Scard Family 
James Scard
[1830-1873?]
of NSW, Australia
Formerly of Henstridge, Somerset. Born at Reading Berkshire
Spouse: Mary Candy
[1839-1929]
[may have had a 2nd Spouse]
James Scard
[1830-1873?]
Continued….. from the Epilogue in the Biography of his father James Scard of Henstridge 
![Biography of James Scard [1800-1879] of Henstridge. Born Fiddleford Dorset](A folder 33333.gif)
RECAP: James Scard [the younger] leaves England;
James departed England per the Immigration Ship 'Beejapore' [built at Liverpool 1851] departing Southampton,
Hampshire on the 2nd December 1856, Edward M Drenning the Master.
Bound for Sydney, NSW, Australia, aboard were 193 adult males, 167 adult females, 39 male children, 53 female
children, 9 male infants and 8 female infants. The duration of the voyage was three months and twelve days!
Also traveling onboard was eighteen-year-old Mary Candy and her elder brother George of Wilton, Wiltshire.
During the voyage a ship-board courtship began between James and Mary.
Mary Candy: Mary was born 4th August 1839 at Wilton, Wiltshire the daughter of Isaac Candy and his
wife Elizabeth nee Gerrish. Her brother George was born 1835 and several other siblings
were also recorded see link below.
Her father had died late in 1851, six years prior to her departure. Her widowed mother was
living at their home in Faney Row Wilton [1851/1861 Census].
More information regarding Mary’s parents, childhood, siblings and her family can be
accessed in the Biography of her father Isaac Candy
1857: Arrival at the Colony;
Berthing in Sydney Harbour on the 14th March 1857, the Ship's Stewart completed the passenger details on arrival.
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Transcription;
Condition [on arrival]: 'good'
Age: '22' [actually he was 26]
Calling [Occupation]: 'Baker and Miller or Groom'
Native Place and County [Birth]: 'Reading Berkshire'
Parent's names, and if alive, their
residence: 'James & Jane living Henstridge, Somersetshire'
Religion: 'C of E'
Read or Write: 'both'
Relations in the Colony: 'Uncle John Gow. Miller &Baker, Bathurst (Brucedale)' *.
James paid ₤1 for the voyage.
* Investigations have been made in Australia, very little evidence has been found for John Gow [Low].
Young James very likely spent at least the last seven to nine years before immigrating at Hampshire.
The Uncle John Gow he mentions was very likely from this area. Little joy with 1841 & 1852 Census.
Correspondence from Brucedale to England is certain, for James to know of his Uncle's whereabouts,
although it is doubtful that young James Scard ever worked at Brucedale himself as he was working
as a Grocer when he married Mary Candy in Sydney five months after their arrival.
Mary & George Candy;
Mary Candy’s Shipping information reads;
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Mary's brother George Candy Shipping information reads;
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Transcriptions;
Mary’s condition on arrival: ‘left blank!’, Age: '19', Calling [Occupation]: 'Housemaid', Native Place and
County [Birth]: 'Wilton, Wiltshire', Parent's names, and if alive, their residence: 'Isaac & Elizabeth, father dead,
mother living at Wilton', Religion: 'C of E', Read or Write: 'both', Relations in the Colony: 'none'.
NOTE: Her brother gives details of a cousin 'John Gerrish' soon to arrive - See Epilogue.
Mary paid 10/- [10 Shillings] for the voyage. See Full Images & Transcriptions
After arrival James appears to have taken work in Sydney as a Grocer and his courtship of Mary Candy continued
for a further five months.
1857: Marriage;
On the 10th August 1857 James ‘William’ Scard married Mary Candy at the Presbyterian Church, Pitt Street,
South Sydney witnessed by Mary’s brother George [with his consent] and Fanny Nithey.
The Groom was recorded as aged 22yrs and the Bride 21yrs.
The Officiating Minister was James Fullerton. James has adopted the middle name ‘William’.
1858: By May the following year James and Mary had moved to the Country Township of Grafton 600kms North
where James purchased a Property North of the township later that year in July.
