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| 1 | <p><i>Divorce Case Files, 1860-1940</i>. VPRS 283 (Supreme Court of Victoria Divorce Files) and VPRS 552 (Ballarat Divorce Case Files). Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Victoria.</p> | Source (S915776330)
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| 2 | Acacia Court, Gravesite 2731 | Source (S900294099)
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| 3 | ADA MARY ANN HARDY was born in Scottsdale in 1878. On 23 January 1897 she married Thomas Robert Bartley in Scottsdale. They had three children, Thomas William, Walter Robert and Frederick Charles. | Hardy, Ada Mary Ann (I272216492814)
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| 4 | After Annie died Solomon moved to South Australia. | Frankenburg, Solomon George (I272216493920)
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| 5 | After Bryant's mother, Ivy Violet May Cook died in a shooting accident in 1938 Bryant was adopted by Alexander and Charlotte and raised as their child. | Cook, Bryant Leslie (I272216496436)
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| 6 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Cook, Colin Manfred (I272216496437)
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| 7 | Aged 69 | Ash, Margery (I272238055273)
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| 8 | Agnes Dutton and Joseph McNeice had no issue | Dutton, Agnes Mary (I272216494365)
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| 9 | Agnes Dutton, nee Dixon passed away on 20 August 1895 in a hospital at Launceston. She was 44 years of age having died from phthisis which is now commonly known as tuberculosis. She was the wife of a carpenter. Agnes' sister Emily Frances Dixon married Llewellyn Mudge Rains Dutton. | Dixon, Agnes Elizabeth (I272216492778)
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| 10 | ALBERT ERNEST RICHARD (ALF) HARDY was born in Scottsdale on 14th September 1880. In 1906 he married Ada Emma Richardson at Avoca, Tasmania. Between 1906 and 1915 they had 5 children, Violet Eliza Ellen (1906), Vera Rose Nellie (1907), Victor Albert (1909), Vonda Ada (1912) and Vernon James (1915). In 1917 Albert enlisted in the Australian Army as a Driver in the 6th Military Transport Company and served overseas during World War 1. After he returned in 1919 he and Ada had 3 more children, Vincent Ray (1920) Vivian Max (1925) and Val Thomas (1928). In 1921 their eldest daughter, Violet, gave birth out of wedlock to Rita Pearl who was brought up as a sister to the Albert and Ada’s eight children. Rita suffered from Downs Syndrome. She never marred and died at the age of 49. It has been rumoured that Albert Hardy fathered Rita after an incestuous relationship with his daughter Violet, but this rumour has never been substantiated. Interestingly, all Albert and Ada’s children’s names started with a “V”. Apparently Albert was keen on names starting with a “V” as the horses he used to pull his dray around Hunter Island when he was overseer there were also named Violet, Vera, Victor and Vonda. This may explain why most of his children preferred to call themselves by their second name. Albert Ernest Richard Hardy, or Alf as he was also known, also worked as a stagecoach driver in the Burnie and Stanley areas and died in Launceston on 10th August 1936. He is buried at the Old Stanley Burial ground. In May 1947, Albert and Ada’s son, Vincent Raymond Hardy, was stabbed during an argument over the trapping of some rabbits and on 24th August 1947 died as a result of the wounds he received. In 1972 another son, Victor Hardy featured in a film on the History of Bass Strait commissioned by BHP Oil & Gas. The story line of the film is based on the life of an old fisherman who has fished Bass Strait all his life. Retiring, he has sold his boat and must deliver her to San Remo. Also featuring in the film is Vic’s nephew, Rod Hardy who plays a part as Vic’s crew. | Hardy, Albert Ernest Richard (I272216493653)
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| 11 | At least one living or private individual is linked to this note - Details withheld. | Peach, Albert Leigh (I272216494198)
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| 12 | ALEXANDER MACKENZIE was a soldier in the 73rd regiment, one of the two regiments of the famous Black Watch, the premier unit of Scottish highlanders in the British Army. The regiment was posted to New South Wales after the Rum Rebellion when its commanding officer, Lachlan Macquarie, was appointed Governor, succeeding William Bligh who, whilst Governor of New South Wales, had triggered what became known as the "Rum Rebellion" when he prohibited offering of spirits in payment for commodities. Though many colonists supported his attempts to normalize trade, others resented his interference. A series of charges and counter charges culminated in a military rebellion on 26th January 1808, the 20th anniversary of the first settlement at Port Jackson, and in Bligh's arrest by the acting commandant of the New South Wales Corps. For over a year Bligh remained confined. Finally he agreed to set sail for England, but once aboard he turned back and attempted to resume control of Sydney. In 1809, the British government, recognizing the impasse between governor and military, recalled Bligh. The commandant was later found guilty of mutiny. The 73rd regiment arrived in Sydney Harbour on 28th December 1809, though it was 1st January 1810 when the soldiers came ashore, with the primary task of restoring legitimate government. Macquarie's term as Governor marks a turning point in Australian history. Alexander, who was known as Sandy, had only a small part in it. He never held a rank other than private although he was remembered in family tradition as "Sergeant Mackenzie", but there is a good explanation of that as we shall see. Another part of the tradition handed down is that he came to Australia from India, and while we cannot say that it is exactly correct there is something to it nevertheless. Alexander enlisted with the Dumfries militia in July or August 1803, and applied to transfer to the 73rd regiment on 7 September 