tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43599781083936110042024-03-13T20:13:01.870-07:00The Other Half of My Tree - stories of my female ancestorsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-91685214966429350842015-02-01T03:22:00.000-08:002015-02-01T04:35:13.395-08:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #3 - Tough Woman - Hannah Nesbitt (1827-1913)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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Alnwick is a small market village in the north of Northumberland. It is built near and has serviced <a href="http://www.alnwickcastle.com/explore/history">Alnwick Castle</a> for around 700 years. </div>
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Alnwick Castle has been the home of one of the most powerful northern barony of England, the E<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_of_Northumberland">arls of Northumberland</a> and still is the home of the Percy family and the present day Earl of Northumberland. In was in this village that my great great grandmother Hannah Nesbitt was born in early August 1827.</div>
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Hannah is the subject of my third blog in the 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks category "tough woman". Her story starts in the lush green country side of north of England, living in a small village on the outskirts of a castle and finishes in the dry and dusty outback of South Australia living in the small copper mining community of<a href="http://www.burrahistory.info/"> Burra.</a> </div>
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Hannah's baptism, at St Michael's Church, Alnwick, on the 3 August 1827 lists her parents as Anthony Nesbitt and Margaret Ramsay. Anthony's occupation was a commercial traveler. Unfortunately, when Hannah was only 7 years old her father passed away. However, her father's will left the family with a reasonable weekly income and Hannah remained in Alnwick until she married Francis Albert Newman at St Paul's Church, Alnwick on the 1 November 1847.</div>
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Soon after their marriage Hannah and Francis Newman moved to<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunbury-on-Thames"> Sunbury on the Thames, </a>London. Their first daughter Hannah Martha was born in October 1848 and was baptised at St Mary Church, Sunbury. It seems that the family was living in or near one of the local pubs as Francis Newman's occupation is listed as publican on Hannah's baptism record</div>
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Two years later, Francis, Hannah and their daughter left London (9 March 1950), bound for the Australian settlement of Adelaide, South Australia on the <a href="http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/1850Boyne.htm">"Boyne"</a>.*</div>
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Little is known about their first couple of years in the colony of Adelaide, however life in this new colony would not have been easy for Francis and Hannah. Shortly after their arrival, on November 17th 1850, their second daughter Margaret Ramsay was born.</div>
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<b><i>Life was soon to take a difficult turn for Hannah</i></b>. Francis decided to seek his fortune in the Victorian Goldfields joining the <a href="http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/vicgold.htm">exodus of males from Adelaide to the goldfields</a> around <a href="http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ballarat-history">Ballarat and Bendigo</a>. Unfortunately, Francis passed away quite soon after his arrival in the gold field. </div>
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His death left his widow, Hannah to fend for herself and their two daughters. Two years later Hannah married William Herbert, and moved to the Burra. In the space of six years, Hannah, a young women of 27 years, had left the quiet life of the small village in Northumberland, married, moved to London, borne two daughters, immigrated to a small colony on the other side of the world, lost her husband and remarried. </div>
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Hannah spent the rest of her life living in Burra where she would lived through and seen the fluctuations of prosperity experienced by Burra community and its copper miners and farmers.</div>
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William and Hannah had four surviving sons (William, John, Charles and George) who along with Hannah and Martha (daughters from her first marriage) spent their formative years in the Burra Community. William passed away in 1881 and Hannah continued to live with her family in one of the small miners cottages in Bridge Terrace. </div>
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On the 12 January 1913 after a "lingering illness" at the age of 86 Hannah passed away at her home in Burra. Her death was mourned by her two daughters Hannah and Margaret from her first marriage, her sons John, George and Charles from her second marriage and numerous grandchildren.**</div>
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* <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38440888"><span style="background-color: #fafae1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3350009918213px;">1850 'SHIFTING INTELLIGENCE.', </span><i style="background-color: #fafae1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3350009918213px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">South Australian Register</i><span style="background-color: #fafae1; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.1000003814697px; line-height: 16.3350009918213px;">(Adelaide, SA : 1839 - 1900), 15 July, p. 2, viewed 1 February, 2015, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article38440888</span></a></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-79626571951858099452015-01-19T02:52:00.000-08:002015-01-23T19:05:15.598-08:0052 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #1: Barbara Martin (1827-1902)<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 15px;">T</span>his year, I have challenged myself to join Amy Johnson Crow's Challenge - </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/">52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><a href="http://www.nostorytoosmall.com/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks/">. </a>Hopefully this will provide me with incentive to put pen to paper and write a few more family stories. As we are already into the third week of 2015, I am a little late getting started, however the plan is to to catch up over the next couple of weeks. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This challenge will not only give me the motivation to research family members further, but also help me to connect with other researchers who may be connected and researching the same family members.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">It is my experience that a story shared inevitably links you with other family members. Over the next 12 months I plan to split my 52 ancestor stories over my two blogs, </span><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/" style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Family Stories, Photographs and Memories</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">, and this blog, </span><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/" style="line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">The other half of my tree, stories of my female ancestors</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Keeping with the theme "a fresh start" I have chosen to write about my husbands great great grandmother, <b>Barbara Martin (1827-1902)</b>. Barbara was the second child of Adam and Janet Martin, and was born in the Scottish moorland village of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnwath">Carnwath, Lanarkshire, Scotland</a> in March 1827.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">The journey from Greenock Scotland to Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 1855 on the </span><i style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;"><a href="http://www.clydesite.co.uk/clydebuilt/germany/JOHN_BELL_6.html">"John Bell</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">" was most certainly a fresh start for Barbara and her family. Barbara's parents Adam Martin (1800-1875) and Janet Russell (1801-1879), along with her siblings, immigrated to Tasmania as part of the </span><a href="http://www.maritimetas.org/collection-displays/displays/over-seas-stories-tasmanian-migrants/assisted-migrants-and-bounty-schem" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">Bounty Ticket System</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; line-height: 20.7900009155273px;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">It has been difficult to discover the latter events in Barbara life, though we do know from her death certificate she spent the last twenty years of her life living in New South Wales.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the first of February 1902 Barbara passed away at the age of 74. Her death certificate states that she was living with her son William in Victoria Road, Marrickville.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Though there are still many gaps in Barbara's story, you would definitely have to agree that her story fits well into the "fresh start" category and that in her 74 years she had certainly seen and experienced a full and eventful life.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-11485770079806813362014-11-01T22:01:00.001-07:002014-11-01T22:01:57.111-07:00Sharing Memories - Sibling Sunday<div style="text-align: justify;">
On my blog <i><b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/">Family Stories, Photographs and Memories</a></b></i>, I feature a collection of blogs <a href="http://%22sharing%20memories%22/">"Sharing Memories</a>". I write these stories, in recognition of the importance of sharing our own stories for later generations and present younger family members. Today, I write with a little sadness and dedicate this "Sharing Memory" post to my twin sisters Nancy and Larraine. Two weeks ago, Larraine or Laine as we like to call her passed away after a long illness, to join her sister Nancy, previously deceased. </div>
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Nancy and Larraine were very special people who lived their lives in their own way, pushing some boundaries, and bringing joy to many. When thinking of them, the wise words of Dr Seuss come mind "<i>Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"</i>.</div>
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To celebrate there memory I would like to share some family photos from when we were children.<br />
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This photo and the two below were taken when we lived on <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/amanuensis-monday-sharing-memories.html">Nuntherungie Station</a>, between White Cliffs and Broken Hill. This was a very different and interesting start to life for a family of four girls.<div>
We did our schooling through <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/sharing-memories-early-school-days-in.html">"School of the Air</a>" and Blackfriars Correspondence School, and spend out free time wandering the <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/thankful-thursday-sharing-memories-here.html">arid bush land and celebrating rainfalls</a> and going on <a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1800708955"></span>trips with our father in his jeep <span id="goog_1800708956"></span></a>when he was looking after the stock and fences on the property.<br /><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i><b>I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just go started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.</b></i> Dr Seuss.</div>
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<b>Early Friday morning on the 7 December 1934 Mr Kenton, a local corporation employee was rowing on the River Torrens, Adelaide, South Australia. He noticed something floating in the deep water on the southern bank near the Frome Road Bridge (<a href="http://www.yelp.com.au/biz/albert-bridge-adelaide">also known as the Albert Bridge)</a>. To his dismay it was the fully clothed body of an older women. He contacted the local Torrens Lake Police Station and they recovered the body of my great grandmother Caroline Herbert</b>. </div>
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Caroline or Carrie as she was called by some, was reported missing on the previous evening by her step-daughter Annie Whitehorn. She had been staying with Annie at her home in Prospect for a few months. She was due to return to Broken Hill where her son Roy Herbert, and step daughter Essel Quinn resided. This return would have been just in time to celebrate her 58th birthday on the 9 December.<br />
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Caroline was born on the 9 December 1871, the town of Narridy in the Clare District of South Australia. She was the second child of Ferdinand (Frederick) Hornhardt (1846-1911) and Martha Barbary (1857-1931). Martha and Frederick lived in a number of districts outside of Adelaide, including Narridy, <a href="http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/teetulpa.htm">Teetupa</a> and <a href="http://www.bonzle.com/c/a?a=p&p=295679&cmd=sp">Wadnamiga</a>, moving their family of eight children from one gold mining site to another. Finally, around the turn of the century they made the long journey to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalgoorlie">Kalgoorlie</a>, in Western Australia. I don't believe that Caroline traveled with them to Western Australia, as at this time she would have been in her early twenties.<br />
