J is for John

One of my husband’s great great grandfathers was John Way (1835-1911).

When he died on 11 June 1911, in Parkes, New South Wales, John Way was buried in  Parkes cemetery with his wife and son. His gravestone noted the death of his grandson Leslie Leister, killed World War 1.

The local paper, recording John Way’s death, provided a  brief obituary.

MR. JOHN WAY. (1911, June 16). Western Champion (Parkes, NSW : 1898 – 1934), p. 16. Retrieved December 4, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article111914465

Sadly, the headstone of John Way’s grave was broken in two by vandals in 2010 (after this photo was taken).

Because the marble is too soft and hollow to drill and pin, it could not be completely restored.

As a community service, J.T. Cock & Sons, a Parkes monumental masonry firm, repaired the headstone as best they could, picking it up off the ground and laying it flat. Unfortunately, some of the lead lettering, fractured in the damage, has come away, making the inscription harder to read.

Related blog posts

• Immigration on the Trafalgar in 1854 of John Way and Sarah née Daw
• Sepia Saturday 329: shepherding near Murrumburrah, New South Wales
• Mapping the birthplaces of the children of John Way and Sarah née Daw
• Trove Tuesday: Leslie Leister died at Fromelles 19/20 July 2016

Trove Tuesday: death of Captain W. A. P. Dana

William Augustus Pulteney Dana (1826-1866) was my 4th great uncle, the eighth of the ten children of my 4th great grandparents William Pulteney Dana (1776-1861) and Charlotte Elizabeth Dana née Bailey (1795-1846). He was one of the brothers of my great great great grandmother Charlotte Frances Champion de Crespigny née Dana (1820-1904).

Superintendent William Dana

William, then superintendent of police at Geelong, died suddenly on 5 October 1866.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1866. (1866, October 6). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), , p. 5. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5775248

CURRENT TOPICS. (1866, October 6). Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 – 1926), , p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148784229

Items of News. (1866, October 10). Hamilton Spectator and Grange District Advertiser (South Melbourne, Vic. : 1860 – 1870), , p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article194471140

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE. (1866, October 11). Kilmore Free Press and Counties of Bourke and Dalhousie Advertiser (Kilmore, Vic. : 1865 – 1868), , p. 2 (MORNINGS.). Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article70060810

His funeral was reported in the Geelong Advertiser of 8 October 1866. Thousands of people, it was reported, viewed the long cortege. Philip de Crespigny, William Dana’s brother-in-law and my great great great grandfather was one of the principal mourners. Also among these principal mourners were his nephews, George and Augustus Dana.

CAPTAIN DANA’S FUNERAL. (1866, October 8). Geelong Advertiser (Vic. : 1859 – 1926), , p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148784238

Images of Captain Dana’s grave in the Geelong cemetery at Find-A-Grave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=163742121 These were kindly taken by Find A Grave contributor Ron M following my request to the site.

William Robert Young (1876 – 1942)

William Robert Young (1876 – 1942) was the second youngest child of George Young (1826 – 1890) and Caroline Young née Clarke (1835 – 1879).

photograph  from Noel Tunks inscribed  on front Billy Young and on back William Young m// Julia

William married Julia Kenny (1871-1950) in 1916. They had no children.

He died on 3 January 1942 at Warburton, Victoria, two days before his younger brother Ernest.

Obituary (1942, January 17). Healesville and Yarra Glen Guardian (Vic. : 1900 – 1942), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60676810

James Ernest Young (1878 – 1942)

James Ernest Young (1878 – 1942), known as Ernest,  was the youngest child of George Young (1826 – 1890) and Caroline Young née Clarke (1835 – 1879).

Ernest was born at Lamplough near Avoca, Victoria, on 28 November 1878. He was the youngest of 13 children. Five had died before he was born. Ernest’s father was a miner, aged 50, born in Liverpool. Caroline, his mother was aged 43 and her birthplace was given as Sydney (on the birth certificates of other children her birthplace had been given as Tumut, New South Wales). Caroline was the informant of the birth registration at Avoca on 19 December 1878.

Ernest’s mother Caroline died  a year later on 17 December 1879. George did not remarry. Ernest probably grew up at Lamplough, cared for by his father and his older brothers and sisters.

Ernest’s first first wife was Mary Shea (1873 – 1920). They married in 1906 at Maryborough. On his marriage certificate he called himself Ernest. They had no children.

