Prior to Nov.1838, Ann(e) DEVEREUX, Hobart ? Tasmania.
Ann(e) DEVEREUX.
Parents – John DEVEREUX/ Harriet McCARTHY.
Born – 9 Dec.1818, Hobart.
Baptised – 15 Nov.1819, Hobart (by Rev.Knopwood).
Died – abt.Nov.1840, Melbourne Victoria.
Buried – Old Melbourne Cemetery.
Children. (1)
MARRIED. (2)
17 Jan.1842, Rebecca SUTTON, St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Parents – W.G.(George) SUTTON/ Mary HORROCKS.
Children. (7)
Born – 17 Oct.1842, Melbourne.
Born – 11 Mar.1845, Kinlochewe (near Donnybrook) Victoria.
Born – 10 Apr.1848, Kinlochewe.
Born – 9 Dec.1849, Big Hill, Wallan.
Born – 14 Jan.1857, Strangeways, Wallan.
Born – 5 Apr.1859, Strangeways, Wallan.
Born – 25 Jun.1861, Strangeways Wallan.
Notes.
William (Hartley Budd) was born on 1 Jun.1812 at Brompton or Chatham, North West Kent, England, the youngest of five children to John Budd (a Soldier) and Hannah Evans.
ANN DEVEREUX was born the fifth of eight children, the youngest daughter of Irish Rebel,
JOHN DEVEREUX and HARRIET McCARTHY, and Grandaughter of First Fleeters, JOHN McCARTHY and ANN BEARDSLEY.
On the 17 Jan.1842 at St.James Church, William remarried Rebecca Sutton, the youngest daughter of George Sutton and Mary Horrocks of Bedford Hall House, Lancashire.
This brought Williams total holdings to approx.860 Acres.
While President, a narrow stone bridge was built over the Rocky Water Holes between the Merri Creek and the Sydney Road, on the Donnybrook Road. Williams name is Commemorated as President of the Shire, on a Plaque on this bridge which still stands today.
William was quite Ecumenical:
The Budd Bible is a Church of Ireland Prayer Book.
Prior to 1924, Miss Jane Stratford Orr, had purchased part of W.H.Budds original pre-emptive right of 276 acres.
Addendum.
William testified at the Graham versus Graham Equity Court Case in the Supreme Court, Melbourne, in 1872.
I shall be 63 on the 1st June. I am a native of Kent, but I came to this colony from Lancashire on the 6th December, 1832.
I came by the Hibernia. We sailed from Liverpool.
The case made International news, and was described as the Colonial Tichborne Case.
Reminiscences of George Frederick Sudgen (son of Joshua Sudgen).
I got as far as Pretty Sallys Hill, now I believe known as the Big Hill, a few miles the other side of Kilmore, the first day pulling up at a wayside inn which had not been there when father had his station close by.
By our Travelling Reporter (Weekly Times 3 Dec.1879).
One of the most extensive properties around Wallan is the Strangeways estate, the homestead of which is pleasantly situated at one end of the main street of the town.
Witnesses – Increase Robinson BELL/ Jane BELL, nee HILL.
Born – abt.1819, Ashton in Makerfield, Lancashire England.
Baptised – 5 Dec.1819, Lady Huntingdons Chapel, St.Johns, Warrington Lancashire.
Died – 5 Jul.1890, Strangeways, Wallan.
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – 23 Jul.1867, Alice CORRY, St.Mary of the Angels RC Church, Geelong Victoria.
Died – 9 Apr.1912, Strangeways, Wallan.
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourme.
Married – 22 Dec.1864, William Calvin HALE, Presbesytian Church, Fitzroy Melbourne.
Died – 3 Aug.1933, 2 Gillman St.East Malvern Melbourne.
Cremated – Fawkner Cemetery, Melbourne.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – Never Married.
Died – 19 May 1915, Bylands Victoria (at residence of nephew – Alfred William BUDD).
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – Never Married.
Died – 5 Feb.1934, Wallan.
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – 1 Mar.1892, John McNAUGHTON, St.Georges Anglican Church, Wallan.
