Patrick Delany

M, #16413, b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Probate (Will)* Patrick Delany. Miller. Prahran. 14 May 1877. 16/408.1 
Birth*1831 Ireland.2 
Marriage*2 Dec 1856 Spouse: Elizabeth Stephens. St Matthias Church, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Dec Q 1856 (Liverpool) 8b 270. Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS.3
 
(Migrant) Migration/TravelMar 1857 Sailing with William Stephens, Rachel Stephens, Isaac Stephens, Elizabeth Stephens. Ship Champion of the Seas.4
Land-UBeac*16 Aug 1876Selection: GEM-C-1. 20a 0r 0p - No Land File. Originally selected by P. DELANY, but crown grant to G. F. BRIND on 16 Apr 1879.5 
Death*14 May 1877 Prahran, VIC, Australia, #D6060 (Age 46) [par Thomas DELANEY].6 
Death-Notice*16 May 1877 DELANY.—At his residence, Prince's-street, Prahran, P. Delany, of the firm of Stephens and Delany, millers, &c.7 
Land-UBeac*3 Sep 1877 GEM-C-1. Transfer from Patrick Delany to Elizabeth Delany. 20a 0r 0p - Originally selected by P. DELANY, but crown grant to G. F. BRIND on 16 Apr 1879.5 
(Witness) Note1879 Hugh McKay. Estate Agent - acts for some UB selectors (Jerram, Delany.)8 

Grave

  • 248-249 CEB, St Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, VIC, Australia, Rachel Stephens d 2 Dec 1859 Age 62, William Stephens d 9 Jul 1866 Age 74, Isaac Stephens d 7 Mar 1880 Age 54, Herbert Delany d 27 Jun 1872 Age 7, Patrick Delany d 14 May 1877 Age 46, Elizabeth Delany d 16 Aug 1901, Age 729

Family

 Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Children 1.Isaac William Delany b. 1858, d. 1 May 1926
 2.Rachel Delany b. 15 Jun 1859, d. 4 Jun 1936
 3.Samuel Joseph Delany b. 1861, d. 2 Sep 1937
 4.Albert Edward Delany b. 1863, d. 22 Jan 1924
 5.Thomas Herbert Delany b. 1865, d. 27 Jun 1872
 6.Elizabeth Delany b. 1869, d. 1958

