William Cockburn

M, #2881
Land-UBeac*1 Apr 1898 GEM-C-49. Transfer from Thomas Clarendon to William Cockburn. 19a 2r 32p.1 
Land-UBeac*10 Jun 1902 GEM-C-49. Transfer from William Cockburn to James Unwin. 19a 2r 32p.2 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 8 Jun 1898: Berwick Shire Council. 4 June. Correspondence. From W. Cockburn, Upper Beaconsfield, complaining of the state of the road leading to the Tower House, the culvert being in a very dangerous condition.3

Citations

  1. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 2618-460 - William Cockburn of Upper Beaconsfield Farmer.
  2. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 2618-460 - James Unwin of Upper Beaconsfield Farmer.
  3. [S12] Newspaper - South Bourke and Mornington Journal (Richmond, Vic.), Wed 8 Jun 1898, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/70020365
Last Edited10 Jun 2022

Thomas Clarendon

M, #2883
Land-UBeac*23 Jul 1896 GEM-C-49. Transfer from Percy Dynes Wheeler to Thomas Clarendon. 19a 2r 32p.1 
Land-UBeac*1 Apr 1898 GEM-C-49. Transfer from Thomas Clarendon to William Cockburn. 19a 2r 32p.2 

Citations

  1. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1114-608 - Thomas Clarendon of Beaconsfield Farmer - C/T 2618-460.
  2. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 2618-460 - William Cockburn of Upper Beaconsfield Farmer.
Last Edited7 Aug 2017

William George Irving

M, #2886, b. 1862, d. 27 May 1933
Father*Thomas Irving b. abt 1828, d. 22 Aug 1896
Mother*Mary Ann Keam b. 1832, d. 31 Dec 1908
Probate (Will)* William G Irving. Storekeeper. Maidstone. 27 May 1933. 256/700.1 
Birth*1862 Emerald (Hill?), VIC, Australia, #B14293.2 
Marriage*1891 Spouse: Frances Willis. VIC, Australia, #M1799.3
 
Land-UBeac16 Dec 1909 GEM-C-77. Transfer from Mary Ann Irving to William George Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.4 
Land-UBeac*16 Dec 1909 GEM-C-75. Transfer from Mary Ann Irving to William George Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.5 
Death*27 May 1933 Braybrook, VIC, Australia, #D3858 (age 70) [par Thomas Irving & Mary Ann KEAN].6 
Land-Note12 Nov 1945 GEM-C-77. Red Ink No 4273019. The above named William Irving having died, Letters of Administration with the will annexed of the unadministered estate of Thomas Irving who died on 22nd August 1896 have been granted to Edward Aubrey Sheeran of 5 Shaftesbury Avenue Malvern a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Military Forces.7 
Land-Note*12 Nov 1945 GEM-C-75. Red Ink No 4273017. The above named William Irving having died, Letters of Administration with the will annexed of the unadministered estate of Thomas Irving who died on 22nd August 1896 have been granted to Edward Aubrey Sheeran of 5 Shaftesbury Avenue Malvern a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Military Forces.8 
Land-UBeac*12 Nov 1945 GEM-C-75. Transfer from William George Irving to Edwin George Hamilton. 19a 3r 35p.9 
Land-UBeac*12 Nov 1945 GEM-C-77. Transfer from William George Irving to Florence Edith Haldane. 19a 3r 35p.10 

Citations

  1. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 28/P3, unit 2452; VPRS 7591/P2, unit 900.
  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.
  4. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.
  5. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.
  6. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  7. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Red Ink No 4273019. The above named William Irving having died, Letters of Administration with the will annexed of the unadministered estate of Thomas Irving who died on 22nd August 1896 have been granted to Edward Aubrey Sheeran of 5 Shaftesbury Avenue Malvern a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Military Forces.
  8. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Red Ink No 4273017. The above named William Irving having died, Letters of Administration with the will annexed of the unadministered estate of Thomas Irving who died on 22nd August 1896 have been granted to Edward Aubrey Sheeran of 5 Shaftesbury Avenue Malvern a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Australian Military Forces.
  9. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Edwin George Hamilton of "Springfield" Upper Beaconsfield Orchard Labourer.
  10. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Florence Edith Haldane of 12 Bartlett Street Preston Married Woman.
Last Edited11 Aug 2017

Thomas Irving

M, #2887, b. abt 1828, d. 22 Aug 1896
Father*John Irving b. 1782
Mother*Elizabeth Wilding b. 1786, d. 19 Nov 1877
Birth*abt 1828 Liverpool, Lancashire, England. 
Marriage*1861 Spouse: Mary Ann Keam. VIC, Australia, #M2270.1
 
Land-UBeac*1878Selection: GEM-C-75. 19a 3r 35p - Land File 1889/49.4
Crown Grant to T. IRVING on 22 Sep 1884.2,3 
Land-UBeac*a 1882 GEM-C-77. Transfer from John Irving to Thomas Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Land File 1890/49.4 Selected by John IRVING. Crown Grant to T. IRVING on 30 May 1885.4 
Death*22 Aug 1896 Maidstone, VIC, Australia, #D10306 (age 58) [par John IRVING & Elizabeth WILDING].5 
Death-Notice*24 Aug 1896 IRVING.-On the 22nd August, at Maidstone, Thomas, the beloved husband of M A Irving, father of William G Irving, St Arnaud, Thomas Irving, Footscray, Mrs E T Sherran, Newport, John, Maggie, Louisa, and Alice Irving, after a long and painful illness.6 
Probate (Will)*14 Dec 1896 63/029 & 367/808. Gentleman. No Upper Beaconsfield property defined in probate.7 
Land-UBeac7 May 1897 GEM-C-77. Transfer from Thomas Irving to Mary Ann Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.8 
Land-UBeac*7 May 1897 GEM-C-75. Transfer from Thomas Irving to Mary Ann Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.9 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
6 Jun 1841Bean Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, England(Head of Household) John Irving;
Age 13 - Office Boy
Member(s) of Household: Elizabeth Wilding, Margaret Irving, John Irving, Elizabeth Irving, William Irving, Annie Irving10
30 Mar 185126 Aigburth St, West Derby, Lancashire, EnglandHead of Household: Thomas Irving. Age 25 - Warehouseman.11

Family

 Mary Ann Keam b. 1832, d. 31 Dec 1908
Child 1.William George Irving b. 1862, d. 27 May 1933

Citations

  1. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888.
  2. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). VPRS 5357/P0000/3647     
    1889/49. THOMAS IRVING. GEMBROOK 75 C. 19--3--35. 1878 - 1884.
  3. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Thomas Irving of Maidstone.
  4. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Thomas Irving of Footscray Gentleman as Executor of the will of John Irving late of Maidstone Tailor deceased.
  5. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901.
  6. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 24 Aug 1896, p1.
  7. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria).
  8. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.
  9. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.
  10. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, 1841 census: Class: HO107; Piece: 563; Book: 6; Civil Parish: Liverpool; County: Lancashire; Enumeration District: 12; Folio: 4; Page: 1; Line: 2; GSU roll: 438715.
  11. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, 1851 census: Class: HO107; Piece: 2192; Folio: 618; Page: 44;.
Last Edited11 Aug 2017

Mary Ann Keam

F, #2888, b. 1832, d. 31 Dec 1908
Probate (Will)* Mary A Irving. Widow. Footscray. 31 Dec 1908. 360/311 & 109/879. 40 acres of freehold land near Berwick - vacant. Value £60. Note that this land had been placed in the hands of several agents without success.1 
Married NameIrving. 
Birth*1832 
Marriage*1861 Spouse: Thomas Irving. VIC, Australia, #M2270.2
 
Widow22 Aug 1896Mary Ann Keam became a widow upon the death of her husband Thomas Irving.3 
Land-UBeac7 May 1897 GEM-C-77. Transfer from Thomas Irving to Mary Ann Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.4 
Land-UBeac*7 May 1897 GEM-C-75. Transfer from Thomas Irving to Mary Ann Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.5 
Death*31 Dec 1908 Footscray, VIC, Australia, #D1476/1909 (age 77) [par Jacob KEANE & Mary Ann HODGES].6 
Death-Notice*2 Jan 1909 IRVING.—On the 31st December at No 18 Federal street, Footscray, Mary Ann, relict of the late Thomas Irving, of Maidstone, and beloved mother of William, Thomas, John, Louisa, and Alice Irving also Mrs A Sheeran Newport, and Mrs M Gomarsall, Richmond aged 77 years.
Around and about her are the everlasting arms.7 
Land-UBeac*16 Dec 1909 GEM-C-75. Transfer from Mary Ann Irving to William George Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.8 
Land-UBeac16 Dec 1909 GEM-C-77. Transfer from Mary Ann Irving to William George Irving. 19a 3r 35p - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.9 

Family

 Thomas Irving b. abt 1828, d. 22 Aug 1896
Child 1.William George Irving b. 1862, d. 27 May 1933

Citations

  1. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 28/P2, unit 871; VPRS 7591/P2, unit 428
    VPRS 28/P3, unit 4068; VPRS 7591/P2, unit 1265 - not online
    no title number given for Gembrook land.
  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.
  4. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.
  5. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Memo 19216 - Mary Ann Irving of Jackson Street Maidstone Widow is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executrix to whom probate of the will of Thomas Irving who died 22 Aug 1896 was granted 9th Dec 1896.
  6. [S3] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Edwardian Index Victoria 1902-1913.
  7. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 2 Jan 1909, p9.
  8. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1634-326 - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.
  9. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 1723-422 - Memo 44958 William Irving of Ballarat Road Maidstone Quarryman is registered as proprietor of the within described land as executor to whom probate of the will of Mary Ann Irving (who died on the 31st Dec 1908) was granted 27th Feb 1909.
Last Edited11 Aug 2017

George Pearson

M, #2892, b. 1828, d. 4 Mar 1899
Birth*1828 
Marriage*1865 Spouse: Elizabeth Sim. VIC, Australia, #M4220.1
 
Land-UBeac*14 Dec 1877Selection: GEM-C-34 (now Hamilton Reserve). 19a 0r 11p - 769/49 - Crown Grant to G. PEARSON on 9 May 1882. Listed in rate book until 1949/50 (and beyond?), but appears to have only paid rate in 1885/6, in arrears since then.2 
Widower28 Jun 1893George Pearson became a widower upon the death of his wife Elizabeth Sim.1 
Death*4 Mar 1899 Lennox Street, Richmond, VIC, Australia, #D3469 (Age 71) [par Andrew PEARSON & Elizabeth].1 
Death-Notice*6 Mar 1899 The Friends of the late Mr. GEORGE PEARSON, are informed that his remains will be interred in the St Kilda General Cemetery. The funeral to move from his late residence, "Tinian," No. 90 Lennox-street, Richmond, THIS DAY (Monday), the 6th inst., at 11 o'clock a.m.
HERBERT KING. Undertaker. Head office: Lennox-street, Richmond. Tel. 912.3 
Death-Notice6 Mar 1899 PEARSON.—On the 4th March, at 90 Lennox-street, Richmond, George Pearson, aged 71 years.4 

Grave

  • PRES 0248 0250, St Kilda Cemetery, St Kilda, VIC, Australia, Elizabeth, wife of George Pearson died 28.6.1893 - also above George Pearson died 4.3.1899 - & their daughter Maggie Pearson died 13.8.1899 also George Pearson, husband of Margaret Pearson died 31.5.19365

Newspaper-Articles

  • 8 Apr 1882: William Harris, alias Henderson, was charged on remand, at the Richmond Police court, Wednesday morning. ... There was another charge against prisoner for stealing twenty bags, value £1, the property of George Pearson, a wine and spirit merchant, residing in Lennox street, Richmond. At about 1 p.m. on the 28th March, Annie Home, a servant in the employ of Mr. Pearson, left the premises for about twenty minutes. When she returned she saw prisoner in the coach house packing up the bags, and also a large axe. He left when she told him to do so. For this offence he received a cumulative sentence of three months.6
  • 27 Feb 1892: Tasmanian Exhibition. In the list of awards at the Tasmanian Exhibition last week the following appeared as successful Victorian prize-takers —Special First Awards : George Pearson, Richmond, bottled Victorian stout ;7
  • 13 Jan 1894: BURGLARIES. The premises of Mr George Pearson, wine and spirit merchant and bottler, Lennox street, Richmond, were burglariously entered on Wednesday morning at about 3 o'clock.
    The cellar door was bored in five places, and a piece taken out of it enabling the would-be thieves to gain entrance to the cellar. They next tried to get into the office upstairs, but the noise of the alarm bell attached to this door aroused a neighbour and disturbed the burglars. They then made off without taking anything.8

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  2. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). VPRS 5357/P0000/3905     
    769/49 GEORGE PEARSON PAKENHAM 34 19--0--11. 1877 - 1882.
  3. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), Mon 6 Mar 1899, p8.
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Mon 6 Mar 1899, p1.
  5. [S48] Index of burials in the cemetery of St Kilda,
    Inscription GSV.
  6. [S14] Newspaper - Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 8 Apr 1882, p11.
  7. [S14] Newspaper - Weekly Times (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 27 Feb 1892, p3.
  8. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 13 Jan 1894, p12.
Last Edited13 Sep 2017

John Edwin Wintle

M, #2893, b. 25 Jun 1898, d. 15 Nov 1980
Probate (Will)* John Edwin Wintle. Gent. Croydon. 15 Nov 1980. 885/595.1 
Birth*25 Jun 1898 Kingsbridge, Devon, England, Sep Q [Kingsbridge] 5b 184 [par William WINTLE & Bertha Lilian LIZARD].2,3,4 
Marriage*1933 Spouse: Yvonne Jean Edith Sippets. VIC, Australia, #M4604.5
 
Land-UBeac*31 Mar 1938 GEM-C-70.70A.B.C.D.E.71.71A. Transfer from Frederick William Fisher to John Edwin Wintle. 484a 1r 15p - in possession since Jan 1935.6 
Land-UBeac*19 Sep 1938 GEM-C-70.70A.B.C.D.E.71.71A. Transfer from John Edwin Wintle to William Dennis Everest Bolger. 484a 1r 15p.7 
Widower23 Jul 1953John Edwin Wintle became a widower upon the death of his wife Yvonne Jean Edith Sippets.8 
Death*15 Nov 1980 Croydon North, VIC, Australia, #D26432 (Age 82) [par unknown].9 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
2 Apr 1911Richmond House, Wellington, Somerset, EnglandAge 12 - Pupil10
193120 Hopetoun Road, Malvern, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: gardener. With Yvonne Jean Edith Wintle.11
bt 1936 - 1942Keynedon Court, Dewhurst, VIC, AustraliaWith Yvonne Jean Edith Sippets.12

Grave

  • Springvale Botanical Cemetery, Springvale, VIC, Australia, MELALEUCA, INDIVIDUAL ROSE, GARDEN M2 BED 2 ROSE 1613

