Elizabeth Ann RACHINGER

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 8 Apr 1912, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, 39 Church St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, 39 Church St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1915, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1917, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1918, 72 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, 72 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1921, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1922, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, 341 Timor St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1931, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1934, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1936, 25 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1937, 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1943, 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 May 1956, 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia

Elizabeth married Herbert James PAYNTER on 8 Apr 1912 in Methodist Parsonage, 300 Church St, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Herbert (son of Charles Frederick PAYNTER and Emma TELORE) was born on 3 Mar 1889 in Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; died on 28 Jul 1944 in 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 29 Jul 1944 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Dorothy PAYNTER was born on 1 Nov 1912 in 39 Church St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia; died on 24 Aug 1993 in Maroondah Hospital, Ringwood, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 27 Aug 1993 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia.
2. Noel James PAYNTER was born on 20 Mar 1915 in 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia; died on 13 Feb 1985 in Albury, New South Wales, Australia; was buried on 15 Feb 1985 in Albury Cemetery, Albury, New South Wales, Australia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Witness: 13 Oct 1890, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1903, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Oct 1908, 17 Lyons St north, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1911, 17 Lyons St north, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Abt 1923, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1931, 67 Littlewood St, Hampton, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Aug 1935, 67 Littlewood St, Hampton, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

The next letter is undated but states:
"We the undersigned residents of Broomfield, respectfully wish that you favourably consider our request to again place the Broomfield Schoolunderseparate control, thereby allowing the whole of the Broomfield children to attend the said school instead of compelling them on wet days towalk twomiles in the rain, as at present, and having to sit all day in their wet clothes. This winter the latter has seriously affected the healthof manyof the children and also greatly interfered with their attendance.
We also desire to draw your attention to the fact that there are children living in Broomfield who would be benefitted providing that you couldseeyour way clear to gratifying our request."
This was signed by John and also his two children Alfred and Walter.
They must have been successful as the next document is a list of the children and who would be moved on 1st September 1905 from 3rd class at No1719Broomfield to 4th class at No 2420 Allendale, and those who were staying at No 1719 in 3rd class. There are no Hetherington children listedbutthere is a map of Broomfield showing the position of the school and the families' houses, including two marked as Hetherington.

James married Alice HETHERINGTON on 15 Apr 1884 in Broomfield, Residence of John Hetherington, Victoria, Australia. Alice (daughter of John HETHERINGTON and Hannah Jane ARMSTRONG) was born on 14 Jan 1869 in Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia; died on 22 Oct 1908 in Lydiard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 24 Oct 1908 in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1903, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Oct 1908, 17 Lyons St north, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 1848, Switzerland
• Immigration: 1849, Frankfurt-am-Maine, Germany
• Immigration: 1852, England
• Immigration: 6 May 1853, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Naturalization: 29 Oct 1857, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Nov 1857, Yandoit, Victoria, Australia

