Joseph Tame

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Elizabeth Curtain (née James) on 2nd August 2016

Joseph Tame was born in Dorchester, Oxfordshire. England in 1804 to Mary Cherill and father unknown (John Tame was her first husband and John Powell her second) but Joseph was born in the several, or intervening, years between the two marriages. (base born). He became a wine cooper (bottles filled on and off ships) in the East End of London. He married Martha Brown (born 1806 Bethnal Green London-1885 2 Royal Terrace Merton St, Emerald Hill now South Melbourne or Albert Park-home of her grandson Alfred Ernest James, elder brother of my great grandfather Charles Frederick James 1868 Port Albert-1935) on the 18th of February 1833 at St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch, London England. She was the daughter of Mary Rowe and Edmund Clegg Turner Brown a master weaver in London. Martha and Joseph Tame had two children who were baptised at St Mary's Whitechapel, Stepney, London, England. Joseph James Tame 11th Dec 1833-1865? (remained in England, married Matilda Dabbs, at least one child) and Emma Eliza Tame born 8th August 1836 in Great Prescott St, Tower Hamlets, London England (Christened 4th Sept 1836 - March 29th 1897 at 42 Fawkner St, South Yarra, Melbourne), my great, great grandmother. Emma Tame (the convict's daughter) was married three times, firstly to William James from Carisbrooke and Newport on England's Isle of Wight at Holy Trinity Anglican Church in Launceston Tasmania, Australia on the 5th of May 1857, then Henry Morres (b.Isle of Wight England) in 1884 (South Melbourne, Bridport St) and then Robert John Morgan (born Sydney NSW, also at Port Albert in 1850's to 1870's died in Bairnsdale, Vic in 1898). Emma and William James had eight children in Port Albert, Alberton, Vic with seven surviving to adulthood. Emma Eliza James Sept 1858 Port Albert, William Joseph Butler James 1860-1887, Alfred Ernest James 1862, Martha Maud Mary James 1864, Ada Augusta Alberta James 1867, Charles Frederick James 1868, Leonard Harold James 1870-1871 died at age 11months buried with father William James at Old Alberton Cemetery and Grace Oakfield James 1872. Joseph Tame was convicted at the Old Baillie or Central Criminal Court in London for being in Possession of 144 purportedly stolen wine bottles or for being in receipt of stolen goods 29th September1836. Newgate Prison. He was transported on the ship Sarah, leaving Spithead off Portsmouth IOW on 22nd Dec 1836 and arriving in New Twon Bay, Hobart on 29th March 1837. He eventually settled (Martha and Emma arrived in Launceston Tas in 1851 on the Stirlingshire) at 44 Cimetere St Launceston Tas where he became a market gardener and Orchardist at the Government Cottage. (small brick or stone one story dwelling surrounded by a walled garden at the side). He won prices for his fruit and vegetable growing at the Melbourne Victorian Exhibitions in the 1860's (1867). Plum Trees were his speciality. I love them too!