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ROBINSON, James and Catherine ST ALBANS SETTLERS FROM 1905 Joseph Ribarow November 2018 ISBN 978-0-9874353-5-4 Published by Community Research and Management Services 5 Harding Street Ascot Vale Victoria 3032 Copyright Esmond Healey recollections copyright © 2018 Judith (Lane) Kos not to be republished without her permission. Other material copyright © 2018 Joseph Ribarow. The sources of information and images appearing in this publication have been acknowledged where possible – any copyright owner who believes they have not been properly acknowledged should notify the publisher so that corrections can be made. Except for the Esmond Healey recollections, the information in this publication may be copied without fee for personal and not for profit use provided that the content is neither used for any malicious or detrimental purposes nor for commercial advantage and the origins of the material are acknowledged in the reproduced material. Individual copyright holders and suppliers of documents and images may reproduce their own material unreservedly. Disclaimer The information in the document is based on historical records and oral history and is presented in good faith, but the publishers and copyright holders do not guarantee the accuracy of the information nor accept any responsibility from any errors in the document or for any consequences arising from them. Every care has been taken in compiling this information, but errors and gaps in the source data, including the possibility of mistaken identities, have made the verification of some data very difficult. Readers are advised to make their own judgment about accuracy and relevance. Corrections and amendments If you wish to correct any errors in this publication, or want to suggest any other amendments, please contact the publisher at the above address or leave a message for the author at www.historyofstalbans.com Acknowledgements Many thanks to the people who supplied photographs and information and shared their family history, in particular: Mary Smith née Stein (1920-2015) re St Albans oral history backgrounds. Mavis Hunter née King re King and Anderson families. Marion Dodd née McAuley (1927-2006) re McAuley family. John Stevens (1923-2005) re Stevens family. Karen Bugeja re Stevens family photographs. Jimmy Knowles re Boyd and Knowles families. Mervyn Missen re McRae family. Gwen Kratsis née Honey re Stenson family. Wendy Taylor née Hounslow re Hounslow, Lewis and Errington families. Evelyn Mullenger re oral history backgrounds and press articles. Suzanne Uniacke re Healey family photographs and details. Judith (Lane) Kos re the transcript of Esmond Healey’s recollections. David Menesdorff re Mensdrorffer family. Front cover Parishioners attending Presbyterian Church, corner of Circus East and Elaine Street, St Albans. Photograph originally supplied by Emily Stenson Hall for the St Albans Railway Centenary Committee in 1986. The real life of Australia pulsates not in the big cities with their hurrying throngs, but in the suburbs, country towns, and hamlets such as St. Albans. C. G. Carlton Sunshine Advocate 9 September 1932 Preface This collection of stories is my second volume in resoponse to the publication “St Albans The First Hundred Years 1887-1987” by the St Albans Railway Centenary Committee. My first volume was about the pioneers from 1868 who formed the basis of the St Albans district as a small farming commuity of about 200 residents, which declined during the economic recession of the 1890s. In 1905, the subdivision of the Overnewton Estate brought in a new wave of settlers who revitalised the St Albans community and provided leadership for the next fifty years. The population increased one again as commercial and civic developments were renewed. These, some 50 stories of second-wave pioneers, were inspired by the Railway Centenary Committee’s list of St Albans residents between 1902 and 1911. This publication includes almost half of the families mentioned in the list and thus is a good sample of the population at the time. Many of the names have been mentioned in local oral history, so readers now can better appreciate their backgrounds. Families of particular leadership and longevity in the district inlcude the Stenson, Stevens and Boyd families. I hope you enjoy all the stories. Joseph Ribarow November 2018 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION .................................................................... 1 ANDERSON, Peter and Hannah ............................................. 5 ANSTIS, William Henry ........................................................... 8 AYLMER, Robert and Elizabeth .............................................. 9 BALMER, Benjamin and Clara .............................................. 10 BASTINGS, Edwin and Mary ................................................ 11 BECK, Henry and Margaret .................................................. 14 BELSAR, Richard and Mary ................................................. 16 BELSEY, Catherine, Richard, Thomas ...................................... 18 BOYD, Jonathan and Emily ..................................................... 18 BROWN, Robert and Josephine .............................................. 21 BROWNE, Jessie and Edwin ................................................... 22 CALDER, Richard and Christine ........................................... 23 COLEMAN, Henry and Margaret........................................... 26 DICKSON, Alexander and Ada ............................................. 28 ERRINGTON, Alice and William ........................................... 32 EVANS, Samuel and Ida ...................................................... 35 GRABASCH, Heinrich and Jane ........................................... 37 GRIFFITHS, Henry and Emma ............................................. 38 GRIMMET, Jabez and Isabella ............................................. 39 HEALEY, Denis and Mary..................................................... 40 HESTER, Charles ................................................................ 46 KELLAWAY, Catherine Sophia ............................................. 47 KING, Malcolm and Lucy ...................................................... 48 LEWIS, Thomas and Elizabeth ............................................. 51 LINTON, Robert and Jane .................................................... 54 LUXFORD, Edward and Charlotte ........................................ 56 MAKIN, Henry and Marianne ................................................ 58 MANCY, Henry and Susanna ............................................... 60 McAULEY, James and Margaret ........................................... 61 McELWEE, Daniel and Ada .................................................. 63 McRAE, Farquhar and Annie ................................................ 64 MENESDORFFER, Alexander and Esther ............................ 68 MILLETT, Thomas and George ............................................ 74 MURROWOOD, George and Sabina .................................... 76 PARRY, Anne and William Henry ......................................... 77 PFANNENSTIEL, Hugo and Emily ........................................ 78 PORTEOUS, Richard and Lillie ................................................ 79 RITCHIE, Malcolm and Jane................................................. 82 ROBINSON, James and Catherine ....................................... 85 SCHWARZE, William and Evelyn ......................................... 87 SHORTELL, James and Rosina............................................ 88 STANWORTH, Samuel and Sabina ...................................... 89 STENSON, Frederick and Eva .............................................. 90 STEVENS, James and Agnes ............................................... 98 SYKES, Alexander and Robert ........................................... 108 TREVENA, William and Edith ............................................. 111 TURNLEY, Emma, Claude, and Grace ............................... 111 WORTHINGTON, Isabella Frances ........................................ 115 6 INTRODUCTION On 2 June 1835 John Batman came across Bass Strait looking for grazing land, and his party St Albans in 1905 was a small, rural village along boated up the Maribyrnong River and walked the Bendigo railway line, a minor part of the new through the grasslands that would later become a federation of Australian states that was established core section of St Albans. He described the plains in 1901. The village was part of the Keilor Plains along the Maribyrnong River as beautiful sheep that were part of the traditional home territory of pasture, and grazing was one of the pursuits of the the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation who had earliest European settlers to the area. The prognosis lived in the area for about 50,000 years. Their total for the sheep industry was well judged, because in number in Victoria at the time of British colon- 1836 there were 200 Europeans and 27,000 isation is hard to determine; some of the early sheep in the colony. In 1837 the number of estimates are about 6,000 to 7,500 people.1 colonists increased to 500 and the number of The first British colonists who explored the sheep to 100,000. By 1851 there were 77,000 area were Charles Grimes and James Flemming, people, 7,000,000 sheep and 400,000 cattle. which had happened in January 1803, when the However, more pertinent to local historians Surveyor-General of New South Wales, Charles should be the mapping of Batman’s journey along Grimes, explored Port Phillip Bay and around
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