EDWARD and HANNAH DESCENDANT NEWSLETTER
Issue No 1/15
Welcome to the first issue in 2015, there is an old saying that time flies when you’re having
fun but I think it flies even faster the older you become and less fun you have.
Our Christmas meeting on 31st October was
great with plenty of Christmas food for
morning tea provided by Ann to go with the
tea and coffee.
The meeting lasted about the same time
then there was the continuation of the talk
fest that started before the meeting and
continued after the meeting. The weather
was good to us as it was a bit cooler than
the high temperature predicted. We had a
good meetin.g
As shown we have a photo from the meeting
as it is now an agenda item so we don’t
forget.
“Edward & Hannah Corner”
Hannah was waiting in the “Dunkirk Hulk” 228 years ago to be placed on board the “Charlotte” for
her journey beyond the seas to New South Wales not knowing what lay ahead of her and her son
William/Edward.
Also this time marks 227 years since Edward, Hannah and her son William, Elizabeth and daughter
Ann/Nancy arrived in New South Wales.
“History in Edward & Hannah’s time”
1810, January; Lachlan Macquarie was sworn in as the fifth Governor of New South Wales.
1793, January: The first group of free settlers arrived in Port Jackson, 5 men, 2 women and 6
children. There were 5 land grants to them in February at Liberty Plains. The area is now Strathfield
and Homebush.
“Quiz”;
MARY'S FATHER HAS FIVE DAUGHTERS:
1. NANA, 2. NENE, 3. NINI, 4.. NONO, AND ????
WHAT IS THE NAME OF THE FIFTH DAUGHTER?
“Members Searching History”
A Bohemian Rhapsody?Not Pugh/Smith, but interesting family history.
Lorraine , a well known ‘Pugh-Smith .1’, searched her family history to find out about her
father as her Dad died when she was only nine months old. Lorraine’s maiden name was
Burns and we often joked about the Scottish frugality that was in her genes but then we
discovered otherwise. Her Dad’s marriage certificate and death certificate noted him as
John William Burns but his birth certificate declared him as John William Badior. After all
the research, with a lot of Marilyn’s help, the Badior family was revealed to be descended
from German immigrants brought out to the Hunter Valley to tend the early vineyard and
wine industry in the mid 19th century.
Lorraine’s Dad, John William and his twin brother James Edward, changed their family
name early in life. But that is another intriguing story for later. The twins’ mother, that is
Lorraine’s Grandmother, was Catherine Badior the daughter of German immigrants
Christian and Agnes Badior who arrived in the Hunter Valley during1849.
This week an excited ‘new’ cousin emailed copies of documents and pictures of family
going back to 1626. The family was traced by a German relative, Gabriele Kessler, and she
confirmed the documentation of the Badiors in the Rhine Valley where Lorraine’s Greatgrandparents came from. Gabriele had also sent photos of records tracing the family back
to Austria, Hungary, Trencin (now Slovakia) and originally from Bohemia. Gabrielle has
traced Lorraine’s parentage as far back as Great-(many times)-grandfather Jan Padiaur
born in 1626 in Hrusova, a village in Bohemia. One of the family (Franciscus) later moved
to the Rhine (Alsace-Lorraine) area in Germany with the Austrian Hussar's Regiment in
1796 where he married.
Records this far back in Europe can be hard to decipher. The handwritten church book
entries from various diocese are in Latin and the German entries are written in the old
German Sutterlin but are mostly now, fortunately, translated. . . into Czech!! Some copies of
documents look a bit strange and are a good example of how names change as the
German name Badior was known as Bagyor or Pagyor in Hungary and Padiaur in Bohemia.
You never know where researching family history will end up... Bohemia?
“Smile Time” from Joe
Convicts are committed people!
Did you hear the one about the convict who had an allergy? He breaks out occasionally!
A convict is the only person who likes to be stopped in the middle of a sentence.
History in Our Time (well most of us)
1968 January; The first Hydrofoil began operating between Circular Quay and Manly.
1954 February; Queen Elizabeth 11 and Prince Phillip arrived at Farm Cove to start a 2
months tour of Australia, Ann remembers it as her Aunt took her to Farm Cove very early so
they could be in a good position to see the Queen arrive and walk pass
.