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This period (late 1890's) in Australian History was time of financial difficulty for many families. Years of drought, had driven rural families to the cities. <a href="http://www.hbs.edu/businesshistory/Documents/BHR870302.pdf">Banks crashed in Australia</a> and internationally. Those who stayed in the country survived by eating possums, rabbits and kangaroos that they trapped. South Australia as with the rest of Australia moved in to a <a href="http://www.myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1890/decade_landing_11.html?tabRank=2&subTabRank=2">severe economic depression</a><a href="http://www.myplace.edu.au/decades_timeline/1890/decade_landing_11.html?tabRank=2&subTabRank=2">.</a> There was no government support, and many were evicted from their humble dwellings. These economic hardships could most probably have been the reason Martha and Frederick made the hazardous journey to the gold fields of Western Australia. Many of the churches stepped in and took on the role of trying to care and provide for the basic needs of the destitute families living in Adelaide. </div>
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One such organisation was <a href="http://www.adventist.org.au/site_data/90/assets/0001/3638/No15RescueHomesandRemedieswithWater-1.pdf">The Helping Hand mission</a> that was started in a narrow two storied building on West Terrace, Adelaide. This home provided for orphans, destitute women and unwed mothers, providing the with meals and clothing and a place to stay. It was here that Caroline gave birth to her first daughter Muriel on the 27 November 1899. Muriel's birth certificate advises that Caroline was a single mother from the mining town of Burra. It must have been a very tough time for Caroline, as single mother. Society place a strong stigma on single mothers, and they were, in general, regarded with disgrace and there was often strong pressure on the mothers to have their child adopted.</div>
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It is not clear how Caroline and her small daughter survived the next three years. Maybe she live with relatives in Adelaide, or perhaps was supported by the Helping Hand mission.<br />
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About the same time as this my great grandfather <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/sundays-obituary-john-herbert-1862-1926.html">John Herbert</a>, also living in Burra, lost his wife <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/matrilineal-monday-louisa-seaford-1872.html">Louisa (nee Seaford</a>). Louisa died on the 3 April 1902 (her 30th birthday) from cholera, leaving John with a young family of four children to fend and care for. Early in the following year, on the 5th February, John Herbert married Caroline a Kooringa, Burra. I wonder if this was an arranged married? A marriage of convenience, for John, someone to help look after his family, and for Caroline a home and the support of a husband? Did they know each other? Had Caroline's father, Frederick Hornhardt met with John and suggested the marriage to his daughter as a solution to his predicament? So many questions?<br />
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In the 1980's when I was first starting to research my family tree I traveled to Adelaide and was so lucky to meet my Great Aunt Annie Whitehorn (nee Herbert) and she recalled "<i>I still remember the day, my Dad came home with a strange lady and a little girl and told us all, "this is your new mother".</i>" It must have been a difficult time for Caroline caring for five small children, four of them still grieving for their mother as well as a husband who was 14 years older than her. Sometime in 1904, Caroline's daughter Muriel,went to live with her grandmother, Martha Hornhardt, in Western Australia. I don't know if she had any further contact with Caroline and her new family.</div>
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Before long Caroline and John family expanded with the birth of Jack, Roy (my grandfather) and Lilian. Caroline and John continued to live in the mining town of <a href="http://burra./">Burra.</a> John working for the local council. <a href="http://www.burrahistory.info/BurraHistory.htm">Burra,</a> a small mining town north of Adelaide was the site of one of the world's major copper mines between 1845-1877. It also served as a transport hub, for the north east of the colony. Following the closing of the mine the district became one of the main wheat growing and wool producing areas of South Australia. The Herbert family would have witnessed many the many changes and fluctuating prosperity of the district. </div>
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The children (Alice, Essel, <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/sentimental-sunday-william-john-herbert.html">William (Bob)</a>, Annie, from John's first marriage, and Jack, Roy and Lillian from Caroline and John's marriage) grew up in Burra, attending the <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/those-places-thursday-burra-model.html">Burra Model School</a>. John's health was not the best, my Aunt Annie told me she could remember her step mother, heating bags of salt in the oven to ease his pain. Then on the <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/07/sundays-obituary-john-herbert-1862-1926.html">5 January 1926, </a>John passed away suddenly.<br />
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Hook, Milton, "Rescue Homes and Remedies with Water - Adventist Benevolent Work in Australia", <a href="http://www.adventist.org.au/site_data/90/assets/0001/3638/No15RescueHomesandRemedieswithWater-1.pdf"> http://www.adventist.org.au/site_data/90/assets/0001/3638/No15RescueHomesandRemedieswithWater-1.pdf</a>, viewed 6 September 2014, </div>
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Historical Times, Burra History Group, <a href="http://www.burrahistory.info/BurraHistory.htm">http://www.burrahistory.info/BurraHistory.htm</a>, viewed 6 September 2014.</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-25151329072689884382014-07-20T00:25:00.000-07:002014-07-20T00:25:40.334-07:00Matrilineal Monday - Emily McGregor 1872-19<div class="x_MsoNormal" style="font-size: 11pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been a while since I put pen to paper (so to speak) and it is time I continued with the stories of the </span><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/matrilineal-monday-ladies-of-mcgregor.html" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">McGregor Sisters</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emily McGregor is the next McGregor sister in line and she has a been quite a stumbling block. It has been very quiet difficult to find any bits and pieces of information on her life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emily was born on the 30 October 1872, at Bombay on the Shoalhaven River, after the family moved from the Araluen Gold in the late 1860's. From reports in the newspapers at this </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">time the gold fields at </span>Araluen<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> weren’t as productive, and so it is possible that James and Margaret </span>McGregor<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> decided to try their luck in the newer gold mining area on the banks of the </span>Shoalhaven<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"> River. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">The family stayed in this district for about eight years before they packed their bags for the “big smoke” and moved the family to live in Booth Street, in the Sydney suburb of </span>Balmain<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">In the words of Dr Seuss, time has flown by. It certainly has been a while since I have posted a blog!!! However, even though I haven't written much lately, I have been very busy collecting and researching. Over the past couple of months I have had the good fortune to connect with a number of my cousins, who have been able to provide me with the most amazing family tree information, photos, post cards an letters. I am a present doing a Genealogical Spring Clean, sorting and filing all the scanned files that I have on a number of usb sticks. Very time consuming, however, there is light the end of the tunnel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I have spend this afternoon working through the scanned photos from one of my Aunt's albums and amongst these photos is a beautiful photo of my grandmother <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/christina-sterland-lee.html">Christina Lee</a>, when she would have been around 20 years old. The picture is of Christina Lee, with her brother (Clyde Lee)'s wife Hilda in the Blue Mountains. </span> </div>
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I have always wondered why my <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/christina-part-two-letters-from.html"><b>Grandmother Christina Sterland Lee</b></a> (1901-1984) was called Christina Sterland and where her unusual middle name of Sterland came from. </div>
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Sadly Christina Sterland (nee McGregor) passed away at the tender age of 30 on the 17th May 1901 and my grandmother was born only twelve days after her death (29 May) and her sister <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/catherine-and-george-lee-on-thier.html"><b>Catherine Lee,</b></a> still in mourning, named her new baby daughter Christina Sterland Lee.</div>
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Like her sisters Christina was born in the mining town of <a href="http://www.argylecounty.com.au/towns/araluen.html"><b>Araluen</b></a> in the <b><a href="http://www.visitbraidwood.com.au/">Braidwood</a> </b>district of southern New South Wales. Soon after her birth <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/wordless-wednesday-james-mcgregor-and.html">James and Margaret McGregor</a> </b>moved their family from the gold fields of <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2014/03/mappy-monday-jinglemoney-araluen.html"><b>Araluen</b></a> to try their luck at a little further away at Bombay on the Shoalhaven River. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">In 1892, at the age of 22 Christina married a widower, Mr Thomas Arthur Sterland, who had lost his first wife of five years in the previous year. Christina and Thomas lived in Thomas's greengrocer store on the corner of Darling Street and Nelson St, Balmain and Christina became step mother to Thomas's small son Albert. Christina and Thomas had three children of their own, Leslie, Stanley and Roy. The photo above shows the children and their parents. </span></div>
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On the 27<sup>th</sup> September 1868, Margaret and James McGregor’s family numbers swelled by two more, when twins Margaret and Peter McGregor were born. The family at this time was living at Araluen, in the Braidwood district. Unfortunately, Margaret's twin Peter passed away at an early age, at this stage I am not able to confirm the date or cause of his death. </div>
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In 1896 at the age of 28 Maggie met and married Albert James Cullen (1870-1946) who had immigrated to Australia from London. They started married life living in the Leichardt district of Sydney, close to Margaret's parents and family. Margaret ad Albert had three children, Anthea Vivian (b. 1896), Ethel (b. 1898) and Frederick James (1903-1966).</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-26340944573400182942014-03-07T02:15:00.000-08:002014-03-07T02:15:08.229-08:00Funeral Card Friday - with a twist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
Today's Funeral Card Friday post has a little twist, as you can see below. I have had one of the funeral cards that was sent out to family members when my great grandmother<a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/catherine-and-george-lee-on-thier.html"><b> Catherine Lee (nee McGregor)</b></a> passed away on the 12 August 1945, for quiet sometime. However, recently when I was going through and sorting a couple of boxes of photos I found a little gem. Amongst the photos, was a small brown envelope addressed to my<a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/my-memories-of-nanna-christina-carriage.html"> <b>Nanna, Christina Carraige (Shepherd, nee Lee) </b></a>.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-6910455898680810992013-12-28T19:42:00.000-08:002013-12-28T19:42:07.412-08:00Sunday's Obituary - Catherine Lee (nee McGregor) 1866-1945<div class="x_MsoNormal">
<b><i> </i><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/catherine-and-george-lee-on-thier.html">Catherine Lee (nee McGregor)</a></b> was my great grandmother. She features in my last post on the <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/catherine-and-george-lee-on-thier.html">Ladies of the McGregor Family.</a></div>
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<a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119346644"><b><i>The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal </i>(NSW: 1888-1954), Friday 24 August 1945, page 2</b></a></div>
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<b>CLYDE RIVER PIONEER PASSES ON </b><br />
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We regret to have to report the passing of yet
another of the Bateman’s Bay district pioneers in the person of Mrs
Catherine Lee of Nelligen, widow of the late George Lee, who predeceased
her by nine years. Mrs Lee, who was 79 years,
maintained all her faculties to the end, and passed peacefully away in
the early morning of Sunday last at the home of her daughter, Mrs Lionel
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The deceased had lived 56 years on the Clyde
River, and was ever keen to offer old-time hospitality
to the infrequent stranger who would call at the farm on which she
lived. She leaves a family of five daughters and four sons to mourn
their loss. Of the sons, Clyde, Jim and Norman live in or near Sydney
the two former being in the Police Force. George
lives on the Clyde River. Of the daughters Florrie married Mr. A.