1807. It is possible that he was an old hand in the regiment because he was about 36 years of age in 1807 and there were several soldiers named Alexander Mackenzie in the 73rd when it was in India in the 1790s, indeed as many as five of them were at Vellore in 1799. He was recruiting for the 73rd regiment at Inverness in December 1808. He was with the regiment at Sydney at the end of 1809 and posted to Parramatta in the March Quarter of 1810 where he stayed until the last quarter of 1811, when he returned to Sydney. He was then in Sydney until the March quarter of 1814, and it was during this time that he met Ann Clarke, as, on 23rd August 1813, his and Ann's daughter, MARY MCKENZIE came into the world. In March 1814 when Mary was six months old Alexander was ordered to leave New South Wales with an advance party of the regiment which was being sent to Ceylon. Ann was most probably living with Alexander and when he left for Ceylon she was no longer "on stores", that is, she was not being supported by the government. The rest of the 73rd regiment moved to Ceylon later in 1814. This was the time when the British established effective control of Ceylon by sending a military force to intervene in a dispute between the chiefs and the king who was overthrown. Ann appeared in the NSW colonial muster records later that year as a single person living in Sydney with two children and without government support. Alexander completed his term of service while the regiment was in Ceylon and he was discharged there on 16th December 1815. Instead of returning home to Britain he went back to NSW, writing twice to Ann apparently with the intention of rejoining her in Sydney. Whatever Ann's situation was, things obviously did not work out for them at the time. Alexander received approval to select a grant of 80 acres of land from Governor Macquarie and went to Van Diemen's Land alone about July 1816. His original land somewhere along the North Esk River in the White Hills area was measured but not formally granted. It appears to have been exchanged for two adjacent blocks, supposed to have been 40 acres each, which are found on old maps on the left bank of the North Esk River downstream of Corra Linn, near and just below Paterson's Island, in what was later the district of St Leonards. The district was then known as Paterson's Plains. Alexander began to develop the land while he worked in Launceston as an overseer of convicts. It was from this occupation that he became known as Sergeant Mackenzie. He received a cow in 1817 as a grant from government stores and by the time of the 1819 muster he had 32 cattle and crops on the land. He might have been able to gain assistance by virtue of his position as an overseer. In any case the land was relatively well developed with 40 acres in wheat as well as running a reasonable number of cattle a year or so later. Whether Ann and Alexander ever considered marriage is uncertain, but they were both apparently eligible when they had been together previously. Things were a little different now, because a few months before Ann left James Wells in Newcastle to join Alexander in Launceston, Alexander married a 14 year old girl named Elizabeth Murphy. Not only that but when Ann arrived in Launceston she was already pregnant with another child by James Wells, which she might not have known when she left Newcastle around August 1818. At some stage Elizabeth Murphy went back to her parents, Michael Murphy, a former marine on the first fleet in 1788 and Hannah Williams, a convict who arrived on the "Nile" in 1801. Elizabeth was listed with the other Murphy children in the 1819 muster, made in October, and later. She was sometimes known as Elizabeth Murphy, and on 4th Feb 1822 as Elizabeth Mackenzie she married John Porter, with whom she had 6 Children. In 1837 she married William Hughes. Ann's daughter by James Wells, Margaret, was born 10th May 1819. Ann's four children were listed with Alexander's surname in the population muster of October 1819 and four children are given as members of his household in relation to Alexander's land in the Land Holders Muster that year. So they might have settled down at last; but before the end of the year Alexander Mackenzie was dead. He died at Launceston on 9th December 1819. His burial is the first entry in the register of St. John's, Launceston. | MacKenzie, Alexander (I272216493338)
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| 13 | Alfred Doran Lette is listed in the 1913 Electoral Roll for Leven, Tasmania as follows: Lette Alfred Doran Residence: Abbotsham Occupation: Farmer. | Lette, Alfred Doran (I272216494527)
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| 14 | Amy Lette is listed has having died in the Ulverstone District post 1900. | Lette, Amy Estelle (I272216494553)
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| 15 | Anglican Section HA, Gravesite 0141 | Source (S900294083)
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| 16 | Anglican Section OA, Gravesite 0456 | Source (S900294090)
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| 17 | Anglican Section ZB, Gravesite 0555 | Source (S900294087)
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| 18 | Anglican, Section HA, grave 0141. | Source (S900294088)
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| 19 | Anglican, Section WB, Grave 0179 | Source (S900294106)
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| 20 | Anglican, Section ZI, Gravesite 0526 | Source (S900294102)
