Husband William Rogers Cope
Born: 1816 - circa
Christened: 23 Apr 1818 - St. Philips, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Died: 1889 - London, England
Buried:
Father: Charles Cope
Mother: Harriet Rogers
Marriage: 16 Jun 1842 - Kington, Herefordshire
Wife Matilda Walker
Born:
Christened:
Died:
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Father: Edward Walker
Mother:
General Notes (Husband)
At the time of his marriage William was described as a solicitor. In 1848 the Morning Chronicle announced the dissolution of the partnership of Clement Ingleby, George Paulson Wragge and William Rogers Cope, of Birmingham, attorneys. In the 1861 and 1871 censuses he was described as the Vicar of Hartshill.
The Morning Chronicle (London) Wednesday, January 5, 1848; Issue 24400
Parnership Dissolved
Clement Ingleby, George Paulson Wragge and William Rogers Cope, of Birmingham, Attorneys.
The Bristol Mercury, Saturday, June 25, 1842; Issue 2728
Wm. Rogers Cope, Esq., solicitor, of Birminham, to Matilda, 4th daughter of Edward Walker, Esq., Surgeon, Kington
1861 Census:
Warwickshire
Mancetter
William Rogers Cope - 45 - Incumbant of Hartshill
Matilda - wife - 47
1871 Census:
Warwickshire
Hartshill
Vicarage House
William Rogers Cope - 55 - Vicar of Hartshill
Matilda - wife - 57
General Notes (Wife)
Matilda was the 4th daughter of Edward Walker, a surgeon, of Kington.
Husband Stuart Corbett
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 F Susan Corbett
Born: 28 May 1811
Christened:
Died: 6 Jan 1899 - Ryde, Isle of Wight
Buried:
Spouse: Joshua Scholefield
General Notes for Child Susan Corbett
Susan was the daughter of the venerable Stuart Corbell, Archbishop of York.
Husband Joshua Scholefield
Born: 3 May 1811
Christened:
Died: 16 Jun 1864
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Susan Corbett
Born: 28 May 1811
Christened:
Died: 6 Jan 1899 - Ryde, Isle of Wight
Buried:
Father: Stuart Corbett
Mother:
Children
1 M Vincent Cotterill Scholefield
Born: 9 Oct 1840 - Birmingham
Christened: 2 Mar 1841 - Smethwick, Staffordshire
Died: 4 Jan 1911
Buried:
Spouse: Annie Sabina Aston
Marr: 1866
General Notes (Wife)
Susan was the daughter of the venerable Stuart Corbell, Archbishop of York.
General Notes for Child Vincent Cotterill Scholefield
Vincent Cotterill was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.
1881 Census:
Monmouthshire
Cwmcarvan
Vincent C. Scholefield - Head - 40 - No Occupation
Annie S. - wife - 38
Ernest N.M. - son - 8 - born in Monmouthshire
Florence M. - Daughter - 4 - Monmouthshire
Husband Dilnot Sladden
Born: 23 Mar 1842 - Ash, Sandwich, Kemt
Christened: 1 May 1842 - St. Nicholas, Ash, Kent
Died: 1 Sep 1906 - New Zealand
Buried:
Father: John Sladden
Mother: Elizabeth Coleman
Marriage: 8 Mar 1866 - St. Mark's, Opawa, New Zealand
Wife Elizabeth Letitia Coster
Born: 1841
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Hubert Sladden
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1952
Buried:
Spouse: Melita Meredyth Meredith
Marr: Apr 1906 - Wairarapa, New Zealand
2 M Francis Dilnot Sladden
Born: 26 Jun 1870 - Christchurch, New Zealand
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Mabel Bessie Sladden
Born: 10 May 1876 - Kaiapoi, New Zealand
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 M George Edward Sladden
Born: 7 Nov 1868 - Christchurch, New Zealand
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 F Violet Susannah Coleman Sladden
Born: 7 May 1884 - Oxford East, New Zealand
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes for Child Hubert Sladden
Hubert had a park (Sladden Park) in Hutt City named after him, and was the son of Dilnot Sladden and Elizabeth Letitia Coster. He was a civil engineer.
Melita and Hubert had two sons and two daughters.
A Wairarapa wedding of great interest, and an unusually pretty one, was that of Miss Melita Meredith, daughter of Mr. Meredith, Llandaff, Masterton, to Mr. Hubert Sladden, of Pentone. St. Matthew's was prettily decorated for the ceremony, and the day-Wednesday last-was gloriously bright and sunny. Wedding music was played by the organist. The Rev. A. M. Johnston officiated, and many guests were present.
The bride entered the church with her father, and looked very graceful and sweet in her bridal robe of white mousseline satin, veiled with flounces of lovely lace. A small wreath of orange blossoms and white heather was worn under the long tulle veil, and a shower bouquet carried.
The attendant maids were Miss Kathleen Meredith and Miss Dolly Sladden, who wore charming gowns of rose pink radium silk, with pink hats, relieved with long black ostrich plumes, and, their bouquets were of shaded pink roses. Little Miss B. Mackersy and Master Smith (a niece and nephew of the bride) completed the picturesque bridal group. Mr. C. Sladden was best man, and Mr. L. Meredith groomsman.
After the ceremony, a great many friends were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Meredith at Llandaff. The pretty rooms were decorated with a profusion of beautiful flowers, and the tables were laid in the large hall. Several very bright little speeches were made. The toast of the bride and bridegroom was drunk with enthusiasm. Later, Mr. and Mrs. Sladden left for the North, the bride, travelling in a gown of dark blue serge with white corded silk collar, pretty front of crepe-de-chine and lace, blue hat with wings, and silver fox furs.
Mrs. Meredith wore a black silk gown; Mrs. Sladden, black taffetas gown and lace. Some of the guests were: Mr. and Mrs. H Smith, Mr. and Mrs Meredith Kaye, Mrs James, Mr. and Mrs Sladden and the Misses Sladden, Mrs. Mackersy, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Perry, Mr. and Mrs. Gawith, Dr. and Mrs. Dawson, Mr. and Mi,. E. Vallance, Dr. and Mrs, Hocking, Mr. and Mrs. Cox, Miss Board, Miss Hamlin (Napier), Miss Holmes, Mrs. Hayward and Miss Sladden (England), Messrs. Gawith, Moodie, Sumerell, and
Dr. A. Hosking.
The bridesmaids' gifts were quaint gold brooches, set with pearls, and the bride's gift was an opal and diamond ring. Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Sladden will reside at the Lower Hutt on their return from the North.
Husband David Owen Meredith
Born: 31 May 1875 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 23 Feb 1964 - Tasmania
Buried:
Father: Owen Meredith
Mother: Eliza Jane Windsor
Marriage:
Wife Alice Vicary Cottrell
Born: 27 Jan 1879 - Victoria
Christened:
Died: 22 Dec 1939 - Tasmania
Buried:
Father: John Crispe Cottrell
Mother: Alice Katherine Vicary
Children
1 F Alice Meredith
Born: 30 Jan 1902 - New South Wales
Christened:
Died: 10 Nov 1986 - Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: Frederick Charles Hodgson
Marr: 24 Jun 1925
General Notes (Husband)
David Owen was manager of the Electrolytic Zinc Company, Risdon, Hobart
Husband John Crispe Cottrell
Born: - New Zealand
Christened:
Died: 1881 - New Zealand
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Alice Katherine Vicary
Born: 16 May 1859 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 7 Oct 1951 - Tasmania
Buried:
Father: Henry James Vicary
Mother: Frances Charlotte Maclaine
Children
1 F Alice Vicary Cottrell
Born: 27 Jan 1879 - Victoria
Christened:
Died: 22 Dec 1939 - Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: David Owen Meredith
Husband Edwin Cox
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 1873 - March Q - Bedminster, Gloucestershire
Wife Esther Meredith
Born: Sep 1852 - Knighton, Radnorshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Joseph Meredith
Mother: Caroline
Children
1 F Minnie Cox
Born: 1874 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Edwin Cox
Born: 1875 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Clara Cox
Born: 1879 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 F Florence Cox
Born: 1881 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Canon Seymour Richard Coxe
Born: 23 Jan 1842 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Christened: 22 Jun 1842 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Died: 2 Aug 1922 - aged 80 - The Precincts, Canterbury
Buried:
Father: Venerable Richard Charles Coxe
Mother:
Marriage: 1872 - June Quarter - Kensington, Middlesex
Wife Fanny Coxe
Born: 1850 - circa - Middlesex, London
Christened:
Died: 30 Aug 1936 - The Precincts, Canterbury
Buried:
Father: Philip Smith Coxe
Mother: Louisa Stephens
Children
1 F Ethel Seymour Coxe
Born: 1873 - circa - Hawthorn, Co. Durham
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Charles Richard Seymour Coxe
Born: 26 Jan 1875 - Brompton, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died: 23 Feb 1942 - aged 67
Buried:
Spouse: Beatrice Brown or Gladys Harriet Singleton
Marr: 1907 - March Quarter - Leeds, Yorkshire
Spouse: Louisa A. T. Appleyard
Marr: 1920-1941
3 F Fanny Maud Coxe
Born: 1876 - circa - Brompton, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Seymour Richard Coxe was the son of the Venerable Richard Charles Coxe, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne. He was a canon of Newcastle. As Rector of Stoke Bruerne, he is described by British History Online as having been “a man of considerable private income. As well as further renovating the interior of the church, he introduced a surpliced choir and was the first rector of Stoke to retire on a pension.”
The Times, Thursday, Aug 03, 1922; pg. 5; Issue 43100; col E
Canon Seymour Richard Coxe, who died yesterday at The Precincts, Canterbury, aged 80, was the son of the Ven. R.C. Coxe, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne and was himself hon. canon of Newcastle. From Durham School he went up to Brasenose with a Hulmeian exhibition, and was the captain of the College boat when it was head of the river; he was also treasurer of the Oxford University Boat Club. He held benefices in Yorkshire, Norfolk and Northumberland, and was for some years examining chaplain to Bishop Wilberforce, of Newcastle, and proctor in Convocation.
1881 Census:
Hampshire
Ventnor
Tharle House
Seymour R. Coxe - head - 39 - M.A. Vicar of Brompton
Fanny - wife - 31
Ethel S. - daughter - 8
Charles R.S. - son - 6
Fanny M.S. - daughter - 4
?????W.H. Cox - cousin - 60 - Major General - Bengal Staff
Cox - Major-General W.H. - Royal Artillery - died 10th March 1903.
Grave at St. Peter's Church, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Glos. - "Major General W.H. Cox, R.A. Died 10th March 1903."
St. Peter's Leckhampton Tombstone inscriptions
G. 139
White marble ridged and hipped ledger upon base stone formerly with railings, covered with lichen.
South: Charlotte Barbara,/Beloved wife of Major General W.H. Cox,/died 1st July 1892.
North: Also of/Major General W.H. Cox. R.A./Died 10th March 1903.
1901 Census:
Northamptonshire
Stoke Bruerne
Rectory Grounds
Seymour Riuchard Coxe - head - 59 - Priest - Church of England
Fanny Coxe - wife - 51
Ethel Seymour Coxe - daughter - 28
Fanny Maud Seymour Coxe - daughter - 24
General Notes (Wife)
The Times Tuesday, Sep 01, 1936; pg. 1; Issue 47468; col B
Coxe. - On Aug. 30, 1936, at The Precincts, Canterbury, Fanny, dearly loved wife of the late Canon Seymour Coxe, aged 86.
General Notes for Child Charles Richard Seymour Coxe
In the Marlborough College Register Charles' address was given as the Bank of England, Leeds.
Charles Richard Seymour Coxe married either Beatrice Brown or Gladys Harriet Singleton in 1907.
His second wife, Louisa Appleyard was first married in 1920.
The Times, Wednesday, Feb 25, 1942; pg. 1; Issue 49169; col A
Coxe.- On Feb. 23, 1942, Charles Richard Seymour Coxe, Hurst Road, Horsham, beloved husband of Louisa (nee Appleyard), and only son of the late Canon and Mrs. Seymour Coxe, aged 67.
The Times, Monday, Nov 29, 1909; pg. 1; Issue 39129; col A
Coxe. - on the 25th Nov., at 26, Alexandra-crescent, Ilkley, the wife of Chrales R. Seymour Coxe, of twins (boy and girl).
Husband William Allan Smith-Masters
Born: 1851 - circa - Humber, Hereford
Christened:
Died: 27 Aug 1937 - Camer, Meopham, Kent
Buried: 31 Aug 1937 - Meopham Church
Marriage: 19 Oct 1876 - London, St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington
Other Spouse: Kathleen Amy Gore - 22 Feb 1919 - Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
Wife Mary Coxe
Born: 1851 - circa - Middlesex, London
Christened:
Died: 18 Feb 1915 - Camer, Meopham, Kent
Buried: 23 Feb 1915 - Meopham, Kent
Father: Philip Smith Coxe
Mother: Louisa Stephens
Children
1 F Edith Monica Smith-Masters
Born: 1879 - circa - Meopham, Kent
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Lieut.-Colonel Oliver Henry North
Marr: 1908
General Notes (Husband)
In 1881 William Allan Smith-Masters was a farmer of 670 acres employing 20 men and 6 boys at Camer House, Meopham in Kent.13 After the death of his first wife Mary, he married secondly Kathleen Amy Gore on 22 Feb 1919.
The Times, Saturday, Oct 21, 1876; pg. 1; Issue 28766; col A
On the 19th Oct., at St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, by the Rev. Seymour R. Coxe, Vicar of Brompton, Yorks., brother-in-law of the bride, assisted by the Rev. R.W. Randall, Vicar of All Saints, Clifton, uncle of the bridegroom, and the Rev. Dr. West, Vicar of the parish, William Allan Smith-Masters, of Camer, Kent, Esq., to Mary, younger daughter of the late Phillip S. Coxe, Esq., of 34, Ladbroke-grove, Kensington-park-gardens.
The Times, Monday, Aug 30, 1937; pg. 1; Issue 47776; col A
Smith-Masters. - On Aug. 27, 1937, William Allen Smith-Masters, of Camer, Meopham, Kent, at the age of 87. Funeral at Meopham Church tomorrow (Tuesday), 2.30 pm.
1881 Census:
Kent
Meopham
Camer House
William A. Smith-Masters - head - 37
Mary - wife - 29
Edith Monica - daughter - 1
1901 Census:
Kent
Meopham
Camer House
William A. Smith-Masters - head - 57 - J.P. - living on own means
Mary - wife - 49
Edith M. - daughter - 21
General Notes (Wife)
The Times, Monday, Feb 22, 1915; pg. 1; Issue 40784; col A
Smith-Masters.- On the 18th inst., at Camer, Mary, wife of William Allan Smith-Masters, and dusghter of the late Phillip Smith Coxe, aged 63. Funeral at Meopham, at 3 o'clock. on February 23rd.
General Notes for Child Edith Monica Smith-Masters
Edith Monica and Oliver Henry North had 4 sons, one of whom was
killed in action in 1940.
Husband Philip Smith Coxe
Born: 1810 - circa - Bucklebury, Berkshire
Christened:
Died: 1868
Buried:
Marriage: 1849 - June Quarter - Marylebone, London
Wife Louisa Stephens
Born: 1818 - circa - Dinedor, Herefordshire
Christened: 20 Jan 1818 - Dinedor, Herefordshire
Died: Sep 1885 - Kensington, London
Buried:
Father: Joseph Stephens
Mother: Susannah Beaumont
Other Spouse: Walter Rankin Johnson - 2 Dec 1840 - Weobley, Herefordshire
Children
1 F Fanny Coxe
Born: 1850 - circa - Middlesex, London
Christened:
Died: 30 Aug 1936 - The Precincts, Canterbury
Buried:
Spouse: Canon Seymour Richard Coxe
Marr: 1872 - June Quarter - Kensington, Middlesex
2 F Mary Coxe
Born: 1851 - circa - Middlesex, London
Christened:
Died: 18 Feb 1915 - Camer, Meopham, Kent
Buried: 23 Feb 1915 - Meopham, Kent
Spouse: William Allan Smith-Masters
Marr: 19 Oct 1876 - London, St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington
3 M Philip Henry Coxe
Born: 1854 - circa - Middlesex, London
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Philip was a solicitor of London.
1851 Census:
Middlesex
St. Marylebone
St. John
83 Hamilton Terrace
Philip - 41 - Solicitor
Louisa - 33 - wife
Mary E. Coxe - Half Sister
Fanny - 1
Isabella A. Johnson - from Louisa's previous marriage
Mary. I. Stephens - 28 - sister-in-law
1861 Census:
Middlesex
Kensington
St. Mary Abbott
Kensington Town
Philip - 51 - Solicitor
Louisa - 43 - wife
Isabella A Johnson - 17 - Louisa's previous marriage
Fanny - 11
Mary - 9
Philip - 6
1871 Census:
Gloucestershire
Clifton
Louisa - Head - 54
Isabella A Johnson - 27 - Louisa's previous marriage
Mary - daughter - 19
Philip Henry - son - 16
1881 Census:
Kensington
Kensington Town
34 Ladbroke Gardens
Louisa - 65 - Head
Isabella A Johnson - 38
Philip Henry - 26 - Solicitor
Louisa H. Coxe - 25 - Great Niece
General Notes for Child Fanny Coxe
The Times Tuesday, Sep 01, 1936; pg. 1; Issue 47468; col B
Coxe. - On Aug. 30, 1936, at The Precincts, Canterbury, Fanny, dearly loved wife of the late Canon Seymour Coxe, aged 86.
General Notes for Child Mary Coxe
The Times, Monday, Feb 22, 1915; pg. 1; Issue 40784; col A
Smith-Masters.- On the 18th inst., at Camer, Mary, wife of William Allan Smith-Masters, and dusghter of the late Phillip Smith Coxe, aged 63. Funeral at Meopham, at 3 o'clock. on February 23rd.
General Notes for Child Philip Henry Coxe
Husband Venerable Richard Charles Coxe
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Children
1 M Canon Seymour Richard Coxe
Born: 23 Jan 1842 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Christened: 22 Jun 1842 - Newcastle-Upon-Tyne
Died: 2 Aug 1922 - aged 80 - The Precincts, Canterbury
Buried:
Spouse: Fanny Coxe
Marr: 1872 - June Quarter - Kensington, Middlesex
General Notes for Child Canon Seymour Richard Coxe
Seymour Richard Coxe was the son of the Venerable Richard Charles Coxe, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne. He was a canon of Newcastle. As Rector of Stoke Bruerne, he is described by British History Online as having been “a man of considerable private income. As well as further renovating the interior of the church, he introduced a surpliced choir and was the first rector of Stoke to retire on a pension.”
The Times, Thursday, Aug 03, 1922; pg. 5; Issue 43100; col E
Canon Seymour Richard Coxe, who died yesterday at The Precincts, Canterbury, aged 80, was the son of the Ven. R.C. Coxe, Archdeacon of Lindisfarne and was himself hon. canon of Newcastle. From Durham School he went up to Brasenose with a Hulmeian exhibition, and was the captain of the College boat when it was head of the river; he was also treasurer of the Oxford University Boat Club. He held benefices in Yorkshire, Norfolk and Northumberland, and was for some years examining chaplain to Bishop Wilberforce, of Newcastle, and proctor in Convocation.
1881 Census:
Hampshire
Ventnor
Tharle House
Seymour R. Coxe - head - 39 - M.A. Vicar of Brompton
Fanny - wife - 31
Ethel S. - daughter - 8
Charles R.S. - son - 6
Fanny M.S. - daughter - 4
?????W.H. Cox - cousin - 60 - Major General - Bengal Staff
Cox - Major-General W.H. - Royal Artillery - died 10th March 1903.
Grave at St. Peter's Church, Leckhampton, Cheltenham, Glos. - "Major General W.H. Cox, R.A. Died 10th March 1903."
St. Peter's Leckhampton Tombstone inscriptions
G. 139
White marble ridged and hipped ledger upon base stone formerly with railings, covered with lichen.
South: Charlotte Barbara,/Beloved wife of Major General W.H. Cox,/died 1st July 1892.
North: Also of/Major General W.H. Cox. R.A./Died 10th March 1903.
1901 Census:
Northamptonshire
Stoke Bruerne
Rectory Grounds
Seymour Riuchard Coxe - head - 59 - Priest - Church of England
Fanny Coxe - wife - 51
Ethel Seymour Coxe - daughter - 28
Fanny Maud Seymour Coxe - daughter - 24
Husband Crammond
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Louisa Meredith
Born: 22 Feb 1876 - Springbay, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1977
Buried:
Father: George Campbell Meredith
Mother: Elizabeth Jillett
Husband John Cromie
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
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Children
1 M Samuel Macaulay Cromie
Born:
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Died:
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Spouse: Sarah Blanche Jukes
Marr: 17th Apil 1895 - Willesden, Victoria St. Warrnambool, Victoria
Husband Samuel Macaulay Cromie
Born:
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Father: John Cromie
Mother:
Marriage: 17th Apil 1895 - Willesden, Victoria St. Warrnambool, Victoria
Wife Sarah Blanche Jukes
Born: 15 Mar 1870
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Alfred Meredith Jukes
Mother: Margaret McWilliams
General Notes (Wife)
The Argus - Saturday 17 April 1920 - silver wedding commemoration:
On 17th April 1895 at the residence of the bride's mother, Willesden, Victoria St., Warrnambool, by the Rev. Gray Dixon, M.A. Samuel Macaulay eldest son of John Cromie of Warrnambool, to Blanche Sarah only surviving daughter of the late Alfred Meredith Jukes of Warrnambool.
Husband John Mather
Born: Apr 1738 - Dronfield, Derbyshire
Christened: 4 Apr 1738 - Dronfield, Derby, England
Died: 2 Mar 1825 - Birmingham
Buried:
Marriage: 4 Sep 1758 - Dronfield, Derby, England
Wife Lydia Crookes
Born: Apr 1740 - Dronfield, Derby, England
Christened: 6 Apr 1740 - Dronfield, Derby, England
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Sarah Rhodes (Sally) Mather
Born: 16 Jun 1766 - Leicester, Leicestershire
Christened: 2 Jul 1766 - Saint Martin, Leicester, England
Died: 4 Jul 1824
Buried:
Spouse: James Meredith
Marr: 25 Apr 1797 - St. Peter's, Wolverhampton
2 F Lydia Mather
Born: 21 Dec 1764 - Soho, Westminster, London
Christened: 16 Jan 1765 - Saint Anns, Soho, Westminster, London
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
The Intellectual Repository for the New Church - Vol I No. VI April 1825
At Birmingham, on the morning of March 2nd, in the 90th year or his age, Dr. John Mather, who had been a most cordial receiver of the writings of Emmanuel Swedenborg, for more than fifty years. He was first introduced to those inestimable writings by seeing the treatise on Heaven and Hell advertised in the newspaper, about the time of its first publication, upon being translated into the English language. Curiosity led him to purchase it; and its perusal convinced him of the truth of its contents. This excited in him an ardant desire to be furnished with all the other theological works of the illuminated author; and he ever prized them above all others, except the Holy Word, the next rank to which they held in his esteem. He read them in the Latin, and studied them daily for a long course of years. He constantly referred to them as a rule of life, and manifested great zeal in recommending them to others. He was a correspondent of the venerable Hartley, and the ties of friendship were formed between them, though they never saw each other. During a considerable portion of his life he practiced as a physician in Bedfordshire, in which capacity he was peculiarly eminent and successful.
*We have taken the liberty greatly to abridge this notice which was forwarded to us of this respected character; it having already appeared in another publication.
Roll of the Royal College of Physicians of London - V. 2 - Page 226
John Mather was elected physician to the London Hospital 5th June 1765 and John Mather M.D. was admitted as an Extra Licentiate (not by examination) of the College of Physicians 10 September 1765.
General Notes for Child Sarah Rhodes (Sally) Mather
James' Obituary in The Intellectual Repository and New Jerusalem Magazine of 1848:
..............It was in compamy with Mr. Clowes, his highly valued minister, Mr. Proud, and Mr. Salmon, in the year 1796, then on a visit to Dr. Mather of Wolverhampton, that he was introduced to an acquaintance with Miss Mather, his future wife. He had lived to the age of forty-four a bachelor, not, as he has often said, that he was at all indifferent to the holy and honourable state of matrimony..............The nuptials were soon after celebrated.....Mrs. Meredith's bodily frame sank under one of the most excruciating diseases to which in this mortal state we are liable......and on the 4th July, 1824, she bade her farewell for a time.
Witnesses at the wedding were John Mather and Joseph Meready. They were married by special licence as they did not call the banns.
Husband Dr. Henry F. Dawson
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 12 Dec 1900 - St. Matthews, Masterton, New Zealand
Wife Gwendoline Meredyth Meredith
Born: 1872 - circa - Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Edwin Meredith
Mother: Jane Caroline Chalmers
General Notes (Husband)
Evening Post, Vol. 60, Issue 141, 12 December 1900, Page 5
Masterton, This Day.
A very pretty wedding was celebrated at St. Matthew's Church today, when Dr. H.F. Dawson, of Pahiatua, was married to Miss Gwendoline M. Meredith, daughter of Mr. Edwin Meredith, of Llandaff. Dr. C.M. Dawson, of Tenui, acted as best man, and the sisters of the bride as bridesmaids. Dr. and Mrs. Dawson will leave for Wellington this afternoon, en route for Sydney.
Husband Clement Lindley Wragge
Born: 19 Sep 1852 - Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Christened: 30 Oct 1852 - Old Swinford, Worcester
Died: 10 Dec 1922
Buried:
Father: Clement Ingleby Wragge
Mother: Anna Maria Downing
Marriage: 13 Sep 1877
Wife Leonora Edith Florence d'Eresby
Born: 1856 - circa - Adelaide, South Australia
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Leonora Ingleby Wragge
Born: 1878
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Emma J. Wragge
Born: 1879
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M Clement Lionel Egerton Wragge
Born: 1880 - Farley, Staffordshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Rupert Lindley Wragge
Born: Aug 1882 - Scotland
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Clement Lindley Wragge born in 18 Sep 1852 became a well-known meteorologist who founded the Meteorological Society of Australasia.
1871 Census:
Middlesex
Teddington
Frances A Wragge - Head - 62 - Annuitant
Ellen E - daughter - 31 - annuitant
Bertha M. - daughter - 25
Catherine E. - daughter - 24
Clement L. Wragge - nephew - 18
1881 Census:
Staffordshire
Farley
Clement - 28 - Independent means from dividends and interest - F.R.C.S, F.M.S & Scientific Pursuits, viz ????? Geography
Leonard E. - 25 - Wife - From Adelaide, South Australia
Emma - 2
Clement L. E. - 8 months
Clement Lindley Wragge (19 September 1852 - 10 December 1922) was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological Society's Gold Medal and starting the trend of using people's names for cyclones. He travelled widely, and in his later years was a reliable authority on Australia, India and the Pacific Islands.
Wragge lost both of his parents at a young age: his mother at five months and his father at five years. He was raised for a number of years by his grandmother, Emma Wragge at Oakamoor, Staffordshire and educated at Uttoxeter Grammar School. Upon the death of his grandmother in 1865 he moved to London to live with relatives. There he followed in the footsteps of his father, studying law at Lincoln's Inn. He also studied navigation, and attended St Bartholomew's Hospital alongside medical students to watch operations. His uncle was Clement Mansfield Ingleby a partner in the law firm Ingleby Wragge and Ingleby, who became famous for his literary writings.
In 1874 Wragge worked his way to Sydney, Australia on a windjammer. He left the ship for a number of months to explore outback New South Wales and Queensland. In 1875 he worked his way from Sydney to San Francisco and Salt Lake City. There he held long discussions with Brigham Young. Claiming that polygamy appealed to him, he considered becoming a Mormon before returning to England. There he wrote a number of articles about Mormons and their religion.
Wragge returned to Australia in 1876, obtaining a position with the Surveyor-General's Department in South Australia. Wragge worked there for three years, participating in surveys of the Flinders Ranges and Murray scrubland. He married on 13 September 1877 Leonora Edith Florence d'Eresby and returned to Oakamoor, England in 1878 with his wife.
Wragge's first meteorological job was working at a weather station in North Staffordshire in 1881, living at Parkhouse Farm, Farley, Staffordshire. After the secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society selected him to set up an observatory on the top of Ben Nevis Wragge climbed the peak daily to take readings, while his wife took comparable readings from sea level. For an unbroken series of observations from 1 June to 14 October 1881 he was awarded the Society's Gold Medal. After a second series of observations were undertaken in 1882 a Summit Observatory was opened in 1883. Wragge applied for the job of Superintendent, but was unsuccessful, possibly due to unpopularity.
Wragge's wife Leonora gave birth to a daughter, Leonora Ingleby in 1878; Emma.J. in 1879 and Clement Lionel Egerton in 1880 . His fourth child Rupert Lindley was born in August 1882 in Scotland. Wragge left for Australia soon after. His third child, Clement who was born in Farley, Staffordshire in 1880, would later enlist with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment of the First Australian Imperial Force and die from wounds at Gallipoli on 16 May 1915.
Wragge inherited a considerable fortune upon the death of a wealthy aunt in 1883, and the following year he moved with his wife to settle on the outskirts of Adelaide, South Australia. He established the Torrens Observatory at Walkerville, and another at Mount Lofty. In 1886 Wragge was the founding member of the Royal Meteorological Society of Australia.
Clement Wragge died on 10 December 1922 from a stroke. His son Kismet K Wragge stayed on as "First Officer" of the Wragge Institute.
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It was soon after noon on September 26, 1902, that the first of the six big guns - giant Steiger Vortex guns, with long, funnel-shaped barrels, that reminded people of candle snuffers - were fired into the cloudy skies above Charleville. Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then, as now, the central Queensland town was deep in drought. In its desperation it had turned to firepower to shake the clouds, to produce rain.
According to contemporary reports, the cacophony from the cannons spooked a Chinaman's horse, upsetting his cart of fruit and rattled the heavens, but dislodged not a drop of rain. Subsequent volleys succeeded only in blowing apart two guns.
Townsfolk had been assured that similar guns had been used successfully to disperse damaging hailstorms over European vineyards, but present-day meteorologist Dick Whitaker of the Weather Channel says the plan had no scientific basis.
"It harked back to medieval days when people would set off cannons, fire volleys of arrows or ring church bells at advancing storms. Some great battles were fought in heavy rain, and people thought vibration from the gunfire had set it off.
"In fact, the amount of energy generated is relatively tiny," says Whitaker, who questions the efficacy even of modern "hail guns".
Despite the failure of the expensive experiment, Whitaker still admires its instigator, Clement Wragge, who subsequently left the town after an argument with the local council. "He was an eccentric, a real character, a loose cannon, a self-promoter," Whitaker says of a little-known man whose story will feature prominently when the Bureau Of Meteorology celebrates its centenary this year.
"He could communicate easily with the public, who generally liked him, but he did and said things that made the scientific community absolutely despair. In many ways he was, like the phenomena he studied, a 'natural disaster'."
Clement Lindley Wragge was born in Stourbridge in the English Midlands in 1852. With an erratically, endlessly inquiring mind, he studied law, navigation and, informally, medicine before working his way to Sydney on a windjammer in his 20s.
Thereafter, his life, like his interests, zig-zagged back and forth across not just Australia, but the world. From Adelaide he set off to survey the Flinders Ranges. In Salt Lake City in the US, he considered becoming a Mormon and embracing polygamy. Back home, he began working at a weather station first in Staffordshire, then in Scotland, on Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain. As Whitaker says: "You have to admire the determination of the man."
While his wife, who was to die on Ben Nevis in a blizzard, collected information from their home at sea level, Wragge would climb the mountain every day, four hours up, four hours down, to take readings.
By the time an observatory was established, Wragge had become so unpopular among his peers that he failed to win the job as superintendent. When, decades later, the first director of the bureau was sought, he was similarly shunned. Equipped with a new wife and enriched by a legacy from a wealthy aunt, he returned to Australia - to South Australia, where he established an observatory on Mount Lofty; then, four years later, to Queensland.
His arrival coincided with abnormal rainfall, for which he was nicknamed "Wet" and "Inclement" Wragge. Within years he gained another: "the Charleville Rainmaker".
As weather historian Tim Sherratt recorded, the fall-out from Wragge's failure was typical of the man. A pioneer of long-range forecasting and an energetic builder of weather stations, notably on Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Wragge "had the unhelpful knack of alienating many of his colleagues. Styling himself as the 'boss weather prophet' and promulgating Australia-wide predictions from his 'chief weather bureau, Brisbane', he sought to claim the continent and the discipline his own".
He developed a convention of naming cyclones, first using Greek letters, then figures from Polynesian mythology and, more provocatively, politicians such as Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. Like cyclones, he argued, they were highly damaging.
Sherratt says Wragge increasingly found himself out of favour, "a weather prophet in the wilderness". After travelling through the Cook Islands, New Caledonia and Tahiti, he finally washed up, with a third wife, an Indian woman, in New Zealand.
His last home was in Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore, which he described as the "sweetest nook in Maoridom … in God's own country". Here, he founded the Wragge Institute & Museum and the Waiata Observatory and Tropical Gardens.
In an essay for the Auckland historical society, Kim Adams recalled "a self-taught philosopher, meteorologist, geographer and showman who dressed in Indian-style apparel and … looked like a tall, turbaned scarecrow with a beard".
Wragge attracted many visitors to his home and garden, but as Adams noted, "his entire lack of feeling for social distinctions led to misunderstandings and jealousy … people expected behaviour that he could not conform to".
He died, praising "God, the master dynamo" and promoting suspicions that he had become a Muslim in 1922. Of his latter years in New Zealand almost nothing remains, but these days he is fondly remembered in Charleville, scene of his greatest disaster.
Two of the restored guns now stand in its Bicentennial Park, where signboards relate the story of how they were strapped to trees and fired into the heavens by the rainmaker.
The 68-year-old Charleville historian George Balsillie remembers one of the last times they were fired. "I was a youngster, apprenticed to this bloke Bob McWha, who had a blacksmith's workshop. When I started he pointed out this long, cone-shaped thing lying in the yard and said, 'Don't go throwing that out, it's a piece of history.' Apparently, some bloke turned up one day, probably 1947, very interested. Suggested they give it a bit of a test fire.
"They dug this thing up and strapped it to an electric light post next to the picture house. They got some gunpowder and made a bit of a fuse. Anyway, they didn't clear all the rubbish out of the barrel first. When it did go off, it went WHOMP, of course, but all these bloody feathers…and rubbish came flying out." But still no rain.
General Notes for Child Clement Lionel Egerton Wragge
Clement Lionel enlisted in the 2nd Light Horse Regiment of the First Australian Imperial Force and died from wounds 0n 16 May 1915.
Husband Captain Frederick William Despard
Born: 1828 - circa
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Wife Rosina Meredith
Born: 1833
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Father: George H. Meredith
Mother: Mary Anne Evans
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Frederick and Rosina had one daughter.
Frederick and Harriet Ann Nixon had two children.
Frederick William Despard was a Captain in the army.
Frederick was also of the 99th Regiment as was Captain F. S. Gaynor, husband of Fanny.
Husband Captain Frederick William Despard
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Marriage: 1862 - Hobart, Tasmania
Other Spouse: Rosina Meredith
Wife Harriet Anne Nixon
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1 F Rosina Clara Despard
Born: 1863
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2 F Edith Sophia Despard
Born: 1864 - Morven, Tasmania
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Frederick and Rosina had one daughter.
Frederick and Harriet Ann Nixon had two children.
Frederick William Despard was a Captain in the army.
Frederick was also of the 99th Regiment as was Captain F. S. Gaynor, husband of Fanny.
Husband Charles Alfred Hebbert
Born: 24 Jun 1856
Christened: 26 Aug 1856 - St. Philip's, Birmingham
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Father: John Benbow Hebbert
Mother: Julia Lucy Aston
Marriage: 27 Jan 1883 - St. John Baptist, Coventry
Wife Frances Helen Dilke
Born: 1855 - circa
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1 M Arthur Charles Benbow Hebbert
Born: Nov-Dec 1856
Christened: 5 Feb 1857 - Millbank St., Westminster
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27.01.1883 - Hebbert, Charles Alfred 26, bac., surgeon 17 Great College Street, Westminster son of John Benbow Hebbert, solicitor, to Dilke, Frances Helen 28, spin. Holyhead Road, Coventry daughter of William Andrew Dilke, gentleman [deceased] C. Wentworth Dilke, Arthur H. Hebbert, Henry C. Hebbert, Dinah Hebbert, George Laston.
The Times, Friday 23 January 1880
Royal College of Surgeons - Charles Alfred Hebbert of Birmingham, of the Westminster Hospital, admitted with diploma as a member of the College on 21 January 1880.
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Frances Helen was the daughter of William Andrew Dilke, gentleman (deceased at the time of her marriage). She was living at Holyhead Road, Coventry.
General Notes for Child Arthur Charles Benbow Hebbert
Daily News (London), Wednesday, February 9, 1887; Issue 12741
Hebbert. - February 5, at Millbank Street, Westminster, Arthur Charles Benbow, son of Charles A. and Frances H. Hebbert, aged 3 months.
Husband William Andrew Dilke
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1 F Frances Helen Dilke
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Marr: 27 Jan 1883 - St. John Baptist, Coventry
General Notes for Child Frances Helen Dilke
Frances Helen was the daughter of William Andrew Dilke, gentleman (deceased at the time of her marriage). She was living at Holyhead Road, Coventry.
Husband Frank Dudley Docker
Born: 26 Aug 1862 - Paxton House, Smethwick, South Street
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Marriage: 17 Aug 1895 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Wife Lucy Constance Hebbert
Born: 1852 - circa
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Mother: Julia Lucy Aston
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1 M Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker
Born: 9 Aug 1896 - Rotton Park Lodge, Edgbaston
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Spouse: Jeanne Stuart Ivy Sweet
Marr: Apr 1933
Spouse: Norah Turner
Marr: 1949
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Dudly Docker was a successful industrialist and financier.
The Times, Monday, Jul. 10, 1944; Page 6
Mr. F. D. Docker
Mr. Frank Dudley Docker C.B., died at his home at Amersham on Saturday.
He was director of the Midland Bank, The Electric and Railway Finance Corporation and the Birmingham Small Arms Company. He was born in 1862, and in 1895 married Lucy Constance, daughter of J.B. Hebbert, of Edgbaston. Their only son is Sir Bernard Docker, chairman of Westminster Hospital and of the British Hospitals Assocaition.
Mr. Docker was one of the founders of the Federation of British Industries and was its first president. He was made C.B. in 1911.
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Dudley Docker by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines - 2004
On 17 August 1895, a fortnight before his 33rd birthday, Dudley Docker married, at St. Augustines in Edgbaston, Lucy Constance Hebbert. She was the daughter of one of Ralph Docker's most distinguished contemporaries in the Birmingham legal fraternity, John Benbow Hebbert (1809-87), by his wife Lucy Julia, daughter of John Aston of Edgbaston and Rowington and sister of a prosperous Birmingham manufacturer, George Lyttelton Aston. Hebbert had enrolled as a solicitor in 1831, and as he remained active until his death, his professional longevity surpassed that of Ralph Docker by two or three years........
General Notes for Child Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker
Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist.
Docker was the Managing Director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies (BSA) from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired the Daimler Motor Company.
He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler" (1952), "Blue Clover" (1953), the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman of BSA, following a 1956 boardroom coup.
Docker's first wife was Jeanne Stuart (née Ivy Sweet), a British actress. They married in 1933 but the marriage was soon dissolved after pressure from Docker's parents. His second wife was Norah Collins (née Norah Royce Turner), a former showgirl he married in 1949 as her third husband; she was the widow of Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, and widow of Clement Callingham, the head of Henekeys wine and spirits merchants.
Husband Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker
Born: 9 Aug 1896 - Rotton Park Lodge, Edgbaston
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Father: Frank Dudley Docker
Mother: Lucy Constance Hebbert
Marriage: Apr 1933
Other Spouse: Norah Turner - 1949
Wife Jeanne Stuart Ivy Sweet
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Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist.
Docker was the Managing Director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies (BSA) from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired the Daimler Motor Company.
He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler" (1952), "Blue Clover" (1953), the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman of BSA, following a 1956 boardroom coup.
Docker's first wife was Jeanne Stuart (née Ivy Sweet), a British actress. They married in 1933 but the marriage was soon dissolved after pressure from Docker's parents. His second wife was Norah Collins (née Norah Royce Turner), a former showgirl he married in 1949 as her third husband; she was the widow of Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, and widow of Clement Callingham, the head of Henekeys wine and spirits merchants.
Husband Sir Bernard Dudley Frank Docker
Born: 9 Aug 1896 - Rotton Park Lodge, Edgbaston
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Mother: Lucy Constance Hebbert
Marriage: 1949
Other Spouse: Jeanne Stuart Ivy Sweet - Apr 1933
Wife Norah Turner
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Bernard Docker was born in Edgbaston, Birmingham, the only child of Frank Dudley Docker an industrialist.
Docker was the Managing Director of the Birmingham Small Arms Company group of companies (BSA) from the early 1940s until 1956 and he also chaired the Daimler Motor Company.
He became noted during the 1950s for producing show cars, such as the "Golden Daimler" (1952), "Blue Clover" (1953), the "Silver Flash" and "Stardust" in 1954. He was succeeded by Jack Sangster as Chairman of BSA, following a 1956 boardroom coup.
Docker's first wife was Jeanne Stuart (née Ivy Sweet), a British actress. They married in 1933 but the marriage was soon dissolved after pressure from Docker's parents. His second wife was Norah Collins (née Norah Royce Turner), a former showgirl he married in 1949 as her third husband; she was the widow of Sir William Collins, the president of Fortnum & Mason, and widow of Clement Callingham, the head of Henekeys wine and spirits merchants.
Husband Mr. Dore
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Wife Anna Maria Stephens
Born: 1780 - circa
Christened: 22 Feb 1780 - Lyonshall, Herefordshire
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Father: Lawrence Stephens
Mother: Hannah Meredith
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1 F Anna Maria Dore
Born: 1808 - circa
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Mr. Dore of London (reference in private correspondence of the Jukes family)
Husband Frederic Doulton
Born: 1823 - circa
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Marriage: 5 May 1846 - Resent St. Baptist Chapel, Lambeth, Surrey
Wife Sarah Saunders Meredith
Born: 8 Jan 1824 - St. Mary's, Kent
Christened: 4 Sep 1827 - London, England
Died: 1914
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Father: John Meredith
Mother: Hannah Bult
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1 F Alice Duneau Doulton
Born: 1854 - March Q. - Brixton, Surrey
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2 M Hubert Victor Doulton
Born: 1864 - March Q. - Dulwich, Surrey
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3 F Amy Sarah Doulton
Born: 1848 - Sept. Q. - Lambeth, London
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4 M Alfred Percy Doulton
Born: 1855 - March Q. - Brixton, Surrey
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5 F Isabel Hannah Doulton
Born: 1858 - September Q. - Dulwich, Surrey
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Frederick was an earthenware manufacturer.
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1881 census - 147 Peckham Rye, Camberwell, Surrey, England.
Sarah S. Doulton, Head, W, 57, Woolwich, Kent, England, Dividends.
Amy Sarah Doulton, Daur, U, 33, Lambeth, Surrey, England, Dividends.
Alice Dunea. Doulton, Daur, U, 27, Brixton, Surrey, England, Dividends.
Alfred Percy Doulton, Son, U, 26, Brixton, Surrey, England, Solicitors Managing Clerk.
Isabel H. Doulton, Daur, U, 22, Dulwich, Surrey, England, Dividends.
Herbert V. Doulton, Son, U, 17, Dulwich, Surrey, England, Scholar.
Hannah F. Sleigh, Serv, U, 21, Stepney, Middlesex, England, Cook Domestic.
Mary Kate Blake, Serv, U, 21, Preston Condover, Hampshire, England, Housemaid Domestic.
