Edith Irene Connop

F, #2044, b. 31 Jul 1912, d. 26 Oct 1986
ChartsDescendants of Alfred George SHORTHOUSE
Married NameShorthouse. 
Birth*31 Jul 1912 Jumbunna, VIC, Australia, #B21474 [par Thos Martin CONNOP & Margaret THOMAS].1 
Marriage4 Jan 1936 Spouse: Alfred George "Bill" Shorthouse. Presbyterian Church, Northcote, VIC, Australia, #M2369.2,3
 
Death*26 Oct 1986 Yarram, VIC, Australia, #D25750 (Age 74) [par Thomas Martin CONNOP & Margaret Elizabeth THOMAS].4 

Citations

  1. [S3] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Edwardian Index Victoria 1902-1913.
  2. [S61] Upper Beaconsfield History Archive ,"Liz WALFORD information."
  3. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  4. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online) "#D25750 birthplace Jumbunna."
Last Edited9 Jun 2017

William James Harding

M, #2045, d. 1904
Father*Henry Judd Harding b. 1820, d. 1 Mar 1901
Mother*Elizabeth Brisbane b. 11 Oct 1833, d. 28 Dec 1900
ChartsDescendants of John BRISBANE
Birth* 
Death*1904 Albury, NSW, Australia, #D437.1 
Death-Notice*8 Feb 1904 HARDING.—On the 5th February, at Albury, William J. Harding (formerly of "Thornbury," Elmgrove, Toorak) beloved husband of Clare Harding, and eldest son of the late Henry Judd Harding, of Greville-street, Prahran.2 

Citations

  1. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages.
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 8 Feb 1904, p1.
Last Edited12 Feb 2020

Sylvester Harold Tabuteau

M, #2047, b. 27 Jan 1901, d. 9 Mar 1964
ChartsDescendants of Alfred George SHORTHOUSE
Birth*27 Jan 1901 Bendigo, VIC, Australia, #B986/1901 (par Jos TABUTEAU & Louisa Rogers JOHNSON) - as Sylvester Harold TABUTEAU.1
Marriage*16 Jan 1926 Spouse: Amy Brydon Shorthouse. St Mary's Church, Caulfield, VIC, Australia, #M410/1926, Sylvester Harold TABUTEAU & Bryden Amy SHORTHOUSE.2,3
 
Divorce*25 Nov 1933Sylvester Harold Tabuteau and Amy Brydon Shorthouse were divorced on 25 Nov 1933 Sylvester had left by January 1930.4,5 
Marriage*22 May 1937 Spouse: Gladys Lawther. Innisfail, QLD, Australia, #M1937/C/1460 - married as Gladys Lawther (spinster.)6,7
Military*30 May 1940Enlisted for military service: Cairns, QLD, Australia, QX7623 - Rat of Tobruk.8,4 
Widower22 Jan 1941Sylvester Harold Tabuteau became a widower upon the death of his wife Gladys Lawther.6,7 
Marriage*1948 Spouse: Minnie Ellen Prescott. VIC, Australia, #M20276/1948.9
 
Death*9 Mar 1964 Adelaide, SA, Australia, #D969/1477.10,11,12 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 25 Nov 1933: DECREES FOR DIVORCE: In the Banco Court yesterday Mr Justice Wasley granted the following decrees nisi for divorces: - Bryden Amy Tabuteau aged 24 years of Port Albert from Sylvester Harold Tabuteau, aged 29 years, clerk formerly of Perth, on the ground of misconduct. The marriage took place on January 16, 1926 at Caulfield and there are two children. Amy Brydon Shorthouse2

