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| - GRANDPARENTS JAMES DALE 1849-1910 MARYANN CHILVERT 1857-1935 James Dale was born at "Muntham station" near Coleraine in victoria on 8 October 1849. He was baptised in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Portland on 11 November 1849, "Muntham station". He was the 3rd child and youngest son of John Dale & Ellen Sweeney and was our first Dale ancestor to be born on mainland Australia. James had a sister Sarah born in 1843 at the Cascades Fe~ale Factory, Hobart and a brother Alfred born in 1846, Elizabeth st, Hobart Town in the colony of Van Diemen's Land, before his parents made that epic journey across the Tasman Sea, landing west of Portland Bay, around September 1848 on that sturdy ~9at the Kangaroo. - ! After a long search for James Dale's baptismal certificate which later revealed a beginning of the Dales in victoria at Portland and Coleraine districts, by starting with my own direct family ancestry, beginning with my own father's birth certificate No.1499 of Albert Qale which showed his father was James Dale born at Coleraine in 1849 and mother as Mary Ann Chilvert being born at Melton in 1857. They were to be the proud parents of 15 children by 1900 in the high country of Tolmie, victoria. James Dale's death certificate No. 2999 (indexed 1124) in victoria 1910 led to a "brick wall" search wise, when his eldest daughter Ellen 'cis' Kelly nee Dale, the informant on her father's death certificate stated his parents as "unknown" when indeed 'cis' at least knew and heard so much of her grandmother Ellen Sweeney late of Campaspe fairly well as a child and then later James Dale was living at Gobarup near Rushworth till 1890, a distance of only 20 miles when James Dale and his family said their goodbyes to the other two branches of the Dale families late in 1891, being Sarah Clarke nee Dale and Alfred Dale. The latter's farm being where "Granny" Dale, Ellen Sweeney was living and Ellen 'cis' Dale (called after her grandmother) was 15 years old, certainly [ knew of her grandmother and had many Xmas celebrations together. I knew of course having James Dale's baptismal certificate, that his parents were John Dale and Ellen Sweeney, so I set about looking for a marriage certificate of John and Ellen Dale. Did they marry in Ireland, England or Australia? Where did they arrive from and when? A marriage certificate was found after a two year search and was discovered by the Tasmanian Archives Office, of a John Dale & Ellen Murphy, married in Hobart not Launceston, in 1845 as John Dale's informant wrongly quoted, married Launceston. 305 .s eventually led to searches for death certificates in :toria. 1 . JOHN DALE I found he died at Kyneton in Victoria 1866 but frustratingly the death certificate mentioned he, l;" John & Ellen Sweeney, had three children. However, ages and names unknown. Another brick wall. By then I knew my grandfather James Dale was one of them but what of the other two childrens' names. 2. ELLEN DALE (NEE SWEENEY) On her death certificate, one of the most detailed death certificates ever written up by the Registrar ~ of Deaths in Victoria, that of No. 11126 details of which were made out on 16/17 August 1899 by her well . educated son-in-law, A.S. Clarke who told all, wh1ch really set the cat amongst the pigeons revealing ~ Ellen was previously a widow married to william ~ Murphy of Limerick, Ireland also stated Ellen's 7 - years in Tasmania and 51 years in Victoria, plus her parent's names of Sweeney back in Ireland and most important of all was her three childrens' names andu ages which correspond exactly of them, with other j researches. The "Crown Jewels" of the Family ~ History Crest lay in Sandra Motteram's discovery of r Ellen Dale's death at Runnymede in Victoria 1899. Children 1. Sarah Ann 56 years (being born 1843) 2. Alfred, d. 1898 (52 years, 1 year before mother). 3. James Dale 51 years. Death certificates of John Dale & Ellen Sweeney proved: 1. That Ellen Murphy (a widow) was born Ellen Sweeney and was the same person who married John Dale in Hobart in 1845, wrongly stating she was a 'spinster'. 2. The two children Sarah & Alfred were born in Hobart. 3. That the riddle of the Tasman crossing was L solved. Dales from Tasmania to Victoria, 1848~; 4. That a link had been established back to the 5 landing of Dales in Hobart 1836 by convict records of all three Dale brothers from England. 5. This allowed "Chad" Dale to research the English Dales back to Welbourne in Norfolk England. 6. Allowed the three Dale branches of John Dale's family to be traced to the heartland of their . piobeering farmlands at Campaspe along Mt Pleasant Creek, Victoria, datinq back to 1871. --. I found maps and official Land Records, forwarded for verification of each family and are shown at the end of each story in the period of Queen victoria's reign. ., JAMES DALE FROM BOYHOOD TO MANHOOD 1853-1871 , ar, 1853 James Dale at the age of four travels with his tfamily from "Muntham station", Coleraine to the Ballarat Goldfields. " 1854 Leave Ballarat and set up a camp on Alma Creek near Maryborough, Victoria. ad ' rar 1856/58 James is helping his dad and elder brother Alfred of on John Dale's official gold claim, 20 miles north ~ell of Alma on Jones Creek near Moliagul. His dad and 1ich family returns to Alma 1859 - still mining but farming as well. 7 1860 James attends his sister's, Sarah Dale's wedding her to the mine manager of "Dunolly Gold Mines", st Arthur S. Clarke. James was then 11. Wedding was and held at Carrisbrook, Victoria, near Alma. r 1860/70 From that age on with no education, but bush wise, of James Dale is almost continuously swinging an axe . if not on his siter's rented farm west of Tylden in the early 60s, then on John Dale's rented farm at East Trentham, helping big brother Alfred who ~i had married Mary O'Connor in 1867. The death of ' ~; their highly respected father, John Dale aged 52 !