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| 21 | ANN CLARKE was about 17 years of age when she was convicted at the Borough Court of Liverpool Quarter Sessions on 3 April 1809, together with another female prisoner, Elizabeth McCallum, of stealing two pieces of printed cotton and sentenced to be transported for 7 years. Her partner in crime was sent to gaol for two years, and others with similar offences got only three or six months. Ann must have been punished more severely on account of her record. She had only just been released from having served six months in gaol for stealing three cloths and other articles. Interestingly, at the time of her previous conviction on 26 July 1808 the next person listed in the report of the Liverpool sessions was Mary Clarke who was sent to prison for three months for stealing cloth. (Was she a sister? Ann named her eldest daughter Mary.) Furthermore, Ann was also sentenced to gaol for another offence on the same day as she was sentenced to be transported, that time it was for stealing, in company with Mary Long, twenty yards of check. It was nearly a year before her transportation ship departed from England on 23rd March 1810. The voyage of between five and six months was about average or a little longer than average for convict transports at that time. It is not known what happened to Ann Clarke when she first arrived on the ship "Canada" on 8 September 1810. She could have been six months pregnant, but the date of birth of her first child, John, is uncertain and the father unknown. Somehow she coped with the situation and began a long and successful struggle for survival of herself and her children in extraordinary and rapidly changing circumstances. Sometime late in 1813 Ann Clark met Alexander Mackenzie and on 23rd August 1813, Alexander and Ann's daughter, MARY MCKENZIE came into the worl In March 1814 when Mary was six months old Alexander was ordered to leave New South Wales with an advance party of the regiment which was being sent to Ceylon. Ann was most probably living with Alexander and when he left for Ceylon she was no longer "on stores", that is, she was not being supported by the government. The rest of the 73rd regiment moved to Ceylon later in 1814. This was the time when the British established effective control of Ceylon by sending a military force to intervene in a dispute between the chiefs and the king who was overthrown. Ann appeared in the NSW colonial muster records later that year as a single person living in Sydney with two children and without government support. Alexander completed his term of service while the regiment was in Ceylon and he was discharged there on 16th December 1815. Instead of returning home to Britain he went back to NSW, writing twice to Ann apparently with the intention of rejoining her in Sydney. Whatever Ann's situation was, things obviously did not work out for them at the time. Alexander received approval to select a grant of 80 acres of land from Governor Macquarie and went to Van Diemen's Land alone about July 1816. His original land somewhere along the North Esk River in the White Hills area was measured but not formally granted. It appears to have been exchanged for two adjacent blocks, supposed to have been 40 acres each, which are found on old maps on the left bank of the North Esk River downstream of Corra Linn, near and just below Paterson's Island, in what was later the district of St Leonards. The district was then known as Paterson's Plains. Alexander began to develop the land while he worked in Launceston as an overseer of convicts. It was from this occupation that he became known as Sergeant Mackenzie. He received a cow in 1817 as a grant from government stores and by the time of the 1819 muster he had 32 cattle and crops on the land. He might have been able to gain assistance by virtue of his position as an overseer. In any case the land was relatively well developed with 40 acres in wheat as well as running a reasonable number of cattle a year or so later. Meanwhile Ann had got into further trouble with the law, having been convicted on 1st July 1816 with larceny at the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction and sentenced to 7 years in Newcastle. She was transported aboard the "Elizabeth Henrietta" which departed for Newcastle on 9th January 1817. Whilst in Newcastle she formed a new partnership with a convict named James Wells with whom she had a child, William, who was baptized at Newcastle 3rd August 1818. At about the same time she may have received a letter which prompted her to go to Van Diemen's Land to join Alexander. There is confusion about who received this letter as there were 2 Ann Clarke's in NSW at the time, both of whom left for Van Diemen's Land in late 1818. Our Ann Clarke is known to have been in Hobart in October 1818 when the population muster recorded her as residing there with three children. Another Ann Clarke is recorded as leaving New South Wales on the "Prince Leopold" with two children, arriving in Hobart on 20th December 1818. The question now arises as to how Ann was able to travel to Hobart before completing her 7 year sentence in Newcastle. There is no record of her receiving a pardon and no record of a ticket of leave. It is possible, though unlikely, that Alexander Mackenzie might have been able to seek some sort of favour from his former commanding officer in the 73rd regiment, Lachlan Macquarie, now Governor of NSW, to have her assigned to him as a convict servant. The other possibility is that her sentence was wrongly recorded as seven years, a two year sentence would have seen her freed by August 1818 when she would have been able to travel to Van Diemen's Land to rejoin Alexander Mackenzie. In any case it is unlikely that she was in jail in Newcastle given her relationship with James Wells during the period produced 2 children. Whether Ann and Alexander ever considered marriage is uncertain, but they were both apparently eligible when they had been together previously. Things were a little different now, because a few months before Ann left James Wells in Newcastle to join Alexander in Launceston, Alexander married a 14 year old girl named Elizabeth Murphy. Not only that but when Ann arrived in Launceston she was already pregnant with another child by James Wells, which she might not have known when she left Newcastle around August 1818. Whether Ann and Alexander ever considered marriage is uncertain, but they were both apparently eligible when they had been together previously. Things were a little different now, because a few months before Ann left James Wells in Newcastle to join Alexander in Launceston, Alexander married a 14 year old girl named Elizabeth Murphy. Not only that but when Ann arrived in Launceston she was already pregnant with another child by James Wells, which she might not have known when she left Newcastle