Who else remembers seeing the Queen on her visit in 1954. I was one in the many
thousands of school children who were on the oval of the old showground or the cricket
ground to see her drive around standing up in the back of a Land Rover. Where you there?
“Members Family History Story” by Ray
THE BATTLE OF BROKEN HILL
My father and his family were part of an historical event in Broken Hill when the first and
only military aggression took place on Australian soil during WW1 on the 1 st January 1916.
My grandmother Alethea with her two sons Allison and George, my father, together with
Alethea’s brother William were on board the Annual Manchester Unity Independent Order
of Odd Fellows New Year’s Day picnic train to Silverton.
The train was open ore wagons that had
been swept out and bench seats were
placed in them, there were about 1200
picnickers on board.
A Picnic Train leaving Broken Hill
The train was under orders to only travel
slowly as there was sand over the rails in
places and they did not want a
derailment at speed with people in open
wagons.
John my grandfather was riding his motorbike & sidecar outfit with all the family’s picnic
gear.
At Right: My Grandfather on his motor
bike with my grandmother Alethea in the
side car with my father on her knee and
his brother in front.
I estimate the photo was taken 1914/1915
as my father was born April 1913.
The motor bike was an Excel Auto Cycle
1000cc V2 engine, the side car was cane.
It was American made and the first
production motor bike that would do 100
MPH (160 KPH).
Just outside Broken Hill the train was fired on by two Afghans. They had set themselves up
with an ice cream cart as cover but they were flying a Turkish flag. Three passengers were
killed and seven wounded as a result of the attack before the Afghans left. It was not long
before police and civilians were grabbing rifles and setting out after the Afghans. They were
cornered and a shootout took place resulting in one Afghan being killed and the other had
16 bullet wounds and died on the way to hospital.
There were a number of reports in the local paper about the attack, one report was that
when the announcement was made to the picnic crowd at Silverton that one of the
attackers had been shot and killed and the other riddled with bullets the crowd cheered.
The locals were taking no chances as on the return trip a number of local rifle club
members and others all armed escorted the train back travelling each side in front of the
train up to half a mile out, some would have been on horses also there were a number of
them on the train as well. The instruction to those on board mostly women and children was
if they were attacked get down behind the steel sides of the wagons. Even as the train
reached back into town armed locals were patrolling the streets around where the line runs
through town.
That evening a mob of locals fuelled by beer set out for the German Club in Broken Hill and
set fire to it, when the fire carts arrived they chopped up the hoses to make sure the place
burnt to the ground.
The shooting and the action of locals I believe started the Federal Government to intern all
”enemy aliens” with 11 in Broken Hill being arrested and sent to Adelaide for incarceration
in the Torrens Island Concentration Camp, (a naturally formed Island inland from Outer
Harbour Adelaide). Also Australia began a type of town planning ethnic cleansing, place
names like Germanton being renamed Holbrook in NSW.
My grandfather John was a member of the local rifle club and a keen shooter, knowing him
later in his life I believe he would have had one of his rifles and a pistol with him in the
motorbike sidecar. I was only ever told that John had helped the police however his son
Allison (my uncle) showed me several unused live bullets belonging to the Afghans. They
were very primitive as the projectiles were wrapped in paper at the base to hold them in the
bullet casing. As he had these bullets his father John my grandfather must have been
around at the end of the shootout to have collected them.
The locals call it the Battle of Broken Hill but some today would call it a terrorist attack.
“Smile again”
The Grim Reaper came for me last night , and I beat him off with a vacuum cleaner.
Talk about Dyson with death!
“Quiz Answer”;
DID YOU ANSWER NUNU?
NO! OF COURSE IT ISN'T. HER NAME IS MARY!
READ THE QUESTION AGAIN!
“Next Meeting;”
Next meeting date - 14 February 2015, a Family Picnic day at Prospect Reservoir.
I will have some news about a memorial at St Matthews Anglian Church cemetery and
Wendy wants feedback on the Generation A&B also B&C documents that have been
forward to every one.