~; , in 1866, saw James mature quickly, having to take responsibility for his mother's welfare. By 1870 James then 21 had grown into a strong, stockily built young man, like his elder brother Alfred, ~: then 24. ... Ellen Dale saw to it that her two sons and daughter carried on that high spirited Irish love of music and Irish jigs she had ~ inherited from mother in Ireland, by birthright and tradition. So the younger members, mostly Irish families around the n districts of Trentham, Tylden & Kyneton enjoyed the many local dances and musical evenings at school halls, homes and neighbours' places associated with the musical Dales. B48. e Early 1871, James Dale meets young Mary Ann Chilvert aged only 14 at such a dance at Trentham, the home town of the Chilvert's and a young romance blossoms. James promises to marry Mary Ann when she turns 17 by 1874 and this he does at Kyneton. However, prior to this as recorded previously, the Dale e's menfolk in 1871 had travelled north and pegged land along Mt ir Pleasant Creek, leaving their families behind them for 71. 307 ~ sometime until fencing, timber clearing and bush dwellings were erected. Their licences to occupy land obtained and then to move families in usually taking 2-3 years to fulfil requirements of Lands Act. The first priority of the Dales was to quickly erect a bush hut cut from surrounding timber with bark walls and a bark roof. This hut was put just above judged high flood level of Mt Pleasant Creek, from which beautiful clear water ran. This hut became the Dale's headquarters from which to look over the countryside and select blocks for each of the three families. They found the bark hut shelter enough from the still cold September nights and early spring rains. This hut site was clearly marked by a surveyor Mr A.E. Martin of the Governments Surveys Office as is shown on a map dated 7 December 1871, when he surveyed James Dale's block of 81 acres, as a result of James riding all the way by horse back to Sandhurst (now Bendigo) to register his block by 5pm on 9 September 1971. (See old map James Dale block 142) he had to pay a surveyor's fee of £4. On James Dale's application form it states it is situated north of Andrew Grogan's block with the map showing the old il Colbinabbin Road separating the two blocks. Jame's neighbour to the north was J. Baker and to the west lived J. Turner. The Grogan family by marriage to Eileen Dale become part of ,our family history as well. I I I I[ In both cases, fencing expenses and labour was carried out on :1 a 50-50 basis, each farmer doing his half fence line. James Dale still a single man put every effort into improving his block and preparing a new bark and weatherboard house of 25' x 14' with anticipation of returning south to Trentham, sweeping his young bride to be "off her feet", young Mary Ann Chilvert, marrying her as promised and bringing her back to ( his proudly built bush "palace". , 1 In the first two years on block 142, James had cleared 30 ) Ii acres of bush land ready for sowing wheat. Most of his ~ 1! fencing on the boundaries was done by the old chock and two a I, rail practice, a slow labouring job using timber close by. D 'Ii (See official records of Block 142 at end of Campaspe story.) i' M I: Original settlers in those times had to comply with the rules B i to occupy lands and then having complied were eligible to f , , apply for lease which usually ran for 7 years. Land rents TI were fixed at 2/- per acre payable twice a year. 1: In times of drought or other hardships the rents could be T] delayed at the discretion of the local Lands Board Office g< ( L . L . B. ) . mj After a ten year period, provided all rents were paid, settlers could apply for a Land Grant. . . I II 308 ~ gs This was a very attractive document, in impressive style with d then the official seal of Her Majesty Queen victoria, signed by the current Governor or Registrar of Titles depending on the period. James Dale received two, one in Campaspe in 1882 and the 2nd one at Tolmie 1900, just prior to the death of Queen ush victoria in 1901. She was crowned Queen of England & Ireland rk in 1837, the year after the Dale boys received their one way elof ticket to Van Diemen's Land. This er the A Crown Land Grant was similar to Freehold or Torrens Title lies. Land and was the owners to do with as he pleased and highly ld valued. In order of documents received for a struggling settler he artin could with 1)ard work, earn over a period of ten years: ated 7 1. A licence to occupy lands under section 19, victorian back Lands Act 1869. section 20 set out the Conditions of on 9 the Licence. . ad to 2. A Lease Hold Do:cument or Indenture (usually 7 years). 3. The most prized land document "A Crown Grant" usually issued upon application after a total period of ten d years or sooner under conditions of victoria's 1869 old Lands Act. hbour r. of MARRIAGE OF JAMES DALE TO MARY ANN CHILVERT 1874 jut on James Dale returns from his farm on Mt Pleasant Creek to Trentham, proposes to Mary Ann and the wedding was set for 31 May 1874. They were married at st Mary's Roman Catholic 'oving Church, Kyneton. Mary Ann Chilvert was only 17 years old, e of consent to marry being given by her father John Chilvert. ,am, 'y Ann Mary Ann was born at Melton in 1857. Her birth was never : to officially recorded. Register of births became compulsory in victoria by 1853. Her baptismal records show 1857. She had 4 brothers and 5 sisters, two twin girls dying at birth, 1873. 0 Mary Ann's brother Thomas was born in 1856 and next younger to Mary Ann was her sister Ellen Chilvert born 1860, who married two a Patrick O'Halloran and likewise Mary Ann's daughter Teresa lYe Dale married a Tom Q'Halloran of Tolmie, Mansfield. ,ory. ) Mary Ann's parents were John Chilvert, a Frenchman from rules Belines in France and Ellen Lee who had migrated to Victoria :0 from Portsmouth in England and married John Chilvert in 1853. ltS Their first born was a son John born on the goldfields in 1854. ~e The Chilvert family moved from Melton and joined the frantic :e gold rush around Ballarat and then mined for gold some 30 miles N/E of Ballarat at the extensive Blue Mountain diggings. 309 --- ~ |
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