Query on wives of Joseph Bolitho JONES aka Moondyne Joe

Started by Leanne M (Volunteer Curator - Australia) 🇦🇺 on Friday, August 12, 2022
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[Joseph Bolitho Johns, Convict "Pyreness" 1853 [Bushranger Moondyne Joe] Joseph Bolitho Johns, Convict "Pyreness" 1853 [Bushranger Moondyne Joe]] is on Geni with 2 wives

1) Harriet Jones

  • Joseph JONES married Harriet GILES in 1868 York

2) Louisa Frances Elizabeth Hearn - Johns

  • Joseph Bolitho JONES married Louisa Frances Elizabeth HEARN in 1879 Fremantle

This document is the only source that has Joseph JONES being the same person as Joseph Bolitho JONES - https://www.geni.com/documents/view?doc_id=6000000150158124861

I think that Harriet married a different Joseph JONES

The Western Australian Birth records list the following children for Joseph JONES and Harriet GILES (all but one born in York)

  • 1872 Thomas Alfred
  • 1874 Walter
  • 1877 Ernest George
  • 1880 Reuben Joseph (born Glen Irwin)
  • 1883 Francis William
  • 1886 Charles
  • 1888 Alice
  • 1891 Hannah
  • 1894 Alexander
Private User
8/13/2022 at 3:16 AM

As far as I know, Joseph Bolitho Johns did not have any children. I haven't seen a wedding certificate to know whether or not he was a bachelor when he married Louisa.

Private User
8/13/2022 at 5:11 AM

Have now located a photograph of the marriage certificate of Joseph Bolitho Johns to Louisa Frances Elizabeth Hearne [nee Braddick]. He was a bachelor & she a widow. He names his father as Thomas Johns, Blacksmith. So, that would be his only marriage.

Harriet married a Joseph JONES, she didn’t marry Joseph Bolitho JOHNS

Joseph Jones

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