the family of james belcher of waterford, ireland - University of ...
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Figure 2.2: Mary Anne’s daughter Anna Warner with Alice and Roy (on lap)<br />
scattered pieces <strong>of</strong> land outside Beechworth is not known.<br />
The <strong>family</strong> were staunch members <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Beechworth Congregational Church, and<br />
would almost certainly haved helped with <strong>the</strong> construction <strong>of</strong> a new church, to accompany<br />
<strong>the</strong> existing building, used as a Sunday School, in 1869. Their youngest son<br />
became <strong>the</strong> organist at that church for a while, and <strong>the</strong>ir descendants continued to<br />
support it. The church was sold after <strong>the</strong> formation <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Uniting Church in 1979,<br />
and is now a library.<br />
On 23rd November 1907, Mary Ann Floyd died at Beechworth <strong>of</strong> stomach cancer<br />
at her home in John Street aged 88. At this date, only Eliza Ruth 58, Anna 53, Sarah<br />
Beatrice 50, Susan Amelia 48 and Henry 44 were alive. Her husband had predeceased<br />
her on 12 September 1888, when he died at Spring Creek, in Beechworth, <strong>of</strong> bronchitis<br />
anddementiaat<strong>the</strong>age<strong>of</strong>73years, not18thSeptember, asappearsonhistombstone.<br />
They are both buried in <strong>the</strong> Congregational Compartment <strong>of</strong> Beechworth cemetery,<br />
in a <strong>family</strong> grave.<br />
Eliza Joyce née Belcher and William Joyce<br />
Eliza Belcher was born at Mount Rath in Queen’s County in Ireland, about 1828,<br />
and came to Australia with her bro<strong>the</strong>r, sister-in-law and sister in 1849, at <strong>the</strong> age