Ross Beattie's BATCHELDOR Lineage

1.1.1.3.3    Ann Bachelor (b1827) m. Henry Harris

Ann Bachelor, baptised on 1827 at Cubbington. daughter of labourer JOSEPH BACHELOR, married Henry Harris at Cubbington on 5 November 1849. Henry was a bachelor labourer of full age from Cubbington, son of labourer WILLIAM HARRIS. Children baptised to Henry and Ann were:

• WILLIAM HARRIS (baptised 22 September 1850 at Cubbington),
• HENRY HARRIS (baptised 31 October 1858 at Cubbington),
• ANN HARRIS (baptised 31 October 1858 at Cubbington),
• SYDNEY HARRIS (baptised 6 December 1858 at Cubbington),
• ELIZA HARRIS (baptised 8 June 1862 at Cubbington),
• HARRIET HARRIS (baptised 20 May 1866 at Cubbington) and
• WILLIAM HARRIS (baptised 20 May 1866 at Cubbington).

The 1881 census shews road labourer Joseph (47) and Sarah (50) living at Cubbington, next door to Ann (54) and farm labourer Henry Harris (56, born Hampton Pole, Oxford), with their Cubbington-born sons Henry (22, a labourer) and William (13, a scholar).

Bob Wallis [pers comm. 15jan2004] has Ann's husband as Harry Harris (born 1825), with a child William Harris born 1845 [sic] at Cubbington.

1.1.1.3.4    ♦ John Batcheldor (1829…1889) m. Jane Worrall (1831…1903)

Bachelor sawyer John Batcheldor (born 1829, Cubbington), son of JOSEPH BATCHELOR (1799…1860) and ELIZABETH BOYS (1804…1838) married spinster Jane Worrall on 17 June 1851 at the parish church of Kenilworth. Jane, born 1831, was the daughter of THOMAS WORRALL and MARY HUNT, who had been married on 26 July 1828 at St John's, Coventry.

John Batchelder, 30, emigrated to New South Wales aboard the 1072 ton Abyssinian, departing Plymouth on 22 June 1859 and reaching Sydney on the 20 September after a voyage of eighty nine days. With him were his wife Jane Worrall, 28, and children William, 7, Joseph, 4, and John, 9 months. John and Jane had eleven known children:

• WILLIAM BATCHELDOR (born and baptised 1852 at Cubbington WAR ENG, died 1929 at Oberon NSW AUS; in 1878 married Mary Jane Robinson at Oberon; eleven children),
• HANNAH BATCHELDER (born 1854, died 2 July 1855 [?1854], Cubbington),
• JOSEPH BATCHELOR (born 1855, baptised 29 July 1855, Cubbington, died 1931, Oberon; married Mrs Catherine Hall [née Hogan] (Bathurst, 1881; one son, two daughters); married Ellen Jane Rodwell and fathered of four (possibly five) further children in early 1900s),
• ELIZABETH BATCHELOR (born and baptised 1857, Cubbington; died 11 January 1858),
• JOHN BATCHELOR (born and baptized 1858, Cubbington; died 1937; married Eva Moore Cunyngham near Bathurst NSW in 1883),
• AMBROSE WORRALL BATCHELDOR (born 1861, Fish River Creek NSW; died 1933, Ginkin NSW; married Bridget Harriet Lewis),
• MARY SELINA BATCHELDOR (born 1863, Fish River Creek, died 1939; married William Larnach; nine children),
• WALTER BOYES BATCHELDOR (born 1865 near Oberon; died 18 June 1946, Edith NSW; married Emma Matilda Cunninghame in 1889, Macquarie district [O’Connell] NSW),
• ELI JESSE BATCHELDOR (born 1868, died 22 January 1871 near Oberon),
• ALFRED THOMAS BATCHELDOR (or Arthur T R Batchelor, born 1871, died 1880, near Oberon) and
• (JOHN) AMOS WRIGHT BATCHELDOR (born 1873 at Charley's Hill southwest of Oberon; died 8 August 1958; married Agnes Ellen Lewis at Bowenfells).

Three of these children died young. Hannah died aged 1 year on 2 July [June] 1854 and was buried at Cubbington on 5 June, while Elizabeth died aged 3 months on 8 January 1858 and was buried on 11 January at Cubbington. Eli was lost in a swamp near his house near Oberon on 22 January 1871, when as an infant he wandered off to find his brother Johnny who was fencing.

John Batcheldor, farmer aged 59 years, died at Ginkin, south of Oberon, on 23 February 1889. His wife Jane, aged 71 years, postmistress of Ginkin, died there on 11 June 1903.

1.1.1.3.4.1 ? William Batcheldor (1852…1929) m. Mary Jane Robinson (1854…1916)

William Batcheldor, born 27 March 1852 and baptised 30 May 1852 at Cubbington, was the son of JOHN BATCHELOR (1829…1889) and JANE WORRALL (1831…1903). When seven years old he emigrated with his parents and two younger brothers, three year old Joseph and infant John, aboard the Abyssinia, arriving in Sydney on 20 September 1859. The family quickly moved across the Blue Mountains west of Sydney to settle at Oberon, near where William's uncle James was already resident.

On 21 November 1878 at Duckmaloi, about 10km northeast of Oberon, bachelor farmer William Batcheldor married at her parents' home Mary Jane Robinson, spinster residing at Duckmaloi east of Oberon. Mary Jane, born en voyage aboard the 583 ton London registered Lady Kennaway circa August 1854, was the second-born of emigrants JOHN ROBINSON and his wife PHOEBE WILLIAMS(ON). Her elder sister Sarah Robinson died on the Lady Kennaway, an infant.William and Mary Jane Batcheldor had eleven children:

• ETHEL MAY BATCHELDOR (born 1879, died 1903; never married),
• ELIZABETH JANE BATCHELDOR (born 1881, died 1970; married Cam Whalan),
• SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR (known as Elizabeth Sarah Batcheldor) (born 1882, died 1964; married Allan Robertson in 1909 at Edith near Oberon),
• EMILY SUSANNA BATCHELDOR (born 1883, died 1970 [per Robinson FRGxxxx; had 1964]; married Thomas V Kelly near Oberon, 1910),
• PHOEBE LOIS BATCHELDOR (born 1885, died 1966; married Alfred Charles Whalan),
• WILLIAM JOHN BATCHELDOR ("Jack", born 1887 near Oberon, died 1941),
• ROSA MARY BATCHELDOR (born 25 October 1888, "Spring Hill", Oberon, died 1921, Molong NSW; married George Roland Bailey Beattie),
• SIDNEY THOMAS BATCHELDOR (born 1890, died 1969; married Amelia Armstrong ("Millie"), 1918 near Oberon),
• ADA ELLEN BATCHELDOR (born 1892, died 1925; married Hubert S Holley, Oberon 1915),
• MABEL SELINA BATCHELDOR (born 1894, died 1969; married Lancelot W Hawken at Oberon, 1917) and
• ERNEST OSWALD BATCHELDOR (born 1896, died 1969; married Violet Elizabeth Josephine Callaghan at Oberon in 1945; three children).

In addition, William and Mary Jane raised as their own child the surviving natural twin of their daughter Elizabeth Jane,

• EUNA VICTORIA BATCHELDOR (born 1900, died 1936; married Joseph Hawken, brother of Lancelot Hawken above).

The death of Mary Jane Batcheldor née Robinson was registered at Oberon in 1916. William Batcheldor died 22 May 1929 at Oberon.
An obituary notice for E O Batcheldor stated that 'the deceased's mother was Miss Mary Jane Robinson of Upper Back Creek, Oberon, and later of the Shooters Hill Road property "Bracondale"'.

1.1.1.3.4.1.1 Ethel May Batcheldor (1879…1903)

Ethel May Bacheldor, was the first of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Born 23 November 1879, she died at Oberon on 31 August 1903, of appendicitis. Ethel never married.

1.1.1.3.4.1.2 Elizabeth Jane Batcheldor (1881…1970) m. Cam Whalan (1875…1945)

Elizabeth Jane Bacheldor, born 13 January 1881, was the second of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Eliza Jane was the natural mother of twins:

• EUNA VICTORIA BATCHELDOR (born 1900, died 1936; raised as the child of Eliza Jane's parents, William and Mary Jane) and
• CECIL BATCHELDOR (stillborn, 1900 [June Arnold, Euna's youngest daughter, believed that this child was female]).

Eliza married Cam Whalan at Oberon in 1918. Cam, born near Hartley in 1875, was the son of CAMPBELL JOSEPH WHALAN and his wife MATILDA JANE née WHALAN. The union of Cam and Eliza Jane produced no issue.

The death of Cam Whalan was registered at Gosford NSW in 1943. Eliza Jane Whalan née Batcheldor died in 1970.

1.1.1.3.4.1.2.1 Euna Victoria Batcheldor (1900…1936) m. Joseph R Hawken (1898…)

Euna Victoria Bacheldor, born 31 October 1900, was the surviving twin born to ELIZABETH JANE BATCHELDOR. Euna was raised by her maternal grandparents, William and Mary Jane Batcheldor, as their own, and in 1920 married Joseph R Hawken at Oberon. Joseph, born near Oberon in 1898, was the son of WALTER J HAWKEN and his wife EMILY FITZPATRICK (who had married at Oberon in 1893); his older brother Lance married Mabel Selina Batcheldor, a daughter of William and Mary Jane Batcheldor. Euna bore Joseph five children [these details as yet unsubstantiated]:

• WINIFRED HAWKEN (died ?burnt?; ??Winifred Ethel Hawken married Herjan Alfred Barrett at Lithgow in 1938),
• HAROLD JOHN HAWKEN (married; lived at Lithgow in 1997),
• CLARENCE HUBERT HAWKEN (ill with cancer, 1997),
• MALCOLM WALTER HAWKEN (deceased by 1997; married Val Long) and
• ADA JUNE HAWKEN (June Arnold, living at 12 Buckleys Crescent, Oberon in 1997)

Euna Victoria Hawken née Batcheldor died on 29 September 1936; her death was registered at Bathurst; her grandparents were listed as her parents.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3 Sarah Elizabeth Batcheldor (1882…1964) m. Allan Robertson (1878…1941)

Sarah Elizabeth Bacheldor, born 3 August 1882, was the third of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Sarah married shearer and grazier Allan Robertson on 31 March 1909 in the Methodist Church at Edith near Oberon. Allan, born 8 April 1878 at Charter's Creek near Taralga, was the son of NEIL ROBERTSON (born Isle of Skye, died 1918 at Taralga NSW, a grazier) and his wife MARY McLEAN. Sarah and Allan were regarded as good parents; raising eleven of their twelve children at "Bonnie Hill" Taralga:

• HAMILTON ALLISTON ROBERTSON (born 6 January 1910 at Taralga; married Mary Eliza Evangeline McKenzie (marriage registered at Goulburn in 1937); two children),
• KENNETH NEIL ROBERTSON (born 8 August 1911 at Taralga; married Bertha Constance McKenzie at Taralga in 1938, two children),
• JEAN ISABEL(LE) ROBERTSON (born 23 September 1912 at Taralga; married William L Skelly in 1935 at Crookwell NSW, eight children),
• BARBARA ELLEN ROBERTSON (born 1914 at Taralga, died on 11 June 1999 at Heidelberg, Melbourne; lived at Kingsbury VIC in 1997; married Robert William Cranfield at Coburg VIC in 1951, two children),
• GWENDA MARY ROBERTSON (born 5 October 1916; married Hector Cramp in Sydney, one child),
• twins COLIN ALLAN ROBERTSON (born 27 January 1919, died 15 November 1996; married Ada Mary Blay at Goulburn NSW, five children including son Graham)
• and MARIAN ADA ROBERTSON (born 27 January 1919; married Harold Cox at Coburg, six children),
• SOPHIA MCLEAN ROBERTSON (born 1921; married Michael Dennis Inman in Sydney, two children; later married Ted O'Connor, three children),
• MURIAL ELSIE ROBERTSON (born 1924; married Richard Metcalfe in Sydney, two children),
• DONALD NORMAN ROBERTSON (born 1926; never married),
• CLAUDE JOHN ROBERTSON (born 1928, died as an infant (possibly malnourished)) and
• GLADYS SHIRLEY ROBERTSON (born 1931 at Goulburn; married John Freeman at ?Griffith NSW, two children).