Died – 20 May 1936, Wallan.
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – Never Married.
Died – 27 Jun.1908, Kew Mental Asylum, Melbourne.
Buried – Boroondara Cemetery, Kew.
Baptised – St.James Anglican Church, Melbourne.
Married – 11 May 1892, Walter Bowles NEWING, St.Georges Anglican Church, Wallan.
Died – 21 Jun.1944, Wallan.
Buried – Wallan Cemetery.
He was baptised on 21 Jun.1812, at St.Margarets of Antioch Church, St.Margarets Street, Rochester Kent.
Chatham and Brompton on the east side of the Medway River, were Naval Dockyards and Army Garrisons respectively, which were extremely active during this period of the Napaleonic Wars.
His father, John Budd, died, when William was only four months of age, killed by a fall into the trench Chatham Lines.
The Chatham Lines were a series of defences and fortifications, designed to protect the Chatham Dockyards from land invasion.
Williams mother (Hannah) remarried a Samuel Hartley, hence the origins of the name Hartley.
Before remarrying, Hannah, widowed and with five young children, may have returned to her parents in Bumten ??? Flintshire Wales.
The family moved north to Manchester and appear to have become involved in Boiler Making.
There is some evidence the family may have been in Ireland at some stage, as a nephew of William gives his birthplace in the England Censuses as Ireland.
William accompanied by his younger half-brother, Nathaniel and their parents, Samuel and Hannah, departed Liverpool, on the 27th November 1832, bound for the Cape of Good Hope, Hobart, Van Diemens Land and Sydney, New South Wales on the British ship, the Hibernia.
Shortly after crossing the Equator, on the morning of the 5th February 1833, the ship encounted a dreadful calamity, in which it caught fire and was totally destroyed.
Unfortunately the ships three boats could only carry 79 persons, leaving the remaining 153 to be burnt to death or be drowned.
Fortunately William and Nathan were saved, but were Orphaned by the tragedy.
Endeavouring to reach the nearest land, Pernambucco, Brazil, some 1,180 miles away, after six days and six nights of suffering, during which one passenger died, they were picked up by the
the Male Convict Ship, the Lotus which had sailed from Portsmouth.
They were conveyed to Rio de Janeiro, arriving on the 20th February.
The Two Brothers continued their voyage, departing Rio, 13th March, on the Brig, Adelaide, arriving in Hobart on the 20th May 1833.
In Hobart both desired to be apprenticed to a Blacksmith.
Nathan returned to London on the Adelaide, departing Hobart, on the 7 June 1833.
Little is known of Williams 5.5 years in Tasmania
He did however marry Ann Devereux, the Grand daughter of First Fleeters, John McCarthy and Anne Breadsley.
No record of the Marriage can be found in Tasmania, as yet.
The couple departed Hobart (10 Oct.1838) on the Brig, Francis arriving Melbourne (1 Nov.1838) via Launceston.
They were also accompanied by a Devereux (Unknown), John Devereux ??? Annes father.
In Mar.1839 William was a witness to the marriage of John Grant (a Carpenter) and Charlotte McKerras at Scots Presbyterian Church in Collins St.
A child was born to the couple (30 Jan.1840, Melbourne) named William Increase Budd (after Increase Robinson BELL) and baptised as an Anglican at St.James Church.
Circa Mar.1840 the child died and was buried as a Catholic (probably at the Old Melbourne Cemetery, now under the Victoria Market).
Ann was to die circa Nov.1840 and was also buried as a Catholic.
At this time, William was a Master Builder in Melbourne, building the first official Post Office, on the site of the present GPO (cnr.Bourke & Elizabeth St.), which opened 12 Aug.1841.
The Post Office had previously been in a private house in Little Collins Street.
The Foundation Stone for the present Post Office, was laided in 1859. To make way for the contruction of the new building, the First Post Office was moved to the rear of the property.
The Devereux family lived at Herdsmans Cove near Green Point, Bridgewater in the Derwent Valley, Tasmania.
