tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88352614999967903782024-02-18T23:15:11.294-08:00Ellis and Fisher FamiliesA place where I can share my discoveries about my Ellis, Hogben, Howlett, and Maidment families and my husband Tom's Fisher, Miller, Sweetland, Helyar and McFarlane familiesRobyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.comBlogger41125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-20944226048543313922015-08-01T21:51:00.002-07:002015-08-02T01:03:04.184-07:00Ellis Brothers - Reuben Ellis (1874-1951) middle yearsBacktracking a little, and just a month prior to his father's third marriage, Reu and Kate Harriett Dorothy Bartlett, marry on 7 September 1904, at the home of her father at 66 Spring Street, Preston. Kate is the eldest daughter of Samuel Leaky Bartlett, a florist in Fitzroy and later in Preston, and Anna Dare Bartlett nee Cousins, and is one of 10 children. Witnesses were Charles A Ellis, his brother, and Kate's sister Rosa C Bartlett. <br />
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At the time of their marriage, Reu aged 30 is a gas fireman living in Albert Park, and Kate, aged 29, a florist residing in Preston, presumably at her family home.<br />
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I am not sure how they met, but Kate's sister Lily Grace Bartlett was also a friend of Reu's sister, Flo <i>(Auntie Flo's Birthday Book).</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Reuben and Kate Ellis 1904</td></tr>
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Their early married life in 1905 finds them at 15 Hambleton Street Albert Park, then at 21 Linton Street St Kilda in 1906 and 1908. <br />
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Reu is a caretaker in 1909 residing at 99 Manningtree Road Hawthorn, whilst Kate is undertaking home duties.<br />
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A year later and six years after their marriage, sadly Kate Harriet Ellis <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10449503" target="_blank">died</a> on 3 August 1910, as a result of lymphadenoma of some 3 months, at the residence of her parents, 46 Spring Street, North Preston. She was only aged 35 and she and Reu did not have any children. Both she and Reu were living at the same address so Kate was probably being cared for by her mother. Her death notice concludes <em>"A patient sufferer at rest."</em><br />
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Kate was buried on 5 August 1910 at <a href="https://plus.google.com/107615345240304868801/about?hl=en" target="_blank">Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery</a> in the Methodist section, Allotment A, plot 717. This is also the grave of her husband Reu Ellis, and his second wife Paula Ellis.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Headstone of Reu, Kate and Paula Ellis</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grave of Reu, Kate and Paula Ellis - Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery taken 1992</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grave of Reu, Kate and Paula Ellis - Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery taken 1992</td></tr>
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Some four months after Kate's untimely death, her younger sister Lily Grace Wong (nee Barlett) <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10488630" target="_blank">died </a>suddenly at home in Invermay near Launceston. She is buried in the grave to the right (shield) and her parents Anna Dare and Samuel Leakey Bartlett were later buried in the row directly behind.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Location of Ellis grave - Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery</td></tr>
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The Ellis brothers and presumably sisters, ran a butcher shop in Loch, Victoria, among other interests from 1913 to 1916. This was taken over by W R Thompson who ran it for many years with little change to the structure. The shop has since been demolished. I am not sure if the horse is next on the menu!<br />
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Now a widower, he is a gas employee, living at 37 Cardigan Place South Melbourne in 1912 and 1913. Later in 1914 Reu is living at 24 Charnwood Crescent St Kilda East.<br />
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On 22 March 1916 Reuben <a href="http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx?B=3541048" target="_blank">enlisted</a> at Maribyrnong, Victoria, he is aged 41 years 11 months, a widower, employed as a gasworker and residing at 66 Commercial Road, Prahran. On enlistment he is described as of fresh complexion, 5 foot 11 3/4 inches, 150 lbs, grey eyed and brown haired.<br />
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#25915 Driver Reuben Ellis e<a href="http://static.awm.gov.au/images/collection/items/ACCNUM_LARGE/RCDIG1067039/RCDIG1067039--459-.JPG" target="_blank">mbarked</a> 1 August 1916 on the <em>"Orsova"</em> with the 23rd Howitzer Brigade 4th Reinforcements, disembarking 14 September in Plymouth. To France 12 February 1917 aboard the <em>"Golden Eagle"</em> he was marched to Etaples where he was transferred to 110th Howitzer Battery, 4th Divisional Ammunition Column on 24 March.<br />
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Driver Ellis, accidentally fractured his left clavicle on 20 September 1917 <em>"In the Fld"</em> . It is reported on his casualty file <em>"Returning from the Batty position driving in a team when his horses slipped on the cobbled road and fell....He was not to blame."</em> Injured, Reu returned to England on <em>"Princess Elizabeth"</em> 26 September for treatment to 2nd Military Hospital, Old Park Hospital Canterbury. He was later transferred to the 3rd Auxilliary on 3 Oct 1917 prior to his departure back to Australia aboard the hospital transport <em>"Medic" </em>arriving in Melbourne 1 Oct 1918. Later that month, Reu was discharged medically unfit on 29 October 1918.<br />
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I have an address for Reu c/- Mrs E Taylor, 61 Harley Road, Harleston, London England from my grandfather Edgar Ellis' diary which may have been around 1918 prior to Reu's return home to Australia.<br />
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He is <a href="http://discoveringanzacs.naa.gov.au/browse/gallery/397" target="_blank">pictured</a> here with younger brother Edgar Ellis, my grandfather, c1916, but I think the date is incorrect as I am unable to align their dates together in service at that time. Edgar <a href="http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3540259" target="_blank">enlisted</a> 8 March 1917 at Melbourne, residing at Savernake 1917, so this photo must have been taken later elsewhere, perhaps in England.<br />
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I am not sure when Reu began his employment with The Metropolitan Gas Company but his <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/20949561@N04/4843468530/in/album-72157624475856395/" target="_blank">photograph</a> appears in their post war <a href="http://kapana.customer.netspace.net.au/MelbGasCo.html" target="_blank">publication</a> <i>"A Tribute to those employees of The Metropolitan Gas Company who served in the Great War 1914-1919"</i>.<br />
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On 24 September 1919, Reuben, a widower, marries Paula Dugmore Stanley, a widow, at 4 Havelock Road, Camberwell. The witnesses were Joseph and Hannah Price - I don't know who or what their relationship was to either party.</div>
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At the time of their marriage, Reu is a gas works employee, aged 45 years, residing at 245 Bridport Street Albert Park, and Paula's occupation is stated as that of domestic duties, she is aged 42 years, residing at 41 Barrett Street Albert Park. Reu states his first wife died in 1910 and he has no children. Paula states that she is a widow, whose husband died in 1913, has one living child and sadly two deceased children at that time. </div>
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Paula's parents are given as Thomas Timms, saw miller, and Jane Timms nee Dugmore, and she states her place of birth as Alexandra and aged 42 would place her date of birth around 1877. Interestingly here a number of facts become slightly distorted as she was born 22 September 1873 (some 5 years earlier) in Weldon Street, Godfreys Creek, Gobur, Shire of Alexandra, and registered as Sophia Timms, the daughter and eighth child of Thomas Timms, a miner from originally from the Isle of Bute, Scotland, and Jane Elizabeth Dugmore, of Melbourne. So no Paula or Dugmore in her name as stated at her marriage to Reu.<br />
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There is more to Paula Dugmore Stanley than meets the eye!<br />
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On 21 May 1910, in <i>The Argus (Melbourne)</i> I found the following <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10857898" target="_blank">notice</a> -<br />
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<i>TO HARRY ASHER STANLEY, Formerly of Trafalgar, Victoria, and of Masterton, New Zealand.-Take notice, that your wife, Paula Dugmore Stanley, has commenced proceedings in the Supreme Court of Victoria, 1010 No. 57, against you for divorce, on the' ground of desertion, and If you intend to appear and defend the same you are required to ENTER your APPEARANCE within 14 days from the publication hereof, otherwise the said proceedings may continue and the Court may proceed with the hearing of the petition of the said Paula Dugmore Stanley in your absence, and this advertisement is inserted by order of his Honour Mr. Justice Cussen, judge in chambers, at Melbourne.</i></div>
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Paula's predicament is <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article80080364" target="_blank">reported</a> in <i>The Daily News (Perth)</i> on 24 August 1910 -<br />
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<i>Before Mr. Justice Hodges to-day in the Divorce Court, Paula Dugmore Stanley, aged 36, residing at Leicester street, Fitzroy, sued for a divorce from her husband, Harry Asher Stanley, aged 49, a storekeeper, on the ground of desertion. The couple were married at Coolgardie on March 20, 1898, and had issue, two children. After residing in W.A. about two and a half years they came to Victoria, and lived at Trafalgar, in Gippsland. On March 17, 1904, respondent said he was going to the races at Bruthen. They parted on affectionate terms, but he did not return. He subsequently wrote from New Zealand saying that he did not want to have anything more to do with her, and that she could get a divorce. Petitioner said she had received about £60 from her husband towards the support of her children. A decree nisi was granted with costs.</i></div>
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The divorce was also <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article10455424" target="_blank">reported</a> in the <i>DIVORCE COURT</i> a day later on 25 August 1910 in <i>The Argus (Melbourne)</i> -</div>
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<i>Paula Dugmore Stanley, aged 36, of Nicholson street Fitzroy asked for a dissolution of her marriage with Harry Asher Stanley, 49, on the grounds of desertion. Mr Woolf (instructed Messrs R P Lewis and Son) appeared for the petitioner. The parties were married at Coolgardie on March 20, 1897 and there are two children. They lived together in different places in Australia the last place being Trafalgar in Gippsland. In 1904 the husband said he was going to the Bruthen races and would be back in about a week. The wife had never seen him since though he had sent her about £63 the last remittance being in April 1906. A decree nisi with costs was granted.</i></div>
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The circumstances leading up to Paula's first marriage is interesting in the least. <i> The West Australia </i>records Henry Ascher Stanley, storekeeper at Kalgoorlie, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3106658" target="_blank">appearing</a> before the Supreme Court In Bankruptcy on 2 February 1897 and he was declared <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3108896" target="_blank">bankrupt</a> on 12 March, just a week before his marriage to Paula in Coolgardie!<br />
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The <i>Index to Divorce Cause Records (VPRS 5335 / P0005 / Vol 3)</i> at the <a href="http://www.prov.vic.gov.au/" target="_blank">Public Record Office of Victoria</a> notes the Stanley divorce #57 in 1910.<br />
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Paula continues to reside in various suburbs of Melbourne and is living at <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article155177322" target="_blank">38 Erskine Street South Melbourne</a> when tragically her second child Jack Stanley, aged 17, died as a result of an <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article133817854" target="_blank">shooting accident</a> at his uncle Joseph Timms' Momba Station near Wilcannia in NSW, on 17 November 1917. <i> </i>Jack's name is inscribed on the same Ellis headstone at Coburg Pine Ridge Cemetery under his mother's details.<br />
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At the time of her marriage to Reu in 1919, Paula stated she was a widow, whose first husband died in 1913, but she was in actual fact divorced. Any evidence of Henry passing away in Australia, or for that matter, in Masterton in New Zealand to confirm his death in 1913 has eluded me so far.<br />
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Some seven months later The Metropolitan Gas Company's <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article45546977" target="_blank">gas holder explodes</a> at Port Melbourne.<br />
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Reu, valveman, was <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1696304" target="_blank">called to give evidence</a> to a Public Inquiry opened into an incident in which the Metropolitan Gas Company's large gas holder at Port Melbourne <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1688490" target="_blank">burst</a> on Sunday 4 April 1920 "...there was an escape of a large volume of gas and the ignition of that gas that caused a flame that ascended to a height of between 300ft and 400ft. A plank of timber had been found in the 'rises' of the holder, which may cause a jamb." Pictures of the accident show it was a significant incident. The accident was widely reported in the newspapers and a number of the employees and locals was burned in the explosion.<br />
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-75360331767189228932015-03-19T23:43:00.000-07:002015-03-21T21:09:49.042-07:00Ellis Brothers - Reuben Ellis (1874-1951) early days<br />
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Following a recent email from Rosemary Noble, researching the Dugmore and Timms family, I have returned to my earlier research on one of the Ellis brothers, namely Reuben Ellis. Reu was my grandfather Edgar Ernest Ellis's brother, and the son of <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/george-ellis-1821/charles-ellis-1851">Charles Ellis</a> and Sarah Elizabeth Howlett.<br />
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I will talk about Reu's early life first and some of his earlier family relationships.<br />
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Reuben (Reu) was the firstborn of seven children to Charles and Sarah, followed by Charles Alfred (Charl), Mary Ellen (Nell), Herbert Charles (Herb), Edgar Ernest (my grandfather), Florence May (Flo) and Lucy Inez.<br />
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His parents were <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article39301720" target="_blank">married</a> in 1872 at the home of William Joseph Maidment at Finnis Flat in South Australia. William J Maidment was the brother of Charles' mother Sophia Ransom Ellis (nee Maidment).</div>
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Charles was a miner at the time of his marriage, and I believe he previously worked at the nearby <i>Wheal Ellen</i>, a silver-lead-zinc mine at Scrubby Hill Road Woodchester some 7km east of Strathalbyn. The Wheal Ellen mine closed in 1861 so this may have influenced the decision of Charles and Sarah to move to Moonta Mines in early 1874, some 200 km away.</div>
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Moonta at that time was an extensive copper mining area which became known as "Australia's Little Cornwall" with the arrival of hundreds of Cornish miners, and Charles found work there as a woodcarter. The Howlett family were involved in the copper mines through Sarah's father <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/william-howlett-1819" target="_blank">William Howlett's</a> connections with Sir Walter Watson Hughes. William Howlett had worked as a crewman and later a shepherd for Hughes, and Sarah's older brother Henry worked as a shepherd for Hughes's brother as a lad of thirteen. Henry Howlett and his wife Mary (nee Watson), Hughes's niece, were residing at Moonta at that time. Also in Moonta was Sarah's brother Charles William Howlett and his wife Emily, and her sister Susannah and her husband Alfred Jesse Williams, were in the same area so there was family support there.</div>