around August 1818. At some stage Elizabeth Murphy went back to her parents, Michael Murphy, a former marine on the first fleet in 1788 and Hannah Williams, a convict who arrived on the "Nile" in 1801. Elizabeth was listed with the other Murphy children in the 1819 muster, made in October, and later. She was sometimes known as Elizabeth Murphy, and on 4th Feb 1822 as Elizabeth Mackenzie she married John Porter, with whom she had 6 Children. In 1837 she married William Hughes. Ann's daughter by James Wells, Margaret, was born 10th May 1819. Ann's four children were listed with Alexander's surname in the population muster of October 1819 and four children are given as members of his household in relation to Alexander's land in the Land Holders Muster that year. So they might have settled down at last; but before the end of the year Alexander Mackenzie was dead. He died at Launceston on 9th December 1819. His burial is the first entry in the register of St. John's, Launceston. So ends the story of the relationship between the convict girl from Liverpool and the Scottish soldier. Mary Mackenzie was only six years old when her father died. Her memories of him would depend on the period of a little over one year during which her mother lived with him at Launceston, and perhaps a vague recollection of him being in Sydney when she was three. Sandy or Sergeant Mackenzie was well remembered, Mary wrote his name in her Bible, and must have been responsible with her mother Ann for what was passed on to later generations. Mary's bible is still in the possession of the Beswick family today. Little more than six months later, on 28th June 1820, Ann married Thomas Brennan at St. John's Launceston. Thomas Brennan had been transported for 7 years on the "Marquis Cornwallis", after being tried in the Irish county of Kildare in 1795. It was in this marriage that Ann eventually enjoyed a stable relationship of more than twenty years. She and Thomas had three children, Thomas, Elizabeth and Ann as well as the four Ann brought with her from the Mackenzie household, John (who appears to be known later as Mackenzie), Mary, William (Wells, later known as Brennan) and Margaret (Wells/Brennan). Ann Clarke (later Brennan) died 29th July 1841, aged 49, as a result of "accident by fire". Launceston newspapers of the time report two fires a week or so earlier, on the 17th and 22nd. One at a house in Charles St. seems unlikely as it appears no one was injured. The other is possible if she died of injuries later. There was a fire at the Steampacket Hotel in which a child had died. On the other hand cooking over open fires in confined spaces was a common danger, especially to women wearing long dresses. Whichever it was, her death in this manner was saddening, for Ann had come to be regarded as above all a survivor. She had coped with extraordinary difficulties in a life that appears to show adaptability and initiative. It would have been demanding to say the least to have been landed in Sydney at the age of 18 in the corrupt days of 1810 when Macquarie had just arrived. Incidentally, she was now at the end given her married name. Until 1828 women who had been convicts were known officially by the name under which they had been transported even if as in Ann's case it was many years after the term of her sentence had expired. | Clark, Ann (I272216493743)
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| 22 | Arrived 18 Oct 1851 per Minden. Applied for his wife and 3 children to follow him. Employed a ticket of leave man in 1852 (?) | JEFFERY, Young William (I272216493795)
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| 23 | Arrived in Fremantle 24 Feb 1852 on the "Will Watch" with his parents and siblings. Went to South Australia on the Rob Roy 21 April 1878 | Coker, Joseph (I272216493674)
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| 24 | Arrived with COnvict mother on "Lloyds" 7 Nov 1845 Queesn Orphanage Hobart 12 Nov 1845 - 11 Feb 1850 | Adamson, Sarah Ann (I272216498368)
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| 25 | Ashes taken by Administrator | Source (S900294097)
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| 26 | Ashes with husband Cyril. | Naylor, Marie (I272216498243)
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| 27 | Ashes with wife Marie. Another child Henry Anzac?? born after Enid and before Cyril? | Birch, Cyril Hugh (I272216498232)
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| 28 | At the Centennial Park Cemetery South Australia there is burials listed for Enid Daphne b 1919 d 5/10/2001, Edward Leslie b 1916 d 30/9/1993, and Catherine aged 77 years. | Frankenburg, Clarence Hyman (I272216493921)
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| 29 | BARTLEY, Bruce Ian - February 1, 1959 - March 11, 2006 Passed away peacefully at the LGH on Saturday March 11, 2006, much loved son of Barbara and Donald (dec.), brother of David, Malcolm and John, father of Kylie, Jodi and Benjamin, grandfather of Monique and Zakary. Rest in peace, Bruiser. BARTLEY, Bruce (Bruiser) (Uncle Bruce) - Thank you for sharing your life with us. Thanks for the lifetime of memories. You will remain forever in our hearts - catch ya! - Mal, Helen, Alisha, Callum, Kerryn, Kristen and (Matey Moses) Sam. A life too short but lived to the fullest. | Bartley, Bruce Ian (I272216493022)
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| 30 | Born out of wedlock and put inot a home at a young age. Joined the navy and was onboard the "HMAS Tobruk" during WW2 | Hardy, William (I272216493392)
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| 31 | Both Gerald and Barbara were great granchildren of Heloise Lette and Thomas Dutton | Dutton, Gerald (I272216496146)
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| 32 | Bowral | Stafford, Eva May Fyle (I272216497646)
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| 33 | Buried with her father-in-law Francis Malone. | Walker, Elsie May (I272216498242)
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| 34 | Buried with her husband Kenneth. | Walker, Avis Ann (I272216498229)
