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Ambrose Willcox Walter

27/9/2019

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Ambrose Willcox Walter was born in Devonshire, England on 22 April 1833. He came to the colony on the Marchioness of Londonderry in 1853 with his uncle. His parents followed a few years later. At first he worked in the Barrabool Hills near Geelong. At the time of the gold rush he tried his luck, but not being successful he returned to Geelong. He started a butchering business with his youngest brother in the Barrabool Hills. This was very successful and in 1862 he sold his interest in the business to his brother and started farming, a farm he worked for eleven years. He married Mary Ann, daughter of Thomas Smale of the Barrabool Hills. They had the following children:
Albert William — born ​2 January 1864 at Barrabool Hills, married Sarah Janet Lawson on 18 September 1888 at Noradjuha, married Marian Anna Neale on 22 April 1903 at Bullumwaal, died on 23 July 1940 aged 76 years at the Mercy Hospital in East Melbourne
Thomas Ernest — born on 18 February 1866 at Barrabool Hill, married Elizabeth Cook in 1887, died on 5 December 1940 at Church Street, Camperdown
Ellis Vincent — born on 13 May 1868 at Barrabool Hills, married Janet Hayes in 1896 at Ballarat, married Annie Ada Middleton in 1906 at Stawell, died on 14 January 1930 aged 61 at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne
Ambrose Edward — born on 15 June 1870 at Barrabool Hills, married Sarah Janet Lawson on 18 September 1888 at Noradjuha, died on 29 February 1948 near Goroke aged 77 years
Frederick Joseph — born on 1 August 1872 at Barrabool Hills, died on 26 February 1925 at Casterton Memorial Hospital aged 52
Bertha Alinda — born on 26 August 1874 at Noradjuha, married Rev Henry Michael Clarke Fowler in 1911 at Noradjuha, died on 17 August 1949 aged 74 at Geelong
Henrietta Evalina — born on 31 December 1876 at Noradjuha, died on 2 November 1944 aged 67 years at Noradjuha
Lily Gertrude — born on 15 December 1878 at Noradjuha, died on 7 February 1879 at Noradjuha
Sidney Arthur — born on 1 March 1881 at Noradjuha, died on 11 October 1949 aged 68 years at Wimmera Base Hospital at Horsham
Phenie Gertrude — born on 3 February 1883 at Natimuk, died on 23 February 1936 aged 53 years at Sturt Street in Ballarat
Norman Edgar — born on 26 May 1885 at Noradjuha, died on 25 August 1973 aged 88 years at Noradjuha

During the time he was farming in the Barrabool Hills he became a Barrabool Shire councillor. When the land in the Wimmera came up for selection he was keen to secure more land for his growing family. He selected land and shifted his wife and five sons to the Wimmera at the beginning of 1874. Not long after arriving he was elected to the Wimmera Shire as a councillor and later an Arapiles Shire as a councillor and president. He took an active part in community life. He was the president of the Natimuk Agricultural and Pastoral Society, and also a trustee of the Western Wimmera Irrigation and Water Supply Trust. He lived  in the Casterton district, where he had purchased a property, for about four years, returning to the Wimmera. About seven years before he died he decided to retire from active life, and came back to Geelong. He had leased his property to two of his sons, but regularly visited Noradjuha.

He was an ardent supporter of the Methodist Church, and held the position of trustee of the Bible Christian Church at Horsham before the union of the churches took place. He was a trustee of the church at Noradjuha and at the annual conference often represented the Noradjuha circuit. Church services were held in his house until later when the school was used.

Ambrose died at his property "Oakleigh Park" at Noradjuha on 14 July 1915 and was buried at the Noradjuha Cemetery. Mary Ann died on 29 October 1918 at 44 Buckland Avenue, Newtown when she contracted pneumonia while visiting Geelong. She was buried with Ambrose of the Noradjuha Cemetery.
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Roderick Impey Murchison

20/9/2019

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Roderick Impey, son of John and Mary Ann (née Roberts) Murchison farmed at Jan Juc (Bellbrae) from 1878. He had leased his land from the estate of Joseph Gundry and it included the homestead "Llanberis".

He became a Barrabool Shire councillor for the Coast Riding in 1881 and served until 1884. In 1888 he left the district. In 1882 he was appointed as a magistrate for the southern bailiwick. In 1892 he was manager of the Bank of New South Wales.

He married Julia Rose Urquhart in 1860 and they had the following children:
John Henry — born 1861 in Kerrisdale
Philip Douglas — born 1871 at Kilmore
​Edith Jane — died in 1874
Julia Mabel — married William Fenton McCulloch on 15 February 1915 at St Mary's Cathedral in Hobart

After Roderick's wife Julia died on 9 December  1875 aged 30, he married Alice Maud Whitton in 1878. They had the following children:
Kenneth John — born 1879 at Melbourne
Helen Elizabeth — born 1882 at Melbourne
In 1892 he was insolvent. This was caused by his inability to collect debts from India.