[Apparently un-related was the child Allan W Robertson, born circa 1918 near Nowra NSW; whose parents were registered as Allan and Sarah.]

Allan Robertson, who suffered from rheumatism and a shearer's bad back in his later years, died 3 August 1941 at Taralga. Thin statured Sarah Elizabeth Robertson née Batcheldor died at Crookwell District Hospital on 3 October 1964.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3.1 Hamilton Alliston Robertson (1910…) m. Mary Eliza Evangeline McKenzie (1911…)

Hamilton Alliston Robertson, born 6 January 1910 at Taralga NSW, was first of twelve children of the marriage of SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR and ALLAN ROBERTSON. He married Mary Eliza Evangeline McKenzie in 1937. Mary, born in 1911, was third of six children of ARCHIBALD McKENZIE and ELIZA M HOWARTH, whose marriage had been registered in Crookwell in 1906. Mary's siblings were John A McKenzie (born Taralga, 1907), Ruby T McKenzie (Taralga, 1908), Ivy V McKenzie (Taralga, 1909), Percy W McKenzie (Goulburn, 1913), Bertha Constance McKenzie ("Constance", Goulburn, 1914) and Harold M McKenzie (Goulburn, 1916). Constance was to marry Hamilton's younger brother Kenneth in 1938.

Mary's birth and marriage were registered in Goulburn. She and Hamilton had two children.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3.2 Kennith Neil Robertson (1911…) m. Bertha Constance McKenzie (1914…)

Kennith Neil Robertson, born 8 August 1911 at Taralga NSW, was the second of twelve children of the marriage of SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR and ALLAN ROBERTSON. He married Bertha Constance McKenzie [Constance] at Taralga in 1938. Constance, born in 1914, was the daughter of ARCHIBALD and ELIZA M McKENZIE [for siblings, see above]. Kenneth and Constance had two children.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3.3 Jean Isabelle Robertson (1913…1964) m. William Lesley Skelly (1903…1995)

Jean Isabelle Robertson, born 23 September 1912 at Taralga NSW, was third of twelve children of the marriage of SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR and ALLAN ROBERTSON. Jean married wool-classer William Lesley Skelly on 15 May 1935. William, born at "Redgound" Laggan (near Crookwell NSW) on 9 April 1903, was the youngest of ten children of FRANCIS SKELLY and BRIDGET A McCORMACK (married at or near Crookwell in 1885).

William and Jean had a family of eight children (the first seven born at Crookwell):

• LILIAN DALE SKELLY (born 1936; married Patrick Vaughan at Goulburn on 11 June 1955; four children),
• SYLVIA DAWN SKELLY (born 1937; married Brian Walker at Goulburn on 27 October 1962; no issue),
• LESLEY ANN SKELLY (born 1939; married James Marshall-Brown at Goulburn on 6 June 1964; no issue),
• COLLEEN MARY SKELLY (born 1941; married Kevin Corby; no issue),
• WILLIAM BERTRAM SKELLY (born 1942; married Virginia King at Goulburn on 16 April 1966; three children),
• BARRY ALLAN SKELLY (born 1945; married Kay McAlister, Goulburn, 30 December 1966; two children),
• WAYNE JOSEPH SKELLY (born 1948; married Marjolein Tjerks at Canberra, 20 June 1970; three children) and
• DANnée MAREE SKELLY (born 1956 at Goulburn).

William and Jean lived most of their lives at 23 Evans Street, Goulburn: he was of medium height and described as a family man, she was tall, attractive and homely, engaged in home duties. Jean died on 25 February 1964 at Windsor NSW. William died on 2 August 1995 at the St John of God Hospital in Goulburn.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3.4 Barbara Ellen Robertson (1914…1999) m. Robert William Cranfield (1910…1986)

Barbara Ellen Robertson, born 19 December 1914 at Taralga NSW, was fourth of twelve children of the marriage of SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR and ALLAN ROBERTSON. Barbara married Robert William Cranfield at Coburg VIC on 29 September 1951. Robert, born at Bathurst on 9 August 1910, was one of two sons of Gingkin grazier WALTER WILLIAM CRANFIELD by his wife MARGARET ADA WHALAN (born at Oberon in 1879, the daughter of John Campbell Whalan and Selina Maria Bailey, lived at Oberon and Gingkin most of her life, died at Coburg on 26 November 1957; two sons).
Barbara, a nursing sister, and Robert, a grazier, raised two sons:

• ROBERT GARRY CRANFIELD (born 1952 at Coburg) and
• MARK ALLAN CRANFIELD (born 1958; married Catherine Mastwyk on 21 March 1981 at Coburg, three children).

Robert William Cranfield died on 4 February 1985/6, and was buried at Preston in Melbourne VIC. In 1997 Barbara Cranfield lived at 18 Eagle Avenue, Kingsbury VIC; with dignity and a sound mind she passed away on 11 June 1999 at the Austin Repatriation Medical Centre, Heidelberg, Melbourne, three weeks after a stroke.

1.1.1.3.4.1.3.5 Colin Allan Robertson (1919…1996) m. Ada Mary Blay (1923…)

Colin Allan Robertson, twin born 1919 at "Redbank", Taralga NSW, was the sixth [or seventh!] of twelve children of the marriage of SARAH ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR and ALLAN ROBERTSON. Colin married Ada Mary Blay (Mary) at St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Goulburn NSW on 16 March 1946.
Mary, born 1923, was the daughter of dairyman farmer HAROLD ANGUS BLAY and MARY CORA CLARICE WHIPP (Cora), who had married on 17 July 1918 and lived at "Myrtleville" near Taralga. Harold, born 20 May 1896, was the son of literate farmer Charles Harmony Blay (born 4 September 1855 at Kiama NSW, died 27 August 1924 at "Myrtleville" Taralga) and literate housewife Jessie Alders (born 21 September 1855 at Bannaby, died 28 August 1950 at "Myrtleville") who had married at St Luke's Church of England, Taralga, on 12 March 1877. Harold, a farmer and dairyman and remembered as a show-off, died 27 July 1964. His wife Cora was born 2 February 1895, the daughter of George Robert Whipp (born 1868, died 21 May 1932; a thin, literate farmer who lived at Crosses Station, Bannaby) and Rose Jane Elliott (born 1870, died 17 March 1938; a large, literate woman who liked to laugh as she rocked her grandchildren in her skirt; lived at Newfoundland, Bannaby); George and Rose had married in 1891 at Bungendore NSW. Cora, a tall, thin and quiet housewife and possibly a shearer's cook, died 23 December 1979.

Mary had six siblings: Lalia Letitia Blay ("Lettie"), born 18 July 1919 (married Raymond Gordon; two children), Sylvia Rose Blay ("Rose"), born 1920 (married Jack Handley at St Luke's Church of England, Taralga; eight children), Ella Beatrice Blay ("Beat"), born 1925 (married Hugh Peden at St Andrew's Church of England, Goulburn; five children), Una Grace Blay ("Pat"), born 1927 (married Dick Wood at St Luke's Church of England, Goulburn; five children), Esma Jessie Blay ("Es"), born 1929 (married John Craig at St Andrew's, Goulburn; six children) and Charles Harmony George Blay ("Bobby"), born 1939 (married Patricia Chapman at North Goulburn Catholic Church; five children [two deceased]).

Mary bore Colin five children:

• ALLAN BERNARD ROBERTSON (born 1946 at home ["Brighthill"]; married Denise Mary Kitchen at the Church of England in Crookwell NSW on 27 July 1968; three children [two deceased]),
• GRAHAM WAYNE ROBERTSON (born 1947 at St Guthrie's Hospital, Goulburn; married Dawn Patricia Kitchen at the Church of England in Crookwell on 25 September 1971; four children),
• LYNETTE BARBARA ROBERTSON (born 1950 at Goulburn; married Anthony Clement Hain at the Church of England Taralga on 22 March 1969; two children),
• KARYN DENICE ROBERTSON (born 1959 at home in Taralga; married Neil John Bennett at the Anglican Church Taralga on 27 February 1988; three children and one stepson) and
• LEON COLIN ROBERTSON (born 1964 at Goulburn Base Hospital; married Ruth Frances Duesbury at the St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Taralga, on 6 January 1990; two children).

Colin Allan Robertson, shearer, baker and farmer, died at Goulburn Base Hospital on 15 November 1996, and was buried at Stonequarry, Taralga on the 19th November.

1.1.1.3.4.1.4 Emily Susanna Batcheldor (1883…1970) m. Thomas V Kelly (…)

Emily Susanna Bacheldor, born 13 October 1883, was the fourth of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Emily married Thomas V Kelly at Oberon in 1910. Their children included:

• JOHN V KELLY (Jack) (born 1910 near Orange NSW) and
• LEONARD T KELLY (born 1913 near Molong NSW).

Emily Kelly née Batcheldor died in 12 May 1970, surviving her husband by many years.

1.1.1.3.4.1.5 Phoebe Lois Batcheldor (1885…1966) m. Alfred Charles Whalan (1872…1952)

Phoebe Lois Bacheldor, aged 22, of Edith, married Alfred Charles Whalan, aged 35, of Edith, on 25 March 1908. Phoebe, born 4 May 1885, was the fifth of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON, and an elder sister of Rosa Mary Batcheldor who married George Roland Bailey Beattie. Alfred, born 9 November 1872, was a son of Edith farmer JOHN CAMPBELL WHALAN (born 2 September 1842, died 1914) and SELINA MARIA BAILEY (born 1848, died at Edith in 1934).
Children of Alfred and Phoebe (all events registered at Oberon NSW except as indicated) included:

• RONALD JOHN WHALAN (born 1908, died 1950; married Edna Sylvia Haslop in 1934, three children),
• LEILA ADA WHALAN (born 15 April 1910, died 1970; married Harold Norman Dolbel in 1940 at Cowra, two children),
• FLORENCE MABEL WHALAN (born 15 November 1911, died 1991; married Jasper Augustus Haslop in 1935, four children),
• ALLAN ALFRED WHALAN (born 14 October 1913, died 10 August 1915),
• HAZEL SELINA WHALAN (born 13 March 1917, ?Molong NSW, died 1979; married Edward Verner Haslop in 1938, six children; married J Mulchay, no issue),
• LLOYD GEORGE WHALAN (born 15 March 1919; married Jean Margaret Duncan in early 1950s, three children, resided at "Donny Brook", Edith) and
• STANLEY WILLIAM WHALAN (born 4 March 1922, died 25 August 1925).