On 9 February 1916 Ernest enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force. He gave his age as 36 years two months. He was a railway employee. His next of kin was his wife Mrs Mary Young. Her address was Kirkham Road, Dandenong, Victoria. He was 5’8″ tall and had dark hair. He was assigned to the 3rd Australian Pioneer Battalion and sailed overseas in June 1916. (National Archives of Australia: B2455: Young Ernest James : SERN 348 : POB Lamplough VIC : POE Melbourne VIC : NOK W Young Mary )

In June 1917 Ernest was gassed, but was returned to the field. He later suffered various illnesses, some probably as a result of his gas injuries: German measles, scabies, myalgia, debility. He rejoined his unit in October 1918 and was promoted to Lance Corporal on 9 November 1918. He returned to Australia in 1919 and was discharged in July 1919.

Ernest’s wife Mary died on 20 December 1920.

Family Notices (1920, December 23). South Bourke and Mornington Journal (Richmond, Vic. : 1872 – 1920), , p. 2 (WEEKLY.). Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66199375

On 24 May 1921 Ernest remarried. His second wife was Emma Jane Jesson née Trewin (1880 – 1954), a divorcee. She had obtained a divorce in 1913 on the grounds of desertion from James Henry Jesson.  Emma had custody of the three children from her first marriage.

Ernest and Emma had a son, Ernest William George Young born 1922 who died 1993 leaving no children.

Ernest died 5 January 1942 age 63 of chronic nephritis and heart failure. His occupation on his death certificate was retired builder.

One of his death notices remembered all his brothers and sisters, even the infant George Young who had died in 1853, nearly 90 years earlier.

Family Notices (1942, January 6). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 2. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8226186

Obituary (1942, January 7). The Dandenong Journal (Vic. : 1927 – 1954), p. 10. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article215706875

Emma died in 1954.

Mrs. Emma J. Young (1954, November 3). The Dandenong Journal (Vic. : 1927 – 1954), p. 24. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article218513675

Trove Tuesday: Obituary for Admiral Mainwaring

Rowland Mainwaring (1783 – 1862) was my fourth great grandfather.  In 1840 his son Gordon (1817 – 1872) was sent from England to live in Australia.

Rowland Mainwaring in 1861 from The Mainwarings of Whitmore and Biddulph in the County of Stafford. An account of the family, and its connections by marriage and descent; with special reference to the Manor of Whitmore. J.G. Cavenagh-Mainwaring, about 1935.

 
Gordon was the third son, not expected to inherit the estate. Gordon Mainwaring had a problem with alcohol. He drank too much, and after a time in the army in India arrived in South Australia in January 1840, banished there by his family, who paid for him to stay away. He is known in the family as the remittance man. This term meant an emigrant, often sent to a British colony, supported or assisted by payments of money from his family.

The South Australian Register of 17 June 1862 reproduced a lengthy obituary of Gordon’s father, Admiral Rowland Mainwaring,  first published in the Illustrated London News on 26 April 1862.  Gordon’s older brothers had died and Gordon, to everyone’s surprise, perhaps including his own, was now the heir to the Whitmore estate.

THE LATE ADMIRAL MAINWARING. (1862, June 17). South Australian Register (Adelaide, SA : 1839 – 1900), p. 3. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50172924

The original article from the Illustrated London News is slightly easier to read:

“Obituary of Eminent Persons.” Illustrated London News [London, England] 26 Apr. 1862: 425. The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, 1842-2003. Retrieved through Gale News Vault via the National Library of Australia

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• Family stories

The Bank of Victoria in Collins Street

I had a few minutes spare in Melbourne before the train home so I went to the library of the Genealogical Society of Victoria. The GSV is in the Emirates building on Collins Street midway between Elizabeth and Swanston street.

As a quick genealogical task to make use of the library’s resources, I thought I would look up an old street directory to see where my great great grandfather, Philip de Crespigny (the bank manager), worked. I had always looked out the tram window when travelling along Collins Street and wondered which of the marvellous buildings had been the headquarters of the Bank of Victoria in the early twentieth century.