Even many years after the death of Ann, there appears to have been contact between the Devereux and Budd families,
in that on the death of W.H.Budd (5 Nov.1888) a short notice appeared in the West Victorian Newspaper, the Hamilton Spectator.
St.James Old Cathedral stands on the corner of King and Batman Streets, opposite the Flagstaff Gardens. It originally stood near the corner of William and Little Collins Streets. It was moved to its present site in 1913.
William would have married in the small wooden church used by all denominations, which preceded this structure.
All 7 children of William and Rebecca were baptised at St.James. The present Baptismal Font came from St.Katherines Abbey in London in 1845.
A child was born (17 Oct.1842) to the couple, named William Hartley Budd.
Circa 1842/43, William lived in and ran an Ironmongery in Elizabeth Street, opposite the present GPO.
It consisted of a House and Shop, comprising 3 rooms, a kitchen and yard. It was owned by a Robert Robinson.
William owned a house at this time around the corner in Lt.Bourke St (at approx.No.345) comprising 4 rooms, a kitchen, pantry, yard, stables and garden, valued at 25 pounds. It was rented to a Thomas Gordon.
The Valuator noted the bark was off the timber. Perhaps the sign of a good Builder at the time.
Never one for crowds (it may have been disease which killed his first wife and child), William purchased (27 Apr.1844) the Kinlochewe Estate some 18 miles north of Melbourne.
Consisting of 160 Acres on which stood the Kinlochewe Inn situated on the Sydney Road where it crossed the Merri creek, east of Mt.Ridley.
The Inn was partly of brick and partly of wood, it had 14 rooms, stabling, fruit garden, 50 acres of arable land, 108 acres of grazing land and six paddocks.
Two more children were born at Kinlochewe (Emma Jane b.11 Mar.1845 and Henry Hartley b.10 Apr.1848) and the death occurred (24 Jul.1846) of the Grandfather of Williams first wife ie: John McCarthy a First Fleeter.
William was host to the Reverend Gentleman, John Dunmore Lang (noted Presbyterian Cleric) on two occasions on his excursions to Port Phillip and in 1848 to the Most Reverend James Alypius Goold, first Catholic Bishop of Melbourne.
Two nights a week, William rode a horse, relaying the news from Sydney for the Melbourne Newspaper Port Phillip Herald, arriving in Melbourne at 4 am.
With his knowledge of horses, William organised Race Meetings (circa 1846) on ground halfway between Kinlochewe and Donnybrook.
In 1846 William leased 1280 Acres from the Crown on Big Hill, commonly known as Pretty Sallys Hill, north of the present township of Wallan.
The land had previously been occupied by a Mr.Smith.
(Pretty Sallys Hill was named after the wife of Mr.Smith, who was described as enormous in size and as ugly as sin, who ran a sly grog shanty on the top of the Big Hill.
She meet a tragic death (8 Sept.1847) while driving a Spring Cart at Beveridge Swamp, when one of its wheels hit a stump, capsizing the cart and seriously crushing her).
William called this Estate Strangeways after a suburb in Manchester.
It was capable of grazing approx.1000 head of cattle.
In 1849 two orphaned Irish Girls (Margaret Shurkey and Margaret Sullivan) came to work for the Budds as Nursemaids. Both were 18 years old and arrived at Port Phillip on the New Liverpool 9 Aug.1849.
Margaret Sullivan was employed for 6 months at 12 pounds.
A house was built on the northwest corner of the present Darraweit and Kilmore Roads.
This was later turned into the Strangeways Hotel (licenced from 15 Apr.1851) after selectors occupied the lower portion of the Estate, which would have extended over the future site of Wallan township.
William was left with his home paddock.
The Hotel thrived during the 1850s rushes to the Goldfields.
On the 9 Jul.1851, William exercised his pre-emptive right and on the 26 May 1854 was granted 640 Acres (sq.mile) of land, at a cost of 20 Shillings per Acre.
(The Eastern Boundary was the Kilmore Road and the Southern Boundary was the Darraweit Road).
