Jeff Green - Family Histories

Document Transcriptions

Introduction

This document contains transcriptions of all the documents on which the information in the Family Histories is based.

Apart from the groupings explained below, these transcriptions are not in any sorted order. They are numbered simply in the sequence that the transcription from the original was made.

They are divided into sections:

References to other documents within this series are made by section and number, within square brackets, eg: [C1]

The transcriptions themselves are in roman font. Notes about them are in italics, sometimes referenced by note numbers (in curly brackets) within the transcription text, eg: {1}. In some documents the texts of notes are interleaved with the text of the document itself.

Queries ("?"), even though they appear in normal font, indicate illegibility or uncertainty in the transcription. If they appear in the original, a note to that effect will be attached.

A single query "?" indicates an illegible single letter.

A double query "??" indicates an illegible whole word.

A triple query "???" indicates an illegible series of words.

A query in brackets "(?)" indicates that the given transcription is uncertain.

An exclamation in brackets "(!)" usually indicates a letter-by-letter transcription which doesn't seem to make a sensible word.

Vertical ellipses ":" indicate material in the paper documents that has been left out of these transcriptions, either because it is irrelevant to the family history, or because a more original source for the information has been found.

When my direct ancestors are members of a list (usually a list of siblings), or in a family tree, they are marked with '*'.



Contents

A Certificates

B Other Primary Documents

C Other Records

D Results from the Web

E Known and Missing Documents



A Certificates

A1 Birth of Jeffery Ernest Green

From an original certificate provided by the registry.

Victoria
Australia
Birth Certificate
Registration Number 26647 / 1959
1 Child Surname GREEN
Given Name(s) Jeffery Ernest
Sex Male
Date of Birth 20 September 1959
Place of Birth Box Hill
2 Mother Surname GREEN
Maiden Name PEGGIE
Given Name(s) Dorothy Joan
Occupation
Age 28 Years
Place of Birth Essendon, Victoria
3 Father Surname GREEN
Given Name(s) Robert Ernest
Occupation Linotype Operator
Age 27 Years
Place of Birth Blackburn, Victoria
4 Marriage of Parents Date of Marriage 22 February 1958
Place of Marriage Camberwell, Victoria
5 Previous Children of Relationship Not any
6 Informant(s) Name R. GREEN
Address 47 Nicholson St
Nunawading
Father
7 Registration Officer Name R. Craig
Date 05 October 1959
8 Endorsements Not any
History No changes of name
No Corrections
Addressed to: J E GREEN 2 Williams Lane
Buxton VIC 3711
Dated: 30 Aug 2001

A2 Baptism of Jeffery Ernest Green

From the original certificate.


Jeffery Ernest Son of Robert Ernest and Dorothy Joan Green who was born at Box Hill on 20.9.59 was baptised into the Church of God within the Communion of the Methodist Church of Australasia at Nunawading on 22.11.59. J.C. Lavender Minister Godparents none

A3 Birth of Jane Joanne Barry

From the original type written extract.


State of Victoria

Extract of Entry No. 187263

Melbourne, 24th April, 1940

Re Application Fol. 74456

According to the registers in this office

Jane Joanne, daughter of

John BARRY, and

Anne " Nee Carr,

Was born at Carlton,

On 1st April, 1871

The Official Number of the entry is 10433/71


On the back of a photocopy I have is written:

Copy of Birth Certificate of Jane J. Green

A4 Marriage of Joseph Rudolph Green and Jane Johanna Barry

From the original certificate.


Colony of Victoria
Certificate of Marriage
District Richmond
No. in Register 205
On 6th April, 1896 at the Congregational Church, Richmond
According to the rites of the Church of the Congregationalists
Signature Joseph Rudolph Green
Residence Present Victoria Street, Richmond
Usual Victoria Street, Richmond
Age Twenty Eight
Rank or Profession Traveller
Condition Bachelor
Birth Place Birmingham, England
Father Joseph Green, Licenced Victualler
Mother Mary Ann Green (Newton)
Signature Jane Johanna Barry
Residence Present 68 Lincoln Street, Richmond
Usual 68 Lincoln Street, Richmond
Age Twenty Five
Rank or Profession Machinist
Condition Spinster
Birth Place Carlton, Victoria
Father John Barry, Hawker
Mother Annie Barry (Carr)
I, Frederick Henry Browne being a Congregational Minister do hereby certify that I have this day at the Congregational Church, Richmond duly celebrated Marriage between Joseph Rudolph Green, Traveller and Jane Johanna Barry, Machinist. Dated this Sixth day of April 1896
Signed F H Browne
Witnesses William Ross
Henrietta Morris

On the back of the certificate is a rubber-stamp impression of:

Melbourne Savings Bank Richmond 2 Jun .96

A5 Birth of Joseph Rudolph Green

From the original hand written copy.


1867 Birth in the District of Duddeston in the County of Warwick
No 65
When & Where Born Eighth September 1867 back 15 Brewery Street
Sex Boy
Father Joseph Green
Mother Mary Ann Green formerly Newton
Profession of Father Journeyman Glass Blower
Informant X the mark of Mary Ann Green
Mother
Back 15 Brewery Street, Aston
Registered Eighteenth September, 1867
Registrar E. F Goodall

Certificate dated Eighth day of April 1890 {1}


On the back of a photocopy is written, in fountain-pen ink:

Marriage Certificate

which has been scribbled out in blue ball-point pen, though the text is still quite legible.


{1} the last digit of the copy date is uncertain, probably 8, possibly 0.


A6 Marriage of Joseph Green and Mary Ann Newton

From the original hand written copy.


Page 119
1867 Marriage solemnized at Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s Church, in the Parish of Aston, in the County of Warwick
No 237
When Married April 21st
 
Name & Surname Joseph Green
Age 21
Condition Bachelor
Rank or Profession Glass Blower
Residence at time of marriage Duddeston
Father’s Name and Surname Joseph Green
Rank or Profession of Father Carpenter
 
Name & Surname Mary Ann Newton
Age 20
Condition Spinster
Rank or Profession -
Residence at time of marriage Duddeston
Father’s Name and Surname John Newton
Rank or Profession of Father Glass Cutter
 
Married in the parish church of Aston according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns by me Fea Peake Vicar
Signatures Joseph Green his X mark
Mary Ann Newton her X mark
In the presence of John Newton his X mark
Maria Newton
Copy of the Register kept in the Parish Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul’s, Aston, Warwick
Taken this 21st day of April 1867 F.J.Roberts, Parish Clerk

A7 Birth of John Barry

From a photocopy of the handwritten official copy.

Photocopied on the same sheet as Birth of Ann Carr [A8]


Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth, General Register Office, London
Application No Y 53047
Registration District St Luke Chelsea
1850 Birth in the Sub-district of South Chelsea in the County of Middlesex
No 128
When and where born Twenty Fourth March 1850
7 Manor Gardens
Name John
Sex Boy
Father Richard Barry
Mother Eliza Barry formerly Rossom
Occupation of Father Plasterer
Informant Eliza Barry
Mother
7 Manor Gardens
Manor Street
Chelsea
When Registered Second May 1850
Registrar Thos Long
 
Copy taken 17th day of March 1986
No BCA 122138

A8 Birth of Ann Carr

From a photocopy of the handwritten official copy.

Photocopied on the same sheet as Birth of John Barry [A7]


Certified Copy of an Entry of Birth, General Register Office, London
Application No R 16837
Registration District Manchester
1848 Birth in the Sub-district of Deansgate in the County of Lancaster
No 274
When and where born Twenty Seventh December1847
10 Little Pike Street Manchester {1}
Name Ann
Sex Girl
Father William Carr
Mother Jane Carr formerly Matthews
Occupation of Father Tailor
Informant Jane Carr
Mother
10 Little Potter Street{1}
Manchester
When Registered Eighth February 1848
Registrar John Leigh
 
Copy taken 8th day of April 1986
No BXB 163922

{1} the street name is definitely “Little...”, but the other part of the name is uncertain in both instances. [C1] transcribes this address as “10 Little Peter Street”

A9 Marriage of John Barry and Ann Carr

From a photocopy of the original certificate.


Colony of Victoria
Certificate of Marriage
District Emerald Hill
No. in Register 277
On July 3, 1869 at St Luke’s Church
Marriage by Banns according to the rites of the ??? {1}
 
Signature John Barry his X mark
Residence Present Emerald Hill
Usual Emerald Hill
Age Nineteen
Rank or Profession Hawker
Condition Bachelor
Birth Place Chelsea, England
Father Richard B???? (??) {2}
Mother Eliza Burchill
 
Signature Ann Carr
Residence Present Carlton
Usual Carlton
Age ?? {3}
Rank or Profession -
Condition Spinster
Birth Place Manchester, England
Father William Patrick Carr (Tailor)
Mother Jane Ann Mathews
 
I, Septimus Lloyd Chase being Incumbent of St Paul’s do hereby certify that I have this day at St Luke’s Church duly celebrated Marriage between John Barry, aforesaid and Ann Carr, aforesaid. Dated this Third day of July 1869
 
Signed S Lloyd Chase
Witnesses T Cowie
Johanna Cowie
The written consent of Richard Barry, father of John Barry having been duly obtained. S.L.C. {4}

{1} illegible due to a fold in the paper

{2} Surname and profession illegible due to a fold in the paper

{3} written as a word, could be “Twenty Two” which is what the transcription [C1] has.

{4} Hand written at the bottom of the certificate, presumably required because John was a minor at the time of this marriage. “Richard” is written above another name, which is struck out. The original looks like '?olsiue'.

A10 Marriage of Richard Barry and Eliza Rosam

From a photocopy of an official copy of the registry entry.


Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage, General Register Office, London
Application No POS 6017641/82
1840 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church in the Parish of Long Ditton in the County of Surrey
No 37
When Married Feby 16
Name & Surname Richard Barry
Age of Full Age
Condition Bachelor
Rank or Profession Labourer
Residence at time of marriage Long Ditton
Father’s Name & Surname Garrett Barry
Rank or Profession of Father Butcher
 
Name & Surname Eliza Rosam
Age 17
Condition Spinster
Rank or Profession -
Residence at time of marriage Long Ditton
Father’s Name & Surname James Rosam
Rank or Profession of Father Labourer
 
Married in the Parish Church according to the Rites and ceremonies of the Established Church after Banns by me J. L. Si????nt (Rector) {1}
 
Solemnised between us Richard Barry X his mark
Eliza Rosam X her mark
 
In the presence of us Henry Burchill
Hazia Steptoe (?) X her mark
 
Registration District Kingston
Copy issued 25th day of May 1982
No MX 730339

{1}signature of celebrant may be interpreted as J. F. Gilinant

A11 Marriage of William Patrick Carr and Jane Ann Mathews

From a photocopy of the original hand written official copy.


Page 228
1845 Marriage solemnized at the Parish Church, in the Parish of St Martin in the Fields, in the County of Middlesex
No 455
When Married 11th February 1845
 
Name & Surname William Patrick Carr
Age Full Age
Condition Bachelor
Rank or Profession Tailor
Residence at time of marriage 15 Crown St
Father’s Name and Surname Michael Carr
Rank or Profession of Father Weaver
 
Name & Surname Jane Ann Mathews
Age Minor
Condition Spinster
Rank or Profession -
Residence at time of marriage 31 Greek St
Father’s Name and Surname Henry Mathews
Rank or Profession of Father Carver
 
Married in the parish church of Aston according to the rites and ceremonies of the Established Church by Banns by me Septimus F Ramsey Curate
 
Signatures The mark X of W P Carr
J A Mathews
In the presence of Henry Mathews
Ann Mathews
 
Copy taken this 5th day of September, 1877 R Isherwood Curate

A12 Marriage of Thomas Heales and Rebekah Marsom Purdy

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the entry.


Certified Copy of an Entry of Marriage, General Register Office, London
Application No R56303
1844 Marriage solemnized in the Soho Chapel in the District of the Strand Union in the County of Middlesex
No 176
When Married Fourteenth day of August 1844
 
Name & Surname Thomas Heales
Age Full Age
Condition Bachelor
Rank or Profession Dyer
Residence at time of marriage 40 Stanhope St
Father’s Name & Surname Richard Heales
Rank or Profession of Father Locksmith
 
Name & Surname Rebekah Marsom Purdy
Age Minor
Condition Spinster
Rank or Profession Dress Maker
Residence at time of marriage Same place
Father’s Name & Surname George Andrew Purdy
Rank or Profession of Father Locksmith
Married in the Soho Chapel according to the Rites and ceremonies of the parties by me George Cole
 
Solemnised between us Thomas Heales
Rebekah Marsom Purdy
In the presence of us Thos Boulton
George Andrew Purdy
Registrar William Boswred (?)
Registration District Strand
Copy issued 31st day of December 1986
No MX 066739

A13 Death of Rebeca Marsom Heales

From the an official photocopy of the original registry entry.


Deaths in the district of Collingwood in the Colony of Victoria, Registered by W. Davies
No 2135
Entry No 7859
When & Where Died 16 September 1883
Northumberland Street
City of Collingwood
County of Bourke
Name & Surname, Rank or Profession Rebeca Marsom Heales
Sex and Age Female 58 Years
Father George Purdy, Whitesmith
Mother Unknown Purdy formerly Unknown
Informant Henry Charles Heales
Son
No 8 Northumberland Street
Collingwood
Registered 19th September 1883
Collingwood
When & Where Buried, Undertaker 18th September 1883
General Cemetery Melbourne
S Chs (?)
Witness of Burial ?? ?? ??
Where born and how long in colonies Walworth, England
38 years in Victoria
Married where, age & to Whom Aston England
19
Thomas Heales
Issue in order of birth, names & ages Male, dead
Thomas George, 36 years
Rebecca, dead
Francis Rhoda, dead
Richard, dead
Henry Charles, 26 years
Edward Pulseford, 24
Anne Jane, dead
*Ann Jane Marsom, 16
 
Official copy No. 78/37760
20 Jul 1978

A14 Death of Jane Berry Peggie

From a photocopy of the original official copy.


Question 1 of the official copy is lost on the photocopy I have. Presumably this was the registry entry number. It is from the Victorian Registry Office, Melbourne.


2 Where & When died 30th August 1933
53 Armadale Street, Armadale
City of Prahran, County of Bourke
3 Name & Surname Jane Berry Peggie
Occupation Home Duties
4 Sex & Age Female: 62 Years
5 Cause of death Coronary Thrombosis
Heart Failure
Duration of Illness 2 Days
Medical Practitioner Dr H. Shannon
When last saw deceased 30th August, 1933
6 Father George Peggie
Jane Peggie, formerly Wyles;
Market Gardener
7 Informant (signature is not legible)
Authorised Agent,
Station Street, Malvern
8 Registrar (signature is not legible)
4th September, 1933. Melbourne
9 Buried 2nd September, 1933
Oakleigh Cemetery
Undertaker A. W. Aldridge acting for Rayboulds Pty. Ltd.
10 Witnesses of burial E. Renton
B. F. Sullivan
11 Where born East Malvern, Victoria
How long in Australian states 62 years in Victoria
12 Deceased was married Not Married
 
Copy taken 9 Apr 1981

A15 Death of George Berry Peggie

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the original registry entry.


District of Malvern, Colony of Victoria, Registered by EFS Davies
No 1337
When & Where died 20th January 1897 Dandenong Road East Malvern
Shire of Malvern County Bourke
Name & Profession George Berry Peggie
Retired Farmer
Sex & Age Male
68 years 5 months 3 weeks
Cause of Death ??
Exhaustion, Cardiac Failure
Duration of last illness 4 years
Medical attendant Dr R. H. ??
Last saw deceased 19th January 1897
 
Father David Peggie, Farmer
Mother Jennie Peggie
???Berry
Informant George Peggie
Son of Deceased
Dandenong Rd, East Malvern
Registration E?? F S Davies
21st January 1897
Malvern
Burial 22nd ?? 1897
?? Cemetery
J.J. Lane for J.J. Raybould
Minister Reginald Stephenson
Witnesses J. S. Lowe (?)
F. J. Wheatland
 
When & Where Born Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland
How long in colonies 48 Years Victoria {1}
Marriage Fifeshire, Scotland
Age when married 25
To Whom Jeanie ?? Wyles
Issue Leslie
John
??
??
George
John
Jane
James ? {2}
 
Copy taken 4854
9 Apr 1981

{1} the 8 is quite uncertain.

{2} the photocopy I have cuts off the ends of some names (and all of the ages) for the children.

A16 Death of Jane Murry Peggie

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the original registry entry.


Question 1 of the entry, and part of Question 2, is lost on the photocopy I have.

In the District of Malvern in the state of Victoria, Registered by EFS Davies
 
When & where died {day number cut off} November 1907
(Dan)denong Road
(East)Malvern
(Shire of) Malvern
(Coun)ty Bourke {1}
Name & Profession Jane Murry Peggie {2}
Lady
Sex & Age Female
79 Years 20 Weeks 3 days
Cause of Death Mitral Disease of Heart
Old Age
Duration of last illness ..... {3}
Medical Practitioner Dr R.H. Marrion
Last saw deceased 7th November 1907
Father John Wyles
Sailor
Mother Anne Wyles ??? McLeod
Informant J.A.Knight
Authorised Agent
234 Chapel St
Prahran
Registrar ?? F. S. Davies
When Registered 13 November 1907
Burial 11th November 1907
Oakleigh Cemetery
Where Born Fifeshire, Scotland
53 Years in Victoria
Marriage Fifeshire, Scotland
Aged 26
George Peggie (dead)
Issue David, 53
John, dead
Anne, dead
Annie Elizabeth, 47
George, dead
John, 42
Jane, dead
Jane Berry, 37
 
Copy taken 4857
9 Apr 1981

{1} The additions are assumptions on my part, as they are cut off on my copy.

{2} From my copy, “Murry” is a reasonable guess, but it is not “Murray”.

{3} the ellipses are in the original, ie: the duration of last illness is not stated.

A17 Death of Edward Ernest Peggie

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the registry entry.


1898 District of Oakleigh, Colony of Victoria Registered by Charles Henry Flack, Registrar
 
No 1230
When & Where Died February 12th 1898
Waverly Road
Mulgrave
Shire of Mulgrave, County Bourke
Name & Profession Edward Ernest Peggie
Sex & Age Male
2 years
Cause of Death Entero Colitis
(b) by Laustion (! – exhaustion?)
Length of illness 12 Days
Medical Practitioner R.H. Maurison
Last saw deceased February 10th 1898
Father John Peggie
Farmer
Mother Jane Peggie
??? Pask
Informant John Peggie
Father
Waverly Road
Mulgrave
Registration C.H.Flack
February 14th 1898
Oakleigh
Burial February 14th 1898
Oakleigh Cemetery
Undertaker B. Mathews
Witnesses R.W. Robert
J. Coriss
Where born Mulgrave
Victoria
Years in Colonies Whole life

A18 Birth of Jeffery Ernest Green

This is a different (older) official copy of the registration of my birth. It is in fact a photocopy of the actual registration form, as it contains what I recognise as my father’s signature. It contains more information than the computer-prepared certificate [A1]. Apart from the two signatures, the specific text is (on the original) typed throughout.


Births in the District of Melbourne, in Victoria
Registered by Richard Craig
 
1 No. 26647
2 When & Where born 20th September, 1959
Box Hill and District Hospital
Nelson Road, Box Hill, City of Box Hill
County of Bourke
U.R. 47 Nicholson St, Nunawading
City of Nunawading
3 Name, & if present Jeffery Ernest, not present
4 Sex Male
5 Father Name Robert Ernest GREEN
Occupation Linotype Operator
Age 27 Years
Place of Birth Blackburn, Victoria
6 When & Where Married 22 February 1958
Camberwell, Victoria
Previous Issue Not Any
7 Mother Name Dorothy Joan Green
Maiden Name Formerly Peggie
Age 28 Years
Place of Birth Essendon, Victoria
8 Informant Signature R. E. Green {1}
Residence 47 Nicholson St
Nunawading
9 Witnesses Accoucher Dr. Henry
Nurse Sister Clarke
10 Registrar When & Where 5th October, 1959 Melbourne
11 Signature of Registrar illegible
Official copy taken 17 Feb 1988

 

{1} This is the signature that I recognise as my father’s.

A19 Marriage of Charles Edwin Westmoreland and Annie Adelaide Hooper

From a photocopy of the original certificate, in the possession of Ian Peggie. The left hand edge of the original is lost on the photocopy. Some of the original text has been interpreted on the first-generation copy.

Colony of Victoria
Certificate of Marriage
District Stawell
No. in Register 325
... March 1893 at Holy Trinity Church, Stawell
... by Licence according to the .... and ceremonies of the Church of England
 
Signature Charles Edwin Westmoreland
Residence Present ?? St Stawell {1}
Usual 279 Bridge Road Richmond
Age 25
Rank or Profession Grocer
Condition Bachelor
Birth Place Sheffield, England
Father William Westmoreland, Accountant - deceased
Mother Mary Ann Westmoreland X Knott
 
Signature Annie Adelaide Hooper
Residence Present Ligar St Stawell
Usual Park Road Windsor
Age 27
Rank or Profession Trained Nurse
Condition Spinster
Birth Place Adelaide, South Australia
Father Henry Hooper, clerk - deceased
Mother Emma Hooper X Card
 
I, Arthur Pickering being Clerk in Holy Orders do hereby certify that I have this day at Holy Trinity Church, Stawell duly celebrated Marriage between Charles Edwin Westmoreland of Richmond (Gro)cer and Annie Adelaide Hooper of Windsor. Dated this 24 day of March 1893
 
Signed Arthur Pickering
Witnesses Herbert W Westmoreland
Annie Westmoreland
Tracy W Knight

{1} the street name is illegible due to overwriting, but Ligar is not an unreasonable reading.

A20 Death of William Arthur Westmoreland

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the registry entry, in Ian Peggie’s possession.

(18)92 District of Stawell, Colony of Victoria Registered by Mary A ??
No
When & Where Died 11th April 1892
Hordern (?) St
Borough of Stawell County of ??
Name & Profession William Arthur Westmoreland
Sex & Age Male
3 months
Cause of Death Gastro Enteritis
?? Diarrhoea
Length of illness
Medical Practitioner W H S??
Last saw deceased April 11th 1892
Father Herbert William Westmoreland
Congregational Minister
Mother Emma Louisa Westmoreland
?? Hill
Informant W M Westmoreland
Father
Stawell
Registration Mary A. Clunes
April 12 1892
Stawell
Burial April 12th 1892
Stawell Cemetery
Undertaker ??
Minister Edward G Tennant
Presbyterian Minister
Where born Stawell
 
Official copy taken 13 August 1985

A21 Death of Herbert William Westmoreland

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the registry entry, in Ian Peggie’s possession.


(18)92 District of Stawell, Colony of Victoria Registered by M. Clunes
 
No ?724
When & Where Died 4th May 1895
Wimmera St
Borough of Stawell
County of ??
Name & Profession Herbert William Westmoreland
Congregational Minister
Sex & Age Male
29 Years
Cause of Death Insolatis 6 weeks
Cerebro Spinal Meningitis 2 days
Medical Practitioner W F Hopkins
Last saw deceased May 3rd 1895
Father William Westmoreland
Accountant
Mother Mary Ann Westmoreland
?? Knott
Informant Ronald(?) Westmoreland
Brother
Richmond
Registration Mary A. Clunes
May 6th 1895
Stawell
Burial May 6th 1895
Stawell Cemetery
Undertaker ??
Minister ???
Presbyterian Minister
Where born Sheffield England
Years in Colonies In New Zealand 3 years
In Victoria 8 years
Married Sydney
Aged 21 years
Emma Louisa Hill
Issue Annie 8 years
Elsie 7 years
Ida 5 years
Arthur dead
Olive dead
Dorothy 7 months
 
Official copy taken 13 August 1985

A22 Marriage of Herbert William Westmoreland and Emma Louisa Hill

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the registry entry, in Ian Peggie’s possession.


Marriage Registered in New South Wales, Australia
 
No 1902
Date & Place 15th November 1886
Sydney
 
Name Herbert William Westmoreland
Bachelor
Birthplace Sheffield
Occupation Clerk
Age 22
Residence Botany Street, Sydney
Parents William Westmoreland, Book Keeper
Mary Ann Knott
Name Emma Louisa Hill
Spinster
Birthplace London
Age 24
Residence New Zealand
Parents Cornelius Hill, Warehouseman
Matilda Mayhew
 
Married in the at St Phillip’s Church, Sydney according to the Rites of the Church of England.
 
Signatures Herbert William Westmoreland
Emma Louisa Hill
 
In the presence of Humphrey Hanes
Geo Scoles
By me J. D. Longley Officiating Minister
 
Particulars in columns 5,7,9,10 obtained from Church Register No. 293
W. H. Young Deputy Registrar General, Sydney. 23rd November 1914
 
Official copy taken 6th June, 1990

A23 Death of Olive Westmoreland

From a photocopy of an official photocopy of the registry entry, in Ian Peggie’s possession.


(18)92
District of Stawell, Colony of Victoria Registered by Mary A. Clunes
 
No ??53
Date & Place 20th January 1893
Borough Stawell
County of Borung
Name Olive Westmoreland
Sex & Age Female
7 Hours
Cause of Death Premature Birth
Medical Practitioner G. J. Napthine
Last saw deceased January 20th 1893
Father Herbert William Westmoreland
Congregational Minister
Mother Emma Louisa Westmoreland
? ? Hill
Informant H W Westmoreland
Father
Stawell
Registration Mary A. Clunes
January 31st 1893
Stawell
Burial January 31st 1893
Stawell Cemetery
Undertaker ??
Witnesses H. W. Westmoreland
George Rohan
Official copy taken 13 August 1985

A24 Birth of Elsie Ada Westmoreland

From the original official extract, in Ian Peggie’s collection.


Office of the Victorian Government Statist Melbourne, 24.10.28
RE Application Folio 27504
According to the registers in this office Elsie Ada daughter of Herbert William Westmoreland and Emma Louisa Westmoreland nee Hill was born at Nagambie on the 13th October 1888.
The official Number of the entry is 31839/88.

A25 Marriage of William Westmoreland and Frances Wray

From a photocopy in Ian Peggie’s collection, I presume of the original church register entry, as the photocopy includes a portion of the previous entry.


Banns of Marriage between Wm. Westmoreland & Frances Wray were published Jany-17-24-&31st by Wm. Durance Vicar.


No 322

Willm Westmoreland of this parish and Frances Wray of the Parish of Broughton in the County of Lincoln were Married in this church by Banns this Eleventh day of February in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six by me Wm. Durance Vicar.


This Marriage was solemnised between Us Wm. Westmoreland

Frances Wray her X mark

In the presence of Thos Sawdon

Jane Sawdon



B Other Primary Documents

B1 The Westmoreland Family Register

I have photocopies of the three sheets of this document. It has a page each for births, deaths and marriages, with an illuminated-style border (including angels, cherubs, and the virgin & child top centre). Ian Peggie has the originals, and he has stated they are cut from a family bible.

Most entries appear to be in the same hand, though there are some (especially on the Deaths page) in other hands, and obviously inserted between existing entries at a later date.

At some time I made a note on the back of the photocopy: “I don’t trust the information in this, particularly the dates, and particularly the amendments made (in thicker pen).”

Births

Children of William (appears at the top of the page with the heading)

Henry Arthur Westmoreland Born May 28th 1859

Edward Burbidge Westmoreland Born April 13th 1861

Annie Westmoreland Born December 10th 1862 {1}

Herbert William Westmoreland Born May 14th 1865

Charles Edwin Westmoreland Born June 7th 1867

Fanny Kate Westmoreland Born July 25th 1870

Elizabeth Crossley Westmoreland Born Nov 6th 1874

------------------------------------------{2}

Herbert Cyril Westmoreland born Sep 24th 1885 – Hy. Arthurs

 

Mother born April 27th 1830 at N. Scarfe. Lincolnshire, England {3}

 

Marriages

The heading of this page is made to read “William Westmoreland’s Family Register”, “William Westmoreland’s” is hand written, and “Family Register” is printed. The following also appears in the heading:

 

Born at Scawby Lincolnshire, Engd. Jan 31st 1834

WW died at Besky.... Buck.... (4}

Sep tbr 22 / 89

The second 2 has been overwritten with a 4, and followed by “/ 89” in a different pen.

 

The normal entries are as follows:

William Westmoreland & Mary Ann Knott 19 August 1858

Hy. Arthur Westmoreland & Mary Barber Hurst Married 6th Aug 1884

Herbert William Westmoreland and Emma L Hill June 2 1886 {5}

Charles Edwin Westmoreland and Annie A Hooper March 24th 1893

Fanny Kate Westmoreland with John H. Miller March 19th 1904

Elizabeth Crossley Westmoreland with Joseph B. Howie July 11th 1917

 

Deaths

Edward Burbidge Westmoreland Died February 28th 1862

Richard Westmoreland (Father of William) Died May 1876 aged 69 years (written above: Scawby)

William Westmoreland Died Sep.tbr 24 1889 N.Z.{8}

Anne Westmoreland Scawby – (in another hand:) Mother of William

Herbert William Westmoreland Stawell Australia May 4th 1895 (written above: son of William)

Mary Ann Westmoreland Kew Australia June 19th 1912 (written above: wife of William)

Fanny Kate (Westmoreland) Miller. Hobart April 29 1913 (written above: daughter of William)

Henry Arthur Westmoreland, Dec 22nd 1933 at Bexley, England

Elizabeth Crossley Howie July 4th 1938 at Melbourne Australia

Charles Edwin Westmoreland Aug 24th Mossell Bay South Africa 1940

Dorothy Mayhew Peggie Hartwell Vic. July 1948 {6}

Dick son of William died at Middleborough Eng. 1948 {7}

Annie Mary daughter of Arthur died at Highgate London Jan 6th 1943

Annie Westmoreland (in the annotation hand:) daughter of William & Mary Ann At Bayswater Vic Nov 14th 1946

John Hillhouse Millar died Hobart 1946

Emma L. Westmoreland died Croydon May 27 1954

Joseph B Howie died Sept 11 1954

Annice May Baimbridge (daughter of Herbert) d. 1965, Melb

 

{1} After “Annie”, in original ink on my photocopy, is written “Sis”

{2} the underline appears on the original

{3} this line is at the bottom of the Births page, with 7 blank lines above it.

{4} the line is partially obscured by a fold in the paper

{5} the “L” has been inserted later.The “2” is uncertain

{6} a later insertion, and in the same hand (with a fine pen) that made most of the annotations to other entries.

{7} the 8 is uncertain

{8} The 22 has been overwritten with 24, and followed by “89 N.Z.” in a different pen.

B2 Passenger List for Queen of the Seas

From a photocopy of another photocopy of the original passenger list. The 1st generation copy has “Unassisted” written outside the boundary of the original page.

 

Ship’s Name Queen of the Seas {1}
Master’s Name Charles Gardun (?)
Tons Register 1337
Average no of superficial feet in the several compartments set aside for steerage passengers 9.550
Total number of statute Adults, exclusive of master, crew and cabin passengers the ship can legally carry 636
Where Bound Melbourne
I herby certify that the provisions actually laden on board this Ship, according to the requirements of the Passengers Act, are sufficient for 491 ½ adult Passengers, computed according to the Act.
Date 17 June 1854 {2}

The passengers of interest are listed on the second page of my photocopy, but I don’t think it’s the 2nd page of the original list. They are underlined on the 1st generation copy.

:
:
Port of Embarkation Liverpool S157 {3}
Name of Passenger George Peggie
Male 25
Profession Labourer {4}
Scotch
 
Port of Embarkation Liverpool S158 {3}
Name of Passenger Jane Wyles Peggie {5}
Female 25
Profession Wife
Scotch

 

{1} In a previous transcription, I have this as “Queen of Thebes?”

