Ruby Beryl WRIGHT

Ruby married Francis Clifford MANNIX in 1932 in Victoria, Australia. Francis died in 1954 in Brighton, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1903, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Sep 1957, Cudgee, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

William married Mary Bickley and they had three children. After she died in 1910, he married her sister Venus in 1913 and they had threechildrenalso. Mary had been the same age as him but Venus was 12 years younger than her sister.

William married Mary BICKLEY in 1902 in Panmure, Victoria, Australia. Mary (daughter of Joseph Robert BICKLEY and Charlotte JENNINGS) was born in 1880 in Coleraine, Victoria, Australia; died in 1910 in Princetown, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

They had only be married for 2 years when Eliza died, leaving Ellis with a young child - William was only one year old.

Ellis is mentioned in his father-in-law's probate of 1892 as being owed 42 pounds in wages as a labourer. Ellis must have worked for Edward onthefarm at Allansford.

Ellis remarried in 1898 and he and his wife Susan had three boys between 1898 and 1903. Susan died in 1907, leaving Ellis again with a young family.

Ellis died in 1934. His three sons by Susan all died in the same year - 1967 - age 62, 67 and 69 respectively.

Ellis married Eliza BRISTOW on 16 May 1878 in Wesleyan Church, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. Eliza (daughter of Edward BRISTOW and Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN) was born on 20 Jun 1847 in Collingwood, Victoria, Australia; died on 24 Dec 1880 in Allansford, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 25 Dec 1880 in Warrnambool Cemetery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Aug 1847, St James Church of England, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 16 May 1878, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Eliza was baptised at St James, Melbourne, with Thomas Francis Paynter as her father.
She was known as Eliza Bristow, not Paynter, later on and her father's name on her marriage and death certificate is Edward Bristow. Her ownmarriagecertificate, Mary's death certificate, Edward's death certificate and Thomas' death certificate and probate all indicate that Eliza was aBristow andEdward's son.

Joseph married Charlotte JENNINGS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ellis married Mary CREEK. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 19 Mar 1819, Eastrington, Yorkshire, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Gilberdike, Yorkshire, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1847, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 30 Mar 1850, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Dec 1850, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Banyan St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 16 Aug 1851, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 25 Nov 1854, Villiers County, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 13 Nov 1855, Villiers County, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 9 May 1856, Wangoom, Allansford, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 25 Sep 1863, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Event Memos from GEDCOM Import...