Newspaper-Articles

  • 24 Aug 1935: THREE STURDY PIONEERS. The Centenary of Westernport's Settlement.
    BY B.H.N.
    IT is just one hundred years since the first house at Westernport, indeed the first in the whole of the eastern portion of this State, was being built.
    Its builder was a man named Samuel Anderson, who, had he but known it, was making history for Westernport in the same way and at about the same time as Batman and Fawkner were laying the first foundations of Melbourne's history. Only three days after Fawkner sailed through Port Phillip Heads, Samuel Anderson, in a ship he had built himself, entered Westernport Bay. A few years previously he had arrived in Tasmania from Kircudbright, Scotland, where the news of the proposed exploration of the colony by the Hentys and Fawkner had reached him. Anderson followed the course of the Bass River, and chose a spot on which to settle, only about two hundred yards from where now stands Bass township.
    Here he built his first home, which was afterwards known as Bass Park. Enthusiastic over his discovery and the beauty or the place and its possibilities, he wrote home to his two brothers, Hugh and Thomas, in Kircudbright, urging them to come out and help him pioneer this part of the colony. Letters in those days took many months to cross the world, so it was not until June, 1837, that the second of the Brothers, Dr. Hugh Anderson, left the Old Country by the ship Andromeda, arriving at Westernport by way of Tasmania some months later. Hugh was a medical graduate, having purposely given up his original occupation as clerk in the Crown Prosecutor's office, and studied medicine and surgery because he thought the knowledge would be of greater value than that of the law, in a new land. He had at first contemplated following Samuel to the Swan River settlement until the latter's change of plans decided him to alter his own, and he went to Westernport instead. Hugh's wisdom in choosing such a profession was at once proved, for he was able to take the appointment of surgeon on an emigrant, ship leaving for Australia. For many years after wards Dr. Hugh had reason to be glad of his profession — or perhaps it might be said that many other people had—for he generously used his skill and knowledge for the benefit of his neighbors and friends, with no thought of reward. The story is told of how on one occasion he dressed a pistol-shot, wound in the head of Truganini, the last queen and only survivor of the Tasmanian blacks. The bullet had struck her in the forehead, but her hard skull deflected it and it passed from the front to the back between the scalp and the skull.
    Five years later the third and youngest brother, Captain Thomas Anderson a master mariner, came out and joined the two pioneers. These three were of the solid, dauntless type, like so many of the early settlers. Men of culture and refinement, they faced their self-imposed exile and the hardships it entailed with tremendous courage. So isolated were they that, to get their letters, they had to come to Melbourne twice a year, walking seventy miles each way through the scrub, and swimming the inlet twice on each journey, their clothes in a bundle on their heads. Hugh and Thomas took up more country adjoining Samuel's original holding, and the three steadily set to work to clear their acres of the dense, almost impenetrable scrub which abounded from north of the Bass to San Remo. Occaionally they had the help of employees, who, however, deserted them for the gold fields, and the Andersons were left to themselves. Their perseverance was at last rewarded, and the cleared land proved a splendid agricultural proposition.
    Wheat was the staple crop for years; indeed, it is said that Samuel Anderson, in the first year of his arrival, grew wheat on the river flats, and built the first flour mill in Port Phillip district.
    In 1854 the brothers purchased a freehold property of 2616 acres at Griffiths Point, and built the house called Netherwood, which still stands, about four miles from sleepy little San Remo, on the eastern shore of Westernport Bay.
    The third was The Grange, built about 45 years ago, opposite where Anderson railway station now stands. With the sale of The Grange in 1912 the properties passed out of the Anderson family.
    Not content with improving his own property, Samuel Anderson explored the surrounding districts. The Wonthaggi coal fields are a monument to his faith. for, after striking coal on the beach at Cape Patterson, a few years after his arrival, he firmly believed that payable quantities existed thereabouts. The coal that he found himself he used in his own forge. Anderson's Inlet, nine miles from the old home, and on which Inverloch stands, was named after him, so was Anderson railway station, on the Wonthaggi line, which was built on the old Netherwood property.
    The peaceful little cemetery of San Remo, overlooking the scenic beauties which had reminded the Andersons so vividly of their own beautiful Scottish hills and lakes, was the last resting place of those grand old pioneers—Samuel, who died in 1863; Dr. Hugh, in 1899, and Captain Thomas, in 1903. Captain Thomas left two sons, Hugh and Patrick, and a daughter, Mary, who still lives, and is the widow of the late Rev. H. E. Potter, of San Remo. Hugh, the elder son, married in 1893 the youngest daughter of Patrick Delany, who, with his wife, Elizabeth, and her brother, William Stephen, arrived by the Champion of the Seas in 1858 from Liverpool and who built the first flour mill in Prahran, at the corner of King and Chapel streets and later another in Flinders-lane. Elizabeth Delany, Hugh Anderson, Elizabeth Delany10

Citations

  1. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 28/P0, unit 191; VPRS 28/P2, unit 67.
  2. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  3. [S9] Free BMD. Index. Online @ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/ "Marriage Dec Q 1856 (Liverpool) 8b 270. Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS."
  4. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, Victoria Passenger Lists.
  5. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Land File 247/49 Unit 3826.
  6. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online) "Spouse STEPHENS Elizabeth."
  7. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Wed 16 May 1877, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5922178
  8. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria).
  9. [S48] Index of burials in the cemetery of St Kilda,.
  10. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 24 Aug 1935, p6
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203982822
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Isaac William Delany

M, #16414, b. 1858, d. 1 May 1926
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Birth*1858 Windsor, VIC, Australia, #B1300/1858 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Isaac William DELANY.1 
Land-UBeac*17 Aug 1876Selection: PAK-62. 20a.2 
Land-Note*25 Jun 1877 PAK-62. Sir, I hereby withdraw my application under section 49 for 20 acres in the Parish of Pakenham as I am desirous of selecting elsewhere. I have the honor &c &c Isaac William Delany.3 
(Previous Selector) Land-UBeac27 Aug 1877William Elliott Wells was the next selector of the forfeited land at PAK-62.4 
Marriage*1893 Spouse: Sarah Jane Finlay. VIC, Australia, #M1116/1893.5
 
Death*1 May 1926 Ballarat, VIC, Australia, #D3831/1926 (Age 61) (par Patrick DELANEY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Isaac William DELANEY.6 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 14 Dec 1877: Survey Fees to be placed in Trust Fund to credit of Isaac William Delany William Elliott Wells7
  • 18 Jan 1886: Leases transferred. I W. Delany Jumbunna, to Elizabeth Delany. Elizabeth Delany8