Rixon, Jessie married Mr E. Rixon, Mona is Mrs F. Shepherd, Christina is
Mrs L. Carriage and Eunice is Mrs Sanders.</div>
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There was a large gathering at the funeral, and
the ceremony was performed in the Methodist portion of the Milton
cemetery, the many wreaths ands sprays of flowers being vivid testimony
of the general high regard in which the deceased
was held by all who knew her. We extend our sympathy to the family in
their irreparable loss – Milton Times.</div>
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<b><i> Sydney Morning Herald </i>Monday 13 August, 1945, page 10</b></div>
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<b>Lee</b>- August 12, 1945. Catherine dearly beloved
wife of the late George Lee of Nelligen, mother of Clyde, James, Norman,
George, Florry (Mrs A. Rixon), Jessie (Mrs E. Rixon), Mona (Mrs L.
Shepherd), Christina (Mrs L. Carriage) and Eunice
(Mrs F. Saunders) sons and daughters aged 79 years.** </div>
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* 1945 'CLYDE RIVER PIONEER PASSES ON.', <i>The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal </i>(NSW : 1888 - 1954), 24 August, p. 2, viewed 29 December, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article119346644</div>
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** 1945 'Family Notices.', <i>The Sydney Morning Herald </i>(NSW : 1842 - 1954), 13 August, p. 10, viewed 29 December, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17949827 </div>
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On Saturday 14<sup>th</sup> April 22 year old
Catherine or as she preferred Kate McGregor was married by the Rev. McCready at his residence 313 Cleveland St, Redfern to <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/sundays-obituary-george-william-lee.html">George William Lee.</a></b> Catherine was the third
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Their wedding photo, most likely taken in the garden of her parents’
home shows them to be a handsome couple. George was 27 years old and
came from the small trading community of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelligen,_New_South_Wales">Nelligen</a></b>
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His father Thomas George Lee (dates) owned
the local store in Nelligen and later purchased <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/those-places-thursday-acacia-farm.html">Acacia Farm</a></b>. George lived on the family farm on the banks of the
beautiful Clyde River a few mile north of the village
of Nelligen.</div>
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There few clues as to how Catherine and George met,
perhaps it was when George was visiting family members who had moved from Nelligen to live in Sydney.</div>
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Catherine, like her sisters <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/matrilineal-monday-mary-ann-mcpherson.html">Mary Ann</a></b> and <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/12/mystery-monday-isabella-allan-mcgregor.html">Isabella</a></b>
was born in the mining settlement of <b><a href="http://www.argylecounty.com.au/towns/araluen.html">Araluen</a></b>, then moved to Bombay on
the Shoalhaven before James and Margaret decided to settle in Balmain.
Following their wedding, the happy couple
settled into life on at <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/those-places-thursday-acacia-farm.html">Acacia Farm</a></b>, and soon started their family. The
start to their married life was not without tragedy, their first son
George passing away not long after his first birthday.<br />
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more children followed, four sons, Clyde James,
Norman and George and five daughters, Florence, Jessie, Mona, Christina
(my grandmother) and Eunice. The Lee children attended the small school
at Nelligen. The three eldest sons were
members of the NSW police force while the youngest,
George (better known as Jordie) lived on and kept Acacia farm running. </div>
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Catherine’s life was very busy caring for her
children, and later their children. My father spent some time living
with his Grandmother after his father <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/07/christina-part-two-letters-from.html">Malcolm Michael Shepherd</a></b> passed
away following a logging accident, he would tell
me about catching rowing down to Nelligen to collect the mail and
supplies.<br />
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The timing of their trips would be dependent on when the
tides were coming in or going out. The family thrived living on their farm. There was a plentiful
supply of fish in the river, milk and eggs from the farm,
vegetables were grown, and numerous fruit trees. These beautiful old trees were still standing when I visited the farm as a small child.<br />
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The small wooden
farm house had a basic kitchen with an open fire, with large black
kettle and camp ovens for cooking On two sides of the farm house were
wide wooden verandahs that looked out over the Clyde River.
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and watched the logging boats go up and down the river. I remember
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Catherine's husband,<b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/sundays-obituary-george-william-lee.htm">George</a> </b>passed away 1936,
Catherine continued to live on the farm with her youngest son Jordie (George Alexander).
Jordie married Pat Lenehan in 1944, and about this time Catherine went to live
with her daughter <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/my-memories-of-nanna-christina-carriage.html">Christina Carriage </a></b><b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/my-memories-of-nanna-christina-carriage.html">(my nanna)</a></b> in Milton. She had spent 56 years living on
the farm on the Clyde River Nelligen and was held in high regard by the
local community.<br />
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On the 12 August 1945, Catherine passed away at her daughter's home in Milton. From all accounts, a large funeral was held at the local Methodist church and then Catherine was buried in the family plot in the Methodist section of the cemetery at Mollymook. A peaceful resting place overlooking the ocean.</div>
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Isabella was born just over two years after her sister <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/matrilineal-monday-mary-ann-mcpherson.html">Mary Ann</a></b>, on the 24 May 1863, in the mining settlement of Araluen, near the town of Braidwood, NSW. The <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/those-places-thursday-araluen-1859-home.html?showComment=1385975383998#c3206066097379577382">McGregor and McPherson families</a> </b>it seems, were working very hard on thier mine and making a decent living.</div>
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The Sands Directories show James McGregor and family living at this address throughout the 1880's, however, James's occupation is not listed, so the reason for the move is quite a mystery.It seemed the family of eight children thrived and in the following years in Balmain their numbers increased to eleven. What a busy home, you would have to assume that Isabella and her older sister Mary Ann had an important role in supporting their mother with all their younger siblings.</div>
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George passed at the quite early age of 58, his funeral leaving from their home in Seymour Street Croydon for burial in the family plot in the Presbyterian section of the <b><a href="http://fieldofmarscemetery.com.au/Home.php">Field of Mars Cemetery. </a></b></div>
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Isabella felt this loss deeply, her thoughts reflected in a beautiful in memorium notice posted a few years after George's death.<br />
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This is the first in a series of blogs about the daughters of James McGregor (1833-1917) and Margaret McPherson (1839-1860) - <i><b>The McGregor Sisters</b></i>. Interest in this project was sparked when I was recently given a photo of the <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/matrilineal-monday-ladies-of-mcgregor.html"><b>McGregor Family</b></a> by my Aunt. Then, as if to give the project a gentle push, two weeks later the <b><a href="http://www.sag.org.au/">Society of Australian Genealogists (SAG)</a></b> contacted me advising that they had in their keeping <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/lunch-time-discoveries-in-rocks.html">James and Margaret's Family Bible</a></b>. The Bible proved to be an invaluable find, as inside there was a <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/wordless-wednesday-mcgregor-family-bible.html">hand written list</a> </b>of family events, including the birth dates and places of all the McGregor sisters. Writing and researching the story of each of the McGregor Sisters, will I believe, be a journey of discovery, and I hope it will lead to connections with others who are researching this family.</div>
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On the 27 August 1861, James and Margaret's welcomed their daughter <b>Mary Ann McPherson McGregor.</b> The family was living and working on the gold fields of the mining community of Araluen, in the Southern Highlands of NSW. James and Margaret had lost their first child, a little girl at birth in 1860. The gold mining in Araluen had started in 1851 and the district had become one of the most significant mining areas in New South Wales, with over 15,000 prospectors arriving to try their luck, and in excess of 11 million pounds of gold being extracted from the area.*</div>
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The winter of 1861 had been a harsh one with severe flooding devastating and causing havoc to vast areas of the mining community in the Araluen and Major's Creek fields. However, as winter passed life on the gold fields improved. Araluen was known as Happy Valley, one article written July 1861 (just prior to Mary Ann's) birth, states "<i>Araluen - We were much pleased on Saturday last, in paying a visit to the Happy Vally to find that the greatest prosperity prevails throughout the entire diggings; all the claims are realizing satisfactory returns,......The diggings are now rapidly extending along the Plain towards the Farm and this part, it is anticipated, will turn out extremely rich when it comes to be thoroughly worked. it is really refreshing to see the happy state of affairs in the valley compared with what was the case a few months ago, when devastation and ruin had laid wast nearly all the claims." <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115763269"><b>Braidwood Dispatch</b></a></i>**</div>
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Mary Ann and her family continued to live in the mining town of Araluen until 1870. The family bible shows the family then lived at Shoalhaven River until around 1877, when James and Margaret packed up their belongs and moved their family to Booth Street, Balmain Sydney. Mary Ann would have been around 16 years of age at this time. One has to wonder, how the McGregor sisters adapted to life in the city after spending most of their childhood in the country.</div>
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On August 14 1884 Mary Ann married Hugh James McGoogan, in Balmain. Hugh and Mary Ann continued to live and raise their family in Sydney. Their children were: Margaret Mavis, John, James, Hugh and George.</div>
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At the age of 80 Mary Ann passed away peacefully while staying with her daughter. Her husband Hugh passed away the following year. </div>
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*Australian Heritage http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=NSW&region=103&view=729, viewed 22/11/13.<br />
**1861 'GOLD FIELDS.', <i>Freeman's Journal </i>(Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1932), 27 July, p. 3, viewed 25 November, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article115763269.<br />
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Yesterday I wrote about my trip to the Society of Australian Genealogists, <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/lunch-time-discoveries-in-rocks.html"><i><b>(Lunchtime Discoveries in the Rocks - McGregor Family Bible)</b></i></a> following one of their volunteers conacting me about James and Margaret McGregor's Family Bible. What a coincidence, that this has happened as I start on my project to put together the stories of of <i><b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/11/matrilineal-monday-ladies-of-mcgregor.html">James and Margarets daughters.</a></b></i><br />
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The timing is remarkable, especially the discovery inbetween the New and Old Testament of a page that lists the details of the McGregor Sisters births, deaths and marriages.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Every now and then, all family tree researchers come across a small item, whether it be a letter, photo, postcard or newspaper clipping that opens the door to some new and exciting family links. This was my fortune a couple of weeks, when visiting an Aunt. We were comparing notes on our family tree, and she gave me a copy of the photo (above) of Margaret and James McGregor surrounded by their children, spouses and grandchildren. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Margaret McPherson married James McGregor on 23 June 1859, at the Presbyterian Church, <span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Jinglemoney, NSW. Margaret and James had a large family of three boys and nine girls. How amazing was it to have access to this photo of the family which has each member of the family identified.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I spent the whole of our 4 hour trip home from my Aunt's place (luckily my husband was happy to drive) searching on my Ipad, and filling in gaps on my online family tree. This picture gave me so many clues, most importantly the married names of the McGregor women.</span></span></div>
