William Floyd (1846 -1896)
John Alfred Floyd (1848 - 1895)
Louisa Floyd (1850 - ?)
Charles Floyd (1852 - 1917)
Maryanne Floyd (1855 - 1883)
George Floyd (1857 - 1858)
George Richard Floyd (1859  - 1869)
Thomas Floyd (1861 - 1912)
Jane Floyd (1864 - 1897)
 

William Floyd (17 Feb 1846, Perth - 27 Dec 1896, Launceston)
Marriage
Mary Sophia Matthews (ca 1850 - ), 5 Sept 1872, St Augstine's (RC), Longford
Children
Arthur William (1 June 1873, Longford - )
Mary (13 Aug 1878 - )
Edward Thomas (6 March 1883, George Town - 24 July 1883, George Town)
Alice Selina (16 Aug 1884, George Town - )
Florence Sophia (14 Nov 1886, George Town - )
 

John Alfred Floyd (13 Feb 1848, Perth - 19 Sept 1895, Burnie)
Marriage
Ann Stubbs (16 March 1859, Burnie - 22 July 1942, South Melbourne, Vic.)), 29 Nov 1877, St George's (CoE), Burnie
Children
Louisa Jane (1877, Burnie - 26 Nov 1934, Oakleigh, Vic.)
Mary Maria (4 July 1879, Burnie - 4 Feb 1970, Penguin)
John William Alfred (26 Sept 1881, Burnie - 11 July 1937, Latrobe)
Agnes Elizabeth (30 March 1884, Burnie - 29 Aug 1934, Highclere)
Victoria May (26 Jan 1886, Burnie - 29 March 1961, Fitzroy, Vic.)>
George Richard Charles (6 July 1888, Burnie - May 1945, Burnie?)
Ellis Arthur (Tom) (5 March 1891, Burnie - 19 April 1959, Hobart)
Gordon Henry (Stephen) (29 Nov 1893, Burnie - July 1935, Devonport)
Hannah Adelaide (19 Feb 1897, Burnie - 29 April 1968, South Melbourne, Vic..)
Vera Daphne (1902, Devonport - 16 June 1981, Vic.)

It remains a mystery when and why John left Perth and went up to the north-west coast : possibly he sought work with the Van Diemens Land Company? Whatever the reasons, he was there by 1877 and had met young Ann Stubbs, daughter of ex-convict John Stubbs, who farmed 50 acres at Emu Bay. On 17 Oct 1877 Mr Stubbs died, and 6 weeks later John Floyd and Ann married at St George's Anglican Church, Burnie. Their first child was born about this time : John named her Louisa Jane, following a pattern established by his father William, who called the first daughter of each of his marriages Louisa. The girl's birth missed out on civil registration and first pops up in official records in 1895 when she became a mother. John and Ann raised another 7 children and it was a tough life. John  worked as a labourer at Burnie's docks, but they also received charitable support from ladies of the district. According to the asessment rolls published in the Tasmanian Govenrment gazette, John briefly owned 50 acres of “forest land” at Stowport in 1892, but the family at this period lived in a hut in Mount Street, Burnie, leased from the Van Diemen’s Land Company.

As if life was not hard enough already,1895 held even more terrible challenges for them. On the morning of Thursday, 27 June, John was loading potatoes onto the steamship Pukaki, when a sling weighing half a ton swung and crushed him against the hatchway. He was not expected to live and lingered in a critical condition for 5 days, but had begun to make an almost miraculous recovery by 3 July. A long period of convalesence followed and the family was helped out during this difficult time by the doctor and his wife, Mr and Mrs Rooke. As John progressed, his first grandchild, Alfred, was born on 16 Aug to his daughter Louisa (who was unmarried). Spring was not far off and by this time John was well enough to get on with life. On Thursday 19 Sept, he joined half a dozen friends for a day's wallaby hunting in the bush near Mooreville Road, south of Burnie. At around 1 p.m. John climbed up on a log to wait for a shot and was - foolishly - leaning on his old gun. The firearm discharged into his stomach and killed him almost instantly. One of his friends rode back into town and assistance was fetched, but the roughness of the bush meant that the party could not get his body back to town until 8 p.m., where the distraught widow was waiting.  Suicide was ruled out, but it was suggested at the inquest that John was careless with the maintenance and handling of firearms.

The government paid for the funeral on Saturday 21 Sept, and John  was buried in the local cemetery on View Rd. Residents of Burnie were greatly shocked. The Wellington times of 24 Sept noted that the family were now destitute ; townspeople had begun a relief fund, and a benefit concert was to be held at Wynyard on Saturday 28 Sept.

Widow Ann Floyd struggled on for a few years. In Feb 1897, a new child came into the family, Hannah Adelaide. Ann was registered as the mother, but the girl's parentage is bit of a mystery. Several more grandchildren had also been born, to unmarried daughters Louisa and Mary, and eighteen-month old Alfred had died in March 1897.

Sometime between Nov 1897 and Sept 1898 Ann took the family down the coast to live at Devonport, and on 14 Sept daughter Mary gave birth there to another child (Gladys May). Ann herself had a daughter in 1902 - Vera Daphne - and the baby's origins were covered up by naming John - dead for 7 years - as father in the birth  registration.