{2} the date may be 1852, followed by another downstroke.

{3} S157 and S158 presumably were their steerage class passenger numbers.

{4} the word in the specific entry is illegible, but similar entries on the page have the same form, and are more obviously “Labourer”

B3 Bill for Funeral of Anne Barry

From a photocopy of the original bill.


Feb 25th 1915
Mr J.R. Green & a J Barry
Le Pine & Son, Funeral Furnishers
5/11/14 {1}
To furnishing funeral of the late Anne Barry aged 66 years.
Providing Black cloth coffin Glass Hearse & pr
4 mourning coaches & prs & conducting funeral in the Boroondara Cemetery 13.00
Cemetery fee 1 00
Aas 16/- clergy 8 1 40
---------
£ 15-4-0
Received payment by Cash
25/2/15
F. J. Le Pine

{1} this date is presumably the date of the funeral. See [B5]

B4 Bill for Funeral of John Barry

From a photocopy of the original bill.


Aug 1st 1911
Mr J Green {1}
Le Pine & Son, Funeral Furnishers
31.4.11 {2}
To Funeral of late John Barry
Aged 62 yrs
Providing Black Cloth Coffin, Mounted complete
Closed Hearse & pr, Three Mourning Coaches & prs
Conducting Funeral to Boroondara Cemetery, etc.
10-10-0
Cemetery fee 1-5-0
Clergy Fee 8-0
Advertisements 11-0
---------
£ 12-14-0
Received payment with thanks
1/8/11
F. J. Le Pine

{1} the J overwrites an A, I presume due to a mishearing when preparing the bill.

{2} this date is presumably the date of the funeral. It is in the same place on the bill as a similar date on [B3]

I note two things in comparing these two funeral bills ([B3], [B4]])

B5 Memorial Card for Anne Barry

This card is photocopied onto the same sheet as the note and the ‘Tree’ photograph [C5]


In loving memory of

Anne Barry

Who departed this life on 4th Nov 1914

Aged 66 years.

B6 Probate & Will of Anne Barry

There are three photocopy pages of this document. On the original, folio 1 (recto and verso) share the back & front of the same seal, and folio 1 verso and folio 2 recto have faint reversed images of each other – they were presumably folded together when the ink was still wet. I give the full texts. The underlines are all in the original.

 

Folio 1 recto

In the Supreme Court of Victoria

18069 {1}

In the Probate Jurisdiction

In the will of Anne Barry late of No 68 Lincoln Street Richmond in the State of Victoria Widow deceased

Probate

I certify that the sum of eight pounds eleven shillings and four pence the duty herewith has been paid

Signature illegible

Deputy Commissioner of Taxes

13/1/15

 

Folio 1 verso

In the Supreme Court of Victoria

In the Probate Jurisdiction

In the will of Anne Barry late of No 68 Lincoln Street Richmond in the State of Victoria Widow deceased

 

Be It Known that on the Nineteenth day of December in the year of out lord one thousand nine hundred and fourteen the will (a true copy of which is hereunto annexed) of Anne Barry late of No 68 Lincoln Street Richmond in the State of Victoria Widow deceased who died on the Fourth day of November One thousand nine hundred and fourteen and who had at the time of her death real estate within the jurisdiction sworn not to exceed in value the sum of five hundred pounds and personal estate within the jurisdiction sworn not to exceed in value the sum of three hundred and ten pounds eighteen shillings and three pence was proved by Joseph Rudolph Green of No 207 Berlin Street Richmond in the said state Commercial Traveller and Archibald John Barry of No 47 Lincoln Street Richmond in the said state Manager the executors named therein they having been first sworn that they would well and truly(?) ?? of and administer according to law the estate of the said Anne Barry deceased and would exhibit and deposit in the office of the master-in-equity a true and perfect inventory of the said estate within three months of the order granting probate and a true and paid(?) account of their administration of the said estate within fifteen months of the said order.

Given at Melbourne this 16th day of January in the year of out lord One thousand nine hundred and fifteen.

J Carter

Registrar of Probates

L H

22/12/14 {2}

 

Folio 2 recto

This is the last will and testament of me Anne Barry. After payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I give devise and bequeath unto my children or in the event of their death to their children all that I die possessed of to be equally divided. (Muriel(?) Martha Rose) daughter of my daughter Muriel deceased to take her mother’s share with the exception of twenty pounds to be paid to Annie Hall residing(?) at 68 Lincoln St Richmond And hereby appoint Joseph Rudolph Green and Archibald John Barry executors of this my will.

In witness hereof I herewith set my hand this 25th day of February One thousand nine hundred and fourteen Ann Barry - ?? by the said the estator(?) and by her declared to be her last will and testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at her ?? and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses Mary Ann ??uranFra ?osannah Marcutt

 

{1} this is a stamped number

{2} these initials and date are ina different hand and distinctly larger script.

B7 Bill for Funeral of Joseph Green

From the original bill.


Dec 1928 {1}
Mr J. R. Green
Le Pine & Son, Funeral Furnishers
27.11.28
To funeral furnishing of the late Joseph Green, Aged 82 yrs
Providing Polished Coffin Silver mounted, Hearse & 2 mourning Coaches
Conducting Funeral to Box Hill Cemetery, etc, 18.10.0
Cemetery fee 1.10.0
Clergy Fee 10.0
---------
£ 20.10.0
Received payment with thanks
F. J Le Pine

{1} The bill has “191...” printed on it, with the 1 overwritten with a 2. The print run of blank bills was obviously considerably over estimated!

B8 Blank Memorandum, Green & Bishop

From the original. This is a printed memorandum blank. There is nothing hand written on it. The bottom 2/3 of the note is faintly lined, and the paper has the watermark “Woodslee Air-Dried”.

 

Memorandum
From Kensington
..................189
Green and Bishop,
Kensington Glass Works
To ..................
 
Glass Bottle : :
Manufacturers. : : :

B9 Probate & Will of Joseph Rudolph Green

From the original grant of probate.


Folio 1 recto

In the Supreme Court of Victoria

In the Probate Jurisdiction

In the will of Joseph Rudolph Green late of 207 Barkley Avenue Burnley in the State of Victoria Commercial Traveller deceased

Be it known that on the 25th day of November in the year of our LordOne thousand nine hundred andforty-two the Will (a true copy whereof is hereunto annexed) of Joseph Rudolph Green late of 207 Barkley Avenue Burnley in the State of Victoria Commercial Traveller deceased who died on the Eleventh day of October One thousand nine hundred and forty-two and who had at the time of his death real estate within the Jurisdiction sworn not to exceed in value the sum of Nine hundred and ten pounds and personal estate within the Jurisdiction sworn not to exceed in value the sum of Two thousand one hundred and forty seven pounds six shillings and onepenny was proved by JANE JOHANNA GREEN of 207 Barkley Avenue Burnley aforesaid Widow sole executrix named in and appointed by the said Will she having been first sworn that she would well and truly collect and administer according to law the estate of the said Joseph Rudolph Green deceased and would exhibit and deposit in the office of the master-in-equity a true and perfect inventory of the said estate within fifteen months of the order granting probate. This grant is made upon the condition that no portion of the assets shall be distributed of paid during the War to any beneficiary or creditor who is an enemy subject wherever resident or to any one on his behalf or to or on behalf of any person resident in any enemy country or territory in any country or territory in the occupation of the enemy of whatever nationality without the express sanction of the Crown obtained through the treasurer of the Commonwealth

Folio 1 verso

of Australia and if any distribution or payment is made contrary to this condition this grant will be forthwith revoked.

BY THE COURT

Signatures illegible

Acting Registrar of Probates

Issued at Melbourne this Seventeenth day of December in the year One Thousand nine hundred and forty two.

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Joseph Rudolph Green. After payment of all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses I give and bequeath all that I die possessed of to my wife Jane Johanna Green and I hereby appoint my wife Jane Johanna Green sole executor of this my Will.

And witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this Twenty-Fifth day of November in the Year of Our Lord One thousand nine hundred and Seventeen.

JOSEPH RUDOLPH GREEN

Signed by the said the Testator and by him declared to be his last will and Testament in the presence of us present at the same time who in his presence at his request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.

John Shields

Wireworker

255 Stawell St Richmond Vic.

Albert E. Smith

Plumber

431 Swan St. Burnley

Folio 2 recto is blank

Folio 2 verso

In the Supreme Court of Victoria

4063997 210254 {1}

In the Probate Jurisdiction

In the will of Joseph Rudolph Green late of 207 Barkley Avenue Burnley in the State of Victoria Commercial Traveller deceased

Probate

I certify that the sum of one hundred and thirty five pounds twelve shillings and seven pence the duty herewith has been paid

Signature illegible

Assistant Commissioner of Taxes

15/12/42

 

There is a stamp on the same side:

State Saving Bank of Vic Elizabeth Street

Exhibited 17 Dec 1942

Hand written beneath this is

Burnley 85

Custody

There is a second stamp:

I certify that the sum of Thirty Pounds eight shillings and five pence Federal ?? Duty has been paid.

8/2/43

 

{1} this is a combination of 2 stamped numbers.

B10 Apprenticeship Indenture of Joseph Green

From the original indenture. It is now almost torn in half along the original centre fold.

Folio 1 recto

This Indenture Witnesseth That Joseph Green of Birmingham in the County of Warwick, by and with the consent and approbation of his Mother Sarah Green of Birmingham aforesaid, doth put himself apprentice to Henry Parsons, of the same place Glass Manufacturer, to learn his art of Glass Blowing; and with him after the manner of an apprentice to serve from the day of the date hereof forward during and unto the full end and term of Six Years, five months and nine days from the Fifteenth day of September instant thence next following fully to complete and ended. During which term the said apprentice his master faithfully shall serve, his secrets keep, his lawful commands everywhere gladly do, he shall do no damage to his said master, nor see it done by others, but to the best of his power(?) shall let or forthwith give notice of the same to his said master, he shall not waste the goods of his said Master, nor lend them unlawfully to any, he shall neither buy nor sell without his said masters Licence, he shall not haunt Taverns or Alehouses, or absent himself from his said Masters service day or night unlawfully, but in all things as a faithful apprentice he shall behave himself towards his said master and all his during the said term and the said Sarah Green doth hereby covenant that the said Joseph Green shall do and perform as he hath above agreed, and that in consideration of the payments or wages hereinafter agreed to be paid by the said Henry Parsons, such apprentice shall and will provide himself with sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging, wearing apparel, mending, provision in sickness and all the necessities during the said term, or else that the said Sarah Green shall and will provide him therewith during such term, and it is agreed that the payments or wages so agreed to be paid shall totally exempt

Folio 1 verso

the said Henry Parsons from providing the said apprentice with the aforementioned things during the said term

And the said Henry Parsons in consideration of the above, and of the services to be rendered to him by the said apprentice, him such apprentice shall and will teach and instruct, or cause to be taught and instructed, in the Trade or Business of Glass Blowing, and in lieu of finding the said apprentice with the things above agreed to be found by himself, or by his said Mother for him, shall and will pay him such apprentice, in case of his providing himself with the abovementioned things, or to the said Sarah Green in case of her providing them for him, the weekly sums or wages following, namely:- the sum of Five shillings weekly, and sixpence per move over from the fifteenth day of September next, six shillings from thence weekly, and sevenpence per move over, until the twenty fourth day of February one Thousand eight-hundred and Sixty four, Nine shillings from thence weekly and tenpence per move over, until the twenty fourth of February one Thousand eight-hundred and Sixty five, ten shillings from thence weekly and eleven pence per move over, until the twenty fourth of February one Thousand eight-hundred and Sixty six, and eleven shillings from thence weekly, and one shilling per move over, during all the then remainder of the said term, which payments or wages

Folio 2 recto

are to be paid by the said Henry Parsons whether he shall have sufficient work to employ the said apprentice or not, provided he shall be allways(?) attending during all the usual hours of work ready to discharge his duty, and shall absolutely fully discharge his duty by working as he ought to do during all the said hours, but in case of his not doing it, or not attending during all the usual hours of work, then the customary stoppages are to be made by his said master for any time he shall lose, nor is his said Master to pay the said wages in sickness, lameness, or any other incapacity in the said apprentice to discharge his duty hereby required to be done and performed

And for the true performance of all and every the Covenants and Agreements herein contained, each of the said parties bindeth himself or herself, to the other and others of them by these presents. In Witness whereof the said parties to the above written Indentures have hereunto set their hands and seals this third day of September October in the year of our Lord One Thousand eight hundred-and sixty.

Signed sealed and delivered, being first duly stamped, in the presence of

Henry Fulford {1}

104 Summer Lane

The mark X of Joseph Green

The mark X of Sarah Green

Henry Parsons

Age 21 on the 24th day of February 1867

Folio 2 verso

Dated 21st day of September 1860

Joseph Green

To

Mr Henry Parsons

Indenture of Apprenticeship

There are the remains of seals beside each of the three signatures.

 

In the margin, at the top of folio 1 recto there is an impressed stamp:

Two

Shillings

Sixpence


And an ink stamp:

Birmingham

26.7.60

15


{1} the similarity of the “Henry” in this signature and the “Henry” (Parsons) in the text of the indenture suggests that the entire document is in Henry Fulford’s handwriting.

B11 On the Origin of the name Peggie

This is a small extract from an article in one of the Melbourne newspapers (‘The Age’ or ‘The Sun’) on the Abel Tasman, the passenger ship that ran between Melbourne and Launceston. The article is by Derek Fowell, and from other text in the article I suspect it dates from the late 1970’s. From a photocopy of part of the article.

 

Thomas Smart calls in for a beer before his watch starts. He is the Nighthawk and will be patrolling the ship until morning. He is also the Peggy – the person who cleans the seamen’s recreation room – so named because in the days of sail the job was given to an old or infirm seaman, often a person with a wooden leg. Not that Thomas is infirm...

B12 Insurance Certificates, Jean Green

Two insurance policies.

Commercial Union Assurance Company Ltd.
Fire Policy
Policy No. lv 61834
The Insured Jean Agnes Green
The Situation 207 Barkly Avenue, Richmond
Period of Insurance 10th March, 1958 to 10th March, 1959
The Property Insured the building £ 2,000
The contents --
Premium £ 6.6.8.
 
The National Insurance Company of New Zealand, Limited
Houseowners and Householders Policy
The Insured Miss Jean Agnes Green
Policy No. HC 882834
Period of Insurance 23rd January, 1958 to 23rd January, 1959
Premium £ 6.6.8.
The Property Insured the building --
the contents £ 320
The Situation 207 Barkly Avenue, Richmond

B13 Letters to Harold Green

‘Letters’ is probably an overstatement!

 

R.H.Parton

Australasian Representative

American Paper Exports Inc.

 

Mr. H. Green

Messrs. Alex. Cowan & Sons, Ltd.

500 Collins Street,

Melbourne. Vic.

Dear Sir,

I am advised that, some few months ago, you wrote to the Strathmore Paper Co., asking for a copy of their “Grammar of Color”.

The Publishers have now sent me a copy of this work, and I take pleasure in forwarding it to you with their, and my own, compliments.

Yours very truly,

R. H. Parton

 

The following are on two separate sheets.

 

439 Collins St
28th Oct 1919
Mr H Green
Dr to J Field
To Handwriting Course £ 2.2.0
By Cash 10.0
Balance £ 1.12.0
 
439 Collins St
27th Nov 1919
Mr H Green
Dr to J Field
To Handwriting Course £ 2.2.0
By Cash 1.0.0
Balance £ 1.2.0

B14 The Will of Richard Westmoreland

From a photocopy of the first page of the will. I have a second-generation copy, as the first copy has “This is a copy of the first page” written on the bottom. Ian Peggie has the first-generation copy.

I cannot at this stage date the document.

Bequeathing a total of 820 pounds to his children indicates to me a pretty successful draper and grocer!

The copy I have is one of a series of pages, with one labelled on the back: “Dear Sis, Copies of Rae’s papers as promised, Love B.”

Office Copy

Valid only if bearing impressed court seal

This is the last Will and Testament of me Richard Westmoreland of Scawby in the County of Lincoln Draper and Grocer. First I direct all my just debts funeral and testamentary expenses to be paid by my trustees hereinafter named as soon as conveniently may be after my decease. I give and bequeath to my dear Wife Ann Westmoreland all my household furniture, plate, linen, china and other household effects And all the stock in trade which I may have at my decease as a Draper and Grocer And all other my live and dead stock And also all the book debts which may be then due and owing to me in my said trade or business to and for her own absolute use and benefit. I also give and bequeath to my said Wife the legacy of thirty pounds to be paid to her within a –month after my decease. I give and bequeath unto William Sleightholme of Scawby Moor in the said county Farmer and William Trafford of Hibaldane in the said county farmer their executors administrators and assigns All my personal estate whatsoever and wheresoever including monies due to me on Mortgage Bond Note or otherwise (except what I have hereinbefore given to my said wife absolutely Upon trust to pay thereout unto my children the following legacies namely to Edward Lawman Westmoreland the sum of eighty pounds To William Westmoreland the sum of eighty pounds To Thomas Westmoreland the sum of eighty pounds to whom I also give my silver watch. To Charles Westmoreland the sum of eighty pounds To Henry Westmoreland the sum of eighty pounds To Anne Elizabeth Grimble the sum of eighty pounds To Sarah Frances Turner the sum of eighty pounds To Harriet Westmoreland the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds and to Frances Westmoreland the sum of one hundred and thirty pounds which legacies I direct shall be paid to my said children respectively within six calendar months next after my decease Provided always and I declare that if any of my said daughters shall die before my said wife without leaving lawful issue living at his or her decease that then the legacy or share of him her or them so dying shall go over and be divided equally amongst the survivors or survivor of them my said children. I give to the said {1}

 

{1} this is the end of the first page. I have no more, and neither it appears does Ian Peggie.

B15 Confirmation Register at Stawell Church

Ian Peggie has a photocopy of a single page from the register. I only record here the names of interest.

 

Confirmation held at Holy Trinity C/E Stawell on the 28th day of July 1895
:
42 Westmoreland Annie
43 Westmoreland Elizabeth Crossley
Confirmed by Bishop Thornton
:

B16 Passenger List of the S.S. Fe Awaw

Ian Peggie has a photocopy of a single page from the list. I only record here the name of interest.

The name of the vessel is not altogether legible – it is frankly a guess on my part.

 

...T of the Crew and Passengers of the S.S. Fe Awaw of Dunedin, L. McIntosh, Master

... S Co. 1029 Tons, burthen, from New Zealand to Sydney, New South Wales, September 13th 1886.

Passengers

:

Mr. H. ?. Westmoreland     Saloon

B17 Memorial Card for William Westmoreland

The original card is in Ian Peggie’s collection.

 

In loving memory of

William Westmoreland

Born January 1834

Died September 24th 1889

 

Interred at Purewa Cemetery, Auckland, N.Z.

B18 Certificate of Right of Burial to Emma Louisa Westmoreland

The original certificate is in Ian Peggie’s collection. I give only the first and last parts, as the majority is simply boilerplate text with the repeated inclusion of Emma L Westmoreland’s name.

 

No. 694

Form of Certificate of Right of Burial in the Pleasant Creek General Cemetery.

 

On the application of Emma L Westmoreland and upon payment of the sum of £1-12-0 which is hereby acknowledged to have been received, the Trustees of the Pleasant Creek General Cemetery, in terms of, and as authorised by the Act No. 201, 20th April, 1864, entitled the Cemeteries Statute, 1864, have agreed to grant, and do hereby grant unto the said Emma L Westmoreland permission to dig or make a grave or vault on that piece of ground Eight feet long by Four feet broad, lying within the portion of the said cemetery appropriated for Congregational burials, and marked No. 2795 Compartment ..... o the map or plan of the said Cemetery ....

:

Given under our hands and seals, at Pleasant Creek, in the Colony of Victoria this 20th day of August A.D. 1895

 

Compartment 2  No 2795

B19 Certificate of Right of Burial to Elsie Ada Westmoreland

The original certificate is in Ian Peggie’s collection. I extract only the relevant information.

 

Form of Certificate of Right of Burial in the Lilydale General Cemetery.

 

On the application of Elsie Ada Westmoreland and upon payment of the sum of £10-4-0 ... piece of ground Eight feet by Eight feet ... appropriated for Baptist burials, marked No. 77, 78 compartment B.1.

 

Given under our hands and seals, at Pleasant Creek, in the State of Victoria this 24th day of May A.D. 1952

I'M SURE 'PLEASANT CREEK' CANNOT BE CORRECT HERE. CHECK THE ORIGINAL!

B20 Fife Cemetery Records

These are transcriptions I made in February 2004 from the cemetery record books kept at the Kirkaldy Crematorium. For the West Wemyss Churchyard, the book records the name(s) of the owners of the numbered lairs (as the plots are known), and the details of burials in each lair. It is of interest that (at least in this cemetery) each lair is divided into left, centre and right sections (for adult burials), with it being expected that up to three adults would be buried in each section. In addition, infants could be buried at the head or foot of an adult burial. This means there could be over a dozen burials in each lair.

In addition to the lair records, there are also index pages listing all burials for a given year. Occasionally these provide additional information.

The records for West Wemyss Churchyard date from 24 August 1867. As a cemetery it is now closed, though the church would seem to be still in use.

In these records the undated names after the lair number are the successive owners of the lair. Surnames in brackets are (I presume) the maiden name of the owner’s wife.

These transcriptions are for all lairs where the owner or any of the burials have the surnames Peggie or Wyles. The “---“ divide the left, centre and right sections of the lair.


No. 14 Andrew Balfour, Town Office
Robert Balfour, Miner
 
27 May 1868 Catherine Balfour
16 Sep 1917 Sophia Wyles, 73 Years
(all other burials are surnamed Balfour.)
 
No. 44 James Peggie, Engineman
Now John Peggie, Miner
 
26 Oct 1872 James Peggie
27 May 1888 Christina Peggie
12 Jun 1888 Thomas Hutchinson
23 Apr 1913 Margaret P
---
21 May 1906 Betsy Hutchinson
---
23 Oct 1906 John P
5 Jun 1957 Christina P (aged 83)
 
No. 45
Alexander Peggie, Labourer
James Birrell (Wilson)
 
15 Aug 1881 Margaret Birrell
3 Jan 1886 Agnes Gill Birrell
9 Jun 1909 Mrs John Birrell
---
20 Mar 1873 Alexander Peggie (Snr)
15 Oct 1874 John Birrell
9 Sep 1906 John Birrell (Snr)
---
17 Oct 1888 Euphemia Wilson
21 Jan 1890 Georgina Peggie Birrell
 
No. 74
George Peggie, Miner (Christie)
George Peggie (Jnr) – from July 11 1957
 
24 Jan 1871 Janet B. Peggie
23 Aug 1871 David Peggie
27 Aug 1871 Margaret P
4 Feb 1875 Child
26 Nov 1882 Stillborn child
26 May 1918 George P
10 Nov 1954 George P
29 Jul 1987 George P (aged 86)
---
19 Aug 1915 Janet Christie Peggie (age 95(?))
7 Sep 1937 Peter Sharpe Forrester (age 68)
---
1 Nov 1930 Alexander P (58 yrs)
11 Jun 1957 Jane Sharpe P (78 yrs)
17 Nov 1983 Isabella A P (aged 77)
 
No. 78
James Birrell, Engineman
Now David Gallacher (Parker)
 
---
1 Jul 1887 James Birrell
---
28 Apr 1887 Jane Birrell
17 Mar 1904 Jane Peggie
7 Dec 1925 Child Gallacher (6 months old)
 
No. 80
David Smith, Shipmaster
Now James Birrell, Miner (Anderson)
To John Peggie, Miner (Lawson) 15 Dec 1935
 
29 Jan 1890 Alison Anderson
7 Mar 1975 James P (aged 65)
15 Jan 1988 Betsy H. P
---
17 Aug 1869 David Smith
13 Feb 1935 Elizabeth P (age 66)
---
11 Aug 1877 Anne McDonald
5 May 1887 John Birrell
8 Jun 1950 John P
 
No. 94
Robert Wyles, Seaman
Thomas Wyles, Seaman
Thomas Wyles, Joiner
 
25 Aug 1868 Child Galloway
26 Apr 1887 Grace Wilson
8 Jun 1948 Thomas Wyles (Jun) (age 64)
---
11 Nov 1889 Robert Wyles
3 May 1911 Thomas Wyles
---
5 Sep 1876 Forbes Wyles
19 Jan 1929 Christina Louden Wyles
30 Jul 1958 Maggie G. Wyles (age 75)
 
No. 112
David Peggie, Seaman
Now James, P, Miner
 
8 Mar 1872 Mary
27 Apr 1886 Margaret Low
19 Aug 1917 James P (aged 87)
---
28 Jan 1895 David P
---
6 Jul 1873 Grace P
20 May 1909 Eliza Foster
 
No. 113
George Peggie, Publican
Now James Anderson, Ship Owner
Now Henry Dalrymple
 
No. 173
David Peggie, Miner
 
26 May 1880 David
16 Apr 1881 Child
4 Jul 1887 Eliza Christie (Wife)
22 Jan 1931 Agnes Anderson
---
9 Feb 1913 David P
---
17 Mar 1872 Margaret P
15 Sep 1873 Agnes P
29 Nov 1876 Child
17 Feb 1876 Child
29 Nov 1891 John Biglan

B21 Westmoreland 1881 Census Record

As copied from the FamilySearch.org web site


Name Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation
William WESTMORELAND Head M Male 47 Scawby, Lincoln, England Grocer (Master Employing 2 Men)
Mary Ann WESTMORELAND Wife M Female 48 North Scarb, Lincoln, England
Annie WESTMORELAND Daur U Female 18 Sheffield, York, England
Herbert WESTMORELAND Son U Male 15 Sheffield, York, England Grocer
Charles WESTMORELAND Son Male 13 Sheffield, York, England Scholar
Fanny Kate WESTMORELAND Daur Female 10 Sheffield, York, England Scholar
Elizabeth C. WESTMORELAND Daur Female 9 Sheffield, York, England Scholar
Richard Sawman WESTMORELAND Son Male 6 Sheffield, York, England Scholar {1}
Fanny ASHTON Serv U Female 21 Sheffield, York, England General Serv

Source Information:

Dwelling Hartington Road
Census Place Dronfield, Derby, England
Family History Library Film 1341824
Public Records Office Reference RG11
Piece / Folio 3445 / 10
Page Number 14

{1} The 'Sawman' as Richard's second name is presumed to be a mis-hearing or a mis-transcription of 'Lawman'.



C Other Records

C1 Census Record, the family of Richard Barry

This is from a hand-written sheet on lined paper, of which I have a photocopy, but I don’t know who prepared it. Also on the sheet are transcriptions of the birth records for John Barry (see [A7]) and Ann Carr (see [A8], and for their marriage [A9]), which I give here as well.

John Barry

Birth Reg. District: St Lukes Chelsea, Sub District: South Chelsea.

1850 No. 128 24 March 1850, 7 Manor Gardens, John, Boy, Father: Richard Barry, Mother: Eliza Barry, formerly ROSSOM, Fa. Occ. Plasterer, Signature of Informant: Elizer Barry, Mother, 7 Manor Gardens, Manor St, Chelsea.


1851 Census: 7 Manor Gardens, Chelsea [2 other families, diff rooms?] {1}
Richd. Barry head, 33 Bricklayer b. Ireland
Eliza wife, 27 b. London
Mary Son (sc) (F), 8 b. Chelsea {2}
Ann (F) 4 b.“
John (M) 1 b.“

Richard Barry + family are said to have arrived at Adelaide 1855.

John Barry m. Ann Carr at St Lukes Melbourne 3 July 1869; he was aged 19, a hawker {3}, son of Richard Barry, Plasterer, and Eliza [nee] Burchill [cf above Rossom]; she was 21, b. Manchester dau. of William Patrick Carr, Tailor and Jane Ann [nee] Mathews.

Ann Carr

see above marriage cert of Jhn Barry and Ann Carr. parents m. see notes. Jane Mathews address 31 Greek St, diff family at that address in 1851 census; Carr address 15 Crown St, [Camberwell]? {4}

Birth Reg Index Ann Carr March 1848, Manchester xx 616. Reg District: Manchester 1848, Sub-district: Deanagale, County of Lancaster. 274, 27 December 1847, 10 Little Peter St, Manchester, Ann, girl, Fa: William Carr, Mo. Jane Carr formerly Mathews, Fa Occ.: Tailor, Inf: Jane Carr, mother, 10 Little Peter St Manchester, 5 Feb 1848 John Leigh, Reg.

The marriage certificate of Jane Ann Mathews and Patrick Carr [A11] confirms their residence in 1845 as 31 Greek St. This note appears to indicate they have moved to 15 Crown St by 1851.

{1} the word “rooms” is quite uncertain, the query is in the original

{2} the “(sc)” is in the original of the handwritten transcription

{3} above this is written "b. Chelsea"

{4} the square brackets and the query are in the original

C2 Sands & MacDougall Directories, 1890-1910

These are notes I made, apparently when searching the microfiche copies of these directories. This is a transcription of those notes, except that it has been re-ordered by the year of the directory. “Rd.” is presumably an abbreviation for “Richmond”


1890 - neither
1893 - neither
1894 - neither
1895 - neither
1896
Green, Joseph Lord Raglan Hotel, 2 Victoria St Rd.
(Joseph Rudolph not listed in Richmond)
 
Peggie, George Dandenong Rd Malvern
“, David Greengrocer, Whyte St Brighton
Barry, John 68 Lincoln St Richmond
“, Miss Eliza 76 Rupert St Col.
Carr, John 144 Green St Rd.
Carr, John E. Draper, 70 Swan St, Rd.
1897
Joseph, Lord Raglan Hotel, 2 Victoria St, Rd.
Joseph R. 207 Berlin St, Rd.
1898
Joseph R. 207 Berlin St, Rd.
1900
Joseph not listed
Joseph R. 207 Berlin St, Rd.

There is also a table which seems to summarise some of this data.


  Joseph
Hotel
Joseph R.
Berlin St
John Barry
Lincoln St
92 - - 1st {1}
       
95 - -  
96 ü - ü
97 ü ü  
98 - ü  
99      
1900 - ü ü
01     ü
02     -
03      
04      
05 - ü -
       
10   ü  

1910 = end of microfiche copies of directory. (Later = see book copies).

{1} there is no evidence in these transcriptions, apart from this table entry, for John Barry being at Lincoln St in 1892.

My father was apprenticed at the Sand’s & MacDougall company in 1946, as a proof-reader, and he did some work on the directory. He has told me that (at that time at least) they did not attempt to re-survey the whole of Melbourne every year. Entries could be as much as five years out of date. It is possible the annual surveys did cover all of Melbourne in earlier times.

C3 “The Tea Clipper ‘Queen of the Seas’”

This computer-printed sheet (I think my copy is an original print) has no indication of authorship. My copy has “Joan” written in original pencil in the top right corner. I presume from this that it is either a document that was handed out at one of the Peggie reunions, or it was prepared by one of my mother’s brothers (Ian or Bruce) and provided to her.

The lack of punctuation and idiosyncratic capitalisation are in the original.

THE TEA CLIPPER

 

QUEEN OF THE SEAS

 

THE SHIP THAT BROUGHT THE PEGGIE FAMILY TO AUSTRALIA


Built by James Smith and Son of St John, New Brunswick in U.S.A. in January 1853 on speculation, and sailed to Liverpool at the height of the Gold rush and sold to James Beasley for the sum of 16,000 Pounds and then fitted out for the Passenger trade .

The Queen of the Seas was a typical ship of the time and her approximate size was 237 feet long, 206 foot at the keel, 40 foot wide and 22 feet deep from deck to keel and weighed 1200 tons a fair size for this type of ship.