Collins Street from Elizabeth Street, Melbourne 1916 Taken By: Kerr Brothers; Original image from The State Library of Victoria. This Image restored by Foto Supplies, Albury, NSW, Australia and retrieved from https://www.flickr.com/photos/oakleystudios/6662752687/in/set-72157628707506273/

“Southside of Collins Street between Elizabeth and Queen Streets, only the Former Mercantile Bank (345 Collins Street) remains mostly intact.” retrieved from http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=229272&page=6

Philip de Crespigny (1850-1927) was the son of Philip Robert Champion Crespigny (1817-1889) who I refer to as Philip the gold warden, and Charlotte Frances née Dana (1820-1904). Philip worked for the Bank of Victoria for most of his life.

Philip’s obituary in the Argus mentions he became general manager of the Bank in 1916.

MR. P. C. DE CRESPIGNY. (1927, March 12). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 34. Retrieved October 30, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3843151

The quickest source of information was a Sands and McDougall directory for 1919.

In 1919 the headquarters of the Bank of Victoria was at 257 Collins Street.  With the aid of a Google maps I worked out it was less than a minute walk; in fact it was the building I was in. I could have looked at my GSV membership card!

257 Collins Street July 2014 from Google Street view

The building was redeveloped by the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney in the early 1970s. It was refurbished in 2000. The building my great great grandfather worked in does not survive.

Photo from Annual Report 1973 which included a major feature on 257 Collins Street, Melbourne to celebrate its completion during 1973. Retrieved from http://www.cbcbank.com.au/images/branches/vic/VIC%20Melb%20Office.htm

This is a picture of the building in 1918. The building was designed by Joseph Reed in 1862. An article in The Age of 21 May 1985 by John D Keating states that the building’s facade was inspired by the Palazzo Pesaro in Venice. The interior of the building was renovated in the 1930s.

7th war loan poster on the Bank of Victoria, Collins Street, Melbourne, 1918. Retrieved from National Library of Australia http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6388721

I wonder if my great great grandfather went to the Hopetoun Tea Rooms across the street in the Block Arcade and liked the cakes as much as I do.

Hopetoun Tea Rooms in June 2013. I cannot find a picture from the early twentieth century. They have been in the Block Arcade off Collins Street since the 1890s.

Paringa Hall

Paringa Hall at Somerton was the home of my great great grandparents James Francis Cudmore (1837 – 1912) and his wife Margaret née Budge (1845 – 1912).

The house was built between 1880 and 1882.The architect was Edmund W. Wright who had designed the Adelaide Town Hall in 1863, the Adelaide Post Office in 1866, and the South Australian Parliament House in 1874. (Sullivan, Christine, ‘Wright, Edmund William’, Architecture Museum, University of South Australia, 2008, Architects of South Australia: [http://www.architectsdatabase.unisa.edu.au/arch_full.asp?Arch_ID=17])

The Hall was named after Paringa Station on the Murray River close to  Renmark which was acquired by James’s father Daniel Cudmore in 1858 and transferred to James in 1859. That property was 260 km north-east of Adelaide and 4km of Renmark. The name is said to be an indigenous word for land or place at the river. (“Paringa Station, Murray River.” Treasures of the State Library. Government of South Australia, n.d. Web. 16 Feb. 2014. <http://www.samemory.sa.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=961&c=7551>)

James and Margaret died within four months of each other in 1912. The house was sold to the Marist Brothers in 1914 and was converted to a school.

I visited the school while on holiday last week in Adelaide and staff at the school made me very welcome. I was shown around the house which is very well cared for and much appreciated. They also gave me a booklet on the history of the house written in 1997 by their late archivist, Brother Columbanus Pratt, and the Friends of Paringa Hall.

Stately Homes of Adelaide. (1928, December 15). The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 – 1954), p. 14. Retrieved February 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58563058

James and Margaret are buried in St Jude’s cemetery at Brighton.

DEATH OF MR. J. F. CUDMORE. (1912, August 17). The Mail (Adelaide, SA : 1912 – 1954), p. 3 Section: THIRD SECTION.. Retrieved February 16, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article58184366

Trove Tuesday: obituary for Beatrix de Crespigny

Obituary for my great grandmother, Beatrix Champion de Crespigny née Hughes (1884 – 1943), from The Advertiser of 12 November 1943 page 4.

Yesterday I visited her grave at Stirling cemetery near Aldgate in the Adelaide Hills. I was very appreciative of a photograph with the grave location that I received from Gaye of the Adelaide Hills Council.

 

 

 

 

 

Behind her grave are memorials to her daughter Margaret (1919 – 1989) and Margaret’s husband Cornelis In’t Veld (1908 – 1994).