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This new stream of information has opened the door to my next project for <b><i>The Other Half of My Tree - stories of my female ancestors</i></b>, and over the next few weeks I shall attempt to write about each of the McGregor sisters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> Over the past month I have been enjoying reading the blogs by Lisa Alzo, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><a href="http://www.theaccidentalgenealogist.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Accidental Genealogist</a> , Fearless Females, in honour of </span></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><a href="http://www.nwhp.org/whm/history.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Women’s History Month</a><span style="color: blue;">,</span> and the other blogists who have also joined to tell the stories of the Fearless women in their family tree. As this theme fits so well with the central theme of my blog <i><b>The </b><b>Other </b><b>Half of My Tree - stories of my female ancest</b><b>ors</b>,</i></span></span></span> I thought I should honour some of the women from my family tree with the title of <b><i>Fearless Females. </i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">The first to spring to mind was my husbands great Aunty Tilly. I was privileged to meet her in her later years, and found her to be an amazing lady. There are many stories that highlight her independence, stubbornness, resourcefulness, charity and acceptance of others.</span></span></span><b><i> </i></b>Tilly was the grand daughter of <a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/elizabeth-rushworth-1841-1927-part-3.html">Elizabeth Taylor (nee Rushworth)</a> and she certainly mirrored the tenacity of her grandmother living for over 100 years, and even into her late years was continually involved in community organisations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Tilly's (as she liked to be called) father Richard was a stone mason.Tilly attended St George High School. She was a bright student and went on to study at the Sydney Teachers’ College. Following her graduation in 1920, she was appointed to the teaching staff of the Brewarrina School in far western NSW. This posting must have presented quite a few challenges to the young girl who had been brought up in the city. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">At about the same time as Tilly moved to Brewarrina, her future husband, Harold Vincent Holman, moved to Gunnedah (just over 400 kms away) to take up the position of Town Clerk. Harold was a WWI veteran, who had joined the army at the age of 16 and was shipped to Europe to serve in France. When he returned from the war he studied to become a town council officer and his first posting was in Gunnedah. During this time, despite the distance between Gunnedah and Brewarrina Tilly and Harold met and courted each other.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Three years later,(1923) they were married in Marrickville, Sydney and moved to a small village outside of the NSW town of Dubbo, called Geurie. During their time here, Tilly and Harold were blessed with three children, Vincent, Harold and Joan. Shortly after Joan's birth in 1928 Harold was appointed Town Clerk at Cowra. Harold remained this position until his retirement. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">Soon after their arrival in Cowra, Harold and Tilly build a home in 2 Carleton Street, Cowra and this house remained as Tilly’s home until she reluctantly agreed it was time to move into a nearby nursing home, (at the age of 99). Even though Tilly had her hands full with a young family, and settling her husband into his new position as Town Clerk, she quickly became involved in many local community affairs, joining the local Red Cross, which she remained an active member for the rest of her life. Harold was very active in the returned soldiers affairs and Tilly w<span style="font-size: small;">as </span>keen to follow his interests in helping ex-serviceman, particularly those who fell on hard times during the long years of the Depression. In 1987 Tilly received the Red Cross Long Service Medal with first and second bars and then in 1990 she received the Red Cross laurel wreath for 50 years service<span style="color: #1f497d;">. </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Tilly's insatiable appetite for community involvement </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">had her next join the Country Women's Association and the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;">Hospital Auxiliary and she worked for both until quite </span>recent times. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.3pt;">In 1939 she was elected president of the Church of </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">England Ladies' Guild and joined the Croquet Club, serv</span>ing as a committee member for many years. When the Second World War broke out and the military <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">training camp was established near the town, Tilly added to </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.35pt;">her activities by joining the Women's Voluntary Service </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">and on most days attended their shop and then worked in </span>the canteen during the evenings, preparing food and giving <span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">support to the many soldiers who passed through the town. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;"> </span>Her 'spare' time was spent on the back verandah of their home, knitting for those who were posted overseas. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">With both of her sons in the Boy Scouts, Tilly found </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">time to keep their uniforms in top condition and to provide </span>food and drink for the many who called at her home.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.45pt;"> After the war, Tilly assisted in the formation of the </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">Cowra Meals on Wheels service and remained actively </span>involved until 1980.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;"> In later years, she became a thankful recipient of its ben</span>efits. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">She also found time to help form the Cowra branch of </span>the RSL Women's Auxiliary and was its president between 1948 and 1951, remaining: a member until her death. She also helped form the Torch Bearers for Legacy in <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Cowra, was its first president and later was made a life </span>member</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">A continuing interest in education had her send her three </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">children to private schools, to complete the last two years </span>of their high school education.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;"> Vince and Harold want to St Patrick's in Goulburn, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">which was renowned for its strong discipline, and Joan to </span>St Catherine's in Sydney.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;"> In 1956 Tilly became a Foundation Member of the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">Cowra Women's Bowling Club and undertook a range of </span>responsibilities on its executive committee for many years, including its secretary, later vice-president and its Official Delegate to the National Conferences. She was elected a Life Member in 1971.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;"> Her love for sport was never diminished and although a </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">diminutive woman, she played a fair game of golf in the </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">years before the war and later became devoted to bowling </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.05pt;">and the many social activities that came from membership </span>of the club.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">She relished the annual bus trips to Melbourne to attend </span>the Melbourne Cup and joined in the many activities on the way.<span style="letter-spacing: -0.25pt;"> She continued to ma<span style="font-size: small;">ke the a<span style="font-size: small;">nnual <span style="font-size: small;">bus trip to Melbourne until she was in her late 80's. </span></span></span>Her husband and three children predeceased her, but her </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">days of sadness quickly passed as she found comfort in her countless activities, many friends, and her pet dog, cat and </span>budgerigars.<span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> The grandchildren and their children became a vital part of her life and she took every opportunity to visit them and </span>to enjoy their company. <span style="font-size: small;">She though<span style="font-size: small;">t noth<span style="font-size: small;">ing of travelling 100's of kms for a family event. </span></span></span>Sometimes she travelled by air and on others by bus and train. She was quite undaunted by the difficulties old people <span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;">encounter as they attempt to climb in and out of vehicles </span>and find their way around in the push and shove in getting <span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">from place to place, but if in any trouble, she had no hesita</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">tion in asking, sometimes demanding, that a passing </span>stranger provide the necessary assistance. Having to leave her pets behind could have been a hindrance to her many trips but neighbours were brought into <span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">play and, willingly or not, agreed to mind them until she </span>returned.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Before the war, her husband kept a car in the little shed <span style="letter-spacing: 0.4pt;">behind their home, which was a joy for his children's </span>friends to inspect and, if not seen, to climb into and admire the brass fittings and imagine driving it away. <span style="letter-spacing: 0.5pt;">Tilly didn't learn to drive until quite late in life and </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">rarely went on her own, which may have been a blessing in </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.15pt;">disguise, as she was always very positive in her dealings </span>with others, never considering that what she wanted was difficult or impossible to deliver, and if that had been trans<span style="letter-spacing: -0.1pt;">lated to the road, to often it could have created problems. </span><span style="letter-spacing: -0.2pt;">She handed in her licence when she turned 80 and joined </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.2pt;">the Senior Citizens' Club, probably believing she could </span>help the younger members, and ten years later the Arthritic <span style="letter-spacing: -0.05pt;">Club, which awarded her Grandmother of the Year in 1992.</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.1pt;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">After journeying from London to the <span style="font-size: small;">p</span>enal <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>olony of Sydney, Australia with her sister <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/mary-anne-and-emma-jane-weston-continued.html">Mary Ann</a></b>, Emma traveled to the gold fields near the small rural town of Braidwood where is thought she may have been in domestic service for the Maddrell Family. At the age of 18 she married Thomas George Lee, who was one of the many hopeful miners looking for his fortune on the goldfields at <b><a href="http://www.majorscreek.org.au/content/history">Majors Creek</a></b>, near Braidwood. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;"> As Emma was under age permission to marry was given by <span style="color: black;"><a href="http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/maddrell-robert-john-1425"><b>Robert Maddrell</b> </a>Esquire, Legal Guardian and her sister Mary Ann Weston was one of the witnesses.Thomas and Emma's settled into life on the goldfields, their first son George was born on in December 1<span style="font-size: small;">8</span>58. Unfortunately George did not live to see his first birthday. In the next couple of years two more children, George William and Henry Thomas were born.