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B1300/1858 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Isaac William DELANY, Birth registered at Windsor, Australia."
  2. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). (1787-V5357-3686) - 1787/49 Isaac William Delany Mercantile Clerk Prahran.
  3. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). (1787-V5357-3686) - 1787/49.
  4. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). (1787-V5357-3686) - 1787/49 - William Elliott Wells, Builder, Palmerston Crescent Emerald Hill.
  5. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online).
  6. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D3831/1926 (Age 61) (par Patrick DELANEY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Isaac William DELANEY, Death registered at Ballarat, Australia."
  7. [S194] Newspaper - Victoria Government Gazette 14 Dec 1877, p2363.
  8. [S14] Newspaper - Gippsland Times (Vic.), Mon 18 Jan 1886, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/62270974
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Rachel Delany

F, #16415, b. 15 Jun 1859, d. 4 Jun 1936
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Married NameFrench. 
Birth*15 Jun 1859 Windsor, VIC, Australia, #B11960/1859 (par Patk DELANY & Elizth STEPHENS) - as Rachel DELANY.1 
Land-UBeac*17 Aug 1876Selection: PAK-63. 19a 1r 30p - Land File 392/49. First selected by R DELANY, then selected by S A HUBBARD (no date). Abandoned. Later map (1880) as W H HUBBARD.2 
(Previous Selector) Land-UBeac27 Aug 1877Sarah Ann Hubbard was the next selector of the forfeited land at PAK-63.3,4 
(Previous Selector) Land-UBeac6 Nov 1879William Elms was the next selector of the forfeited land at PAK-63.4,5 
Marriage*28 Jun 1911 Spouse: Charles Askew French. St John's Church, Camberwell, VIC, Australia, #M2680/1911, Rachel DELANY & Chas FRENCH (it is Charles' third marriage.)6,7
 
Widow21 May 1933Rachel Delany became a widow upon the death of her husband Charles Askew French.8,7 
Death*4 Jun 1936 Armadale, VIC, Australia, #D5257/1936 (Age 75) (par Patrick DE LANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Rachel FRENCH.9 
Death-Notice*5 Jun 1936 FRENCH.—On the 4th June at private hospital, Rachel French of 138 Kooyong road, Malvern, widow of Charles French, F.L.S., R.R.H.S., late Government entomologist, and sister of S. J. de Lany (W.A.) and Elizabeth Anderson (Armadale).
FRENCH.—The Friends of the late Mrs. RACHEL FRENCH are informed that her remains will be interred in the Old Cheltenham Cemetery, Charman road.
The funeral will leave her late residence, 128 Kooyong road, Malvern, To-morrow (Saturday, June 6), at 10 a.m.10 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 14 Dec 1877: Survey Fees to be placed in Trust Fund to credit of Rachel Delany Sarah Ann Hubbard11
  • 25 May 1911: The engagement is announced of Mr. Charles French, Government Entomologist (who retires from the service at the end of June), to Miss De Lany, sister of Mrs. Anderson, Tooronga House, Toorak-road. Charles Askew French12

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B11960/1859 (par Patk DELANY & Elizth STEPHENS) - as Rachel DELANY, Birth registered at Windsor, Australia."
  2. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Land Selection And Correspondence Files (VPRS5357)
    1561/49. WILLIAM ELMS, PAKENHAM, 63, 19--1--30, 1 Jan 1877
    VPRS 5357/P0000, 1561/49 (Box 3904)
    Rachel Delany: Spinster of Prahran.
  3. [S66] Berwick Shire Rates, 1870-1965 On 1877 map as S A HUBBARD, in 1880 as W H HUBBARD.
  4. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). Land Selection And Correspondence Files (VPRS5357)
    1561/49. WILLIAM ELMS, PAKENHAM, 63, 19--1--30, 1 Jan 1877
    VPRS 5357/P0000, 1561/49 (Box 3904)
    Scholastic, 245 Moray Street, Emerald Hill.
  5. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 2550-898 - William Elms of Jumbunna East.
  6. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M2680/1911, Rachel DELANY & Chas FRENCH."
  7. [S80] Ancestry - Family Tree, Fox Family Tree - mwclfox.
  8. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D3730/1933 (Age 92) (par Unknown FRENCH & Eleanor WEATHERALL) - as Charles FRENCH, Death registered at Malvern, Australia."
  9. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D5257/1936 (Age 75) (par Patrick DE LANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Rachel FRENCH, born Windsor, Victoria. Death registered at Armadale, Australia."
  10. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Fri 5 Jun 1936, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11039743
    The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Fri 5 Jun 1936, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11039747
  11. [S194] Newspaper - Victoria Government Gazette 14 Dec 1877, p2363.
  12. [S14] Newspaper - Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic.), Thu 25 May 1911, p8
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/146589225
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Samuel Joseph Delany

