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Patricia and Lionel
Lionel Jones, eighteen, and Patricia Reilly, sixteen, at the Koroit Showgrounds in 1948 Continue reading
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Family Tree
The forebears of Lionel Jones and Patricia Reilly. Family Tree from first generation to arrive in Australia 1. Lionel Jones – Maternal Side A: James Lowndes Senior (Lionel’s great-great-grandfather) – Ann Higgins (Lionel’s great-great-grandmother, also known as Ann Lowndes upon her marriage to James in Hobart in 1827). James Senior was born England 1795, arrived… Continue reading
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Introduction
This is an account of the lives of the forebears of the author’s parents, Lionel Jones and Patricia Reilly. The focus is on the colonial period of the nineteenth century, prior to the federation of the Australian colonies in 1901. In this account, Lionel and Patricia’s family story is presented within the context of a… Continue reading
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Lionel’s forebears on his maternal side – the Lowndes family in Tasmania –
Colonial Van Diemen’s Land in the 1820s and 1830s can be seen as a precursor to the society which was planted in Southern Victoria in the 1830s and 1840s. Vandemonians of varied social backgrounds began settling permanently on the southern mainland from 1834 and Melbourne was founded in 1835. Victoria was known as the Port… Continue reading
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Ann Higgins Arrives in the Colony
Two years after James Lowndes arrived in Van Diemen’s Land, Ann Higgins was tried at the Warwick Assizes, charged with stealing money and watches. Warwick is in the West Midlands of England, close to Birmingham. More than two hundred years after the trial of this young woman, the court records for Ann’s trial still exist.… Continue reading
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Lowndes family in Geelong prior to Victoria’s Separation from NSW
Government officials at the ports in Van Diemen’s Land recorded the names of passengers departing or arriving at the docks. These departure and arrival records have now been digitized and are available at Libraries Tasmania for online search. Departure records from Georgetown, the port in northern Tasmania at the mouth of the Tamar Estuary, show… Continue reading
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Life at Ceres Bridge and Fyansford
By scrutinizing the squatters and proprietors from below, we gain a different perspective on our history. The lives of servants reveals a lot about the masters. How employers treated workers in the workplace at that time provides an insight into the ongoing struggles of working people for fair treatment in this basic human relationship. The… Continue reading
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Lowndes family at Russell’s Bridge, Bannockburn
Russell’s Bridge is just a few kilometers east of Bannockburn, a town founded in the early 1850s as a stop on one of the early routes to the goldfields. After the decline of alluvial goldmining, this route became the main road from Geelong to Ballarat. When the railway between Geelong and Ballarat was built in… Continue reading
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Men of the Company – The gentlemen and their servants at Geelong
Colonial historians, writing in the late nineteenth century, were guided by a standard ideological narrative. Most accounts presented Australia as a society of white Europeans under the benevolent rule of the British Empire. Free settlers, particularly self-starter men of enterprise, were the primary agents of progress and civilization. Aboriginal people were marginalized and had no… Continue reading
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Foster Fyans and the strong arm of the law: Wedge, Dana and La Trobe
In late 1837 Captain Foster Fyans established a police camp in a paddock beside the Moorabool River just upstream from where the Moorabool merges with the Barwon River. He had recently been appointment as Police Magistrate for the Geelong District by his mentor Governor Richard Bourke. The police camp was near where the Moorabool River… Continue reading
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The Shadows of the Gentlemen 