The Sydney Morning Herald; 21st July 1858
CLARENCE RIVER - LAND SALE
Lot 3; 220 - North Grafton - James Scard - Paid £10. 2s 6d.
Issue;
1858: Child 1: Harriet Elizabeth Scard [1858-1858];
Recorded ‘unnamed’ Scard born 23rd May 1858.
The infant was baptised Harriet Elizabeth Scard two weeks later at Grafton on the 8th June 1858 [Cof E].
This child is believed to be the namesake of James’s only sisters Harriet & Elizabeth who died in England ten years
prior at the ages of 13yrs and 16yrs respectively at Henstridge, Somerset, England.
Harriet Elizabeth did not to survive, buried five weeks later later 19th July 1858 aged 2 months.
1859: Child 2: William James Scard [1859-1940];
Recorded ‘unnamed’ Scard born 5th October 1859 at North Grafton.
The infant was baptised William James Scard eight weeks later at Grafton on Christmas Day 25th December 1859 [CofE].
[A copy of the Baptism Certificate is available by request]
1862: Child 3: Alfred Henry Scard [1862-1951]
Civil Registration: Alfred Henry Scard born 1862 at Grafton.
Considered the namesake of James' brothers Alfred and Henry in England.
1864: Child 4: Geraldine Theresa Scard [1864-1884];
Recorded born in Grafton 15th June 1864 at Kempsey.
1869: It was soon after this time that the marriage between James and Mary broke down.
His son William James Scard and his mother Mary tell the year of the event.
Just prior to 1869 James deserted his wife and children and a Grafton Property was published for Sale.
Sydney Morning Herald - same advertisement appears: Saturday 6th March 1869 & Saturday, 1st May 1869;
Lot No. 2250 Town of Grafton
2 acres 2 roods - Suburban Lot 1 of Section 39 - Granted to James Scard.
Name of Applicants: Anthony Schwartz & Nicholas Dittman
Residence: Grafton
Dates up to & incl. of which Caveats may be lodged: May 14 1869.
It is said that James had looked after horses for the East India Company, his whereabouts said to be unknown.
Mary was tight-lipped as was her son William, it is believed they knew a possible truth.
James does not appear to have returned to England, the subsequent Census from 1871 – 1901 does not record his
residence but several documents hint at his whereabouts;
INSOLVENCY in 1873:
An Insolvency record was found in the State Records NSW Sequestration on 14/1/1873 No. 11372
for James Leard [alternative transcription Seard], farmer of Merriwa, NSW.
Upon investigations on my behalf at the NSW State Record Office and several newspaper articles it is considered
that this item is LEARD and irrelevant to the Scard Family.
Possible second marriage;
2] The date ‘1869’, by chance coincides with a possible name change and a marriage to Margaret ‘Sodden’
at Sydney on the 8th November 1869 under the name ‘William James Scard’ [his son's name].
[James’ son ‘William James Scard’ by Mary Candy was only 10yrs old at this time]
The details recorded on the document were clandestine.
Two children were recorded and subsequently the death of William James Scard in 1872 recorded spouse of Margaret
Sodden, aged 32yrs. The Documents were ordered.
Investigations revealed; See link to transcripts of documents and research.
Epilogue
Mary Scard [nee Candy]: wife of James Scard;
After James left, Mary struggled to survive with her three surviving children William aged 10, Alfred aged 7 and
Geraldine 'Theresa' aged five.
Her brother George who had been previously living at Grafton and now married had, by 1869 moved south to Woolongong.
Around 1872 Mary formed a relationship with Henry Hillary and the family moved to northward to Bellingen where
Mary gave birth to the first of their four children; Stephen Hillary in 1873, the couple unable to sanction the union
[probably because Mary was still technically married]
Around 1876 Mary and Henry with Mary's three children by James Scard moved further northward to Kempsey where
Mary gave birth to Berthenier Hillary 1876, Isaac Henry Hillary 1877 and Ellen Elizabeth Hillary in 1881.
Henry Hillary married Mary Scard [nee Candy] in 1882 at Sydney.
Mary’s sons by James Scard also moved to Kempsey, marrying there and both having issue in the township.
