The Littles and the Bolingbrokes (family tree)

William Henry Bolingbroke (b.1831, d.1880) was born in Hastings, England and took his family to Australia as assisted immigrants in 1873 on the ship, Great Queensland.

His family, including 5 year old daughter, Atlas / Agnes Bolingbroke (b.1868, d.1925) settled in Queensland. One of the children, William aged 1, died on the journey. Sometime between 1873 and 1880 William senior returned to England and he died in Hastings in 1880.

William's wife, Charlotte Cattermole (b.?, d.1905) remained in Brisbane. It is uncertain whether she re-married but in the 1903 electoral roll, she is listed as living with James Moulder.

George Little (b.1859, d.?) married Atlas Bolingbroke in Fortitude Valley, Brisbane in 1882. George was born in London and was a carpenter, as was his father James Little (b.?, d.?).

According to her birth certificate, Atlas was only 14 years old when they married yet she claimed to be 16. She died in Alexandria, Sydney aged 55, having given birth to 7 children - her first when she was 15 - including Robert Hartley Little, the youngest.

Robert Hartley Little (b. 1894, d. 1959) was born in Alexandria and died in St Peters. He worked as a bookmaker. He married Hilma Josephine Johnson (b. 1893, d. 1964) in Redfern in 1911 - she was 17 at the time.

It appears that Robert was under the legal age of marriage for a male (18) when he married Hilma. Though he claimed to be 18 on his marriage certificate, his birth certificate shows he was only 17. It also seems that they had a daughter, Alma around 1910, out of wedlock.

The Johnsons (family tree)

The Johnson sub branch is proving to be the most difficult to find out about.

Hilma Josephine Johnson (b. 1893, d.1960-64) who married Robert Hartley Little (above), may have been illegitimate. On her birth certificate, her mother is listed as Hilma Johnson (b. 1875, d. 1944) but her father's name is not shown.

According to family recollections, Hilma Josephine worked at the Australia Hotel in central Sydney as a barmaid and was still alive when Robert died in 1959, perhaps dying around 1960 - 64. They also recall that she was also known as Rose. There appears to be no record of her death in NSW, though she lived around Erskineville.

Hilma Johnson may have married a man called Thomas Jones around 1894. She died as Hilma Josephine Jones.

Hilma Johnson's father was Nils Johanson (b.?, d.1904), the son of Hans Johanson. Investigations continue into how Nils arrived in Australia but it may have been as an assisted immigrant aged 30 on the Eugenie (See page 7), which arrived in Queensland in Oct, 1873.