Between 1907 and late 1916, assessment rolls tell us Ann rented various small houses in Griffith St, Devonport West. Her children gradually married and most moved away : Mary and Agnes back to the Emu Bay area, Ellis to southern Tasmania, Victoria to Hobart and later Melbourne, Louisa, Hannah and George to Melbourne, while John and Gordon remained in Devonport. Young Vera stayed with her mother and they probably moved to Melbourne ca 1917.  There are few clues to their movements, but they probably spent time with Ann's daughters Louisa or Hannah, who lived in South Melbourne, and they may have also lived in Oakleigh with Louisa's married daughter Phyllis.  On 19 Dec 1925, Vera married George Aitken in South Melbourne, and Ann lived with them for the rest of her life. In 1942, Ann turned 83 years of age. On Wednesday 22 July,  Ann passed away in their little cottage at 12 Lyell St, South Melbourne, far away in time and place from her long-dead husband, who had lain for almost half a century in the little cemetery on a hill above Burnie.  Ann herself was subsequently buried at Fawkner Cemetery (Church of England, Compartment T, grave 5205).
 

Louisa Floyd (28 Feb 1850, Perth - ?, Launceston)
Marriage
Edwin Samuel Weavell (bapt 1836, Green Ponds district - ), 20 Sept 1866, St Andrew's (CoE), Perth
Children
William Edwin (15 June 1867, Longford - )
[female] (15 March 1869, Morven  - )
Louisa E (1872 - )
Maria Ann (9 Aug 1874, Launceston - )
Charles F (1876 - )
Edwin Samuel (13 Jan 1879, Launceston - )
Mary Jane (21 July 1880, Launceston - )
Melvenea Florence (11 Oct 1882, Launceston - )
Rose Amelia (21 June 1885, Launceston - )
Lillian Mary (21 June1885, Launceston - )
John Hobart (7 Nov 1886, Launceston - )
 

Charles Floyd (15 May 1852, Perth - 1917, New Norfolk)
Marriage
Melvina Russell (7 May 1859 - ), 6 April 1881, Wesleyan Church, Dunorlan
Children
Henry Charles (22 Feb 1882, Launceston - 20 March 1954, Ulverstone)
Melvina Florence (29 July 1883, Launceston - 17 May 1903)
Edith Mary (14 Nov 1885, Launceston - 1977, Burnie)
Flora Margaret (2 Dec 1887 - Launceston - 14 May 1948, Blackman's Bay)<
Russell William (3 Oct 1889, Launceston  - 10 July 1956, New Town)
Irene Maud (28 Feb 1893, Launceston - 28 March 1910)
Ella (20 Aug 1899, Beaconsfield - 8 Nov 1930, Port Said)>
 

Maryanne Floyd (9 March 1855, Perth - 28 June 1883, Cressy?)
Marriage 1
Peter Crampton (d. ca 1874), ca 1872
Children 1
Alfred 19 Sept 1873, Perth -
Marriage 2
James Waddington (14 June 1847, Longford district - ), 22 Sept 1875, St Andrew's (CoE), Perth
Children 2
James William 8 May 1877, Cressy? - 27 Feb 1878, Cressy?
James William 5 April 1879, Cressy? -
Percival Henry Septimus 16 Sept 1881, Cressy? -

George Floyd (19 June 1857, Perth - 3 March 1858, Perth)
 

George Richard Floyd (10 Jan 1859, Perth  - 20 Dec 1869, Perth)
 

Thomas Floyd (4 Dec 1861, Perth - 1912, Beaconsfield)
Marriage
Sarah Jane Annear (1 July 1866 - 4 Nov 1955, Sidmouth), 4 Aug 1884, HHoly Trinity, Beaconsfield
Children
Elizabeth Jane (22 Dec 1884, Beaconsfield - )
Thomas W  (27 Dec 1886, Beaconsfield - 1932)
Mary Ann  (28 April 1889, Beaconsfield - 31 Oct 1949)
Charles (6 Jun 1891, Beaconsfield - 1966, Preston, Victoria)
Alice Matilda (26 Dec 1892, Beaconsfield - )
Melvenia Myrtle (4 Jun 1895 - )
Margaret Louisa (13 May 1897, Beaconsfield - )
Edward Samuel (10 Jul 1899, Beaconsfield - )
Albert George (1901, Beaconsfield - )
Herbert Henry (1903, Beaconsfield - 1963, Ashburton, Vic.)>
William (13 Mar 1906 - 14 Dec 1985)
Arthur (3 Dec 1911 - 31 Oct 1913)
 

Jane (Elizabeth Jane) Floyd (23 Jan 1864, Perth - 6 Feb 1897, Deloraine)
Marriage
William Thomas Smith, ca 1884
Children
William (1884, Evandale - )
Ethel Jane Hardin (26 April 1887, Evandale - )
Nellie Mabel (17 May 1889, Evandale - )
Charles Alfred (8 Sept 1891, Evandale - )
Cyril Francis (27 Aug 1893, Evandale - )
 
 

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