Newspaper-Articles

  • 3 Dec 1910: SOUTH DEVON RAM, WINTLE'S NO. 7 OF 1908. [Image]. Winner of First Prize at the Royal Show at Liverpool this year. Bred and exhibited by Mr. F. J. Wintle, Keynedon Barton, King-bridge.
    -"Mark Lane Express."-14
  • 8 Feb 1935: Mr. Wintle, late of Pearcedale, is in occupation of his property, which he purchased recently from Mr. F. W. Fisher. Mr. Wintle is milking more than 20 cows, and is proving that the district can produce good cream and "fat." Frederick William Fisher15
  • 12 Mar 1936: FLAMES RISE 60 FEET. Homes Were in Danger.
    UPPER BEACONSFIELD, Wednesday. A roaring inferno of fire, in which flames readied a height of 60ft., confronted fire-fighters at a break between the properties of Mrs. I. S. Norbury and the Rev. T. Howard Smith at Upper Beaconsfield to-day.
    The whole Upper Beaconsfield ridge was ablaze, but, after an exhausting fight, 60 members of the Upper Beaconsfield bush fire brigade saved the properties which were in danger.
    Fanned by a northerly wind, the fire, which had been under control on Tuesday night, broke out afresh this morning, and within a few hours huge clouds of smoke reduced the range of visibility in some parts of the district to 10 yards.
    The properties which were in the greatest danger were those of Mrs. Norbury, Messrs. C. A. Berglund, E. Wintle, H. Albers, and Vickers. Messrs. Wintle and Vickers lost a considerable area of grass, but all the properties were safe late this afternoon. Walter Leonard Vickers, Henry August Albers, Isabella Frances Norbury, Charles Alexander Berglund16
  • 7 Jan 1938: Fat Lambs: The Commonwealth Wool and Produce Co Ltd sold 81 (lambs) J E Wintle Upper Beaconsfield to 18/6 nv 18/. 26 (lambs) J E Wintle Upper Beaconsfield at 15/11.17
  • 23 Mar 1938: Fat Sheep. 167 xbd, J Wintle, Keynedon Court, Dewhurst, Upper Beaconsfield to 9/518
  • 4 Jun 1941: Upper Beaconsfield Fire The Result Of Incendiarism. MAN ARRESTED AND COMMITTED FOR TRIAL
    FOLLOWING investigations by Detective Howard, of Dandenong, and Constable Briant, of Berwick, into the circumstances surrounding the destruction of a house by fire at Upper Beaconsfield recently, John Edwin Wintle, 42, of Dewhurst, was arrested and charged with having unlawfully and maliciously set fire to a house with intent to injure the property of Ivy Helwig Koch.
    Brought before the Berwick Court accused was committed for trial at the Melbourne General Sessions. Bail was allowed in the sum of £50, with one surety of the same amount. Ivy Hedwig Kittler19
  • 18 Jun 1941: Dewhurst Man Acquitted Of Arson
    JOHN EDWIN WINTLE, 42, of Dewhurst, near Upper Beaconsfield, who was committed for trial by the Berwick Court recently on a charge of arson at Upper Beaconsfield, was found not guilty by a jury at the Melbourne General Sessions, and acquitted.
    Wintle was charged following the destruction by fire of a house at Upper Beaconsfield, the property of Ivy Hedwig Koch. For defendant it was claimed that he was under the influence, of liquor at the time of the alleged offence and was not therefore capable of forming any criminal intent. He was discharged by Judge Magennis.20

Citations

  1. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 28/P11, unit 58; VPRS 7591/P7, unit 12.
  2. [S9] Free BMD. Index. Online @ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
  3. [S33] Australian Government: http://www.naa.gov.au/collection/search/index.aspx, Labour Corps.
  4. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, 1901 census & Marriage Index.
  5. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  6. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 5582-254 - John Edwin Wintle of Upper Beaconsfield Farmer - C/T 6189-731 (Caveat lodged 25 Jan 1935).
  7. [S185] Property Titles ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), C/T 6189-731 - William Ernest Bolger of 14 Normanby Street Middle Brighton Contractor - Caveat lodged 30 Jun 1938.
  8. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  9. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online).
  10. [S83] UK census - viewed on Ancestry.
  11. [S131] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1931.
  12. [S101] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1903 - 1980 "1936 + 1942 (gone 1954)."
  13. [S47] Index of burials in the cemetery of Springvale Botanical Cemetery.
  14. [S14] Newspaper - Chronicle (Adelaide, SA), 3 Dec 1910, p10 - copied from "Mark Lane Express"
    This ram must have belonged to a relative of J E Wintle, as he named his Dewhurst property after this location in Devon.
  15. [S188] Newspaper - Berwick County Times / The Times 8 Feb 1935.
  16. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 12 Mar 1936, p11.
  17. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 7 Jan 1938, p16: STRONG REQUEST FOR PRIME MUTTON. GENERAL EXPORT DEMAND WEAKER IN TREND.
  18. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 23 Mar 1938, p11.
  19. [S218] Newspaper - The Dandenong Journal (Vic.), Wed 4 Jun 1941, p15.
  20. [S218] Newspaper - The Dandenong Journal (Vic.), Wed 18 Jun 1941, p7
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/214603756
Last Edited3 Nov 2020

Walter Leonard Vickers

M, #2895, b. 1891, d. 1973
Birth*1891 Armadale, VIC, Australia, #B18778 [James VICKERS & Mary Eliza BRYANT].1 
Marriage*1916 Spouse: Olive Emily Sara Wilson. VIC, Australia, #M8923.1
 
Death*1973 Prahran, VIC, Australia, #D6471 (age 82) [par James Herbert VICKERS & Mary Eliza].2 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
bt 1936 - 1937Bryn Gwyn, Upper Beaconsfield, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: farmer. With Olive Emily Sara Vickers.3,4
1942cr Springvale Road and Fern Tree Gully Road, Notting Hill, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: farmer. With Joyce Harvey Vickers.5
bt 1954 - 196348 Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: barman. With Joyce Harvey Holmes.6,7
bt 1967 - 197248 Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: barman. With Olive Emily Sara Vickers.8,9,10

Newspaper-Articles

  • 12 Mar 1936: FLAMES RISE 60 FEET. Homes Were in Danger.
    UPPER BEACONSFIELD, Wednesday. A roaring inferno of fire, in which flames readied a height of 60ft., confronted fire-fighters at a break between the properties of Mrs. I. S. Norbury and the Rev. T. Howard Smith at Upper Beaconsfield to-day.
    The whole Upper Beaconsfield ridge was ablaze, but, after an exhausting fight, 60 members of the Upper Beaconsfield bush fire brigade saved the properties which were in danger.
    Fanned by a northerly wind, the fire, which had been under control on Tuesday night, broke out afresh this morning, and within a few hours huge clouds of smoke reduced the range of visibility in some parts of the district to 10 yards.
    The properties which were in the greatest danger were those of Mrs. Norbury, Messrs. C. A. Berglund, E. Wintle, H. Albers, and Vickers. Messrs. Wintle and Vickers lost a considerable area of grass, but all the properties were safe late this afternoon. , John Edwin Wintle, Henry August Albers, Isabella Frances Norbury, Charles Alexander Berglund11

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  2. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  3. [S136] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1936.
  4. [S137] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1937.
  5. [S142] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1942.
  6. [S154] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1954.
  7. [S163] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1963.
  8. [S167] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1967.
  9. [S168] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1968.
  10. [S172] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1972.
  11. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 12 Mar 1936, p11.
Last Edited13 Mar 2022

Olive Emily Sara Wilson

F, #2896, b. 1890, d. 1981
Married NameVickers. 
Birth*1890 Carlton, VIC, Australia, #B10963 [par Robert James WILSON & Eliza Ann HUCKEL].1 
Marriage*1916 Spouse: Walter Leonard Vickers. VIC, Australia, #M8923.1
 
Widow1973Olive Emily Sara Wilson became a widow upon the death of her husband Walter Leonard Vickers.2 
Death*1981 Elsternwick, VIC, Australia, #D2556 (age 92) [par Robert WILSON & Elizabeth].2 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
bt 1936 - 1937Bryn Gwyn, Upper Beaconsfield, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Walter Leonard Vickers.3,4
1942cr Springvale Road and Fern Tree Gully Road, Notting Hill, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Walter Leonard Vickers. With Joyce Harvey Vickers.5
bt 1954 - 196348 Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Walter Leonard Vickers. With Joyce Harvey Holmes.6,7
bt 1967 - 197248 Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Walter Leonard Vickers.8,9,10
bt 1977 - 198048 Kangaroo Road, Oakleigh, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties.11,12

Citations

  1. [S22] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (online).
  2. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  3. [S136] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1936.
  4. [S137] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1937.
  5. [S142] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1942.
  6. [S154] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1954.
  7. [S163] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1963.
  8. [S167] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1967.
  9. [S168] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1968.
  10. [S172] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1972.
  11. [S177] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1977.
  12. [S180] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1980.
Last Edited13 Mar 2022

Frederick Illingworth

M, #2898, b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
Frederick ILLINGWORTH
(1844-1908)
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Birth*24 Sep 1844 Horton, Yorkshire, England, Sep Q 1844 (Bradford Union, West Riding Of Yorkshire) 23 188. Mother's maiden surname: Irving. As Frederick Illingworth.1,2 
Marriage*5 Sep 1867 Spouse: Elizabeth Tarry. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #M3138/1867, Elizabeth TARRY & Frederick ILLINGWORTH.3
 
Marriage-Notice*7 Sep 1867 ILLINGWORTH—TARRY.—On the 5th inst., by Pastor William Bryant, of Fitzroy Baptist Church, Frederick Illingworth, of Melbourne, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. Joseph Tarry, of Lygon-street, Carlton. No cards. Northampton papers please copy.4 
(Reverend) Marriage13 Feb 1878Performed marriage of: Donald Nelson and Mary Jane Ritchie; Berwick, VIC, Australia.5,6 
Land-UBeac*11 Jun 1881Selection: PAK-140. 19a 2r 30p - Govt Land Sale 5630 8 Nov 1881. Upset price £1 5s./ac. Previously selected by James MacGibbon, who forfeited for non-payment of rent. Crown Grant issued to H. R. WHITWORTH at Land Sale.7 
Land-Note15 Aug 1881 Beaconsfield Aug 15/81. Dear Sir, Unfortunately the enclosed form has been forwarded to me instead of Mr Illingworth and he has left for the country and won't return until Saturday next. I can vouch for the fact that he has never previously selected under the 49th Section. I have on his behalf filled up the enclosed and can assure you that he will comply with all the conditions of the act and that he has selected the allotment referred to with the intention of fencing, clearing and sowing down in grass and building a house on the land applied for. Also he has not selected 300 acres under the 19th Section. Yours faithfully, W Brisbane.8 
Land-Note*8 Sep 1881 Melbourne Sep 8/81. In reference to my application for 20 acres in the Parish of Pakenham, which was heard before the last local land board in Cranbourne I beg to intimate that I would prefer the land referred to being sold by auction as in the case of the adjoining block at the same time. It is my intention to go with my previous application in the event of sale being refused. Will you therefore kindly forward to me an answer in time so that my application for selection of the ground may be heard at the next land board to be held in Melbourne on the 5th proximo. Yours faithfully, F Illingworth.8 
Land-UBeac*8 Nov 1881 PAK-140. Transfer from Frederick Illingworth to Henry Race Whitworth. 19a 2r 30p - Govt Land Sale 5630 8 Nov 1881. Upset price £1 5s./ac.8,9 
Book1888Quote from Fred Illingworth Memoirs :
1889 opened with decided unrest. I had spent Xmas of 1888 at “Kalorama” (His Beaconsfield Property). A long walk, going through my books, and calmly looking at the situations in the face cleared my mind.10 
(Witness) Bookbt 1888 - 1894Quotes from Arthur Illingworth (Fred’s Son) memoirs:
Father sold the house and bought a fine block in Mercer Road, Malvern, on which he built a mansion. Dec 1888.
He also bought a beautiful country residence at Beaconsfield. This he called ‘Kalorama’. My Uncle Joseph Blumfield and Aunt Harriet managed the country place for father.
*****
We resolved to have a very quiet wedding and invite no friends; Alice and Father being in Western Australia. We planned for the Macgowan family to come to our home for a ‘Wedding Breakfast’ which was prepared by my Uncle Joseph Blumfield, from Beaconsfield. He was a pastry cook! This was on Feb. 18th, 1891
*****
On our return I transferred my Church membership to Malvern and became more actively involved. I was induced to accept the office of Secretary of the Church of Christ, S.S. Union. I became in time Secretary 1891-2, Vice President 1892-3, and President 1893-4.11 
Land-Note*2 Apr 1888 GEM-D-76A. William Edwin Falla Libby Libby took over part of the lease from Frederick Illingworth for 14 years. The lease was cancelled once the crown grant was taken out. He paid £2 per acre.12 
Land-UBeac*25 Jul 1888 PAK-154. Transfer from William Galley Watson to Frederick Illingworth. 19a 3r 36p.13 
Land-UBeac*25 Jul 1888 PAK-155. Transfer from Edward Simmonds to Frederick Illingworth. 19a 3r 17p.14 
Land-Note*12 Nov 1888 PAK-74. William Piggott Title lists Caveat 17747 lodged 12 Nov 1888 (affecting part of the within land) - Caveat lapsed 29 Mar 1891. Illingworth paid rates 1888/89, listed as owner in rate book in 1889/90 NAV 30, 1890/91 listed as owner, but paid by LL Smith.15,16 
Land-Note*10 Jan 1890 PAK-154.155: Mortgagee: The Bank of South Australia Limited. Discharged 4 Jul 1890. Mortgagor was Frederick Illingworth.17 
Land-UBeac4 Jul 1890 PAK-155. Transfer from Frederick Illingworth to The Bank of South Australia Limited. 19a 3r 17p.18 
Land-UBeac*4 Jul 1890 PAK-154. Transfer from Frederick Illingworth to The Bank of South Australia Limited. 19a 3r 36p.19 
Book1891Extracts from “The Resilient Man”
Frederick’s attention was drawn to the lovely country just beyond the Dandenong Ranges. So he purchased three beautiful blocks at Upper Beaconsfield. The vendor for these blocks being J. A. Kitchen. One of the blocks had a large rambling residence on it, and this he converted into the family country retreat. In subsequent years Frederick’s sister and brother in law, Harriet and Joseph Blumfield, lived there and ran it as a guest house for several years.
*****
Arthur’s uncle, Joe Blumfield, had settled into “Kalorama” and with Harriet enjoyed managing the family country property at Upper Beaconsfield. Joe and Harriet eventually bought the sixty acre property in their own right and lived there for several years.
*****
The extended family absorbed more bad news when they learned that Uncle Joseph Blumfield from Beaconsfield Victoria had unexpectedly been admitted to Kew Lunatic Asylum suffering from mania. After just a short stay there he passed away from phthisis (T.B.) on the 18 Sept. 1891. He was just forty three years old and poor Harriett was left with two teenage children and a 68 acre property with mortgages to manage. Frederick’s solicitor William Flood went in to battle for her.20 
Widower20 Jan 1896Frederick Illingworth became a widower upon the death of his wife Elizabeth Tarry.21 
Marriage*18 Nov 1896 Spouse: Jane McGregor. Christian Chapel, Unley, Malvern, Adelaide, SA, Australia, #M189/553.22,23,24
 