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Majors creek, was originally a shanty town that grew up on the site of Elrington's village. The site comprised of stores, sly grog shops and miners tents. Life was tough not the best environment for women. In 1851 a police outpost was established. The gold takings at Majors Creek were originally aluvial with reef mining starting in the late 1860-70's. We cannot be sure of the reason but sometime between 1862 and 1864 Thomas and Emma left Major's Creek, crossing Clyde Mountain and settling in the small settlement of <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelligen,_New_South_Wales">Nelligen</a></b> on the <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde_River_%28New_South_Wales%29">Clyde River</a></b> where Thomas became the local store keeper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">In 1854 the first track was opened from Braidwood across the Clyde Mountain to the small settlement of Nelligen. In the same year the town of Nelligen was official gazetted. During its early history some alluvial gold was discovered, however the town became more significant as a trading post. Bringing in goods to be taken over the Clyde Mountain to the mining and rural settlements around Braidwood, and in return receiving timber, wool and gold from this area to be shipped up to Sydney. Large steamers some up to 10,000 tons traveled up to Nelligen to pick up produce and deliver supplies and equipment to be carried over to the Braidwood district. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">Perhaps Thomas Lee recognised that Nelligen was a better environment to raise a family, and that setting up a business as the local storekeeper in this thriving community was a much better option than trying his luck on the gold fields. The <a href="http://www.family.joint.net.au/index.php?cid=383&mid=1">1872 Greville's Report for Nelligen</a> lists Thomas Lee as the Nelligen Store Keeper. Emma would have been kept busy caring for their children as well as assisting in the store. Their first daughter Emma was born in 1864 and in the coming years seven more children (Thomas, Ellen, Albert, Susan, Hannah, Maude and Annie) were born bringing the number of children to ten. The <span style="font-size: small;">c</span>hildren attended the local school, which had to be rebuilt after the floods of 1867. In 1874 there were 18 children attending the local school, among these students were Nelly (Ellen), Thomas and Emma Lee.* Their older brothers George and Henry would have been 14 and 13 at that time and were probably working in the family business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">These times were fraught with dangers, besides frequent flooding and bush fires, this was also the period when <b><a href="http://www.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-culture-info/bushrangers-araluen">Bushranger</a>s</b> were very active in the district. Ben Hall's gang were active on the road between Braidwood and Nelligen in 1865. Two members of this gang were the notorious Clarke brothers, Tom and John. The <b><span style="color: purple;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article13138962">Clarke brothers</a></span></b> hid out in the Jingera Ranges preying on the coaches travelling from the goldfields through to Nelligen. In 1866 the brothers were responsible for the ambush and killing of a special police gang. In 1867 the brothers were finally captured and taken by coach from Braidwood to Nelligen to be taken by steamship to Sydney. The brothers were shackled to the "prison tree", which is still stands<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>in Nelligen, prior to their shipment to Darlinghurst goal and subsequent hanging in 1867. Emma and Thomas Lee were witnesses to this event, and I remember my father telling me the story of the Clarke Brothers capture as it had been passed down through our family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Lee family settled into the Nelligen district, with Emma and Thomas's children, going to school, marrying and having their families. Even though, there were many difficulties including the isolation, floods and bushfires, I think Emma would have found the scenic rural environment of life on the Clyde River a pleasant place to <span style="font-size: small;">raise</span> her family. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A brief description in the <b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71280230"><i>Australian </i></a></b><b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71280230"><i>Town and </i></a></b><b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71280230"><i>Country Journal</i></a></b><b><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article71280230"><i> in 1897</i></a></b> describes the settlement of Nelligen as: </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span class="displayFix" id="lc2"> Nelligen is a pretty little town, situated on the</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc3"> south bank of the river. It has two sawmills,</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc4"> one public house, a couple of stores, etc. It has</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc5"> a few small farms and orchards along the course</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc6"> of the Nelligen Creek, and is only fourteen miles</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc7"> distant from Brimbrarnalla Gold Field. It has</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc8"> a coach road to Braidwood, Bateman, and Milton.</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc9"> It is at the head of deep water navigation, and</span><span class="displayFix" id="lc10"> should eventually become an important place as</span><span class="displayFix hovered" id="lc12"> the auriferous resources of the district become developed.</span></span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: small;">In the later decade of the nineteenth century Thomas and Emma purchased "<b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/those-places-thursday-acacia-farm.html">Acacia Farm"</a></b></span><span style="font-size: small;"> , a picturesque farm about 6 miles from Nelligen, on the banks of the Clyde River. This farm stayed in the farm for the next four generations of the Lee family. On the first of November 1906 Thomas passed away at the age of 74. Emma continued to live on Acacia Farm with her eldest son <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/sundays-obituary-george-william-lee.html"><b>George</b> </a>and his wife Catherine (nee McGregor)<span style="font-size: small;"> and their children.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">Five years lat<span style="font-size: small;">er Emma<span style="font-size: small;">, passed away at the age of seventy five, on the 21 July 1914. Her death was reported in the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15524286">S</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15524286">ydney</a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15524286"> Morning </a><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article15524286">Herald,</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Emma J., relict of the late T. G. Lee, Aged 75. 1914 'Family Notices.',
The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), 22 July, p. 12, viewed 1
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The young housemaid who had arrived from London at the age of 17 with her sister Mary <span style="font-size: small;">Ann had certainly <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;">witnessed and experienced life to the full in the <span style="font-size: small;">new colony. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<b>Mary Ann's Story</b><br />
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My last post finished with my great great grandmother Emma Jane Weston and her sister Mary Ann arriving in Sydney Harbour on board the <a href="http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/18650840">"Kate</a>" at Christmas time in 1856 under the sponsorship of their uncle Alfred Weston. Before I continue with the story of my great great grandmother Emma Jane Weston, I thought would write a little about her sister Mary Ann.<br />
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I presume that the two sisters would have been met by their uncle Alfred Weston who had arrived in Sydney in the previous year, or it is possible that they travelled by stage coach to Wollongong where their Uncle was living at the time. There was a great shortage of labour in the country, especially female servants and as the passenger list for the "Kate" lists Mary Ann and Emma's occupations as housemaids from London, it could be assumed that they sought work as domestic helpers.<br />
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The next record that I can trace for the two sisters is Emma's marriage to Thomas George Lee (1832-1906) on the 22 February 1858 at St Andrews Church in Braidwood, New South Wales.* Thomas's occupation was listed as a miner from the gold mining area of<b> <a href="http://www.majorscreek.org.au/content/history">Major's Creek</a></b> which was in the Braidwood district.<br />
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Mary Ann was listed as one of the witnesses to the wedding, and as Emma was still under the age of 21, permission to marry was given by <a href="http://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/maddrell-robert-john-1425"><b>Robert Maddrell</b> </a>Esquire, Legal Guardian. Robert Maddrell was one of the "landed gentry" in the Braidwood district who lived on <b><a href="http://www.mona.com.au/history-mona-country-manor-house">"Mona</a></b><span style="color: blue;">"</span> and <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedervale">"Bedervale"</a>.</b> It is possible that Mary Ann and Emma had come to the gold mining district of Braidwood/Araluen with their Uncle Alfred Weston and had gained employment with the Maddell family as domestic servants. (Some wonderful pictures of the Maddrell Family and their home can be found on the National Library Website at this link, <b><a href="http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3044367">http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3044367</a></b><br />
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Six months later it was Mary Ann's turn to wed. On the 19th August 1858** Mary Ann married William Pronger (1835-1917) a carpenter from Majors Creek. Their wedding certificate states they were married in a temporary place of worship at Major's Creek under the rites of the Church of England. Mary Ann's uncle Alfred Weston is one of the witnesses at her wedding. Which leads me to believe the girls traveled with their uncle to the NSW mining district of Braidwood. Alfred Weston is listed in the <b><a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hcastle/grevilles/lists/abc/app.html#Araluen%20Lower">Greville's Post Office Directory in 1872</a></b> as living in the mining town of Araluen and his occupation is listed as a miner<br />
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Life in the gold fields would have been a very different experience to that of their earlier life in London. Majors Creek was one of the largest working mine fields in the 1850-1860's. This short description from the blog <b><a href="http://www.majorscreek.org.au/content/history">"Major's Creek"</a></b> gives a wonderful description of what life must have been like on the gold fields for Emma, Mary Ann and their husbands.<br />
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<i>"hundreds of men toiling away in the hot sun; panning, digging, pushing wheelbarrow. You hear the mix of accents: the broad drawl of the Australian born, the plums of English, Scot burrs, Irish lilts, European gutturals, languid American cadences and the staccato of Chinese. </i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>The hills are spotted with canvas tents and temporary structures of all shapes and sizes. Clothes, in a rainbow of colours flutter in the breeze drying.</i><br />