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| 35 | Buried with her mother. Evelyn unable to trace any descendants or a marriage. | Walker, Mabel Emma (I272216493900)
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| 36 | Buried with his daughter in law Elsie (nee Walker). | Malone, Francis Nicholas (I272216498298)
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| 37 | Buried with his father. | Malone, Leonard William (I272216498297)
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| 38 | Buried with his son Leonard. | Malone, Leonard Edgar (I272216498271)
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| 39 | Buried with his wife Avis. | Lorman, Kenneth Frederick (I272216498275)
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| 40 | Cambarwarra | Garrett, Ross William (I272216497123)
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| 41 | Cambewarra | Keft, Thomas Albert (I272216498073)
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| 42 | Cause of death drowning. | Walker, Frederick Charles (I272216498343)
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| 43 | Cause of death: Diarrhoea. Died at her residence in Murray Street Perth. Grave unmarked, Wesleyan Section. No record of burial at East Perth Cemetery. Born in Hertford north of London? ANN CATHERINE EVANS Also know as Ann Sopia Evans was baptised in the Ebenezer Congregational or Independant Church on the 20 July 1806, which was in the town of Dinas, County of Merioneth, Wales. Her parents were Mary and James Evans. (Evan James) After her mother died, and her father who was a doctor remarried, Ann left home and went to London where she met and married her first husband Thomas Farmer who joined the 63 Regiment. Two children, Thomas and William were born to Ann & Thomas before the regiment sailed on the Sulphur for the Swan River as support for the Parmelia which was bringing the first Governor, Captain James Stirling, to the new Colony. The Sulphur arrived on 8th June 1829 and on June 18th the soldiers and their families embarked in boats and sailed up the Swan River to clear the bush and pitch tents in the vicinity of where Mrs Dance was to cut down a tree on August 12th when the ceremony on the founding of Perth took place. It is considered that Ann, who at that time was about 23 years of age, was the first white women to step ashore in the new colony being carried ashore by Sergeant Stanton. (Ref. Swan River Booklets, book 4, and family history by Dr Cyril Bryan). After Thomas Farmer died she moved to Guildford with her family and remarried in 1832 to William Watson who died in 1843 then she remarried Thomas Walker. In November 1840 she signed a petition for a methodist ministers stipend at Perth. Ann died in Perth on the 27 December 1870 and was buried in the East Perth Cemetery. Cause of death - diarrhoea. Unfortunately her grave is unmarked. Reproduction of an article by Dr Cyril Bryan (1884 - 1940) p 7-12 from a file held by Des Watson 5 Nov 2003 My Great Grandmother (By Dr Cyril Bryan) My Great-grandmother Ann Farmer was ever a figure of romance in my youthful eyes, and the passing of the years has only succeeded in making her even more of a romantic figure, although such a description would I am sure only bring a smile to her face could she hear it. But that is always the way with the real figures of romance. For the essence of romance is to be unconscious of performing anything out of the ordinary; they see what is to be done and they do it undaunted by obstacles, undeterred by what would halt or affright the ordinary person. She was of course dead long before I was born, but for all that, she went on living for me in the conversation of my elders, and she seemed actually to speak to me from a tiny photograph I had purloined from out of my mother's private drawer in a narrow jarrah chest-of-drawers, the likes of which have vanished before the stained threeply gimcrack furniture of today. Away back in the Eighteen Sixties the photograph had been taken here in Perth, and it was doubly precious to me since my Great-grandmothers hand rested on my mother's shoulder, then a sweet child of seven or so and her favourite grandchild, who stood so demurely but so naturally unselfconscious by her side. [there are 2 photos which could fit this description, which one is it - the one with her right hand on the child is in the file with the article.] Great-grandmother Farmer was the first white woman to set foot in Perth, or rather what was two months later to become Perth, for she accompanied her husband, Thomas Farmer of His Majesty's 63rd Regiment of Foot, when that first handful soldiers was lowered over the side of HMS Sulphur into the ship's boat and rowed up the River Swan on that historic first voyage to prepare a settlement for the reception of the Parmelia's passengers. But you will not find her name in any of those lists that are monotonously copied one from another in the books that purport to tell the early story of Western Australia. Such lists only give the names of what are called the first settlers to come to the Swan River Settlement, and they are confined to the passengers on the hired transport Parmelia. Unprinted there the names, and ignored the fact that the real pioneers of the Colony and of the town of Perth were the soldiers and their wives who were huddled up on HMS Sulphur, the warship which escorted Governor Stirling and the Parmelia party, though it is plain that they had the honour to be the very first to set foot on the mainland of Western Australia. They were in Perth two months before Perth was Perth, and they were in reality old inhabitants of Perth, well established in their quarters between Barrack Street and Pier Street months before the Parmelia people were finally transferred from Garden Island to the mainland. It is the strangest thing that for over a century the Sulphur's compliment has been ignored. Some of course could not be ignored. Perth's Godmother for example, Mrs Dance, wife of Commander Dance who, when Mrs Stirling could not be enticed from Garden Island, was rowed up the Swan to go down in history as the lady who laid the foundation of the city by putting an axe to the tree, the felling of which heralded the birth of Perth; Captain Irwin who