Alfred, aged 80 years, died at Oberon on 24 December 1952 and was buried next day. Phoebe, aged 81, was buried next to her husband on 28 September 1966. For further details of the Whalan family including families of Ronald and Lloyd, refer to the Bailey file.

1.1.1.3.4.1.6 William John ("Jack") Batcheldor (1887…1941) m. Ruby Dorinda Batcheldor (1897…1946)

William John Bacheldor ("Jack"), born 14 January 1887 at Oberon, was the sixth of eleven children, and eldest son, of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. At Oberon on 13 June 1923, Jack married his cousin Ruby Dorinda Batchelor, one of a set of twins born on 30 October 1897 to JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife EVA MOORE CUNYNGHAM. Ruby and Jack raised four children:

• DORINDA EVA BATCHELDOR (Dora, born 1924; married Milson; in 1997 living at Mt Druitt in Sydney's west),
• NEVILLE JOHN BATCHELDOR (born 1928 in Sydney [or Oberon]; married Evelyn June Milton at Newtown in 1950, two children; living at Sutherland in 1997),
• LEONARD MOORE BATCHELDOR (born 1932 at Concord West, Sydney, died circa October 1995; never married) and
• KEVIN JAMES BATCHELDOR (born 1937 at Auburn, Sydney; married Fay Elsie Turner at Parramatta in 1958, three children; living at Sutherland in 1997).

William John Batcheldor died on 18 April 1941, killed by a train [believed to have been a shunting accident at Ashfield]. His death was registered at Newtown.
Ruby subsequently married Ferdinald Howarth; they had no issue. Ruby Dorinda Howarth, formerly Batcheldor, née Batcheldor, died 2 May 1946.

1.1.1.3.4.1.7 ♦ Rosa Mary Batcheldor (1888…1921) m. George Roland Bailey Beatty (1885…1971)

Rosa Mary Batcheldor was born on 25 October 1888 at "Spring Hill" near Oberon NSW, the daughter of WILLIAM BATCHELDOR and his wife MARY JANE ROBINSON. Rosa married George Roland Bailey Beattie on 27 December 1913 at Bexley NSW. George, born on the 3 March 1885 at Oberon, was the son of ANDREW McGREGOR BEATTIE and MATILDA BAILEY. Three children were born to this marriage:

• THORA DOROTHY BEATTIE (born 23 November 1914 at Blayney, died 1991 at Orange; married first Ellis Burridge Cantrill (five children); later married Frank Carroll Webb (no issue)),
• RUTH ISOBEL BEATTIE (born 11 March 1916 also at Blayney, died 1992 at Murwillumbah; married Francis Cooke (four children)) and
• GEORGE ANDREW BEATTIE (born 26 September 1918 at Molong, died 24 November 1996 at Oberon; married Joan Marion Crockford (four children)).

Rosa died on 1 June 1921 at Molong; she was interred at Oberon. Shortly after her death, the family moved to Cudal. George subsequently married about 1923 to Dorothy Amy Ann Wilson (not related to the Oberon Wilsons): there were no children to this marriage. Dorothy, related to Robert Louis Stevenson, died about 1954. George died at Leura on 25 August 1971. [For further details on this family, refer to the Beattie file].

1.1.1.3.4.1.8 Sidney Thomas Batcheldor (1890…1969) m. Amelia Armstrong (1894…)

Sidney Thomas Bacheldor, born 21 November 1890, was the eighth of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Sidney married Amelia Armstrong ("Millie") at Oberon in 1918. Amelia was born near Oberon in 1894, the child of GEORGE A ARMSTRONG and his wife EMMA E [a George Armstrong and Emma Campbell were married near Bathurst in 1880; a George Alexander Armstrong, son of Robert and (Wilson) died at Oberon in 1941]. Millie bore Sidney two daughters:

• VERA BATCHELDOR (deceased by 1997; married Ray Morgan (living at Lithgow in 1997)) and
• LEILA BATCHELDOR (married Frank Hodel; lived at Sylvania Heights in 1997; children Kevin (married) and Sandra (un-married)).

Millie had brothers named Ted and Jim; a Bert Armstrong was Millie's brother or father. Sidney Thomas Batcheldor died in 1969.

1.1.1.3.4.1.9 Ada Ellen Batcheldor (1892…1925) m. Hubert Sylvester Holley (…)

Ada Ellen Bacheldor, born 8 July 1892, was the ninth of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Ada married Hubert S Holley at Oberon in 1915. The couple had two sons:

• COLIN S HOLLEY (born 1917 near Parkes NSW) and
• RAY HOLLEY.

Following the death of Ada Ellen Holley née Batcheldor on 12 January 1925, Hubert remarried in Sydney in 1939, his second wife Fanny Evelyn Pryor bearing him at least one child:

• JOHN HOLLEY.

In 1997 John was living at Lauriton on the NSW mid-north coast.

1.1.1.3.4.1.10 Mabel Selina Batcheldor (1894…1969) m. Lancelot W Hawken (1897…1946)

Mabel Selina Bacheldor, born in 16 May 1894, was the eighth of eleven children of WILLIAM BACHELDOR and MARY JANE ROBINSON. Mabel married Lancelot W Hawken at Oberon in 1917. Lance, born near Oberon in 1897, was the son of WALTER J HAWKEN and his wife EMILY FITZPATRICK of Oberon; his younger brother Joseph married Euna Victoria Batcheldor who had been raised as Mabel's younger sister. Lance had at least eight siblings (including Joseph). Mabel bore Lance three children:

• NORMAN L HAWKEN (born 1918 near Forbes NSW, still living in 1997),
• RAY HAWKEN (deceased by 1997) and
• KEVIN HAWKEN (still living in 1997).

Lance worked almost his entire adult life at Horace Cunynghame's produce store in Oberon (later operated by Horace's son Ray). Lance died on 23 May 1946. Mabel Selina Hawken née Batcheldor died on 12 July 1969.

1.1.1.3.4.1.11 Ernest Oswald Batcheldor (1896…1969) m. Violet Elizabeth Josephine Callaghan (1896…1942)

Ernest Oswald Batcheldor, youngest of eleven children born to WILLIAM BATCHELDOR and his wife MARY JANE ROBINSON, was born on 7 June 1896 (?or 1895). He married Violet Elizabeth Josephine Callaghan at Stroud NSW on 16 December 1919. Violet, born in 1896 at Nyngan NSW, was the daughter of son of Edith school-teacher JOHN CALLAGHAN and his wife ANNIE ELIZA MAY PEARCE ("May"). John had come to the Edith school from Dunéedo NSW, apparently to re-establish some control over some fairly unruly lads in the school. Ernest and Violet raised three children:

• OSWALD JOHN BATCHELDOR ("Ossie", born 1920 at Edith; married Grace Mary Whittaker),
• THELMA VIOLET MAY BATCHELDOR (born 1922 at Edith; married Richard ("Dick") Young, two children) and
• IDA PEARL BATCHELDOR (born 1925 at Edith; married Richard ("Dick") Simmons).

Ernest was a farmer and grazier, operating "Spring Hill" at Edith. He was tall and very handsome, with a great sense of humour. He was a keen sportsman, loving cricket, tennis and horse-races.

Violet Elizabeth Josephine Batcheldor née Callaghan died in January 1942. Ernest Oswald Batcheldor died 15 February 1969.

1.1.1.3.4.1.11.1 Oswald John Batcheldor (1920…) m. Grace Mary Whittaker (1928…)

Oswald John Batcheldor ("Ossie"), son of ERNEST OSWALD BATCHELDOR and his wife VIOLET ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE CALLAGHAN, was born on 1920; on 6 April 1944 at Oberon he married Grace Mary Whittaker, born 1928. Grace, born and baptised at Foley's Creek near Oberon, was the daughter of LEONARD WITTAKER (farmer of Oberon, born circa 1885 at "Essington" between Oberon and Rockley, died 1968) and ELIZABETH GIBBONS (born 1898, died 1969, Oberon).
Ossie lived at Edith and Jenolan Caves before moving to Penrith and Emu Plains. He worked as a security guard. He and Grace had two children:

• KEVIN JOHN BATCHELDOR (born 19 October 1945 at Oberon; married Francis Rae Gava on 1 June 1967, in 1997 living in Queensland; four children) and
• CAROLYN GRACE BATCHELDOR (born 1 November 1949 at Oberon; married Peter Kitley on 22 August 1969 at Penrith, four children (including a set of twins)).

1.1.1.3.4.1.11.2 Thelma Violet May Batcheldor (1922…) m. Richard Percival Young (1917…2003)

Thelma Violet May Batcheldor, daughter of ERNEST OSWALD BATCHELDOR and his wife VIOLET ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE CALLAGHAN, born 1922 at Oberon, married Richard Percival Young ("Dick") on 12 June 1948 at Lithgow NSW. Dick, born at Lithgow in 1917, was one of six children of VINCENT HENRY YOUNG (born 23 August 1895(?), Stanthorpe QLD) and MAY CATHERINE WILLIAMS (Mae) (born 3 November 1890(?) at Emmaville QLD). Mae, who had lived at Tildsley and Lithgow, was remembered as a soft, docile and lovable lady and great giver; she died at Lithgow on 3 November 1969. Vincent, a coal miner at Lithgow, regarded as a fine and highly moral fellow, died at Lithgow in July 1978. Thelma and Dick had two children:

• ERNEST WILLIAM YOUNG (born 1949; in 1981 married Cathy Stillwell; two children) and
• ROSALYN MAY YOUNG (born 1955; in 1982 married John Howard, five sons; in 1997 lived at 20 Illingworth Street, Wannassia, Canberra).

