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- 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.
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