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Alice May BUDD 1872-1961.

Parents - William Hartley BUDD/ Alice CORRY.
Born - 18 Jul.1872, Wallan Victoria.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - 10 Jan.1961, Taringa, Brisbane Queensland.
Buried - Nudgee Catholic Cemetery, Brisbane.

MARRIED.

(1) - 18 Jun.1907, John William DOUGHNEY, St.Patricks RC Cathedral,
Melbourne Victoria.
(2) - 5 Dec.1930, George KIRK, Brisbane.

John William DOUGHNEY.

Parents - John James DOUGHNEY/ Bedelia Adela Gertrude QUINN.
Born - 24 Jun.1876, Geelong Victoria.
Baptised - 2 Jul.1876, St.Mary of the Angels RC Church, Geelong.
(Witnesses - John QUINN/ Mary JONES.)
Died - 31 Dec.1913, Sanger St. Corowa, NSW.
Buried - New Corowa Cemetery.

George KIRK.

Parents - ???? KIRK/ .
Born - .
Baptised - .
Died - .
Buried - Cemetery.

Children.

None.

Notes.

Alice May Budd, the eldest daughter of William Hartley Budd and Alice Corry of Wallan, married John William Doughney, the eldest son of John James Doughney and Bedelia Adela Gertrude Quinn of Mortlake.
John William Doughney was one of ten siblings, four boys and six girls.
Alice most likely meet John while nursing his father at Doctor Dowlings Private Hospital, Terang shortly before he died from Tuberculosis, 27 Sept.1904.
John William Doughney was described as a fine stalwart of a man, having a love for adventure, and was a splendid athlete and footballer.
Educated in Sydney, he went to Western Australia, where he worked as a traveller for a large firm of Storekeepers.
Later he turned his attention to mining on the Southern Cross and Kalgoorlie Goldfields, where he was Assistant Manager to one of the big claims.
While in the West the Boer War broke out (1899-1902), and he joined the 6th. Western Australian Mounted Infantry Contingent as a Private.
He had previously been a member of the Victorian Mounted Rifles.
Embarking for South Africa, 10 Apr.1901, on the Ulstermore from Fremantle, returning on the Columbian, arriving Fremantle 29 Apr.1902.
He was promoted to Corporal on the 9 Sept.1901.
His Contingent was disbanded on the 17 May 1902, when he was offered a Commission of Lieutenant in the permanent Australian forces, but he declined the offer.
Australia at the outbreak of the Boer War was still not a Country and only proclaimed a Country on 1 Jan.1901.
Returning to his parents at Mortlake, it was not long before his love for travel, took him to New Zealand, before returning to Mortlake, meeting Alice and Marrying her (1907).
It is Unknown if or where his name is Commemorated on a Boer War Momument ?
Shortly after their marriage, John and Alice went to Corowa on the Northern Side of the Murray River in NSWs, where they purchased the Mills Hotel, but as Johns health was poor, they sold out and purchased a Fruit and Vegetable Shop near the School of Arts.
During his residence at Corowa he took a great keen interest in the Sport of hunting Rabbits etc.with Greyhounds.
In 1911 he was chosen to represent Australia at the Coronation of King George V (22 Jun.), but forfeited his place in favour of a friend in Western Australia.
It is said John was never the same, after a strenuously fighting a Bush Fire at Mortlake, which left him in an exchausted condition with a heavy cold, which he could not shake off.
He died of Tuberculosis on New Years Eve, 1913.
Alices sister, Mary Rosetta (Budd) and her husband, Charles Christopher Stockdale, also lived at Corowa.
After her husbands death Alice appears to have lived with several Budd relatives, which included her brother, Alfred William Budd, at Bylands and again with her Sister, at Ferntree Gully, before moving to Queensland.
In the 1925 Federal Election, Alice is registered as a Nurse at Peel Island in Moreton Bay near Brisbane.
Peel Island was a former Quarantine Station and circa 1925 a Leper Colony.
In 1930, Alice is registered as a Hospital Matron at Mt.Molloy (near Cairns) in Northern Queensland, the same year she married again, to George Kirk in Brisbane.
Alice died at St.Clares Home of Rest, Taringa Brisbane, on 10 Jan.1961, aged 88 years and was buried in the Nudgee Catholic Cemetery.
No one else is buried with Alice and no Headstone exists.
The information for the Death Certificate was supplied by her niece, E.M.McDonald of 17 Kate Street, Alderley Brisbane, who appears to have been related on the Kirk side of the family.

John William Doughneys grandfather, John Doughney, arrived in Geelong 1840, with his wife, Ellen (Downey) and 1 year old daughter, Catherine.
Both John and Ellen were born in Kilkenny Ireland and married at Ballyragget Kilkenny.
Nine more Children were born to the couple in Victoria.
The family first went to Bacchus Marsh for 3 years, then Mt.Noorat near Terang for 2 yrs, circa 1845 to Harrow where he built the first Hotel, the Foresters Inn, circa 1853 he purchased the Wando Station near Casterton and finally settled in Geelong.
John died 26 Feb.1894 at his sons (John James Doughney) residence, the Mt.Shadwell Hotel Mortlake and is buried at Mortlake.
His wife, Ellen, died 22 May 1865 at OConnell St. Geelong West and is buried in Geelong.
John William Doughneys father, John James Doughney, was born at Harrow 1847 and`married Adele Quinn 26 Oct.1870 at Mortlake.
After Adeles fathers death in 1875, John James Doughney took over her fathers Hotel at Mt.Elephant (Derinallum).
Circa 1880 to Darlington, and finally circa 1883 to Mortlake where he purchased the Mount Shadwell Hotel.
Adele died 18 Dec.1910 at Mortlake, born abt.1849 at Mt.William in the Grampians. She is buried with her husband at Mortlake.