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Australian Pioneer Families

Families featured
Thomas Barber, James Barclay, John Beardsley, John Bell,
William Boyd, John Bulmer, James Byars

Barber

Thomas Barber wed 1852 #2975 at Geelong Presbyterian Church to Barbara Maxwell 1836 - 1873 #3835 aged 37, daughter of Catherine Reid and James Maxwell of Fife, and settled at Dunolly

10 Children

1. Thomas Ord Barber 1854 #2835
2. Catherine Barber 1855 #11833
3. Jane Barber 1857 #16776 lived 16 months
4. Annie Barber 1859 #15813
5. Richard Barber 1861 #22723
6. Isabella Barber 1863 #13998
7. Robert Barber 1865 #15028
8. James Alexander Barber 1867 #14506
9. Jane Agnes Barber 1870 #2122
10. George William Barber 1873 #8892 lived 6 months

1. Thomas Ord Barber 1854 #2835 wed 1875 #4506 to Isabella Scott Robertson 1854 - 1914 #5302 aged 60, daughter of Jane Paton and Thomas Robertson born in Liverpool, died at Dunolly

7 Children

1. Barbara Jane Barber 1876 #9768
2. Thomas Ord Barber 1877 #14382
3. Isabella Annie Barber 1879 #7456
4. May Lillian Barber 1881 #8825
5. Frances Regina Barber 1883 #8688
6. William Maxwell Barber 1885 #17168
7. Alexandrina Ruby Barber 1887 #19054

4. Lilian Mary Barber 1881 - 1920 #9923 aged 39, wed c1900 to John Ambrose Treganowan, 3 Children

5. Richard Barber 1861 #22723 wed 1887 #2852 to Catherine Maxwell possibly Catherine Maxwell 1867 #8944 born at Kyneton, and lived at Sandford then Maffra

5 Children

1. James Maxwell Barber 1888 #15322
2. David Douglass Barber 1889 #23390
3. Roy Alexr Barber 1890 #34029
4. Barbara Elizth Barber 1892 #15080
5. Richd Maxwell Barber 1895 #5017

Barclay

From on Mon, 17 Apr 2006

Hi again Elizabeth,
I have some extra information about the above couple you might be interested in. James and Elizabeth actually had nine children. The two you haven't listed were James b.1856 Donegal Ireland and Johnston Blanes Barclay b.1857 at sea on journey to Victoria . James married Annie Williams in 1883 and Johnston married Betsy Smith in 1892. Also James Senior was appointed a police constable in Victoria on 19 April 1858 (Vic.Police Reg.No.126).
Regards, Diane Perry.

And the Assisted Immigration shipping Index has the British Empire came to Victoria Sep 1857.

James Barclay aged 24, Elizabeth Barclay aged 23, James Barclay aged I and Infant Barclay arrived in Melbourne aboard the "Great Britain" having left Liverpool on 16 February 1857. The Master of the "Great Britain" was John Gray and it carried 620 passengers.

James Barclay and Elizabeth Johnston came 1857 and lived at Kilmore

9 children

1. James Barclay b.1856 Donegal Ireland
2. Johnston Blanes Barclay b.1857 at sea on journey to Victoria
3. John Barclay 1859 #20593
4. Mary Jane Barclay 1861 #9241
5. Thomas Barclay 1862 #15171
6. Henry Barclay 1863 #21053
7. Samuel Barclay 1865 #2970
8. Esther Barclay 1868 #17741
9. Margaret Barclay 1869 #23553

1. John Barclay 1859 #20593 wed 1883 #4271 to Sarah Ann Jubb born in Tasmania

2 children

1. Elizabeth Ann Barclay 1885 #1624
2. John Joseph Henry Barclay 1888 #19127 lived 6 months

2. Mary Jane Barclay 1861 #9241 wed 1888 #1004 to Samuel Strogeon from Ireland

4. Henry Barclay 1863 #21053 wed 1888 #4442 to Ellen Louisa Stubbings 1863 #16475 daughter of Martha Neate and William Stubbings born at Pentridge (now called Coburg)