<i><br /></i><i>After sunset... the white canvas is replaced by the orange-red of camp fires. The smell of cooking wafts up the valley. As the evening deepens the loud voices, sounds of merriment and drunkenness escape from the windows of the lamp-lit hotels. A male dominant place, stranger thrown together with diverse dreams, enjoying the euphoria of success and drowning the disappointment of failure."***</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mary Ann and Emma continued living with their homes in the mining community of Majors Creek/Araluen, however, Mary Ann's husband William felt that it was time to move on and to seek his fortune in the newly discovered gold fields in Gympie, Queensland. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Gold was discovered in Gympie by<a href="http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/nash-james-4286"> <b>James Nash</b></a> in 1867. I am not sure how William and Mary Ann travelled to <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gympie">Gympie</a></b>, however the trip must have been long and fraught with many difficulties and dangers. I do not have the exact date that William and Mary Ann arrived in Gympie but I do know that in December 1868 William Pronger was appointed by the Queensland Government to the position of <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1323824">the keeper of the Powder Magazine in Gympie</a>**** <i>. </i>He held this position until 1871 when he <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1320642">resigned to pursue other interests</a>. *****. In 1873 an article in <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article27277562">The Queenslander </a>advises that Pronger in partnership with Mr Rickett were operating a sugar refining mill and were turning out some good sugar. It seems that William Pronger was quite a pioneer and always looking for further opportunities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Life would have been quite tough for Mary in this new gold mining town, in 1870 Gympie experiences severe flooding with many homes submerged. William and Mary did not have any children and from details on Mary's death certificate, Mary was in poor heath for some years. On the 7th July 1878, Mary passed away and the cause of death is listed as "ovarian dropsy" (in other words, from "ovarian cancer") which she had suffered from for over three years. This could explain why she was not able to have any children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">On the 8th July 1878 William Pronger buried his young wife in the Church of England portion of the Gympie cemetery. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">William stayed in the Gympie district, becoming a successful business man. He remarried in 1880 to Charlotte Elizabeth Drew they had a family of two daughters and three sons. Descendants of William and Charlotte still live in the Gympie district. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">As it is with many of our female ancestors, their story is told by researching their male relations and husbands. Mary's story is a good example of this. It is through her uncle Alfred Weston and her husband William Pronger's life stories, I have been able to piece together a little of her life story, from a house maid in London, to the gold fields in the southern highlands of New South Wales and then the journey of over 14,000 kms to the newly discovered mining outpost of Gympie, Queensland. I still have a lot of questions? I wonder if she was able to see her sister Emma again after she left for Queensland? What kind of conditions did she live in when they first arrived in Gympie? Was her home/tent flooded in the 1870 floods? The list goes on</span><i> </i>and I guess these questions will probably never be answered.<br />
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* New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1486/1858<br />
** New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages, 1499/1858<br />
*** Majors Creek, <b><a href="http://www.majorscreek.org.au/content/history">http://www.majorscreek.org.au/content/history </a></b>, viewed 18/1/2013<br />
**** 1868 'THE GAZETTE.', <i>The Brisbane Courier </i>(Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 7 December, p. 3, viewed 29 January, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1323824<br />
*****1871 'OFFICIAL NOTIFICATIONS.', <i>The Brisbane Courier </i>(Qld. : 1864 - 1933), 2 October, p. 3, viewed 29 January, 2013, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1320642Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-43736195260758225402013-01-28T20:27:00.000-08:002013-03-28T17:55:48.731-07:00Amanuensis Monday: Letter re Death of Elizabeth Taylor (nee Rushworth) <div style="text-align: right;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">This morning I was going through my file of family letters looking for some more information on <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/christmas-1856-arrival-emma-jane-weston.html">Emma Jane and Mary Ann Weston</a></b> when I came across a letter about the death of <b><a href="http://womenfrommyfamilytree.blogspot.com.au/2012/11/william-and-elizabeth-taylor-elizabeth.html">Elizabeth Taylor</a></b>, so today I am allowing myself to be side tracked a little, as I would like to share this letter as a follow on from my previous posts on Elizabeth. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The letter was written by<span style="font-size: small;"> </span>Lucy Hartley (Elizabeth's daughter) to her brother Richard Taylor and his family. Richard had immigrated to Sydney, Australia in the early 1880's. <span style="font-size: small;">Though he had regular correspondence with his family in England<span style="font-size: small;">, he had not seen <span style="font-size: small;">his mother since leaving England. Two of his sons, Richard and William had been able to visit the family in <span style="font-size: small;">Colne while they were on leave from the <span style="font-size: small;">Australian Army in World War I. (Lucy mentions this <span style="font-size: small;">visit in her letter).</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The letter is very poignant and provide a wonderful completion to my Blogs Elizabeth, so please forgive my divergence back to previous posts</span>. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Just a few lines to let you know the sad news of Mother's death. She had not been well for some considerable time, her strength gradually getting weaker and weaker until she could scarcely stand and finally she was compelled to take to her bed through sheer exhaustion, where she lay very patiently until the end came at 4.00, on Monday morning Jan. 31st. <span style="font-size: small;">S</span>he passed peacefully away in her sleep and her last words were - "Lord have mercy on us". Matilda and I were present at the last and Father lay beside her, having just got off to sleep for a few minutes.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">As you will see from the card we laid her reverently to rest in Colne Cemetery on Thursday same week, amidst many scenes of respect and honour and general regret in the town at the passing of her gentle soul. We miss her very much now but must not grieve, for it is our loss but her gain. A great worker, a kingly and sympathetic soul - no one appealed to her in vain for help if it was in her power to give, but above all - a good mother, she will be remembered for many years to come.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In future you must, address all your letters to our house, as we are breaking up the old home. Father and Matilda are coming to live with us, as we shall be able to look after him better at our house, he has been here since Mother died and bears up very well considering their great attachment to each other when Mother was alive.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our family will now consist of Joe and myself, our two children - Nellie (19) and Fred (9), Lizzie (19) - sister Lizzie's girl who came to live with us when her mother died 6 years ago, Grandad and Mathilda. Lizzie's boy is living with friends close by.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Father is fairly well considering his great age, but very deaf and rather bad on his props, but his appetite is fairly good, he sits nearly all the time in his chair and smokes his pipe and reads the newspaper, we think he will be now the oldest person in Colne.</span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I think we have now told you all the news so must now close, remember us to the boys, we often talk about them when they were here, we also hope and trust you are all keeping well. We receive letters from Jessie and Tilly, also Dicks wife and the photo of John and his bride just came in time for Grandma to see - the week before she died. When is will going to be married, he does not seem to be in much hast about it, does he!</span></i></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-85021992874186591332012-12-29T04:38:00.000-08:002012-12-29T04:41:41.147-08:00Christmas 1856 Arrival - Emma Jane Weston 1839-1914<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It was the 23 December 1856 when the the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article18650840"><b><i>"Kate"</i></b></a> arrived into Sydney after the long journey from Plymouth under the command of Captain Davidson.* <i><b>Emma Jane Weston</b></i> and her sister <i><b>Mary Anne Weston</b></i> had left Plymouth on the Kate on 7 September 1856. They were 18 and 19 years old (respectively) when they arrived as assisted immigrants under the guardianship of their Uncle Alfred Weston. Alfred had immigrated to Australia as an assisted immigrant with his wife Maria in the previous year (13 January 1855) on the Bangalore.* The immigration record for Emma and Jane state that he was living in Wollongong at the time of their arrival. <br />
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These two young sisters were listed as being house maids from London, who had journeyed to Australia as part of Government assisted immigration program to provide relief to the colonies labour shortage. <br />
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An article published in the <a href="http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12990560">Sydney Morning Herald on the 27 December 1856</a>, describes this situation.<br />
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<i>"SYDNEY LABOUR MARKET</i><br />
<i><br />The arrival of the Kate, from Plymouth, with government immigrants, will afford a temporary relief to the late very great scarcity of country labour. The immigrants are classified as follows: 49 married couples, 109 single men, 62 single women and 17 children. In the early part of the week the rates going were, in some cases, slightly in advance of the previous week. </i><br />
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<i>OLIVER STAINS, British Foreign Labour Agent, December 26th. 73, Corner of King and Castlereagh Streets."</i><br />
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Under this notice a further article goes on to describe the shortages of labour, especially of female servants.<br />
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<i>"Engagements have been limited in consequence of it being a holiday week. Orders for country servants are plentiful. There has been one arrival (The Kate) with 300 immigrants of a mixed class. The harvest now drawing to a close will cause reaction in the supply of labour. The inhabitants of Sydney have seen much inconvenience in regard to female servants. The demand is great and those for hire are few. Wages remain firm if quoted rite. </i><br />
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<i>J.C. GLUE, Labour Agent, December 26, 48 Pitt Street North." </i><br />
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These few articles give you an idea of what greeted my Great Great Grandmother <b>Emma Jane Weston</b> and her elder sister Mary Anne when they arrived in Australia to seek their fortune in a new land.<br />
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Emma and Mary Anne were the daughters of William Weston (abt 1816-1867) and Mary Ann Rolf (abt 1816-1896). Mary and William were married at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Marylebone_Parish_Church">St Marylebone</a>, an Anglican Church on the Marylebone Rd, London on the 3 October 1835.<br />
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Emma was born on the 25 June 1839 at 9.00am in the family home at 21 Edwards Street Regents Park. Her father's occupation was listed as House Painter.<br />
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What was in store for Emma and her sister Mary Anne once they disembarked from the Kate, in Sydney? Would they find employment or perhaps a husband? You have to reflect on how foreign life in the new colony would have been to the two young sisters who had been brought up in London. Imagine how different it was to celebrate Christmas on the other side of the world! <br />
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* <span id="recordInfoHeader"><span id="pageTitleWName">New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-44352423451653094722012-11-25T03:08:00.000-08:002012-11-25T13:06:25.548-08:00Sunday's Obituary - Elizabeth Taylor (Rushworth) - Part 5<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Elizabeth and William spent their remaining years at 9 Duke street Colne. In their retirement they continued to be involved with their local Parish Church.<br />
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Elizabeth's ill health prevented her from continuing to work with the St John's Ambulance and she was no longer well enought to be involved in the fund raising projects she worked so hard on in her younger years.<br />
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Their surviving children lived close by and their eldest daughter Mathilda who didn't marry continued to live with them. They were in contact with their son Richard who had now established himself as a stone mason in Sydney, Australia. During WWI, two of Richards sons, Richard and William were members of the Australian Army and when they were stationed in England were able to finally meet their grandparents.<br />
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On the 31 January 1927 Elizabeth sadly passed away and in the following year, 30 May 1928 William joined her. The following tribute was posted in the <i>Colne Times</i> following Elizabeth's funeral.<br />
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<b>THE LATE MRS TAYLOR </b><br />
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<i>"On Sunday morning the private mourners who were present at the funeral of the late Mrs Taylor of Duke</i><b> </b><i>Street, Colne - the veteran ambulance worker whose death we recorded last week - attended the service at the Colne Parish Church. As a tribute of respect to the deceased lady a large number of members of the St. John Ambulance association and the Nursing Division in Colne were also present</i>, <i>and they were accompanied by representatives from Nelson, Brierfield, Burnley, Trawden, foulridge, Earby and Barnoldswick. They were under the command of Corps Supt. W. Heap, with whom was Reserve Supt. E. Scott, the Lady Corps Supt, Miss Hartley. As the Girl Guides were also present at their usual monthly parade, there was a large congregation, the Church was well filled.</i><br />
