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D is for Drummond Street

05 Tuesday Apr 2022

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2022, Ballarat, Greg Young, Young

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My husband Greg was born in the Ballarat Base Hospital in Drummond Street, one of the main north-south streets in the west part of the city.

The hospital is not far from where we live now in Mair Street; Greg likes to joke that for seventy-one years he’s moved himself an average of only three metres a year from his place of birth.

Ballarat Hospital on the corner of Sturt and Drummond streets

When he was born the Young family lived at 505 Drummond Street, five blocks south of the hospital.

505 Drummond Street in the 1990s
505 Drummond Street in 2017

In those days Ballarat had a network of trams. One ran along Drummond Street. This was very useful to a family without a car. The Ballarat trams were replaced by buses in 1971.

From a map of the Ballarat tramways in the collection of the Ballarat Tramways museum and used with permission. 505 Drummond Street, the hospital (H), and the SEC depot are marked in red.
A tram on Sturt Street Ballarat in 1945. Photograph from the National Archives of Australia, A1200, L2579, id 6816240


After the War, Greg’s father Peter was employed as an S.E.C. (State Electricity Commission) linesman. His gang had its base at an electricity power station, now gone, on the corner of Ripon Street and Wendouree Parade, a block north of where we live.

Peter travelled to work by bicycle. The S.E.C. depot was a mile or so from the Drummond Street house, ten minute’s pedal.

In 1953, when Greg was three, the Young family moved to Shepparton, then, a year later, to Albury, over the border in NSW. Greg has some memories of this move, but almost none of the house in Drummond Street.

Wendouree Parade looking at East power station on the corner of Ripon Street in the 1930s or 40s. Image from Rotary Club of Ballarat. A flour mill occupied the site before the Ballarat ‘A’ Power Station was constructed on the site in 1904. Part of the mill was used for the main power station building. The State Electricity Commission of Victoria took over operations of the station in the 1930s from the Electricity Supply Company Ballarat. The station ceased operation in
the 1950s and the site became the Mid Western Electricity Supply Region Office and Depot. In 1983 the major portion of activities conducted on the site were transferred to a new depot
in Norman Street Ballarat and the site completely closed in 1993. It has since been redeveloped for housing. From 1994 Environmental Audit report.

Related posts

  • N is for New Guinea
  • A picnic in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens
  • S is for Sebastapol school records

Wikitree:

  • Peter Young

In memory of lost homes

19 Sunday Jan 2020

Posted by Anne Young in 52 ancestors, Adelaide, Albury, Ballarat, Canberra, Castlemaine, Lilli Pilli

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The cynical French epigram “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” (The more change she is paid [when shopping], the more a lady will choose…)* describes it nicely: someone who has money left over from his purchase of a house will use it to choose additions and alterations and then, unsatisfied with the change he’s got out of it, will bowl the whole thing over and build a new home for himself on the cleared site.

* [perhaps I have not translated exactly 😉 ]

Many of the houses I recall from my childhood and later years have been destroyed by their new owners.

Of course the new owner is entitled to rebuild, and – who knows? – the new house may be more comfortable. It is not cheap to maintain an old house, and some new houses may be measurably better in every way. Even so, it is sad to see a place you knew and loved simply discarded like a worn-out shoe.

The house I grew up in and where we spent the first 30 years of our married life was bulldozed by its new owners.

Arnhem Place Red Hill May 2003
Arnhem Place Red Hill May 2003
20100321 Arnhem Place in afternoon 001
3 Arnhem Place dining room 2010
3 Arnhem Place sitting room 2010
3 Arnhem Place study 2010
3 Arnhem Place verandah 2010

The beach house my parents built when I was a child was badly damaged by termites, which had penetrated the concrete foundations. This was discovered too late for the house to be saved and it had to be torn down.

old St Barbary

My parents’ beach house when it was newly built in the 1960s

My paternal grandparents’ house in Adelaide was bulldozed by the people to whom it was sold.

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deCrespigny 1959 81 Esplanade_0001
deCrespigny 1959 81 Esplanade_0003
81 Esplanade abt 1966 (dating based on other pictures nearby including Nicholas)
81 Esplanade abt 1966 (dating based on other pictures nearby including Nicholas)
Me as a young child on the verandah of my paternal grandparents' house
Me as a young child on the verandah of my paternal grandparents’ house

My maternal grandparents’ house was extensively renovated after their death.  Although parts of it remain unchanged, the re-modelled house has quite a different feel to it.

19 Ridley Street about 1966

Me on my scooter outside my maternal grandparents’ house

The house of my mother-in-law, in Albury, was sold after her death. Then her pretty garden was cleared. Soon afterwards the house itself went.