2 children

1. Cyril Aubrey Barclay 1890 #11510
2. Leslie Hy Barclay 1892 #12192

7. Margaret Barclay 1869 #23553 wed 1888 #3257 to William George Yardley 1861 #22540

Beardsley

See also new Beardsley entry, an earlier John Beardsley came 1852

The Northumberland came Sep 1872 with the Beardsley family, John 30, Ann 27, John 7, Elizabeth 5 and twins Samuel and William aged 1

From Friday, February 11, 2000, Subject: Isaac Beardsley
I would like any information regarding Isaac Beardsley who married Rebecca Jackson in Duffield Derbyshire in 1820. Their two sons John Isaac and Samuel came to Australia. John returned to Debyshire with his Australian wife, had two children and then they all returned and had a further 8 children here. I believe he or the family owned a hotel in Derbyshire.
Thanks Jenny, Australia.
From on Sun, 30 Jan 2005
John Isaac Beardsley went to Australia and married Ann Forrest(er) thern they both went back to Derbyshire for a time. Two of their children were born in Belper (not Bilper as the site states - there is no such place!) John was a publican there for a while. They then moved back to Australia - quite something in those days! One of their children James Joseph was my grandfather - he was apparently Australia+NZ champion Axeman but I don't know when. He emigrated to NZ and met my grandmother (a nurse) following an accident during a competition.

John Beardsley 1834 - 1896 #11734 aged 62 son of Elizabeth Jackson and Isaac Beardsley died at Warragul, wed (as Bearsley) 1864 #2640 to Ann Forest and they had a trip to UK, returned Sep 1872 with children from Derbyshire, and lived at Rochester
IGI submitter Mrs Carol Duggan, 1 Dobson Road, Shepparton 3630, Victoria Australia

John Beardsley 1834 - 8 Aug 1896 aged 62 born at Derbyshire, England and died at Warragul, Victoria, Australia son of Elizabeth Jackson and Isaac Beardsley, wed 19 Jul 1864 at Taradale, Victoria, Australia to Ann Forest 1844 - 25 Sep 1922 born at Launceston, Tasmania, Australia and died at Echuca, Victoria, Australia, daughter of Elizabeth Hawkins 1810 - 1855 died at Launceston, Tasmania, and William Forrest with twin sister Elizabeth. This Submitter lists three children born at Belper, Derbyshire, England - Elizabeth 1868, Joseph 1869, Samuel 1869, followed by the ones registered in Victoria (which she also lists as at Bilpey)

9 Children

1. John William Beardsley 1865 #9632 - 1879 #6100 aged 14
2. Elizabeth Beardsley 1866 - 6 Oct 1938 #18439 aged 72 born at Belpey
3. Joseph Beardsley 1869 born at Belpey not on ship
4. Samuel Beardsley 1871 born at Belpey wed Sarah Bouchier
5. William Beardsley 1871 born at Belpey (on ship)
6. Annie Beardsley 1874 #4878
7. Pihiair Beardsley 1876 #11710
8. James Joseph Beardsley 1878 #18557
9. John Isaac Beardsley 1881 #25698 - 1921 #6302 aged 36
10. Mary Jane Beardsley 1884 #5075

2. Elizabeth Beardsley 1866 - 1938 #18439 aged 72, wed 1888 #4547 to William Edward Fitch 1860 #9516 - 1942 #23449 aged 80, lived at Rochester, Bairnsdale and Kyabram, 8 children

4. Samuel Beardsley 1871 wed 1900 #612 to Sarah Bouchier - marriage indexed as 'Lamb Beardsley' born in ENG

5 children

1. Westley Beardsley 1901 #15138
2. Hilda May Beardsley 1903 #29373
3. Saml Jas Beardsley 1905 #14357
4. Evelyn Mary Beardsley 1907 #14848
5. Annie Lillian Beardsley 1917 #2700

5. Annie Beardsley 1874 #4878 - 1948 #21760 aged 75, wed 1899 #509 to Fredk Howard Faulkner 1874 #1657 born at Collingwood

3 children

1. Effie Gwendoline Faulkner 1901 #23294 - 1971 #13184 aged 70 wed Stevenson
2. Violet May Faulkner 1903 #14415
3. Flora Mavis Faulkner 1911 #7689 lived 8 years

4. Pihiair (Peyhairia) Beardsley 1876 #11710 - 1956 #206 aged 79 wed 1898 #5759 to Alex Bourchier 1866 #7701 born at Bullerook, and lived at Murtoa then at Kyabram, 12 children

