Thread: Margaret ADLAM, born about 1800

ADLAM/STEPHEN. I am trying to find information on a Margaret ADLAM, born about 1800, where? I have no idea. I have no idea who her mother was. Her father, it has been stated on her death certificate, was an Alexander. He was a merchant of St Kitts apparently. Margaret married about 1819, in Bermuda (says her death certifcate), to a Sidney STEPHEN, (born 1796) who was a solicitor/lawyer. They came to Australia in about 1824-28. Sidney was posted to New Zealand as a Judge, he dying in Auckland in about 1861, he is buried in Auckland. Margaret came back to Australia, where her adult children were and she died in Fitzroy, Melbourne in May 1875 and is buried in St Kilda Cemetery. Sidney's uncle, James STEPHEN, was the same James STEPHEN, who wrote the anti-slavery laws that Wilberforce had passed through the British parliament. I have been on boards for the Caribbean are but have not had any luck with them.
I am hoping that perhaps someone out there could help me. Please!!!!! Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanking you in advance. Ronmac

Hi Ronmac.

Probably of no help at all, but google books provides a number of hits relating to an Adlam family resident in Antigua, between the mid 18th and mid 19th centuries.

Thank you for your reply Elsabels. I have that information from the NZ encyclopaedia. It seems that the Adlam family, like the Stephen family, were at various places in the WI, over a long time period. It was because of the Stephen family's time in the Caribbean, that Sidney's uncle, James Stephen, wrote up the anti-slavery/abolishment laws that William Wilberforce had passed through parliament.

Thank you for that information, Finbar. I will give it a go. I hope that you had a great Christmas.