Jemima Bloomfield Boyd + JLS

Notes:

• • Boyd - Boyd is a place-name from in England from early times. But the name arrived from Brittany about the time of the Norman Conquest. As the story goes, Alan, Baron Of Oswestry arrived from Dol in Brittany with his three sons, William, Walter, and Simon. Walter, Simon and Simon's son Robert Buidhe moved north to Scotland. The illustrious surname Boyd:

    • 1. Classified as a habitation surname, which was originally derived from a place-name, and is one form of surname belonging to a broader group called hereditary surnames. Habitation names were derived from pre-existing names for towns, villages, parishes, or farmsteads. Topographic names, form the other broad category of surnames that was given to a person who resided near a physical feature such as a hill, stream, church, or type of tree.. https://www.houseofnames.com/boyd-family-crest - It is generally accepted that the name comes from Bod, the Gaelic name for the island of Bute (Boid is the genitive form of Bod, i.e., "of Bute" or "from Bute").

      2. The county comprises a number of islands in the Firth of Clyde, between the counties of Argyll and Ayrshire, the principal islands being Bute, Arran, Great Cumbrae and Little Cumbrae. The county town is Rothesay, located on the Isle of Bute. Buteshire had its own elected county council from 1890 to 1975.

      3. The Russell Boyds came from Co. Tyrone in Northern Ireland = Boid in Scottish Gaelic, de Búit in Irish. Early bearers of the Boyd name used the Norman prefix de – e.g., Robertus de Boyde.

      4. Some claim it comes from the nickname of one of the early Stewarts, Robert Fitzsimon, known as "Buidhe" (yellow) because of the colour of hair - blond his name was so coined. In fact, the Gaelic word buidhe, means yellow.

      5. Other local names are derived from the names of houses, manors, estates, regions, and entire counties. As a general rule, the greater the distance between an individual and their homeland, the larger the territory they were named after. For example, a person who only moved to another parish would be known by the name of their original village, while people who migrated to a different country were often known by the name of a region or country from which they came.

  • * In respect of the surname "Brookfield". In UK there is a Brookfield, Derbyshire, near Glossop in Derbyshire, England and also in:

• • • Brookfield, Preston, in Lancashire, England

    • Brookfield, Middlesbrough, in Middlesbrough, England

    • Brookfield, Renfrewshire, Scotland

    • Brookfield, County Fermanagh, a townland in County Fermanagh, Northern Ireland.

1. The Dale Park's master was Captain John J. Coombes who brought the barque from London and Cork to Port Phillip. It left London on the 30th March 1844 stopping at Cork in Ireland and arriving in Melbourne (i.e. present-day Station Pier, Melbourne, Victoria), on 21st July 1844 a trip of 113 days. The barque carried 5 passengers, 229 bounty emigrants and a cargo of merchandise. Eight children died on route.

2. See further under Robert Stormont.

3. VPRS 19/P0001 item bundle 1851/0409, record file 50/1541 - Series title: Inward Registered Correspondence - Sub-Item title: 50/1541 Petitioning for the admission of his wife into the Yarra. Date range: 1850. Public access: Open, Format: Digital. Jemima was transferred from Yarra Bend 14th December 1868 and admitted into Beechworth on 17th. December that year. Date of Admission 19 Sept 1850 - Transfer to Beechworth 14 Dec 1868

4. Series title: Inward Registered Correspondence; Sub-Item title: 50/1597 Respecting the removal of Jeminia Stormont a dangerous L; Sub-Item number: file 50/1597; Date range: 1850; Public access: Open; Format: Digital

5. Series VPRS 7422 Index to Case Records for Male and Female patients Yarra Bend Asylum 1848 - 1912. (PROV). Progress report from the Select Committee upon the Lunatic Asylum : together with the minutes of evidence and appendices. Corporate Author: Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on the Lunatic Asylum.

6. VPRS 7396/P1 Case Books of Female Patients, Beechworth Asylum, 1878-1912 - See more at: PROV Online ~Unit number: 1 - Description: Vol No: F2 (originally). Public access: Open / Format: VH1. Location: North Melbourne. This Unit is part of - Series n umber: VPRS 7396 ~ Consignment number: P0001

7. VPRS 24/P0000 unit 593, item 1892/265 ~ Jemima STORMONT. Cause of death: Enteritis and general paralytic decay; Location of inquest: Beechworth; Date of inquest: 29 Feb 1892. 1892 to No date. Inquest Deposition Files. State Coroner's Office. Public Records Office of Victoria have released online digital records of her admission in 1850 and of a coronial enquiries into her death in 1892.

8. prov: VPRS 7446 P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums (VA 2863) Hospitals for the Insane Branch / Unit 1 (Yarra Bend), 26 Oct 1848 – 11 Nov 1912.

   1. This is the first in a series of 8 volumes entitled "Lists of Patients", each relating to a particular asylum. Each volume records the name of patients admitted to the asylum. In each volume, entries are arranged alphabetically by the first letter of patients' surnames and then chronologically by date of admission within each alphabetical grouping.

   2. Volumes 7 and 8 only include information on where patients were transferred from and their discharge details. These records can provide dates of admission to allow researchers to locate patient records in the case books for each of the asylums (except for Cremorne) corresponding to the volumes in the present series.

   3. In ascertaining the role of Asylums, in Australia by the mid 18th. Century, consider beginning with Medical treatise of the early 19th. Century.

   4. Progress report from the Select Committee upon the Lunatic Asylum : together with the minutes of evidence and appendices - Corporate Author: Victoria. Parliament. Legislative Assembly. Select Committee on the Lunatic Asylum - https://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/vufind/Record/89886.

   5. Refer also to patient details outlined on link to records

9. Divorce was not available in Victoria, Australia until 1861.

10. Beechworth Asylum, also known in later years as the Beechworth Hospital for the Insane and Mayday Hills Mental Hospital, is a decommissioned hospital located in Beechworth, a town of Victoria, Australia. Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum was the fourth such Hospital to be built in Victoria, being one of the three largest. Wikipedia.

    2. • Noted: the name Bloomfield Boyd is held in common with an Australian artist "Arthur Merric Bloomfield Boyd AC OBE was a leading Australian painter of the late 20th century. Boyd's work ranges from impressionist renderings of Australian landscape to starkly expressionist figuration, and many canvases feature both. Wikipedia"

11. The Great Famine (Irish: an Gorta Mór, [anˠ ˈgɔɾˠt̪ˠa mˠoːɾˠ]), or the Great Hunger, was a period in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 of mass starvation, disease, and emigration.^[1] With the most severely affected areas in the west and south of Ireland, where the Irish language was primarily spoken, the period was contemporaneously known in Irish as An Drochshaol,^[2] loosely translated as the "hard times" (or literally, "The Bad Life"). The worst year of the period, that of "Black 47", is known in Irish as Bliain an Drochshaoil.^[3][4] During the famine, about one million people died and a million more emigrated from Ireland,^[5]causing the island's population to fall by between 20% and 25%.^[6]

References:

1. McCarthy, On the excessive Mortality of Children. Second edition. Melbourne 1871.

2. F.B.Smith. Curing Alcoholism in Australia 1880-1920s. Journal of Australian Colonial History, 8, 2006. Pp. 148-50.

Book - * The French consul's wife : memoirs of Celeste de Chabrillan in gold-rush Australia. Chabrillan, Celeste Venard de, comtesse, 1824-1909. 994.5031 C. - Page 108 - Chapter 7 - Fights, a Hanging and Trouble - 1854 -

1. It is noted that ship arrivals of 2nd. November 1850, show a Miss Christina Stormont (steerage), disembarks in Melbourne from the barque "Young England".

A collection of essays by various historians, edited by Trevor McClaughlin (1998. Allen & Unwin. Sydney); In Ch. 2: Unfit to die. Irish murderesses as Van Diemen's Land colonists RICHARD DAVIS.

• • (contemporary) society came to understand the psychological pressures on new mothers, especially the poverty-stricken. Postpartum psychosis, anger at, or betrayal by; the baby's father, and fear of disclosing an illegitimate pregnancy, may all have played a part.

Trevor McClaughlin makes the point (Reference: Ch. 8: casualties of colonisation in eastern Australia in the second half of the nineteenth century.

• • Some historians would argue that those who were incarcerated in gaols and mental hospitals draw attention to the way female crime and female mental illness were the historical constructs of a nineteenth-century colonial world, and a reflection of the way power was distributed in that world. British civilisation in nineteenth-century Australia is also reflected in its mad and criminal Irish women. Thus he suggests that the experience of Irish female as casualties of colonisation.

  • Many Irish women found themselves in a lowly position in colonial society.

  • During the 1850s, 70 per cent of assisted Irish immigrants to Victoria were female. Some of them travelled with brothers and sisters and riends. Others would meet up with relatives already here.

  • .... goldrushes, and the realities of domestic service, weakened the network of family support they could rely on in times of trouble, and left many of them isolated and lonely.

  • What became of their self-esteem, what despondency did they sink into when they were mocked for their ignorant Irish ways?

  • What despair did they feel when they lost their jobs as servants or when they were deserted by their husbands? Some observers may contend that the dominant social values of the time made them outcasts. These women were at the vulnerable end of the socio-economic scale, the poorest, the least skilled, the least articulate in the English language, and for some, alcohol would have offered a welcome escape from a miserable existence. Alternatively; alcohol gave them courage to rail against the world.

  • He further makes the point that Irish women were arrested and convicted, above all, for misdemeanours, such as drunkenness, vagrancy, being drunk and disorderly, and using insulting and obscene language, (as) is ... evident in the Depositions archival records of each of our eastern states.

  • Irish women were accused of alcohol abuse, their disempowerment and economic marginalisation, as well as psychological factors such as loss of hope, despair, or emotional deprivation, and isolation. These are all part of theor when they were deserted by their husbands? Some observers may contend that the dominant social values of the time made them outcasts. These women were at the vulnerable end of the socio-economic scale, the poorest, the least skilled, the least articulate in the English language, and for some, alcohol would have offered a welcome escape from a miserable existence. Alternatively; alcohol gave them courage to rail against the world. (behavioualist criteria for a criminal make-up. At the same time, the criminal code itself and how it was policed and executed in each of the different colonies are also worth taking into consideration.

  • Seventy-five per cent of the Irish women taken into custody in Victoria in 1862 were taken into custody for drunkenness, vagrancy, and using obscene language. Irish women comprised 55 per cent of all women arrested for drunkenness. Alcohol was not just a companion for many Irish males; it was a companion for many Irish women as well. Similarly, in the register of Fortitude Valley Gaol between January 1902 and September 1903, a gaol for females with sentences of fourteen days or less, 206 entries were for Irish women, seventy-four for those born in England and Wales and only twenty-seven for those born in Scotland.