William Richmond Family Tree:
We originated at  Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, England - many mariners or sailors.
Any  help with more photos and labels and dates and places would be appreciated plaes email me  Liz R.

 William Richmond    printer newspaper part owner "Colac Reformer"- lived 40 Fyan St, Colac , opposite Lake, see pic below. Won  a  prize at Warnabool Grammar School . 2nd Son of Henry James Richmond and Mary Jane Tonkin.

William Richmond
Born:     1878, on  31 May in Hamilton, Vic.
Married :  1908 St Paul's Church Camperdown, Vic.  When he lived in Hamilton and she was from Baccus Marsh.
Died:    1945 - lung cancer - chain smoker and keen fisherman.
Wife:     Amy Louise CHADWICK,b 1877 Ballan, Vic, obituary here
                           mother Hanna Ann SKINNER,
                                           father  Henry CHADWICK  b.c. 1845 London, England. d 1882 Fitzroy
 

Amy Louise Chadwick


1908 William Richmond and Amy Louise Chadwick

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William Richmond and his wife Amy Louise Chadwick
with Rupert Halley Richmond at their home Colac c 1910
 

Children:
1 Rupert Halley  Richmond
    b 1910 Colac
    m. Eve M.E.FURZE
        at Mildura - her home town the best man was Arthur Rylah and his wife Ann was matron of honour and  brides sister Jane 'Jinnie" was the bridesmaid. there is one photo of the women at house  of  Mrs Eva Furze  before the wedding no pictures of the married couple exist.
d 1967 Hawthorn
            2 daughters and one son -living


RHR aged 3

Rupert Halley  Richmond went to  School in Colac. He won a scholarship to Geelong Grammar about the age of 14.


Taken just before he left for GGS aged 14 with sisters, Mollie in middle and Marjorie  beside him
In the backyard of 41 Fyans st Colac. The girls both went to bording school at Geelong - Morongo.


Seen here in the Cuthbertson House  photo GGS- 4th from left in second row from back- circle around head.
The fire in this house which they all escaped from, caused a life long extreme  concern about   the safety of any and every fire!
Many photos from his school  and university days  - from his photograph ALBUM HERE
Award of Old Boys Prize at GGS 1926 - itwas given for Dux or English
Notice board in 1996 at the School here


RHR standing and his father William Richmond,
small person in front Mollie Richmond, Amy Richmond, Marjorie Richmond
photo in their back garden c  1925? Colac


Graduated c 1932 Civil Engineering Melbourne University. During the Great Depression.
Got and exhibition in mathematics, did pole-vaulting and roman rings etc.. Sang in barber shop quartet on ABC.


RHR on  horseback. His honeymoon was taken  near Apollo Bay or Lorne or a place named some thing like
Merringbay which was the name of 14 St Helens rd house.
 


RHR and daughters c 1944 "new"  2nd hand from Ian Robinson friend at ICI-
More photos from this era HERE


This Photo in  RHR album labelled GGS -
Well it turns out to be Sydney  see below - perhaps  RHR was visiting his maths teacher and friend  Ron Aston who worked  there? Another pic in the album I labelled Trinity chapel is  in fact Old Wilson Hall and The Lake, Melbourne University.

 In fact see this of Sydney uni quadrangle
 

2 Marjorie Richmond ( 1911-1990)    m. William. J . Read,c 1945 Colac,  then  lived  on a station, in NSW near The Rock and Uranquinty near Wagga Waggga.


Marjorie at 12 months of age- in Colac.
 


Marjorie the reporter at the gate of 40 fyans Street colac with her dog c 1940?

Marjoire and her father William Richmond 1945 - he died 1945.
1925

W.J. 'Bill' Read,  Marjorie, his bride and unknown man - the best man,  and her sister  Mollie Richmond
 

Thier children : [ living]

  1. John William married with 3 ch.,
  2. Alison m with 2 dau.  ch. ,
  3. David Read PhD. unm.
3 Mollie Richmond  1918 Colac-1972 London. NI
She lived in Mayfair London after training as a kindergarten teacher in Melbourne and working at the ABC.. While in London  working as aa part time cashier in a Green Street Hotel? she enjoyed the Theatre and Operas and all music concerts so much her working holiday never ended... finally married the man she had love c for years after his Catholic mother died. Sadly she died with in a year or two of this.  aged around 58. When  I vistied her in London 1962 she was totally English in every way except for her passport.!


Mollie Richmond  visiting Tasmania to see her first cousins, Allan  and Leopold Richmond at Red Rock
on the east cost of Tasmania where rocks are really quite red.Probably before they went to WW2 c 1943.


At her flat in Mayfair  London, est about 1970.
 
 


William Richmond's house Fyans st Colac in 2002 with his grandaughter Wendy outside 2002
40 Fyans Street Colac


Main Street Colac-above a pastry and sandwich shop- 2002.
This newspaper was absorbed into another after the death of William Richmond part owner in 1945.
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