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Occupation
Petition signed by GR in the Mount Alexander Mail:
AFFAIRS AT MOUNT FRANKLYN.
WE, the Undersigned, Inhabitants of Jim Crow and vicinity, having seen with deep regret the character of our Camp and its officers scandalized, byan individual calling himself a gentleman and a doctor!! in the Mount Alexander Mail of the 24th ultimo, hereby beg to express our satisfactionwith, and esteem for, the gentlemen alluded to, and our denial of the accusation brought ogainst them by J. B., in the following resolutions, passedat a Public Meeting, held at the Golden Age Hotel, Spring Creek, Mount Franklyn:
1st. That this meeting have very great pleasure in having an opportunity of publicly expressing our satisfaction with the gentlemen of the Camp, aswell for their attention and duty, also their sobriety and general good conduct.
2nd. That this meeting strongly censures the writer of the letter referred to, and denounce him a man unworthy of credit or public confidence.
3rd. That this meeting have to regret that such a letter should find a place in the Mount Alexander Mail, without the Editor first ascertaining thecharacter of the writer.
4th; That this meeting sincerely request the Government will institute strict inquiry into the cha racter of the writer (or rather concoctor) ofthe letter referred to, and also to the standing and occupation of the party who wrote it for him, as well in this locality as in that of ForestCreek, the only two places in which J. B. has been imposing on the Medical Board in this colony, and taking advantage of the public by his quackery,previous to taking notice of his lying and uncalled for assertions.
5th. That this meeting are of opinion the aforesaid letter is a gross, slanderous, and false accusation against gentlemen of the highest honor andrespectability, who have the full confidence of the inhabitants of this district, and strongly condemn the whole of the report by J. B. as base inthe extreme. The above resolutions were put to the meeting, and carried unanimously. (Signed) John C. McCausland, Chairman. B. Buttner, Postmaster.W. King, Storekeeper. J. Brabant, Storekeeper. John C. McCausland. Hutchison & Cannon, Storekeepers. John Harvey, Surgeon. D. Rossetty, Storekeeper.Page, Baker. L. N. Gui, Newsman. Jamieson & Co., Storekeepers. Chas. Hutton, Watchmaker. Samuel Lugg, Baker. Robert Paterson, Miner. Henry Flaherty,Miner. John Wiren, Storekeeper. Eugene Guillaume, Storekeeper. Charles J. Barker, Sawyer. Thomas Calaghan. Sawyer. Ferdinand Bohn. John Priest,Builder. James Magrath, Professor of Music. Henry Hutton, Watchmaker. Walter Hutton, Watchmaker.

Naturalization
Memorial for Naturalization, 26th October 1857:
Memorials from Guillaume Rachinger, Alphonse Terrier and Augustine Gelinier.
To His Excellency Sir Henry Barkly Knight
The Memorial of Guillaume Rachinger of Daylesford in the County of Talbot in the Colony of Victoria, Storekeeper
Respectfully sheweth
1 That your Memorialist is a native of the District of Mittelfranken in the Kingdom of Bavaria and was educated for the profession or trade of aMerchant.
2. That your Memorialist is twenty nine years of age and is unmarried.
3. That your Memorialist left Bavaria in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty eight and proceeded for Switzerland for the purpose ofobtaining instruction in the french and english Languages and your Memorialist continued to reside in that Country until the year one thousand eighthundred and forty nine when your Memorialist proceeded to Frankfurt on the maine where your Memorialist resided until the beginning of the year onethousand eight hundred and fifty two.
4. That in the early part of the year one thousand eight hundred and fifty two your Memorialist left Franchefort on the Maine and proceeded toEngland.
5. That your Memorialist continued resident in England until the Month of January one thousand eight hundred and fifty three, when your Memorialistsailed on the twenty second day of the said Month of January from the port of Liverpool for the said Colony of Victoria in the British Ship "PrinceArthur" and arrived at Melbourne in the said Colony on the six day of May in the Same year.
6. That your Memorialist begs to refer your Excellency to the annexed Certificate of Character and of the correctness of the statements hereincontained from respectable persons to whom your Memorialist has been known for at least three years.
7. That your memorialist is desirous of settling in the said Colony of Victoria and of purchasing and holding real estate in the said ColonyofVictoria and that on these grounds your Memorialist is desirous of availing himself of the privileges granted to him by the Act of the Governorand Legislative Council of New South Wales herewith of Victoria, Number thirty nine.
8. That your Memorialist therefor respectfully requests your Excellency may be pleased to grant to your Memorialist a Certificate under theprovision of the said Act conferring on your memorialist the privileges of a natural born British subject with such restrictions as to yourExcellency may seem meet.
And your Memorialist will as in ever duty bound pray.
Signed Guillaume Rachinger.
We the undersigned persons being respectively resident in or near daylesford in the County of Talbot in the Colony of Victoria having read theforegoing Memorial of Guillaume Rachinger Do hereby certify that we believe him to be a person of good character and that the statements containedin his Memorial are true as far as we know or believe and that we have known him at least three years.
John Howe, Storekeeper, Daylesford
James Brown, Hotel Keeper, Daylesford
Charles Carroll, Storekeeper, Daylesford
James Kenney White, Storekeeper, Daylesford
Thomas Milroy, Storekeeper, Daylesford
Robert Farrow, Storekeeper, Daylesford
Dated the twenty third day of October One Thousand eight hundred and fifty seven.

