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58 APPENDIX A. SEARCH FOR A FAMILY shortly afterwards leaving Sarah responsible for the family. A kind neighbourJohnFurlonghelpedthemandeventuallymarriedSarah. Thechildren were brought up Protestant. William eventually came to Euroa and began farming there, taking up land and marrying Ellen Jamieson. Aunt Mary Wheatley, a widow, lived with her daughter Lucy in Williamstown. Nobody knew anything about Sarah Furlong and her family, but there was an “Auntie” Lou somewhere, possibly at Guildford near Castlemaine. I did not take an interest in the Belcher History again until 1953, when an old notebook of my father’s was found with the following cryptic entries: Col. Belcher Mrs. Porter Aunt May Cow Miss Rayson Floyd G G Father 1 son John Belcher John Belcher 3 daughters Eliza Fleming (Edward Belcher Klondyke) G Father John Belcher 1 son Bill 3 daughters Sarah Mrs. Furlong Eliza Died in Infancy Mary Ann Mrs. Wheatley John Belcher Drowned in Loddon 71 years ago on 1 June 40 years 2 months Later research proved these notes remarkably accurate, even if very brief and somewhat confusing, and it is believed that my father had received the information from his aunt Mary Wheatley in 1934. The apparent allusion to “Aunt May Cow”, seems to be to “Aunt Mary’s Cousins”, by name “Porta” and “Floyd”. I slowly continued research over the following years, as information became available from Victoria Archives, or from the registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, or from various other indexes and sources, being distracted from time to time with the families of my other ancestors, Jamiesons and Cunnings on my fathers side, and Whites and Innells and Sterlings on my mothers. This 150th Anniversary seemed a good time to put together as much of the information as I and others had collected over the years. Some of the family legends were verified, some still remain only legends, and many other questions have been raised by the investigation. Like most family historians, I regret that some 50 or so years ago, I did not interview all the oldest members of the family to obtain their stories and their knowledge, nor did I start to collect photographs of people or of places with connections with the family.
59 So this collection of information, in the form of a book, with a set of charts, photographs and biographical details, reports my progress up to 1999, and I fear I will have to leave it to some of the members of succeeding generations to go further. All of the Belchers The search for the Belcher family in Ireland has not been easy. Although a fairly rare name of Anglo-Norman origin rather than Irish, there appear to have been a number of unrelated or very distantly related families in various parts of Ireland, particularly in Cork city and at Bandon in County Cork, in County Waterford and at Kells in County Kilkenny, in Dublin and also, by coincidence, in another Kells in County Meath. No connection has yet been established with any of these families. A number of sources in libraries, including that of the Society of Genealogists in London, allow us to look back at the whole family of Belchers. A number of origins have been suggested for the family name “Belcher”. They may all be valid. 1. DerivedfromtheNormanFrench“BelChere”meaning“GoodCheer”or“Pretty Face”. The term occurs in Chaucer, at the end of The Shipman’s Tale, and is the name of a steward in the anonymous mediaeval work The Assembly of Ladies. 2. Derived from the Norman “Bel Sieur” meaning grandfather. There are variants of the name Belcher spelled as “Belsire”, supporting this theory. 3. Derived from the English word “to belch” . The normal pronunciation of “sh” andnot“ch”, despitethespellingwitha“ch”andthevariantspellings“belsher”, would seem to indicate at least that this was not the only origin. Early English reports of the name include a family of Belchers in Guilsborough, Northamptonshire, England from 1553 to 1627, coming earlier from Staffordshire. The family bore arms, but apparently died out. The name was also recorded in Wantage, Berkshire, registers in 1615, the register having commenced in 1537. Other early Belchers appear in Wiltshire, Gloucestershire and Worcestershire about this period. We have some record of crests but not of coats of arms. Belcher of Northampton: A demi-hawkor,wingsexpandedsable. BelcherofGilsborough,Northampton,Staffordshire and Warwickshire: A greyhound’s head erased ermine, eared azure, gorged with a collar gules, rimmed and ringed or. There was a Sir Edward Belcher who was a very famous navigator, and was a polar explorer, who led an expedition to find the lost explorer Sir John Franklin, but appeared more interested in making fame for himself by his own explorations than finding Sir John. His family later migrated to the USA. There was also a famous
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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
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Contents Preface A Belcher Time Lin
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Chapter 1 First generation 1792 - 1
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Figure 1.2: Map of Ireland in the 1
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5 family of Belcher’s in Waterfor
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2 Second generation 1814 -
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Page 29 and 30: Chapter 3 Third generation 1850 - 1
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Page 33 and 34: Figure 3.3: Mount Alexander, Vaugha
Page 35 and 36: 27 Figure 3.5: William Belcher and
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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
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Page 57 and 58: 49 Figure 4.8: William Fleming Belc
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Page 63 and 64: 55 Figure 4.10: Lucy Wheatley, daug
Page 65: Appendix A Search for a family The
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
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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
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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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Page 107 and 108: Figure G.17: James Warner and Anna
Page 109 and 110: Figure G.19: James Warner and Anna
Page 111 and 112: Figure G.21: John Ambrose 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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