Two more parcels of land were granted to William:
Its Southern Boundary was William St.
A Spring on this land was at the time, the only reliable Water Supply for Wallan.
The Southern Boundary was the Darraweit Road.
Terrifying Bush Fires raged the district on Black Thursday on 6 Feb.1851, when the temperature exceeded 110 degrees fahrenheit in the shade.
In the absence of her husband, who was in Melbourne on business, Mrs.Budd and her children took refuge in a dairy cellar, but it was realised it offered no protection and only with difficulty were they saved.
Wiliam returned to find himself poorer by a thousand pound, everything he proccessed including Cattle, Horses, Crops, Produce and Out-Buildings were destroyed, but fortunately the house at Strangeways was saved.
Kinlochewe disappeared from the map.
It took William several years to right his losses.
In Nov.1856, William sworn an Affidavit (on the estate of the late Allan McCormick) that he was worth 3 thousand pounds.
William settled down to Pastoral and Agricultural life devoting his attention to grazing and cattle breeding.
He took a keen interest in Community Affairs:
In 1876 as President of the Merriang Shire, William appeared in Wallan before a Select Committee of the Legislative Assembly inquiring into the effect of the Timber Industry on the catchment of the Yan Yean Reservoir. In evidence, he related how two years previously,
he had been managing a Saw Mill on Mt.Disappointment, about a mile north of the Dividing Range on the Watershed of the Goulbourn River, producing about 12,000 superficial feet of timber per week and employing up tp 50 men.
On Williams death in 1888, the Kilmore Newspapers reported the death of King Budd. A more apt title may have been, The Wallan Patriarch.
In 1924 she decided to retire and sell the estate (Strangeways) by Public Auction.
Click on the following Public Auction notice (Argus, 15 Nov.1924) to enlarge.
(then Double click to restore the image to it original size).
He stated (Argus 31 May 1872 p.3).
Thomas Graham was a passenger. I had many conversations with him on board as to where he came from.
He said he came from Beverley, in Yorkshire; he had a wife and six children on board. He was from 33 to 35 years of age then.
Some of the children were called Graham and some the Hudsons. The eldest was a daughter about 18.
There was a boy named Edward Hudson, of the age of nine or ten.
My parents, who were on board, knew the Mrs.Graham who was with him. She was previously married to Mr.Hudson, solicitor, of Stockport.
The Hibernia was burnt at sea, on 5th February, 1833. Thomas Graham was in the same boat as me.
None of family were in the boat. Edward Hudson was in another boat. Mrs.Graham and the rest did not get into any boat. They perished.
Our boat was picked up by the Lotus, a prison ship bound to Tasmania. We were taken to Rio Janeiro; and we arrived there on the 22nd February, 1833.
On the following morning the Isabella came in with the boat which contained the other passengers which were saved. Edward Hudson was in it.
Thomas Graham and I lived together in the naval boarding-house at Rio for about 14 days. Graham worked at his trade there as a cabinetmaker.
We left Rio by the ship Adelaide, for Hobart Town. Thomas Graham and Edward Hudson were with us. We all landed at Hobart Town in May, 1833.
I remained at Hobart Town until October, 1833. Graham left 12 or 15 months after we arrived. So long as he was there he and I kept up our acquaintance.
The first house I was invited into in Tasmania was the house of Mr.and Mrs.Crooke. Mr.Crooke was an officer in the Customs.
They had five or six children. The names of two sons were James Elijah and William John. The former is now at Bacchus Marsh.
Two days after I landed in Melbourne in 1838 I met Thomas Graham. He was living where the Bush Inn now stands. He bought the inn afterwards. He was a builder.
Mrs.Crooke was living with him. I dont think any of the family, except the youngest daughter, were with them.
I keep up my acquaintance with Graham until April 27, 1870, which was the last time I saw him.
I have not the slightest doubt that he is the same man who died at Ferry lodge in Jaunary, 1871. The Mrs.Crooke who lived with Graham in 1838 is the same person who now calls herself Mrs.Graham.