7. James Joseph Beardsley 1878 #18557 went to New Zealand and wed Jean Davidson - see their page

8. John Isaac Beardsley 1881 #25698 - 1921 #6302 aged 36 wed 1907 #2338 to Mary Flor Fitch 1888 #4178 - 1934 #4488 aged 46, and lived at Kyabram

3 children

1. George John Edward Beardsley 1909 #28597 - 1965 #7600 aged 54
2. Ivy Frances Beardsley 1912 #21751
3. Mary Flor Beardsley 1918 #18860

9. Mary Jane Beardsley 1884 #5075 wed 1903 #1003 to Otto Sander Durham 1877 #15708, and lived at Buln Buln, then at Warragul

7 children

1. Dorothy Isabel Durham 1904 #1254 - 1978 #13590 aged 73 wed Briggs
2. Annie Gwendoline Durham 1904 #1255
3. Edna Majorie Durham 1905 #24118
4. Audrey Juer Durham 1908 #25083
5. Thelma Jean Durham 1913 #27035
6. Ilma Mary Durham 1917 #25223
7. Gerard Allan Durham 1920 #8020

Bell

John Bell came from Cumberlandshire, wed 1867 #4304 to Margaret Izatt
ship Shackamaxon, 1090 tons, Captain West, from Liverpool, 4th October 1852, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 19th January 1853 2nd ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1853 ; ninteen births and sixty-four deaths on the passage, Dr. Edward D. Allison, surgeon-superintendent. The American ship Shackamaxon, sailed from Liverpool with almost 700 passengers. 61 passengers, mostly children, died from Scarlet Fever on the passage.
included William Izatt 38, Miner from Clackmannanshire, Margaret Izatt 36, David Izatt 13, William Izatt 11, John Izatt 5, Margaret Izatt 3, Mary Izatt inf all survived the voyage, 2 children born in Melbourne both died as infants

4 children

1. Mary Bell 1868 #23896 - - 1958 #24070 aged 89
2. William Izatt Bell 1870 #23700
3. John Bell 1872 #19529
4. Arthur Henry Bell 1875 #12787 lived 12 days

1. Mary Bell 1868 #23896 - - 1958 #24070 aged 89, wed 1893 #5677 at Whipstick to Edward Arthur Woodward Twigg 1865 #25632 - 1942 #23594 aged 76, 6 children

Boyd

William Boyd and Sarah Jones came c1854 from Staffordshire and lived at Creswick

7 Children

1. Wm Boyd 1855 #1588 - 1877 #3147 aged 21
2. James Boyd 1857 #6378
3. Mary Boyd 1859 #19592
4. John Boyd 1862 #5125
5. Samuel Boyd 1863 #23086
6. Joseph Boyd 1863 #23087
7. Sarah Boyd 1867 #11276

2. James Boyd 1857 #6378 wed 1879 #2601 to Elizabeth Wootton from Staffordshire, and lived at Ballarat

4 Children

1. Elizth Boyd 1880 #5663
2. Sarah Boyd 1881 #26853
3. William Boyd 1883 #21127
4. Mary Boyd 1884 - 1954 #23612 aged 70

Mary Boyd 1884 - 1954 #23612 aged 70, wed 1908 #7018 to James Edgar Frusher 1886 #30469 - 1961 #8818 aged 75, both died at Rainbow, 2 children

3. Mary Boyd 1859 #19592 wed 1884 #4644 to Hugh Boyd, who appears to be Hugh Boyd 1858 #12332 only surviving child of Catherine McLean and John Boyd born at Meredith, no children to 1888

4. John Boyd 1862 #5125 wed 1883 #6152 to Elizabeth Robson 1863 #17754 (only child born in Victoria) of Catherine Lansdon and Charles Robson born at Koroit, and lived at Minyip

3 Children

1. Catherine Boyd 1884 #26334 lived 3 months
2. John Hugh Boyd 1885 #27392
3. Grace Boyd 1888 #5035

Bulmer

John Bulmer Christening: 22 AUG 1831 son of Isabella Bulmer and William Bulmer at Houghton Le Spring, Durham, England John Bulmer was born 30 June 1833 at Monkwearmouth in Durham. He was one of the two who set up the Aboriginal mission at Yelta, in north west Victoria at the confluxion of the Murray and Darling Rivers.
Aldo Massalo's book 'Aboriginal Missions in Victoria pub 1970 states that he arrived on the Emigrant 12 Jan 1853, with his employer John Eggars who died during the voyage, leaving Caroline Eggars and her children Elizabeth, John and Margaret.
John married 1858 #246 to Marian Stocks, a school teacher interested in helping the mission school flourish, but she became ill and they retired to Melbourne where she died 1861 #207.