Hovell Street Albury
front garden Hovell Street
Hovell Street bird bath
Hovell Street Peter's first steps on front fence
Hovell Street back garden with lemon tree
Hovell Street Peter back garden
Hovell Street Peter Charlotte gardening
Hovell street grandchildren gardening

Hovell Street Marjorie bush house

Greg’s mother Marjorie Young nee Sullivan in front of her bush house in the back garden

Hovell Street Greg 1966 Jim Windsor's car

1966: Greg sitting on the bonnet of a 1959 Plymouth. Jim Windsor, a family friend and the car’s owner is behind the wheel. Not sure who is in the passenger seat, probably Greg’s mother Marjorie. The car is parked in the street outside the Young family home.

Hovell Street Greg 1966

Greg outside his home in Albury 1966

My children liked playing in the garden, my son took some of his first steps clinging to the front fence, and there was the most magnificent and prolific lemon tree in the back garden.

Greg’s maternal grandparents’ house in Castlemaine, which he remembers as a lovely old place with chooks and a vegetable garden, has gone. Next door there’s now a car-wash. Down the road is a large estate of new houses, all made out of ticky-tacky. They all look just the same.

Sullivan Home 19 Elizabeth Street Castlemaine

There is an exception. The house of Greg’s early childhood in Ballarat still stands. Out the back Greg can remember a large stable. It’s still there.

505 Drummond Street about 1993

Ballarat snowman back yard 1949

1949 snowman in the back garden of the Ballarat house

For the most part the houses as physical structures have gone, but I will continue to remember them as warm homes I used to know and love.

Provenance of a photograph of Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy

06 Friday Sep 2019

Posted by Anne Young in Ballarat, Chauncy, family history, portrait

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Philip_Chauncy 1878

Philip Chauncy 1878, image attached to my ancestry.com family tree

The photograph above, “Philip_Chauncy 1878”, first shared by me on 27 March 2012 on my online public tree at Ancestry.com, has been saved and added by at least 13 people to their public Ancestry trees.

Yesterday someone asked me how I knew the subject was really Philip Chauncy, an excellent question. To able to substantiate your facts is the foundation of every sort of history.

Over twenty years ago, before Greg and I moved from Canberra to Ballarat, we spent an evening with one of my third cousins once removed, like me a descendant of Philip Lamothe Snell Chauncy (1816 – 1880), my 3rd great grandfather. My cousin and his wife very generously shared the results of their family history research with me, including a copy of “Philip_Chauncy 1878”, which I remember they said came from the Anglican Cathedral in Ballarat.

Philip Chauncy was appointed Registrar of the diocese of Ballarat in August 1878. He had lost his position as Government surveyor in January 1878 when around 400 public servants were sacked by the Victorian Government. He resigned as Registrar in late 1879 and died the following April. He had held the Registrar’s position for just over a year. The Church of England Messenger and Ecclesiastical Gazette for the Diocese of  Melbourne and Ballarat published an obituary on 7 June 1880.

Chauncy Philip obituary

THE LATE MR. PHILIP CHAUNCY. (1880, June 7). The Church of England Messenger and Ecclesiastical Gazette for the Diocese of Melbourne and Ballarat (Vic. : 1876 – 1889), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197135316

Three years ago Greg and I went to the Anglican Cathedral in Ballarat in search of “Philip_Chauncy 1878”, naturally expecting to have to make an appointment to view the archives. To our surprise the gentleman who met us at the door was able to take us directly to the photograph, which was hanging on the wall close to the entrance of the Diocesan offices. The photograph was captioned “Philip Chauncy Esq. Registrar of the Diocese 1878”, and signed “Richards & Co Ballarat”. It was indeed the image passed on to me by my cousin.

Anglican Diocesan Centre and Cathedral Ballarat

Anglican Diocese of Ballarat: Cathedral and Diocesan Offices Lydiard Street September 2016

Philip Chauncy

Portrait of Philip Chauncy hanging in the Diocesan Offices of the Anglican Diocese of Ballarat in September 2016

It is one of only two photographs of Philip Chauncy that I have come across, the other being a family portrait taken shortly after the death of Philip’s wife Susan in 1867.

PLS Chauncy and family about 1867

Philip Chauncy and children shortly after the death of Philip’s wife Susan Chauncy nee Mitchell in 1867. From left to right Auschar Philip (1855–1890), Amy Blanche (1861–1925), Theresa Snell (1849–1886), Frederick Philip Lamothe (1863–1926), Philip (1816 – 1880), on Philip’s lap Clement Henry (1865–1902), William Snell (1853–1903), Constance (1859–1907), Annie Frances (1857–1883)

Sources

  • Notes. (1878, September 13). The Church of England Messenger and Ecclesiastical Gazette for the Diocese of Melbourne and Ballarat (Vic. : 1876 – 1889), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197135877
  • MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1878. (1878, September 16). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 4. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5948571
  • Advertising (1879, December 2). The Church of England Messenger and Ecclesiastical Gazette for the Diocese of Melbourne and Ballarat (Vic. : 1876 – 1889), p. 10. Retrieved September 6, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197136149http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197136149
  • THE LATE MR. PHILIP CHAUNCY. (1880, June 7). The Church of England Messenger and Ecclesiastical Gazette for the Diocese of Melbourne and Ballarat (Vic. : 1876 – 1889), p. 6. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article197135316
  • Photographs taken by Anne Young 15 September 2016.

