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46 CHAPTER 4. FOURTH GENERATION 1869 - 1907 Figure 4.7: Harry Belcher - because he was in the railways, they put him in as a clerk which he hated so became a cook and then got into signals. an interest in Guiding, in the Dareton Public School organisation, and later in the Mildura High School Mother’s Club, and the Mildura Technical School Mother’s club. She was also an active member of Scot’s Church, Dareton. In later years her main interest has been with the Mildura and District Historical Society. Harry Belcher Harry Belcher was born at Miepoll East on 4th January 1892, the second son and fourth child of William Belcher and Ellen née Jamieson. During his childhood he lived firstly in the original selection home at Miepoll East, then at Euroa, in a rented brick house, upstream along the Seven Creeks from the Sydney Road. The family had moved to Euroa about 1901, after his father had been confined to hospital, when he was about 9. Later for a short time he lived at “Rothesay” at Riggs Creek, Moglonemby. His early education was at Miepoll East State School No 2911, then Euroa State School. After leaving school in 1908, he joined the Railways Department. He served first at Euroa as a lad porter, and later at Clifton Hill where he boarded with the Liddle family,exEuroa,andplayedapartinthelocalPresbyterianYoungMen’sAssociation. By 1914, he was Assistant Station Master at Seaford where he occupied a Railways house. From time to time, his sister Ada would come down to Seaford to housekeep
47 for him and his brother Jack who stayed there while attending Melbourne Technical School, studying woolclassing. Harry volunteered to follow his brother Bill into the AIF in September 1915, and was appointed as a Pay Clerk at Broadmeadows Camp, becoming a Corporal almost immediately. By December he had transferred to a Signals unit as a Dispatch Rider. He left Australia, on the Orontes on 21st July 1916, for Great Britain and was posted to 2nd Div Signal Coy, 2ADBD, attached to the British army. He fought on the Somme in February 1917 and in April at Bapaume. He was hospitalized in “Blighty” with a bad knee arizing from a fall over a stone wall near Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, when on leave in October 1918. By November, and the end of the war, he was up in Belgium where he met some of Bill’s Belgian friends and by the end of that year was located at Dinant, remaining for some time with the army of occupation. He returned to Australia, leaving England about 12th May 1919. During the war his mother used his allotment, paid to her as his mother and next of kin together with that of his brother Bill, to buy the Leckie’s property at Miepoll South. Later, Bill bought out Harry’s half of the land when he took up farming there. HarryreturnedtotheVictoriaRailwaysondischarge,joiningtheRelievingBranch, one of his postings being to Lismore where he met Elsie Vowles, daughter of Charles William and Clara Vowles. They were married at Lismore in 1922 and made their first home in Lancefield, in a Railways house. Following Lancefield, Harry was station master at Nathalia, Boort, Alexandra, Portland (during the 1934 Centenary Celebrations), and Woodend. While in Woodend, he bought his own house. He and his wife had two sons, Noel Charles, born on 16 June 1924 at Sunshine, and John Jamieson, born on 18 November 1927 at Boort. Harry took an active interest in sports all of his life. He was an athlete, and during the war was the best sprinter in his unit over 100 yards. Some years after the war he competed in the Bendigo Gift on at least one occasion. He also liked football and played for Lancefield. His other activities included hunting and fishing, and tending his garden. He also enjoyed travelling on his railway pass. He enjoyed going back to the land, and with his family, regularly visited his brothers and sisters to keep the close contacts he so cherished. He was also very active in the Returned Soldiers League. In 1939, after inspecting a train, Harry jumped up onto the station platform, and immediately collapsed. He became a paraplegic and never walked again, dying nearly three years later. The doctors could give no explanation and the cause was never
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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 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: 45 England Catechism and attending
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
Page 91 and 92: Appendix G Family Trees Figure G.1:
Page 93 and 94: Figure G.3: James Belcher and Mary
Page 95 and 96: Figure G.5: Thomas Floyd and Mary M
Page 101 and 102: Figure G.11: Thomas Floyd and Mary
Page 103 and 104: Figure G.13: Thomas Floyd and Mary
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Figure G.15: 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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