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28 CHAPTER 3. THIRD GENERATION 1850 - 1868 newly married couple on their honeymoon, and that it was on this journey that the bridesmaid, Ellen Jamieson, got to know William Belcher, who lived next door to the Wades and whom she was later to marry. Ellen had been born at Spring Hill near Creswick, on 11th November 1859, the 5th daughter of Robert Jamieson, a farmer, but former ship’s carpenter, from Bute in Scotland, and Jean (or Jane) Cunning, who had come out to Australia with her father and stepmother and their family from FalkirkinScotland. ItispresumedthatshecameacrosstoMiepollSouthtostaywith her sister from time to time, for, on 3rd March 1886, when William was 30 years old and Ellen 26, they were married, at the home of the bride’s father, Robert Jamieson, at Franklinford. They were married according to the rites of thePresbyterian Church, and the witnesses were John Wade and Jean Jamieson. Settling in at Meipoll They settled on William’s 320 acre farm in a three room log, plaster and paling house - 30 feet by 16 feet in size. There was an orchard and also a kitchen garden. By May 1887, when William applied to convert his licence on the property to a Crown Lease, 160 acres had been cleared. The property had been completely fenced, with a mixture of chock and log, brush and post, and wire fences which he had erected himself without payment by his neighbours, and valued at £121 10 shillings. As well as the house, William erected a wood and bark roof outhouse, 16 feet by 12 feet, and two sheds, one 40 feet by 16 feet and the other 40 feet by 30 feet of wood and bark with a straw thatched roof. Over the previous three years, he had cropped 50 acres with wheat, oats and barley with yields between 8 and 16 bushels per acre. Although not mentioned in his application, he had almost certainly commenced dairying on the property by this time. At intervals over the next 13 years, William Belcher wrote many letters to the local paper, the Euroa Advertiser, on various subjects relating to dairying, and other types of farming. During this period, a neighbour, William Murray who had not verified his land claim on Allotment 46 B, parish of Miepoll adequately, and had first built his house on an adjacent property and then had problems of illness in a large family, had to abandon his licence, because he failed to meet the requirements for improvements and payments. William Belcher took up the crown lease of this property, known thereafter to the family as “Murrays”, later to pass it on to William Belcher junior. Later, William Belcher purchased the crown lease of another property Allotments 31 and 32 at Rigg’s Creek, in the parish of Moglonemby, where there had been built a fine house, with the intention of the family moving there. This property
was then currently on a three year lease to James Henley and Matilda McKer for three years from 19 January 1898 at £50 per annum payable quarterly. 29 William admitted to hospital William and Ellen had seven children between 1886 and 1900, being Frederick (1887), Ada (1888), Alice (1890), Harry (1892), William (1895), Nelly (1896), and John (1899) On 21st March 1900, Nelly died aged almost 4 years old. Nelly’s death seems to have had a profound effect on William Belcher’s health, as on 1st June 1900, he was admitted to Beechworth Mental Hospital, variously diagnosed a suffering from Grief and Melancholia, and being in unsatisfactory bodily health. After some five or six months at Beechworth, he was transferred to the Mental Asylum at Kew, where he remained until his death in 1916. See Appendix F - Obituaries. Instead of moving from the house at Miepoll across to the house at Rigg’s Creek, Ellen decided to move in to Euroa, since Fred the eldest son was only aged 13, so was too young to operate the farm. The family moved into a brick house up along the Seven Creeks, in Kirkland Street East, just across the creek from the Presbyterian manse in Foy Street. There, the older children attended Euroa State School, and Ellen participated in the activities of the town. The two blocks of land at Miepoll were leased out, each for three years from 11th October 1900, the home block to Jas McNair for £56 per annum payable quarterly for three years, and “Murrays” to Charles and Jas Hunt for £53.6.8 per annum payable quarterly. It is not known who the Rigg’s Creek property was leased to at that time. Later, when the then current lease expired, the Moglonemby block was leased to Ellen’s brother-in-law, John Wade, who needed a house larger than the log cabin on his original selection at Miepoll South. Presumably, the rents were enough for the family to live on, although the pickings were somewhat slim. While living in Euroa, the Belcher children and the Robinson children from the Presbyterian Manse became close friends, regularly playing along the Seven Creeks between the two houses. Rev W. Robinson acted as Ellen Belcher’s financial advisor, atthistimewhiletheywerelivingawayfromthefarm. FredBelcherwaseventuallyto marry Dorothy Robinson. Also during this period various young nephews and nieces of Ellen Belcher’s Jamieson family would come to stay with the family on holidays, and Ellen herself would visit her sisters in Melbourne, Ballarat and even Kyogle in Northern New South Wales, travelling by train and boat when necessary. AfterhersonFredreturnedfromafewyearsofapprenticeshipasafarmer, withhis uncle, John Wade, who had moved to Kyogle, New South Wales. The family moved
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 and 28: 19 respectively. John Joyce died on
Page 29 and 30: Chapter 3 Third generation 1850 - 1
Page 31 and 32: John Furlong is recorded on the Rat
Page 33 and 34: Figure 3.3: Mount Alexander, Vaugha
Page 35: 27 Figure 3.5: William Belcher and
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
Page 79 and 80: Appendix C The story of the flood T
Page 81 and 82: 73 the river. It was probably Belch
Page 83 and 84: Appendix D The coroner’s inquest
Page 85 and 86: 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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