 

F is for Francis

06 Friday Apr 2018

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2018, Ballarat, Brighton, Edwards, Gilbart, immigration, insolvency, probate, railways, Trove

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One of my husband’s great great grandfathers was Francis Gilbart Edwards (1848-1913).

He was born at St Erth, Cornwall, on 21 January 1848, youngest of the nine children of Thomas Edwards (1794-1871) and Mary née Gilbart (1805-1867).

Francis Gilbart Edwards was christened at the parish church of St Erth on 11 June 1848. On the christening documents his father’s occupation is given as carpenter.

Shortly after Francis’s birth the family emigrated to Victoria, arriving at Port Philip on the Lysander on 13 January 1849.

On 27 December 1870 Francis Gilbart Edwards married Caroline Ralph (1850-1896) in Ballarat. At the time of his marriage Francis’s occupation was declared to be farmer.

Francis and Caroline had ten children:

  • Edith Caroline (1871-1946), Greg’s great grandmother, born Ballarat, Victoria
  • Lucy Gilbart (1873-1908) born Ballarat
  • Helena Mary Francis (1876-1950) born Ballarat
  • Annie Tuckfield (1879-1906) born Port Adelaide, South Australia
  • Elizabeth Christina (1881- ) born Gladstone, South Australia
  • Ethel Augusta (1885-1963) born Kensington, South Australia
  • Benjamin Gilbart (1887-1888) born Ballarat, died Richmond, Victoria
  • Stanley Gilbert (1889-1917) born Richmond
  • Ernest Francis Gilbart (1891-1901) born East Brunswick, died Brighton
  • Arnold Leslie Morton (1893-1904) born Brighton, died Elsternwick

The oldest three children of Francis and Caroline were born in Ballarat. Sometime between 1876 and 1879 the family moved to South Australia, and three more children were born there. A seventh child was born in Ballarat in 1887. Not long afterwards the family moved to Melbourne. In March 1888 their then youngest son died in Richmond. Three more sons were born in Melbourne. From the place of birth information on their birth certificates, it appears that the family moved from Richmond to East Brunswick, Victoria. In 1893 the youngest child, Arnold, was born in Brighton and died a year later in Elsternwick. (Richmond, East Brunswick, Brighton, and Elsternwick  are suburbs of Melbourne.)

On 1 December 1887 Francis joined the railways as a carriage cleaner.

In 1894, due to ‘a reduction in his wages and sickness in the family’, Francis became insolvent.

 

NEW INSOLVENTS. (1894, February 3). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 10. Retrieved from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8727630

 
On 22 July 1896, after six week’s illness, Caroline Edwards died of cancer of the uterus. At the time the Edwards were living in Grant Street, Brighton.

 

Ethel Augusta Edwards & James McCorkell 1911

Francis Gilbert Edwards, seated on the left, was photographed at the 1911 wedding of his daughter Ethel Augusta Edwards to James McCorkell

 

On 29 March 1913 Francis, who had been ill for twelve months, died of  diabetes, at Primrose Crescent, Brighton. His occupation was given as railway employee.

Francis Edwards died intestate. His estate, valued at £1076:13:1, included two houses, one at Primrose Crescent Brighton and the other at Male Street Brighton. Each was valued at 500 pounds. Also in his estate was money in the bank, a gold watch, jewellery, and a cow.

Gilbart, the maiden surname of Francis’s mother, has often been used in the family as a given name. Francis Edwards used it consistently as his second personal name. There have been variant spellings. My mother-in-law Marjorie insisted that Gilbart should be spelled with an ‘a’ rather than an ‘e’. Her mother, granddaughter of Francis, was christened Stella Esther Gilbart Dawson. Sometimes, however, the name is spelled ‘Gilbert’, perhaps because of a recording error and at other times perhaps quite deliberately. Stanley Gilbert Edwards (1889-1917), a son of Francis Gilbart Edwards, spelled it with an ‘e’ when he enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force in World War 1 and when he married.

References

  • Victorian Government Gazette, triennial list of railway employees 14 December 1905 page 4749
  • Marriage certificate Francis Gilbert Edwards Victoria 1870/3767
  • Death certificate Francis Gilbert Edwards Victoria 1913/605
  • Probate and administration files: Edwards Francis G, 1913, VPRS 28/ P3  unit 371,  item 129/694

Related posts

  • Edwards family immigration on the Lysander arriving in the Port Phillip District in 1849
  • Annie Tuckfield Edwards (1879-1906) – Lieutenant of the Salvation Army – fourth child of Francis
  • Z is for Zillebeke – about Stanley Gilbert Edwards, the eighth child of Francis

 

St Paul’s Ballarat

19 Friday Jan 2018

Posted by Anne Young in Ballarat, Champion de Crespigny, Chauncy

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This week Greg and I are going to the concerts of the 23rd Organs of the Goldfields Festival in Ballarat.

