28. William Turton Beilby (William , William , Richard ) was born in 1796. He died in 1850.
Lynn Dudley (Canada) supplied all genealogical information for the decendents of William Turton Beilby..
William married Elizabeth Jepson in 1823. Elizabeth was born in 1795. She died in 1877.
They had the following children:
40 F i Elizabeth Beilby was born on 14 Feb 1824. She died in May 1878. Elizabeth married Hennry Mottram in St Stevens, Hull. 41 M ii William John Jepson Beilby was born on 21 Dec 1826. 42 M iii Thomas Falconer Beilby was born on 4 Aug 1827. 43 F iv Caroline Beilby was born on 16 Nov 1828. She died in 1897. Caroline married Robert Jamieson in 1852. 44 F v Lydia Beilby was born on 4 Apr 1830. 45 F vi Lucy Beilby was born on 17 Jul 1831. She died in 1904. Lucy married Thomas Carter. + 46 M vii Charles Henry Beilby was born in Mar 1833. He died in 1881. 47 M viii John Falconer Beilby was born on 24 Jun 1834. He died on 16 Jul 1834. 48 F ix Mary Ann Beilby was born on 26 Nov 1835. Mary married Henry Carter. 49 F x Clara Beilby was born on 28 Sep 1837. She died on 24 Feb 1840. 50 M xi Frederick Turton Beilby was born on 6 Feb 1839. He died on 16 Apr 1839.
30. Thomas Beilby (Thomas , William , Richard ) was born in 1781. He was christened on 21 May 1781 in Cathedral Saint Peter, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England . He died in 1860.
Thomas married Deborah Proctor in 1811.
They had the following children:
51 F i Mary Anne Beilby. Mary married Thomas Avery.
31. William Beilby MD [scrapbook] (Thomas , William , Richard ) was born on 13 Apr 1783 in Sheffield England. He was christened on 8 May 1783 in Cathedral Saint Peter, Sheffield, Yorkshire, England . He died on 30 May 1849 in Edinburgh.
THubert Noel Beilby compiled him following notes in 1952
William Beilby 1783/1848
"Was the second son of Thomas and Isabella and was born in Sheffield but as he was only a year or two old when his parents migrated to Birmingham, he must have accompanied them there. He and his elder brother Thomas attended a school in Birmingham, and there is an old school bill for ₤3-0-4. for two terms schooling for the brothers. Comparatively little is known of Williams’ early life, but he studied medicine and became a practitioner. He went to Ireland in the early 1800s and followed his profession there, where he married Maria Catherine Moller in 1808.
Their first three children were born in Dublin between 1809 and 1811, but only the third survived; the remaining nine were born in Edinburgh between 1813 and 1834 so it appears that he must have gone to that city about 1812. He was a well-known practitioner, and was for a time President of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and also took a prominent part in the Medical Mission, and other charitable and religious institutions; his green coach with the yellow wheels was a well-known equipage!
Maria Catherine Moller, born in 1790, was the daughter of Andrew Moller and Elizabeth le Champion. On her father’s side she traced direct descent from Dietricus de Mollerius who was a senator of the Germanic Roman Empire in 1070, through a long line of distinguished forebears; and on her mother’s side she claimed descend from the very ancient French house of Vire, and also from the Danish Royal House. Maria survived her husband by nineteen years. (in spite of the eleven (crossed out and twelve added) children!)
Williams’ younger daughter Maria (born 1824), became the second wife of William Henry Avery, elder brother of Alderman Thomas Avery previously mentioned, whose wife, Mary Anne, was cousin to Maria.
Julius Henry Beilby 1823/ was a younger son of William and Maria. He married Emily Rayner, by whom he had four children. He was highly respected in business circles in Edinburgh, and was Chairman of the Clydesdale bank.
Four of William and Maria’s daughters, Eliza, Ellen, Maria and Isabella were married to Dr MacArthur, Captain MacKenzie, W H Avery and John Bather respectively.
The remaining son of William and Maria, John born in 1818, married Catherine Ogilvie, who turned out (from the families point of view) to be unsatisfactory."
William married Marrie Catherine Moller [scrapbook] on 19 Sep 1808 in St George's, Dublin, Dublin, Ireland . Marrie was born in 1790. She died in 1868.
Maria Catherine Moller, born in 1790, was the daughter of Andrew Moller and Elizabeth le Champion. On her father’s side she traced direct descent from Dietricus de Mollerius who was a senator of the Germanic Roman Empire in 1070, through a long line of distinguished forebears; and on her mother’s side she claimed descend from the very ancient French house of Vire, and also from the Danish Royal House. Maria survived her husband by nineteen years. (in spite of the eleven (crossed out and twelve added) children!)
These notes were compiled by Hubert Noel Beilby, son of George 1850/1924.
William and Marrie had the following children:
52 M i William Beilby was born in 1809. He died in 1809. 53 M ii William Beilby was born in 1810. He died in 1810. + 54 M iii George Beilby MD was born in 1811. He died in 1895. 55 M iv Harris Beilby was born in 1813. He died in 1813. 56 F v Eliza Beilby was born in 1816. Eliza married Dr MacArthur. 57 M vi John Wood Beilby was born on 25 May 1818. John immigrated on 28 Jun 1841 to Melbourne Vic Australia.
John Wood immigrated to Australia in1841 arriving on the vessel "William Abrams" in Melbourne Victoria on the 28th July 1841
The following information was supplied by Len Beilby on 9th Nov 2001
"At Airlie Bank, Melbourne on 16 July 1850, he married Catherine Ogilvy, daughter of David Ogilvy of Edinburgh, after which they moved inland and bought 36 square miles of land from the Reverend James Clow, who had obtained squatting rights in August 1838. The area was known as "Corhanwarrubul Run" and stretched from Dandenong Creek to the Dandenong Mountains. The property included an eight-roomed homestead called 'Tirhatuan', the aboriginal name for the sugar glider opossum. The Beilbys remained there until 1857.
John Wood Beilby explored much of the region and is said to have been the first to discover gold in Victoria (at Navarre near Stawell). He established the first sawmill in the Dandenongs but was eventually forced to close down because of competition from cheaper timber from Tasmania. "
Colin Darby brought the following extract to the writer’s attention on the 5th Feb 2003. (I have broken the text into paragraphs and altered minimal punctuation only to improve the readability, but no text has been altered.)
"General Notes: Listing from the Evening Herald Saturday August 8 1891
Reminiscence of a Pioneer
By J Wood-Beilby.
This 28th day of July, in 1841, I arrived in Melbourne per ship William Abrams, Hamlin commander, from Greenock, after a voyage of about 122 days, the last week of which was spent beating around King's Island, having had from stress of weather to run out sea-wards after sighting Cape Otway.
Ships, then were constructed with their bows as rounded as a footbath, and it was not until some years later, when clipper wool ships were essential to secure the earliest and best attended wool sales in London for their cargoes that ship of the Lightning's style of build predominated. She was beautifully modeled, her bows and cutwater beveled like the shear of the then remodeled plough, to cleave and slide through with the minimum of friction. The William Abrams had a few paying passengers only, of whoa one of my cabin mates, Mr. R. Barclay Stevenson is in with me, so far as I know the only survivor now.
The ship was chiefly filled with bounty immigrants of whom some thirty were single women under charge of a matron and the residue married couples and single men, the latter mostly under 30 years of age. I had charge of four couples engaged in Scotland by Captain Patrick Wood of Dennistown, Tasmania, father of J. D. Wood, barrister-at--law, now of Melbourne but what became of them after arrival I know not. Several of the single women were married on board, the captain performing the ceremony, and of the rest, few escaped matrimony early, for they were eagerly snapped up chiefly by the rich publicans of early Melbourne.
Many of the immigrants were under engagement to Hunter and Watson, the managers of the Marquis of Ailea's station at Mount Battery, Delatite, or as then termed, Devil's River.
