Emma Grace HAM

1857 - 1933  (76 years)

• Name	Emma Grace HAM
  Birth	1857	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  Gender	Female
  Death	1933
  Person ID	I1992	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Henry Mountjoy HAM,   b. Abt 1830, Lymsworthy, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England d. 29 Nov 1906, Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 76 years)
  Mother	Charlotte WALTER,   b. Abt 1832, Bradworthy, Devon, England d. 10 Feb 1895, 'Glen Devon', Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 63 years)
  Marriage	17 Feb 1853	Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  Family ID	F968	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Thomas Crooke PARK
  Marriage	1882	Victoria, Australia
  Children	1. David PARK,   b. 1885, Rochester, Victoria, Australia d. 1971 (Age 86 years)   2. Walter Roy Grenville PARK,   b. 1887, Rochester, Victoria, Australia   3. Harold Edgar PARK,   b. 1888, Rochester, Victoria, Australia d. 1889, Rochester, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 year)   4. Henry PARK,   b. 1890, Rochester, Victoria, Australia d. 1957, Benalla, Victoria, Australia (Age 67 years)
  Family ID	F1003	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Then ... the Water Wheel Turned" by Fae Stevens & Elizabeth O'Brien, 1967: Told by Mrs Bodger, of Rochester, who was born at Pannoo-Milloo in 1886. Her father Richard Ham and his wife and four children faced the long trek by covered waggon from Dowling Forest near Ballarat in 1874, comingthroughthe Whipstick, then almost a trackless forest. Clearing timber to start cultivation was the first task, and mother and a five months oldbaby in thepram helped each day in gathering up the lighter scrub and firing the heaps. This baby was the late Percy Ham. The Ham families were very musical and helped form a choir. The Ham family owned the only buggy in the district for some time and often loaned it for local weddings. A fine vineyard was planted in an acreofsandy soil and yielded grapes of fine flavour and quality. The original property still remains in the Ham family, and Mrs Bodger considers itsomeof the best wheat growing land in the district. Ed and Cliff Ham, sons of Henry, also farmed in Pannoo-Milloo and only recently the property was sold. Cliff Ham was a councillor for 36 years andin1952 was awarded the M.B.E. The Pannoo-Milloo post office was opened in the Ham residence in 1877 and until it closed in 1923, this office was in the hands of only twofamilies,Hams and Hanleys. Mrs Park (mother of Roy and David) herself a member of the Ham family, was in charge for many years.