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The Moonta Registers <i>(from Marilyn Philbey)</i> record their first child <b>Reuben</b> was born on 22 April 1874, at Moonta Mines to Charles Ellis, woodcarter, Moonta Mines, and Sarah nee Howlett. Also born that year at Moonta Mines was his uncle Henry Howlett's sons, Thomas Herbert.</div>
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According to my notes from Bill Howlett (now deceased) "Charles William Howlett and his wife Emily, resided at lot 1531 near Waterhouse Road, and his sister Sarah Elizabeth and her husband resided on lot 1528 on Newland Street, at East Moonta. Jim Harbison of the Moonta National Trust provided the map notated as "The map is the location of home of Charles Ellis and Sarah Ellis at Moonta". Perhaps this is where Reu was born.</div>
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Bill Howlett also noted that "The first seven settlers at Agery were ... Henry Howlett lot 317 and George Matters lot 318". George Matters is another Hogben family connection.</div>
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From Moonta in South Australia, Charles Ellis set out in early 1875 with his son Reuben, then only a small boy, to drive to Carisbrook in Victoria by horse and cart. It would have been a long journey, almost 730 kms in today's terms. Carisbrook is near Maldon and Castlemaine, a gold mining area. Sarah must have followed later.</div>
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Charles Ellis, a carter and residing in Carisbrook, lodges an application 13 March 1875 under the Land Act 1869 to lease "319 acres, 0 roods, 12 perches or more or less" in the Parish of Moe.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Application by Charles Ellis 13 March 1875</td></tr>
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Brother <b>Charles Alfred</b> was born in1876 at Grange Farme near Carisbrook. Charles' birth certificate states his father's occupation has changed - he is a farmer. The informant at his birth was uncle C W Howlett, his mother Sarah's eldest brother, who had been residing there for some time - two of his sons, Ernest Herbert and Alfred Edwin, were born, and son Alfred Herbert died, at Carisbrook in the years 1874 to 1877. Another family connection to Carisbrook is Sarah's uncle Frederick Howlett married there in 1858.</div>
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Seeking excellent rainfall, good soil and plentiful timber, the Ellis family's next move is to Gippsland near Trafalgar, some 300 kms from Carisbrook. Reu's sister <b>Mary Ellen</b> was born at Trafalgar in 1878. Together with Charles's brother-in-law, Charles William Howlett, the families later moved to Narracan where they were to take up adjoining selections, with Charles selecting almost 320 acres (Lot 97 312.0.12 and Lot 98 318.0.30 respectively). Charles Ellis cleared the land and farmed it for 30 years, but he never took up the title. This fact would probably impact later on the outcomes for the Ellis siblings as adults.<br />
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Also nearby at Narracan was William Hogben, Sarah's maternal uncle and his wife Elizabeth Burnbridge Hogben (nee Maidment) Charles' maternal aunt. So that families are very well supported by each other.</div>
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Narracan East was becoming quite a settlement with Charles Ellis conducting the butcher's shop, and Charles Howlett, his brother-in-law being in partnership with Samuel White in the store and blacksmith's shop <i>(Thorpdale, Narracan, Childers - Centenary 1876-1976, Thorpd</i><i>ale and District Centenary Committee, 1976, p9, p49; </i><i>So Tall the Trees: a centenary history of the southern district of the Shire of Narracan, John Adams, Shire of Narracan, 1978, p61</i><i>). </i> The two brothers-in-law were obviously in partnership as "... at this time <i>"Howlett and Ellis",</i> of Narracan, over 30 miles away, used to call once a fortnight on the settlers with a piece of good fresh meat, together with a quantity of salt junk. They also brought letters and papers and took letters back for posting. Of course everything was packed in on horseback and along very narrow Turton's and Lydiard's tracks respectively." <i>(Land of the Lyrebird - A story of Early Settlement in the Great Forest of South Gippsland, Gordon and Gotch (Australasia) Ltd, 1920, p141).</i></div>
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"On 26 June 1877 eight Narracan residents signed a letter to The Minister of Education
requesting a school be built, as the nearest one was 20 miles away. Thirty children ranging
from three to fourteen years old were included in the petition. The signatories were William
Riggs, C W Howlett, Peter Thomson, Charles Ellis, Peter Mills, J Gibson, S Nickell and C
Atkin." <i>(<a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~moehs/coachnews/2008V36No1Sep.pdf" target="_blank">Coach News</a>, Moe and District Historical Society Inc Newsletter, Volume 36, No 1, September 2008, The Forgotten School of Narracan - The early years at Moe South School 2213, Max Garner) </i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Map from Coach News Volume 36, No 1 September 2008 by Max Garner</td></tr>
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The Narracan East School #2295 (later #2012A) opened on 15 April 1878 in the Narracan Mechanics' Institute with a roll of 10 pupils. Mr <a href="http://home.vicnet.net.au/~moehs/coachnews/2011V38No3Mar.pdf" target="_blank">Elijah J Stranger</a> was the first teacher and also an early selector. The numbers soon increased to 20, some coming long distances along a bush track through the timber. The Ellis and Howlett children attended the school obviously making up a large proportion of the enrolment. I am presuming that Reu and his siblings would have attended school here given the application of which his father Charles Ellis was a signatory. The school closed in December 1892 <i>(Vision and Realisation. A Centenary History of State Education in Victoria, Ruth Hill, Volume 3, Education Department of Victoria, p1215). </i>The <a href="http://www.victorianplaces.com.au/narracan" target="_blank">Narracan East Mechanics' Institute</a> is now located at the Gippstown Heritage Park in Moe.<br />
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It was here at Narracan that Reu's siblings <b>Herbert Charles</b> was born in 1880, as was my grandfather <b>Edgar</b> in 1882, and sister <b>Florence</b> in 1885. </div>
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Sadly youngest sister <b>Lucy Inez</b> born in 1888 at Moe South only lived eight hours and she was buried by her father on his property<i> (Lonely Graves of Gippsland Goldfields and Greater Gippsland, J G Rogers and Nellie Helyar, 1994, p40).</i> Noted on the margin of her death certificate - "Delivery at home Mary Howlett". For many of the Ellis, Howlett and Hogben children their grandmother <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/mary-hogben-1821" target="_blank">Mary Howlett (nee Hogben)</a> acted as a midwife for their births.<br />
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I do know, however, that my grandfather Edgar, eight years younger than Reu, also attended Narracan State School #2295 in 1889 and 1892, having earlier attended Trafalgar South State School #25257 in 3rd grade in 1888.<br />
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Reu's maternal grandfather, William Howlett, aged 65 passes away suddenly from apoplexy in Woodchester in 1884, and his widowed grandmother Mary remains there for a short time supported by her daughter Susannah and her husband Alfred Williams. This was short lived as you can see by the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/mary-hogben-1821/courtcase-1885" target="_blank">Court Case</a> in 1885. Grandmother Mary Howlett as a consequence moves lock stock and barrel to Gippsland in December 1885 to live with her eldest son Charles William, who are on the adjoining property to Reu's parents. Susannah and Alfred also move nearby to Morwell not long after arriving in 1886. Sarah's youngest sister Mary Ann Temperance Howlett marries Robert James Wilson in Sale in 1888. Reu now has a large extended family of his maternal grandmother, maternal and paternal great uncles and aunts, uncles, aunts and cousins in Gippsland.<br />
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Charles Ellis appears to be doing rather well as by 1888 ".. his land is valued at 8 pounds an acre and is particularly adapted for grazing purposes, to which, with dairy farming, he devotes it. He has 30 head of cattle and 25 pigs" <i>(Victoria and its Metropolis past and present Vol II The Colony and its People in 1888, McCarron Bird and Co Melb, p372). </i> Reu is now around 14 so I am not sure if he is helping his father on the farm or in the butcher's shop.<br />
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In 1892 Charles is managing the creamery established opposite the Narracan Railway Station which was providing substantial quantities of cream to the Trafalgar Factory<i> (So Tall the Trees, p139).</i></div>
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Times are to soon to become difficult for the Ellis family if they had not already been so, as their mother Sarah suffered with an ovarian tumour for some 12 years. Sadly Sarah passes away on 12 November 1895, at the home of her sister, Mrs. A Williams at Morwell, from operation exhaustion, and she was buried at Hazelwood Cemetery <i>(<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article65801527" target="_blank">Death Notice</a>, Morwell Advertiser, 15 November 1895).</i> At that time, her six surviving children were Reu 21 years, Charl 19, Nell 17, Bert 15, Edgar 13, and Flo 10 years.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">OBITUARY .-We regret to have to an</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">nounce the death of Mrs Sarah Ellis. which</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> sad event took place at the Gippsland</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> Hospital on Tuesday last. The deceased</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> lady suffered from a tumor for the past</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> twelve years which caused her constant</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> suffering. On 14th June she became</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> worse, and was sent to Sale where she</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> lingered in the hospital for twelve weeks,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> and had to undergo no less than five opera</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">tions. During her life Mrs. Ellis was a </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">constant worker for the church and was a</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> genial favourite with all who knew her, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">especially with children. The funeral,</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> which was largely attended, took place on </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">Wednesday afternoon when the Rev. T.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;"> Stanley, Wesleyan minister of Warragul </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3349990844727px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; widows: 1;">officiated at the grave.</span><br />
<i>(<a href="http://OBITUARY .-We regret to have to an nounce the death of Mrs Sarah Ellis. which sad event took place at the Gippsland Hospital on Tuesday last. The deceased lady suffered from a tumor for the past twelve years which caused her constant suffering. On 14th June she became worse, and was sent to Sale where she lingered in the hospital for twelve weeks, and had to undergo no less than five opera tins. During her life Mrs. Ellis was a constant worker for the church and was a genial favourite with all who knew her, especially with children. The funeral, which was largely attended, took place on Wednesday afternoon when the Rev. T. Stanley, Wesleyan minister of Warragal officiated at the grave." target="_blank">Obituary</a>, Morwell Advertiser, 15 November 1895).</i><br />
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I presume that sister Nell has taken on a lot of responsibility in looking after the family and her younger siblings during her mother's extended illness and after her death. Around this time Eliza Davies helped care for the younger children when Sarah was ill and for a while after she died. Whether the older lads Reu, Charl and Bert are working on the farm or in the district is unclear.<br />
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In early March 1900 it is reported "NARRACAN - We will be losing two more of our old residents shortly. Mr C Ellis having sold his farm, will be leaving the district. <i>(<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67089935" target="_blank">Morwell Advertiser</a>, 2 March 1900)</i>. A <a href="http://v/" target="_blank">Farewell Social</a> was held at the Narracan East Mechanics' hall. He conducts a successful <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68603124" target="_blank">clearing sale</a> disposing of his cattle and pigs, and working plant.<br />
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Later that month, father Charles, farmer residing at Trafalgar remarries on 21 March 1900 at the Wesley Church, Lonsdale Street, Melbourne. His bride is Barbara Fanny Steel, aged 32, also of Trafalgar. Significantly one of the witnesses is Eliza Davies. Father Charles and their stepmother Barbara move to Germantown, now known as Grovedale, a suburb of Geelong. Regretfully, after 19 days following a difficult labour, <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article139158004" target="_blank">Barbara</a> passes away on 29 October 1900. Their unnamed stillborn son delivered on 10 October was buried with his mother Barbara at the Geelong Eastern Cemetery.<br />
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Charles places his Germantown property, a 5 acre orchard and vineyard, on the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150148653" target="_blank">market</a> soon after in early November citing family bereavement. He then held a <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150149173" target="_blank">clearing sale</a> in late November after the sale of the property.<br />
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Time passes and four years later, father Charles, a farmer at Korumburra marries again on 4 October 1904 to Eliza Lisle Davies at her home at Wesley Hill, near Castlemaine. Eliza was the witness at his previous marriage so she was no stranger to the Ellis children. Welcoming a sister, <b>Alma Essie </b>on 20 December 1905 at Kardella near Korumburra, their father returned to South Australia in 1906 with his wife and his youngest daughter, residing for a short time in Clarence Park, before relocating to Lockleys to undertake dairy farming. The youngest Ellis sibling, <b>Gwenda Ivy</b> was born on 16 January 1908 at Westbourne Park. <br />
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So now there were ten surviving Ellis children. All the children from Charles' first marriage remained in Gippsland, their ages ranging from Reu aged 30 down to Flo aged 23.<br />
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-59571456552677214042014-04-01T20:54:00.003-07:002014-04-01T20:54:28.501-07:00A story about William Howlett<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Around 1990 (nearly 24 years ago) I contacted the late Bill Howlett, a descendant of my great great parents, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/william-howlett-1819" target="_blank">William Howlett</a> (1819-1884) and <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/ellis-families/mary-hogben-1821" target="_blank">Mary Hogben</a> (1821-1919). Bill's family line is through their son Henry Howlett (1844-1915). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bill generously shared a lot of his Howlett and Hogben family research with me. The research he had originally undertaken were in the days on few computers, and I re-transcribed quite a bit of his original typed notes for him. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bill passed away in 1999.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Please note:</i> This material was compiled a considerable time ago and since then more material and records are available which may indicate some inaccuracies which could not be confirmed at the time. I know there are dates which are slightly incorrect but I think the "story" warrants sharing.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here is a part of Bill's story....</span></span></div>
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<i style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Original
typed documents given to Robyn Fisher by Bill Howlett, Flagstaff Hill SA, around 1990.