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B986/1901 (par Jos TABUTEAU & Louisa Rogers JOHNSON) - as Sylvester Harold TABUTEAU, Birth registered at Bendigo, Australia."
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 25 Nov 1933 p27.
  3. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M410/1926, Sylvester Harold TABUTEAU & Bryden Amy SHORTHOUSE."
  4. [S61] Upper Beaconsfield History Archive ,"Information from Lysle Tabuteau 17 Aug 1998."
  5. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, Victoria, Australia, Divorce Records, 1860-1940
    Divorce: 1931/195 Respondent: Sylvester Harold Tabuteau. Spouse: Bryden Amy Tabuteau.
    Transcript of Affidavit:
    IN THE SUPREME COURT of the State of Victoria. 1931. No. 195
    Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Jurisdiction.
    BRYDEN AMY TABUTEAU Petitioner,
    -against-
    SYLVESTER HAROLD TABUTEAU Respondent.
    It BRYDEN AMY TABUTEAU of Port Albert in the State of Victoria, make oath and say as follows:-
    1. I am the above-named Petitioner.
    2. I was on the sixteenth day of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-six lawfully married to the above-named Respondent at St. Mary's Church, Caulfield in the said State by Canon Langley according to the rites of the Church of England.
    3. The Respondent has since the celebration of the said marriage been guilty of a repeated act of adultery with a woman or women unknown to me.
    4. I am now twenty-four years of age. I was born at Hawthorn and I am domiciled in the State of Victoria.
    5. The Respondent is now aged about twenty-nine years and he was born at Bendigo and is domiciled in the State of Victoria.
    6. I was a spinster prior to marriage and was undergoing training as a nurse. Since marriage, save as is hereinafter stated, I have lived with and been supported by the Respondent.
    7. The Respondent was a bachelor before our marriage, and he followed the occupation of a clerk. He has since marriage followed the occupations of a clerk, a laborer and a salesman.
    8. There is living issue of the said marriage namely Lysle Sylvester Tabuteau a male who was bom at Brighton in the State of Victoria on the twenty-fifth day of October, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven and Barbara Amy Tabuteau a female who was born at Belgrave in the said State on the third day of July, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine.
    9. Immediately after our marriage the Respondent and I lived and cohabited as man and wife at a home in Glen Eira Road, Caulfield. After three months residence at that home, we moved to a flat in Darling Street, South Yarra where we remained for about four months. The Respondent then expressed dissatisfaction with his position in Melbourne, and went to work on a farm at Berrigan in the State of New South Wales, leaving me with his sister in Elwood. During his four months absence I was maintained by his said sister. On his return from Berrigan he asked me to accompany him back to that town. I agreed to do so and we worked as a married couple there for about four months, when, by reason of my pregnancy, we returned and lived with the Respondent's said sister. About three weeks after my confinement we went to live at Belgrave aforesaid where the Respondent had secured employment with the State Electricity Supply Commission. Within the first six months of our residenoe there, the Respondent prevailed upon me to spend a holiday with my mother who lived at Beaconsfield.
    Before the agreed holiday had expired however, the Respondent came to take me home saying that he had been visited by some female friends and desired to apprise me of that fact before I heard about it from other people who might cause me to place a guilty construction on his conduct. Some trouble arose between the Respondent and me beoause of his excessive sexual demands and because of his neglect of me and attention to other women at social functions which we attended.
    10. In or about the month of November, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight I again became pregnant and at about the same time the Respondent informed me that he was suffering from hydrocele which had been caused by a fall. When I discovered that he was using a syringe and taking medicine however, I demanded an explanation and he then confessed that he was suffering from a venereal disease. This, he alleged, was a recurrence of a disease which he had contracted prior to our marriage and which recurrence had been brought about by the hydrocele. I accepted this explanation.
    11. One night at about 10 o'clock in about the month of January, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine I heard the Respondent's and women's voices issuing from a darkened tennis pavilion near our home. I made my presence known to him and then went home. He arrived some time later and when I demanded an explanation he stated that he was merely having a "spot" with two other men whom he named and two girls.
    I subsequently ascertained that at least one of the named men was not in the Pavilion as asserted by the Respondent.
    Though my confinement was approaching, the Respondent continued to absent himself from home almost nightly until a late hour, leaving me in the house with only my child.
    12. In the month of December, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight we moved from Belgrave to Lockwood where we lived together until about May, One thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine when the Respondent became unemployed. He informed me that he would seek employment in Melbourne and left me in the house at Lockwood. I expected to hear from him within a few days. He did not return to me and left me without any money and my relations maintained my child and myself. Three weeks after his departure, I bore my second child in a Hospital in Belgrave. The Respondent came to see me two days after the birth of my child in response, as I have been informed and verily believe, to a telegram sent by the Doctor who attended me. I then told him that I was disgusted by his conduct and that I believed certain rumours that I had heard oncerning his misconduct with other women. He denied the truth of those rumours and later sent his brother Basil to ask that I should forgive him.
    I saw the Respondent again and he then said that he had acted "rottenly" in the past, but would behave in future if I forgave him. I ultimately agreed to overlook his bad conduct and upon my recovery he took me with our two children to a flat in Glenhuntly Road, Elwood but we only remained there for three days when we moved to a house which I rented at Bell. We resided together in that house until the month of September, One thoueand nine hundred and twenty-nine when he went to the State of Western Australia saying that he intended to seek employment there and that he would send for me when he was in a position to make a home for me. He sent me small sums of money thereafter, aggregating about Fourteen pounds, until the month of April, One thousand nine hundred and thirty since when I have not received any money from him. Because I was suspicious of the Respondent, I employed Enquiry Agents in Western Australia to watch the Respondent and from their reports to my Solicitor I believe that the Respondent lived at the "Premier Hotel", Pinjarra with a woman whom he represented as his wife, in or about the month of August, One thoueand nine hundred and thirty. The Respondent is still resident in Perth, Western Australia.
    13. Sexual relations between the Respondent and me finally ceased in about the month of August, One thousand nine hundred and thirty.
    14. I do not know the name or names of the woman or women with whom the Respondent committed adultery, nor do I know how his acquaintance with her or them originated.
    15. Save as aforesaid there have been no separations between the Respondent and me nor has any Deed of Separation been executed between us.
    16. I distinctly and unequivocally deny all collusion or connivance past or present, direct or indirect with the Respondent or any other person liable to be made Respondent.
    SWORN at Melbourne in the said State the eleventh day of April, One thoueand nine hundred and thirty-one. Bryden Amy Tabuteau
    BEFORE ME:- D Chevry. A Commissioner of the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria for taking affidavits.
    This Affidavit is filed on behalf of the Petitioner.
  6. [S80] Ancestry - Family Tree, Ken Fryer.
  7. [S8] Queensland Government Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes.
  8. [S30] World War Two Nominal Roll https://nominal-rolls.dva.gov.au/
    Name      TABUTEAU, SYLVESTER HAROLD
    Service      Australian Army
    Service Number      QX7623
    Date of Birth      27 Jan 1901
    Place of Birth      BENDIGO, VIC
    Date of Enlistment      30 May 1940
    Locality on Enlistment      FLYING FISH POINT, QLD
    Place of Enlistment      CAIRNS, QLD
    Next of Kin      FOX, E
    Date of Discharge      13 Dec 1943
    Rank      Private
    Posting at Discharge      1 ACD
    WW2 Honours and Gallantry      None for display
    Prisoner of War      No.
  9. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online).
  10. [S61] Upper Beaconsfield History Archive ,"Information from Lysle Tabuteau 17 Aug 1998. He has his father's medals."
  11. [S63] South Australian Government. BDM Index South Australia.
  12. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
    Sylvester Harold Tabuteau, died 9 Mar 1964, at South Australia. Registration Place: Australia. Reg No. 1477/969.
Last Edited3 Jul 2024

