James Bodinnar BlewettAge: 81 years1873–1955
- Name
- James Bodinnar Blewett
- Given names
- James Bodinnar
- Surname
- Blewett
Birth | between October 1873 and December 1873 26 23 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0012935726 : accessed 1 June 2016 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=bmd%2fb%2f1873%2f4%2faz%2f000051%2f302 : accessed 5 June 2016 |
Birth of a sister | Olivia Agnes “Liv” Blewett June 24, 1875 (Age 20 months) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0012935726 : accessed 1 June 2016 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=bmd%2fb%2f1875%2f3%2faz%2f000053%2f243 : accessed 5 June 2016 Text: BET OCT 1875 AND DEC 1875 Source: 1939 Register, UK Citation details: War register: Olivia A BLEWETT and Ida BLEWETT (1939), https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=TNA/R39/6697/6697E/010/14 : accessed 20 Sep 2020 |
Birth of a sister | Ida Blewett August 23, 1877 (Age 3 years) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0012935726 : accessed 1 June 2016 Text: ABT 1877 Source: 1939 Register, UK Citation details: War register: Olivia A BLEWETT and Ida BLEWETT (1939), https://www.findmypast.com/transcript?id=TNA/R39/6697/6697E/010/14 : accessed 20 Sep 2020 |
Birth of a brother | Thomas Blewett about October 1878 (Age 5 years) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1911%2frg14%2f14057%2f0037%2f4 : accessed 1 June 2016 Note: Census mentions 1 deceased child
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Death of a brother | Thomas Blewett June 25, 1879 (Age 5 years) Age: 9 months Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1911%2frg14%2f14057%2f0037%2f4 : accessed 1 June 2016 Text: Mentions 1 deceased child Source: The Cornishman Publication: Newspaper Citation details: July 3, 1879, p8, http://search.findmypast.com/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2F0000331%2F18790703%2F108 : accessed 5 June 2016. |
Birth of a brother | Thomas Blewett January 16, 1881 (Age 7 years) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1881%2f0010573368 : accessed 1 June 2016 Text: 2 months old on 3 April 1881 |
War | from December 20, 1880 to March 23, 1881 (Age 7 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Boer_War Note: First Boer War
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Economic Event | 1881 (Age 7 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barberton,_Mpumalanga#Gold Note: In 1881 gold in the Barberton area was discovered by Tom McLachlan who found alluvial gold at Jamestown. However due to the location (the hot lowveld region was rife with malaria) no-one wanted to go there until Auguste Roberts (French Bob) discovered gold in Concession Creek in 20 June 1883. This discovery resulted in a gold rush to the area
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Economic Event | 1886 (Age 12 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_industry_of_South_Africa Note: Discovery of the Main Reef in Witwatersrand. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all.
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Census | April 5, 1891 (Age 17 years) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0012935726 : accessed 1 June 2016 |
Occupation | Mason's apprentice 1891 (Age 17 years)Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbc%2f1891%2f0012935726 : accessed 1 June 2016 |
Epidemic | February 1, 1901 (Age 27 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1901_in_South_Africa Note: Bubonic plague breaks out in Cape Town
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War | from October 11, 1899 to May 31, 1902 (Age 26 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Boer_War Note: Second Boer War
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Historical Event | from 1852 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Republic Note: The South African Republic (Dutch: Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, ZAR), often referred to as the Transvaal and sometimes as the Republic of Transvaal, was an independent and internationally recognised country in Southern Africa from 1852 to 1902.