as Military Commander and thrice Lieutenant Governor left his name indelibly impressed on Perth and on the Colony; Dr Collie, Surgeon of the Sulphur, and Lieutenant Preston, one of the officers, who wrote their names along the Collie and Preston Rivers; Ensign Dale and Lieutenant Erskine of the 63rd Regiment who put York and the river Avon on the map; Dr Milligan, also of the 63rd regiment and the first Surgeon to the Forces, honoured by Governor Stirling as the first (along with Irwin) to have his name commemorated by a street in the infant city. Even the good ship Sulphur itself is relegated to a back seat, yet for three years after the foundation of the Colony it explored its coasts, while in June 1832 it saved the inhabitants from starvation by bringing provisions from India in the very nick of time. My earliest memories are centred in the Sulphur, and in the soldiers and their families who sailed in her, and I looked with the greatest awe on my Grand-uncle Tom Farmer who, as a boy of two, had made on her that, to me, pre-historic journey. He had glided into my life as quietly and unobtrusively as all uncles and grand-uncles glide into any child's life, and I do not know that I regarded him as anything other than an amiable kindly looking old gentleman until one day I heard the remark made quite casually that he had been the first white boy in Perth. I can still analyse my reaction to that remark even after all these years. I was amazed, so much so that I felt dazed. First there was the very idea that Grand-uncle Tom Farmer had even been a boy. That took some believing and I don't know if I ever quite swallowed it. And - the first white boy in Perth! Well that was something that I was almost able to visualise. At any rate, after I had recovered from the stupor that the news cast me into I looked around Perth and tried to imagine it before there were any houses. It was a task beyond me unless we were on one of our expeditions into the bush. Then I would find myself glancing here and there and saying to myself that it must have been just like this when Tom Farmer came here as a boy of two. But childish and youthful memories are often frail things on which to base reliable recollections, and all my contact with Grand-uncle had been made before I was six years of age; for he died in 1891. Grown to manhood, I had the melancholy satisfaction of having most of my childish memories confirmed and strengthened, or having my doubts cleared up, of having forgotten scraps summoned back out of the oblivion into which they had fallen: melancholy satisfaction I repeat, since it was from the lips of my Grandmother in the last hours of her long and unselfish life that confirmation came, and came so naturally in her quiet gentle manner. I can see her now propped up in her bed on the verandah of my mother's home in Mount Lawley, facing the River Swan which she regarded so lovingly and waiting patiently for that last call which was even then on the way. One afternoon I sat and talked with her of many things when suddenly an aeroplane rose from across the river and in a few seconds had passed over our heads. She watched it's flight and I thought she sighed. I put out my hand and touched hers. I saw the trains come, she whispered softly, and the steamships and the motor cars. And now I have lived to see people fly over the land . I watched her as her eyes turned again to the River and travelled up it and across it to the Penninsula, as we call that tongue of land that juts out into the Swan at Maylands. Going back to your birthplace Grandmother? I said at last half jokingly, for it was on the Penninsula that she had been born a few months after Queen Victoria came to the throne, and only eight years after the Colony itself had been founded. Tell me about your early days (I went on) and about Great grandmother and my Grand uncles and - well tell me about the early days. I concluded lamely, for she was still looking at the Penninsula and I thought she was not listening. But she was and after a time spoke of those days, not in one continuous story but in patches as the memories came to her, and as I questioned her she saw herself again as in a glass but held some seventy years away, yet none the less clearly for all that. My mother. She told me, That is, your Great-grandmother was Anne Catherine Evans and she was born in Merioneth in Wales in 1808. She was nineteen when her father Dr Evans married again, but she did not take to her step-mother and like many another girl in such circumstances she left home, determined to make her own living. She went to London and almost at once met Thomas Farmer. He was a young man of her own age who had also gone to London to make his fortune. But they fell in love and all their plans were altered. He wanted to get married immediately instead of waiting years until he had made his fortune. So he joined the army and was drafted to the 63rd Regiment. This was in 1826. The marriage follows at once, and the next year your Grand-uncle Thomas Farmer, on whose knee you often sat and whom you remember was born at Chatham. A year later another son William was born, and just then Thomas Farmer was chosen as one of the party from the 63rd Regiment to go to the new Swan River Settlement as it was called. A few months later, at the end of 1828, your Great-grandmother with her two children Thomas and William embarked with her husband on HMS Sulphur, the warship which was chosen to escort the Parmelia carrying Governor Stirling and his first party of emigrants to the Colony. You never hear people talking about the Sulphur now. It is all the Parmelia. But those who came on the Sulphur played even a greater part in the Colony's first beginnings. They were the first to land at Fremantle and to come up to Perth, and they were living here under the very greatest hardships for months before the Parmelia's passengers left Garden Island for the mainland. The soldiers and their wives were the actual pioneers of Perth! They were the first and only inhabitants for several months: and they had cleared much of the bush and marked out the roads before any civilian population came. Even the officials, except Mr Roe and the