May Irvine

F, #2051, b. 1890, d. Dec 1971
Married NameHedrick. 
Birth*18901 
Marriage*1912 Spouse: David Brydon Hedrick. VIC, Australia, #3541/1912 (May born Rutherglen.)2
 
Illness*30 Jun 1919 At Fairfield Infectious Diseases Hospital, Fairfield, VIC, Australia. Admitted suffering from Influenza, stayed at hospital for 11 days, but had been ill for 7 days prior. Address: 136 Hickford Street, Brunswick.3 
Widow31 Dec 1939May Irvine became a widow upon the death of her husband David Brydon Hedrick. 
Death*Dec 1971 Dandenong, VIC, Australia, #D30584 (Age 81) [par Lawrence IRVINE & Elizabeth MEREDITH].1,4 

Citations

  1. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985 "#D30584 (Age 81) [par Lawrence IRVINE & Elizabeth MEREDITH]."
  2. [S3] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Edwardian Index Victoria 1902-1913 "#D30584 (Age 81) [par Lawrence IRVINE & Elizabeth MEREDITH] - indexed as HEDRICH, FREDRICK & IRWINE."
  3. [S20] Various indexed records of GSV - Genealogical Society Victoria.
  4. [S47] Index of burials in the cemetery of Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
    Cremated - remains scattered.
Last Edited26 Nov 2018

