business.

The youngest son, John, married Ada McCLURE and lived in the Kogarah area of Sydney producing a family of four boys, Joseph, George, Malcolm and John, and a girl Hazel who was later to marry Charles GOULD. || Another son, named John, apparently died at birth in 1910. Joseph suffered a form of stroke at age 13 which took him 10 years to recover from. Jack (John) died in an air crash whilst serving with the RAAF in Canada in 1944. Malcolm also died in 1944, as did father John. Joseph and mother Ada both died in 1951 leaving Hazel with brother George as the only surviving member of her family.

Hazel trained as a nursing sister and spent most of her working life in that vocation. She was a prolific writter, having many stories and poems published in various magazines and newspapers. She died in 1985 aged 69