M, #16416, b. 1861, d. 2 Sep 1937
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Birth*1861 Windsor, VIC, Australia, #B19180/1861 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Samuel Joseph DELANY.1 
Death*2 Sep 1937 Perth, WA, Australia, #D101605/1937 (Age 76) (par Isaac De Lany & Elizabeth Stephens) - as Samuel Joseph De Lany. Registration District: Perth.2,3 
Death-Notice*4 Sep 1937 De LANY.—On September 2, 1937, at Perth Hospital, passed peacefully away, Samuel Joseph, the dearly beloved husband of Isabella M. De Lany, late of Mt. Magnet, fond father of Olive (Mrs. Brewis, Kalgoorlie), Ruby (Mrs. Loney, Greenbushes), Leslie (Nannine), Eily (Mrs. Richdale, England); aged 76 years.4 

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B19180/1861 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Samuel Joseph DELANY, Birth registered at W'Sor, Australia."
  2. [S38] Index of burials in the cemetery of Karrakatta Cemetery
    SAMUEL JOSEPH DELANY, died: 1937, Age: 76 Years, Last residence: PERTH
    ANGLICAN WB Section 0186    ,.
  3. [S62] Western Australian Government. BDM Index Western Australia "#D101605/1937 (Age 76) (par Isaac De Lany & Elizabeth Stephens) - as Samuel Joseph De Lany. Registration District: Perth."
  4. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Sat 4 Sep 1937, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/41426861
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Albert Edward Delany

M, #16417, b. 1863, d. 22 Jan 1924
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Birth*1863 Windsor, VIC, Australia, #B10130/1863 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Albert Edward DELANY.1 
Death*22 Jan 1924 South Yarra, VIC, Australia, #D3406/1924 (Age 60) (par Patrick DELANEY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Albert Edward DELANEY.2 
Death-Notice25 Jan 1924 DELANY.—On the 22nd January, Albert Edward, dearly loved husband of Emily Delany, of St. Kilda road, Melbourne, and loving father of Doris, Myrtle, Victor, and Albert, aged 60 years. (Privately interred).3 
Death-Notice*26 Jan 1924 DELANY.—A tribute of respect and esteem to the memory of Mr. Albert Edward Delany, who passed away on the 22nd January, at St. Kilda road, Melbourne.
To live in the memory of those we leave behind is not to die. —(L.L.)4 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 13 Dec 1890: TUESDAY, 16th DECEMBER. At 12 o'Clock.
    In the Rooms of Messrs. MUNRO and BAILLIEU, 243 Collins-street.
    EXECUTOR'S SALE Of MAGNIFICENT FARMING LAND, Comprising 1400 Acres, With Homestead, Orchard, Garden, SUBDIVIDED into FARMS of 33 to 120 ACRES EACH
    Also, TOWNSHIP ALLOTMENTS, Known as DELANY'S ESTATE, In the Bass Valley Districts of Jumbunna and Jeetho, SOUTH GIPPSLAND,
    About Three Miles from Loch Station, On the GREAT SOUTHERN LINE, Which was Opened for Traffic on the 11th November,
    Three and a Half Hours Ride from Melbourne.
    GEORGE HOWAT (conjointly with Messrs. MUNRO and BAILLIEU and A. E. DELANY and Co.) has received instructions from Mrs. Elizabeth Delany (executrix in the deceased estates of Messrs. Stephens and Delany) to sell by auction, at the rooms of Messrs. Munro and Baillieu, 243 Collins-street, as above.
    That valuable and highly improved property
    known as DELANY'S ESTATE, in subdivisional blocks from 33 to 120 acres each.
    For positive and absolute sale.
    The auctioneers direct the special attention of farmers, investors and others to this famous Delany's Estate, being situated about three miles from the Loch railway station and within seven miles of the Grantville jetty, thus giving easy and cheap transit for produce, either by rail or water.
    The whole property is subdivided into paddocks, securely fenced and partly cleared and laid down in English grasses. Each allotment has a frontage to a Government road. The grazing capacity of the land is one beast to the acre.
    NOTE — The BASS VALLEY has long been known to possess the most fertile soil on the SOUTHERN LINE, and the fact of the average rainfall being good gives a NEVER FAILING SUPPLY of WATER.
    That alone offers inducements to invest which are not easily obtainable elsewhere.
    A Cheese Factory is within one chain of the property.
    A small portion of the estate adjoining the town ship will be offered in Township Allotments, and the Bass Valley Railway Line, which has been surveyed, passes through the property.
    Also, 269 acres, known as Hardinghams, 2½ miles frontage to the Bass River Valley Railway Line, surveyed through the block.
    Persons desirous of inspecting will be driven from the Loch Railway Station to the estate on giving notice to the agents.
    EXCEPTIONAL TERMS to PURCHASERS.
    For Farming Blocks—¼ cash, balance 1, 2, 3 years, at 5 per cent.
    For Township Allotments—¼ cash, balance 6, 12, 18, 24 months, at 6 per cent.
    Title, certificate.
    Plans showing subdivision will be forwarded on application to GEORGE HOWAT, 130 Queen-street, MUNRO and BAILLIEU, 243 Collins-street, A. E. DELANY and Co., Chapel-street, Prahran. Agents in conjunction Elizabeth Stephens5