Note
The family story is that Edward and Mary were well-to-do (even when they arrived in Australia), were very charitable, entertained a lot and spent alot and used up all their money.
Edward owned property in Collingwood between 1845 and 1848.
He is listed in the Rate Books in 1845 as the owner of two properties in Close No. 3, one the 4th house in the Close, a wooden house with 2 roomsand the other was the 8th house in the Close, a wattle and clay house with 2 rooms. He is listed as the ratepayer and occupier of both but in theValuations for 1845, the wattle and clay house (valued at 4 pounds) is occupied by him and the other occupied by William Stephens (valued at twopounds). His occupation is given as shoemaker.
In the Rate Books for 1848 and the Valuations for 1847/48, Edward is living in the wooden house but it is now owned by John Devereux and Edward ownsanother house that is unoccupied, three doors away. The Rate Books and the Valuations do not quite correspond in their listing of the houses andtheir owners and occupiers in the Close for those years.
He is not listed again after those years.
Port Phillip Government Gazette, No 47, November 22 1848 published a list of purchasers of land in Warrnambool at a land auction that took place inMelbourne on 27th September 1848. Among the purchasers was Edward Bristow, who paid £23.0.0 for Lot 13 Banyan Street with a deposit of 2 pounds 6shillings. He was resident in Melbourne at the time.
The Crown Grant of the land was granted on 24th November 1848 to Edward Bristow, being two roods in the Town of Warrnambool, Allotment 13, Section9, facing Banyan Street.
Edward sold the land and house for fifty pounds to Thomas Hughes
Warrnambool Examiner:
"The Warrnambool Road Committee has accepted the tender of Mr E. Bristow for clearing the road from Warrnambool to Allansford."
17th December 1853:
"Notice - we the undersigned, having the contract for clearing the road from the Town Boundary to the Bridge at Allansford, do hereby caution allparties against cutting and removing timber on this line of road - Edward Bristow, H. Freeman.
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Villiers and Heytesbury Agricultural Association Show prizes - for the best sample of spring wheat - First Prize £5.00 Mr E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, 19th June 1855 & 4th September 1855:
"Patriotic Fund for the District of Warrnambool - E. Bristow - £1.10.0 [he was the thirteenth listed of sixteen, starting at the top with £5.00]
Warrnambool Examiner:
"Immense turnip - we saw yesterday at the stores of Messrs Rutledge, Macgregor & Co., a swede turnip weighing 30 pounds and measuring three feet twoinches in circumference. This immense vegetable which is perfectly sound was grown on the farm of Mr Bristow, Allansford Road."
Warrnambool Examiner:
Villiers & Heytesbury Agricultural Association - entries received for Best 10 Acres of Wheat - E. Bristow."
Edwin [sic] Bristow, farmer, Church of England, was proposed a patron of the local Allansford National School.
Warrnambool Examiner, August 26, 1862:
"Tallangatta Farmers Common. A very numerously attended meeting of farmers was held at Allansford Hotel, Allansford, yesterday, for the purposes ofappointing managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common. The following managers were elected - G. Goldstraw, N McDonald and E. Bristow."
Warrnambool Examiner, June 7, 1864:
A notice signed by Edward Bristow and the other 2 managers of the Tallangatta Farmers Common re arrears to be paid. It refers to "Edward Bristow,Treasurer, Dry Lake".
Ratepayers Books 1874-1880
Bristow, Edward, farmer, freehold, 80 acres, Wangoom
Bristow, Edward, farmer, owned by Coulstock, Jas., house & 60 acres
Rates were £3 for both properties.

Weekly Times article on the history of Warrnambool, 31st August 1929:
"In the seventies - Mrs Simpson bought Bristow's farm, Wangoom, at £4/10 an acre, and 49 acres, part of the Dry Lake, at £12 an acre.

Warrnambool Land Purchases to 1856:
Bristow, E. Section 9, Lot 13, Banyan St [see map]

Index to Warrnambool Ratepayers Books
Name Residence Land owned Year
Bristow, E.-Allotment 13 Section 91858
-"1859
-"1860
W. Lock"1862
Robert Mason"1862
F.P. Stevens"1862
Dry Lake*"1863
*Dry Lake is close to Allansford

Edward married Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN about 1847 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Mary (daughter of William MOUNSTEVEN and Fanny Hicks SMITH) was born on 11 Oct 1804 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; died on 11 Oct 1885 in Rosevale, Allansford, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Oct 1885 in Warrnambool Cemetery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Jun 1805, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Immigration.
They came to Australia in 1842 on board the "Samuel Boddington". Mary must have been pregnant, as her baby, Charles Boddington was born on the 5th January, 7 days before their landing in Melbourne. The baby's middle name was taken from the name of the ship - Charles Boddington Paynter. He was christened 3 days later, but there is no record of him after that.

Edward Bristow was also on board the same boat, so Mary would have met him then. He was 15 years younger than her. They claimed to have married in1843 or 1847 and Mary's 2 children - William and Eliza- were born in 1843 and 1847 in Collingwood (where Edward was also living). They were baptised as Paynters with Thomas named as their father, but were later known as Bristow, so perhaps they were Edward's children after all.

They moved to Warrnambool in 1848/49 and had another child, John, in 1850, born there. Mary took William and Eliza to Warrnambool with her and Edward, but all her other children, (James, Henry, John and Francis) who were the only ones still alive, went with Thomas to Carngham. Another daughter Mary must have stayed in Melbourne as she married Francis Ford there in 1853, but then they also moved to Warrnambool.
Thomas claimed in his will that he had not seen his wife for 20 years, so they must have still been legally married.

On Mary's death certificate her children are listed as:
1st marriage
Thomas William (dec.)
James Camborne 59
Mary (dec.)
Henry Mounsteven (dec.)
John Edward 62
George (dec.)
Francis (dec.)
2nd marriage
William (dec.)
Eliza (dec.)
John 35