The Memorials of Alphonse Terrier and Augustine Gelinier also had the same witnesses. Alphonse was a hotel keeper in Daylesford and came fromFrance. He also arrived on the same ship as Guillaume, the Prince Arthur. Augustine was a butcher in Daylesford and came from France also. Hearrived on the American ship "Washington Irving" which sailed from London.
All three were granted naturalization on 29th October 1857. They took the oath on the 10th December 1857., Naturalisation

Robbery
Daylesford Advocate, Thursday 14th June, 1860:
25 POUND REWARD
Whereas late on Sunday night, the 10th instant, or early on the Monday morning, some person or persons unknown burglariously broke open the store ofE. Guillaume, storekeeper, Wombat Flat, Dayleford, and stole therefrom sundry articles of Drapery, Boots and Shoes, &c.
Notice is hereby given, that the above reward will be paid to any one who will give information that will lead to their apprehension and conviction,on application to
E. Guillaume, Storekeeper.
Wombat Flat, Daylesford.
Daylesford, June 13th, 1860.

Report in Daylesford Advocate, 14 June 1860:
OUTRAGES - A few days ago we recorded a robbery at Rooney’s store, and this week we have to report that the premises of mr. Guilaume [sic], onWombat Flat, were burglariously entered on Sunday night last, and property stolen to the value of 100 pounds. We very much fear that these are but acommencement of a series of outrages the commission of which is favored by dark wet nights, and the want of a lockup.
Another nuisance which is a disgrace to the township, and that is the violent and disgusting language which is permitted to assail the ears of bothmen and women when sitting even at their own firesides. During several nights of last week, and on Monday night last, the northern end ofVincent-street was disturbed by some fellows who made the air resound with their drunken and obscene yells, and who continued to do so for fully anhour.
Report of robbery in Bendigo Advertiser, Monday 2 July 1860:

ROBBERIES AT DAYLESFORD. - The Advocate mentions several daring robberies:-"The premises of Mr. Wardle, in Connell's Gully, were burglariouslyentered on Saturday morning, about two o'clock, and drapery goods to the amount of about £25 were stolen. The thieves, who by the traces they haveleft behind them, appear to belong to the same gang that entered Guillaume's store a few days ago, effected an entrance by boring through theweatherboards with a large gimlet, and then cutting the lining. They had to remove some heavy casks which impeded their way, and all this was donewithout arousing any of the inmates. An attempt was made on the premises of Mr. Westwood, of Wombat Flat, on the night of Sunday last, but thethieves after making three separate visits did not succeed in gaining an entrance. Two boards were taken out from the front, but the robbers werefoiled by the vigilance of a little dog, whose loud barking aroused the inmates." So serious was the insecurity of property, owing, it is said, tothe want of adequate police protection that a public meeting had been called to establish a "Vigilance Committee."