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<i>The Rector made an appropriate reference to the late Mrs Taylor, and said that last week had been the departure of one of the most familiar figures in the town. Although he was not very well acquainted with her ambulance work, he thought it was fitting that he should say something about her. Continuing, he remarked, </i><br />
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<i>"<b>The presence with us this morning of the St. John Ambulance Association, gathered in such large numbers from so many districts, is an eloquent reminder to us of the deep respect in which she was held. Their presence here is no mere post mortem terabyte to her usefulness, for she was he first lady in Colne to be made - many years ago - an Honorary Serving Sister of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, and it was with a common feeling of reality that we named her in the funeral service last Thursday, not "This our sister" but "This our mother", for she was indeed the mother of this noble Order in this town of Colne. Of her work with the Colne Auxiliary Military Hospital during the war she often loved to speak, and judging from the number of doctors under who she served - long before the day of District Nurses - she seems to have had the world as her parish.</b></i><br />
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<b><i>Our sympathy is with her family and her many friends, and especially with her aged husband, who is still with us after a married life of over 68 years. I can only conclude this short tribute to her by saying to you all the words with which the Parable of the Good Samaritan concludes: "Go and do thou likewise".</i></b><br />
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<i>During the Service the hymn "The King of Love my Shepherd is" was sung.</i><br />
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<i>After the Service the members of the Ambulance Association and Nursing Division returned to the Ambulance hall, where lunch was served to those from a distance</i>."<br />
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As I type the last few words of Elizabeths story, I have come to the realisation that she was a pioneer in her times, caring for the ill and needy in their homes long before the concept of district nurses was even thought of. Her journal lists the names of 29 doctors from the districts of Rossendale, Burnley, Barroford, Boothfold, Waterfoot, Rawtenstall, Newchurch, Colne, Nelson to name a few. Some of the ailments that she tended were: injury by lightening, maternity, stroke, Brights Disease, typhoid fever, dislocated elbow, tumor on big toe, senile decay, change of life, mild fever, dog bite, cancer.<br />
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I hope readers have enjoyed the short summary of Elizabeths life and if any reader can add to this story, either with informtion about the St Johns Ambulance, the district of Colne and Barnoldswick or the Taylor and Rushworth families, I would love to hear from them. <br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Diamond Wedding Anniversary and Honorary Serving Sister of St John </span></b></h2>
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The year 0f 1918 was a big year for the residence of No. 9 Duke Street, Colne. On 17th July William and Elizabeth celebrated 60 years of marriage and just prior to this celebration Elizabeth received the honor of being awarded the Honorary Serving Sister of St John of Jerusalem. Elizabeth describes this auspicious occasion with a little excitement in her journal. <br />
To start with she talks about receiving a medal for 15 years service in 1909 with a number of other nurses.<br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> "<i>I was appointed Lady Superintendent in 1894 and resigned in 1922. In 1909 for 15 years service a medal that was pinned me by the Hon. Prince of Wales, now King George the 5th. After this ceremony, I with other Ladies, who attended Head Quarters for the same purpose had a first class lunch and a Waggonetee drive to view the principle sights of London.</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>On being made an Honorary Serving Sister of St John of Jerusalem, in 1918 I was met by the Chaplain, who Prayed, and went through all the Services appropriate for the occasion</i>"</span></b>
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Her rather formal summary of what must have been two amazing experiences makes me smile.<br />
I think I shall finish this blog by sharing with you an article that was posted in the Colne Times on the occasion of William and Elizabeth's Diamond Wedding anniversary.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">"Hearty Congratulations will be extended this week by many people in Colne and district, and particularly by those connected with the ambulance movement, to Mr and Mrs William Taylor of 9 Duke Street, Colne, who celebrated their diamond wedding on Wednesday. Both Mr and Mrs Taylor are well-known and highly-respected in the town, in which they have lived for about 32 years. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The aged couple were married at Gill Church, Barnoldswick on July 17th 1858, the ceremony being performed by the Rev. J.C. Miller. Mrs Taylor was born Greenbank, Barnoldswick and was the daughter of the late George Rushworth, of Whitemoor, Barnoldswick. Mr Taylor was born at Burnley and is the son of the late Mr Richard Taylor of Lower Hood House, Burnley. Mr and Mrs Taylor have had 16 children, six of whom are still living and they also have nine grandchildren. Mr Taylor is now 85 years of age and his wife is 77. They have been connected with the Colne Parish Church and the Mission Churches - St James, Waterside and St George's, Alkincoates - since they came to Colne and it is an interesting link to the past to recall the fact that Mrs Taylor's parents were married in the Colne Parish Church over 100 years ago.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Despite their advanced ages Mr and Mrs Taylor both enjoy fairly good health and although the later has recently had a severe illness we are pleased to state that she has now recovered. Mr Taylor was formerly in the employ of the Colne Corporation and prior to the incorporation of the borough, of the old Colne Local Board as Building and Streets Inspector. He held that position for a period of about 20 years, retiring about 10 years ago.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mrs Taylor worked for the ambulance movement in Colne - of which fuller particulars will be found below - is well-known. She has been connected with the association for 28 years and for 20 years has been lady superintendent of the Nursing Division. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Mr and Mrs Taylor will entertain a number of relatives and friends in the Ambulance Hall tomorrow, when a social evening will be held to celebrate the notable event. we feel sure our readers will join with us in wishing Mr and Mrs Taylor a happy and pleasant time during the remaining years of their married life.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">AMBULANCE HONOUR FOR MRS TAYLOR</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It is surely a happy coincidence that we are able to announce Mrs Taylor has received a well deserved ambulance honour at the same time as we record the 60th anniversary of Mr and Mrs Taylor's wedding anniversary. The secretary of the Colne Ambulance Association has received information that Mrs Taylor has been elected an Honorary Serving Sister of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England, which is one of the highest honours that can be granted for Ambulance work. It will be remembered that Alderman Hewitt-Dean, President of the Colne Association and Mr E. Scott, the superintendent of the Brigade were elected Honorary Serving Brothers of the Order sometime ago. Some years since, Dr Dickey was elected an Honorary Associate of the Order, so that it will be seen that the Colne Centre of the St Johns Ambulance Association has been highly honoured by the recognition given by the headquarters of the Association to the valuable work done for the movement by several local stalwarts.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Amongst these Mrs Taylor, along with Superintendent Scott and Miss Hartley, has played a prominent part. she joined the ambulance movement in Colne in 1891, and has an unbroken membership down to the present. She has passed all the inspections and re-examinations. She served in the capacity of First Officer and Inspector of Stores for two or three years before she was appointed Lady Superintendent in 1898. She has held that position since and had taken a prominent part in the development of the movement in Colne, including the organising of work and collection of funds for the new Hall in Swan Croft, and in all the social efforts arranged by the Association for the purpose of raising funds to carry on its work.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Since the opening of the Colne Military Hospital, Mrs Taylor has done much useful work in connection with that institution, and has done a great deal to make the lot of the patients as happy and pleasant as possible during their stay in the town. During her ambulance career Mrs Taylor has rendered first aid in over 100 cases, some of which were very serious. In onc instance the promptitude and skill of Mrs Taylor and Drill Sergeant Burrell of the Colne Association undoubtedly saved the life of a boy at Morecambe who had his arm run over by tramear, and who would probably have bled to death but for their timely assistance. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The honour accorded to Mrs Taylor is certainly well merited, and reflects credit not only on herself, but also on the organisation with which she has been connect so long."</span></i>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-61925201325646148202012-11-13T03:34:00.000-08:002013-03-17T19:55:04.399-07:00Elizabeth Rushworth 1841-1927 - Part 3<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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At the beginning of the 20th Century, <a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/wordless-wednesday-william-taylor.html">William </a>and Elizabeth Taylor lived at 9 Duke Street Colne with five of their six surviving children, William, Lucy, Elizabeth, Matilda and Joseph. The girls were all employed as cotton weavers and William Jr worked in an iron foundry. William Snr enjoyed a position of clerk to the Colne Corporation Yard ( or local council).<br />
Their elder son Richard had emigrated to Sydney, Australia in the sometime in the 1880's. We can only assume that he decided to seek his fortune in a new country having heard about life in Australia from his uncle and Elizabeth brother Joshua Rushworth (who had moved to Australia with his wife and family in the early 1860's).<br />
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Richard married Marion Millar McNair a native of <span class="placeText placeTextForgn">Torphichen, West Lothian, Scotland, in 1891 and William and Elizabeth's first grandchild William was born on the other side of the world in 1892 in St Peters, Sydney, Australia. This must have seen such a long way away to Elizabeth. We do however know that they family kept in touch as a number of family letters written by William Taylor senior in his beautiful script have survived to this day. </span><br />
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Elizabeth continued with her work with the St John's amulance, supporting local doctors, delivering babies and caring for the sick and old. She continually played her part in seeking donations to support the Ambulance. One paper article recalls:<br />
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<i>"She has taken a prominent part in the development of the movement in Colne including the organising and collection of funds for the new hall in Swan Croft, and in all the social efforts arranged by the association (St Johns Ambulance) for the purpose of raising funds to carry on its work."</i><br />
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When War broke out on the 4 August in 1914 the menfolk were quick to volunteer to join the armed forces while at home the women were drawn into working more and more into the mills, taking over the position previously held by the men.* The<a href="http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=3005&page=13"> Colne Military Hospital</a> was established in Albert Rd in 1915 and Elizabeth played an important part in its establishment and resourcing equipment for the Hospital. There is a wonderful picture on the web site of <a href="http://lanternimages.lancashire.gov.uk/index.php?a=wordsearch&s=item&key=WczoxNzoiTWlsaXRhcnkgaG9zcGl0YWwiOw==&pg=9">The Lancashire Lantern</a> which shows the nurses outside of the Colne Military Hospital and if you click to enlarge this photo you will see Elizabeth Taylor in her Superintendant Uniform on the left hand side of the picture. She does give an imposing presence. <br />
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This wonderful battered photo has been passed down through the family and shows nurses, doctors, and recovering soldiers in front of the Colne Military Hospital. Elizabeth Taylor is sitting on the left hand side of the Mayor (man with chain) in the front row.<br />
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This picture would have been taken around the time of the end of WWI and Elizabeth at the age of 77 was still working hard organising the collection of funds to enable the continued service to the community of the St Johns Ambulance in Colne. The young woman who became interested in nursing through caring for her family and friends had come along way. In her own words, she writes:<br />