Re-transcribed 2003</i></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">VALIDATED
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FOURTH
GENERATION</span><span style="font-size: small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></h1>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">WILLIAM
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
birth of William, the second child of Charles and Temperance, took place at
Ampton Hall, Suffolk, England. He was
the son of a sailor and was baptised in a very old church, St. Mary the Virgin,
on 7th January 1819.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Conditions
in Suffolk were poor and living conditions extremely difficult. Charles Howlett, apparently seeking the best
for his family, is recorded as having foregone his life at home and joined his
distant cousins in France, accepting the occupation of sailor on the Hugo ship
La Recherche, operating from Brest, Brittany.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It
was no easy task for his mother Temperance to raise a family, as only one month
before William's birth, her first child Susan passed away, aged only two years. With her husband almost permanently at sea,
continuous assistance from her parents and cousins, the Palfrey family, who
were masters of Ampton Hall in 1819, was necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
attended the church school in the Ampton township with approximately 10 other
students, until the age of 12 years, during whi.ch time he welcomed seven
brothers and sisters into his family. Lloyds
of London records state that William, at the young age of 13 years was
permitted to join his father on a voyage from London to Calcutta in 1829.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">However,
at Calcutta, William "signed off" the La Recherche and
joined the crew of a Brig named the Hero. It can
only be assumed that the father and son relationship on board was unacceptable,
or perhaps a more lucrative offer was received from the Hero's captain.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Thus
he advanced as a sailor until in 1835, when the Hero, in port in Devon
England, was requisitioned by the English government for convict transportation
to Sydney Australia and the crew were dismissed to be replaced by a Mariner
group, who also acted as guards. These
naval marines, on arrival at Sydney, were to stay in the colony with the
convicts so the Hero's captain, W.W. Hughes, requested his sailors to
obtain passage to Australia by whatever available means, in order to join him
for the return voyage.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">As
free citizens, such passage was almost impossible, so William and at least 5
other sailors applied to the newly formed South Australia Company in London.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He
requested permission to emigrate and was accepted. On the 5th October, 1836, William Howlett,
aged seventeen years, arrived on the Emma at Glenelg, South Australia.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">His
emigration number was 442. (Please refer
to Before the Buffalo page 18.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Early
records show that he resided in Trinity Place, Adelaide, for nearly a year and
worked as a hotel employee of the South Australian Arms Hotel in Hindley
Street, whilst he awaited the arrival of his captain and fellow sailors from
the Brig Hero.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Records
show that, depressed and near penniless, he again rejoined his ship and
returned to sea late in 1857. Captain
Walter Watson Hughes, owner and master of the Brig Hero, left the China
Seas abruptly before the onset of the opium wars, and sailed to Port Adelaide,
where the ship was sold.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
known sailors on the Hero in 1838 were: - <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William Jolly -1st Officer<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Samual Jackson<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles Maidment<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Captain and his crew were to return to England and be discharged on the Brig's
arrival but all the crew decided to return to Australia by personal means.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Records
in the South Australian Archives indicate that William Howlett left England in
1839 on the sailing ship Anna Robertson and arrived in Adelaide on 20th
September, 1839. Whilst his fellow sailors
arrived thus:-<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Captain Walter W. Hughes Delhi arriving 20.12.1839<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles Maidment Charles Kerr 28.12.1839<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Samual Jackson Cygnet 1841<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">David Harvey Arab 1843<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
his arrival, William again resided at Trinity Place Adelaide, with Edward
Hogben and his newly emigrated family, which included his daughter Mary. He also returned to work at the South
Australian Arms Hotel in Hindley Street.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Edward
Hogben purchased land in Sturt Street and became a brewer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Romance
flourished between himself and Mary Hogben.
On December 17th, 1840, the betrothed couple purchased the Tiers House
Tea Rooms near Mount Lofty. A purchase
invoice of furnishings bought is included at the end of this chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
the 14th April, 1841, William Howlett and Mary Hogben, on licence number 452,
were married at the Holy Trinity Church, Adelaide, by Colonel Chaplain B.
Howard - William Roberts and Ann Colls were witnesses.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">After
their marriage, William and Mary, who were pioneers of Adelaide, commenced
their life with a spirit of survival and the will to battle with the extreme
odds of nature in the Tiers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">During
the day, Mary tended her house duties and managed their tea rooms, whilst
William joined his forester friends and hewed trees for timber to sell in
Adelaide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Using
his home as a store area, he advanced to also purchase cattle, horses, sheep and
farm produce, which once a week he would haul to Adelaide on a German style
waggon to sell to city merchants. In
return he would purchase all types of imported foodstuffs, articles of
clothing, axes and implements for farming and forestry trades. These goods were for sale at reasonable
prices or exchanged on a barter system.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
order to glean a scale of the price economy of that era, a price reference of
one of his purchases has been included in this book. It must be assumed that this purchase from
David Browne and company would be compatible with the sales and barters
conducted by William and his fellow Tiersmen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
locale of the Tea Rooms is listed as cottage 133 Tiers, Mount Lofty, and was
burnt down in latter years; its ruined walls remained until the foundations
were made use of to erect several cottages.
These adjoin the grounds where the Grand Church of the Epiphany stands
today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
the 11th December 1841, the young couple sold the tea rooms and purchased at
auction sale for Three Thousand Pounds, the Norfolk Arms Hotel, from
David Crafer.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Included
in this chapter is an advertisement inserted by David Crafer in the South
Australian Register on 2nd December and the 11th December, 1841.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary renamed their Hotel the Forrester's Arms Hotel. Records in the general registry office of the
South Australian Lands Department validate that the young couple were land
owners of 80 acres at the Tiers, or Crafers, as it is known today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When
Mr. David Crafer sold Howlett this hotel, it encompassed a great deal of
goodwill, coupled with a name that would remain to posterity, perpetuating
itself in the name of a township, "Crafers". The Crafer's Hotel, a solid,
homely structure in timber and brick, bears no resemblance to the thatched
shanty known then as the Forrester's Arms.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
"Tiers" was at this time the hideout of all manner of unsavoury
characters. They had, if the journals of
the day may be relied upon, a reputation as unhallowed as the "evil one
himself". Escaped convicts from
Tasmania, with nothing to lose after bestial treatment by guards who regarded
them as "scum", were not likely to treat with geniality any intrusion
on the haunts of their newly found freedom.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Runaway
sailors, desiring anonymity from the long arm of their ships' masters, who
showed no mercy to deserters, also found sanctuary there and could hardly be
expected to be "friendly" to the law-abiding citizens of the time. However, there was much hilarity and
enjoyment at the opening dinner of the new Inn, an advertisement for which
appeared in the press of the day, stating :- <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">"Opening Dinner - Forresters Arms,<br />
Stringy Bark Forest,<br />
Mt. Barker Road,<br />
Two Guineas a Head”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is presumed that any diners
who attended this opening function came from Adelaide and were not local
clients of the area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is
quoted in the book "Pump on the Roadway" by Tom Dyster, that
the Howletts were quite capable of putting saucy "Tiersmen" in their
place, serving in the bar, looking after the cuisine, and supervising the
stores. The locals respected them as
hard working pioneers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Visitors
from the city could testify to the friendliness and efficiency of the service
at the Inn, to say nothing of the spotless condition in which it was kept,
albeit the floor was of mud and the roof thatched with straw.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There
must have been many unpleasant incidents in a period such as this at the
"Tiers" but the Howletts continued to prosper as good servants of the
public and within one year had replaced their shanty with an inn constructed of
timber and stone.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
June 18th, 1842, Mary Howlett gave birth to their son, Charles William.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Glen
Osmond was a deep ravine opening out and terminating somewhat abruptly about
five miles into the Adelaide Hills. Up
this ravine trudged horses, carts and bullock wagons, gradually wearing a
clearly defined track which wound through gullies and along sharp ridges,
becoming the origin of the major highway through the foot hills today.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A map
of the original route in 1841 can be seen in this chapter.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
June 11th, 1841, a Bill to enable the construction of a solid road from Glen
Osmond to Crafers, was passed by the Legislative Council. The metal for this road had to be carried,
ground and levelled and the surface rolled -no wonder those labouring gangs got
thirsty -and small wonder Howlett's Inn flourished.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
South Australian Almanac of 1844 lists the population of the Tiers as 225, of
which 103 were children. It was because
of the Tiersmen and their needs that William and Mary’s Forrester' s Arms Hotel
came into being. Men, bow-legged from
too many hours in -tile saddle, graced the bar. They were young men with old faces. Sailors seeking refuge, told yarns of the sea
and recounted rumours about young ladies from the best families down in
Adelaide. So the noise went on -and the
drinkers resolved to enjoy themselves. It
can only be assumed that the ale was purchased from Hogben's brewery in Sturt
Street, Adelaide.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">There
is little doubt that this auspicious inn had more interests than just being a
house of hospitality and a Tiersmen's trading post, for, according to the
Forrester's Arms ledgers and lodgers' books, as well as documents of the South
Australian Archives, marriages, births and funerals were conducted there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Happy Valley Council 'Contact' of April 1986 reports the wedding ceremony of a
Jacob Mackereth and his wife Sara on October 15th, 1842. During their stay, the newly-weds rented room
number 3 for one guinea per week. Their
total account on completion of their stay was £3.15.10 which included six
evening meals and two shillings for drinks.
