Amess, John Bissett

- Yes, date unknown

• Name	Amess, John Bissett
  Gender	Male
  _UID	6C64F746E21E1346A08FB3FCC04C1E0D7BF6
  Died	Yes, date unknown
  Person ID	I0799	Barton Family Tree
  Last Modified	17 Jul 2010

  
  

  Father	Amess, John Angus,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Mother	Bissett, Issabella,   d. Yes, date unknown
  Lived	Newburgh, Fife, Scotland
  Family ID	F0276	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  John Amess was a sailor and had travelled out in about 1850 with his cousin Samuel, who in abt 1869 was Lord Mayor of Melbourne. Haven't been about to find out exactly when both men travelled out to Australia. Samuel was a stone mason by trade. John Amess was later, in 1859, joined by two of his sisters Margaret and Isabella. Isabella married a Charles Cohen in Young 1863. They had nine children. Just to confuse matters another brother William joined the three siblings in Australia in 1880. William brought his wife and three of his surviving eight children out to Australia. William was also a Master Mariner or sea captain. So in 1850's John Amess and Cousin Samuel Travel to Australia 1859 Margaret and Isabella Amess Travel to Melbourne then Sydney 1889 William Amess and his family travel to Sydney. Left behind were five other children to John and Isabella Amess.