Samuel B. Meredith, Brother, M, 58, Woolwich, Kent, England, Retired Farmer.
1891 Census:
Camberwell
257 Barry Road
Sarah S. Doulton - Head - 67 - Living on Own Means
Alice D. - daughter - 37 - Living on Own Means
Hubert V. - son - 27 - schoolmaster
Rosie - granddaughter - 10 - Scholar
1901 Census:
Camberwell
257 Barry Road
Sarah S. Doulton - 77 - Living on Own Means
Alice D. - daughter - 47
Hubert V. - son - Schoolmaster
Rosie - granddaughter - 20
Husband Hubert Victor Doulton
Born: 1864 - March Q. - Dulwich, Surrey
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Mother: Sarah Saunders Meredith
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1 F Rosie Doulton
Born: 1881 - circa - Staines, Middlesex
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Husband Dowding
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Wife Anne Stephens
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Father: Joseph Stephens
Mother: Susannah Beaumont
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Husband Jeremiah Downes
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1 F Mary Downes
Born: 1782 - about
Christened: 2 Mar 1782 - Shipton, Shropshire
Died: 1848 - circa
Buried: 22 Sep 1848 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Spouse: John Meredith
Marr: 27 Apr 1802 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
2 F Sarah Downes
Born: 1784 - Circa
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Spouse: John Wright
Marr: 14 Oct 1806 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
General Notes for Child Mary Downes
1841 Census:
Mary, aged 59, living in Pedwardine with son John (aged 34), Joseph and his wife Mary - she was described as a farmer.
Husband John Meredith
Born: 1774 - Circa
Christened: 8 Feb 1774 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died: 15 May 1834 - aged 60 - Pedwardine
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Father: Joseph Meredith
Mother: Mary Prosser
Marriage: 27 Apr 1802 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Wife Mary Downes
Born: 1782 - about
Christened: 2 Mar 1782 - Shipton, Shropshire
Died: 1848 - circa
Buried: 22 Sep 1848 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Father: Jeremiah Downes
Mother: Anne Hudson
Children
1 F Elizabeth Meredith
Born: 1803 - Circa
Christened: 7 Jun 1803 - Bucknell, Shropshire
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2 M John Meredith
Born: 1805 - Circa - Shropshire, England
Christened: 1 Nov 1805 - Bucknell, Shropshire
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3 M Joseph Meredith
Born: 1806 - Circa - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
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Spouse: Mary
Marr: 1841 - before
4 F Mary Meredith
Born: 1815 - Circa
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John Meredith died 1834 in of Pedwardine. He married Mary Downes on 27 April 1802 in Leintwardine, Herefordshire, England, daughter of Jeremiah Downes and Anne Hudson.
More About John Meredith:
Christening: 1774
Children of John Meredith and Mary Downes are:
Elizabeth Meredith, b. 1803, d. date unknown.
John Meredith, b. 1805, Shropshire, England, d. date unknown.
Joseph Meredith, b. 1808, d. 1872.
Mary Meredith, b. 1815, d. date unknown.
Mary Downes (daughter of Jeremiah Downes and Anne Hudson) was born Abt. 1782, and died Bet. 1815 - May 1849.
More About Mary Downes:
Christening: 2 March 1782, Shipton, Shropshire, England.
Elizabeth Meredith (daughter of John Meredith and Mary Downes was born 1803, and died date unknown.
Notes for Elizabeth Meredith & John:
Both received Fifty pounds from their grandmother Anne Downes in her Will. [Rita Taylor]
Sarah Downes. sister of Mary married John Wright. Their daughter Sarah Wright married Henry Meredith who was born about 1800 and died in 1865 - they were married before 1837 and had one child (at least) Henry Frederick Meredith born about 1837 in Kington, Herefordshire and died in 1905
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1841 Census:
Mary, aged 59, living in Pedwardine with son John (aged 34), Joseph and his wife Mary - she was described as a farmer.
General Notes for Child John Meredith
John died unmarried
John provided the information about the Merediths of Pedwardine contained in the 4 page letter
“The Merediths of Pedwardine (near Brampton Bryan Herefordshire)
From Mr. John Meredith of Pedwardine to my mother April 27th 1845 – (Signed SEA)
‘I have forwarded all the inscriptions to our family in Brampton Bryan Churchyard; at the same time observe there is one sister only of your revered father lies interred there viz. Mrs. Whitcott’
Then there are the details above re the Merediths – then the letter goes on with more details:
“Hannah Meredith (late of lower Pedwardine) died November 11th 1834 aged 65 years
Anne Meredith (also of Pedwardine) died April 26th 1842 aged 69
Sarah Meredith died December 15th 1842 aged 87
David Meredith (late of Pedwardine) died February 14th 1836 aged 77
Catherine (wife of the above) died November 7th 1827 aged 53 years
Also Eliza daughter of the above David and Catherine Meredith who died in her 16th year and David a son who died in infancy.”
The letter then goes on:
“Davis Meredith of Pedwardine born 1702 died 1781 aged 79 our great grandfather (Signed SEA)
I believe he had a family of twelve children and our grandfather James Meredith senior of Birmingham I have heard was 5 years younger than the rest – one of his nephews was older than himself. Mrs. Whitcott was his eldest sister and Mrs. Mayo was the name of another.
James Meredith (our grandfather) son of David Meredith of Pedwardine was born February 20th 1753 – died March 9th 1848. He married Sally Rhodes Mather, daughter of J Mather of Leicester. James their eldest son born March 1st 1798 died September 20th 1861.
Sarah married Alfred Jukes surgeon of Birmingham (she was) born April 7th 1799 died at Willesden November 14th 1884.
John born April 15th 1800 – married Jane daughter of George Jones of Birmingham – (she) died July 17th 1851
David born April 5th 1802 died March 3rd 1822
Samuel born December 25th 1803 died July 30th 1885”
The third page as follows:
“Memoranda relating to the Stephens Family
Mrs. Stephens daughter of Davis Meredith of Pedwardine and sister of James Meredith of Birmingham, wife of Mr. Stephens of Moorcourt farmer, had six children
John Stephens of Eardisley Castle, farmer
Joseph Stephens of Dinedor & afterwards Dilwyn, Farmer
James Stephens of Harpton (?), farmer
Sarah Stephens wife of Peter Stephens of Broadheath, Resteign (?)
Anna Stephens wife of Mr Dore of London
?? Stephens wife of Mr. Johnson, surgeon of Dowgate Hill London
John Stephens married Miss Harris of ???? and had two daughters
Jane afterwards Mrs Reynolds (Alice Reynolds is her daughter)
Mary of St Georges Square London who brought up her sisters family Mrs R (Jane) having died. Mary Stephens died December 16th 1880 aged 74
Joseph Stephens married Miss Beaumont of Brinsop (?) in Hereford and had ten children. 9 daughters and one son.
Hannah married Mr. Gough solicitor of Hereford
Susan (??)
Sarah married Mr Holdsworth of Huddersfield
Anne married Mr Dowding of Cheltenham
Louisa married (1) The Rev. M Johnson. (2) Mr. Philip Coke (?) solicitor of London
Mary Jane married the Ven. Archdeacon Mooyart of Ceylon
Joanna married M. Delaye of Geneva
Octavia
Harriet
Lawrence Johnstone married a widowlady. Vicar of Long Haughton, Tesbury (?) Northumberland
James Stephens married ???? and had 5 children:
Peter married Miss Cooke & lived in Harpton ???? Herefordshire
Anne lives with Elizabeth in Hereford
James L died 1888
Mary married Mr Bridgewater farmer
Elizabeth
Mrs Peter Stephens pf Broadheath had no children
Mrs Dore had one daughter Anna Maria who died in 1881 aged 73
Mrs Johnson had no children”
1841 Census: Herefordshire - Boresford and Pedwardine
John, aged 34?, living in Pedwardine with his mother Mary
1851 Census: Wales - Radnorshire - Boresford and Pedwardine
John was living with his sister Eliza
1861 Census - Herefordshire - Beresford and Pedwardine
John was living with his sister Eliza
1871 Census - Herefordshire - All Saints
John described as a retired farmer - living as a lodger
General Notes for Child Joseph Meredith
1851 Census: Radnorshire - Boresford and Pedwardine.
Joseph was living with his wife Mary and their sons John, Joseph and James.
Husband Robert Henry Burnside Downes
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Buried:
Marriage: 4 Apr 1896 - Geelong, Victoria
Wife Mabel Cholmondely Poynter
Born: 28 Jun 1874 - Geelong, Victoria
Christened:
Died: 28 Oct 1919
Buried:
Father: Charles Meredith Poynter
Mother: Emily Nodder Shaw
Husband John Wright
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 14 Oct 1806 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Wife Sarah Downes
Born: 1784 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 1854 - Circa
Buried:
Father: Jeremiah Downes
Mother: Anne Hudson
Children
1 F Sarah Wright
Born: 9 Sep 1810 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Henry Meredith
Marr: 1837 - Before
Husband Clement Ingleby Wragge
Born:
Christened: 19 Sep 1814 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died: 1857
Buried:
Father: George Wragge
Mother: Emma Ingleby
Marriage: 21 Oct 1851 - Clent, Worcester
Wife Anna Maria Downing
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1852
Buried:
Children
1 M Clement Lindley Wragge
Born: 19 Sep 1852 - Stourbridge, Worcestershire
Christened: 30 Oct 1852 - Old Swinford, Worcester
Died: 10 Dec 1922
Buried:
Spouse: Leonora Edith Florence d'Eresby
Marr: 13 Sep 1877
General Notes (Husband)
George Wragge and Emma had a son Clement Ingleby Wragge who was christened on 19 Sep 1814 in Cheadle, and who also became a solicitor.
1841 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Frederick St
George Wragg - 30 - solicitor
Clement Wragge - 25 - solicitor
General Notes for Child Clement Lindley Wragge
Clement Lindley Wragge born in 18 Sep 1852 became a well-known meteorologist who founded the Meteorological Society of Australasia.
1871 Census:
Middlesex
Teddington
Frances A Wragge - Head - 62 - Annuitant
Ellen E - daughter - 31 - annuitant
Bertha M. - daughter - 25
Catherine E. - daughter - 24
Clement L. Wragge - nephew - 18
1881 Census:
Staffordshire
Farley
Clement - 28 - Independent means from dividends and interest - F.R.C.S, F.M.S & Scientific Pursuits, viz ????? Geography
Leonard E. - 25 - Wife - From Adelaide, South Australia
Emma - 2
Clement L. E. - 8 months
Clement Lindley Wragge (19 September 1852 - 10 December 1922) was a meteorologist born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire, England. After training in law, Wragge became renowned in the field of meteorology, winning the Scottish Meteorological Society's Gold Medal and starting the trend of using people's names for cyclones. He travelled widely, and in his later years was a reliable authority on Australia, India and the Pacific Islands.
Wragge lost both of his parents at a young age: his mother at five months and his father at five years. He was raised for a number of years by his grandmother, Emma Wragge at Oakamoor, Staffordshire and educated at Uttoxeter Grammar School. Upon the death of his grandmother in 1865 he moved to London to live with relatives. There he followed in the footsteps of his father, studying law at Lincoln's Inn. He also studied navigation, and attended St Bartholomew's Hospital alongside medical students to watch operations. His uncle was Clement Mansfield Ingleby a partner in the law firm Ingleby Wragge and Ingleby, who became famous for his literary writings.
In 1874 Wragge worked his way to Sydney, Australia on a windjammer. He left the ship for a number of months to explore outback New South Wales and Queensland. In 1875 he worked his way from Sydney to San Francisco and Salt Lake City. There he held long discussions with Brigham Young. Claiming that polygamy appealed to him, he considered becoming a Mormon before returning to England. There he wrote a number of articles about Mormons and their religion.
Wragge returned to Australia in 1876, obtaining a position with the Surveyor-General's Department in South Australia. Wragge worked there for three years, participating in surveys of the Flinders Ranges and Murray scrubland. He married on 13 September 1877 Leonora Edith Florence d'Eresby and returned to Oakamoor, England in 1878 with his wife.
Wragge's first meteorological job was working at a weather station in North Staffordshire in 1881, living at Parkhouse Farm, Farley, Staffordshire. After the secretary of the Scottish Meteorological Society selected him to set up an observatory on the top of Ben Nevis Wragge climbed the peak daily to take readings, while his wife took comparable readings from sea level. For an unbroken series of observations from 1 June to 14 October 1881 he was awarded the Society's Gold Medal. After a second series of observations were undertaken in 1882 a Summit Observatory was opened in 1883. Wragge applied for the job of Superintendent, but was unsuccessful, possibly due to unpopularity.
Wragge's wife Leonora gave birth to a daughter, Leonora Ingleby in 1878; Emma.J. in 1879 and Clement Lionel Egerton in 1880 . His fourth child Rupert Lindley was born in August 1882 in Scotland. Wragge left for Australia soon after. His third child, Clement who was born in Farley, Staffordshire in 1880, would later enlist with the 2nd Light Horse Regiment of the First Australian Imperial Force and die from wounds at Gallipoli on 16 May 1915.
Wragge inherited a considerable fortune upon the death of a wealthy aunt in 1883, and the following year he moved with his wife to settle on the outskirts of Adelaide, South Australia. He established the Torrens Observatory at Walkerville, and another at Mount Lofty. In 1886 Wragge was the founding member of the Royal Meteorological Society of Australia.
Clement Wragge died on 10 December 1922 from a stroke. His son Kismet K Wragge stayed on as "First Officer" of the Wragge Institute.
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January 11, 2008
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It was soon after noon on September 26, 1902, that the first of the six big guns - giant Steiger Vortex guns, with long, funnel-shaped barrels, that reminded people of candle snuffers - were fired into the cloudy skies above Charleville. Boom! Boom! Boom!
Then, as now, the central Queensland town was deep in drought. In its desperation it had turned to firepower to shake the clouds, to produce rain.
According to contemporary reports, the cacophony from the cannons spooked a Chinaman's horse, upsetting his cart of fruit and rattled the heavens, but dislodged not a drop of rain. Subsequent volleys succeeded only in blowing apart two guns.
Townsfolk had been assured that similar guns had been used successfully to disperse damaging hailstorms over European vineyards, but present-day meteorologist Dick Whitaker of the Weather Channel says the plan had no scientific basis.
"It harked back to medieval days when people would set off cannons, fire volleys of arrows or ring church bells at advancing storms. Some great battles were fought in heavy rain, and people thought vibration from the gunfire had set it off.
"In fact, the amount of energy generated is relatively tiny," says Whitaker, who questions the efficacy even of modern "hail guns".
Despite the failure of the expensive experiment, Whitaker still admires its instigator, Clement Wragge, who subsequently left the town after an argument with the local council. "He was an eccentric, a real character, a loose cannon, a self-promoter," Whitaker says of a little-known man whose story will feature prominently when the Bureau Of Meteorology celebrates its centenary this year.
"He could communicate easily with the public, who generally liked him, but he did and said things that made the scientific community absolutely despair. In many ways he was, like the phenomena he studied, a 'natural disaster'."
Clement Lindley Wragge was born in Stourbridge in the English Midlands in 1852. With an erratically, endlessly inquiring mind, he studied law, navigation and, informally, medicine before working his way to Sydney on a windjammer in his 20s.
Thereafter, his life, like his interests, zig-zagged back and forth across not just Australia, but the world. From Adelaide he set off to survey the Flinders Ranges. In Salt Lake City in the US, he considered becoming a Mormon and embracing polygamy. Back home, he began working at a weather station first in Staffordshire, then in Scotland, on Ben Nevis, Britain's highest mountain. As Whitaker says: "You have to admire the determination of the man."
While his wife, who was to die on Ben Nevis in a blizzard, collected information from their home at sea level, Wragge would climb the mountain every day, four hours up, four hours down, to take readings.
By the time an observatory was established, Wragge had become so unpopular among his peers that he failed to win the job as superintendent. When, decades later, the first director of the bureau was sought, he was similarly shunned. Equipped with a new wife and enriched by a legacy from a wealthy aunt, he returned to Australia - to South Australia, where he established an observatory on Mount Lofty; then, four years later, to Queensland.
His arrival coincided with abnormal rainfall, for which he was nicknamed "Wet" and "Inclement" Wragge. Within years he gained another: "the Charleville Rainmaker".
As weather historian Tim Sherratt recorded, the fall-out from Wragge's failure was typical of the man. A pioneer of long-range forecasting and an energetic builder of weather stations, notably on Mount Kosciuszko and Mount Wellington, Tasmania, Wragge "had the unhelpful knack of alienating many of his colleagues. Styling himself as the 'boss weather prophet' and promulgating Australia-wide predictions from his 'chief weather bureau, Brisbane', he sought to claim the continent and the discipline his own".
He developed a convention of naming cyclones, first using Greek letters, then figures from Polynesian mythology and, more provocatively, politicians such as Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin. Like cyclones, he argued, they were highly damaging.
Sherratt says Wragge increasingly found himself out of favour, "a weather prophet in the wilderness". After travelling through the Cook Islands, New Caledonia and Tahiti, he finally washed up, with a third wife, an Indian woman, in New Zealand.
His last home was in Birkenhead on Auckland's North Shore, which he described as the "sweetest nook in Maoridom … in God's own country". Here, he founded the Wragge Institute & Museum and the Waiata Observatory and Tropical Gardens.
In an essay for the Auckland historical society, Kim Adams recalled "a self-taught philosopher, meteorologist, geographer and showman who dressed in Indian-style apparel and … looked like a tall, turbaned scarecrow with a beard".
Wragge attracted many visitors to his home and garden, but as Adams noted, "his entire lack of feeling for social distinctions led to misunderstandings and jealousy … people expected behaviour that he could not conform to".
He died, praising "God, the master dynamo" and promoting suspicions that he had become a Muslim in 1922. Of his latter years in New Zealand almost nothing remains, but these days he is fondly remembered in Charleville, scene of his greatest disaster.
Two of the restored guns now stand in its Bicentennial Park, where signboards relate the story of how they were strapped to trees and fired into the heavens by the rainmaker.
The 68-year-old Charleville historian George Balsillie remembers one of the last times they were fired. "I was a youngster, apprenticed to this bloke Bob McWha, who had a blacksmith's workshop. When I started he pointed out this long, cone-shaped thing lying in the yard and said, 'Don't go throwing that out, it's a piece of history.' Apparently, some bloke turned up one day, probably 1947, very interested. Suggested they give it a bit of a test fire.
"They dug this thing up and strapped it to an electric light post next to the picture house. They got some gunpowder and made a bit of a fuse. Anyway, they didn't clear all the rubbish out of the barrel first. When it did go off, it went WHOMP, of course, but all these bloody feathers…and rubbish came flying out." But still no rain.
Husband Sir Richard Dry
Born: 20 Sep 1815 - Elphin Farm, Near Launceston, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1 Aug 1869 - Holbrook House, Hobart, Tasmania
Buried:
Marriage: 27 Apr 1853 - All Saint's Church, Swansea, Tasmania
Wife Clara Meredith
Born: Sep 1828
Christened: 31 Dec 1829 - Tasmania
Died: 1904 - Circa
Buried:
Father: George H. Meredith
Mother: Mary Anne Evans
General Notes (Husband)
Clara and Richard had no children
DRY, Sir RICHARD (1815-1869), landowner and politician, was born on 20 September 1815 at Elphin Farm near Launceston, Van Diemen's Land, the elder son of Richard Dry and his wife Anne, née Maughan. He was educated at Kirklands, the boys' school conducted by Rev. John Mackersey at Campbell Town. At 21 he made a voyage to Mauritius and British Indian ports, and on his return devoted himself to farming the fine Quamby property left him by his father in 1843. He had been placed on the Commission of the Peace in 1837 by Sir John Franklin, who was impressed with Dry's personality and steady character. On 8 February 1844, Lieutenant-Governor Sir John Eardley-Wilmot nominated him a non-official member of the Legislative Council.
Dry began his political career in the turmoil of an economic depression deepened by instructions to Wilmot to reduce expenditure and to make up deficiencies in funds from colonial revenue. On the introduction of the estimates in August 1845, Dry called for the appointment of a committee to inquire into expenses incurred by the colony through the maintenance of convicts. Wilmot employed his casting vote to defeat the motion but, pressed by the opposition, postponed further consideration of the estimates until October. When they were brought up again, Dry a second time demanded a committee to inquire into the Convict Department, intending to prove to the British government that the colony's decline was due to the expense of the convict system which caused free labour to leave the colony. Wilmot resented the attempt of the council to control the government and question Colonial Office instructions, and used his casting vote to defeat the motion. Opposition attempts at adjournment failed, the appropriation bill passed two readings and protests from Dry and Thomas Gregson were quashed. On the third reading of the bill on 31 October 1845, Dry and the five other unofficial members left the chamber and resigned. This action of the 'Patriotic Six', as they came to be known popularly, for the first time united the cause of representative government with the cry for cessation of transportation. Whilst Gregson and others received various evidences of public approbation, 'Dicky' Dry was given one of the greatest receptions ever organized for a citizen of Launceston, and maintained the popularity he achieved by his stand against Wilmot's administration for the rest of his life. In 1847 Sir William Denison, Wilmot's successor, persuaded Dry and his five colleagues to accept reappointment to the council. There were, however, few controversial issues before 1851 and Dry was often absent. At this time he took a leading part in the newly-formed Anti-transportation League, and it was with the support of this body that Dry was returned for Launceston at the elections to the new council in October 1851, easily defeating Adye Douglas. At the first meeting of the new council Dry was unanimously elected Speaker, and retained the position for four years.
On 27 April 1853 Dry married Clara, the daughter of George Meredith of Cambria, Swanport, at All Saints' Church, Swansea. They had no children, and lived until 1856 at Quamby where their hospitality made the colonial-period house a notable centre. Their Waterloo ball was an event in the colony's social calendar, attended by the lieutenant-governor and leading citizens. Dry, however, did not neglect his public responsibilities: as Speaker and chairman of the electoral committee he used his influence to speed up legislation for holding the first elections for the new parliament, although he did not become a candidate. A fall from a horse in 1854 seriously affected his health, and forced his retirement. After receiving an address from Launceston voters, who commissioned his portrait, and selling his library and about 6000 acres (2428 ha) of his land, he and his wife went for an extended visit to England and Europe. Whilst abroad he was knighted by Queen Victoria, the first Tasmanian-born citizen to be so honoured, and one of the first Australians.
His popularity lost nothing in his absence. In November 1859, some months before his return to the colony, admirers nominated him for the Devon seat in the House of Assembly, but he did not stand. In 1862 Dry was elected for Tamar to the Legislative Council. Whilst overseas he had interested himself in the railway developments in Great Britain and Europe. On his return he vigorously entered the campaign for a north-south railway, and one between Launceston and Deloraine. He became chairman of the Launceston and Deloraine Railway Association and president of the Northern Tasmanian Railway League, by his personal efforts helping to overcome opposition to the scheme and financial problems involved. When in 1866 the Whyte ministry was defeated on the question of direct taxation, Dry, although still in poor health and not a member of the House of Assembly, was persuaded to become premier. The ministry of three, smallest in the history of Tasmanian politics, was nevertheless strong. After the customary re-election Dry became colonial secretary and registrar of records of the territory of Tasmania, with Thomas Chapman, a skilful public financier, as colonial treasurer and William Lambert Dobson, an able young barrister, as attorney-general and government leader in the House of Assembly. Dry successfully steered through the upper house the government's bills for retrenchment and the appropriation of the land fund surplus, despite strong criticism of the latter expedient. More positive legislation established the finance of the railway company on a sound footing, arranged for the survey of the main line, the building of roads, and the creation of a Board of Education.
Towards the middle of 1869 Dry's health deteriorated and he died on 1 August 1869 at his Hobart house, Holbrook. His death brought unprecedented tributes of sorrow from all classes and his funeral cortège was followed by large processions through all the towns from Hobart to Launceston.
His place as the most popular and widely esteemed public man of his day rested on personal qualities as much as political achievements. One of the island's most colourful squires, he was yet an equalitarian in social relations and free of condescension. But his championship in the political causes of his day, his extravagant way of living and lack of ability as a business manager reduced his fortune to the point of embarrassment. He was a devout member of the Church of England and at his own request was buried at St Mary's, Hagley, which he had built and endowed.
A portrait in oils of Dry in the robes of Speaker of the Legislative Council, by Conway Hart, commissioned by public subscription in 1855, hangs in Parliament House, Hobart. Two later portraits by Robert Dowling are in the possession of the Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston. Two exhibition prizes perpetuate his memory at the University of Tasmania, and there is a window to his memory in St David's Cathedral, Hobart.
Husband Howard Walter Meredith
Born: 1858 - Circa - Lambeth, London
Christened:
Died: 5 May 1944
Buried:
Father: John Bult Meredith
Mother: Eliza Rouse
Marriage: 1886 - June Quarter - Wandsworth, London
Wife Blanche Dunfee
Born: 1867 - circa - Pimlico, Westminster
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father:
Mother: Ann H.
Children
1 M Howard Douglas Meredith
Born: 28 Aug 1887 - Merstone, Springfield-road, Wimbledon, S.W.
Christened:
Died: 13 Jan 1951 - London, England
Buried:
Spouse: Eleanor Melina (Norah) Lorden
2 F Marian Dorothy Meredith
Born: 1891 - circa - Wimbledon, Surrey
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M Eric Dunfee Meredith
Born: 1896 - circa - Wimbledon, Surrey
Christened:
Died: 7 Oct 1916 - Battle of the Somme
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
1891 Census Collection:
Howard (aged 32) was living at 11 Springfield Rd, Wimbledon, was described as an iron merchant, living with his wife Blanche (aged 24), their son Howard D (aged 3) and their daughter Marian D (1 month)
1901 Census Collection:
Howard (aged 42) was described as a builders hardware merchant (employer) living with his wife Blanche (aged 34), their son Howard (aged 13), their daughter Marian (aged 10) and their son Erc D. (aged 5), and Blanche's mother Ann H. Dunfee who was living on an annuity.
The Times Saturday, May 05, 1945; pg. 1; Issue 50135; col A
Meredith. - In very loving memory of Howard Walter Meredith (May 5, 1944). - Blanche, Douglas and Dorothy.
The Times, Tuesday, Aug 30, 1887; pg. 1; Issue 32164; col A
On the 28th August, at Merstone, Springfield-Road, Wimbledon, S.W., the wife of Howard Walter Meredith, of a son
General Notes for Child Howard Douglas Meredith
The Times, Tuesday, Jan 16, 1951; pg. 1; Issue 51900; col A
Meredith. - On Jan. 13, 1951, passed peacefully away, after an operation, in London, Howard Douglas Meredith, of Kewhurst Manor, Bexhill-on-Sea, devoted and deeply loved husband of Norah and dear son of the late Howard W. Meredith and Mrs. Meredith. Funeral strictly private. No flowers. Memorial service later.
The Times, Monday, Jan 29, 1951; pg. 1; Issue 51911; col A
Meredith. - A memorial service for Howard Douglas Meredith, of Kewhurst Manor, Bexhill-on-Sea, will be held at St. Mark's Church, North Audley St. W.1 on Thursday, Feb. 1, at 2 p.m.
General Notes for Child Eric Dunfee Meredith
The Times, Thursday, Oct 07, 1937; pg. 1; Issue 47809; col A
Meredith. - In most loving rememberance of Eric Dunfee Meredith, Sec. Lieut., 32nd Royal Fusiliers, who on Oct. 7., 1916, fell, while gallantly leading his platoon, in an attack near Ligny Thilloy (Battle of the Somme).
"Let those who come after see to it
that his name be not forgotton."
Husband John Meredith
Born: 1739 - Circa
Christened: 13 Jan 1739 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
Father: David Meredith
Mother: Sarah Owens
Marriage: 24 May 1768 - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
Wife Martha Dyke
Born: 1747 - Circa - Hopton Castle, Shropshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M John Meredith
Born: 1769 - Circa
Christened: 19 May 1769 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died: 1777 - circa
Buried: 2 Apr 1777 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
2 M Thomas Meredith
Born: 1770 - Circa
Christened: 8 Jun 1770 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Esther (Hester) Marston
Marr: 17 Aug 1801 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
3 F Mary Meredith
Born: 1771 - Circa
Christened: 16 Nov 1771 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died: 1785
Buried: 20 Mar 1785 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
4 F Martha Meredith
Born: 1773 - Circa
Christened: 5 Mar 1773 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
5 F Sarah Meredith
Born: 1775 - Circa
Christened: 5 Jan 1775 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
6 M David Meredith
Born: 1777 - Circa
Christened: 6 Jan 1777 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried: 21 Jun 1787 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
7 M John Meredith
Born: 1786 - Circa
Christened: 29 Sep 1786 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
General Notes for Child Thomas Meredith
1841 Census:
Thomas & Hester with sons James, John and Joseph. They have 4 servants, including Phoebe Wylde who married James 7 months later. The farm was in Boresford.
1851 Census:
Radnorshire - Boresford and Pedwardine
Thomas (aged 80) farmer of 635 acres living with is son John (aged 42), his other son Joseph (aged 40), Joseph's wife, Caroline (aged 26) and their children Joseph (aged 4) and James (aged 1) They have 4 servants and have a substantial farm of 635 acres in Boresford.
Husband Owen Meredith
Born: 6 Apr 1847 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1927
Buried:
Father: Charles Meredith
Mother: Louisa Anne Twamley
Marriage: 1908 - after
Other Spouse: Eliza Jane Windsor - 1 Nov 1871 - Chalmers Free Presbyterian, Hobart, Tasmania
Wife Eady
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Husband William Edwards
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 21 Mar 1815 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Wife Hannah Meredith
Born: 1782 - Circa
Christened: 9 Jun 1782 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Died:
Buried:
Father: Samuel Meredith
Mother: Martha Carter
Husband James Balleney Elkington
Born: 27 Oct 1830 - Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Christened:
Died: 1907, June Quarter - St. Georges, Hanover Square (Aged 77 - BMD)
Buried:
Marriage: 1854, March Quarter - Harbonne, Warwickshire
Other Spouse: Emily Jane Hilbers - 1888 - June Quarter - Steyning, Sussex
Wife Margaret Meredith
Born: 1832 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 1886 - March Quarter - Llanelly, Wales
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Jane Walker Jones
Children
1 M George Meredith Elkington
Born: 1863 Reg. March 1864 - Dell Cottage - Reg. Kings Norton
Christened:
Died: 1913, March Quarter - Thanet, Kent
Buried:
Spouse: Fanny Bigg
Marr: 1886, September Quarter - Thanet, Kent
2 M James Llewellyn Elkington
Born: 1875 - Brighton, Sussex
Christened:
Died: 1925
Buried:
Spouse: Rachel Kavanagh
Marr: 1895 - June Quarter - Hereford
General Notes (Husband)
The Elkington family established the Pembrey copperworks company in Wales in 1849
1891 Census:
James was living at Bordesley Hall, Worcestershire, Alvechurch parish, and was described as a manufacturer/Magistrate, living with his wife, Emily, and their son James (aged 15).
General Notes (Wife)
Margaret Elkington is at Pembrey House in the 1871 Wales Census with sister Constance.
General Notes for Child James Llewellyn Elkington
James Llewellyn and family emigrated to Kenya in 1905.
1901 Census:
James (aged 28) was described as living on his own means, a retired gentleman, 4th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, living with his wife Rachel at Oaklands, Derbyshire, in the Brailsford parish, with their daughter, Margaret (aged 5), a visitor, Jane G. Digby-Walsh and five servants.
Husband James Balleney Elkington
Born: 27 Oct 1830 - Saint Phillips, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Christened:
Died: 1907, June Quarter - St. Georges, Hanover Square (Aged 77 - BMD)
Buried:
Marriage: 1888 - June Quarter - Steyning, Sussex
Other Spouse: Margaret Meredith - 1854, March Quarter - Harbonne, Warwickshire
Wife Emily Jane Hilbers
Born: 1851, March Quarter - Liverpool, Lancashire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
The Elkington family established the Pembrey copperworks company in Wales in 1849
1891 Census:
James was living at Bordesley Hall, Worcestershire, Alvechurch parish, and was described as a manufacturer/Magistrate, living with his wife, Emily, and their son James (aged 15).
Husband James Llewellyn Elkington
Born: 1875 - Brighton, Sussex
Christened:
Died: 1925
Buried:
Father: James Balleney Elkington
Mother: Margaret Meredith
Marriage: 1895 - June Quarter - Hereford
Wife Rachel Kavanagh
Born: 1872 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 1964
Buried:
Children
1 F Margaret Meredith K Elkington
Born: 1895 - December Quarter - Kensington, London
Christened:
Died: 1925
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
James Llewellyn and family emigrated to Kenya in 1905.
1901 Census:
James (aged 28) was described as living on his own means, a retired gentleman, 4th Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment, living with his wife Rachel at Oaklands, Derbyshire, in the Brailsford parish, with their daughter, Margaret (aged 5), a visitor, Jane G. Digby-Walsh and five servants.
Husband E. S. Emerson
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Elsie Dry Meredith
Born: 1869
Christened:
Died: 18 May 1918 - Edmonton Private Hospital
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Maria Hammond
Husband Edward John Rouse Meredith
Born: 25 Dec 1917 - Cambridge
Christened:
Died: 13 Nov 1975 - London, England
Buried:
Father: Harry Rouse Meredith
Mother: Margaret Edith Underhill
Marriage: 6 Jul 1957 - St. John the Baptist Church, Wateringbury, Kent
Wife Bridget Mary Fife English
Born: 5 Nov 1927 - Manor Farm, Wateringbury, Kent
Christened:
Died: 19 Feb 2003 - Maidstone Hospital, Maidstone, Kent
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
They had two children who are both living.
Husband George H. Meredith
Born: 13 Feb 1778 - Castlebromwich, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Christened: 23 Apr 1791 - St. Philips, Birmingham, Warwick
Died: 21 Jun 1856 - Swanport, Tasmania
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Sally Turner
Marriage: 30 Oct 1820 - Wales
Other Spouse: Sarah Westall Hicks - 16 Sep 1805 - Abingdon, Berkshire
Wife Mary Anne Evans
Born: 1795
Christened:
Died: 1842 - circa
Buried: 21 Nov 1842
Children
1 M Henry Meredith
Born: 1821
Christened:
Died: 1836
Buried:
2 M John Meredith
Born: 1822 - Cambria, Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1909
Buried:
Spouse: Maria Hammond
Marr: 20 Oct 1851 - Fingal, Tasmania
3 F Maria Meredith
Born: 1824
Christened: 31 Dec 1829 - Tasmania
Died: 1882
Buried:
Spouse: Captain Joseph Henry Kay R.N. F.R.S.
Marr: 6 Nov 1845 - Great Swanport, Glamorgan District, Tasmania
4 M Edwin Meredith
Born: 22 Aug 1827 - Swan Port, Tasmania
Christened: 31 Dec 1829
Died: 5 Mar 1907 - Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand
Buried:
Spouse: Jane Caroline Chalmers
Marr: 16 Dec 1852 - St. George's Church, Hobart, Tasmania
5 F Clara Meredith
Born: Sep 1828
Christened: 31 Dec 1829 - Tasmania
Died: 1904 - Circa
Buried:
Spouse: Sir Richard Dry
Marr: 27 Apr 1853 - All Saint's Church, Swansea, Tasmania
6 F Fanny Meredith
Born: 1831 - about
Christened: 16 Apr 1834 - Tasmania
Died: 1910
Buried:
Spouse: Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
7 F Rosina Meredith
Born: 1833
Christened:
Died: 1858
Buried:
Spouse: Captain Frederick William Despard
General Notes (Husband)
George Meredith was at one time known as "the king of the east coast of Van Diemen's Land"!
George served in the navy.
George entered the Navy in 1794. He was a Lieutenant in the Marines and served in America, the West Indies and Egypt.14 It was reported that at Alexandria, in 1803, he scaled the 180-foot high Pompey's Pillar, to remove the French cap-of-liberty placed there by Napoleon's forces and replace it with the Union Jack. Subsequently, the cap was suspended from the ceiling of the grand hall of the British Museum.
George retired in 1806 on half pay and farmed first near Newbury (a conveyance of 1809 records the location)16 and then at Rhyndaston in Pembrokeshire before emigrating to Australia in 1820, shortly after his 2nd marriage.
MEREDITH, GEORGE (1777-1856), settler, was born on 13 February 1777 near Birmingham, England, the fourth son of John Meredith and his wife Sally, née Turner; his father was a prominent barrister and solicitor and descended from the ancient Amerydeth family of Devon and Wales. In 1796 Meredith was commissioned second lieutenant in the marines and later served in the West Indies, at the blockade of Ferrol in Spain and on the Mediterranean Station. At Alexandria in 1803 he made a daring ascent of Pompey's Pillar, a granite column 180 feet (55 m) high, to fasten the Union Jack in place of a French cap-of-liberty placed there by Napoleon's forces. In 1805 when recruiting in Berkshire he met and married Sarah, the daughter of H. W. Hicks. Next year he retired on half-pay and commenced farming at Newbury; later the family move to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, and farmed there until 1819 when the post-war rural depression stimulated his interest in emigration. He then had two boys and three girls, the eldest being...
Meredith resolved to settle in Van Diemen's Land and applied to the Colonial Office for letters of introduction. In company with several partners he chartered a ship, but early in 1820 his wife died suddenly, thus jeopardizing the whole venture. By good fortune their former governess and companion, Mary Evans, consented to take care of the young family on the voyage. In July official permission was granted and in October the ship was loaded with personal possessions, extensive farm equipment and a small flock of merino sheep. An agreement had already been made to obtain additional stock from Edward Lord's flocks already on the island. The original partners, Meredith, Joseph Archer and Thomas Gregson, were joined by a number of passengers, including the Amos family, John Kerr, Francis Desailly and John Meredith, a cousin of the family. Before embarkation George Meredith and Mary Evans were quietly married and on 8 November the expedition sailed in the Emerald and reached Hobart Town on 13 March 1821.
After settling the family in temporary lodgings Meredith presented his letters of introduction to Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell and began to look for suitable land. He had already experienced the limited market outlets for inland farms in England and Wales, and was determined to secure coastal grants if possible. According to government surveys the most promising land lay at Oyster Bay, about 140 miles (225 km) distant on the eastern coast, and a small party set out in a whale-boat to visit the district. Close examination proved the land to be greatly inferior to the official descriptions, but certain parts capable of development were selected and the party returned to Hobart on 24 April to lodge the formal applications.
Official permission was duly given to the whole scheme, which included the individual grants, and late in September, after the first livestock were dispatched overland, a small schooner was chartered to take the settlers to Oyster Bay. There they found part of the granted land occupied by William Talbot, an emigrant Irishman who had already unsuccessfully sought inclusion in the group and now claimed that the land had been granted to him. Vigorously protesting he withdrew from the district but the dispute was finally decided in Meredith's favour in 1826.
Meanwhile the grants were developed and improved, both for seasonal crops and grazing stock; a tannery and flour-mill were established at the Meredith River, and bay whaling stations set up on near-by islands to try out whale oil for export. In a shipyard at Waterloo Point were built several trading vessels and also small craft for the use of sealing gangs on their visits to the Bass Strait islands. These enterprises required both skilled labour and special equipment and necessitated repeated visits to Hobart, so Meredith was able to maintain a close interest and participation in the public affairs of the free colonists. In 1824, after the declaration of a new Charter of Justice for Van Diemen's Land, Meredith and many other colonists met publicly to express their appreciation and to seek more benefits from the British government. In March 1827, after news that property owners in New South Wales were petitioning for an elective legislature, Meredith and other landowners arranged a public meeting to encourage similar efforts in Van Diemen's Land. A petition and addresses were prepared for submission to London by Lieutenant-Governor (Sir) George Arthur. Through misunderstanding the documents were delayed; copies were later sent privately to England but the whole matter lapsed because the Colonial Office disapproved the colonists' attitude toward Arthur. Later that year Meredith and others again came into conflict with the lieutenant-governor over legislation to license the press, with which Meredith had strong connexions. Bitter official opposition toward Meredith continued throughout Arthur's term and constituted a severe restriction to his personal life and public spirit.
In the early 1820s many isolated settlements were under repeated attack from escaped convicts. In October 1825 the homestead at Oyster Bay was raided in Meredith's absence by the bushranger Matthew Brady. None of the family was injured but the house was ransacked and a servant taken hostage was later killed; fortunately the plate and other valuables were found buried near Hobart and returned. The family had first lived at Redbanks, a turf hut strengthened with timber, on the south bank of the Meredith River. About 1827 they moved into Belmont, a more spacious home lying about one mile (1.6 km) further inland. About 1836 they moved into Cambria, a large dwelling designed by Meredith near the original home and surrounded by gardens which had been steadily developed since their arrival. From that time the management of the property devolved more upon the eldest sons, and they took the entire care of the estate when his wife Mary died unexpectedly in 1842. By his second marriage he had three sons and four daughters, of whom the second son John remained in charge at Oyster Bay until George Meredith died in 1856.
Several of Meredith's children became prominent in later years; his second son, Charles, was appointed colonial treasurer of Van Diemen's Land in 1857 and continued in high public offices for twenty years; the fourth son, John, was appointed a magistrate at Swansea in 1855 and contributed greatly to the welfare of the district; the fifth son, Edwin, migrated to New Zealand as a pioneer colonist in 1851, and the fifth, daughter Clara, married Richard Dry.
George Meredith possessed qualities of endurance and strength which, coupled with his early experience at sea in command of men and subsequent farming life in England, resulted in a character eminently suitable for pioneer colonial life. The enthusiasm and encouragement of his wife Mary also contributed greatly to his successful career in public and private life.
When George and his family immigrated, the ages of his children increased somewhat quickly - possibly due to the fact that they became eligible for land grants sooner? It appears that George overstated their ages.
Sarah died in about 1820 (in childbirth from memory), after which George married Mary Anne Evans who had been the children's nanny.
his wife Sarah had died in 1820 and in 1818 George got their 18 years old "handsome and voluptuous" servant Mary Evans (later to become his 2nd wife) pregnant. By changing the ages this would cloud the fact?
Pioneers of the East Coast from 1642
Swansea, Bicheno
by Karl von Steiglitz
Extracts
LIEUT. GEORGE MEREDITH (LATE OF THE ROYAL MARINES) ARRIVES IN HOBART TOWN AND PREPARES TO VISIT THE COAST WITH THE BROTHERS AMOS
Some of our most important settlers arrived in Tasmania aboard the ship "Emerald"' (about 400 tons), under Capt. Elliott, on the 17th March, 1821. George Meredith, snr,, and, it is supposed, Joseph Archer, had chartered her privately, to bring them and their families to this country, making history from the fact that she was the first vessel to be privately, chartered for Van Diemen's Land. The "Emerald" had left privately, four months earlier and called in at Teneriffe and the Cape on the way out.
Other pioneering families on board included Adam Amos, his wife and three sons; John Amos, his wife and one son-, the Gregson family; and J. C. Tolman, who was found to be suffering from scurvy on arrival.
Only a fortnight passed before the quick actin Meredith was able to write home and give an interesting account of his impressions and intentions. The letter is dated 2nd April 1821, from Hobart Town. George Meredith to his brother John Meredith, Old Square, Birmingham.
“Dear John. Our safe arrival at our destined port and the land of promise safely over, we are living in a cottage Mr. Lord provided for us, about three miles distant from Hobart Town, which, although small and unfurnished, is definitely preferable to residing with the Place itself, and, indeed, offers comforts superior to any our passengers have met with; for I must needs confess no station I ever yet visited boasted so little accommodation or convenience for strangers. However, it is as yet in its infancy and many circumstances combine to account for the present state of things.