With three masts Fore mast Main mast and Mizzen mast and five sails up the masts the ship carried about 30,000 square ft of sail and a mast height of 150 feet from the deck meant a hard climb to the Skysails.

The fitout was lavish to encourage passengers and as it was the first Voyage to Australia, sailing On the 17 June 1854 bound direct for Melbourne, and the Ballarat Goldfields as the major drawcard for passengers.

The Voyage took 84 days which was considered fast, sailing the great circle route down to South Africa then down to the 40 degree latitudes to catch the roaring forties sometimes reaching speeds of 15 Knots (30 Km/Hour)

From Melbourne The Ship went on to China to collect a cargo of tea to take back to London or Liverpool, to give her owners a profit of about 8,000 Pounds for the round trip. Passenger Fares were about 80 Pounds First Class 40 Pounds Second Class and 20 Pounds Steerage Class and able seamen were paid 4 pounds 30 shillings a month for the round trip of 8 months.

C4 David Beswick’s Answers to my Questions

I prepared a list of questions headed “Documentary Evidence Required”, and David Beswick returned it attached to a typescript containing his answers to the questions. My questions are repeated at the start of each of his answers.

It is not dated, but by the reference to my grandma still having her original marriage certificate, it must be before 1989.

I have added numbers to the questions here to ease reference, though they were not originally numbered.


Jeff’s Questions

Documentary Evidence of

1 Birth of Mary Ann Newton 21.3.1847 56 Potter St, Birmingham : Yes we have certificates – copy available


2 Birth of Joseph Green, Birmingham 1846 (Why did mother sign indenture? Father not mentioned until marriage [?].) : We have a copy of the birth certificate of Joseph Rudolph Green but not of his father Joseph Green. I tried to find the record at St. Catherine’s House (at Cr. of Aldwytch and Kingsway) in London without success. The most likely reference in the index was March quarter, Birmingham District, 1846 Vol XVI Page 287, but the request I made giving the father’s name as Joseph Green [which is given in the marriage certificate of Joseph Green and Mary Ann Newton] was returned with ‘No’ for that reference having that father’s name. You could search the index further and if nothing better appears it might be worth paying for the certificate for that reference in case the father’s name is wrong on the Marriage certificate. It is possible, however, that we need to consider other locations than Birmingham. As to the signature, I don’t know; both parents signed their marriage certificate with a cross, as Mary Ann did on the birth registration of Joseph Rudolph, but perhaps she had learned to write her name by the time he was apprenticed while his father had not: I know of others in my family who learned to read and write as adults.

I did not notice until much later, but David has apparently misinterpreted this question, partly based on my statement in the question that Joseph Green’s mother Sarah signed the apprenticeship indenture of her son. In fact she made an X, so she had not learnt to write between her marriage and the time of Joseph's apprenticeship. I was actually asking if David had any knowledge of why it was she who signed the indenture and not her husband (also Joseph). As a carpenter (his occupation given on his son Joseph’s marriage certif.) it would seem unlikely he was away in the course of his occupation, so he may have died quite young.

David also talks of Mary Ann signing things, where the question was about Sarah. The marriage certificate he cites is for Joseph Green and Mary Ann Newton, not for Joseph Green and Sarah.

See [C49] for the results of later investigation into Joseph (the carpenter) and Sarah.


3 Name of Charles Dean’s mother: we do not have documentary evidence. I have a note which was probably based on info from Gwen Cairncross which reads: Fanny Taylor b. Atherstone Eng(?), 1835, d. 10.5.1906 m. 15.2.1858 [we have certificates of marriage at St Barnabas Catholic Church, Nottingham, which shows that is correct]; and Charles Dean b. 1835 Loughborough, England d. 6.3.1882, mother Annie Barrabell, father John Dean [father’s name is correct according to their marriage certificate; mother’s name might have come from death certificate in Melbourne]. Note that the marriage certificate gives ages as 22 years for Charles Dean and 23 years for Fanny Taylor. This means they were both born before the national registrations began in 1837 and would have to be traced in Parish records. I looked in the Mormon IGI some years ago and found no reference to a Charles Dean b. 1835 nor any to a Charles with a father John [as on marriage cert.] although there were several others between 1809 and 1833 in Nottinghamshire. I have a copy of a photograph (of an unidentified young girl) the original of which came from Ted Harris and had ‘Loughborough’ on the back, and for some reason we have supposed that Charles and Fanny lived there before emigrating but I don’t seem to have any evidence of that now and the connection might only be with his parents.


4 Name of Fanny Taylor’s mother: no evidence other than the name Elizabeth Taylor on her photograph. Fanny’s father is given as Thomas Taylor on the marriage certificate of Fanny and Charles.


5 Dates of arrival in Australia of Fanny and Charles: According to your grandmother Agnes Green their first child Rose was born in England about 1860 and it seems another child also who died before emigrating, and the ‘second’ child Charles was born in Australia about 1865; it is said that Charles came first without Fanny and she followed a year or so later. These things could best be checked here from shipping records and the indexes of births, arrivals etc.


6 Marriage cert of Harold Ernest Berry and Florence Eva Bridger m. 8.4.1912: [why do want you that? But anyway] Yes we have a copy of the marriage certificate.


7 Death of Richard Barry, 5.8.1869: Yes we have a (rather poor) copy of the death cert. It gives his birth place as County Cork, Ireland and his father as Garrett Barry.


8 Birth of Elizabeth Barry, youngest daughter of Richard: I have seen a copy of the certificate and made notes of the details.


9 Arrival of Richard Barry at Port Adelaide August 1885: No documentary evidence. I have the date in the notes from two different interviews of old members of the Barry family. His death certificate says he was 5 years in South Australia and 7 years in Victoria: that suggests 1856/7.


10 Name change of Eliza Rossom (at son’s birth) to Birchill (at son’s marriage): It’s not as simple as that. She is recorded as having a maiden name of Rossom on the birth of some of her children and as Birchill on others, there is no clear pattern that I have seen and David Barry who has studied the records more closely has found none. Her marriage cert (to Richard Barry) gives Rosam (one ‘s’ and an ‘a’ I think it is) and one of the witnesses was Henry Birchill. She was only 17 years old at the time, and I would guess Henry Burchill was her step-father and that she had been known as Birchill but was born Rossom or Rosam and that her mother remarried when she was young.


11 Photo of Ann Mathews stating born 1797: Auntie Jean (Green) has the original, we have a copy.


12 Marriage of Agnes Dean and Harold Green: I copied details by hand from the original, which I suppose your grandma still has.


13 Marriage of Charles Dean and Fanny Taylor: we have a certificate from the records in London as noted above.


14 Shipping record for Thomas Heales and Rebecca (Purdy): Yes we have a photocopy of the record of arrival, the ‘Nominal List’ and ‘Disposal List of Immigrants for the Duchess of Northumberland’, arr. 15.1.1849 after leaving Plymouth 10.10.1848. It says he was a blacksmith, aged 27, native place St. Giles, Middlesex, she was a housekeeper aged 23, native place Lambeth, and that his employer was R. Heales, Melbourne (Father). That is something of a puzzle as we thought the Richard in Melbourne was his brother, but perhaps his father was here also. According to their marriage cert, 14.8.1844, which we have from London, his father was Richard Heales, a locksmith, and your father has an old book naming early residents of Melbourne which shows R. Heales as a ‘turnkey’ or gaol keeper – you might check that. Robert tried to find a record of the birth of Thomas Heales in the St. Giles parish but without success. We have an ‘Alphabetical list of Bounty Immigrants per the ship Himalaya which gives Heales, Richard, 21, Wheelwright, London, and Blinda?. 22. H’keeper. That Richard is almost certainly the future politician who was known later as a coachbuilder. More searching here might help, but if they were all baptists as Thomas and Rebecca (sp?) and her family were, then their births would be difficult to find as there would be no infant baptism records on the parish registers in England.

C5 Note re Johanna Barry

This is a hand-written note, of what I once presumed to be a gravestone transcription, though now I think this highly unlikely.

 

I have written on the back of this sheet, as well as on another transcription of the text of the note: “I think the Johanna is probably a sister of Jane Johanna Barry, who married Joseph Rudolph Green.

Jeff Green.

5-4-88”

I don’t at this stage have any evidence for this (my own) assertion.

 

On the same photocopy is a copy of a photograph, depicting a man and two children (I think both girls), and another man separate from them, at the base of a very large tree with a hollow base in a semi-cleared area with forest in the background. The caption at the bottom says “SELECTORS HOMEFUMINA COPYRIGHT ?.LOWE H?ROT” It looks like a commercially-produced postcard, and there is no indication of who the people in the photo may be. It is copied onto the sheet upside-down compared with the note transcribed above.

 

Great – Great Gr

Johanna (Barry) - (Cowie)

married

Children of Reunion

James Cowie

William“ & Margaret Sophia Moorehead

(Joans Grandparents

Archibald

Annie Cowie – John Thomas Prior

(Barries Grandparents)

Archibald (Died)

John(Alice Sullivan’s father)

 

Clifton Elizabeth Robinson

 

BCJ. WHITTLE {1}

LUDSTONE ST 598-7540

HAMPTON

 

To trace family tree

 

{1} this name & address is in a different hand, or at least it is printed, not written cursive.

C6 The Life of Jean Agnes Green

This is 3 typed sheets. I’m certain it was prepared by my father, and read at Aunty Jean’s funeral. The hand-written insertions are certainly in his handwriting.


JEAN AGNES GREEN 14/11/1907-27/1/1995


Jean Agnes Green was born at Burnley on 14th November, 1907, and died at Surrey Hills Private Nursing Home on 27th January, 1995, aged 87. She was the fifth child and only daughter of Joseph Rudolph Green and Jane Joanna Green (nee Barry).

Because her father was an only child Jean had no Aunts or Uncles by the name of Green but her mother was the eldest of a family of nine children so she had many relatives by the name of Barry; many of whom were extra residents at 207 Barkley Avenue – usually when they or their parents were ill.

Jean’s entire school life was spend at the Burnley State School which was just a short walk up Stawell Street. Another aspect of her early life was attendance at the Burnley Methodist Sunday School and Church where she gained the faith in God which she always held to be important long after she ceased to be able to attend Church Services. Her Bible was always a prominent item on her bedside table.

Jean’s father was a man of string principles and possessed certain ideas which are somewhat unusual by today’s standards. One of these ideas was that his daughter should not go to work. There was however one vocation that was an obvious exception to this situation and that was nursing – a profession which was the sole prerogative of young ladies in that era.

Jean did her basic nursing training at the Children’s Hospital. I am not sure whether she chose this hospital because of her basic concern and love for children or whether this attribute which she showed in her later years came into being because of her experiences at the Children’s Hospital.

Any child that came into her presence realised they had an instant friend and I remember myself how visits to Grandma Green’s at Burnley or holidays at Britannia Creek always were a little better if Aunty Jean was there at the time. When they were small boys my own two sons were always enthusiastic about going to see Aunty Jean.

One of the extras Nurse Green would provide for her young patients on Saturday afternoons was to find out which football team they barracked for and then to let them know what the final score was. And that was before the time of Saturday afternoon radio being saturated with football broadcasts.

I presume it was after her nursing training was completed that Jean spent a period at Mt. Eliza where I understand the Children’s Hospital had their special unit for treating polio patients which included some therapy sessions in the sea water. She then moved to the Women’s Hospital where she did her midwifery training.

Family needs then took a priority and Jean spent a period at home looking after her mother was apparently very ill.

When she was next able to work Jean joined the District Nursing Service and was based in Collingwood. The District Nurses provided a service to patients in their own homes and indeed that service is still being provided by the same organisation today. I don’t know whether present day staff go that extra mile as the old timer’s did when, as well as tending the patient’s medical needs, they often scrubbed the floors and helped with all sorts of odd jobs. One of Jean’s fellow District Nurses was a Sister Mitchell – niece of Dame Nellie Melba – who apparently used to carry a hammer and screw driver in her bag and helped out with various running repairs to furniture and houses.

Most of the District Nurses travelling was done by tram. The fare was usually one penny which they got refunded if they handed in their tickets, but Cousin Joyce tells how most of the Connie’s let the Grey Nurse ride for free. Grey was of course the colour of their uniform – not the colour of their hair.

In 1937, at the age of 30 years, Jean went on a boat trip and holiday to New Zealand with Cousin Ollie and another girl friend of Ollie’s who worked in Uncle Harold’s shirt factory. I understand there was a very nice officer on the boat but you know what our very stern grandparents thought about their daughter being friendly with a sailor. Goodness me!

When World War II broke out in 1939 Jean volunteered as an army nurse. After nine months special training it was decided she was not fir enough to go overseas and we can only assume this related to a severe illness she had had when she was about 11 years old.

When she was discharged from the army nursing she had to be employed in an essential service so she worked for a hospital in the Hawthorn/Kew area until she was required to give up work again and stay at home to look after her mother; which she did for about 10 years.

When her mother died and Aunty could check up on her own health it was found that she had TB and she spent about 18 months at the Heatherton Sanatorium while she recovered.

Her next job was again in Collingwood where she worked at a Government Clinic for single mothers.

During this period Aunty Jean sold the old family home at 207 Barkley Avenue, Burnley, and moved to a unit in Ringwood where she lived for another 20 years before needing to go into special accommodation – firstly at L’Abri in North Ringwood and then at Achill Lodge in East Ringwood.

Her last 4 ½ years were spent at Surrey Hills Nursing Home. {1}

Aunty never lost her special interest in children and even when she was in the two special accommodation facilities would often talk about the children of the management families. That special bond I mentioned before was evidenced again while at Achill Lodge. For a few days she needed to be across the road at Ringwood Private Hospital and the Manager’s children came across to visit her.

Aunty Jean was very loyal to her family even though she sometimes told me some stories which indicated that some members had not always treated her as well as she would have expected. Nevertheless she often reminded me also that blood was thicker that water so stick with your own family is the best policy.

This lady whom we remember today spent her life in helping others; often at great cost to her own health and well being. She was also most grateful to those who helped her but never wanted to be a burden to anyone. This led her one day to make a most odd statement to me. Our good Aunty said “I know it would be wrong” – and that showed her strong Christian conviction that all things were either right or wrong - “I know it would be wrong, but single ladies should have children of their own so they would have someone to look after them when they are old without worrying other people.” I am sure there was a lot of experience of the troubles of many folk went into hear reason for making such a statement. Thank you Aunty for what you did for your family and many others – we are all sure you will now receive your just reward.


The following is a hand-written addition:

Jean was buried at the Upper Yarra Public Cemetery, Warburton Highway, Wesburn on 31st January, 1995. Grave No. 463 in the Lawn Section.


{1} This sentence is a hand-written addition.

C7 A Green Family Tree

This is headed “Green Family”, and dated 6 June, 1988. Given the distribution of birth dates within it, I presume it was prepared by David Beswick.

It is primarily a descent tree from Joseph Rudolph Green which I give as a simple tree, followed by a short ascent tree from Harold Ernest Green.


Joseph Rudolph Green

Frank Seymour Green b. 3/2/1897 m. Ida Chapman

John Joseph

Lindsay m. Margaret (Peggy) McLachlan

Helen

Anthony

Arthur Joseph Green b. 3/9/1898 m. Selena Lees

Donald m. Gloria

Denise

Philip

Ronald

Ann

John m. 1. Jeanette

Anthony

m. 2 Marlene McDonald

Ross

Harold Ernest Green b. 12/10/1901, Burnley d. 8/5/1981 m. Agnes May Dean b. 13/10/1900, South Yarra

Joan Mavis b. 24/3/1930 Blackburn m. David George Beswick

Robert David b. 11/11/1959, Boston, USA

Helen Joan b. 26/8/1961, Geelong, Vic.

Bruce Alan b. 24/1/1963, Mornington, Vic.

Andrew John b. 19/8/1965, Mornington, Vic.

Robert Ernest b. 19/11/1931, Blackburn, Vic. m. Dorothy Joan Peggie b. 22/12/1930

Jeffery Ernest b. 20/9/1959, Box Hill, Vic.

Kenneth John, b. 31/1/1961, Box Hill, Vic.

Eric Charles Green b. 10/7/1905 m. Dorothy Davies

Margaret m. Ian Gray

Louise

Wendy

Maxwell m. Audrey

Robert

Craig

Rosalind

Alan m. Joy

Cheryl

Colleen

Joanne m. Peter Osborne

Cameron

Andrew

Jean Agnes Green b. 14/11/1907


Ascent tree from Harold Ernest Green.

Harold Ernest Green

Joseph Rudolph Green. b. 8/9/1867, Birmingham, Eng. (Duddeston, Warwick) m. 6/4/1896, Richmond, Vic.

Joseph Green b. 1847 England d. Nov 1928 aged 82, arrived Melbourne 1888

Joseph Green

Mary Ann Newton b. 21/3/1847

John Titus Newton

Mary Ann Wright d. 30/3/1877 aged 52 years

Jane Johanna Barry b. 1/4/1871, Carlton, Vic.

C8 A Green & Dean Family Tree

This is in my handwriting, on two sheets, both with the annotation “from David Beswick”. There are also a number of typed versions, none with all the information included.


I give it as an ascent tree from Robert Ernest Green, followed by some sibling lists (of those marked #). I compile all the information from my various copies.

Robert Ernest Green

Harold Ernest Green # b. 12/10/1901 Burnley, Vic. (Salesman)

Joseph Rudolph Green. b. 8/9/1867, Birmingham, Eng. (Duddeston, Warwick) (Traveller, Printer)

Joseph Green # b. 1847 (Glass Blower) age 21 at marriage but apprenticeship paper show birth in 1847

Joseph Green

Mary Ann Newton b. 21/3/1847 m. at Aston (Birmingham) Warwick county 21 April 67 age 20

John Titus Newton

Mary Ann Wright d. 30/3/1877 aged 52

Jane Johanna Barry # b. 1/4/1871, Carlton, Vic. m. 6/4/1896, Richmond, Vic. April 1890 age 20

John Barry

Anne Carr

Agnes May Dean # b. 13/10/1900 Sth Yarra

John Thomas Dean # 5 April 1867 Williamstown? (Manufacturing Jeweller etc.)

Charles Dean

Fanny Taylor

Annie Marsom Heales # b. 22/11/1866 Collingwood or Carlton?

Thomas George(?) Heales # d. 1870 (Soldier)

Rebekah Purdy # (<1825 – 1884/5) d. Collingwood

Rebekah Pulseford # (1797-?)

Edward Pulseford

Hannah Marsom # (1774-1834)

Thomas Marsom # (1743-1815)

Rebekah

John Major ?

Ann

? Purdy


Sibling Lists

Frank

Arthur

# Harold Ernest Green

Eric

Jean

-----

?

# Joseph Green

Thomas Green (Sydney?)resist?t

-----

# Jane Joanne Barry

Annie

Richard Redmond Barry

May

Isabel

Archibald

Harold

Olive

Muriel

-----

Rebekah Fanny

John

Albert

Annie

Nellie Marsom

# Agnes

David

Rose

Ruth

Stella

-----

Rose

Charles

Benjamin

Eliza

# John Thomas Dean

Harriet

Fanny

-----

Edward

Henry

Rebekah

Thomas

(10 Children)

# Annie Marsom Heales (Youngest)

-----

# Thomas George(?) Heales

Richard (Premier of Vic.)

-----

Hannah Rebekah (1819 +?/-?)

Eliza

# Rebekah

-----

# Rebekah Pulseford (1797-?)

Eliza (1799-?)

Jemima (1801-1802)

Hannah (1803-?)

Hephzibah (1805-1808)

Thomas Marsom (1808-?)

Ebenezer (1810-1811)

Edward (1812-?)

Hephzibah (1814-1825)

Lydia (1817 b. & d.)

Jemima (1819-?)

-----

John

Rebekah

Jane

# Hannah Marsom

Anne

-----

B.

John

Hannah

S.

# Thomas Marsom

C9 Gravestone Transcriptions, Box Hill Cemetery

These are my own transcriptions from the graves.

 

Dean

Section 23 Grave 10

In Loving Memory of our dear mother

Annie Marsom Dean

Died 3rd Aug. 1940 Aged 73 yrs

Also her loving youngest daughter

Stella Gladys Harris

Died 11th May 1991 Aged 78 Yrs. {1}

 

Joseph Green {2}

Section 17 Grave 48 (Close to the Angliss Memorial)

8-9-67 – 10-10-42

Also loved wife of above

Jane Johanna

Died 20th April 1951

Honoured and Loved

 

Grave 2341

In Loving Memory

Of

Mary Ann Green

Died 18th June 1926

Aged 79 Years

 

{1} the day of the date is uncertain

{2} inserted into the name is “(Rudolph) – Not on Grave”

C10 A Short History of Richard Heales

This is from “Guidelines”, the newsletter of the Guide Service at the Healesville Sanctuary.


Question & Answer Time

Healesville Sanctuary! Where did Healesville get its name?

This Question came from a visitor last year.

Richard Heales was born in London in 1828, the son of an ironmonger. Her served an apprenticeship as a coach builder before travelling to the colony of New South Wales in 1842 with his wife and father. He settled in the Port Phillip district working as a labourer for 6 shilling a day. He later established a business in Lonsdale St – The Heales and Carter Coach Factory.

As an ardent supporter of the Temperance Society he worked continuously for this cause, lecturing in Melbourne and London (on a return trip in 1852), and assisting with the erection of the Temperance Hall in Russell St. As a man of integrity he was elected as councillor for Gippsland in 1849. He eventually held the seat of East Bourke in the Legislative Assembly. He worked towards such reforms as protection of nature, industry, making land available to small holders, the abolition of state aid to religion, payment of members and reform of the Legislative Council.

Richard Heales was Premier from Nov. 1860 to Nov. 1861 and after his defeat held his seat of East Bourke until his death in 1864. He left a wife and 8 children, 6 sons and 2 daughters.

As a mark of respect a fine monument was erected on his grave in the Melbourne cemetery, and a small village established at the junction of the Watts River and Graceburn was given his name – Healesville.

Wilma Whykes

(Thanks to Robyn Watson, a descendant of Richard Heales. Robyn lives in Healesville.)


Richard Heales was the brother of Thomas Heales.

It is part of family lore that Richard Heales had two daughters, Lily and Mary, after whom Lilydale and Marysville were named, but I have no evidence for this assertion.

C11 Extracts from the notebooks of Thomas Marson

These notebooks have been handed down, mother to daughter, through the generations. I borrowed the books briefly from (I think) Joan Beswick, which was when I made my initial transcription. I believe they are currently in the posession of David Beswick.

Since I made my initial notes, David Beswick has made a complete transcription of the books. I have updated these extracts from this transcription. The books contain hymns and poems, almost all spiritual in nature. Of the poems, many are “acrostics”: poems where the initial letters of the lines form a word or name. Most of them have headings or annotations, some have simply “An Acrostick”, some have no heading at all.

The hymns and poems are numbered (in the original) with roman numerals. These are repeated here.

In general I give here the original headings for the poems, plus (if it is not given in the heading) the name on which the acrostic is based. Additional information (or quotes) from the text of the poem may also be noted.

I have not included hymns and poems of purely religious content (eg: Part I, Numbers I to XLVII, which are inspired by biblical texts).


Volume I, Part 1
XLVIX On the death of James Rose who died Sept. 15th 1784 aged 24.
L On the death of Mr. George Geill of Crayford in Kent.
LI To a friend, on the birth of a child, an acrostick [John Abbot]
LII An Acrostick [Thomas Phillips]
LIII To a young couple on their marriage
LIV To a friend, an acrostick [Charles Stewart]
LV An acrostick [Christian Stewart]
LVI Acrostical Epitaph on a Christian friend. [Hester Mexstead]
LVII To a friend. [John Alfrey]
LVIII To a friend. [John Shaw]
LIX To a friend. [Stephen Blakesley]
LX To a friend on his marriage. [David and Hester Mexstead]
LXI To a friend. [John Swin]
LXII To a friend. [John Hall]
LXIII To a friend. [John Gilbert]
LXIV An epitaph on the death of Mrs. Scatcherd. [Mary Scatcherd]
LXV To a friend just married. [Jane Owen]
LXVI An acrostick [Jane Owen]
LXVII To a Minister an acrostick [Samuel Hazey]
LXVIII An Acrostical Epitaph. [John Dowding]
LXIX An acrostick [Ann Marsom] "A blessing to your parents would you be ..."
Volume I, Part 2
Hymns and Spiritual Poems Part 11 Composed on various subjects
VIII On the death of the late Mr. Saml Burford, Minister of the Gospel, who died April 16th 1768 aged 42 years.
XI To my Brother on his marriage. "Brothr and sister dear ..." This is not an acrostic.
XVII An acrostick Proverbs 8th & 18th. [John Marsom]
XVIII An acrostick [Rebekah Marsom] The text suggests it is to his wife.
XIV An acrostick [Rebekah Major]
XX An acrostick [Rebekah Marsom]
XXI An acrostick [Jane Marsom] The text suggest it is to a newborn daughter.
XXII An Acrostical Epitaph. [Jane Marsom] "... A tender infant lies in death's embrace ..."
XXIII An acrostick [Hannah Marsom] "... May this our third, thy richest blessings share, An object prove of thy peculiar care ..."
XXIV An acrostick [Ann Marsom]
XXV An acrostick [Samuel Burford]
XXVI An acrostick [George Cowper]
XXVII An acrostick [Robert and Elizabeth Lee]
XXVIII An acrostick [Humphrey Hayward]
XXIX An acrostick [Mary Ford]
XXX An acrostick [Henry Harlow]
XXXI An acrostick [Benjamin Matthews]
XXXII An acrostick [William and Sarah Dalton]
XXXIII An acrostick [John and Ann Major]
XXXIV An acrostick [Samuel Major] '... May you dear friend ...'
XXXV An acrostick [Ann Crosskill]
XXXVI An acrostick [Maria Heard]
XXXVII An acrostick [Mary Toller]
XXXVIII An acrostick [Parthenia Crawford]
XXXIX An acrostick [Sarah Reynolds]
XL An acrostick [Christopher Hall]
XLI An acrostick [Matthew Urlwin]
XLII An acrostick [Sarah Griffiths]
XLIII An acrostick [Rachel Harlow]
XLIV An acrostick [Ann Drisdale]
XLV An acrostick [Robert and Elizabeth Lee]
XLVI An acrostick [Richard Reeves]
XLVII An acrostick [William Fells]
XLVIII An acrostick [Thomas Marsom]
XLIX On the Death of Mrs. Mary Hutton who departed this life Tuesday, March 9th, 1779 aged 33 years.
not numbered An Acrostical Epitaph. [Mary Hutton]
L An Acrostick [Thomas Syer Smith]
LI An Acrostick [Robert Harris]
LIII On the late dreadfull storm in the West India's
LIV An Acrostick [George Ewers]
LV An Acrostick [Mary Ewers]
LVI To a Friend on the Death of his Wife, (words in shorthand) 1781. I assume 'words in shorthand' in the transcription are in the place of the actual shorthand words.
LXII An acrostick [Elizabeth Gurney]
LXIII Contemplations on the fields, hills, etc. between Eaton Green and Luton in Bedfordshire.
LXIV A Poetical Paraphrase of a Narrative entitled Comfort under Affliction exemplified in the deathbed experience of Elizabeth Mexstead who departed this life June 3rd 1780 aged 32 years.
Inside Back Page

My own transcription of this page indicates some of the words are later additions in a different pen (or ink). These are underlined here.

Thomas Marsom Pulsford Born Monday May 9th 1808 about a quarter before ten at night.

Ebenezer Pursford Born Sunday June 3rd 1810 1/4 before seven o'clock in the morning. Died Wednesday October the 2nd 1811 at 1/4 past nine in the morning.

Edward Pulsford Born Wednesday June 24th about ten minutes past five in the morning.

Eliza born Tuesday

Mrs. Hannah Pulsford Departed this life August 21 at 1/4 past 9 o'clock at night in the 61st year of her age 1834.

Volume II

HYMNS and POEMS

on various

Subjects and on

Particular Occasions

by Thomas Marsom

Volume the Second

MDVIILXXXVI

I

A Short Account of a days excursion first by Water to Greenwich from thence to Woolwich and Shooters Hill back again to Greenwich, from thence by Water to London by a select party of friends.

June 26th. 1786.

II An account of a Peramblution to Epping Forest Walthamstow by the same party as went the year before performed June 25th 1787. Addressed to the party by the author
III An acrostick [Nicholas Fisher]
IV An Acrostick [Thomas Hayes]
V An Acrostick [William Turner] '... A pair of shoes or boots to mend or make, Most willingly I always undertake ...'
VI An Acrostick [John Hickay] 'In ships the mariners to sea repair ...'
VII A Shop bill for a chandlers shop
VIII

A letter to my Wife written from Barking in Essex Wednesday August the 12th 1778.

'... A pleasant walk from home we had ...

... Had found us out an old cod smack
Where we retired to our rest
But various dreams disturb'd my breast
That little sleep I then could find
So many things perplext my mind
But since I have slept very well ...

... A few days more I hope to see ...'

The transcription has the year of this is as '1778', but as it appears in the books later than the descriptions of the trips to Greenwich etc (1786), and to Epping Forest (1787), but before that to Norwood etc. (1789), it seems more likely the year is 1788, and that '1778' is a transcription error.

IX An Acrostic [William and Susannah Wells]
X

A Letter to a Sister at Sydenham in answer from one received from her.

'... Respecting your Sister the truth for to find, This I can assure you, she is much better ...'

'... That was that my Brother I might wait upon
If you ask me which I reply it is John
That after their welfare I might enquire
Which I thought a circumstance you would desire
For his wife she hath been exceedingly ill
For several weeks past and continues so still
Both Sammy and Polly I went for to see
Staid two or three hours and with them drank tea ...'

'... My Brother and Sisters they all join with me
In love and affection with sincerity
To you with good wishes that you may be blest ...'

