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48 CHAPTER 4. FOURTH GENERATION 1869 - 1907 diagnosed, but it has been suggested that it may have been the consequence of some accident while on war service. However, this was not accepted by the Commonwealth Repatriation Department. He was first confined to the Bethesda Hospital, and in his last year to the Austin Hospital, where he died on 15 September, 1942. He was cremated at Fawkner Cemetary. He was survived by his wife and two sons, but Elsie was to die less than one year later on 9 September 1943. Elsie’s younger sister, Dorothy “Dorrie”, came to live in the family home at David Street, Preston, and help out the two sons who were only 19 and 16 at the time. Noel, by this time, had enlisted in the RAAF, and John was attending Preston Technical School. John went on to graduate as a Civil Engineer from the Melbourne Technical College (later RMIT), having been the youngest student to ever do so, and to qualify as a Local Government Engineer and as a Surveyor. After the end of the Second World War, Noel completed a degree in Architecture at the University of Melbourne under the CRTS program. Uncle Harry is remembered by members of his brothers families as a balding man, a little older looking than William Belcher, on the occasions when he and his family visited “Rothesay” and “Elmslea”, from Alexandra where he was Station Master. Such a visit may have been at the time of the death of “Gran” Ellen Belcher, his mother, in 1937. William Fleming Belcher William Fleming Belcher was born on 25th March 1895, at Euroa, Victoria, the third son and fifth child off William and Ellen Jamieson. He spent his first six or so years on the family selection at Miepoll East, attending the Miepoll East State School (later to be renamed the Moglonemby State school) for a year or so, until the family moved to live in Euroa, in 1901, owing to the ill health of his father. In Euroa, he attended the Euroa State School. The family moved out to a property at Riggs Creek in about 1909, and there, on 27th September, at the age of 14, he obtained his Merit Certificate, and left school to help his eldest brother manage the farm, now consisting of 960 acres, which had been leased out for some 7 to 8 years He joined the Militia Cadets when the scheme was introduced in 1909. He graduated from the cadets to the Militia, the 16th Light Horse, when in March 1913, he turned 18, riding his horse to Euroa for training. During his five years on the farm, he played cricket, with his elder brother Fred, for the Moglonemby team, and joined in other district activities, including the local Presbyterian Church, with the other older members of his family.
49 Figure 4.8: William Fleming Belcher in uniform of 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiment. When the war broke out in 1914, he was in a militia camp at Puckapunyal and he immediately volunteered for overseas service. At the age of 19, on 19th August 1914, he was enlisted (No 223, B Squadron) in the Fourth Light Horse Regiment. This was intended to be an elite regiment, recruited from the most efficient officers and men in the various Light Horse regiments of the Militia in Victoria, so that a force could be embarked for England as soon as possible. After a short period of preliminary training at Broadmeadows Military Camp, the Unit left for London, via the Suez Canal, on 20th October 1914. However, within a few weeks plans had changed and the regiment disembarked in Egypt, on 11th December. There, as Mounted Rifles, they underwent extensive cavalry and infantry training. In May 1915, the Regiment went to Gallipoli with B Squadron landing at Anzac, on 23rd May. William was promoted to Corporal on 27th November. He fought on the Southern trenches of ANZAC until he was evacuated on 12 December 1915, and returned to Egypt for further training. On 21st March 1916, B Squadron of the Fourth Light Horse Regiment (including Corporal William Belcher), was transferred to France, leaving the remainder of the Regiment behind in Egypt, to later take part in the Cavalry charge on Beersheba. William and the rest of the squadron, arrived in Marseilles on 27th March and moved by a 58 hour train journey and a route march, walking their horses to Estaires in French Flanders. William was to
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THE FAMILY OF JAMES BELCHER OF WATE
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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 and 54: 45 England Catechism and attending
Page 55: 47 for him and his brother Jack who
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
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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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