This morning’s recital was in St Paul’s, East Ballarat. My great great grandparents Annie Frances Chauncy and Philip Champion de Crespigny were married there in 1877.

The organ of St Paul’s was built in 1864 by J. Walker, London, and installed a year later.  With 20 stops and 830 pipes, this organ was said to have had a ‘beautiful tone’. In 1892 it was moved and a new hydraulic blowing engine was installed. In 1957 it was rebuilt and electrified, though the original pipework and tonal work was retained. In 2013 the organ was completely overhauled.

Despite these various improvements and restorations the organ we heard today is essentially the instrument that was played at my great great grandparents’ wedding 140 years ago. It might have been drowned out by  the rioting though.

organ at St Pauls Bakery Hill

The organ at St Paul’s Bakery Hill

 

 

Organ in St Pauls Church Ballarat Star 1865 05 23

THE ORGAN IN ST. PAUL’S CHURCH. (1865, May 23). The Ballarat Star (Vic. : 1865 – 1924), p. 2. Retrieved January 19, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article112886936

 

 

The east window is claimed to be the oldest example of the Melbourne firm, Urie and Ferguson. It was first installed in 1863. The church building collapsed in 1864 and was rebuilt and the window was refitted into the new building.

the east window of St Pauls Bakery Hill

The east window of St Paul’s, Bakery Hill, Ballarat

 

Ballarat Star 1863 03 31 pg 2

NEWS AND NOTES. (1863, March 31). The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 – 1864), p. 2. Retrieved January 19, 2018, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article72555970

References

  • History of St Paul’s Church, Bakery Hill
  • Ferguson and Urie WordPress blog: 31-03-1863: St Paul’s, Humfray St, Bakery Hill, Ballarat, Victoria.

Related posts

  • Wedding Wednesday: Philip Champion de Crespigny married Annie Frances Chauncy 25 October 1877
  • Trove Tuesday: discreditable conduct in church

A picnic in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens

14 Sunday Jan 2018

Posted by Anne Young in 52 ancestors, Ballarat, Cross, photographs, Young

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I don’t have a favourite photograph but I appreciate the photograph collection of my parents-in-law. I can remember sitting down with my father-in-law Peter Young (1920-1988) and asking him who was who in his collection of photographs. I noted down his answers in pencil on the back of each photo. Because we had that conversation, I have been able to work out the identity of many of those pictured. But despite these annotations there are still many puzzles.

91 2 Peter about 1924 Ballarat Botanic Gardens

Peter Young (1920-1988) sitting on a lion at the Ballarat Botanical Gardens about 1924

2 200 Peter and Elizabeth Young at Ballarat Gardens

Peter (wearing a tie) and Elizabeth Young nee Cross (wearing a striped dress) sitting on a cannon opposite the Ballarat Botanical Gardens in about 1924

2 197 3 73 perhaps Uncle Fred and Maggie

stamped “3 73” on the back, Peter identified this as perhaps Uncle Fred and Maggie. Uncle Fred could have been Fredrick Beswick Cross (1893-1959), brother of Elizabeth, father of Ethel and Freda Cross who might be the two small girls pictured picnicking. But it could also be Frederick Fletcher (1890-1967) who married Margaret Cross (1897-1926), Elizabeth’s sister and Peter’s aunt.

20 02 3 73 Peter and

A picnic near the Ballarat Botanical Gardens about 1924. Elizabeth young nee Cross (1900-1949) is wearing a striped dress. Her son Peter is the small boy seated wearing a tie. The older woman in a black dress is probably Anne Jane Cross nee Plowright (1862-1930), Elizabeth’s mother. I suspect the man in the hat might be Frederick James Cross (1857-1929), Elizabeth’s father but I am not sure. The two little girls might be Ethel and Freda Cross, born 1919 and 1920, Peter’s cousins and about the same age. I am not sure about the other two women, though the woman sitting by the tree is most likely one of Elizabeth’s sisters.

 

The last three photographs were all developed from the same roll of film based on the stamp of “3 73” on the back. I assume they were taken on the same day. Perhaps some cousins also have photographs taken on that day and can better identify those pictured.

The locations of these photographs are still recognisable. Children still sit on the lion and have their photos taken when visiting the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.

My cousin at Eureka

02 Saturday Dec 2017

Posted by Anne Young in 1854, Ballarat, Cudmore, Furnell

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I have a cousin who fought at the battle of Eureka stockade. The Eureka rebellion is considered by some historians to be the birthplace of Australian democracy. It is the only Australian example of armed rebellion leading to reform of unfair laws.

On 3 December 1854 soldiers and police stormed a stockade erected by miners at the Eureka lead, Ballarat.

One of the mounted police was Samuel Stackpoole Furnell (1823-1880), my second cousin five times removed.