Graham was always a fine good-looking man. He was about 5ft.7 and 1/2in. in height. I am use to measuring. His complexion was fair, florid. He was always stout.
In May, 1871, I received a letter from the defendants solicitor, Mr.Windsor, asking for information. I told him that I could give the evidence I have given to-day.
Thomas Graham shortly before his death, had written to his two sons, John Lancaster Graham and William Graham Graham, in England, who he had no contact for 46 years.
Thomas had become a wealthy man, owning the Simpsons Road Brewery, East Collingwood which became the Shamrock Brewery after his death.
Leaving no will, it was the two sons in England who were legally the rightful heirs to his estate.
Thomas sadly died just 30 days after writing to his sons in England, but John Lancaster Grahams solicitors were successful in obtaining an injunction preventing Mrs.Graham from disposing of his assets.
John came to Australia, armed with papers and a solicitor, Appleton Watson, in late 1871, to contest his fathers estate, leaving behind, a wife and seven children, at Dog and Duck Lane, Beverley.
The outcome of the Court Case was to award the whole considerable estate, to the two sons.
Sadly one son, William Graham, died about a month before the outcome.
The only legal marriage of Thomas, was his first to Jane Lancaster, at Beverley Yorkshire, 7 Sept.1820.
His second marriage (Bigamously) was to Ann Hudson, a widow, who already had four children from a previous marriage. Thomas and Ann had two more children before they emigrated in 1832.
Thomas eloped with Mary Crooke to Melbourne, marrying her 6 Apr.1840, St.James Church, Melbourne.
Marys husband, James Crooke, died 5 Jul.1845 Hobart.
Thomas and Mary appear to have had no children, but it is said, Thomas left Mary for a period, having two children by Mary daughter, Jane, following Janes first marriage.
You can see why the Press of the day, had a field day.
Was it W.H.Budd who introduced Thomas Graham to Mary Crooke in Hobart ?
I asked the innkeeper if he could put myself and horse up for the night.
He replied, yes my boy if you can pay for it.
I didnt tell him I only had 25 shillings, but put my horse in the stable, fed it, and sat down for tea.
After tea the man said, Tell you dont look like a boy that will get up at three in the morning and take off for Bendigo without paying.
Oh no sir, I said, I will pay you now.
I then found that if I paid for breakfast half of my money would be gone, so I told him that as I would be starting long before he was up, I would pay him for my horse, bed and tea and get my breakfast further along the road.
After tea I got talking with the innkeeper who looked a kindly man, and asked him if he ever knew a Mr.Budd who once owned a cattle station next to Rands waterhole.
He said, Oh you mean Sudgens old station. He had four boys and a daughter and no wife.
A drought came on and his sheep got the scab and then selectors came on his run.
Yes sir, I said, that was my fathers run.
Well said the man, Ive been wondering where Ive seen you before, but you and your brothers were very small then.
He then talked of father but evidently didnt think much of his managership as he was so often in Melbourne and left so much to his overseer (Mulligan).
He also said that the overseer used to go too often to Kilmore and get drunk and take my eldest brother with him.
I agreed with that and told him how when the shepherds would run away to the goldfields, I and my brothers would have to work the sheep.
I told him also how I would have to take my sheep to a place about two miles from Budds old station home and there round them up and give four sheep to the contractor who was at that time making a road to Bendigo.
Well said the man, that was my station and I am Mr.Budd.
Your father had all hilly country and mine was all lovely flats.
The selectors came along and took up all my flats so that I was only left with my home paddock.
I built a new front to the old house and turned it into this inn.
We talked about old times, Mr.Budd telling me of the local changes and I told him of my doings.
Next morning I was up early and continued on my journey.
The proprietor, Mr.W.H.Budd, is of a truth that exceedingly rare individual, the oldest inhabitant, his recollections dating back as far as 1833, at which period he arrived in the colony, though it was some thirteen years later before he finally settled down in Wallan.
Mr.Budds recollections of the early times and the ups and downs of colonial life are most interesting and having been in those days connected with the printing interest, he possesses various old newspapers and public documents, both of this colony and Tasmania, which for clearness of latter-press and literary excellence are not one whit behind the journals of the present day.