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B10130/1863 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Albert Edward DELANY, Birth registered at Wind, Australia."
  2. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D3406/1924 (Age 60) (par Patrick DELANEY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Albert Edward DELANEY, Death registered at South Yarra, Australia."
  3. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Fri 25 Jan 1924, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1899930
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 26 Jan 1924, p11
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/1927093
  5. [S14] Newspaper - Leader (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 13 Dec 1890, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198184239
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Thomas Herbert Delany

M, #16418, b. 1865, d. 27 Jun 1872
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Birth*1865 Prahran, VIC, Australia, #B24192/1865 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Thomas Herbert DELANY.1 
Death*27 Jun 1872 Prahran, VIC, Australia, #D5320 (Age 6.)2 
Death-Notice*29 Jun 1872 DELANY.—On the 27th inst., at Prince's-street, Prahran, Thomas Herbert Delany, aged six years and 10 months.3 

Grave

  • 248-249 CEB, St Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, VIC, Australia, Rachel Stephens d 2 Dec 1859 Age 62, William Stephens d 9 Jul 1866 Age 74, Isaac Stephens d 7 Mar 1880 Age 54, Herbert Delany d 27 Jun 1872 Age 7, Patrick Delany d 14 May 1877 Age 46, Elizabeth Delany d 16 Aug 1901, Age 724

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B24192/1865 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Thomas Herbert DELANY, Birth registered at Prahran, Australia."
  2. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  3. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 29 Jun 1872, p4.
  4. [S48] Index of burials in the cemetery of St Kilda,.
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

Elizabeth Delany

F, #16419, b. 1869, d. 1958
Father*Patrick Delany b. 1831, d. 14 May 1877
Mother*Elizabeth Stephens b. 1829, d. 16 Aug 1901
Married NameAnderson.1 
Birth*1869 Prahran, VIC, Australia, #B10881/1869 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Elizabeth DELANY.2 
Marriage*1 Apr 1893 Spouse: Hugh Anderson. All Saints' Church, St Kilda, VIC, Australia, #M313/1893, Hugh ANDERSON & Elizth DELANY.1
 
