Peter Armstrong

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• 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, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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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.

1. John Stevenson Armstrong was born on 26 May 1849 in Stonehouse, Coanwood, Northumberland, England; died on 14 Sep 1917 in 404 Lydiard St north, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 15 Sep 1917 in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia.
2. Hannah Jane Armstrong 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.
3. Joseph (Joe) Wilkinson Armstrong was born on 28 Oct 1853 in Stonehouse, Coanwood, Northumberland, England; died on 9 Jun 1912 in Wellsford Rifle Range, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 12 Jun 1912 in Eaglehawk Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia.
4. Thomas George Armstrong was born on 30 Oct 1858 in Winter's Flat, Victoria, Australia; died on 12 Jun 1925 in Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 15 Jun 1925 in Brighton Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.
5. Elizabeth Ann Armstrong was born on 18 May 1863 in Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia; died on 30 May 1889 in Cambrian Hill, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 2 Jun 1889 in Buninyong Cemetery, Victoria, Australia.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Jan 1793, St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 18 Mar 1817, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 4 Nov 1821, Black Cleugh, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 27 Nov 1825, Black Cleugh, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, High Row, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Wanwood Well House, Alston, Cumberland, England
• Immigration: 3 Nov 1857, Hobsons Bay, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 12 Aug 1858, Magpie, Victoria, Australia

John married Elizabeth Wilkinson on 18 Mar 1817 in Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John Wilkinson and Mary Parker) was born about 1798 in Green Dyke, Allendale, Northumberland, England; died in Aug 1827 in Black Cleugh, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England; was buried on 25 Aug 1827 in Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 29 Apr 1798, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Witness: 11 Dec 1813, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 18 Mar 1817, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England

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• Residence: 12 May 1785, Stobbart's House, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 16 May 1786, Redheugh, Ninebanks, West Allen (Low), Northumberland, England
• Residence: 2 Mar 1788, Redheugh, Ninebanks, West Allen (Low), Northumberland, England
• Residence: 24 Oct 1790, Stobbart's House, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 20 Jan 1793, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 30 Aug 1795, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 29 Jun 1796, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 22 May 1797, Plain House, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England

Samuel married Hannah Elliot on 12 May 1785 in St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England. Hannah (daughter of John Elliot and Mary Unknown) was born about 1760 in Old Town, Allendale, Northumberland, England; died on 25 Aug 1798 in Plain House, Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, England; was buried on 28 Aug 1798 in St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Sep 1760, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 12 May 1785, Stobbart's House, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Witness: 6 Dec 1786, St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England

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• Baptism: 3 Jun 1770, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 29 Apr 1798, Green Dyke, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 5 May 1805, Low Ashes, Ninebanks, Cumberland, England
• Residence: 31 Jan 1807, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 4 Sep 1814, High Peckriding, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 7 Jun 1817, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Allendale, Northumberland, England

John married Mary Parker on 10 Feb 1798 in Allendale, Northumberland, England. Mary (daughter of Hugh Parker and Mary Elliot) was born about 1781 in Whitfield, Northumberland, England; died in Jun 1817 in Allendale, Northumberland, England; was buried on 7 Jun 1817 in St Cuthbert, Allendale, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 1 Aug 1781, St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England

John married Mary Unknown before 1753. Mary died in Aug 1774 in Stobbart's House, Whitfield, Northumberland, England; was buried on 21 Aug 1774 in St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Matthew married Elizabeth Unknown before 1755. Elizabeth died in Jun 1776 in Dryside, Allendale, Northumberland, England; was buried on 19 Jun 1776 in Allendale, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 11 Sep 1774, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 May 1776, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 Aug 1781, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 8 Feb 1784, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Witness: 12 May 1785, St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 Jul 1786, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England

Hugh married Mary Elliot on 25 Nov 1773 in St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England. Mary (daughter of John Elliot and Mary Unknown) was born about 1755 in Old Town, Allendale, Northumberland, England; died in Jul 1786 in Whitfield, Northumberland, England; was buried on 1 Jul 1786 in St John, Whitfield, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Jan 1755, Allendale, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 11 Sep 1774, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 May 1776, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 Aug 1781, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 8 Feb 1784, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England
• Residence: 1 Jul 1786, Town Green, Whitfield, Northumberland, England