surveyors, remained at Garden Island till the soldiers had made Perth ready for them. The voyage from England to Fremantle was a very dreadful one, for everyone was so cooped up on the Sulphur that they could hardly move. But they had to put up with it for six months, though they suffered torments. In addition the Sulphur was in a bad state, and couldn't keep up with the Parmelia which arrived here six days before the warship. However they were in plenty of time to found the new Colony, for although HMS Challenger under Captain Fremantle had been here for more than a month there were no preparations made for the colonists and they had to be landed on Garden Island where there was fresh water, and where Governor Stirling had planted a garden when he visited the Swan River in HMS Success several years before. The people on the Sulphur were not landed on Garden Island but had to put up with another two weeks of close confinement on the ship until Governor Stirling had explored the Swan River a little more carefully, seeking a site for the chief city of his new Colony. Then one day - it was June 16 1929 - orders came for the 63rd Regiment to go ashore. They were lowered into boats and landed at Fremantle where the sailors of the Challenger had erected a fort and still kept guard. Here the soldiers were paraded, the flag was hoisted again, and Captain Irwin read the Proclamation founding the new Colony and appointing Captain Stirling the first Lieutenant Governor. One party of soldiers, they were all unmarried men, then took over the fort from the sailors, while the other soldiers with their wives and children were placed in the boats and, after being dragged over the bar at the entrance to the river, were rowed up the River Swan to what was to be Perth. There was a pause. No need to tell me why for I too was visualising the scene, the boats being pulled over the bar, the wavings and the shoutings from and to them as if it were a lengthy voyage they were going on, into the very heart of a savage land. What a sight it must have been to them to see the wide stretches of the lovely river and the green along its banks! And what thoughts must have raced through their minds as they went forward to found a new country! What thoughts indeed! I closed my eyes and conjured up the scene: those miles of the Swan River after it leaves the narrowish neck this side of Fremantle and bellies out into the bays and inlets in which it is so rich. I could see a ship's boat creeping along slowly under the oars of the sailors in their old Naval rig; I could see the soldiers arguing with one another as soldiers naturally do, and I could see the women eagerly and excitedly pointing to this beauty splash and that, holding up their children to watch the swarms of black swans which swam so gracefully in their hundreds on the waters, or winged their way above or around the boat that must have puzzled them so sorely; and I could see them all, soldiers, sailors, women, children, watching out keenly for a glimpse of the black-men they had been told about, but seeing only the smoke spirals of a chain of fires along the skyline lit by natives as a signal to their fellows of the coming of the White Man. Above all I seemed to watch them as they burst onto Melville Water and gasped their amazement, only to gasp again as they swept through the narrows and Perth - although they did not know it - lay before them on the further shore a mile away. But once again I was roused from my dreams by that gentle voice. The boat came to a stop in the shallow water which lapped the shore where the mounted police had their stables at the foot of the present Supreme Court, and the women and children were carried on to dry land by the sailors and soldiers. Your Great grandmother was the first woman to be set ashore. She was carried by a sailor, while Thomas Farmer carried the two children, Thomas and William Farmer, who were the next to reach land. Imagine what it must have felt like to them to set foot on the solid earth again after all those six long terrible months cooped up on ship-board: And imagine the thoughts that must have come to them as they took that first quick wondering glance about them to see only the dense bush in the midst of which their homes were henceforth to be: But there was little time for wondering and speculation. A rough track, worn by Captain Stirling on his several landings there, led away up the hill, and following this for several hundred yards they came to a spot already marked for their reception. Here a clearing soon opened before the axes of the soldiers, and the tents sprang up before sundown. Do you know where those first tents were erected? They stood just within the corner formed by Barrack Street with St George's Terrace, and it is still from this point, where Perth was first established, that the country is governed, for the Premier's office stands there today. And do you know also that the rough track that led there from the water's edge was the beginning of Pier Street? For Governor Stirling soon had a small pier erected as a landing stage where they had first come ashore, though the pier has long since disappeared, and that part of Pier Street is now enclosed within the grounds of Government House. With tents as their homes these first soldier inhabitants and their wives had to be content until Governor Stirling had finally decided where the chief city of the Settlement was to be. Right to the last he wavered between Point Heathcote and the present site, but at last after two long months in these primitive and rough conditions he made his decision, the soldiers were paraded, the Union Jack unfurled, Governor Stirling read a Proclamation, Mrs Dance put her axe to a tree which was then chopped down, the soldiers fired a volley, and Perth was born. It was August 12, 1829. The tree stood within that passageway in Barrack Street just south of the Town Hall, between what was the old Guard Room and the Treasury Buildings, but there is nothing there in the shape of tablet or stone to tell you of that historic ceremony. From these first few tents, now that Perth has been definitely established, the town soon grew outwards in every direction. But