Marriage-Notice*22 Apr 1893 ANDERSON—De LANY.–On the 1st inst., at All Saints' Church, East St. Kilda, by the Rev. J. H. Gregory, Hugh Anderson, of Windarra, Boort, eldest son of Thomas Anderson, of Netherwood, San Remo, to Lizzie, younger daughter of the late P.De Lany and Mrs. De Lany, St. Kilda.3 
Widow3 Feb 1926Elizabeth Delany became a widow upon the death of her husband Hugh Anderson.4 
Death*1958 Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #D5404/1958 (Age 91) (par Patrick DE LANY & Elizabeth) - as Elizabeth ANDERSON.5 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 24 Aug 1935: THREE STURDY PIONEERS. The Centenary of Westernport's Settlement.
    BY B.H.N.
    IT is just one hundred years since the first house at Westernport, indeed the first in the whole of the eastern portion of this State, was being built.
    Its builder was a man named Samuel Anderson, who, had he but known it, was making history for Westernport in the same way and at about the same time as Batman and Fawkner were laying the first foundations of Melbourne's history. Only three days after Fawkner sailed through Port Phillip Heads, Samuel Anderson, in a ship he had built himself, entered Westernport Bay. A few years previously he had arrived in Tasmania from Kircudbright, Scotland, where the news of the proposed exploration of the colony by the Hentys and Fawkner had reached him. Anderson followed the course of the Bass River, and chose a spot on which to settle, only about two hundred yards from where now stands Bass township.
    Here he built his first home, which was afterwards known as Bass Park. Enthusiastic over his discovery and the beauty or the place and its possibilities, he wrote home to his two brothers, Hugh and Thomas, in Kircudbright, urging them to come out and help him pioneer this part of the colony. Letters in those days took many months to cross the world, so it was not until June, 1837, that the second of the Brothers, Dr. Hugh Anderson, left the Old Country by the ship Andromeda, arriving at Westernport by way of Tasmania some months later. Hugh was a medical graduate, having purposely given up his original occupation as clerk in the Crown Prosecutor's office, and studied medicine and surgery because he thought the knowledge would be of greater value than that of the law, in a new land. He had at first contemplated following Samuel to the Swan River settlement until the latter's change of plans decided him to alter his own, and he went to Westernport instead. Hugh's wisdom in choosing such a profession was at once proved, for he was able to take the appointment of surgeon on an emigrant, ship leaving for Australia. For many years after wards Dr. Hugh had reason to be glad of his profession — or perhaps it might be said that many other people had—for he generously used his skill and knowledge for the benefit of his neighbors and friends, with no thought of reward. The story is told of how on one occasion he dressed a pistol-shot, wound in the head of Truganini, the last queen and only survivor of the Tasmanian blacks. The bullet had struck her in the forehead, but her hard skull deflected it and it passed from the front to the back between the scalp and the skull.
    Five years later the third and youngest brother, Captain Thomas Anderson a master mariner, came out and joined the two pioneers. These three were of the solid, dauntless type, like so many of the early settlers. Men of culture and refinement, they faced their self-imposed exile and the hardships it entailed with tremendous courage. So isolated were they that, to get their letters, they had to come to Melbourne twice a year, walking seventy miles each way through the scrub, and swimming the inlet twice on each journey, their clothes in a bundle on their heads. Hugh and Thomas took up more country adjoining Samuel's original holding, and the three steadily set to work to clear their acres of the dense, almost impenetrable scrub which abounded from north of the Bass to San Remo. Occaionally they had the help of employees, who, however, deserted them for the gold fields, and the Andersons were left to themselves. Their perseverance was at last rewarded, and the cleared land proved a splendid agricultural proposition.
    Wheat was the staple crop for years; indeed, it is said that Samuel Anderson, in the first year of his arrival, grew wheat on the river flats, and built the first flour mill in Port Phillip district.
    In 1854 the brothers purchased a freehold property of 2616 acres at Griffiths Point, and built the house called Netherwood, which still stands, about four miles from sleepy little San Remo, on the eastern shore of Westernport Bay.
    The third was The Grange, built about 45 years ago, opposite where Anderson railway station now stands. With the sale of The Grange in 1912 the properties passed out of the Anderson family.
    Not content with improving his own property, Samuel Anderson explored the surrounding districts. The Wonthaggi coal fields are a monument to his faith. for, after striking coal on the beach at Cape Patterson, a few years after his arrival, he firmly believed that payable quantities existed thereabouts. The coal that he found himself he used in his own forge. Anderson's Inlet, nine miles from the old home, and on which Inverloch stands, was named after him, so was Anderson railway station, on the Wonthaggi line, which was built on the old Netherwood property.
    The peaceful little cemetery of San Remo, overlooking the scenic beauties which had reminded the Andersons so vividly of their own beautiful Scottish hills and lakes, was the last resting place of those grand old pioneers—Samuel, who died in 1863; Dr. Hugh, in 1899, and Captain Thomas, in 1903. Captain Thomas left two sons, Hugh and Patrick, and a daughter, Mary, who still lives, and is the widow of the late Rev. H. E. Potter, of San Remo. Hugh, the elder son, married in 1893 the youngest daughter of Patrick Delany, who, with his wife, Elizabeth, and her brother, William Stephen, arrived by the Champion of the Seas in 1858 from Liverpool and who built the first flour mill in Prahran, at the corner of King and Chapel streets and later another in Flinders-lane. Hugh Anderson, Elizabeth Delany Patrick Delany6

Citations

  1. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M313/1893, Hugh ANDERSON & Elizth DELANY."
  2. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B10881/1869 (par Patrick DELANY & Elizabeth STEPHENS) - as Elizabeth DELANY, Birth registered at Prahran, Australia."
  3. [S14] Newspaper - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 22 Apr 1893, p46
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/138653860
  4. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D43/1926 (Age 67) (par Thomas ANDERSON & Catherine SAYLE) - as Hugh ANDERSON, Death registered at Armadale, Australia."
  5. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D5404/1958 (Age 91) (par Patrick DE LANY & Elizabeth) - as Elizabeth ANDERSON, born Prahran. Death registered at Melbourne, Australia."
  6. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 24 Aug 1935, p6
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203982822
Last Edited7 Mar 2024

