Job GODBER [1343]

  General Notes:

Job was the third of eight children. He apparently worked his passage to Australia as a Ships' carpenter arriving in Melbourne during Jan of 1841. His wife and second family did not follow until 10 years later in 1851. Meanwhile his daughter Martha, died in Sutton in Ashfield at the age of 9 in 1844. The children from his first marriage married and settled in England. After arriving in Melbourne Job worked as a carpenter and at one stage worked on the building of St. James Old Cathedral. In the 1869 Directory he is listed as a joiner at 206 Lonsdale St Melbourne. His photograph is included in the Chuck Collection. In approximately 1870, Job and Mary moved to Wesbourne Grove Northcote. <@Godber/Wilson*1>

Godber/Wilson 150 Years of Settlement and Growth, Family Gathering March 1988, Mary Mears, Diamond Creek News,

Job married Rosamund WARD [1346] [MRIN: 420], daughter of Joseph WARD [12726] and Mary [12727], on 23 Dec 1820 in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England.²³⁵² (Rosamund WARD [1346] was born in 1799 in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England ²³⁵³ and was christened on 14 Nov 1802 in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England ²³⁵⁴.)

Job next married Mary BARLOW [1342] [MRIN: 418], daughter of George BARLOW [4105] and Ann MORLEY [4106], on 23 Nov 1831 in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England.²³⁴⁷ (Mary BARLOW [1342] was born in 1809 in , Nottinghamshire, England, christened on 27 Mar 1809 in Sutton in Ashfield, Nottinghamshire, England,²³⁴⁸ died on 20 Jul 1879 in Norwood, South Australia, Australia ²²⁵³ and was buried on 23 Jul 1879 in Diamond Creek, Vic, Australia.)