Frank Critchley Parker

M, #2070, b. 9 Oct 1862, d. 19 Oct 1944
Note* Critchley Parker House / Wildfell is now 61-63 St Georges Road. 
Birth*9 Oct 1862 Richmond, VIC, Australia, #B23174 (as Ernest Frank.)1,2 
Marriage*13 May 1899 Spouse: Emily Minnie Plummer. Methodist Church, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, #M3635.3
 
Marriage*12 Apr 1910 Spouse: Kathleen Kerr. Independent Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
 
Marriage-Notice*30 Apr 1910 PARKER-KERR - On the 12th April, at the Independent Church Melbourne, by the Rev. F. H. Wallace, Critchley Parker to Kathleen youngest daughter of the late Andrew Kerr and Mrs Kerr of Melbourne.4 
Widower1935Frank Critchley Parker became a widower upon the death of his wife Emily Minnie Plummer.5 
Death*19 Oct 1944 28 Tivoli place, South Yarra, VIC, Australia, #D10889/1944 (Age 82) [par William Thomas PARKER & Ellen Sophia BARTLETT] - as Critchley PARKER.1,6 
Death-Notice*23 Oct 1944 PARKER.—On October 19, at his residence, 28 Tivoli place, South Yarra, Critchley Parker, dearly loved husband of Kathleen Kerr Parker, and father of Critchley junior (deceased), aged 82 years. (Cremated privately.)7 

Family

 Kathleen Kerr b. 1884, d. 1970
Child 1.Critchley Parker b. 11 Apr 1911, d. May 1942

Newspaper-Articles

  • 27 Aug 1909: DIVORCE COURT. THURSDAY, AUG 26. (Before Mr Justice A'Beckett.) PARKER V. PARKER.
    This was a suit by Emily Minnie Parker, aged 41, of the Federal Palace Hotel, Collins-street, for a dissolution of her marriage with Ernest Francis Parker, aged 44, proprietor of the "Australian Mining Standanrd," on the ground of desertion. Mr Woolf (instructed by Mr W J Strong) appeared for Mrs Parker. The parties were married on May 13, 1899, and thereis one child of the marriage, a girl of nine. After the marriage the parties lived in Melbourne at first, but the husband's business then took him to Sydney. He took lodgings for his wife at North Sydney, but he lived at the Hotel Australia, saying that his business necessitated this. They ceased to live together for a time in 1901; they came to Melbourne later, and again returned to Sydney. In 1906 the wife instituted proceedings for divorce in Sydney, but the petition was dismissed on the question of domicile. The husband had been making an allowance to his wife. It began at £12 a month, but it came down by stages to £6, and ceased altogether in February, 1905. Mrs Parker said that her husband wrote to her saying she had better decide for herself and take her own course. A decree nisi with costs and the custody of the child were granted. Emily Minnie Plummer8
  • 23 Oct 1944: OBITUARY. MR. CRITCHLEY PARKER
    Mr. Critchley Parker, proprietor of the "Industrial Australian and Mining Standard," died at his home in Melbourne on Thursday.
    Born at Richmond, Victoria, Mr. Parker was a son of Mr. and Mrs. T. Parker, Tiverton, Devon, England. He was educated at St. Stephen's Grammar School, Victoria.
    In 1889 Mr. Parker established "The Sun" newspaper in Melbourne and Sydney, and from 1908 owned and conducted "Money Market Review," London. He published "Australian Nature Studies" and mining history studies, also "Tasmania, the Jewel of the Commonwealth."
    Fly-fishing was his favourite recreation, and he was a frequent visitor to Tasmania until recently, and was well known for his interest in the fresh water fisheries of the state. He was one of the pioneer anglers of the Great Lake, and fished there regularly during his visits to Tasmania for more than 30 years.
    He contributed many articles to London journals, including "The Field" and "The Fishing Gazette."
    Mr. Parker was a warm advocate of the attractions of Tasmania as a tourist resort, and consistently gave generous publicity to the state not only in the editorial columns of his paper, but in his contributions published from time to time elsewhere.
    Mr. Parker is survived by his wife and a daughter.9

