Margaret Joan PAYNTER

Margaret married Leslie Alex BROWN [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Bef 11 Jul 1927, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Aft Jul 1927, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 14 Apr 1961, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Charles married Myrtle Isobel RAYNER on 21 Oct 1916 in All Saints New Cathedral, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Myrtle (daughter of Archibald RAYNER and Rachel MURDOCH) was born in 1897 in Neilborough, Victoria, Australia; died in Aug 1980 in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 7 Aug 1980 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Dec 1856, Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 29 May 1871, Carngham, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 Jul 1876, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 2 Dec 1877, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 23 Nov 1880, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 28 Aug 1885, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Apr 1886, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Jul 1887, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 8 Aug 1888, 40 Ascot St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Mar 1889, Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1890, 54 Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1 Nov 1891, Urquhart St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Charles married Emma TELORE on 31 Jan 1877 in Sulky Gully, Residence of John Berryman, Victoria, Australia. Emma (daughter of James GRIFITH and Margaret THOMPSON) was born on 5 Oct 1855 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; died on 7 Jul 1935 in 33 Connell St, Hawthorn; was buried on 9 Jul 1935 in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 18 Jul 1876, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 2 Dec 1877, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 23 Nov 1880, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Mar 1886, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 13 Jul 1889, Little Lyons Street, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1890, 54 Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 23 Aug 1893, 73 Urquhart St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Jan 1895, 90 Urquhart St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 13 Jun 1902, Cardigan, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1903, Nightingale St, Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1905, 45 Raglan St South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1906, 45 Raglan St South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1908, 45 Raglan St South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1915, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1917, 49 Grove Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1918, 72 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1921, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia

Archibald married Rachel MURDOCH. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 May 1833, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1854, Upper Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Nov 1855, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 28 Jan 1859, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 13 Feb 1859, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Nov 1860, Lochiel, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1864, Ledcourt Station, Stawell (Pleasant Creek), Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1866, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia

John married Jane Adelaide PAYNTER on 4 Dec 1854 in St John's Church of England, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. Jane (daughter of Charles Henry PAYNTER and Fanny PETER) was born about 1833 in Church Town, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England; died on 29 Jan 1859 in Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 1 Feb 1859 in Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 May 1833, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 May 1850, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1854, Upper Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Inquest
The Inquest was held on 31 January 1859, at the Burrumbeet Hotel. The Coroner held the inquest with a jury of twelve men, and their verdict was:
Her death took place on the twenty ninth instant at Burrumbeet and was caused by extreme haemorrhage during her confinement on same day - and we believe her life might have been saved by timely medical and surgical attendance.
There were three witnesses at the Inquest. One was Jane’s sister-in-law, Jane Paynter (married to James Camborne Paynter - brother of John Edward) who had been present through the labour, birth and death. The other two witnesses were Margaret Smart, the midwife who delivered the baby, and Dr John Creelman, who arrived half an hour after Jane had died. The writing is very hard to read but I have managed to transcribe it all.

Deposition of Margaret Smart of Burrumbeet:
I act as a maternity nurse, whenever I can get an engagement as such. I have known the deceased about a year, and she asked me a few months ago to attend upon her in confinement and I said I would give her a fair care, but if there was anything wrong I should have a doctor. I was called on Saturday last by Mr Paynter to come to the deceased who was taken bad in the forenoon. I found the deceased in labour and she told me that her waters had broken and labour pains continued, and in about half an hour after I came, the deceased was delivered of a male child. I freed the child from the mother and I gave the child to Mrs Fulton [or Hutton] and attended to the mother for about half an hour, but the afterbirth hadn't come away and I then asked Mr Paynter to get a Doctor and he asked me if there were was anything wrong and I said I thought there was not any danger as yet - but I would like her to be relieved.
Mr Paynter went away for the doctor and a short time after he left, the deceased said she had severe pains in her back but there was no bitterness. She then complained of being faint and told me she thought more was coming from her than should be and I said I thought that there was too much blood coming - but I could not do anything - but that the doctor would soon be here. The deceased had a drink of tea, hotter than lukewarm. She then said she was getting fainter - I supported her head in my arms and bathed her temples with vinegar and water, but she said she was dying and she never spoke more and died immediately after.

