Parker - Baguley Wedding at Tenterfield 1932

I trawl through old newspapers looking for entries that could enlarge my knowledge on any early family members in the first 100 years of colonization that I am not aware of.  The second 100 years is not so enigmatic because I was reared by my grandmothers sister who furnished me with barrows of information I am compelled to write about to retain for others.

I am not sure if this wedding is a family member yet?  (BAGULEY)  however it was such a lovely story and it could be that Alice is a grand daughter of ADAM BAGULEY.. who was born 1 Apr 1804.  A little bit more investigation is required here to find if this 'Mr S Baguley' hails from Warwick and is a son of Adam Baguley.

I also want to find where the farm near Tenterfield that was known as "Springbrook".  That sounds like a Sunday drive to me.

WEDDING 

PARKER— BAGULEY 

A quiet but pretty wedding took place at the Church of England, Tenterfield, on August 13th., when Alice, second daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S.Baguley, Sandy Flat, was united in the bonds of holy matrimony to Norman, fifth son of Mt. W. Parker and the late Mrs. Parker, of "Springbrook," Tenterfield.
The bride, who entered the church on the arm of her father, looked charming in an ankle length frock of white mariette worn over satin. The beautiful veil was kindly loaned by Mrs. G. Curvey (Sydney). Miss Jessie Baguley, sister of the bride, acted as bridesmaid, and was attired in an ankle length frock of pale pink taffeta, and wore a head dress of tulle to tone. Mr. Stan Parker carried out the duties of best man. The reception was held at Mrs. Rhodes' Cafe, where the bride's mother, wearing a frock of navy crepe de chine, with hat to tone, entertained a large number of guests. Rev. T. May presided, and the usual toasts were honoured.  A number of useful and costly gifts were received.

Entry found in TROVE... Glen Innes Examiner.. Saturday 3rd September 1932


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My Great Grandmothers Half Brother - Jackie Howe "Legend Shearer"

About Jackie Howe who is also related to me:  He is my Great Grandmother Annie Chadbourne's half brother born to Jack Howe Snr when her mother Louisa married Jack Snr after the death by drowning of her first husband William "Billy" Chadbourne.

ECHOES OF THE PAST

JACKIE HOWE'S EXPLOITS
DAYS OF LARGE FAMILIES LLAMAS AT CANNING DOWNS

(By "Gooragooby." Dalveen.)

In December, 1848, when John Collins, stud groom at Canning Downs for the previous 40 years, surrendered the position on the eve of his entering into business as Warwick's first hotelkeeper in the newly erected Horse and Jockey Inn, at the corner of Palmerin and Victoria streets, and now the site of the Commercial Hotel, it was Billy Chadbourne, better known to the pioneers of his day as "Billy the Groom," who succeeded Collins as head groom on that historic station. Subsequently, Chadbourne married Miss Stokes, a young woman brought over from Sydney to be a help and companion for Mrs. George Leslie, then occupying the commodious shingled homestead at Canning Downs.

In course of time Mr. and Mrs. William Chadbourne were blessed with two children, a girl and boy, whom they named Annie and Willie. Then a sad calamity befell the humble home, for the father met his death by drowning near Jew's Retreat, endeavouring to swim the Condamine River when in flood early in 1854, the reason for his attempt being the registration of his infant son's birth within the regulation period. Chadbourne's body was recovered, and the interment took place on Canning Downs, midway between the homestead and the farm which was the site of the township's first necropolis.

In after years Chadbourne's only daughter, Annie, became Mrs. William. Baguley. In those bygone days early marriages were the rule rather than the exception, and tradition has it that in 1869, when 17 years of age, Annie Chadbourne married, to be the mother of 15 children, nine sons and six
daughters, and when the call came, in 1931, she left 70 grandchildren and 38 great grandchildren.

My Great Grandparents .... William Adam Baguley married Annie Chadburne,  they had fourteen children their names were Henry, Catherine, William, Richard, Louisa, Annie, Cecilia, James, John, Elizabeth, Mark (grandfather), Arthur and Leslie.

The BAGULEY family married into these families... MOORE, PEGG, SHERRIN, OCHS, HART, ROSS, FAY, HUNTLEY, ROWLING, BURLING, PETERSEN, THORNE, MATHISON, BRADLEY, WARRENER, PEDERSEN, BRADBURY (my grandmother), TAYLOR, LAMB, MUNDEY, DORAN, BROWNING, DEVLIN and GARDENER.
Her brother's (William Chadbourne's) family only totalled 13, three sons and 10 daughters, but between the two of them with 28 children, they certainly played their part in populating the Darling Downs.