John Thomas (Tom) Clark

M, #16431, b. 1870, d. 9 Jul 1928
Occupation* John Thomas (Tom) Clark worked for Charles Ager Atkin for 36 years.1 
Birth*1870 Amherst, VIC, Australia, #B12853 [par Wilson CLARK & Mary FIRNS].2 
Marriage*1895 Spouse: Mary Matilda Hall. VIC, Australia, #M4840.2
 
Land-UBeac*20 Mar 1918 GEM-C-33. Transfer from Jane 'Jennie' Atkin to John Thomas (Tom) Clark Ernest William Smith. 20a 0r 1p.3 
Death*9 Jul 1928 Footscray, VIC, Australia, #D10146 (Age 58) [par Wilson Lancaster CLARK & Mary FIRNS].2 
Death-Notice*10 Jul 1928 CLARK. - On the 9th July, at his residence, 8 Gallant street, Footscray, late Robert, S.A., John Thomas (Tom), the dearly loved husband of Mary M. Clark, and loving father of Linda, and father-in-law of Alex McDermaid, faithful servant of C. A. Atkins (quinine tonic wine), Atkin street, North Melbourne, for 36 years, aged 58 years. A patient sufferer at rest.
CLARK.-The Friends of the late Mr JOHN THOMAS CLARK are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Footscray Cemetery. The funeral is appointed to move from his residence, 8 Gallant street (late Robert street), Footscray, THIS DAY (Tuesday, July 10), at 3.30 p.m. WALTER A. WARNE, Undertaker, 291 Barkly street, Footscray: and 259 High street. Preston.
CLARK.—Members of the Seddon Lodge No. 242, A.F.A.M. of Victoria, and Craft in general, are requested to follow the remains of their late brother, JOHN THOMAS CLARK. The funeral is appointed to move from his residence, 8 Gallant street (late Robert street), Footscray, THIS DAY (Tuesday, July 10). at 3.30 p.m. P. D. HAYWARD, W.M. S. L. McMINN, Secretary.
CLARK.-Members of the Footscray City Bowling Club are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their esteemed member, JOHN THOMAS CLARK. The funeral is appointed to move from his residence, 8 Gallant street (late Robert street), Footscray, THIS DAY (Tuesday, July 10), at 3 30. W. STEWART, President. W. LUSH, Secretary.
CLARK. - Footscray Football Club. - Players and Officials and Members of the above club are respectfully invited to follow the remains of their late committee-man, JOHN THOMAS CLARK. The funeral is appointed to move from a 8 Gallant street (late Robert street), Footscray, THIS DAY (Tuesday, July 10), at 3.30 p.m. Dr. K. A. MCCARTHY, President. VIC. SAMPSON, Secretary.1 
Land-UBeac*a 9 Jul 1931 GEM-C-33. Transfer from John Thomas (Tom) Clark to Ernest William Smith. 20a 0r 1p. 
Land-Note*1 Sep 1942 GEM-C-33. Ernest William Smith Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased.)4 

Citations

  1. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 10 Jul 1928, p1.
  2. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  3. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 - Thomas Clark of 8 Robert Street Footscray Cellar Hand and Ernest William Smith of 22 Austin Street Footscray Carpenter - joint proprietors.
  4. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 - Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased).
Last Edited24 Feb 2017

Ernest William Smith

M, #16432, b. 1868, d. 11 Feb 1931
Birth*1868 Daylesford, VIC, Australia, #B8737 [par Alfred SMITH & Catharine BRANNAN].1 
Marriage*1893 Spouse: Emily Young. VIC, Australia, #M951.1
 
(Transfer to) Land-UBeac20 Mar 1918 GEM-C-33. Transfer from Jane 'Jennie' Atkin to John Thomas (Tom) Clark Ernest William Smith. 20a 0r 1p.2 
Death*11 Feb 1931 Footscray, VIC, Australia, #D1392 (Age 62) [par Alfred SMITH & Catherine BRENNAN].1 
Death-Notice*12 Feb 1931 SMITH.— On the 11th February, at his residence, 26 Austin-street, Footscray, Ernest William, the dearly beloved husband of Emily Smith, and loving father of Alfred (deceased), Ernest, Alice, John and Arch, aged 62 years. In God's care.
SMITH.— The Friends of the late Mr. ERNEST WILLIAM SMITH are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Footscray Cemetery. The funeral is appointed to move from his residence, 20 Austin-street, Footscray, THIS DAY (Thursday), 12th February, at 3 o'clock.
SMITH.— FOOTSCRAY ST. JOHN'S LODGE No. 71.— Officers and Members of the above Lodge are respectfully invited to follow the remains of our esteemed Bro. ERNEST WILLIAM SMITH, to the place of in terment, the Footscray Cemetery. The funeral will move from his residence, 20 Austin-street, Footscray, THIS DAY (Thursday).
12th February, at 3 o'clock.
J. MYALL, W.M. E. H. WILLIAMS, Sec. WALTER A. WARNE, Funeral Director.3 
Land-UBeaca 9 Jul 1931 GEM-C-33. Transfer from John Thomas (Tom) Clark to Ernest William Smith. 20a 0r 1p. 
Land-Note*1 Sep 1942 GEM-C-33. John Thomas (Tom) Clark Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased.)4 
Land-UBeac*a 1 Sep 1942 GEM-C-33. Transfer from Ernest William Smith to Ernest James Smith. 20a 0r 1p.5 

