Rudolph Ernest Ehrgott Halleur1

M, #32176, b. 1870, d. 15 Feb 1925
Father*Rudolph Ernest Halleur1 b. 1826, d. 22 Sep 1912
Mother*Johanna Christina Scholz1 b. 9 Aug 1838, d. 18 Apr 1932
Birth*1870 Berwick, VIC, Australia, #B21447/1870 (par Rudolph HALLEUR & Christina SCHOLTY) - as Rudolph Ernest Ehrgott HALLEUR.2 
Marriage*1895 Spouse: Christina Dugard. #M6315/1895, Ctina DUGARD & Rudolph Ernest HALLEUR.3
 
Death*15 Feb 1925 Redcliffe, QLD, Australia, believed drowned. 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 5 Sep 1903: BERWICK.—A child, 18 months old, the daughter of Mr. R. E. Halleur, got its hand caught in the cogs of a chaftcutter and was so seriously injured that it had to be sent on to the Childrens' Hospital.4
  • 4 Apr 1917: Mr Edward Halleur, a brother of Mr R. E. Halleur, of Harkaway, met with an accident last Saturday. When trying to stop a pair of horses in a van, in Burke Road, Camberwell, he slipped and fell, and a wheel of the vehicle passed over him, breaking three of his ribs. The driver was thrown out and rendered unconscious. Both men were at once attended to by Dr Norris, of Auburn, and were afterwards removed to the Melbourne Hospital, where they are progressing favorably. Edward Johanas Halleur5
  • 17 Feb 1925: DROWNING FATALITY FEARED.
    On Saturday last a man residing at Grand View boarding house, Redcliffe, went to the pier for the purpose of fishing. On Sunday the police were informed that he had not returned, and that his fishing lines had been found on the pier.
    Up till yesterday evening there was no trace of the missing man and it is feared that he has been drowned. The man's name is R. E. Halleur, and he is believed to have come from Victoria. He is 55 years of age, of medium build, sallow complexion, and has a black moustache. When last seen he was dressed in grey trousers, dark coat, and white shirt, felt hat, black boots.6
  • 17 Feb 1925: MAN MISSING. Redcliffe Incident.
    A man named Rudolph Halleur, who had been staying at the Grand View Boarding-house, Redcliffe, since February 11, is reported to be missing.
    He was last seen at 8.30 on Sunday when he left the boarding-house with the intention of fishing oft the jetty. He was seen on the jetty about 11 p.m., but since then nothing has been heard or seen of him.
    His fishing line was found on the jetty this morning. No description is at present available.
    The matter is in the hands of the police.7
  • 19 Feb 1925: TWO MISSING MEN.
    Similarly the disappearance on Sunday of Rudolf E. Halleur, a middle-aged man, who had been staying at Redcliffe for some days, still remains a mystery. Halleur left the boarding-house where he was residing at 8.30 p.m. to go fishing, and three hours later he was seen fishing off the jetty. On Monday morning, his fishing tackle was found on the jetty.8
  • 21 Feb 1925: MISSING FROM REDCLIFFE.
    Since Monday the police have been searching for R. E. Halleur, who mysteriously disappeared from the Redcliffe Jetty on Sunday night. When last seen he was fishing from the jetty, and, as it was thought that he might have wandered off the jetty and lost his way, the countryside has been scoured in an endeavour to locate him, but so far the search has been resultless.
    NO TRACE OF MISSING MAN.
    Up to yesterday no trace had been found by the police of the man supposed to have been drowned off the Redcliffe jetty. Dragging operations ceased on Thursday afternoon. The man was a farmer from Victoria who had been in very indifferent health for some time.9,10
  • 7 Mar 1925: Redcliffe.—Information is requested, at the instance of Mrs. G. R. Harrington, Grand View Boarding-house, Redcliffe, as to the whereabouts of RUDOLPH E. HALLEUR who left inquirer's boarding-house at 8.30 p.m. on the 15th ultimo and was last seen fishing from the Redcliffe Jetty at 11.20 p.m. on the same date:—Description:—53 to 56 years of age, about 6 feet high, dark complexion, black hair (turning grey), heavy black moustache, very large nose slightly turned to left from bridge to point, stout build, about 15 stone weight; is believed to be a farmer, having arrived in this State from Victoria or New South Wales about the end of January last; wore a dark-grey tweed coat and trousers, white mercerised twill tennis shirt, black lace-up boots, and a grey felt hat with a black band. He has a son, named Clarence Halleur, whose address is care of Gardiner and Wearn, Box 252, G.P.O., Melbourne, and he has a married sister residing at Lismore, New South Wales. He was suffering with heart complaint, and it is suggested that he fell from the jetty at Redcliffe and was drowned.11
  • 4 Sep 1939: NOTICE is hereby given that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof application will be made to the Supreme Court of the State of Victoria in its Probate Jurisdiction, that PROBATE of the WILL, dated 19th December, 1924, of RUDOLPH ERNEST EHRGOTT HALLEUR, late of Harkaway, in the said State farmer, who is now presumed to be dead, may be granted to Clarence Halleur, of 95 Stanhope street, Malvern, in the said State, accountant; Ellen Halleur, of Narracoorte, in the State of South Austialla, spinster and Percival Dugard, of 10 William street, Essendon, in the State of Vittoria, public servant, the executors therein named.
    Dated the 4th day of September 1939.
    MADDEN, BUTLER FLDER, & GRAHAM, 406 Collins street, Melbourne, solicitors for the applicant.12