David Beswick states in a seperate note: "possibly Ann Major & John husband children Samuel & Polly"

XI An acrostic on a Publicans name. [Benjamin Scott]
XII An Acrostic [Robert Johns]
XIII On the Death of Mrs Martha How an Acrostical Epitaph
XIIII The Authors apology to his Friends on their annual excursion July 1789
XV To A Friend An Acrostick [Richard Geill]
XVI An Acrostick on a Hair Dresser [Alexander More]
XVII Written to a Friend a few weeks after the birth of her son
XVIII A Letter to my Daughter at school at St. Albans
XVIX An Epitaph
XX An Acrostic [Hannah Marsom]
XXI Answer to a Rebus in the New Lady's Magazine
XXIII An Acrostic to a Young Lady [Elizabeth Symonds]
XXIV An Acrostic [Mary Hill] '... Have mercy on a tender infant dear ...'
XXV An Acrostic [Robert Marchant] '... Our tender infant we would joyful bear ...'
XXIX An Acrostic [William Roacher]
XXX Acrostic to a Gentleman who had purchased Mr. Gurneys Shorthand. [Henry Wardall]
XXXI An Acrostic to a Young Lady [Elizabeth Symonds]
XXXII An Acrostic to a Friend [George and Betty Johnston]
XXXIII Composed on New Years Day January 1st. 1794 '... For fifty years thou hast preserv'd me here ...'
LX An Acrostic [George and Ann Nedriff]
LXI An Epitaph
LXII An Acrostic on a Minister [Joseph Swain]
LXIII An Acrostic [Edward and Hannah Pulsford] 'Engag'd to be through every stage of life, Devoted to each other man and wife ...'
LXVI An Acrostic on my Grand Daughter Born October 16 1797 [Rebekah Pulsford]
LXVII Acrostic on a second Grand Daughter Born August 7 1799 [Eliza Pulsford]
LXVIII An Acrostic on a third Grand Daughter - Born July 8 1801 Died August 1802 [Jemima Pulsford]
LXIX An Acrostic on a Minister [John Stewart]
LXX An Acrostic on a fourth Grand Daughter - Born June 18, 1803 [Hannah Pulsford]
LXXI An Acrostic upon a fifth Grand Daughter - Born Sep.2 1805 Died Feb. 1808 [Hephzibah Pulsford]
LXXII An Acrostic on a Minister [Jamis Upton]
LXXIII An Acrostic [William Pulsford]
LXXIV An Acrostic to a youth [John Pulsford] In a separate note, David Beswick has about this acrostic '(About 18057?)'. I presume this is based on John Pulsford's birth date (from other sources).
LXXV An Acrostic [Mary Dix]
LXXVI An Acrostic [Philip and Ann Strange]
LXXVII An Acrostic [William Palmer]
LXXVIII To a friend on the loss of a Brother killed in the battle of Trafalgar and on the death of a Daughter March 28th aged 17
LXXIX An Acrostic [Elizabeth Strange]
LXXX Epitaph on Hephzibah Pulsford who died Feby. 20th 1808.
LXXXI An Acrostic on my Grandson Born May 9 1808 [Thomas Marsom Pulsford]
LXXXII An Acrostical Epitaph on the death of my sister. [Hannah Hinton]
LXXXIII An Acrostic [George Ewer]
LXXXIV An Acrostic on second grandson Born June 3 1810 [Ebenezer Pulsford]
LXXXV On the death of my Grandson Ebenezer Died Octr. 2 1811
LXXXV Acrostic on a 3rd Grandson Born June 24 1812 [Edward Pulsford]
LXXXVII An Acrostic [Sarah Johnson]
LXXXVIII An Acrostic [William Pontin] '... Parents be still attend his awful rod ... Though you have lost a well beloved son ...'
LXXXIX An Acrostic [Sarah Goodwin]
XC An Acrostic upon a 6th Granddaughter Born August 16 1814 [Hephzibah Pulsford]
An Acrostic on an affectionate Parent - the Author of this book - who departed this Life February 7 1815 age 71 years 1/2
An Acrostic on a 7 Daughter Born March 2 1817 Died the same time [Lydia Pulsford]
An Acrostic on A 8 Daughter Born Feby.12 1819 [Jemima Pulsford]
An Acrostic on my first Grand Daughter [Hannah Rebekah Purdy]
An Acrostic on my second Grand Daughter [Eliza Purdy]
On the Death of my second Grand Daughter '... Beneath this humble sod an Infant lies ...'
An Acrostic on a third Grand Daughter [Rebekah Purdy]
A few thoughts on the Death of my Daughter Hephzibah Pulsford who was born Aug. 16 1814 and died Oct. 2 1825.
9 pages of shorthand - Is it upside down? This is the text in David's transcription.
The Young Sailors Farewell to the Family Fleet
3 pages of shorthand This is the text in David's transcription.

On a separate paper, I have summarised some information on Thomas Marson’s family.


Thomas Marson/m 1743-1815
Mrs Hannah Pulsford 1773-1834
 
Rebekah Pulsford (1) 1797-
Eliza Pulsford (2) 1799-
Jemima Pulsford (3) 1801-1802
Hannah Pulsford (4) 1803-
Hephzibah Pulsford (5) 1805-1808
Thomas Marsom Pulsford (1) 1808-
Ebenezer Pulsford (2) 1810-1811
Edward Pulsford (3) 1812-
Hephzibah Pulsford (6) 1814-1825
Lydia Pulsford (7) 1817 died at birth
Jemima Pulsford (8) 1819-
 
Hannah Rebekah Purdy (1)
Eliza Purdy (2)

There is also a list, in my handwriting:

The Female Line from Thomas Marsom


c1745 Rebekah ? = Thomas Marson
1774 Hannah Marson = Edward Pulsford
1797 Rebekah Pulsford = ? Purdy
c 1824 Rebekah Purdy = Thomas Heales
1866 Annie Marsom Heales = John Dean
1900 Agnes May Dean = Harold Ernest Green
1930 Joan Mavis Green = David Beswick
1961 Helen Joan Beswick = ?

C12 Descendants of Thomas Heales

This is a computer-printed descent tree. There is no indication of its source, but it may be David Beswick. This is an incomplete transcript, not showing many side branches.


Descendants of: Thomas Heales

Thomas Heales b. abt 1823 d. 29 Jun 1869 m. 14 Aug 1844 Rebekah Marsom Purdy b. abt 1825 d 16 Sep 1883

Thomas George Heales b. 9 June 1845 d. 29 Aug 1888 m. 9 December 1875 Harriett Emily Aspinall

Rebekah Elizabeth Heales b. 1849 d 1869 m 1867 James Stephen Thorpe

Richard Pulsford Heales b. 1850

Frances Rhoda Heales b. 1852 d 1881 m. 1874 Richard Delahunty

Richard Ferdinan Heales b. 1854 d. 1882

Henry Charles Heales b. 1856 m. 1863 Alice Janet Tullis

Edward Pulsford Heales b. 1858 m. 1882 Emily Alice Green

Ann Jane Martha Heales b. 1861 d. 1862

*Ann Jane Marsom Heales b. 23 Nov 1866 d 3 Aug 1940 m. 1887 John Thomas Dean b. 5 Apr 1867 d 1946

Rebekah Fanny Dean b. 31 Aug 1887 d. 14 Sep 1971 m 1 Jan 1914 Edward John Strickland

William Dean b. 1889 d. 1889

John Charles Dean b. 1890 d. 25 July 1916

Albert Henry Dean b. 1892 d. 1924 m. Charlotte Ann Blair

Annie Taylor Dean b. 1894 d. 27 Mar 1981 m. 6 Sep 1920 Edwin Gordon Evans

Nellie Marsom Dean b. 21 Nov 1896 d. 20 Jul 1979 m. 17 Apr 1920 William Henry Harold Knight

May Dean b. 1897

Jessie Elizabeth Dean b. 1898

*Agnes May Dean b. 13 Oct 1900 d. 14 June 1989 m. 31 Mar 1928 Harold Ernest Green b. 12 Oct 1901 d 8 May 1981

Joan Mavis Green b. 24 Mar 1930 d. 18 Apr 2001 m. 14 Jan 1957 David George Beswick b. 9 Sep 1933

Robert David Beswick b. 11 Nov 1959 m. 8 Apr 1989 Amanda Louise Lindsay b. 16 Aug 1958 d. 19 Jul 1990

Helen Joan Beswick b. 26 Aug 1961 m. 27 Oct 1984 Mark John Chapman b. 27 Aug 1961

James David Chapman b. 17 Jul 1987

Timothy John Chapman b. 29 May 1989

Lachlan Mark Chapman b. 1 Jan 1992

Alice Suzanne Chapman b. 18 Nov 1995

Bruce Alan Beswick b. 24 Jan 1963

Andrew John Beswick b. 19 Aug 1965 m. 18 Mar 2000 Paula Wright b. 28 Feb 1974

Robert Ernest Green b. 19 Nov 1931 m. (1) 22 Feb 1958 Dorothy Joan Peggie b. 22 Dec 1930 d 24 Jan 2000 m. (2) Rae Yvonne Rimington b. 18 Sep 1941

Jeffery Ernest Green b. 20 Sep 1959

Kenneth John Green b. 31 Jan 1961 m. 10 May 1986 Lynda Maree Halliwell b. 27 Mar 1965

Samuel Danvers Green b. 4 Jan 1993

Bryanna Rose Green b. 20 Oct 1995

David Thomas Dean b. 17 Aug 1902 d. 12 May 1974 m. 14 Aug 1926 Kathleen Lameby

Rose Heales Dean b. 1904 d. 4 Feb 1971 m. 30 Sep 1939 Cedric Valentine Caughey

Ruth Purdy Dean b. 9 Jul 1907 d 9 Aug 1992 m.(1) 1935 or 36 George Cooper m.(2) Laurie Moncreiff m.(3) Reginald Patrick Connelly

Stella Gladys Dean b. 22 Jul 1912 d. 16 May 1991 m. 21 Feb 1942 Charles Edward Harris

C13 Descendants of Fanny Taylor & Charles Dean

This is a typed descent tree. I also have the original hand-written version, prepared by my grandmother Agnes Green. I give it only as far as John Thomas Dean (b. 1867), from where it coincides with [C12], except I show the common descent of Stella Gladys Dean and Charles Edward Harris, who married in 1942.


Fanny Taylor d. 1906 m. Charles Dean d. c 1979

Rose Dean b. England c1860 d. America c1951 m. John Catterall

Charles Albert Dean b. c1865 m. Martha Ann Robson

John Thomas Dean b. 1867 d. 1945 m. Annie Marsom Heales b. 1866 d 1940

:

Stella Gladys Dean

Benjamin Joseph Dean b. c1869 m.(1) Irene m.(2) Margaret

Eliza Clare Dean b. c1872 d. 1916 m. William Edward Harris b. 1902 d. 1922

Elsie Clare Harris b. 1892 d 1958

William Ernest Benjamin Harris b. 1902 d. 1922

Charles Edward Harris b. 1904 d. 1985 m.(1) Alice Buckingham d. 1938 m.(2) Stella Gladys Dean 1942

Gwendoline Alice Harris b. 1928 m. Frank Cairncross

:

Harriet Ellen Dean b. c1874 m. John Werry

Fanny Elizabeth Dean b. c1877 d. 1951 m. Reuben Lionel Mason

C14 A School for Waverley Road

From a photocopy of the typescript. The photocopy shows the (rather battered) edges of other pages from a sheaf of papers, and I suspect the original is in fact the government file record of the deputation. I have no further information on its origin.

This is an extract from a typescript recording the details of a deputation to the Victorian Minister for Education regarding the establishment of a school at Waverley Road. The primary argument was that the existing schools in the area (at Oakleigh and Black Flat) were full, and too far away from the residents at Waverley Road in any case.

A deputation of residents of Waverley Road waited on the Minister of Education (Hon. A.O. Sachse M.L.C.) on the 14th April 1904.

:

He (the previous minister of Education) promised to grant a school on condition that the land was provided by the Council or some private resident. Mr Peggie granted an exchange of land with the council who provided the necessary land for a school. Tenders were called for the erection of a school. The present Government then came into office and the petitioners were told that there were no funds.

:

Mr Thompson (in reply to the Minister) said that ¾ of an acre of land had been given for a school site.

The Minister: That is not enough! I won’t listen to anything under 2 acres!

:

The residents had paid from £20 to £40 an acre for the land, expecting to get suburban facilities.

Mr Ingram suggested that if a full school could not be provided the difficulty might be met by opening an adjunct to the Black Flat school.

Mr Peggie said that if necessary he thought the area of the site could be increased to two acres.

:

The Minister (in reply) said ... If the deputation would find him two acres of land he would give them a school.


The implication in this document is that Mr Peggie in effect provided the land for the school, though probably through an exchange with the council, and not necessarily the actual site. I assume the Mr Peggie referred to was John Peggie, b. 1870, d. 1934.

C15 Notes on the Peggie Family

From the original manuscript.

These notes are all on the one sheet, in handwriting I suspect is my grandfather’s.


Aunty Jeanie Peggie Died 30 August 1933 aged 62

Grandpa Jack Peggie Died 17 Sept 1934 aged 68 10 mth

Bought Piano 15 Aug 1934 £70

Bruce Joined Scouts 16.3.39 Ian 21-Sept 39

Accident in Car 28.3.36 in Rear in Waverley Rd

Gran Westmoreland bad arthritis March 1937

Joan Measles June 1939

Bruce Masbord(!) Feb 1937

Mother had gallstones Aug 12 ’39 ope

Operated on at Bethesda 16

C16 Peggie Family Trees from Garry Martin

Garry Martin prepared quite a large collection of family trees, with the intention of publishing a book, and sent a draft and possibly a final version to Ian Peggie. I extract the relevant descent trees from the collection.


PEGGIE

David Peggie m. Jean Berry

Agnes bp. 10/9/1823 Leslie, Fifeshire, Scotland

Elspel bp. 20/8/1828, Leslie

David bp. 20/8/1828, Lestlie

George Berry bp. 3/8/1828, Leslie d. 20/1/1897 Oakleigh, Vic., b. Oakleigh Cemetery m. 18/5/1854 West Wemyss, Jane Murray Wyles b. 1/6/1828 Wemyss d. 9/11/1907 Oakleigh, Vic. b. Oakleigh Cemetery

David b. 1/5/1856 Prahran Vic. (8036) d. 29/10/1911 b. Box Hill Cemetery m. 28/4/1883 St Mathews Prahran, Mary Jane Adelaide Ashdown

John b. 1857 Prahran (9442) d. 1857 (4457)

Annie b. 1859 Gardiner (6575) d. 1859 (3589)

Jane Ann b. 6/7/1860 Oakleigh (11155) m. James McGregor

George b. 13/10/1863 (4011) d. 18/6/1902 b. Oakleigh Cemetery

John b. 1865 Gardiner (4307) d. 1865

Jane b. 1868 d. 1870 (4553)

John b. 28/12/1870 Malvern d. 10/9/1934 b. Oakleigh Cemetery m. Jane Pask b. 1868 d. 4/5/1943 bd. Oakleigh Cemetery

Edward Ernest b. 12/7/1895 Mt Waverley d. 12/2/1898 b. Oakleigh Cemetery

Leslie John b. 12/7/1895 Mt Waverley d. 5/7/1981 b. Springvale Crematorium m. 28/6/1922 Mitcham, Dorothy Mayhew Westmoreland b. 26/9/1894 Stawell d. 12/7/1940 b. Springvale Crematorium

John Bruce b. 9/11/1925 Essendon m. 3/4/1952, Methodist Church Cooloongatta Rd, Hartwell, Margaret Annette Liebert b. 15/11/1931, Camberwell

Susan Dorothy b. 23/7/1954 Burwood

Andrew John b. 19/8/1955 Box Hill

Maxwell Bruce b. 13/11/1958 Kew

Cathryn Frances b. 11/5/1963 Kew

Ian Donald b. 14/9/1928 Essendon m. 10/9/1955 Methodist Church Cooloongatta Rd, Hartwell, Berverley Madge Pannell b. 10/10/1931 Camberwell

Donald James b. 16/8/1956 Camberwell

Alan Stuart b. 21/2/1958 Box Hill

Jillian Kaye b. 25/9/1961 Box Hill

Dorothy Joan b. 22/12/1930 Essendon, m. 22/2/1959 Methodist Church Cooloongatta Rd, Hartwell, Robert Ernest Green

Jeffery Ernest b. 20/9/1959 Box Hill

Kenneth John b. 31/1/1961 Box Hill

Daisy Jean b. 25/1/1899 Mt Waverley d. 27/11/1971 b. Springvale Crematorium m. 19/12/1923 Oakleigh Cecil Edward Davie

Jane Berry b. 26/9/1876 Malvern d. 30/8/1933 b. Oakleigh Cemetery


WYLES

John Wyles m. Margaret ?

John m. Margaret Thompson

John bp. 25/8/1749 Wemyss m. Jean Murray daughter of Walter Murray and Jean Birrell bp. 25/3/1750 Wemyss {1}

Jean bp. 9/12/1778 Wemyss

Isobel bp. 29/12/1781 Wemyss

Sophia bp. 14/7/1784 Wemyss m. Daniel Doig

Catherine bp. 14/6/1786 Wemyss

John bp. 15/2/1793 Wemyss m. Anne McLeod 5/11/1820 Wemyss

John bp. 8/10/1822 Wemyss

Christian bp. 19/10/1826 Wemyss

Jane Murray bp. 1/6/1828 Wemyss d. 9/11/1907 Gardiner, Vic. b. Oakleigh Cemetery m. 18/5/1854 Wemyss, George Berry Peggie {see above}

Anne bp. 6/1/1883 Wemyss

Robert bp. 13/10/1883 Wemyss

Katherine bp. 25/8/1749 Wemyss

Margaret bp. 18/4/1751 Wemyss

Isobel bp. 13/5/1753 Wemyss

Elspel bp. 9/3/1756 Wemyss

Janet bp. 26/8/1758 Wemyss

Barbara bp. 26/11/1760 Wemyss

Andrew m. Christian Davidson


There have been a number of trees drawn up from this, none I think with any additional information on them. One (a typescript which I’m sure is mine) states that John Wyles and Margaret Thompson were married 25/8/1749, the same date as the baptisms of their first two children John and Katherine. I obviously confused the date of this marriage with that of the baptisms; I have no evidence as to the actual marriage date.

C17 A Peggie Gravestone Inscription

From an original hand-written (in pencil) transcription. Origin unknown.


George Berry Peggie Jan 1897 68 yrs

Edward Ernest Peggie Feb 1898 2½ yrs

George Peggie son of above June 1902 39 yrs

Jane Peggie Nov 1907 79

Jane Berry Peggie daughter of George Berry & Jane Peggie August 1933, 62 yrs

John Peggie sep 10 1934

Jane Peggie May 4, 1943

On Oakleigh Peggie gravestone.

C18 A Note on the Pasks

This is written on the back of an envelope, in my mother’s hand-writing. The envelope is addressed to her.

I remember mum talking about the Pentland’s, she may even have gone to a Pentland reunion at one stage, but apart from this note I have no evidence for a relationship with them.


Grandma Pask’s

Grandma [Peggie] Pask’s sister married a Pentland

Auntie Chris Pentland’s mother m. McInnes

(I suspect 2 of Grandma Pask’s sisters married Pentlands. If I remember Dad correctly.) {1}

Auntie Jean (Jennie) Grandma Peggies Sister

{1} the parentheses are in the original.

C19 The Huguenot Persecution

This is a typescript of unknown authorship. I have a (poor) photocopy, on which letters are missing from the left side of the original. Ian Peggie has the original typescript, and I have corrected my text from this.

The slightly odd sentence structures, and the whole somewhat incoherent textual structure, suggest to me it may be a school-student’s work. The reference to Auckland may indicate a New Zealand origin.

This is another of “Rae’s papers” referred to in the notes to [B14].


The Huguenot Persecution

(Edit of Nantes)

The Great French Revolution of 1688

Although 250 years have passed since the persecution in Flanders and France compelled so large a number of Protestants to fly from those countries and take refuge in England, the descendants of the “gentle and profitable strangers” are still recognisable amongst us.

A large proportion of the refugees and their descendants threw aside their French names or rather translated them into English. Thus Mahiew, Mayhew. Thus is was the family settled in Spitalfields and there practised their mode of weaving and Spitalfields henceforward enjoyed a large share of the trade for which Lyons had been so famous.

It must have been a pleasant place in those days with its long, wide latticed windows, behind which the looms clicked all day long, to snatches of French songs.

French names sprang up over shop doors. You may see them to this day, done into English. White for Lebane, Masters for Lemaitre, and so forth, and in Spital Square, a stone’s throw from the site of the old Priory, rose the great houses of the Huguenot merchant princes with their wide shallow stairs and panelled rooms, where the exiles might fittingly cherish the courtly grace of France. No grass grows now is Spittle Fields and there is no more singing of French songs. Spitalfields Market is elbowing the spacious houses of Spital Square, and the house breakers are busy with their carved chimney pieces and their lovely sweeping stairways.

I herewith give name of descendants.

James Loftis, Bachelor and Sarah Morrell, Spinster, Married in the Parish Church of St Leonard’s, Shoreditch, 20th of October 1770.

I have now given the immigration and settlement in England of the Huguenots of my mother’s side. I will now give all I can of the descendants of my father’s side.

Many a tradition is still preserved in Huguenot families of hairbreadth escapes of their ancestors in those terrible times. Thus Aela Rive afterwards an officer under William III and his wife, escaped across the frontier into Holland in the guise of orange sellers, leading a donkey and pannier. The young D’Albeacs whose blood now intermingles with ducas family of Roxturgh were smuggled out of the country in hampers. The sisters Aela Cherous, whose descendants still exist in Ireland, fled in disguise on horseback travelling only after dark concealing themselves in the woods in the daytime. The child of La Condamine, Courtauld (English) also the little boy Koch (converted to English) Cox whose descendants still flourish in England were carried off in baskets slung across a mule travelling at night, to the coast of France, by a faithful servant, who upon approaching any town where their progress was likely to be opposed, covered the children with greens and garden stuffs. They were taken on a Dutch merchant vessel whose master hid them in empty casks, and landed them safely in England. The young Courtauld after his school learning was put to the silk trade in Spitalfields and became a silk merchant. And did so will that he started a crape factory in Braintree in Essex. The later generation went into making artificial silk and are one of the largest of the kind in England. The little boy Koch (Cox English) was brought up in a good Huguenot family and put to school and was excellent in his subjects. He was put to the making of Looms and made great progress, and his looms were known all over England. He also bought waste land outside London, now inside London, about 300 acres, called Cambden Town, now all built upon and a population as large as Auckland.

The next generation knew nothing of what their fathers had gone through. Thus on the occasion of the Jubilee at Spitalfields Church the sermon preached there in 1782 in commemoration of his fifty years pastorate. He had been appointed minister of the congregation when it was a large and thriving one in 1731, and he now addressed but a feeble remnant of what it had been. The old members had died off, but their places had not been supplied by the young who had gone in search of other pastures. It was the same with all the other French churches. Thus it was the Cox family, they mortgaged all the land and all that was left was the mortgage deed.

The End.

C20 Obituary of William Westmoreland (1834-1889)

From photocopies of a newspaper cutting. I have a number of photocopies of it, of varying quality, and in some cases of only part of the original. I presume it’s origin is a New Zealand newspaper.

There is a handwritten note at the top: “Grandfather”, and another at the bottom: “William?”. These occur on the original of all of my copies.


FALLEN ASLEEP

Mr W. Westmoreland

On September 24th Mr William Westmoreland, for several years a member of the Grafton road Church, Auckland, passed away to his eternal reward, after a long and trying illness. He was born in the village of Deawby, in Lincolnshire, on January 31st, 1834. During his early years he became possessed of a volume of “Ryle’s Tracts,” which he read and re-read with deep interest, and their perusal led to a definite determination to give up all for Christ. He could look back to no precise date when he experienced for the first time the new birth, but he always dated the consecration of his life to God from the reading of that volume. From that time forward his life was a ceaseless fulfilment of his vows to God. Impressed by his own experience of the efficacy of the “silent messenger,” he decided that to that department of Christian labour his thought and care should be directed. While a young man a large proportion of his pocket money was devoted to the purchase of tracts, which he distributed with great perseverance. In 1858 he was married at Sheffield. Soon after marriage he moved to Lincoln, and after a while back again to Sheffield, where he resided up to his departure for New Zealand about six years ago. The cares of home and the responsibilities of family life were not allowed to lessen his love for the work he had chosen, and very many in Sheffield now can testify to the benefit derived from reading the tracts he so quietly dropped. In addition to this labour his interest in Sunday school work was very deep, and every Sunday found him in his place at the head of his class. In 1883 Mr Westmoreland moved with his family to Auckland, and at once united himself to the church at Grafton road. Soon after he settled there he organised a band of workers, and planned a large district for the distribution of tracts. The work was done well and faithfully,right up to the time when he was stricken down with what proved to be his fatal illness.

Always of an exceedingly quiet and retiring disposition, he refused to take any office in the church, and shrunk from any prominence, contented if he could work for God in his own useful but quiet way with the tracts. Early in March, 1887, he had an apoplectic stroke from which he never recovered. Throughout the whole of his illness, his patience and resignation testified to the indwelling peace that had made his active years sp sweet. No murmurs, no questionings, no doubts about God’s dealings were ever heard. His trustfulness, simple and complete as a child’s, sustained him, - God could do no wrong. On Sunday, September 22nd, came the beginning of the end. For thirty-nine hours, watched anxiously and lovingly by many friends, the struggle for life was carried on, but at six o’clock on Tuesday morning “God’s finger touched him and he slept.” His soul has reached its home; his spirit is at peace. The great blank can never be filled here; but all the sadness and sorrow caused by his loss is made into gladness by the knowledge of his perfect peace and rest with God.

There is no direct indication of the date of this piece. William Westmoreland’s illness started in March 1887, and he died on Tuesday September 24th, but the year is not stated; the stating of the year 1887 suggests his death was in a different year. September the 24th was a Friday in 1887, a Monday in 1888, and a Tuesday in 1889. The 1889 date coincides with the date given in the family register [B1]. So it would seem that his final illness lasted about 2½ years.

C21 Obituary of Herbert William Westmoreland (1865-1895)

I have a computer-printed transcript, which begins with what seems to be a transcript from cemetery records , but is mainly a transcription of an article from the Stawell News. I suspect the computer-printout was prepared by Ian Peggie.


Grave Number 2795. Westmoreland, Herbert, W, 5/5/1895. 29 Years

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Born Sheffield, died at Stawell. Congregational.

Same grave, Westmoreland, Olive. 31/1/1893. 5 hours. b,l,d, Stawell

Same grave, Westmoreland, William Arthur, 12/4/1892, 3 months, b,l,d, Stawell

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Obituary, Stawell News 7/5/1895, Rev. H.W. Westmoreland

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It is with extreme regret that we have to announce the death of Rev. Herbert Westmoreland, Late Pastor of the Congregational Church of this Town, who passed away about 11.00 a.m. on Saturday, at the early age of 29 years, at his residence in Wimmera Street, Stawell.

The news of his demise came as a surprise in the town as it was not generally known that his illness was of so serious a nature, in fact there was every reason to hope for his recovery up to within a week or so of his death.

He had been laid up about 5 weeks with congestion of the membrane of the spinal cord, brought on by excessive riding in the sun.

During the period of his illness, though confined to his bed and subject to frequent delirious attacks, he was only contented when employed in literary work, in discussing the religious, social political problems of the day, so active was his brain and so deep an interest did he take in the progress of the world.

A week before his death, he fell into a comatose state when his danger became apparent, finally, inflammation of the brain set in, to which he succumbed as stated.

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THE FUNERAL

The funeral took place yesterday afternoon, a long procession of mourners following the hearse, on foot and in vehicles.

Among the mourners we noticed Mr. A. Westmoreland, editor of the Donald Express, and Mr. C. Westmoreland, of Melbourne, brothers of the deceased; the Rev. Canon Hayman, incumbent of Holy Trinity Church Stawell; the Rev. J.W. Jones, congregational and J.A. Taylor, Wesleyan. Also Messrs. Clemes, Galbraith, J.J. Pawsey, M. Lean, Lindsay Lemin, Baxter, Steers, Ord, Hall’s and other prominent citizens.

The service at the grave was conducted by the Rev. E.C. Tennant, St. Mathews Presbyterian Church, prayer being offered by Rev. J.J. Jones.

The coffin, which was a very handsome one, was literally covered with floral tributes from the friends of the deceased, over forty wreaths having been sent, while others, we understand, which came from Melbourne did not reach Stawell until the arrival of the express last night.

The mortuary arrangements were admirably conducted by Mr. F. Crouch undertaker of Main Street, Stawell.

Here follows the ‘Biographical Note’ that I give below.

I also have photocopies of an article in what is probably the Donald Express (given that one of the brothers of the deceased was the editor of that paper). The article quotes virtually in full the “Biographical Notice” from the Stawell News, but I first give what I have of the preceding text. The first lines are obviously still missing. I would not be surprised if they also repeat some of the lines from the Stawell News, as some are here quoted apparently without attribution.

Revs E. C. Tennant (St Mathew’s Presbyterian Church), and J. W. Joyce (Congregational Church). The coffin, which was a very handsome one, was covered ?? floral tributes from the friends ?? deceased, over 40 wreaths having been sent. As a mark of the deep respect in which Mr Westmoreland was held in Stawell, almost all the shops in the town had shutters up all day till after the funeral, which took place at 4 o-clock in the afternoon. Though a painful task, it would have been a loving duty to write a short biographical sketch of our brother’s remarkable career, but perhaps the following interesting extract from the Stawell News will be better appreciated:-

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE

I have two versions of this note. One is the computer-printout of the text transcribed from the Stawell News. The other is from the photocopies of the (presumed) Donald Express. I give here a combined text from the two versions. Differences are given with the Stawell News transcript in [square brackets], the Donald Express photocopies in <pointed brackets>. None of the differences are significant, and I cannot know which of the transcribers is correct (not having the original Stawell News article), but they do illustrate the potential problems with transcriptions – no doubt including all of those in this series!

[Herbert W.] <Mr> Westmoreland was born at Sheffield in 1865, and even in his earliest [years] <boyhood> gave evidence of the possession of those splendid talents which have since brought him into such prominence in Victoria as an eminent preacher and lecturer.

On leaving school he was destined for an educational career, but finding the vocation of teaching to monotonous for his restless temperament, and having a great desire to [travel and] go to sea, he was placed with the New Zealand Company and made several voyages, gaining such knowledge and experience of the world and its ways as an educated wide-awake sailor has the opportunity of deriving.

At the end of [three years, (before the mast)] <“three years before the mast”>, and having won a reputation as a sailor of skill, grit and character, he settled in New Zealand where his parents and a portion of his family had in the meantime migrated.

He entered the services of the Educational Board of New Zealand, obtaining employment as assistant teacher in a country school, of which in a few months he became the headmaster. Further promotions soon came, and his final appointment in [the] <that> Department being assistant master at the High School of Cambridge.

While here engaged, he had a severe bout of brain fever, which rendered a years leave necessary, during which period, he again visited England and other parts of the world.

Shortly after returning to New Zealand, he left the Education Department with great honours and finding his way to this colony entered the Ministry, to fit himself for which he had unremittingly laboured from the time he quitted his sea-faring life.

His first charge was the United Methodist Free church at Windsor, from which he was removed to Nagambie, and thence to the charge of the Peel Street Church at Ballarat, where his ministrations were a decided success, and the active part he took in religious and movements of the city gained him considerable distinction and popularity.

After two years in Ballarat, Mr. Westmoreland allied himself with the Congregational Church Union, [and] his advanced ideas on religious and social questions requiring greater latitude that obtained in the Methodist Free Church of the Colony.

His first and only appointment as a Congregational was to the charge of the Stawell church, where for four years or so his eloquence as a preacher a lecturer have won for him honour and renown.

He was regarded as one of the most prominent preachers in the Congregational<ist> body, and several times occupied the pulpit of the Collins Street Church <,Melbourne>.

Mr Westmoreland was an earnest seeker after truth - the truth of mans relation with God and the Universe. He kept himself [well] abreast of the most advanced literature on all religious and social questions, formed his opinions with care and deliberation, and that which he believed he fearlessly enunciated. He gained a wide reputation for his pulpit and platform oratory, and wherever he went was a popular man.

He was also a prolific and versatile writer, many serials and short stories of his appear in the religious and other publications of the Colony. He was possessed of a kindly disposition, and a warm, impulsive heart; he was generous to a fault, and kind husband and father, a true friend and an upright man.

During his ministry [in] <on> Stawell, he was one of the prime movers in the Chautauqua at the Grampians, acting as secretary to the movement, which was organised by the Ministerial Association of Stawell.

On resigning his pastorate of the Stawell church some twelve months ago, he accepted a position under the <Temperance> Alliance Insurance Company, and latterly filled the position of travelling representative for the Australian Widows Fund.

Right up to the period of his illness, however, he preached regularly twice every Sunday, generally travelling long distances to fill his voluntary appointments, principally among the scattered churches of the Donald and St Arnaud Wesleyan circuits, where his ministrations drew large congregations, and were much appreciated.

Six weeks ago he returned home feeling very unwell, and almost immediately took to his bed, and despite the kindest and most unremitting attention of Dr. Hopkins, died as above stated. He leaves a wife and four little girls to mourn their sad bereavement.

[He died on May 4, 1895 at his residence.]