After purchasing the Strangeways station, Mr.Budd settled down to a pastoral and agricultural life and for several years succeeded tolerably well, when, on the 6th.February 1851 - the never-to-be-forgotten Black Thursday - everything he possessed in the shape of cattle, horses, crops, etc., was swept away by the terrible bush fire, and his dwellinghouse saved only after the most strenuous exertions.
It was almost a cushing stroke, and many years elapsed before Mr.Budd managed to regain what he had lost, and once more established himself as a farmer and grazier.
His present holding consists of nearly 1,000 acres, a portion, however, of which is let, and the remainder he farms on his own account.
The greater part is richly grassed, well-watered, and subdivided, and in many places suitable for agricultural purposes.
Not much cultivation has been done for years, Mr.Budd devoting his attention to grazing and cattle-breeding.
The latter are the shorthorn strain, and are being gradually improved, a young pure-bred bull, named Lord Lyon, one of the progeny of Mr.Stevensons Cedric, and bred by Mr.James McBean, having been for some time running with the herd.
Adjoining Strangeways is Lovely Banks, the farm of Mr.W.H.Budd, jun., whose homestead occupies a healthy position on the slope of a hill, and is surrounded by a nice, well kept flower and vegetable garden.
About five and twenty acres have been put under cultivation this year, half of which is oats, and the remainder peas and potatoes.
The former are looking very well at present, the recent rains having proved beneficial to them, but should much more fall before Christmas, there is a probability of the caterpillars playing havoc amongst the crops and grass, these pests being more numerous and destructive after heavy rain in the summer than at any other time of the year.
The stock on Lovely Banks comprise some good Clydesdale horses and half-bred Durham cattle, used for dairy purposes.
Taking it of an average all the year round, they produce about 5lb. of butter each per week, and some go as high as 9lb. per week.
The butter is sold to Melbourne dealers, who travel the district at regular intervals, and the price obtained varies from 6d. to 1s. per 1b, according to the time of the year and the state of the Melbourne market.
A short distance from Mr.Budds farm, is that of Mr.T.Hogan, who rents some 400 acres of the Strangeways estate and in addition to this, possesses about 1,000 acres in Buln Buln, Gippsland.
Mr.Hogan is well known as an experienced and successful breeder of long-wooled sheep, having commenced some sixteen years ago, when he had a farm on the Werribee, near the Wyndham railway station.
His 400 rented acres is admirably adapted for sheep-breeding, being partly hilly and partly flat, and the herbage, composed of a mixture of native and artificial graases, is exceptionally rich and luxuriant.
The flat ground is mostly cleared and grubbed, and was under cultivation for several years, being first ploughed in 1836, but the hills are still thickly timberd, the trees having been left for the purpose of sheltering cattle in winter.
A great deal of stone for metalling the Sydney road was taken from a hill in Mr.Hogans paddock, and judging from the appearance of the quarries at the present time, ther is still plenty more in reserve.
Although sheep-breeding is the most important industry on the farm, there being altogether over 1,000 head, still considerable attention has been paid to horse and pig breeding.
The former are principally the Clydesdales, of the Hon.Neil Blacks breed, and a stud horse-Clanman-is kept on the place, while the pigs show unmistakable signs of the Berkshire strain, and on many occassions have taken first prizes.
The homestead is situated on what is known as Pretty Sally Hill, so named from the original owner of the property-a Mrs.Smith-who received the rather complimentary cognomen (at least, so tradition sayeth) from the doctor of the ship in which she came, when a young woman, to Sydney.
After her marriage, she and her husband travelled to Victroia overland, and settled down in Wallan until 1846, when Mr.Budd purchased the propery from them, and it has sinced remained in his possession.
If there was one place more than another that used to be regarded with terror by carriers, in the early days, going to up-country towns (now reached by rail), it was this Pretty Sallys Hill, the boggy nature of the ground and the difficulties of ascent rendering it extremely dangerous and laborious.