Marriage-Notice*21 Nov 1896 ILLINGWORTH—McGREGOR.—On Wednesday, November 18, 1896, at Christian Chapel, Malvern, by Rev. T. J. Gore, M.A., assisted by M. Wood Green, FREDERICK ILLINGWORTH, M.L.A., of Perth, W.A., to Jane McGregor, third daughter of the late William McGregor, of Branton, Balaclava-road, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria.25 
Note*12 Dec 1896 SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVALS.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12. AUSTRAL, R.M.S., from the Eastern Colonies.
Passengers for here : Mesdames ... Illingworth.... Messrs. F. Illingworth, M.L.A... Illingworth...26 
Marriage-Notice12 Dec 1896 ILLINGWORTH—MCGREGOR.—On the 18th November, at the Christian Chapel, Malvern, by Mr. M. Wood Green (Evangelist), assisted by Mr. T. J. Gore, M.A. (Evangelist), Frederick Illingworth, M.P., of Perth, Western Australia, to Jeannie, third daughter of the late William McGregor, of Branton, Caulfield, Melbourne, Victoria.27 
Book*a 13 Oct 1898... the child was stillborn. It was a deeply disturbing time as she had previously miscarried another baby earlier in the same year. With saddened hearts they buried the tiny body in the east Perth cemetery and posted the news of the delivery in the papers.
BIRTHS
ILLINGWORTH. At Meerilinga, Hay-Street West, on the 12th instant, the wife of Frederick Illingworth, M.L.A., delivered a son, Owen James (stillborn).
*The West Australian 13th October 1898.28 
Death*8 Sep 1908 Brighton, VIC, Australia, #D8744 (age 63) [par James ILLINGWORTH].2 
Death-Notice*9 Sep 1908 ILLINGWORTH.—On the 8th September, at his residence, Wilson-street, Middle Brighton, Frederick Illingworth, aged 63 years.29 
Death-Notice10 Sep 1908 ILLINGWORTH.—The Friends of the late Mr. FREDERICK ILLLINGWORTH are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the Melbourne General Cemetery.
The funeral is appointed to move from his residence, Wilson-street, Middle Brighton, THIS DAY (Thursday, 10th), at half-past 11, arriving at cemetery about half-past 1 o'clock.
WILLIAM GEORGE APPS, Undertaker, Fitzroy and Moor streets, Fitzroy (telephone 1015); Lonsdale-street, city.30 
Probate (Will)*15 Dec 1908 109/877. Frederick ILLINGWORTH Date of grant: 15 Dec 1908; Date of death: 08 Sep 1908; Occupation: Gent; Residence: Mid Brighton.31 
Book*2019David Illingworth: The Resilient Man
Frederick Illingworth migrates with his family to Australia in 1848 where he grows up in poverty in the Port Phillip district. Influenced by church leaders and business mentors the youthful entrepreneur rises to positions of power and influence in the church, business world, Temperance Union and ultimately politics in the burgeoning colony. Amidst family tragedy he forges his way to be a successful timber merchant in Bendigo, an inspiring church preacher and dedicated temperance worker. He grasps a fine ironmongers business opportunity in central Melbourne and starts to invest heavily in property. In the 1880's the Temperance movement, and particularly its leaders, directed the course of Melbourne property values and drove the "Never to be forgotten Land Boom" to extraordinary heights.32,33 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
1903828 Hay Street, West Perth, WA, AustraliaOccupation: land agent. With Jane Illingworth.34
1906828 Hay Street, West Perth, WA, AustraliaOccupation: land agent. With Jane Illingworth. With Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth.35

Grave

  • MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, VIC, Australia, In fond remembrance of / Frederick ILLINGWORTH / died at Brighton, Victoria, 8 Sep 1908, age 63 years / Sarah ILLINGWORTH / the beloved mother of Mary Jane and Elizabeth / dear sisters of Frederick ILLINGWORTH / who rests here till the Master comes. / They that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him / also Elizabeth / the beloved wife of Frederick ILLINGWORTH, Perth, W.A. / who died / 20 Jan 1896, age 51 years / also Jane ILLINGWORTH / beloved wife of above / died 16 Apr 1923, age 69 years.36,37

Family 1

 Elizabeth Tarry b. Dec 1844, d. 20 Jan 1896
Children 1.Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth+ b. 20 Jun 1868, d. 16 Oct 1942
 2.Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth b. 6 Mar 1870, d. 10 Jun 1911

Family 2

 Jane McGregor b. Dec 1853, d. 16 Apr 1923
Child 1.Owen James Illingworth b. 12 Oct 1898, d. 12 Oct 1898