Roderick died on 16 October 1914 aged 82 at 17 The Crofts in Richmond. He left business assets of £160.
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from Geelong Advertiser 11 August 1881
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1236 acres 3 roods and 14 perches of land leased to Roderick Impey Murchison from Joseph Gundry from 1879 until 1881 stretched south from Hendy Main Road to the township of Bellbrae between Anglesea and Brushfields Roads and further south in the ironbark basin area
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from The Argus 13 January 1893
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Thomas Smale

13/9/2019

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Thomas, son of Thomas and Grace (née Sapling) Smale, was born in 1823
at North Tamerton in Devon. He married Eliza Samals on 29 February 1844 at North Tamerton. They had the following children:
Ann — born on 19 April 1844 at North Tamerton, died the next day
Mary Ann — born on 3 March 1845 at East Stonehouse in Devon, married Ambrose Willcock Walter on 6 March 1862 at Barrabool Hills, died on 29 October 1918 at 44 Buckland Avenue in Newtown, buried at Noradjuha Cemetery

Thomas and Eliza arrived on the Clara at Portland on 19 November 1854. After arriving at Barrabool Thomas became a member of the Bible Christian Church at Mount Moriac.

He was a member of the Barrabool District Road Board in 1860 and 1865 and a Barrabool Shire councillor from 1865 until 1871. He was the honorary secretary pro tem of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society. In 1869 he was appointed as a magistrate for the Geelong and Hamilton General Sessions district. In 1871 he unsuccessfully stood as the candidate for South Grant in the Legislative Assembly election.

He successfully farmed land in the Barrabool Hills, 22 acres of which he leased from John Heard in west side of section 4 and a larger portion which adjoined this land in section 3 (Devon Road) which he owned, called Edgecombe Farm.

Thomas died on 24 May 1883 aged 60 years and was buried in the Methodist section of the Highton Cemetery. His wife, Eliza, died on 18 November 1898 aged 74 at her home, 27 Little Myers Street, Geelong and was also buried at Highton Cemetery. An interest in the farm was left to Thomas and Eliza's only daughter, Mary Ann, who married Ambrose Willcock Walter on 6 March 1862. On her death on 29 October 1919 her estate was divided among her children — Ellis Vincent Walter, Albert William Walter, Thomas Ernest Walter, Ambrose Edward Walter, Sidney Arthur Walter, Bertha Alinda Fowler, Hettie Evelina Nitschke, Phenie Gertrude Cranage, Frederick Joseph Walter and Norman Edgar Walter.​

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from Geelong Advertiser 25 May 1883
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Approximate location of the land Thomas Smale farmed between Devon and Ballanclea Roads at Barrabool
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from Geelong Advertiser 7 April 1870
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from Geelong Advertiser 25 November 1873
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from Geelong Advertiser 26 March 1872
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Ephraim Mann

6/9/2019

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Ephraim Mann, who was born in 1826, was the son of Abel and Mary Butterfield (née Jarvis) Mann. He came to Australia, arriving in January 1850 with his wife, Mary (née Minal) and daughter, Julia on the Lady Kennaway. They had the following children after arriving in Geelong:
Julia — born about 1849, married James Gundry in 18​70, died in 1928 aged 80 years at Geelong
Henry — born about 1850, died in 1926 aged 77 years at Malvern
Alfred — born in 1855 at Ashby, died in 1950 at Trafalgar aged  94
Rhoda — born in 1857 at Geelong, died in 1939 at Geelong aged 81 years
Frederick — born in 1860 at Duneed, died in 1941 aged 81 at East Melbourne
Laura — born in 1863 at Duneed, married ? Webb
Walter — born in 1864 at Duneed, died 1945 at Trafalgar aged 71
Edwin — born in 1867 at Mount Duneed
Francis  — born in 1871 at Duneed, died 1873 aged 1 year, buried in an unknown location at the Mount Duneed Cemetery on 26 January 1873
Emily — married ? Bland
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Ephraim was elected a member of the Freshwater Creek School Board of Advice in 1872 together with Duncan McIntyre, Thomas Spowart, Joseph Angus and John L Dow.

He was a Barrabool Shire councillor from 1873-1875. He left the district in 1874 settling in the Moe district. ​When he died, on 8 December 1912 at Coalville near Narracan, he owned 316 acres being crown allotment 88 in the parish of Moe in the county of Buln Buln with a dwelling and farm buildings, valued at £8 per acre.
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from Geelong Advertiser 30 December 1872
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from Geelong Advertiser 30 June 1874
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from Geelong Advertiser 11 August 1873
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