you can see that in its very beginning Perth was simply a soldier's camp. They lived in those tents at the north-east corner of St George's Terrace and Barrack Street until the first huts and, later, more substantial barracks were erected further up the hill towards the Town Hall, a Guard Room being erected actually on the corner of Hay Street, until with the erection of the Town Hall, forty years later, the soldier's Guard Room was shifted further down the hill again, where it must have been when you were a boy. This Guard Room was erected on the Town Hall corner on account of what is now the intersection of Hay and Barrack Streets being the principal camping ground of the Blacks before the White Man came. From that spot high up the hill they found that they could signal in every direction, across the water to South Perth and Applecross, to Mounts Bay Road and Mount Eliza, to the heights of the West and North and East Perth and thence to the Darling Ranges and beyond. When the soldiers and their wives shifted to the barracks further up Barrack Street, the Serjeants' quarters were erected at the corner of St George's Terrace and Barrack Street. This building remained there until the General Post Office was built there in the eighteen seventies. St George's Terrace was next marked out and cleared and the soldiers' parade ground was formed facing the Terrace just to the east of the Serjeants' Quarters. It is still an open space covered with green grass but it is much higher than it used to be and many of the trees planted there by the Rev. Wittenoom have died off. He planted twelve there and they were called the twelve Apostles. East again of the Barrack Ground was the Officers' Quarters. They were in tents at first, then mud huts replaced them, but soon they built the old white-washed building that is still there. It had been used for all sorts of purposes ever since it ceased to be the Officers' Quarters. It was the General Post Office, the Police Headquarters when Colonel Phillips was Commissioner, and for a long time it was the bandroom of your father's band, the metropolitan Rifle Volunteers band. Next to the Officers' Quarters was the Jail. The deanery is there now. It was in front of this jail that the soldiers shot the native chief Midjigaroo during the early trouble with the Blacks in 1833. They also hanged some of the natives there, in some cases leaving their bodies hanging to the gibbet in chains as a terrible warning to the other Blacks. The street next to the jail got it's name in the same way as Barrack Street, because it was simply the continuation of the track which led straight down to the River where the first boat grounded and your Great grandmother was carried ashore. Governor Stirling soon erected a pier here, and a larger one was built later on. It was allowed to crumble away when the Barrack Street and William Street jetties were built. Pier Street was cut off at the Terrace when they built the present Government House. The first Government House was built near the present stable in the Government Domain. When I was a young woman they built the high stone wall alongside the river and cut off the Pier Street pier. The brick wall in the Terrace was not built until the Seventies, after the present Government House was built. Note. In reference to my Grandparents' marriage (Pages 3 and 4) Uncle Cyril appears to be in error. Records show that the marriage took place on the 8th of December 1878, whilst his parents and family left for Tasmania aboard the S.S. Otway in April 1879.Ann is believed to have been the first white woman ashore in Western Australia. Her then husband, Thomas Farmer, a private in the 63rd Regiment was on the HMS Sulphur, accompanying the first ship of settlers to the new Swan River settlement of Western Australia in 1829. After the death of Thomas Farmer Ann married again, this time to William WATSON, an innkeeper at Redcliffe. Ann and William WATSON had 5 children - James, Charles, Annie, Matthew & Henry. After her husband William died, Ann married again, this time to Thomas WALKER, a bricklayer. With Thomas she had another son, Isaac WALKER. | Evans, Ann Catherine (Anne Sophia) (I272216498340)
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| 44 | Cause of death: Disease of the stomach and liver. Died by suffocation. Arrived at Australia (Bunbury WA) on the Diadem on 10 April 1842. Was a widower with five children aged between seven and seventeen. (Sarah (PINSELL), Mary Anne (WARNER), Catherine, Alfred and Louisa (PADBURY). Widower Thomas Walker arrived in Australia with his 5 children (Sarah, Mary Ann, Catherine, Alfred & Louisa) on the Diadem on April 10 1842. The following year Thomas married Ann Watson (nee Evans then Farmer) | Walker, Thomas (I272216498341)
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| 45 | CHARLES HARDY was born 28th July 1863 at Oaks. He married Mary Ann Duffy in Ringarooma on 2nd August 1887. They had 6 children, Kathleen Agnes, Herbert Charles, Harold Robert, Madeline Mary, Clara and Charles Jnr. Charles Snr died on 13th December 1933 in Scottsdale. | Hardy, Charles (I272216492792)
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| 46 | Charles was baptized in Hobart in 1808 with his brother James. Although nothing more is heard of James until his suspected death in 1848 (see William Peck), Charles was recorded as being with the family in the 1818 - 1819 Cornwall muster. Charles petitioned the Governor for a land grant but was refused. Nothing more is known of him after this point. | Peck, Charles (I272216493323)
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| 47 | consumption | Shepherd, William (I272216493996)
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| 48 | Convict. Arrived on "Lloyds" 7 Nov 1845 | Adamson, Sarah Anne (I272216498369)
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| 49 | Coroner found that she died "...from exhaustion, occasioned by not partaking of food." | Tritton, Fanny (I272216492839)
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| 50 | Crematorium Rose Gardens, Garden of Rememberance, Site T, Postion 0274. | Source (S900294096)
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