A few months later, according to the record book, Jacob and Sara opened
a trading account. They sold pears,
mulberries and vegetables at barter, exchanging them for an axe, shovel and
linen goods. Later that year, Sara gave
birth to their first child. Sara needed
medical care at the time and spent two days in room 2. Mary Howlett acted as midwife.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maps
indicating the location of local residents' homes were kept at the Inn and
acceptable traveller's enquiries could be answered. However, most tracks were narrow and
treacherous in wet weather.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It
was about this time that William and Mary met David Harvey and his bride Maria
(nee Sturgeon)<u> </u>David arrived in South Australia on the sailing ship Arab
from Hounslow London England.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Also,
a fellow sailor from the ship Hero, Edward Charles Maidment, married
Sara Ann Hogben on 22nd November, 1843 at the "Tiers". Mrs Sara Ann Maidment was the sister of Mary
Howlett.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
friendship between the families of Howlett -Harvey -Maidment was very strong
and was to remain so for the rest of their lives.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
1844, Captain Walter Watson Hughes discovered the green rolling downs of the
Angus River. The expatriate Scotsman
purchased the property of Temple Bar near Macclesfield and settled there. It was here that his ex- sailors found mutual
respect between their master and themselves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
Howlett's Forrester's Arms Inn continued to trade prosperously until
March 1844 when this entrepreneurial hotelier, upon being informed by his wife
Mary that their second child was soon to arrive, cast his eyes to the green plains
of Macclesfield. This investment, they
considered, was too lucrative to miss.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
15th March 1844 Mary Howlett gave birth to their second son, Henry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary sold their hotel to Richard Hawkins.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The Forrester's
Arms Hotel as it was long known, became the birth-place of the Crafer's
Hotel of today. Its exact location
in 1844 was half a mile nearer Adelaide, on the southern side of the new
Freeway of today (1986), on the spot where a television tower is now erected.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Records
in the general registry office of the South Australian Lands Department,
indicate that William Howlett and David Harvey, gardeners, leased half of
section lot 1448 near Wistow, at six shillings a year, on the condition that
they continue as gardeners for Captain W.W. Hughes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">They
were entitled to keep half of the fruit cuttings, suckers and layers they
produced but were expected to fence, plough and clear the new land they used. Farming this virgin land was difficult,
particularly one section which was covered with Stringy Bark trees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
list below, which is based on information published in Allen's Almanac of 1845,
indicates how some of our pioneers of Macclesfield were using their leases:- <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Howlett
and Harvey<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">4
acres of wheat and 19 cattle<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Hogben<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">4
acres of wheat, ½ acre of garden, 9 cattle and 1 goat<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><span lang="EN-US">Maidment<br />
</span></b><span lang="EN-US">9
acres of wheat, ½ acre of potatoes, 14 cattle and 2 pigs<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
first clear indication of who was farming these lands can be obtained from what
is referred to as the Declaration of Acreage in the South Australian Register
of February 1846. This quotes <b>:- <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Howlett and Harvey on 100 acres<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Maidment on 140 acres<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Jackson on 80 acres (also a publican) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is
interesting to note that with the selling of Howlett's Forrester's Arms
Hotel at Crafers in 1844, a fellow seaman from the Brig Hero built
an Inn at Macclesfield, naming it the Goat's Head Inn. Can it also be assumed that the Goat's
Head Inn purchased its ale from Hogben's Brewery in Sturt Street Adelaide?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
1846, Captain Walter Watson Hughes leased the Lake Albert and Peninsula estate,
a property which later increased to 33,000 acres. This property covered an area from
Strathalbyn to a lake area of the lower River Murray, nearly to Meningie. This area was rough, virgin land so that year
he approached William Howlett, David Harvey and Edward Maidment and requested
that they re-locate in Woodchester.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">During
this year a, council was formed, comprising four councillors, and was named
"Onaunga". "Onaunga"
is an Aboriginal word meaning Big Water Hole, which signified Lake Albert.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
Howlett purchased the local animal pound for £100.0.0 from William Moulden,
which gave the family a better sense of security. This was located on lot 1791. David Harvey purchased land at Hartley (lot
1314), some miles towards the east.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles
Maidment purchased lot 1788 near Woodchester.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary Howlett, with their brother-in-law Charles Maidment's agreement, built
their new home on the eastern edge of lot 1788 near Woodchester.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
house was built using materials obtained from local sources. These consisted of Gum slabs, straw thatching
and a mortar of Paris Creek lime set between Grey Whacker solid walls. The floor was laid with slate paving which
had to be cut from a nearby quarry.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary's new home was of two rooms, each approximately 12 feet x 12 feet, one
being used as a bedroom and the other a kitchen. The present ruins indicate that an outhouse
dwelling of approximately 10,feet x 10 feet may have been used as a bathroom,
laundry and store area.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And
so, among the trees of the virgin scrub, these first' farms were designated,
the first crude homes erected and the first cellars dug.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nearby,
mining had commenced and mines such as Wheal Ellen and others badly
needed timber for their hungry boilers hence rapid scrub clearance and 'tilling
of the soil enabled the area to develop rapidly.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By
1848 large leases of virgin land had been selected by settlers at Woodchester. The Chapel and its reserve served as a
physical and cultural centre for an increasing influx of pioneers.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
Howlett immediately recognised the pastoral potential of the area but, lacking
assistance, he decided to return to Ampton, England and enlist the support of
his brother James; leaving his family ,in the safe care of his trusted friends,
Harvey and Maidment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and James returned home to Woodchester in 1852, when James was 23 years old.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the year 1857 William and Mary's second son Henry, then aged 13 years, left his
parents' home and secured an occupation as a live-in, shepherd with Captain
Walter Watson Hughes and his wife Sophia, on their new leases at Moonta, on a
wage of nine shillings and six pence per week.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
the 6th June, 1864, James Howlett married Ann Stodden Burnard, at Woodchester, changing
his residence to Langhorne Creek where he became employed as a store salesman.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
1867, Edwin Charles Maidment built a hotel at Woodchester and named it the Everley
Arms Inn.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In
the same year, 1867, David Harvey named his homestead and farm “Ampton”
- the name of the birth town of
William Howlett. Today, 1986, the Harvey
family wool bales, still are registered and branded <b>“</b>Ampton”<b>.<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
18th August, 1869, Sara Ann Maidment passed away at Woodchester. Sara was the sister of Mary Howlett.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">On
the 29th March, 1869, Charles Harvey, son of David Harvey, married Ann Maria
Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ann
Maria had a brother, Alfred, who later married Sussannah, daughter of William
and Mary Howlett.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 12.0pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan;">
<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ellen
Howlett married William Pearson in 1871 at Woodchester and they became farmers
at Brinkley, neighbours to David Harvey.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary were to have nine children: - <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Charles
William 1842<br />
Henry 1844<br />
Sara 1845<br />
John 1846<br />
Ellen 1848<br />
Alfred 1849<br />
Sussannah 1851<br />
William 1853<br />
Frederick 1856<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
Howlett was appointed a special constable in 1873, with his head office at
Mount Barker., William and Mary continued to live in this manner until
William's death' on the 20th January, 1884, aged 64 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He
was buried in the Woodchester Cemetery, Row 1, Grave 2, with his sister-in-law,
Sara Ann Maidment.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mary,
his widow, later shifted to Morwell, Victoria and resided with her married
daughter, Sussannah Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Mary
Howlett passed away on the 29th August, 1919, aged 98 years.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">William
and Mary Howlett crossed the Plains and though they lived beyond the age
allotted to man, never forgot the ungratified thirst, the intense heat and
bitter cold, the craving hunger and utter physical exhaustion of the trail and
the rude crosses - which marked the last resting places of loved companions. But there was another side - never would they
forget the level plains covered with lush grass due to their labours.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The
glorious sunrise in the morning-s and the camp fire at night, the last prayer
at bed -time and the pure sweet air of the land they toiled for.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">True,
they suffered, but the satisfaction of deeds accomplished and difficulties
overcome more than compensated and made their being a fact never to be
forgot-ten, and a life-long pleasure for their descendants in remembrance.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-18494347814154145192014-03-23T17:02:00.000-07:002014-03-23T17:02:00.847-07:00GAOL BREAK!!!<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="EN-US"><o:p>Found this little snippet about the first Computers and Genealogy Conference in October 1997 whilst looking at material for a piece on <a href="http://www.vicgum.asn.au/" target="_blank">VicGUM</a>'s upcoming 30th Anniversary in July. You can also check out the <a href="https://plus.google.com/photos/117440179191184382420/albums/5724099874354219041" target="_blank">pictures</a> Tom took with his SLR, pre-digital camera days.</o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>GAOL BREAK!!!</i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>One hundred and twenty eight tired
prisoners were released on good behaviour bonds following their incarceration
at VicGUM's first Computers and Genealogy Conference held at Old Castlemaine
Gaol in October. <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>To ensure that there was not a gaol
breakout the prisoners were well fed, if not over fed, and in most cells
ladders were not provided to assist in getting over the walls, let alone into
the top bunk!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thought of a soft mattress
however did not deter the less agile from bedding down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>A tour of the Gaol introduced most of the
prisoners to what they could expect for a long stretch and to their plot six
foot under if they overstayed their welcome.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>A busy schedule during the daylight hours
kept the prisoners from entertaining escape plans, though many were seen
lurking in the hallways during the breaks - no doubt planning their name in
print under various disguises or discussing how to finance their next project.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Hitches were thankfully few and far between
and hopefully disguised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Starting the
day without a microphone to keep the prisoners in line was quickly rectified
and improvements to further incarcerations have been noted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Prison Warder was able to keep even the
most unruly prisoners in line for the duration of the conference.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The on-line Internet searching promised to
be very popular, particularly with the available telephone line being barred to
outside calls and Telstra offering a 5 day callout wait, despite being offered
bribes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The longest cable to be found
in Castlemaine proved that you too can be connected no matter what the
distance!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Setting up the Internet
connection was not without a few hiccups and our free connection for the
weekend was with the compliments of Castlemaine Internet who can be found at
/http://www.castlemaine.net.au/.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The prospect of being captured on digital
camera however did not deter the attendance of any prospective bank robbers and
most prisoners were seen to be plotting how to scan and even print money to pay
for their planned excesses in family history.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Mini workshops proved to be very hectic,
both in choosing the workshop to attend and finding the location.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Choosing your workshop within the confines of
the hallway proved to be, even for those agile of mind, an intriguing contest.
