Peterson Family History 2 1890-1931
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Peterson Family History 2 1890-1931 A draft of a work in progress Richard Peterson 31 December 2012 2 April 1890. ‘I hereby give notice that, Clark Christian William Petersen died in Denmark, on 11 th February 1890, at the age of 58. Mary Petersen, nee Delaney. (Betty May Jackman, Bendigo Advertiser Personal Notices. 1854-1880. 1992. From Noelene Wild, letter to RP, 14 May 2005, 1 October 1868). Not relevant? c1890. Grandma Goodman was married to George Goodman (bald, one strand of hair! Perhaps he is the one whose photo I have on my wall?). His father, Jacob Goodman (our great great grandfather), was Jewish, from [the province of] Breslau (German) and, now Polish: Wroclaw), southwest Poland, but then in Prussia (Germany). Her mother was from Dolgelly (Dolgellau, North Wales).1 Their children were Essie, Ruby, Jack, Gwen, William, Vern, Madge, Jean (all eight born in 14 years) and Winn. (Joan Waddington. Probable photo, held).2 Wrocła (Polish: Wrocław , pronounced: Vrots-waf; German: Breslau and its English name until 1945, and Czech: Vratislav), the largest city in the Dolnośląskie (Lower Silesian) Voivodeship in Poland, and also a historic capital of Silesia. 1 My earliest black notebook, back page. 2 For the great aunts, refer also: 28 March 1956. 1 Wrocła. 1891. Essie Violet Goodman born 4 (2?) February. Married James Wilfred Connor, 16 October 1920. He was four when his mother died. He had sister Annie (ten children) and brother Bill four children). Essie and James’ had a daughter Joan and a son Bob. Bob and his wife Margaret had a daughter Elizabeth (two girls and a boy) and two sons: Peter (girl and boy) and John (girl and boy). Bob died in 1990, but Margaret is still living at the family home in Glen Waverley. (Joan Waddington). Joan Connor (Waddington, was born on 7 September (year?) and died 2001) had two daughters: Judith (born 12 October 1945, daughters Sarah and Kate, both married) and Heather (born 1 May 1948, daughter Kellie, married son Grant, married with two children). (Joan Waddington & Birthday Book. Held). 1891. Peter Peterson 1, wood house and land, California Gully, seven occupants, valued at £20. (Borough of Eaglehawk Rate Assessment 1878 quoted in O’Donohue & Hanson, No 6524, Vol 4, p 1087). [1891. The Yarra’s worst recorded flood, up 12.8 m, taking 200 houses and just beneath Spencer Street Bridge. The MMBW was founded soon after to control flooding and water supply. Refer: 1803, 1837, 1839, 1844, 1859, 1863 and 1934]. [1891. Heidelberg (including Ivanhoe and East Ivanhoe) was first considered part of Melbourne for the purposes of the Census and the School Registration System. Melbourne's population was 470,442, being 41% of the population of Victoria).3 4 October 1892. Ruby (or Rubie) Grace Goodman (our grandmother, 1892-1979) was born at Maryborough to Joseph [or George?] Goodman, Painter and Winnie Evans Goodman. They lived at Creswick? Refer also: 1870. A music book of handwritten song compositions has survived. It is inscribed ‘Selections from Miss Gibbs’, inside the cover and includes: My Yorkshire Lassie, Moonstuck, Mary, Two Eyes of Grey, Violets, Three Fishers, Somewhere a Voice is Calling and Primroses and Absent. ‘Ruby Goodman’ is written on the cover in the same hand as that in which the songs are written, but ‘A. Higgs’ is written in pencil under the title. (Book. Held). Ruby Grace Goodman, Machinist of 23 years, married Bert Higgs (our grandfather) who was nine (must be at least 11?) years older (ie: 32 or 34 years old) on 16 October 1915. (Joan Waddington and inscribed in her Holy Bible [held] by the minisiter who married them and his wife, at the Manse, Princes Hill), that she took to church every Sunday for the rest of her life. He was a clerk at John Stone, the timber merchants, he worked at their joinery workshop, cnr Napier and Moor Streets, Fitzroy (now Whitlam Place), into which he would cycle from Ivanhoe. Bert’s sister Gertie Higgs (refer: 1885) was the mother (wife?) of George Connor (born 28 December. They lived well in Brighton, with various Tom Roberts paintings they inherited. George became a well-known Melbourne consultant town planner, founder of George J Connor & Associates. He was no relation to the previous Connors. (Birthday Book. Held). Bert’s mother (?) is said to be, by previous marriage, the mother of the artist Tom Roberts (Thomas William Roberts, 1856-1931), ‘the father of Australian landscape painting.’ After the death in 1868 of her husband, Richard Roberts, editor of the Dorchester County Chronicle, at 3 Ann Larsen, Growing Up in Melbourne. Family Life in the Nineteenth Century, ANU, Canberra 1994, pp 17, 21 & 192, including a map showing the boundaries of the municipalities then. 2 only 41, leaving her a widow with three children, her fortune plummeted to ‘straitened circumstances.’ In 1868, Mrs Roberts and 13-year old Tom, his brother Richard and sister, emigrated from Dorchester the pleasant county town of Dorset, to industrial Collingwood, where her brother was a leather merchant. To earn money, she made schoolbags for her brother, while Tom worked as an assistant to a city photographer, Richard Stewart, and studied art in the evenings at the Collingwood Artisans School of design, with Thomas Clark and Louis Buvelot, where he won the student prize for drawing. A Bible Christian preacher married Mrs Roberts to Higgs (born 5 January (year?), our great grandfather) when Tom Roberts was 20, in Collingwood. Higgs was the widower of her youngest sister Anne, who had died eight months earlier. Peter Roberts (born 1928) is one of Tom Roberts’ three grandsons. He remembers Roberts, who died when he was three. Tom Roberts great-grand-daughter is Lisa Roberts, a multi-media artist and other great-grand children are involved in the arts in Melbourne.4 [1889. Pizza was invented in Naples]. [1892. In 1892, Dr Washington Sheffield of London manufactured Creme Dentifrice toothpaste into a collapsible tube in lead. He had the idea after his son traveled to Paris and saw painters using paint from tubes. Colgate had begun the mass production of toothpaste in 1873, but in jars. In York in 1896, Colgate & Company Dental Cream was packaged in collapsible tubes imitating Sheffield, and thus fount of the Peterson fortune]. 1892. Gladys May Peterson was born at Kew. (Third and last child of Peter Peterson 2 and Ann Gellon. Letter dated 26 April 2006 from Elizabeth Wallace, PO Box 380, Gol Gol NSW 2738). 1892-1907. For the following, the years of birth are all unknown: 1892. Garnet (Jack) Goodman was born. He married Win Mitchell. They had no children. Gwendolin May Goodman was born 16 April. She married Thor Dyring (born 13 July). They had no children. There is an undated studio photograph of their wedding, with Madge as bridesmaid and their father, seated. Presumably, their mother had died. There is another oval portrait photograph of him is framed with a metal backing. (Photos).5 There are two other earlier photographs of Ruby’s father. (Photos). William Steel Goodman was born. He married Win Alexander. Their son was Alex. Vern Kate Goodman was born. She married Jack Hill (born 23 October, or 17 December). Their son is John. Dorothy Madge Goodman was born on 3 November. She married Vic Ellis. Their son David, was born on 24 September. (A wedding photo includes her sister Jean as bridesmaid. Held). Jean Olive Goodman was born on 4 August. She married Walter Pett. They had no children. 4 Humphrey McQueen, Tom Roberts, Macmillan, Sydney 1996, Pp 49, 50 51, 87, 93, & 94; Ron Radford, Tom Roberts, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide 1997, p 32, Alan McCulloch, Susan McCulloch and Emily McCulloch Childs, The New McCulloch Encyclopedia of Australian Art, AUS Art Editions, Fitzroy and Miegunyah Press, Carlton (1968) 2006, pp 829-831 and Melissa Heagney, ‘Portrait of the Artist as a Heidelberg Hero’, Heidelberg Weekly, 28 March, 2006, pp 8 & 9. 5 Also refer: 28 March 1956. 3 1894. Peter Peterson, miner was the owner of a weatherboard house at California Gully, of a net annual value of £20. There were seven occupants of the house. (1894 Eaglehawk Rate Assessment, P 26, transcript, no. 1489. Held). [Ann Peterson, owner, weatherboard house, Thorn Street, nav £28, no.1641]. Not relevant. (1894 Eaglehawk Rate Assessment, P 26, transcript. Held). [Mrs Maria Peterson, Thorn-street, California Gully, Bendigo]. Not relevant. (Directory, 1894. Held). William Calverley, miner, owner, sandstone house, [now 154 Eaglehawk Road] California Gully, nav £35, no.1486. (1894 Eaglehawk Rate Assessment, P 26, transcript. Held). Bro Peter Peterson 1, was enrolled with his son, Alexander, as a Past Chief Ranger of Court No. 3573, of the Ancient Order of Foresters. (Undated illuminated certificate and Directory,1894. Held). 1894. P. Peterson 1, miner, Mt. Korong-road. California Gully, Bendigo. Peter Peterson 2, bootmaker, Mt. Korong-road, California Gully, Bendigo. 1894. Peter Peterson 1, Valuation: wood house and land, California Gully, seven occupants. (Borough of Eaglehawk Rate Assessment 1878 quoted in O’Donohue & Hanson, No 6524, Vol 4, p 1087). January 21 1895. Alexander S. Peterson died, aged 29 (or 28 in Register) and was buried at White Hills Cemetery, Presbyterian Section, Common Grave, No 12603. (Family Bible). His brother Alexander was enrolled with his father [Peter Peterson 1] as a Past Chief Ranger of Court No. 3573, of the Ancient Order of Foresters. (White Hills Cemetery Register and the undated illuminated certificate, held). 1895. Thomas Peterson was a member of the Cobden Tent No 39. This was the California Gully branch of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society.