Samuel Furnell was born in Limerick, Ireland on 22 January 1823. He was the son of Samuel Furnell and Mary nee Cudmore.

In November 1852 Mr S. S. Furnell arrived in Melbourne, Victoria as a passenger on the Delagny, which had left London on 30 July. He had briefly served as a private in the 2nd Regiment of Life Guards from October 1850 to March 1851. At the time of his arrival he was 29 years old.

Shortly after this Samuel Furnell enlisted as a police cadet. The list of unclaimed letters at Melbourne Post Office for 31 December 1852 published in the Government Gazette of 26 January 1853 includes a letter for Samuel S Furnell Police Cadet.

In 1853, Samuel Furnell served as a policeman on the Beechworth goldfields. In July he was reported as being a sub-inspector at Spring Creek near Beechworth. In August sub-inspector Furnell was reported to be hunting for bushrangers between Spring Creek and the New South Wales border.

Mounted police 1853

“Mounted police, gold escort guard / sketched on the spot” by S.T. Gill 1853

 

I am not sure when he moved to Ballarat, but by November 1854 Sub-inspector Furnell was reported to have been on detective duty on the Ballarat diggings in November 1854. At that time the Catholic priest Father Patrick Smyth informed Sub-inspector Furnell, and through Furnell, the Gold Commissioner Robert Rede, that the Government Camp was in great danger of assault from disgruntled miners. Smyth knew Furnell from the Beechworth diggings.

Before dawn on 3 December 1854, 182 soldiers and 94 police were led by Gilbert Amos, Commissioner of the Eureka camp, to the stockade set up by the miners. The soldiers attacked at dawn. Samuel Furnell was one of four sub-inspectors in charge of the 70 mounted police.

Furnell and the mounted troopers were on the west of the stockade threatening the flank and the rear. The attack was made by the soldiers where the slope was the steepest. This plan, conceived by Captain Thomas (later Lieutenant General Sir John Wellesley Thomas, KCB ), was regarded as clever.

Samuel Hughye, clerk at the Government Camp, made a diagram of the battlefield.  The position of the mounted police can be seen to the right of the diagram.

Hughye battlefield map

It has been noted by the historian Peter Fitzsimons that there has been criticism of the role played by the mounted police in the Eureka battle. He states however the police were not soldiers and it was never intended that they should storm the stockade. Their task as described by Captain Thomas was to threaten the stockade’s flank and rear. Fitzsimons writes that in military parlance to threaten means to distract an enemy or to restrict his tactical options. It does not necessarily mean to charge into the fray. Fitzsimons also notes that the mounted troopers would have found it difficult, if not impossible, to cross the wall of slabs forming the stockade, particularly while the stockade was being defended.

After the battle, Samuel Furnell was called to give evidence and described capturing John Fenwick who was running away from the stockade. Although Fenwick was arrested he was not sent for trial. Furnell also described capturing Henry Reid who was sent to trial for High Treason.

In January 1855 Samuel Furnell gave evidence about the events of 30 November 1854:

Samuel S. Furnell, being sworn, said I am a Sub Inspector of Police. I recollect the 30th of November. I was on duty. I went down after the police had been assaulted, with another party, to aid them. I found the police drawn up in the road, and from 500 to 1000 people drawn up in front of them. Some stones were being thrown at the police. Captain Carter accompanied me with foot police. Captain Carter sent two men to ask a man for his license, one of them was struck down ; this was in presence of the crowd. The crowd showed approbation, I should fancy. I was present when the act was read. It was about half past eleven or twelve. The military had been called out. A shot was fired. Saw Campbell running away, with smoke around him. I rode after him, and took him. He had a revolver on him, of which one barrel had been fired off. I saw M’Intyre at the meeting after the riot act was read. I saw Bryant there, he was violent. He was there I believe.

Mr. Michie: Do not tell us, sir, what you believe. Is he the man ?

Witness continued: Well, I do not know. I will not swear he is the man. I decline speaking about Goddard.

In the trials for High Treason Samuel Furnell gave evidence of the capture of Jan Vennik and on another day spoke about being called a “Joe” and other bad terms. He stated he had been “Joe’d” for two or three years on the diggings and was now pretty well used to it.

By June 1855 Samuel Furnell was a sub-inspector at Castlemaine.

Furnell rose to the rank of Police Superintendent 1st class, in charge of the Geelong district.