The tight time frame meant that the Prison Warder was again very active in
ensuring the constant movement between workshops by the inmates.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When several refused to move on he was noted
to be most unfriendly threatening further incarceration for bad behaviour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Such was his influence with the threat of
further incarceration, he even managed to obtain the services of several
inmates (at short notice) to assist in demonstrating the virtues of their favoured
family history program - no broken arms or legs were to be seen!!!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Night time reading was well catered for
with the Genealogical Society of Victoria and Gould Books of SA providing the
opportunity for good bedside reading material for those on long term sentences.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Lack of contact with the outside world was
certainly impressed upon with the production of a newsletter, if only to make
arrangements for the inmates planning their escape to contact relatives outside
the Gaol walls!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>The weekend interment was extremely
successful with many prisoners willing to be incarcerated again!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>I would like to personally thank:<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Speakers (in order of appearance):<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Ken McInnes<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Introduction to Computers and Genealogy
(VicGUM)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Irene Fullarton<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>How to Research our Family History on the
Internet (VicGUM)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Clive Nixon<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Captured....(Michael's Camera and
Video)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Allan Phillips<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Getting it into Print...(Gould Books)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Tim Dolby<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>BDM's on CD Rom - Now and the Future
(Informit, RMIT Publishing)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Kathy Baulch<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>So You Want to Write a Family Newsletter
(VicGUM)<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>and for the unscheduled, but extremely
relevant talk, on how to look after our bodies whilst indulging in Computers
and Genealogy by Peter Richardson, Physiotherapist, Acupuncturist and Masseur
(Castlemaine Holistic Therapies).<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Workshops speakers - Meg Bate, John Nathan,
Irene Fullarton, Ken McInnes, and Carl Miller, who together with unsolicited
but most welcomed, fellow inmates - Bruce Tweedley, Tom Luke, and Peter
Beckett, who obviously had hoped for early release and had planned for their
early escape by arriving with laptops, all happily elicited their experiences
and expertise to encourage the inmates to get it down in print and shorten
their sentences.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Conference Papers which were prepared
by:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Irene Fullarton, Kathy Baulch, Alexander
Romanov-Hughes, and Ken McInnes, and printed by Bookaburra Press.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Conference Sub-Committee of: Heather
Hardwick and Bruce Fullarton for their support - both of whom were unable to
attend due to family commitments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Bruce's and wife Anne's excuse for not wishing to be incarcerated was
the imminent birth of their daughter, Tessa, who arrived on the Wednesday
following the Conference!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not sure what
the Gaol authorities would have made of a birth in custody.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>My thanks, must also go to the rest of the
VicGUM committee who conceived the idea of a VicGUM Computers and Genealogy
Conference and who over the last two years have included:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill Gunther, Ken McInnes, Graeme Simpson,
Bruce Fullarton, Penny Mercer, Merv Leeding, John Nathan, Colin Lewis, and
Irene Fullarton, without whom VicGUM's first Computer and Genealogy Conference
would not have been as enriching to all who were incarcerated!<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Andrew and Kaye Duncan of the Old
Castlemaine Gaol must also be congratulated on the ideal venue for our first Conference,
who together with their friendly staff made the enforced stay most enjoyable,
and it was a pleasure to be in their company.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Finally, I must also thank my husband, Tom,
for his support over the past 18 months whilst I have been otherwise occupied
with VicGUM, and have left the our two young daughters in his capable hands on
a regular basis! <o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>Robyn Fisher<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US"><i>President VicGUM Inc</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The untimely death of <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/fisher/john-fisher1819/john-raven-fisher-1863" target="_blank">John Raven Fisher</a> on the evening of Monday 1 November 1909 amidst construction of Pyke's Creek Reservoir was reported in The Bacchus Marsh Express as follows -</div>
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The following appeared in Wednesday's Ballarat Star:-"Quite a gloom was cast over Ballan on Tuesday morning when it was learned that Mr. J. R. Fisher, the contractor for the Pyke's creek water works, had died suddenly in Melbourne on Monday nlght, he having left Ballan in apparent good health and spirits by the last train that evening. The following paragraph, which appeared in Tuesday's Age, caused much regret: - "The body of a man, which is supposed to be that of Mr. J. R. Fisher, was found on Monday night on the pavement, at the corner of King and Francis streets. Constable Thompson passed the spot at 10.55 p.m., and on returning twenty minutes later he saw the body on the footpath. He rang up the ambulance, and the body was removed to the Melbourne hospital, where it was found that life was extinct. Deceased, a man of about 15 stone, was well dressed, and was wearing a heavy gold watch and chain, and a sovereign purse. The sum of 10/6 in money was found on him, and also a half yearly first class railway ticket from Ballan to Middle Park. Beyond the ticket there was nothing in his pockets to establish his identity. Deceased had a cut over the eye, which was probably caused when he fell on the pavement. It is believed that death was due to natural causes. "At an early hour this morning deceased was identified by Constable Cobbledick as J. R. Fisher, a;contractor, residing at Middle Park." </div>
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No further particulars have been published, except that a medical certificate was given of death from natural causes, and no inquiry was held. Mr. Fisher was carrying out the contract for Pyke's creek reservoir. That work, and all similar work, should not be carried out by contract but by Government engineers, employing the best skill, and using the best methods. </div>
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The late Mr. Fisher looked to be 56 instead of 46. He was W.M. of the Freemasons Lodge at Middle. Park, and was well spoken of by all who knew him. He was present at the installation of W.M. J. G. Wells at the Duke of Abercorn Lodge, Bacchus Marsh; and also at the installation of W.M. R. Shankland, at Ballan. The latter ceremony being probably the last Masonic meeting he attended.</div>
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-74950221115265729792014-03-02T19:08:00.000-08:002014-03-02T19:41:38.903-08:00Pykes Creek Reservoir and the Fisher family<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/fisher/john-fisher1819/john-raven-fisher-1863" target="_blank">John Raven Fisher</a> and later his son <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/fisher/john-fisher1819/john-raven-fisher-1863/thomas-fisher-1887" target="_blank">Thomas Fisher</a>, following his father's untimely death, constructed Pykes Creek Reservoir (1908-1913) at Ballan, Victoria. <br />
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A postcard album put together by Tom's fiancé Ivy Sweetland is an interesting documentation of the construction works during this time. A Fisher family collection of <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/fisher/newspaper-cuttings" target="_blank">newspaper cuttings</a>, pasted onto A3 sized paper sheets, in no particular order, and regrettably not always dated nor the publication indicated, has been another source of information about the Pykes Creek Reservoir construction.<br />
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In late 2007 I came across this information relating to Pykes Reservoir detailing the construction but sadly the web pages have disappeared.... <br />
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Moorabool Communities online - Myrniong.com http://www.myrniong.com/cb_pages/pykes.php<br />
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As luck would have it, I copied the text (below) for future research and feel whilst it is not my work, it would be sad to think the information has disappeared into the ether. The web article also helped me find the events mentioned in the Fisher newspaper cuttings collection, to date some of them and enable me find the actual article in the publication. <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper" target="_blank">Trove Digitised Newspapers</a> has expanded the newspapers available significantly and I hope to find more about specific cuttings.</div>
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I hope that others can benefit from the research in the web article as I have. Unfortunately from my research notes, I do not know who compiled the original information.<br />
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<b>PYKES RESERVOIR</b></div>
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<b>CREEKS AND RESIDENTS</b></div>
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Pykes Creek ran into Pykes Flat from the northwest. This creek was known also as Doctors Creek and on some maps is called Kojamnunip Creek. Dales Creek came into the area almost from the north and the Korobeit Creek came in from the east. This is also called Stoneyhut Creek on early maps and local residents know it as German Creek. Myers Creek came from the southwest and was just a spring fed stream until the water was diverted via the tunnel from the Werribee River.</div>
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Pykes Creek and its tributaries continued through the flats and joined the Werribee River, about 2 miles southeast of the reservoir.</div>
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Pykes Flat was home to a number of people. The Thompson’s, Fowlers and Shanahan's owned land on the northern edges of the area taken up by the reservoir. Hacketts owned Land at the top end of the weir and when the weir was built, had only 50 acres left and sold it to T.W. Fagg. It is believed that Hornes lived on the eastern banks of the flat and Myers' house and outbuildings were situated, south of the bridge, over Pykes Creek. The house and outbuildings were shifted halfway up the hill, on the Ballan side, beside the new road, in 1910.</div>
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In a family letter dated 7/3/1909, Mr. James Myers says, "I am still in my old home because the Government will not settle with me and other things are still in an unsettled state". Just over 85 acres of Mr. Myers land was taken for the reservoir.</div>
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Mr. Elwood Mead, for the Victorian Government, approved the scheme for the construction of Pykes Creek Reservoir in 1908 and the contract was let to well known Melbourne Contractor, Mr. John Fisher for £42,000 (Weekly Times 7/1/1911). Some reports gave the cost as £76,840, including land purchase and construction costs.</div>
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Mr. James Swan was the engineer for the contractor, Mr. J. R. Fisher Mr. E. Corliss was the resident engineer for the State Rivers Commission, Mr. E. Manchester was visiting and designing engineer for the Commission and Mr. J. Dethbridge was second in command to Mr. Elwood Mead, Chef Engineer.</div>
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The Bacchus Marsh Express of 6/11/1909 reported that the contractor Mr. J. R. Fisher was found dead on a Monday night on the pavement at the corner of King and Francis Streets, Melbourne. He was a man weighing approximately 15 stone, well dressed and wearing a heavy gold chain and watch and a sovereign purse. The sum of 10s.6d. in money was found on him and also a half yearly 1st class rail ticket from Ballan to Middle Park. Mr. Fisher was 46 years old at the time of his death; he was W.M. of the Freemasons Lodge of Middle Park and was well spoken of by all who knew him. His son carried on the contract for building Pykes Creek Reservoir.</div>
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The water surface was to be about 2 miles long by a quarter mile in average width, the depth was to be 100 feet to 12 feet but most of it 80 feet deep.</div>
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The storage capacity of this inland lake was said to be 14,000 acre feet or 609,840,000 cubic feet, which would contain 3,811,500,000 gallons. (Weekly Times 7/1/1911)</div>
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The catchment area of Pykes was to be 100 square miles, 50 square miles of that by the tunnel from the Werribee River (Bacchus Marsh Historical Society 22/3/1993). The land area taken up by the water was to be approximately 500 acres.</div>
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Bacchus Marsh Express March 1907 - reported that survey work at Pykes Creek is going on, but, oh, so feebly!</div>
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The reservoir construction involved building an outlet tunnel so water could be released from the reservoir, a concrete tower over the outlet shaft with two water-gates in the bottom regulated by a hand ratchet, an embankment which would carry a substituted road over the crest, a by-wash to carry the discharged flood water into the creek clear of the embankment and a suitable bridge (Bacchus Marsh Express 13/7/1907).</div>
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About 200 men were employed, with a large number of drays, horses, scoops and other equipment. (Bacchus Historical Society notes 22/3/1993).</div>
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Bacchus Marsh Express 8/1/1910 article, describes the works as presenting a busy scene, covering more than a mile in diameter, in several directions, although at the time of our visit, the full strength of gangs were not at work. Earth scoops, drays, horses and men were working at full speed. Mining trucks of the familiar, let down full and pull up empty "rakes", were running at various points. There were trap doors for holding up a truckload, until a dray could run underneath in gallery ways, to receive it. Gangs of men were carting puddled clay to both sides of the concrete core wall, which may be regarded as the axis of the whole structure, although some engineers think it is only of a 'please the patient’ character as the real strength lies in consolidating the earth mass of the dam in rigged layers of cleavages, for reason of which a good deal of stone will alternate with selected earth materials, so that the pyramid will not slide - avalanche fashion - when the reservoir water is held back by the earthen stone faced wall.</div>
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<b>CONSTRUCTION OF THE EMBANKMENT</b></div>
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The embankment was 1,350 feet long, of which 300 feet was by-wash. It was eight chains wide at the bottom and tapered to 26 feet, upon which a road of 18 feet in the clear, ran. In the bed of Pykes Creek, a concrete wall, some 30 feet high and 3 and a half feet thick was built. This formed the centrepiece of the whole embankment and was set 12 feet into solid rock below the creek bed. On either side of this wall, "pug" clay was being rammed. It was brought in railway trucks from Mr. Myers' paddock, some two miles. It was well watered from overhead iron tanks filled by an engine and force pump and then tramped or "poached" with horses' feet. On the outer sides of this clay material was selected earth for filling and the final outer facings had to be composed of stone. (Bacchus Marsh Express 13/11/1909).</div>
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The pug clay came from a site on top of "Clover Hill", on the property now owned by F. W. Fagg (formerly owned by James Myers) and the track of the railway can still be followed around the hill. The route of the railway track encircles the hill, that is, from the pug pit, the track heads west and gradually circles around until it arrives at the reservoir heading in an easterly direction. The route was made alternately of parts of slight incline and almost flat sections, so the trucks did not bolt to the bottom. It was a piece of ingenious engineering to bring pug clay down a steep hill by the "let down full and pull up empty" system using an endless rope or wire.</div>
