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Alfred William BUDD 1868-1953.
Parents - William Hartley BUDD/ Alice CORRY.
MARRIED.
Sarah Louisa SORRAGHAN.
Parents - Nicholas SORRAGHAN/ Margaret RUXTON.
Children. (6)
Born - 3 Sept.1894, Bylands.
Born - 4 Nov.1895, Bylands.
Born - 13 Nov.1896, Bylands.
Born - 1898, Bylands.
Born - 13 Sept.1900, Bylands.
Born - 20 Apr.1904, Bylands.
Notes.
Alfred William Budd, one of 10 children and the second eldest son of William Hartley Budd and Alice Corry of Wallan, married Sarah Sorraghan, the fourth daughter of Nicholas Sorraghan and Margaret Ruxton of Bylands.
Alfred had sold these parcels of land prior to his death.
Nicholas Sorraghan, the father of Sarah, was known as the Grand Old Man of Kilmore, died 31 Dec.1889, Aged 108 years.
Born - 27 May 1868, Marshall St.Chilwell Geelong Victoria.
(at residence of his Aunt, Mary LUTTRELL - his mothers sister).
Baptised - St.Mary of the Angels RC Church, Geelong.
(Witnesses - Mary Ann LUTTRELL/ John KEENAN).
Died - 16 May 1953, 66 Baxter St.Bendigo Victoria.
(at residence of his daughter, Alice Teresa BUTLER).
Buried - RC Cemetery, Kilmore Victoria.
8 Nov.1893, Sarah Louisa SORRAGHAN, St.Patrick RC Church, Kilmore.
(Witnesses - Hubert Walton BUDD/ Teresa SORRAGHAN).
Born - 24 Aug.1861, Bylands (near Kilmore).
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - 8 Jan.1919, Bylands.
Buried - RC Cemetery, Kilmore.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 26 Apr.1929, Julia Veronica BUTTIMER,
St.James Congregrational Manse, Fitzroy Melbourne Victoria.
Died - 7 Mar.1962, 2 Curtain St.Kingsbury Melbourne.
Buried - Preston Cemetery, Melbourne.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 19 Feb.1944, Mary Jane TYRRELL, St.Patrick RC Church, Kilmore.
Died - 17 Dec.1982, Kilmore.
Buried - RC Cemetery, Kilmore.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 24 Aug.1923, Sylvester OHERN, St.Francis RC Church, Melbourne.
Died - 22 Mar.1981, 65 Kitchner St.Shepparton Victoria.
Buried - Shepparton Cemetery.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 1926, Mary Veronica RAWSON, Melbourne.
Died - 10 Aug.1967, Williamstown Melbourne.
Buried - Williamstown Cemetery.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 20 Apr.1927, Patrick Joseph BUTLER, St.Francis RC Church, Melbourne.
Died - 16 Dec.1981, 66 Baxter St.Bendigo Victoria.
Buried - Bendigo Cemetery.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married - 8 Sept.1937, Julia Veronica MELLON, St.Mary RC Church Mooroopna Victoria.
Died - 15 May 1961, Mooroopna.
Buried - Mooroopna Cemetery.
Alfred was the youngest of twins (by 5 minutes) born at his Aunts (Mary Luttrell) who was a Midwife, who lived in Marshall Street, Chilwell, Geelong.
Maybe this was the reason, Alfred barracked for the Geelong Football Team.
After his marriage, Alfred and Sarah ran the Post Office at Union Lane, Bylands, before taking up farming pursuits.
The Post Office was later run by Sarahs sister, Annie Quillinan.
Alfred was recognised as an Authority on Horses, competing at many District Agricultural Shows.
A Champion Jumper, he won the High Jump several times, on a horse, called Rainbird.
Alfred was also at the Melbourne Cup in 1890, won by Carbine, when everyone threw their hats into the air. This was capture on Film and appears to have been one of the first Movies taken in Australia.
Also a keen follower of the hounds, Alfred was a member of the Kilmore Hunt Club for 50 years.
He took a keen interest in the Assumption College and Kilmore Football Teams. His son Dick was a Champion Footballer for Kilmore.
After his wifes death (Sarah had suffered for many years from a Kidney disease) and due to poor health (Alfred suffered from Asthma), he moved to Ardmona, growing Lucerne by Irrigation, five times a year, with his son, Leo.
Later he moved to Birchip, to lived with his daughter, Alice where he tended the gardening etc. for the local Parish Priest.
It is said the drier climate at Birchip cured his Asthma.
Alfred was a zealous worker for the Sisters of Mercy, which his Grandaughter (Mary Cecilia BUTLER), joined the Order in ?
He smoked a pipe, and used to light it by sticking a long taper into an open fire, made by folding a piece of paper.
Alfred delighted in the fright his grand children got, when they lit the taper and it flared.
Alfreds sister, Alice May Doughney, lived with Alfreds family at Bylands, some time after her husbands death (31 Dec.1913).
Alfred inherited two parcels of land:
It was owned by Alfreds Uncle, Henry Hartley Budd, who bequeathed the land on his death (19 May 1915) to his brother (William Hartley Budd), his sister (Rosetta Budd), and Nathaniel Templeman Randell.
Since William and Nathaniel predeceased Henry, and as Rosetta was in poor health, she consented the land be granted to Alfred.
The land was originally bequeathed to Henry, by his father (William Hartley Budd Snr.).
The land had been bequeathed to Alfred, by his wife Sarah, on her death (3 Jan.1919).
Sarah had obtained the land in two parcels, which was bequeathed by her mother (Margaret) on her death, 4 Jul.1895:
They in turn conveyed this land (15 Apr.1896) to Sarah, their Sister-in-law.
Sarah purchased this land from her 3 Sisters on 14 Jan.1899, for 150 pounds.
(not 31 Dec.1890, as on his Headstone in the Kilmore Catholic Cemetery).
He was at the time, reportably the oldest resident in Australia.
(It is said an Uncle of his lived to 111).
Born in 1771 at Shercock/ Bailieborough, Co.Cavan, Ireland to Philip Sorraghan (farmer) and Mary ODonnell, it is said he was 17 years of age, when the Irish Rebellion occurred in 1798.
After Farming in Ireland for many years, he left for America, before coming to Victoria in 1853.
Married in Ireland, 3 times, all his children (7) by his third wife (Margaret Ruxton), were born at Bylands Victoria, however there were children by his other wifes in Victoria.
Nicholas was in fact 72 years of age when he married Margaret Ruxton.
Owen Sorraghan of Seymour, a child of Nicholas first marriage, arrived in Victoria on 26 Nov.1841 on the Wallace which departed Liverpool 18 Aug.1841.
He was registered as an Assisted Passenger under the Surname, Sorrgan.
Owen gave his Age as 18, Occupation a Labourer, Native of Cavan, and Religion as RC.
Two of Owens siblings, Margaret and Rose followed in 1855 on the Frederick which departed Liverpool 24 Jan.and arrived Melbourne 11 Apr.
They both were assigned as Domestic Servants to John Grant of Deep Creek and John Gildea of Moonee Ponds.
It is said in total there were 19 children, but only 17 could be remembered on Nicholas death certificate.