We lost a young sail maker by the slings of a boat he was working in, hanging from the davits giving way while the ship was ploughing her way through the Rip at the Heads. Strange, he had often on the voyage expressed a presentiment he would never land here, and on that last day I had tried to reason him out of his seemingly notion, for here we were within a few hours' sail of Melbourne with smiling shores in view on each side of us. Poor fellow! How piteously gazed on us during the few moments he floated with his straw hat on. Then he disappeared, the hat floated off, and a red tinge in the water showed he was taken down by a shark.
We anchored in the Bay, opposite a short wooden pier of very primitive construction, and on reaching this for a preliminary stroll up to Melbourne. Before finally quitting the ship, we found a solitary house at the pier end, on a white bank or hammock of loose sand. That solitary house, a neat verandah cottage, was Lliardet's Hotel Aucleus… of Sandridge the Port of Melbourne.
There were some few, perhaps half a dozen ships in roadstead. A few of the passengers walked up there with me to Melbourne. The path through a heavy loose sand was for a long way bounded on the right by a green rush swamp, the site of most of the city of South Melbourne now, full to the margin with water, wherein the bull and other frogs kept up ceaseless croaking, so loudly that conversation was difficult.
Reaching the Yarra at length, we found a punt worked with ropes on either side, where Prince's Bridge now stands. There was but one hut on the knoll, Immigrants' Home site on the south bank of the Yarra, Archibald M'Millan and family's - good workers all, from the Shetland or Orkney Islands of Scotland. By persevering industry and frugality coupled with God-fearing integrity, the old people gradually assessed wealth. But when I arrived, they had also but recently arrived as the old man used to say quaintly, “with only five shillings and a big family”. They began here by buying one cow and. selling milk, the sons and parents gladly laboring.
My first task was to deliver the introduction to local notables, with which I was plentifully supplied in Scotland Commissary - General Howard, father of Mr. Fred. Howard, president of the Exchange who then had a pretty residence at Moonee Ponds.
Mr. Skene Craig, of Craig and Broadfoot, merchants and Government providores, had a pretty verandah residence, store and office with orchard and vineyard adjacent, opposite the site of M'Cracken' Brewery buildings in Collins Street west. Next his was the villa and garden of James Smith, J.P., who with James Simpson, P.M., were then the best-known and esteemed city magistrates. James Smith was long the actuary of the Savings Bank, of course, both passed on long ago.
Nearer King Street, and to its corner on the same side, was Allison and Knight's Steam flour Mills and bullock team yards. Farther west was Bateman's Hill, bare of buildings but the verandah cottage - the Government House of its day-of the superintendent, C. J. Latrobe, Esq., to whom I had introductions, and, for years I enjoyed the privilege of visiting, often by his request breakfasting with him at Jolimont, and he revisiting me afterwards at Tirhatuan, on route to the Aboriginal Protectorate and Native Police Station at Warre Warran. His great hobby, gubernatorial banquets, receptions and balls being then almost undreamt of.
Captain Lonsdale, also, was a kindly hospitable friend at his cottage residence, now disappeared. I think, formerly situated about the Site of the Friendly Societies' Gardens, or perhaps nearer the City.
Alistair Mackenzie, the sheriff, resided in a square built house within a garden somewhere near the end of Brunswick Street. The houses therein few and far between, being termed New Town, and separated a seeming long way from the nearest of those in the city, being only few tow at head of Collins and Little Collins Streets.
My family being connected with that of Sir George Gipps, the then Governor of New South Wales, I had brought out first class introductions, had offer of civil appointments, but I had qualified myself for pastoral pursuits, and quickly engaged in these.
Collins Street was full of vacant allotments, then sacred to rubbish heaps and broken bottles. At corner of Swanston Street, there were a series of stockyards for yoking teams in. There was also a blacksmith shop, of the usual benighted village type, near there about opposite the sites of the "Age" office now, was John M'NaIl's butcher's shop built of local split palings, with just a six feet square window, without glass, shut in at night with a wooden shutter, and an earthen floor, with a red gum block on it.
Opposite, and, in fact, down both sides of the street, was a. huge gulph, seemingly deep enough to engulph a covered wagon, worn down by the winter streams by then flowing. The centre of the street was raised highly, but it was a case to wade across in wet weather.
