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1851 census source HO107; Piece: 1993; Folio: 667; Page: 30 place Whittingdon district 1d, shropshire dwelling Park Hall shed 115 Richard henry Kinchant head M 46 Magistrate & Landed proprietor Cudden E I. Maria eliza Kinchant wife M 38 Dublin Ireland Eliza power Kinchant dau 18 St Leonards Bucks John Charlton Kinchant son 16 St Leonards Bucks Myra chatherine ann Kinchant dau 11 Scholar at Home Whittington Salop Richard caton Kinchant son 9 Scholar at home Whittington Salop Richard Redmond Caton vist 44 Landed proprietor Otleside? Westmoreland Frances eliza Caton niece 18 Woodmancote Sussex
| 12th April 1856, Marriages |
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On the 10th inst., at St. Oswald's Church, Chester, by the Rev.Wm. Walsham How, M.A., rector of Whittington,Shropshire, assisted by the Rev. William Harrison, vicar of St.Oswald's, Henry Jones Esq., of Binnum Binnum Tatiara, South Australia, and Earlsdale, Shropshire, to Frances Eliza, eldest daughter of Richard Redmond Cato Esq., and grandaughter of the Rev. Richard Bewley Caton M.A., of Blandford-square, Regents-park. |
| 13 August 1890, Marriages |
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On the 12th inst. at St.Mary's Church, Caldicot, Monmouthshire, by the Revd. R. Bewley Caton, Rector of Fakenham, Suffolk, cousin of the bride, assisted by the Revd. W. H. Williams, Rector of Portskeweth, and the Revd. H.R.S. Callander, JAMES CHARLES MARTIN CHITTY, Pembroke College, Oxford, youngest son of the late Thomas Edward Chitty Esq., to GWEN-ETHLIN GEORGINA, youngest daughter of the late HENRY JONES of Binnum Binnum, South Australia and Mrs George Erskine Callander, of Ightfield, Caldicot. |
Reminiscing in 1926,
Mrs Cumming said her father, Harry Jones came out from Shrewsbury, England, in 1842 in the Lightning, with his brother Derwas.
Harry held an important post in his father's privately owned Bank of Shrewsbury, but he tired of such a cut-and-dried business and pined for adventure. Having taken up land in Victoria, her father encounterd new climatic conditions, almost impenetrable forests, menacing Aborigines and primitive living facilities. To two "gentile" nurtured Englishmen such experiences must have been awful and they won through and eventually decided to widen their horizons by exploring the western district of Victoria.
This brought them across the border into South Australia. In Victoria they were absolutely the first white men to hew a clearing in the Kilmore district and founded a station there, successfully breeding stock. Mrs Cumming said that the expedition came out into territory now known as Frances, but in those times Cadnite, on account of its lake.. The present name of Frances was bestowed by the present owner, in honour of his fiancee, Frances Caton, in England.
In 1857 Mr Jones returned to his homeland and married her. They at once returned to Australia and landed at Melbourne where Mrs Cumming was born. When she was three months old they journeyed in stages to Binnum and she recalled that both of her parents were very fond of the natives and whenever they were ill they went to her mother for help. Kybybolite Station was founded by her uncle, Heighway Jones.
None but the grassy places were taken up by the first pastoralists, but even they were chosen with caution because there was no running water to be found and most of the swamps showed signs of drying up in one season of the year. Owing to these restrictions the actual amount of settlement was small because the good grassy lands bore a trifling proportion to the actual area of the district. These tracts were to be found on the Mosquito Plains, stretching in a width for ten miles from Penola to Lawson's at Padthaway, that is 64 miles, and along the banks of Reedy and Avenue Creeks for about a mile on each side, while south of Penola it was about five miles wide stretching down as far as the Mount Burr Ranges where the volcanic tract of Mount Gambier opened out.
1871 census source RG10; Piece: 2544; Folio: 87; Page: 57 place Clifton district 19 Gloucestershire dwelling Roxborough house, College rd west shed165 Redmond H O Jones 12 pupil south Australia (henry owen after his uncle)
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