Newspaper-Articles

  • 23 Oct 1888: CENTENNIAL LAND BANK LIMITED,
    Swanston-street South
    Authorised Capital, £1,000,000.
    Subscribed Capital, £350,000
    Paid up Capital £70,000
    Uncalled Capital and Reserve. £298,171
    DIRECTORS
    Joseph Elam Pounds, Esq., chairman.
    Andrew Gilmour, Esq., vice-chairman
    Frederick Illingworth, Esq.
    James Seves Home, Esq.
    Henry Burrows, Esq.
    William Ellingworth, Esq.
    James MacGibbon, Esq.
    The bank is prepared to keep current accounts, to receive deposits and undertake general banking financial and agency business.
    RATES for DEPOSITS
    2, 3 or 5 yrs, 7 per cent, per an., payable half-yearly
    12 months 6½ per cent, per an., payable half-yearly
    6 months 6 per cent, per an., payable half-yearly
    3 months 5 per cent, per an., payable half-yearly
    Current accounts 5 per cent, per annum minimum monthly balance.
    FRED. GEO. WOOD, Manager.38
  • 29 Jan 1889: GOVERNMENT GAZETTE. Friday, 24th JANUARY. Transfers of leaseholds registered: Frederick Illingworth, Bunyip, to James Nye, Caulfield;39
  • 18 Mar 1891: Resignation of the Hon. F. Illingworth, M.L.C.
    The Hon. F. Illingworth, M.L.C., one of the representatives of the Northern Province in the Legislative Council, has tendered his resignation to the President of the Legislative Council.
    Mr. Illingworth resignation will not altogether come as a surprise to our readers, as we have previously indicated that the event could be looked for. Mr. Illingworth was a very wealthy man, but he suffered reverses over the Melbourne land boom, and although he has made desperate efforts to overcome the difficulties with which he was beset, he was unable to cope with the designedly pushing demands of certain representativss of Melbourne syndicates, hence he has been compelled to relinquish his position as a representative of the Northern Province. Mr. Illingworth paid off all demands made upon him in connection with the land boom, and hoped to be able to weather the storm in spite of political opposition, but he failed. A day or two ago Mr. J. R. Hoskins, mayor of Sandhurst, and the chairman of Mr. Illingworth's election Committee, received the following letter:—
    " Perth, 19th February, 1891. Dear Hoskins, —I have been working hard in the hope of so arranging matters as to leave this office in charge of a trusty manager, and to return to Melbourne and the duties of my position as a member of the Northern Province. I find that I am still further delayed, and shall have to give personal oversight here for an indefinite period. It is not well for the province to be longer without one of its representatives. I have, therefore, determined to resign so that the wants of the important province may be attended to by its full complement of members. As to the future when I return to Victoria if my services can be of use anywhere, I shall be willing to work, but shall always feel that the kind friends of the north have just claims upon me. Thanking you and all the friends for the great kindness received at your and their hands, I remain, yours faithfully, F. ILLINGWORTH."
    Mr. Hoskins was authorised in a private letter to exercise his discretion (after consulting with others), as to whether Mr. Illingworth's resignation should be sent in, and, if so, when.
    Mr. Hoskins decided to forward Mr. Illingworth's resignation, and last night he forwarded the document to the President of the Legislative Council—Sir James MacBain.
    Messrs. J. Sternberg and Thompson Moore are certain candidates for the vacancy.40
  • 5 Jun 1891: Other People's Money. Mr. Frederick Illingworth.
    Mr. Andrew McCrindle has been appointed trustee in the estate of the Hon. Frederick Illingworth, late member of the Victorian Legislative Council, now residing at Perth, Western Australia. Mr. Illingworth speculated largely in real estate during the Melbourne boom.41
  • 19 Aug 1896: MR. ILLINGWORTH ON WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
    The Legislative Assembly last week by a majority of two votes rejected Mr. Cookworthy's motion to extend the franchise to women.
    During the debate which ensued on the subject Mr. Illingworth made the following remarks: He said, at the risk of being called lacking in chivalry and antagonistic to what he freely confessed was the better half of humanity, he was determinedly opposed to woman suffrage. The argument used was that women had to obey the law and pay taxes, and had threfore the right to vote and take part in the legislation of the country. Was it a true statement that women paid the taxation of the colony? Did not members know well that in the mass they did not? If they were going to use this argument they must go further and include the children.
    (No, No.) The men were the breadwinners of the race—("Not now")—and exceptions had not been accepted as proving the rule. He was well aware women were becoming breadwinners—to the lasting disgrace of men. Notwithstanding there were some breadwinners among women, those who know anything about social questions knew that one of the evil factors in the question of wage-earning was the introduction of cheap labour into the means of production. And the very man who wanted to give women this right were the very ones who stood by him when he opposed cheap labour. It was well known that the introduction of cheap labour had done more than anything else to reduce the price of production, and had created the necessity of father, mother, and children labouring, and had led in England to the passing of the Factories Acts, by which children, girls, and women were crushed out of the factories. He urged that the law of the Creator was that man should toil, and women should be dependent on him, and that to his honour man had in all ages recognised this law. An Eastern monarch had been reported to have said that Great Britain was the paradise of women. He was thankful that this was so, and it was those efforts which had been made in the old country to raise women to a high level which had done more than anything else to give it the position it held to-day. With regard to the question of women having a right to have a voice in the laws, it might be asked if she was to have the right to come into the arena of legislature when she was not fitted to take part side by side with men for the protection of the nation. Again, the name of woman was the most valued in our national life, and arguing from the effect of bringing together the positive and negative poles of electricity, he said that if the influence of the woman was brought into similar contact with the influence of the man, it would weaken the national and social life. Then, again, had they not had woman suffrage in the past ? Had they not heard of the French revolution ? Was there any influence more destructive to society than that, and behind it all was the will emotion which moved the men and came from the women. He asked whether it had been found at any time in the world's history that good government came out of emotion and wild enthusiasm. Would anybody say that the votes of women, even at their best would not be from the heart rather than the head. The member for East Perth, as usual, retired after making a speech, in order that members might not answer him. He (Mr. Illingworth), as against the opinions quoted by the member for East Perth, as coming from the United States, quoted from memory from an article in the Economist to the effect that the effect of woman suffrage had been to deteriote moral excellence, and that vice and drunkeness had increased with every State in which it had been enforced.
    Mr. Simpson : I would like to see the paper, and see who the authority was. Mr. Illingworth : Such an advocate as Mr. Stead in a paper recently, had gone back to the view which he (Mr. Illingworth) had held on this question : That if ever women franchise was given, it should be for a woman House elected by women to deal with those questions which particularly appertained to woman's social life, on which woman was best formed to pass judgment. His opposition was not on account of their lack of intelligence, for he believed in their intelligence, but it was on behalf of womanhood itself, and he said it was a step to the degradation of the best half of the race. Woman's influence was best exorcised in her own sphere, and it was in that sphere that men mostly felt their influence. He pointed out the effect of the franchise would be to give the man a dual vote, to which, as a democrat, he was opposed. There were other principles which be could touch upon; but the experience of the best men in those States of America was opposed to the views taken of it by its supporters. He contended that the effect of the suffrage would be that the bad as well as the good would be in a position to exercise the vote, and would crush women down to the position from which they had emerged a hundred years ago. It was in their interest he spoke, and from the conviction that nothing but evil would result to women from extending the franchise to her sex.42
  • 19 Nov 1896: A Legislator's Wedding. — Mr. Fred Illingworth, M.L.A., of Western Australia, was married to Miss Jane McGregor, of Caulfield, Victoria, on Wednesday morning in the Christian Chapel at Malvern. Mr. T. Smith, M.L.A., of Victoria, acted as best man, and the Rev. M. Wood Green, assisted by the Rev. T. J. Gore, performed the ceremony. A sumptuous wedding breakfast was partaken of in the evening at the York Hotel. Jane McGregor43
  • 21 Nov 1896: Mr. Illingworth, M.L.A., was married at Malvern, Victoria, on Wednesday, to Miss Jane McGregor, third daughter of the late William McGregor, of Caulfield, Victoria.44
  • 21 Nov 1896: Marriage of Mr. Illingworth.—Mr. Illingworth, M.L.A., was on Wednesday last married to Miss Jane McGregor, third daughter of the late William McGregor, of Balaclava Road, Caulfield, Victoria. The ceremony took place at the Christian Chapel, Malvern, and was performed by the Rev. T. J. Gore, M.A., assisted by the Rev. M. W. Green. Mr. T. Smith, M.L.A. for South Melbourne, acted as best man, and the bridesmaids were Miss Illingworth and Miss Verco. The wedding breakfast was attended by a large number of guests, and the happy couple were made the recipients of hearty congratulations. Mr. and Mrs Illingworth will spend a brief honeymoon at Port Victor, South Australia, and expect to arrive in Perth a few days before Christmas. Jane McGregor45
  • 24 Nov 1896: MARRIAGE OF MR. ILLINGWORTH, M.L.A.—We notice from our exchanges that Mr. Frederick Illingworth, member for Nannine in the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, and a prominent member of the Opposition, was on Wednesday last, the 18th inst., married to Miss Jane M'Gregor, third daughter of the late Mr. William M'Gregor, of "Branton," Balaclava-road, Caulfield, Victoria. The wedding took place at the Christian Chapel, Malvern, Victoria, and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. F. J. Gore, M.A., assisted by the Rev. M. Wood Green. The bride was attended by two maids of honor. Miss Alice Illingworth and Miss Verco, and Mr. T. Smith, M.L.A. for South Melbourne, acted in the capacity of best man. At the breakfast, which followed the ceremony, there was a large attendance of guests, and the usual felicitous toasts were honored. The happy couple left Melbourne on the same day in the overland express for Port Victor, S.A., where the honeymoon was to be spent. Mr. and Mrs. Illingworth expect to return to Perth shortly before Christmas. Jane McGregor46,47
  • 18 Dec 1896: MR. F. ILLINGWORTH.
    Mr. F. Illingworth, M.L.A. for Nannine, returned to Perth on Sunday from a visit to the eastern colonies. A representative of The Morning Herald waited upon Mr. Illingworth yesterday morning, and asked him to allow himself to be interviewed. Mr. Illingworth, however, declined. "The objects of my trip," he explained, "were purely of a matrimonial nature. I carefully avoided everything of a political nature, and kept clear of the press. I may say, however, that altogether apart from my personal friends, and merely as a Western Australian, I was most cordially received wherever I went. I spent my holiday in Victoria and South Australia, but I met many people from New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, and New Zealand, and on all hands the feeling expressed towards this colony was one of unselfish congratulation on its present prosperity, and of unbounded confidence in its magnificent future." Mr. Illingworth much regrets that he was unable to get back to the colony in time to take part in the ceremony of opening the railway line to Mount Magnet. He hopes shortly to pay a visit to his constituents.48
  • 3 Apr 1898: PUBLIC LETTERS TO PUBLIC MEN. —— [No. 15.] —— To FREDERICK ILLINGWORTH, ESQ., M.L.A.
    Dear Sir,—I shall address you in the course of this letter neither in the languages of compliment or of condemnation. It is not my aim to dispense fulsome flattery on the one hand and abuse on the other, but I endeavour, and shall endeavour in your instance, as in others, to give a faithful picture of such public men as I address as they truly appear to me. It is said to be good, however unpleasant, to see ourselves as others see us, and we may depend upon it, after making due allowance for slander and variously expressed malignity, that the aspect we present to others is a good deal more faithful to the life than that which we present to ourselves. This being so, I can show you the estimate which has been formed of you by one who has had opportunities of studying your life and character for the last six years, and who bases his estimate solely upon his experience. Whether or not my views agree with that usually expressed by either your friends or your foes matters not to me one iota.
    * * *
    It is almost needless to say, Mr. Illingworth, that you have hosts of enemies, and not a very great number of friends. That this should be so is rather a compliment to you than otherwise, for it indicates that daring your career as a militant politician you have succeeded in hurting some of your opponents, to aspire to which consummation is a legitimate ambition for a politician to indulge, especially in Western Australia. Some of your opponents want hurting badly. Therefore, good luck to you, and I hope you will be able to continue to hurt them politically as much as in you lies.
    * * *
    On the other hand they can strike back, and I am sorry to say that they do not seem to believe in fighting fair, so much as in endeavouring to hamstring those opposed to them. Seldom, indeed, do they condescend to mere argument, the noble weapons of slander and abuse are good enough I for them. "Throw enough mud and some of it will stick" is the maxim they most frequently carry into practice, albeit they usually go to higher sources for those which they carry as constantly on their lips. In pursuance of this ophidian method of warfare, I have heard you described in most uncomplimentary terms, among which are such gentle appellations as "fanatic" and "hypocrite." Such a trifling consideration as that fanaticism and hypocrisy are incompatible terms does not deter these gentry in the least from their indiscriminate use.
    * * *
    But for all that I am afraid that you will have to plead guilty in some degree to the charge of fanaticism. You are well known to be a believer in the intemperate principles of teetotalism. I do not sympathise altogether with your views on the great thirst question. I can readily understand people taking immoderate views on the points raised in connection with the drink traffic, without myself sharing them. But in your case it is said that your "fanaticism" proceeds from a desire to make political capital out of your advocacy of temperance. How can such a view be reconciled with the fact that on one occasion when a large hotel fell into your hands in Melbourne, you deliberately refused £8,500 for it, rather than allow the license to be continned? It certainly appears to me that in this there was at least some proof of sincerity. Again, you are not now by any means a persona grata amongst the members of the W.C.T.U. And why ? Because while you sympathise with their temperance mission you will not ally yourself with their female suffrage propaganda. If the manufacture of political capital were the only motive that inspires you, I cannot conceive why you should swallow the teetotal camel and then strain at the suffrage gnat. Nobody views with anything more than friendly disapprobation the advocate of woman's rights ; the innate chivalry of our nature prevents us arguing in harsh language against the equalisation of the sexes ; but the mighty voice of Bung and his myriad followers roars continually against the teetotaller and all his works. Then, again, you represent a goldfield where teetotalism is more of a novelty than a recommendation, so that if you are really trying to make capital out of the one thing that isolates you, you are a good deal more of a fool than you look, or than I ever took you for. I am afraid I must say that you are a fanatic ; for in these days when nobody has eyes for anything but the main chance, any adherence to principle is very properly scouted as fanaticism.
    * * *
    Haring thus convicted you of this grave charge, I am afraid I must present no bill on the indictment for hypocrisy. I must have some regard for the values of words, even if your traducers have none. But they once more come up smiling, and say, "Oh ! Illingworth's alright; only there's that d———d religions business about him. That's what we call hypocrisy." Is it, really? These gentlemen should be able to identify the article, seeing that they possess plenty of it amongst themselves. Stay a little ; we will analyise this religious profession of yours a little, and see if we can find you guilty of this most terrible of all crimes against both God and man. I don't see you often at either of the Cathedrals ; I have never heard your name in connection with a Diocesan Synod; you do not carry round the plate at the big Wesleyan Church. From what I see of the nicest side of religion you might be an athiest, for all I know. You won't go to a bazaar ; won't take a ticket in a sacred raffle promoted for the glory of God and the good of the saints; don't even practice any form of Pharisaism. None of the stateliness of the fashionable churches is marred by the presence of your homely little figure. Where, then, do you worship and, as is alleged, play the hypocrite ? In a little conventicle, down a back street, where fashion is conspicuous by its absence, and where there is a painful lack of all that goes to make religion "respectable!" In this little religious side-show you play your humble part ; and thus, if you be a hypocrite, the total absence of motive makes it difficult to understand why you don't give up so unpleasant a role and take to some more hilarious form of villainy. If I saw you taking a leading part in one of those churches where wealth and fashion most do congregate, and parading your piety before all men, I might, and possibly should, consider you a pretender, as I do many of those who are most glib in their censures of yourself. But having regard to the total absence of motive, I think the charge of hypocrisy the veriest fudge ever distilled from a venomous brain. If I were asked for my own oninion of what you are, from the religious point of view, I might describe you as an anachronism, but certainly never as a Pharisee.
    * * *
    Some other people allude to you as a land-boomer, and say that you were connected with the disastrous boom in Victoria. I am glad to be able to give this allegation the lie direct, and to testify that during your long and honourable connection of 25 years' standing with Alfred Shaw and Company, you had the honour and respect of all who knew you. I saw a striking proof of this at the time of your first election for Nannine. At that time Perth venom was thoroughly aroused by your speeches on the Murchison campaign, and the tittle-tattle of the city described you as a "dreadful man, my dear!" I saw the telegrams of congratulation which came from Victoria, and particularly from Bendigo, signed by many of the most prominent men in the colony, and I immediately came to the conclusion that Perth, for its size, contained an exceedingly healthy crop of liars—an opinion which I have since seen no reason to modify.
    * * *
    I will not speak at any length of your Parliamentary career. That is sufficiently well-known already. Both in Victoria and in West Australia the name of Illingworth has been identified with liberal principles. Here you have stood for the enfranchisement of the people, the rights of the goldfields, the proper distribution of public fonds, and their legitimate and economic expenditure, and for a just and rational system of representation, which, if carried out, will make our constitution truly democratic, instead of the sham and simulacrum it is at present. Your effort to form a Goldfields Party in the House was a vain one ; but this was due to the absence from Parliament of persons fit to form such a party, or any party, save one of Forrestian idolatry. As long as the goldfields continue to send base political slaves and ignominious trucklers to Parliament, it remains only to those who have a political character to preserve to keep clear of them. Until the goldfields themselves are wise enough to send a goldfields party to Parliament, all your talent and patience will not create one, simply because the material is not to hand, and you cannot make a silk purse put of a sow's ear or live men out of political automats.
    * * *
    By the time the ink is dry on these sheets, it is probable that the surrender of the Forrest Ministry to the alluvial diggers will have been made known. It is dangerous to prophesy, it is true, but it is very probable that this will happen, and it is also likely that the general relief felt will have raised Sir John Forrest a notch or two higher than he deserves. I only hope that it may be remembered amidst the general rejoicings that it was the much maligned Illingworth who was the principal means, some three years ago, of conferring those very rights upon the diggers which the Government has so vainly tried to take away.
    * * *
    I will conclude without calling undue attention to those faults which you possess in common with us all. I have been so busy defending you against unjust scandal, that I have left myself no space for criticism. Perhaps, after all, there is a compensating advantage about misrepresentation. While it conjures up an imaginary man who answers to our name, and has all kinds of evil attributes we don't possess in reality, it not infrequently disguises our actual faults, and gives us an immunity from censure that we could not otherwise expect. But I would say to you that so long as the present contrast exists between the imaginary Illingworth and the real article, I shall not be unduly censorious towards the latter, for if you lack tact and grace and diplomatic skill and a proper sense of perspective, as many say you do, you have the stern, unyielding principle of the grand old Puritans, and that, in these degenerate days, is a treasure more precious than rubies. Never let it disturb you if they attempt to bury you in calumny ; a diamond is still a diamond, though its gleams be hidden by offal and carrion. Remember what Carlyle has to say of another and a greater Puritan : The works of a Man, buried under what guano-mountains and obscene owl-droppings you will, do not perish, cannot perish. What of Heroism, what of Eternal Light was in a Man and his Life, is with very great exactness added to the Eternities ; remains forever a divine portion of the Sum of Things ; and no owl's voice, this way or that, in the least avails in the matter."
    With this epitaph of a great Thinker, upon a great but much vilified Doer, I will leave you; but be sure that work for good is never lost, be it performed by a Great Puritan or by a small one, or merely by
    the captious critic,
    AMPHICTYON.49
  • 15 Dec 1900: F. ILLINGWORTH, M.L.A.
    Frederick Illingworth was born in 1844, at Yorkshire, England. His father, who was associated with the woollen industry nearly all his life, left England with has family in 1848, and landed in Victoria. Mr. Illingworth attended schools in Melbourne, upon leaving which he entered tne galvanised iron and hardware establishment of Mr. Alex. Rippingale, in Brighton. When this business was closed, he was connected with the establish ment of Alfred Shaw and Co., Melbourne, for some 25 years, after which he established a timber and hadware business in Bendigo, in partnership with Mr. J. R. Hoskins, ex-mayor of Bendigo. Subsequently he engaged in pastoral pursuits at Yalook, Vic., but owing to droughts lost nearly all his money, and had to again start in the old firm of Shaw and Co. In 1883 he opened a hardware business in Swanston-street, Melbourne. Eventually he went to England, Scotland, and Wales on behalf of several financial concerns, and on his return in 1890, visited Perth, and decided to make it his residence. In Perth he opened a land agencv business, which is now one of the largest in the city. While in Victoria Mr. Illingworth was elected a member of the Victorian Legislative Council for the Northern Province. In 1894 he was elected a member of the W.A. Legislative Assembly for Central Murchison, and has held the seat ever since.50
  • 20 Jun 1901: THE HON. F. ILLINGWORTH, M.L.A.
    Treasurer in the New W.A. Ministry.
    Mr. Frederick Illingworth, the Colonial Treasurer and Colonial Secretary of West Australia, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1844, and was brought out to Australia by his parents at the age of four. He was educated in Melbourne, and subsequently became associated with a large galvanised iron and hardware establishment in Brighton, and later on with a similar one in Melbourne. He remained with the latter house for 25 years, and at the end of that period entered business in partnership with Mr. J. R. Hoskins, ex-Mayor of Bendigo. After a time Mr. Illingworth purchased an estate in Yalook, in the Raywood district, Victoria, where he engaged extensively in pastoral pursuits. Bad seasons practically ruined him, and he returned to the Melbourne hardware firm. Tu 1883 he opened a business of his own in Swanston-street. He rose to wealth on the land boom and crashed to earth, with many others, when the boom burst. Eventually he went to England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland on behalf of several financial houses. Instead of going East he decided to settle in the West, and he forthwith opened the land agency business with which he is still connected. While in Victoria Mr. Illingworth, was elected a member of the Legislative Council for the Northern Province, and in 1891 he was returned member for the East Murchison constituency in the West Australian Assembly, a position he continued to occupy until the last generald election, when he was resumed as representative of the Cue electorate.51
  • 19 Dec 1903: AN OLD-TIME INSOLVENCY. RELEASE OF ESTATE.
    Memories of the land boom were brought up in the Insolvency Court yesterday, when application was made for the release of the estate of Frederick Illingworth.
    The insolvent's estate was compulsorily sequestrated on May 21, 1891, and in the schedule which was filed at the court on Wednesday insolvent gave as the causes of his insolvency "sudden depreciation in the value of real estate, inability to sell it, and pressure of a creditor." He further explained: - I left Melbourne in March, 1890, for London, with the object of selling my interests in real estate there, but the land boom burst in Melbourne on the eve of my execting a sale, and, having no money or business to fall back on, I returned to Western Australia to earn a living and money to pay my creditors, and I have not since the year 1890 been in the state of Victoria till December 15, 1903, and until the present time I have not had the means and ability to come to Melbourne to file my schedule. Such delay was not for the purpose of defeating or delaying my creditors."52
  • 12 Sep 1908: OBITUARY. MR. F. ILLINGWORTH.
    There occurred at Middle Brighton, Victoria, on Tuesday, the death of Mr. Frederick Illingworth, who was a prominent figure in political and commercial circles in this city. He was a native of Yorkshire, England, and was born in 1844. When but four years of age he was taken to Victoria, and was educated in Melbourne. He first entered into the hardware business and was also engaged in pastoral pursuits. During the land boom in Melbourne he acquired considerable wealth, but with the slump which followed he lost most of his money. For a time he sat in the Legislative Council in Victoria. He came to this State in 1890 and opened up a land agency business, which he carried on till a year or two ago. In 1891 he was elected to the Legislative Assembly as representative for East Murchison, and on a redistribution of seats was elected to represent Cue, which had formed part of his former electorate. Upon the retirement of the late Mr. Geo. Leake from the position of Leader of the Opposition Mr. Illingworth assumed the position. When the Throssell Government resigned a Ministry was formed by Mr. Leake, and Mr. Illingworth became Colonial Treasurer and Colonial Secretary. At the general election in June, 1904, he was defeated at Cue by Mr. Heitmann, who stood in the Labour interest. Subsequently Mr. Illingworth was elected to the Legislative Assembly by the West Perth constituency, a position he held until about 12 months ago when, owing to ill-health, he retired. On that occasion he was made the recipient of a pecuniary grant by his fellow-members in recognition of his services to the State. Since his departure from Western Australia Mr. Illingworth had resided in Victoria, and of late many messages had reached Perth indicating that his chances of recovery were very remote.53
  • 13 Sep 1908: OBIT. F. ILLINGWORTH
    Died at Middle Brighton, Vic., on the 8th inst., Mr. Fred Illingworth, for many years a prominent figure in the political life of the State. "De mortuis nil nisi bonum."54
  • 29 Dec 1927: MARRIAGES. GLADISH—BLUMFIELD.—[Golden Wedding.]—On the 29th December, 1877, by the late Frederick Illingworth, preacher Church of Christ, Frank Gladish, late of England to Sarah J Blumfield, daughter of the late W and A Blumfield, late of England (Present address, The Lodge, Riversdale road, Surrey Hills, Victoria.)55