Thelma and Dick lived and farmed at Edith and later also at "Grand View" Oberon, winning Farmer of the Year several times, with two trips to New Zealand as a result. Their primary lambs constantly won prizes at the Oberon and Bathurst Shows. Dick, a kind, honest well-regarded man and hard worker, had enjoyed and excelled at cycling. Thelma, a hard worker and great sportswoman, showed strong determination and kindness. She was Oberon's district champion pea-picker several times. A fortnight before his fiftieth wedding anniversary Dick was in hospital with a lung infection and some cardiac problems. Dick Young died on 21 November 2003. The Western Advocate published this obituary in 2004:

Edith community loses honourable, loving friend
THE death has occurred of well-known Edith lamb producer Richard Percival (Dick) Young.
The late Mr Young passed away peacefully with his loved ones around him in Bathurst hospital on November 21.
He would have been 87 on February 9.
Dick Young, who was born in 1917, was the second son of Vincent Henry and Catherine (May) Young and was born in Lithgow.
His older brother, Ted, owned and worked the Caltex garage in Cullen Bullen for many years.
Mr Young's other brothers were Charlie (deceased), from Wollongong, and Vinnie and Eric, who have both lived their lives in Lithgow.
His sister, Doris, now lives at Daley's Point on the Central Coast.
From an early age the elder two boys worked in the coal mines at Lithgow in the time when pit ponies were used to pull the skips full of coal out of the mines.
It was hard work but Dick, who was never known to complain about conditions, endured the work to help make ends meet for his family.
He was around 14 years of age when he raced bikes at Gosford, around the era of Hubert Opperman.
Mr Young has a trophy from his bike racing days … a race from Lithgow to Bathurst.
He was also a keen tennis player and loved dancing.
After the war he went with a mate to pick peas around the Oberon district and cheekily told his mother he was "going to marry the world's champion pea picker", who was Thelma Batcheldor.
The couple were married in 1948 and he started rabbit trapping with Thelma's dad, Ernest Batcheldor.
Ern would carry 40 or 50 traps on his shoulders and walk for miles, always remembering where he left his traps. (Mr Young said he had to number his).
They had to use six horses pulling a four-furrowed plough and Mr Young would sit on the back, sowing peas and potatoes by hand.
They were hard times and rest days were few, but much satisfaction was to be gained from those days of toil.
Mr Young also went farming with Bill Hughes, from Ginkin, and both Bill and his wife, Sheila, became life-long friends to Dick and Thelma.
Many people will remember Dick and Thelma for their amazing success with their fat Iambs in many Oberon and Bathurst shows.
They were awarded the 2BS "Bathurst Farmer of the Year" on two separate occasions.
The couple were also successful in growing crops of peas, potatoes and turnips and grazing cattle.
As a team, Thelma and Dick worked many long hours through every season at Edith and forged a great partnership of over 54 years.
They enjoyed their farm work, tennis on a Sunday afternoon at Edith with many friends and Dick went to support Thelma and daughter, May, playing hockey on Saturdays.
The couple also loved watching son, Ernie, play rugby union for Bathurst and the Central West in his prime.
Mr and Mrs Young would often run charity "old time dances" in the Edith Hall which has left an indelible print on the minds of all those fortunate to have attended any of these occasions.
When friends think of Mr Young they will remember his good nature, his great spirit and his happy smile that made all of his family and mates feel glad to be around him.
Family and friends will all sadly miss such an honorable, loving man who enjoyed an admirable life.

1.1.1.3.4.1.11.3 Ida Pearl Batcheldor (1925…) m. Richard Simmons (…)

Ida Pearl Batcheldor, youngest of three children of ERNEST OSWALD BATCHELDOR and his wife VIOLET ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE CALLAGHAN, was born 14 April 1925; she married Richard Simmons ["Dick"; no middle name]. Richard was the son of GEORGE and MARY SIMMONS. they had five children:

• MARLEEN VIOLET SIMMONS (born 1948; married, three children (Robert, Grant and Nicole)),
• KENNETH GEORGE SIMMONS (born 1950; not married),
• ELWYN MARYANN SIMMONS (born 1952; married, three children (Daniel, Damien and Simone)),
• THOMAS RICHARD SIMMONS (born 1955; married, three children (Lurnea, Shanon and Kira)) and
• RICHARD THOMAS SIMMONS (born 1964; not married).

1.1.1.3.4.2 Hannah Batchelder (1854…1855)

Hannah Batchelder, second of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife JANE WORRALL, was born 15 February 1854 and baptised 26 March 1854, Cubbington. Hannah died aged 1 year on 2 July (?)1854 [perhaps this should be 1855] and was buried at Cubbington on 5 June.

1.1.1.3.4.3 Joseph Batchelor (1855…1931) m1. Catherine Hall née Hogan (…); m2. Ellen Jane [Nellie] Ro(a)dwell (c1880…)

Joseph Batchelor, third of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and JANE WORRALL, was born 1 July 1855 and baptised 29 July 1855 at Cubbington). [Joseph was incorrectly stated to be be aged 39 years on 1907 birth certificate of their son Herbert Thomas, but correctly stated as 76 years old on his 1931 death certificate]. Joseph emigrated to New South Wales with his parents and brothers William and John aboard the Abyssinia in 1859.

In 1881 Joseph married Catherine Hall [née Hogan] near Bathurst; the marriage of Catherine and Stephen James Hall had been registered at Bathurst in 1868, with possibly three children resulting (Catherine Hall, parents Stephen and Catherine, registered at Wellington in 1866; unnamed Hall, parents James Stephen and Catherine, registered at Hartley in 1872; and William Robert Hall, parents James Stephen and Catherine, registered at Hartley in 1877).

According to Joseph's death certificate, Joseph and Catherine had three children [order uncertain]:

• JANE BATCHELDOR (born c1874 [per statement by her step-sister Ethel as 57 [?] in 1931]),
• female BATCHELDOR (died pre-1932) and
• male (perhaps JAMIE) BATCHELDOR (died pre-1932).

What became Catherine is uncertain, but Joseph married Nellie [Ellen Jane] Rodwell on 15 February 1895 at Evan's Swamp NSW, according to the 1907 birth certificate of their son Herbert Thomas. The certificate also stated that Joseph Batcheleor [sic] was a 39 year old miner born at Macquarie in England and Nellie a 27 year old born at Wolgan NSW. It seems more likely to this author that Nellie was the daughter of WILLIAM RODWELL and ELIZABETH WOOD who married at Carcoar NSW in 1865, where they registered the births of Martha E Rodwell (1866), George W Rodwell (1867), Agnes Rodwell (1869), William Rodwell (1872), Catherine Jane Rodwell (1873), Sarah Jane Rodwell (1876), John Patrick Rodwell (1878) and Ellen Jane Rodwell (1880) [Nellie]. Evan's Swamp is near Tarana, between Lithgow and Bathurst; Wolgan Valley is northeast of Lithgow, the site of oil-shale mining with Shay locomotive haulage to the Newnes plateau, and some grazing.

Joseph and Nellie raised (at least) four [possibly five] children [not necessarily in the following order]:

• ALBERT LESLIE BATCHELDOR (born 1902 near Blayney NSW; had at least three issue by Christine Lottie Bonham),
• AMOS/AMBROSE BATCHELDOR (birth possibly registered at Moss Vale NSW in 1914; died mid-2001),
• HERBERT THOMAS BATCHELDOR (born 15th April 1907 at Wolgan near Wallerawang, died 1977, NSW; married Irene Margaret Murray at Oberon in 1939; later divorced; one child),
• perhaps REGINALD B BATCHELDOR () and
• ETHEL J BATCHELDOR (born 1910 near Carcoar NSW, living in Queensland in 1977; she married Walter H Ross at Parkes NSW in 1934; one son).

1.1.1.3.4.3.1 Albert Leslie Batcheldor (1902…) and Christine Lottie Bonham

The birth of Albert Leslie Batcheldor was registered at Blayney NSW, he was born 5 September 1902, his mother noted as ELLEN J (remembered by Beatrice Cooke as Helen Joan Roadwell or Rodewell). He lived with Christine Lottie Bonham, and they raised (at least) three children [not necessarily in the following order]:

• BEATRICE BONHAM (eldest daughter; married Cooke),
• SHIRLEY LESLEY BONHAM (as Batcheldor married Kevin Charles Wales in 1954; three children (Richard, Robyn and Michael)),
• NEVILLE JOHN BONHAM (Jack; as Batcheldor married Edna Lincoln circa 1955 at Trangie NSW; after Edna's death, he married Robyn —).

1.1.1.3.4.3.2 Herbert Thomas Batcheldor (c1907…1977) m. Irene Margaret Murray (…1892)

Herbert Thomas Batcheldor of Oberon (born c1907 near Wallerawang, parents noted as JOSEPH and NELLIE; died 1977 aged 69) married Irene Margaret Murray at Oberon in 1939; Irene died 27 September 1982 in Cobar. The only child from the marriage of Herbert and Irene, which ended in divorce, was:

• ELSIE MAY BATCHELDOR (born 1939, alive in 2002; married Charles de Guara; changed her given name to Diane [Terrie Woodhams is a daughter of Elsie]).

According to Herbert's birth certificate Joseph Batcheleor and Nellie Rodwell had married in NSW on 15 February 1895 at Evans Swamp, and Joseph was a miner from Macquarie England aged 39 in 1907 and Nellie, born at Wolgan, was aged 27 in 1907.

1.1.1.3.4.3.3 Ethel J Batcheldor (c1910…) m. Walter Harold Ross (…1892)

The birth of Ethel J Batcheldor was registered at Carcoar NSW in 1910 [#13466], her parents noted as JOSEPH BATCHELDOR and ELLEN J. Ethel married Walter Harold Ross (Harry) at Parkes NSW in 1934; they had one son:

• NOEL BATCHELDOR (killed in a railway level crossing accident near Tottenham in central-western New South Wales, circa 1955/6).

Diane de Guara (née Elsie May Batcheldor, Ethel's neice) thinks that Ellen J was Ethel's daughter (out of wedlock) and was taken in as Herbert's sister. Diane also mentioned (19 June 2002) that Ethel had a daughter, BELLE. Beatrice Cooke (pers comm August 2002) says this is Doreen Thomas, PO Box 27, Lutwyche QLD 4030.

In 1997 Ethel was living in Queensland.

1.1.1.3.4.3.4 Amos Batcheldor (1914…2001)

In 1997, Amos Batcheldor, brother of Albert Leslie and Ethel J, was living at Lithgow. Amos died mid-2001. [The birth of an Amos B Batcheldor was registered at Moss Vale NSW in 1914, his parents noted in the index as THOMAS BATCHELDOR and ELLEN J; this may or may not have been the brother of Albert Leslie and Ethel J].

1.1.1.3.4.4 Elizabeth Batchelor (1857…1858)

Elizabeth Batchelor, fourth of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and JANE WORRALL, was born 10 October 1857and baptised 29 November 1857 at Cubbington. Elizabeth died aged 3 months on 8 January 1858 and was buried on 11 January at Cubbington.