Australian Dictionary of Biography

PARKER, FRANK CRITCHLEY (1862-1944), journalist and publisher, was born on 9 October 1862 at Richmond, Melbourne, son of William Thomas Parker, fitter, and his wife Ellen Sophia, née Bartlett, both English born. He was registered as Ernest Frank. Educated at St Stephen's Grammar School and state schools, he learned printing with Fergusson & Mitchell and later toured the Pacific. In December 1888 in Melbourne he founded and edited the Sun, planned to rival the Bulletin, and brought out a Sydney edition in March 1889. Selling in 1897, he bought the Sydney-based Australian Mining Standard and took it to Melbourne where he developed it into a notable journal with Tom H. Prichard, a talented journalist and father of Katharine Susannah Prichard, on its staff. He published a novel, A King of Shreds and Patches, in 1891 under the pseudonym 'Frank Critchley'. On 13 May 1899 he married Emily Minnie Plummer with Methodist forms at Fitzroy. From about 1900 he adopted the name Critchley in preference to Frank.
With official subsidies Parker wrote and published books on mineral resources in five States, and also published technical and scientific works by others. In 1908 he bought the London Money Market Review, appointing the erudite E. H. C. Oliphant as editor. Selling it in 1912 he recalled Oliphant to edit the Standard and in 1914 published, with his own preface, Oliphant's Germany and Good Faith.
Parker played a controversial part in the conscription debate and election campaign of 1917. A fervent pro-conscriptionist, he displayed inflammatory posters in his windows and used his magazine, now the Australian Statesman and Mining Standard, to attack anti-conscriptionists and Irish Catholicism. Senators T. J. K. Bakhap and J. H. Keating were each awarded £450 for libel after their loyalty was challenged in a leading article. Anti-Irish cartoons, reproduced from Punch of the 1840s and 1850s and circulated widely as leaflets, caused an outcry. Federal Labor members called for a royal commission to investigate their 'publication, issue, distribution and financing'. Although he rejected their demand, Prime Minister W. M. Hughes dissociated himself from Parker's 'sectarian literature', an action approved by the Argus which condemned the pamphlets as 'offensive and irrelevant publications'. Throughout the war Parker published Patriotic Pamphlets written by himself and others as anti-German and pro-British propaganda.
The decline of gold-mining affected Parker's magazine, whose title was amended in 1917 to the Industrial Australian and Mining Standard to widen its appeal. From weekly it changed to fortnightly and then monthly publication. When Oliphant resigned in 1918, Ambrose Pratt succeeded him. On Pratt's retirement in 1927, Parker again became editor. He was also an active publisher for the Victorian Department of Education and others, offering authors financial aid for works on early Australian history.
A keen fly-fisherman at Mt Kosciusko and in Tasmania, Parker compiled Record of Fish Killed at the Great Lake (1899) and contributed articles on fishing to English journals. In 1937 he published Tasmania, the Jewel of the Commonwealth and persuaded the premier, A. G. Ogilvie, to order 20,000 copies. Of medium height, genial and softly spoken, he was well read and an excellent conversationalist. At work he was paternalistic and demanding.
Divorced by his wife in December 1909, Parker married Kathleen Kerr at the Independent Church, Collins Street, Melbourne, on 12 April 1910. Survived by her and a daughter from his first marriage, Parker died at his South Yarra home on 19 October 1944 and was cremated. His son Critchley, who had worked with him, had died in 1942 while hiking in Tasmania.10

Citations

  1. [S55] ADB online, online https://adb.anu.edu.au/
  2. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888.
  3. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901 "#M3635 (Frank as Ethel Francis PARKER)."
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 30 Apr 1910, p13.
  5. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages.
  6. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D10889/1944 - born RICHMOND."
  7. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 23 Oct 1944, p2.
  8. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 27 Aug 1909, p3.
  9. [S14] Newspaper - Examiner (Launceston, Tas.), Mon 23 Oct 1944, p4
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/91394611
  10. [S55] ADB online, online https://adb.anu.edu.au/, J. P. Holroyd, 'Parker, Frank Critchley (1862–1944)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/…, published first in hardcopy 1988, accessed online 18 March 2023.
Last Edited18 Mar 2023
 

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