Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameNelson Alfred JOY
Birth1825, Scotland
Death7 Mar 1904, Adelaide SA
BurialWest Terrace Cemetry Adelaide SA
FatherAlexander JOY
Notes for Nelson Alfred JOY
General Notes: Possibly migrated to America as a child (with family?).
Jumped ship in Albany, West Australia from an American whaler, when aged about 15 years.
Could have been a cabin boy according to Max McGee.
The Dictionary of West Australians has this listing:
'JOY, Nelson, son of Nelson JOY, a mason. Arrived 1840s. Married 6/5/1850 (Albany) Mary
PARSONS, b. 1835, daughter of John, a farming man. Farming at Candyup. Wife,
illiterate.'
Noted events in his life were:
• He immigrated about 1840 to West Australia.13
• He worked as a farmer between 1840 and 1859 in Candyup, Western Australia.
• He travelled to South Australia about 1859.
• He worked as a farm labourer, fisherman in South Australia.
Nelson married Mary PARSONS on 6 May 1850 in St John the Evangelist
Church of England, Albany, West Australia.
Jumped ship in Albany, West Australia from an American whaler, when aged about 15 years.
Could have been a cabin boy according to Max McGee.
The Dictionary of West Australians has this listing:
'JOY, Nelson, son of Nelson JOY, a mason. Arrived 1840s. Married 6/5/1850 (Albany) Mary
PARSONS, b. 1835, daughter of John, a farming man. Farming at Candyup. Wife,
illiterate.'
Noted events in his life were:
• He immigrated about 1840 to West Australia.13
• He worked as a farmer between 1840 and 1859 in Candyup, Western Australia.
• He travelled to South Australia about 1859.
• He worked as a farm labourer, fisherman in South Australia.
Nelson married Mary PARSONS on 6 May 1850 in St John the Evangelist
Church of England, Albany, West Australia.