1.1.1.3.4.5 John Batchelor (1858…1937) m. Eva Moore Cunyngham (1865…1945)

John Batchelor, fifth of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife JANE WORRALL, was born 5 November 1858 and baptised 26 December 1858 in Cubbington, immediately before their departure for a new life in New South Wales. It is likely that he was the John Batcheldor who during 1883 in the Macquarie district near Bathurst married Eva Moore Cunyngham, born in 1865 near Hartley, daughter of THOMAS MOORE CUNYNGHAME and his wife MARY ELIZABETH G MUDGE. To John and Eva were born:

• ALFRED OSWALD BATCHELOR (born 1884 near Lithgow, died 1937; ?married Edith),
• JOHN HERBERT BATCHELDOR (Herbert; born 1886 near Oberon; married Irene K Berry in 1912 near Lithgow; two daughters, Grace and Dorothy),
• HAROLD THOMAS BATCHELDOR (born 17 November 1889 near Oberon, died 21 October 1963; married Elsie May Griffiths in 1917 at Helensburgh NSW; three children),
• LESLIE A BATCHELOR (born 1892 near Bathurst; married Elizabeth A Griffith(s) in 1915 at Helensburgh, children Jean and Kenneth),
• twins RUBY DORINDA BATCHELOR (born 1897, died 1946; married cousin William J ("Jack") Batcheldor at Oberon in 1923; four children; widowed, later married Ferdinald Howarth, no issue (see section 3.1.3.4.1.6 on page 30)),
• and REGINALD J BATCHELDOR (born 1897 near Rockley; married Edith E Tindall ("Lizzy") at Lithgow in 1925; children Allan and Jessie) and
• HORACE A BATCHELDOR (born 1903 near Oberon; married Elsie Cocking in Sydney in 1927; son Russell).

John Batcheldor died at Edith on 20 December 1937; Eva Moore Batcheldor née Cunynghame died at Edith on 5 October 1945. John's land passed to his sons John, Amos, Walter, William, Joseph split into smaller holdings (rf www.lpi.nsw.cov.au). For further details of the Cunynghame family refer to the Bailey file.

1.1.1.3.4.5.1 Alfred Oswald Batchelor (1884…1937) m. Edith —

Alfred Oswald Batchelor, first of seven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife EVA MOORE CUNYNGHAME, was born in 1884 near Lithgow. Oswald married Edith ? (was this Ada E Martin, at Oberon on 1913), their union producing two children:

• OSWALD GEORGE BATCHELOR (born 1917 near Rockdale NSW; died 1977) and
• JOYCE BATCHELDOR.

Alfred died on 17 June 1937 at Gingkin near Edith and Oberon, six months before his father.

1.1.1.3.4.5.2 Harold Thomas Batcheldor (1889…1963) m. Elsie May Griffiths (1893…)

Harold Thomas Batcheldor, born 17 November 1889 at Oberon, was the son of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife EVA MOORE CUNYNGHAME. On 3 March 1917, Harold married Elsie May Griffiths, born 10 May 1893 at Wattle Flat NSW, ?eldest child to SAMUEL GRIFFITHS and his wife CATHERINE SHAW (died 7 December 1935). Elsie's siblings were Bertram, John, Walter George, Charles, Frederick, Stanley, William and Elizabeth Griffiths (who married Harold's brother Leslie). Children born to Harold and Elsie were:

• NEVILLE BATCHELDOR (deceased by early 1980s),
• JOHN GRIFFITHS BATCHELDOR (died 1969; daughter Dawn eMailed 6 July 2002) and
• FREDERICK STANLEY BATCHELDOR (born 15 February 1923, living at 37 Roseview Avenue, Punchbowl, Sydney in early 1980s; married Janet Lorraine Geach (born Moss Vale, 1935) on 19 September 1959 at Ashfield, Sydney; one child (Leanne Margaret)).

Harold Thomas Batcheldor died 21 October 1963. Elsie was still living in the early 1980s.

1.1.1.3.4.5.3 John Herbert Batcheldor (1901…) m. Irene Kate Berry (…1938)

John Herbert Batcheldor (Herbert) was born near Oberon in 1886, the son of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife EVA MOORE CUNYNGHAME. 1901. He married Irene K Berry at Lithgow in 1912; they were parents of:

• EDNA GRACE BATCHELDOR (Grace) (born 1915 near Lithgow) and
• DOROTHY E BATCHELDOR (born 1917 near Lithgow; [?Dorothy Eva Catherine who married Oscar Beatie James Cole (born Molong, 1912, son of James and Frances A Cole) at Lithgow in 1938? ]).

The death of Irene Kate Batcheldor, daughter of William and Catherine, was registered at Drummoyne in Sydney in 1938.

1.1.1.3.4.6 Ambrose Worrall Batcheldor (1861…1933) m. Bridget Harriet Lewis (1866…1939)

Ambrose Worrall Batcheldor was born 1 September 1861 at Fish River Creek, son of Warwickshire-born emigrants JOHN BATCHELDOR and JANE WORRALL his wife. The sixth of their eleven children, he was the first born in Australia. In 1886 near Lithgow, Ambrose married Bridget Harriet Lewis; she had been born near Hartley in 1866, the daughter of JOHN FRANCIS LEWIS and his wife MARY EVANS.

[John Frances Lewis (born about 1840 in Dublin IRL) and Mary Evans (born 7 May 1847 and baptised 21 July at Lowther NSW) had married on 26 August 1861 at St Bernards Roman Catholic church, Hartley NSW.Their children were Jane Lewis (born 8 August 1862 at Kanimbla, baptised 25 September 1862), James Morris Lewis (born 29 June 1864 at Little Hartley, baptised 26 September 1864), Bridget, John Lewis (born 1868 at Hartley), Francis Lewis (born 1870 at Hartley), Maurice Lewis (born 1872 at Hartley, died "Morris" at Oberon in 1895), Samuel Lewis (born 1875 at Hartley), Mary Elizabeth Lewis (born 1878 at Hartley), Agnes Ellen Lewis (born 1880 at Lithgow; married Amos Wright Batcheldor [brother of Ambrose]), Annie Victoria Lewis (born 1883 at Hartley) and Fannie May Lewis (born 1885 at Lithgow). John Francis Lewis died on 22 June 1895 at River Bend, Duckmaloi near Oberon. Mary Lewis née Evans died after 1896. [pers comm. Bob Wallis (15jan2004), who notes the Evans line as going back to Evan Evans, a convict transported to Australia for life.]]

Children of Ambrose and Bridget, all born near Oberon, included:

• MARY S BATCHELDOR (born 1887; ?married Herbert E Cole at Sunny Corner NSW, 1906),
• JANE LOIS BATCHELDOR (born 1889 at Charley's Hill, Oberon; after birth lived at Racecourse Creek; died Bathurst 1925; married Arthur Humphries Wilcox at St Barnabas CoE Oberon on 17 January 1906),
• AGNES E BATCHELDOR (born 1891, married John L Simpson near Lithgow, 1910),
• GEORGE ELI BATCHELDOR (born 1893; married Ruby Tonkin at Bathurst in 1922, children Gordon, Bertie and Thomas),
• ANNIE O BARCHELDOR (born 1897 [registered at Katoomba]).
• MAURICE A BARCHELDOR (born 1898 [registered at Katoomba]).
  
• JOHN H BATCHELDOR (born 1901; death [as John H] registered at Rockley in 1902) and
• MARGARET E BATCHELDOR ("Maggie", born 1903; married Mr Bobley; lived at Gulgong in 1973).

The 1915 electoral roll shews Ambrose a farmer aged 54 years and Bridget aged 49 years engaged in home duties, both residents of Edith. Ambrose died on 25 July 1933 at Ginkin near Oberon. Bridget died at Oberon on 6 June 1939. Bob Wallis (15jan2004) considers that Ambrose was probably named after the baronet's son Ambroise C B Cave at Kenilworth where Jane Worrall worked in 1851.

1.1.1.3.4.6.1 Jane Lois Batcheldor (1889…1925) m. Arthur Humphries Wilcox (1872…1929)

• MARY JANE WILCOX (born 1908; died 2 March 1994; married Leslie Morrow at Canowindra in 1930),
• ILA MAY WILCOX (born 1910; lived at "Bilamari", Cowra Road, Canowindra [the same property that Melva Wilcox had in 1915]; died 28 February 1995; married Alexander R Traves at Canowindra in 1931; issue one son and two daughters),
• ARTHUR JAMES WILCOX ["Jim"] (born 1912; lived all his life in the Oberon district; died 1997 at Calare Nursing Home, Orange; never married),
• twins JOHN AMBROSE WILCOX ["Jack"] (born 1914; lived at Canley Vale in Sydney and retired to Lovedale Road, Nulkaba, Cessnock; died 26 December 1986 at Cessnock, buried 31 December 1986 next to his mother at Oberon; married Sylvia D Jones at Orange in 1933; issue Ray Wilcox, another son and Evelyn Wilcox)
• and ELMA WILCOX (born 1914; died 1937; married Terence T Toner at Canowindra in 1931),
• ALENA LOUISE WILCOX ["Teeny"] (born 20 November 1917; living in Orange in late 1990s; married Eric E Merchant at Orange in 1935; large family including John Merchant of RMB 34, Radcliffe via Queanbeyan),
• GORDON HENRY WILCOX (born 6 October 1919, Edith NSW; died 11 November 1995, Orange; married Joan Mavis Brown née Priest; nine children) and
• NITA WILCOX (born 1 November 1921; lived at 4 Blayney Road, South Penrith in early 2000s; married Fred James).

Jane Wilcox née Batcheldor died in 1925 following complications after the birth of her last child; Arthur Humphries Wilcox spent the last years of his life with his brother James at "Pine Creek" Canowindra and died of skin cancer on his nose in 1929. Jane's younger brother George Eli Batcheldor and his wife Ruby Batcheldor née Tonkin (whose mother was a Wilcox) raised the younger children of Arthur and Jane after Jane's death. Ruby was thus initially a cousin to these children, then an aunt by marriage and then a foster mother.

1.1.1.3.4.6.2 George Eli Batcheldor (1893…1973) m. Ruby Tonkin (1893…1963)

George Eli Batcheldor was born 2 August 1893 at Gingkin near Oberon, son of AMBROSE WORRALL BATCHELDOR and BRIDGET HARRIET LEWIS. George married Ruby Tonkin at Bathurst in 1922. Ruby, born at Tuglow via Oberon 14 November 1893, was the daughter of TOM and HENRIETTA TONKIN.

[Thomas Tonkin (born c.1862) and Henrietta Wilcox (born 14 October 1865) had married about 1887 and were the parents of nine children: Rose A A Wilcox (born illegitimate in 1885), Pearl Tonkin (born 1888, died 1920; married Benjamin Garnet Wilcox (born 14 October 1890)), Melinda Jane Tonkin (born 1889, died 17 April 1946; married Leonard Albin Wilcox (born 15 March 1890, died 24 June 1960)), Ruby Tonkin, Archibald Tonkin (born 1894; married Grace Weeks (born c.1894), Ettie Tonkin (born 1896; married Edward Dogett), Thomas Tonkin (born 1897, died 1899), Bertie Tonkin (married Mary J Steen at Lithgow in 1922) and Hilda V Tonkin (married Alfred J Evans at Oberon in 1927).[pers comm. Bob Wallis (15jan04)]

George and Ruby had seven issue (not necessarily in the following order), three dying young:

• VERNIE HENRIETTA BATCHELDOR (married Dacker; still living in early 1980s),
• RAYMOND GEORGE BATCHELDOR (still living in early 1980s),
• REX MALCOLM BATCHELDOR (born 19 September 1928 at Canowindra; still living in early 1980s; married Valerie Pearl Woolfe (born 1930 at Murrurundi); at least one child),
• GORDON BATCHELDOR (died 1929 at Bathurst),
• BERTIE BATCHELDOR (died 1934 at Oberon),
• unknown BATCHELDOR (died young) and
• THOMAS BATCHELDOR (born 28 March 1932 in Sydney; still living in early 1980s; married Judith Ann Woolfe; two children).