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The back portion of the embankment of a 2 to 1 slope was soiled and grassed. The water face was of a 3 to 1 slope, until near the top, then a 2 to 1 slope. Broken ballast, 9 inches thick was put on the 3 to 1 slope, and then rubble pitchers were put on the 2 to 1 slope. The pitchers weighed 140 pounds each and they extended 20 feet below the water level (Bacchus Marsh Express 13/11/1909).</div>
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The concrete tower erected over the shaft which taps the water was to be regulated by raising or lowering two water-gates by means of a hand ratchet. There were two water-gates one 4 and a half feet high by 2 feet wide and the other 2 feet x 2 feet, worked by screws from the tower. The intention appeared to be, to use the little gate usually and the other unusually. These screws were made by Mr. E. Campbell, 106 Victoria Street Carlton. The tower is 80 feet high and has six sides. The sides at the top being 6 and a half feet wide, widening 1 and a half inches every 6 feet to the bottom. There were six grated openings in the tower for light purposes, 3 feet x 2 feet. An iron ladder ran down one side of the tower inside, with rungs 10 inches apart. The water was to rise in the tower to very near the top, when the reservoir was full.</div>
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The monumental artificer for the contractor was Mr. W. Humphreys. In 8/1/1910 Christopher Crisp the Bacchus Marsh Express reporter, described Mr. Humphreys (a good imported man from Wales) as having strength, judgement and experience and described his hand work, in building the cement concrete water tower, as a work of art, with its sexangled sides, fine arises and mathematically correct "drawing in" of measurements from base to apex. He called the tower, "Humphreys' Tower" and because he was also the builder of the bridge, Mr. Crisp called the bridge "Humphreys' Bridge".</div>
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Bacchus Marsh Express 30/4/1910 reported that Humphreys' Tower was now crowned with the lifting gear, to corkscrew ratchet the water gates up and down. The rod was 20 feet long and 4 inches in diameter. This lifting power was beautifully made and balanced and cased and a boy could work it.</div>
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The outlet tunnel was 400 feet long in the solid rock. It was 5 feet in diameter for 100 feet, then 3 and a-half feet at the end. The cast iron pipes in the tunnel weighed 2 tons each and were cased in cement. The outlet tunnel was the first step in the construction of the reservoir, as it was to be under the embankment.</div>
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The bridge was 75 feet above the ground, length was 225 feet with 18 feet clear on road surface. It was built on grey box piles (from Omeo), some 40 feet in length, resting on rubble concrete piers, which showed some 35 feet above the surface. Each pile weighed about 3 tons and was sewed to the concrete piers by iron standards, which gripped the latter, by 5 feet and the former by 3 feet. There were seven piers about 32 feet apart and each pier carried 3 piles braced with 40 feet red gum planks from Echuca. The piles received 3 coats of tar. The concrete piers were stiffened by 3/8 inch rods of iron, 5 inches apart and one foot between each set of rods. The decking was supported by 18 x 9 feet planks of jarrah and each plank and pile was lifted into position by a handy crane similar to those seen at railway stations, ingeniously erected on that part of the bridge which was completed. This crane could be shifted with ease by 2 men to where required. When the reservoir was full, only some 10 feet of the bridge would show.</div>
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The southeast end of the bridge abutted on the west end of the embankment and road traffic would here experience a sharp curve, for from bridge to embankment the turn is almost at right angles. Old photos show, that there was almost a right angle turn also at the west end of the bridge, where it joined the road to go up the hill, towards Ballan.</div>
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The Ballarat metalled road, 18 feet between fences crossed along the top of the dam embankment wall and then across the bridge.</div>
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<b>THE CAMP</b></div>
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During the building of Pykes Creek Reservoir, a small town sprang up. Besides the huts and tents used by the men, they had a recreation hall 60 feet x 30 feet, with no pillars, two fireplaces, not much furniture and a shop. The reservoir township was on the Ballan side of the reservoir, on the hill, between the new road and the old road. It was reported to be a good repetition of goldfield conditions!</div>
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Some reports say that 80 men were engaged and some reported that 200 were employed, as well as Government Inspectors, Engineers etc. Progress was slow at times It was apparent that men were hard to get and would not stay, to work on the project. The Bacchus Express 30/4/1910 states that "nothing less than missionaries will bring them". The newspaper article also said, that “works of this kind should never be let by contract, especially in Victoria where discipline is nil".</div>
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Men paid 6d. a fortnight to buy literature. The Ocean Accident Co insured all men against accidents and 3d. in the pound of each man’s wages was deducted to pay the premiums.</div>
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The Bacchus Marsh Express of 22/1/1910 reports that a serious accident happened on Tuesday afternoon by a powder explosion at Pykes Creek water scheme by which four men were more or less injured as well as a 50 pound horse getting its leg broken, which necessitated it being shot. A man named John Binge was tamping a drill hole at the foot of the rock-faced hill on the cascade of the by-wash, charged with half a barrel of powder, and between 30 and 40 plugs of gelignite, when one of the plugs got twisted, and with the extra force used to drive it home, it is presumed, it caused one of the caps to explode. Binge's collarbone was broken, and his face and head bruised, leaving him suffering from shock. A man named Jones, belonging to Egerton and suffering from abrasions was also brought into Ballan and treated by Dr. Gregg. The other two injured employees would not leave the camp, although, it was seen that one of them had a badly shattered hand. After Dr. Gregg had done all in his power to alleviate Binge’s suffering he was taken on the ambulance for transmission to the Ballarat hospital. Young Mr. Fisher helped convey Binge into Dr. Greg's surgery, and showed deep sympathy.</div>
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A few days previously a horse and dray had rolled over and over down one of the hills that girdled the southern side of the weir. Strange to say the horse, when it landed at the bottom, was released from its bondage, yoked up again in another dray, and walked off in all equine grandeur.</div>
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The Werribee River Weir and diversion tunnel here constructed between 1916 and 1918 to divert flows from the Werribee River to Pykes Creek Reservoir via Myers Creek. The weir and tunnel entrance is located on the Werribee River approx. 2km east of Ballan. The tunnel is 1.8m in diameter and 1.5kms long. It opens into Myers Creek on the east side of Monteville Lane and the water then runs along Myers Creek.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/" target="_blank">State Library of Victoria</a> has amongst their collection several images including those of <a href="http://www.slv.vic.gov.au/ruralwat/gid/slv-pic-aab93089" target="_blank">Pykes Creek Embankment</a> (1911- ca.1935) showing men working on the wall and a water view of <a href="http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/87405" target="_blank">Pykes Creek Reservoir</a> (ca. 1915-ca. 1940) which may have been taken during and not long after construction.</div>
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-16796256266585165312013-09-06T23:48:00.003-07:002013-09-06T23:48:54.589-07:00Miss C.W.A. at WakoolFound this little snippet in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116847234" target="_blank">Trove</a> - mentions my mother Jean<br />
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Miss Jean Hollins was declared the winner of the Wakool Miss C. W. A. at the annual green and gold ball at Wakool. As a result of the competition-the C.W.A. Rest Room, at Wakool is now debt free.</div>
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After the declaration of the result of the competition the winner was decorated with a blue and gold sash by Mrs J. A Lawson, M.B.E.</div>
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The Hall was decorated with green and gold streamers. Bouquets were presented to the three competitors in the competition, to official visitors, and presidents and secretaries of each girl's committee.</div>
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Among visitors presented was the Group President, Mrs Robinson, from Macorna who announced the result of the competition as follows:— Miss Burraboi-Rangemore (Miss Jean Hollins) £223 Miss Wakool (Miss Joan Lane) £208 Miss Tulla (Miss Leonora McClay) £130</div>
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The winner wore a full skirted frock of green net, the halter necked bodice embroidered in gold sequins in a leaf design.</div>
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Other two competitors wore white frocks and all were presented with crystal gifts as mementos.</div>
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Flower girls who assisted in the presentation were Dawn Golding and Laurel Jones. Both wore gold and green. </div>
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Door takings at the ball totalled about £81.</div>
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<i><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116847234" target="_blank">Riverine Herald, Saturday 11 September 1954, page 3</a></i></div>
Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-34146345193540083042013-09-01T22:01:00.001-07:002013-09-01T23:50:32.088-07:00Rice growing at Burraboi, Wakool and TullakoolFound these great articles in Trove about rice harvesting in the Burraboi, Wakool and Tullakool districts, including the building of the new rice shed at Burraboi in 1951. My grandfather Edgar Hollins grew one of the first experimental crops at Burraboi.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Rice pours </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">into mill</span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> at Echuca</span></h3>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At least 200 tons of rice</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> have been delivered to </span>Echuca's new rice mill this week, although rain held up deliveries for two days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The storage shed is not yet </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">completed, but delivery began</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> this week to minimise losses to</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> farmers, who have 20,000 bags</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> lying in their paddocks.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Echuca railwaymen deny that</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> a shortage of rail trucks was</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> responsible for an accumulation</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> of 4,000 tons of rice at Tullakool</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> fields.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Sidings between Echuca and</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Burraboi and Wakool fields,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> they said, were full of trucks,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> which could not be loaded be</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">cause of the wet weather.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22833275" target="_blank">The Argus, Saturday 3 June 1950, page 8</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The installation of machin</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ery in the Echuca Rice Mill</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is now almost complete, and </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">expectations are that pro</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">cessing of rice at the mill</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will start within a month.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Only about twenty per cent, of</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the machinery necessary to com</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mence milling remains to be in</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">stalled at the factory, and when</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> this is done the final link-up in</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the electric system will be made</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and the factory will then be</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> ready to swing into production.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The storage shed at the mill</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> site is now complete but for the</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> erection of some of the sliding</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> doors.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Preparations are being made</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> at the mill for the intake of this</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> season's rice from the Wakool</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> area. The first loads from this</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> year's harvest are expected at</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the factory in a fortnight.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The whole of the season's crop</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> from the Wakool area will be</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> stored, in the company's shed at</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Echuca, and in one approximate</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ly the same size at Burraboi.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The Burraboi storage shed is</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> to be used as holding space while</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the rice from the Echuca shed</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> is processed at the mill. The</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> grain from Burraboi will then be </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">transported to Echuca and also</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> processed at the mill.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">In this fashion the entire rice</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> crop from the Wakool district</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will be processed at Echuca.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/122445008" target="_blank">Riverine Herald, Tuesday 10 April 1951, page 1</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">The rice harvesting season</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will commence very soon in</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the Wakool, Tullakool and </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Burraboi districts and its ad</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">vent will almost coincide</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> with the completion of the</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> new rice mill in Annesley</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> Street, Echuca.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">For the next month or so Burra</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">boi, Wakool and Tullakool areas</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will be busy, as the settlers com</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">mence to harvest a big crop.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">A new rice store at Burraboi</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> siding will cost in the vicinity of</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> £30,000. Reports indicate that</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> crops on the whole area are good,</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> and the yields on several excel</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">lent crops will be very high.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">At Burraboi the huge storage</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> shed to house the crop while</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> awaiting transfer to the Echuca</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> rice mill, is nearly completed.</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> The shed measures 200 feet toy</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> 100 feet, and is being built by</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the Rice Equalisation Board. It</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will store 6500 tons of rice at full</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> capacity.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Owing to the shortage of ce</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ment - 150 tons would be needed</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> to concrete the floor of the build</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ing - it was found impossible to</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> put the floor in for this season's</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> harvest. The rice will be stack</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ed on a temporary staging.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Three new power elevators to</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> stack the rice are also at Burra</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> boi siding. These cost approxi</span>mately £300 each. It is expected <span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">that 14,000 tons of rice will go</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> through the Burraboi siding this </span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">season. The entire rice</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> crop from the Wakool district</span><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> will be processed at Echuca.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/122445543" target="_blank">Riverine Herald, Thursday 26 April 1951, page 2</a></span><br />