Australian Dictionary of Biography

ILLINGWORTH, FREDERICK (1844-1908), speculator and politician, was born on 24 September 1844 at Horton, Yorkshire, England, son of James Illingworth, woolcomber, and his wife Sarah, née Irving. He migrated to Victoria with his parents in 1848 and as a youth worked in the ironmongery trade in Melbourne and Brighton. There he developed what became a lifelong advocacy of the temperance movement. He married Elizabeth Tarry at Carlton on 5 September 1867; they had one son and one daughter. In the late 1870s he became an estate agent in partnership with John R. Hoskins, a former mayor of Bendigo, and prospered enough to acquire a pastoral property at Yalook. Bad seasons ruined him and in 1883 he opened an ironmongery business, specializing in electroplated goods, in Melbourne.
In 1888, with support from his fellow teetotaller James Munro, Illingworth became a founder and major shareholder in the Centennial Land Bank. Having purchased suburban land at inflated prices and relied on further inflation to maintain profits, the bank was in serious difficulties when land values collapsed at the end of 1890. Illingworth had also been indulging in heavy private borrowing for speculation and by early 1891 his personal liabilities were estimated at £283,000. A member of the Legislative Council for Northern Province from July 1889, he obtained parliamentary leave of absence for a business trip to Europe in March 1890. On his return in November he settled in Western Australia as a land and estate agent; his council seat was declared vacant in 1891. The liquidation of his assets produced £600 to meet debts of nearly £300,000 but it was not until 1897 that a Melbourne court order resulted in his appearance before the Western Australian Bankruptcy Court. In December 1903 his remaining creditors agreed to release him from sequestration. None of this prevented him from pursuing an active and prominent career in Western Australian politics.
Making his way to the Murchison goldfield, Illingworth invested in several mines, including the Rose Pearl at Mount Magnet. On 18 November 1896 in Adelaide he married Jane McGregor; they had no children. In July 1894 he had been elected to the Legislative Assembly as member for Nannine. When the constituency was subdivided he represented Central Murchison from June 1897 and Cue from April 1901. He soon made a reputation as a tenacious if sometimes prolix critic of Sir John Forrest's government, specializing in financial and constitutional questions. When George Leake resigned his seat in parliament in August 1900 Illingworth replaced him as leader of the Opposition and almost immediately moved a motion of no confidence in Forrest's government. It was lost by sixteen votes to twenty-two, but was by far the strongest challenge to Forrest until then.
Following Forrest's departure to Federal politics his party lost office at the 1901 election. Illingworth was invited to form a ministry but stood down in favour of Leake, serving in his two cabinets from May to November 1901 and December 1901 to June 1902 as colonial treasurer and colonial secretary. His only budget, an optimistic performance, summarized in the slogan, 'Go forward; go on and possess the land', earned praise from his old opponent Forrest. At odds with his colleagues over railway administration Illingworth was passed over for the acting premiership when Leake fell fatally ill in June 1902. The new premier (Sir) Walter James excluded him from the ministry. In December 1903 he became chairman of committees, but lost his seat to a Labor candidate in June 1904. He was reappointed chairman in November 1905 after becoming member for West Perth, but resigned his office and his seat because of ill health in August 1907. Despite allegations that, while treasurer, he had authorized the loan of government trust funds to a developer who was dummying for him, the Western Australian government granted him £1000 on the ground that the Victorian proceedings had almost ruined him. While Illingworth went to Melbourne, the auditor-general inquired into the charges but no action was taken against him before he died at Brighton, Melbourne, of arteriosclerotic heart disease on 8 September 1908. He was buried in Melbourne general cemetery with Church of Christ forms.
A diligent local member with a pawky sense of humour, Illingworth might have lived down his Victorian reputation in Western Australia if he had been a politician of sufficient calibre, but he was too much a man of detail to fill the vacuum left by Forrest.56

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    1903/49 FREDERICK ILLINGWORTH PAKENHAM 140 19--2--30. 1877 - 1881
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    Note (David I.): See the strong connection with the Malvern (Vic) church.
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  22. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, South Australia Marriages
    #M189/553, Marriage Date: 18 Nov 1896, Place: Unley, South Australia
    Frederick Illingworth & Jane McGregor
    Father: James Illingworth, Spouse Father: William McGregor.
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    Frederick ILLINGWORTH & Jane McGREGOR, Marriage Year: 1896, 189/553, District: Adelaide."
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3102773
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/260688347
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9178138
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  31. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 7591/ P2 unit 428, item 109/877
    VPRS 28/ P2 unit 871, item 109/877.
  32. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Illingworth, David (2019). The resilient man (Edition 1). Sonrian Books, Diamond Creek, Victoria - 3 volumes
    Vol 1 1843-1886 (280 pages), Vol 2 1886-1898 (456 pages), Vol 3 1898-1908 (507 pages).
  33. [S50] Miscellaneous Source, RHSV History News, Issue 350, Oct 2020
    The Resilient Man. Volume One: The Informative Years 1843 to 1886, Volume Two – The Boom and Bust Years 1886 to 1898, Volume Three – The Political Years 1898 – 1908. David Illingworth, Sonrian Books, Diamond Creek, Victoria, 2019, Vol 1 ISBN 9780648451600, Vol 2 ISBN 9780648451617, Vol 3 ISBN 9780648451624.
    These three volumes are more than the Illingworth family history; as the author states, they document Victorian and Western Australian colonial history.
    Frederick Illingworth was a colonist who came to Australia during the gold rush.
    Based on handwritten memoirs and extensive archival research, The Resilient Man tells of Frederick's fortune and poverty, political influence and business ventures, failures, triumphs and personal loss.
    Volume I covers the family’s voyage to Australia, Volume II explores the boom of business in Marvellous Melbourne and Volume III sees the family delving into politics during the gold rush of WA. These three volumes are a beautiful balance between family and colonial history.
  34. [S103] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1903.
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    "via GSV website."
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    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875767
    Grave of Mary J Illingworth (1856-13 Sep 1875) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875770
    Grave of Sarah Illingworth (1825-5 Feb 1884)
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875757
    Grave of Frederick Illingworth (1845-8 Sep 1908)
    ***
    Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-632, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875761
    Grave of Jane Illingworth (1854-16 Apr 1923)."
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/6906165
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/68744515
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88959369
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147284962
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233240707
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/54480524
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3102763
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3102754
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/259392434
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/251490211
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/66534822
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    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/32630616
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    Select Bibliography: W. B. Kimberley (compiler), History of West Australia (Melb, 1897); P. W. Thiel & Co., Twentieth Century Impressions of Western Australia (Perth, 1901); M Cannon, The Land Boomers (Melb, 1966); Parliamentary Debates (Western Australia), 1907, p 207, 514; Table Talk (Melbourne), 20 June 1901; Truth (Melbourne), 18 July 1903; West Australian, 28 Oct 1905.
    Print Publication Details: G. C. Bolton, 'Illingworth, Frederick (1844 - 1908)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, Melbourne University Press, 1983, pp 428-429.
Last Edited27 Jan 2022

Elizabeth Tarry

F, #2899, b. Dec 1844, d. 20 Jan 1896
Married NameIllingworth. 
Birth*Dec 1844 Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, Dec Q 1844 (Northampton Union) 15 290. Mother's maiden surname: Sharpe. As Elizabeth Tarry.1 
Marriage*5 Sep 1867 Spouse: Frederick Illingworth. Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #M3138/1867, Elizabeth TARRY & Frederick ILLINGWORTH.2
 
Marriage-Notice*7 Sep 1867 ILLINGWORTH—TARRY.—On the 5th inst., by Pastor William Bryant, of Fitzroy Baptist Church, Frederick Illingworth, of Melbourne, to Elizabeth, only daughter of Mr. Joseph Tarry, of Lygon-street, Carlton. No cards. Northampton papers please copy.3 
Note*1871 Father re-married. #M993/1871, Joseph TARRY & Elizabeth TRICK.4 
Illness*24 May 1872 Admitted to Yarra Bend Asylum. Husband Frederick Illingworth, Ironmonger, Sandhurst. Offers £4 per month (72/734). Transferred to Kew Asylum by police 2 Jun 1873, suffering from mania. Duration of present attack nearly three years, Cause believed to be puerperal fever (childbirth fever). Returned to Yarra Bend Asylum 11 Aug 1876. On 7 May 1877 ... Yarra Bend.5,6,7,8
Illness17 Oct 1879 Admitted to Kew Asylum by warden from Yarra Bend suffering from mania. Cause believed to be puerperal fever (childbirth fever). Transferred to Sunbury 22 Apr 1880.9
Illness22 Apr 1880 Transferred to Sunbury Asylum, then to Beechworth Asylum on 2 Sep 1884.10
Death*20 Jan 1896 Beechworth, VIC, Australia, #D447/1896 (Age 52) (par unknown) - as Elizth ILLINGWORTH.11 
Death-Notice*5 Feb 1896 ILLINGWORTH.—On the 20th ult., at Beechworth, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Frederick Illingworth, M.L.A., of Perth, W.A., after a lingering affliction of 24 years 8 months, aged 51 years. Asleep in Jesus.12 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
30 Mar 1851Joseph TARRY, Bricklayer, 18 Albert Street, Northampton, Northamptonshire, EnglandAge 613

Grave

  • Baptist, Beechworth Cemetery, Beechworth, VIC, Australia14
  • MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, VIC, Australia, In fond remembrance of / Frederick ILLINGWORTH / died at Brighton, Victoria, 8 Sep 1908, age 63 years / Sarah ILLINGWORTH / the beloved mother of Mary Jane and Elizabeth / dear sisters of Frederick ILLINGWORTH / who rests here till the Master comes. / They that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him / also Elizabeth / the beloved wife of Frederick ILLINGWORTH, Perth, W.A. / who died / 20 Jan 1896, age 51 years / also Jane ILLINGWORTH / beloved wife of above / died 16 Apr 1923, age 69 years.15,16

Family

 Frederick Illingworth b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
Children 1.Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth+ b. 20 Jun 1868, d. 16 Oct 1942
 2.Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth b. 6 Mar 1870, d. 10 Jun 1911

Newspaper-Articles

  • 21 Jun 1865: Death of mother: TARRY.—On the 19th June, at Lygon street, Carlton, Penelope, the beloved wife of Joseph Tarry, aged 54.17,18
  • 28 Jun 1892: Death of father: TARRY.—On the 27th June, at his residence, "Clovelly," Heidelberg, Joseph, the beloved husband of Elizabeth Tarry, formerly of Northampton, England, in his 80th year. A colonist of 39 years. A patient sufferer at rest.
    TARRY.—The Friends of the late Mr. JOSEPH TARRY, late of St. Kilda are most respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment in the Melbourne General Cemetery.
    The funeral is appointed to leave his late residence, Clovelly, Upper-road, Heidelberg, on Wednesday June 29, at 1 o'clock, arriving at the Baptist Church, George-street, Fitzroy at about half-past 2, where service will be held by the Rev. E. Harris, after which the cortège will proceed to the Cemetery.
    HENRY J. R. LEWIS Undertaker, Johnston and Hertford-streets Fitzroy; High-street, Northcote and Lygon-street, Brunswick. Telephone 1160.19,20,21

Citations

  1. [S332] UK - General Register Office Indexes "Dec Q 1844 (Northampton Union) 15 290. Mother's maiden surname: Sharpe. As Elizabeth Tarry."
  2. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M3138/1867, Elizabeth TARRY & Frederick ILLINGWORTH."
  3. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 7 Sep 1867, p4.
  4. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M993/1871, Joseph TARRY & Elizabeth TRICK."
  5. [S34] PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), Case Books of Female Patients, 1871-1912
    VPRS 7397 07397-P0001-000001.
  6. [S34] PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 7446 P1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums (VA 2863) Hospitals for the Insane Branch - Unit 1 (Yarra Bend), 26 Oct 1848 – 11 Nov 1912.
  7. [S50] Miscellaneous Source, About puerperal fever: A minority of sufferers experienced delirium and mania.
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1088248/
  8. [S50] Miscellaneous Source, Puerperal insanity in the 19th century by I Loudon DM Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Oxfors, in Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Vol 81 p76 Feb 1988
    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/…
  9. [S34] PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), Case Books of Female Patients, 1871-1912
    VPRS 7397 07397-P0001-000005.
  10. [S34] PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), Case Books of Female Patients, 1877-1912 19725
    VPRS 7406 07406-P0001-000001.
  11. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "Death registered at Bworth, Australia."
  12. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 5 Feb 1896, p1.
  13. [S83] UK census - viewed on Ancestry "1851 England Census. HO107/1739/452/4
    Enummerated at Northampton St Sepulchre, Northamptonshire.
    Household Members: Joseph Tarry, Penelope Tarry, John Tarry, Elizabeth Tarry, Caleb Tarry
    Ancestry Record ID: 8860::4292779."
  14. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Beechworth Cemetery, Beechworth, Indigo Shire, Victoria, Australia, Plot: Baptist, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/219872985
    Grave of Elizabeth (Tarry) Illingworth (1845-20 Jan 1896)."
  15. [S45] Index of monumental inscriptions in the Melbourne General Cemetery,
    "via GSV website."
  16. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633,
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875767
    Grave of Mary J Illingworth (1856-13 Sep 1875) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875770
    Grave of Sarah Illingworth (1825-5 Feb 1884)
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875757
    Grave of Frederick Illingworth (1845-8 Sep 1908)
    ***
    Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-632, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875761
    Grave of Jane Illingworth (1854-16 Apr 1923)."
  17. [S14] Newspaper - The Herald (Melbourne, Vic.), Wed 21 Jun 1865, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/244470858
  18. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D4700/1865 (Age 54) (par John SHARP & Hannah) - as Penelope TARRY, born Nort."
  19. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), Tue 28 Jun 1892, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199334155
  20. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Tue 28 Jun 1892, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8434345
  21. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D6677/1892 (Age 79) (par Hy TARRY & Elizth) - as Jos TARRY, Death registered at Hberg, Australia."
Last Edited28 Jan 2022

Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth

M, #2900, b. 20 Jun 1868, d. 16 Oct 1942
Arthur Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH
(The Resilient Man, vol 2, p160)
Father*Frederick Illingworth b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
Mother*Elizabeth Tarry b. Dec 1844, d. 20 Jan 1896
Birth*20 Jun 1868 289 Lygon Street, Carlton, VIC, Australia, #B17728/1868 (par Frederick ILLINGWORTH & Eliz FARRY) - as Arthur Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH.1 
Birth-Notice*23 Jun 1868 ILLINGWORTH.—On the 20th inst., at 289 Lygon street, Carlton, Mrs. F. Illingworth of a son. Both doing well.2 
Book*bt 1888 - 1894Quotes from Arthur Illingworth (Fred’s Son) memoirs:
Father sold the house and bought a fine block in Mercer Road, Malvern, on which he built a mansion. Dec 1888.
He also bought a beautiful country residence at Beaconsfield. This he called ‘Kalorama’. My Uncle Joseph Blumfield and Aunt Harriet managed the country place for father.
*****
We resolved to have a very quiet wedding and invite no friends; Alice and Father being in Western Australia. We planned for the Macgowan family to come to our home for a ‘Wedding Breakfast’ which was prepared by my Uncle Joseph Blumfield, from Beaconsfield. He was a pastry cook! This was on Feb. 18th, 1891
*****
On our return I transferred my Church membership to Malvern and became more actively involved. I was induced to accept the office of Secretary of the Church of Christ, S.S. Union. I became in time Secretary 1891-2, Vice President 1892-3, and President 1893-4.3 
Marriage*18 Feb 1891 Spouse: Florence Newall MacGowan. Tabernacle, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, #M1826.4
 