Ruby (whose mother was a Wilcox) and George raised the younger children of Arthur Humphries Wilcox and Jane Lois Batcheldor [George's older sister] after Jane died in 1925 following complications after childbirth. Ruby Batcheldor née Tonkin died 11 July 1963; George Eli Batcheldor died 29 July 1973 at Canowindra [both were buried at Lithgow].

1.1.1.3.4.7 Mary Selina Batcheldor (1863…1939) m. William Larnach (1860…?1920)

Mary Selina Batcheldor was born 1863 near Oberon, first Australian-born and eldest surviving daughter of Warwickshire-born emigrants JOHN BATCHELDOR and JANE née WORRALL, the seventh of their eleven children. Mary married William Larnach in 1883 in the Macquarie district of NSW. William was the son of WILLIAM LARNACH and JANE MACKIE, born in the Bathurst district in 1860; he may have been a school teacher at Lowther NSW (on the Sydney road from Oberon). Mary bore William nine (?or ten) children:

• JANE A LARNACH (born 1884 near Lithgow, died in infancy),
• MARY LAWS LARNACH (born 8 August 1887 near Lithgow, died 1913 near Lithgow; married Edwin Thompson, one child, Thelma),
• ANNIE MINNIE LARNACH (born 4 February 1891 near Oberon; not married; one child, Ronald),
• un-named female LARNACH (born and died near Lithgow in 1893),
• OLIVE FLORA LARNACH (born 14 February 1895 near Lithgow, died 1925 near Lithgow; married Roy Al Kelly, children William John (John), Gwen(?ifls) (died in infancy)),
• LAURA MARGARET LARNACH (born 17 February 1898 near Lithgow; married Alfred Ernest Barker, six children),
• DORIS ISABELLA LARNACH (born 14 June 1900 near Lithgow, died 1929 near Lithgow; married Thomas J Hawken in 1919 near Lithgow, children Leo and Ella Daphne),
• ELLA MILDRED LARNACH (born 1 April 1905 near Lithgow; married Thomas J Hawken in 1931 near Lithgow, children Hazel Doris and Clifford Thomas) and
• WILLIAM A LARNACH (born 1910, died 1914 near Lithgow).

Possibly there was another child:

• ROBERT LARNACH (Bobby) (died 3 September 1914, three years old).

In 1984 "Ab" Whalan remembered six of the girls, four as Ella, Maggie, Mar and Polly. William Larnach, aged 60, son of William and Jane, died 29 September 1920, the death registered at Lithgow. Mary Selina Larnach née Batcheldor died aged 75 on 15 January 1939 at "Thora", Lowther in the Shire of Blaxland, the death registered at nearby Lithgow. Her burial in the Presbyterian section of the Lowther cemetery was witnessed by Thomas Cunnynghame and S Batcheldor, and her son-in-law T J Hawken, of "Thora", deponed that she was survived by daughters Annie M (47), Laura M (39) and Ella M (33), and pre-deceased by two male and five female issue; he also stated that Mary Selina had married William at O'Connell NSW when she was 20 years old.

1.1.1.3.4.7.1 Laura Margaret Larnach (1898…) m. Alfred Ernest Barker (…)

Laura Margaret Larnach was born near Lithgow in 1898, daughter of WILLIAM LARNACH and his wife MARY SELINA BATCHELDOR. Laura married Alfred Ernest Barker; they were the parents of six children:

• twins LEILA JEAN BARKER (born 1920; married George William Laws (deceased); one daughter, Fay (married Colin Rawsthorne?, two children, Belinda and Darren))
• and HILTON BARKER (born 1920, died of a heart attack two weeks after retiring from his job at a timber mill at Oberon),
• NORMAN ERNEST BARKER (died about 1993),
• LYLE WILLIAM BARKER (),
• RAY BARKER (deceased by 1997) and
• MARGARET MARY BARKER (died about age 35).

1.1.1.3.4.8 Walter Boyes Batcheldor (1865…1946) m. Emma Matilda Cunninghame (1867…?1950)

Walter Boyes Batcheldor was born 16 October 1865 near Oberon, son of Warwickshire-born emigrants JOHN BATCHELDOR and JANE née WORRALL. Walter married Emma Matilda Cunninghame in 1889 [near O'Connell] in the Macquarie district of NSW. Emma, born 1867 near Bathurst, was the daughter of THOMAS MOORE CUNYNGHAME and his wife MARY ELIZABETH G MUDGE. The children of Walter and Emma, all born near Oberon, included:

• PEARL ROBERTA BATCHELDOR (born 1890 near Oberon; married John Eaton (born 1888, Oberon) at Oberon in 1915, three children (Gwen, Linda and Norm)),
• MINNIE MAY BATCHELDOR (born 1891 near Oberon; married Sidney J Cunynghame, Oberon 1918),
• HARRY A McL BATCHELDOR (born 1895 near Oberon, died 1895),
• EVA MAUD MARY BATCHELDOR (born 14 October 1896 near Oberon, died 23 March 1979 at Oberon; married Sidney John Callaghan at Edith; five children) and
• EDNA V BATCHELDOR (born 1899 near Oberon, died young [aged three or four years]) and
• MYRTLE I BATCHELDOR (born 1909 near Oberon, died about 1974 in Wollongong; never married; a school teacher).

Walter Boyes Batcheldor, farmer, died 18 June 1946 at Edith. His wife, Emma Matilda Batcheldor née Cunynghame, died in June ?1950. [For further details of the Cunynghame family refer to the Bailey file.]

1.1.1.3.4.8.1 Minnie May Batcheldor (1891…) m. Sidney John Cunyghame (1898…1939)

Minnie May Batcheldor was born in 1891, the second issue of WALTER BOYES BATCHELDOR and his wife EMMA MATILDA CUNNINGHAME. In 1918 at Oberon, Minnie married Sidney John Cunynghame, and they raised four children:

• HEATHER CUNYNGHAME (deceased by 1997; married Arthur Charlwood, lived at Glanmire near Bathurst, issue Frank and Edna; married John (deceased by 1997; blind, lived at Ermington NSW); married Rex Bryant (deceased by 1997; lived at Gorokan)),
• ADA CUNYNGHAME (married Edward M Scott; lived at Cowra; issue Geoffrey and Julie),
• EDNA ("Teddy") CUNYNGHAME (deceased by 1997; married Peter Bennett; lived at Newbridge; no issue) and
• JAMES CUNYNGHAME (never married; lived at Newbridge in 1997).

1.1.1.3.4.8.2 Eva Maud Mary Batcheldor (1896…1979) m. Sidney John Callaghan (1898…1939)

Eva Maud Mary Batcheldor was born at Edith near Oberon on 14 October 1896, the fourth child of WALTER BOYES BATCHELDOR and his wife EMMA MATILDA CUNNINGHAME. At Edith in 1925, Eva married Sidney John Callaghan, born 14 April 1898 at Mudgee NSW, son of school-teacher JOHN CALLAGHAN and his wife ANNIE ELIZA MAY PEARCE ("May"). Sidney was a foreman with the Main Roads Department, living at once at Dunedoo and later at Edith. Sidney had five children by Eva:

• WALTER JOHN CALLAGHAN (born 7 June 1926; married Fay Emily Hampton at Oberon on 12 April 1947; children Nataline (deceased by 1997), Wayne and Garry),
• MATILDA MAY CALLAGHAN ("May"; born 22 April 1929 at Bathurst; married Walter Bernard O'Reilly on 7 March 1953 at Bathurst; four children),
• RAYMOND SIDNEY CALLAGHAN (born 24 June 1932, died 23 October 1979; married Maureen Elizabeth Norris at Bathurst; children ?Rohan and Christopher),
• BETTY CALLAGHAN (born 3 August 1934; married John Harold Eaton Taplin, Bathurst, ?June 1953; children Virginia, David, Peter and Owen; married Peter Anthony Hamilton, ?children ?Josie and Mark [verification required]) and
• KENNETH EDWIN CALLAGHAN (born 23 March 1939; married Janet Lillian Sherman at Moulamein; children Dean and Vaughan).

Sidney John Callaghan died 22 May 1939 at Edith. Eva Callaghan née Batcheldor, school teacher and housewife, died 23 March 1979 at Oberon.

1.1.1.3.4.9 Eli Jesse Batchelder (1868…1871)

Eli Jesse Batcheldor, ninth of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife JANE WORRALL, was born 18 May 1868 near Oberon. Eli was lost near his house near Oberon on 22 January 1871, when as an infant he wandered off find his brother Johnny who was fencing. His body was never found, though a hat he had been wearing was located near a swamp near where Johnny had been working.

1.1.1.3.4.10 Arthur/Alfred Thomas Richardson Batchelder (1871…1880)

Arthur Thomas Richardson Batchelor, tenth of eleven children of JOHN BATCHELDOR and his wife JANE WORRALL, was born 24 February 1871 near Oberon). The death of Alfred T R Bachelder was registered at Hartley in 1880.

1.1.1.3.4.11 (John) Amos Wright Batcheldor (1873…1958) m1. Agnes Ellen Lewis (1880…1911), m2 Mabel Alma Hembrow née Box (1878…1969)

(John) Amos Wright Batcheldor, born 5 May 1873 at Charley's Hill southwest of Oberon, youngest of the eleven children of Warwickshire-born emigrants JOHN BATCHELDOR, farmer, and JANE née WORRALL, was baptised Amos Wright Batcheldor and used that name at the occasions of his first marriage and the births of his three children to that marriage. His birth was registered by his illiterate father using only one Christian name, John, which he used as his first Christian and preferred name for his second marriage and the birth of at least the first child of that marriage.

Amos, a bachelor farmer of Gingkin (near Oberon), married Duckmaloi spinster Agnes Ellen Lewis at Bowenfells near Lithgow NSW on 9 June 1896, when he was 23 years old, witnessed by William Larnach and Ambrose Batcheldor. Agnes was the daughter of JOHN and MARY LEWIS (Mary gave her consent to Agnes' marriage), and her birth was registered at Lithgow in 1880. Three children were born to this union:

• MAURICE J BATCHELDOR (born 1897 near Katoomba NSW, still living in 1958; married Grace E Langham at the Glebe, Sydney, in 1926
• ALFRED ELI BATCHELDOR (born 1899 near Rockley, died in 1945 at Alexandria NSW [see below]; married Beatrice Nellie Haseley in Sydney on 16 August 1918) and
• HILDA M BATCHELDOR (born 1902 near Rockley NSW, deceased by 1958; married Henry V Brown at Cowra in 1919).

Amos then moved to Cowra where the death of his wife Agnes Ellen Batcheldor née Lewis was registered in 1911.