 

 

Beatrix’s gravestone is an unusual design. I would be very interested to hear of any similar designs.

Trove Tuesday: Samuel Proudfoot Hawkins

TABLE TALK. (1867, April 29). Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 – 1876), p. 2 Edition: EVENING. Retrieved November 3, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64637763 TABLE TALK. (1867, May 6). Portland Guardian and Normanby General Advertiser (Vic. : 1842 – 1876), p. 2 Edition: EVENING. Retrieved October 29, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article64637812

Samuel Proudfoot Hawkins (1819–1867), born on 30 April 1819 at Dumfries, Scotland to Robert Hawkins (1770–1841) and Penelope Hawkins née Carruthers (1765–1845), was my great great great grandfather.

In 1839, when he was only twenty, Samuel Hawkins, ‘occupation storekeeper’, sailed from Edinburgh to Port Phillip on the David Clark, the first ship to sail there directly with immigrants from the United Kingdom.   He travelled without any immediate relatives. His eldest brother, Robert, and cousin, Thomas, had previously settled in New South Wales. (Hudson, Helen Lesley Cherry stones : adventures in genealogy of Taylor, Hutcheson, Hawkins of Scotland, Plaisted, Green, Hughes of England and Wales … who immigrated to Australia between 1822 and 1850. H.L. Hudson, [Berwick] Vic, 1985. p. 38) (Janson, Elizabeth. “They Came by the David Clark in 1839.” In Victoria before 1848. OoCities.org, 1999. retrieved 04 Nov. 2013. <http://www.oocities.org/vic1847/ship/david39.html>.)

In 1841, within three years of Samuel’s arrival, an S.P. Hawkins is listed as a land surveyor, with offices in Lonsdale Street, in Kerr’s Melbourne Almanac and Port Phillip Directory. (http://members.optushome.com.au/lenorefrost/kerr.html )  He appears to have begun his land surveying career working for Robert Russell, the first surveyor of Melbourne.

From Melbourne Samuel moved to the Western District, first to Portland and then to Melville Forest, near Coleraine. (pdf of Victorian Heritage database listing for Melville Forest homestead complex  vhd.heritage.vic.gov.au/reports/report_place/23456 )
In 1849, at the age of thirty, Samuel married Jeanie Hutcheson (1824 – 1864).  Jeanie’s three brothers had also settled in the Portland district.

Cherry stones p. 44  “Probably an engagement photograph, but certainly of Jeanie and Samuel Hawkins taken about 1849.”

 Samuel wrote to his brother James in 1849

I know not whether in my last letter I acquainted you with my changed condition of life from the single to the married. To describe who and what She is is impossible to be intelligibble. Her name is Jeanie Hutcheson, the sister of 3 respectable settlers on the Glenelg River and with this introduction, seasoned by my love and esteem, I beg to introduce her to your notice and remembrance (Cherry Stones p. 43.)

They had eight children.  In 1864, after an illness of seventeen days, Jeanie died “disease of stomach and liver” and the complications of a miscarriage.  She was 40 years old. Their children were aged from two to fifteen years.

• Isabella Hawkins (1849 – 1916)
• Penelope Bell Hawkins (1851 – 1898)
• Robert James Hawkins (1853 – 1854) 
• Robert James Hawkins (1854 – 1893) 
• Georgina Hawkins (1856 – 1944) 
• David Hawkins (1858 – 1922) 
• Janet “Jessie” Hawkins (1860 – 1944)
• Jeanie Hawkins (1862 – 1941) (my great great grandmother)

Cherry Stones p. 46.

In 1865 Samuel married Mary Adamson (1843 – 1908), governess of his children. They had two children. The first died in infancy and the second was born on 23 July 1867, just over three months after Samuel’s death on 22 April 1867.

• Mary Hawkins (1866 – 1866) 
• Samuel Melville Hawkins (1867 – 1947)

Samuel Proudfoot Hawkins’s death certificate states he died of delerium tremens and exhaustion after an illness of one week. He was 47 years old. (Victoria Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages; death certificate 5050/1867)

Delirium tremens can occur when you stop drinking alcohol after a period of heavy drinking, especially if you do not eat enough food. Delirium tremens may also be caused by head injury, infection, or illness in people with a history of heavy alcohol use. It is most common in people who have a history of alcohol withdrawal. It is especially common in those who drink 4 – 5 pints of wine or 7 – 8 pints of beer (or 1 pint of “hard” alcohol) every day for several months. Delirium tremens also commonly affects people who have had an alcohol habit or alcoholism for more than 10 years. (Dugdale, David C., III MD. “Delirium Tremens.” MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia. U.S. National Library of Medicine, 20 Mar. 2011. retrieved 04 Nov. 2013. <http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000766.htm>.)

