James Edward was born on the 3rd April 1880. HIs NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages Registrate No: 26757 /1880 shows his father's name is James and mother's name is Mary. The birth was registered in Wellington NSW. His birth certificate records his place of birth as Cudgebegong. The 1891 and 1901 census shows that his father James Anthony aka Antonio Gardiner had a farm on Cudgebegong Creek near Wellington.
James Edward Gardiner was married to Mary Ellen Riley. She was known as Ellen. Ellen was born in 1901 and died in 1972. They had two children.
