Baxendell, Edward

BAXENDELL, Edward (1819–1865) was born at Manchester, Lancashire, second son of Thomas Baxendell, farmer and later land agent, and Mary Shepley. After being raised in Manchester he moved to London where his occupation was joiner when he married Mary Zipporah Elder in 1846, but in 1851, he was listed as an architect’s clerk and in 1861 as an architect and surveyor with an office on the Strand, where he was associated with the Westminster Freehold Land Society, an early example of this social movement to encourage saving while also enfranchising reform voters. Afflicted with tuberculosis, he migrated to Queensland with his family. After departing from Gravesend on 8^th May 1862, they arrived at Moreton Bay on 8^th August. His death only three years later was not reported. Where Baxendell was employed in Brisbane is not known but his occupation was listed as architect when his children enrolled at the Normal School. Following Edward’s death, his widow, ill and unable to care for her children, admitted her sons to the recently established Diamantina Orphanage where Joseph Arthur Baxendell (1856–1938) was adopted by an English missionary and photographer, William Kennett, spending three years with Kennett at Somerset, Cape York. JA Baxendell became a well-known teacher.

Employment

-1865

With unidentified architect/s, Brisbane, Qld.

Education

-1846

Joiner, Manchester

-1851-

Clerk for unidentified architect, Camberwell, Surrey

1850s

With unidentified architect, London

Westminster Freehold Land Society

Self-Employment:

-1860-

Architect, The Strand, London

Migration and Travel

1862

8 Aug 1862, arr Moreton Bay, Qld from London, passenger on Young Australia

Genealogy

[F] Thomas Baxendell (1792–1874) b. 1792, Oldam, Lancashire, Eng; d. 19.6.1874, Cheshire, Eng.

[S / M] Mary Shepley (1789–1851) b. c1789; d. Feb 1851

[5C/B1-3] Joseph Baxendell (1816–1887) b. 1816, Manchester, Lancashire, Eng; d. 7.10.1887, Lancashire, Eng [1871, accountant].
[5C/G1-2] Mary Shepley Baxendell (1817–1875) b. 13.10.1817, Manchester, Lancs, Eng; d. 18.6.1875, Cheshire, Eng
[5C/B2-3]Edward Baxendell(1819–1865) b. 3.12.1819, Manchester, Lancashire, Eng; d. 16.8.1865, Brisbane, Qld.
[S, 1846, London / M] Mary Zipporah Elder (1828–1897) b. 19.5.1828, London, Middlesex, Eng; d. 30.5.1897, Qld
[B1-7] Edward Baxendell (1850–?) b.c1850, Clerkenwell, Middlesex, Eng; d. ?
[B2-7] William Edward Baxendell (1851–1865) b. 29.9.1851, Camberwell Denmark Hill, London, Eng; d. 10.8.1865, Brisbane, Qld.
[B3-7] John Gregson Herbert Baxendell (1854–1926) b. 1854, Newington, Walworth, London; d. 29.8.1926, Qld
[S, 1883, Qld / M] Ellen Theresa Garland
[B4-7] Joseph Arthur Baxendell (1856–1938) b. 1856, London, Surrey, Eng; d. 1938, Qld.

[S, 1897, Qld] Ann Lumley Hinzell

[B5-7] Frederick Charles Baxendell(1858–1932) b.1.10.1858, Camberwell, London, Eng; d.1932, Royal Park, Vic
[B6-7] Alfred Henry Baxendell (1861–1866) b.1861, Camberwell, Denmark Hill, London, Eng’ d.5.3.1866, Brisbane, Qld.
[B7-7] William Baxendell b. Qld.; d. ?
[5C/B3-3] Robert Baxendell (1826– ) b. 1826, Manchester, Lancs, Eng; d. 3.8.1895, Salford, Lancashire, Eng. [
[5C/G2-2] Ann Baxendell (1830–1918) b.c1830, Manchester, Lancs, Eng; d. 21.11.1918, Cheshire, England

References

London POD, 1860; Admission Register, Brisbane Normal School, QSA, William Kennett archive, SLQ