James Martin Pettifer 1859 - 1924

James Martin Pettifer of Footscray Australia was born on August 25, 1859 in Whroo, VIC to Mary Smith Pettifer and John Pettifer. He had siblings Lucy Pettifer, Louisa Emma Pettifer, William Pettifer, Joseph Smith Pettifer, George Gostick Pettifer, Martin Pettifer, Mary Ann Wilkins Pettifer, Henry James Pettifer, and John Pettifer Jr. He married Maria Ann (Leroy) Pettifer in 1884, and had children Thomas Joseph Pettifer, Edith Caroline (Pettifer) Yewdall, Elsie Emma Pettifer, Caroline "Carrie" Pettifer, May Evelyn Pettifer, James Alfred Pettifer, and John "Jack" William Pettifer. James Pettifer died at age 64 years old on June 25, 1924 in Rushworth, Victoria, and was buried at Whroo Cemetery Reserve in Whroo, Campaspe Shire County, VIC.