On 2 October 1912, the year following Agnes' death, 39 year old fettler John married 34 year old widowed waitress Mabel Alma Hembrow (née Box) at St John's Church of England, Cowra. The celebrant was the Revd. John Parr, and the witnesses were Francis Victor Amos and Alma Victoria Hutchison. Mabel, born at Brighton VIC on 22 December 1878, was the daughter of Melbourne gardener FRANCIS BOX and ELIZA JANE THOMPSON.
Mabel and John had two children:

• HYLTON FRANCIS MELBOURNE BATCHELDOR (Hilton) (born 1916, still living in 1958; married Marjory May Sutcliffe at Cowra in 1942) and
• REX ALWYN BATCHELDOR (born 4 June 1919 at Cowra, died 2 January 1953 at Cowra; married Marion Johnston at Kurri Kurri in 1945, two children).

John, of Lachlan Street, Cowra, was a 46 years old hotel-keeper when Rex was born in 1919 at Nurse Hood's Private Hospital in Taragala Street, Cowra; Mabel was 42 years old at the time. John, who later worked as a lorry driver (??for Wright Heaton & Co.??), died of sclerosis aged 85 years on 8 August 1958 at the Cowra District Hospital. His residence was at the time was given as "Waugoola", 30 Lynch Street, Cowra. The informant registering his death was his son H F M Batcheldor [Hilton] of 9 Sheahan Street, Cowra. Hylton noted John's issue as (1st marriage) Maurice J, 61, Hilda, deceased, and Alfred, 57, and (2nt marriage) Hylton F M (42) and Rex A (deceased). However, the death of an Alfred Eli Batcheldor, aged 46 years, of Alexandria, son of Amos, was registered at Redfern NSW in 1945.
Mabel Batcheldor, previously Hembrow, née Box, died at Cowra on 28 February 1969.

1.1.1.3.4.11.1 Maurice John Batcheldor (1897…) m. Grace Elizabeth Langham (1899…)

Maurice John Batcheldor, born 16 April 1897 at Gingkin near Oberon (one correspondent had Casino NSW; the birth registered at Katoomba), was the first of five children fathered by JOHN AMOS WRIGHT BATCHELDOR, farmer of Gingkin. Maurice's mother was Amos' first wife, AGNES ELLEN LEWIS of Duckmaloi. Maurice married Grace Elizabeth Langham at the Glebe, Sydney NSW, on 11 October 1926. Grace had been born at Drummoyne in Sydney on 22 January 1899, the daughter of WILLIAM and ALICE M LANGHAM. Grace and Maurice had at least two children:

• AMOS WILLIAM JOHN BATCHELDOR (born 10 July 1927 in Sydney; married Mildred Edith Atcheson at Hurstville, Sydney on 24 June 1950, three children),
• FREDERICK MAURICE BATCHELDOR (born 1929 in Sydney; married Olive Joan Callaghan at Cowra in 1952, three children).

Maurice was still living in 1958.

1.1.1.3.4.11.2 Alfred Eli Batcheldor (1899…1945) m. Beatrice Nellie Hasely (…1964)

Alfred Eli Batcheldor, born 1899 near Rockley, was the second of five children fathered by JOHN AMOS WRIGHT BATCHELDOR, farmer of Gingkin, and second child of John's by his first marriage, to AGNES ELLEN LEWIS of Duckmaloi. Alfred married Beatrice Nellie Haseley (or Hazeley) in Sydney on 16 August 1918. Beatrice was born in Shrewsbury ENG. Alfred and Beatrice had at least three children:

• GEORGE RONALD BATCHELDOR (Ron, born 23 January 1917 in Sydney; married Edna May Devlin at Newtown NSW on 15 March 1941, six children),
• ALFRED FRANK BATCHELDOR ("Dick", died 28 April 1994 at Oak Flats; married Merle Jessie Miners at Redfern NSW in 1941, three children) and
• IRIS HILDA MAUD BATCHELDOR ("Molly", born 30 July 1918; married Alexander George James Drysdale at Redfern NSW on 9 April 1938, one son).

Alfred Eli Batcheldor of Alexandria died in 1945. Beatrice died 8 July 1964.

1.1.1.3.4.11.2.1 George Ronald Batcheldor (1917…) m. Edna May Devlin (1920…)

George Ronald Batcheldor ("Ron"), born in Sydney in 1917, was the first child of ALFRED ELI BATCHELDOR and BEATRICE NELLIE HASELY. Ron married Edna May Devlin, born in Sydney on 15 March 1920; the wedding took place at Newtown on 15 March 1941, her twenty-first birthday. Edna bore Ron six children:

• ROBERT LESLIE BATCHELDOR (born 22 October 1941 in Sydney; married Maree Fay Wilson at Guilford NSW on 16 December 1961, four children),
• RONALD JOHN BATCHELDOR (born 19 February 1947 in Sydney; first married Robyn Lesley Lowe on 6 June 1969, two children; later married Athena — on 4 June 1988 in Yellowstone National Park USA: one daughter),
• WILLIAM GEORGE BATCHELDOR (born 3 November 1948 in Sydney; married Judith Ann Constable at Narooma NSW on 12 May 1973, five children),
• CHRISTOPHER BATCHELDOR (born 19 December 1950 in Sydney),
• JACQUALANE BATCHELDOR (born 2 November 1951 at Wollongong NSW; one daughter by Leon Glassenbury) and
• JANET BATCHELDOR (born 8 August 1956 at Wollongong; one daughter).

During World War II Ron served in the Australian Amy as a motor bike courier in New Guinea. In civilian life he worked as a carpenter, even in his eighties. In the early 1980s Ron lived at 39 Parkes Street, Oak Flats NSW. In the mid-1990s, Edna became ill with emphysema and Alzheimers disease, and in 1998 was in a nursing home at Warilla, where Ron visited her each day, even though she was unable to recognise him.

1.1.1.3.4.11.2.2 Alfred Frank ("Dick") Batcheldor (…1994) m. Merle Jessie Miners (…1994)

Alfred Frank Batcheldor ("Dick"), second son of ALFRED ELI BATCHELDOR and BEATRICE NELLIE HASELY, married Merle Jessie Miners (daughter of ARTHUR ERNEST MINERS (1894…1925, eldest of three sons of Arthur Joseph Miners (1869…1937) and his wife Kathleen ("Kate") Murphy (1868…1940), married near Goulburn in 1893) and CARRIE (possibly CAROLINE I STEWART)) at Redfern in 1941. Dick and Merle raised three children:

• PAMELA BATCHELDOR (married John Catterall in the Roman Catholic Church at Windang NSW on 4 October 1969, two children (David Catterall and Suzanne Catterall)),
• ELIZABETH BATCHELDOR ("Betty"; first married Kevin Harvey: two children (Richard Harvey (married Sharon Cox on 14 April 1984) and Wayne Harvey; later married Geoff Glasson: one child (Shane Glasson)) and
• KAY BATCHELDOR (married Phillip Bridget: three children (the eldest Colin Bridget, the youngest Teresa Bridget)).

Alfred Frank Batcheldor died on 28 April 1994 at Oak Flats. Melre passed away at Albion Park Rail on 30 July 1994.

1.1.1.3.4.11.2.3 Iris Hilda Maude Batcheldor (1918…) m. Alexander George James Drysdale

Iris Hilda Maude Batcheldor (Molly), born in Sydney in 1918, was the only daughter of ALFRED ELI BATCHELDOR and BEATRICE NELLIE HASELY. Iris married Alexander George James Drysdale at Redfern on 9 April 1941. Molly and Alexander had one child:

• RONALD DRYSDALE (married Doreen - : three children (Glen Drysdale, Kim Drysdale and Debbie Drysdale).

1.1.1.3.4.11.3 Hylton Francis Melbourne Batcheldor (1916…) m. Marjory May Sutcliffe

Hylton Francis Melbourne Batcheldor (Hilton), born 1916, was the fourth of five children fathered by JOHN AMOS WRIGHT BATCHELDOR, the first child of his marriage to MABEL ALMA BOX (previously HEMBROW). Hilton married Marjory May Sutcliffe at Cowra in 1942; they had one child, a son:

• ROBERT BATCHELDOR (born 1944).

1.1.1.3.4.11.4 Rex Alwyn Batcheldor (1919…1953) m. Marion Johnston (1926…1969)

Rex Alwyn Batcheldor, born in 1919 at Cowra, was the last of five children fathered by JOHN AMOS WRIGHT BATCHELDOR, the second child of his marriage to MABEL ALMA BOX (previously HEMBROW). Rex married Marion Johnston at Kurri Kurri NSW on 26 May 1945. Marion had been born at Kurri Kurri in 1926. Two children were born to Rex and Marion:

• DARRELL ALWYN BATCHELDOR and
• LYNNE BATCHELDOR.

Rex Alwyn Batcheldor, a dry-cleaner resident at 188 Liverpool Street, Scone NSW, died at Cowra District Hospital on 2 January 1953. Marion Batcheldor née Johnston died in Sydney on 6 November 1969.

1.1.1.3.5    Sarah Batcheldor (1831…) m. Joseph Harwood (c1834…)

Sarah Batcheldor, Cubbington spinster aged 23 and daughter of labourer JOSEPH BATCHELDER, married Joseph Harwood at Cubbington on 8 May 1854. Joseph, aged 20, was a bachelor labourer of Cubbington and son of labourer GEORGE HARWOOD (born 1806 at Hampton Lucy WAR) and SARAH SUMMERS (born 1811 at Lillington WAR) who had married at Lillington WAR 18 August 1833. [The children of George and Sarah, each born at Cubbington, were Joseph Harwood (baptised 16 February 1834), Mary Ann Harwood (14 February 1836), Emma Harwood (3 June 1838, buried 28 June 1838), William Harwood (20 September 1840), Thomas Harwood (24 September 1843) and Eliza Harwood (born 1849)].

Bob Wallis (pers comm. 15jan2004) considers Sarah the single mother of bastards:

• GEORGE BATCHELDOR (baptised 29 April 1850 at Cubbington) and
• HENRY BATCHELDOR (baptised 29 April 1850 at Cubbington).

This may be so, or they may have been the children of contemporary Sarah Batcheldor born 1835, daughter of William and Ann (rf. Secton 9.1on page 66).
Children baptised to Joseph and Sarah were:

• JOHN HARWOOD (baptised 26 November 1854 at Cubbington),
• GEORGE HARWOOD (baptised 25 December 1856 at Cubbington),
• JOSEPH HARWOOD (baptised 6 December 1858 at Cubbington),
• EMMA BACHELDOR HARWOOD (baptised 10 March 1861 at Cubbington) and
• ALICE HARWOOD (baptised 24 May 1863 at Cubbington).

The 1881 census shews road labourer Joseph (47) and Sarah (50) living at Cubbington, next door to Ann and Henry Harris.

1.1.1.3.6    Elizabeth Batcheldor (1833…1842)

Elizabeth Batcheldor (born 1833) died aged 9 years, and was buried at Cubbington on 22 September 1842.

1.1.1.3.7 Harriet Batchelor (1835…) m. Worthy Sly (c1832…)

Harriet Batcheldor, daughter of labourer JOSEPH BATCHELDER and his wife ELIZABETH BOYES, was baptised at Cubbington 24 March 1835. Harriet married Worthy Sly at Leamington Priors on 29 November 1852. Worthy was described in the 1881 census as a bricklayer born circa 1832 Brinkworth in Wiltshire; the IGI indicates his father was DAVID SLY. Bob Wallis [pers comm. 15jan2004] notes that the Sly family seems to have first surfaced at Cubbington about 1852; they were traditionally sawyers and appear to have come from Lamerton, Devon.

Children of Worthy and Harriet were:

• JOSEPH SLY (baptised 26 August 1855 at Cubbington),
• LOUISA SLY (baptised 30 August 1857 at Cubbington),
• THOMAS SLY (baptised 26 December 1858 at Cubbington),
• ANN SLY (baptised 24 February 1861 at Cubbington),
• HARRIET SLY (baptised 22 February 1863 at Cubbington),
• LEIS SLY (female born c.1867 at Cubbington),
• WILLIAM SLY (born c.1872 at Cubbington),
• ELIZA SLY (born c.1876 at Cubbington),
• JOHN SLY (born c.1880 at Henley in Arden WAR).

The 1881 census shews Worthey (49) and Harriet (480 at High Street, Wootton Wawen, Warwick, with Leis (14), William (9), Eliza (5) and John (1). Leis and William were notes as unmarried and with Eliza were listed as students.

1.1.1.3.8    Eliza Bacheldor (1836…) m. George Wright

• ELIZABETH WRIGHT (christened 1859, Cubbington WAR ENG),
• JOHN BACHELDOR WRIGHT (christened 1860 at Cubbington, died USA; married Sarah Taylor),
• WILLIAM WRIGHT (born circa 1864, Coventry) and
• EMMA WRIGHT (christened 1868, Saint Michael, Coventry).

1.1.1.3.8.1 John Bacheldor Wright (1860…) m. Sarah Taylor

• JOHN ALBERT WRIGHT (born 28 March 1881 at Foleshill WAR).

1.1.1.3.8.2 John Albert Wright (1881…) m. Josephine Young

• PEARL WRIGHT (born 1902),
• JOHN ALBERT WRIGHT (born 1904, died 1990; grandfather of Maureen Foley of Newark, Delaware, MA USA, in 1997 a graduate student at the University of Delaware in the Material Science and Enginéering Department working towards her Ph.D., mainly doing research in the area of composite materials for infrastructure applications (ie highway bridges)),
• DORIS WRIGHT (born 1906) and
• ROBERT WRIGHT (born 1908).

In 1997 Robert could boast more descendants than his siblings: six children, 23 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren and 2 great-great-grandchildren. He considered that both his father and paternal grandfather, perhaps with another person, emigrated to Boston in 1890.

2. William and Ann Batchelor (c1815…1851)

Also resident in Cubbington during this period were labourer William Batchelor and his wife Ann, with children:

• SARAH BATCHELTOR (baptised 5 July 1835),
• WILLIAM BATCHELOR (baptised 15 July 1838),
• JOHN BATCHELOR (baptised 13 September 1840),
• ARTHUR BATCHELOR (baptised 28 May 1843) and
• EMMA BATCHELOR (baptised 6 September 1846).

It is not clear whether there was any close relationship between this family and the previously described families. Ann apparently died aged 36 years at Cubbington on 5 July 1851 (pers comm. Bob Wallis, 15jan2004). Known details for the children of William and Ann follow.

Sarah was possibly the mother of bastard sons George Batcheldor and Henry Batcheldor (both baptised 29 April 1850; George died aged 1 week and was buried on 4 May, and Henry died aged 2 weeks and was buried on 14 May). Bob Wallis (pers comm. 15jan2004) notes that Banns were published on 2nd, 9th and 16th November 1853 for the marriage of Ephraim Standley and a Sarah Batcheldor. According to the IGI, Ephraim (baptised at Solihull WAR on 12 July 1835 to GEORGE and ANNE STANDLEY) married Sarah Batcheldor (baptised 5 July 1835 to WILLIAM BATCHELTOR] were married at Cubbington on 31 January 1853; Ephraim and Sarah were the parents of Ann Standley (baptised 24 April 1853), William Standley (baptised 26 November 1854) and George Standley (baptised 30 November 1856). [Note: some events may be confused with contemporary Sarah Batcheldor born 1831 and married in 1854, daughter of Joseph (rf. Secton 4.1.3.5 on page 61). Bob Wallis thinks George and Henry may have been sons of Sarah daughter of Joseph.]

William (born 1838) was possibly the father of William Batcheldor (baptised 21 September 1863) and Ann Batcheldor (baptised 28 July 1867), children of labourer William and Jane.

Emma, aged 23, was the mother of William Alfred Batcheldor (bastard son baptised 25 April 1869). Aged 24, Emma married William Alfred Smallwood (his mark) of Cubbington on 20 March 1871. At the time Emma, from Cubbington, was noted as the spinster daughter of labourer William Batcheldor; William Smallwood was a bachelor labourer aged 27 from Cubbington, and name-sake son of tailor William Alfred Smallwood. Their marriage, officiated by Francis Edge, was witnessed by John Smith (his mark) and Emma Smith (her mark).

Possibly Related Families:

P-1.    Batchelders aboard the George Raynes, Sydney 17 July 1858

A search of unassisted immigrants arriving in Sydney during this period reveals the arrival of Mr A Batchelder, Mrs Batchelder, Master Batchelder and Miss Batchelder aboard the 990 ton George ?Raynes from Pigot Sound on 17 July 1858 (Mr A Batchelder was the master of this vessel).

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P-2.    Batchelders aboard the SS Wonja Wonja, Sydney 26 August 1884 and Iberia, 1884

Three passengers listed as Mr Batchelders, two as Mrs Batchelder, one of the latter with two children, arrived in Sydney on 26 August 1884 aboard the 393 ton Steam Ship Wonja Wonja [?or Wonga Wonga?] from Melbourne. It is possible these included Frederick (30) and Sarah (28) who had arrived in Melbourne by the Iberia in May 1884 and Master W Batcheldor (11) who had arrived in Melbourne by the Iberia in September 1884 [note that "master" here implies that "W" was a juvenile male]:

Surname	GivenName	Age	Year	Month	Ship	Port	Fiche	Page
Batcheldor	Frederick M	30	1884	May	Iberia	B	434	3
Batcheldor	Sarah	28	1884	May	Iberia	B	434	3
Batcheldor	W Master	11	1884	Sep	Iberia	B	439	12
Source: Public Record Office of Victoria - Unassisted Shipping Index, Index of Inward Passenger Lists for British and Foreign Ports 1852-1889 [forwarded by Graham Pace (Graydawn@bigpond.com) 13 July 2002]

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P-3.    John and Thelma Batcheldor

The following death notice appeared 5 January 2000 in The Sydney Morning Herald:

BATCHELDOR, Thelma Marie —
December 31, 1999, late of Mona Vale, formerly of Pearl Beach, beloved wife of John (deceased), dearly loved mother of Dawn and Lynne, mother-in-law of Allan and Graham, cherished Nanna to Simone, Mark (deceased), Craig, Ryan, Glenn and Blake.
Aged 77 years.

Family and friends of Thelma are invited to attend her funeral service to be held in the East Chapel at Rookwood Crematorium on Thursday, January 6, 2000, commencing at 10.30 a.m.
ANN WILSON FUNERALS - 9971 4224

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Related Families from the same areas:

In Warwickshire: Worrall, Hunt, Masters; Gibbons

In New South Wales:

R-1. John Callaghan (…) m. Annie Elizabeth May Pearce (…)

The marriage of John Callaghan and Annie Elizabeth May Pearce (May) was registered at Orange NSW in 1896. John was a school-teacher, and moved from Dunéedo NSW to the Edith school, apparently to re-establish some control over some fairly unruly lads in the school. John and May raised six children including:

• VIOLET ELIZABETH JOSEPHINE CALLAGHAN (born in 1896 at Nyngan NSW, died 1942; married Ernest Oswald Batcheldor at Stroud NSW on 16 December 1919; three children),
• SIDNEY JOHN CALLAGHAN (born near Mudgee NSW in 1898, died at Edith NSW in 1946; married Eva Maud Mary Batcheldor; five children),
• CORA P CALLAGHAN (born near Wellington NSW in 1901, perhaps married Joseph A Anderson at Sydney in 1924),
• IDA M CALLAGHAN (born near Wellington NSW in 1905, perhaps married Thomas Donah at Sydney in 1923) and
• HAROLD J CALLAGHAN (born near Gulgong NSW in 1908, perhaps married Merino G Roofed at Sutherland in Sydney during 1930).
  

Other (probably unrelated) Batcheldor Lineages:

O-1 Frederick Bacheldor (b1886c) m. Ellizabeth Emily Burgess

• FREDERICK WARREN BATCHELDER (born 1906 in Woodstock, Cape Town, South Africa, died 1962; married Christina Johanna Petronella Conradie in 1940 in Cape Town; three children) and
• EDWARD BATCHELDER ('Ted').

O-1.1 Frederick Warren Bachelder (b1906…1962) m. Christina Johanna Petronella Conradie (1914…1999)

• DENIS WARREN BATCHELDER (born 12 September 1946, Cape Town),
• ANITA BATCHELDER (born 30 September 1948, Cape Town; married maurice Meeding) and
• UNA BATCHELDER (born 31 March 1951 at Wynberg, Cape Town; a nurse educator; married Fotios Kyriacos).

Several WebPages detail Batchelor Lineages from Wiltshire England, with early migrations to the United States, and in 1855 to New South Wales, Australia.

Gladys Armstrong' Bachelor HomePage includes a database of (mainly American) Batchelor marriages.

BJ's Genealogy Site contains further Bacheldor information.

traces the descendants of descendants of Francis William Batchelor in New South Wales. Francis and his wife Sarah Burch arrived in Australia on 27 May 1855 in the Constitution, together with their daughter Martha Batchelor (born 9 February 1854 at Amesbury,Wiltshire). A son James Batchelor was born and died en voyage; Sarah Batchelor née Burch died in quarantine shortly after arrival in Sydney. Francis then married Catherine Henley (born 21 September 1831 at Bermondsey in Surrey, England; emigrated to Australia per the Malacca in 1851). Children of Francis and Catherine included:

• James William BATCHELOR (married Mary Ann EVANS),
• Frances Sarah BATCHELOR (married Henry James (Harry) EVANS)
• Walter Francis BATCHELOR (married Emma Elizabeth Charlotte BILLETT)
• Henry Thomas BATCHELOR (married Elizabeth (Lizzie) DONNELLY, later married Mary Elen McGOWAN)
• Leonard Henley BATCHELOR (married Margaret (Maggie) PHILLIPS)
• Edward James BATCHELOR (married Matilda (Tilly) PHILLIPS)
• Theresa Ellen (Thurza) BATCHELOR (married David Henry SONTER)
• Francis George BATCHELOR
• John O (Jack) BATCHELOR (married Annie BURTON)
• Harriet Adeliade A BATCHELOR (married John (Jack) GOULBOURN)

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