Book*1897In Melbourne meanwhile the next generation of Illingworths arrived when Harold Thorburn Illingworth was born to Arthur and Florence on the 19th of February. Arthur recalls the day:—
Early in 1897 it became necessary for mother and I to take a trip to Melbourne — for a wonderful reason. Our first-born was due to arrive in February. We wanted Auntie Netta (trained nurse now) to help us. Mrs. Macgowan was living in Brunswick and there in her house, on Feb, 19, 1897 Harold Thorburn was born, with Dr Hamilton in attendance. I played rope quoits for several hours ...5 
Book*1900... the 9th Feb, 1900 with Dr Thethowan and Auntie Netta in attendance. Arthur recalls the time:—
Father asked his name. Netta held him up saying:—
"what else could you call him other than Frederick. Why he's the very image of his grandfather."
Father said, 'you'd better add the word Augustus', so that's the history of Fred's name.
Harold's name was my choice, plus Newall [sic] after Mother. Our cup of joy was filled to the brim!6 
Book*1904By the end of the campaign Frederick was exhausted and keen to get back home to Perth and his comfortable home. He arrived back at Meerilinga to receive wonderful news from Marrickville NSW that Florence had delivered twin boys on 23rd April 1904. The boys, being named Arthur Garfield and Clifford Newall were doing fine but Florence had not recovered well and was still quite sick.7 
Death*16 Oct 1942 Parkdale, VIC, Australia, #D11195 (Age 74) [par Frederick Augustus ILLINGWORTH & Elizabeth TARRY].8 
Death-Notice*17 Oct 1942 ILLINGWORTH.—On October 16, at his residence, 22 McBean street, Parkdale, Arthur Ebenezer, the dearly beloved husband of Florence, and loving father of Harold, Fred, Cliff, and Arthur, loving grandfather of Frederick, Annette, Margaret, and John, aged 74 years.9 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
bt 1919 - 19253 Beresford Street, St Kilda East, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: minister. With Florence Newall Illingworth.10,11,12,13
bt 1926 - 19273 Beresford Street, St Kilda East, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: minister. With Florence Newall Illingworth. With Clifford Newall Illingworth.14,15
193724 Glen Street, Essendon, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: minister of religion. With Florence Newall Illingworth. With Clifford Newall Illingworth.16

Family

 Florence Newall MacGowan b. 1870, d. 8 Sep 1955
Children 1.Harold Thorburn Illingworth b. 19 Feb 1897, d. 16 Mar 1967
 2.Frederick Augustus Illingworth20 b. 9 Feb 1900, d. 13 Sep 1987
 3.Clifford Newall Illingworth+21 b. 23 Apr 1904, d. 30 Oct 1947
 4.Arthur Garfield Illingworth22 b. 23 Apr 1904, d. 7 Dec 1996

Newspaper-Articles

  • 27 Oct 1882: STATE SCHOOL EXAMINATION — The following is the result of the district State schools examination held on 18th inst. As will be observed, Seymour pupils took first prizes in 1st and 2nd divisions ; Lowry came first in 3rd, and Whitehead's Creek in 4th divisions.
    PRIZE LIST :—
    1st. John Regan, Seymour school (medal), gift of the Board of Advice.
    2nd. Arthur Illingworth, Seymour school.
    2ND DIVISION.
    1st. Alice Illingworth, Seymour school. Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth17
  • 27 Feb 1891: ILLINGWORTH—MACGOWAN—The marriage of Mr. Arthur E. Illingworth., only son of Mr. Frederick Illingworth, M.L.C., to Miss Florence (Flossie) Newall Macgowan, second daughter of Mr. J. S. Macgowan, of North Carlton, was celebrated at the Tabernacle, Johnston-street, Fitzroy, on February 18. The arrangements at the church were perfect, and the decorations included the initials of bride and bride groom in white roses and tuber roses, beautifully worked round the platform. At 1 p.m. the bride entered on the arm of her father and proceeded up the left aisle, followed by the bridesmaids. At the same time the bridegroom and groomsmen walked up the left aisle to the altar, accompanied by a processional march by the organist. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. Norris, of Ballarat.
    As the happy pair left the church, two little girls strewed the aisle with white flowers. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of cream cashmere, trimmed with fleecy lace ; sprays of orange blossom were arranged in the hair and surmounted by a very rich veil, and she carried a very choice bouquet.
    Her ornaments were very numerous, and comprised a lovely necklet and bracelet of moonstones and diamonds. The bridesmaids were Misses Annie and Edith Macgowan, sisters of the bride. Their dresses consisted of dove coloured cashmere, pink sashes and hats to match. They carried bouquets of pink Tiger lilies and pink roses, and wore diamond and pearl brooches, the gift of the bridegroom. The groomsmen were Mr. E. C. Ludbrook and Mr. E. T. Macgowan. Florence Newall MacGowan18
  • 19 Feb 1941: Minister's Golden Wedding
    Yesterday was a memorable day for Mr and Mrs A E Illingworth, of Brewster st, Essendon. It was their golden wedding anniversary, and it also marked the completion by Mr Illingworth of 50 years as a minister of the Church of Christ.
    Mr and Mrs Illingworth were married on February 18, 1891, at the Fitzroy Tabernacle, which has since been vacated and a new Church of Christ erected in its place. As a minister of the Church of Christ Mr Illingworth has spent 20 years in Victoria, 17 years in New South Wales, eight in Western Australia and five in South Australia.
    He has been president of the Churches of Christ Conference in each of those States as well as president of the Federal conference. He has also filled the office of president of the Victorian Council of Churches.
    Mr Illingworth came from Adelaide to Essendon Church of Christ, Buckley st, four and a half years ago. The congregation with the church executive committee, arranged a thanksgiving service in the Buckley st church last night, at which Mr and Mrs Illingworth spoke. A presentation was made to them to mark the occasion.
    Before the service a tea was held to commemorate the golden wedding anniversary. Many friends of Mr and Mrs Illingworth, as well as members of the congregation, attended the tea. Three sons and their wives and a grandson were present. The fourth son is Dr Harold Illingworth, who practises in Western Australia. Mr Frederick Illingworth is Australian and New Zealand secretary of Gordon and Gotch Ltd. Messrs Arthur and Clifford Illingworth are twin sons.19

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B17728/1868 (par Frederick ILLINGWORTH & Eliz FARRY) - as Arthur Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH, Birth registered at Melb, Australia."
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Tue 23 Jun 1868, p4
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/5819717
  3. [S388] David ILLINGWORTH: Email from David 26 Jan 2022.
    Note (David I.): See the strong connection with the Malvern (Vic) church.
  4. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901.
  5. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 2 p284 Arthur’s 1st son Harold Thorburn Illingworth was born 19 Feb 1897.
  6. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 3 p76 Arthur’s 2nd son Frederick Augustus Illingworth was born 9 Feb 1900.
  7. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 3 p316 Arthur’s 3rd and 4th sons Arthur Garfield Illingworth and Clifford Newall Illingworth were born 23 Apr 1904.
  8. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  9. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 17 Oct 1942, p2.
  10. [S119] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1919.
  11. [S121] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1921.
  12. [S124] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1924.
  13. [S125] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1925.
  14. [S126] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1926.
  15. [S127] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1927.
  16. [S137] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1937.
  17. [S14] Newspaper - Seymour Express and Goulburn Valley, Avenel, Graytown, Nagambie, Tallarook and Yea Advertiser (Vic.), Fri 27 Oct 1882, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165088132
  18. [S14] Newspaper - Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic.), Fri 27 Feb 1891, p10
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147284225
  19. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 19 Feb 1941, p7.
  20. [S62] Western Australian Government. BDM Index Western Australia "#B3568/1900 (par Arthur Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH & Florence Newall MACGOWAN) as Frederick Augustus Illingworth, Place of Birth: Victoria Plains."
  21. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages "#B13934/1904 (par Arthur E & Florence N). Birth registered at Marrickville - as Clifford N ILLINGWORTH."
  22. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages "#B13935/1904 (par Arthur E & Florence N). Birth registered at Marrickville - as Arthur G ILLINGWORTH."
Last Edited17 Apr 2024

Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth

F, #2901, b. 6 Mar 1870, d. 10 Jun 1911
Alice Rosa Elizabeth ILLINGWORTH
(The Resilient Man, vol 1, p239)
Father*Frederick Illingworth b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
Mother*Elizabeth Tarry b. Dec 1844, d. 20 Jan 1896
Probate (Will)* 172/335. Alice R E ILLINGWORTH Date of grant: 12 Jul 1920; Date of death: 10 Jun 1911; Occupation: Spinster; Residence: Katoomba.
Owned real estate in Victoria to the value of £90.1 
Birth*6 Mar 1870 Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #B4015/1870 (par Frederick ILLINGWORTH & Elizabeth TARRY) - as Alice Rosa Eliza ILLINGWORTH.2 
Book*1870... March of 1870 came quickly and on the 6th of the month Elizabeth delivered a delightful baby girl.
Frederick had been away in the country for the three weeks prior to the birth and rejoiced greatly when he arrived home to meet and greet his new daughter. Together they chose the names Alice Rose Elizabeth for no particular reason other than they both liked them. Life was good ...3 
Land Selection*21 Jul 1891 Lot 362, Hensman Street, Perth, WA, Australia, Transfer of land of piece or portion of land being lot 362 on government plan of Perth City (South) more particularly described on certificate of title (containing four acres). From John Wood Leiper to Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth of Perth, spinster. Permit to occupy town or suburban lands.4 
Note*1899 University of Melbourne - obtained Diploma of Musical Associate.5 
Death*10 Jun 1911 Katoomba, NSW, Australia, #D6093 [par Frederick & Elizabeth]
buried Katoomba Cemetery.6 
Death-Notice12 Jun 1911 ILLINGWORTH.—June 10, at Katoomba, Alice Rosa Elizabeth Illingworth, only sister of A. E. lllingworth, Evangelist, 67 Denison-street Woollahra. Her end was peace.7 
Death-Notice*15 Jun 1911 ILLINGWORTH.—On June 10, at Katoomba, New South Wales, Alice, only daughter of the late F. Illingworth, M.L.A., after a lingering illness.8 
BookAlice Illingworth unfortunately never married She continued to play the organ at the Church of Christ Subiaco and to teach music in Perth. She did this successfully for a short period but then she became chronically sick and moved to the Blue Mountains in NSW to be closer to Arthur. Regrettably she failed to recover and died of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Toxaemia and heart failure at Katoomba in 1911. Alice only reached the tender age of 41 years.9 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
1906828 Hay Street, West Perth, WA, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Frederick Illingworth and Jane Illingworth.10
191080 Colin Street, Perth, WA, AustraliaOccupation: spinster.11

Newspaper-Articles

  • 27 Oct 1882: STATE SCHOOL EXAMINATION — The following is the result of the district State schools examination held on 18th inst. As will be observed, Seymour pupils took first prizes in 1st and 2nd divisions ; Lowry came first in 3rd, and Whitehead's Creek in 4th divisions.
    PRIZE LIST :—
    1st. John Regan, Seymour school (medal), gift of the Board of Advice.
    2nd. Arthur Illingworth, Seymour school.
    2ND DIVISION.
    1st. Alice Illingworth, Seymour school. Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth12
  • 25 Dec 1894: IT may be interesting to many of our readers to learn of the success which has been achieved by Miss Alice Illingworth, daughter of Mr. F. Illingworth, M.L.A., at the recent annual examinations in connection with the Melbourne University. Miss Illingworth is studying music under Professor Marshall-Hall, the lecturer in connection with the Ormond Chair of Music now associated with the Melbourne University, her object being to obtain the "musical degree" coveted by so many leading musicians in the sister colony. She has achieved the honour of being the only lady successful in passing this year for the diploma. How severe is the course of study in order to obtain the degree will be apparent when it is remembered that the subjects include musical form and analysis, technique, aesthetics of music, harmony and counterpoint, in addition to studies in playing on the pianoforte and oboe.13,14
  • 29 Dec 1894: MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY. ANNUAL EXAMINATION. MUSIC. Second Year. Diploma of Musical Associate. Passed (1)—Alice Rosa Elisabeth Illingworth.15
  • 19 Nov 1896: Mr. A.E. Illingworth was yesterday notified by telegram that his sister, Miss Alice Illingworth, had obtained a musical degree with honors at the Melbourne University.16
  • 23 Nov 1896: Miss Alice Illingworth, daughter of the member for Nannine, has obtained a musical degree with honors at the Melbourne University.17
  • 17 Dec 1898: MISS ILLINGWORTH. Thursday. Miss Illingworth, daughter of Mr. Illingworth, M.L.A. for the Central Murchison, was among the passengers who arrived in the steamer Freidrich de Grosse to-day. Miss Illingworth has completed four years musical study at the Melbourne University, and before taking her fifth and final year's course has come to spend two months' holiday with her friends.18
  • 25 Jan 1899: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. Examinations in Music. Third Year.— Passed : Alice Rose Elizabeth Illingworth.19
  • 4 Feb 1899: FIRE AT FREMANTLE. WAREHOUSE DESTROYED.
    At about five minutes before 11 o'clock on Feb. 3, a young man named Rowland Long, who resides in one of a terrace of houses in Packenham-street, Fremantle, on the south side of High-street, observed flames issuing from an arched right-of-way in a building occupied by Mr. Ben. Fysh, the agent for the Euroa Butter and Ice Factory, on the opposite side of the street. He rushed to the fire station, and gave the alarm. The waterpolice communicated with the watchman at No. 1 Fire station, but the general alarm had already been sounded by a boy named George Spence.
    The horse-brake was speedily got out, and dispatched to the scene of the fire, and was immediately afterwards followed by the hose-reel from No. 2 station. Three lines of hose were run out from plugs at the intersection of Packenham and Nairne and Collie streets.
    The front door of the building was burst open, and the fire was found to be burning fiercely in the midst of large quantities of corks, staves, hops, bacon, and cases of lime-juice. Though the pressure of water was excellent, the three streams directed on to the flames were for a time insufficient to cope with the conflagration, which had evidently originated in a corner of the office, and everything in the front portion of the warehouse, which was constructed of brick, was destroyed. The flames rapidly spread to the rear portion of the premises, which was constructed of galvanised iron. This danger was met by another line of hose being run in from Marine-terrace, through the premises facing Henry-street, and, with the assistance of one of the lines of hose from Packenham-street, all danger of the flames spreading was speedily checked. The firemen, under Superintendent Fraser and Fireman Hartley, combatted the flames until midnight before they could assure themselves that the water had subdued them. The front portion of the building was gutted, but very little damage was done to the rear portion, by reason of the work performed by the members of the brigade. A perfect deluge of water was poured into the shop, and the passage into Packenham-street became a rushing stream of water several inches deep, on which innumerable corks, with large quantities of hops, were floating out into the street.
    The parts of the warehouse to which most of the fire was confined were a well and substantially built structure of brick. The building, as well as that on the north of the archway, which was similarly built, are both owned by Miss Alice Illingworth, a sister of Mr. F. Illingworth, M.L.A. The building on the north side is empty, and was formerly occupied by Mr. A. Shaw, a Custom-house agent. To the south of the ware-house is a galvanised-iron produce store, owned by the executors of the Manning Estate, and occupied by Messrs. Drummond and Co. The flames did not touch either of the two adjoining buildings. To the rear, and facing Henry-street, is the large and heavily-stocked warehouse of Messrs. W. D. Moore and Co., which was in imminent danger at one time, when the flames began to run along the rafters of Mrs. Fysh's rear establishment, the two warehouses almost adjoining each other. The strong wind, which was blowing from the north at the commencement of the fire, very luckily dropped during its progress, and this was a large factor in preventing the flames from spreading towards Messrs. W. D. Moore and Co.'s warehouse. There were vegetables and butter stored in Mr. Fysh's warehouse at the time of the fire, a large quantity of butter intended for the warehouse which arrived during the day in the steamer Wollowra not having been discharged from the vessel. Mr. Fysh carries on several agencies besides that of the Euroa Butter and Ice Factory, among them being that of Messrs. Smith, Kenihan and Co., prominent Victorian bacon-curers.20
  • 20 Nov 1899: UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE. ANNUAL EXAMINATION—OCTOBER. 1899. DIPLOMA OF MUSICAL ASSOCIATE. Pass Lists. Third Year.—Passed—Alice Rose Elizabeth Illingworth.21
  • 17 Jun 1911: News of the death of Miss A. Illingworth, well and favourably known as a teacher of music, reached Perth early in the week and was received with many sincere expressions of regret. Miss Illingworth had been in ill health for some months, and early this year relinquished her professional duties and left for New South Wales, where her relatives reside. She died at Katoomba on June 11.22

