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20 CHAPTER 2. SECOND GENERATION 1814 - 1849 Figure 2.6: Sarah and her daughter Ada Broughton and grand-daughter Alice Cupit Edward Belcher Nothing is known of Edward Belcher, except his name and the indication that he was the eldest surviving son, born about 1814. Family tradition in John Belcher’s family suggested that he had gone to seek gold in the Klondyke, but this is surely wrong as he would have been 73 years old when gold was discovered on the Klondyke in 1887, and 8 years older when the main rush was on. It has always been believed that he emigrated to America, and probably found his way to the California Gold Rush in 1849. A book published in 1897 in London was entitled “All about Klondyke - with Full Particulars by a Returned Miner”, edited by an H.A. Belcher. A copy may have found its way to Australia, and been adopted by the family as an explanation of the fate of Edward. However there was an Edward Belcher of origin Irish, a carpenter aged 30, arrived at New York from Liverpool on the ship Excelsior on 21st July 1851. Possibly this was Edward.
Chapter 3 Third generation 1850 - 1868 Sarah Furlong née Belcher and John Furlong SarahBelcherwasbornon4thJanuary1850, accordingtoherBaptismalrecorddated 18th January, at St Peter’s Church of England in East Melbourne, nearly 5 months after the family’s arrival in Australia, while the family was living in Lonsdale Street. A baptismal record from St Francis Catholic Church, Melbourne, of a Sarah Margaret Belcher on December 30th 1850, daughter of John and Eliza Belcher, born on 4th January 1849, (same day and month, different year) might possible be a duplicate baptism, with a wrong date, but there is no record of John and Eliza bringing a baby to Australia on the ship Courier. There seems to have been another couple John and Eliza Belcher in Victoria.) Sarah was the eldest child of the family, as far as is known, and one of only three children to survive to adulthood. On 9th May 1864, 37 days after she had been orphaned by the death of her mother, at the age of 14, Sarah took out a miner’s licence and had her father’s share of the tunnelling claim at Table Hill transferred to her name. And then on Wednesday 20th July of that year, at the age of 14 1/2, but giving her age as 17, she married her father’s mining partner John Furlong. He was an immigrant from Port Louis, Mauritius. His parents were John Joseph 21
Page 1 and 2: THE FAMILY OF JAMES BELCHER OF WATE
Page 3 and 4: Preface Neither a Genealogy nor a F
Page 5 and 6: A Belcher Time Line First Generatio
Page 7 and 8: Contents Preface A Belcher Time Lin
Page 9 and 10: Chapter 1 First generation 1792 - 1
Page 11 and 12: Figure 1.2: Map of Ireland in the 1
Page 13 and 14: 5 family of Belcher’s in Waterfor
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2 Second generation 1814 -
Page 17 and 18: 9 Trouble aboard The Courier The da
Page 19 and 20: 11 confine themselves for significa
Page 21 and 22: 13 At half past seven next morning,
Page 23 and 24: 15 Figure 2.2: Mary Anne’s daught
Page 25 and 26: 17 Figure 2.4: Eliza Joyce 160 John
Page 27: 19 respectively. John Joyce died on
Page 31 and 32: John Furlong is recorded on the Rat
Page 33 and 34: Figure 3.3: Mount Alexander, Vaugha
Page 35 and 36: 27 Figure 3.5: William Belcher and
Page 37 and 38: was then currently on a three year
Page 39 and 40: 31 Figure 3.6: “Rothesay”, the
Page 41 and 42: 33 Figure 3.8: Mary Wheatley née B
Page 43 and 44: Chapter 4 Fourth generation 1869 -
Page 45 and 46: 37 Figure 4.2: Fox family at North
Page 47 and 48: 39 brothers and sister Ada. He farm
Page 49 and 50: 41 Figure 4.5: Ada Clarice Belcher,
Page 51 and 52: Figure 4.6: Mary Alice “Allie”
Page 53 and 54: 45 England Catechism and attending
Page 55 and 56: 47 for him and his brother Jack who
Page 57 and 58: 49 Figure 4.8: William Fleming Belc
Page 59 and 60: 51 rooms of weatherboard constructi
Page 61 and 62: 53 Figure 4.9: John “Jack” Belc
Page 63 and 64: 55 Figure 4.10: Lucy Wheatley, daug
Page 65 and 66: Appendix A Search for a family The
Page 67 and 68: 59 So this collection of informatio
Page 69 and 70: 61 William Samuel Belcher/Jane MC 1
Page 71 and 72: Appendix B Registrar certificates D
Page 73 and 74: 65 Death certificate of John Belche
Page 75 and 76: Marriage certificate of John Belche
Page 77 and 78: 69 This Marriage was solemnized bet
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Appendix C The story of the flood T
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73 the river. It was probably Belch
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Appendix D The coroner’s inquest
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77 The Deponent on his oath said as
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Appendix E The Courier Passenger li
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Appendix F Obituaries Mrs. Ellen Be
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Appendix G Family Trees Figure G.1:
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Figure G.3: James Belcher and Mary
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Figure G.5: Thomas Floyd and Mary M
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Figure G.11: Thomas Floyd and Mary
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Figure G.17: James Warner and Anna
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Figure G.19: James Warner and Anna
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Figure G.21: John Ambrose and Sarah
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Figure G.23: Henry Floyd and Margar
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Figure G.25: John Furlong and Sarah
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Figure G.27: John Furlong and Sarah
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Figure G.29: William Belcher and El
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Figure G.31: William Belcher and El
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Figure G.33: Richard Wheatley and M
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Figure G.35: William Joyce and Ann
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Figure G.41: John Porta and Anne Jo
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Figure G.51: John Joyce and Emily W
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Figure G.53: Brian O’Reilly and M
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Figure G.55: George West and Mary J
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139 Figure G.57: George West and Ma
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Figure G.60: George Cupit and Alice
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143 Figure G.62: Charles Cupit and
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Appendix H Acknowledgements Many de
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Bibliography [1] Cannon, Michael,
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