Norman Allan HAM

1888 - 1939  (50 years)

• Name	Norman Allan HAM
  Birth	2 Nov 1888	Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Death	1939	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
  Person ID	I2022	FHC006 - White Tree
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard HAM,   b. Abt 1836, Lymsworthy, Kilkhampton, Cornwall, England d. Aug 1926, Warragamba, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 90 years)
  Mother	Margaret CRONK,   b. Abt 1845   d. 15 Dec 1918, Pannoomilloo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 73 years)
  Marriage	9 Sep 1863
  Family ID	F632	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Olive Mary DEED
  Marriage	1916
  Children	1. Gordon Allan HAM   2. Norma Ruth HAM
  Family ID	F67	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Mar 2021

  
  

• Notes

  "Pioneers of the Echuca and Moama Districts, pre 1925": The prospect in the 1870's for Richard Ham and his family of new land becoming available from the Crown, north of the Murray, was exciting. Withfivesons and three daughters, spreading out from their property "Windermere" in the Diggora district seemed the natural thing to do. For Richard, securing the property "Altcar" north-west of Moama, was the culmination of a long journey which he had started in north Cornwall asaboy. Together with his father, Richard snr., and five older brothers (two other brothers had arrived in Australia earlier) Richard disembarkedin1852 at Port Phillip from the ship 'Bombay'. It had been a tragic journey, with his mother and young sister dying in an accident on board astheship neared the Victorian coastline. After a period of farming with his father and brothers at Dowling Forest (where Richard snr. is buried) near Ballarat, and working on theEurekagoldfields, Richard and wife Margaret (who had been a teacher on the diggings) moved north. Other Ham families moved north also, to Lascelles(nearSwan Hill and later to Queensland) and Lockington, where Richard's brother William settled. By all accounts it was an arduous journey toDiggorawith a son Richard percy being born in the wagon on the way. So it was that three of Richard's sons and a married daughter, Margaret (Mrs Robert Docherty) moved to the Moama - Tatiala district. George andhiswife Flora lived at "Altcar" on the corner of Thyra and Hams Roads; Edwin and his wife Jenny (Reid) took up another Crown land grant at"Glenburnie"in the Tataila parish, with Frank and his wife gertrude (Cable) on the property "Ilsley Park", nearby on the banks of the Murray River. Richard Percy stayed in the Diggora district, eventually retiring into Rochester. Norman farmed at Bamawm and at Griffith, NSW. The othertwodaughters married in the Elmore-Rochester area. Alice became Mrs Roger Shotton and Mabel became Mrs Bill Bodger. [the article has more information about their lives]