Mary and Henry and Mary's son William Scard and his family moved to Emu Vale in Queensland where Mary’s
beloved Henry Hillary died on the 4th November 1893.
Mary conducted a small mixed business at nearby Yangan.
At the age of sixty Mary then married Henry Williams at Warwick, Qld.
They continued the mixed business at Yangan.
Mary Williams [formerly Hillary, formerly Scard, nee Candy] died in October 1929 at the age of ninety-one and is
buried beside her beloved daughter Geraldine Theresa Scard at Rookwood Cemetery in Sydney.
The full details of Mary's life subsequent to James' desertion is entwined in the
Biography of her son William James Scard.
William James Scard: Eldest son of James Scard & Mary [nee Candy];
When very young he was sent to work on a nearby farm whilst his mother struggled to support the family,
William was ill-treated during his apprenticeship at the farm.
Still a young boy he gained training as a carpenter and became a remarkable tradesman.
William James Scard married 1] Emma Hurst the daughter of Isaiah & Sophia at Kempsey in 1884.
They followed William's mother to Emu Vale in Queensland where they settled for fourteen years.
William lost his farm in the 'Great Federation Drought' in at the turn of the Century.
He then began a restless migratory pattern for the rest of his life.
William and his family traveled hundreds of kms up and down the NSW coast where he worked as a carpenter and
a photographer also buying, working and selling farms intermittently over the years.
Emma died in 1810 of Typhoid Fever, the very illness which took the life of his sister many years before.
In all William and Emma had 13 children of which only six survived infancy;
Child 1: Lillian Grace Scard born 24th May 1884 at Kempsey.
Married Bernard Goldman in 1873 at Coffs Harbour. They had issue. Further details withheld.
Child 6: Frederick Wilton Scard born 17th April 1891 Frederickton Qld.
Married Reta Youngblutt in 1915 at Murwillumbah, NSW and had issue. Further details withheld.
Child 9: Retea Norine Scard born 10th July 1896 at Emu Vale.
Married Matthew Ward at Sydney 1926. They had issue. Further details withheld.
Child 11:William James Scard born 27th April 1899 at Emu Vale.
Married Gladys Hanby 1929 and had issue. Further details withheld.
Child 12:Harold Agustus Scard born 2nd April 1902 at Emu Vale.
Married Thelma Olive McKay at Berala 1928. Had issue. Further details withheld.
Child 13:Vincent Henry Scard born 16th April 1905 at Casino. Married Gladys Brewer at Gunning. Had Issue.
Further details withheld.
At the age of fifty-six William married 2] Ivy Sophia Ehlers [twenty-two years old] in 1913 at Brisbane, Queensland.
William had a further four children by Ivy of which all survived infancy.
Child 14: Ronald Henry Scard born 1914 at Tygallah.
Married Christine Kelly 1932. Had one child Donald who did not survive. Further details withheld.
Child 15: John Scard born 1921. Never married. Further details withheld.
Child 16: Sylvia 'Girlie' Scard born 1923. Died of Bright's Disease at the age of nine years.
Child 17: Betty Scard born 1925. Married and had issue.
Further information: See Full Biography of William James Scard
Alfred Henry Scard: Son of James Scard & Mary [nee Candy];
Alfred was witness to the 1st marriage of his brother William James Scard to Emma Hurst at Kempsey in 1884.
Alfred like his brother was a carpenter working together on many projects over their early married lives.
Alfred Scard married Amy Eveline Rudder the daughter of Julian John Rudder and his wife Mary Ann nee Chilcot
in 1884 at Kempsey. They had 3 children:
Child 1: Ruby Leighton Scard born in 1885 at Kempsey. Ruby died aged 1 year at Kempsey in 1886.
Child 2: Sylvia Leighton Scard born in 1887 at Kempsey.
Sylvia Scard married 1] Reginald Alwyn Bowen in 1911.
Reginald was killed in Service [WWI], buried at Brewery Orchard Cemetery Nord, France in 1915.
They had one daughter Adele Bowden born 27th Sept. 1913 who married and had issue.