References

  • Samuel was the great grandson of Paul Cudmore (1737-1806), my sixth great grandfather, thus we are 2nd cousins, five times removed; he was the second cousin of Daniel Michael Paul Cudmore (1811-1891) my 3*great grandfather.
  • http://eurekapedia.org/Main_Page – hyperlinks in text above to specific entries
  • MELBOURNE SHIPPING. (1852, November 23). Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 – 1875), p. 2. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60134510
  • Victorian Government Gazette, No 5, 26 January 1853, 71 – Page 85 Victorian Government Gazettes  (AustLII)  26 January 1853
  • SCRAPS FROM THE OVENS. (1853, July 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4794876
  • SCRAPS FROM THE OVENS. (1853, August 6). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 6. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4795455
  • Molony, John N. (John Neylon) and Molony, John C.,  Eureka (2nd ed). Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Vic, 2001. Pages 112, 218. From Google books preview.
  • FitzSimons, Peter Eureka. Random House Australia ; Enfield : Publishers Group UK [distributor], Milson’s Point, N.S.W, 2012. Chapter 8. Retrieved from Google books preview.
  • BALLAARAT. (1854, December 11). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801610
  • BALLAARAT. (1854, December 12). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 4. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4801655
  • SUPREME COURT. (1855, January 20). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 4. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4803333
  • WITNESSES. (1855, February 14). The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 – 1954), p. 5. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article154851351
  • SUPREME COURT. (1855, March 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 6. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4805761
  • SUPREME COURT. (1855, March 27). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4805920
  • CASTLEMAINE POLICE COURT (1855, June 15). Mount Alexander Mail (Vic. : 1854 – 1917), p. 2. Retrieved December 2, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article202634565
  • Victoria Police Gazette 2 February 1875 page 23 retrieved through ancestry.com

S is for Sebastapol school records

21 Thursday Apr 2016

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2016, Ballarat, Cross, education, genealogical records

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One day I was browsing the resources of the Ballarat Archives Centre and came across some microfiche prepared by the Ballarat and District Genealogical Society, the  Ballarat and District School Students Registers – Consolidated Index 1864-1963 (BDGS).

I checked for my husband’s father. He was listed and I learned something that I hadn’t known. He had moved schools and addresses while living in Ballarat as a child.

Ernest Young was born on 8 July 1920 in Melbourne to Elizabeth Young née Cross and Cecil Young. Ernest was always known as Peter. His parents separated and Peter and his mother lived with her parents, Frederick James Cross and Ann Jane née Plowright.

Peter Young aged about seven.

The Cross family lived at Homebush near Avoca for many years. In the early 1920s Frederick James Cross sold his property there and the family moved to Sebastopol near Ballarat. They lived on the corner of Grant and Victoria Streets. The house is still there.

Peter outside the Cross house on the corner of Grant and Victoria Streets, Sebastopol.
The house on the corner of Grant and Victoria Streets where Peter Young lived with his mother and grandparents. Photographed May 2014.

The Sebastopol Primary School records are held by the Sebastopol & District Historical Society, housed in the old Sebastopol school building. The Society is open on the first Sunday of each month from 2 to 4 in the afternoon.

The old building of the Sebastopol State School now houses the Sebastopol & District Historical Society. Photographed May 2014.

Ernest Young started school at Sebastopol on 3 June 1925, just over a month before his fifth birthday. His father, Cecil Young, was named as his parent. Cecil’s occupation was given as labourer.

The school records show that Peter left Sebastopol to attend Urquart Street school in Ballarat in December 1929.

Peter’s grandfather Frederick James Cross had died in May 1929 and the family moved house.

The Urquart Street School records indicate that he was living at 419 Ascot Street and that he left in December 1931 to go to Melbourne.

Peter’s grandmother died in November 1930. It seems that another upheaval in his living arrangements followed.

Urquhart Street SS No 2013 – Vision and Realisation Vol 2. from Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Resources – Ballarat Schools
The former Urquart Street School photographed May 2014
The house at 419 Ascot Street Ballarat photographed May 2014

I don’t know where Peter went to school in Melbourne. His mother found work as a housekeeper there.

Further Reading

  • Ballarat & District Genealogical Society Resources – Ballarat Schools

J is for James: James Curtis (1826–1901)

13 Monday Apr 2015

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2015, Ballarat, Greg Young

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J is for James: James Curtis (1826–1901), a Ballarat pioneer and one of the city’s more notable citizens.

James Curtis has no entry in the ‘Australian Dictionary of Biography’, but in his time he was moderately important and fairly well known in Ballarat and beyond for his contributions to—well, if you are one of those people (I was) who think the Victorians were stern, serious, and straight-laced, you’d never guess.

Curtis had joined in the first Ballarat gold rushes of 1851. He didn’t find much—a tiny nugget the size of a pea—and he was £30 poorer for the attempt. He quickly abandoned gold-digging and returned to his trade, type-setting.

In the early 1860s Curtis established one of Ballarat’s first printing presses, and by the 1870s, as proprietor of the Caxton Steam Printing Works in Armstrong Street, the city’s second-largest printing house (‘letterpress, lithographic, and copperplate printer, account book manufacturer, &c’) he had become a wealthy and successful businessman.