C22 Rev. Herbert William Westmoreland of the United Methodist Free Church

This is a historical note by Ian Peggie, combining the histories of Rev. Westmoreland and some of the Methodist churches in Australia. Much of the personal history is taken from the newspaper articles [C21]. I give here some notes of interest from the text.


- “On his coming to Australia in 1885 there is no mention of any continuation of his work as a teacher, at which he had performed so well in New Zealand ... However it is presumed he was continuing in this work when he married Emma Loiuse Hill in June, 1886. Annice Mary was born on 15 March 1887 in Alexandria, Sydney.”

- “Elsie Ada was born on 13 October 1888 in Nagambie” Presumably while he was assigned to the Nagambie church.

- “Many of his sermons were also reported in the Ballarat paper, as well as his somewhat heart-rending and moralistic short stories, written under the pen name of Hubert West.” I have a photocopy of part of one of these stories (from The Christian Union, April 26, 1895, p7).

- “Winifred Ida arrived on 2 January 1890.” Pencilled above this is “April 27”

- “Dorothy Mayhew was born on 26 September 1894.”

C23 Herbert William Westmoreland

This is a historical note, prepared by Rae Smith. It quotes extensively from the newspaper articles [C21], but it does not indicate what is quoted and what is original. I give here some notes of interest from the text.


- “My Great Grandfather, Herbert William Westmoreland was born on 14/5/1865 at Ecclesall Bierlow, York, England”

- “... held the position of secretary. The Chautauqua Peak in the Grampians was named after the group.”

- “ His wife, four daughters, mother, sisters and brothers, survived him. One of his sisters with their mother, set up one of the first kindergartens in Melbourne, then she came to Stawell and set up kindergartens and private schools. Most of this information was taken from Donald Express Newspaper, which was written by Herbert’s brother Henry Arthur Westmoreland, who was Editor and Manager of the Donald Newspaper”

C24 Some notes on the Misses Westmoreland

From a photocopy of an article from the Real Estate pages of (probably) one of the Melbourne newspapers. Hand written on the original of my photocopy is “16/10/82”

Kew

New look for an old friend.

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St Clair, 29 Barry St, Kew

Dates and data are uncertain, but we have been told this was once the home of Dr Montague Kent-Hughes and his family, one of whom was the distinguished MP, Sir Wilfred Kent-Hughes.

Its next owners apparently were the Westmoreland sisters, who ran a school there with a kindergarten in a small cottage at the rear which had been the doctor’s surgery (This building is still there, but is a separate private residence).

Extracts from a photocopy of a typescript. Hand written on the original is “This is a copy of a talk given by Dorothy King of the historical society.”

Ladies College

This house in Ligar Street is second from the corner of Houston Street & almost opposite the butchers. This house was especially built for school use. It was built in 1874. Through the Stawell paper in September 1874, Mr & Mrs Charles Dumergue announced that they would open the Stawell Ladies College in Ligar Street – “Having removed to a commodious residence, newly built, entirely for school purposes, in a most healthy part of the town, they were prepared to receive a number of Boarders as well as day scholars.”

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We do not know who occupied these premises for the next few years – apparently not a school. In the middle of 1892 – Miss Westmoreland announced she was opening the Stawell Girls High School and Kindergarten for resident and daily pupils at “Marmion”, Ligar Street. She would be assisted by efficient teachers & the boarders would be under the care of Mrs Westmoreland. She advertised a thorough English education together with the usual extras at “Marmion”. Classes for French and Painting would be open to students not attending the school.

The next year the school was advertised as The Stawell Ladies College and Kindergarten under the Misses Westmoreland & they had vacancies for boarders.

After almost 3 years, Miss Westmoreland sold the school to Mr Albert Hale and the premises became HARVARD COLLEGE.

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In his end of year report, Mr Hale said the young students were taught by the Kindergarten method ? instead of the old system – the essentials of which were a boy, a book and a cane.

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C25 Herbert William Westmoreland

From the hand written original. I don’t know who prepared it, it is not in handwriting I recognise.


Herbert William Westmoreland
14 May 1865 Born in Sheffield England
1881 Left school at 16
apprentice to New Zealand Shipping Company for 3 years, became 1st mate. (Parents moved to NZ 1883. Grafton Road church Auckland
1884 Emigrated to NZ to join family
Joined Educational Board of NZ. Assistant teacher at country school for few months then headmaster at same school
Jun 1886 Married Emma Hill. Assistant master – Cambridge High School
Mar 1887 preparing to become minister
Annice born
(William Westmoreland died)
7 months at sea after recovering from brain fever
Oct 1888 Elsie born
(late 1888 ?) left NZ for Melbourne
joined United Free Methodist Church, Windsor
“ “ “ “, Nagambie
1889 United Methodist Church, Peel St, Ballarat
April 1890 Ida born
1891 Joined Congregationalist Church Union, Stawell
1892
1893 two children born & died
1894 Joined Temperance Alliance Insurance as travelling representative for Australian Widows Fund
Sept 1894 Dorothy born
Feb 1895 ill with congestion of spinal cord
6 May 1895 Died, Stawell, Vic.
 
1892 four Methodist Churches joined.
Wesleyan 78,715 members
Primitive Meth 12,095
Bible Christians 5,848
United Meth. Free 3,414
(mainly in Vic.)

16 years infancy & school

3 years sailor

4 years teacher

6 years minister

1 year insurance rep

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30 years

C26 Descendants of Annice Mary Westmoreland

This is among the papers from Rae (Rachel) Smith, and I give it primarily to establish her (Rae’s) relationship to the Westmorelands.


William Henry Bainbridge (1889-1953) m. Annice Mary Westmoreland 1887-1965)

Fred 1904 m Christine (Teen)

Alison 1947 m. John McCosker

Christopher 1909

Andrea 1970

Keiran 1980

Phillip 1981

Hugh 1949

Keith 1951-1968

Bronwyn 1953

Amanda

Marjorie 1911 m. John Wright 1932-19

Lawrence 1933 m. Dorothy Smith

Ronald 1935 m. Anna Keick

Harry 1913-1983

m. (1) Marion Williams 1934-1947

Rachel 1935 m. Thomas Smith

Stephen 1945

Janice 1937 m. Alan Wordly

Neville 1942 m. Barbara Anderson

m. (2) Zellah Weight

Carmen 1953

Noelene 1955

Dianne 1957

Darryl 1958-1960

Ron 1915-1969 m. Teresa Lynch

Robert 1939

Patricia 1940

Lynette 1946

Jack 1917 m. Sybil Kearney

Ann 1950 m. Leo Pendlebury

Maurice 1951 m. Helen Albion

Judith 1954 m. Chris Rogers

C27 Grave Transcriptions from Scawby

From a photocopy of the hand-written transcriptions. I don’t know who prepared the original.


WESTMORELAND

Other Tombstones at Scawby

 

1. Richard W------- (undecipherable)
 
2. Alice, Wife of George Westmoreland
22 Oct 1870 aged 45 years
William, son of George and Alice
Died in infancy
Also Thomas Lawdon their son
17 May 1858 aged 4 months
 
3 Elizabeth Westmoreland of Wraby
3.9.1886 aged 83
(could be sister to William or Richard born ~ 1803) {1}
 
4. Harriet & William Westmoreland tombstone also adds
Also her 3 children interred in Hibaldstowe Churchyard
Also William -----
Second ----- the above
Richard ------ Auckland
New Z----- 1889
Bl------
Will------
 
Ian Peggie’s collection also has transparency photographs of gravestones. The following are transcriptions from these slides. For reference I number them consecutively with the above.
 
5. William Westmoreland
Who died Jan 15th 1866
Aged 65 Years
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Also Mary Ann,
Wife of the Above
Who died July 4th 1865
Aged 68 Years
 
6. In Memory of Martha
The Beloved Daughter of
William and Mary Westmoreland
Who died November 9th 1858
Aged 19 Years
 
7. In Loving Memory of
Harriet Welch
The beloved daughter of
Richard & Ann Westmoreland
Who died at Scawby
March 25th 1882 Aged 33 Years
Also her Three Children Interred in Hibaldstowe Church Yard
Also WILL...M.
Seco.......... the above
Richard .......... Auckland
New Z ............ 1889
..........
..........
BL ..........
Will .......... {2}
 
The following three gravestones are all on the same photograph.
8. In Affectionate Remembrance of
Elizabeth
The Beloved Wife of
Thomas Westmoreland
of Silversides
Who died August 21st 1883
Aged 78 Years
Also of the Above
Thomas Westmoreland
Who died July 12th(?) 1888
Aged 83 Years
9. In the Memory of
William Westmoreland
Who departed this life
July(?) 2(8?) 1831
Ages 72(?) Years
10. Elizabeth Westm... {3}
of Wraby(?)
Who died Sept 3rd ....
Aged 32(?) Years

{1} the parenthesis are in the original.

{2} the surface of the stone has broken away, leaving illegible indentations.

{3} part of this gravestone is obscured in the photograph by No. 8.

An accompanying photograph of the church includes a notice board which I think reads “St Paul’s Church”. From the concurrence of No. 7 with No. 4, and of No. 10 with No. 3, I assume it is the church in Scawby.

C28 Death Notice of Mary Ann Westmoreland (nee Knott)

From a cutting of the original newspaper notice, pasted to a black-bordered card. The second date is hand-written on the card.


WESTMORELAND – On the 19th June, at Endcliffe, Barry-street, Kew, Mary Ann, our beloved mother, aged 83 years. Widow of the late William Westmoreland.

June 19th 1912

C29 Ancestors of Ian Donald Peggie

This is an ascent tree from Ian Peggie, I presume prepared by him.


Ian Donald Peggie 1928-

Leslie John Peggie 1895-1981

John Peggie 1870-1934

George Berry Peggie 1828-1897

David Peggie

Jane Berry

Jane Murray Wyles 1828-1907

John Wyles

Annie McLeod

Jane Pask 1868-1943

James Haughton Pask

John Pask

Frances Affindon

Margaret McLeod

John McLeod

Christine Matchinson

Dorothy Mayhew Westmoreland 1894-1940

Herbert William Westmoreland 1865-1895

William Westmoreland 1834-1889

Richard Westmoreland 1807-1876

Mary Ann Mason

Or ? ?Temple

Mary Ann Knott 1830-1912

Emma Louisa Hill 1862-1954

Cornelius Hill 1830-1882

Thomas Hill

Martha Piptkin

Matilda Mayhew

C30 A Westmoreland Family Tree

From a photocopy of the tree, on three sheets. I have a notice for a gathering of the descendants of Richard Westmoreland and Annie Lawman, and I suspect this tree was prepared for that event.

This is a descent tree.


William b. 1756 Scawby, Lincolnshire d. 21/1/1849 Scawby m. Frances {1}

Mary b. 13/2/1797 St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln

Frances b. 21/12/1798 St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln

William b. 1/10/1800 d. 1866 (Blacksmith. 9 children, Scawby) m Mary Ann Mason

Elizabeth b. 8/11/1802 St Mary le Wigford, Lincoln d. 3/9/1881 Wraby

Richard b. 29/4/1807 Heckington d. 26/5/1876 Scawby (Grocer, draper and postmaster) m. Annie Lawman

Frances Winifred b. 6/8(?)/1830 d. 1883 (did not marry)

Edward Lawman b. 18/12/1831 d. 29/7/1914 Stone Pit House Hibaldstowe m. Betsy b. 1837 d. 4/12/1900

Benjamin b. 1831 d. 1883 (Went to USA)

William b. 31/1/1834 Dewly, Lincs d. 24/9/1889 Auckland, N.Z. m. 19/8/1858 Mary Ann Knott b. 24/4/1830 North Soarle, Lincs d. 19/6/1912 Kew, Vic. (To NZ 1883, to Vic 1889)

Henry Arthur b. 28/5/1859 Sheffield d. 22/12/1933 Bexley, Eng. M. Mary Barber Hurst (Polly)

Edward Burbidge b. 13/4/1861 Sheffield d. 28/2/1862 Sheffield

Annie “Sis” b. 10/12/1862 Sheffield d. 14/11/1946 Bayswater, Vic.

Herbert William b. 14/5/1865 Sheffield d. 4/5/1895 Stawell, Vic. m. 2/6/1886 N.Z. Emma Louisa Hill b. 5/3/1862 Sheffield d. 17/5//1954 Croydon, Vic.

Annice Mary b. 16/3/1887 Alexandria, NZ d. 21/5/1965 Stawell, Vic. m. 1/6/1910 William Henry Bainbridge b. 1/5/1889 d. 27/10/1953

Elsie Ada b. 13/10/1888 Auckland NZ d. 15/6/1979 Forest Hill, Vic.

Winifred Ida b. 27/4/1890 South Yarra, Vic. d. 29/7/1973 Forest Hill, Vic.

William Arthur b. 2/1/1892 Stawell, Vic. d. 12/4/1892 Stawell, Vic.

Olive b. 30/1/1893 Stawell, Vic. d. 31/1/1893 Stawell, Vic.

Dorothy Mayhew b. 26/9/1894 Stawell, Vic. d. 12/7/1940 Hartwell, Vic. m. 28/8/1922 Leslie John Peggie b. 12/7/1895 Mt Waverley, Vic. d. 5/7/1981 E. Malvern, Vic.

John Bruce Peggie

Ian Donald Peggie

Dorothy Joan Peggie

Charles Edwin b. 7/6/1867 d. 24/8/1940 Mossel Bay South Africa m. 24/3/1893 Annie Hooper

Fanny Kate b. 25/7/1870 d. 29/4/1915 Hobart, Tas. M. 19/3/1904 John Hillhouse Miller

Elizabeth Crossley b. 24/3/1872 Sheffield d. 4/7/1938 Vermont, Vic. m. 11/7/1917 Joseph Banks Howie

Richard Lawman b. 8/11/1874 Sheffield d. 1942 Middlebogough, Eng. Did not marry.

Charles b. 1837 d. 1904 (Went to Maryborough, Q)

Martha b. 1839 Scawby d. 1858 Scawby

{1} beside this is:

or was it ?

Richard b. 1769 d. 1846 m. Sarah b. 1770 d. 1811

C31 Notes on Westmoreland Family History by Marian Long

The Westmoreland Family History 5-10-86

As remembered from letters and photos my late Mother had received. Also answers to questions I have asked of Aunts and cousins. The following information is all I have of the Westmoreland family history. Grandpa William had three brothers and at least a sister perhaps only one. Frances Winifred or Winifred Frances was the name given to me and she did not marry as far as is known.

Benjamin went to America.

Charles came to Rockhampton Queensland before William and family left England.

Edward Lawman lived with his wife Betsy at “STONE PIT HOUSE” HIBALDSTOWE, LINCOLNSHIRE, England. Bets died on Dec 4 1900 aged 63 yrs and Edward died on July 29 1914 aged 82 years.

William married Mary Ann Knott. They had four sons and three daughters. William, his wife and family came to New Zealand where he died on September 24 1889. His date of birth may have been January 1834. William is buried in PUREWA Cemetery in Auckland, N.Z. He had been an accountant at a steel works in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England. His widow and family then moved to Melbourne, Victoria.

The daughters names are as follows.

Annie (Sis) the eldest daughter never married.

Fanny Kate married John Millar, one child. {1}

Elizabeth (Lil) Crossley later in life married Joseph Howie, a widower with one daughter.

The sons are as follows.

Arthur married Polly, lived and died in Eng. They had a daughter Annie unmarried, also a son Bertie, married no family.

Charles married Annie (Nain) they had 2 sons. Edwin married with one son Brian, also Harry, married with one son Denis and daughter Joan. Harry Edwin served in the R.F.C. in England during 1914 war. Edwin was shot down over London and return(ed) home. He left home one morning for work and was never heard of again. Interpol investigated with negative result. Sybil married and stayed in S. Africa. Charles had taken his family to S. Africa from Aus: they lived in Durban, Johannesburg & later Port Elizabeth. Charles was a Branch Manager of Cyclone Wire Fencing Co.

Herbert married Em. {Emma Hill} He lived and died in Stawell Victoria. I think an ordained Minister.

Richard the youngest son remained single and was a wanderer. He lived in Queenstown, Tas., in Buenos Aires and as a soldier in the British Army in India and also worked for his brother Arthur in England. After the 1914 war he wanted to spend his last years at Healesville with his sister Sis but she thought he would be too demanding and hard to live with, having been used to {a} Batman in Army for so long and said no.

Grandfather William’s brother Charles I believe still had descendants growing sugar in NAMBOR, Qld. I think. There is Nancy whose second husband’s name is Gibson. They were living on the coast after Nancy selling her sugar property.

A letter from Auntie Sis says, to quote

“Our ancestors are buried in SCORESBY Cemetery Lincolnshire England.

Grandma’s Grandpa’s
Temples & Knotts Westmorelands

“My mothers side of the family were farmers and of very good family. My mothers Mother, who was highly intellectual and of very good family. My mother’s brother and family came out with us, the Knotts have all died. Two cousins Masons, George and Nellie still live in Auckland.”

This letter is dated Nov 8th but no year date. It came from Healesville and I don’t know the year.

Some one, I think it was Ida Westmoreland who told me years ago that Sir Henry Crossley had a daughter who refused to accept the husband her father had chosen for her and ran away with the coachman, Butler or someone else on the staff. As it was considered a disgrace for the family for that to happen the subject was never discussed. Auntie Sis did not ever mention it. Auntie Lil’s second name is Crossley and a Miss Crossley living in Melbourne was a friend of the family.

When my mother married John H Millar on March 19 1904 she dropped her first name of Fanny and retained the name Westmoreland as her second name and was always known as K.W. Millar. I am the child of that marriage, born on April 11th 1906.

There may be gaps in this story that you can fill in, but this is the best I can do.

Good Hunting

Marion Hillhouse Long

{1} This child of Fanny Kate and John Millar was Marion Hillhouse Long, the writer of these notes.

There is no description here of how the “Sir Henry Crossley’s daughter” story fits into the family history. However I do have another note which is in my mother’s handwriting:

Sir Henry Crossley.

Had a daughter Jan who eloped with household servant called Knott & was disowned.

Their daughter Mary Ann Knott married G/Father William.

C32 A Hill Family Tree

This is from a typescript with the pencilled note “From Rae Smith (nee Bainbridge)”


HILL FAMILY

The Hill family are descended from the Huguenots, who fled from France in the early 17th century. They were French protestants who were escaping from Catholic persecution. They settled in the Bethnal Green, Mile End areas of London. They were Silk Weavers but Cornelius lists his father as a Mariner.

At the time of the 1851 census, Martha Hill is listed as the head of the family and a retired Silk Weaver. They were living at 9 Charlotte St., Bethnal Green. At home with Martha was Isaiah aged 24, Cornelius aged 20 and Hephzibah aged 16. Perhaps there were older children who had already left home. At the time of Cornelius birth and baptism they were living at Blisset St., Bethnal Green but were still living at Charlotte St at the time of his marriage. At the time of the 1861 census and the birth of their second daughter, Emma Louisa, they were living at 14 Devonshire St, Mile End Old Town, Middlesex. {1}

Here follows a descent tree with interspersed notes. I have re-arranged the information in this tree to include Thomas Hill & Martha Piptkin at the top instead of in a note, and Cornelius’ two siblings listed at the time of the 1851 census, in the process slightly rearranging the original text. I have excluded references to the descendants of Emma Louisa’s siblings.


Thomas Hill m. Martha Piptkin

Isaiah b. c 1827

Cornelius b. 16/6/1830, bp. 12/9/183- St Mathew’s, Bethnal Green d. 9/5/1882 Newton, Auckland, N. Z. Mariner & Weaver m. 20/11/1853 Matilda Mayhew d. 23/4/1920 Auckland, N., weaver. {3}

Arthur C. b. c 1857

J.M. (female) b. c 1859

Emma Louisa b. 5/3/1862 Mile End Old Town, Middlesex d. 27/5/1954 Croydon, Vic. m. 15/11/1886, Sydney, Aust. Herbert William Westmoreland

Alfred Edward b. 1865 d. 3/1/1956 Auckland N.Z. m. 9/2/1887 Auckland, N.Z. 2/1887 Matilda Jane Daisley d. 28/3/1938

? (female) b. c 1867

Ada Flora b. 1872 {2} m. 22/12/1897 Auckland N.Z. George Henry Mason

Hephzibah b. c 1835

Cornelius and Matilda Hill and their family of 2 sons and 4 daughters migrated to New Zealand c 1872. All the family remained in New Zealand except for our Great Grandmother, Emma Louisa who migrated to Sydney, Australia in 1886 where she married Herbert William Westmoreland. Herbert had also been a resident of N.Z. for a number of years.

{1} The “they’s” in the first descriptive text become rather confusing. I interpret the history as follows:

1830 birth (& later baptism) of Cornelius to Thomas & Martha (nee Piptkin), at Blisset St Bethnall Green
1851 census shows Martha , with three children, at 9 Charlotte St Bethnall Green. Thomas not present, presumably at sea.
1853 marriage of Cornelius to Matilda Mayhew, his parents were still at 9 Charlotte St Bethnall Green
1861 census shows Cornelius and Matilda at 14 Devonshire St Mile End Old Town, Middlesex
1862 birth of Emma Louisa to Cornelius and Matilda at 14 Devonshire St Mile End Old Town, Middlesex

{2} I have written a note against this: 3/7/1868 [Birthday Book])

{3} the reference to “Mariner & Weaver” is ambiguous, it probably refers to Cornelius but may refer to his father Thomas.

C33 A Westmoreland Family Tree

This is from a typescript with the pencilled note “From Rae Smith (nee Bainbridge)”. There are additions in pencil, in my handwriting, which I give here in {}.


Westmoreland Family

Information taken from Census Returns for Scawby for 1841-1871, Microfiche for Lincolnshire, B.D.M. certificates, Baptism records, Family Bible, grave headstones and Richard’s Will.

William Westmoreland {b. 1756, Scawby [Bruce]} m Frances .....

Mary c 13/2/1797 St Mary Le Wigford, Lincoln

Frances c 21/12/1798 St Mary Le Wigford, Lincoln

William c 1/10/1800 (Blacksmith) m. Mary Ann ..... {Mason [Bruce]}

Fanny b. c 1826

George b. c 1829 (Blacksmith) m. Alice ..... d. 1870

Mary b. c 1830

Charlotte b. c 1831

Elizabeth b. c 1834 m. 21/12/1860 Wraby, John Sharpe

Eliza b. 1837

Maria b. c 1840

Martha b. c 1840 d. 1858

William b. c 1845

Elizabeth c. 8/11/1802 St Mary Le Wigford, Lincoln d. 3/9/1886, Wraby

Richard c. 29/4/1807 Heckington d. 26/5/1876, Scawby (Grocer, Draper and Postmaster) m. Annie Lawman, daughter of Richard Lawman & Sarah

Edward Lawman b. 1832 {d. 29/7/1914 Stone Pit House, Hibaldstowe, Lincs. [Bruce]}

William b. 31/1/1834, Scawby d. 24/9/1889, Auckland, N.Z. m. 19/8/1859 Sheffield, Eng., Mary Ann Knott d. 19/6/1912, Kew, Vic.

Henry Arthur b. 28/5/1859 d. 22/12/1933, Besley, Eng. M. 6/8/1884 Mary Barber Hurst

Edward Burbidge b. 13/4/1891 {changed to 1861} Sheffield, Eng. D. 6/1/1945 Highgate, London

Annie (Sis) b. 10/12/1862 d. 14/11/1946, Bayswater, Vic.

Herbert William b. 14/5/1865 Ecclesall Bierlow, York. D. 4/5/1895 Stawell, Vic. m. {0/6/1886, N. Scarfe, Lincs?} Sydney, N.S.W. Emma Louisa Hill

Annice Mary b. 15/3/1887 Alexandria, Sydney d. 21/5/1965 {15/3/1965, Stawell?} Cheltenham, Vic. m. 1/6/1910, Ballarat, William Bainbridge b. 1/5/1889, Ballarat d. 27/10/1953, Prince Henry’s Hosp., Melb.

Elsia Ada b. 13/10/1888 Nagambie, Vic. {Auckland, N.Z. d. 15/6/1979 Forest Hill, Vic.

Winifred Ida b. 27/4/1890 Ballarat East {South Yarra, Vic} d. 29/7/1973 Forest Hill

William Arthur b. 2/1/1892, Stawell d. 12/4/1892, Stawell

Olive b. 30/1/1893, Stawell d. 31/1/1893, Stawell

Dorothy Mayhew b. 26/9/1894 d. 12/7/1940, Hartwell m. 28/6/1922 Mitcham, Vic. Leslie John Peggie b. 12/7/1895, Mount Waverley d. 5.7.1981, East Malvern

Charles Edwin b. 7/6/1867 d. 24/8/1940 Mossel Bay, Sth Africa m. 24/3/1893 Annie Adelaide Hooper

Fanny Kate b. 25/7/1870 d. 29/4/1915, Hobart, Tas. M. 19/3/1904 John Hillhouse Miller d. 1946

Elizabeth Crossley b. 24/3/1872, Sheffield, Eng. D. 4/7/1938 Vermont, Vic. m. Joseph Banks Howie d. 19/9/1954

Richard Lawman b. 6/11/1874 d. 1942 Middleborough, Eng. {1948}

Thomas Sawden b. c 1837 m. 7/5/1863 Hibaldstowe, Mary Jane Welch

Charles b. 1839 d. 1904, Maryborough, Qld.

Henry b. 1841

Anne Elizabeth b. 1844 m. ..... Grimble

Sarah Frances b. 1847 m. ..... Turner

Harriet b. 1849 d. 1882 m. 12/6/1872 Benjamin Welch

Frances b. 1851 m. 20/1/1886 Edward Spencer ?

C34 A Westmoreland Family Tree

I have 6 copies of these typescripts, in various stages of draft. I don’t know who prepared them, but various of my copies have ‘for Bruce Peggie’, ‘for Joan Green’.


William b. 1756 Scawby, Links, Eng, d. 28 Jan 1849 Scawby

Richard Lawman b. 1769 d. 1846 m. Sarah b. 1770 d. 1811

Frances b. 1799 d. 1 Oct 1849 Scawby

William b. 1801 Scawby d. 1866 m. Mary Ann Mason b. 1797 d. 1865 Scawby

Frances Winefred b. 6 Aug 1830 d. 1883

Edward Lawman b. 18 Dec 1831 d. 29 Jul 1914 Stone Pit House, Hibaldstown, Links. Eng.

Benjamin b. 1831 d. 1883 U.S.A.

William b. 31 Jan 1834 Dewley Links Eng. d. 24 Sep 1889 Auckland, N.Z. (Purewa Cemetery) m. 18 Aug 1858 Scawby, Sheffield Eng. Mary Ann Knott b. 24 Apr 1830 Scarle Links Eng. d. 19 Jun 1912 Kew Vic. Aust. William and Mary lived in Sheffield Eng. to July 1883 when they sailed from Southampton for Auckland N.Z. and in 1889 Mary moved to Kew Vic. Aust. (Mary was for a short time Post Mistress at Scawby.)

Henry Arthur b. 28 May 1859 Sheffield d. 22 Dec 1933 Bexley Eng.

Edward Burbridge b. 13 Apr 1861 Sheffield d. 28 Feb 1862 Sheffield

Annie (Sis) b. 10 Dec 1862 d. 14 Nov 1946 Bayswater, Vic. Annie was a partner in starting the Kew Kindergarten and Ruyton Girls School Kew Vic Aust. Later Annie started a Boarding school for the Children of tea Plantation Managers from India, Ceylon and Malaya.

Herbert William b. 14 May 1865 Sheffield Eng. d. 4 Apr 1895 Stawell Vic. m. 2 Jun 1886 at Auckland N.Z. Emma Lovist Hill b. 5 Mar 1862 London Eng. d. 27 May 1964 Croydon Vic. Aust. Herbert and Emma both left England for New Zealand in 1881 and were in Auckland in 1883 then in Cambridge in 1886 then they decided to move to Australia in 1888 and lived in Methodist Parsonages at South Yarra, Nagambie, Ballarat and finally the Congregational Church at Stawell.

Annice Mary b. 16 Mar 1886 Alexandria N.Z. d. 15 Mar 1965 Stawell Vic. Aust.

Elsie Ada B. 13 Oct 1888 Auckland N.Z. d. 15 Jun 1979 Forest Hill Vic. Aust.

Winefred Ida b. 27 Apr 1890 South Yarra Vic Aust d. 29 Jul 1973 Forest Hill Vic. Aust.

William Arthur b. 2 Jan 1892 Stawell Vic. Aust. d. 12 Apr 1892 Stawell Vic. Aust.

Olive b. 30 Jan 1893 Stawell Vic. Aust. d. 31 Jan 1893 Stawell Vic. Aust.

Dorothy Mayhew b. 26 Sep 1894 Stawell Vic. Aust. d. 12 Jul 1940 Hartwell Vic. Aust. m. 28 Jun 1922 Mitcham Vic. Aust. Leslie John Peggie b. 12 Jul 1895 Mount Waverley Vic. d. 5 Jul 1981 East Malvern Vic. Aust.

Charles Edwin b. 7 Jun 1867 d. 24 Aug 1940 Mossel Bay S. Africa

Fanny Kate b. 25 Jul 1870 d. 29 Apr 1915 Hobart Tas. Aust.

Elizabeth Crossley b. 24 Mar 1872 Sheffield, Eng. d. 4 Jul 1938 Vermont Vic. Aust.

Richard Lawman b. 6 Nov 1874 Sheffield Eng. d. 1942 Middleborough Eng.

Herbert Cyril b. 24 Sep 1885 N.Z.

Charles b. 1837 d. 1904 Maryborough, Qld.

Martha b. 1839 Scawby Links Eng. d. 1858 Scawby Links Eng.

Thomas b. 1805 d. 1888 m. Elizabeth b. 1805 d. 1883

Richard b. 1807 d. 1876 Scawby Links Eng. m. Ann

This tree illustrates an uncertainty that existed at one stage. We were not sure which of two brothers (William b. 1801, or Richard b. 1807) was the father of William (b. 1834). Further, the father of these brothers is given as Richard Lawman, who in fact was Richard's wife Annie's father. In part this confusion arises from whether the name 'Richard Lawman' is a full name, or the given names of a son whose surname was Westmoreland.

C35 Miscellaneous Notes

This is a selection from notes I made at some stage, divided into the four family branches. I have left out any that simply state information already present in other documents. If there is no annotation, the note simply stands as a (currently) undocumented assertion. I have done some re-ordering of these notes into their proper groups.


Green & Newton

- Joseph Rudolph Green migrated from Eng. age c14

see [A5] which gives his birth date as 1867, and [C7], where it states that his father Joseph Green “arrived Melbourne 1888”. If the birth date is correct, and he arrived with his father, he would have been 20 or 21 in 1888.

The shipping records [D2] establish that Joseph arrived in Melbourne (with his mother) in July 1880. He would have been 13 years old.

- Joseph Rudolph G. Pres. Burnley & S. Richmond Prog. Assoc. 24/6/18

- Bible of Joseph Rudolph Green inscribed to father J. Green by uncle Henry Manton, June 7 1880 (dated on leaving England). => Joseph Green’s Mother’s name Manton? See [C49] for a full transcription of this bible inscription.

Uncle Henry could also have been the husband of either of his parent’s sisters, if they had any. I have no other evidence for siblings of either of them.

- John Thomas Dean (Agnes’s father) Secretary of Master Bakers Assoc. (on m. Cert of Agnes & Harold)

I don’t have this certificate, but David Beswick says he has seen it & taken notes.

-Joseph Green – Licensed Victualler (a pub in Richmond) – a drink problem => move to Britt. Ck – worked at distillery? acc. To Harold G.