From the now closed Shoal Haven web page on John Bulmer

About The Man Who Began The Aboriginal Mission At Lake Tyers
John Bulmer was born 30 June 1833 at Monkwearmouth in Durham. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to Mr. Eggers, a cabinet maker and joiner, who in 1852 decided to emigrate to the Colony of Victoria. John went with him but on the voyage out Mr. Eggers died, leaving his wife and her five children in John's care. He worked as a carpenter for a time and earned enough to clear his debts and help the Eggers family return to England in 1854.
Freed from his responsibility, John tried mining at Burnt Creek fields near Dunolly, but he had no success at this and returned to Melbourne, where he attended a meeting on his first night at the St Mark's Church Hall in Collingwood. Here he heard Thomas Hill Goodwin speak about a plan to set up a mission station for Aborigines at Yelta on the Murray River, west of what is Mildura today. John, who had been moved by the pitiable state of Aborigines he had seen on the goldfields, offered his services and joined Goodwin in May 1855 and worked with him there for three years. He married in 1856, but his wife died in 1861.
In that year John Bulmer was summoned to Melbourne to discuss setting up an Aboriginal Mission in Gippsland. Two stations were planned, one in South Gippsland and one in East Gippsland. Rev Frederick Hagenauer decided to set up the South Gippsland Station at Ramahyuck near Stratford and Bulmer was to seek a suitable site to the East.
This was to be the beginning of the Lake Tyers Aboriginal Mission.

John Bulmer wed 1862 #1048 to Caroline Blay born in Hobart, and they decided to pioneer a mission to the Aborigines at Lake Tyers, in Eastern Victorian coast. This was well received by the Aboriginal community and became the family's life work. For more details see Yelta Mission,

11 Children

1. William Bulmer 1863 #8795 - 1899 #1358 aged 35
2. John Bulmer 1865 #9484 - 1945 #22213 aged 80
3. Robert Bulmer 1868 #253 - 1944 #21816 aged 77
4. Richard Douglas Bulmer 1870 #215 - 1892 #14871 aged 22
5. Frances Amy Bulmer 1872 #195 - 1940 #11547 aged 67
6. Henry Bulmer 1873 #21565 - 1958 #21606 aged 84
7. Margt May Bulmer 1876 - 1937 #13583 aged 61, wed 1900 #3991 to James Henry Bankim
8. Frank Tyers Bulmer 1878 #23937 - 1963 #20012 aged 84
9. Ethel Caroline Bulmer 1881 #3863 - 1960 #23913 aged 75, wed Davidson
10. Howard Decimus Bulmer 1883 #24513 - 1950 #16464 aged 66
11. Alfred James Bulmer 1886 #27375 lived 14 months

Byars

I think that Jessie Byars is the sister of James Henry Bone, who went to Australia with his newly wed wife, 1854.

William Byars wrote on 6 April 1875 from 43 Pitt St, Glasgow.
Dear Uncle and Aunt. Mother died Sat 27 March 1875 and is buried in the Necropolis with Catherine, who died 12 Oct 1873 aged 26. Greetings from Grandma in Edinburgh, Ann and her husband, Uncle Jim at Berwick, James and Father.

The Scotland 1871 Census reveals the family was
James Byars 49, Head, Coach Smith, born at Mosewell? Dumfries
Jessie Byars 50, wife born at Leith,
Catherine Byars 23, daughter Bookfolder, born at Hamilton, Lanarks
William Byars 21, son Coach Painter, born at Hamilton, Lanarks
James Byars 14, son Message Boy, born in Glascow.

The Scotland 1881 Census for 43 Pitt St, Glascow shows
James Byars, 58, Coachsmith born at Mouswald? Dumf,
Mary, wife, 32
William unwed son, 30, Coachpainter, born at Hamilton, Lanarks

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