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0Burraboi, NSW, Australia-35.395835324340794 144.31398274248045-35.447617824340796 144.23330174248045 -35.344052824340793 144.39466374248045tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-64680925483966344102013-05-31T22:15:00.001-07:002013-05-31T22:28:14.986-07:00Mess Etiquette for A.A.W.M.S.Found this great article at home in <i>"Khaki and Green -with the Australian Army at home and overseas" </i>published by The Australian Military Forces by the Australian War Memorial in 1943. This book is one of a series published we have including <i>"Active Service with Australia in the Middle East" </i>in 1941 <i>"Soldiering On -the Australian Army at home and overseas"</i> in 1942, <i>"Jungle Warfare - with the Australian Army in the South-West Pacific"</i> in 1944 and <i>"Stand Easy - After the defeat of Japan, 1945"</i> in 1945. They include contributions by servicemen and women of short pieces, drawings, photographs and maps with most contributions noted by their service number. There is in index to the contributors at the rear of "<i>Khaki and Green" </i>which includes the previous volumes. Your relative may have made a contribution!<br />
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I was particularly interested in the article <i>Mess Etiquette for A.A.W.M.S. </i>as Tom's mother Joan Foster Fisher (nee Miller) VFX127718 was stationed at Jacquinot Bay in 1945 and reflects her great sense of humour!<br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-11201544834055481322013-05-24T23:49:00.000-07:002013-05-24T23:49:29.216-07:00Agnes Fisher nee Jenkins (1865-1911)Agnes, the wife of Joseph Fisher sadly died on 4 January 1911, at Elsternwick, aged only 45. Her daughter <a href="http://elebratepartyhire.com.au/" target="_blank">Elsyian</a> was at the time aged 22 and son <a href="http://ellisandfisherfamilies.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/jenkinson-fisher-and-florence-may.html" target="_blank">Jenkinson</a> aged 19. My search of Trove newspapers particularly the Argus, and local Elsternwick and Brighton papers has yielded no death or funeral notice for her at that time. Both Agnes and Joseph were buried nearby at <a href="http://ellisandfisherfamilies.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/joseph-fisher.html" target="_blank">Brighton General Cemetery</a>, <br />
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<a href="http://www.brightonhistorical.org.au/" target="_blank">Brighton Historical Society</a> have little on Joseph Fisher who appears in listings of rateable properties and in Sands and McDougall Directories around that time as a contractor at 169 Cochrane Street Elsternwick. Electoral rolls in Ancestry.com list him at times in Cochrane Street, also listing his sister-in-law <a href="http://ellisandfisherfamilies.blogspot.com.au/2012/03/jane-helen-fisher-headstone.html" target="_blank">Jane Helen Fisher</a>.<br />
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Sometimes you need to look outside the square! A search of Fisher at that time in Victoria yields a small notice of her death in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71576170" target="_blank">The Northern Ensign</a>, a Benalla paper on Friday 6 January 1911, <br />
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<i>DEATH. FISHER.—At her residence, Cochrane-street, Elsternwick, on the morning of the 4th January, Agnes, the dearly beloved wife of Joseph Fisher, builder.</i></div>
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In the same paper on that day under <b>Obituary - Demise of Four Mothers</b> appears an entry for <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71576162" target="_blank">Mrs Fisher.</a><br />
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<i>MRS FISHER. News of the death of another lady well-known in Benalla reached here yesterday, the sad event happening at Elsternwick on Wednesday morning last. The demise alluded to was that of Mrs Agnes Fisher wife of Mr Joseph Fisher, the wellknown building-contractor, who carried out, an important enlargement of the Continuation School in Benalla West, and who, whilst doing the work alluded to attracted the notice of observant people as being a gentleman of unique kindness and integrity. The late Mrs Fisher, who formed an agreeable acquaintanceship with not a few people in our midst through her husband's business connection with Benalla, was a lady with a large heart, a true Christian spirit, and a most friendly disposition, so that her loss to her husband will be sadly felt, the news of her death to-day will be read with a feeling of regret in many quarters locally and much sympathy will be felt for Mr. Fisher in the loss of such an estimable partner-one who, however, goes to a happier sphere than that of earth ; the laud of God beyond the grave. </i></div>
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This may explain why I haven't been able to find out much about Joseph Fisher the contractor! I was not aware of the Benalla connection and if he is doing works on Schools this may mean there may be more information in records at the <a href="http://prov.vic.gov.au/" target="_blank">Public Records Office - Victoria</a>.Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-7421806796942542242013-05-24T20:48:00.001-07:002013-05-24T20:48:00.267-07:00The Cat Empire - Steal The Light<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/jluQyS4lFpY" width="480"></iframe><br />
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Great images of Flinders Street station - Tom's great grandfather built the foundations!Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-79144258041991437482013-05-12T22:27:00.002-07:002013-05-12T22:27:52.932-07:00Mystery solved! Silver Cup won by Charles Ellis 1887<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Finally I have found out when Charles Ellis, my great grandfather, won the silver cup pictured! The cup is undated and Charles lived at Narracan and district from around 1887 to 1900.<br />
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In Trove today I found in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66863929" target="_blank">The Maffra Spectator Monday 4 April 1887 </a> reporting the upcoming <b>Morwell, Narracan & Mirboo Agricultural Society Show.</b><br />
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<i>On Thursday 7 April the first show of the Morwell, Mirboo and Narracan Agricultural Society will be held in the Society's grounds on the Hazelwood Road about a quarter of a mile from the railway station, when <span style="background-color: white; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px;">£</span>350 will be given in prizes. ..."</i></div>
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<i>A rough statement of accounts showed that the first show held on 9th inst. was a great success in regard to exhibits, attendance, and from a financial point of view. </i></div>
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<i>Mr. C. Ellis, Narracan, silver cup for best 1cwt of potatoes, and to his daughter Miss C Ellis the silver cup, presented by Messrs. C. W. Grey and Co. </i></div>
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<i>Respecting the matter in dispute regard ing lateness of entry of Mr. Harper, Clydebank, it was moved by Mr Murdoch, seconded by Mr Rintoull, and carried, " That the judges' decision be upheld, and that the second prize be awarded to Mr. R Harper." Messrs. Porter and McNabb dissenting. </i></div>
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<i>Mr Murdoch and Secretary were authorised to have the track on Showground harrowed, suitable grass seed sown, and heavily dressed with superphosphate. The secretary was instructed to attend to se veral minor matters, and an alteration was made with respect to signature on Society's cheques to prevent inconvenience. The sum of </i><i>£</i><i>50 was voted to the secretary, Mr Waldon, for his services in connection with the Agricultural Society and his efforts were eulogised by the several members present. </i></div>
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I haven't found any detailed reports of the second show with all prize winners, but Charles also won prizes at the third annual Morwell, Mirboo and Narracan Agricultural Society's Show in 1889 according to the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article62243729" target="_blank">Gippsland Times 18 March 1889</a>. His brother in law, Charles William Howlett also was a successful exhibitor at that show. </div>
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<i>The third annual show in connection with the above society, took place on Thursday last. As we mentioned in our last, the proceedings passed off very pleasantly, and the whole of the officials performed their various duties most satisfactorily. The following is the prize list: …..</i></div>
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<i>George Henry Wise was well known throughout Gippsland over a long period of time. His skill as a lawyer was shown on the occasion of the stormy ending of the Morwell, Narracan and Mirboo Agricultural and Pastoral Society during the depression of the 1890s. This Society used to hold Annual Shows at its showground at Morwell. Robert N. Auchterlonie, in "Glenaveril 1873-1973 - The Story of the Auchterlonie Family's 100 Years at Narracan" (1973) states: "Finance was raised locally by the issue of debentures ... Finally, the Society found itself in debt ... and was forced to close down. Most of the debenture-holders were content to accept their loss and make the best of it, but a few avaricious ones set up a clamour for repayment." Several disgruntled debenture-holders took legal proceedings against threeoffice-bearers whose signatures appeared on the face of each debenture. "To everyone's surprise, and due largely to the efforts of that skilled lawyer, Mr. G.H. Wise of Sale, the plaintiffs won the case."</i></div>
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So it it great to finally find out when Charles won the cup! My mother Jean Ellis has the cup as my father Ian is now deceased. But I don't know where the second cup has ended up...at least when it does we will know when it was awarded!</div>
Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-61013867141897727592013-05-06T01:35:00.001-07:002013-05-31T22:29:34.237-07:00Bonegilla 118 Australian General Hospital and Tragic Train-Bus Crash 1943I know I am going backwards and forwards with bits and pieces about Joan's war service. From Tom's dad's notes, Pte Joan Miller (VFX127718) went to Bonegilla near Wodonga Victoria to join the 118 Australian General Hospital in January 1943.<br />
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<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11297896" target="_blank">The Argus on Tuesday 30 July 1940</a> reported...<br />
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<i>Discussing camp accommodation for A I.F. troops in Australia and Citizen Force trainees who are to enter camp shortly. Brigadier Street, Army Minister, said yesterday that with the eight new camps there would be 129 military camps, including racecourses and show grounds, in Australia.</i>
<i>Victoria's total of 35 camps included the two under construction at Bonegilla (Hume Weir) and Darley (Bacchus Marsh). In New South Wales there were 31 camps. Including those being built at Tamworth, Dubbo, Cowra, and Bathurst.</i>
<i>"The new camps will have hot showers installed and in operation when they are taken over, and all recreation and mess huts will have lined walls," Brigadier Street said. "Each camp will also have its own hospital block. The lay-out of the camps has been studied in the light of previous experience to give troops the greatest comfort and convenience."</i><br />
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It was long after Joan arrived at Bonegilla there was a tragic Train-Bus crash at Wodonga on 8 May where 25 people were killed. I am sure she would have known some of the victims. A small article in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11341636" target="_blank">The Argus on Monday 10 May 1943</a> reported the tragedy.
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<i>Twenty-four passengers and the driver of a motorbus were killed and 9 persons injured when the bus struck a light engine and tender in reverse at the racecourse level crossing, Bonegilla, at 6.25pm on Saturday.
William Lord was the driver of the bus, but names of the passengers were not known tonight. They included soldiers and women. The engine was running on the Tallangatta branch line from Wodonga to Bandiana, and the bus was taking passengers to Wodonga.
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More details about the crash was revealed at the inquest reported in <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/result?l-publictag=Bonegilla%20crash" target="_blank">The Argus on Tuesday 29 June 1943</a>.<br />
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<i>WODONGA, Mon: An inquest was opened today by Mr F. W. Whan, acting deputy coroner, assisted by Mr I. W. Williams, PM, into the deaths of 25 persons who lost their lives in a crash between a light engine and tender and a motorbus on a level crossing near Wodonga on the night of May 8.</i><br />
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<i>Replying to Mr J. V. Barry, KC (for Samuel Symons), Midgley said Lord was a most careful driver. He was not prone to speed. It was not possible for a driver to prevent passengers getting on a bus while there was room. There were 34 passengers on the bus that night. They would not prevent the driver from having proper control of the bus. Following the accident he examined the light- ing on the tender of the engine. There was only one lamp alight. It was at the top, and hard to see. A piece of brown paper was pasted across the glass for the brownout purposes. There was no lamp on the right of the tender. The light on the left of the tender was not functioning.</i><br />
<i>To Mr J. F. Mulvany (for the Railways) witness said he could not say whether the brown paper was inside or outside the lens.</i><br />
<i>T. A. Morton, mechanical engineer, of Hume Weir, said he left Wodonga about 6.30pm in a car with his wife and family. Before he reached the level crossing where the smash occurred 2 buses passed travelling ' toward Wodonga. About that time he heard an engine whistle approximately 6 times. He saw the lights of a third bus apnroaching the crossing. He estimated the engine was travelling toward the crossing at approximately 15 or 16 mph. The whistle was loud and continuous. He stopped his car about 60 yards from the crossing. Almost immediately he heard the crash. When he saw the engine it was approximately 200 yards from the crossing. The lights on the front were dull and heavy. There was no beam. He did not think the locomotive decreased speed from the time he first saw it until the crash occurred.</i><br />
<i>To Mr Mulvany he said he would not swear that there were not 3 lights on the front of the tender. It was clear to him that the lights were on part of the engine.</i><br />
