William Samuel Clifford HAM

1878 - 1954  (76 years)

• Name	William Samuel Clifford HAM
  Birth	1878	Geelong, Victoria, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Death	1954	Echuca, Victoria, Australia
  Person ID	I1999	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	Jessie Susan OLIVER   d. 1954, Rochester, Victoria, Australia
  Marriage	1908
  Children	1. Clifford Raymond HAM,   b. 8 Dec 1909, Rochester, Victoria, Australia d. Aft 1944 (Age > 36 years)   2. Emily Grace HAM,   b. 1911, Rochester, Victoria, Australia   3. Isabella Jean HAM
  Family ID	F338	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Early Pioneers of Rochester Area": HAM BROS., Richard, Henry and William , selected separate blocks at Diggora in 1872. Ex-xouncillor W.S.C. Ham, M.B.E., R.P. Ham and Mrs Bodger,whostill live in the district, are children of the original settlers. William [Cliff] was on the Rochester Shire Council from which he retired in 1951. "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.