- Mary Ann Newton b. 21/3/1847 56 Potter St, St. Mary, Birmingham (father still a glass cutter)

Mary’s father being a glass cutter, and Joseph being apprenticed to a glass blower ...

Barry & Carr

- John Barry & Ann Carr both migrated (as children) with parent

John Barry was born 1850 [A7] and [C1] states “Richard Barry & Family are said to have arrived Adelaide 1855”, making John 5 at the time. [C4], question 9 states of Richard Barry: “His death certificate says he was 5 years in South Australia and 7 years in Victoria: that suggests 1856/7”

Ann Carr was born 27/12/1848 [A8], but I have no indication as to when she arrived in Australia. She was married at Emerald Hill (Melbourne) 3/7/1869, so aged 20 then.

- John Barry ... (business man, Sale, & underwear etc. factory)

- Anne Carr b. Manchester (parents m. London, -> Manchester -> Aust)

[A11] is the marriage certificate of Anne Carr’s parents, in London.

- Jane Ann Mathews whose father was Henry Mathews & mother was Ann ?

On the marriage certificate of William Patrick Carr & Jane Ann Mathews [A11], the two witnesses are her father Henry Mathews and an Ann Mathews. Given Jane’s second name, I think it highly likely this Ann was her mother

- Marriage cert. of Harold Ernest Barry (b. 12 May 1886) (Brother of Jane) & Florence Eva Bridger, 8 Apr. 1912 Father given as John Richard Barry

This is apparently the significance of this marriage certificate (see [C7], Question 6). At his own marriage [A9] John gives his own name simply as John Barry, and the same is shown at the marriage of his daughter Jane [A4], while at the marriage of his son Harold (which David Beswick has) his name is given as John Richard Barry.His birth certificate [A7] gives simply John. I think all of this simply raises a question over whether Harold Ernest Barry was indeed Jane’s brother. Until his birth can be documented (beyond the birth date presumably from his marriage certificate), we can’t be sure.

- Parents of Jane Carr: William Patrick Carr- Tailor on Ann’s birth cert. - father Michael Carr (Weaver)

William Carr’s second name (Patrick) seems to have been left off the birth certificate of his daughter Ann [A8]. The informant was her mother Jane & the registration some 6 weeks after the birth. Where was the father, why didn’t he do the registration?

Dean & Taylor

-Fanny Taylor (em. from Loughborough (Notts.) but orig from Notts mother Elizabeth

[C4] question 3 states “Fanny Taylor b. Atherstone, Eng)?) 1835 d. 10.5.1906 m. 15.2.1858 [we have certificates of marriage at St Barnabas Catholic Church, Nottingham]...”. Her husband Charles Dean was born in Loughborough ([C4], Question 3), which is not far from Nottingham, so they could well have emigrated from there.

- Parents of John Dean.

Charles Dean b. c1835 Loughborough (?). Father John Dean, Mother Ann Barrabell / Barradale

Fanny Taylor b. c 1835 Atheston (?) d. 10-5-1906, aged 73 (?) Father Thomas Taylor, Mother Elizabeth ?

m. 15-2-1858 Nottingham

Charles aged 22 Tailor Orchard St Rudford, Notting

Fanny aged 23 Ilkeston Rd, Rudford, Notting

Father of Charles: John Dean, Knitter

Father of Fanny: Thomas Taylor, Fitter

Witnesses: Thomas Taylor + Elizabeth Dean

Catholic Church

Came to Aust. 1861/2 + 3/4 (Charles first, Fanny later)

Heales & Purdy

- Thomas Heales (27) blacksmith – St Giles (b.?)

Rebecca Marsom (23) – Lambeth

Aboard Duchess of Northumberland (states both could read & write!)

Dep Plymouth 10-10-1848

Arr Melb. 15-1-1849

Baptist

Employer was R. Heales (‘Father’), probably brother (?) (Richard) Father was a Richard.

- Rebecca b. Walworth

- m. cert Thomas Heales & Rebecca Marsom Purdy

40 Stanhope St – Apartment house block

- Rebecca left her estate 50/50 to Henry Charles & Ann Jane.

Henry & Edward went to W.A. & stayed till they died (STELLA) (? Contradicted by informant (Henry) on Rebecca’s death cert. Went to W.A. later ?)

- death of Thomas Heales 29-6-1869 (from probate record)

C36 Tax Records of Joseph Rudolph Green

Joseph Green kept his copies of his tax returns on second copies of the Tax Commission’s forms, together with hand-written notes recording the breakdown of the amounts actually shown on the forms.

The detailed transcription of these records is in a separate document. I give here a summary of the information from these records.


Year Income
1917 360-8-8 3 children
1918 348-0-0 2 children
1919 355-17-9
1920 491-0-0 The annual rent of the house occupied by me is £26 of which Mary Ann Green of Warburton West is the owner.
1921 577-0-0
1922 402-0-0 1 child
1923 520-0-0
1924 546-10-1 1 child
1925 406-0-0 no children
1926 371-2-5
1927 453-0-0
1928 513-0-0
1929 540-0-0 All years till now have yearly train ticket.
1930 640-0-0 1st year of motor car deductions.
1931 603-2-11
1932 515-6-8
1933 440-8-3
1934 418-0-0
1935 497-0-0
1936 479-0-0 Jane Johanna Green (wife) in hospital, & radiological treatment.
1937 625-0-0
1938 759-11-8
1939 883-9-1
1940 780-16-5
1941 (327-0-0) This is taxable income (from assessment notice), not gross.

C37 Extracts from a Heales family history

My father has photocopies of three chapters (Nos. 1, 2 and 7) of a privately produced book. A note written on the top of the first photocopied page reads: “From Benjamin & Ann Heales, & the Various Fortunes of their Family, by Peter Heales, 37 Lenham Road, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4BG, November 1998”

I reproduce here all of chapters 1 and 2, and extracts from chapter 7.

Chapter 1

The Background

Origin of the Name

I have yet to find an account of the origin of the name Heales that fully convinces me. Dictionaries of English Surnames tend to link the name with ones that look similar, such as Heal and Heale, and to describe them as originating in the west country. In south and south-west England, places named “Hele”, “Heal” or “Heale” are fairly common; there is little doubt that some families acquired their names in that way.

This explanation may not be correct for the “plural” forms: Heales, Heals, etc. People with “plural” names are sometimes thought to have descended from the servants or retainers of more important families. Under that view, the name Heales originally meant “Heale’s men” or “Heale’s people”.

Other sources suggest that the name “Heales” is not actually connected with similar looking names. The International Genealogical Index (IGI), for instance, treats “Heales” as a variant of “Ellis”. I have also heard the name regarded as a corruption of a Huguenot name. The fact that most Heales families have made a living at crafts of one sort or another (agricultural labourers occur remarkably rarely in their family history) is consistent with the latter idea, but it does not prove it. It is, of course, possible that the name has more than one origin, and that different family networks have unconnected histories.

Variations in Spelling

In earlier times, the spelling of names, like the spelling of ordinary words, was an individual matter. Closely related people might spell their names differently. By the early seventeenth century when written records of ordinary people had begun to be kept, the spelling of names became more regular, though not uniformly so. The clergymen who were responsible for the records no doubt had different ideas about how names should be spelt. Quite commonly, clergymen did not speak the dialect of their parishioners and could misunderstand when a name was spoken. As against that, the issuing of baptismal certificates would help people to remember the established spelling of a name and could sometimes be used to confirm to the record keeper how it should be spelt. The record system perpetuated old differences and introduced some variations of it’s own.

Civic records increased the standardisation. The system was better regulated that the old church records. Even so, mistakes could and did occur. The informant might speak indistinctly or appear uncertain; the record keeper might sometimes be lazy or domineering and write what he thought rather than checking thoroughly. In the system set up in 1837, mistakes were rare, but when they occur they are more difficult to rectify.

The name “Heales” seems especially prone to spelling mistakes. It is not readily recognised. Whenever I am asked to give it orally, I automatically spell it out because of past misunderstandings. Even when it is spelt out, some people write it down wrongly. It is not surprising, then that mistakes occur in the records.

Examples of the name “Heales” being wrongly spelt in records are frequent among the baptismal records of Benjamin and Ann’s children. In their case, the errors sometimes caused problems for the individual concerned but the family consistently maintained the original spelling of its name. The mistakes did, however, make tracking some of Benjamin and Ann’s children difficult.

I have found two permanent changes of spelling. One occurs among the Heales families of Devon. In 1828, and son of George Heales and Elizabeth Dodd was baptised “John Dodd Heals” at the Mint Lane Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Exeter. His father’s name was also recorded as “Heals” on this occasion. Later, John Dodd dropped the ‘e’ at his marriage to Sarah Walls at Topsham in 1850. All earlier references to the family use the spelling “Heales”. They include the marriage of George Heales to Elizabeth Dodd in 1820, and the baptisms of two older children at Mint Lane in 1822 and 1823.

The second occurs in the Midlands later in the nineteenth century. In Coventry there are several records of a Selah Hales who was born in 1855 in Foleshill (now a suburb of Coventry). The evidence points to this Selah being a grandson of Benjamin and Ann, even though his birth was registered under the name “Hales”, and he continued to use that name in adult life (see chapter 3).

My researches, so far, have focussed names spelt “Heales”, taking in variants only on those rare occasions where a link is clearly established or a record can be accepted as mistaken beyond reasonable doubt. In trying to find a connection earlier than Benjamin and Ann, I keep in mind the possibility that an earlier spelling “Heals”, “Heles” or “Heelis”, might have been transformed into “Heales”, but I have not so far discovered and evidence of that happening.

Distribution

Taking the IGI as a rough and ready guide, coherent family structures appear at the end of the eighteenth century in town centres. The first is London, mainly in areas like Clerkenwell and St. Lukes just north of the City. In these areas, Heales families appear consistently from the time of the marriage of Benjamin Heales and Ann Lloyd in 1783. The majority of the London records I have examined refer to descendants of this couple, although there are a few cases where as isolated record does not appear to connect to any known family.

Branches of Benjamin and Ann’s family emigrated to Australia and New Zealand; closer to home, there are records of descendants in other parts of England, notably the Midlands and Essex.

The “London Heales” are more numerous than the second group which is in South Devon. There the earliest coherent family record begins with the marriage of George Heales and Elizabeth Dodd in 1820, mentioned above. I have had little success in linking the known families in Devon with each other, and have found no connection so far between the Devon and London groups.

Obviously both Benjamin in London and George in Exeter had antecedents. The IGI and the registers I have been able to consult yield occasional references to the name in London, Devon and elsewhere, going back to the sixteenth century. They are isolated references and do not connect sufficiently to suggest a single area from which Heales families might have emerged. No evidence so far connects them as ancestors of the known London or Devon groupings.

Forenames

As with most families in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the forenames given to Heales children tended to fall into characteristic patterns. The phenomenon is most obvious with male names, for the antecedents all bore the same surname. With girls, the mother’s name and those of her close family might be used, thus bringing new tendencies into the family tradition. Heales families have their fair share of “standard” names: John; George; Henry; Thomas, and the like. Alfred occurs frequently and constitutes a characteristic name for the family. When it is combined with a second name it is almost always with George. Interestingly, Alfred and Alfred George are characteristic of both “London” and “Devon” families.

The “London” families find some of their characteristic names from the Old Testament. It is not clear whether these choices arise from a Jewish thread in the Heales ancestry or from some other religious affiliation. The most obvious Old Testament name is Benjamin; Reuben also appears. These names are sometimes combined with Silvester or Sylvester. Another name with religious associations is Theodore. A most unusual name, Selah, is derived from a word inserted at various places in the Psalms. Its meaning is not known for certain, but it is thought to be an instruction to play an instrumental interlude. Some dictionaries of forenames say that Selah is a girl’s name, but it is exclusively male in the Heales family.

Treated with discretion, these characteristic naming patterns help to identify candidates for inclusion in the family trees. They have broken down almost completely in the twentieth century when parents have tended to choose names for personal reasons, without regard for family tradition.

Chapter 2

Benjamin and Ann Heales

The earliest record I have found that connects with certainty to living descendants is the marriage of Benjamin Heales and Ann Lloyd at the church of St James, Clerkenwell on 27 July, 1783. The marriage entry yields some information of interest. Benjamin signed his name, but that Ann could not, for she could only make her mark in the register. The two witnesses were William Lloyd, presumably a relative of Ann’s and John Heales. Neither relationship is given, so that I cannot decide whether John Heales was Benjamin’s father, brother or another relative. The marriage record does not give Benjamin’s occupation, though in some of the baptismal records of his children his occupation is given as a tailor.

If Benjamin had any relatives living in London at the time of his marriage, no record has come to light to reveal their existence. The IGI records events elsewhere that might refer to Benjamin’s brothers or cousins, but I have as yet no evidence to prove a connection. A John Heales married Eliz. Mullett in High Wycombe on 25 September, 1784; he could have been the witness at Benjamin’s wedding. Another possible brother or cousin is Thomas Heales who with his wife Mary had a son, John, baptised at Leighton Buzzard on 30 January, 1797. Lewis Heales, married to Sarah, had a son, James, who was baptised at St. Michael’s Church, Coventry, on 19 February, 1788. This last event is of particular interest as some of Benjamin and Ann’s descendents lived and worked in Coventry whilst others are known to have visited there. Perhaps, Benjamin came originally came from the Midlands and some of his relatives continued to live there.

Judging by the baptismal records of their children, Benjamin and Ann moved house fairly frequently. Most of their addresses were in the Clerkenwell and Holborn areas but they also lived in east London and south of the river Thames. When their eldest son, Benjamin Silvester, was baptised, about ten months after the marriage, they were living in the parish of St. Sepulchre. They had at least two addresses in the parish; in 1798, their address was “Long Lane”, but by 1800, it was “Green Hills Rents”. In 1805, they were back in the parish if St. James, Clerkenwell, but by 1808 they had moved to Bethnal Green in the East End of London. In 1811, they were once more in St. James, Clerkenwell, but in 1815 they resided in the parish of St. Luke, Finsbury. The latest reference is in 1816, when their residence is given as “Vauxhall”, south of the Thames for the first time.

The family of Benjamin and Ann Heales, as far as I have been able to construct it, consisted of the following children:


1. Benjamin Silvester: born 29 April, 1784; baptised 23 May, 1784 at St Sepulchre
2. John: born 7 May 1786
3. William: born 14 December, 1788; baptised 29 December, 1788 at St. Sepulchre.
4 George Samuel: born 11 March 1791; baptised 1 April 1791 at St. Sepulchre.
5. Thomas: born April, 1793; baptised May 1793 at St. Sepulchre, and also on 14 May 1815 at St. Luke’s, Finsbury
6. ?James: baptised 29 October, 1816 at Lambeth, St. Mary.
7. Richard: born 12 June, 1798; baptised 8 July, 1798 at St. Sepulchre.
8. Sarah Ann: born 29 October, 1800; baptised 30 November, 1800 at St. Sepulchre, and also at St. Mary, Lambeth on 29 October 1816.
9. Elizabeth Eleanor: born 14 March 1803; baptised 3 April 1803 at St. James, Clerkenwell.
10. Ann: born 25 November, 1805; baptised 15 December, 1805 at St. James, Clerkenwell.
11. Frederic: born 15 May, 1808; baptised 5 June, 1808 at St. Mathew, Bethnal Green.
12. Eleanor: born 21 March, 1811; baptised 12 April, 1811 at St. James, Clerkenwell.

Chapter 7

Richard and his Family

Richard Heales, the sixth son {1} of Benjamin and Ann Heales, was baptised on 8 July 1798 in the church of St. Sepulchre. He was married, on 4 march 1821 at the church of St. Dunstan in the West, to Elizabeth Banham, a widow. Elizabeth’s maiden name had been Parker, as is confirmed in the Australian death registration of her son Richard. The witnesses to the marriage were John Parker and Rhoda Boulton. Rhoda was probably Elizabeth’s sister, for there had been a marriage in 1813 at the same church between a Rhoda Parker and Thomas Boulton. St. Dunstan’s in the West is off Fleet Street, between Chancery Lane and Fetter Lane.

Richard Heales appears in Pigot’s London Directory for 1822-3 as an ironmonger at 28 Tottenham Court Road. A similar entry occurs in Pigot’s 1826 directory. As I have only sampled the many directories in the Guildhall Library, I cannot say that they are the only entries to be found, but I have seen no others to date. The address given is for trade, so that it may not have been the Heales’ residence. On the other hand, as this was well before the age of the commuter, they must have lived “over the shop” or quite close by.

Richard’s Family

The family appears in the 1841 census at Milford Lane, a narrow street that runs from the Strand, immediately opposite St. Clement Danes church down towards the river, joining Essex Street at the bottom. The census gives no street number. The entry reads:


Richard Heales Widower Age: 40 Smith
Richard Heales Unmarried Age: 15 Wheelwright
Thomas Heales Unmarried Age: 15 Boot Closer
Elizabeth Heales Unmarried Age: 10  

At first sight, the ages given in the census seem bizarre, for young Richard and his brother Thomas were certainly not twins! As previously mentioned, all ages in this census were rounded down to the nearest five. Richard senior would have been forty-two with his forty-third birthday later in the year. Richard junior would have been nineteen, reaching twenty later in the year. Thomas would have been a year or two younger.

It will be noted that Richard was already a widower in 1841. The exact date and circumstances of Elizabeth’s death have yet to be established. Her demise may have had some bearing on the family’s decision to emigrate to Australia.

Richard senior’s death registration in Australia lists two children who do not appear in Milford Lane in 1841. Richard’s eldest child appears to have been a daughter, Elizabeth. It is presumed that she died in infancy, since the daughter who does appear in the census bears the same name. The younger daughter’s full name was, in fact, Elizabeth Rhoda; her second name being associated with the Parkers.{2}

Another son, Samuel, appears to have come between Thomas and the younger Elizabeth. He would have been about fifteen years old in 1841. The reason for his absence is not clear. It is possible that he may have been away serving an apprenticeship, or just staying with friends on census night. As no other reference to him has come to light so far, it is far more likely he too died when he was young.

Emigration

The reason why the family decided to emigrate to Australia is now lost in the mists of time. It may be that they were tempted by reports of prosperity in the colony. It may have been a desire to leave the unhealthy conditions of early Victorian London. Whatever the reason, the four mentioned in the 1841 census all travelled out to Australia in the next few years.

Richard junior appears to have been the first to leave. On 6 September, 1841 (roughly six moths after the census) he married Rhoda Parker, a cousin who was a member of his mother’s family. Two month’s later he and his bride set sail on the Himalaya. They left Plymouth on 1 November, 1841 and arrived at Port Phillip in the state of Victoria on 19 February, 1842. On the passenger list Richard is listed as a wheelwright, and his age is given as twenty-one. If the census is correct in giving his age below twenty, that is at least a year older that he really was. He may have falsified his age if assisted passages were available only to those of full age. His wife is described as a housekeeper, and she is twenty-two years old.

Richard senior is not listed among the passengers on the Himalaya, but he must have travelled out at about the same time as his son, for when his death was registered in 1882, it was stated that he had lived in Victoria for forty years.

Elizabeth Rhoda married in Australia in 1847, when she would have been about nineteen years old. She has presumably been out here for a year or two to get settled and be prepared to accept a proposal. It is so unlikely that she would have travelled out alone in her teens that we must assume she emigrated with her father. A notice in the Port Phillip Herald announces Elizabeth’s marriage to Henry Bignell on 14 July 1847 at St. Peter’s church, Melbourne.

Thomas remained in London several more years, presumably living alone or as a lodger. In 1849, having married Rebecca Marsom Purdy and fathered his first son, Thomas George, he travelled out aboard the Duchess of the North. In the passenger list, his age is given as 27, Rebecca’s as 23, and their tiny son’s as 1 year.

Richard Heales senior himself marries a spinster, Frances Haslewood, on 11 September 1849, in St. James church, Melbourne.

Life in Australia

From this point I give here only short quotes from this history, as it tends to concentrate on the life of Richard Heales (junior).

:

When they came to die, both Richards, father and son, were described in their death registrations as “gentleman”.

:

Richard senior, seen in London as an ironmonger and a blacksmith, would have had metal working skills. In those days, an ironmonger would have been much closer to a blacksmith than today when the former is virtually synonymous with “hardware shop”. In the early nineteenth century, an ironmonger would have dealt in bulk iron as a raw material, and would himself have made any iron goods he sold.

:

In the newspaper announcement of Elizabeth Rhoda’s wedding noted above, her father was described as “High Chief Reuben of the Honorable Independent Order of Rechabites”. It is not clear whether that designation represented an international status or whether it applied more locally, but it certainly indicates Richard senior had by then a considerable reputation in the movement.

:

Within a year of their arrival father and son had been elected to the committee of the Melbourne Total Abstinence Society. Soon, the father was President and the son Secretary. Richard Heales the younger built up a reputation as a temperance speaker and in 1847 was a moving spirit behind the building of the Melbourne Temperance Hall.

:

Richard Heales senior outlived all of his children but he had the satisfaction of seeing most of his grandchildren grow to maturity and launch themselves upon their careers. Descendents of his are living in Australia today.

{1} The list of children in Chapter 2 is ambigious: the order of the list shows James as the sixth child (and sixth son, making Richard the seventh), but James’ date of baptism (1816) would suggest he is the youngest of the 12 children. On the other hand Sarah Ann was baptised (for the second time) on the same date, so he could well have been baptised (again?) at around the age of 20. There is no evidence provided to support the assertion that James was the sixth child of the family, although without him there would be a gap in the otherwise regular series of births.

{2} Rhoda was the first name of one of the witnesses at Richard (senior) and Elizabeth’s wedding, presumed to be her sister.

C38 Extracts from a biography of Richard Heales

This booklet is entitled “Heales, Premier for 354 Days”, and sub-titled “A short biography of the man after whom Healesville is named”. The author is Peter Duncan, who is related to the Heales’ by marriage. In the introduction he indicates he assisted Peter Sydney Heales in consulting Australian sources for the family history [C37]. Most of the London information is in the family history (quoted above), and I only give here any additional information.

:

According to Piggott’s London Directories for 1822-23 and 1826, the father was an ironmonger at 22 Tottenham Court Road. Young Richard was probably born there, as at the beginning of the 19th century people usually lived close to or above their work place, but Ruth Riddell gives the birthplace as 33 Essex Street, the road next and parallel to Milford Lane.

:

Little is known about the Heales family in their first five years in Port Phillip Colony when they lived in the Parish of S. James. It might be assumed that Richard senior conducted business as a blacksmith or ironmonger and followed his temperance interests developed in London and that his daughter-in-law kept house.

:

From 1847, several notable events end the ‘dark’ years in the family history. First, Richard’s sister from England, Elizabeth Rhoda, was married in S. Peter’s Eastern Hill. In 1848 their brother, Thomas, arrived in Melbourne to later become in 1853 secretary of the bootmakers’ union.

:

Richard Heales senior seems to have been a teetotaller and may have been a founder in London of the temperance movement in the early 1830s, following patterns established in the USA at the beginning of the 19th Century.

:

Prior to 1863 many gold diggers had passed through the district on their way to the Woods Point goldfield via the New Chum wayside depot. With a new road from Melbourne to Marysville constructed in 1863, a new town on the route, to be named after Richard Heales, was planned to replace New Chum. {1}

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(Incidentally, as Ruth Riddell has pointed out, Lilydale was not named after Heales’ daughter Rhoda Elizabeth – Lilly – but after Mrs Elizabeth de Castella, wife of a Swiss wealthy squatter whose origin as a new chum gave New Chum its name.) {2}

{1} This route to Woods Point was presumably before the opening of the Warburton-Woods Point road.

{2} This statement contradicts the ‘family lore’ that Lilydale and Marysville were named after Richard Heales’ daughters. His two daughter’s were named Rhoda Elizabeth (d. aged 27) and Florence Fanny (d. aged 4).

C39 Note from a Photograph of Ann Mathews

This is a note in my father’s possession, he says in David Beswick’s handwriting. It is said to be a transcription from the back of a photograph. A copy of the photo is I believe on the wall at Britannia Ck. David I presume has the original.


Mrs Ann Mathews b. Jan 26 1798. Great Grandmother of Jane Johanna (Barry) Green. Mother of Jane Anne Carr. Grandmother of Jack Barry.

C40 Notes on the Westmorelands in Donald

This is a photocopy of a letter to Rae Smith, the photocopy is in Ian Peggie’s collection.


History and Natural History Group of the Donald Music, Literature and Arts Society, 20th Dec 1986.


Dear Mrs Smith,

Herewith is information concerning your enquiry about Herbert William Westmoreland. 7 May 1895 “the Donald Express”, proprietor H. A. Westmoreland reported, with very great regret, the death on 4th May 1895 at Stawell, of Rev. H. W. Westmoreland, in his 30th year.

Enclosed are five sheets of references to Rev. Westmoreland, dated 26/6/1894, 7/5/1895, 10/5/1895 (3 sheets). {1}

You mentioned Henry Arthur Westmoreland, a brother of the deceased. Our references in our index are:-


27/4/1894 Works for “The Donald Times”
9/11/94 Editor and sole manager “The Donald Express”
18/12/94 Steward – Areegra(?) and Carron Race Club
4/1/95 Agent. Manchester Fire Assur. Co.
7/5/95 Brother, H.W.W., dies.
10/5/95 Brother of Mr. C. Westmoreland
25/6/95 Sec – Donand Progress Committee
4/10/95 Sold business (The D.E.) to Mr W.A. Ross
4/1/96 Steward: Donald Jockey Club
31/3/96 Sec. Committee for Donald Park (Index ends).

There are also references to Miss Annie Westmoreland and Mr Bertie W. Westmoreland (reports re Sunday School and Band of Hope). Bertie is most probably H.W.W.

I regret that this reply has taken so long. A sciatic nerve problem has resulted in a long backlog of replies to enquiries.

Yours Sincerely

George Stebbins

Donald District Archives

58 Woods St. Donald

{1} The sheets referred to are not in Ian Peggie’s collection, at least what I have seen.

C41 The Life of Elsie Westmoreland

This is an extract from the original typescript, which is in Ian Peggie’s collection. There is no direct indication as to its authorship, but I assume it is Ian's description of Elsie's life as he delivered it at her funeral.


Miss ELSIE WESTMORELAND

Whose service was held in Parkmore Uniting Church, 20th June, 1979.

Mathew 5: 1-10

1 John 4: 7-21

Miss Elsie Westmoreland was born in 1888 at Nagambie, and the 2nd eldest of 4 children. Her father was the Revd Herbert Westmoreland, a Methodist minister, who later was invited to serve the Congregational Church at Stawell. The progressive and humanitarian attitudes flowing from her father’s faith affected Elsie deeply, as her later life would show.

Elsie’s first job was in the Stawell library; and in that town she began her activity in the Church. When two of her sisters, the single ones, Ida and Elsie, moved with their mother to Bayswater, where they ran a poultry farm. I am tempted to add “as a sideline”, because they also commenced and ran a Kindergarten, and, between them, were active in some 30 auxiliaries, and in no small way. Many children, hospitalized in the Box Hill Hospital, would have enjoyed the scrap books Miss Elsie would have made for them. It is both proper and significant that Elsie should have been honoured by being made a life governor twice: of the Box Hill Hospital, and of the Association for the Blind.

For Miss Elsie’s life always was for people. Together with auntie Ida, she had an important formative influence on people, and especially her nieces and the families. They will always remember their auntie Elsie as a welcoming, hospitable home maker, loved by her cats and people alike. She would always be busy making junkets or scones for them; yet she had time to care and listen as well.

When the farm at Bayswater was sold, the sisters did not retire in the accepted sense. For them, it was merely a change of location, and certainly not a lessening of church and charitable work in Croydon and its Congregational Church. There, as always, Elsie would be quietly at work, often behind the scenes. She was not one to be up front of “make her voice heard in the street”.

After coming to the Strathdon Hostel, Ida, the younger sister, died first. This broke a close working relationship which had lasted many years. Some time after, Miss Elsie went to Lumeah for a time, but being away from her friends and familiar environment did not help; so all who cared for her were glad when eventually, after a long delay, the Strathdon Nursing Home was completed, and Miss Elsie rejoined the Strathdon community. I believe, she was happy to be back, if she knew she was back; yet I believe even more firmly that she is in a better, and happier community now, united with her Lord, and re-united with her mother and sister in the home with the many rooms – where the One she served in his sisters on earth went to prepare a place for her.

C42 Childhood letters of Elsie & Ida Westmoreland

The originals of these are in Ian Peggie’s collection. The first two are not dated, though they are on memorandum paper with 189... at the top.


To Dear Papa. We like writing to you But we would like to see you better. We have not been out all day. It has been raining so hard all day an poor rough got so wet Auntie took him home with her to have some tea and pussie has to sleep in the kitchen. Come home soon to see you dear little Ida. XXXXXX


Dear Papa. I have been staying with Melva Barnes such a long time and we had such fun we made a lot of big fires, and I cried to come home because Mama was not there. When will you come home we do want to see you badly your loving little daughter Elsie XX

XXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXX


Birchip

Aug 30th

1894


My dear Elsie

Why shouldn’t you have a letter to yourself, eh? I am sorry that I have not a great lot of money. If I had I would send your letter in a separate envelope. Does my dear little mousie still try to be a good little daughter. My! But won’t we have some grand times when I come home. I am sure you will love Auntie Rosa, but leavesome for your papa

XXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXX


66 Barkly St

St Kilda

26th April 1896


My dear Mother,

It is my birthday tomorrow. Yesterday Aunties Lillie & Sis took me to town in the tram to see all the shops. We went to Coles Book Arcade. We went up in the Lift, and saw a lot of nice things and Auntie bought me a book to teach me to read. I went for a walk this morning with Mr S??? & Uncle Charlie and to S. School with Auntie this afternoon. If it is fine I am going to school with Auntie Sis tomorrow because it is my birthday – we have to go in the Bus. Grandma will be 66 tomorrow and I shall be 6. Please give to Auntie and Elsie & Dorothy & everybody.

Much Love

From your loving daughter Ida.

XXXX {many!}

C43 The Life of Annie Westmoreland

From a computer printout in Ian Peggie’s collection. There is no direct indication as to its authorship: Ian may be the author, or possibly this is his transcription from another document.


ANNIE WESTMORELAND

Annie Westmoreland was born in Sheffield on the 10 December 1862 to William Westmoreland (1814-1899) and Mary Ann Knot (1830-1912) and was their third child of eight children and the eldest daughter. The family sailed to Auckland in New Zealand in 1883 with the family (Sic). When her father died in 1889 Annie and her mother sailed to Australia and took up residence in Kew a suburb of Melbourne where her teaching experience and older sister authority helped her reputation.

Annie sold her assets in Kew and bought the house and 24 acres in Healesville in 1918. The house was altered to accept about eight children as boarders and called ‘ENDCLIFFE’ on the Mount Riddell Road in Healesville. The Children’s house, a Boarding Kindergarten for children of planters from India, Celon, Malay, Burma and other tropic countries was started. Annie called Cis by her brothers and called Auntie Cis by the Children became well known in Healesville in her little Governess Carriage. Annie employed a ‘Man’ and a ‘Cook’ and assistant we all called ‘Brownie’ who was a trained kindergarten teacher.

The Man who was called Tom, sometimes had an aboriginal assistant to work the 24 acres, and grow most of the food for the school, in addition to taking care of the horse and carriage. Tom and Jackie lived in a tow room cottage at the back, both used plug tobacco to smoke or in Jackie’s case to chew.

Annie also became the Girl Guide Commissioner for Healesville and a regular attender at the Church of England in Healesville. The bush fires in 1939 came very close and Annie sold the property and went to live with her sister in law Emma in Bayswater. Annie died 14 November 1946 at Bayswater.


This gives two years for the death of Annie’s father William (1899 and 1889). The 1899 is probably a typing error.