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<i>E. C. Maloney, soldier, said that he was walking on the roadway from Bandiana to Wodonga and heard the train whistle approximately 3 times. It was particularly dark at the time. The first time he heard the whistle he could not see anything. When the second whistle blew he heard the noise of the approach of the train. He then saw lights on the engine. They were fairly bright. The driver of the bus slowed down to take the crossing. The whistling was quite distinct. He estimated speed of theengine at l8 mph.</i><br />
<i>To Mr Barry: He would consider it impossible for the driver of the bus to see the lights of the engine with the street lights behind.</i><br />
<i>To Mr Mulvany: The lights in the background came, he believed, from the Wodonga railway yards.</i><br />
<i>To Mr H. T. Frederico (for the relatives of the dead persons), wit- ness said he was not sure of the number of lights he saw on the engine, but he did see lights.</i><br />
<i>The hearing is not concluded.</i><br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-47462509527207560132013-05-06T00:55:00.000-07:002013-05-31T22:28:54.968-07:00AAMWS worked 18-hour daysIt pays to look under interstate papers when you are searching <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/" target="_blank">Trove</a> newspapers! I had been limiting my search to mainly The Argus a Melbourne newspaper and occasionally other Victorian newspapers.<br />
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This article was published in the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68924680" target="_blank">Advocate in Burnie Tasmania on Thursday 17 May 1945</a> only a few days after Private Joan Miller (VFX127718) of Brighton Victoria arrived at Jacquinot Bay General Hospital in New Guinea.<br />
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-15947526118452481422013-05-06T00:36:00.000-07:002013-05-31T22:30:18.550-07:00Passing-out Parade of AAMWS<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Until I can find where I have put Joan's army service records...here's a bit more about the early days of the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS). <br />
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This article in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12010004" target="_blank">The Argus on 17 December 1942</a> under World of Women talks about the Passing-out Parade of the 2nd AAMWS camp. This may have been the Darley camp where Joan did her rookie training. I think this may have been prior to Joan joining as she was in New Guinea by Christmas 1944 but I could be wrong!<br />
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-8500681112521157872013-04-21T23:14:00.000-07:002013-05-06T02:01:27.427-07:00Red Cross and Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) - Joan Foster MillerPrior to her AAWMS service with 2/8 Australian General Hospital, mainly in Jacquinot Bay on Rabaul in New Guinea in 1944-45, Tom's mother Joan Foster Fisher (nee Miller) was a member of the Red Cross as she is pictured here in late 1941 outside her home in Grosvenor Street, Brighton.<br />
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She later joined the VAD (Voluntary Aid Detachment) and appears to have resided at "Fairhavens" R.G.H. Caulfield from around February 1942 to January 1943.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Joan F Miller VAD<br />
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Joan was probably working at Caulfield R.G..H. at the time of this article in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11983575" target="_blank">The Argus (Tuesday 30 June 1942, page 5)</a><br />
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<i>After working all day at Caulfield Military Hospital VADs find the comfort and homeliness of Fairhavens, Kooyong rd Caulfield both restful and a pleasant change from hospital surroundings. There is a happy friendliness among the girls who work in well with one another. There are 37 VAD's who have been loaned to the hospital and they perform ward duties such as carrying trays to patients preparing dressings, taking temperatures and respirations, dusting wards and some times helping in the kitchen. At Fairhavens the girls have a comfortable lounge room and either sleep in large rooms with 5 or 6 beds or in small rooms with 2 or 3 beds. There are some single rooms. Each girl has her own wardrobe and shares a dressing table. They may obtain a leave pass everyy night of the week though few girls do so. A late pass enables them to stay out till 11.30, a theatre pass till 12, and a dance pass till 1. They get 6 days a month leave and can take it either each week or save some of it and take annual leave. The girls work 8 hours a day reporting for duty at 6.50 and finish either at 5 or 7. An appeal is being made for more and more VADs to help stafff military hospitals. Applications should be sent to VAD Headquarters 217 Lonsdale st, Melbourne.</i><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Fairhavens" R.G.H. Caulfield V.A.D. Feb 1942</td></tr>
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"Fairhavens" R.G.H. Caulfield Feb 1942</td></tr>
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<i>In a magnificent old Tudor home, not far from the Caulfield Military Hospital, 37 charming V.A.D.'s are quartered. Their grand mansion, which belongs to Mr. John Tait, stands in large grounds midst golden wattles and towering gums. "Fairhavens" it is called. And to enter their new home the V.A.D.'s lift the latch on a great oaken door and step into a spacious high vaulted reception hall, out of which spirals a massive stairway to the floor above. </i><br />
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<i>These V.A.D.'s have a fine life with lots of luxury thrown in. They are on duty eight hours a day, are free every night after 5 o'clock, and have six days' leave a month. The girls save up some of this leave for an extended annual vacation. They get up to all sorts of fun and games during their "time off." A spot of P.T., a round of tennis, treasure hunts and when the nights are cold they gather round the log fire in the lounge. "Fairhavens" is the ideal home for girls away from home. The V.A.D. girls are performing very useful duties in connection with the war effort and many more enlistments are urgently required. </i><br />
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Joan Miller is seated in the middle of the couch</td></tr>
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Joan Miller is second row, 3rd from left with head near banister</td></tr>
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This silent amateur documentary with intertitles was made by members of the Couch family. Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD) - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMbjgoLKDVU" target="_blank">Our women of the VAD 1943</a> provides a little more about the VAD in Australia.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.awm.gov.au/" target="_blank">Australian War Memorial</a> provides a little more background about the VAD's.<br />
<i>The VAD movement had its origins as a civilian nursing movement which was widely represented throughout the major towns and cities of Australia. The movement had close links with the Red Cross and the Order of St John. With the outbreak of war, these community groups formed an auxiliary service to supplement the war effort. While many would later be integrated with the Australian armed forces, and serve overseas, the VAD maintained a strong tradition of service within Australia in large military hospitals and at other civilian establishments. Australian VAD members, and those who also joined the AAMWS, made a vital contribution to the defence of Australia during the Second World War. Some 8,485 served in both categories during the war and many VAD members who served on the home front would later receive the Civilian Service Medal in recognition of their wartime service to Australia.</i><br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-15847661719793394692013-04-21T20:08:00.000-07:002013-04-21T23:15:13.388-07:00Rookie School for Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) - Darley Victoria 1943Found these photographs of Tom's mother Joan Foster Fisher nee Miller (VFX127718) taken when she was attending Rookie School in the Australian Army Medical Women's Service (AAMWS) at Darley Victoria, near Bacchus Marsh. The photos were taken by C Fitch & Son, official photographer, outside the RSL Anzac Hall around February or March 1943.<br />
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Noted on the back of the photos are by Tom's father John Fisher "AAMWS was formed Dec 1942 and all VAD's were transferred and then had to do a Rookie School"<br />
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A little hard to decipher the signatures, but others assumed to be to be in the group with autographs around the photo include: H. Mitchell, P M Marlow, D R Smith, GG Cassidy, K W Williams, Joalyn? Brown, Barbara ? Prouse SA, Anne Jennings, Cathryn Murray, Betty Hay, Vera E ?Strachan, Karen Christianson?, Lorna Blake, Patricia Dent, Alice T? Thorburn?, Vera C Palmer, Betty ?Mace, Myra Hamilton, Peggy Belliny, D M Clancy, Myra Mould, Betty Dasyff?, Betty W Brown A/Sgt V19617.<br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0Darley VIC 3340, Australia-37.6584551 144.4435065-37.708742099999995 144.3628255 -37.6081681 144.5241875tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-79588162555645503062013-04-11T01:00:00.000-07:002013-04-11T01:00:53.422-07:00William Fisher 1858-1898Thanks to the <a href="http://craigwellhotel.co.uk/friends-of-poulton-cemeteries/" target="_blank">Friends of Poulton Cemeteries</a>, I now have a photo of William Fisher's headstone at Morecambe Old Cemetery in Lancashire, and now his date of death - 16 May 1898, aged 40. <br />
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Sadly the headstone has the details of two of William and Jane Fisher's children who predeceased him - son Clarence Ennerdale Fisher who died 30 July 1895, aged 19 months, and daughter Clarice May Fisher who died 31 May 1897, aged 10 months.<br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0Morecambe, Lancashire, UK54.074166 -2.864967999999976254.0368965 -2.9456489999999764 54.1114355 -2.784286999999976tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-21613929072512343502013-03-16T00:00:00.000-07:002013-04-11T03:00:49.212-07:00Sandwith Fisher or Saneth Fisher - a dilemma William Fisher and Jane Helen Fisher nee Brown's children are proving problematical. Daughter Hannah Mina's grand daughter Dorothy in Stawell has been more than helpful but they are proving a tricky bunch to trace.<br />
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First child Sandwith, a bricklayer, went to South Africa around 1903, possibly aboard the <i>"Goorka"</i> and a photo from Dorothy taken by Gock Studio, Pritchard Street Johannesburg seems to confirm that he was there for a time.<br />
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He is not in South Africa for long as in 1906 he is in USA arriving in New York on the "St Paul" from Southhampton, marrying an New Jersey lass Clara Amelia Hodge in Duval Florida USA in 1907. They have two daughters, Mina Dorothy and Thelma Thora, both born in Lancashire in 1908 and about 1911 respectively, where they appear in Dalton-in-Furness in Lancashire in the 1911 UK census - Sandwith appearing as Saneth. I haven't found out how Sandwith travelled from South Africa, or returned to England for that matter in this time frame.<br />
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In 1912, Clara returns to USA with baby Thelma Thora on the <i>"Celtic"</i> to join her husband accompanied by her younger brother Edwin Pearce Hodge. Daughter Mina Dorothy doesn't appear to be on that voyage. Not sure how Sandwith has arrived back in the USA? The family reside in Toledo, Ohio where in 1918 Sandwith, a bricklayer, is recorded in the US World War 1 Draft Registrations Cards.<br />
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Clara Fisher sadly died in 1921 when the girls were only in their early teens and she is buried in <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=fisher&GSiman=1&GScid=40353&GRid=61937253&" target="_blank">Collingwood Cemetery</a> in Toledo. Saneth Fisher, a widower, died in 1955 and is also buried in <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=fisher&GSiman=1&GScid=40353&GRid=61937202&" target="_blank">Collingwood Cemetery</a>.<br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-29134211076482300962013-02-16T19:25:00.000-08:002013-03-15T23:38:47.686-07:00Frank Crosskey 1902This photo belonged to Tom's grandfather George Ambrose Miller. It was sent to him by Frank Crosskey who was a close friend and I believe went to school with him at Ringmer in Sussex England.<br />
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Taken in September 1902, Frank appears to have served in the South African War 1901-1903 - Sergt 21 Battn. <br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-55110858637261138572013-02-09T21:26:00.002-08:002013-05-31T22:38:11.725-07:00Charles James HarmanLooking for information about Lavinia Raven Fisher, I found Merron Rddiford's post in her blog <a href="http://mywdfamilies.wordpress.com/2011/11/16/in-the-news-november-16-1929/" target="_blank">My Western District Families</a> about her husband Charles James Harman's (#251051) London experience!<br />
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<span style="background-color: #f3f4ee; color: #666666; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">"On this day in 1929, </span><a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/13" style="background-color: #f3f4ee; color: #5f5f5f; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;" target="_blank">The Argus</a><span style="background-color: #f3f4ee; color: #666666; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Baskerville, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;"> reported that my gg uncle Charles James Harman, then a Flight Lieutenant with the R.A.A.F., working as a Liaison Officer in London, had the once in a lifetime opportunity to ride in an airship, the R101."</span>Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-34478629171492833042013-02-03T20:49:00.001-08:002013-03-15T23:39:14.266-07:00John Francis Raven Fisher - Melbourne University<br />
Tom's father, John Francis Raven Fisher (1919-2003), studied engineering at <a href="http://www.eng.unimelb.edu.au/index.html" target="_blank">Melbourne University</a> - pictured here in the Fourth Year Engineering Students in 1941 in the top row, eighth from the left.<br />
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John was also a member of the Students' Representative Council in 1940 and in 1941. <span style="text-align: left;">He is pictured here in 1941 in the top row, ninth from the left.</span><br />
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I don't know a lot about the Foster family in Worthing. I do know they had 4 children: Mary (Polly), William James, Eliza Florence (Lylie) and Maude Alice. Daughter Lylie Foster emigrated to Western Australia and married George Ambrose Miller (of Ringmer) in Fremantle a day after her arrival on 18 March 1913 at Albany. Both Lylie and George knew each other prior to both emigrating to Australia. The Miller family moved to Brighton, a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria. Sadly Lylie died 49 in Brighton in 1930, aged 49 when her daughters Gwenyth and Joan were young girls. You can read more about George and Lylie on my <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/fisherandellisfamilies/home/miller-families/ambrose-miller-1843/george-ambrose-miller-1889-1" target="_blank">Fisher and Ellis families</a> website <br />
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Thanks to the <strong><em>Friends of Brighton and Worthing Cemetery</em></strong> <a href="http://www.fbwc.org/">www.fbwc.org</a> who were kind enough to photograph William and Eliza's grave and headstone at Worthing Cemetery. I was able to find their burial details on the Worthing Council website in 2011 but it appears that the council has merged and the burial information doesn't seem to be available - will keep you posted!Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0Worthing, West Sussex, UK50.81787 -0.37288250.7777425 -0.45184599999999997 50.857997499999996 -0.293918tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-51661084200595133042012-04-30T09:37:00.000-07:002013-05-31T22:32:53.054-07:00Edgar Ford Kent<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8835261499996790378.post-29421230964726307882012-03-25T18:46:00.002-07:002013-05-31T22:33:55.907-07:00John Francis Raven Fisher and Joan Foster Fisher nee MillerCommemoration plaques in the Office of Australian War Graves (OAWG) Victorian Garden of Remembrance for Tom's parents, J F R Fisher VX145495 and Joan Foster Fisher nee Miller VFX 127718 can be found at Wall 130 Row S. Joan passed away in 1995 and John passed away in 2003. I was able to request that the 2 plaques could be placed together.<br />
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<br />Robyn Fisherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01674602570703938985noreply@blogger.com0Victorian Garden of Remembrance, OAWG, Springvale Cemetery,Springvale VIC 3171, Australia-37.942843749507389 145.17642974853516-37.967890249507391 145.13694774853516 -37.917797249507387 145.21591174853515