The site of the Bank of Australasia now was then, or soon after, the Wesleyan Church; opposite was Anne and Smith's general store, where everything of stationery and grocery and hardware was supplied. It was not till the advent of John Carfras, of South Bridge Street, medical bookseller, Edinburgh, some years later, that we had a bona fide bookseller in Melbourne.
The Port Phillip Bank building stood about the site of the “Age” office, managed by George Mercer with the Port Phillip Club, afterwards called the Melbourne Club, building next it, westward. Nearer Swanston Street was the Commercial Hotel, a two story building with raised balcony, standing several yards back from the street frontage, managed by jolly Philip Anderson. If not a Scot, I might 'say R.I.P.
I was staying there when Alex. M'Kenzie, of Reedy Creek station, who with his partner, McCrae, was locally known as the Phillistines. Being exceptionally tall men, brought his young bride, nee M'Cracken, from Hobart. I saw that worthy lady's demise recorded the other day at the age of 69, leaving well-advanced children grand-children How time has flown, to be sure!
Next him was right of way to Flinders Lane, fronting which was a five roomed verandah cottage with garden, inhibited by one Watt, a carpenter, and family who bad two weatherboard shops fronting Collins Street. That whole property was offered to me once for 130 (pounds). T(W)hat would 50 ft. frontage to Collins Street and Flinders Lane, and a wide side lane be worth now?
About the site of the Land Credit Bank was the chemist's shop of Edward Rand now of Wagga, and brother to Robert Rand, the wealthy squatter of Mahonga, New South Wales.
Captain Howie lived in one of two or three four roomed cottages of his in Swanston Street, at Germain Nicholson'e corner, opposite the Town Hall site. Higher up the Eastern Hill, towards the Scotch Church, was Dr. Drummond's house, just above the Athenaeum, and then the Scotch School, and the small unpretentious manse of Rev. James Forbes, and the original Repts' Kirk at the corner of Russell Street.
On the opposite side of Russell Street was the Rev. Mr. Morrison's Congregational Church and parsonage, the latter with high thatched roof on it. In front of this was a gnarled old gum tree, with a sort of step ladder built into it around which the worthy little parson used to spiel up to an elevated platform whence he could view new ship arrivals in the Bay.
Hon. James Graham and brother, being both bachelors then, occupied the cottage still extant in Russell Street, below the late Y.M.C.A. hall and were the business agents of Mr. C. J. Latrobe. Behind, entering their courtyard from Little Collins street, were their stores, and also these and offices of the late William Westgarth.
There were very few reputable houses in Burke Street above the Bull and Mouth, opposite Albion, only a few oyster shanties, and others, vieing in repute with questionable resorts of Romeo and other Little Burke Street lanes.
Years after - in owning the first sawmill in the colony, near Fern Tree Gully, I hold with a. Mt. O'Sullivan a timber yard extending from about the site of the Theatre Royal, round to and along Swanston Street towards Little Bourke Street. Messrs. Westbye at the same time held one extending over about an acre at the corner of Elizabeth and Collins Streets, where City of Melbourne Bank and. Contiguous buildings now stand.
Lonsdale Street, east of Queen Street, had but two houses in it - Dr. Paterson's, Immigration agent and public vaccinator, a two or three-roomed cottage, about opposite Tankard's Temperance Hotel site, and the Caledonian Hotel, situated down a long strip of garden from the street, with a muddy looking bullock yards on either side of it. This was the Rev. James Cloe's house, bought in frame from Tasmania then rented as an hotel by him, when his family had removed to their cattle station of' Tirhatuan on Dandenong Creek, which in 1849 I purchased from him, and. he thereafter again resided in the city, until removing to vicinity of Ocean Grove.
In Queen Street there were many unsightly blanks. Blacksmiths' smoke besmeared forges and bullock and horse yards intermingled with the Royal Highlander and Black Byng's hotels. Dr. Sproat's house, the Queen's Theatre, a livery stables, and the near corner Bourke Street, on sites of Watson's ham and bacon warehouse, was the office and residence of my late brother-in-law, David. Ogilvy, writer to the Signet of Edinburgh, solicitor, protector, and literally the conveyancer for almost all of the early transfer of real estate in Melbourne and suburbs, who also was then a bachelor.