“I have been well received by His Honour the Lieut.-Governor (Sorell) partly owing to my private letter from Mr. Goulburn and perhaps the more so from my acquaintance with Mr. Lord, who appears to be on the best footing with him. I have dines once with him and had several private interviews; the last this day previous to my setting off for the Eastern Coast, where I think it highly probable from the concurring information I have received, that I and my party shall settle. It was always my view from the first to branch out to some coast situation calculated for the site of a new township, with a back country fit for intended locations and I have some confidence that the result of my projected excusion (sic) and survey will make me amends for the disappointment I suffered in not finding a desirable opening on the Western Coast, as I had expected, at one of the newly discovered harbours of Port Davey and McQuarrie in the vicinity of neither of which is there any desirable open country - and, if there was, the prevailing winds would be unfavourable to water communication, and a chain of mountains which run from a little to the westward or Port Dalrymple nearly to this plain, interpose and effectual ban to inland intercourse.
The country between this and Port Dalrymple still affords many desirable situations for a settlement except as to distance from either port or market, nothing to any extent being VACANT within less than 20 to 30 miles from water carriage which is a great objection, independently of a settlement in that line of country bringing me in contact with residents of an inferior and perhaps not very moral class.
Now, if I do fix on the Eastern Coast which the Lieut. Governor is desirous to have respectably settled, I do not doubt being followed by succeeding emigrants from England and I have already come to a satisfactory understanding with the Lieut.-Governor on the subject. There are many of the natives at present along that coast but they will necessarily give way as we establish and extend ourselves. They are the most wretched of all aborigines I have yet seen or heard of. Cowardly but treacherous, I understand, and several persons have been violently speared by them for want of due precaution. I shall, however, have four free persons with me and, though an excursion of from nine days to a fortnight among them and their wiles may not be altogether a pleasurable one, I look to it as safe and advantageous. When I return I will speak of the country of which at present I know nothing but by report.
“The borders of the Derwent are high land and almost one entire forest. The sheep here are large but rather leggy - and wool still coarse. The pigs very good; cattle but middling and horses small and exceptionally dear; one worth £20 in England being here of the value of £50 at least. The climate is indeed fine and vegetation of all kinds rapid and vigorous. The sweet briar is a common hedge and the most beautiful green-house plants grow wild.
“Money was never scarcer than at present, that is Government Bills, which almost exclusively form the medium of remittance to England. The market for nearly everything I have brought out is overstocked and my only chance to convert my goods is to have them retailed but I will write Henry on this subject. If the two stills I ordered are not sent out the smaller one of 30 gallons must be exchanged for one of not less that 40. Nothing under that will be allowed to work here and distillation commences August 1822. I have written but a disjointed letter and must be more connected and explanatory when my mind is less occupied and when I can give my observations instead of the report of others. Thank God we all enjoy good health and spirits and WE ALL send our united good wishes to YOU ALL and with every kind sentiment towards you all believe me Ever Your Affectionate Brother Geo. H. Meredith.”
THE FIRST SETTLERS AND THE LAND THEY FOUND
Diary of Lieut. George Meredith R.N., written in 1821 when he sailed up the east coast with the brothers Amos in search of land for settlement.
April 5th. Left Newtown, Thursday morning, 5th April, 9 o'clock in a whaleboat. Self and six people. Pulled down to Iron Pot Island, partly calm, partly against sea-breeze, by 2 o'clock. Ran down thence to about 6 miles short of East Bay Neck with a fine sea breeze by ½ past 5. The wind failing and near sunset, beach on the larboard side. N.B. - Slopen Island a good place to form a raft near and erect boilers for whale fishing. Abundance of large crabs off Hog Island as well as Dough Boy Island.
April 6th. Broke camp at half past seven. Arrived at East Bay Neck at half past nine but made for the wrong side. Rowed round and landed at ten at low water. Waited for flood to get the boat up. Meantime carried over things. I examined the land to the westward. When the boat was got over, strong breeze set right ahead and again encamped for the night. N.B.-East Bay divided in two by a point and a reef of rocks near the centre. Land to the W. is left of point. Good rich marly loam, nearly all the breadth but does not reach all the way to the other bay. Another considerable breadth of similar land lies on the ….or E. end of the bay, but does not run so far inland. The middle part, through which the boat carriage road runs, is light sandy earth, but might be brought under the plough and made turnip and barley land, but the whole is thickly timbered and would occasion much labour and expense. It certainly would be desirable to have a settlement at the Neck, conditioning for a team to be always ready to haul over a boat upon wheels fitted on purpose at a fixed rate. And if Oyster Bay on the Eastern Coast is settled, small grants may be properly reserved along the boat road for the settler to erect granaries or depots on. The beach on the East Bay side is bare sand for a great distance, and the creek on the other side mud down to low water mark. A pier might be run out on the inside and a landing place made on the other side by laying some fallen trees with a little jetty at the end.
ARRIVAL AT OYSTER BAY
10th April. Saw the tracks of dogs and men on the sand and waited till about two o'clock and Mr. Amos not arrived. Concluded therefore they might have gone on to Inlet Bay (Little Swan Port?) to meet us there and launched the boat to proceed there.
There is no river at Grindstone Bay and had three miles to go for water-stagnant and tasting of gum leaf.
The land behind Grindstone Bay is partly good light soil with a marly substratum and partly of the character of the flats around Skate Bay (Spring Bay) which, in fact, come down to Grindstone Bay, and the valley flats land appears to run along the coast behind the highland bluffs to a considerable distance with almost a level inland communication the whole way.
Arrived off Inland Bay about three o'clock, but for the chance of Mr. Amos seeing the boat, remained on the Sandy Bay beyond it where I landed at four o'clock and walked back in order to examine the country between the bays. Did not reach the tent for fear of having ranged rather far for the time of day. Still no tidings of Mr. Amos. This land will come under the general description tomorrow. Flat land….all the way.
April 11th. After breakfast, Mr. Amos not having arrived, sent two men by land to the herdsmen's hut for intelligence and set off with one man to examine the land round to the south of the inlet leaving two persons in charge of the tent with directions not to fire except something of moment occurred, as I should consider it an alarm.
At ten o'clock heard a musket fired at the tent, hastened towards it, but hearing a second, concluded there could be nothing serious and Mr. Amos had returned, therefore answered it and continued our walk.
On returning to the tent, found Mr. Amos and the guide who had gone on as far as the Great Salt Water River round the N. point of Grindstone Bay.
Went out after a scanty meal with the hut guide and four dogs to get a kangaroo for supper. Put up two, and each taking a different course, killed both. While half skinning the last, the two men who had been to the hut joined us with the other two stockmen and six does and two kangaroos they had killed. N.B.-Good entertainment for man and beast.
April 12th. Immediately after breakfast departed with the intention of being governed by the wind as to proceeding on to Great Swan Port and taking the intermediate places back or not.
The wind being ahead with a dense fog just as we rounded the point into a kind of bay at the south end of which is a salt water river, with a narrow channel to enter on the N. side of the mouth, close to the shore which is rocky and a surf runs all the way from this side to the other across the sandy beach.
It was nearly low water as we proceeded up, the channels for the boat were narrow and intricate. Through one which reached right across from N. to S. over a pebbly bottom with weedy mud on both sides it was difficult to get the boat ahead against the tide current. With both sails and oars, following the sinuosities of the river, I suppose we proceeded up about three miles when we stuck fast and with difficulty got the boat clear again. This was just above a small green-margined low island with a channel each side. We took the S. side but it afterwards appeared the other side was the most direct. The mud and weeds coming as far into the river on each side, we had to fall down considerably before we could land, which we effected at the upper or western point of the creek, the first principal one on the S. side, about two miles up, at the head of which a mountain stream runs in winter. Indeed, about a mile or one half inland there was a weak spring still running for a short distance, but it had no apparent source or termination. It seemed to rise through and lose itself again in the loose sandy soil. This spring Mr. Amos had crossed on his way to this river and he confirmed my conviction that there was a vale and level communication at the back of the coast all the way from Prossers Bay.
The day being far spent, had only time to cross one of these easy ascents of forest land which constitute the chief of all this coast country, and found it tally precisely with that already noted. The low valleys vary in width, sometimes not more than a hundred yards, sometimes even a mile, but the great extent of arable land offers itself on the banks of this spreading river, and the accumulation of mud and vegetable matter, from the mouth upwards would be a never ceasing supply of manure for it. There was every appearance of summer streams emptying themselves in many places on both sides and at its head. I have no doubt water may be obtained all the year by sinking wells in the lower land or even by damming up the mountain rivers and clearing out pools for it to lodge in a body. Killed one black swan.
April 13th, Came down the river, which now, being high water, with mud banks covered, presented a beautiful and grand appearance, but I would advise it to be first entered with the young flow immediately after low water that the proper channels may be known - otherwise a boat would be continually grounding.
On opening the Bay in clear weather, found the level ground to extend about two miles to the N. with a considerable depth inland all round by the river.
GREAT SWAN PORT IS REACHED
Stood over direct for Great Swan Port with a fine breeze across a wide and deep bay to the west I n which Little Swan Port is stated to lay. Entered the river at one o'clock over the bar or sand spit instead of the proper channel which lies close to shore. Sailed up the river as far as the fourth reach where the channel circles round to southward. Landed about two to dine and examine the neck between the river and bay which is about ½ mile wide and a mere deposit of sand by the ocean, though timber of considerable size grows on it.
At three o'clock proceeded up as far as the depth of water would admit, but not finding a sufficient channel by sunset returned for the night down to the point of land on the N. side above the circle. Unfortunately had no water remaining and could not meet any, although a swan fold was on the spot - a circumstance to us indicative of there being water to hand. Sought again in the morning without success, and were obliged to leave without having taken tea, supper or breakfast.
April 14th. Again proceeded up to the same place we met the obstruction last night but without better success, and after trying several hours were again obliged to relinquish the task and return and seek for water as the first object.
Instead of going down to the mouth where water was stated to be, proceeded up what had the appearance of a creek or inlet round to the E. of the point where we had slept the night before to try both for water and to examine if it led to any inland communication, and after about half a mile were agreeably surprised to find it turn to the N. and continue a fine open deep river channel. Landed and found water round the first point on the E. side where we made a hearty meal of steamed kangaroo, and leaving two men in charge of the tent and things, proceeded up the river to see if it really did continue to any extent.
Proceeded as far as the sand bank at the head of the third reach and seeing a large breadth of water both round to the N.E. over on the other side of the sand bank, and also round to the S.W., returned to the tent for the night in full confidence that the latter would lead us into the fresh water river communicating with the Plains, and that the former would lead up to some other river and desirable land. N.B. - the land all along the east side where we slept is a deep pure sand without any substratum within a foot or eighteen inches in the places we tried - Yet the timber grows well.
April 15th. Proceeded after breakfast up the river, but on rounding the mud and sand banks on the western hand began to lose hoped of the S.W. water leading inland to the Great Swan River as it seemed to be completely landlocked and a mere bay. When we got within about 150 yards of the termination round at the southern end, the boat grounded and I sent two men on shore to end all doubts. In an hour they returned with a full conviction of having found an entrance a little to the east, but on questioning them I found that they had merely seen the passages we had already tried from a new position. Pulled all round the west shore without finding either river, spring, or run of fresh water, nor could we discover an entrance into a sheet of water seen over the sand bank to the N.E.. Landed over on the western and northern shores and found a considerable breadth of flat land of a better quality than any yet seen, with more low ground. Deep water and a bold shore for a boat to land on the further N. side. Returned after sunset to last night's camp.
April 16th. Proceeded after breakfast to make one more effort to pass up the main course into the fresh water river at high tide. At half past eleven o'clock again gave up the attempt and made for the place where we dined on the 13th for the purpose of walking up the south side to examine the channel at low water from the shore and determine if it were possible to effect a passage. On arriving opposite the place where we were obstructed in the boat, sent a man across the water, the tide being nearly ebb and found there was no channel whatever. Therefore, if there should be so great a body of fresh water coming down the river from the Plains as is stated, it must spread itself over the great expanse of tide water and be lost in it.
Crossed over the Isthmus to the ocean to ascertain how far it would be expedient to send a boat round to meet me on my return from the Plains to which I determined to walk the next day, although lame and suffering from a bowel complaint. Found this part of the neck of the Isthmus like the lower, an entire bed of sand. Bathed in the sea and walked along the fine sand till opposite our tent.
April 17th. Set off with Mr. Amos and the two guides for the Plains leaving four men at the tent. Found all the south side one entire bed of flags, rushes and swamp (after passing the tide way) which continued extending to the southward far above the real mouth of the river. Crossed through the top part at the expense of a wetting, it having rained hard the preceding night.
These rushes, etc., extend from the river's mouth for a mile then abrupt stony hills for about two more, when you enter upon the plains. after walking a mile or better, settled for the night with merely a few boughs placed as a screen against the wind, but unluckily it rained nearly the whole night and having come in wet the middle, and my bowel complaint becoming more severe, passed a very unpleasant night, the ground very wet. We had two kangaroo dogs and a man killed us a kangaroo for supper.
April 18th. After taking some kangaroo soup, proceeded along the riverside to the N.W. about two miles when I sent Watson (the guide?) back to the tent to take the boat round the isthmus to meet us at the bottom of the bay as it would save half a day in time besides giving us an opportunity of taking a much greater sweep of country to the westward and southward on our way back.
About two miles further up, the river contracts, and there is a fall of, say about two feet in twenty yards and the water a few inches deep only. It then opens and deepens again and afterwards again contracts and becomes shallow so as to be a mere brook.
At this place we made a fire and some kangaroo soup, when at the moment of sitting down to it, a most violent thunderstorm came on with hail and rain and completely drenching us through, and it rained more or less nearly the remainder of the day.
From this point we made first S. and then S.E. for the head of the Bay where we arrived about half past seven, having travelled through the bush an hour after dark. Those parts of the Plains seen certainly do not answer to the high character given by Watson, but it is fair to state that he considers the best land to be more to the southward and westward than we reached. The low lands are mostly flooded in winter and have a rather peaty surface with a good marly substratum. The Higher levels are of light sandy earth and no substratum within a foot wherever we tried, with one exception, though I incline to think clay might be found at a lower depth.
As we returned we crossed a large tract of higher and poor forest land commencing with a point near where we struck off to return, and which Watson could not have seen, as it formed part of what he described as all plains.
Upon the whole I could not but feel disappointed, although the country about the Plains is very pleasing to the eye and if anything, rather too lightly timbered.
About half past eight the boat arrived, the people as well as ourselves wet through. However a good fire, moonlight night, and the tent, formed a pleasing contrast with last night's accommodation.
April 19th. My bowel complaint still affecting me, for I had thoughtlessly come away without any of those medicines proper to carry on such occasions. I could not venture in the boat, and resolved to devote the day to examine the country around this little bay, and if there were any vale communication with the Plains above G.S.P., which, from many circumstances, I inclined to believe I should find.
About noon, for we had gone to rest late the night before and had little sleep the previous one, set off along the south side of an inlet or creek of salt water situate just at the point of this bay where it rounds off from the sandy beach at the back of the isthmus, but the mouth was now choked up by the beach for want of rains to force its way into the ocean.
For about half a mile it continues westerly and meanders to the south. Salt and brackish, and is navigable for boats when full, and partly so now. To that distance, the land on either side, low and level - timbered land at least of average quality with the chief of that already seen - a light brown earth with a substratum of good gravel for six feet. At this distance the fresh water pools commenced with dry shoals between, and beyond this I should not rely on boats going up.
There we crossed, having ascertained the width of low level land to the southward and which is bounded by stoney (sic) rises and poor forest land with narrow vale patches occasionally. All round to the westward these flats are bounded by stoney hills and poor forest land and which appear to join the many Tiers which bound the Plains to the S. and W..
Took a circle over this miserable land to the N. still hoping to find the vale communication I sought and after two hours walking came upon a large lagoon of 100 acres and upwards. Sent two persons round the south side and kept the north myself without either finding any outlet for the water to run off in winter. It must be a receiver for the winter rains which it appears to retain all through the dry season.
LAND IS CHOSEN
Going on the N.E. crossed a considerable breadth of low forest and vale land, chiefly inclined to the above lagoon but partly apparently to the inlet near our tent. Crossed right over this level to the eastward till we came to the sough end of the isthmus or neck of land between the Bay and G.S.P.. I did this to have a comprend (sic) of the country to the N.W. to ascertain if there were any hills or interruptions to what I now felt confident was a land of communication from the Bay to the Plains. This brought us to the beach about a mile north of the tent by dark, and resolved to go, or send Mr. Amos, in the morning from the inlet to the point where we crossed the flat to make certain as I INTEND TO FIX OUR GRANTS HERE and across to the G.S.P. river if it prove so on examination.
April 20th. While the people were gone for water and to kill kangaroos, Mr. Amos traced the valley from the Inlet to the place mentioned and confirmed my expectation, the distance being about two miles with a lagoon of 30 to 40 acres at half a mile distance from the Inlet. The lagoon had water standing in it but there was a visible outlet where the water ran out in winter.
Wishing, if possible, to make out a complete vale communication between the coast bluffs and points, I sent the boat with five hands to attend my motions and walked by land with two others as far as a fresh water summer river in which were still occasional pools, but the mouth was locked by sand. This is situated on the N. side the second point of land from where we slept, the Tier appearing to come down to a point very near the coast about a mile or better N.W. of this river.
All the way we came we had vale and flat forest land with hills towards the coast and rises over others inland, but towards where we started from and where we slept at the mouth of the river, the low lands are of great breadth.
As the wind was contrary and no desirable place to stop the night at the point, continued trace communications. At the back and S.W. of the mouth of this river is some good forest and flat land bound by the mountains to the N.. The fresh water run still having pools of good water….as in…..but at the distance of about two miles S.W. the main Tiers curved round and came down to the coast at the next point of land, so that any inland road or connection must be to the westward of them. There is a narrow strip of flat land across this point to the next point where the Tiers came down to the coast - but it is of very little depth under the Tiers.
April 21st. Started on our return home doubting more than ever the reality of any other L.S.P. or of the large, fine river and boat harbour mentioned by Watson. For two hours it was nearly calm when, a northerly breeze springing up, reached Skate Bay (Spring Bay) soon after sunset and pitched the tent on the old spot occupied 8th and 9th. Having on our return hugged the coast…..found my fears confirmed that there was neither other L.S.P. or river emptying itself into Oyster Bay. Indeed the whole coast from where the Tiers come down to the point of land south of where we slept last night, to within about four miles of the Salt Water River, or real L.S.P. and where they again recede back to the…..head of L.S.P. and come down again at Prosser's river show at once there can be no sheet of water or breadth of land such as is described by Watson.
SECOND VISIT OF AMOS AND MEREDITH FIVE MONTHS LATER
Sept. 29th. At daylight, we found we were in the bay off Little Swan Port. Pulled for three hours and, a favourable breeze springing up, made Meredith's creek about ten o'clock where we found Mr. Amos had built a small hut on the south side of the creek. (On the site of present Redbanks House). Planted the fruit trees.
Sept. 30th. Looked around for a convenient place to build a store to receive and lodge our goods, implements, etc., etc., and live in till the surveyor measures off the Grants and we can each fix a final residence, and farm buildings, stockyards, etc.. Caught fish.
Oct. 1st. Dug the foundation of the store house on the north side of the creek about half a mile from the mouth. Commenced falling timber, etc..
Oct. 2nd. Wind westerly. Sent off boat to East Bay Neck for another load.
Oct. 3rd. Proceeded with the store house, cutting timber, etc.. Had the cattle down from the Great River to the north side of the creek to fold land for garden and corn.
Oct. 4th. Going on with building and made fold yards for cattle.
Oct. 6th. Sixty head of cattle besides calves arrived with five of the people leaving the sheep and four people on the other side of Little Swan Port. Also arrived the boat from East Bay Neck with all the things, both what were left and what the boat brought the second time.
Oct. 6th. Sent off the boat to East Bay Neck and to leave tea, sugar, meat, etc. with the people along with the sheep.
Oct. 7th. Set off to the Plains to examine the country more particularly, from the Creek along the west side of sandy peninsula and between the sand bank and the lagoon and marsh which extend to the Great River (Swan River?). On the banks of the Great River is some marsh land and dry ground fir for anything - say fifty acres. Then to the west are rocky hills on the side of the river, fit for sheep - but inland all the ground though low and level is poor, sandy, and wet till about a mile or a mile and a half up the river from the west side of the marshes running north and south - that is from the Creek to the Great River when you come upon a tract of land similar to that on each side of the creek, viz., dry red earth. This extends to the inland rivulet running from the mountain to the Great River, say north and south, and may comprise 200 acres, not more. On the other side of this rivulet is some good marshy land, from 100 to 200 acres, running a good way back towards the hills. Beyond this, the land lays in strips of dry poor land and low marsh towards the river, but the poor land predominates, and more inland, it is chiefly poor with little or no interruption. Went over the river and had a most charming prospect from a small hill - up the plain and over the whole country to the south west. Walked up the north side of the river a mile or two, and found it chiefly of the same character as the side we had left. Returned under the mountains or hills and over poor sandy land until we fell in with the great lagoon towards our Creek after nightfall, and reached the hut at ten o'clock, greatly disappointed at the result of our day's inspection, having expected to find all the plain good rich land as described by Rice and Watson on whose report to the Governor I had relied.
Oct. 6th to 12th. Employed felling timber, making enclosures for folding cattle over land intended for corn and potatoes. Building a hut. etc..
Oct. 13th. Mr Amos, James Amos (son of Adam) and Stansfield set off to meet the sheep coming down overland.
Oct. 14th. Walked up the river above the creek, following its turns until the mountains became entire timber and rocks. Crossed about half a mile below where it bands to the north and followed this branch about three miles round, then came over the hills a little below where we crossed it and examined the hills on the south side, which, though frequently rocky and abrupt, are very fine sheep pasture and apparently much better than the other side, which, indeed, where we walked was barrenness itself, though lower down towards the creek, by the side of the river they look much better and tolerably fair sheep pasture. On the south side occasional green valleys and slopes of land fir for cattle or sheep, and the whole will prove a very desirable run for the farm on this side of the creek which appears to show quite as much good land as that on the other side. There is a low marshy flat of land of loamy clay and sand mixed likely to prove good wheat land, lying under the hills and directly between them and the creek, flat red land, but it is thickly wooded though the timber is not large.
STOCK YARDS AND A BRIDGE
Oct. 15th. Yoked the bullock Young with the Jericho white bullock and began to haul timber and logs for the yoking yard, this to prepare them for ploughing, they being very wild. The men together with Mr. A. Amos who had gone to meet them arrived with about 830 sheep from the New Plains, having killed ten, eight lost, eight left on the road down. Many of the sheep lame, but all in good condition.
Oct. 21st. Mr. Amos set off to explore the upper part of the Great River and Plains, etc., and returned the 22nd at night.
Oct. 24th. Recovered two bullocks, Young and Peter, who had been astray a week or more. Yoked Young and Pretty instead of Peter who would not go steady as leader, and put the two young steers, Strawberry and George, behind, and began to plough for spring wheat and barley, etc., clearing the land of timber and roots in the most open spots. Killed a bullock of Jericho herd. No scales to weigh, suppose about four hundredweight.
Oct. 25th. Rained all day more or less. Bullocks again astray. Got in the old ones at night but not the young ones. Planted one bed of potatoes in the lower folded ground in the lazy bed way - about ¾ bushel.
Oct. 27th. Sent the boat to the Neck for the remaining things and Master George and man left in charge.
Oct. 28th. Made an excursion up the Great River with Mr. A. and J. Amos and Dickons. Crossed the two more western branches and at upper part of the middle one, adjoining the N. one, found a breadth of good land similar to that at the Creek but not so stoney or in such rises - say about two to three hundred acres, laying along the river side - and another breadth, Mr. Amos states to lay along the middle branch on the north side of it, about 200 acres of similar quality.
Oct. 30th. Sowed about one acre of spring wheat.
Oct. 31st. Mr. Amos returned having been to the head of the eastern branch of Great Swan Port (along the sand bar of which I formerly passed in boat). He describes a fine wet marsh of very great extent to be at the head of this tide water, about six miles above the sand bar, and which can be easily drained and through which he conceives there is a constant stream of fresh water, and he also believes he saw a continued valley from the head of this marsh to the eastern coast and ocean to the north of Schouten Tier. Boat arrived from E.B. Neck.
Nov. 1st. Set off in boat to explore the country about the eastern branch of Great Swan Port, but the wind setting in strong ahead with very heavy rains, returned.
Nov. 2nd. Started again and made the north end of Great Swan Port as the wind and sea were too high to discover the channel into the eastern branch. Took dinner and set off about 3 p.m. over the hills with my son, Mr. Amos and a man to carry rug and tea kettle, etc.. Came upon the middle of the marsh at about four miles distance (having fallen with two separate mobs of natives who ran from their fires on out approach). The marsh is now a lagoon being covered entirely with water, although in summer, evidently, many parts will be nearly dry. A considerable river empties itself into it at the head and after running as a river about a mile it spread itself wholly over it. Slept at night near the lower end of the river on the west side.
Nov. 3rd. Walked up the west side to find a fording place to cross the river and found a narrow rocky part with a strong current about three feet deep three miles higher up. Crossed and came down along the eastern side where all the land is mountainous and barren down to the very beach where we attempted to cross, first through high tea tree bush and scrub growing in water and scarcely passable, then along the beach about a leg deep, on rushy bottom. Then came to a small dry circular rise with some timber growing on it. Proceeding about 200 yards further and were then stopped by deep channels running from the lagoon to the Bay. It being late, returned to the dry hill for the night without bread, meat or grog - having only a little sugar and a few grains of tea left.
Nov. 4th. Pulled down a pole and also carried a dead tree to make a bridge which being launched across the deep channel we passed on it and then hauled it after us and carried it to a second, after which we walked up into the lagoon round a broad deep stream through which the lagoon chiefly empties itself into the Bay, and where the tide water flows up about half a mile and the fresh water stands all round about a foot deep, but deeper higher up the lagoon. In fact, it could not be drained without making a new channel along one of the banks for the river at its head to run in so as to lead it off the lagoon, and also forming a bank to keep back the tide water from overflowing it. Could this be done, it would make a large breadth of valuable land and has a narrow range of very capital grazing along the west bank about three or four miles up from the Bay.
Reached the boat at 2 p.m., took dinner and returned down Swan Port to the sandy peninsula on its larboard entrance and walked home over the sand about ten o'clock.
END OF DIARY
Cambria
(Dr. E. Brettingham-Moore)
This is the key property of the Swansea district and caused a good deal of bickering when it was founded. This was caused by the fact that when Lieut. Thomas Buxton came through to the East Coast as manager for William Talbot in 1821, he and Talbot selected land which had already been marked out for George Meredith. Bitter quarrels followed between Meredith and Talbot. Appeals were made to Governor Sorell, rude remarks were made and general unpleasantness prevailed for years. The land in question is now known as Belmont. (Buxton lived for a time at Old Belmont, a mile up the Wye River from the present Belmont House.)
Creek Hut, Oyster Bay
4th March, 1822.
Geo. Meredith to William Talbot. “I have chosen and am authorised by His Honour, the Lieut. Governor, to occupy 2000 acres of land, extending north from the creek and river near my hut, and situate between the sandbank on the East and the Hills to the West and including the lands on which you have caused huts to be built and which you have otherwise taken forcible possession. And I hereby give you further notice that you and your servants immediately remove from the said land and I shall hold you accountable to me for all loss, damage or expenses I have sustained or may sustain by you or your servants occupying or trespassing on the same.”
There is no room here to enlarge on a controversy that caused endless talk in the old days and made family feuds that dragged on for years, but many letters on the subject expressing all angles of feeling, may be read in the Historical Records (Vol. 4, series 3). Deputy Surveyor General G. W. Evans and Thomas Scott, another fine surveyor, were called in to settle the dispute and Surveyor General Oxley, under orders from Governor-in-chief Sir Thomas Brisbane, made recommendations, but the affair dragged on interminably. Talbot was only partially appeased in the end when he was given a large grant of land at Fingal, which he named Malahide, after his family estate in Ireland.
George Meredith then added considerably to his property at Swan Port, and in the end, before final adjustment by the Caveat Board, his estate must have covered about 50,000 acres. This included John Amos” land at Riversdale which Meredith claimed as his own.
Talbot in his rage had accused everyone but Buxton of being in league against him, including John Amos, but Governor Sorell knew that Amos had nothing to do with Meredith's grant. “I know Mr. Amos, whom I have appointed Chief District Constable and Keeper of the Pound, as a settler on his own land,” Sorell told Talbot when replying to this accusation. “He is not an overseer or in any way dependent on Mr. Meredith, a fact which Mr. Meredith has officially certified……With respect to your statement that your stock and Mr. Meredith's are the only stock likely to trespass at Swan Port, this would in no way effect Mr. Amos's appointment. But in fact I see marked on the map of Swan Port several other names as being located there, amongst which are Major Honner, Mr. Compton and Mr. Hart of Little Swan Port and may reasonably suppose that the settlement will increase.”
In reply Talbot said he was being cheated out of the land, hinting very plainly that Sorell was biased - which, as a matter of fact, he was not.
The first cottage built on Cambria by George Meredith, and referred to by him in correspondence as Creek Hut, was the usual sort of split log cabin built by most of the early settlers. Daubed with clay and mud, with shutter windows and thatched roof made of sags and rushes, it served very well as a temporary home while a strong house was being built. The greatest worry of the pioneers in the meantime being the ever-present fear of fire, either from flying sparks or deliberate malice. When materials were ready for building the present Cambria homestead, Charles Meredith (George senior's second son by his first wife, who is best known now from the fact that he was the husband of his delightful wife, Louise Anne Meredith, authoress and painter) tells that the builder and architect was close at hand. “Old Bull built the house,” says Meredith, “also Riversdale, Spring Vale, and, in fact, the greater part of the houses at Swan Port. His weight did not exceed nine stone. Originally this faithful, honest man had been transported from the Old Country. Twice he escaped, and claimed to be the only escaped convict to reach Sydney without being recaptured. While escaping through the bush his companions were all murdered by the blacks and he had to hide for three days under a log before it was safe for him to come out. Reaching Sydney he was flogged and sent back to Van Diemen's Land, where he became my father's servant.”
Whatever else old Bull may have done, there is no doubt that he left a worthwhile monument to himself in Cambria House, which is a delightful place, well made and strong, even if it lacks some of the continuity a trained architect would have given it. Single storey in front, with a long wide stone-flagged verandah, onto which French windows open, it goes up to three storeys at the back. The bottom storey at the rear of the house actually consists of the cellars, only one side of which is visible, as both ends and back are let into the side of a little hill on which the house was built. A low wall closing in the back yard, gives the impression that it is a sunken garden when viewed from the side of the house, for there are beds of bright flowers in it. There the warm coloured bricks and three rows of windows glow in the afternoon sunshine over the gardens and grass, giving an intensely English effect.
Down in the orchard and vegetable garden there are the remains of a round old brick rabbit hutch, where the precious little animals were closely guarded as delicacies for the table - such a delightful change from the everlasting pickled port (sic), beef and mutton of those early days. Fortunately the little creatures multiplied so rapidly that Mrs. Meredith was able to give some to her friends and the day even came when they were able to liberate a few as an experiment. (How charming; how very much like home it would be; to see real rabbits frisking about and even perhaps, making a burrow in a sandy bank by a briar hedge. Almost certainly the defenceless little things, deprived of the lettuce and cabbage leaves that was their usual diet, would be eaten by the hyenas - Tasmanian Tigers, as they were beginning to call them, or by those nasty smelly wild cats that were always prowling about. Still, it was worth trying.)
Hawthorn hedges protect the garden and orchard, and looking down from the old hot house where fabulous grapes used to ripen, you may see at the foot of a steep bank towards the river, the grandfather of all the oaks, whose branches reach for 34 paces over the green grass, and all is shady and pleasant. It is a beautiful spot and what Louisa Anne Meredith would have called a “dell”. She would have had every reason for doing so, for there is not a tree to be seen in any direction that did not originate in the Old Country.
George Meredith, the eldest son, quarrelled with his father over their sealing and bay whaling activities and started to work on his own account. George, Snr., built a top-sail schooner on the banks of the Meredith River and called her the “Independent”, and George, Jnr., also built himself a ship which he named the “Defence”. The “Independent” was known for years along the coast, under Capt. Thos. Furlong, until at last she was wrecked on Bruny Island.
Young George met his death at St. Vincent's Gulf near what is now Glenelg (South Australia). One Sunday morning with his whaleboat hauled up on the beach nearby, while he was reading his bible, some natives crept out from the scrub and clubbed him to death. He had sold his share of Cambria to Edward Carr Shaw in 1829.
When they arrived in Van Diemen's Land the Meredith family consisted of George, Snr., his second wife, and six children: George, jnr., who was nineteen years old; Sarah, Louisa, Sabina, Charles, Henry and Edwin. John was native born. Of these, Louisa married Capt. Bell and Edwin went over to New Zealand where he settled near Christchurch. Charles was appointed M.H.A. for Glamorgan in 1856 and held other positions as mentioned elsewhere. He died 2nd March, 1880, and was buried in Hobart. George, Snr., died in June, 1856, leaving an estate of 11,000 acres. His wife had died in November, 1842. The Cambria stud of six Saxon Merino rams and ten ewes, the first in the district, if not in Tasmania, was brought out on the “Emerald” by the Merediths.
BUSHRANGER BRADY AT CAMBRIA
Not long after their escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1824, Matthew Brady and his mate, McCabe, attacked Cambria with the intention of robbing Mr. Meredith.
It is said that Mrs. Meredith had the presence of mind to hide her husband in a cider barrel and, trusting to Brady's reputation for unfailing gallantry to women, with pounding heart went out alone to face the bushrangers. She told them that Mr. Meredith had gone away and would not be back before nightfall.
Brady robbed the place of a quantity of food and most of the family silver. Then he drank a glass of wine to the lady's health and took his leave in one of Meredith's whaleboats, lifting his cap and bowing courteously as he went.
Most of the silver was recovered months afterwards, from under some rocks where it had been hidden on the bank of the Derwent by the bushrangers.
It seems likely that the story of Meredith hiding in the barrel was added to the otherwise true story by his enemies. Whatever his weaknesses may have been, Meredith was no coward, and would have been sure to give a good account of himself.
Edwin Meredith in his journal informs us that his father built old Belmont house and lived there while preparing the site of Cambria, about a mile distant. The trees, hedges and orchard of Cambria were being planted while Edwin and his mother, with a gardener, marked out the flower and vegetable gardens.
His half-brother, George, meanwhile helped with ship building and the dealing and whaling. The first vessel built by Meredith on his own property was a small schooner, the “Cygnet”, which proved to be too small for the sealing work it was intended for and was sold in Hobart. “The Black Swan”, also a schooner, was then built to take her place, but she was wrecked while sealing in Bass Strait. Meredith then built his third schooner, the “Independent”. Edwin's half-brother, Charles, at this time was in charge of the whaling station at Maria Island. When Edwin started off to settle in New Zealand his father gave him £2,000 with which he bought a property he named Riversdale in the North Island. His three half-sisters were: Sarah, who married James Poynter, manager of the Bank of Australasia in Hobart; Louisa, married Capt. John Bell, of Bellevue, New Town; and Sabina married John Boyes, merchant, of Hobart Town and London.
George Meredith's family by his second wife consisted of Harry, who was killed when thrown from his horse; Edwin, married Jane Chalmers, of Hobart, and became a pioneer settler in New Zealand on an estate near Otago, which he named Riversdale; John moved over to Mt. Gambier in South Australia and owned a property named Mingbool; Maria was married from Cambria by Bishop Nixon to Lieut. Kay, R.N., of the astronomical station in Hobart; Clara, married Sir Richard Dry of Quamby. Two other sisters, Fanny (who lived in England with Lady Dry and died in London during May of the present year at the age of 94), and Rosina, did not marry. Charles Meredith and his wife Louisa Anne (referred to elsewhere) had a family of three sons, George, Owen and Charles (who never married). Owen married Eliza Jane Windsor; their children were five daughters and one son, the present Mr. David Owen Meredith (mining and metallurgical engineer) of Hobart, whose daughter, Mrs. Alice Hodgson, has two sons, Michael Meredith and David Neil. Mr Michael M. Hodgson married Miss Rosemary Grueber and has an infant son (Lucian Guy).
LIEUT. GEORGE MEREDITH CLIMBS POMPEY'S PILLAR
Pompey's Pillar, a celebrated column of red granite, stands on an eminence south of the walls of Alexandria, in Egypt. Including a ten foot high pedestal, it reaches 98 ft. 9 in. from the ground and is 29 ft. 8 in. in circumference; being, it is said, the largest block of hewn granite in the world. By Napoleon's orders a French “Cap of Liberty” - made of boiler plate, about 7 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 3 ft. high, was placed on top of the pillar and firmly fixed there, as an act of defiance during the French occupation.
In 1801, soon after the surrender of Alexandria to Col. Hutchinson, George Meredith, then a young lieutenant on H.M.S. Hinde, was on service in the port and made up his mind to bring down the Cap by hook or by crook. The Governor gave his permission for the attempt to be made provided no harm came to Pompey's Pillar, at the same time pointing out that Meredith was unlikely to succeed where so many others had failed already.
But Meredith vowed he would neither eat nor drink until the accursed Cap was brought down. By means of a kite (the method Napoleon had used) he at last succeeded in getting a rope over the top of the column and dislodging the Cap, which was then lowered to the ground, and the Union Jack left proudly blowing in its place.
The Governor of Alexandria delightedly offered to exchange the trophy for as much coined silver as it would hold, but Meredith took it home with him to Birmingham. Later on it was presented to the Museum there, through the medium of the Earl of Dartmouth, who commemorated the event by presenting George Meredith with a gold ring studded with stones.
The ring is now owned by Mr. David Meredith's grandson, Mr. Michael Meredith Hodgson, in Hobart.
The Charles Merediths
“The Life of a Pioneer Boy”
No history of the East Coast would be complete without some mention of the delightful Mrs. Charles Meredith (1912-1895) whose books (“My Home in Tasmania”, and others) and drawings, made known the life and beauties of the coast all over the Empire.
They struck hard times, for he was no money maker, and that added incentive to her busy pen, although she had published a book of poems, and another of nature studies, before her marriage. Observant, capable and generous, her simple books will always be among the classics of Tasmania.
Charles Meredith, second son of George Meredith, was born at Poyston, Pembrokeshire, on the 29th May, 1811, and came out here with his father. “I well remember that it was a bitter cold night when my brother George, our three sisters and myself were called in from our school to join the 'Emerald'”, he wrote afterwards. “On the way out we fought off a pirate ship near St. Helena, where napoleon Bonaparte was then confined, and reported the action to H.M. frigate 'Mona', then cruising on guard off St. Helena.”
At Cambria Charles and his brother George led a harsh but adventurous life sometimes experienced by young pioneers. “I used to be sent out on frosty mornings with no breakfast, from the tent in which I lived, to take 300 Merino sheep to their feeding ground. When it happened to be convenient a pannikin of tea and a piece of damper were brought to me by anyone who thought of it or had time - perhaps one of my sisters, but I did not go home at night till there was barely enough light for me to put my sheep into the yard. Then I had my supper and went to my tent. This routine went on wed or dry for many months, when my 300 sheep were eventually joined to the large flock and that occupation was gone. I used to sit under a tree and read, for the poor lonely little shepherd had some glorious companions in his solitude. Shakespeare and his myriad creatures lived beside me and Don Quixote and Sancho performed their feats of arms beneath the gum tree boughs. Many a time whilst in this company I have laughed aloud and then, terrified at my imprudence, have sprung to my feet and gazed in fear around, lest some hideous black shape, spear in hand, should have heard it too and come to murder me.
“When I was only eleven years old, it was my duty to take the dogs out to catch kangaroo for meat, as my father's sheep were all of the valuable Merino breed, and far too precious in those early days to be killed for that purpose. If I got brush kangaroo I carried them home myself; if foresters, which were often very large and heavy, I had to go again and take a man to help me bring them in.
“My father was kind, brave and generous and as children we honoured and yielded him implicit obedience but the hand he ruled with wore an iron glove. Any one or two of the scores of half-occupied men on my father's establishment could have done my allotted duties but it was his pleasure and command that the duty should be mine, no matter what the difficulty, toil or danger, and I would not have dared to utter, or look, any remonstrance.
“Horses were scarce in those days, and even had they been plentiful I don't suppose I should have had the use of one. Starting off at dawn into the bush….hunting on one occasion…I struck up towards the hills and after heading the stony creek the dogs caught two brush kangaroo, which were as much as I could carry, so I turned again seawards, having made a half-circle of five or six miles, intending to return along the beach. As I neared the sea I listened repeatedly, in case any of the blacks should be about, and on quitting the forest for the more open sandbank, I crept along on my hands and knees from the shelter of one boobialla bush to another, until I could look down on the broad sands. I then saw that there were fresh tracks of bare feet. The black tribe had evidently just passed by; men, women and children, going north, the same direction in which I was bound. Had I been a few minutes earlier I should have been in advance of them and been plainly seen on the long stretch of sand and, as a certain consequence, pursued and speared. I could not even now be sure that all the tribe had passed, some might be still behind, and should I venture on the beach, I might be hemmed in between the two parties. I was very tired with my long walk, heavily laden as I was, but there was only one thing to do - to make my way back by the same circuitous route I had come, following up the creek….and striking across the rough hills and forest for home.
“As I plodded wearily along I came upon another set of tracks of the aborigines…..but keeping the dogs silent and close beside me; creeping along noiselessly and steadily, and keenly listening for every sound that might warn me of the enemy's neighbourhood, I got safely home. There I was sharply taken to task for having dawdled so long on the way and straightway ordered off on some other task.”
Perhaps George Meredith, Senior, Treated his boys a little more harshly than most; he was certainly a severe man, but it may be gathered by the notes left by Charles that his hostility had been aroused by the manner adopted by his family to their new step-mother. Mrs. Charles Meredith gives some indication of this in her book, “Tasmanian Friends and Foes”, in which her husband appears under the name of Merton and tells tales of his youth in almost the exact paraphrase of some of the notes he left. Some of these are in the library of the Royal Society in Hobart, and some are in the possession of his descendents.
Charles Meredith started life for himself as a squatter in New South Wales at the age of twenty-three and after two years returned to England where he married his cousin, Louisa Anne Twamley, at Edybaston (sic) Church, Birmingham, in 1838. They lived in New South Wales for a time, where he suffered severely from bad seasons. Then he brought her to Oyster Bay and lived on his father's property, Riversdale, while Spring Vale was being built fore them to live in. For thirty-eight years after that he was in politics, being a member of the House of Assembly for Glamorgan and holding various important positions - Colonial Treasurer and Minister for Lands and Works. Governor Eardley Wilmot then appointed him Police Magistrate at Port Sorell.
Among the measures he introduced was an Act for the protection of black swans, which were then in danger of extermination, although once they had been counted in millions. He died in Launceston, 2nd March, 1880, and five years later a fountain was raised to his memory on the Queen's Domain, in Hobart. His wife died in Melbourne on the 21st October, 1895.
“My grandfather was a solicitor in Birmingham.” Charles Meredith tells us, “and lived at Castle Bromwick (sic) where he died at the age of 48, leaving six children, of which my father was the youngest, born 13th February, 1778. My mother had been Miss Sarah Westall Hicks, whom he married in 1805 while he was recruiting for the Royal Marines. My father sold my mother's property in Berkshire and with the proceeds purchased our estate in Wales, Rhyndaston, about eight miles from Hertford, but, almost immediately after her death, my father sold Rhyndaston (which had been rented to the two brothers, Amos) and with the proceeds of the sale obtained orders for grants of land in Tasmania. These first grants were Cambria and Riversdale.
“My father then married miss Mary Evans, my mother's companion, and taking us with them, left for Hobart Town.”
The Naval Chronicle
Publiushed by J. Gold, 1805
Item Notes: v. 14
Marriages
September 13.............
16............