About the year 1854 Billy Chadbourne's widow became the wife of Jack Howe, sen., acrobat and clown at Le Rosia's circus, which company he left some time previously when showing at Warwick. Howe's remaining days were spent in the town and district, where he found employment at bushwork, shearing, etc., and finally as town crier. At the time of the Queen's Jubilee functions at Warwick, in 1887, old Jack Howe, in commenting on the day, told a number of us boys that 50 years previously he attended a picnic to soldiers' children, given at Plymouth, England, in honour of Queen Victoria's coronation. He said he was quite a little chap at the time, but remembered the occasion quite well. When the Queen married Prince Albert he attended another picnic, which took place on a wet day.

A son of Jack Howe, sen. (the late Jackie Howe) was referred to in the Daily News last week, as follows

"Many wearers of the sleeveless singlet, which comes into its own during the hot summer months, wonder how that article of man's attire came by its popular name, Jackie Howe." A Warwick native, the late Jackie Howe's name is immortalised in that low necked, sleeveless flannel singlet he introduced to the shearing sheds over 40 years ago.

Jackie Howe, a step-brother to Annie (my great grandmother) and Will Chadbourne, in this connection, held the world's blade shearing record with a tally of 321 sheep in seven hours and forty  minutes, which he accomplished at Alice Downs Station in 1892. Some of the old shearers, envious individuals probably, affirmed that the sheep shorn by Howe were all two-year-old maiden ewes, selected for that particular occasion. Be this as it may, it was a wonderful achievement on Howe's part to put through 321 sheep of any description at an aver-age of slightly more than 1 min. 37 secs. per sheep. Subsequently, at Barcaldine Downs, he used the machines for the first time, his initial effort being 276 sheep in eight hours.

Many feats, of endurance and skill are accredited to Jackie Howe in the Central West. It is asserted "that on one occasion he shore 100 sheep before dinner, rode a push bike 90 miles home before tea, tossed a packet of sweets into the woodheap for the children, and went in to kiss his wife with the swag still on his back."

During the 1898 shearing season Queensland's eighth Governor, Lord Lamington, paid a visit to the Central West, accompanied by Lady Lamington. The Vice-Regal party, whilst doing the rounds of a few of the principal stations in that locality, entered a shearing shed to see in action Jackie Howe, the shearer who put up the big tally some six years previously at Alice Downs Station. Howe, learning of the contemplated visit of the distinguished visitors to the shed, possessed himself of a piece of chalk, and whilst in conversation with her Ladyship, stooped down and marked her boots. Lady, Lamington questioned Howe as to the meaning of the procedure, and was informed that it was expected of her Ladyship to furnish the wherewithal to provide drinks for the shearers in the shed. A sovereign was accordingly handed Howe for that purpose.

Owing to the low price wool was commanding in the fifties, as com-pared with mohair, the Davidsons, of Canning Downs, imported to that station eight or nine llamas, with the object of testing the possibility of the successful raising of mohair on the Downs. However, the experiment did not meet with success. The llamas were eventually transferred to Eton Vale, and subsequently became non-existent. It was Jack Howe, sen., who undertook the first shearing of the llamas, shortly after their arrival from overseas, .and a queer experience was his lot. These animals have a habit of

expectorating a smellful saliva over anyone handling them roughly, as Jack found out to his cost. Before he could go on with the shearing the llamas had to be caught, tied down, and have a nose bag placed on them.

I last saw Jackie Howe, who held the world's blade shearing record, some 47 or more years ago. He was then on a hurried visit to Warwick, and attending an Eastern Downs Society's show, held on the old grounds in Guy-street.

Colonial history of the Darling Downs and my family connections to this....

Since the Leslie brothers led the pastoral advance into what became Queensland in 1840, wool has made important contributions to the Queensland economy. Through both their necessity and militancy, shearers rose to the fore of bush workers in the late 19th century, and Queensland produced the most famous exponent of the shearing boards in the form of John (‘Jackie’) Howe. The son of a circus acrobat, Howe was born at Killarney, near Warwick in 1861, and rose to fame in 1892 when he set a world record by shearing 237 sheep by machine in a single day at Barcaldine Downs. A week later he followed that feat by shearing 321 weaners in one day with blades at Alice Downs. Howe kept clippings of his shearing career in this scrapbook, which extends beyond his retirement from the boards in 1900. He later became a publican and as President of the Blackall Workers’ Political Organisation played a major role in the election of T.J. Ryan to parliament in 1909. His health broken through years of hard work, Howe died at Blackall in 1920.