Evidence of Jane Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am Sister in law to the deceased - we were married to Brothers. The deceased was bad all Friday night, but not in regular labour. Labour pains commenced about eight or nine o'clock A.M. on last Saturday. We then desired her Husband to go for Mrs Fulton who was our nearest neighbour and then for Mrs Smart. Mrs Fulton came immediately after and Mrs Smart came in about half an hour after. Deceased got worse with pains and was delivered of a boy about half an hour after Mrs Smart’s arrival. Mrs Smart attended to the deceased and in about half an hour she began to get bad and the Doctor was sent for immediately. Deceased continued to get worse and worse and she died about half an hour after the doctor was sent - and the Doctor arrived in about half an hour after her death. Deceased asked me to see what was coming from her as she thought there was more than there ought to be. I did look, but could not say there was too much as I never saw such before, but there was a great deal of blood about her.

Evidence of John Creelman, Surgeon, of Lake Learmonth:
I am a legally qualified medical practitioner and was called to see the deceased about midday on last Saturday and I arrived at the deceased's hut about 1 o'clock P.M. and found the deceased had died as I heard about half an hour before I had arrived. On examination of the deceased I found that the placenta had not come away and the umbilical cord untied and lying on the thigh of the deceased. I found a great quantity of fluid and blood in the bed around the person of the deceased. There were not any coagula of blood at all that I could see, and I judged from appearances of the bed clothes and countenance and sheets that excessive haemorrhage had taken place and which was the cause of her death.

James married Margaret THOMPSON on 10 Jan 1860 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Margaret was born about 1824 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; died on 5 Apr 1908 in Strzelecki, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 7 Apr 1908 in Warragul Cemetery, Warragul, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

19 July 1909, statement by Jamesina and Adelaide:
The said deceased was our mother and she informed us that she had been married but had separated from her husband many years ago. That we the deponents resided with the said deceased continuously all our lives until the deponent Adelaide Maud Buckley married in the year one thousand nine hundred and two, and the deponent Jamesina Victoria Brew continued to reside with the said deceased until her death. We never saw or heard from the husband of the said deceased and to the best of our knowledge, information and belief the said deceased never during the last fifty years of her life either saw or heard from or of her said husband, and to the best of our knowledge, information and belief the said husband of the deceased died in her lifetime, and that she was a widow at the time of her death.
Ever since we can remember the said deceased was generally known and passed by the name of Margaret Griffiths, and she used that name in her business transactions.
In the Will of James Grifith the said deceased is called “Margaret Thompson” and in her own Will of which we are seeking to obtain Probate, she is named and described as “Margaret Thompson, commonly known as Margaret Griffiths.”
8 October 1909, Jamesina made further statements:
The said deceased told me that Margaret Thompson was her maiden surname, and I verily believe it was.
I do not know the name of the husband of the said deceased referred to in this affidavit. I think “Taylor” was the name the said deceased was the name of her said husband.
the said deceased never during the last thirty-five years nor as I verily believe for many years nor before that used or was known by this surname of “Taylor” nor by any other surname except the surnames “Thompson” and “Griffiths” and to the best of my knowledge and belief the only occasions during this period aforesaid on which the surname “Thompson” was applied to her or on which she used the said surnames were in her own Will aforesaid and in the Will of James Grifith.
The said deceased lived with the said James Grifith for about thirty years and up to the date of his death and during that period she was reported to be his wife and always used his surname and in his Will is called Margaret Thompson otherwise known as Margaret Grifith, which last-mentioned name was usually pronounced as if it was spelt “Griffiths”.