Lieutenant Meredith, of the Royal Marines, to Miss Hicks of Enbourne.
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, October 12, 1805; Issue 2737
At Abingdon, Lieut. G. Meredith, of the Royal Marines, to Miss Hicks of Enhorne. Berks.
There was a dispute in 1809 over some property - the case cited was Meredith v. King. The Plaintiffs were George Meredith and his wife and the defendants were John King and Thomas Hicks.
Meredith - Hicks
Certified copy of a conveyance D/EX 104111 1809
Contents:
1. Thomas Hicks and Mary his wife late of Newbury now of Enborne, gent. and others to
2. John Meredith of Brumagham co. Warwick, gent, (a trustee of George Meredith, late a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Corps of marines, now of Speen, esq.)
Messuage, barn, outhouses, orchards, stables near the wash in Newbury, and about 100 acres (with abuttals) dispersed in the common fields (known as Northcroft, Eastfield and Westfield), in Newbury
Included in the property is a messuage outhouses and barns and just over 10 acres of land (specified) in Enborne near the Newbury property above. The deed contains topographical detail in the abuttals of the Enborne property, such as 'King's Ditch' and 'Nightingale Lane' etc.. The Enborne property includes several coppices
Consideration: £4765
General Notes (Wife)
George married Mary Anne Evans who had been the children's nanny.
Mary had "lustrous dark brown eyes".
General Notes for Child John Meredith
John had 5 sons and 5 daughters.
General Notes for Child Edwin Meredith
Edwin migrated from Tasmania and became a pioneer settler in New Zealand on an estate near Otago, which he named Riversdale.
His obituary in the Wanganui Herald of 5 March 1907, Page 7 reads:
“DEATH OF AN OLD PIONEER. MASTERTON, March 5. An old and respected pioneer resident of Masterton passed away at an early hour this morning at his residence, Upper Plain, in the person of Edwin Meredith, aetat (aged) eighty. He was born in Tasmania, and was a son of an old Peninsula officer. He came to New Zealand 57 years ago, taking up a Crown run of 80,000 acres in Otago. He held land in 1853 in Hawke's Bay, and subsequently settled in Whareama, remaining there for 25 years. He removed in 1879 to Llandaff, on the Upper Plain, Masterton, where he has resided since. At different times he was a member of the Masterton Road Board, Wairarapa North County Council, and the Masterton A. and P. Association. He leaves many descendants.”
A Genealogical and Heraldic
History
of the
Colonial Gentry
By
Sir Bernard Burke, C.B., LL.D.
1891
Meredith of Landaff.
MEREDITH, EDWIN, Esq. of Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand, member of the County Council, North Wairarapa, and chairman of the Whareama Road Board, b. 22nd August, 1827, m. 14th December, 1852, Jane Caroline, eldest daughter of Captain Frederick Edmund Chalmers, and has issue,
I. Edwin, of Te Nui, New Zealand, b. 30th October, 1853, m. Ada Steuart Johnstone, and has issue,
1. Guy Owen.
2. William Laird.
3. George Steuart.
4. Ada :Matilda.
II. Richard Reibey, b. 4th February, 1857, m. Theodora Alice Lane, and has issue,
1. Owen Glendower.
2. Gwylfa Glendower.
III. Clarence Kay, b. 28th November, 1858; assumed the surname of Kaye in addition to and after that of Meredith; m., 26th February, 1884, his cousin, Rosina Maria, only child of Captain Joseph Henry Kaye, R.N., F.R.S. (who d. at South Yarra, Victoria), by Maria, his wife, eldest daughter of George Meredith, Esq. of Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania, by Mary Evans, his second wife, and has issue,
1. Gladys Maria.
IV. John Montague, b. 5th December, 1862, unm.
I. Mary.
II. Rosina.
III. Clara, m., 21st December, 1887, Robert Heaton Rhodes, Esq.
IV. Elsie Emmeline.
V. Edith Dry.
VI. Janie Chalmers.
VII Gwendoline Meredyth.
VIII. Melita Meredyth.
IX. Kathleen Meredyth.
Lineage
The family of Meredith can trace a descent, through a long line of the princes of South Wales, from Owen Glendower.
John Meredith, Esq. of Temple-street, Birmingham, co. Warwick, England, and afterwards of Castle Bromwich Hall, near Birmingham, solicitor and barrister, m., about 1768, Miss Sally Turner, of Birmingham, and by her (who d. 1819) had issue,
I. John, an eminent solicitor of Birmingham, m. Lucy, sister of Sir Thomas Lawrence, the artist, and had one daughter, Lucy Louisa Ann, m., about 1824, John Aslan, of Birmingham, and has numerous issue.
II. Charles, of Leicester, England, solicitor, coroner, &c., had issue, one daughter, Fanny, deceased.
III. Henry, of Birmingham, gunmaker, had two sons, only one of whom, Henry, attained manhood.
IV. George, of whom presently.
I. Louisa Ann, b. about 1772, m. Thomas Twamley, of Hampstead, near Birmingham, and had one daughter, Louisa Anne, b. in Birmingham, 20th July, 1812 ; m. at Edgbaston, near Birmingham, 18th April, 1839, her cousin, the Hon. Charles Meredith.
II. Anne, d, unm.
One of Mr. Meredith's sisters married a Mr. Linwood, whose daughter Mary was the Miss Linwood whose wonderfully clever and artistic pictures in worsted crewel-work were the admiration of the world in the first quarter of the present century. He d. in 1788. His fourth and youngest son,
George Meredith, Esq. of Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania, b. in 1778, entered the Navy in 1794, and, as lieutenant in the Marines, served in America, the West Indies, and Egypt ; was invalided on full pay in 1805. He formerly resided at Castle Bromwich, and subsequently, on retiring from the Marines, at Newbury, and at Rhyndaston, Pembrokeshire, Wales, from which place he emigrated to Tasmania, arriving at Hobart, 18th March, 1821, in the "Emerald." During his residence in Tasmania, Mr. Meredith experienced many difficulties and dangers, and on one occasion his house was broken into by the noted bushranger Brady. Mr. Meredith m., first, 1805, Sarah Westall Hicks, an heiress, and by her (who d. in 1820 at Rhyndaston) had issue,
I. George, believed to have been murdered by aborigines in Kangaroo Land, about 1832.
II. Charles (Hon.),of Malunnah, Orford; and Hobart, Tasmania. He was for 24 years a member of the House of Assembly, an executive councillor for 23 years, a minister of the Crown in four administrations, a magistrate of the territory 36 years, &c., &c., b. 29th May, 1811, at Poyston, co. Pembroke, Wales; in 1821 emigrated, with his father and family, to Tasmania, which he left for New South Wales in 1833, and took up runs on the Murrumbidgee, Manaroo, and Limestone Plains; visited England in 1838, returned to Sydney the following year, and resided for some little time at the old house, Homebush; subsequently returned to Tasmania, landing in Hobart, October, 1840, and purchased from his father the estate of Spring Vale, was some time resident magistrate for the district of Port Sorell, which office he vacated in 1848, and during the succeeding ten years rented his father's estates and resided in the district of Glamorgan; subsequently, in 1858, removing to his own estates at Prossor's Plains. He was returned a member of the then nominee-elective Council, and took his seat, 17th July, 1855, and 2nd December, 1856, took his seat as the first member for Glamorgan, in the first representative Parliament of Tasmania; shortly afterwards was called upon to accept office as colonial treasurer in the cabinet formed by Mr. Gregson: was next returned for the City of Hobart; again took office as colonial treasurer, which he held until November, 1866; in the new Parliament represented Kingborough until 1871, in which year he was returned for West Devon, for which constituency he sat until his final retirement from Parliament in1879. In 1872-3 he held office as minister of lands and works; in the Reibey ministry of 1876-7 again occupied his former position as colonial treasurer, and immediately after his resignation was appointed police magistrate of Launceston, whither, in June, 1879, he removed from Malunnah, Orford. He m., at Old Edgbaston Church, near Birmingham, 18th April, 1839, his cousin, Louisa Anne, daughter of Thomas Twamley, Esq. of Hampstead, near Birmingham. She was b. in Birmingham, 20th July, 1812, and is the authoress of Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, My Home in Tasmania, Over the Straits, &c., &c., nearly all of which works were illustrated by herself. She has been awarded prize medals in London, Sydney, Melbourne, and Calcutta, for paintings illustrating Australian natural history, and is the only woman holding one of the fifty "Special" silver medals of the Melbourne Exhibition of 1866-7 for ''art and literature combined." This lady was elected honorary member of the Tasmanian Royal Society, "in recognition of services rendered to art and science in Tasmania," and on like grounds enjoys a pension from the Tasmanian Government. Mr. Meredith d. at Launceston, Tasmania, 2nd March, 1880, having had issue,
1. George Campbell, b. 1st July, 1840.
2. Charles, b. 5th .April, 1844, d. 15th September, 1888.
3. Owen, mining engineer, b. 6th April, 1847 ; m. 1st November, 1871, Eliza Jane Winasor, (sic) and has issue, 1, David Owen; 1, Louisa Anne, b. 10th September, 1873; 2, Winifred Eliza; 3. Sabina Ida; 4. Violet; 5. Corinna Ruby.
I. Sarah, m., at Hobart, James B. Poynter, Esq., banker and merchant, and had issue, three sons and one daughter, who reside in the colonics.
II. Louisa, m., at Hobart. Captain John Bell, merchant and shipowner, and has issue, one son, George Meredith, living in Southland, New Zealand, and three daughters, residing in England.
III. Sabina, m., at Hobart, .John Boyes, Esq., merchant, and had issue, five sons (one in the army, one a captain R.N., and another, now deceased, who received the Victoria Cross for gallant conduct at Nagasaki) and four daughters.
Mr. George Meredith m., secondly, 30th October, 1820, Mary Evans, and by her (who d. 21st November, 1842) had issue,
III. Henry, d. unm.
IV. John, m. Maria Hammond, and has five sons and five daughters.
V. Edwin, of whom we treat.
IV. Maria, m., 6th November, 1845, Captain Joseph Henry Kaye, R.N., F.R.S., who entered the Navy, 18th December, 1827; obtained his commission, 6th April, 1839: from the 15th of the following May until his return to England in 1843 was engaged in an exploring expedition to the Antarctic regions in the "Terror," and subsequently became director of H.M. Magnetic Observatory at Hobart Town ; and by him (who d. at South Yarra, Victoria) has issue, a daughter, Rosina Maria, who m., 26th February, 1884, her cousin, Clarence Kaye Meredith- Kaye, Esq., before mentioned, third son of Edwin Meredith, Esq. of Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand, and has issue.
V. Clara, m. Sir Richard Dry, who was a member of the old Legislative Council of Tasmania, afterwards represented Launceston in the House of Assembly, chosen first speaker, and was colonial secretary and premier of Tasmania, from 24th November, 1866, to 1st August, 1869 ; but by him (who d. October, 1869) has no issue.
VI. Fanny, m. Captain F. S. Gaynor, of the 99th Regiment, and has one son and one daughter.
VII. Rosina, m. Captain F. Despard, of the 99th Regiment, and has one daughter.
He died in 1856.
Arms used-Arg., a lion, ramp., sa., gorged with a collar, and chain affixed thereto reflexed over the back or ; with seven quarterings. Crest-A demi lion, ramp., sa., collared and chained as in the arms. Motto-Spes est in Deo.
Residence- Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand.
New Zealand Free Lance, Volume 1, Issue 13, 29 September 1900, Page 18
The patriarch of Upper Plain, the venerable Edwin Meredith, has affected smoked goggles. The effect is stunning, reminds one somehow of an ancient billy goat, taking a sombre look at creation. What sacrilege to poke at the topsawyer of the district. Never mind, blue blood and spectacles can put up with more than that. Nous verrons.
The Courier (Hobart) Saturday 18 December 1852, Page 2
Married
On Tuesday, the 14th inst., at St. George's Church, Hobart Town, by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Tasmania, Edwin Meredith, Esq., youngest son of G. Meredith, Esq., of Swanport, to Jane Caroline, eldest daughter of Captain Frederick Edmund Chalmers, of Baghdad.
Husband George J. Evered
Born: 1862 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 1892 - September Quarter - Farnham, Hampshire
Wife Constance Lucy Meredith
Born: 1862 - June Q. - Lambeth, London
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Samuel Bult Meredith
Mother: Penelope
Children
1 M Eric G. Evered
Born: 1894 - circa - Staines, Middlesex
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
1901 Census
Berkshire
Egham
Rose Cottage
George J. Evered - head - 39 - Director of Metal Works - Employer - London, Oxford Street.
Constance L. - wife - 39
Eric G. - son - 7
Husband Alfred John Rouse Meredith
Born: 1855 - Circa - Lambeth, London
Christened:
Died: 5 Dec 1936 - Warlingham, Surrey
Buried:
Father: John Bult Meredith
Mother: Eliza Rouse
Marriage: 1884 - Wandsworth, London
Wife Sarah Florence Evered
Born: 1864 - circa - Kentish Town, London
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Harry Rouse Meredith
Born: 27 Apr 1885 - Putney, London
Christened:
Died: 22 Sep 1958 - Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret Edith Underhill
Marr: 17 Mar 1917 - Romford Essex
2 M Alan Alfred Meredith
Born: 1888 - Putney, London
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: May
Marr: 1917 - circa
3 F Kathleen Meredith
Born: 1894 - circa - Putney, London
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: F.-Lt. Edmund G. Pole R.A.F.V.R.
General Notes (Husband)
1901 Census Collection:
Alfred, a timber merchant, (aged 46) was living in Warlingham, Surrey with his wife Sarah F. (aged 37), their son Harry R. (aged 15), their son Alan A. (aged 12) and their daughter Kathleen (aged 7)
The Times - Monday 10 February 1936, Page 15
Mr. Alfred John Rouse Meredith, of Warlingham, Surrey, a director of Meredith and Wise and Aston Grant & Co., timber importers, died on December 5, leaving estate of the gross value of £43,815, with net personalty £41,796 (duty paid £5,651) He gives: £250 to the Caterham and District Hospital.
General Notes for Child Harry Rouse Meredith
The Times, Tuesday, March 20, 1917; Page 1
Meredith: Underhill.--On the 17th March, 1917, at Romford, Essex. Pte. Harry Rouse Meredith, 2nd Artists Rifles O.T.C., elder son of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred John Rouse Meredith, of Warlingham, Surrey, to Margaret Edith, elder daughter of Lieut. J. Underhill, A.S.C., and Mrs. Underhill, of Warlingham, Surrey.
General Notes for Child Alan Alfred Meredith
The Times, Wednesday, Dec 16, 1959; pg. 12; Issue 54645; col D
Mr. A. A. Merdith
A memorial service for Mr. Alan Alfred Meredith was held yesterday at St. Michael's Cornhill. The Rev. Norman Motley officiated. Mr. A.C. Grover (chairman of Lloyd's) was among those present.
The Times, Monday, Jun 06, 1960; pg. 8; Issue 54790; col F
Underwriters £116,000 Estate
Mr. Alan Alfred Meredith, of Hassocks, Sussex, underwriting member of lloyd's, lefy £116,220 gross, £108,628 net (duty paid, £59,635).
Husband Twamley Owen Meredith
Born: 6 Sep 1871 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: George Campbell Meredith
Mother: Elizabeth Jillett
Marriage: 10 Jun 1896 - Hobart, Tasmania
Wife Jessica Farquhar
Born: 6 Mar 1873 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Owen Tasman Meredith
Born: 11 Nov 1896 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Beryl Jessie Meredith
Born: 1898
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Lizzie Ella Meredith
Born: 1900
Christened:
Died: 1985
Buried:
Spouse: Claude Lodwyck McMillen
General Notes (Husband)
Twin of John Charles - some references have Twamley Owen as a son of Owen and Eliza Jane.
Husband Ronald Fraiser
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Molly Meredith
Born: 1919 - circa
Christened:
Died: 1989 - circa
Buried:
Father: Alan Alfred Meredith
Mother: May
Husband Henry Gale
Born: 1807 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 28 Aug 1832 - Handborough, Oxfordshire
Wife Mary Hicks
Born: 1805 - circa
Christened: 9 Jun 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: Thomas Hicks
Mother: Mary Payne
Children
1 M Jno. Alfred Estcourt Gale
Born: 1834 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Eliza Jane Gale
Born: 1840 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 F Mary Frederica Gale
Born: 1845 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Thomas Estcourt Theobald Gale
Born: 1949 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Henry Gale was the Rector of Treborough, author of “Apostolic Temperance”, and a Temperance activist.
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, September 1, 1832; Issue 4140
On Tuesday last was married, at Handborough, by his brother, the Rev. W.W. Gale, Henry Gale, Esq., of Trinity hall, Cambridge, to Mary, youngest daughter of the late Thomas Hicks, Esq., of Cope Hall, Enborne, Berks.
1851 Census:
Wiltshire
Milborne
Henry Gale - Head - 44
Mary Gale - wife - 45
Jno. Alfred Estcourt Gale - son - 17
Eliza Jane - daughter - 11
Mary Frederica - daughter - 6
Thomas Estcourt Theobald - 2
1861 Census:
Somerset
Treborough
The Rectory
Henry Gale - Head - 54 - Rector of Treborough
Mary - wife - 55
Eliza Jane - daughter - 21
Mary Frederica - daughter - 15
Husband Sir William Jaffray 2nd Bart.
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Alice Mary Galloway
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Mabel Violet Mary Jaffray
Born: 27 Nov 1890
Christened:
Died: 25 Dec 1961
Buried:
Spouse: Sir - Captain Charles Richard Henry Wiggin 3rd Bart
Marr: 24 Jul 1916
General Notes for Child Mabel Violet Mary Jaffray
Mabel Violet Mary was the daughter of Sir William Jaffray, 2nd Bart. and Alice Mary Galloway.
Husband Bryan Gaynor
Born:
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 M Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Born: 1827
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Fanny Meredith
Spouse: Amelia Jane Huston
Marr: 15 May 1854 - Norfolk Island
General Notes for Child Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Francis and Fanny had one son and one daughter.
Francis Seymour Gaynor was a Major in the 99th Regiment, and the son of Bryan Gaynor of Killiney House, County Dublin.
Husband Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Born: 1827
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Bryan Gaynor
Mother:
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Amelia Jane Huston - 15 May 1854 - Norfolk Island
Wife Fanny Meredith
Born: 1831 - about
Christened: 16 Apr 1834 - Tasmania
Died: 1910
Buried:
Father: George H. Meredith
Mother: Mary Anne Evans
Children
1 M Francis Seymour Gaynor
Born: 1864
Christened:
Died: 1899
Buried:
2 F Female Gaynor
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Francis and Fanny had one son and one daughter.
Francis Seymour Gaynor was a Major in the 99th Regiment, and the son of Bryan Gaynor of Killiney House, County Dublin.
Husband Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Born: 1827
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Bryan Gaynor
Mother:
Marriage: 15 May 1854 - Norfolk Island
Other Spouse: Fanny Meredith
Wife Amelia Jane Huston
Born: 15 May 1836 - Hamilton, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 29 Apr 1860 - Frescale, New Norfolk, Australia
Buried:
Father: George Francis Huston
Mother: Sarah Hawthorn
Children
1 F Amy Maria Gaynor
Born: 12 Aug 1856
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Mary Lloyd Gaynor
Born: 10 Feb 1859
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John Hamilton Wise
Marr: 13 Jun 1889 - Tasmania
General Notes (Husband)
Francis and Fanny had one son and one daughter.
Francis Seymour Gaynor was a Major in the 99th Regiment, and the son of Bryan Gaynor of Killiney House, County Dublin.
General Notes (Wife)
Amelia Jane was the eldest child of George Francis Huston, surgeon-superintendent of the Asylum at New Norfolk (1855-80) and Sarah, née Hawthorn.
Husband John Hamilton Wise
Born: 1864 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 13 Jun 1889 - Tasmania
Wife Mary Lloyd Gaynor
Born: 10 Feb 1859
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Mother: Amelia Jane Huston
Husband William Allan Smith-Masters
Born: 1851 - circa - Humber, Hereford
Christened:
Died: 27 Aug 1937 - Camer, Meopham, Kent
Buried: 31 Aug 1937 - Meopham Church
Marriage: 22 Feb 1919 - Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
Other Spouse: Mary Coxe - 19 Oct 1876 - London, St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington
Wife Kathleen Amy Gore
Born: 1877 - circa
Christened:
Died: 1 May 1965 - Meopham, Kent
Buried:
Father: Spencer William Gore
Mother:
General Notes (Husband)
In 1881 William Allan Smith-Masters was a farmer of 670 acres employing 20 men and 6 boys at Camer House, Meopham in Kent.13 After the death of his first wife Mary, he married secondly Kathleen Amy Gore on 22 Feb 1919.
The Times, Saturday, Oct 21, 1876; pg. 1; Issue 28766; col A
On the 19th Oct., at St. Mary Magdalene's, Paddington, by the Rev. Seymour R. Coxe, Vicar of Brompton, Yorks., brother-in-law of the bride, assisted by the Rev. R.W. Randall, Vicar of All Saints, Clifton, uncle of the bridegroom, and the Rev. Dr. West, Vicar of the parish, William Allan Smith-Masters, of Camer, Kent, Esq., to Mary, younger daughter of the late Phillip S. Coxe, Esq., of 34, Ladbroke-grove, Kensington-park-gardens.
The Times, Monday, Aug 30, 1937; pg. 1; Issue 47776; col A
Smith-Masters. - On Aug. 27, 1937, William Allen Smith-Masters, of Camer, Meopham, Kent, at the age of 87. Funeral at Meopham Church tomorrow (Tuesday), 2.30 pm.
1881 Census:
Kent
Meopham
Camer House
William A. Smith-Masters - head - 37
Mary - wife - 29
Edith Monica - daughter - 1
1901 Census:
Kent
Meopham
Camer House
William A. Smith-Masters - head - 57 - J.P. - living on own means
Mary - wife - 49
Edith M. - daughter - 21
General Notes (Wife)
The Times, Saturday, May 01, 1965; pg. 12; Issue 56310; col G
Smith-Masters, Mrs. Kathleen Amy, of Meopham, Kent, widow of W.A. Smith-Masters (gross, £109,544)(duty is not shown) £104,791.
Husband Spencer William Gore
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 F Kathleen Amy Gore
Born: 1877 - circa
Christened:
Died: 1 May 1965 - Meopham, Kent
Buried:
Spouse: William Allan Smith-Masters
Marr: 22 Feb 1919 - Hertingfordbury, Hertfordshire
General Notes for Child Kathleen Amy Gore
The Times, Saturday, May 01, 1965; pg. 12; Issue 56310; col G
Smith-Masters, Mrs. Kathleen Amy, of Meopham, Kent, widow of W.A. Smith-Masters (gross, £109,544)(duty is not shown) £104,791.
Husband Benjamin Whitcott
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage: 21 Feb 1774 - Clungunford, Shropshire
Wife Catherine Gough
Born:
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Died:
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Children
1 F Catherine Whitcott
Born: 21 Nov 1774
Christened: 12 Feb 1775 - St. Chad, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Died: 7 November 1827 aged 53
Buried:
Spouse: David Meredith
Marr: 6 Feb 1800
Husband Mr Gough
Born:
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Died:
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Marriage:
Wife Hannah Stephens
Born: 1807 - circa
Christened: 11 Oct 1807 - Knill, Herefordshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: Joseph Stephens
Mother: Susannah Beaumont
General Notes (Husband)
Mr Gough, a solicitor of Hereford. (information contained in private correspondence of the Jukes family)
Husband Franklin Stanhope Grant
Born: 31 Mar 1860 - Fingal, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 20 Dec 1926 - Atherton, Queensland
Buried:
Father: James Grant
Mother: Charlotte Mary Thomas
Marriage: 4 Jun 1897 - Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania
Wife Jessie Rosina Meredith
Born: 23 Nov 1863 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 4 Nov 1944 - Swansea, Tasmania
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Maria Hammond
Children
1 M Franklin Leslie Meredith Grant
Born: 23 Oct 1898 - Herberton, Queensland
Christened:
Died: 1 Aug 1964 - Maryborough, Queensland
Buried:
2 M James Lionel LeNeve Grant
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
3 F Jessie Grant
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Husband James Grant
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Charlotte Mary Thomas
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Franklin Stanhope Grant
Born: 31 Mar 1860 - Fingal, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 20 Dec 1926 - Atherton, Queensland
Buried:
Spouse: Jessie Rosina Meredith
Marr: 4 Jun 1897 - Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania
Husband Alleyne Reynolds
Born: 1866 - circa - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died: Dec 1918 - Monmouthshire
Buried:
Father: Edward Reynolds
Mother: Maria Louisa Parker
Marriage: 1892 September Quarter - Ecclesall Bierlow, Yorkshire
Wife Alice Elizabeth Greaves
Born: 1861 - circa - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Edward Alleyne Reynolds
Born: 1893 - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Gladys Holden
Marr: 27 Jun 1922 - Westminster, All Souls Church, Langham Place
2 F Mabel Reynolds
Born: 1899 - circa - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M James F. Reynolds
Born: 1900 - circa - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
The Times, Wednesday, May 07, 1913; pg. 27; Issue 40205; col A
Faults of Present-Day Furnaces.
A paper by Mr. Alleyne Reynolds was entitled "Some Fundamental Faults of Present-Day Furnaces and their Remedies."
After having discussed the principles of combustion the author gave details regarding some devices arranged by him for securing correct and complete combustion. Where coal or other solid fuel was employed the device embodied a chamber, connected to a source of high-pressure air, having two closed branches, one being provided with connexions to the air inlet of the gas producer, and the other with the air inlet or inlets of the firnace. The connexions betwen the chamber and the branches were provided with valves and seatings, the diameters of the latter being such that their areas were proportional to ratios of the primary and secondary air supplies required................
1901 Census
Yorkshire
Upper Hallam
Riverdale
Alleyne Reynolds - Head - 34 - Metallurgical Engineer - Employer - Sheffield
Alice E - wife - 40 - Sheffield
Edward A. - son - 7
Mabel - daughter - 2
James F. - son - 9 months
General Notes for Child Edward Alleyne Reynolds
The Times, Friday, Jun 30, 1922; pg. 1; Issue 43071; col A
Reynolds: - Holden.-On the 27th June, at All Souls, Langham-place, W., by the Rev. G. Robinson Lees, cousin of the bride, assisted by the Rev. Arthur Buxton, Vicar, Edward Alleyne Reynolds, eldest son of the late Mr. Alleyne Reynolds of Hove, Sussex and Mrs. A. Reynolds, of Broomfield, Sheffield, to Gladys, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Holden, of Hove.
Husband Charles Meredith
Born: 1771 - Circa
Christened: 28 Aug 1771 - St. Philip's Birmingham
Died: 14 Jun 1843
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Sally Turner
Marriage:
Wife Mary Greaves
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Rev. Thos. Greaves
Mother: Frances Liptrott
Children
1 F Frances Meredith
Born: 1810 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 1868
Buried:
Spouse: Rev. Henry Griffin Williams
Marr: 3 Apr 1855
General Notes (Husband)
Charles was a partner in the firm of Meredith & Brown, solicitors of Leicester. John Liptrott Greaves was a brother-in-law. John Liptrott Greaves may be the son of Rev. Thomas Greaves (1734-1806) and Frances Liptrott (1737-1811) d/o Rev. John Liptrott. The reverends were rectors of Broughton Astley
ASTON v. MEREDITH.
1871 Feb. 25.
Practice-Partition-Sale-31 & 32 Vict. c. 40, s. 4.
A sale may be decreed under the Partition Act, 1868, although the bill contains no prayer for partition.
CHARLES MEREDITH, by his will, dated the 7th of June, 1841, devised real estate to the use of John Liptrott Greaves and Joseph Brown, upon trust, after decease and failure of children of his daughter Frances .Meredith, for all and every his nephews and nieces, children of his sister Louisa Ann Twamley, and his brothers John, Henry, and George, who should be living at the decease of his daughter, and who should attain twenty-one or marry, as tenants in common; and also the issue then living, who should attain twenty-one or marry, of any of his said nephews or nieces who might have died in the lifetime of his daughter, such issue to take per stirpes as tenants in common. He appointed the above-named trustees his executors.
The testator died on the 14th of June, 1843. The executors renounced probate, and never accepted or acted in the trusts; and the testator's brother and heir-at-law, John Meredith, conveyed the freeholds to the use of himself and the Plaintiff John Aston.
Testator's daughter Frances died in 1868, without having had issue.
Louisa Ann Twamley died in 1840, having had one child, Louisa Ann, wife of Charles Meredith.
John Meredith died in 1850, having had one child, the Plaintiff, Lucy Louisa Ann, wife of the Plaintiff John Aston.
Henry Meredith died on the 21st of May, 1841, having had two children, one of whom died in December, 1819, an infant. The other was the Defendant Henry Meredith.
George Meredith died in 1856, having had eleven children, namely, George, who died in the year 1836, never having been married ;Sarah Poynter, widow; Louisa Bell, widow; Sabina Boyes, widow; Charles; John; Maria, wife of Joseph Henry Kay; Edwin; Clara Dry, widow; Fanny, wife of Francis Seymour Gaynor ;and Rosina Despard, who died before 1868, leaving one child, Frederica Mary, now an infant.
The bill was filed in April, 1869, stating the above facts, and that Mr. and Mrs. Charles Meredith, Mrs. Boyes, Charles and John Meredith, Mrs. Kay, Edwin Meredith, Mrs. Dry and Miss Despard were out of the jurisdiction ; and alleging as follows:-
'' Having regard to the nature of the property, and the number of the parties interested therein, and to the absence abroad or disability of some of the parties, it will be much more beneficial to the parties interested that each property should be sold, and the proceeds of such sale distributed amongst such parties according to their rights and interests, than that such property should be partitioned amongst them."
The bill then prayed for a sale, without any prayer for a partition.
On the 11th of June, 1869, a decree was made, upon motion for decree, directing inquiries as to the interested.
On the 1st of October, 1869, Mrs. Poynter died, having devised her interest in the real estate unto and to the use of James Goodall Francis, Elizabeth Sabina Poynter, Charles Meredith Poynter, and George Farbrace Poynter, and their heirs, upon trusts for sale, for the benefit of the three last-named persons. She appointed the same four persons executors. They also were out of the jurisdiction.
Notice of the motion for decree had been served on all of the above persons who were adults, except J. G. Francis, and on the guardian of the infant.
The cause now came on upon further consideration.
Mr. L. Field, for the Plaintiffs:-
We ask for a sale: Silver v. Udall (1). All the parties have been served, in accordance with Hurry v. Hurry (2), except J. G. Francis, who is a bare trustee of a power.
It should be stated, however, that Lord Romilly, in a case of Teall v. Watts (3), seems to have thought it right that a bill seeking a sale under the Partition Act should contain a prayer for partition.
Mr. Dunn for the Defendants, supported the application, which was not opposed.
SIR JAMES BACON, V.C., decreed a sale of the property in the usual form; the money to be paid into Court, subject to further order.
Solicitors : Messrs. Field, Roscoe, Field & Francis, agents for Messrs. Stone, Paget, & Billson, Leicester.
ASTON v. MEREDITH.
1872, March 16.
Practice-Partition Act, 1868-Payment out of proceeds of Sale.
The Court will not make an order for payment out to trustees of money produced by a sale under the Partition Act, 1868, where it had been paid into Court, and some of the persons interested were married women, and resident in Australia.
THIS was a suit instituted under the Partition Act, 1858 (31& 32 Vict. c. 40), for a sale in lieu of partition. At the original hearing of the cause inquiries were directed as to who were the parties interested, and in what shares. At the hearing on first further consideration a sale was directed. The case is reported (1), where the facts are fully stated. The property having been sold, and the purchase-money paid into Court, the cause now came on for hearing on second further consideration.
The property was divisible into thirteenths. One of the persons interested was an infant. Four of the persons interested, two of whom mere married women, were resident in England; and the persons entitled to the other shares, two of whom mere married women, were resident in Australia. The purchase-money had been invested, and was now represented by £12,500 2s. 5d. consols.
Mr. Kay, Q.C. (Mr. L. Field with him), for the Plaintiffs (the surviving trustee of the settlement, and his wife, who was entitled to one share), asked that the fund in Court, with the exception of the infant's share, which was to be carried to her separate account, might, under sect. 23 of the Leases and Sales of Settled Estates Act (19 & 20 Vict. c. 120), which is incorporated in the Partition Act, 1868 (31 6-32 Vict. c. 40, s. s), be paid over to the Plaintiff, the surviving trustee, or to have a new trustee to be approved by the Court, in order that it might be paid by them to the persons entitled. In consequence of many of the persons interested being in Australia, great delay and expense would be incurred if these shares were ordered to be paid out to them in the usual manner, and powers of attorney had consequently to be obtained. He referred to cases under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, 1845,and other cognate Acts, in which similar orders had been made: Re Roberts (1) ; Grant v. Grant (2) ;and distinguished the present case from Higgs v. Dorkis (3), in which Vice-Chancellor Wickens had declined-- married woman and an infant being the only persons interested--o order the money produced by a sale under the Act to be paid to trustees.
Mr. E. C. Dunn, for the Defendant and persons served with notice of the decree (the other persons interested), supported the application.
SIR JAMES BACON, V.C., said that, although he was always anxious, where it was possible, with due regard to the protection of the persons interested, to save as much as possible delay and expense, he did not think he should, under :the, circumstances of the case, be justified in making the order applied for. The fund must accordingly be paid out to the persons interested in the usual manner.
Solicitors for all parties: Messrs. Field, Roscoe, Field, & Francis.
1841 Census:
Warwickshire
Leamington Priors
Newbold Road
Charles Meredith - 65 - Independent
Husband Rev. Thos. Greaves
Born: 1734
Christened:
Died: 1806
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Frances Liptrott
Born: 1737
Christened:
Died: 1811
Buried:
Father: Rev. John Liptrott
Mother:
Children
1 F Mary Greaves
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Charles Meredith
2 M John Liptrott Greaves
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M James Bexworth Greaves
Born: 1781 - circa
Christened:
Died: 22 January 1802 - aged 21
Buried:
General Notes for Child James Bexworth Greaves
Greaves - Lieutenant James Bexworth - 3rd Madras Native Infantry - died 22nd January 1802.
Memorial at St. Marys church, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire - "In memory of James Bexworth Greaves son of the Revd Thos Greaves and Frances his wife, Lieutenant in the 3d Regt Native Infantry in the service of the Honourable East India Company at Madrass. In 1801 for his services in the defence of a fort, he was appointed Quarter Master of Brigade to the Detachment and Aid-de-camp to Adjutt Genl Lieutt Coll Agnew. He died in the East Indies the 22d January 1802 in the 21st year of his age. In his short military career his humanity as well as bravery was conspicuous, at Panjalamcourchy he was severely wounded in rescuing a disabled soldier from the hands of the enemy. He was sincerely a Christian. The esteem and most marked confidence of his Commanding Officers and the strong testimony borne by them to his good conduct and military acquirements prove how bright a lustre true religion throws over the profession of a soldier and how powerfully it commands the esteem of real judges of merit".
Husband John Meredith
Born: 1822 - Cambria, Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1909
Buried:
Father: George H. Meredith
Mother: Mary Anne Evans
Marriage: 20 Oct 1851 - Fingal, Tasmania
Wife Maria Hammond
Born: 1827 - Fingal, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1912
Buried:
Children
1 M Henry Montague Meredith
Born: 27 Jan 1854 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1902 - Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales
Buried:
Spouse: Minnie (Minna) Holmes
Marr: 1883 - Greta, New South Wales
2 M George Llewellyn Meredith
Born: 28 Sep 1855 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 10 Oct 1937
Buried:
Spouse: Alicia Louisa Maclean
Marr: 24 Jul 1886 - Sydney, Australia
Spouse: Eleanor Bond Ward
Marr: 30 Nov 1899 - Sydney, Australia
3 M James Ernest Meredith
Born: 3 Dec 1859 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1910
Buried:
4 F Clara Sabina Meredith
Born: 1 Mar 1857 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1924
Buried:
5 F Fanny Maria Meredith
Born: 1 Apr 1862 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 M John Percival O. Meredith
Born: 20 Nov 1865 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1916
Buried:
7 F Jessie Rosina Meredith
Born: 23 Nov 1863 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 4 Nov 1944 - Swansea, Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: Franklin Stanhope Grant
Marr: 4 Jun 1897 - Cambria, Swansea, Tasmania
8 M Edwin Mervyn Meredith
Born: 1867
Christened:
Died: 1929
Buried:
9 F Elsie Dry Meredith
Born: 1869
Christened:
Died: 18 May 1918 - Edmonton Private Hospital
Buried:
Spouse: E. S. Emerson
10 F Mary Rose Meredith
Born: 1852
Christened:
Died: 1884 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: George Albert Mace
Marr: 1878 - Glamorgan District, Tasmania
General Notes (Husband)
John had 5 sons and 5 daughters.
General Notes (Wife)
Maria's uncle, Thomas Mitchell Hammong (1795-1854) was a surgeon of Brixton, UK. He married Maria Neve (1794-1826) (the surname was originally Le Neve). Their son was Thomas Montague Hammond (1826-1860). He was consumptive, and travelled to Tasmania, Australia, for his health, with his cousin, James Grant junior. Thomas Montague Hammond settled at Emley Park, Ballan, Victoria, Australia, & married his cousin, Rose Grant (1831-1905).
General Notes for Child Henry Montague Meredith
Henry Montague Meredith moved to the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. There is a cemetery adjacent to a property called “The Wilderness” where members of the Holmes family are buried. Inter alia, Minna Holmes is buried there - she was described as the widow of Henry Montague Meredith.
The Rothbury cemetery was established on land adjacent to a property "The Wildernes" on Wilderness Road. The property was owned by Mr Joseph Broadbent Holmes. In 1866 Mr Holmes commissioned a
Church to be build next to the Cemetery. It was completed in 1868. Unfortunately this church is now no longer there.
Joseph and most of his children ( some of whom were born and died at "The Wilderness") and their spouses, together with some family connections are buried there:-
Joseph Broadbent Holmes and wife Harriet Pawsey Holmes (nee Philips)
Maxwell Philips Holmes and wife Mariane /Mary Anne Holmes (nee Glennie - daughter of Rev Alfred Glennie)
Minna Holmes (widow of Henry Montague Meredith)
Ellen Miller Holmes
Elizabeth Philips Holmes
Spencer Harrison Holmes
Arthur Broadbent Holmes and wife Florence Adair Holmes (nee Silby)
Edith Ellan Kelman (nee Holmes) and spouse Lewis Chalmers Kelman
Rev Alfred Glennie
Samuel Athanasius Cusack (brother in law of Joseph)
Maude Cusack (infant daughter of Samuel and Joseph's sister Geogiana)
Catherine Edith Hutchinson (grand daughter of Joseph and daughter of
Edith Ellen Holmes and Lewis Kelman
There are a number of well known HUNTER VALLEY FAMILIES who have members buried there, including:
WILKINSON, TYRRELL, HUNGERFORD, CAMPBELL.
Violet Ethel Mace, born in 1883 was adopted by Henry and Minna.
General Notes for Child George Llewellyn Meredith
The Argus - Monday 14 December 1931
Launceston - Saturday - George Llewellyn Meredith and Reginald Askew Farmilo Sutton were charged on three counts in the police court with having conspired with Walter John Howard Eastland and Richard William Musson to cheat and defraud members of the public by False pretences and crafty devices to become members of Tasmanian Credits Ltd. A remand until December 19 was granted.
The Argus - Friday 29 April, 1932
DEALINGS IN SHARES.
Tasmanian Conspiracy Case, LAUNCESTON (T. ), Thursday - The charge of conspiracy against George Llewellyn Meredith, Reginald Asken Farmilo Sutton and Richard William Musson in connection with a company known as Tasmanian Credits Ltd was continued in the Criminal Court today before Mr. Justice Crisp and a special jury.
C.E.H. Ferguson, the liquidator, gave a statement of the disposal ot the funds of the company and the various bank accounts
operated by Tasmanian Brokers and Underwriters, a subsidiary company. He stated that one account out of four was used as a clearing account for the adjusting and splitting of commission and it drew nearly £2 000 more from the other accounts than they drew from it.
Referring to Rapson shares, Ferguson said that the shares purchased totalled 16,520 of which 14,500 were vendors' shares and cost £8,700. The shares were not bought in the name of the subsidiary company. He considered that the whole transaction was irregular, as trust and borrowed money was used to traffic in shares, and the transactions were not put through in the company's name, while Sutton appeared to have received 6d a share as an overriding commission.
Husband John Stephens
Born: 1770 - circa
Christened: 22 Dec 1770 - Lyonshall, Herefordshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: Lawrence Stephens
Mother: Hannah Meredith
Marriage: 31 Oct 1803 - Eardisley, Herefordshire
Wife Mary Harris
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Jane Stephens
Born: 1804 - circa
Christened: 31 Oct 1804 - Pembridge, Herefordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: William Reynolds
Marr: Bef 1825
2 F Mary Stephens
Born: 1806 - Circa - Hereford
Christened: 21 Sep 1806 - Pembridge, Herefordshire
Died: 16 December 1880 - aged 74
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
John of Eardisley Castle,farmer. (extracted from the private letters of the Jukes family)
General Notes for Child Jane Stephens
Jane died prematurely and her sister Mary brought up the family.
General Notes for Child Mary Stephens
Mary brought up her sister’s family, Mrs. Reynolds having died. In the 1871 England census she was enumerated at 18 St. George’s Square, London, with nieces Alice J. Reynolds (a teacher aged 27) and Mary Reynolds (aged 41), and a cousin Elizabeth Stephens (aged 47).
1851 Census:
Middlesex
St. Botolph Bishopsgate
Mary Stevens - Head - 44 - Fund Holder
William Reynolds - brother in law - 56 - retired farmer
Jane Reynolds - sister - 46
Edward Reynolds - nephew - 25 - engineer
Mary - niece - 21 - teacher - unemployed
Herbert - nephew - 16 -Clerk
Frederic C. - nephew - 14 - scholar
Arthur - nephew - 12
Alice - niece - 7
1871 Census:
St. George Hanover Square
Belgrave
St. George's Square
Mary Stephens - 64
Maryt Reynolds - 41
Alice J. Reynolds - 27
Elizabeth Stephens - 47
Sarah Stephens - 52
Martha Smith - 16
Husband George Francis Huston
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Sarah Hawthorn
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Amelia Jane Huston
Born: 15 May 1836 - Hamilton, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 29 Apr 1860 - Frescale, New Norfolk, Australia
Buried:
Spouse: Captain Francis Seymour Gaynor
Marr: 15 May 1854 - Norfolk Island
General Notes for Child Amelia Jane Huston
Amelia Jane was the eldest child of George Francis Huston, surgeon-superintendent of the Asylum at New Norfolk (1855-80) and Sarah, née Hawthorn.
Husband John Mackersey
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Ann Harriet Headlam
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M James John Mackersey
Born: 7 Mar 1856 - Kenilworth, Victoria
Christened:
Died: 13 Jun 1902 - Wellington, New Zealand
Buried:
Spouse: Edith Dry Meredith
Marr: 29 Apr 1890 - Masterton, St. Matthews, New Zealand
General Notes for Child James John Mackersey
James John was the son of John Mackersey and Ann Harriet Headlam.
Husband James Hearne
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Sarah Ann Hearne
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Thomas Wragge
Marr: 8 Aug 1861 - Broadmeadows, Melbourne
Husband Thomas Wragge
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: George Wragge
Mother: Emma Ingleby
Marriage: 8 Aug 1861 - Broadmeadows, Melbourne
Wife Sarah Ann Hearne
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: James Hearne
Mother:
General Notes (Husband)
The Derby Mercury, Wednesday, November 6, 1861; Issue 26437
On the 8th August, at Broad Meadows, Melbourne, Australia, by the Rev. T. Stair, Thomas, fourth son of George Wragge, Esq., Chaddesden, Derbyshire, to Sarah Ann, second daughter of the late James Hearne, Esq., Thorne Grove, Australia.
