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32 CHAPTER 3. THIRD GENERATION 1850 - 1868 Twenty-one months later, her mother died, leaving her to be brought up by her 14 year old sister, Sarah, and her soon to be brother-in-law, at their home in Shicer Gully. When she was eight years old, her sister died leaving her and her brother-inlaw John Furlong, to bring up, with the help of neighbours, her two nieces, Louisa aged 6, and Dora aged 6 month. Despite this, she attended school at Tarilta, and learned to read and write quite well, and as she grew older, took more and more responsibility for the household. Her brother William, 6 1/2 years older than her, left home, perhaps when he was about 16, to work for a saw-mill at Echuca, on the Murray River, owned by an Edward Whiteley, who with his wife, (a daughter of the Cook family of the Carrier’s Arms Hotel), lived with their 4 sons in the Mill House, next to the sawmill. Some time later, Mrs. Whitely heard that William had a 16 year old sister Mary, who had been ill (perhaps as a result of the pressure upon her as housekeeper to her brother-in-law and 14 year old and eight year old nieces), and invited her to come to Echuca and stay there for a fortnight’ s holiday. Mary did so, and from 1878 until she was married from the Whiteley home 0n 12th February 1890, stayed there, employed as a house maid. It was the custom of Mrs Whiteley to go with her maid to the Carriers Arms Hotel at busy times, such as harvest, to help her mother, Mrs. Cook in the kitchen or to wait on tables. It is in this way that Mary met Richard Wheatley, a young English immigrant, whom she was to marry. Aftermarriage, sheandherhusbandlivedinPatho, inNorthernVictoria, wherehe was a farmer, they lived there for many years. Richard Wheatley seems to have had some income coming from his family or property in England and in later years they were of independent means. They had one daughter, Lucy, born on the 1st December 1890. During the time they lived at Patho, they were visited by her brother William, fromMiepollSouthandhisdaughterAda,andalsobyvariousotherlocalfamiliesfrom the Euroa district. In 1916 they later moved to Williamstown, where her husband died on 16th February 1928, aged 74. Mary, herself then moved into the home of her daughter Lucy Barker, where she died on 22nd May 1944, aged 82 years.
33 Figure 3.8: Mary Wheatley née Belcher and her husband Richard Wheatley in front of their Charles Street home Figure 3.9: Caption on back reads “Grandma Wheatley”
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 and 36: 27 Figure 3.5: William Belcher and
Page 37 and 38: was then currently on a three year
Page 39: 31 Figure 3.6: “Rothesay”, the
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
Page 87 and 88: Appendix E The Courier Passenger li
Page 89 and 90: 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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