Citations

  1. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online).
  2. [S26] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Births) (online) "#B21447/1870 (par Rudolph HALLEUR & Christina SCHOLTY) - as Rudolph Ernest Ehrgott HALLEUR, Birth registered at Berw, Australia."
  3. [S27] Victorian Government. BDM Index Victoria (Marriages) (online) "#M6315/1895, Ctina DUGARD & Rudolph Ernest HALLEUR."
  4. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 5 Sep 1903, p16
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10570367
  5. [S19] Newspaper - Berwick Shire News and Pakenham and Cranbourne Gazette (Berwick, Vic.), Wed 4 Apr 1917, p2
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92090611
  6. [S14] Newspaper - The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), Tue 17 Feb 1925, p8
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20906839
  7. [S14] Newspaper - Daily Standard (Brisbane, Qld.), Tue 17 Feb 1925, p7
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/179457801
  8. [S14] Newspaper - Observer and Evening Brisbane Courier (Qld.), Thu 19 Feb 1925, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/289930135
  9. [S14] Newspaper - The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), Sat 21 Feb 1925, p16
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20911806
  10. [S14] Newspaper - The Brisbane Courier (Qld.), Sat 21 Feb 1925, p16
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/20911804
  11. [S14] Newspaper - Queensland Police Gazette, 7 Mar 1925, p103
    (viewed on ancestry).
  12. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Mon 4 Sep 1939, p8
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/11250456
Last Edited26 Apr 2026

William Degraves

M, #32181, b. 1821, d. 20 Mar 1883
Birth*1821 
Land-Berwick*3 Jan 1854 BER-Crown-16. Transfer from John Cree to William Degraves. 552a 0r 0p - purchase price L1,141.1 
Land-Berwick*20 Aug 1855 BER-Crown-16. Transfer from William Degraves to John Inglis. 552a 0r 0p - purchase price L2,760.1 
Death*20 Mar 1883 Hobart, TAS, Australia. 
Death-Notice*29 Mar 1883 DEGRAVES.—On the 20th inst., at Hobart, William Degraves, aged 62 years.2 