This is a showcase of early art and photographs of the Darling and Canning Downs.  There is an early photograph of the Canning Downs Homestead to be seen there.

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/showcase/grass-dukes-and-shepherd-kings
 The Grass Dukes and the Shepherd Kings

Howe, John Robert (1861–1920)

by H. J. Gibbney 

This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983

John Robert Howe (1861?-1920), shearer and publican, was born probably on 26 July 1861 at Killarney near Warwick, Queensland, son of John Howe, circus acrobat turned stockman, and his wife Louisa, née Stokes, who had come to Queensland as a companion to the wife of Patrick Leslie. Howe probably began shearing in the late 1870s and after a season in New Zealand settled at Blackall. At the Roman Catholic church there on 24 April 1890 he married Margaret Alexandra Victoria Short. 

Howe first achieved more than local fame in 1892, when he shore 237 sheep by machine in one day at Barcaldine Downs station early in October, and on the 10th shore 321 weaners with the blades at Alice Downs. In the previous week he had shorn 1437 sheep in 44 hours. An old shearing mate told how other shearers attempted to slow him down by tickling him and jumping on his back, but his feats were recognized by two gold medals, offered for shearing records by Coleman & Sons, eucalyptus manufacturers of Cootamundra, and by the presentation in January 1893 of an inscribed shearing machine from the Wolseley Shearing Machine Co. 

Howe was an enthusiastic member of the Queensland Shearers' Union and prominent on its committee. In 1900 he abandoned shearing and bought the Universal Hotel at Blackall. He moved to the Barcoo Hotel in 1902 but repurchased the Universal in 1907 and retained it until 1919. He remained a loyal member of the Australian Labor Party and, as president of the Blackall Workers' Political Organisation in 1909, took the lead in arranging for T. J. Ryan to stand for election to the Legislative Assembly. Late in life he bought Sumnervale and Shamrock Park, pastoral properties near Blackall. When he moved to Sumnervale in 1919 he was given the biggest send-off in the town's history. However his health was already broken and he died aged 58 at Blackall on 21 July 1920. His wife, six sons and two daughters survived him. He was buried in the local cemetery. 

An 'extraordinary physical specimen', Howe weighed 18 stone (114 kg), with a 50 ins (127 cm) chest, 27½ ins (70 cm) thigh, 17 ins (43 cm) biceps and a hand the size of a small tennis racket. He is reputed to have run 100 yards in eleven seconds in his socks and to have been well above average in field events. He is also known to have taken prizes for Irish dancing. He became a legend long before he died and the flannel shirt worn by shearers is still widely known as a 'Jackie Howe'.

Select Bibliography

• P. J. Brixey, Jackie Howe: Australia's All Time Champion Blade Shearer (Warwick, Qld, 1982)
• Brisbane Courier, 13 Oct 1892
• Pastoral Review, 15 Oct 1892, 15 Nov 1894
• Catholic Advocate, 13 Apr 1916
• Worker (Brisbane), 5 Aug 1920
• private information.

Citation details

H. J. Gibbney, 'Howe, John Robert (1861–1920)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/howe-john-robert-6746/text11655, published first in hardcopy 1983, accessed online 16 October 2015.

This article was first published in hardcopy in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 9, (MUP), 1983

 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/howe-john-robert-6746

ECHOES OF THE PAST

Jackie Howes Exploits to be transcribed ... TROVE

These extracts are just to give me some idea of the level 

of settlement at the time  

The following extract was in the MORETEN BAY COURIER 1848 
 discussing the township of Warwick soon to be opened.

The former St Mary’s Church, the earliest sandstone
church in Warwick, was completed in 1865. It was
designed by prominent Brisbane architect, Benjamin
Backhouse, and constructed by C.A. Doran for around
£1,500. The roof was originally slated or shingled.
The church was officially opened in August 1865 by
Bishop Quinn, the first Bishop of Queensland. At this
time the church was named St Mary of Assumption,
now popularly shortened to St Mary’s. By 1867 a
Catholic School was established in the church. After
the opening of the new St Mary’s Church in 1926, this
building was partitioned, lined and used as school
rooms for the Catholic Primary School.

http://www.sdrc.qld.gov.au/ArticleDocuments/Heritage%20Trail%20Book.pdf.aspx?Embed=Y

Happy Birthday to my Mum and Dad

 Fancy having a mother and father who are born on the same day and you don't get to know either of them real well.  I can attest to the fact that it is weird.   The entire disconnection thing playing out continually all around me including my own children who seem to not be concerned with their behaviour around me.