Husband John Benbow Hebbert
Born: 28 Apr 1853
Christened: 17 Jun 1853 - St. Philip's, Birmingham
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Benbow Hebbert
Mother: Julia Lucy Aston
Marriage: 1877
Wife Myrrha Devon Pemberton
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: George A. Pemberton
Mother: Maria
Children
1 M Oliver Lyttleton Hebbert
Born: 15 Aug 1861
Christened: 29 Apr 1862 - St. Philip's, Birmingham
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
John Benbow Hebbert was a solicitor. He was known as Benbow Hebbert.
General Notes (Wife)
Myrrha was the daughter of George A. Pemberton and his wife Maria. He was a Brassfounder in Birmingham in 1861.
Husband John Padbury
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Elizabeth Hicks
Born: 1759 - circa
Christened:
Died: 4 Nov 1792
Buried:
Father: John Hicks
Mother: Mary King
Children
1 M John Henry Padbury
Born: 1783 - circa - Berkshire
Christened:
Died: Mar 1863 - Newbury, Berkshire
Buried:
Spouse: Eliza
2 F Eliza Padbury
Born: 1792 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes for Child John Henry Padbury
1851 Census:
Berkshire
Speen
John Henry Padbury - 68 - Retired Coach Builder
Eliza Padbury - 62 - wife
Eliza Padbury - 59 - Sister
Husband Eugene Hicks
Born: 1802 - circa
Christened: 7 Jun 1802 - Enborne, Berkshire
Died: Mar 1870 - Bath, Avon, Somerset
Buried:
Father: Thomas Hicks
Mother: Mary Payne
Marriage: 30 Oct 1830 - Highworth, Wiltshire
Wife Anne Sharps
Born: 1800 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Eugene Hicks was described in his father's Will as illegitimate, although his parents subsequently married.
1841 Census:
Berkshire
Enborne
Cope Hall
Eugene Hicks - 35 - Independent
Anne Hicks - 35 - Independent
Maria Hicks - 8
Thomas Hicks - 7
Mary Hicks - 5
Sarah Hicks - 2
1851 Census:
Somerset
Walcot
Lansdown
Down House
Charlotte Sharps - 60 - Fund Holder
Eugene Hicks - 60
Ann Hicks - 67 - sister
Maria A. Hicks - 18 - Niece
Thomas - 16 - nephew
Hannah?? - 12 - niece
Sarah Hicks - 10
1861 Census:
Somerset
Lyncombe and Widcombe
Eugene Hicks - 58
Anne - 61
Daughter - 28
Husband John Hicks
Born: 1726 - circa
Christened:
Died: 27 September 1768 - aged 43
Buried:
Father: Jonathon Hicks (Hix)
Mother: Unknown Boddington
Marriage:
Other Spouse: Mary Payne - 25 Mar 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Wife Mary King
Born: 1720 - circa
Christened:
Died: 10 Jan 1806
Buried:
Children
1 M John Hicks
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 M Thomas Hicks
Born: 1752 - circa
Christened:
Died: 6 Oct 1817 - Cope Hall, Enborne, Berkshire
Buried: 1817 - Newbury Parish Church, Berkshire
Spouse: Mary Payne
Marr: 25 Mar 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Spouse: Unknown
3 F Elizabeth Hicks
Born: 1759 - circa
Christened:
Died: 4 Nov 1792
Buried:
Spouse: John Padbury
4 M Major Henry Wilkins Hicks
Born: 1762 - circa
Christened:
Died: 6 Jan 1812 - India
Buried:
5 F Mary Hicks
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John Rawlins
General Notes (Husband)
John Hicks was described in his Will of 21 June 1768 as a Mason of Speenhamland in the Parish of Speen, Berkshire. His Will was probated on 29 Oct 1768.
by P S Spokes, Berkshire Archaeological Society, Berkshire Archaeological Society - Berkshire (England) - 1934
Money, Hist, of Speen (1892), 32, states, " This Mr. Hicks was a stone-mason at
... John Hicks, d. 1768, aged 42. Mary, his wife ; d. 1806, aged 86.
General Notes (Wife)
Mary's siblings included Richard, William, Susanna, John and Martha. Her Will was dated 18 Jun 1795 with a codicil of 17 Jun 1800, and it was probated on 28 June 1806. She was living at Skinners Green in the Parish of Enborne in 1795.
General Notes for Child John Hicks
John was the oldest son. He made his Will on 20 Sep 1770 and soon after went to sea. He died in India.
General Notes for Child Thomas Hicks
Thomas's Will of 5 Feb 1814 describes him as Thomas Hicks of Skinners Green in the parish of Enborne Berkshire Gentleman. It is not known whether he continued the stonemason's business of his father John. The identity of the mother of his daughter Sarah Westall Meredith nee Hicks is not known.
The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks.
By Walter Money
"Hicks, Thomas, of Cope Hall, d. 6 Oct. 1817, a. 65."
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, May 28, 1825; Issue 3761
"Mary, relict of Thomas Hicks, Esq, of Cope Hall, near Newbury"
Certified copy of a conveyance D/EX 1041/1 1809
1 bdl
Contents:
1. Thomas Hicks and Mary his wife late of Newbury now of Enborne, gent. and others to:
2. John Meredith of Brumagham co. Warwick, gent, (a trustee of George Meredith, late a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Corps of Marines, now of Speen, esq.)
Messuage, barn, outhouses, orchards, stables near the Wash in Newbury, and about 100acres (with abuttals) dispersed in the common fields (known as Northcroft, Eastfield and Westfield), in Newbury
Included in the property is a messuage outhouses and barns and just over 10 acres of land (specified) in Enborne near the Newbury property above. The deed contains topographical detail in the abuttals of the Enborne property, such as 'King's Ditch' and 'Nightingale Lane' etc.. The Enborne property includes several coppices. Consideration: £4765
General Notes for Child Major Henry Wilkins Hicks
Henry Wilkins Hicks was a Major in the 11th Regiment Native Infantry in the service of the East India Company.
The Will of Thomas Hicks refers to Thomas William as an illegitimate son of Henry Wilkins Hicks, formerly residing with Thomas and his family at Skinner's Green but since having sailed for Malta.
A monument in India:
Sacred to the memory of Major Henry Wilkins Hicks, 11th Regt. N.I. - Obit. 6 January 1812 Aged 50 years.
Husband John Hicks
Born: 1726 - circa
Christened:
Died: 27 September 1768 - aged 43
Buried:
Father: Jonathon Hicks (Hix)
Mother: Unknown Boddington
Marriage: 25 Mar 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Other Spouse: Mary King
Wife Mary Payne
Born:
Christened:
Died: May 1825 - circa
Buried:
Children
1 F Maria Hicks
Born: 1805 - before
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
2 F Ann Hicks
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
John Hicks was described in his Will of 21 June 1768 as a Mason of Speenhamland in the Parish of Speen, Berkshire. His Will was probated on 29 Oct 1768.
by P S Spokes, Berkshire Archaeological Society, Berkshire Archaeological Society - Berkshire (England) - 1934
Money, Hist, of Speen (1892), 32, states, " This Mr. Hicks was a stone-mason at
... John Hicks, d. 1768, aged 42. Mary, his wife ; d. 1806, aged 86.
Husband Major Henry Wilkins Hicks
Born: 1762 - circa
Christened:
Died: 6 Jan 1812 - India
Buried:
Father: John Hicks
Mother: Mary King
Marriage:
Wife
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 M Thomas William Hicks
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Henry Wilkins Hicks was a Major in the 11th Regiment Native Infantry in the service of the East India Company.
The Will of Thomas Hicks refers to Thomas William as an illegitimate son of Henry Wilkins Hicks, formerly residing with Thomas and his family at Skinner's Green but since having sailed for Malta.
A monument in India:
Sacred to the memory of Major Henry Wilkins Hicks, 11th Regt. N.I. - Obit. 6 January 1812 Aged 50 years.
General Notes for Child Thomas William Hicks
The Will of Thomas Hicks refers to Thomas William as an illegitimate son of Henry Wilkins Hicks, formerly residing with Thomas and his family at Skinner's Green but since having sailed for Malta.
Husband John Rawlins
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Marriage:
Wife Mary Hicks
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: John Hicks
Mother: Mary King
Children
1 M John Rawlins
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Husband George H. Meredith
Born: 13 Feb 1778 - Castlebromwich, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Christened: 23 Apr 1791 - St. Philips, Birmingham, Warwick
Died: 21 Jun 1856 - Swanport, Tasmania
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Sally Turner
Marriage: 16 Sep 1805 - Abingdon, Berkshire
Other Spouse: Mary Anne Evans - 30 Oct 1820 - Wales
Wife Sarah Westall Hicks
Born: 1779 - circa - Berkshire
Christened: 19 Dec 1779 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died: Feb 1820
Buried:
Father: Thomas Hicks
Mother: Unknown
Children
1 M George Meredith
Born: 1806 - Poyston, Pembroke, Wales
Christened:
Died: 1836 - Circa
Buried:
2 F Sarah Westall Meredith
Born: 19 Dec 1808
Christened:
Died: 1 Oct 1869
Buried:
Spouse: James Peck Poynter
Marr: 30 Apr 1836 - St. David's Church
3 M Charles Meredith
Born: 29 May 1811 - Poyston, Pembroke, Wales
Christened:
Died: 2 Mar 1880 - Launceston, Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: Louisa Anne Twamley
Marr: 18 Apr 1839 - Edgbaston Old Church, Warwickshire
4 F Louisa Meredith
Born: 1808 - Oxford, Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1890
Buried:
Spouse: Captain John Bell
Marr: 16 Jun 1832 - Hobart, Tasmania
5 F Sabina Meredith
Born: 1810 - Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
Christened:
Died: 1877
Buried:
Spouse: John Boyes
Marr: 9 Mar 1833 - Hobart, Tasmania
General Notes (Husband)
George Meredith was at one time known as "the king of the east coast of Van Diemen's Land"!
George served in the navy.
George entered the Navy in 1794. He was a Lieutenant in the Marines and served in America, the West Indies and Egypt.14 It was reported that at Alexandria, in 1803, he scaled the 180-foot high Pompey's Pillar, to remove the French cap-of-liberty placed there by Napoleon's forces and replace it with the Union Jack. Subsequently, the cap was suspended from the ceiling of the grand hall of the British Museum.
George retired in 1806 on half pay and farmed first near Newbury (a conveyance of 1809 records the location)16 and then at Rhyndaston in Pembrokeshire before emigrating to Australia in 1820, shortly after his 2nd marriage.
MEREDITH, GEORGE (1777-1856), settler, was born on 13 February 1777 near Birmingham, England, the fourth son of John Meredith and his wife Sally, née Turner; his father was a prominent barrister and solicitor and descended from the ancient Amerydeth family of Devon and Wales. In 1796 Meredith was commissioned second lieutenant in the marines and later served in the West Indies, at the blockade of Ferrol in Spain and on the Mediterranean Station. At Alexandria in 1803 he made a daring ascent of Pompey's Pillar, a granite column 180 feet (55 m) high, to fasten the Union Jack in place of a French cap-of-liberty placed there by Napoleon's forces. In 1805 when recruiting in Berkshire he met and married Sarah, the daughter of H. W. Hicks. Next year he retired on half-pay and commenced farming at Newbury; later the family move to Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, and farmed there until 1819 when the post-war rural depression stimulated his interest in emigration. He then had two boys and three girls, the eldest being...
Meredith resolved to settle in Van Diemen's Land and applied to the Colonial Office for letters of introduction. In company with several partners he chartered a ship, but early in 1820 his wife died suddenly, thus jeopardizing the whole venture. By good fortune their former governess and companion, Mary Evans, consented to take care of the young family on the voyage. In July official permission was granted and in October the ship was loaded with personal possessions, extensive farm equipment and a small flock of merino sheep. An agreement had already been made to obtain additional stock from Edward Lord's flocks already on the island. The original partners, Meredith, Joseph Archer and Thomas Gregson, were joined by a number of passengers, including the Amos family, John Kerr, Francis Desailly and John Meredith, a cousin of the family. Before embarkation George Meredith and Mary Evans were quietly married and on 8 November the expedition sailed in the Emerald and reached Hobart Town on 13 March 1821.
After settling the family in temporary lodgings Meredith presented his letters of introduction to Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell and began to look for suitable land. He had already experienced the limited market outlets for inland farms in England and Wales, and was determined to secure coastal grants if possible. According to government surveys the most promising land lay at Oyster Bay, about 140 miles (225 km) distant on the eastern coast, and a small party set out in a whale-boat to visit the district. Close examination proved the land to be greatly inferior to the official descriptions, but certain parts capable of development were selected and the party returned to Hobart on 24 April to lodge the formal applications.
Official permission was duly given to the whole scheme, which included the individual grants, and late in September, after the first livestock were dispatched overland, a small schooner was chartered to take the settlers to Oyster Bay. There they found part of the granted land occupied by William Talbot, an emigrant Irishman who had already unsuccessfully sought inclusion in the group and now claimed that the land had been granted to him. Vigorously protesting he withdrew from the district but the dispute was finally decided in Meredith's favour in 1826.
Meanwhile the grants were developed and improved, both for seasonal crops and grazing stock; a tannery and flour-mill were established at the Meredith River, and bay whaling stations set up on near-by islands to try out whale oil for export. In a shipyard at Waterloo Point were built several trading vessels and also small craft for the use of sealing gangs on their visits to the Bass Strait islands. These enterprises required both skilled labour and special equipment and necessitated repeated visits to Hobart, so Meredith was able to maintain a close interest and participation in the public affairs of the free colonists. In 1824, after the declaration of a new Charter of Justice for Van Diemen's Land, Meredith and many other colonists met publicly to express their appreciation and to seek more benefits from the British government. In March 1827, after news that property owners in New South Wales were petitioning for an elective legislature, Meredith and other landowners arranged a public meeting to encourage similar efforts in Van Diemen's Land. A petition and addresses were prepared for submission to London by Lieutenant-Governor (Sir) George Arthur. Through misunderstanding the documents were delayed; copies were later sent privately to England but the whole matter lapsed because the Colonial Office disapproved the colonists' attitude toward Arthur. Later that year Meredith and others again came into conflict with the lieutenant-governor over legislation to license the press, with which Meredith had strong connexions. Bitter official opposition toward Meredith continued throughout Arthur's term and constituted a severe restriction to his personal life and public spirit.
In the early 1820s many isolated settlements were under repeated attack from escaped convicts. In October 1825 the homestead at Oyster Bay was raided in Meredith's absence by the bushranger Matthew Brady. None of the family was injured but the house was ransacked and a servant taken hostage was later killed; fortunately the plate and other valuables were found buried near Hobart and returned. The family had first lived at Redbanks, a turf hut strengthened with timber, on the south bank of the Meredith River. About 1827 they moved into Belmont, a more spacious home lying about one mile (1.6 km) further inland. About 1836 they moved into Cambria, a large dwelling designed by Meredith near the original home and surrounded by gardens which had been steadily developed since their arrival. From that time the management of the property devolved more upon the eldest sons, and they took the entire care of the estate when his wife Mary died unexpectedly in 1842. By his second marriage he had three sons and four daughters, of whom the second son John remained in charge at Oyster Bay until George Meredith died in 1856.
Several of Meredith's children became prominent in later years; his second son, Charles, was appointed colonial treasurer of Van Diemen's Land in 1857 and continued in high public offices for twenty years; the fourth son, John, was appointed a magistrate at Swansea in 1855 and contributed greatly to the welfare of the district; the fifth son, Edwin, migrated to New Zealand as a pioneer colonist in 1851, and the fifth, daughter Clara, married Richard Dry.
George Meredith possessed qualities of endurance and strength which, coupled with his early experience at sea in command of men and subsequent farming life in England, resulted in a character eminently suitable for pioneer colonial life. The enthusiasm and encouragement of his wife Mary also contributed greatly to his successful career in public and private life.
When George and his family immigrated, the ages of his children increased somewhat quickly - possibly due to the fact that they became eligible for land grants sooner? It appears that George overstated their ages.
Sarah died in about 1820 (in childbirth from memory), after which George married Mary Anne Evans who had been the children's nanny.
his wife Sarah had died in 1820 and in 1818 George got their 18 years old "handsome and voluptuous" servant Mary Evans (later to become his 2nd wife) pregnant. By changing the ages this would cloud the fact?
Pioneers of the East Coast from 1642
Swansea, Bicheno
by Karl von Steiglitz
Extracts
LIEUT. GEORGE MEREDITH (LATE OF THE ROYAL MARINES) ARRIVES IN HOBART TOWN AND PREPARES TO VISIT THE COAST WITH THE BROTHERS AMOS
Some of our most important settlers arrived in Tasmania aboard the ship "Emerald"' (about 400 tons), under Capt. Elliott, on the 17th March, 1821. George Meredith, snr,, and, it is supposed, Joseph Archer, had chartered her privately, to bring them and their families to this country, making history from the fact that she was the first vessel to be privately, chartered for Van Diemen's Land. The "Emerald" had left privately, four months earlier and called in at Teneriffe and the Cape on the way out.
Other pioneering families on board included Adam Amos, his wife and three sons; John Amos, his wife and one son-, the Gregson family; and J. C. Tolman, who was found to be suffering from scurvy on arrival.
Only a fortnight passed before the quick actin Meredith was able to write home and give an interesting account of his impressions and intentions. The letter is dated 2nd April 1821, from Hobart Town. George Meredith to his brother John Meredith, Old Square, Birmingham.
“Dear John. Our safe arrival at our destined port and the land of promise safely over, we are living in a cottage Mr. Lord provided for us, about three miles distant from Hobart Town, which, although small and unfurnished, is definitely preferable to residing with the Place itself, and, indeed, offers comforts superior to any our passengers have met with; for I must needs confess no station I ever yet visited boasted so little accommodation or convenience for strangers. However, it is as yet in its infancy and many circumstances combine to account for the present state of things.
“I have been well received by His Honour the Lieut.-Governor (Sorell) partly owing to my private letter from Mr. Goulburn and perhaps the more so from my acquaintance with Mr. Lord, who appears to be on the best footing with him. I have dines once with him and had several private interviews; the last this day previous to my setting off for the Eastern Coast, where I think it highly probable from the concurring information I have received, that I and my party shall settle. It was always my view from the first to branch out to some coast situation calculated for the site of a new township, with a back country fit for intended locations and I have some confidence that the result of my projected excusion (sic) and survey will make me amends for the disappointment I suffered in not finding a desirable opening on the Western Coast, as I had expected, at one of the newly discovered harbours of Port Davey and McQuarrie in the vicinity of neither of which is there any desirable open country - and, if there was, the prevailing winds would be unfavourable to water communication, and a chain of mountains which run from a little to the westward or Port Dalrymple nearly to this plain, interpose and effectual ban to inland intercourse.
The country between this and Port Dalrymple still affords many desirable situations for a settlement except as to distance from either port or market, nothing to any extent being VACANT within less than 20 to 30 miles from water carriage which is a great objection, independently of a settlement in that line of country bringing me in contact with residents of an inferior and perhaps not very moral class.
Now, if I do fix on the Eastern Coast which the Lieut. Governor is desirous to have respectably settled, I do not doubt being followed by succeeding emigrants from England and I have already come to a satisfactory understanding with the Lieut.-Governor on the subject. There are many of the natives at present along that coast but they will necessarily give way as we establish and extend ourselves. They are the most wretched of all aborigines I have yet seen or heard of. Cowardly but treacherous, I understand, and several persons have been violently speared by them for want of due precaution. I shall, however, have four free persons with me and, though an excursion of from nine days to a fortnight among them and their wiles may not be altogether a pleasurable one, I look to it as safe and advantageous. When I return I will speak of the country of which at present I know nothing but by report.
“The borders of the Derwent are high land and almost one entire forest. The sheep here are large but rather leggy - and wool still coarse. The pigs very good; cattle but middling and horses small and exceptionally dear; one worth £20 in England being here of the value of £50 at least. The climate is indeed fine and vegetation of all kinds rapid and vigorous. The sweet briar is a common hedge and the most beautiful green-house plants grow wild.
“Money was never scarcer than at present, that is Government Bills, which almost exclusively form the medium of remittance to England. The market for nearly everything I have brought out is overstocked and my only chance to convert my goods is to have them retailed but I will write Henry on this subject. If the two stills I ordered are not sent out the smaller one of 30 gallons must be exchanged for one of not less that 40. Nothing under that will be allowed to work here and distillation commences August 1822. I have written but a disjointed letter and must be more connected and explanatory when my mind is less occupied and when I can give my observations instead of the report of others. Thank God we all enjoy good health and spirits and WE ALL send our united good wishes to YOU ALL and with every kind sentiment towards you all believe me Ever Your Affectionate Brother Geo. H. Meredith.”
THE FIRST SETTLERS AND THE LAND THEY FOUND
Diary of Lieut. George Meredith R.N., written in 1821 when he sailed up the east coast with the brothers Amos in search of land for settlement.
April 5th. Left Newtown, Thursday morning, 5th April, 9 o'clock in a whaleboat. Self and six people. Pulled down to Iron Pot Island, partly calm, partly against sea-breeze, by 2 o'clock. Ran down thence to about 6 miles short of East Bay Neck with a fine sea breeze by ½ past 5. The wind failing and near sunset, beach on the larboard side. N.B. - Slopen Island a good place to form a raft near and erect boilers for whale fishing. Abundance of large crabs off Hog Island as well as Dough Boy Island.
April 6th. Broke camp at half past seven. Arrived at East Bay Neck at half past nine but made for the wrong side. Rowed round and landed at ten at low water. Waited for flood to get the boat up. Meantime carried over things. I examined the land to the westward. When the boat was got over, strong breeze set right ahead and again encamped for the night. N.B.-East Bay divided in two by a point and a reef of rocks near the centre. Land to the W. is left of point. Good rich marly loam, nearly all the breadth but does not reach all the way to the other bay. Another considerable breadth of similar land lies on the ….or E. end of the bay, but does not run so far inland. The middle part, through which the boat carriage road runs, is light sandy earth, but might be brought under the plough and made turnip and barley land, but the whole is thickly timbered and would occasion much labour and expense. It certainly would be desirable to have a settlement at the Neck, conditioning for a team to be always ready to haul over a boat upon wheels fitted on purpose at a fixed rate. And if Oyster Bay on the Eastern Coast is settled, small grants may be properly reserved along the boat road for the settler to erect granaries or depots on. The beach on the East Bay side is bare sand for a great distance, and the creek on the other side mud down to low water mark. A pier might be run out on the inside and a landing place made on the other side by laying some fallen trees with a little jetty at the end.
ARRIVAL AT OYSTER BAY
10th April. Saw the tracks of dogs and men on the sand and waited till about two o'clock and Mr. Amos not arrived. Concluded therefore they might have gone on to Inlet Bay (Little Swan Port?) to meet us there and launched the boat to proceed there.
There is no river at Grindstone Bay and had three miles to go for water-stagnant and tasting of gum leaf.
The land behind Grindstone Bay is partly good light soil with a marly substratum and partly of the character of the flats around Skate Bay (Spring Bay) which, in fact, come down to Grindstone Bay, and the valley flats land appears to run along the coast behind the highland bluffs to a considerable distance with almost a level inland communication the whole way.
Arrived off Inland Bay about three o'clock, but for the chance of Mr. Amos seeing the boat, remained on the Sandy Bay beyond it where I landed at four o'clock and walked back in order to examine the country between the bays. Did not reach the tent for fear of having ranged rather far for the time of day. Still no tidings of Mr. Amos. This land will come under the general description tomorrow. Flat land….all the way.
April 11th. After breakfast, Mr. Amos not having arrived, sent two men by land to the herdsmen's hut for intelligence and set off with one man to examine the land round to the south of the inlet leaving two persons in charge of the tent with directions not to fire except something of moment occurred, as I should consider it an alarm.
At ten o'clock heard a musket fired at the tent, hastened towards it, but hearing a second, concluded there could be nothing serious and Mr. Amos had returned, therefore answered it and continued our walk.
On returning to the tent, found Mr. Amos and the guide who had gone on as far as the Great Salt Water River round the N. point of Grindstone Bay.
Went out after a scanty meal with the hut guide and four dogs to get a kangaroo for supper. Put up two, and each taking a different course, killed both. While half skinning the last, the two men who had been to the hut joined us with the other two stockmen and six does and two kangaroos they had killed. N.B.-Good entertainment for man and beast.
April 12th. Immediately after breakfast departed with the intention of being governed by the wind as to proceeding on to Great Swan Port and taking the intermediate places back or not.
The wind being ahead with a dense fog just as we rounded the point into a kind of bay at the south end of which is a salt water river, with a narrow channel to enter on the N. side of the mouth, close to the shore which is rocky and a surf runs all the way from this side to the other across the sandy beach.
It was nearly low water as we proceeded up, the channels for the boat were narrow and intricate. Through one which reached right across from N. to S. over a pebbly bottom with weedy mud on both sides it was difficult to get the boat ahead against the tide current. With both sails and oars, following the sinuosities of the river, I suppose we proceeded up about three miles when we stuck fast and with difficulty got the boat clear again. This was just above a small green-margined low island with a channel each side. We took the S. side but it afterwards appeared the other side was the most direct. The mud and weeds coming as far into the river on each side, we had to fall down considerably before we could land, which we effected at the upper or western point of the creek, the first principal one on the S. side, about two miles up, at the head of which a mountain stream runs in winter. Indeed, about a mile or one half inland there was a weak spring still running for a short distance, but it had no apparent source or termination. It seemed to rise through and lose itself again in the loose sandy soil. This spring Mr. Amos had crossed on his way to this river and he confirmed my conviction that there was a vale and level communication at the back of the coast all the way from Prossers Bay.
The day being far spent, had only time to cross one of these easy ascents of forest land which constitute the chief of all this coast country, and found it tally precisely with that already noted. The low valleys vary in width, sometimes not more than a hundred yards, sometimes even a mile, but the great extent of arable land offers itself on the banks of this spreading river, and the accumulation of mud and vegetable matter, from the mouth upwards would be a never ceasing supply of manure for it. There was every appearance of summer streams emptying themselves in many places on both sides and at its head. I have no doubt water may be obtained all the year by sinking wells in the lower land or even by damming up the mountain rivers and clearing out pools for it to lodge in a body. Killed one black swan.
April 13th, Came down the river, which now, being high water, with mud banks covered, presented a beautiful and grand appearance, but I would advise it to be first entered with the young flow immediately after low water that the proper channels may be known - otherwise a boat would be continually grounding.
On opening the Bay in clear weather, found the level ground to extend about two miles to the N. with a considerable depth inland all round by the river.
GREAT SWAN PORT IS REACHED
Stood over direct for Great Swan Port with a fine breeze across a wide and deep bay to the west I n which Little Swan Port is stated to lay. Entered the river at one o'clock over the bar or sand spit instead of the proper channel which lies close to shore. Sailed up the river as far as the fourth reach where the channel circles round to southward. Landed about two to dine and examine the neck between the river and bay which is about ½ mile wide and a mere deposit of sand by the ocean, though timber of considerable size grows on it.
At three o'clock proceeded up as far as the depth of water would admit, but not finding a sufficient channel by sunset returned for the night down to the point of land on the N. side above the circle. Unfortunately had no water remaining and could not meet any, although a swan fold was on the spot - a circumstance to us indicative of there being water to hand. Sought again in the morning without success, and were obliged to leave without having taken tea, supper or breakfast.
April 14th. Again proceeded up to the same place we met the obstruction last night but without better success, and after trying several hours were again obliged to relinquish the task and return and seek for water as the first object.
Instead of going down to the mouth where water was stated to be, proceeded up what had the appearance of a creek or inlet round to the E. of the point where we had slept the night before to try both for water and to examine if it led to any inland communication, and after about half a mile were agreeably surprised to find it turn to the N. and continue a fine open deep river channel. Landed and found water round the first point on the E. side where we made a hearty meal of steamed kangaroo, and leaving two men in charge of the tent and things, proceeded up the river to see if it really did continue to any extent.
Proceeded as far as the sand bank at the head of the third reach and seeing a large breadth of water both round to the N.E. over on the other side of the sand bank, and also round to the S.W., returned to the tent for the night in full confidence that the latter would lead us into the fresh water river communicating with the Plains, and that the former would lead up to some other river and desirable land. N.B. - the land all along the east side where we slept is a deep pure sand without any substratum within a foot or eighteen inches in the places we tried - Yet the timber grows well.
April 15th. Proceeded after breakfast up the river, but on rounding the mud and sand banks on the western hand began to lose hoped of the S.W. water leading inland to the Great Swan River as it seemed to be completely landlocked and a mere bay. When we got within about 150 yards of the termination round at the southern end, the boat grounded and I sent two men on shore to end all doubts. In an hour they returned with a full conviction of having found an entrance a little to the east, but on questioning them I found that they had merely seen the passages we had already tried from a new position. Pulled all round the west shore without finding either river, spring, or run of fresh water, nor could we discover an entrance into a sheet of water seen over the sand bank to the N.E.. Landed over on the western and northern shores and found a considerable breadth of flat land of a better quality than any yet seen, with more low ground. Deep water and a bold shore for a boat to land on the further N. side. Returned after sunset to last night's camp.
April 16th. Proceeded after breakfast to make one more effort to pass up the main course into the fresh water river at high tide. At half past eleven o'clock again gave up the attempt and made for the place where we dined on the 13th for the purpose of walking up the south side to examine the channel at low water from the shore and determine if it were possible to effect a passage. On arriving opposite the place where we were obstructed in the boat, sent a man across the water, the tide being nearly ebb and found there was no channel whatever. Therefore, if there should be so great a body of fresh water coming down the river from the Plains as is stated, it must spread itself over the great expanse of tide water and be lost in it.
Crossed over the Isthmus to the ocean to ascertain how far it would be expedient to send a boat round to meet me on my return from the Plains to which I determined to walk the next day, although lame and suffering from a bowel complaint. Found this part of the neck of the Isthmus like the lower, an entire bed of sand. Bathed in the sea and walked along the fine sand till opposite our tent.
April 17th. Set off with Mr. Amos and the two guides for the Plains leaving four men at the tent. Found all the south side one entire bed of flags, rushes and swamp (after passing the tide way) which continued extending to the southward far above the real mouth of the river. Crossed through the top part at the expense of a wetting, it having rained hard the preceding night.
These rushes, etc., extend from the river's mouth for a mile then abrupt stony hills for about two more, when you enter upon the plains. after walking a mile or better, settled for the night with merely a few boughs placed as a screen against the wind, but unluckily it rained nearly the whole night and having come in wet the middle, and my bowel complaint becoming more severe, passed a very unpleasant night, the ground very wet. We had two kangaroo dogs and a man killed us a kangaroo for supper.
April 18th. After taking some kangaroo soup, proceeded along the riverside to the N.W. about two miles when I sent Watson (the guide?) back to the tent to take the boat round the isthmus to meet us at the bottom of the bay as it would save half a day in time besides giving us an opportunity of taking a much greater sweep of country to the westward and southward on our way back.
About two miles further up, the river contracts, and there is a fall of, say about two feet in twenty yards and the water a few inches deep only. It then opens and deepens again and afterwards again contracts and becomes shallow so as to be a mere brook.
At this place we made a fire and some kangaroo soup, when at the moment of sitting down to it, a most violent thunderstorm came on with hail and rain and completely drenching us through, and it rained more or less nearly the remainder of the day.
From this point we made first S. and then S.E. for the head of the Bay where we arrived about half past seven, having travelled through the bush an hour after dark. Those parts of the Plains seen certainly do not answer to the high character given by Watson, but it is fair to state that he considers the best land to be more to the southward and westward than we reached. The low lands are mostly flooded in winter and have a rather peaty surface with a good marly substratum. The Higher levels are of light sandy earth and no substratum within a foot wherever we tried, with one exception, though I incline to think clay might be found at a lower depth.
As we returned we crossed a large tract of higher and poor forest land commencing with a point near where we struck off to return, and which Watson could not have seen, as it formed part of what he described as all plains.
Upon the whole I could not but feel disappointed, although the country about the Plains is very pleasing to the eye and if anything, rather too lightly timbered.
About half past eight the boat arrived, the people as well as ourselves wet through. However a good fire, moonlight night, and the tent, formed a pleasing contrast with last night's accommodation.
April 19th. My bowel complaint still affecting me, for I had thoughtlessly come away without any of those medicines proper to carry on such occasions. I could not venture in the boat, and resolved to devote the day to examine the country around this little bay, and if there were any vale communication with the Plains above G.S.P., which, from many circumstances, I inclined to believe I should find.
About noon, for we had gone to rest late the night before and had little sleep the previous one, set off along the south side of an inlet or creek of salt water situate just at the point of this bay where it rounds off from the sandy beach at the back of the isthmus, but the mouth was now choked up by the beach for want of rains to force its way into the ocean.
For about half a mile it continues westerly and meanders to the south. Salt and brackish, and is navigable for boats when full, and partly so now. To that distance, the land on either side, low and level - timbered land at least of average quality with the chief of that already seen - a light brown earth with a substratum of good gravel for six feet. At this distance the fresh water pools commenced with dry shoals between, and beyond this I should not rely on boats going up.
There we crossed, having ascertained the width of low level land to the southward and which is bounded by stoney (sic) rises and poor forest land with narrow vale patches occasionally. All round to the westward these flats are bounded by stoney hills and poor forest land and which appear to join the many Tiers which bound the Plains to the S. and W..
Took a circle over this miserable land to the N. still hoping to find the vale communication I sought and after two hours walking came upon a large lagoon of 100 acres and upwards. Sent two persons round the south side and kept the north myself without either finding any outlet for the water to run off in winter. It must be a receiver for the winter rains which it appears to retain all through the dry season.
LAND IS CHOSEN
Going on the N.E. crossed a considerable breadth of low forest and vale land, chiefly inclined to the above lagoon but partly apparently to the inlet near our tent. Crossed right over this level to the eastward till we came to the sough end of the isthmus or neck of land between the Bay and G.S.P.. I did this to have a comprend (sic) of the country to the N.W. to ascertain if there were any hills or interruptions to what I now felt confident was a land of communication from the Bay to the Plains. This brought us to the beach about a mile north of the tent by dark, and resolved to go, or send Mr. Amos, in the morning from the inlet to the point where we crossed the flat to make certain as I INTEND TO FIX OUR GRANTS HERE and across to the G.S.P. river if it prove so on examination.
April 20th. While the people were gone for water and to kill kangaroos, Mr. Amos traced the valley from the Inlet to the place mentioned and confirmed my expectation, the distance being about two miles with a lagoon of 30 to 40 acres at half a mile distance from the Inlet. The lagoon had water standing in it but there was a visible outlet where the water ran out in winter.
Wishing, if possible, to make out a complete vale communication between the coast bluffs and points, I sent the boat with five hands to attend my motions and walked by land with two others as far as a fresh water summer river in which were still occasional pools, but the mouth was locked by sand. This is situated on the N. side the second point of land from where we slept, the Tier appearing to come down to a point very near the coast about a mile or better N.W. of this river.
All the way we came we had vale and flat forest land with hills towards the coast and rises over others inland, but towards where we started from and where we slept at the mouth of the river, the low lands are of great breadth.
As the wind was contrary and no desirable place to stop the night at the point, continued trace communications. At the back and S.W. of the mouth of this river is some good forest and flat land bound by the mountains to the N.. The fresh water run still having pools of good water….as in…..but at the distance of about two miles S.W. the main Tiers curved round and came down to the coast at the next point of land, so that any inland road or connection must be to the westward of them. There is a narrow strip of flat land across this point to the next point where the Tiers came down to the coast - but it is of very little depth under the Tiers.
April 21st. Started on our return home doubting more than ever the reality of any other L.S.P. or of the large, fine river and boat harbour mentioned by Watson. For two hours it was nearly calm when, a northerly breeze springing up, reached Skate Bay (Spring Bay) soon after sunset and pitched the tent on the old spot occupied 8th and 9th. Having on our return hugged the coast…..found my fears confirmed that there was neither other L.S.P. or river emptying itself into Oyster Bay. Indeed the whole coast from where the Tiers come down to the point of land south of where we slept last night, to within about four miles of the Salt Water River, or real L.S.P. and where they again recede back to the…..head of L.S.P. and come down again at Prosser's river show at once there can be no sheet of water or breadth of land such as is described by Watson.
SECOND VISIT OF AMOS AND MEREDITH FIVE MONTHS LATER
Sept. 29th. At daylight, we found we were in the bay off Little Swan Port. Pulled for three hours and, a favourable breeze springing up, made Meredith's creek about ten o'clock where we found Mr. Amos had built a small hut on the south side of the creek. (On the site of present Redbanks House). Planted the fruit trees.
Sept. 30th. Looked around for a convenient place to build a store to receive and lodge our goods, implements, etc., etc., and live in till the surveyor measures off the Grants and we can each fix a final residence, and farm buildings, stockyards, etc.. Caught fish.
Oct. 1st. Dug the foundation of the store house on the north side of the creek about half a mile from the mouth. Commenced falling timber, etc..
Oct. 2nd. Wind westerly. Sent off boat to East Bay Neck for another load.
Oct. 3rd. Proceeded with the store house, cutting timber, etc.. Had the cattle down from the Great River to the north side of the creek to fold land for garden and corn.
Oct. 4th. Going on with building and made fold yards for cattle.
Oct. 6th. Sixty head of cattle besides calves arrived with five of the people leaving the sheep and four people on the other side of Little Swan Port. Also arrived the boat from East Bay Neck with all the things, both what were left and what the boat brought the second time.
Oct. 6th. Sent off the boat to East Bay Neck and to leave tea, sugar, meat, etc. with the people along with the sheep.
Oct. 7th. Set off to the Plains to examine the country more particularly, from the Creek along the west side of sandy peninsula and between the sand bank and the lagoon and marsh which extend to the Great River (Swan River?). On the banks of the Great River is some marsh land and dry ground fir for anything - say fifty acres. Then to the west are rocky hills on the side of the river, fit for sheep - but inland all the ground though low and level is poor, sandy, and wet till about a mile or a mile and a half up the river from the west side of the marshes running north and south - that is from the Creek to the Great River when you come upon a tract of land similar to that on each side of the creek, viz., dry red earth. This extends to the inland rivulet running from the mountain to the Great River, say north and south, and may comprise 200 acres, not more. On the other side of this rivulet is some good marshy land, from 100 to 200 acres, running a good way back towards the hills. Beyond this, the land lays in strips of dry poor land and low marsh towards the river, but the poor land predominates, and more inland, it is chiefly poor with little or no interruption. Went over the river and had a most charming prospect from a small hill - up the plain and over the whole country to the south west. Walked up the north side of the river a mile or two, and found it chiefly of the same character as the side we had left. Returned under the mountains or hills and over poor sandy land until we fell in with the great lagoon towards our Creek after nightfall, and reached the hut at ten o'clock, greatly disappointed at the result of our day's inspection, having expected to find all the plain good rich land as described by Rice and Watson on whose report to the Governor I had relied.
Oct. 6th to 12th. Employed felling timber, making enclosures for folding cattle over land intended for corn and potatoes. Building a hut. etc..
Oct. 13th. Mr Amos, James Amos (son of Adam) and Stansfield set off to meet the sheep coming down overland.
Oct. 14th. Walked up the river above the creek, following its turns until the mountains became entire timber and rocks. Crossed about half a mile below where it bands to the north and followed this branch about three miles round, then came over the hills a little below where we crossed it and examined the hills on the south side, which, though frequently rocky and abrupt, are very fine sheep pasture and apparently much better than the other side, which, indeed, where we walked was barrenness itself, though lower down towards the creek, by the side of the river they look much better and tolerably fair sheep pasture. On the south side occasional green valleys and slopes of land fir for cattle or sheep, and the whole will prove a very desirable run for the farm on this side of the creek which appears to show quite as much good land as that on the other side. There is a low marshy flat of land of loamy clay and sand mixed likely to prove good wheat land, lying under the hills and directly between them and the creek, flat red land, but it is thickly wooded though the timber is not large.
STOCK YARDS AND A BRIDGE
Oct. 15th. Yoked the bullock Young with the Jericho white bullock and began to haul timber and logs for the yoking yard, this to prepare them for ploughing, they being very wild. The men together with Mr. A. Amos who had gone to meet them arrived with about 830 sheep from the New Plains, having killed ten, eight lost, eight left on the road down. Many of the sheep lame, but all in good condition.
Oct. 21st. Mr. Amos set off to explore the upper part of the Great River and Plains, etc., and returned the 22nd at night.
Oct. 24th. Recovered two bullocks, Young and Peter, who had been astray a week or more. Yoked Young and Pretty instead of Peter who would not go steady as leader, and put the two young steers, Strawberry and George, behind, and began to plough for spring wheat and barley, etc., clearing the land of timber and roots in the most open spots. Killed a bullock of Jericho herd. No scales to weigh, suppose about four hundredweight.
Oct. 25th. Rained all day more or less. Bullocks again astray. Got in the old ones at night but not the young ones. Planted one bed of potatoes in the lower folded ground in the lazy bed way - about ¾ bushel.
Oct. 27th. Sent the boat to the Neck for the remaining things and Master George and man left in charge.
Oct. 28th. Made an excursion up the Great River with Mr. A. and J. Amos and Dickons. Crossed the two more western branches and at upper part of the middle one, adjoining the N. one, found a breadth of good land similar to that at the Creek but not so stoney or in such rises - say about two to three hundred acres, laying along the river side - and another breadth, Mr. Amos states to lay along the middle branch on the north side of it, about 200 acres of similar quality.
Oct. 30th. Sowed about one acre of spring wheat.
Oct. 31st. Mr. Amos returned having been to the head of the eastern branch of Great Swan Port (along the sand bar of which I formerly passed in boat). He describes a fine wet marsh of very great extent to be at the head of this tide water, about six miles above the sand bar, and which can be easily drained and through which he conceives there is a constant stream of fresh water, and he also believes he saw a continued valley from the head of this marsh to the eastern coast and ocean to the north of Schouten Tier. Boat arrived from E.B. Neck.
Nov. 1st. Set off in boat to explore the country about the eastern branch of Great Swan Port, but the wind setting in strong ahead with very heavy rains, returned.
Nov. 2nd. Started again and made the north end of Great Swan Port as the wind and sea were too high to discover the channel into the eastern branch. Took dinner and set off about 3 p.m. over the hills with my son, Mr. Amos and a man to carry rug and tea kettle, etc.. Came upon the middle of the marsh at about four miles distance (having fallen with two separate mobs of natives who ran from their fires on out approach). The marsh is now a lagoon being covered entirely with water, although in summer, evidently, many parts will be nearly dry. A considerable river empties itself into it at the head and after running as a river about a mile it spread itself wholly over it. Slept at night near the lower end of the river on the west side.
Nov. 3rd. Walked up the west side to find a fording place to cross the river and found a narrow rocky part with a strong current about three feet deep three miles higher up. Crossed and came down along the eastern side where all the land is mountainous and barren down to the very beach where we attempted to cross, first through high tea tree bush and scrub growing in water and scarcely passable, then along the beach about a leg deep, on rushy bottom. Then came to a small dry circular rise with some timber growing on it. Proceeding about 200 yards further and were then stopped by deep channels running from the lagoon to the Bay. It being late, returned to the dry hill for the night without bread, meat or grog - having only a little sugar and a few grains of tea left.
Nov. 4th. Pulled down a pole and also carried a dead tree to make a bridge which being launched across the deep channel we passed on it and then hauled it after us and carried it to a second, after which we walked up into the lagoon round a broad deep stream through which the lagoon chiefly empties itself into the Bay, and where the tide water flows up about half a mile and the fresh water stands all round about a foot deep, but deeper higher up the lagoon. In fact, it could not be drained without making a new channel along one of the banks for the river at its head to run in so as to lead it off the lagoon, and also forming a bank to keep back the tide water from overflowing it. Could this be done, it would make a large breadth of valuable land and has a narrow range of very capital grazing along the west bank about three or four miles up from the Bay.
Reached the boat at 2 p.m., took dinner and returned down Swan Port to the sandy peninsula on its larboard entrance and walked home over the sand about ten o'clock.
END OF DIARY
Cambria
(Dr. E. Brettingham-Moore)
This is the key property of the Swansea district and caused a good deal of bickering when it was founded. This was caused by the fact that when Lieut. Thomas Buxton came through to the East Coast as manager for William Talbot in 1821, he and Talbot selected land which had already been marked out for George Meredith. Bitter quarrels followed between Meredith and Talbot. Appeals were made to Governor Sorell, rude remarks were made and general unpleasantness prevailed for years. The land in question is now known as Belmont. (Buxton lived for a time at Old Belmont, a mile up the Wye River from the present Belmont House.)
Creek Hut, Oyster Bay
4th March, 1822.
Geo. Meredith to William Talbot. “I have chosen and am authorised by His Honour, the Lieut. Governor, to occupy 2000 acres of land, extending north from the creek and river near my hut, and situate between the sandbank on the East and the Hills to the West and including the lands on which you have caused huts to be built and which you have otherwise taken forcible possession. And I hereby give you further notice that you and your servants immediately remove from the said land and I shall hold you accountable to me for all loss, damage or expenses I have sustained or may sustain by you or your servants occupying or trespassing on the same.”
There is no room here to enlarge on a controversy that caused endless talk in the old days and made family feuds that dragged on for years, but many letters on the subject expressing all angles of feeling, may be read in the Historical Records (Vol. 4, series 3). Deputy Surveyor General G. W. Evans and Thomas Scott, another fine surveyor, were called in to settle the dispute and Surveyor General Oxley, under orders from Governor-in-chief Sir Thomas Brisbane, made recommendations, but the affair dragged on interminably. Talbot was only partially appeased in the end when he was given a large grant of land at Fingal, which he named Malahide, after his family estate in Ireland.
George Meredith then added considerably to his property at Swan Port, and in the end, before final adjustment by the Caveat Board, his estate must have covered about 50,000 acres. This included John Amos” land at Riversdale which Meredith claimed as his own.
Talbot in his rage had accused everyone but Buxton of being in league against him, including John Amos, but Governor Sorell knew that Amos had nothing to do with Meredith's grant. “I know Mr. Amos, whom I have appointed Chief District Constable and Keeper of the Pound, as a settler on his own land,” Sorell told Talbot when replying to this accusation. “He is not an overseer or in any way dependent on Mr. Meredith, a fact which Mr. Meredith has officially certified……With respect to your statement that your stock and Mr. Meredith's are the only stock likely to trespass at Swan Port, this would in no way effect Mr. Amos's appointment. But in fact I see marked on the map of Swan Port several other names as being located there, amongst which are Major Honner, Mr. Compton and Mr. Hart of Little Swan Port and may reasonably suppose that the settlement will increase.”
In reply Talbot said he was being cheated out of the land, hinting very plainly that Sorell was biased - which, as a matter of fact, he was not.
The first cottage built on Cambria by George Meredith, and referred to by him in correspondence as Creek Hut, was the usual sort of split log cabin built by most of the early settlers. Daubed with clay and mud, with shutter windows and thatched roof made of sags and rushes, it served very well as a temporary home while a strong house was being built. The greatest worry of the pioneers in the meantime being the ever-present fear of fire, either from flying sparks or deliberate malice. When materials were ready for building the present Cambria homestead, Charles Meredith (George senior's second son by his first wife, who is best known now from the fact that he was the husband of his delightful wife, Louise Anne Meredith, authoress and painter) tells that the builder and architect was close at hand. “Old Bull built the house,” says Meredith, “also Riversdale, Spring Vale, and, in fact, the greater part of the houses at Swan Port. His weight did not exceed nine stone. Originally this faithful, honest man had been transported from the Old Country. Twice he escaped, and claimed to be the only escaped convict to reach Sydney without being recaptured. While escaping through the bush his companions were all murdered by the blacks and he had to hide for three days under a log before it was safe for him to come out. Reaching Sydney he was flogged and sent back to Van Diemen's Land, where he became my father's servant.”
Whatever else old Bull may have done, there is no doubt that he left a worthwhile monument to himself in Cambria House, which is a delightful place, well made and strong, even if it lacks some of the continuity a trained architect would have given it. Single storey in front, with a long wide stone-flagged verandah, onto which French windows open, it goes up to three storeys at the back. The bottom storey at the rear of the house actually consists of the cellars, only one side of which is visible, as both ends and back are let into the side of a little hill on which the house was built. A low wall closing in the back yard, gives the impression that it is a sunken garden when viewed from the side of the house, for there are beds of bright flowers in it. There the warm coloured bricks and three rows of windows glow in the afternoon sunshine over the gardens and grass, giving an intensely English effect.
Down in the orchard and vegetable garden there are the remains of a round old brick rabbit hutch, where the precious little animals were closely guarded as delicacies for the table - such a delightful change from the everlasting pickled port (sic), beef and mutton of those early days. Fortunately the little creatures multiplied so rapidly that Mrs. Meredith was able to give some to her friends and the day even came when they were able to liberate a few as an experiment. (How charming; how very much like home it would be; to see real rabbits frisking about and even perhaps, making a burrow in a sandy bank by a briar hedge. Almost certainly the defenceless little things, deprived of the lettuce and cabbage leaves that was their usual diet, would be eaten by the hyenas - Tasmanian Tigers, as they were beginning to call them, or by those nasty smelly wild cats that were always prowling about. Still, it was worth trying.)
Hawthorn hedges protect the garden and orchard, and looking down from the old hot house where fabulous grapes used to ripen, you may see at the foot of a steep bank towards the river, the grandfather of all the oaks, whose branches reach for 34 paces over the green grass, and all is shady and pleasant. It is a beautiful spot and what Louisa Anne Meredith would have called a “dell”. She would have had every reason for doing so, for there is not a tree to be seen in any direction that did not originate in the Old Country.
George Meredith, the eldest son, quarrelled with his father over their sealing and bay whaling activities and started to work on his own account. George, Snr., built a top-sail schooner on the banks of the Meredith River and called her the “Independent”, and George, Jnr., also built himself a ship which he named the “Defence”. The “Independent” was known for years along the coast, under Capt. Thos. Furlong, until at last she was wrecked on Bruny Island.
Young George met his death at St. Vincent's Gulf near what is now Glenelg (South Australia). One Sunday morning with his whaleboat hauled up on the beach nearby, while he was reading his bible, some natives crept out from the scrub and clubbed him to death. He had sold his share of Cambria to Edward Carr Shaw in 1829.
When they arrived in Van Diemen's Land the Meredith family consisted of George, Snr., his second wife, and six children: George, jnr., who was nineteen years old; Sarah, Louisa, Sabina, Charles, Henry and Edwin. John was native born. Of these, Louisa married Capt. Bell and Edwin went over to New Zealand where he settled near Christchurch. Charles was appointed M.H.A. for Glamorgan in 1856 and held other positions as mentioned elsewhere. He died 2nd March, 1880, and was buried in Hobart. George, Snr., died in June, 1856, leaving an estate of 11,000 acres. His wife had died in November, 1842. The Cambria stud of six Saxon Merino rams and ten ewes, the first in the district, if not in Tasmania, was brought out on the “Emerald” by the Merediths.
BUSHRANGER BRADY AT CAMBRIA
Not long after their escape from Macquarie Harbour in 1824, Matthew Brady and his mate, McCabe, attacked Cambria with the intention of robbing Mr. Meredith.
It is said that Mrs. Meredith had the presence of mind to hide her husband in a cider barrel and, trusting to Brady's reputation for unfailing gallantry to women, with pounding heart went out alone to face the bushrangers. She told them that Mr. Meredith had gone away and would not be back before nightfall.
Brady robbed the place of a quantity of food and most of the family silver. Then he drank a glass of wine to the lady's health and took his leave in one of Meredith's whaleboats, lifting his cap and bowing courteously as he went.
Most of the silver was recovered months afterwards, from under some rocks where it had been hidden on the bank of the Derwent by the bushrangers.
It seems likely that the story of Meredith hiding in the barrel was added to the otherwise true story by his enemies. Whatever his weaknesses may have been, Meredith was no coward, and would have been sure to give a good account of himself.
Edwin Meredith in his journal informs us that his father built old Belmont house and lived there while preparing the site of Cambria, about a mile distant. The trees, hedges and orchard of Cambria were being planted while Edwin and his mother, with a gardener, marked out the flower and vegetable gardens.
His half-brother, George, meanwhile helped with ship building and the dealing and whaling. The first vessel built by Meredith on his own property was a small schooner, the “Cygnet”, which proved to be too small for the sealing work it was intended for and was sold in Hobart. “The Black Swan”, also a schooner, was then built to take her place, but she was wrecked while sealing in Bass Strait. Meredith then built his third schooner, the “Independent”. Edwin's half-brother, Charles, at this time was in charge of the whaling station at Maria Island. When Edwin started off to settle in New Zealand his father gave him £2,000 with which he bought a property he named Riversdale in the North Island. His three half-sisters were: Sarah, who married James Poynter, manager of the Bank of Australasia in Hobart; Louisa, married Capt. John Bell, of Bellevue, New Town; and Sabina married John Boyes, merchant, of Hobart Town and London.
George Meredith's family by his second wife consisted of Harry, who was killed when thrown from his horse; Edwin, married Jane Chalmers, of Hobart, and became a pioneer settler in New Zealand on an estate near Otago, which he named Riversdale; John moved over to Mt. Gambier in South Australia and owned a property named Mingbool; Maria was married from Cambria by Bishop Nixon to Lieut. Kay, R.N., of the astronomical station in Hobart; Clara, married Sir Richard Dry of Quamby. Two other sisters, Fanny (who lived in England with Lady Dry and died in London during May of the present year at the age of 94), and Rosina, did not marry. Charles Meredith and his wife Louisa Anne (referred to elsewhere) had a family of three sons, George, Owen and Charles (who never married). Owen married Eliza Jane Windsor; their children were five daughters and one son, the present Mr. David Owen Meredith (mining and metallurgical engineer) of Hobart, whose daughter, Mrs. Alice Hodgson, has two sons, Michael Meredith and David Neil. Mr Michael M. Hodgson married Miss Rosemary Grueber and has an infant son (Lucian Guy).
LIEUT. GEORGE MEREDITH CLIMBS POMPEY'S PILLAR
Pompey's Pillar, a celebrated column of red granite, stands on an eminence south of the walls of Alexandria, in Egypt. Including a ten foot high pedestal, it reaches 98 ft. 9 in. from the ground and is 29 ft. 8 in. in circumference; being, it is said, the largest block of hewn granite in the world. By Napoleon's orders a French “Cap of Liberty” - made of boiler plate, about 7 ft. long, 4 ft. wide, and 3 ft. high, was placed on top of the pillar and firmly fixed there, as an act of defiance during the French occupation.
In 1801, soon after the surrender of Alexandria to Col. Hutchinson, George Meredith, then a young lieutenant on H.M.S. Hinde, was on service in the port and made up his mind to bring down the Cap by hook or by crook. The Governor gave his permission for the attempt to be made provided no harm came to Pompey's Pillar, at the same time pointing out that Meredith was unlikely to succeed where so many others had failed already.
But Meredith vowed he would neither eat nor drink until the accursed Cap was brought down. By means of a kite (the method Napoleon had used) he at last succeeded in getting a rope over the top of the column and dislodging the Cap, which was then lowered to the ground, and the Union Jack left proudly blowing in its place.
The Governor of Alexandria delightedly offered to exchange the trophy for as much coined silver as it would hold, but Meredith took it home with him to Birmingham. Later on it was presented to the Museum there, through the medium of the Earl of Dartmouth, who commemorated the event by presenting George Meredith with a gold ring studded with stones.
The ring is now owned by Mr. David Meredith's grandson, Mr. Michael Meredith Hodgson, in Hobart.
The Charles Merediths
“The Life of a Pioneer Boy”
No history of the East Coast would be complete without some mention of the delightful Mrs. Charles Meredith (1912-1895) whose books (“My Home in Tasmania”, and others) and drawings, made known the life and beauties of the coast all over the Empire.
They struck hard times, for he was no money maker, and that added incentive to her busy pen, although she had published a book of poems, and another of nature studies, before her marriage. Observant, capable and generous, her simple books will always be among the classics of Tasmania.
Charles Meredith, second son of George Meredith, was born at Poyston, Pembrokeshire, on the 29th May, 1811, and came out here with his father. “I well remember that it was a bitter cold night when my brother George, our three sisters and myself were called in from our school to join the 'Emerald'”, he wrote afterwards. “On the way out we fought off a pirate ship near St. Helena, where napoleon Bonaparte was then confined, and reported the action to H.M. frigate 'Mona', then cruising on guard off St. Helena.”
At Cambria Charles and his brother George led a harsh but adventurous life sometimes experienced by young pioneers. “I used to be sent out on frosty mornings with no breakfast, from the tent in which I lived, to take 300 Merino sheep to their feeding ground. When it happened to be convenient a pannikin of tea and a piece of damper were brought to me by anyone who thought of it or had time - perhaps one of my sisters, but I did not go home at night till there was barely enough light for me to put my sheep into the yard. Then I had my supper and went to my tent. This routine went on wed or dry for many months, when my 300 sheep were eventually joined to the large flock and that occupation was gone. I used to sit under a tree and read, for the poor lonely little shepherd had some glorious companions in his solitude. Shakespeare and his myriad creatures lived beside me and Don Quixote and Sancho performed their feats of arms beneath the gum tree boughs. Many a time whilst in this company I have laughed aloud and then, terrified at my imprudence, have sprung to my feet and gazed in fear around, lest some hideous black shape, spear in hand, should have heard it too and come to murder me.
“When I was only eleven years old, it was my duty to take the dogs out to catch kangaroo for meat, as my father's sheep were all of the valuable Merino breed, and far too precious in those early days to be killed for that purpose. If I got brush kangaroo I carried them home myself; if foresters, which were often very large and heavy, I had to go again and take a man to help me bring them in.
“My father was kind, brave and generous and as children we honoured and yielded him implicit obedience but the hand he ruled with wore an iron glove. Any one or two of the scores of half-occupied men on my father's establishment could have done my allotted duties but it was his pleasure and command that the duty should be mine, no matter what the difficulty, toil or danger, and I would not have dared to utter, or look, any remonstrance.
“Horses were scarce in those days, and even had they been plentiful I don't suppose I should have had the use of one. Starting off at dawn into the bush….hunting on one occasion…I struck up towards the hills and after heading the stony creek the dogs caught two brush kangaroo, which were as much as I could carry, so I turned again seawards, having made a half-circle of five or six miles, intending to return along the beach. As I neared the sea I listened repeatedly, in case any of the blacks should be about, and on quitting the forest for the more open sandbank, I crept along on my hands and knees from the shelter of one boobialla bush to another, until I could look down on the broad sands. I then saw that there were fresh tracks of bare feet. The black tribe had evidently just passed by; men, women and children, going north, the same direction in which I was bound. Had I been a few minutes earlier I should have been in advance of them and been plainly seen on the long stretch of sand and, as a certain consequence, pursued and speared. I could not even now be sure that all the tribe had passed, some might be still behind, and should I venture on the beach, I might be hemmed in between the two parties. I was very tired with my long walk, heavily laden as I was, but there was only one thing to do - to make my way back by the same circuitous route I had come, following up the creek….and striking across the rough hills and forest for home.
“As I plodded wearily along I came upon another set of tracks of the aborigines…..but keeping the dogs silent and close beside me; creeping along noiselessly and steadily, and keenly listening for every sound that might warn me of the enemy's neighbourhood, I got safely home. There I was sharply taken to task for having dawdled so long on the way and straightway ordered off on some other task.”
Perhaps George Meredith, Senior, Treated his boys a little more harshly than most; he was certainly a severe man, but it may be gathered by the notes left by Charles that his hostility had been aroused by the manner adopted by his family to their new step-mother. Mrs. Charles Meredith gives some indication of this in her book, “Tasmanian Friends and Foes”, in which her husband appears under the name of Merton and tells tales of his youth in almost the exact paraphrase of some of the notes he left. Some of these are in the library of the Royal Society in Hobart, and some are in the possession of his descendents.
Charles Meredith started life for himself as a squatter in New South Wales at the age of twenty-three and after two years returned to England where he married his cousin, Louisa Anne Twamley, at Edybaston (sic) Church, Birmingham, in 1838. They lived in New South Wales for a time, where he suffered severely from bad seasons. Then he brought her to Oyster Bay and lived on his father's property, Riversdale, while Spring Vale was being built fore them to live in. For thirty-eight years after that he was in politics, being a member of the House of Assembly for Glamorgan and holding various important positions - Colonial Treasurer and Minister for Lands and Works. Governor Eardley Wilmot then appointed him Police Magistrate at Port Sorell.
Among the measures he introduced was an Act for the protection of black swans, which were then in danger of extermination, although once they had been counted in millions. He died in Launceston, 2nd March, 1880, and five years later a fountain was raised to his memory on the Queen's Domain, in Hobart. His wife died in Melbourne on the 21st October, 1895.
“My grandfather was a solicitor in Birmingham.” Charles Meredith tells us, “and lived at Castle Bromwick (sic) where he died at the age of 48, leaving six children, of which my father was the youngest, born 13th February, 1778. My mother had been Miss Sarah Westall Hicks, whom he married in 1805 while he was recruiting for the Royal Marines. My father sold my mother's property in Berkshire and with the proceeds purchased our estate in Wales, Rhyndaston, about eight miles from Hertford, but, almost immediately after her death, my father sold Rhyndaston (which had been rented to the two brothers, Amos) and with the proceeds of the sale obtained orders for grants of land in Tasmania. These first grants were Cambria and Riversdale.
“My father then married miss Mary Evans, my mother's companion, and taking us with them, left for Hobart Town.”
The Naval Chronicle
Publiushed by J. Gold, 1805
Item Notes: v. 14
Marriages
September 13.............
16............
Lieutenant Meredith, of the Royal Marines, to Miss Hicks of Enbourne.
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, October 12, 1805; Issue 2737
At Abingdon, Lieut. G. Meredith, of the Royal Marines, to Miss Hicks of Enhorne. Berks.
There was a dispute in 1809 over some property - the case cited was Meredith v. King. The Plaintiffs were George Meredith and his wife and the defendants were John King and Thomas Hicks.
Meredith - Hicks
Certified copy of a conveyance D/EX 104111 1809
Contents:
1. Thomas Hicks and Mary his wife late of Newbury now of Enborne, gent. and others to
2. John Meredith of Brumagham co. Warwick, gent, (a trustee of George Meredith, late a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Corps of marines, now of Speen, esq.)
Messuage, barn, outhouses, orchards, stables near the wash in Newbury, and about 100 acres (with abuttals) dispersed in the common fields (known as Northcroft, Eastfield and Westfield), in Newbury
Included in the property is a messuage outhouses and barns and just over 10 acres of land (specified) in Enborne near the Newbury property above. The deed contains topographical detail in the abuttals of the Enborne property, such as 'King's Ditch' and 'Nightingale Lane' etc.. The Enborne property includes several coppices
Consideration: £4765
General Notes (Wife)
Sarah was an heiress.
Sarah Westall Hicks was the daughter of Thomas Hicks. The Australian Dictionary of Biography mistakenly refers to her as the daughter of H. W. Hicks but a Henry Wilkins Hicks was in fact the brother of Thomas Hicks, as is clear from his Will.
Sarah was living at Enborne, Berkshire at the time of her marriage.
General Notes for Child George Meredith
George was murdered by natives on Kangaroo Island in 1834
....George Meredith, a sealer, spent a few years on Kangaroo island before deciding to establish himself on the eastern shores of St. Vincent's Gulf, opposite Kangaroo island, in about 1834. He left Kangaroo island with an aboriginal working team, including Sal, who was later lioving on Kangaroo island with Betty, and two young mainland aboriginal men. When they reached the mainland, one of the young men killed Meredith and the three then used his boat and tools to carry out their own hunting.
With a boat in the ownership of the aborigines on the other side of the strait, there was a sudden reversal of power--now the islanders feared they would be attacked. They particularly feared "encounter Bay Bob", a most notorious warrior, who they believed would come and kill them all. But their fears were never realised; Meredith's boat lost its moorings and was smashed at sea. Ten years after the event, Sal and Suke were arrested for Meredith's murder; it was on this story that Cawthorne based his novel The Islanders. However, The women were discharged on discovering the killer had been dead a few years. There are many stories regarding Meredith's death but most seem to agree that it was on the mainland near Yankalilla around 1834.
In Alas for the Pelicans by Anne Chittleborough - page 8:
.....The Kangaroo Islanders, a novel written by William Cawthorne in 1854 and published in 1865, which represents not only the sealers and the women who lived with them but a Tasmanian sealing master named George Meredith, murdered by the Kaurna in 1836.........
Meredith's Whaleboat and Defiance - Defiance was a schooner of 24 ton commanded by George Meredith Jnr. in 1833-1834. She left Sydney on a sealing trip in September 1833 and was wrecked on Howe's Island. A Mr James Manning was either a crewman or passenger on this voyage, and when the ship was wrecked he accompanied the commander, a man named Jacob Seaman and a native woman names Sal to Kangaroo Island in a whaleboat which had been cargo on the ship, reaching the Island in February 1834. Meredith was later found murdered at Yankalilla on the mainland near Cape Jervis by a native boy. The whaleboat was taken to Encounter Bay and used by the natives there for sealing and fishing.
South Australia Police Historical Society
A tragedy of pre settlement days in the Yankalilla district concerns George Meredith, the adventurous son of a prominent Hobart town businessman, who came to Kangaroo Island, seeking his fortune among the sealers.
He had with him, on landing on the Island, a Tasmanian native woman, named Sal. Later he “acquired” two young men from the Encounter Bay area, and these he trained to help him in his hunting expeditions.
Meredith, much against the advice of his fellow sealers, decided to come across to the then unsettled mainland.
Some time later, his companions found the reason for his non return, and discovering Sal, were told that Meredith had been despatched by a blow by one of his native offsiders, who had then returned to his tribe.
Meredith’s father asked for inquires to be made into the murder, but there being no European settlement at that time, and thus no police to make investigations, nothing could be done.
Years later police inquiries were made into the case.
Sal was found, but, by that time, the man suspected of the murder of Meredith was himself dead.
For years afterwards stories persisted that Meredith’s store of gold coins was hidden somewhere near Western River where he had set up his residence.
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However:
It was erroneous to believe that white people had been the aggressors; so wrote Louisa. "British farmers and country gentlemen, not usually considered a desperately ferocious and blood-thirsty class " were blameless. The colony owed an enormous debt of gratitude to Mr. George Augustus Robinson for his capture of the Aborigines; he thereby "saved the lives of thousands of defenceless persons," and restored prosperity to the colony which had been steadily undermined by the ongoing hostilities. Refuting any suggestions that this colonial prosperity had come about through British aggression against Aborigines, Meredith expressed the hope of making known "the real state of affairs formerly existing between the Aborigines and the colonists, which is so greatly misunderstood in England."
But in arguing the innocence of white settlers based on her husband's accounts, Louisa Meredith maintained silence about the members of the Meredith family's personal involvement in frontier violence. Indeed, she might have been less grateful to Protector Robinson if she had known of entries he had made in his diary during the 1830's. Charles Meredith's oldest brother, named George after his father, had met a violent death in "mysterious" circumstances across the Bass Strait in the Port Phillip District (later the Colony of Victoria). Robinson knew the details: George Meredith had been involved in a nefarious trade, kidnapping Aboriginal women, some from near Kangaroo Island, some from Port Phillip, and selling them to sealers on the islands off the coast of Tasmania to serve as forced labor and sexual partners. Hence arose his death at the hands of Aboriginal men. On May 9,1836, Robinson wrote in his diary that he had sought magisterial powers over all the islands in the straits to remove women held against their will. A white man living on Flinders Island of the name of Proctor, who was married to an Aboriginal woman, informed Robinson of this tragic business. "Proctor informed me that the New Holland women was [sic] brought to the islands by George Meredith, that Munro has one, Baily has one, and the other sealer the last." Further, "George Meredith was speared by the natives on the coast of New Holland, no doubt in retaliation for the injuries he had done to them. This was a just retribution. Many aggressions had been committed by the Merediths on the natives at Oyster Bay." Thus Robinson accused Charles Meredith's father and other men of the Meredith family of ill-treating certain Aborigines. This throws further light on Charles Meredith's stories of Aborigines'"unprovoked attacks" and on his brother George's eventual death at the hands of Aborigines.
Although few white settler women witnessed the direct hostilities between white men and Aborigines and fewer still wrote about them, it seems Louisa Meredith could not miss the opportunity to present the settlers' version of the hostilities to an English audience. In 1890 she was still at work with her pen, describing Aborigines in racist and derogatory terms. The Tasmanian Aborigines were "surely the very lowest creatures in human form. Their countenances as shown by the excellent photographs of the last four, made at my suggestion for the Melbourne Exhibition many years ago, bore a curiously close resemblance to pug dogs, and they possessed all the animal instinct and adroitness for self-preservation and concealment."
Meredith's Whaleboat and Defiance - Defiance was a schooner of 24 ton commanded by George Meredith Jnr. in 1833-1834. She left Sydney on a sealing trip in September 1833 and was wrecked on Howe's Island. A Mr James Manning was either a crewman or passenger on this voyage, and when the ship was wrecked he accompanied the commander, a man named Jacob Seaman and a native woman names Sal to Kangaroo Island in a whaleboat which had been cargo on the ship, reaching the Island in February 1834. Meredith was later found murdered at Yankalilla on the mainland near Cape Jervis by a native boy. The whaleboat was taken to Encounter Bay and used by the natives there for sealing and fishing.
In a letter from Louisa Anne Twamley in 1833 to her uncle and her cousin George's father George Meredith in Tasmania, she says:
.........I have received from George a very long and truly interesting letter, which has given us more information than all the other letters (except your own) yet arrived from Tasmania; I cannot express to you how much it gratifies me, more especially from the inexplicable and mysterious silence respecting him, which is so strictly maintained by yourself and the other members of your family, you have give distinct hints which at such a distance are, pardon my freedom, ill-advised, as they lead to endless and distressing conjectures - He mentions his intended voyage to New Zealand, and Mr. Watson in a letter from London to myself mentions his own, Mr.W's regret at the "circumstances which compel him to quit his adopted country" - You may imagine we feel great anxiety respecting his real fate, and sincerely hope to receive more satisfactory and decisive intelligence.......
General Notes for Child Sarah Westall Meredith
Sarah Westall Poynter
Painter and sketcher, was the eldest daughter of George Meredith, pioneer settler of the Great Swanport district in Van Diemen's Land, and his first wife, Sarah Westall Hicks. Sarah was probably born in Wales but she lived mainly in England. She came to Van Diemen's Land with her father, step-mother and other members of the family, leaving from London in the Emerald on 8 November 1820. Her view of The Old Cottage at Red Banks (the original wattle-and-daub cottage built by her father at Cambria in 1821) was copied in 1846 by her half-sister Fanny Meredith. It is now known only from the copy.
After her marriage to James Peck Poynter in the 1830s Sarah lived at Bathurst, New South Wales, where James managed the local bank. Her brother Charles and his wife Louisa Anne Meredith, a cousin whom she had known all her life, visited in October 1839 and met the Poynters' first surviving son, Charles, born in March. The Poynters finally had a family of three boys and a girl. James died in 1847 and Sarah returned to England. She apparently paid a visit to her Tasmanian relatives in the late 1850s and seems to have been staying with her father's family at the grander Cambria, Great Swanport, in 1858 when she exhibited her oil painting, Lake St. Clair, Tasmania, in the Hobart Town Art-Treasures Exhibition (unless this was copied from a Prout drawing or engraving in England). She died in England in 1869.
Sarah Poynter's original sketches are in the Crowther Library. In 1936 Violet Mace, the last of the George Meredith descendants to live at Cambria, made four crude pencil copies after Poynter drawings for the Royal Society of Tasmania. These depict Bothwell Church, two general views of Port Arthur and Sketch of Commandant's House, Port Arthur Showing Point Puer in Distance (TMAG). The originals have not been located.
General Notes for Child Charles Meredith
Charles Meredith was an Australian grazier and politician. He was Tasmanian colonial treasurer for several years and was also minister for lands and works.
Visited England in 1838 and married his cousin Louise in 1839. He returned to Tasmania in 1840.
Meredith was born at Poyston Lodge, Pembroke, Wales, the youngest son of George Meredith and his wife, Sarah Westall Hicks. His father saw service in the royal marines during the Napoleonic wars, and later decided to emigrate to Van Diemen's Land (later called Tasmania. He arrived at Hobart with his wife and family on 13 March 1821 and became one of the best known of the early pioneers. Charles assisted his father in farming in Tasmania for some time.
In 1834 Meredith went to New South Wales and took up land on the Murrumbidgee River after being denied a grant of land by Lieutenant-Governor George Arthur. He visited England in 1838 and on 18 April 1839 married his cousin, Louisa Anne Twamley. On his return to Australia he spent two years in New South Wales, but it was a depressed period and he made heavy losses. He then went to Tasmania, and in 1843 was appointed a police magistrate at Sorell in the north-east.
Political career
Meredith became a member of the original Tasmanian Legislative Council and was elected for Glamorgan in the first house of assembly in 1856. He was colonial treasurer in the Thomas Gregson ministry for two months in 1857, and held the same position in the James Whyte ministry from January 1863 to November 1866. He was opposition leader 1862–63 and November 1866–72. He held the lands and works portfolios in the Frederick Innes cabinet from November 1872 to August 1873, and was again colonial treasurer in the Thomas Reibey ministry from July 1876 to August 1877. In total, he was in parliament almost 24 years and was a member of the executive council for 17 years.
Late life and legacy
Meredith resigned his seat on account of ill-health in 1879, and died at Launceston, Tasmania , on 2 March 1880. His wife and children survived him.
Meredith was one of the few Tasmanians whose name has been publicly commemorated; a mountain range in nort-east Tasmania is named for him and a fountain in his memory was erected in the Queen's domain, Hobart, in 1885.
Tigress in Exile
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….and were called upon to keep the farming interests going to provide for the family's needs. George and Owen seemed to inherit the good qualities of both parents and were popular and well-liked men in the mining communities in which they moved when they left home.
So it was that in 1856 Louisa found herself in a predominantly male household. The interests of the male members of the family were essentially practical and a good deal of their time was spent in general farming duties, as Charles was still running sheep and cattle in the Swan Port area until 1858.
Louisa turned her attention to her husband. It was obvious to Louisa that from this point onwards it would be necessary for her to direct the family's fortunes. She was very fond of her handsome, charming husband and delighted in his company, but she could not ignore the sad fact that Charles was incompetent and completely incapable of providing for the family and steering it through the troubles lying ahead. Louisa faced the problem of her husband's weakness squarely and unflinchingly. Louisa became the governing force in the Meredith family.
At this time Charles was in an unenviable position in society. At an age when most of his contemporaries had consolidated their positions in one of the professions or on the land and had established themselves in pleasant houses and comfortable surroundings, affording their families good educations and every opportunity of enjoying the society of the island, Charles, at forty-four, had neither position nor prospects. He lived in a relatively humble house and could not afford to educate his children to any high degree.
With precious little capital to draw upon and no prospects of further inheritance, it was clear to Louisa that something must be found for Charles to do, preferably something which would employ his talents and give him back some of the status that he had enjoyed as heir to the 'Cambria' estates. Charles was a good-tempered spend-thrift whose chief asset was his silver tongue and a ready wit. It was the latter two attributes that Louisa felt could be most usefully employed.
To Louisa's despair, all his life money seemed to slip through Charles's fingers without any gain whatever. In the 1860s or 1870s both Louisa and Charles, at the death of their Uncle Charles Meredith, the lawyer in Leamington Priors in England, inherited £2,000 each. The estate was valued at about £40,000 and, according to Louisa,
ought to have been divided at once among his nephews and nieces, but Mr. Aston, cousin Lucy's husband, and the only surviving executor, made delays and played tricks which considerably reduced our shares. My Uncle would not have allowed Molly's brood to share his carefully-guarded wealth had he known what she and they were!
The inheritance once again sparked Louisa's bitterness against George's second family, and was a great disappointment to her. 'With my share,' she wrote, 'I paid off the mortgage on "Birch Grove" and hoped my husband would relieve "Twamley" with his, but he could not, and what became of his share I never knew.'
With Charles obviously incapable of succeeding in any commercial enterprise, Louisa came up with a clever solution: Charles would become a politician. His popularity on a personal level would help to elect him without too much trouble. Most important, his election would gain him recognition and status, which were lacking at this time of his life. The idea appealed to Charles. He had not, it is true, shown much interest in politics up to this time but, with the support of his wife and remembering her experience in active political work in Birmingham in the 'thirties, Charles felt confident that Louisa was right; politics were for him.
There was one drawback: politicians at this time were unpaid. The state of Victoria passed a bill in 1870 to provide payment for members of its parliament, but from 1856 when the first representative parliament was instituted, to 1890, Tasmania paid only the members of the Executive Council: the premier and his ministers. In 1890 a bill was passed to allow all members of the Tasmanian Legislative Council and the House of Assembly expenses of £100 per annum, payable only after each member had attended twenty sittings.
Charles's project would therefore be interesting, rewarding, demanding but non-productive financially and, unless he became a member of the Executive Council, it would be necessary to maintain a farm to provide for the family. This Louisa felt, was a small price to pay in return for Charles gaining a significant place in life.
In 1851 Charles had made his first, hesitant political move. 'Mr. Charles .Meredith declared elected amongst great celebrations around a cyder cask', wrote James Amos in his diary. 'A great many had too much to drink.' A rowdy meeting took place in the old Swan Inn. Charles had reluctantly agreed to accept endorsement for the Oatlands seat on the first Elective Legislative Council, but this move was made simply to demonstrate that Glamorgan, an important portion of the district to its settlers, was practically disfranchised by being overwhelmed by the voting power of Oatlands proper. Charles's feelings about his first essay into politics can be judged by his own words to John: 'You will have heard that I have been lucky enough…………..
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……..underlined in her letter to Parkes for, ten years later, nothing had come of the Royal promise.
She asked Sir Henry to write a few lines to Gladstone. 'Add all your styles and titles of importance to your letter', she directed, and Sir Henry must have done so, as his recommendation was effective. To her intense satisfaction, on 20 October 1884, a bill was enacted in Tasmania authorising payment of a pension of £100 per annum to Louisa Anne Meredith, widow of the Honourable Charles Meredith who 'has by her writings and paintings rendered considerable services to the cause of Science, Literature and Art in Tasmania'.
An English newspaper reported:
The small colony of Tasmania has just done a generous and noble deed. For the first time in its history it has voted a pension as a reward for distinguished literary and artistic merit . . . Mrs. Meredith is well-known, not only as an authoress, but as an artist of singular grace and power. She has done more to illustrate the beautiful flora and singular fauna of Tasmania than any other person.
The pension was granted at a most opportune moment for its recipient, for after Charles's death financial problems became even more distressing.
Charles's will, dated 20 April 1868, was rather an eccentric one. It clearly reflected a distrust of the legal profession, possibly caused by the drastic reduction of an expected legacy from their Uncle Charles for which he and Louisa blamed the lawyers and the executor, Aston. The will is quoted here in full:
By this Will I revoke all other wills made by me and declare the Will in possession of Allport Roberts and Allport null and void. By this my last will and testament I give and bequeath all my goods, chattels, lands, houses and estates to my wife to be held and enjoyed by her during her life and in trust for my three sons, George Campbell Meredith, Charles Twamley Meredith and Owen Meredith whom I constitute and appoint my sole executors and who are, at their mother's death to divide my estate real and personal amongst themselves as may seem to them the best taking share and share alike and I entreat them to act together as loving brothers and to take care of their mother and not to quarrel with each other the real meaning of this my last will cannot be mistaken my object in making it so short and clear and leaving the disposal of my said estate to act with my wife and three sons is to prevent the lawyers from having anything to receive out of the hard earnings of my life.
His whole estate was valued at no more than £690 at the time of his death.
At sixty-eight years of age, Louisa was left to cope as well as she could on this pitifully small amount of capital. It is possible that she had their son Charles to provide for as well, until he died in September 1888 and was buried at St Anne's Church, 'Triabunna, at the age of forty-four. The day after his funeral Louisa donated to this church
the sweet sonorous bell which has been to me and mine as a familiar home-voice-at "Riversdale", at "Twamley" and at "Malunnah" for the past forty years. I shall not listen for it again but I pray you when you hear it, think kindly of my dear lamented dead, and let it toll for an hour at noon on the day of my own burial, whenever that may be.
After Charles's death in Launceston, Louisa returned to live at 'Malunnah', but when her son died she moved to a flat in a house in Davey Street, Hobart, owned by Captain W.S. Vernon. During these years of widowhood Louisa remained as busy as ever. Her grandchildren visited her frequently at 'Malunnah' and George Glendower, George's eldest son, had vivid memories all his life of his grandmother gathering a new botanical specimen from the bush or coming in with a freshly-caught fish still glistening from the sea and sitting down with paint and brush to record its colours immediately, before they faded. His grandmother gave him a beautiful painting which is one of the best examples of her work extant.
As Louisa grew older, it was left to another Louisa Anne, the eldest daughter of Owen Meredith, to comfort and take care of her in her final years. This Louisa Anne was a high-spirited girl, capable of coping with her grandmother's domineering and demanding manner. Louisa Anne vent to live permanently with her grandmother in about 1888.
Louisa had lost the sight of her right eye some time in the 1880s and she suffered much pain from chronic sciatica, which caused her to limp badly and required her to use a stick. But Sir Henry Parkes, knowing the incredible spirit and determination of his old friend, was not really surprised when he opened his mail one morning in 1889 to find yet another request from Louisa Meredith. This time, she said, she wanted his help in getting her to England to launch her next book in person!
She was an old lady, she acknowledged, but her grand-daughter Louisa Anne had promised to go with her-she was just seventeen. She described the voyage as 'doubtless an exploit of less wisdom than valour but asked Sir Henry to obtain a passage for her at reduced………
General Notes for Child Sabina Meredith
1851 Census:
Sabina was enumerated in the England census of 1851 at 3 Paragon Buildings, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire with sons George (aged 9), Edward (aged 7), Frank (aged 6) and Duncan (aged 4), daughters Louisa (aged 17) and Isabella (aged 10), and four servants.
1861 Census:
Middlesex
Paddington
St. John
8 Kensington Gardens Terrace
John Boyes - Head - 61 - Fund Holder
Sabina - wife - 51
Charles - son - 22
Elizabeth - daughter - 25
Sabina M. - daughter - 24
Helen C. - daughter - 8
Husband Thomas Hicks
Born: 1752 - circa
Christened:
Died: 6 Oct 1817 - Cope Hall, Enborne, Berkshire
Buried: 1817 - Newbury Parish Church, Berkshire
Father: John Hicks
Mother: Mary King
Marriage: 25 Mar 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Other Spouse: Unknown
Wife Mary Payne
Born:
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Died: 28 May 1825
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Children
1 F Hannah Hicks
Born: 1767 - circa
Christened: 11 Jan 1767 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
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2 F Jane Hicks
Born: 1768 - circa
Christened: 16 Jan 1768 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
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3 M William Hicks
Born: 1769 - circa
Christened: 16 Jul 1769 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
4 M Thomas Hicks
Born: 1771 - circa
Christened: 2 Jun 1771 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
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5 F Elizabeth Hicks
Born: 1771 - circa
Christened: 14 Jul 1771 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
6 F Elizabeth Hicks
Born: 1773 - circa
Christened: 25 Apr 1773 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
7 F Anne Hicks
Born: 1775 - circa
Christened: 2 Apr 1775 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
8 F Mary Hicks
Born: 1777 - circa
Christened: 16 Feb 1777 - Clewer, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
9 F Mary Hicks
Born: 1805 - circa
Christened: 9 Jun 1805 - Enborne, Berkshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Henry Gale
Marr: 28 Aug 1832 - Handborough, Oxfordshire
10 M Eugene Hicks
Born: 1802 - circa
Christened: 7 Jun 1802 - Enborne, Berkshire
Died: Mar 1870 - Bath, Avon, Somerset
Buried:
Spouse: Anne Sharps
Marr: 30 Oct 1830 - Highworth, Wiltshire
General Notes (Husband)
Thomas's Will of 5 Feb 1814 describes him as Thomas Hicks of Skinners Green in the parish of Enborne Berkshire Gentleman. It is not known whether he continued the stonemason's business of his father John. The identity of the mother of his daughter Sarah Westall Meredith nee Hicks is not known.
The History of the Ancient Town and Borough of Newbury in the County of Berks.
By Walter Money
"Hicks, Thomas, of Cope Hall, d. 6 Oct. 1817, a. 65."
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, May 28, 1825; Issue 3761
"Mary, relict of Thomas Hicks, Esq, of Cope Hall, near Newbury"
Certified copy of a conveyance D/EX 1041/1 1809
1 bdl
Contents:
1. Thomas Hicks and Mary his wife late of Newbury now of Enborne, gent. and others to:
2. John Meredith of Brumagham co. Warwick, gent, (a trustee of George Meredith, late a Lieutenant in His Majesty's Corps of Marines, now of Speen, esq.)
Messuage, barn, outhouses, orchards, stables near the Wash in Newbury, and about 100acres (with abuttals) dispersed in the common fields (known as Northcroft, Eastfield and Westfield), in Newbury
Included in the property is a messuage outhouses and barns and just over 10 acres of land (specified) in Enborne near the Newbury property above. The deed contains topographical detail in the abuttals of the Enborne property, such as 'King's Ditch' and 'Nightingale Lane' etc.. The Enborne property includes several coppices. Consideration: £4765
General Notes (Wife)
Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), Saturday, May 28, 1825; Issue 3761.
Death Notices:
Mary, relict of Thomas Hicks, Esq., of Cope Hall near Newbury.
General Notes for Child Eugene Hicks
Eugene Hicks was described in his father's Will as illegitimate, although his parents subsequently married.
1841 Census:
Berkshire
Enborne
Cope Hall
Eugene Hicks - 35 - Independent
Anne Hicks - 35 - Independent
Maria Hicks - 8
Thomas Hicks - 7
Mary Hicks - 5
Sarah Hicks - 2
1851 Census:
Somerset
Walcot
Lansdown
Down House
Charlotte Sharps - 60 - Fund Holder
Eugene Hicks - 60
Ann Hicks - 67 - sister
Maria A. Hicks - 18 - Niece
Thomas - 16 - nephew
Hannah?? - 12 - niece
Sarah Hicks - 10
1861 Census:
Somerset
Lyncombe and Widcombe
Eugene Hicks - 58
Anne - 61
Daughter - 28
Husband Frederick Charles Hodgson
Born: 13 Jun 1901 - Victoria
Christened:
Died: 30 Jun 1959 - Queensland
Buried:
Marriage: 24 Jun 1925
Wife Alice Meredith
Born: 30 Jan 1902 - New South Wales
Christened:
Died: 10 Nov 1986 - Tasmania
Buried:
Father: David Owen Meredith
Mother: Alice Vicary Cottrell
Husband Edward Alleyne Reynolds
Born: 1893 - Sheffield, Yorkshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Father: Alleyne Reynolds
Mother: Alice Elizabeth Greaves
Marriage: 27 Jun 1922 - Westminster, All Souls Church, Langham Place
Wife Gladys Holden
Born:
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Father: Walter J. Holden
Mother:
Children
1 M Alleyne H (Holden??) Reynolds
Born: Mar 1925 - Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire
Christened:
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Spouse: Elizabeth James
General Notes (Husband)
The Times, Friday, Jun 30, 1922; pg. 1; Issue 43071; col A
Reynolds: - Holden.-On the 27th June, at All Souls, Langham-place, W., by the Rev. G. Robinson Lees, cousin of the bride, assisted by the Rev. Arthur Buxton, Vicar, Edward Alleyne Reynolds, eldest son of the late Mr. Alleyne Reynolds of Hove, Sussex and Mrs. A. Reynolds, of Broomfield, Sheffield, to Gladys, third daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Holden, of Hove.
General Notes (Wife)
Gladys Holden was the third daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter J. Holden of Hove.
General Notes for Child Alleyne H (Holden??) Reynolds
The Times, Thursday, Feb 01, 1951; pg. 1; Issue 51914; col A
Reynolds. -- On January 30, 1951, at Oakvale Nursing Home, Sheffield, to Elizabeth (nee James), wife of Alleyne H. Reynolds - a son.
The Times, Friday, Apr 27, 1984; pg. 16; Issue 61816; col G
BAT Industries, Britain's third largest company, and one that is already in the van among private-sector providers of workshops for small businesses, plans to gear up its efforts to provide not only workshops but offices and retail units. The plan could lead to a quadrupling of the number of small workshops so far being provided, adding up to 800 to those already on offer in Liverpool and those soon to be on the market in Brixton.
The assessment comes from Alleyne Reynolds, mamaging director of BAT Industries Small Business. This subsidiary was created three years ago to focus BAT's efforts in helping small business in areas where BAT is a big employer, leading intitially to four target areas, the others being Southampton and Bristol.
Husband Walter J. Holden
Born: Hove
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Marriage:
Wife
Born:
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Children
1 F Gladys Holden
Born:
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Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Edward Alleyne Reynolds
Marr: 27 Jun 1922 - Westminster, All Souls Church, Langham Place
General Notes for Child Gladys Holden
Gladys Holden was the third daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter J. Holden of Hove.
Husband Holdsworth
Born: - Huddersfield
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Wife Sarah Stephens
Born: 1813 - circa
Christened: 28 Mar 1813 - Knill, Herefordshire
Died:
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Father: Joseph Stephens
Mother: Susannah Beaumont
Husband H.F.K. Holloway
Born:
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Wife
Born:
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Children
1 F Mary Catherine Holloway
Born: 1846 - circa
Christened:
Died: 4 Feb 1936 - Marchwood, Northam, Devon
Buried: 7 Feb 1936 - Abbotsham Church
Spouse: Major-General John Edward Boyes
Marr: 23 Oct 1866 - Marchwood Church, Southampton
General Notes for Child Mary Catherine Holloway
The Times, Thursday, February 6, 1936; Page 1:
BOYES--On Feb. 4, 1936, at Marchwood, Northam, Devon, Mary Catherine Boyes, widow of Major-General John Edward Boyes, C.B., aged 90. Funeral in Abbotsham Church tomorrow (Friday) at 2.30.
1881 Census:
Dorset
Fordington
Fordington House
Mary Catherine Boyes - Head - 34
Mary Boyes - daughter - 13
George Boyes - son - 6
Francis Boyes - brother-in-law - 36
Helen Boyes - sister-in-law - 27
Husband Joseph Broadbent Holmes
Born: 13 Jul 1817 - Godstone, Surrey
Christened: 14 Aug 1817 - St. Nicholas
Died: 17 Dec 1897 - The Wilderness, Hunter Valley
Buried:
Marriage: 31 November 1841 - Westbury-on-Severn, Gloucestershire
Wife Harriette Pawsey Philips
Born: 9 Nov 1813 - Newnham, Gloucestershire
Christened:
Died: 1889
Buried:
Father: Charles Philips
Mother: Phoebe Maxwell
Children
1 F Minnie (Minna) Holmes
Born: 1852
Christened:
Died: 1917 - Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales
Buried:
Spouse: Henry Montague Meredith
Marr: 1883 - Greta, New South Wales
2 F Edith Ellen Holmes
Born: 1848
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M Maxwell Philips Holmes
Born: 1842
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 M Spencer H. Holmes
Born: 1844
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
5 M Charles P. Holmes
Born: 1850
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 F Elizabeth P. Holmes
Born: 1848
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 F Edith E. Holmes
Born: 1846
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General Notes (Husband)
Joseph Broadbent Holmes established a large vineyard and was the president of the Hunter River Vineyard Association in 1852.
Joseph Broadbent Holmes was born on Godstone, Surrey, England on 13/7/1817. He was baptised at St Nicholas on 14/8/1817. He died at the Wilderness on 17/12/1897. He married Harriet Pawsey Phillips (born 9/11/1813 at Newnham, Gloucs.) Her parents were Charles Philips and Phoebe Maxwell. Joseph and Harriet were married at Westbury-on-Severn in Gloucestershire in on 31/11/1841. Within a year they had travelled to Australia, and soon after purchased a property from a Robert Coulson, not far from Allandale, near Maitland in the Hunter Valley.
The name "Wilderness" came from the name of a lake in Cumberland.
Joseph built a house near Black Creek and developed a vineyard. In 1852 he was the president of the Hunter River Vineyard Association in 1852. His eventual property was 2,000 acres in size of which 100 acres was under grapes.
The family had a close association with the local Anglican minister, who kept a detailed diary (often mentioning the Holmes family). One of the eight children, Maxwell Pillips Holmes, married the minister's daughter Mary Anne Glennie.
Joseph and Harriet had eight children, the eldest Maxwell.
Joseph was the son of a minister and a noted martinet.
Joseph's sister was Georgiana Frances Holmes.
Joseph's younger brother was Arthur Parker Holmes - he was at Trinity College Dublin studying medicine in the 1850's.
The Wilderness comprises 2060 acres on Black Creek - Church services were held in the homestead until the construction of Rothbury church on Wilderness land deeded to the church.
Lewis Chalmers Kelman was married to Edith Ellen Holmes, eldest daughter of Joseph and Harriet in 1872.
Arthur Broadbent Holmes, born in 1855, was the youngest child of Joseph and Harriet - he married Isobel Blanche Evans and his nephew, Harry Glennie Holmes married her sister, Leonora Marguerite Evans
In 1842, William Boughton was brought to Australia by Joseph Broadbent Holmes to establish his vineyards on the Hunter River, NSW.
In 1841 William Boughton was an agricultural labourer living with his parents in Minsterworth, Glos. (which was an area that grew cider apples). Significantly, in that it substantiates a connection between the two families, in 1841 William's wife-to-be, Eliza Virgo, was employed as a female servant in the household where Harriet Phillips, Joseph's wife-to-be, resided in Newnham, Glos.
In the 1860s, Joseph Holmes planted "The Wilderness and Caerphilly", either side of the Branxton Road near the intersection with The Wilderness Road.
Husband Henry Montague Meredith
Born: 27 Jan 1854 - Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1902 - Randwick, Sydney, New South Wales
Buried:
Father: John Meredith
Mother: Maria Hammond
Marriage: 1883 - Greta, New South Wales
Wife Minnie (Minna) Holmes
Born: 1852
Christened:
Died: 1917 - Mosman, Sydney, New South Wales
Buried:
Father: Joseph Broadbent Holmes
Mother: Harriette Pawsey Philips
Children
1 M Hammond Meredith
Born: 1886 - West Maitland, New South Wales
Christened:
Died: 1945 - Canterbury, N.S.W.
Buried:
Spouse: Ethel M. Weckes
Marr: 1914 - St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales
2 M Owen Montague Meredith
Born: 1888 - Greta, New South Wales
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Irene M. McBride
Marr: 1921 - Wellington, New South Wales
3 M Noelle Holmes Meredith
Born: 23 Jun 1891 - Greta, New South Wales
Christened:
Died: 1969 - St. Leonards, Sydney, New South Wales
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Henry Montague Meredith moved to the Hunter Valley in New South Wales. There is a cemetery adjacent to a property called “The Wilderness” where members of the Holmes family are buried. Inter alia, Minna Holmes is buried there - she was described as the widow of Henry Montague Meredith.
The Rothbury cemetery was established on land adjacent to a property "The Wildernes" on Wilderness Road. The property was owned by Mr Joseph Broadbent Holmes. In 1866 Mr Holmes commissioned a
Church to be build next to the Cemetery. It was completed in 1868. Unfortunately this church is now no longer there.
Joseph and most of his children ( some of whom were born and died at "The Wilderness") and their spouses, together with some family connections are buried there:-
Joseph Broadbent Holmes and wife Harriet Pawsey Holmes (nee Philips)
Maxwell Philips Holmes and wife Mariane /Mary Anne Holmes (nee Glennie - daughter of Rev Alfred Glennie)
Minna Holmes (widow of Henry Montague Meredith)
Ellen Miller Holmes
Elizabeth Philips Holmes
Spencer Harrison Holmes
Arthur Broadbent Holmes and wife Florence Adair Holmes (nee Silby)
Edith Ellan Kelman (nee Holmes) and spouse Lewis Chalmers Kelman
Rev Alfred Glennie
Samuel Athanasius Cusack (brother in law of Joseph)
Maude Cusack (infant daughter of Samuel and Joseph's sister Geogiana)
Catherine Edith Hutchinson (grand daughter of Joseph and daughter of
Edith Ellen Holmes and Lewis Kelman
There are a number of well known HUNTER VALLEY FAMILIES who have members buried there, including:
WILKINSON, TYRRELL, HUNGERFORD, CAMPBELL.
Violet Ethel Mace, born in 1883 was adopted by Henry and Minna.
Husband David Meredith
Born: 1695 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 25 May 1727 - Leintwardine, Herefordshire
Wife Elinor Howels
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Children
1 F Margaret Meredith
Born: 15 May 1734 - Brampton Bryan, Hereford
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Husband Clement Ingleby
Born: 10 Oct 1786 - Kings Heath, Warwick
Christened: 16 Oct 1786 - Cheadle, Stafforrshire
Died: 21 Aug 1859 - Westfield
Buried:
Father: William Ingleby
Mother: Ann Tomlinson
Marriage: 9 May 1812 - Saint Martin, Birmingham
Wife Elizabeth Jukes
Born: 7 Dec 1782
Christened: Birmingham, Unitarian Church New Meeting House
Died: 1877 - June Q - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Buried:
Father: John Jukes
Mother: Elizabeth Mansfield
Children
1 M Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Born: 29 Oct 1823 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Christened: 2 Nov 1823 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Died: 26 Sep 1886 - Valentines, Ilford, Essex
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Oakes
Marr: 3 Oct 1850 - St. Mary's, Ilford
2 F Elizabeth Anne Ingleby
Born: 1820 - circa
Christened: 7 Oct 1820 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Jeremiah Finch Smith
Marr: 6 May 1847 - Kings Norton, Worcestershire
General Notes (Husband)
Clement was a solicitor. His death announcement in the Gentleman's Magazine described him as "the father of the legal profession in Birmingham".
General Notes for Child Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Clement & Sarah had 4 children.
Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1823 - 1886)
Clement Ingleby was born on 29 October 1823 at Edgbaston, (at that time 'near Birmingham') only son of Clement Ingleby, a well-known solicitor, who became well-respected because of his work in connection with the construction of canals and railways at that time. He was a delicate child, not expected to survive, and suffered from ill-health most of his life. He was educated at home but entered Trinity College at Cambridge when he was twenty, becoming B.A., M.A., and LL.D. in 1859.
His early working life was spent with his father, eventually being taken into partnership as a solicitor in the family firm in Birmingham. However he did not enjoy the legal profession and in his spare time he studied metaphysiscs, mathematics and English literature.
Apparently Clement Ingleby first became interested in Shakespeare through an acquaintance with Howard Staunton with whom he played chess. Staunton was the champion chess player in 1843 and a Shakespearean scholar who produced an edition of Shakespeare in 1858-60. Clement Ingleby's first paper on Shakespeare was read before a literary society in Birmingham in 1850, the year he married.
Quite how he met Sarah Oakes is not known, but she had been brought up by her uncle, Charles Holcombe, and had lived at Valentines since 1838. She was just a few weeks younger than Clement and they were married on 3 October 1850 at the parish church of Great Ilford. They settled down together at their home in Edgbaston and had four children: Arthur born in September 1852, Holcombe in March 1854, Herbert born in May 1856 and Clementina Rose born just after Christmas 1857.
As well as his legal work, for a time Clement held the Chair of Logic at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, but an interest in Shakespeare was taking over as his main preoccupation. In 1859 he published a study of the 'Perkins Folio' which had been claimed as a newly discovered work of Shakespeare but was later acknowledged as a forgery. His legal training and logical mind were soon put to good use in setting out the facts in a more detailed work. For this 'he was a constant visitor to the library of the British Museum'. At about this time he moved away from Birmingham, taking his wife and their young family back to her earlier home at Valentines.
Dr Clement Ingleby became one of the members of the literary society of London - the Athenaeum Club - and his literary life was spent chiefly in its library, and his own pleasant library at Valentines. He wrote widely, contributing essays to learned periodicals and producing about twenty books. He was a Trustee of Shakespeare's Birthplace and he took an active part in the festivities held in Birmingham in 1864 to celebrate the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth. He had a fine singing voice which he put to good use in performing some of Shakespeare's songs.
In 1877 and 1881 he published the two volumes of his work on Shakespeare - The Man and the Book. This was a compilation of his writings gathered from a number of sources, some published in magazines, some previously unpublished. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published in periodicals. His verses were collected together after his death and printed for private circulation.
Clement Ingleby suffered a serious rheumatic attack in August 1886 and, although he seemed to recover, he died on 26 September. To quote from his obituary in Shakespeariana, 'he died - honoured and mourned by all who knew him best and longest. His cheerfulness and courtesy and kindness were extreme. He was a generous opponent, and a frank and candid friend. His manners were gracious, his temper unperturbable, and he met even a sarcasm with a smile. ... He had a bright and pleasant face, a kindly presence, a hearty laugh. Welcomed alike by children and by older folk, he probably never made an enemy and never lost a friend.'
Husband Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Born: 29 Oct 1823 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Christened: 2 Nov 1823 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Died: 26 Sep 1886 - Valentines, Ilford, Essex
Buried:
Father: Clement Ingleby
Mother: Elizabeth Jukes
Marriage: 3 Oct 1850 - St. Mary's, Ilford
Wife Sarah Oakes
Born: 22 Dec 1823 - Milton, nr. Gravesend, Kent, England
Christened: 16 Jun 1824 - Saint Peter And Saint Paul, Milton By Gravesend, Kent, England
Died: 3 Jan 1906 - Romford, Essex
Buried:
Father: Robert Oakes
Mother: Sarah
Children
1 M Rev. Arthur Ingleby
Born: 1852 - December Quarter - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Minnie Paula Walker
Marr: 3 Oct 1876 - Holy Trinity, Barking Side
2 M Holcombe Ingleby
Born: 18 Mar 1854 - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died: 6 Aug 1926 - Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk
Buried:
Spouse: Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
Marr: 27 Oct 1886 - Kings Lynn Catholic Church, Norfolk
3 M Herbert Ingleby
Born: 1856 - June Quarter - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
4 F Clementina Rose Ingleby
Born: 1858 - March Quarter - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died: 7 Feb 1938 - Church House, Heacham
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Clement & Sarah had 4 children.
Clement Mansfield Ingleby (1823 - 1886)
Clement Ingleby was born on 29 October 1823 at Edgbaston, (at that time 'near Birmingham') only son of Clement Ingleby, a well-known solicitor, who became well-respected because of his work in connection with the construction of canals and railways at that time. He was a delicate child, not expected to survive, and suffered from ill-health most of his life. He was educated at home but entered Trinity College at Cambridge when he was twenty, becoming B.A., M.A., and LL.D. in 1859.
His early working life was spent with his father, eventually being taken into partnership as a solicitor in the family firm in Birmingham. However he did not enjoy the legal profession and in his spare time he studied metaphysiscs, mathematics and English literature.
Apparently Clement Ingleby first became interested in Shakespeare through an acquaintance with Howard Staunton with whom he played chess. Staunton was the champion chess player in 1843 and a Shakespearean scholar who produced an edition of Shakespeare in 1858-60. Clement Ingleby's first paper on Shakespeare was read before a literary society in Birmingham in 1850, the year he married.
Quite how he met Sarah Oakes is not known, but she had been brought up by her uncle, Charles Holcombe, and had lived at Valentines since 1838. She was just a few weeks younger than Clement and they were married on 3 October 1850 at the parish church of Great Ilford. They settled down together at their home in Edgbaston and had four children: Arthur born in September 1852, Holcombe in March 1854, Herbert born in May 1856 and Clementina Rose born just after Christmas 1857.
As well as his legal work, for a time Clement held the Chair of Logic at the Birmingham and Midland Institute, but an interest in Shakespeare was taking over as his main preoccupation. In 1859 he published a study of the 'Perkins Folio' which had been claimed as a newly discovered work of Shakespeare but was later acknowledged as a forgery. His legal training and logical mind were soon put to good use in setting out the facts in a more detailed work. For this 'he was a constant visitor to the library of the British Museum'. At about this time he moved away from Birmingham, taking his wife and their young family back to her earlier home at Valentines.
Dr Clement Ingleby became one of the members of the literary society of London - the Athenaeum Club - and his literary life was spent chiefly in its library, and his own pleasant library at Valentines. He wrote widely, contributing essays to learned periodicals and producing about twenty books. He was a Trustee of Shakespeare's Birthplace and he took an active part in the festivities held in Birmingham in 1864 to celebrate the tercentenary of Shakespeare's birth. He had a fine singing voice which he put to good use in performing some of Shakespeare's songs.
In 1877 and 1881 he published the two volumes of his work on Shakespeare - The Man and the Book. This was a compilation of his writings gathered from a number of sources, some published in magazines, some previously unpublished. He also wrote poetry, some of which was published in periodicals. His verses were collected together after his death and printed for private circulation.
Clement Ingleby suffered a serious rheumatic attack in August 1886 and, although he seemed to recover, he died on 26 September. To quote from his obituary in Shakespeariana, 'he died - honoured and mourned by all who knew him best and longest. His cheerfulness and courtesy and kindness were extreme. He was a generous opponent, and a frank and candid friend. His manners were gracious, his temper unperturbable, and he met even a sarcasm with a smile. ... He had a bright and pleasant face, a kindly presence, a hearty laugh. Welcomed alike by children and by older folk, he probably never made an enemy and never lost a friend.'
General Notes (Wife)
In 1838 Charles Holcombe purchased Valentines and moved there with his wife Margaret and his niece, Sarah Oakes, who had been under his care since infancy. He was an industrialist who ran a brass foundry, and a tar and asphalt works at Greenwich. He is also described as a "refiner of coal tar, spirit, pitch and varnish". He built a wharf with a road and some houses, and a pub called The Sea Witch, at the side of the Thames (destroyed in 1940).
In 1850 Sarah Oakes married Clement M.Ingleby and went to live in his home town of Edgbaston where they had four children. In April 1860 Mrs. Margaret Holcombe died and around this time the Inglebys moved back to Valentines. There is a table tomb to Margaret and Charles Holcombe (1792-1870) in the churchyard of St.Mary's church in Ilford High Road.
Mrs Ingleby became a typical upper class Victorian lady.
Her life spanned 1823 - 1906; Queen Victoria lived from 1819 to 1901. Victoria was crowned in 1838, the year Sarah moved to Valentines. Sarah married in 1850; Queen Victoria had married ten years earlier.
The Great Exhibition was held in 1851 and Charles Holcombe may have been an exhibitor.
Mrs Beeton published her book on household management in 1859-60, just as Mrs Ingleby moved back to Valentines with her young family.
When Mrs Ingleby died on 3rd January 1906 her obituary noted her many acts of generosity, particularly in the Beehive neighbourhood where many of the estate workers lived.
General Notes for Child Rev. Arthur Ingleby
The Ingleby's eldest son became a clergyman. The Rev Arthur Ingleby, M.A., became the Chaplain of St.Mary's Hospital Chapel at Ilford in 1882, a position he held for ten or so years. He was responsible for the installation of the stained glass windows showing St.Clement, Pope and Martyr, and St.Valentine, Priest and Martyr, both designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98) in memory of his father, Dr.Ingleby.
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, October 7, 1876; Issue 6445
Oct. 3, at Holy Trinity, Barking Side, the Rev. Arthur Ingleby, B.A., eldest son of C.M. Ingleby, Esq., LL.D., of Valentines, Essex, to Minnie Paula, eldest daughter of the Rev. T.A. Walker, of Barking Side, Essex.
General Notes for Child Holcombe Ingleby
Holcombe Ingleby practised as a solicitor, his firm being Ingleby and Royds. He was Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1910 to 1918.
Holcombe was member of parliament for Kings Lynn.
On her death, Valentines was inherited by Sarah's second son, Holcombe Ingleby. In 1907 he gave the older gardens near the mansion to the people of Ilford in memory of, his parents. lt was at this time that the park was renamed Valentines Park.
In 1912 a specially formed group, the Valentines Park Extension Council, campaigned to save as much as possible of the estate from development. Holcombe Ingleby sold the land for £10,630 and the house and its outbuildings for a mere £1,000 to Ilford Council and retired to his estates in Norfolk. The mansion and its immediate grounds were absorbed into the park and the Old English Garden planted in the former walled garden. The final addition to the Park came in the1920 s when the golf course, lido and model yacht pond were laid out on what had been Middlefield Farm.
Holcombe Ingleby married Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe who was a renowned artist and spent some time in Australia. 84 of her watercolours were donated to Queensland Art Gallery by her son Major Clement Ingleby.
The Times, Saturday, Aug 07, 1926; pg. 15; Issue 44344; Col B
Mr. Holcombe Ingleby.
Category: Obituaries
MR. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.
Many friends, especially Norfolk men and the surviving members of the 1910 Parliament, will hear with regret that Mr. Holcombe Ingleby, who was for eight years; member for King's Lynn, died yesterday at Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk, at the age of 72.
Born on March 18, 1854, he was the son of the distinguished Shakespearian scholar. Clement Mansfield Ingleby, of whom he contributed an interesting memoir to the " Dictionary of National Biography.” From him-originally a Birmingham man who settled near Ilford, in Essex-Holcombe Ingleby inherited everything except the ill-health which interfered so much with the elder Ingleby's work; he had wealth, for instance, some antiquarian tastes, much musical knowledge, and a fine voice. He went it up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and took honours in history. After entering at the Inner Temple, he changed his mind and was admitted a solicitor, practicing for several years in London. The title of his firm was Ingleby and Royds, which afterwards became d Royds, Rawstorne, and Co.
His marriage in 1886 to Miss Neville Rolfe. daughter of Mr. C.F. Neville Rolfe, of Heacham Hall. took him to Norfolk and King's Lynn. There he passed most of the remaining years of his life, throwing himself into the affairs of the ancient borough, of which he became Mayor in 1909, and again from 1919 to 1922. He had desired that office, partly because he was fond of the place and people and a born administrator, but also for the sentimental reason that his wife's ancestors had held it 200 years before. In 1919 and 1923 he edited the "Red Register” of King's Lynn. described in The Times as a collection of records of no little importance for students of social life and organization in England during the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1910 he stood as Conservative candidate for the borough, and defeated the former member, the energetic and independent Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, by a majority of 97.
What followed caused some scandal and much amusement. Three humble voters, confessedly backed by more powerful people, petitioned against the new member, on the ground that he and his agents had been guilty of bribery and corruption. The case was tried at King's Lynn before Mr. Justice Ridley and Mr. Justice Channell, and the hearing lasted several days, reports being eagerly read all over the country. Mr. Ingleby had undoubtedly been the most lavish of entertainers. At his house, Sedgeford Hall. a few miles away, he had habitually received vast parties of guests, providing them with "pageants and carnivals," not to speak of refreshments, the attendance numbering 7,000 in 1905 and 3,000 in 1909. At that time he was not a Parliamentary candidate, but something of the kind went on after he became one, while presents of game were abundant. In giving evidence, the Liberal agent declared that rabbits bad been scattered among the voters; but he had to confess that he himself had accepted a couple of wild duck! In the end, the Judges decided that the festivals and gifts had not been corruptly provided, and Mr. Ingleby was declared duly elected, and held the seat till 1918.
It was not only in Norfolk, where he was High Sheriff in 1923, that Mr. Ingleby was popular. The House of Commons liked him for his geniality and common sense; at the Carlton Club, at Bootles, and at the Athenaeum he was always welcome. He will be greatly missed. He leaves one son, who lost a foot in the war, and one daughter, a full qualified M.D., highly regarded.
General Notes for Child Clementina Rose Ingleby
The Times, Wednesday, Feb. 23, 1938; Page 1
INGLEBY.--On Feb. 7, 1938, at the Church House, Heacham, Clementina Rose Ingleby, daughter of the late Clement Mansfield Ingleby, LL.D. and Mrs. Ingleby of Valentines, Ilford, aged 80.
Husband Thomas Ward
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 4 Jan 1808
Wife Elizabeth Ingleby
Born: 1778 - circa
Christened: 29 May 1778 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: William Ingleby
Mother: Ann Tomlinson
Husband Jeremiah Finch Smith
Born: 1 Jul 1815 - Manchester
Christened: 29 Sep 1815 - St. Peter's, Manchester
Died: 15 Sep 1895 - Litchfield
Buried:
Father: Rev. Jeremiah Smith
Mother: Felicia Anderton
Marriage: 6 May 1847 - Kings Norton, Worcestershire
Wife Elizabeth Anne Ingleby
Born: 1820 - circa
Christened: 7 Oct 1820 - Edgbaston, Warwickshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: Clement Ingleby
Mother: Elizabeth Jukes
Children
1 F Annie Finch Smith
Born: 1856 - Circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Jeremiah Finch was the Rector of Aldridge from 1849 and prebendary of Lichfield Cathedral form 1884. In 1891 Jeremiah and Elizabeth Anne were living at The Close, Lichfield. He edited the Admission Register of the Manchester School.
Jeremiah Finch Smith was Rector of Aldridge in the 1851,61,71,81 England censuses
The first Rector of Aldridge after it was made a separate Parish from Barr in 1849 was the Rev. Jeremiah Finch Smith. He made great steps in restoring and improving the church.A new Aisle and Vestry were added, the Galleries, which had been put in to seat the local school children, were demolished and the Nave was opened into the lower part of the Tower. He also had the old pews which had doors on them removed and more modern pews without doors, ( The first in Staffordshire) were installed. These have themselves since been removed. Rev. Smith also added extra seats for the poor of the Parish.
He published an alumni book - The Admission Register of the Manchester School with Some Notices of the More Distinguished Scholars. The book was published in Manchester by the Chetham Society in 1874. The book included an account of Jeremiah's wife's uncle, Alfred Jukes the surgeon.
The Times, Thursday, May 13, 1847; Page 9; Issue 19548; Col A
Married
On Thursday, the 6th inst, at King's Norton, Worcestershire, by the Rev. W. Anderton Smith, the Rev. J. Finch Smith, M.A., of St. Mary Church, near Torquay, Devonshire, eldest son of the Rev. Jeremiah Smith, D.D., vicar of Great Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire, and late High Master of Manchester School, to Elizabeth Anne, only daughter of Clement Ingleby, Esq., of Cannon-hill, Moseley, Worcestershire.
Husband George Wragge
Born: 1786 - circa
Christened:
Died: 7 Feb 1873 - Chaddesden
Buried:
Marriage: 15 Oct 1807 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Wife Emma Ingleby
Born: 1784 - circa
Christened: 3 May 1784 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Father: William Ingleby
Mother: Ann Tomlinson
Children
1 M Clement Ingleby Wragge
Born:
Christened: 19 Sep 1814 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died: 1857
Buried:
Spouse: Anna Maria Downing
Marr: 21 Oct 1851 - Clent, Worcester
2 M William Henry Wragge
Born:
Christened: 27 Dec 1817 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Amelia
3 F Emma Mary Wragge
Born:
Christened: 27 Dec 1817 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
4 F Frances Ann Wragge
Born:
Christened: 15 Aug 1808 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Charles John Wragge
Marr: 17 Mar 1835 - Cheadle, North Staffordshire
5 M Thomas Wragge
Born:
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Sarah Ann Hearne
Marr: 8 Aug 1861 - Broadmeadows, Melbourne
6 M George Paulson Wragge
Born: 1811 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Arnold
Marr: 4 Sep 1851 - Kenilworth
General Notes (Husband)
George Wragge and his brother-in-law Clement later formed the solicitors partnership of Wragge and Ingleby.
The Derby Mercury, Wednesday, February 19, 1873; Issue 8274
Wragge - Feb. 7, at Chaddesden, Mr. George Wragge, in the 75th year of his age.
1841 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor Lodge
George Wragge - 55 - Merchant
Henry Wragge - 40 - Lieutenant of Militia
Margaret - 45 - Independent
General Notes (Wife)
1851 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor
Emma Wragge - Head - 66
???? - sister in law - 55 - annuitant - unmarried
Henry Wragge - brother in law - 54 - unmarried - Lieutenant half pay Derbyshire Militia
1861 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor
Emma Wragge - Head - 76
George P. Wragge - son - 50 - solicitor
Elizabeth - daughter-in-law - 39
Elizabeth - grand-daughter - 1
Emma G - grand-daughter - 6 months
Clement L. - grandson - 8
Ellen ?? - grand-daughter -
General Notes for Child Clement Ingleby Wragge
George Wragge and Emma had a son Clement Ingleby Wragge who was christened on 19 Sep 1814 in Cheadle, and who also became a solicitor.
1841 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Frederick St
George Wragg - 30 - solicitor
Clement Wragge - 25 - solicitor
General Notes for Child William Henry Wragge
1851 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
William Henry Wragge - Head - 33 - Copper Agent
Amelia - wife - 35
General Notes for Child Emma Mary Wragge
1851 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Priory Road
George Paulson Wragge - head - 40 - solicitor
Emma Mary Wragge - sister - 34
General Notes for Child Frances Ann Wragge
1871 Census:
Middlesex
Teddington
Frances A Wragge - Head - 62 - Annuitant
Ellen E - daughter - 31 - annuitant
Bertha M. - daughter - 25
Catherine E. - daughter - 24
Clement L. Wragge - nephew - 18
General Notes for Child Thomas Wragge
The Derby Mercury, Wednesday, November 6, 1861; Issue 26437
On the 8th August, at Broad Meadows, Melbourne, Australia, by the Rev. T. Stair, Thomas, fourth son of George Wragge, Esq., Chaddesden, Derbyshire, to Sarah Ann, second daughter of the late James Hearne, Esq., Thorne Grove, Australia.
General Notes for Child George Paulson Wragge
The Morning Chronicle (London), Monday, September 8, 1851; Issue 26437
On the 4th inst., at Kenilworth, George paulson Wragge, Esq., of Priory Grove, Edgbaston, Birmingham, to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late John Arnold, Esq., of Moor Green, Moseley.
1841 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Frederick St
George Wragg - 30 - solicitor
Clement Wragge - 25 - solicitor
1851 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Priory Road
George Paulson Wragge - head - 40 - solicitor
Emma Mary Wragge - sister - 34
1861 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor
Emma Wragge - Head - 76
George P. Wragge - son - 50 - solicitor
Elizabeth - daughter-in-law - 39
Elizabeth - grand-daughter - 1
Emma G - grand-daughter - 6 months
Clement L. - grandson - 8
Ellen ?? - grand-daughter -
1871 Census:
Warwickshire
Edgbaston
Priory Road
George Paulson Wragge - head - 60 - solicitor
Elizabeth - wife - 48
Elixabeth ???? - daughter - 11
Emma Gertrude - daughter - 10
Kathleen ?????? - daughter - 7
Husband Holcombe Ingleby
Born: 18 Mar 1854 - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died: 6 Aug 1926 - Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk
Buried:
Father: Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Mother: Sarah Oakes
Marriage: 27 Oct 1886 - Kings Lynn Catholic Church, Norfolk
Wife Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
Born: 3 Jan 1850 - Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk
Christened:
Died: 11 Oct 1928 - Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk
Buried:
Father: Charles Fawcett Neville-Rolfe Neville-Rolfe
Mother: Martha Holt Chapman
Children
1 M Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby
Born: 20 Oct 1888
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Muriel Nordheimer
Marr: 1915 - circa
2 F Helen Ingleby
Born: 17 Aug 1887
Christened:
Died: 1973
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Holcombe Ingleby practised as a solicitor, his firm being Ingleby and Royds. He was Member of Parliament for King's Lynn from 1910 to 1918.
Holcombe was member of parliament for Kings Lynn.
On her death, Valentines was inherited by Sarah's second son, Holcombe Ingleby. In 1907 he gave the older gardens near the mansion to the people of Ilford in memory of, his parents. lt was at this time that the park was renamed Valentines Park.
In 1912 a specially formed group, the Valentines Park Extension Council, campaigned to save as much as possible of the estate from development. Holcombe Ingleby sold the land for £10,630 and the house and its outbuildings for a mere £1,000 to Ilford Council and retired to his estates in Norfolk. The mansion and its immediate grounds were absorbed into the park and the Old English Garden planted in the former walled garden. The final addition to the Park came in the1920 s when the golf course, lido and model yacht pond were laid out on what had been Middlefield Farm.
Holcombe Ingleby married Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe who was a renowned artist and spent some time in Australia. 84 of her watercolours were donated to Queensland Art Gallery by her son Major Clement Ingleby.
The Times, Saturday, Aug 07, 1926; pg. 15; Issue 44344; Col B
Mr. Holcombe Ingleby.
Category: Obituaries
MR. HOLCOMBE INGLEBY.
Many friends, especially Norfolk men and the surviving members of the 1910 Parliament, will hear with regret that Mr. Holcombe Ingleby, who was for eight years; member for King's Lynn, died yesterday at Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk, at the age of 72.
Born on March 18, 1854, he was the son of the distinguished Shakespearian scholar. Clement Mansfield Ingleby, of whom he contributed an interesting memoir to the " Dictionary of National Biography.” From him-originally a Birmingham man who settled near Ilford, in Essex-Holcombe Ingleby inherited everything except the ill-health which interfered so much with the elder Ingleby's work; he had wealth, for instance, some antiquarian tastes, much musical knowledge, and a fine voice. He went it up to Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and took honours in history. After entering at the Inner Temple, he changed his mind and was admitted a solicitor, practicing for several years in London. The title of his firm was Ingleby and Royds, which afterwards became d Royds, Rawstorne, and Co.
His marriage in 1886 to Miss Neville Rolfe. daughter of Mr. C.F. Neville Rolfe, of Heacham Hall. took him to Norfolk and King's Lynn. There he passed most of the remaining years of his life, throwing himself into the affairs of the ancient borough, of which he became Mayor in 1909, and again from 1919 to 1922. He had desired that office, partly because he was fond of the place and people and a born administrator, but also for the sentimental reason that his wife's ancestors had held it 200 years before. In 1919 and 1923 he edited the "Red Register” of King's Lynn. described in The Times as a collection of records of no little importance for students of social life and organization in England during the 14th and 15th centuries. In 1910 he stood as Conservative candidate for the borough, and defeated the former member, the energetic and independent Mr. Thomas Gibson Bowles, by a majority of 97.
What followed caused some scandal and much amusement. Three humble voters, confessedly backed by more powerful people, petitioned against the new member, on the ground that he and his agents had been guilty of bribery and corruption. The case was tried at King's Lynn before Mr. Justice Ridley and Mr. Justice Channell, and the hearing lasted several days, reports being eagerly read all over the country. Mr. Ingleby had undoubtedly been the most lavish of entertainers. At his house, Sedgeford Hall. a few miles away, he had habitually received vast parties of guests, providing them with "pageants and carnivals," not to speak of refreshments, the attendance numbering 7,000 in 1905 and 3,000 in 1909. At that time he was not a Parliamentary candidate, but something of the kind went on after he became one, while presents of game were abundant. In giving evidence, the Liberal agent declared that rabbits bad been scattered among the voters; but he had to confess that he himself had accepted a couple of wild duck! In the end, the Judges decided that the festivals and gifts had not been corruptly provided, and Mr. Ingleby was declared duly elected, and held the seat till 1918.
It was not only in Norfolk, where he was High Sheriff in 1923, that Mr. Ingleby was popular. The House of Commons liked him for his geniality and common sense; at the Carlton Club, at Bootles, and at the Athenaeum he was always welcome. He will be greatly missed. He leaves one son, who lost a foot in the war, and one daughter, a full qualified M.D., highly regarded.
General Notes (Wife)
Harriet Jane was a painter and sketcher. She was fourth of the nine children of Charles Fawcett Neville-Rolfe and Martha Holt, née Chapman.
Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe was a renowned artist and spent some time in Australia. 84 of her watercolours were donated to Queensland Art Gallery by her son Major Clement Ingleby.
General Notes for Child Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby
He leaves one son, who lost a foot in the war.
General Notes for Child Helen Ingleby
.....And one daughter, a full qualified M.D., highly regarded in her profession.
Husband John Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 1794 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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Father: William Ingleby
Mother: Ann Tomlinson
Marriage: 7 Aug 1820
Wife Ann Maria Wragge
Born:
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Clement's brother John was a doctor and as John Tomlinson Ingleby he became known as the most successful midwifery practioner in the Midlands.
Husband Joseph Ingleby
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Wife
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Children
1 M William Ingleby
Born: 19 Feb 1748 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Christened:
Died: 15 May 1819
Buried:
Spouse: Ann Tomlinson
Marr: 20 Oct 1777 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
General Notes for Child William Ingleby
William was described as a country gentleman of Cheadle.
A copper and brass manufacturing company was founded in Cheadle in 1717 by Thomas Patten, and Cheadle brass was celebrated for its quality. Clement Ingleby's grandfather was probably the Joseph Ingleby, who was involved in the brass manufacturing business in the 1700s, which would have been the source of the family's wealth. William Ingleby, Clement's father was born 19 Feb 1748 in Cheadle and died 15 May 1819 (IGI). There is an inconsistent record (possible a typo) that has him christened to a Joseph and Ann Ingleby on 25 May 1743 in St Matthew Walsall. An abstract of a document in the UK National Archives describes William as one of the proprietors of the Brass Wire Company of Cheadle ca. 1788. A memorial in St Giles Church, Cheadle records the death of William in 1819 and Anne in 1828. According to the IGI, William married Ann Tomlinson on 20 Oct 1777 in Cheadle.
Husband Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby
Born: 20 Oct 1888
Christened:
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Father: Holcombe Ingleby
Mother: Harriet Jane Neville-Rolfe
Marriage: 1915 - circa
Wife Muriel Nordheimer
Born:
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Children
1 F Sylvia Florence Ingleby
Born: 30 Mar 1920
Christened:
Died: Still Living - 2008
Buried:
Spouse: Alexander James Stevenson
Marr: 10 Oct 1944 - St. Mary's, Sedgeford
2 M Christopher Rolfe Ingleby
Born: 23 Feb 1929
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
3 M William Holcombe Ingleby
Born: 4 Feb 1916
Christened:
Died: Still Living - 2008
Buried:
4 F Pauline Ingleby
Born: 10 Jan 1919
Christened:
Died: Still Living - 2008
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
He leaves one son, who lost a foot in the war.
Husband Rev. Arthur Ingleby
Born: 1852 - December Quarter - Kings Norton, Warwickshire
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Father: Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Mother: Sarah Oakes
Marriage: 3 Oct 1876 - Holy Trinity, Barking Side
Wife Minnie Paula Walker
Born: 1849 - circa
Christened:
Died: 1936
Buried:
Father: Rev. T.A. Walker
Mother:
Children
1 M Charles Herbert Evelyn Ingleby
Born: 2 May 1881
Christened:
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2 M Richard Arthur Oakes Ingleby
Born: 27 Jan 1879
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3 F Ethel Mary Rose Ingleby
Born: 1877
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General Notes (Husband)
The Ingleby's eldest son became a clergyman. The Rev Arthur Ingleby, M.A., became the Chaplain of St.Mary's Hospital Chapel at Ilford in 1882, a position he held for ten or so years. He was responsible for the installation of the stained glass windows showing St.Clement, Pope and Martyr, and St.Valentine, Priest and Martyr, both designed by Sir Edward Burne-Jones (1833-98) in memory of his father, Dr.Ingleby.
Jackson's Oxford Journal, Saturday, October 7, 1876; Issue 6445
Oct. 3, at Holy Trinity, Barking Side, the Rev. Arthur Ingleby, B.A., eldest son of C.M. Ingleby, Esq., LL.D., of Valentines, Essex, to Minnie Paula, eldest daughter of the Rev. T.A. Walker, of Barking Side, Essex.
General Notes (Wife)
Minnie Paula was the eldest daughter of the Rev. T.A. Walker of Barkingside, Essex.
Husband Alexander James Stevenson
Born:
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Father:
Mother: W.B. Stevenson
Marriage: 10 Oct 1944 - St. Mary's, Sedgeford
Wife Sylvia Florence Ingleby
Born: 30 Mar 1920
Christened:
Died: Still Living - 2008
Buried:
Father: Major Clement Rolfe Ingleby
Mother: Muriel Nordheimer
General Notes (Husband)
Alexander James was the only son of Rev. Dr. W. B. Stevenson. He was a Wing Commander at the time of his marriage to Sylvia Florence.
The Times, Monday, Sep 25, 1944; pg. 6; Issue 49963/2; col B
Wing Commander A.J. Stevenson and Miss S.F. Ingleby
A marriage has been arranged, and will take place quietly at Sedgeford on October 10, between Wing Commander Alexander James Stevenson, R.A.F.V.R., son of Mrs. W.B. Stevenson, 28, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, and of the late Dr. W.B. Stevenson, D.D., and Sylvia Florence, younger daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Rolfe Ingleby, of Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk.
The Times, Thursday, Oct. 19, 1944; pg. 7; Issue 49977/2; col C
Wing Commander A.J. Stevenson and Miss S.F. Ingleby
The marriage took place quietly on October 10, at St. Mary's Sedgeford of Wing Commander Alexander James Stevenson, R.A.F.V.R., only son of Mrs. W.B. Stevenson, 28, Inverleith Place, Edinburgh, and of the late Rev. Dr. W.B. Stevenson, and Miss Sylvia Florence Ingleby, younger daughter of Major and Mrs. Clement Rolfe Ingleby, of Sedgeford Hall, Norfolk. The Rev. Frederick Ward officiated, assisted by the Rev. William Clark.
Husband William Ingleby
Born: 19 Feb 1748 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Christened:
Died: 15 May 1819
Buried:
Father: Joseph Ingleby
Mother:
Marriage: 20 Oct 1777 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Wife Ann Tomlinson
Born:
Christened:
Died: 1828
Buried:
Children
1 F Elizabeth Ingleby
Born: 1778 - circa
Christened: 29 May 1778 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Thomas Ward
Marr: 4 Jan 1808
2 M Joseph Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 9 Jun 1779 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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3 F Jane Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 14 Jan 1781 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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4 M Rupert Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 1 Apr 1782 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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5 F Emma Ingleby
Born: 1784 - circa
Christened: 3 May 1784 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: George Wragge
Marr: 15 Oct 1807 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
6 M Clement Ingleby
Born: 10 Oct 1786 - Kings Heath, Warwick
Christened: 16 Oct 1786 - Cheadle, Stafforrshire
Died: 21 Aug 1859 - Westfield
Buried:
Spouse: Elizabeth Jukes
Marr: 9 May 1812 - Saint Martin, Birmingham
7 F Dorothea Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 11 Jul 1789 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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8 M Thomas Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 23 Jul 1791 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
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9 M John Ingleby
Born:
Christened: 1794 - Cheadle, Staffordshire
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Ann Maria Wragge
Marr: 7 Aug 1820
General Notes (Husband)
William was described as a country gentleman of Cheadle.
A copper and brass manufacturing company was founded in Cheadle in 1717 by Thomas Patten, and Cheadle brass was celebrated for its quality. Clement Ingleby's grandfather was probably the Joseph Ingleby, who was involved in the brass manufacturing business in the 1700s, which would have been the source of the family's wealth. William Ingleby, Clement's father was born 19 Feb 1748 in Cheadle and died 15 May 1819 (IGI). There is an inconsistent record (possible a typo) that has him christened to a Joseph and Ann Ingleby on 25 May 1743 in St Matthew Walsall. An abstract of a document in the UK National Archives describes William as one of the proprietors of the Brass Wire Company of Cheadle ca. 1788. A memorial in St Giles Church, Cheadle records the death of William in 1819 and Anne in 1828. According to the IGI, William married Ann Tomlinson on 20 Oct 1777 in Cheadle.
General Notes for Child Joseph Ingleby
Clement Ingleby's brothers Joseph and Rupert Ingleby are recorded as partners in the Cheadle Copper & Brass Company in 1839.
General Notes for Child Rupert Ingleby
Clement Ingleby's brothers Joseph and Rupert Ingleby were recorded as partners in the Cheadle Copper & Brass Company in 1839.
General Notes for Child Emma Ingleby
1851 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor
Emma Wragge - Head - 66
???? - sister in law - 55 - annuitant - unmarried
Henry Wragge - brother in law - 54 - unmarried - Lieutenant half pay Derbyshire Militia
1861 Census:
Staffordshire
Cheadle
Oakamoor
Emma Wragge - Head - 76
George P. Wragge - son - 50 - solicitor
Elizabeth - daughter-in-law - 39
Elizabeth - grand-daughter - 1
Emma G - grand-daughter - 6 months
Clement L. - grandson - 8
Ellen ?? - grand-daughter -
General Notes for Child Clement Ingleby
Clement was a solicitor. His death announcement in the Gentleman's Magazine described him as "the father of the legal profession in Birmingham".
General Notes for Child John Ingleby
Clement's brother John was a doctor and as John Tomlinson Ingleby he became known as the most successful midwifery practioner in the Midlands.
Husband John Inglesby
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1 F Hannah Inglesby
Born: 1764
Christened:
Died: 7 May 1848 - Lambeth, London
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Spouse: John Bult
General Notes for Child Hannah Inglesby
Hannah's father was John Inglesby. Her death announcement describes her as Hannah, widow of John Bult Esq. late of Wigmore Street, Cavendish Square and of Brook Green, Hammersmith.
1841 Census:
Middlesex
St. Pancras
Kentish Town
Bartholomew Place
Hannah Bult - 75
Husband Sir - Captain Charles Richard Henry Wiggin 3rd Bart
Born: 21 Mar 1885
Christened:
Died: 16 Sep 1972
Buried:
Father: Sir Henry Arthur Wiggin 2nd Bart.
Mother: Annie Sarah Cope
Marriage: 24 Jul 1916
Wife Mabel Violet Mary Jaffray
Born: 27 Nov 1890
Christened:
Died: 25 Dec 1961
Buried:
Father: Sir William Jaffray 2nd Bart.
Mother: Alice Mary Galloway
Children
1 M Sir John Henry Wiggin 4th Bart.
Born: 3 Mar 1921
Christened:
Died: 1 January 1992 - Aged 70
Buried:
Spouse: Cecilia Evelyn Anson
Marr: 30 Sep 1947
General Notes (Husband)
Charles Richard Henry was Captain of the Staffordshire Yeomanry. He succeeded as 3rd Baronet in 1917 on the death of his father.
General Notes (Wife)
Mabel Violet Mary was the daughter of Sir William Jaffray, 2nd Bart. and Alice Mary Galloway.
General Notes for Child Sir John Henry Wiggin 4th Bart.
John Henry and Cecilia Evelyn divorced in 1961. He succeeded as 4th Baronet in 1972 upon the death of his father.
Husband Jacobus Nicolaas Mooyart
Born: 8 Sep 1781
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Marriage: 2 Feb 1815 - Tranquebar
Wife Johanna Catherine Jahn
Born:
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Children
1 M Edward Mooyart
Born: 5 Apr 1817 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Christened: 15 Jun 1817
Died: Bef 1891
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Jane Stephens
Marr: 1860 - December Q - Notting Hill, London
2 F Sophia Mooyart
Born: 7 Nov 1815 - Colombo, Sri Lanka
Christened: 10 Mar 1816
Died: 27 Apr 1838 - Putlam
Buried:
3 F Julia Mooyart
Born: 4 Sep 1819
Christened: 14 Nov 1819
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: John Charles Cameron
Marr: 11 Jun 1840 - Kandy, Sri Lanka
4 F Amelia Mooyart
Born: 25 Aug 1821
Christened: 23 Sep 1821
Died:
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5 M Male (Een zoon - a son) Mooyart
Born: 29 Jan 1823
Christened: 30 Jun 1823
Died:
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6 M Henry Mooyart
Born: 3 May 1825
Christened: 25 Dec 1825
Died:
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General Notes for Child Edward Mooyart
The Venerable Archdeacon Mooyart of Ceylon.
1861 Census:
Berkshire
Winkfield
Edward Mooyaart - 44 - Chaplain at Galle, Sri Lanka
Mary J. - wife - 38
1871 Census:
London
St Marylebone
Rectory
Edward Mooyaart - Head - 53 - Archdeacon of Colombo Ceylon
Mary Jane - wife - 45
Henry Mooyaart - brother - unmarried - 42 - Late of the Ceylon Civil Service - retired
Husband Alleyne H (Holden??) Reynolds
Born: Mar 1925 - Glanford Brigg, Lincolnshire
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Father: Edward Alleyne Reynolds
Mother: Gladys Holden
Marriage:
Wife Elizabeth James
Born:
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1 M Unknown Reynolds
Born: 30 Jan 1951 - Oakvale Nursing Home, Sheffield, Yorkshire
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General Notes (Husband)
The Times, Thursday, Feb 01, 1951; pg. 1; Issue 51914; col A
Reynolds. -- On January 30, 1951, at Oakvale Nursing Home, Sheffield, to Elizabeth (nee James), wife of Alleyne H. Reynolds - a son.
The Times, Friday, Apr 27, 1984; pg. 16; Issue 61816; col G
BAT Industries, Britain's third largest company, and one that is already in the van among private-sector providers of workshops for small businesses, plans to gear up its efforts to provide not only workshops but offices and retail units. The plan could lead to a quadrupling of the number of small workshops so far being provided, adding up to 800 to those already on offer in Liverpool and those soon to be on the market in Brixton.
The assessment comes from Alleyne Reynolds, mamaging director of BAT Industries Small Business. This subsidiary was created three years ago to focus BAT's efforts in helping small business in areas where BAT is a big employer, leading intitially to four target areas, the others being Southampton and Bristol.
Husband Arthur Jukes
Born: 7 Mar 1857
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Died: 1947
Buried:
Father: Alfred Meredith Jukes
Mother: Margaret McWilliams
Marriage: 1884
Wife Margaret Jellie
Born: 1856 - Circa - Belfast, Victoria
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Father: William Jellie
Mother: Johanna Cassidy
Children
1 F Sarah Meredith Jukes
Born: 1885
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2 M Frederick Jukes
Born: 1886
Christened:
Died:
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Spouse: Florence Gladys Boyle
Marr: 4 Aug 1915 - "Renfrew" Camperdown
3 F Ethel Jukes
Born: 1888
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4 F Mabel Jukes
Born: 1890
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General Notes for Child Frederick Jukes
The Argus - Monday 30 August 1915
Jukes-Boyle
On the 4th August at "Renfrew" Camperdown, by the Rev. Andrew Dunn, Frederick only son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Jukes of Brighton, to Florence Gladys, eldest daughter of Mr. and <rs. W. Boyle, "Renfrew", Camperdown
They had three daughters.
Husband George Campbell Meredith
Born: 1 Jul 1840 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 25 Jul 1917 - Lansdowne Cres. (Son's Residence)
Buried: 26 Jul 1917 - Cornelian Bay Cemetery - 5.45 pm
Father: Charles Meredith
Mother: Louisa Anne Twamley
Marriage: 13 Jan 1868 - Oatland, Tasmania
Wife Elizabeth Jillett
Born: 2 Feb 1846 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
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Father: John Jillett
Mother: Phoebe Triffitt
Children
1 M George Glendower Meredith
Born: 20 Dec 1868
Christened:
Died: 1957
Buried:
Spouse: Nora Gytha Michelmore
Marr: 1937
2 M Twamley Owen Meredith
Born: 6 Sep 1871 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
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Spouse: Jessica Farquhar
Marr: 10 Jun 1896 - Hobart, Tasmania
3 M John Charles Meredith
Born: 1871
Christened:
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Buried:
Spouse: Louisa May Stephenson
Marr: 7 May 1895 - Zeehan, Tasmania
4 M Mervyn Louis Meredith
Born: 31 Jul 1873 - Springbay, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1920
Buried:
5 F Sarah Louisa Meredith
Born: 22 Feb 1876 - Springbay, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 1977
Buried:
Spouse: Crammond
6 F Phoebe Evangeline Meredith
Born: 5 Mar 1878
Christened:
Died:
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Spouse: J. Paton
7 F Gladys Alice Meredith
Born: 12 Jun 1884 - Clarence, Tasmania
Christened:
Died: 26 Jan 1888
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Their eldest son, George Campbell, was born in 1840 in NSW, but the other four surviving children were born in Tasmania. George married Elizabeth Jillett, grand-daughter of Robert Jillett and Elizabeth Bradshaw, in 1868.
General Notes (Wife)
Elizabeth was the daghter of John Jillett (1819-1868) of Hobart and Phoebe Triffitt (1823-1868).
General Notes for Child George Glendower Meredith
George Glendower was of the firm Oldham, Beddome and Meredith, Booksellers, Hobart.
George and Nora had no children.
General Notes for Child Twamley Owen Meredith
Twin of John Charles - some references have Twamley Owen as a son of Owen and Eliza Jane.
General Notes for Child John Charles Meredith
Husband John Jillett
Born: 1819
Christened:
Died: 1868
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Marriage:
Wife Phoebe Triffitt
Born: 1823
Christened:
Died: 1868
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Children
1 F Elizabeth Jillett
Born: 2 Feb 1846 - Hobart, Tasmania
Christened:
Died:
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Spouse: George Campbell Meredith
Marr: 13 Jan 1868 - Oatland, Tasmania
General Notes for Child Elizabeth Jillett
Elizabeth was the daghter of John Jillett (1819-1868) of Hobart and Phoebe Triffitt (1823-1868).
Husband Benjamin John Johnson
Born: - London, England
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1 M Walter Rankin Johnson
Born: 11 Jul 1787
Christened:
Died: 27 Oct 1844 - The Vicarage, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Buried:
Spouse: Louisa Stephens
Marr: 2 Dec 1840 - Weobley, Herefordshire
General Notes for Child Walter Rankin Johnson
Walter was the son of Benjamin Johnson of London. He was admitted to Trinity College 27 May 1805 aged 17. Ordained deacon (Bristol) 3 Apr 1813 and priest (London) 19 May 1815. Appointed Stipendiary Curate of West Wycombe in 1832 (£150 and the use of the vicarage house).
Husband Mr. Johnson
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Wife Anne Stephens
Born: 1782 - circa
Christened: 29 Mar 1782 - Lyonshall, Herefordshire
Died:
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Father: Lawrence Stephens
Mother: Hannah Meredith
General Notes (Husband)
Mr Johnson was a surgeon of Dowgate Hill, London - they had no children. (an extract from private correspondence of the Jukes family)
Husband Walter Rankin Johnson
Born: 11 Jul 1787
Christened:
Died: 27 Oct 1844 - The Vicarage, West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Buried:
Father: Benjamin John Johnson
Mother:
Marriage: 2 Dec 1840 - Weobley, Herefordshire
Wife Louisa Stephens
Born: 1818 - circa - Dinedor, Herefordshire
Christened: 20 Jan 1818 - Dinedor, Herefordshire
Died: Sep 1885 - Kensington, London
Buried:
Father: Joseph Stephens
Mother: Susannah Beaumont
Other Spouse: Philip Smith Coxe - 1849 - June Quarter - Marylebone, London
Children
1 F Isabella Ann Johnson
Born: 1843 - circa - West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Christened:
Died: 1923
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Walter was the son of Benjamin Johnson of London. He was admitted to Trinity College 27 May 1805 aged 17. Ordained deacon (Bristol) 3 Apr 1813 and priest (London) 19 May 1815. Appointed Stipendiary Curate of West Wycombe in 1832 (£150 and the use of the vicarage house).
Husband Edwin Meredith
Born: 30 Oct 1853 - Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand
Christened:
Died: 19 Jan 1885 - Llandaff, Masterton, New Zealand
Buried:
Father: Edwin Meredith
Mother: Jane Caroline Chalmers
Marriage: 1877 - Launceston, Tasmania
Wife Ada Steuart Johnstone
Born:
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Children
1 M Guy Owen Meredith
Born:
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2 M Laird A. William Meredith
Born: 1881 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Ivy Tatham
Marr: 12 May 1909 - Masterton, St. Matthews, New Zealand
3 M George Steuart Meredith
Born:
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Died:
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Spouse: Ethel Nancy Roxburgh
Marr: 21 Oct 1913 - Launceston, Tasmania
4 F Ada Matilda (Meta) Meredith
Born: 23 Aug 1886 - New Zealand
Christened:
Died: 4 Aug 1956 - Launceston, Tasmania
Buried:
Spouse: Evelyn Stanley Archer
Marr: 28 Oct 1913
General Notes (Husband)
Evening Post, Issue 15, 19 January 1885, Page 3
Mr. Edwin Meredith, jun, of Riversdale, died today, after a long illness.
General Notes for Child Laird A. William Meredith
New Zealand Free Lance, Volume 9, Issue 463, 15 May 1909, Page 14
A wedding in which considerable interest was manifested was celebrated at St. Matthew's Church, Masterton, last Wednesday afternoon. The contracting parties were Miss Ivy Tatham, of "Homewood" East Coast, and Mr. Laird A.W. Meredith, of "Waioronga" East Coast, second son of the late Mr. Edwin Meredith, of Riversdale, and grandson of the late Mr. Edwin Meredith of "Llandaff" Masterton. The Rev. J.H. Sykes of Upper Hutt, performed ther marriage ceremony, and he was assisted by the Rev. H. Watson.
General Notes for Child George Steuart Meredith
Evening Post, Issue 60, 7 September 1912, Page 7:
The Australasian announces the engagement of George Stewart, youngest son of Mrs. Meredith, Orui, Elphin-road, Launceston, and of the late Mr. Edwin Meredith, Riversdale, Whareama, New Zealand, to Ethel Nancy, only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J.W. Roxburgh, Bank of Australasia, Launceston.
Evening Post, Volume 86, Issue 121, 18 November 1913
On the 21st October, at Launceston, Tasmania, the marriage took place of Mr. George Stewart Meredith, third son of the late Mr. Edward Meredith, jun., of Waironga, East Coast, New Zealand, to Ethel Nancy, only daughter of J.W. Roxburgh, of the bank of Australasia, Launceston.
Husband George Jones
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Born:
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Children
1 F Jane Walker Jones
Born: 1806
Christened:
Died: 14 Oct 1855
Buried:
Spouse: John Meredith
Marr: 9 Aug 1825 - Saint Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire
General Notes for Child Jane Walker Jones
The Will of Jane Walker Meredith 25 May 1855 proved 23 Nov 1855 [25]: also mentions son George Frederick and daughter Constance. Appointed George Frederick Meredith James Bellamy Elkington of Birmingham silversmith and William Jacot of Liverpool Merchant as
Executors and leaves her share in business to them. Gives date of John Meredith’s death as 17 Jul 1851. Mentions Varnish Manufacture business at 107 and 108 Lionel Street Birmingham and 29 Great Queen Street, Lincoln Inn Fields [London]
Memorial plaque (with doubtful dates): in memory of John Meredith, late of Harborne, who died July 17, 1851, also of his wife Jane Walker Meredith, who died October 14, 1865.
Husband John Meredith
Born: 15 Apr 1800
Christened: 24 Apr 1800 - Summer Lane Formerly New Hall Street New Jerusalem, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Died: 17 Jul 1851
Buried:
Father: James Meredith
Mother: Sarah Rhodes (Sally) Mather
Marriage: 9 Aug 1825 - Saint Martin's, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Wife Jane Walker Jones
Born: 1806
Christened:
Died: 14 Oct 1855
Buried:
Father: George Jones
Mother:
Children
1 F Georgina Augusta Meredith
Born: 21 Aug 1826
Christened: 8 Nov 1826 - St. Philips, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Died: 17 Jan 1882
Buried:
Spouse: Joseph Beete Jukes
Marr: 22 Sep 1849
2 M John Meredith
Born: 13 Mar 1828
Christened: 10 Jun 1828 - St. Philips, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Died:
Buried:
3 M George Frederick Meredith
Born: 1830 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 15 Aug 1896 - West Retford, Nottinghamshire
Buried:
Spouse: Eliza Scholefield
Marr: 1857 - March Quarter - St. James, Westminster
4 F Margaret Meredith
Born: 1832 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 1886 - March Quarter - Llanelly, Wales
Buried:
Spouse: James Balleney Elkington
Marr: 1854, March Quarter - Harbonne, Warwickshire
5 M Llewellyn Meredith
Born: 1834 - Circa
Christened:
Died: 20 Nov 1864
Buried:
6 F Constance Meredith
Born: 1832 - Circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 M Conway Meredith
Born: 1837 - Circa - Erdington, Birmingham, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died: 1897 - December Quarter - Llanelly, Wales (Aged 61 - BMD)
Buried:
8 M Alban Meredith
Born: 1838 - September Quarter
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
9 M Ernest Meredith
Born: 1841 - Circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
Insured: James Meredith, John Meredith and Samuel Meredith, 29 Great Queen Street Lincolns Inn Fields, dealers in varnish.
This looks to me as though James Meredith’s three sons, James, John and Samuel are the varnish manufacturers – it would make the three of them in the region of 30 years of age.
James, John's father, is described in Vivienne Rae-Ellis Louis Anne Meredith - A Tigress in Exile (Blubber Head Press, Tasmania: 1979), as a cousin of John Meredith with 6 sons and 1 daughter. John travelled to Van Diemen's Land with John Meredith's son, George Meredith but returned.
A John Meredith was established as a varnish maker in 1780. The firm became Meredith & Clinton, Meredith, Clinton & Lawrence (1830) and Meredith & Co - this was probably John's uncle, also John Meredith.
Meredith John, varnish manufacturer, 108, Lionel street; house, Harborne Park in an 1850 Directory.
22 Sep 1849 At Harborne, J. Beete Jukes, esq. of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, to Augusta-Georgina, eldest dau. of John Meredith, esq. of Harborne Park, Staffordshire.
1841 Census at Belle Vue, Hill, Hales Owen, Shropshire: John Meredith (age 40) varnish manufacturer, Jane (age 35), Georgina (aged 30) – ages rounded and Conway b.ca. 1835, Alban b. 1838, Ernest b. 1841.
IGI: children of John Meredith and Jane Walker:
Georgina Augusta Meredith b. 21 Aug 1826 bapt. 08 Nov 1826 at St. Phillips.
John Meredith b. 13 Mar 1828 and bapt. 10 Jun 1828 at St. Phillips.
General Notes (Wife)
The Will of Jane Walker Meredith 25 May 1855 proved 23 Nov 1855 [25]: also mentions son George Frederick and daughter Constance. Appointed George Frederick Meredith James Bellamy Elkington of Birmingham silversmith and William Jacot of Liverpool Merchant as
Executors and leaves her share in business to them. Gives date of John Meredith’s death as 17 Jul 1851. Mentions Varnish Manufacture business at 107 and 108 Lionel Street Birmingham and 29 Great Queen Street, Lincoln Inn Fields [London]
Memorial plaque (with doubtful dates): in memory of John Meredith, late of Harborne, who died July 17, 1851, also of his wife Jane Walker Meredith, who died October 14, 1865.
General Notes for Child Georgina Augusta Meredith
IN LOVING REMEMBERANCE OF GEORGINA AUGUSTA MEREDITH WIDOW OF THE LATE JOSEPH BEETE JUKES M.A.F.R.S. WHO DIED JANUARY 17TH 1882. AGED 56. "REST IN THE LORD WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM"
General Notes for Child John Meredith
Not mentioned in mother’s will of 1855. This is probably explained by the following extract from a letter by Beatrice Allen:
"I have often heard another story of her cousin John - a very handsome young man - I seem to remember that he enlisted for a time in the Austrian army where I suppose he met his wife. He afterwards went to Australia but neither he nor his son were very satisfactory and were soon lost news of."
General Notes for Child George Frederick Meredith
George Frederick was a Varnish Manufacturer - reported in the 1861 England Census.
In the Great Western Railway Shareholder listing his death was recorded as 15 August 1896 - address given as West Retford. Nottinghamshire and also a London address - Kensington, Middlesex.
Extract of a letter by Beatrice Allen:
"Of his brothers you will probably remember George Meredith, a most charming man who at one time lived next door to the Garnetts at Kensington. He had a very bigoted R. C. wife and one daughter who married but of course could not carry on the name."
General Notes for Child Margaret Meredith
Margaret Elkington is at Pembrey House in the 1871 Wales Census with sister Constance.
General Notes for Child Llewellyn Meredith
The Brisbane Courier - 13 January 1865
We regret to learn that great apprehensions are entertained for the safety of Mr. Meredith and his overseer, the two having left Mr. Meredith's station, near the Flinders, to meet the drays returning with rations, and reported to be sixty miles off. A Mr. Sutherland, who remained at Mr. Meredith's station sixteen days after his disappearance reports that the teams had arrived without having seen Mr. Meredith, and it is conjectured from the troublesome nature of the natives there, that the two unfortunate individuals have fallen victims to some attack of the blacks.
Extract from the Brisbane Courier - Saturday 29th July 1865
…….After a sojourn of a week at Bowen Downs, we had the good fortune to meet with a traveller who was acquainted with the route to Port Denison. His intention was to meet a flock of sheep on the further side of the poison country, and to pave the way for them by cutting down tho noxious plant. Our route lay north east, in the direction of Suttor Creek, or (when the combined streams are spoken of) more properly, the Belyando. There is abundance of water for fifty-eight miles, as far as the Fisheries, on Cornish Creek. This point was so named as being a fishing ground for the blacks, and their peculiar process of catching was to construct a hedge across the creek. This is a dangerous locality, if one may judge from tho mysterious disappearance, a few weeks previous, of my friend Mr. Meredith and an overseer. Their encampment had been since identified, mid some of their property had been found in possession of the blacks. Altogether, they were both such good bushmen that there is no likelihood of
their having been lost while searching for their horses in the morning; although thoy may have met their fate while so engaged……..
The Brisbane Courier - Tuesday 17th January 1865
Great apprehensions are entertained for the welfare of Mr. Meredith and his overseer, who are missing from their station on the Flinders River. Both had left the station in company with the object of meeting the homeward bound teams with supplies ; the teams have since arrived, but the two gentlemen have not since been seen or heard of. Tho blacks have long been troublesome in tho Flinders country.
From the Hobarton Paper of February 15th 1865
The murder of Mr. Llewellyn Meredith by the blacks in Queensland.
The report lately received of the murder of Mr. Llewellyn Meredith by the natives in Northern Queensland is unhappily but too well founded.
Accounts confirming the terrible fate have been brought by Mr. J. B. Poynter, who had been for two years residing on Mr. Hervey's station with Mr. Meredith and who has fearlessly and perseveringly exerted himself to discover the remains of his lost relative, and of the servant who shared his fate.
It appears that Mr. Meredith had accompanied a dray which was bringing up supplies from ???? for the station and when within three days ride of home, he proceeded alone, and found a large mob of blacks camped close to the road. They followed him in a threatening manner and on his arrival at the station he heard that they had tried to surround some drays a short time before. Having to return to the dray, in order to see it safe home, he took a man with him, both being well armed; but in the night of November 20th when they were camped on the creek where the blacks were, they were both murdered.
A week afterwards, when anxiety began to be felt at the station concerning the non-appearance of either Mr. Meredith or the dray, a person passing informed Mr. Poynter that the draymen were waiting for someone to fetch them on, neither Mr. Meredith nor his companion having reached them. Mr. Poynter then at once set forth in search, taking two men and a black native boy with him, and on arriving at the “creek” he found the missing horses hobbled in the bush. Continuing the search next day, the saddles, bridles, rifle etc. were found broken up, in a deserted blacks camp, the late dwellers of which were next pursued, and found about twenty miles down the creek, and in their camp were the ?????, quart-pots, blankets and everything belonging to the lost white men, even to their clothes. Mr. Poynter then endeavoured to find out from the blacks what had been done with the bodies, and the black boy tried to communicate with them, but the dialects of different tribes are often so dissimilar and it was impossible to elicit any distinct information. The searching party occupied more than a week in following up the blacks and trying to discover the remains of the murdered White men, but without learning any further particulars as to the circumstances under which the poor fellows met their awful fate. Mr. Meredith was well known and universally esteemed and respected in Northern Queensland where his cruel murder has created a deep sensation of sorrow and horror. His brave genial disposition and keen intelligence, his noble handsome person and winning courtesy will be long and affectionately remembered and his tragic and early death sincerely mourned by many friends and a wide circle of relatives both in this and in the old country.
This seems to be a letter to Sarah Jukes (nee Meredith) Alfred Jukes” wife.
Extract from Mrs. Meredith's letter dated February 20th 1865
“It is sad new I have to tell you dear friend. We have received the melancholy tidings of our poor Llewellyn's untimely death in Queensland. He said when he left us for Queensland that he should either return in a carriage or not at all. for the ???? of the enterprise was well known and his foreboding has been terribly fulfilled. He was murdered by natives on the night of the 20th November last, but the length and difficulty of the journey over land (our ????? occupies 8 days in crossing) and the double or treble voyage have prevented our hearing until this month.
James Poynter our nephew, who had been at Tower Hill with poor Llewellyn the past two years made every effort regardless of danger to discover the remains of his lost friend and of the servant who shared his awful fate, but though the horses, ???? blankets, arms, and even the clothes of the victims were found, no clue could be obtained as to the hiding place of the bodies. I sent you a newspaper with an account I made out from James' narration and that is all we know now - of course further investigation will be carried on - and you shall know the result.
I cannot tell you the shock and grief this has been to me and to us all - for his dear father's sake, as well as his own. He was dear to me and my sons loved him and lament him as a brother - he was liked and respected by all who knew him, and James says his sad and early fate has created a deep and bitter sensation in Queensland.
I have written to Georgina Jones who seemed to have especially selected Llewellyn for her own. I know how much attached to her he was and I have written to Beete that he might tell Augusta - I send ???? to them and to your brother Samuel. I would have written to Joseph but ?? if I could have done so in the time - what little remains for me to do, I have sadly and faithfully performed and shall forward whatever ???? or property our lost one has left - I will send a ???? and write to your Alfred at Warrnambool.
February 19th 1865
I have just written to Beete that he may break to Augusta the terrible news of poor Llewellyn's murder in Queensland by the blacks. The paper containing the account he can send to you.
Our nephew James Poynter (married to Sarah Westall Meredith) was with Llewellyn for two years, and did all he could in endeavouring to find his remains and that of the man who shared his terrible fate, but in vain.
He was murdered on the night of the 20th November last, but owing to the long time occupied by the journey, James only arrived in Melbourne the end of January.
He sent a telegram from Brisbane with the first facts - but we tried not to believe them - - now I have his own account and there is no longer a doubt.
Everything belonging to Llewellyn and his servant was found in or near the Black's camps - but no enquiry or search served to show where the bodies were ????.
It is a melancholy business. We were much attached to poor Llewellyn and mourn his fearful death most sincerely. Charles' eldest brother was murdered years ago by natives at Kangaroo Island.
General Notes for Child Conway Meredith
1841 Census: Belle Vue, Halesowen, The Hill, Shropshire
In the 1861 England Census was at 107 Lionel Street. Manager of Varnish Manufactory.
In the 1871 Wales Census he was a manager at the Pembrey Copper Works - The Elkington family established the Pembrey Copperworks Company in Wales in 1849. Conway's sister Margaret was married to James Balleney Elkington.
1881 Census: Address: 1 Old Dock, Pembrey, Carmarthenshire
MEREDITH, Conway Head Single M 44 1837 Clerk At Copper Works
Born at Erdington Near Birmingham Warwickshire
Conway was unmarried in 1891.
General Notes for Child Alban Meredith
Alban was still unmarried in 1871 - he was a mechanical engineer.
Alban Meredith arrived in New York about 26 April 1872 on the steam-ship Helvetia from London - New York Times of that date.
Husband Samuel Jones
Born: 1854 - circa
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Marriage: 1876 - December Q - Leominster, Herefordshire
Wife Decima Frances Meredith
Born: 1854 - March Q - Knighton, Radnorshire
Christened:
Died: 1885 - September Quarter - Shifnal, Shropshire
Buried:
Father: James Meredith
Mother: Phoebe Wylde
General Notes (Husband)
1881 Census:
Decima described as a bailiffs wife - husband Samuel Jones was a bailiff - age 25 born in Radnorshire Wales - living at Heath Farm, Stoke St Milborough, Shropshire.
Husband Alfred Jukes
Born: 24 Sep 1792 - Bordesley House, Nr. Birmingham
Christened: 31 Oct 1792 - New Meeting House, Moor St - Unitarian, Birmingham
Died: 9 October 1844 (Death Cert.) - 17 New Hall Street, Birmingham
Buried:
Father: John Jukes
Mother: Elizabeth Mansfield
Marriage: 7 Apr 1825 - St. Martin, Birmingham
Wife Sarah Meredith
Born: 7 Apr 1799
Christened: 28 Apr 1799 - Summer Lane Formerly New Hall Street New Jerusalem, Birmingham, Warwick, England
Died: 14 Nov 1884 - Willesden, London
Buried:
Father: James Meredith
Mother: Sarah Rhodes (Sally) Mather
Children
1 F Sarah Elizabeth Jukes
Born: 1826 Circa - Birmingham, Warwickshire
Christened:
Died: 1926 - March Q - Hampstead
Buried:
Spouse: Charles Harris Allen
Marr: 1859
2 M Alfred Meredith Jukes
Born: 29 Nov 1827
Christened:
Died: 13 Aug 1872 (Death Cert)
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret McWilliams
Marr: 29 Dec 1853 - Melbourne, Victoria
3 M Joseph Hordern Jukes
Born: 1835 Circa
Christened:
Died: 14 Mar 1903 - Headington, Buckinghamshire
Buried:
General Notes (Husband)
1841 Census:
Reported as a surgeon living at 17 New Hall St, Birmingham, aged 49. Living with his wife Sarah (nee Meredith - aged 42) and their sons Alfred (aged 13) and Joseph (aged 6) with two servants.
Death Certificate:
When and Where Died: 9 October 1844 at 17 New Hall St.
Name and Surname: Alfred Jukes
Sex: Male
Age: 52 Years
Occupation: Surgeon
Cause of Death: Lumbar Abscess
Signature, Description and Residence of Informant: Mary Ann Sharp in attendance, 17 New Hall St.
When Registered: 12 October 1844
Registrar: Joseph Smith
"Brooks says the engraving was done by a young gentleman who had studied anatomy under him, Alfred Jukes of Birmingham. It is possible he is a relative of Frederick Jukes of the General Hospital Birmingham who published on Silurian trilobites and cephalopods from the Birmingham area in the Magazine of Natural History series, vol. 2 in 1829, which would suggest, if so, a family interest in fossils."
Christened at New Meeting House Moor Street-Unitarian, Birmingham. He was the 8th son. He was surgeon to the Birmingham Hospital
The Rev. Jeremiah Finch (Smith) published The Admission Register of the Manchester School with Some Notices of the More Distinguished Scholars. The book was published in Manchester by the Chetham Society in 1874. The book included an account of Jeremiah's wife's uncle, Alfred Jukes the surgeon.
FINCH, REV. JEREMIAH FINCH: The Admission Register of the Manchester School with Some Notices of the More Distinguished Scholars. Manchester, Chetham Society, 1874 vol. 3: pt. 1. Chetham Society, First Series, Vol. 93.
“Alfred, son of John Jukes, merchant, Birmingham.
Alfred Jukes, born on 24th September 1792, the eighth son of Mr. John Jukes, merchant, of Bordesley House near Birmingham (a sufferer in the Church and King riots in that town of 1791), became fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, and a distinguished surgeon in his native town. On leaving school he attended the practice of the General Hospital, Birmingham, and of the Westminster Hospital, London, continuing his studies under Joshua Brookes, the great anatomist, John Hunter and others, was admitted a member of the Royal College of Surgeons, and on the 15th June 1813 was elected house surgeon to the first-named institution. In September 1820 he resigned the office, and the degree to which his services were appreciated will be best understood when it is recorded that the governors of the hospital voted 30l (£) to be expended in a piece of plate presented to him 'in testimony of their sense of his meritorious and exemplary discharge of the arduous duties of house surgeon during seven years.' In March 1823 Mr. Jukes was elected one of the surgeons of the hospital, on the occasion of a vacancy, and retained the office until 1843, a period of twenty years, when impaired health, and the onerous duties of private practice compelled him to retire from it. He died on the 9th October in the following year, at the age of 52, after a long and painful illness, aggravated if not caused by injury received whilst dressing a very bad case of a patient at the hospital. He was buried at the Birmingham general cemetery, where there is a monument with an inscription referring to him in terms of praise, both as regards his professional and private life. At the time of his death a short notice of his career appeared in the Birmingham papers. He deservedly enjoyed a high place in the estimation of his professional brethren as a sound master in surgery, and few ever possessed in a larger degree the confidence of their patients. He occasionally contributed papers to medical periodicals, and published in 1842, A Case of Carcinomatous Stricture of the Rectum. As an operator he was most successful, especially in cases of strangulated hernia, and lithotomy.
Mr. Jukes married on the 7th April 1825 Sarah, only daughter of Mr. James Meredith of Birmingham, and left two sons and one daughter. His elder son, Alfred Meredith, is a solicitor in Australia; the younger, Joseph Hordern, M.A. of Wadham college, Oxford, is in holy orders. His daughter, Sarah, married Mr. Charles H. Allen of Stoke Newington, F.R.C.S., and author of A Visit to Queensland and her Goldfields, very recently published, London, Chapman and Hall.
This scholar was uncle to the late J. Beete Jukes, esq., A.M., F.R.S., &c., professor of geology at the Royal college of science, and author of several valuable works on geology, and director of the Geographical survey department in Ireland, who died in Dublin on the 29th July 1869.
The father of this scholar died on the 10th October 1822, aged 66, and his widow, Elizabeth, daughter of William Mansfield, of Bushbury hill, Staffordshire, to whom he was married in February 1782, lived to the age of 80, dying on the 9th June 1839.
Plarr's Lives of the Fellows Online
Jukes, Alfred ( - 1847) MRCS, April 17th, 1812; FRCS, Dec 11th, 1843, one of the original 300 Fellows.
General surgeon
Held the office of House Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital for ten years; he was then elected Surgeon in 1823 and held office until March, 1843, when his place was filled by S H Amphlett (qv), who had been his pupil. He appears to have belonged to a medical family in the town, for Fred Jukes, living at 45 Cherry Street, took his MRCS in 1819 and was also for ten years Resident Surgeon to the Birmingham General Hospital. Alfred Jukes died on or before July 28th, 1847.
The Humane Society established in the town for the recovery of persons apparently drowned, or otherwise in a state of suspended animation has been for many years attached to the General Hospital, where printed directions to be observed in such cases can be had gratis.
The principal Officers of this Institution in the present year (1829) are -
Physicians Surgeons
Dr. John Johnstone, Mr. Richard Wood,
Dr. Geo. Edward Male, Mr. Bowyer Vaux,
Dr. John K. Booth, Mr. Joseph Hodgson,
Dr. G. De Lys, Mr. Alfred Jukes,
House Surgeons and Apothecary-Mr. Frederick Jukes.
Matron-Mrs. Caroline Hawkes.
Secretary, House Steward, and Collector-Mr. John Underhill.
Treasurers-Messrs. Taylors and Lloyds, Bankers, Birmingham.
General Notes (Wife)
Sarah Meredith d/o James Meredith m. Alfred Jukes on 7 Apr 1825 at St. Martin, Birmingham and left 2 sons and 1 daughter. Sarah Elizabeth Jukes aged 25 (and her mother) were living with her uncle Joseph Meredith in the 1851 census. The family was indexed in the UK 1841 census as Tukes.
General Notes for Child Sarah Elizabeth Jukes
Letter written by Sarah Elizabeth Allen (nee Jukes)
"From a letter of condolence after our sad loss in the spring, from our Australian friend Mrs. Norvill who visited us whilst in England with her grandmother Mrs. Charles Meredith of Hobart Tasmania in 1890 & 1891.
'The picture of Alfred has laways stayed in my memory. I went to church with Mr. Allen on Sunday & it was a dull day. Alfred was in the choir in his chorister's gown, & all of a sudden a ray of light lit up his hair, & I remember thinking it looks like a halo.'
17 Well Walk
Hampstead
1916
Alfred was her son Alfred Jukes Allen who died in 1916. Mrs Norvill is Louisa Anne Norvill (nee Meredith) who was born in 1872/73 and her grandmother was Mrs. Charles Meredith who was Louisa Anne Meredith (nee Twamley).
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National Archive
KGA/RAMSAY/1/13 1849
Contents:
Letts's diary no. 1, 1849. Boards (lock removed.) 25 x 20 cms, 231ff. Daily diary, in parts in very great detail, dealing principally with ACR's love affair with Miss Sarah (Sally) Jukes, cousin of J B Jukes and apparently also related to Mrs Playfair. Monthly accounts at end. ff.84, 86: letters from J B Jukes on the love affair; f93, on his own marriage. ff.103, 106, 110, 122, 157, 161, and 172: letters on the same subject from Lyon Playfair who acted as a go between. ff.119, 131, 151, 165, 176, 184, 190: letters from his wife, Margaret Playfair, also on the same subject. f.230 is a despairing poem, with a profile sketch of a woman's head on the back of the sheet. The tone of the diary may be represented by the entry on f.145, September 17: 'A day of horror and unutterable depression. Life seems a blank to me'.
[no title] KGA/RAMSAY/1/14 1850
Contents:
Letts's diary no.1, 1850. Boards, with damaged lock, 25 x 20 cms, 202ff. A continued detailed account of ACR's love affairs: decline of feeling for Miss Jukes (who from being an angel becomes an icicle) and first meetings with Miss Louisa Williams. f43, 19 April: account of R I discourse. 'Playfair's fortune is made now I believe' f.74: letter from Mrs Playfair. Monthly accounts at end.
[no title] KGA/RAMSAY/8/552/1-4 n.d
Contents:
JUKES, Sarah. Mrs Alfred Jukes and her daughter Sarah.
Four letters
ACR would have been Andrew Crombie Ramsay, who became President of the Geological Society.
According to records in the UK National Archives, Sarah Elizabeth had a love affair with Andrew Crombie Ramsay ca. 1849, who later became President of the Geological Society.
General Notes for Child Alfred Meredith Jukes
On the 29th of December, 1853, at St. Peter's Church, Collingwood, Victoria, Alfred Meredith Jukes, Esq., solicitor, of Melbourne, eldest son of the late Alfred Jukes, Esq., surgeon, of Birmingham, to Margaret Strathern, niece of Mrs. A. D. Thomson, of Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square, and Belvedere, Tunbridge-wells. [28]
Marriage Certificate:
Married on the 29th day of December, 1853 at St. Peter's Church, Melbourne, Registered by the Revd. H.L.P. Handfield, Alfred Meredith Jukes of Birmingham (aged 26), solicitor, living in Richmond, Victoria, son of Alfred Jukes, surgeon, and Sarah Meredith, married to Margaret McWilliam of Glasgow (aged 20), living in Collingwood, Victoria, daughter of John McWilliam, a weaver and Amelia Thomson.
4 October 1873
On the 13 Aug after a long illness in his 45th year, *Alfred Meredith
Jukes*, solicitor of Warrnambool, Victoria, eldest son of the late
Alfred Jukes, FRCS of Birmingham.
July 1857
Mr.Jukes (Alfred Meredith) came out and settled about Hoy's farm.
Died of a brain disease of some kind - difficult to read the death certificate.
General Notes for Child Joseph Hordern Jukes
Joseph Hordern Jukes was a clergyman, unmarried. He died aged 68 on 14 Mar 1903 at 8 Park-crescent, Oxford.
The Times, Monday, Mar. 16, 1903; page 1; Issue 37029; Col A
JUKES--On the 14th inst., at 8, Park Crescent, Oxford, the Rev. Joseph Hordern Jukes, M.A., Assistant Curate of Abingdon, Berkshire, son of the late Alfred Jukes, F.R.C.S., of Birmingham, aged 68. No flowers, by request.
Also:
The Times, Tuesday, March 17, 1903; Page 10; Issue 37030; Col C - Obituary
The Rev. J. Hordern Jukes, who died at his residence in Oxford, in his 60th year, was the last surviving son of the late Mr. Alfred Jukes, F.R.C.S of Birmingham. With hi disappears the last male representitive in England of a talented band of brothers, formerly well known in the Midlands. Mr. Jukes had taken very high rank as a Freemason.
Palladian Lodge (No. 120) of Freemasons (meetings held at the Green Dragon Hotel monthly, except from June to September both inclusive).-Rev. Joseph Hordern Jukes, M.A., Hon. Secretary.
Royal Arch Palladian Chapter (No. 120) of Freemasons (meetings held at the Green Dragon Hotel quarterly).-Rev. J. H. Jukes, M.A., Hon. Secretary.
Joseph Hordern, M.A. of Wadham college, Oxford, is in holy orders.
The Rugby School Register - 1850
Jukes Joseph Hordern, son of late Alfred Jukes, Esq. aged 15, Nov. 3
Husband Alfred Meredith Jukes
Born: 29 Nov 1827
Christened:
Died: 13 Aug 1872 (Death Cert)
Buried:
Father: Alfred Jukes
Mother: Sarah Meredith
Marriage: 29 Dec 1853 - Melbourne, Victoria
Wife Margaret McWilliams
Born: 1833 - Circa - Glasgow, Scotland
Christened:
Died: 27 June 1915 - 29 June - 'The Argus'
Buried:
Father: John McWilliams
Mother: Amelia Thompson
Children
1 M Alfred Wingfield Jukes
Born: 15 Sep 1854
Christened: 30 Nov 1854 - St. Stephens, Richmond, Victoria
Died: 25 May 1875 - aged 21
Buried:
2 F Margaret Thomson Jukes
Born: 23 Jan 1856 - Melbourne, Victoria
Christened:
Died: 15 Feb 1856 - Melbourne, Victoria
Buried:
3 M Arthur Jukes
Born: 7 Mar 1857
Christened:
Died: 1947
Buried:
Spouse: Margaret Jellie
Marr: 1884
4 F Edith Isabella Jukes
Born: 19 Sep 1858
Christened:
Died: Bef 1920
Buried:
5 F Pauline Cecilia Jukes
Born: 5 Oct 1860
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
6 M Clement Ingleby Jukes
Born: 29 Jun 1862
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
7 M Cecil Meredith Jukes
Born: 9 Apr 1864
Christened:
Died: 16 Oct 1878
Buried:
8 M Charles Allen Jukes
Born: 6 Aug 1867 - Melbourne, Victoria
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Mary Harvie (Harriet) Nicholson
Marr: 1896
9 F Sarah Blanche Jukes
Born: 15 Mar 1870
Christened:
Died:
Buried:
Spouse: Samuel Macaulay Cromie
Marr: 17th Apil 1895 - Willesden, Victoria St. Warrnambool, Victoria
10 M James Fraser Jukes
Born: 23 Jan 1873
Christened:
Died:
Buried: