Family Snippets

ADAMS

One of the sons of William & Sarah ADAMS nee LINSLEY of Windsor NSW, George Richard ADAMS (born 13/6/1852) (have cert)  married  (have cert) Sept 1872 Eleanor GORDON (born 17/10/52) daughter of Ann WHITELEY and George Augustus GORDON.   The family all thought of her as Eleanor MAYBURY as her mother married William Charles MAYBURY  in 1854.

George Richard ADAMS was a saddler who settled in Orange with Eleanor, a milliner, and they raised nine children: Amelia (m Joseph Popple), George, Sydney, Alfred, Sarah (known as Ellie)m John Wheeler, Anita (married William Leslie Young) - this is our direct ancestor,  Mabel Gertrude (m Harry Trainer), Ivy (m Mr Britter) and Clarence.

More detail of George Richard Adams' sons were:
George Richard E ADAMS (but he died at 14 years of age in 1890)
Sydney R ADAMS born 1878 died 1926
Alfred E ADAMS born 1880 died1920
Clarence A ADAMS(referred to as Arthur) born 1892

Our William ADAMS was a convict who came to Australia on the "Susan" in 1836.  His wife Sarah Jane LINSLEY was the daughter of convicts John Richard LINSLEY who came out on the renowned 'typhus ship' "Surrey" in 1814 and Elizabeth CLARK convict who came out on the "Mary Ann" in 1822.

John LINSLEY had previously married a fifteen year old freeborn girl (daughter of  convicts) Jane MCINTOSH  in 1921, however she died a year later - no children.

George Richard ADAMS used to tell his granddaughter Jean Eleanor YOUNG that her olive complexion and dark hair reminded him of  his 'mother's family who came from the hills of Wales', where there were gypsies.  Still following up on this one.
 

ALLEN

Charles ALLEN and wife Jane ALLEN nee Jane BROWN had son John William ALLEN born Reading Berkshire 1850.  John William ALLEN who married Elizabeth Cleave PHILLIPS (1873)
their son Alfred Henry ALLEN who married Emily Louisa DESLANDES (1903) Melb
their daughter Doris Emily Lottie ALLEN who married James GOULDSON (1926) Melb.
 
 

BRIGHT

Susan BRIGHT (born Susanah to Edward BRIGHT and wife Harriett BOTTEN/BOTTING) married in September 1894 at Bendigo to William WILKINSON blacksmith, son of George WILKINSON and wife Sarah MCMAHON.  William and Susan(ah) WILKINSON's daughter Vera Gladys WILKINSON married Edmund William KIMPTON 1918.

Edward Bright born C1835 died 1924 Golden Square married Harriet Botton (Not sure if Botting, Botton, or Botten).
Children
Edwin Botton Bright              born 1867    Maryborough. Vic
Susanah Elizabeth Bright      born 1869         "
Charlotte Bright                    born 1871         "
William Bright                       born 1873     Unknown    died 1874
Mary Ann Alice Bright         born 1874      Sandhurst
Alfred Bright                         born 1877          "

Charlotte married a Charlie Cobb and lived in Bendigo for years

CLEAVE
 

COMBS

Jane Combs, born 1839 Aston Juxta Birmingham, and daughter of John COMBS and Ann COMBS nee Ann HARTLEY
(or HARTLY?) married Edmund KIMPTON in Castlemaine Victoria in 1856 (refer Kimpton below).
 

CRAGO

Rosina CRAGO was born on 22nd July 1846 at Shoreditch Middlesex England to Thomas CRAGO and wife Eliza(beth) CRAGO nee WILLIAMS. (have cert).  At that time the family lived at 3 Cropers Buildings, Charles Street . Rosina CRAGO worked at the Arundel Castle in Sussex and in 1863 gave birth to Frances Jane. She was known as Frances Jane HOCKING..  In 1866 Rosina CRAGO married Edwin HOCKING in Truro Cornwall.Two other children were born - Edward HOCKING in 1866 and Ellen Louisa HOCKING in 1867.
 

DEGENHARDT

Lillian Alma DEGENHARDT was the daughter of John Alfred William DEGENHARDT who was born in 1890 in London England (parents were William John DEGENHARDT and Clara Louisa COOK (marriage 1889 Mile End London) , both of England according to his marriage certificate).  He married Jacqueline Edith STEFFANI (born Giacomina Edith Steffani) in NSW in 1920. John Alfred William DEGENHARDT served in the AIF in the First World War.  Lillian Alma DEGENHARDT married Edmund William KIMPTON and their second son is David William KIMPTON born 1951 - my husband.
 

DESLANDES

Phillip DESLANDES who married Kezia Martha STRATTON, their son
Charles DESLANDES who married Olivia Mary SIMPSON 08.02.1852 St. Helier, Jersey
Their child George Edwin DESLANDES married Sarah Louisa SMITH
Their child Emily Louisa DESLANDES married Alfred Henry ALLEN 1903
Their daughter Doris Emily Lottie ALLEN married James GOULDSON in 1926.
 

DOYLE

See Young below
 

GORDON

In our family is George Augustus GORDON  father of Eleanor GORDON born 21st September 1852 in Windsor, NSW Australia. Eleanor's mother is listed as Ann WHITELAY (or Ann WHITELEY) of Windsor (have birth cert). Ann WHITELEY went on to marry William Charles MAYBURY two years later and gave permission, as Ann MAYBURY, mother of the bride, for the marriage of Eleanor GORDON to George Richard ADAMS in 1872.  We are keen to find out about George Augustus Gordon, as this may be where our Gypsy ancestry has come from - or not!!.  (See ADAMS above)
 

GOULDSON

We are still looking for the correct James GOULDSON born c1830 Suffolk who married Hannah (or Ann) WILLIAMS who was born Truro Cornwall c1834. This James GOULDSON was at one stage a soldier in the British Army.  They were the parents of Edward GOULDSON born 1864 Hampshire(called Ned), our first Gouldson relative to come to Australia in 1891. Ned settled at Katamatite where he married  (20.3.1892) a widow Frances Jane HEYME nee HOCKING  with three young children (Edwin Charles Heyme - known as Charlie, Harry Heyme and Rosina Heyme).  We have copy marriage certificate for Edward and Frances. Their son James GOULDSON born 1900 married Doris Emily Lottie ALLEN, James & Doris's second son Allen James GOULDSON (born 1931)  married Janet HARVEY (born 1934) (See photo pages for pictures of some of these people).
 

HALL

In our family is an Emma Alice HALL who married William Edward SYMONDS (1875 Castlemaine) and they lived in the Maryborough area of  Victoria. (Have marriage cert). William & Emma's daughter Alice May SYMONDS married Albert Harvey.  Sisters and brothers of Emma Alice Hall included Annie Hall, Louisa Hall, Mary Ann Hall, Stephen Hall and William Thomas Hall.  Their parents are listed as Stephen Keele HALL and Eliza MILLS.
 

HARVEY

Grandfather Ernest Edward HARVEY (passed away  01.09.2000 - 93 years) was first son of Albert HARVEY and Alice May HARVEY (nee SYMONDS). Albert’s brothers were Thomas HARVEY and William HARVEY and their parents were Thomas HARVEY and Mary Ann HARVEY nee Leggo who married in 1872. Thomas and Mary Ann had a goldmine at Bullumwaal and are buried in the Bairnsdale Cemetery.  (Thomas Harvey, who died 7th March 1911 aged
60 years; also Mary Ann Harvey, died 31st September 1934 aged 80 years.)  The Harvey family lived at Bairnsdale and Mt Taylor. Thomas HARVEY’s parents were John HARVEY and Ruth HARVEY nee Ruth MARTIN and he Thomas, was born in Cornwall.
 

HOCKING

Our great great grandparents were Edwin & Rosina HOCKING nee CRAGO who came to Katamatite in 1891 to live with their daughter Frances Jane GOULDSON formerly HEYME nee HOCKING). Edwin and Rosina had two other children (refer Crago above). We also have Edwin snr's parents details (born England).  The Hockings and Cragos lived in Cornwall and go back to 16th century there.  However it appears that our bloodline doesn't travel back through the Hocking family, as Rosina Crago didn't marry Edwin Hocking until almost three years after her daughter was born.
 

KIMPTON

Update - we have further information back a couple of generations - Email us. Found are parents and birth details of James KIMPTON who married Hannah SPRAWSON  in England. They came out to Australia and settled in South Australia sometime in 1849 on the Stebonheath.  Their first son Edmund KIMPTON was born at Finchley Common in Middlesex London in 1835 as were two daughters, Fanny and Annie, and after the family came to Australia they had fourth child James Abraham KIMPTON, born South Australia.  Edmund KIMPTON  married Jane COMBS (also of England - Aston Juxta Birmingham in Warwick) daughter of John COMBS and Ann COMBS nee HARTLEY) in 1856 at Castlemaine, Victoria. We have copy Marriage certificate of Edmund and Jane.
Edmund KIMPTON and wife Jane COMBS had the following children:

Emily Jane Kimpton  1857-1937
Julia Hannah Kimpton  1859-1921
Fanny Louisa Kimpton  1861-1863
George Edmund Kimpton  1864-1923
Frederick Charles Kimpton  1866-1925
Emmeline Eliza Kimpton  1868-1870
Caroline Lavinia Kimpton 1870-1930
Alice Maud Kimpton 1872-1944
Walter James Kimpton 1874
William Welch Kimpton 1876-1957
Florence Rebecca Kimpton 1878-1879
Arthur John Kimpton 1880
 

Our lineage comes down through Edmund & Jane KIMPTON's son  Frederick Charles KIMPTON who married Margaret MCLENNAN (a nurse)  at St. Arnaud in 1890. (Have certificate).  Their children were:

Edmund William Kimpton 1893-1978
Mary Janet Kimpton born 1895
Jessie Maudsley Kimpton born 1900
Ronald Duncan Arthur Kimpton born 1901
Julie Kimpton

Frederick & Margaret's son Edmund William KIMPTON married Vera Gladys WILKINSON 1918. Edmund and Veronica's son Edmund William KIMPTON married Lillian Alma DEGENHARDT in NSW on 19th April, 1947.  Their second son David William KIMPTON married Robyn Lynne GOULDSON in 1974.  They have three children.
 

LEGGO

Mary Ann LEGGO was born at sea c 1854 to Edward LEGGO (miner) and Mary LEGGO (nee Mary BENNETTS). We have the Leggo family going back quite a while in Cornwall 1500s in fact. Mary Ann LEGGO was a tailoress and she married Thomas HARVEY at Soldier's Hill Ballarat in Oct 1872. We have marriage certificate of  Thomas and Mary Ann.  Thomas HARVEY was a son of John HARVEY and Ruth HARVEY nee MARTIN. They were from St Just, Cornwall. (Refer Harvey above)

LINSLEY

John Richard LINSLEY who came out on the renowned 'typhus ship' "Surrey" in 1814 married Elizabeth CLARK convict who came out on the "Mary Ann" in 1822. John LINSLEY had previously married a fifteen year old freeborn girl (daughter of  convicts) Jane MCINTOSH  in 1921, however she died a year later - no children.  John and Elizabeth's daughter Sarah Jane Linsley went on to marry convict (Susan 1836) William Adams.  (Refer Adams above).
 

MARTIN

McDONALD

McLENNAN

William Murray MCLENNAN (occupation butcher) married Mary MCDONALD.   Their daughter Margaret MCLENNAN  married Frederick Charles KIMPTON at St Arnaud on 9th April 1890.
 

PHILLIPS

Elizabeth Cleave PHILLIPS (born c 1851 died 1929) married John William ALLEN in 1873. They lived in Richmond and one of their sons was Alfred Henry ALLEN. Elizabeth Cleave PHILLIPS was the daughter of John PHILLIPS and wife Elizabeth CLEAVE who lived in St Clears (?) Cornwall
 

SAUNDERS

refer SYMONDS below

SIMPSON

SMITH

SPRAWSON

STEFFANI

refer DEGENHARDT above
 

SYMONDS

We have in our family John SYMONDS (shipowner) and wife Sarah  SAUNDERS whose son William Edward SYMONDS born Great Yarmouth c 1838 married Emma Alice HALL (born Ballarat c 1856 to Stephen Keele HALL and wife Eliza MILLS) in 1875. Their child Alice May SYMONDS married Albert HARVEY in 1905. Symonds brothers and sister of Alice May were Alf Oscar Symonds, Bertram Henry Symonds, Charles Stephen Symonds, Frank Reg Symonds, Joe Symonds, and Mary Rose Symonds. The Symonds men had a bakery in St. Arnaud.
 

WHITELEY

In our family tree is Ann WHITELEY who married William Charles Maybury in 1854 in New South Wales. They had children named William, Francis, Elizabeth, Alfred, Sydney, Edwin, Henry, Ann, Mary, Charles and Sarah. Ann had previously given birth to Eleanor GORDON 21 Sept 1852 (father was George Augustus Gordon) - no record of any marriage between them.  (Why didn't they marry - Did he live in NSW?  Was he passing through? Were they too young?  Was he already married?)
 
 

WILKINSON

Refer BRIGHT above
 

YOUNG

William YOUNG (listed as Master Mariner) married widow Catherine DOYLE (nee Catherine MURRAY) in Hobart in 1881. Their child William Leslie YOUNG was born on 14 April 1881. Apparently William YOUNG (dad) was lost at sea three months before William Leslie was born - or so the family story goes!. (No details of sea disaster however). Catherine was first married to John DOYLE and their children were Elizabeth Ellen Doyle 1864, John Bernard Doyle 1866, Mary Catherine Doyle 1868, Susanna Jane Doyle 1870 and Laura Monica Doyle 1873.

William Leslie YOUNG (a French Polisher)  married Anita Grace ADAMS in New South Wales and they had three children -  Jean Eleanor YOUNG born 24th November 1910 (our Grandma - passed away August 2000 - 89 years) who married Ernest Edward HARVEY in 1923, an older brother Maxwell Arthur Jack YOUNG born 23rd March 1908, and younger sister Heather YOUNG (married Wallace MALCOLM) born 18th April, 1913.
 

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
Thank you to the following for their kind help:
*    Mr Ray Smith of WA for information on the Hockings and Leggos
*    Mr Ian Brothers of NSW for information about our convicts, Linsley, Clark, and Adams
*    Mr Jim Mead of VIC for information about Gouldson, Hocking and Crago
 
 

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