*New [PROP]
This ad for the sale of the Hotel and Store was in the Mount Alexander Mail. It also ran on 10 and 17 September.
MONDAY, 4th OCTOBER.
DISSOLUTION OF PARTNERSHIP.
Peremptory and Unreserved Sale of Freehold Lands, National Hotel, Furniture, &c., wholesale and retail Stores, Stock in Trade, &c., Wombat Flat,Daylesford.
RICHARDS AND CAREY (late Cohen and Richards) have received instructions from Messrs Terrier and Guillaume, in consequence of their intention ofdissolving partnership, to sell by public auction, on the ground, on Monday, 4th October, and following days, until the whole is cleared out,without the least reserve,
The whole of their Valuable Business Premises, and Stock in Trade, etc.,
Comprising LOT 1.
ALLOTMENT 3 OF SECTION 31, Daylesford, Containing 23 Perches, upon which is erected the well- known
NATIONAL HOTEL, WOMBAT FLAT,
Containing, Large Bar Bar Parlor Dining Room Billiard Room 8 Bed Rooms Kitchen Stables
And many other conveniences suitable to the requirements of an Hotel carrying; on an extensive and profitable business. At the back of the Hotel isa neat Iron Cottage, containing 2 rooms
The FURNITURE, which is nearly new, together with a magnificent Billiard Table, and Lamps complete, upon the most modern and improved principle, andwhich far exceeds any Table yet seen on the Diggings. Also, The Wines, Spirits, Ales, Porter, &, will be sold im mediately after the Hotel.
LOT 2 ALLOTMENT 11 OF SECTION 29, Daylesford, 1 Rood 14 and a half Perches, on which is erected Messrs. T & G's
GENERAL WHOLESALE AND RETAIL STORE,
in which they have been doing an extensive Trade. At the back of the Store is a small tenement now let at 3 shil lings per week. Also, at the side,and fronting the main road, a Dwelling, containing a Neat Shop, 2 Rooms, Kitchen, Stables, Outhouses, &c., now realising 10 shil lings per week.After this will be sold their Large and wcll-selected Stock in the General Store, comprising
Groceries, Drapery, Hosiery, Haberdashery, Ironmongery, &c.
The Holel is situated on the Main Road, in a populous and thriving district in the immediate vicinity of the Wombat Quartz Reef, is doing a verygood trade, which might be considerably improved, if in the hands of an enterprising and attentive landlord. The Store is also situated on the MainRoad, directly opposite the Hotel.
The Auctioneers, in directing public attention to the sale of the above most valuable properties, feel confident in saying that a more desirableopportunity for the investment of capital is not likely to offer again in the district of Daylesford, as they will positively be sold withoutreserve, in order to dissolve the partnership. For any one anxious to commence business this sale offers unusual advantages, as the premises arearranged for their respective trades, and a good connection is already well established. Beginners with small capital, industry, and perseve rance,can invest here with the certainty of realising an independence, without the slightest fear of loss or dis appointment.
Title perfect Terms easy, at sale., Property

Guillaume married Margaretha BENDER on 27 Sep 1859 in Church of England, Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. Margaretha (daughter of Johannes BENDER and Anna Elisabetha SCHMITT) was born on 28 Feb 1833 in Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany; died on 13 Jun 1917 in Castlemaine Hospital, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 15 Jun 1917 in Franklinford Cemetery, Franklinford, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Mar 1833, St Pankratius Church, Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany
• Immigration: 30 Dec 1854, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 21 Aug 1893, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Naturalization: 1909

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 14 May 1843, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Residence: 24 Aug 1865, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Immigration: 2 Dec 1865, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 May 1867, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 31 Aug 1868, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 10 Jun 1871, Registrar’s Office, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1882, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 15 Apr 1884, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Jul 1889, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1903, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1905, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1912, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Elizabeth died intestate but owned land of 20 acres in the Parish of Yarrowee, County of Grant (Allotment 14, Section 6) which was rented out for grazing. 'Land is fenced but otherwise unimproved and there are no buildings or improvements thereon and the same is used for grazing purposes. Land is of very poor quality and is valued at cost of 1 pound 10 shillings per acre. Land is rented at 2 pound a year. Total value 30 pounds.' There was no personal estate.

Peter's attests to himself, and John, Joseph and Thomas George Armstrong, Elizabeth's brothers, all farmers at Cambrian Hill, and her sister Hannah Jane Hetherington, also of Cambrian Hill, as her only next of kin surviving. Peter also states that he is the only person entitled to the administration of Elizabeth’s estate.
Hannah's husband, John Hetherington, butcher, of Broomfield, stated that he had freehold property at Broomfield consisting of three quarters of an acre to the value of fifty pounds.

Peter died on 4 January 1890, presumably before he carried out the administration of his daughter’s estate because on 21 January 1890, brother John, along with brothers Joseph, Thomas George and married sister Jane Hetherington, all of Cambrian Hill, state that they are the only persons lawfully entitled to share in the distribution of the estate. John also seeks to be appointed as the administrator.

