Alexander John Alchin: Hard Labourer by Garry Norman Smith “Mug Shots” of Alexander John Alchin, 21 August 1900, Goulburn Gaol Alexander John Alchin was born at Dalton on 12 July 1878, the son of John Alchin (Junior (1853-1916) and Sarah Ann Atkins (1855-1883) and grandson of John Alchin (1821-1901) and Martha Matilda Johnson (1837-1922). Nothing is known of Alexander John’s formative years. As a child he was living in the area around Jerrawa and Dalton. His mother died at Dalton in 1883 when he was only five years old. His father remarried in 1888 to Mary Collins; this marriage took place in the Cootamundra district. On 1 October 1906 at the age of twenty-eight years Alexander John Alchin married sixteen-year-old Annie Low Ross (1890-1942) at Cootamundra. Annie was born in Narranderra. Prior to this time Alexander John had already been in trouble with the law. As a labourer, he struggled to find work and to make ends meet. In contrast to his later con...
Upper Lachlan Shire, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales