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50 CHAPTER 4. FOURTH GENERATION 1869 - 1907 serve in the Flanders area for most of the remainder of his service in the Field, as a non-commissioned officer of the 1st and 2nd Anzac Mounted Regiments of the Australian Military forces. He was involved in the various activities of the regiment, including raids to get intelligence information, cross-roads duty, communications and salvage of equipment, using horses. In July 1916, he fought as infantry in the trenches at Fleurbaix following the Battle of Frommelles. The ANZAC experience gave the LightHorsemenaconsiderableadvantageoverthefreshlyarrivedAustralianInfantry battalions. On 9th September he was promoted to Sergeant. He later fought as mounted infantry at the Second Battle of Messines, in June 1917. On the 24th December 1917, while serving on the Paschendale front, he suffered a fractured ankle, when his horse slipped on the ice on a wooden plank roadway through the mud, and was transferred to Hospital in England. This was the end of his field service, although on partial recovery, he spent some time in the military police, escorting troops between England and France and around England. After the war ended, he enrolled for some adult education courses, including book-keeping. He returned to Australia, leaving England on 31st March 1919, arriving home on 12th May, being quarantined for some weeks because of the Spanish Flu, and was eventually discharged on 17th November 1919. He was later to join the Australian Militia, being Commissioned as a lieutenant in the 8th Light Horse on 2nd October 1921, retiring with the rank of Captain in about 1932. While overseas, he and his brother Harry had allocated some of their pay to their mother, and she used this to buy the Mary Leckie selection at Miepoll South, always later known as “Leckies”. His father had died while he was away at the war, and he had also inherited a share in the family farms. Thus after the war, he was at once able to commence farming on his own account, as well as helping his brothers on the family farm. He was able to immediately buy out Harry, who was not interested in farming, using his deferred pay. Eventually he obtained an adjoining allotment “Murrays”, by buying out his sister Ada’s half share on 11 April 1928, and inheriting the other half when his mother died on 8 May 1933. However, because of the depression, and his subsequent illness, the mortgages required to buy out all the members of his family, were not finally paid off until 1953. On 21st April 1927, at St James, Malvern Church of England, he married Ilma Dunbar Stirling, who had for some years previously, been school-teacher at Riggs Creek State School, near his home, and who had boarded at a neighbouring farm. After the marriage, they settled down in the house on “Leckies”. The house consisted of the original log cabin built by Mary Leckie and her husband in 1882, with four
51 rooms of weatherboard construction which had been added on. Over the next ten years the property was slowly renovated. The home was called “Elmslea”, because of the numerous elm trees around it. The 640 acre sheep farm was only marginally profitable during the depression, particularly as there were two droughts during that time. The income from fat lambs and wool went from the agents directly to the bank to cover the mortgage and the overdraft, and the family lived off the farm - meat, vegetables, fruit, milk and eggs, with some small cash flow from cream and eggs, sold to the local Euroa butter factory or grocer, and for some years, pigs and geese. Land was cropped each year, for oaten hay and chaff for the cows and the horses needed for cropping, as well as drought feeding of the sheep. Cropping and transport was basically using horses, with a gig and buggy not being replaced by a car until 1935. Over the post World War One years, William played cricket in the Euroa and District Cricket Association for Tamleugh, and later for the Euroa Blues. He also played tennis at the Moglonemby courts. He and his wife Ilma participated in the activities of the district in connection with the schools which his children attended, and the local Moglonemby hall, attending various dances, socials, card nights. concerts and other functions. They took an active part in the local Moglonemby congregation of the Presbyterian Church, and he served for a time on the Board of Management. He was also an active member of the Euroa RSL. He was a member of the Country Party, but did not engage in active politicos either at a local, State or Federal level. In fact he regularly acted as a poll clerk for Moglonemby for State and Federal Elections. William and Ilma had four children, all boys - Robert Stirling, who eventually became an agricultural chemist, Geoffrey Jamieson, who was in the future to take over and operate the farm, Henry Frederick Lloyd “Harry”, who was to operate a wool classing business, and later become a social worker, and Bruce Fleming, who also, after studying political science, later became a social worker. William’s health had been seriously affected by his war service, and this caused problems from time to time during the thirties. In 1939, just before the outbreak of the second World War, he was to go into the Bundoora Repatriation Hospital, where he remained until his death on 28th April 1968. He is buried in the Euroa cemetery. From the time that he entered hospital, his wife Ilma was left to manage the farm and bring up the four boys, until Geoffrey was old enough and experienced enough to take over the management.
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THE FAMILY OF JAMES BELCHER OF WATE
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Preface Neither a Genealogy nor a F
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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 and 56: 47 for him and his brother Jack who
Page 57: 49 Figure 4.8: William Fleming Belc
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 107 and 108: 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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