Today delirium tremens, which is sometimes fatal, is usually treated in hospital. Symptoms include body tremors, changes in mental function such as hallucinations, confusion and restlessness, and seizures. (MedlinePlus)

Samuel’s grave is in Portland North Cemetery, where he is buried with his first wife and their infant son  Robert James Hawkins (1853-1854).  His second wife died at Kyneton in 1908.

Probate was granted on the estate of Samuel Hawkins, Esquire of Melville Forest Station on 4 July 1867.  His estate was estimated to be valued at £14,000.  (Probate files held by Public Record Office of Victoria reference 6/328)  Today the value of his estate is in the order of $2 million up to nearly $13 million; the lower value is based on the changes in the retail price index and the higher value on the changes in average earnings. (Using the conversion calculator at http://www.measuringworth.com which is based on shifts in purchasing power of British pounds).

Trove tuesday : Daniel Budge

Although I had spent a long time looking for the death of Daniel Budge (1842 – 1895), the brother of my great great grandmother Margaret Cudmore née Budge, and had found a death index entry for him in Western Australia, I couldn’t be sure this was the right man.  It wasn’t until I had searched the digitised newspapers on Trove that I learned how he died and why he was in Western Australia.

 COMPARATIVE LEGISLATION. (1895, January 26). The Capricornian (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1875 – 1929), p. 18. Retrieved October 22, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article67947575

It is with feelings of the deepest regret that we (Barcoo Independent,) learn of the death of Mr. Daniel Budge, who expired at Coolgardie on Sunday last of typhoid fever. The deceased gentleman was well-known throughout the pastoral districts of Queensland, and to many of the older residents of the western portion of New South Wales, and was exceedingly and deservedly popular with all classes of the community. Born in Scotland in 1842, he accompanied his family to Adelaide, South Australia, in 1853. He adopted pastoral pursuits, and about 1862 was appointed manager of one of the Tolarno stations, on the Darling River, New South Wales. In 1875 he joined his brother, Mr. Kenneth Budge, an part owner of Gooyea Station, near Adavale, Queensland, where he remained until the death of his brother, after which the station was sold. In 1880 or 1881 he purchased Mr. A. Mossman’s share in Delta Station, baring for a partner Mr. W. P. Tozer, which station he managed for some years, during which Mr J. M. Niall bought Mr. Tozer’s share. About 1886 Messrs. R. Rarr-Smith and Co. bought Mr. Budge’s interest in that property, and the latter removed to Blackall, where he pur- chased the old Barcoo Hotel. This property he sold to Mr. R. Moss about 1888, and then entered into partnership with Mr. J. D. Hughes as auctioneers, stock and station agents, Blackall. Mr. Budge was the lessee of this paper from April, 1891, to April, 1894, and in September, 1894, he left Blackall for Coolgardie, where he died. He took a great interest in local matters, more especially in the welfare of the local racing institutions. At various times he occupied the offices of alderman of the Blackall Municipality, chairman of the Kargoolnah Divisional Board, vice-president of the Blackall District Hospital, and vice-president of the Blackall Racing Club. From his genial manner and cheerful disposition he was a general favourite with everyone with whom he was brought into contact ; while his extreme generosity will make his name long remembered on the Barcoo, and his good deeds a fruitful subject of conversation at many a camp fire. Poor old Dan will be greatly missed, and many a long day will elapse before his name fades in the memory of a host of friends. He leaves a wife and two children, who reside in Sydney.

The obituary also appeared in Rockhampton’s Morning Bulletin of 24 January 1895.

There is a longer obituary in The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts (Barcaldine, Qld.), 22 January, page 9.  It mentions Daniel Budge’s connections with the Niall, Cudmore and Tozer families, his property dealings and his interest in local government and in horse-racing.

Barcaldine Small Debts Court. (1895, January 22). The Western Champion and General Advertiser for the Central-Western Districts (Barcaldine, Qld. : 1892 – 1922), p. 9. Retrieved October 22, 2013, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article79735787