Age, 21 January 1890: Probate notice.
Notice is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, an APPLICATION will be made to the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria in its Probate Jurisdiction, that administration of the ESTATE of ELIZABETH ANN ARMSTRONG, late of Cambrian Hill, in the said colony, spinster, deceased intestate, be granted to John Armstrong, of Cambrian Hill aforesaid, engine driver, brother and one of the next of kin of the said deceased.
Dated this twentieth day of January, 1890.
S. F. Mann, Applicant’s Proctor, Ballarat.

On 1 February, John Wilkinson Armstrong, Windermere St, Ballarat, mason, signs an affidavit stating that he has property worth 50 pounds, consisting of household furniture and effects. This John is Elizabeth’s uncle, brother of her father Peter Armstrong. John Hetherington also signed another affidavit, this time stating that he has household furniture in Broomfield to the value of fifty pounds. Brother John is granted administrator of Elizabeth’s estate on 14 February 1890.

John married Hannah Jane ARMSTRONG on 31 Aug 1868 in Cambrian Hill, Residence of Peter Armstrong, Victoria, Australia. Hannah (daughter of Peter ARMSTRONG and Elizabeth STEPHENSON) was born on 8 Nov 1850 in Newhouses, Lambley, Northumberland, England; died on 10 Apr 1917 in Broomfield, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 12 Apr 1917 in Creswick Cemetery, Creswick, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Chapel New House, Lambley, Northumberland, England
• Immigration: 3 Nov 1857, Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 31 Aug 1868, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 10 Jun 1871, Registrar’s Office, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 16 Nov 1886, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 17 Feb 1889, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Jul 1889, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1903, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1905, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1912, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1915, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1916, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1917, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Probate of sister Elizabeth, 11 July 1889.
Elizabeth died intestate but owned land of 20 acres in the Parish of Yarrowee, County of Grant (Allotment 14, Section 6) which was rented out for grazing. 'Land is fenced but otherwise unimproved and there are no buildings or improvements thereon and the same is used for grazing purposes. Land is of very poor quality and is valued at cost of 1 pound 10 shillings per acre. Land is rented at 2 pound a year. Total value 30 pounds.' There was no personal estate.

Peter's attests to himself, and John, Joseph and Thomas George Armstrong, Elizabeth's brothers, all farmers at Cambrian Hill, and her sister Hannah Jane Hetherington, also of Cambrian Hill, as her only next of kin surviving. Peter also states that he is the only person entitled to the administration of Elizabeth’s estate.
Hannah's husband, John Hetherington, butcher, of Broomfield, stated that he had freehold property at Broomfield consisting of three quarters of an acre to the value of fifty pounds.

Peter died on 4 January 1890, presumably before he carried out the administration of his daughter’s estate because on 21 January 1890, brother John, along with brothers Joseph, Thomas George and married sister Jane Hetherington, all of Cambrian Hill, state that they are the only persons lawfully entitled to share in the distribution of the estate. John also seeks to be appointed as the administrator.

Age, 21 January 1890: Probate notice.
Notice is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof, an APPLICATION will be made to the Supreme Court of the colony of Victoria in its Probate Jurisdiction, that administration of the ESTATE of ELIZABETH ANN ARMSTRONG, late of Cambrian Hill, in the said colony, spinster, deceased intestate, be granted to John Armstrong, of Cambrian Hill aforesaid, engine driver, brother and one of the next of kin of the said deceased.
Dated this twentieth day of January, 1890.
S. F. Mann, Applicant’s Proctor, Ballarat.

On 1 February, John Wilkinson Armstrong, Windermere St, Ballarat, mason, signed an affidavit stating that he has property worth 50 pounds, consisting of household furniture and effects. This John is Elizabeth’s uncle, brother of her father Peter Armstrong. John Hetherington also signed another affidavit, this time stating that he has household furniture in Broomfield to the value of fifty pounds. Brother John is granted administrator of Elizabeth’s estate on 14 February 1890.