Citations

  1. [S35] Probate Records, PROV (Public Record Office Victoria), VPRS 28/ P3 unit 1054, item 172/335
    VPRS 7591/ P2 unit 625, item 172/335.
  2. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B4015/1870 (par Frederick ILLINGWORTH & Elizabeth TARRY) - as Alice Rosa Eliza ILLINGWORTH, Birth registered at Melbourne, Australia."
  3. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 1 p179 Alice was born 6 Mar 1870.
  4. [S50] Miscellaneous Source, Landgate (WA) permit 13-1891. Transfer of lot 362 to A.R.E. Illingworth.
  5. [S50] Miscellaneous Source, http://hdl.handle.net/11343/23453
  6. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages.
  7. [S17] Newspaper - The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW), Mon 12 Jun 1911, p8
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15224786
  8. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Thu 15 Jun 1911, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26342868
  9. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 3 p453 Alice died 11 Jun 1911 of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, Toxaemia and heart failure.
  10. [S106] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1906.
  11. [S110] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1910.
  12. [S14] Newspaper - Seymour Express and Goulburn Valley, Avenel, Graytown, Nagambie, Tallarook and Yea Advertiser (Vic.), Fri 27 Oct 1882, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165088132
  13. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Tue 25 Dec 1894, p4
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3070765
  14. [S55] ADB online, online https://adb.anu.edu.au/, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/…
    George William Louis Marshall-Hall (1862-1915), composer, conductor and professor of music, was born on 28 March 1862 in London, son of Marshall Hall and his wife Mary Eliza, née Mammatt; he was a grandson of the physiologist Marshall Hall, discoverer of the principle of reflex action, and a great-nephew of Samuel Hall, engineer and inventor.
  15. [S14] Newspaper - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 29 Dec 1894, p33
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/139704332
  16. [S14] Newspaper - The Daily News (Perth, WA), Thu 19 Nov 1896, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/81334604
  17. [S14] Newspaper - Geraldton Advertiser (WA), Mon 23 Nov 1896, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/252769460
  18. [S14] Newspaper - The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette (Cue, WA), Sat 17 Dec 1898, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/233217985
  19. [S14] Newspaper - Leader (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 25 Nov 1899, p37
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198077213
  20. [S14] Newspaper - The Daily News (Perth, WA), Sat 4 Feb 1899, p6
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/82393824
  21. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Mon 20 Nov 1899, p6
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9038648
  22. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Sat 17 Jun 1911, p8
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/26343084
Last Edited6 Jan 2022

Florence Newall MacGowan

F, #2902, b. 1870, d. 8 Sep 1955
Father*John Thorburn MacGowan b. 1836, d. 23 Feb 1895
Mother*Annie Wynne b. 5 May 1846, d. 4 Sep 1920
Married NameIllingworth. 
Birth*1870 Ballarat, VIC, Australia, #B605/1870 (par John Thorburn MACGOWAN & Annie WYNNE) - as Florence Newall MACGOWAN.1 
Marriage*18 Feb 1891 Spouse: Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth. Tabernacle, Fitzroy, VIC, Australia, #M1826.2
 
Widow16 Oct 1942Florence Newall MacGowan became a widow upon the death of her husband Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth.3 
Death*8 Sep 1955 Murrumbeena, VIC, Australia, #D10637/1955 (Age 85) (par John Thornburn MCGOWAN & Anne WYNNE) - as Florence Newell ILLINGWORTH.4 
Death-Notice*10 Sep 1955 ILLINGWORTH. - On September 8, at Melbourne, Florence Newell, loved wife of the late Pastor A. E. Illingworth, and loved mother of Dr. Harold (Kalgoorlie), Fred, Arthur, and Cliff (deceased), loving grandmother of Frederick, Annette, Margaret, David, and John, great grandmother of John, loved mother-in-law of Maude, Ivy, Doris, and Wynne, in her 86th year.—At rest.
ILLINGWORTH. - The Funeral of the late Mrs. FLORENCE NEWELL ILLINGWORTH will leave the Parkdale Church of Christ, THIS DAY (Saturday), after a short service commencing at 9.45 a.m., for the New Cheltenham Cemetery, Holloway road, (Floral tributes to church.)
ALFRED ALLISON, Melbourne West. FJ5480.5 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
bt 1919 - 19253 Beresford Street, St Kilda East, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth.6,7,8,9
bt 1926 - 19273 Beresford Street, St Kilda East, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth. With Clifford Newall Illingworth.10,11
193724 Glen Street, Essendon, VIC, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth. With Clifford Newall Illingworth.12

Family

 Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth b. 20 Jun 1868, d. 16 Oct 1942
Children 1.Harold Thorburn Illingworth b. 19 Feb 1897, d. 16 Mar 1967
 2.Frederick Augustus Illingworth14 b. 9 Feb 1900, d. 13 Sep 1987
 3.Clifford Newall Illingworth+15 b. 23 Apr 1904, d. 30 Oct 1947
 4.Arthur Garfield Illingworth16 b. 23 Apr 1904, d. 7 Dec 1996

Newspaper-Articles

  • 27 Feb 1891: ILLINGWORTH—MACGOWAN—The marriage of Mr. Arthur E. Illingworth., only son of Mr. Frederick Illingworth, M.L.C., to Miss Florence (Flossie) Newall Macgowan, second daughter of Mr. J. S. Macgowan, of North Carlton, was celebrated at the Tabernacle, Johnston-street, Fitzroy, on February 18. The arrangements at the church were perfect, and the decorations included the initials of bride and bride groom in white roses and tuber roses, beautifully worked round the platform. At 1 p.m. the bride entered on the arm of her father and proceeded up the left aisle, followed by the bridesmaids. At the same time the bridegroom and groomsmen walked up the left aisle to the altar, accompanied by a processional march by the organist. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. C. Norris, of Ballarat.
    As the happy pair left the church, two little girls strewed the aisle with white flowers. The bride, who was given away by her father, wore a dress of cream cashmere, trimmed with fleecy lace ; sprays of orange blossom were arranged in the hair and surmounted by a very rich veil, and she carried a very choice bouquet.
    Her ornaments were very numerous, and comprised a lovely necklet and bracelet of moonstones and diamonds. The bridesmaids were Misses Annie and Edith Macgowan, sisters of the bride. Their dresses consisted of dove coloured cashmere, pink sashes and hats to match. They carried bouquets of pink Tiger lilies and pink roses, and wore diamond and pearl brooches, the gift of the bridegroom. The groomsmen were Mr. E. C. Ludbrook and Mr. E. T. Macgowan. Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth13

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B605/1870 (par John Thorburn MACGOWAN & Annie WYNNE) - as Florence Newall MACGOWAN, Birth registered at Ballarat, Australia."
  2. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901.
  3. [S5] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Death Index Victoria 1921-1985.
  4. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D10637/1955 (Age 85) (par John Thornburn MCGOWAN & Anne WYNNE) - as Florence Newell ILLINGWORTH, born Ballarat. Death registered at Murrumbeena, Australia."
  5. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 10 Sep 1955, p11
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71694495
  6. [S119] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1919.
  7. [S121] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1921.
  8. [S124] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1924.
  9. [S125] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1925.
  10. [S126] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1926.
  11. [S127] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1927.
  12. [S137] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1937.
  13. [S14] Newspaper - Table Talk (Melbourne, Vic.), Fri 27 Feb 1891, p10
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/147284225
  14. [S62] Western Australian Government. BDM Index Western Australia "#B3568/1900 (par Arthur Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH & Florence Newall MACGOWAN) as Frederick Augustus Illingworth, Place of Birth: Victoria Plains."
  15. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages "#B13934/1904 (par Arthur E & Florence N). Birth registered at Marrickville - as Clifford N ILLINGWORTH."
  16. [S7] Registry of NSW Births Deaths and Marriages "#B13935/1904 (par Arthur E & Florence N). Birth registered at Marrickville - as Arthur G ILLINGWORTH."
Last Edited17 Apr 2024

Harold Thorburn Illingworth

M, #2903, b. 19 Feb 1897, d. 16 Mar 1967
Father*Arthur Ebenezer Illingworth b. 20 Jun 1868, d. 16 Oct 1942
Mother*Florence Newall MacGowan b. 1870, d. 8 Sep 1955
Birth*19 Feb 1897 Brunswick, VIC, Australia, #B1323/1897 (par Arth Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH & Flor Newall MACGOWAN) - as Harold Thorburn ILLINGWORTH.1 
Birth-Notice*27 Feb 1897 ILLINGWORTH.—On the 19th February, atElsinore, 79 Brunswick-road, the wife of A. E. Illingworth, of Perth, W.A., of a son.2 
Book*1897In Melbourne meanwhile the next generation of Illingworths arrived when Harold Thorburn Illingworth was born to Arthur and Florence on the 19th of February. Arthur recalls the day:—
Early in 1897 it became necessary for mother and I to take a trip to Melbourne — for a wonderful reason. Our first-born was due to arrive in February. We wanted Auntie Netta (trained nurse now) to help us. Mrs. Macgowan was living in Brunswick and there in her house, on Feb, 19, 1897 Harold Thorburn was born, with Dr Hamilton in attendance. I played rope quoits for several hours ...3 
Death*16 Mar 1967 Sydney Hospital, Sydney, NSW, Australia.4 
Death-Notice*17 Mar 1967 ILLINGWORTH, Harold Thornburn, M.B., C.H.M.—March 16, 1967, at Sydney Hospital, of 282a Lyons Road, Fivedock, dearly beloved husband of Anne and loving father of John (of Gladstone, S.A.), beloved brother of Fred and Arthur (Melbourne). God knows best.
ILLINGWORTH.—The Relatives and Friends of the late HAROLD THORBURN ILLINGWORTH, M.B., C.H.M., 282a Lyons Road Five-dock are invited to attend his Funeral; to leave St. Stephen's Church, Macquarie Street, Sydney, This Day (Friday), after a service, commencing at 1.30 p.m. for the Northern Suburbs Crematorium.
GEO ANDREWS. 71-0203-9, 237 Liverpool Rd. Ashfield.
ILLINGWORTH.—The Officers and Members of Drummoyne Bowling Club are kindly invited to attend the Funeral of their late esteemed Member, Doctor HAROLD ILLINGWORTH. For particulars see Family notice.
L. E. MONTAGUE, President. H. I. POWELL, Secretary.5 

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B1323/1897 (par Arth Ebenezer ILLINGWORTH & Flor Newall MACGOWAN) - as Harold Thorburn ILLINGWORTH, Birth registered at Brsek, Australia."
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 27 Feb 1897, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9191941
  3. [S387] David Illingworth, The Resilient Man, Vol 2 p284 Arthur’s 1st son Harold Thorburn Illingworth was born 19 Feb 1897.
  4. [S16] Newspaper - Sydney Morning Herald, 17 Mar 1967 (Death notice, ILLINGWORTH, Harold Thornburn, 16 Mar 1967, at Sydney Hospital, late of Five Dock, http://ryersonindex.org/search.php).
  5. [S17] Newspaper - Sydney Morning Herald (Sydney, NSW), Fri 17 March 1967, p30.
Last Edited2 Jan 2022

Sarah Irving

F, #2904, b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Married NameIllingworth. 
Birth*18261 
Marriage*Sep 1843 Spouse: James Illingworth. Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Sep Q [Bradford] 23 155.2
 
Widow27 Aug 1882Sarah Irving became a widow upon the death of her husband James Illingworth.3 
Death*5 Feb 1884 South Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #D2091 (Age 58) [par IRVING].1 
Death-Notice*6 Feb 1884 ILLINGWORTH -On the 5th inst, at the residence of her son, Dorcas street west, South Melbourne Mrs Jas Illingworth, the beloved mother of Frederick Illingworth, of South Melbourne, and of Mrs J Blumfield, of Newmarket, aged 59 years.
"Gone to be with Jesus, which is far better."
THE funeral of the late Mrs. ILLINGWORTH will leave Dorcas-street at 3 p m THIS DAY, passing Cemetery gates at 4 pm. Friends will kindly accept this intimation.4 

Grave

  • MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, VIC, Australia, In fond remembrance of / Frederick ILLINGWORTH / died at Brighton, Victoria, 8 Sep 1908, age 63 years / Sarah ILLINGWORTH / the beloved mother of Mary Jane and Elizabeth / dear sisters of Frederick ILLINGWORTH / who rests here till the Master comes. / They that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him / also Elizabeth / the beloved wife of Frederick ILLINGWORTH, Perth, W.A. / who died / 20 Jan 1896, age 51 years / also Jane ILLINGWORTH / beloved wife of above / died 16 Apr 1923, age 69 years.5,6

Family

 James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Children 1.Frederick Illingworth+ b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
 2.Harriett Illingworth+ b. 4 Jan 1852, d. 1 Oct 1912
 3.Charles Edward Illingworth+ b. 1853, d. 5 Jun 1906
 4.Mary Jane Illingworth b. 1856, d. 12 Sep 1875
 5.Arthur Alexander Illingworth b. 1858, d. 1860
 6.Elizabeth Illingworth b. 1861, d. Nov 1862

Citations

  1. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888.
  2. [S9] Free BMD. Index. Online @ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
  3. [S10] New Zealand Government Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes.
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 6 Feb 1884, p1.
  5. [S45] Index of monumental inscriptions in the Melbourne General Cemetery,
    "via GSV website."
  6. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633,
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875767
    Grave of Mary J Illingworth (1856-13 Sep 1875) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875770
    Grave of Sarah Illingworth (1825-5 Feb 1884)
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875757
    Grave of Frederick Illingworth (1845-8 Sep 1908)
    ***
    Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-632, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875761
    Grave of Jane Illingworth (1854-16 Apr 1923)."
Last Edited28 Jan 2022

James Illingworth

M, #2905, b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Birth*1822 
Marriage*Sep 1843 Spouse: Sarah Irving. Bradford, Yorkshire, England, Sep Q [Bradford] 23 155.1
 