Over the next few decades Curtis joined whole-heartedly in the commercial and civic life of Ballarat. He was a director of the Prince Regent and the Sebastopol Plateau gold mines; a member of the board of the Ballarat Land Mortgage & Agency Company Limited; a member of the Old Colonists’ Association; a long-standing member of the boards of the Benevolent Asylum and the Ballarat District Orphan Asylum; the Treasurer of the Harmonic Society, Ballarat’s choir; a founding member of the Ballarat Debating Club; a patron of the arts; a chess enthusiast; and a well-known cyclist and tricyclist.

In short, Curtis became a successful businessman and a prominent and respectable Ballarat citizen, who ‘for many years identified himself with the progress of the `Golden City”.

James Curtis, however, had a side that was less conventional. In the late 1870s he began to believe that we survive death, that ‘death’ was merely a change of state, a butterfly emerging from its chrysalis; discarnate spirits were, reassuringly, very much like us; and the world of the spirits was comfortably similar to the world we mortals presently inhabit. These were demonstrable facts, objectively true, backed by verifiable testimony from reliable witnesses, including Curtis himself.

And so Curtis became a Spiritualist. He joined a séance Circle, helped to convene a ‘Psychological Society’, whose aim was ‘the proof of soul by facts’, sought out the best and most powerful mediums in Melbourne, Sydney, and Hobart, sat with visiting American celebrity mediums—two of the most famous were Henry Slade and Jesse Shepard—and applied himself to spreading knowledge of what he had discovered. He had a printing works of his own; this he used to print pamphlets explaining spiritualism and opposing its detractors. He printed and published a 300-page book, called ‘Rustlings in the Golden City’ about his spiritual awakening. Well received in Ballarat and beyond, ‘Rustlings’ went through three editions.

None of this was too unusual. Spiritualism had quite a number of adherents in the second half of the nineteenth century, many of them cautious, well-educated, far from gullible, and outspoken in their advocacy of the glorious truths they had found about death and the afterlife.

Curtis’s spiritualism was a little different, however, for much of it concerned his relations with a particular person, not just the broad concept of life after our translation to the next plane. When Curtis emigrated to Australia in 1849 he left his sweetheart Annie Beal behind in Southampton. He never saw her again, for she died of tuberculosis the next year. Curtis’s writings are full of Annie, his joy at finding her still alive (in the world above) and his longing to be reunited with her. She loved him still, and wrote to him constantly, through mediums, to tell him so.

Curtis’s love affair with his dead darling Annie was partly the product of his spiritualism, and his spiritualism was to some extent underwritten, shown to be true, by the fact of their continuing love for each other.

It’s easy to sneer; let’s just hope that they were indeed finally re-united forever, as they yearned to be, on his death in 1901.

A guest blog post written by my husband Greg.



C is for cremation

02 Wednesday Apr 2014

Posted by Anne Young in A to Z 2014, Ballarat, cemetery

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In Australia we usually dispose of a dead body by burial or burning: interment or cremation.

Cremation rates vary across the world. In Japan almost all bodies are cremated. Fewer than 10% of disposals in Italy are cremated. Just over 40% of the dead in the US are cremated.  (“Ashes to Ashes.” The Economist. The Economist Newspaper, 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 02 Apr. 2014. <http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/10/daily-chart-16>.) (“Disposing of the Dead – Cremation.” Australian Museum, 12 Jan. 2010. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://australianmuseum.net.au/Disposing-of-the-dead-Cremation/>.)

In some areas Indigenous Australians buried their dead and in other areas they cremated their dead. (Australian Museum ibid. ) The history of modern Australian cremation followed trends in Britain, Europe and the United States from the 1870s. (Cremation. (2014, March 30). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:00, April 2, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cremation&oldid=601906525)

Today in Australia about half of those who die each year are cremated. In the cities it is just over two-thirds. There are about 145,000 deaths each year in Australia and that is expected to rise to about 160,000 by 2019. A cremation costs from about $600, whereas a burial, in Sydney, can cost more than ten times this figure. (Evans, Simon. “Cremation Favoured in Tough Economy.” Financial Review. Australian Financial Review, 4 Sept. 2013. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.afr.com/p/business/companies/cremation_favoured_in_tough_economy_Uh4ynSvpzwzkRIZbOdlxyH>.)

The first crematorium in Australia (and in the Southern Hemisphere) was built in Adelaide in 1903 at West Terrace cemetery. In 1891 South Australia had been the first Australian state to legalise cremation. The crematorium operated until 1959 and was demolished ten years later. (“Crematorium.” West Terrace Cemetery History. Adelaide Cemeteries Authority, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.aca.sa.gov.au/OurCemeteries/WestTerraceCemeteryHistory/Crematorium.aspx>.)

Crematorium, Adelaide, South Australia. , 1919.Image retrieved through Trove from State Library of New South Wales, digital order number d1_13488,  from http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36913995

The Cremation Society of New South Wales was formed in 1908 but it wasn’t until the 1920s that land was set aside at Sydney’s Rookwood cemetery for Australia’s second crematorium. Another crematorium opened in the northern suburbs of Sydney in the 1930s. (“The Development of Rookwood Cemetery.” About Rookwood Cemetery. Rookwood General Cemetery Trust, 2011. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.rookwoodcemetery.com.au/index.php/about-rookwood/history-of-rookwood/the-development-of-rookwood-cemetery>.) (“Our History.” About Us. Northern Suburbs Memorial Gardens and Crematorium, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.northernsuburbscrem.com.au/en/AboutUs/OurHistory/OurHistory.aspx>.