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Historical Event | from 1854 to 1902 Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Free_State Note: The Orange Free State (Dutch: Oranje-Vrijstaat, Afrikaans: Oranje-Vrystaat) was an independent Boer sovereign republic in southern Africa during the second half of the 19th century, and later a British colony and a province of the Union of South Africa. It is the historical precursor to the present-day Free State province
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Epidemic | February 1904 (Age 30 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1904_in_South_Africa Note: Pneumonic plague breaks out in Johannesburg
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Epidemic | 1906 (Age 32 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_in_South_Africa Note: Tuberculosis reaches epidemic proportions in South Africa
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Historical Event | May 31, 1910 (Age 36 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_of_South_Africa Note: Union of South Africa established
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Emigration | September 7, 1912 (Age 38 years) Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=tna%2fbt27%2f0782000110%2f00029 : accessed 4 June 2016 Shared note: Blewett travelling party (1912: Dunluce Castle) |
Occupation | Mason 1912 (Age 38 years)Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=tna%2fbt27%2f0782000110%2f00029 : accessed 4 June 2016 |
Epidemic | 1912 (Age 38 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1912_in_South_Africa Note: Smallpox outbreaks: The outbreak of smallpox is reported in the Malay Location, Johannesburg and cases of smallpox are discovered in Durban
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Marriage | Beatrice Whitford — View this family January 6, 1915 (Age 41 years) Husband: 40 years Wife: 26 years Publication: database, FamilySearch Citation details: Marriage: James Bodiner BLEWETT and Beatrice WHITFORD (1915), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91V-TS6S-B?cc=2727134 : 27 September 2019), > image 1 of 1; Citing NARS "Civil registration (marriages - coloureds), Transvaal and Swaziland, 1898-1927." The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria : accessed 20 Sep 2020 |
Residence | 1915 (Age 41 years) Address: 38 Bedford Street, Benoni Publication: database, FamilySearch Citation details: Marriage: James Bodiner BLEWETT and Beatrice WHITFORD (1915), (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-C91V-TS6S-B?cc=2727134 : 27 September 2019), > image 1 of 1; Citing NARS "Civil registration (marriages - coloureds), Transvaal and Swaziland, 1898-1927." The National Archives and Records Service of South Africa, Pretoria : accessed 20 Sep 2020 |
Death of a mother | Elizabeth “Bessie” Bodinnar May 1, 1918 (Age 44 years) Age: 68 Address: Sheffield Road Cemetery,
Cornwall Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fd%2f77166536%2f1 : accessed 4 June 2016 |
War | from July 28, 1914 to November 11, 1918 (Age 40 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I Note: World War I
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Epidemic | 1918 (Age 44 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1918_in_South_Africa Note: Spanish flu: An estimated 500,000 people die from the Spanish flu epidemic in South Africa, the fifth hardest hit country in the world
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Economic Event | October 1929 (Age 56 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://goo.gl/MgHbRM Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century
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Death of a father | John Thomas Blewett June 5, 1936 (Age 62 years) Publication: Newspaper Citation details: 1936, June 11, p11 Publication: Record transcription Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=bmd%2fd%2f1936%2f2%2faz%2f000081%2f139 : accessed 4 June 2016 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fd%2f77166535%2f1 : accessed 4 June 2016 |
Burial of a father | John Thomas Blewett calculated June 7, 1936 (Age 62 years) Address: Sheffield Road Cemetery,
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Cornwall Publication: Newspaper Citation details: 1936, June 11, p11 Citation details: http://search.findmypast.com/record?id=gbprs%2fd%2f77166535%2f1 : accessed 4 June 2016 |
War | from September 1, 1939 to September 2, 1945 (Age 65 years) Source: Wikipedia Citation details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II Note: World War II
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Death | about 1955 (Age 81 years) Publication: National Archives of South Africa Citation details: Estate file: James Bodinar BLEWETT (1955-1976), NAB MSCE #480/1955 Text: Description: BLEWETT, JAMES BODINAR. BORN IN CORNWALL. S/SP BLEWETT, BEATRICE. (BORN WHITFORD). SINCE DECEASED, EST. NO. Starting: 1955 Ending: 1976 |
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James Bodinnar Blewett , mason's apprentice (in 1891) and mason (in 1912), son ofJohn Thomas Blewett andElizabeth “Bessie” Bodinnar , was born between October 1873 and December 1873 in Mousehole, Cornwall, England and died about 1955. He marriedBeatrice Whitford on January 6, 1915 in Johannesburg, Gauteng. She was born calculated 1889 in Clunes, Victoria, Australia.