Emanuel, son of James and Hannah (née Packwood) Read was born in Shearsby, Leicestershire in 1823. In 1925 his mother was hung for the murder of his father, leaving six children to fend for themselves. James had gone away to find work and while away Hannah had shacked up with another man. James proceeded to take her back home, when along the way she lured him to the side of the canal. Hannah pushed James into the water and kept hitting him until he was exhausted and drowned. Emanuel had first drawn attention to himself in 1839 after erecting a small hut for himself in a street in Shearsby. On 4 January 1842 Emanuel came up before the court for stealing rabbits. He received a lenient sentence of one month's imprisonment, probably because the jury were made aware of his circumstances. On 3 January 1844 that he received a 7 year sentence of transportation again for stealing rabbits. He had to wait until the middle of the following year before leaving England. He set sail on the Marion 2 from Woolwich on the 94 day journey to Van Dieman’s Land (now Tasmania) arriving on 16 September 1845. He measured 5 feet 2¼ inches tall. He said that he could read and write, was single and a protestant and had skills as a fellmonger. His family relationships included brothers Uriah and Bennett and sisters Ann and Mary. He received a Conditional Pardon in November 1847. He married Bridget McMahon on 1 November 1852 in Hobart and travelled to Victoria, to the Geelong area. The couple had nine children at Mount Moriac, John (1853), Thomas (1855, Mary (1857), Uriah (1859), Martin (1862), Emanuel (1864), Emanuel (1866), Emanuel (1869) and on 9 March 1874 an unnamed child who lived for 15 minutes. Bridget died nine days later aged 40 years and was buried in an unknown location at the Mount Moriac Cemetery. Emanuel married Adele Frasse in 1877. Adele was born in 1855 at Berramongo Vineyard, to vigneron, Eugene and Mary (née Lynch) Frasse. Eugene arrived in Victoria on the ill fated Earl of Charlemont which struck a reef near Barwon Heads in 1853. Emanuel and Adele had twelve children, Hannah (1878), Elizabeth Adele (1881), Martin (1884), Eugene, (1888), Adele (1891), Arthur (1891), John Anthony (1892), Priscilla Margaret (1895), Thomas (1897), Alice Mary (1898), Adele (1898) and Catherine Annes (1900). Many of Emanuel's children died at an early age. In 1879 Emanuel was called upon to help one of his neighbours whose wife had attempted to commit suicide, and despite Emanuel’s efforts to save her, she eventually died of her wounds. Emanuel Read died aged 85 in Geelong Hospital on 17 August 1902 of heart failure and pneumonia. He is buried in an unknown location at the Mount Moriac Cemetery. Adele died in 1928 aged 73 years and is also buried in an unknown location at Mount Moriac Cemetery. Emanuel's 51 acre farm at Gnarwarre was auctioned on Thursday 17 January 1929. It was bought by John Read for £10/10/- per acre. |
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