BRUCE, Daniel

1822 - 1906  (84 years)  Submit Photo / Document

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• Name	BRUCE, Daniel
  Birth	1822	Falkirk, Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Gender	Male
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  Death	9 May 1906	Williamstown, Victoria, Australia
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  Person ID	I1773	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	KENNEDY, Mary Ann ,   b. 24 Aug 1826, Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotlandd. 28 Mar 1910, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia (Age 83 years)
  Marriage	4 Dec 1846	Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland
  Notes	~SEALING_TO_SPOUSE: Also shown as SealSp 9 May 1998, MTIMP.
  Children	5 sons and 3 daughters
  1. BRUCE, William ,   b. 1849, Glascow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Glascow, Lanarkshire, Scotlandd. DECEASED   2. BRUCE, Jane ,   b. 1850, Glascow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Glascow, Lanarkshire, Scotlandd. DECEASED   3. BRUCE, Mary Ann ,   b. 1859, Ararat, Victoria, Australia Ararat, Victoria, Australia + 4. BRUCE, John ,   b. 1860, Victoria, Australia Victoria, Australiad. Apr 1915, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia (Age 55 years)   5. BRUCE, Robert Preston ,   b. 1861, Redbank, Victoria, Australia Redbank, Victoria, Australiad. 1885, Williamstown, Victoria, Australia (Age 24 years)   6. BRUCE, Elizabeth ,   b. 1864, Redbank, Victoria, Australia Redbank, Victoria, Australia   7. BRUCE, David ,   b. 1866, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia Ballarat, Victoria, Australiad. 1869, Victoria, Australia (Age 3 years)   8. BRUCE, Daniel Jr. ,   b. 1868, Bungaree, Tasmania, Australia Bungaree, Tasmania, Australiad. 1869, Bungaree, Tasmania, Australia (Age 1 year)
  Family ID	F1073	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Daniel appears in the 1841 Scottish Census for Denny, Stirlingshire, Scotland. He is 15-yrs old and an apprentice blacksmith to Thomas Cleland in whose home he lived. At Wellstrand, in Denny. The census also notes that Daniel was born in Denny In the 1851 Census, Daniel and Mary Ann live at 43 Castle Street in Galsgow. He is working as a Blacksmith. Daniel is 26 and Mary Ann is 22-yrs old. They had two children - 3-yr old William (b. abt 1849) and 10 month old Jane (b. 1850). It does not appear that either child came to Australia… There is a 6-yr old Jane Bruce on the 1854 Hornet voyage, but we don't know… On 3 Sept 1852, Daniel arrived in Geelong, Australia on board the Bourneup (Bourneuf). He was 26-yrs old. The Bourneup sailed from Liverpool. It was a 1495 ton clipper under the hand of Master Robert Biddy. It appears possible that Daniel was one of the thousands of miners who flooded the Ballarat gold fields. Certainly as a blacksmith he would have found ample employment there… Mary Ann followed Daniel to Australia in 1854, She sailed on the Hornet (a clipper ship built in 1851 by Westervelt & Mackay, New York. Dimensions: 207'×40'×22' and 1426 tons - it caught fire and burned 03 May 1866), under Capt Alexander Shand. She would have boarded on 29 July 1854 at Liverpool, and they sailed with the tide on 01 Aug 1854. It was an 81-day voyage. The "Hornet" arrived at Geelong on 23rd October 1854. The arrival of the "Hornet" in October 1854 meant that Mary Ann also landed in the biggest crisis the colony had ever faced. This was the revolt of the miners in Ballarat against the arbitrary nature in which their licence to mine was enforced and the corruption of the local officials, which culminated in the Eureka Stockade rebellion, which was crushed on the morning of December 3rd 1854 at Ballarat. As this mythic event in Australia's history. They later settled in Williamstown. The 1903 Electoral Rolls show them living in the Melbourne Ports District in Williamstown North at 7 Mariner Street. Daniel was still working as a blacksmith.