C44 From a diary of Ida Westmoreland

These are transcriptions onto A4 sheets, in Ian Peggie’s possession, and transcribed from his originals. There is nothing explicitly stating they are from Ida’s diary, except “Ida (1)” in the top corner of the first sheet. The text obviously includes some annotations from the transcriber, usually in brackets, but I don’t attempt to otherwise distinguish them here.


1913 Jan. camping at Halls Gap Stawell
8 Feb to Kew Benduck 80,000 acres
10 Feb back to Benduck 30,000 sheep
met Annie & the children at Deneliquin 2-300 cattle
car to Hey 100 horses
12 Feb Mr & Mrs Stevenson sailed for NZ
started school today (Dorothy started at Clarke & Scotts)
Stevie ?Jean, Trixie
Lots of tennis before breakfast, regular tennis parties
Mosquito plague
Visited Pevensy station on opposite side of river
May got Kodak camera
7 July the twins 8th birthday
24 Mr white thinks his invention for getting electricity out of the air will work
<13,000 (?) sheep shorn
October 8 Sent mother $1 {1} Sent auntie money for Healesville. Sent Auntie cheque book (£15-5-1) with signed slips also cheque for £15. To pay deposit on land at Healesville. Received interest in Kew. Auntie paid back £10 before I left for Tas; £4.10 before I came to Scheyville.
Dec 8 Wire from Auntie Sis telling us to be down by 13th (at Kew)
10 finished school & packed
11 left day
13th breaking up. Parents presented Auntie with a handbag and £4.10 each. Students gave them silver hot water jug. Auntie Lil got Bruce.
14-15 Packing up ready for Healesville.
16 drove to Healesville to Auntie Sis. Left Kew 6.30, breakfast at Ringwood, dinner at Lilydale, afternoon tea at Yarra Glen arrived at Healesville about 7 o’clock & set to work to get things in order.
1914 Christmas at Stawell
Jan 6 left Stawell for Melb & Healesville
Feb 9 To Tasmania per Loongona. To Jobart, stayed with Auntie Katie (? Uncle Jack & Marion)
13 Nov went to Lovets to stay with Effie
1915 17 April started at Mrs Shoebridge, at Bushy Park, Tas. (near Glenora) Methodist Church. Children ?Maisie
?Margie ?Mayie & Bennie? Davie?
10 May we started school today. The three Coniston children came
1 Nov did first aid exam. Hop picking.
1916 At Bushy Park (No record then for the rest of 1916)
1917 17 AprilLeft home to go to Govt. Training Farm, NSW. (Went to Healesville for the night. Saw Auntie Lil,
Awunen(?!) & wedding presents.
20 April (train to Mulgrave from Sydney) drive 65 miles.
22ndWent to Hall in afl?... Later walk to Cottie Creek. (Duties: Farm, horses, cutting millet, garden, dairy (up at 4.30 to get cows in, milked 6))
There is an annotation: “? Schofield”
Undated Left Schofield. Went to Benduck to stay with Whitey for a week. Left Sydney for Cowra by night train.
1917 30 Aug Arrived Cowra early this morning. Mr Reynolds had a talk with us after dinner about our work, explaining that we were pioneers of his womens training and it is up to us to make good.
3 Sept Had a meeting and decided to call this the Womens Agricultural College, Cowra. Also decided on a badge. Had a photo taken for prospectus.
1918 Most of the girls went camping during the holidays. We stayed home and rested(?) on the dairy, poultry too. Been several rows, chiefly concerning food and housework. Mrs Valder came up and shook things up a little. I had accepted a position at Bowral but gave it up to Whitey when Mrs Valder offered me the bees. I’m to go to Wauchope and specialise. (Big rows – some girls left.) “All the best are going and it takes the ginger out of things”
27thSpent the evening with a lot of the girls on the steps. Trying Mum’s advice to mix in and enjoy things and forget troubles. Not so easy as it sounds.
7 March Left Cowra for Wauchope to do beekeeping (prac & lectures) (Lived in a tent)3 months.
16 Sept (back at Cowra)(entry finishes 22nd Sept 1918)
(?< Eastwood)
1921 Aylmerton
Feb 3 came to Aylmerton

The next page is a summary, possibly from more of the diaries than transcribed above, of Ida’s travels. It has a note, subsequently scribbled out: “(Joan’s writing?)”. I’m fairly sure the handwriting of the main text is not my mother’s. The annotations seem to be in the same hand as the original transcriber of the diary pages; these I set in a different font. In this instance queries are in the original unless in italics.


IDA WESTMORELAND 27.4.1890
Stawell 1890-1902
Kew 1903-7 age 13-17
Geelong & Lorne
Toorak June 1915 on Ryton Old Girls list
Whitfield & Merton? OnlyWestmoreland (then aged 25, Dorothy 21, Elsie 27)
Hay (Benduck) 1913 age 23
Hobart
Bushy Park, Tasmania (Shortridge (?))
Schofield (or Scheyville) Mulgrave, w of Windsor NSW
Cowra
Wauchope 7 Mar 1918, 16 Sept back at Cowra
Eastwood
Aylmerton 1921 Feb 3, near Mittagong, NSW
Alpine (?) (Prince & Conti(?))
Aylmerton
Emuala (?)
Stawell - 1934 (say about 1930 -> ?) or before {2}
Bayswater 1935-1948
Croydon 1948-March 1971

{1} the transcription is definitely “$”, but obviously it should have been “£”.

{2} this is definitely in my mother Joan’s handwriting

C45 Fifeshire Census Records

These notes were made by Ian Peggie.

The first series is on lined note paper. The first page is some informational notes:



Dysart 1841

West Gallatown (West Side)

Paggie Elizabeth (f) 50 Female servant
Paggie Margaret (f) 50 “ “

A note has “I have been told by one of the assistants that Heggie is a fairly common name in Fifeshire.” Ian therefore struck out the only Heggie record he took, and I do not include it here.


Wemyss 1841

Tollbooth Wynd

Piggie David m 30 Collier
Margaret f 33
James m 11
Margaret f 9
John m 6
George m 3
David m 1
Tollbooth Wynd
Peggie Alex m 40 Engineman
Margaret f 45 Harrenoes
Margaret f 20
Jean f 13
Jeorgjeny f 10
Kilpatrick Cumb.? F 1

“Harrenoes” has an annotation “Maiden name”, but the original annotation (later scribbled out) reads: “This surname appears after Margaret. It was very hard to decipher. Its roughness may be due to someone trying to erase it. It could also be a second Christian name.”


High Street

Peggie James m 21 Engineman
Kurlsel? Jean f 21
Peggie Mary f 1
High Street
Warrance? Helen f 60
Peggie Janet f 15
 
West Coaltown of Wemyss 1841
Peggie George m 40 Merchant
Janet f 30
James m 9
George m 6
Marjory f 1
Kirkaldy 1851
93 Coxan? Street born
Peggie Elizabeth f 24 mill worker Leslie
Helen f 15 house servant
Jean f 9 scholar
Bets (?) John m 30 Flat drener? Brother Dundee
Leslie 1851
27 Maise ? Street
Peggie Margaret f 29 house servant Leslie
Dysart 1851
High Street
McClean James m 61 head
McClean Catherine f 60 wife dressmaker
Yeates Catherine f 32 step daughter
Yeates Helen f 30 “ “
Thompson James m 19 lodger
Peggie George m 16 Lodger carpenter Dysart
69 Greene
Collier Ebander? M 38 head road(?) maker Dysart
Mary f 35 wife
Betsy f 14 d
Alexander m 9 s
Mary f 7 d
Margaret f 5 d
Janet f 3 d
S/Fakella? F 1 d
Peggie Elizabeth f 60 mother in law Fife Markinch
Wemyss 1851
West Wemyss
High Street
Birrell James m 28 headengineman Dunfirmline
Peggie Jane f 28 wife W Wemyss
Birrell Thomas 6 s
Jane 3 d
Alan 1? s
Peggy Georgina 23 sister in lawno occupation
Wilson Robert 31? nephew Edinburgh
141 Windy Wynd
Anderson David 31 head engineman W. Wemyss
Peggie Margaret 30 wife
Anderson Margaret 6 d
Christiana? 3 d
Jane 9 mths d
142 Windy Wynd
Peggie James 32 head engine worker
Russell Jane 32 w
Peggie Mary 11 d
Alexander 4 s
Thomas 1 s
? Windy Wynd
Peggie David 42 head seaman
Marg* 42 wife
Ian 21 s coal miner
Marg 18 d mill spinner
John 16 s coal miner
George 13 s coal miner
David 10 s
Tho? 8 s
Aaron? 3 s
43 West Coaltown
Peggie George 53 head Grocer & spirit dealer Wemyss
Janet 44 w
Marjory 11 d scholar
Jean 9 d “
Newton Farm
Peggie George 23 Farm labourer E. Wemyss
Gidd David 21 “ “

The second series is on the backs of search-application forms to the General Register Office of Scotland, so I presume this is the origin of the information.


John Peggie Dysart 1864
Entry 4
426
marriage
4 Jan 1864 at Dysart
Free Ch. Of Scotland
John Peggie Coal Miner 28 (1836)
West Wemyss
(Father) David Peggie
Sailor (Merchant Service)
Mother Margaret Peggie nee Low
 
Betty Hutchinson Hand Loom Weaver 25 (1839)
West Wemyss
Father Thomas Hutchunson
Labourer
Mother Christine Hutchinson nee Mathieson

1861 census
Dysart West Wemyss
459 District Wemyss
Wemyss 459 11 2
 
1861 Families 1372 Pop’n
Houses 761 male 2818
Uninhabited 23 fem 3152
B....... 8 Tot 5970
Rooms with 1 or more windows 2921

(Fife pop’n .... 155,021


West Wemyss
David P. Head Coal Miner(?) 43 (1818) b. Collesie(?)
Margaret P. W. 42 (1819) Newburgh
Helen 20 (1846)
William Coal(?) d.... 16 (1845) 46 High St
Janet 12 (1849)
David Tailor app. 14 (1847)
Helen 2 (1859) Grand d.
 
Alex P. 4
Georgina 31 niece of Janet Warrender 77
Alis coal d..... 14 nephew of DavidAndrew(?) 40
Thomas 11
The above 4 names are circled, and annotated ‘see next page’, which begins ’24 High St’ (below).
 
East Wemyss
40 New Inn(?)
David Plougher(?) Head 66 Fife Kennawrey(?) (1795)
Betsy Shopkeeper wife 63 Wemyss (1796)
Betsy Linen Weaver(?) 23 Wemyss (1838)
 
Coaltown of W.
14 Coaltown
Janet Spirit Dealer head 54 E. Wemyss widow (1807)
Marjory Home Un m. 21 Coaltown (1840)
Jean Un m. 19 Coaltown (1842)
 
West Wemyss
24 High St
David Coal drawer lodger 20 Wemyss (1841)
60 Croft Wynd
John coal miner 26 Wemysswidower (1835)
63 Croft Wynd
David Sailor H 53 W. (1808)
Margaret W 53 (1808)
George Coal miner son 23 (1838)
Thomas 17 (1844)
Stephen 14 (1847)
65 Windy Wynd
Alexander Labourer widow 61 (1800)
66 W. W.
Georgina Un m. 31 (1830)
93 Crofts
Alexander (?) Coal drawer 14 nephew of David Anderson age (4?)0
109 Crofts
James coal miner H 31 W. (1830)
Elizabeth W 30 (1831)
Margaret scholar Un m. d. 6 (1855)
David son 4 (1857)
James son 1 (1860)
106 Kirkgate
Thomas Coal miner 11 W. grandson of Mary Henderson 63
119 Shore Head
Thomas Hutchinson H 56 Camder(?!) Balgorie
Christina W 59
Betsy d. 22 Woolen weaver Wemyss
 
East Wemyss 1848
George Peggie 45 Back Dykes
 
I Peggie 1 The Cross W. Wemyss
Kirkaldy 54845
Albert Peggie Kirkaldy 3742

Pte David Peggie 2 Royal Guards

Died 28/5/1915


Tombstone West Wemyss

Erected by John Peggie

For his Wife Elizabeth age 66 (1869)

10th Feb 1935

John Peggie 5/6/50 (1870)

Aged 80

C46 Peggie & Westmoreland Family Notes

Ian Peggie’s family tree folder contains mostly photographs, but some are accompanied by additional notes.


Annice, Elsie, Ida

Purchased 13 Anzac St Croydon for £935 13 Sept 1948 {1}

Ida moved to Strathdon 3-5-1971

Elsie “ 24-4-1971

“Had Jespah put to sleep (brown & white tabby)

Dickie ended his little life the week before” {2}

(Peter & Paul were the previous cats)


{1} This refers to Ida & Elsie only. I’m pretty certain that Annice never lived in Croydon with her sisters.

{2} I personally remember Jespah at Croydon. Dickie was a canary.

C47 Herbert William Westmoreland

This is one of Ian Peggie’s notes mentioned in [C46] above, but I separate it for convenience.


U.K. Born Sheffield, England 14.5.1865 0
To sea (N.Z. Shipping Company) 1881 16
N.Z. Joined his family in NZ 1884
Assistant teacher, then headmaster of country school
(N.Z. Education Board)
Assistant Headmaster, Cambridge High School
Aus. To Australia 1885 20
Married Emma Louisa Hill 2.6.1886 21
Vic. Minister of United Methodist Free Church
Windsor 1887 22
Nagambie 1888
Peel Street, Ballarat 1889
Minister of Congregational Church, Stawell 1891 26
Australian Widows Fund representative
(Temperance Alliance Insurance Company) 1894 28
Died Stawell 4.5.1895 29
 
Family
Annice Mary b 15.3.1887, Alexandria, Sydney
Elsie Ada b. 13.10.1888, Nagambie, Vic.
Winifred Ida b. 27.4.1890, Ballarat
William Arthur b. 2.1.1892, Stawell
Olive b. 30.1.1893, Stawell
Dorothy Mayhew b. 26.9.1894, Stawell

C49 David Beswick's note on his researches in Birmingham

These notes was prepared by David Beswick in late 2004, recording the results of his research in various records offices in Birmingham.

Below the full text of David's notes, I extract the texts of the evidence and transcripts he gives.

Joseph Green family Birmingham

Joseph Rudolph Green was the paternal grandfather of my late wife Joan Mavis Green. He was the son of Joseph Green and his wife Mary Ann Newton, born 8 September 1867 at the back of 15 Brewery Street, Duddeston, Aston, Warwickshire, just a little to the north of the city centre of present day Birmingham. They emigrated to Victoria in 1880 and lived mainly in Richmond where the home of his son Joseph Rudolph Green and his wife Johanna Barry was well known to descendants up to the post war period when their daughter Jean still lived there. The older couple Joseph and Mary Ann lived from the early 1900s to the 1920s in the old bush house now owned by the family trust at Britannia Creek, Wesburn, Victoria; that was after some initial years in the Richmond area of Melbourne during part of which Joseph was a publican although he had also worked in his original trade of glass blower. They are buried in the Box Hill Cemetery: Joseph's cemetery record gives the life span of 1845-1928 and Mary Ann's 1847-1926.

As starting points for tracing the family in Birmingham we had some years ago obtained the birth certificate of Joseph Rudolph Green giving the information above with his father's occupation of glass blower. We also had the marriage certificate of Joseph and Mary Ann who were married at St Peter and St Paul, Aston, 21 April 1867. Joseph was described in it as a glass blower and his father was named as Joseph Green, carpenter. Mary Ann's father was John Newton, glass cutter. The witnesses were John Newton (his X mark) and Maria Newton. Doing some research in the Birmingham Central Library recently gave me the opportunity to use census records and old parish registers which are not available elsewhere. Although more can still be done from widely available sources in the British central system of registering births deaths and marriages which begin in 1837, now at the Family Record Centre, Myddleton St., Finsbury, London, with fiche copies of the indexes are available at many places, we needed some local information to make good use of those more readily available sources. The difficulty has been that Joseph Green is a very common name, especially in metropolitan Birmingham, and even Joseph son of Joseph occurs too often to provide useful clues from an index such as the IGI until it can be combined with more specific information. As far as the IGI is concerned, it covers all of the parishes in the old central city of Birmingham but not all of Aston and neighbouring suburbs which developed large populations in the nineteenth century.

First I sought the baptism of Joseph Rudolph in the parish where his parents were married. There were children of Joseph and Lousia Green named Charles, b 11 Oct 1867, Louisa, b. 26 Nov 1868, and Ann, b. 23 Feb 1871, but I did not find our Joseph Rudolph son of Joseph and Mary Ann, so we probably need to look in another parish. Looking back to the period in which Joseph the father might have been born within the bounds of the same parish between 1840 and 1847 I found nine other Green baptisms but not Joseph son of Joseph, although there were two Josephs, sons of Thomas and Elizabeth, and Thomas and Ann Green. Brewery Street however was listed in the 1871 census as being in the ecclesiastical parish of St Lawrence and in 1861 and 1851 in the parish of St Matthew, Duddeston, so I decided to try the censuses to see if I could find a list of family members beginning with 1871, because we had an address for 1867, and I wondered if the young couple might still be living at 15 Brewery St and their parents might be nearby. They were no longer there: the back of the house was occupied by William and Eliza Field, and the front by Henry Aston and his family. (I note these other names in case they might be useful later in having some association with the family.) Nor were there any Greens living elsewhere in Brewery Street, although I can see now that I should have searched a little wider in other streets. The next step was to the 1861 census in the hope of finding Joseph as a young person in the home of his father, who was Joseph the carpenter according to the marriage certificate. In the listing of households in the census of 1861, Brewery Street was sometimes associated with Heneage Street, for reasons I don't fully understand, and I was lucky enough to notice in Court 30 No.2 after 240 Heneage Street, Aston, the household of Sarah Green as follows:-

Sarah Green, Head, Widow, aged 47, Flint Glass Rougher, born Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
John Green, Son, Unmarried, 19, Engineer, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Joseph Green, Son, Unmarried, 15, Glass Blower, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Thomas Green, Son, , 10, Scholar, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Sarah Green, Daughter, , 8, Scholar, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.

This appears to be the family without Joseph the carpenter, but including Joseph the glass blower at the right age of 15 to fit with the information we had already about his age. Sarah, it seemed to me at first, must have been the widow of Joseph the carpenter, and she might well have been, but these things are often not as simple as they appear. It was good also to see the names of some siblings we did not know about before. When I went back 10 years to the 1851 census I did find most of the same people, this time including Joseph the carpenter, but not in the marriage that I had expected. At 8 Heneage Street, Aston, I was surprised to find the following household:-

Sarah Brabson, Head, Wid., 39, Glass Rougher, b. Warwickshire, Birmingham.
John Brabson, Son, U, 10, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Joseph Brabson, Son, U, 6, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham.
George Brabson, Son, U, 3, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Thomas Brabson, Son, U, 7 months, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Joseph Green, Lodger, U, 40, Carpenter, born in Warwickshire at Leamington.

So they were not yet married, if ever. Was our Joseph the glass blower not as claimed the natural son of Joseph the carpenter but of an unknown Mr. Brabson? Do we look for his birth under the name Brabson? Did the lodger and landlady marry later and then call the children by his surname. Were they already sleeping together, and if they were how long ago did that relationship begin? Which, if any, of the children might be his. How could we know? First, a diversion regarding the places of birth: Aston parish was separate from the original parish of Birmingham in medieval times and counted as a different town when these parishes were divided into several parishes each, but Aston came later to be spoken of as part of Birmingham even if they are strictly speaking different administrative units within the Shire of Warwick. The places of birth given above in the 1861 and 1851 censuses are the same. But now we have something new in the place of birth for Joseph the carpenter which takes us out of the Birmingham metropolitan area to a town over 20 miles to the south east, just beyond the county town of Warwick. So although there were many Joseph Greens in Birmingham, including Aston, for some generations back, it seems that our line comes from elsewhere, but only if Joseph Green, the carpenter, was more than a lodger in the household of Sarah Brabson. That he was indeed is seen in the baptismal register of St Matthew's, Duddeston, where find:

Joseph son of Joseph and Sarah Green, Heneage St., father's occupation carpenter, baptized 19 October 1846. [No. 338, page 43]

At this point Sarah, otherwise known as Sarah Brabson, was happy to be known as Sarah Green, and both Sarah and Joseph must have acknowledged that young Joseph was their son. The date is a little later than expected, but the birth could still have been in 1845. Delayed baptism appeared for later children of the same couple:-

George son of Joseph and Sarah Green, born 5 Oct, 1845 (? perhaps 1848), baptized 12 January 1851, parents abode 167 Gt Francis St, occupation Carpenter Sarah daughter of Joseph and Sarah Green, born 3 Oct 1842, baptized 12 January 1851, parents abode 167 Gt Francis St, occupation Carpenter [Nos 783 & 784, p. 97]

In both of these cases, only a few months before 1851 census Sarah was named Sarah Green. She must have had a reason shortly afterwards for giving herself and the children the name of Brabson in the census. That reason if we could know it should make sense also of her taking the name Green again in 1861. There is one point of consistency: in both of the censuses of 1851 and 1861 Sarah was listed as head of household, and that could have been important to her for economic reasons. She would not have been so listed if she had identified herself as the wife of Joseph, and if she was not legally his wife she might have been constrained in making that identification in any case, whereas at the church it might have been more important to record correctly the parents of the children. Even when people were not married the names of both parents with different surnames are sometimes found in the old church registers and it seems that at least some ministers recorded this information if it was available to them. For purposes of genealogy the names of the natural parents is the fact of greatest value, but there are questions remaining about the parentage of the some of the children and about Sarah's marriage history and family of origin.

The latter child Sarah is a bit of a mystery, as is the fact the above two baptism in January 1851 appear to have been after the birth of another child Thomas who was 7 months old at the time of the 1851 census, which I think was in April of that year. (And we should note also that we have a different address at this time from those before and after.) The birth date for this Sarah puts her between the older brother John and our Joseph in spacing that is quite believable as there would otherwise have been a four year gap, but why should she have been baptized at this late time, when about 8 years of age? Perhaps they feared that she was dying: and perhaps she did die, for a younger Sarah seems from the census 10 years later to have been born in 1852 or 53. I did not have time to check the burial register. I found no other baptisms for children of Sarah between beginning of the register in November 1840 and the end of 1854, so John was baptized elsewhere or not at all, and the younger children, Thomas and the second Sarah, either elsewhere or later, if at all. Perhaps John was from the Brabson marriage of Sarah the mother. The first Sarah child could be from either relationship, and it is a fair inference that the relationship of Sarah Brabson with Joseph Green the carpenter lasted from some time before Joseph was born at least until after the second Sarah was conceived. My guess is that Joseph was the first child of the relationship between Joseph Green the carpenter and Sarah Brabson who was a widow at least by 1851 and perhaps sooner. The traditional family name Joseph conferred from the father on the son is likely to be given to a man's first born son. It is true nevertheless that care seemed to be taken in other cases I have know at around that time to baptize boys while girls might be overlooked for a time and so the first Sarah might have been affected in that way. Whether the parents married after 1851 and whether Joseph the carpenter died before the 1861 census or they separated at some point in that decade are questions for further investigation. Sarah was listed as a widow in both censuses but we don't know whether she was once or twice widowed. Much more could be learned from the official registrations of births, marriages and deaths from 1837, for which copies of the quarterly indexes are available in Melbourne and other major cities, while certificates can be ordered from abroad, now that we know where to look with more precision than previously.

I should report also that in the same parish as the above I found the baptism of Mary Ann Newton the future wife of Joseph Green the glass blower.

Mary Ann daughter of John and Mary Ann Newton of 93 Coleman St., father a glass cutter, born 21 March 1847, baptized 19 Feb 1849 [No. 502, page 63]

At home I think I have her birth certificate agreeing with this record and also the marriage certificate of the parents, John Titus Newton who married Mary Ann Wright on 25 July 1842 at St Philips, Birmingham.

So where are we and where do we go from here? First there are details to fill in and check from the official registrations which could answer some of the remaining questions, but the identification of Joseph the carpenter from Leamington (known on present day maps as Leamington Spa) and Sarah Brabson the widow as the parents of Joseph the glass blower should be quite secure, and it should be possible now to move back one more generation in the history of the family who came to Melbourne. On the distaff side, it would be good to discover Sarah's maiden name and family of origin as well as when her Brabson marriage began and ended. It may be that Joseph her son was registered as Joseph Brabson because she was not married to his father and that may be why we have not found his birth before this. There is much to investigate surrounding the findings of my recent research, but perhaps the more interesting question for people with the Green surname is to trace the paternal line back from the birth of Joseph the carpenter at Leamington Spa, and I have some suggestions in that regard. The relevant records for Leamington, being before 1837, would be the old parish registers at the Warwickshire County Record Office at Warwick, and I think others from several other parishes outside of Birmingham might also be searched with profit, for reasons which follow from combining the Leamington birth with another pointer to the Green family background.

We have one other piece of documentary evidence on the background of the family which emigrated. A bible has been handed down which is inscribed,"June 7th, 1880 [?year in date damaged].Presented to Joseph Green by his Uncle Henry Manton on the occasion of his leaving England for Australia with the strong hope that he will read, study and benefit everlastingly from the blessed truths to be found herein". [Although the year of the inscription is uncertain, shipping records show the arrival of Joseph senior in Victoria on the Lusitania in July 1879 and his wife Mary Ann and child Joseph on the Potosi in July 1880. The month July could be the month when the passenger lists were made up, which could have been at the beginning of the voyage. DB 29/11/06]. We can assume that the bible was given to young Joseph Rudolph, then aged 12 years, rather than Joseph his father. This information could be valuable in providing us with another way of telling one Joseph Green from another, by seeing a relationship to a Henry Manton which makes sense of the inscription. I have searched quite extensively before this for a marriage which might identify an uncle Henry who married perhaps a sister of either Joseph Green or Mary Ann Newton or perhaps an earlier generation older cousin who could have been called uncle as first cousins of parents, for example, often are. I did not find any which appeared likely to be in the immediate family of either Joseph or Mary Ann, but until I found the census records recently I did not actually know the names of their sisters. It is just possible that Joseph's sister Sarah listed above could have a married man of that name, and Mary Ann had a sister named Emma Jane as I found in the following census record, and she might have had such a marriage with a husband young Joseph would have called Uncle Henry, although one might wonder whether a man of an older generation than his parents might have been more likely to adopt the paternalistic tone of Henry Manton's inscription. In any case it is interesting to see the family from which Mary Ann came and to reflect on the fact that although they had only the one child, Joseph Rudolph, both she and Joseph had come from larger families which must have given them quite a wide family circle with whom they could have kept in touch, but I don't know of any contact which was still maintained within the lifetime of the current generation. The Newton household was listed as follows in the 1851 census:

Coleman Street, Duddeston, parish of St Matthew, after number 94, 12 Court 2 House,

John Newton, Head, Mar, 30, Glass cutter, b. War., Birmingham
Mary Ann Newton, Wife, Mar, 27, , b. War., Birmingham
John Newton, Son, 8, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham
Emma Jane Newton, Dau., 6, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham
Mary Ann Newton, Dau., 4, - , b. War., Birmingham
Thomas Newton, Son, 1, - , b. War., Birmingham

The only Green-Manton marriage I have found so far is rather remote, but not an impossible source of a courtesy title of "Uncle" in relation to young Joseph. Now that we know that his grandfather Joseph the carpenter was born at Leamington Spa the remote source becomes more likely because it fits with a picture of the Green ancestors moving west from Northampton into the south-eastern region of Warwickshire and then further north-west to the growing industrial centre of Birmingham. These places were all within a few days walk in the way people then traveled.

The marriage in question is in the IGI as:-

Henry Manton married Mary Green, 5 November 1799, at Kenilworth, Warwickshire.

This and all of the following have to be checked out in the original records and there are several gaps to fill, but the common point of origin seems to be the marriage of Mary Green's likely parents at Northampton in 1779:

Joseph Green married Mary Griggs, 18 July 1779, at Great Houghton, Northampton, and Mary's likely birth is indicated in the baptism of,

Mary Green, 17 September 1779, at Northampton, Father: Joseph Green, Mother: Mary Griggs.

We need to find a son of the same Joseph and Mary, who would be Mary's brother, and the likely father of Joseph the carpenter, and we need to find a son or grandson of Mary named Henry Manton. The best candidate is for the brother born within a few years of the marriage of 1779, who could have been the father of Joseph the carpenter born about 1810, is the following,

Joseph Green son of Joseph and Mary, baptized 14 June 1784, at Harbury, Warwickshire.

Harbury is a village about 4 miles SE of Leamington Spa, and Kenilworth where Henry Manton and Mary Green were married is about the same distance north of that town. So Joseph the carpenter was born within an hour or two's walking distance from the likely locations of his father's birth and his aunt's later marriage. We have to assume, if they came from Northampton, that the parents of this brother and sister moved about 20 miles east of Northampton after their daughter Mary was born and before the son Joseph arrived.

I have not found the birth of Mary's son Henry Manton, but there is a marriage that could be his at Kenilworth in 1840:

Henry Manton married Hannah Gaydon 5 April 1840 at Kenilworth and they had a son Henry baptized there 14 February 1847. (Henry Mantons are nearly as common as Joseph Greens, so there are other possibilities.) The father of this child would have been about the same age as Joseph the carpenter would surely have known him well if they were first cousins living in the same area, and the son would have been close to the age of Joseph the glass blower. It would be helpful to know whether these Henry Mantons moved to Birmingham shortly after Joseph the carpenter. None of this is established; all we know definitely is that Joseph the carpenter was born at Leamington Spa and that the IGI contains some possible references to events which might make sense of Henry Manton's inscription in the bible he gave to young Joseph when they left Birmingham. If the theory is confirmed it points to Northampton as the place of origin of the Green family in the mid 1700s and probably for some generations earlier.

DB 21 August 2004 with a minor addition 29 November 2006.

*The actual inscription in the Bible is:

"June 7th, 1880 [?year in date damaged].

Presented to Joseph Green by his Uncle Henry Manton on the occasion of his leaving England for Australia with the strong hope that he will read, study and benefit everlastingly from the blessed truths to be found herein".

DB 10 November 2004.


Extracted Transcripts of evidence & documents from the above note.

Records for Box Hill Cemetery

Joseph Green, 1845-1928

Mary Ann Green, 1847-1926

Birth of Joseph Rudolph Green

All the information David quotes matches the birth certificate [A5].

Marriage of Joseph Green and Mary Ann Newton

All the information David quotes matches the marriage certificate [A6].

1871 Census Records

15 Brewery St, Duddeston

Back: William and Eliza Field
Front: Henry Aston and his family

1861 Census Records

Court 30 No.2 after 240 Heneage Street, Aston

Sarah Green, Head, Widow, aged 47, Flint Glass Rougher, born Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
John Green, Son, Unmarried, 19, Engineer, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Joseph Green, Son, Unmarried, 15, Glass Blower, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Thomas Green, Son, , 10, Scholar, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.
Sarah Green, Daughter, , 8, Scholar, b. Warwickshire, Aston Parish.

1851 Census Records

8 Heneage Street, Aston

Sarah Brabson, Head, Wid., 39, Glass Rougher, b. Warwickshire, Birmingham.
John Brabson, Son, U, 10, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Joseph Brabson, Son, U, 6, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham.
George Brabson, Son, U, 3, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Thomas Brabson, Son, U, 7 months, At home, b. War., Birmingham.
Joseph Green, Lodger, U, 40, Carpenter, born in Warwickshire at Leamington.

