John Thomas Carroll: Bigamy

John Thomas Carroll was born in 1855 in Bacchus Marsh, Victoria, Australia, to George Robert Carroll.


 Inmate: A4 Albury

Rec: 23 Jun 1886

Crime: Bigamy 

Term: 12 months Hard Labor


John was married to Sarah Ann Keast (1857–1926) in 1875 in Victoria, Australia, the had the following children:

George Robert Carroll

1876–1878

John Thomas Carroll

1878–1946

William Carroll

1880–1916

Robert Grenville Carroll

1882–1954

Alfred Ernest Carroll

1884–1944

Allen Dale Carroll

1885–1922

Arthur Septimus Carroll

1887–

Norman Leslie Carroll

1889–1966

Evelyn Carroll

1891–1957


He may also of been married to Julia Angela Burnip in 1877 in Victoria, Australia.


According to the newspaper article I found his bigamy marriage took place in Bourke, Australia I did not find a marriage records for this place.





John died 11 July 1912 in Rhond, Victoria, Australia. 

Below is a lovely family photo I found posted by chooky888 posted on Ancestry. Photo taken about 1900.


John is the old man in the chair.




Comments

  1. Hi Gwen! The John Thomas Carroll who was sentenced for bigamy (above) died in 1910 i Broken Hill. He was first married in 1877 in Gordon (VIC) to Julia Angela Burnip, whom he deserted in 1880 along with their two children. He was then married in 1884 in Menindee (NSW) to Julia McDonald (1863-1940) with whom he had altogether 10 children. There are several articles in Trove about the case if you wish to corroborate this. John (or Jack as he was called) was a bootmaker, and the son of boot- and shoemaker John Carroll och Martha nee Chambers of Bacchus Marsh. John senior was born around 1811 in County Down, Ireland. He married Martha in 1843 in Melbourne and died in 1869 in Bacchus Marsh. "Jack" was never married to a Sarah Ann Keast and it's not him in the family photo. Kind regards, Jonas Nilsson

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