Charlotte WALTER

Abt 1832 - 1895  (~ 63 years)

• Name	Charlotte WALTER
  Birth	Abt 1832	Bradworthy, Devon, England
  Gender	Female
  Burial	Feb 1895	Rochester, Victoria, Australia
  Death	10 Feb 1895	'Glen Devon', Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia
  Person ID	I1123	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	John WALTER   d. 4 Dec 1862, Barrabool Hills, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  Mother	Elizabeth WICKETT   d. 16 May 1874, Ceres, Victoria, Australia
  Marriage	16 Oct 1823	Launcells, Cornwall, England
  Family ID	F269	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Henry Mountjoy HAM,   b. Abt 1830, Lymsworthy, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England d. 29 Nov 1906, Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 76 years)
  Marriage	17 Feb 1853	Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  Children	1. Sarah Jane Ann HAM,   b. 1855, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1858, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 3 years)   2. Emma Grace HAM,   b. 1857, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1933 (Age 76 years)   3. John Henry HAM,   b. 1858, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 8 Jul 1891, Rochester, Victoria, Australia (Age 33 years)   4. Walter Richard HAM,   b. 6 May 1861, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1862, Geelong, Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)   5. Walter James HAM,   b. 1863, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1940, Kew, Victoria, Australia (Age 77 years)   6. Elizabeth Jane HAM,   b. 13 May 1865, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1875 (Age 9 years)   7. Edmund Lewis HAM,   b. 19 Jul 1868, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1945, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Age 76 years)   8. Edgar William HAM,   b. 25 Jun 1874, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1939, Rochester, Victoria, Australia (Age 64 years)   9. William Samuel Clifford HAM,   b. 1878, Geelong, Victoria, Australia d. 1954, Echuca, Victoria, Australia (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  Excerpts from the Walter family history: Charlotte came to Australia with her parents in 1851. She lived with them at Hill Park until her marriage in 1853. Henry had had success onthegoldfields in 1852. After their marriage, they settled in Geelong where Henry established a grocery business in Kilgour Street, and a hay and corn store at theBarwonBridge, South Geelong. The couple remained there until 1872 when land was selected at Pannoomilloo, with the family following during thesecondyear. Here Henry became a very successful farmer at his property "Glen Devon". Henry and Charlotte were keen followers of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and were associated with the founding of the South Geelong ChurchinMoorabool Street. As a carpenter and wheelwright he helped to supervise the building of this church. During Charlotte's 18 years in the Pannoomilloo district she ran the post office at Pannoomilloo for a number of years. She had endeared herselftoall who knew her by her practical, helpful, kindly demeanour. In sickness or in trouble she was ever ready to help, and many who had beentherecipients of her kindness were moved with emotion at her grave as they remembered how she had stood by them in hours of trial. Her lifeandcharacter which had been her strength and admired by her friends, was the outcome of a lifetime of her faith in God. After she burst a varicose vein in her leg, and appeared to be recovering her health, symptoms of her heart trouble developed causing her deathonSunday 10th February 1895, aged 63 years. She was buried in the Rochester Cemetery where a large number of friends and members of the familycirclegathered to pay their last respects to one whose life had been a blessing to many. Geelong Advertiser, 13th February 1895: HAM - On the 10th inst. at "Glen Devon", Pannoomilloo, Charlotte, the beloved wife of Henry M. Ham, aged 62 years and 10 months.