In Victoria, the Fawkner cemetery in Melbourne established a crematorium in 1927 and Springvale Necropolis opened a crematorium in the 1930s. The first cremation at Springvale was in April 1905. A crematorium at Ballarat was opened in March 1958. (CREMATION. (1905, April 14). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 5. Retrieved January 11, 2015, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9885398) (“Our History.” About Our Cemetery. Springvale Botanical Cemetery, n.d. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <https://sbc.smct.org.au/our-history/>.) (Ayton, Gary. “History of Cremation.” My Brief History of the World [Gary Ayton’s Photography Wiki]. Gary Ayton, 28 Mar. 2008. Web. 2 Apr. 2014. <http://www.ayton.id.au/gary/History/H_cremation.htm>.) (Wickham, Dorothy, and Peter Butters. The Silent City: A History of Ballaarat General Cemeteries. Ballarat, Vic.: Ballarat Heritage Services, 2006. pages 30-35.)

Ballarat’s first non-indigenous cremation was of an Indian man called Casa Singh on 12 May 1932. The cremation was held at Ballarat Common and supervised by the City Heath Authority.

HINDU CREMATED. (1932, May 13). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 – 1957), p. 10. Retrieved April 2, 2014, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article4451726

When my husband’s grandmother died in 1949 in Ballarat she was cremated at Fawkner.  I am not sure why and there is nobody left to ask. Other members of her family are buried in a pretty cemetery near Ballarat at Carngham and I am surprised she is not buried there with them. Cremation in Melbourne, more than 100 km away, would have been more expensive than burial at that time. Perhaps cremation was something she had expressed a wish for.

If I look at my family tree and who was buried and cremated I have:

  • my husband’s parents were buried (died 1988 and 2007)
  • both my paternal grandparents were cremated (died 1966 and 2013), my maternal grandparents were buried (died 1988 and 1992), my husband’s paternal grandparents were cremated (they were separated so it was not a joint decision) (died 1949 and 1975), my husband’s maternal grandparents are both buried (both died 1975)
  • three of my four paternal great grandparents were cremated (two died 1951 and the other 1952), the remainder of that generation and previous generations are buried.

I haven’t had time to compile statistics for Australia before publishing this blog. The statistics I have seen indicate that cremations in Australia only increased in number in the 1940s.

 

Saving Graves 

Saving Graves is an initiative on Facebook in Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia – each state facing different issues. There is also a web page on the Australian Cemeteries website. My particular interest is Victoria.  Recently I have been in contact with Lambis Englezos who is concerned about the preservation of graves of World war 1 veterans.  I knew of Lambis and more particularly of the work of his colleagues Sandra Playle and Tim Lycett, as my husband’s great uncle, Leslie Leister, was one of the Australian soldiers buried in a mass grave at Fromelles.

In Victoria many cremation memorials are not permanent.  There was a period when one could not acquire a permanent memorial for those who had been cremated; in many cemeteries the space for the plaque was only leased for 25 years.

While the Victorian Government confirmed last year that burials in Victorian cemeteries will continue to be perpetual (the graves won’t be reused), memorials for those who have been cremated are unfortunately not always perpetual. For a number of years, families could not a perpetual memorial for a family member if that person was cremated.

At Fawkner Cemetery all memorials for those who had been cremated between 1984 and 2005 were for limited tenure. From 2009 some memorials began to expire. For a fee these can be converted. In 2011 the fee was $752 for two memorials. Many memorials will not be converted as family may be unaware of the expiry or not have the money to convert perhaps multiple memorials. At Springvale Cemetery, limited tenure began in 1955 and all memorials from 1976 to 1998 were for limited tenure. These are two major cemeteries which are removing expired memorials but they are not the only memorial parks affected. Ballarat also removes memorials where the lease has expired.

Memorial plaque at Springvale tagged to show it will be removed as tenure has expired.

Thousands of memorials are affected such as the one pictured, at Springvale. The process is for the cemetery to notify the family or whoever holds the right of interment. Also an orange sticker is placed on the memorial in some memorial parks. Once the notification period has expired, the memorial is removed. There are many people who did not have the opportunity to be remembered permanently because only temporary memorials were available.

While the Victorian State Government authority responsible for cemeteries states that  “Victoria has a proud tradition of caring for its forebears in a system of public cemeteries,”I would like to see this encompass those who were cremated, especially where families did not have the option to purchase the right to a permanent memorial.

The Australian Institute of Genealogical Studies has an excellent initiative to photograph and index expired tenure plaques at Springvale.

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