John married Maria RENNER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Dec 1798, Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany

Johannes married Anna Elisabetha SCHMITT on 3 Nov 1824 in St Pankratius Church, Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany. Anna (daughter of Ludwig SCHMITT and Maria ANFANG) was born on 5 Dec 1796 in Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany; died on 2 Apr 1870 in Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany; was buried on 4 Apr 1870 in Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Dec 1796, St Pankratius Church, Wernborn, Hessen-Nassau, Germany

Notes:

Margaretha referred to her mother as Elizabeth in Australia. Margaretha was also baptised as Anna Margaretha and so were many women in the villageof Wernborn. They seemed to drop the Anna and become known by their middle name.
Anna's husband died 2 months before the birth of her daughter Margaretha

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Mar 1812, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 12 Jul 1834, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 12 Jul 1834, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 7 Nov 1840, High Wolf Cleugh, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 14 May 1843, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England

Thomas married Sarah LOWES on 12 Jul 1834 in Alston, Cumberland, England. Sarah (daughter of John LOWES and Sarah WATSON) was born on 15 Jun 1810 in Ayle, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England; died on 1 Aug 1889 in Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England; was buried on 2 Aug 1889 in Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Jun 1810, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 12 Jul 1834, Alston, Cumberland, England
• Residence: 12 Jul 1834, Alston, Cumberland, England
• Residence: 7 Nov 1840, High Wolf Cleugh, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 14 May 1843, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Throssel Hall, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Carrshield, West Allen (High), Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Nov 1821, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Wylam Hills, Wylam, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 3 Jul 1848, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Chapel New House, Lambley, Northumberland, England
• Immigration: 25 Mar 1855, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Hiscock's Gully, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 31 Aug 1868, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 21 Nov 1872, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1882, Broomfield, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Jul 1889, Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Ballarat Star, 15 February 1890 advertisement for sale of land, etc.
FRIDAY, 7th MARCH,
At 12 o’clock.
GRAND ORCHARD AND GOOD DWELLING
HOUSE, &c.,
WITH
SUNDRY GRAZING PROPERTIES,
IN THE
PARISH OF YARROWEE,
All of which are Well Fenced and Watered.
To be Offered in Lots.
FURNITURE AND EFFECTS, LIVE STOCK,
FARMING IMPLEMENTS,
JAM-MAKING UTENSILS,
And
FINE CABINET ORGAN.
In the Estate of PETER ARMSTRONG, Deceased.
J NOBLE WILSON (The Ballarat Trustees Executors & Agency Company Limited) will sell at auction, as above,
The several PROPERTIES belonging to the late Mr Peter Armstrong, situate in the parish of Yarrowee.
Lot I. That splendid orchard called “Alston Gardens,” about 4 acres, being part freehold and part under residence area; deeply trenched, grand soil, and trees in full bearing; with 7-room cottage thereon, kitchen, and jam-making premises, with all necessary appliances; stable, shed, pigsty, &c. This property is well protected from the north winds, and is only about 4½ miles from Ballarat.
Lot II. 1½ acres, residence area, with small cottage thereon, adjoining Mr Jenkin's property, and next but one to the above.
Lot III. About 1 acre, held under garden license, immediately opposite Lot I.
Lot IV. About 11 acres, on the Napoleons road, being partly freehold and part held under 49th section, and nearly opposite Lot I.
Lot V. About 20 acres, held under 49th section; all rents paid, and numbered allotment 16 of section IV on parish plan of Yarrowee.
Lot VI. About 12a 2r 6p, adjoining Lot V., facing the Napoleons road, and is held under grazing license.
Lot VII, 20 acres, being allotment 14 of section 6, parish of Yarrowee, adjoining the property of Mr J. Hetherington.
Lot VIII. 40 acres, held under 49th section; all rents paid, marked on parish plan as allotments 42a and 42b.
Lot IX. 95a 2r 22p, freehold, being allotment 131s, parish of Yarrowee; splendidly fenced (post, two rail, and wire), good grazing land, also well timbered.
Lot X. 111 acres, held under grazing license, well fenced with post and five and six wires. There is good timber on this property; part of it marked on parish plan as allotment 131v.
Being an executors' sale, the properties must be sold, and will be offered in lots as above.
The FURNITURE comprises chiffonier, sofa, tables, pier-glass, chairs, chest of drawers, looking glass, bedstead, &c.
The Live Stock consist of horse, 3 milch cows, steer, heifer, and bull calf. There are also spring-cart, dray, quantity tools, and other sundries.
Titles can be inspected at the office of Mr S. F. Mann, Solicitor.
Further particulars obtainable at the office of The Ballarat Trustees Executors & Agency Company Limited, Camp street.