My mother and Father ( Bill and Ellen Peters nee Baguley) at the Killarney Show

 Leaving the care of both of parents at around four months of age, it is to be expected that I won't know that much about them.

Mary-Ellen who was known as Cindy!  (Me)

 I was reared by older extended family and was largely kept out of the way and out of the picture and it was really foreign having so many brothers and sisters but not really having them.   Being unable to talk about my "real" family when I was in Edith's care was a very confusing way of life.  It was thwart with emotional  and physical abuse.  This continued for the 12 years I was under her care.  This treatment made it difficult for me to understand why I was even on the planet, I could not understand as a child why I was even born. 

That was a question I asked many times during my lifetime, usually when I get to that point and I ask out loud to the universe the whole situation seems to lighten and change and move around. 

So this is how it is in my life.   I must be mindful of my loud ways and continue on.   My quest for the planet has never changed since my teen age years.  This is the time when I was kept in the care of the government as a ward of the state of Queensland.   I was placed in children's homes.  Seven children's homes in fact and that meant seven high schools too. 

What hope did I really have of completing the full education?   I would have loved to have done this though and today I still love to study.

It is my parents birthday!   I am led to ponder what it might have been.  What it would have been like to grow up in a real family situation.  What would it have been like to have had all my brothers and sisters around me.  What would it have been like having a father who wasn't rendered permanently disabled by paraplegia.  What would it have been like if my mum did not leaving us all behind?  

It was not her fault she had to leave us.  There was no real way to feed six tiny children and cloth them.  Things were very different back in the 1950's and 1960's.  

Later on, in the Nineteen sixty's we certainly saw a complete about face with government policy.  But, sadly it was already too late for our family.
 
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ONE More Sleep to go!

I remember when it was fifty sleeps,  I think I have hardly slept since then.  Every day I think about going to this place where I am going and everyday I think wow I always wanted to see this so bad.  Finally I am going to Uluru. Finally the place where all the dreaming tracks lead to.  The very special special place that was called Eyres Rock forever in my childhood.  Some say its hard to call something another name. I think that is pussy,  I know!  I had another name and I had to get used to this!  I am so glad I changed my name to my name my mother gave me!

I look at myself and think I hit that myth fair in the face changing my name from Cindy to Mary-Ellen .. which is my correct name.  I changed it back because I woke up in a cold sweat saying help me, I am not vibrating to my correct number and I must change this now.  I was 25 years old when this happened.  So I have been called Cindy for 25 years and Mary-Ellen for 28 years.. 

I am Mary-Ellen Peters, youngest daughter of William Henry Peters and Ellen Katherine Peters (nee Baguley) of Warwick.  Well that is how the birth notice might have read if there wasn't so much going on at the time.  For instance my father being in hospital and being told that he will never ever walk again.  I guess he didn't handle the challenge very well did he?  They broke up and he was a hard hard man!  Everyone who I have ever known said that he was a hard man.

Personally, I don't know.   I really never got to know him at all.  I never lived with him.  I can't  remember ever kissing him or being kissed by him which in itself is sad.  I remember kissing my mummy, but only in later life and as a child I got my mummy's love for four months before she had to go.  That was a special four months.  I must have loved her, I would not sleep and they said horrible things about this.  My poor mummy, if only I had known the truth!  I am so so sad about this and such a lifetime of waste.

Abandoned by both my parents is a hard and bitter pill to swallow no matter which way you look at it or who you are reading this.  I know it was never meant to be like this.  I know my mother didn't want to do this.  I know that she thought it would be ok in the end.  I know she loved me though.  I know because she gave me her mothers name and also her own name.  I feel special!  

I should have called  Montana  this name instead ...Ellen Mary-Ellen.  If I was to follow this tradition it would be that, and that is funny.  So perhaps she will call one of her daughter's Mary and one Ellen in their middle names, or their first.  That would be the pinnacle wouldn't it?  To have someone named after you.  No one would name anything after me and so this is just a fanciful dream.