Death*27 Aug 1882 Christchurch, New Zealand, #3882/1882 (Age 60Y) - as James Illingworth.2 
Death-Notice*25 Sep 1882 ILLINGWORTH.—On the 27th August, at Christchurch, New Zealand, James Illingworth, beloved husband of Mrs. J. Illingworth, of Christchurch, New Zealand, previously of Melbourne, and Father of Frederick Illingworth, of Melbourne.3 

Family

 Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Children 1.Frederick Illingworth+ b. 24 Sep 1844, d. 8 Sep 1908
 2.Harriett Illingworth+ b. 4 Jan 1852, d. 1 Oct 1912
 3.Charles Edward Illingworth+ b. 1853, d. 5 Jun 1906
 4.Mary Jane Illingworth b. 1856, d. 12 Sep 1875
 5.Arthur Alexander Illingworth b. 1858, d. 1860
 6.Elizabeth Illingworth b. 1861, d. Nov 1862

Newspaper-Articles

  • 28 Aug 1882: Death at Sunnyside.—An inquest will be held at the Asylum tomorrow, at 11 a.m., touching the death of James Illingworth, who died yesterday at that institution.4
  • 30 Aug 1882: At 2 p.m. yesterday Dr Coward held an inquest at the Sunnyside Asylum on the body of a patient named James Illingworth, who was admitted to the institution in February, 1881, and died of bronchitis. A verdict of death from natural causes was returned.5,6

Citations

  1. [S9] Free BMD. Index. Online @ https://www.freebmd.org.uk/.
  2. [S10] New Zealand Government Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes.
  3. [S16] Newspaper - The Age (Melbourne, Vic.), Mon 25 Sep 1882, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/198566973
  4. [S336] Newspaper (New Zealand) - The Globe (New Zealand), Mon 28 Aug 1882, p2.
  5. [S336] Newspaper (New Zealand) - Star (Christchurch, New Zealand), Wed 30 Aug 1882, p3.
  6. [S336] Newspaper (New Zealand) - Lyttleton Times (New Zealand), Thu 31 Aug 1882, p4.
Last Edited2 Jan 2022

Mary Jane Illingworth

F, #2906, b. 1856, d. 12 Sep 1875
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Birth*1856 Moorabbin, VIC, Australia, #B6525.1 
Death*12 Sep 1875 Dowling-street, Sandhurst, VIC, Australia, #D11784 (age 19.)1 
Death-Notice*14 Sep 1875 ILLINGWORTH - On the 12th inst, at Dowling street, Sandhurst, Mary Jane, the beloved sister of Frederick Illingworth (of Illingworth and Hoskins), Mitchell street, Sandhurst, aged 19 years. N Z. papers please copy.2 
Death-Notice6 Oct 1875 On the 12th September, of intermittent fever, Mary Jane, the beloved sister of Frederick lllingworth, Dowling-street, Sandhurst, aged 19 years.3 
Death-Notice6 Oct 1875 ILLINGWORTH.—On Sunday, the 12th September, at Dowling-street, Sandhurst, Mary Jane, the beloved sister of Frederick Illingworth (of Illingworth and Hoskins, timber merchants, Sandhurst), aged 19 years. New Zealand papers please copy.4 

Grave

  • MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, VIC, Australia, In fond remembrance of / Frederick ILLINGWORTH / died at Brighton, Victoria, 8 Sep 1908, age 63 years / Sarah ILLINGWORTH / the beloved mother of Mary Jane and Elizabeth / dear sisters of Frederick ILLINGWORTH / who rests here till the Master comes. / They that sleep in Jesus will God bring with him / also Elizabeth / the beloved wife of Frederick ILLINGWORTH, Perth, W.A. / who died / 20 Jan 1896, age 51 years / also Jane ILLINGWORTH / beloved wife of above / died 16 Apr 1923, age 69 years.5,6

Citations

  1. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888.
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 14 Sep 1875, p1.
  3. [S14] Newspaper - Bendigo Advertiser (Vic.), Wed 6 Oct 1875, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/88263299
  4. [S14] Newspaper - Illustrated Australian News for Home Readers (Melbourne, Vic.), Wed 6 Oct 1875, p159.
  5. [S45] Index of monumental inscriptions in the Melbourne General Cemetery,
    "via GSV website."
  6. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-633,
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875767
    Grave of Mary J Illingworth (1856-13 Sep 1875) https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875770
    Grave of Sarah Illingworth (1825-5 Feb 1884)
    https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875757
    Grave of Frederick Illingworth (1845-8 Sep 1908)
    ***
    Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-B-No-632, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200875761
    Grave of Jane Illingworth (1854-16 Apr 1923)."
Last Edited27 Mar 2023

Elizabeth Illingworth

F, #2907, b. 1861, d. Nov 1862
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Birth*1861 Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #B716/1861 (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Elizabeth ILLINGWORTH.1 
Death*Nov 1862 VIC, Australia, #D9191/1862 (Age 2) (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Elizabeth ILLINGWORTH.2 

Grave

  • MGC-BAP-Comp-C-No-430, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton, VIC, Australia, Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-C-No-430, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200879166
    Grave of Elizabeth Illingworth (1860-19 Nov 1862)3

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B716/1861 (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Elizabeth ILLINGWORTH, Birth registered at Melbourne, Australia."
  2. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D9191/1862 (Age 2) (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Elizabeth ILLINGWORTH, born Melbourne."
  3. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Melbourne General Cemetery, Carlton North, Melbourne City, Victoria, Australia, Plot: MGC-BAP-Comp-C-No-430, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/200879166
    Grave of Elizabeth Illingworth (1860-19 Nov 1862)."
Last Edited28 Jan 2022

Arthur Alexander Illingworth

M, #2908, b. 1858, d. 1860
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Birth*1858 Brighton, VIC, Australia, #B9097/1858 (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Arthur Alexander ILLINGWORTH.1 
Death*1860 VIC, Australia, #D7/1860 (Age 1) (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah Not Stated) - as Arthur Alexander ILLINGWORTH.2 

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B9097/1858 (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah IRVING) - as Arthur Alexander ILLINGWORTH, Birth registered at Brighton, Australia."
  2. [S28] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Deaths) (online) "#D7/1860 (Age 1) (par James ILLINGWORTH & Sarah Not Stated) - as Arthur Alexander ILLINGWORTH, born Brighton."
Last Edited28 Jan 2022

Charles Edward Illingworth

M, #2909, b. 1853, d. 5 Jun 1906
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Birth*1853 Brighton, VIC, Australia, #B316.1 
Marriage*1874 Spouse: Mary McGee. Baptist Chapel Hereford, Christchurch, New Zealand, NZ#M11761.2
 
(Guardian) Education1890Charles Edward Illingworth was the guardian during Kate Howie's education from 1890 at State School 2560, Upper Beaconsfield, VIC, Australia; admitted age 10y.3 
(Guardian) Education1890Charles Edward Illingworth was the guardian during Jane Howie's education from 1890 at State School 2560, Upper Beaconsfield, VIC, Australia; admitted age 5y 6m.3 
Widower26 Nov 1899Charles Edward Illingworth became a widower upon the death of his wife Mary McGee. 
Death*5 Jun 1906 Perth, WA, Australia, #D404/1906.4 
Death-Notice*9 Jun 1906 ILLINGWORTH.—The Friends of the late Mr. Charles Edward Illingworth, of Perth, guard W.A. Government Railways, are respectfully invited to follow his remains to the place of interment, the Wesleyan portion of the Fremantle Cemetery. The Funeral is appointed to leave Messs. Arthur E. Davies and Co.'s Undertaking Establishment, Market-street, Frematle, TO-MORROW (Sunday) AFTERNOON, the 10th inst., at 3 o'clock.5 

Grave

  • Methodist MON B 0080, Fremantle Cemetery, Fremantle, WA, Australia6

Family

 Mary McGee b. 1856, d. 26 Nov 1899
Children 1.William Arthur Illingworth b. 17 Oct 1875, d. 21 Jan 1946
 2.Ernest Illingworth b. 1877, d. 1884
 3.James Illingworth+ b. 1880, d. 4 Jun 1919
 4.Charles Illingworth b. 1885

Newspaper-Articles

  • 3 Jun 1880: IN the Supreme Court of New Zealand Canterbury District—In the matter of the Debtors and Creditors Act 1876 and the Acts amending the same and of the bankruptcy of Charles Edward Illingworth a debtor — This is to notify that Charles Edward Illingworth of Southbridge in the above-mentioned district labourer has this day filed a statement that he is unable to meet his engagements with his creditors — The first meeting of creditors to be held at tte Supreme Court-house Christchurch on Wednesday the ninth day of June 1880 at the hour of eleven o'clock in the forenoon—Dated this 2nd day of June, 1880. A. R. BLOXAM, Deputy Registrar. 6-3 2547
  • 16 Jun 1906: MR. CHARLES EDWARD ILLINGWORTH.
    The funeral took place in the Methodist portion of the Fremantle Cemetery of Mr. Charles Edward Illingworth, who was for many years a guard on the Western Australian Government railways. The obsequies were largely attended by railway employees of Perth and Fremantle, among whom the deceased was very popular. The chief mourners were Mrs. Illingworth (widow), Messrs. Arthur, James, and Charles Illingworth (sons), Mr. F. Illingworth, M.L.A. (brother), Mrs. Johnston (sister), and Messrs. Joseph Blumfield and George Knight (nephews).
    The pall-bearers were Messrs. W. Roche, A. Ashton. H. Tucker, P. Hunt, G. Eades, N. McPherson, W. Binning, W. Boyd, and J. Penderville. The Rev. Robert Hanlin officiated at the graveside. There were numerous wreaths placed on the coffin.8

Citations

  1. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888 "another registration 1854/3015 Moorabbin."
  2. [S10] New Zealand Government Birth, Death & Marriage Indexes.
  3. [S25] School Records - Beaconsfield North 2560: father/guardian Charles Illingworth, farmer, previous schooling Footscray.
  4. [S62] Western Australian Government. BDM Index Western Australia.
  5. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Sat 9 Jun 1906, p1.
  6. [S38] Index of burials in the cemetery of http://www2.mcb.wa.gov.au/NameSearch/details.php,.
  7. [S336] Newspaper (New Zealand) - Press (New Zealand), 3 Jun 1880, p1.
  8. [S14] Newspaper - Western Mail (Perth, WA), Sat 16 Jun 1906, p17.
Last Edited2 Jan 2022

Harriett Illingworth

F, #2910, b. 4 Jan 1852, d. 1 Oct 1912
Father*James Illingworth b. 1822, d. 27 Aug 1882
Mother*Sarah Irving b. 1826, d. 5 Feb 1884
Married NameBlumfield. 
Married NameJohnston. 
Birth*4 Jan 1852 Tankards Old Hotel, Crn Lonsdale & Swanston St, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, #B11174.1,2 
Marriage*12 Jun 1869 Spouse: Joseph Blumfield. Hazelwood, Camberwell, VIC, Australia, #M2107.1
 
Marriage-Notice*26 Jun 1869 BLUMFIELD-ILLINGWORTH. - On the 12th Inst., at Hazelwood, Camberwell, by the Rev. Thomas Ness, Joseph Blumfield, second son of William Blumfield, of Chetwynd-street, Hotham, to Harriet Illingworth, eldest daughter of Mrs. James Illingworth, of Drummond street, Carlton.3 
Widow18 Sep 1891Harriett Illingworth became a widow upon the death of her husband Joseph Blumfield.4 
Residence*1898 78 Capel-street, North Melbourne, VIC, Australia.5 
Marriage*a 1898 Spouse: Alfred Johnston. No marriage found.
 
Death*1 Oct 1912 Fremantle, WA, Australia, #D242/1912 as Harriet Johnston.6 
Death-Notice*3 Oct 1912 JOHNSTON.—On October 1, at the Fremantle Hospital, Harriet, the dearly beloved wife of Alfred Johnston, aged 61 years. Deeply regretted.7 

Electoral Rolls (Australia) and Census (UK/IRL)

DateAddressOccupation and other people at same address
bt 1903 - 1906Hope Street, Fremantle, WA, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Alfred Johnston.8,9
bt 1910 - 1912Commonage Road, Busselton, WA, AustraliaOccupation: home duties. With Alfred Johnston.10,11

Grave

  • Anglican MON AA 395, Fremantle Cemetery, Fremantle, WA, Australia12,13

Family

 Joseph Blumfield b. 1848, d. 18 Sep 1891
Children 1.Joseph Alfred Ernest Blumfield+ b. 1871, d. 25 Dec 1940
 2.Florence Amelia Blumfield+ b. 1874, d. 18 Aug 1941

Newspaper-Articles

  • 25 Feb 1893: WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1. At Half-post One O'clock. IMMENSE SALE.
    W. BRISBANE will OFFER by AUCTION, on the above date, at the rooms of Munro and Baillieu the following PROPERTIES, most of which will be sold without reserve,
    BEACONSFIELD.-Property known as Cavesham, 363 acres, magnificent house; land laid out with orchard, shrubbery, and flowers; beautiful views; abundance of water.
    BEACONSFIELD.-Large brick House, 10 rooms, with tower, magnificent shrubbery and flower garden, orchard, 57 acres of land, all cleared, beautiful views.
    Plans, particulars, and complete lists on application to W. Brisbane, auctioneer, 60 Queen street.14
  • 24 Mar 1897: Upper Beaconsfield. BY TODEA AFRICANA.
    I hear that the "Tower," formerly belonging to Mr. Jno. Kitchen, has been sold, and that the residence of the late Mr. Walford, known as "The Fernery," is let on lease for eight years. John Ambrose Kitchen, Eleanor Nicholson15

Citations

  1. [S1] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Pioneer Index Victoria 1836-1888.
  2. [S80] Ancestry - Family Tree, The Webster Family Tree - Owner: paulvwebster.
  3. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 26 Jun 1869, p4.
  4. [S2] Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages Federation Index Victoria 1889-1901.
  5. [S65] Ancestry - various indices, Sands Directory 1898.
  6. [S62] Western Australian Government. BDM Index Western Australia "#D242/1912 as Harriet Johnston Registration District: Fremantle."
  7. [S14] Newspaper - The West Australian (Perth, WA), Thu 3 Oct 1912, p1.
  8. [S103] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1903.
  9. [S106] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1906.
  10. [S110] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1910.
  11. [S112] Electoral Roll for Australia, 1912.
  12. [S38] Index of burials in the cemetery of https://portal.mcb.wa.gov.au/name-search/ns-detail/,.
  13. [S345] Index of monumental inscriptions/burials, www.findagrave.com "Fremantle Cemetery, Palmyra, Melville City, Western Australia, Australia, Plot: Anglican-Mon Aa-0395, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213400010
    Grave of Harriet Johnston (1851-30 Sep 1912)
    Sorry there is no headstone, Harriet is buried with a William Hanlon 1861-1924."
  14. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), 25 Feb 1893, p5 (this is only part of the advertisement).
  15. [S12] Newspaper - South Bourke and Mornington Journal (Richmond, Vic.), 24 Mar 1897, p3.
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NOTE

Some family sections show only the children who were associated with Upper Beaconsfield.

Some individuals may be featured because members of their family were associated with the Upper Beaconsfield area, even though they themselves never lived here.