Some of your readers or correspondents occasionally express a wish for early pictures of Melbourne by old colonists. I am this day, 28th July, a colonist, arriving free, at age of 23, of a full half-century's standing. I have tasted of the bitter and sweet of the career of an enterprising pioneer and though now old, and failing in some respects have proved, I think by my sketches in “The Herald”, that my memory of past events, at least, is vivid. If, therefore, these sketches, and others yet in store for “The Herald”, are deemed worth preservation, give Messieurs, the readers of them encouragement, my volunteered subscription for copies for their publication and I will present the profitable proceeds, if any, as advised by majority of the votes of such subscribers. But as a burnt child dreads the fire, I had a caution or two against again incurring private responsibility in book publishing, as I believe all Colonial writers, on other than very light reading, have experienced painfully re reminiscences of unfinished streets of Melbourne, an amusing episode recure to memory.
In early days we had a continuous and vary wholesome and welcome influx of bounty immigrants, and when a ship arrived, the course for intending employers was to hurry on board, and, securing thus early a good selection, take them, men or women, ashore at once to their intended homes.
Once some time after my entry on pastoral pursuits, I so visited a ship just arrived in the Bay, but found, I was too late to secure the stamp I required as shepherds. However, I made the acquaintance of the Surgeon superintendent - the late Dr. Baynton, of Kyneton or Malmsbury. He came off the ship with me in the small river steamer up the Yarra to the wharf, which we did not reach until after dark.
He was in distress as to the safe custody of a desk and other things. I had promised to see a lady passenger safe on terra firma en route to an Hotel but assured the worthy Doctor I would return at once to assist in carrying up his parcels. But I found I couldn't shake off my fair encumbrance in the dark - and Melbourne Streets were dark then - till I got to Collins Street, and progressing thither expeditiously in a rainy night, from the wharf up Market street, all of a sudden I dropped into an excavation for a cellar or foundation, up to the waist in mud and water. Happily, the lady let go my arm, or she would have gone down too, but the disagreeable plight precluded my return to Dr. Baynton, and when I afterwards met him I found him sorely exercised re my apparent perfidy."John married Cathrine Ogilvy on 17 Jul 1850 in Melbourne Vic Australia. Cathrine was born on 7 Mar 1811 in Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh Midlothian Scotland. 58 F vii Ellen Beilby. Ellen married Captain MacKenzie. 59 M viii Julius Henry Beilby was born in 1823.
Had 4 children. Chairman of the Clydsdale Bank, EdinburghJulius married Emily Rayner. 60 F ix Maria Beilby was born in 1824.
Willaim Avery's second wife.Maria married William Henry Avery. 61 M x William Ralph Beilby was born in 1826. He died in 1858. 62 F xi Isabella Beilby was born in 1827. Isabella married John Bather. 63 F xii Mary Ann Beilby.
33. Charles Beilby (Thomas , William , Richard ) was born in 1785 in Birmingham, Warwickshire. He died in 1862 in Sydney NSW Australia. Charles immigrated in 1829 to Sydney NSW Australia.
All decendents of Charles Beilby was researched by and compiled by Len Beilby July 2000.
Charles married Caroline Palmer on 6 Mar 1814 in Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, Gloucester, England. Caroline was born in 1789 in Wales. She died on 28 May 1866 in Sydney NSW Australia.
They had the following children:
64 M i Charles Beilby was born in 1815 in Westbury-On-Trym, Bristol, Gloucester, England. He died in 1838 in Sydney NSW Australia. + 65 F ii Caroline Beilby was born in 1817. She died in 1894. 66 M iii Alfred Beilby was born in 1820. He died on 22 Oct 1837 in Sydney NSW Australia. + 67 M iv Edwin Beilby was born in 1825. He died on 6 Jan 1906. 68 F v ? Beilby was born in Sep 1820. + 69 M vi Francis Beilby was born in 1828. He died on 29 May 1892.