Family

 Emily Young b. 1868, d. 1941
Child 1.Ernest James Smith b. 1897

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  2. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 - Thomas Clark of 8 Robert Street Footscray Cellar Hand and Ernest William Smith of 22 Austin Street Footscray Carpenter - joint proprietors.
  3. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), 12 Feb 1931, p1.
  4. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 - Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased).
  5. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 -.
Last Edited24 Feb 2017

Emily Young

F, #16433, b. 1868, d. 1941
Married NameSmith. 
Birth*1868 Footscray, VIC, Australia. 
Marriage*1893 Spouse: Ernest William Smith. VIC, Australia, #M951.1
 
Widow11 Feb 1931Emily Young became a widow upon the death of her husband Ernest William Smith.1 
Death*1941 Melbourne East, VIC, Australia, #D9410 (Age 73) [par James YOUNG & Isabel SMART].2 
(Witness) Land-Note1 Sep 1942 GEM-C-33 Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased.)3 

Family

 Ernest William Smith b. 1868, d. 11 Feb 1931
Child 1.Ernest James Smith b. 1897

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  2. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online) "Place of birth FOOTSCRAY."
  3. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1127-287 - Ernest William Smith died on 11th February 1931 the other joint proprietor predeceased him. Probate of the will of the said Ernest William Smith was granted to Ernest James Smith of 39 Ballarat Road Footscray Assistant Municipal Clerk (with Emily Smith now deceased).
Last Edited24 Feb 2017

Mary Matilda Hall

F, #16434
Married NameClark. 
Marriage*1895 Spouse: John Thomas (Tom) Clark. VIC, Australia, #M4840.1
 

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
Last Edited24 Feb 2017

John Henry Talbot Johnstone

M, #16439, b. 1848, d. 12 Mar 1911
Birth*1848 
Marriage*28 Jan 1876 Spouse: Jane Dickson Hunter. 24 Buccleuch Street, St Giles, Edinburgh, West Lothian, Scotland, 1876 - 685/4 42.1
Widower2 Jun 1891John Henry Talbot Johnstone became a widower upon the death of his wife Jane Dickson Hunter.2 
Marriage*1893 Spouse: Letty Alexandra Noble. VIC, Australia, #M138.3
 
Death*12 Mar 1911 Geelong, VIC, Australia, #D1501 (Age 63) [par Henry JOHNSTONE & Ruth TALBOT].3 
Death-Notice*13 Mar 1911 JOHNSTONE.—On the 12th March, 1911, at his residence, "Kelvedon," 330 Moorabool-street, Geelong, John Henry Talbot, beloved father of Harry Johnstone, and son-in-law of Mrs. John Noble, aged 63 years.4 
Death-Notice13 Mar 1911 JOHNSTONE.—On the 12th March, at his late residence, "Kelvedon", 330 Moorabool street, Geelong, John Henry Talbot Johnstone, for many years with Messrs. Strachan, Murray, Shannon, Ppty., Ltd., aged 65 years.
Friends are respectfully informed that the funeral will leave his late residence, "Kelvedon," 330 Moorabool-street, Geelong, this day (Monday), the 13th. inst., at 3.30 p.m., for the Eastern Cemetery.
W. B. KING & SON, Funeral Directors, Moorabool-street. Phone, 122.5 

Citations

  1. [S250] General Register Office for Scotland Indexes "HUNTER JANE DICKSON & JOHNSTONE JOHN HENRY
    1876 - 685/4 42
    St Giles."
  2. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901.
  3. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 13 Mar 1911, p1.
  5. [S14] Newspaper - Geelong Advertiser (Vic.), Mon 13 Mar 1911, p1.
Last Edited9 Feb 2019
 

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