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<b><i>"I became interested in nursing when I was 19 years of age, amongst my own Famly, Relatives and Friends, by whom I was almost considered to be the Family Nurse, which was mostly gratuitous up to about two years after coming to reside at Colne in 1886" .</i></b></div>
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* Harrison, D. 1988, <i>The History of Colne,</i> Pendle Heritage Centre, pp.65-68. Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-49879296837010159182012-10-31T03:40:00.001-07:002012-10-31T04:21:05.391-07:00Elizabeth Rushworth - Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is hard to imagine what life for Elizabeth would have been like. Her mother Martha Halstead (1805-1845) passed away when she was only four years old. The large family of nine children all had to pull their weight to support the family. In the 1851 census five children including Elizabeth worked in the weaving industry, while her elder brothers worked as quarry men.<br />
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At the age of 17 Elizabeth married <b><a href="http://familystoriesphotographsandmemories.blogspot.com.au/2012/10/wordless-wednesday-william-taylor.html">William Taylor</a><span style="color: blue;"> </span></b>(1833-1928) at <b><span style="color: #351c75;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_St_Mary_le_Ghyll,_Barnoldswick">St Mary le Ghyll Church, Barnoldswick</a></span></b><span style="color: blue;"> </span>on 17 July 1858. William was the son of Richard Taylor (1802-1868) (Road Surveyor) and Peggy Halstead (1802-1876). Peggy was sister to Elizabeth's mother Martha Halstead, so William and Elizabeth were not only cousins, they had probably known each other through their childhood. Their first child William was born later that year. He was the first of 16 children born to Elizabeth and William between the years of 1858-1885. As was common in these times many of the children died in in infancy or at a young age. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Elizabeth's Note Book: family members laid to Rest</td></tr>
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The evidence of the deaths of many of her children is clear to see in her note book, where she lists family members she has laid to rest. The list includes, among other family members, six sons and four daughters.<br />
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The 1861, census shows William and Elizabeth and two children living at Nicholas Folly, Spotsland (near Barnoldswick) and her father George Rushworth and some of her brothers and sisters were living next door. William is described as being a farmer and cotton weaver who employed four laborers.<br />
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The family continued to live in the Spotsland, Barnoldwick district until sometime in 1885 when they moved the family to 31 Boundary Street Colne. (Their daughter Lucy was born in <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colne">Colne</a></b> on 16 September 1885). William took up a new position as Assistant Survey to the Social Board in Colne.<br />
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We can only suppose what influenced Elizabeth's interest in nursing. Perhaps her skills came from caring for so many children and her elderly father and parents in law. Perhaps it was a skill that was passed down through the family, we do not know. However, her note book gives details of many years of nursing and caring for family, neighbours and others who were in need. The respect and place that she had in the community is reinforced by the number of Doctors in the nearby districts that she supported and worked with while caring for the sick. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Nursing Division 1894, Elizabeth is 2nd from Left in back row</span></td></tr>
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Not long after moving to Colne, (1888) Elizabeth joined the joined the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_John_Ambulance_%28England_and_the_Islands%29">4th Division of the St Johns of Jerusalem Nursing Division</a> that was based in Colne. Elizabeth thrived in this environment and was keen to learn and add to her nursing skills. In 1891 she gained her First Aid Course Certificate for Instruction and was appointed Inspector of Stores and First Aid Officer. Despite her commitments to a large family Elizabeth continued to study and in 1892 received her Certificate for Efficiency in First Aid. Her aptitude and untiring support of the St Johns Movement saw her appointed Lady Superintendent for the 4th Division of St Johns and she held this position for 25 years until she resigned at the age of 81 in 1922. Elizabeth took a prominent role in the development of the St John's movement in Colne, including organising work and collection of funds in order for the movement to continue to carry out its work in the community.<br />
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The 1901 census tells us that William and Elizabeth were living in 9 Duke Street, Colne with five of their children. William was employed as a clerk at the Corporation Yard (what we call the Town Council today). You would think at the age of 60 Elizabeth would be looking to start taking things a little easier. No!! with the threat of War, life was about to change for all of England and Elizabeth did not sit back and watch it happen. Stay tuned to hear more of Elizabeth's story.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14747734897778712396noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4359978108393611004.post-76001202490083622652012-10-01T01:01:00.000-07:002014-07-19T23:12:21.537-07:00Elizabeth Rushworth 1841-1927<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><i>"Young Persons. look forward, for what they intend doing. Old Persons, look backward, as to what they have done."</i></b> Elizabeth Taylor (nee Rushworth).<br />
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This quote features on the opening page of Elizabeth Taylor's notebook. This small black exercise book filled with Elizabeth's neat script has provided our family researchers with so many links to the details of her family "The Rushworths" and her husbands family "The Taylor's" and is the source of many of the details of this story.<br />
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Elizabeth, is my husbands great, great Grandmother and has to be among my favorite ancestors, even if I am only related to her by marriage. It will be hard to do her story justice in a few blogs, and I hope in time to come I will be able to expand on her story in more detail. One of the main reasons for featuring Elizabeth in my blog is that I hope others will read her story and will be able to provide me with some more information on other members of her family and the times she lived in.<br />
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Elizabeth Rushworth was born in<a href="http://www.barnoldswick.towntalk.co.uk/about/history"> Barnoldswick</a>, in 1841, the eighth child of George Rushworth (1801-1884) and Martha Halstead (1805-1845). The 1841 Census lists George's occupation as a farmer and they lived Whitemoor. Elizabeth was Christened 21 Dec 1842 St Bartholomew Church, Colne, Lancashire, England. Like many families in this district, the Rushworth family were involved in the textile industry.<br />
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Barnoldswick and other towns in the district became known as <a href="http://ftfmagazine.lewcock.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=171:cotton-mill-workers&catid=44:february-2009">weaving towns</a>. Many families had looms in their homes, with family members weaving cloth and the smaller children winding bobbins. The 1851 Census shows a number of the Rushworth family working in this industry; Elizabeth's brother James was a hand loom weaver, another brother John is listed as a bobbin boy and Elizabeth and her sister Alice were listed as bobbin winders. (They were aged 10 and 8 years at the time).<br />
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This must have been a difficult time for the Rushworth family, as their mother Martha passed away in 1845, leaving George with eleven children to care for. The 1851 census shows the family were now living in Greenbank, Barnoldswick. There must have been the opportunity for Elizabeth to attend school, as her note book and shows she had a reasonable level of literacy. It is most likely that the children attended the Barnoldswich National School, that was first opened by the Reverend Richard Milner in 1838 and new school build in 1841. <br />
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<i>"Although the parish had been running a school since at least 1743 (see section 5.5.1), by the 1830s, the Reverend Richard Milner saw it as necessary to build a National School. This was duly opened in 1838 at the top of what became Church Street, opposite the Engine Inn, and doubled as a chapel of ease known as St James’ (Savage nd, 13). It was decided that St James’ should act solely as a church, and a new National School was built at the bottom of the Butts, next to Butts Beck, in 1841 (Savage nd, 14). This small school comprised single rooms on two storeys with a large porch." </i>*<br />
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Most families in Barnoldswick lived in simple cottages, a wonderful description of homes in the 1840's can be found in the transcription of <a href="http://archive.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/forum_topic4731.html?TOPIC_ID=473">"Old Barlick" by W.P. Atkinson **</a><br />
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<i>"Very few cottage houses had a back door and one objection to this was
that a back door caused a "draft" and made too much wind in the house.
All ordinary cottages had flagged floors and stone stair steps to
approach the bedroom, cellars were not general. The back part of the
house was used instead of same. No carpets or even hearth-rugs were in
use up to this time, and the floors were scattered over with sand, the
same being swept off at regular intervals after which a fresh layer of
sand was used in like manner, this process was repeated several times
each week, and the week-end cleaning-up did not start until after dinner
on a Saturday when regular work had finished.</i><br />
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<i>There were few
tablecloths and lump sugar seen only at the School tea-party. There
were no sun screens inside the windows but only a curtain to draw across
the same at night, there was a low blind about a foot high either
crocheted or plain. Most of the cottages had a garret and this was
approached by a broad staved ladder, all such rooms were open to the
slate. Also, where there was no garret the upper storey was open to the
slate. There were no under-drawings or ceilings either upstairs or
down and the woodwork joists and boards were absolutely bare. Poor Joe
Parker lost one of his eyes when a child by peeping through a knot hole
in the bedroom floor while another youngster took aim with his bow and
arrow from the lower room. The bare joists and boards style of building
was not abandoned until twenty years after this time, when lath and
plaster in most new buildings were generally adopted. There were four
back-to-back three storied cottages the first block on right-hand side
going up Barlick Lane. These were known as the ‘blue slate’, (the only
blue slated houses in Barlick Town at the time). <br /><br />Cottage
house windows, though not so large as modern windows, would average
from two to three dozen panes of glass in each window, and were very
rarely constructed with up and down sashes. A single pane of glass on
hinges called a casement which <br />could be opened or shut at will. This contrivance gave a mouthful of fresh air to the folk inside the house if they desired it.<br /><br />The
Cottage fireplace was formed with a large opening at the bottom of the
chimney, to allow Jack Sweep plenty of room when climbing up inside the
‘luvver’. On those occasions an old rhyme was chanted by the children
outside as a sort of greeting to this black visitor from Skipton, while
he was plodding his way up the luvver with a poke over his head and
face, the rhyme ran thus ‘Sweep O, penny O, sweep the luvver clean O’,
and finished up with ‘Jack, put the brush out at top’ This cruel
practice has long become illegal. </i>"<br />
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What a wonderful description of the homes of this time, it gives a colourful picture of the living conditions that Elizabeth and her family would have experienced.!!<br />
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As I research the conditions of these times, Elizabeth's story is even more amazing!!! I am looking forward to writing and sharing with you the next chapter of her life.<br />
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* <a href="http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/documents/historictowns/BarnoldswickComplete_LowRes.pdf">http://www.lancashire.gov.uk/environment/documents/historictowns/BarnoldswickComplete_LowRes.pdf.</a><br />
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** <a href="http://archive.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/forum_topic4731.html?TOPIC_ID=473">http://archive.oneguyfrombarlick.co.uk/forum_topic4731.html?TOPIC_ID=473,</a><br />
Viewed 1 October 2012 <br />
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