More information: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~yewenyi/6/25110.htm
At the age of sixty-four Sylvia Leighton Bowen [nee Scard] married 2] Albert Solomon Bennett
at Manly, Sydney in 1951
Sylvia died five years later 7th October 1956 at Manly under the name Sylvia Leighton Bennett
her parents noted as Alfred H. Scard and Amy E.
Child 3: Charles Gerald Scard born 7th Aug 1890 Kempsey.
Charles Gerald Scard married Lilian Adelaide Lucy Radley [1891-1969] in 1914 at Sydney
and had issue.
Charles died in 1963 at Manly, Sydney at the age of seventy-three.
Amy and Alfred appear to have separated around 1902.
Alfred's brother William James visited him in Sydney in 1914 and the couple had been separated for about 12 years.
Alfred was living with a lady friend at Chatswood.
Neither Alfred nor Amy remarried.
Amy Scard died in 1936 at Sydney aged sixty-nine.
Alfred Scard died on the 21st September 1951 at Manly aged eighty-nine.
See more information in the Biography of his brother William James Scard.
Geraldine 'Theresa' Scard: Daughter of James Scard & Mary [nee Candy];
At the age of seventeen Geraldine 'Theresa' traveled to Sydney with her mother and stepfather Henry Hillary in 1882
to begin training as a nurse at Sydney Hospital, arranging for 'Theresa' to 'live-in'.
While in Sydney her mother and Henry were married and subsequently returned to their other children at Kempsey.
Two years later Geraldine contracted Typhoid Fever and did not recover. During her two-year Term, known as
'Theresa' she was endeared by all the Hospital Staff.
Geraldine Theresa Scard died on the 11th March 1884, Administration arranged the Headstone for her grave paid by
the Hospital Board.
Geraldine was buried at Rookwood Cemetery, aged nineteen. The name on her Tombstone is 'Theresa' Scard'.
The Inscription reads;
'Theresa Scard'
'From illness contracted during the
performance of her duties in the
Sydney Hospital.
Erected by the Board of Directors.'
George Candy: Brother of Mary Scard nee Candy;
George witnessed and gave consent to his sister Mary’s marriage to James Scard in 1857.
He moved to Grafton with his brother-in-law James Scard and sister Mary.
George Candy married Sarah J. Gilmore [middle name assumed 'Jane'] in 1861,
the daughter of Charles & Ann Gilmore.
George and Sarah had the following issue;
Child 1: George W. Candy born 1861 to George & Sarah, Grafton.
George Candy [the younger] married Fanny E. Short at Sydney, 1992.
They lived at Sutherland, Sydney had issue.
George [the younger] in 1966 at Sutherland, aged 91 yrs.
His father appears to have lived with them in later life.
Note: Sarah seems to have adopted her middle name recording their subsequent children
under ‘George & Jane’.
Child 2: James Joseph Candy [born unknown].
Married Catherine Dolan 1882 at Waterloo.
Died 1941 Granville parents noted as ‘George & Jane’.
Child 3: Anne E Candy born 1864 Parramatta to George & Jane, Parramatta
No further information.
Child 4: Robert Candy born 1867 Woolongong to George & Jane.
Married Edith F. Davis in Sydney 1895.
Child 5: Mary E Candy born 1869 Woolongong to George & Jane.
No further information.
Child 6: Isaac George Candy born 1875 Woolongong to George & Jane.
No further information.
George Candy [the elder] died at Sutherland, Sydney, in 1917 aged 80 years.
His wife Jane nee Gilmore survived him by three years and died at Auburn in 1920.
John Gerrish: Cousin of Mary & George Candy;
John Gerrish left England per Parsee arriving at Morten Bay Brisbane 9th February 1857.
Mary and her brother's voyage took longer than the 'Parsee' and they were unaware of his prior arrival.
John was noted aged 26yrs was accompanied by George Gerrish aged 20 and his sister Ellen aged 18yrs.
No further information for John in Australia.
For more information see: Gerrish Family of Wilton Wiltshire.
Also The Biography of Isaac Candy