Coleman Street, Duddeston, parish of St Matthew, after number 94, 12 Court 2 House

John Newton, Head, Mar, 30, Glass cutter, b. War., Birmingham
Mary Ann Newton, Wife, Mar, 27, , b. War., Birmingham
John Newton, Son, 8, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham
Emma Jane Newton, Dau., 6, Scholar, b. War., Birmingham
Mary Ann Newton, Dau., 4, - , b. War., Birmingham
Thomas Newton, Son, 1, - , b. War., Birmingham

David also states that he believes the 1851 census took place in April.

Baptismal register of St Matthew's, Duddeston

No. 338, page 43

Joseph son of Joseph and Sarah Green, Heneage St., baptized 19 October 1846, father's occupation carpenter

I assume the following are from the same baptismal register

No 783, p. 97

George son of Joseph and Sarah Green, born 5 Oct, 1845 (? perhaps 1848), baptized 12 January 1851, (father's) occupation Carpenter, parents abode 167 Gt Francis St

No 784, p. 97

Sarah daughter of Joseph and Sarah Green, born 3 Oct 1842, baptized 12 January 1851, (father's) occupation Carpenter, parents abode 167 Gt Francis St

David also states that he could find no other baptismal records (I presume for this church/parish) for children of Sarah between November 1840 (the start of the register) and the end of 1854.

No. 502, page 63

Mary Ann daughter of John and Mary Ann Newton, born 21 March 1847, baptized 19 Feb 1849, father a glass cutter, of 93 Coleman St.

Inscription in a Bible

June 7th, 1880 [?year in date damaged] (This is David's note.)

Presented to Joseph Green by his Uncle Henry Manton on the occasion of his leaving England for Australia with the strong hope that he will read, study and benefit everlastingly from the blessed truths to be found herein.

This bible would appear to be in David's posession. The shipping records [D2] confirm the date as 1880, as they give Joseph arriving in Melbourne (with his mother) in July, 1880.

Extracts from the IGI Indexes

Joseph Green married Mary Griggs, 18 July 1779, at Great Houghton, Northampton

Mary Green, baptised 17 September 1779, at Northampton, Father: Joseph Green, Mother: Mary Griggs

Joseph Green, baptized 14 June 1784, at Harbury, Warwickshire, son of Joseph and Mary

Henry Manton married Mary Green, 5 November 1799, at Kenilworth, Warwickshire

Henry Manton married Hannah Gaydon 5 April 1840 at Kenilworth

Henry Manton baptized (at Kenilworth) 14 February 1847, Father: Henry Manton, Mother: Hannah Gaydon

From the above, and David's notes, I construct the following tentative tree.

  Joseph Green   m. 18 Jul 1779   Mary Griggs
                 |
                 |
         +-------+----------+
         |                  |
  Joseph Green         Mary Green         m. 5 Nov 1799   Henry Manton
  bp. 14 Jun 1784      bp. 17 Sep 1779    |
         |                                |
         |                                |
         |                                |
  Joseph Green m.(?) Sarah          Henry Manton   m. 5 Apr 1840   Hannah Gaydon
  b. c1811 (carpenter)                             |
         |                                         |
         |                                         |
         |                                         |
  Joseph Green m. Mary Anne Newton           Henry Manton
  b. c1846 (Glass Blower)                    bp. 14 Feb 1847
         |
         |
         |
         |
  Joseph Rudolph Green
  b. 1867

David speculates that the Henry Manton who married Hannah Gaydon is the 'Uncle Henry' of the bible inscription. Unless he lived in Birmingham (and the only place name we have for him is Kenilworth, where he was married, and where his son Henry was baptised), and had regular contact, a cousin to his grandfather seems rather remote a relative to be referred to as 'uncle'. On the other hand, this could actually be the title his father used for this relative. Also, Henry Manton would be between 60 and 80 years old at the time of the inscription (his parents were married in 1799), which may explain the paternalistic tone David identifies.

C50 Summaries from a Westmoreland family history

"Westmoreland - A Family from Lincolnshire" was published in 2005 by Marie Holmes. It contains histories of the descendents of William Westmoreland (b. 1756), though primarily the descendents of his son Richard (b. 1807).

I give here summaries of information contained in the text, as family histories similar in format to those found in the family histories.

Richard Westmoreland and Elizabeth Hanson

Richard Westmoreland
Elizabeth Hanson

Mary Westmorelad
* William Westmoreland

1754, 29 May

Daughter Mary baptised at St Mary, West Torrington, Lincolnshire

This baptism being dated more that 2 years before the marriage of the parents suggests an error.

1756, 17 Oct

Married at Saint Mary, West Torrington, Lincolnshire

1756, 17 Oct

Son William baptised at St Mary, West Torrington, Lincolnshire

This baptism being on the same date as the marriage of the parents may be another error.

1796, 11 Feb

Son William marries Frances Wray at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln. See [A25]

John Wray and Sarah Medford

John Wray
Sarah Medford

George Wray
John Wray
Edward Wray
* John Wray
William Wray

1720, 13 Nov

Married at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1720, 19 Dec

Son George baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1723, 28 Apr

Son John baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

Presumed to have died in infancy.

1725, 15 Feb

Son Edward baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1729, 13 Jan

Son John baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1729, 13 Jan

Son William baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1748, 27 Jul

Son John marries Alice Wilson at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

John Wray and Alice Wilson

John Wray
Alice Wilson

Wilson Wray
Hannah Wray
Joseph Wray
John Wray
Mary Wray
* Frances Wray
Frances Wray

1748, 25 Jul

Married, Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1750, 14 Nov

Son Wilson baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1751, 23 Oct

Daughter Hannah baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1754, 11 Dec

Son Joseph baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1757, 2 Dec

Son John baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1761, 24 May

Daughter Mary baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

1765, 17 Jan

Daughter Frances baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

A record in the IGI apprently gives her birth as 'about 1759'.

1767, 18 Feb

Daughter Frances baptised at Wrawby, Lincolnshire

A record in the IGI apprently gives this Frances as male, and dying on 15 Oct, 1767, though another gives the baptism as for a female.

1772, 23 Oct

Daughter Hannah marries William Green at Wrawby

1782, 18 June

Daughter Mary marries John Leggott at Wrawby

The attribution of this marriage is apparently uncertain.

1783, 22 Jan

Son John marries Elizabeth Driffield at Wrawby

1787, 15 Oct

Son Wilson marries Elizabeth Sawdon at Hornsea, Yorkshire

The attribution of this marriage is uncertain. The husband's name is "William Wreay". The location of the marriage may also raise doubts (though it is only about 30 miles from Wrawby). On the other hand this may be another link to the Sawdon family.

1796, 11 Feb

Daughter Frances marries William Westmoreland at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln. See [A25]

William Westmoreland and Frances Wray

William Westmoreland
Frances Wray

Mary Westmoreland
Frances Westmoreland
William Westmoreland
Elizabeth Westmoreland
Thomas Westmoreland
* Richard Westmoreland

1796, 11 Feb

Married at at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln.

[A25] records this marriage as taking place in the parish of Broughton, which is about 2 miles north of Scawby, and about 25 miles north of Lincoln.

1797, 13 Feb

Daughter Mary baptised at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln

1798, 21 Dec

Daughter Frances baptised at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln

1800, 1 Oct

Son William baptised at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln

1802, 8 Nov

Daughter Elizabeth baptised at St Mary le Wigford church, Lincoln

1804, 10 Oct

Son Thomas born at Scawby, Lincolnshire

1804, 14 Oct

Son Thomas baptised at Scawby, Lincolnshire

1807, 29 Apr

Son Richard baptised at Heckington, Lincolnshire

Father William's occupation given as whitesmith

1808, 30 Jan

Daughter Mary buried at Heckington, Lincolnshire

1810, 2 Aug

Mother Frances buried at Heckington, Lincolnshire

1816, 1 Apr

The following is quoted directly from Marie Holmes' book (p. 12). "When William was living in Heckington there was a 'General Order of Removal' signed on 1 April 1816, that required the Churchwardens and Overseers of the Poor of the Parish of Heckington, to remove William Westmoreland and his four children to the Parish of Scawby which was deemed to be their correct place of inhabitance. The children were listed as Frances aged 17, Elizabeth aged 14, Thomas aged 11 and Richard aged 8. Obviously William (Junior) had already left home. We know that Thomas was born at Scawby and that there were Westmorelands at Scawby in the early 1700s."

1825, 29 June

Son William marries Mary Ann Meggett at Scawby, Lincolnshire

1830, 10 Nov

Son Richard marries Ann Lawman at Scawby, Lincolnshire

c1832

Daughter Frances becomes housekeeper to her uncle Thomas Sawdon after the death of his wife Elizabeth. He lived in the parish of St Mary le Wigford in Lincoln.

c1832

Daughter Frances moves to Wrawby (possibly moving in with with her sister Elizabeth) after the death of her uncle Thomas Sawdon.

1849, 1 Oct

Daughter Frances dies at Wrawby, Lincolnshire. (She never married.)

1861

Daughter Elizabeth living in her own home, with her niece Sarah (daughter of Richard).

1886, 3 Sep

Daughter Elizabeth dies at Wrawby, Lincolnshire. (She never married.)

Richard Lawman and Sarah Sawden

Richard Lawman
Sarah Sawden

Hannah Lawman
Frances Lawman
Hannah Lawman
Richard Lawman
Richard Lawman
Ann Lawman

1769

Richard Lawman born, Scawby, Lincolnshire

Sarah Sawden born, Scawby, Lincolnshire

1799, 6 Feb

Daughter Hannah Lawman baptised, Scawby

1799, 12 Aug

Daughter Hannah Lawman buried

1800, 7 Sep

Daughter Frances Lawman born, Scawby

1803, 25 Jul

Daughter Hannah Lawman born, Scawby

1806, 11 May

Son Richard Lawman baptised, Scawby

1806, 14 Oct

Daughter Hannah Lawman buried, Scawby

1806, 30 Nov

Son Richard Lawman buried, Scawby

1807, 22 Nov

Son Richard Lawman baptised, Scawby

1810, 3 Jan

Daughter Ann Lawman born, Scawby (or at Caeneby)

1811, 29 Jun

Mother Sarah Lawman died, Scawby

1811, 2 Jul

Mother Sarah Lawman buried, Scawby parish church

1831, 10 Nov

Daughter Ann Lawman marries Richard Westmoreland at Scawby

c1837

Daughter Frances Lawman marries Joseph Temple

1841

At the census, Richard Lawman is listed as aged 70, as a beer retailer
Also his son Richard, aged 30, no occupation given

1846, May 25

Father Richard Lawman died, Scawby

1849, 17 Sep

Son Richard Lawman buried, Scawby

He was buried with his father. This implies that he never married.

James Knott and Mary Ann Crosley

James Knott
Mary Ann Crosley

* May Ann Knott

1825, 8 Feb

Married at North Clifton, Nottingham.

1830, 24 Mar

Daughter Mary Ann Knott born at North Scarborough, Lincolnshire.

Richard Westmoreland and Ann Lawman

Richard Westmoreland
Ann Lawman

Edward
William
* William
Thomas
Charles
Henry
Lawman
Annie
Richard
Sarah
Harriet
Frances

1830, 10 Nov

Married at Scawby, by licence. The witnesses were Richard Lawman and Jane Milson.

1831, 16 Dec

Son Edward Lawman Westmoreland born

1833

Son William Westmoreland born. It is presumed that he died in infancy, though the book states that he died at Hibaldstowe.

1834, 31 Jan

Son William Westmoreland born at Scawby.

1837, 21 Aug

Son Thomas Sawdon Westmoreland born, Scawby.

1839, 17 Jun

Son Charles Westmoreland born at Scawby.

1840, 5 Jul

Son Henry Westmoreland born at Scawby

1841

Father Richard listed as a shoemaker. I presume this is from a census record.

1842, 6 Jan

Son Lawman Westmoreland born

1842, 21 Aug

Son Lawman Westmoreland baptised at Scawby.

1844, 25 Apr

Son Lawman Westmoreland died at Scawby.

1845, 24 Mar

Daughter Annie Elizabeth Westmoreland baptised at Scawby. (Apparently born in 1844.)

1846, 10 May

Son Richard Westmoreland baptised. Presumed to have died before 1851. Presumably because he is not listed at the census.

1847

Daughter Sarah Frances Westmoreland born at Scawby.

1848, 13 Aug

Daughter Harriet Westmoreland baptised at Scawby.

1849

Scawby Post Office director was R Westmoreland, who was also a receiver, shopkeeper and shoemaker. The Post office was sited in a general store at the southeast corner of Church Street and West Street.

1850, 1 Dec

Daughter Frances Westmoreland baptised at Scawby. (Apparently born at Caenby.)

1851

At the census, Richard is given as a cordwainer and grocer. The two eldest sons (Edward and William) were not present.

Also living with the family was their servant, Mary Robinson, aged 19.

1858, 17 Jun

Son Edward Lawman Westmoreland marries Betsy Turner at Wrawby.

Edward died 29 July, 1914, aged 82, at Stone Pit house, Hibaldstowe, Lincolnshire.

1858, 19 Aug

Son william Westmoreland marries Mary Ann Knott in Sheffield.

1861

At the census, only three daughters were at home. Ann, aged 17, was employed in the house, and Harriet and Frances were at school. Sarah Frances, aged 14, lived with her aunt, Elizabeth Westmoreland.

Father Richard is the enumerator for the Scawby census.

1861, 18 Dec

Son Edward Lawman Westmoreland baptised at Scawby.

1863, 7 April

Son Thomas Sawdon Westmoreland marries Mary Jane Welch at Hibaldstowe.

c1865

Daughter Sarah Frances Westmoreland marries William Turner.

1868, Sep

Daughter Annie Elizabeth Westmoreland marries Thomas Grimble at Glandford Brigg.

1869, 23 Nov

Son Charles marries Ealy Crowston

1871

At the census, Richard is given as postmaster and grocer. The three daughters were still with their parents, but Ann Elizabeth was married. Ann (senior) was apparently deaf.

Father Richard is the enumerator for the Scawby census.

1872, 12 Jun

Daughter Harriet Westmoreland marries Benjamin Welch.

1876, 26 May

Father Richard Westmoreland died, aged 69, of cancer. Buried in Scawby churchyard. His death certificate gives his occupation as Grocer (Master).

1876, 16 Jun

In Richard's will it is noted that he was a Draper and Grocer. Also a Postmaster.

1881

At the census, at Scawby, is recorded: Ann Westmoreland as a widow, a grocer. Also her daughter Frances, a grocer's assistant. Also her granddaughter Annie Grimble, aged 9.

1886, 20 Jan

Daughter Frances Westmoreland marries Edward Spencer at Scawby.

1890, 23 Mar

Mother Ann Westmoreland died.

C100 An Additional Note

This is a note of my own. I quote it in full.

The Westmorelands in Bayswater & Croydon

Elsie & Ida moved to the farm in Bayswater, in 1935 according to [C44], and “with their mother” according to [C41].

“in 1939 ... Annie sold the property and went to live with her sister in law Emma in Bayswater” [C43]

Auntie “Sis” (Annie) died in Bayswater 14 November 1946 [B1], [C], [C33], [C43]

The Bayswater farm was sold in 1948 [C44], and Ida & Elsie moved to Anzac St, Croydon.

Their mother Emma died in Croydon May 27 1954 [B1]

From this I make the following timeline:

- 1935: Emma, Elsie, Ida move to Bayswater

- 1939: Annie moves to Bayswater

- 1946: Annie dies

- 1948: Emma, Elsie & Ida move to Croydon

- 1954: Emma dies

- 1971: Elsie & Ida move to Strathdon Nursing Home, Forest Hill

I was not aware that either “Auntie Sis” (Annie) or “Grandma Westmoreland” (Emma) had lived at either Bayswater or Croydon. My mother recalled that Ida used to take trays of eggs, and Elsie her cut flowers, to the Bayswater railway station to be taken to the markets in Melbourne.



D Results from the Web

D1 Extracts from the International Genealogical Index

The International Genealogical Index is run by the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints. Its indexes are based on microfilmed copies of the paper records. The following notes are based simply on index searches, not on sightings of any version of the original records.

In general the indexes give the date of an event, the names of the people involved (for births, the child & the two parents; for marriages, both parties), and the location of the event (with varying precision). The IGI is designed to be able to link individuals into families and pedigrees, but this has not occurred (as far as I am aware) for any of my ancestors.

It is interesting to note that, in Fife at least, marriages are often recorded for two different dates (sometimes weeks apart), and not unusually at two different locations. My assumption is that these are the church records and the independent civil registrations.

I have linked the people into families, based primarily on the names of couples in marriages and as parents, reinforced by locations, and by birth dates that follow soon after marriage dates. The family groups begin with the names of the parents. Then follows the marriage dates & locations, then the names, dates and locations of the births and/or baptisms of the children. ‘Isolated’ births (not linked into families) may follow. Approximate birth years are sometimes given, presumably taken from marriage records. Alternative names or spellings are given in brackets.


Green

Sarah Brabson

no marriage record

John Brabson b. 29 Aug 1842, bp. 18 Apr 1843, Saint Martin, Birmingham, Warwick baptism record (from Parish Registers, St Martins Church, Birmingham)


William Brabson & Ann

no marriage record

Sarah Brabson b. 15 Aug 1813, bp. 13 Oct 1813, Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick baptism record (from Parish Registers, St Phillip's Cathedral, Birmingham)


John Brabson, 1881 census record

 Name  Relation Marital Status Gender Age Birthplace Occupation Disability
 John BRABSON   Head   M   Male   39   Birmingham, Warwick, England   Engineer At Works    
 Emma BRABSON   Wife   M   Female   37   Dudley, Worcester, England   Wife Of Engineer At Works    
 John BRABSON   Son   U   Male   17   Birmingham, Warwick, England   General Lab    
 Selina BRABSON   Dau   U   Female   14   Birmingham, Warwick, England   Scholar    
 Julia BRABSON   Dau   U   Female   11   Birmingham, Warwick, England   Scholar    
 Florence BRABSON   Dau   U   Female   9   Birmingham, Warwick, England   Scholar    

Henry William Mathews and Ann Parry

m. 21 June, 1818, Christ Church, Newgate marriage record (from Bishop's transcripts, Christchurch, Newgate Street, London)

In this record the wife is Ann Parry. This is the only marriage record in the IGI for Henry Mathews and Ann in London between 1810 and 1830.

Jane Ann Mathews b. 16 Nov 1826, bp. 21 Mar 1836 at St Leonards, Shoreditch, London baptism record (from Parish Registers, St Leonard's Church)

Peggie

David Piggie and Jean Berry

m. 6 Jan 1823, Leslie, Fife marriage record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

Agnes Piggie b. 10 Sep 1823, Leslie Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

Elspit Piggie b. 20 Aug 1825, Leslie, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

David Piggie b. 20 Aug 1825, Leslie, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

*George Piggie b.3 Aug 1828, Leslie, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

Helen Bunton Piggie b. 3 Mar 1837, Leslie, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)

Jean Piggie b. 18 Aug 1842, Leslie, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Leslie)


John Wyles and Ann McLeod

no marriage record

Christian Wyles (f) b. 19 Oct 1825, bp. 30 Oct 1825, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

*Jean Murray Wyles b. 17 Jun 1828, bp. 1 Jul 1828, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

Ann Wyles b. 20 Dec 1830, bp. 16 Jan 1831, Wemyss, Fife birth record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

Robert Wyles b. 3 Sep 1833, bp. 13 Oct 1833, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)


Jean Murray

b. approx 1754 marriage record (personal submission)


John Wyles and Jean Murray

m. 25 Nov 1775, Wemyss, Fife marriage record (personal submission)

m. 25 Nov 1775, Scotland marriage record (personal submission)

Margaret Wyles b. 31 Dec 1776, bp. 5 Jan 1777, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

Sophia Wyles b. 14 Jul 1784, bp. 20 Jul 1784, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (personal submission), baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

Catharine Wyles b. 14 Jun 1786, bp. 18 Jun 1786, Wemyss, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)

*John Wyles b. 15 (or 16) Feb 1793, bp. 24 Feb 1793, Wemyss, Fife baptism record, (personal submission), baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Wemyss)


John Berry and Jean Errack

no marriage record

*Jean Berry b. 5 Nov 1800, bp. 23 Nov 1800, Cameron, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Cameron)

This is the only record in the IGI indexes for a Jean Berry, born between 1790 and 1810 in Fife.


Jas. Mcleod and Cath. Horn

no marriage record

*Ann McLeod b. 15 Dec 1806, bp. 28 Dec 1806, Dysart, Fife baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Dysart)


John Mcleod and Christy(e) McDonald

no marriage record

*Ann McLeod b. 28 Jun 1799, bp. 28 Jun 1799, Newburn, Fife baptism record (personal submission) baptism record (from parochial registers, parish church of Newburn, Fife)

The above two records are the only ones in the IGI for the birth of Ann McLeod in Fife between 1786 and 1806.


George Peggie and Jane Wyles

m. 6 May 1854, Dysart, Fife marriage record (from parochial register, parish church of Dysart)

m. 18 May 1854, Wemyss, Fife (Janet) marriage record (from parochial register, parish church of Wemyss)

Migrated to Australia in June 1854.

John Peggie b. 1857, Prahran, Vic., d. 1857, Prahran, Vic. birth & death record

Anne Peggie b. 1859, Gardiner, Vic., d. 1859, Gardiner, Vic. birth & death record

David Peggie b. 1859, Prahran, Vic., m. 1883, Mary Jane Adelaide Ashdown marriage record

Jane Ann Peggie b. 1860, Oakleigh, Vic. baptism record

John Peggie b. 1865, Gardiner, Vic., d. 1934, Clayton, Vic. baptism record

Jane Peggie b. 1868, Oakleigh, Vic., d. 1870, Vic. birth record, death record

Jane Berry Peggie b. 1870, Gardiner, Vic., d. 1933, Adale (sic), Vic. birth record, death record


I have also organised into families the IGI-index records for all Peggies in Scotland before 1870, though I do not give these records here. By 1870 there are around 14 families of this name.

George Berry Peggie’s father’s surname is given in all records as Piggie. I therefore need to re-do the IGI searches for "Piggie".

Westmoreland

James Knott and Mary Ann Crosley

m. 8 Feb, 1825, North Clifton, Nottingham marriage record (Bishop's Transcripts, Parish Church of North Clifton)

D2 Extracts from Victorian Shipping Records

These are taken from the web site of the Victorian Government Records Office. I conducted searches of the assisted and unassisted shipping lists databases for surnames and initials. Results that seem to be relevent are the following.

Unless noted otherwise, these results are from searches of the unassisted passenger lists.

NameAgeDateShip
Green, Joseph33Jul 1879Lusitania
Green, Joseph11Jul 1880Potosi
Green, Mary A33Jul 1880Potosi

Heales, Blenda {1}22Feb 1842HimalayaAssisted
Heales, Richd21Feb 1842HimalayaAssisted
Heales, Rebeca23Jan, 1849Duchess of NorthumberlandAssisted
Heales, Thomas27Jan, 1849Duchess of NorthumberlandAssisted
Heales, Thomas George3Jan, 1849Duchess of NorthumberlandAssisted
Heales, Rhoda54Nov 1876Rodney
Heales, Lily17Nov 1876Rodney
Heales, Chas F12Nov 1876Rodney

Peggie, George25Sep 1854Queen of the Seas
Peggie, Jane Wyles25Sep 1854Queen of the Seas

{1} According to the Heales Family History [C37] Richard's wife's first name was Rhoda. I suspect 'Blenda' is a transcription error when the records were transcribed for electronic searching.

The two Peggie records simply confirm [A6].

The Green records confirm that Joseph Green travelled to Australia before his wife and son. They also confirm the date in the bible inscription (see [C49]) as 1880 (not 1888).

D3 Thomas Marsom and John Bunyan

A search of the web for 'Thomas Marsom' results in a number of documents that link Thomas Marsom to John Bunyan, the author of the famous religious allegory "The Pilgrim's Progress". Given the nature of the poetry in Thomas Marsom's books [C11], such a link to the nonconformist religious tradition may not be surprising.

John Bunyan was born in 1628, and died in 1688. He was imprisoned from 1660 to 1672, and perhaps again briefly in 1675.

In an edition of "The Pilgrim's Progress" published around 1850, the editor George Offor wrote a lengthy introduction. The following is from pages 9-10, and includes all of the references to Thomas Marsom.

The continuation of “Grace Abounding” was written by “a true friend and long acquaint-ance” of Mr. Bunyan’s; “That his good end may be known as well as his evil beginning, I have taken upon me from my knowledge, and the best account given by other of his friends, to piece this to the thread, too soon broken off, and so lengthen it out to his entering upon eternity.” In this we are told of his long imprisonment, and that IN PRISON HE WROTE the “Pilgrim’s Progress,” First Part. The mode in which it was written, and the use made of it, in illustrating his addresses to his fellow-prisoners, has been handed down by one of them — Mr. Marsom, an estimable and pious preacher, who was confined with Mr. Bunyan in Bedford jail, for conscience’ sake. His grand-daughter married Mr. Gurney, the grandfather of the late Baron Gurney, and of W. B. Gurney, Esq., his brother, the justly venerated Treasurer of the Baptist Missionary Society, and he furnished me with the following facts: “Thomas Marsom was an ironmonger, and pastor of the Baptist Church at Luton; he died in January 1726, at a very advanced age. This Thomas Marsom was a fellow-prisoner with Bunyan; and my grandfather, who knew him well, was in the habit of repeating to his son, my father, many interesting circumstances which he had heard from him, connected with his imprisonment. One of these was, that Bunyan read the manuscript of the ‘Pilgrim’s Progress’ to his fellow-prisoners, requesting their opinion upon it. The descriptions naturally excited a little pleasantry, and Marsom, who was of a sedate turn, gave his opinion against the publication; but on reflection, requested permission to take the manuscript to his own cell, that he might read it alone. Having done so, he returned it with an earnest recommendation that it should be published.”

D4 Extracts from Church Histories

Similar to [D3], these are a result of a web search for 'Thomas Marsom'.

This is from a lecture on the history of the Baptist church at Dunstable, a town about 5 miles west of Luton, and 30 miles north-west of London. Kensworth is a small settlement about 2 miles south of Dunstable.

In 1694 a difference of opinion which had first arisen four years earlier led to a large secession from the Kensworth church. ‘December 6, 1694. The names of all the members of the church of Kensworth who rent off with brother Marsom and departed out of their places, and broke the peace of the church about the matter of desirance of Mr Titmas, as followeth.’ Then comes a list of names followed by, ‘The end of the names of those that departed from us, being in number 65.’ Thomas Marsom lived in Luton and had been appointed to minister in the church after the death of Thomas Hayward, along with Daniel Finch, and Brother Harding. Mr Titmas - the Dunstable church book calls him Tidmarsh - had come to preach in 1690 and it is evident that those with Thomas Marsom wished him to remain as elder and preacher, while the rest of the members did not. There is a Richard Tidmarsh who signed the 1689 Confession as the minister of the church in Oxford city, but whether this is the same man is unknown, at least to me.

The group with Marsom formed a church in Luton – we must remember they probably often met there for worship anyway – and he became its pastor, serving for over thirty years while also carrying on his business as an ironmonger and merchant. Their first chapel was in Park Street, and the church amalgamated with two others in 1975 to form Central Baptist Church. In about 1720 Thomas Marsom formed a daughter church at Thorn, not far from Houghton Regis. Members of the Thorn church were drawn from a number of places including Houghton Regis and Dunstable. Members from Thorn formed the church at Houghton Regis, the first meeting house being opened in 1790. It was also members from Thorn living in Dunstable who built a meeting house in Dunstable in 1801, the beginnings of West Street Baptist Church across the road. This coincided with a time of ‘much contention and disputation’ in the church here.


This is from a history of the churches of the Leverstock Green area, abut 20 miles north-west of London.

With the Act of Uniformity, members of the nonconformist sects sought places of worship where they were less likely to be detected and brought before the courts. Leverstock Green and the surrounding area was ideal as it was not within the town area of either Hemel Hempstead or St. Albans, but was within easy reach of either for those so inclined. One of the earliest such places of worship is thought to be Woodlane End House, which until its demolition as part of the growth of Hemel Hempstead New Town, stood at the junction of Woodlane End Road and Leverstock Green Road.

In 1679 Some Baptists from the parish of Kensworth, near St. Albans, moved into Hemel Hempstead with the Rev. Samuel Ewer as their first minister. Ewer is considered to be the founder of the Baptist Church in Hemel Hempstead, and as the records of the Abingdon Association show Hemel Hempstead to have joined them in 1656, it would seem likely that Ewer had already taken up residence in the area, when the group from Kensworth joined him in 1679. It is thought this group met in Wood Lane End House (later known as Wood Lane End Farm) where Samuel Ewer lived until his death in 1708.

:

Mr. Ewer was survived by his wife and children, and some of his descendants lived in the Hemel Hempstead/Leverstock Green neighbourhood for many years. Members of Samuel Ewer's congregation: Thomas Marsom, James Hardinge, John Ward and Matthew Dunn, corroborated the view of Ewer given by Piggott in his funeral address ...

D5 A Record from Purewa Cemetery, Auckland

This is a result of a search on the Purewa cemetery web site. This is the only record for a Westmoreland in this cemetery. The cemetery was opened in early 1889.

SurnameWESTMORELAND
First NamesWilliam
Age55 Years
GenderMale
Date of Death24 Sep 1889
ReligionNot Listed
Serial No67
Date of Service and/or Interment26 Sep 1889
Funeral DirectorGeorge Meachem / Jnr., Upper Symonds Street
What Buried?Body
Casket Size
Casket Depth
CemeteryPurewa Cemetery
LocationBlock B Row 6 Plot 024

I have since visited the cemetery. The grave site is now simply part of a lawn, although the location can be reasonably accurately determined. If there ever was a memorial stone, it is no longer in place.

D6 A Tea-Pot Stolen from Richard Heales

In a search for "Richard Heales", I found a record in the Proceedings of the Old Bailey.

Ref: Old Bailey Proceedings Online (www.oldbaileyonline.org, 27 April 2007), April 1826, trial of William Vincent (t18260406-178)

The trial was of William Vincent, who was charged with the theft of a tea pot, on the 25th of February 1826, from Richard Heales, an ironmonger, who said he lived in Tottenham-Court Rd. As we know our Richard Heales was an ironmonger in Tottenham-Court Rd in 1822-3, and 1826 [C37], it seems incontrovertable that he was the victim of this theft. (Vincent said he had been given the tea pot by a boy who had asked him to sell it. He was found not guilty of the theft.)

D7 Supreme Court of Port Phillip, Directory 1847

In a search for "Richard Heales" I found the text of (what I assume is an extract from) the 1847 Directory for the Town and District of Port Phillip. The extract lists all employees in the 'Judicial Establishment' for Port Phillip.

The site on which I found this text does not give any information on the original source.

I give here only the section covering the Gaol.

GAOL.
Gaoler. George Wintle. £150 0 0
Visiting Magistrate. James Smith, Esq. £40 0 0
Chaplain. Mr Adam Compton Thomson. £25 0 0
Roman Catholic Chaplain. Mr. John Joseph Therry. £25 0 0
Medical Attendant. Dr Cussen. £80 0 0
Clerk to Gaol. Donald McTavish. £84 0 0
Superintendent of Treadmill. Robert McCord, at 3s. 6d. per diem.
Turnkeys - Richard Heales, Owen Sullivan, Richard
Griffiths, and William Riley, at 3s 6d per diem each.



E Known and Missing Documents

This section lists documents that other researchers have (because they explicitly say they do), or I assume they do (on the basis of other information they have provided), and that I may therefore be able to obtain copies or transcriptions. It is organised by the name of the possible source, and each indicates the document (already transcribed above) from which I surmise that they have the document.

There are also notes on documents that would be the next stage in a search.

David Beswick

Ian Peggie

Missing Docments