INVENTORY
Tulloch and McCarthy owned the Royal Standard Brewery in Ballarat.
S. Cohen and Sons, Ironmongers were situated at 105 Sturt Street, Ballarat.
McVitty, A., and Co., Timber and Produce Merchants, Doveton street south, Ballarat.
Andrew Fotheringham, blacksmith, died in 1899 in Cambrian Hill.

Peter married Elizabeth STEPHENSON on 3 Jul 1848 in Allison's Bank Toll House, Gretna Green, Dumfriesshire, Scotland. Elizabeth (daughter of Joseph STEPHENSON and Hannah TODD) was born about 1822 in New Shield, Alston, Cumberland, England; died on 13 Sep 1897 in Broomfield, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 15 Sep 1897 in Buninyong Cemetery, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 10 Mar 1822, Alston, Cumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841
• Residence: 3 Jul 1848, Alston, Cumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Chapel New House, Lambley, Northumberland, England
• Immigration: 3 Nov 1857, Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

WESTERN MORNING NEWS, Thursday 28 December 1922

ROMANTIC WEDDINGS. FACTS ABOUT GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.
The announcement that the once-famous smithy at Gretna Green has been condemned as a danger to motorists, and is to be removed, is, it seems, not altogether accurate. The buildings made historic by the runaway marriages of former times were converted into a curio shop a number of years ago, when the blacksmith removed his residence to a house across the road. It this house, and not the older one, which is now sought to remove.
As the scene many hundreds of runaway marriages, among them those of many titled persons and others who late in life, rose to fame, Gretna Green will go down to history as a rather romantic spot. References crop up from time to time. It is only few years ago that a batch of the original marriage certificates of between the years 1825 and 1854 was sold by auction in London. That batch contained some illustrious names, and must have been of high interest to not a few noted families.
In the early decades of last century, and no doubt prior to that, runaway marriages seem to have been common enough. The couples always sought the border as the only place where they could be married with some show of legality without the necessity of publication of banns. But all of them did not go to Gretna Green for that purpose. There were obliging “priests” at other places, such Paxton, Lamberton Toll, and Coldstream. It must not be supposed that all these marriages were of a clandestine kind. They were not. The stern Nonconformist type of religion practised for generations in these wild moorland districts made marriage for certain couples impossible at their own parish church. Others disliked publicity given to a local wedding. Many attempts were made by such bodies as the General Assembly to suppress the whole system which made runaway marriages possible, but without success. It was not until 1856, when Lord Brougham (who himself was married at Gretna) carried an Act through Parliament making such marriages illegal unless the persons concerned had resided in Scotland 21 days, that a stop was put the proceedings.
At the beginning of last century David Long, "the Gretna blacksmith," was the man to whom fugitive lovers went to be married. He joined hundreds.
When the railway was carried to Gretna business in the matrimonial line, seems to have been brisk, and at times fifty marriage ceremonies would be gone through by a single "priest," so-called, whom there were no fewer than four competing for business. They actually had touts at the station.
The most famous of the last who held sway until the passing of the Act was John Murray, of Sark Toll Bar. The toll bar is gone, just as the smithy may disappear. Marriages, however, did not take place at the smithy. They did either at the toll bar or at one other of the inns, one of which had for its sign a man and woman clasping hands over an anvil.
As to fees, there was, of course, no fixed sum. Those who tied the nuptial knot would take a shilling or less from poor people. A half-crown was accounted a satisfactory sum, and a seven-shilling fee was looked upon as a stroke of luck. But the fees did not cover the whole of the expenditure. The man who performed the ceremony, if it can be so styled, kept an inn, where the newly-wedded couples, when they could afford it, spent a good deal of money in the entertainment of the “company,'' and in the main for the benefit of the landlord.