Newspaper-Articles

  • 21 Mar 1883: OBITUARY. MR. WILLIAM DEGRAVES.
    "The last of the sons of old Peter Degraves is dead," was an expression on everybody's lips in the city yesterday morning.
    This was too true, for at an early hour of the morning William Degraves passed over to the great majority, after an active life of upwards of 60 years. He was the only surviving son of the late Peter Degraves, who arrived in the colony about the year 1820.
    The bold enterprise and great energy of the head of the family is well known here, where the name of Degraves has been a household word for many and many a long year. On the death of their father the business was successfully carried on by different members of the family. William, the subject of this notice, was quite a young man when he left for Victoria. There he soon worked up a very large connection as a squatter, miller, and general merchant. His chief place of business was in Melbourne, with branch houses in the different leading centres of population in that young colony, where he was one of the largest, if not the principal, station owner and leading merchant. In Melbourne, then a young city, he built one of the earliest and one of the best of bonded stores, and which was long known as "Degrave's bonded and free stores." He also possessed large properties in the different townships of Victoria. He was also a member of the Legislative Council of Victoria. At one time the family of Degraves, both in Victoria and Tasmania, was simply and literally another name for the great house of Rothschild. The deceased was also connected with the Union Bank of Australia as a director. During one of the crashes which periodically overtook the pastoral interests on the continent of Australia, William Degraves, with many other men of note, had to succumb thereto. Had be been in a position to have weathered the storm for a very few months longer he would have died a millionaire. As it was then, property was sacrificed, and he became a comparatively poor man; but under all his reverses of fortune he retained his good name for integrity and honesty. When his misfortunes overtook him, there was no one who could point a hand at him and say that he was to blame for his altered position. Of late years, as is well known, he has been leading a life of comparative retirement in Tasmania. A short time ago he went on a visit to England, and only returned to Hobart on Wednesday last, having come back here, it would seem, to await the angel of death. His many friends observed, when he re-appeared amongst them last week, that his trip had not been of benefit to him, as he evidently looked weaker than of yore; but nobody thought for a moment that his end on earth was so fast approaching. On the evening after his arrival the deceased complained to his wife of being ill, and next morning (Friday) his medical adviser was summoned to his assistance. On Saturday his state caused much alarm and distress. He gradually sank to his rest, and breathed his last yesterday morning, in the 63rd year. He leaves a wife, a sister (Lady Wilson), nephews and nieces to mourn their loss. Mrs. Degraves is a daughter of the late Major Fraser, who was once Usher of the Black Rod in our Legislative Council. The obsequies will take place this afternoon. The cortege will leave Melrose, Hampden-road, at half-past 2 o'clock.3
  • 24 Mar 1883: The late Mr. William Degraves. — We regret to announce that a telegram was received in town yesterday, of the death of Mr. William Degraves, of The Poplars, High-street, while on a visit to Hobart. Deceased was son of the late Mr. Peter Degraves, and arrived, we believe, with his father and other members of the family in the ship Hope in 1824 at Hobart. Mr. Degraves, sen., obtained a grant of land, now known as the Cascade property, upon which he established a flour mill, brewery, etc. The property was still further developed by the sons, but principally by the late Messrs Charles and John Degraves, while Mr William Degraves extensively engaged in squatting pursuits, and was established in business in Melbourne. When pastoral pursuits suffered from the general depression then existing in Victoria, Mr Degraves, like the late Hugh Glass and others, suffered accordingly, and a long lawsuit with the Union Bank resulted on account of the action of the Melbourne branch. The deceased retired from business with his capital much diminished, and after a trip to Europe took up his residence in Launceston. Deceased was of a straightforward disposition, and was much respected by all who knew him.4
  • 14 Sep 1935: IN any account of the origin of the Royal Agricultural Society of Victoria it is necessary to refer to the old Port Phillip Society, as it is practically from the ashes of that organisation that the present society sprang. The Port Phillip Society was instituted in 1848, and its last show was held on the grounds in the Royal Park on the Sydney road in 1867, when the Duke of Edinburgh was present.
    It gradually faded out of the picture, and the National Agricultural Society of Victoria came into existence. Its first council was elected by ballot, and the foundation president was William Degraves, merchant and station owner, and a member of the Legislative Council. The opening show took place in November, 1871, on a site on the St. Kilda road, close to the barracks, which was acquired in exchange for the Port Phillip Society's grounds at the Royal Park. .... continued5

Citations

  1. [S81] Land Records & Parish Maps ; PROV (Public Record Office Victoria). See Applications 7502 + 7503.
  2. [S11] Newspaper - The Argus (Melbourne, Vic.), Thu 29 Mar 1883, p1
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8507165
  3. [S14] Newspaper - The Mercury (Hobart, Tas.), Wed 21 Mar 1883, p3
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/9026982
  4. [S14] Newspaper - The Tasmanian (Launceston, Tas.), Sat 24 Mar 1883, p330
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/200311885
  5. [S14] Newspaper - The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic.), Sat 14 Sep 1935, p51
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/141762320
Last Edited26 Apr 2026
 

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