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The Battye Families of the Ancient Graveship of Holme, 2013 Edition, Page 67
James Battye, fuller of Upperthong and his Descendants
PART ONE
Introduction
Because of the size of this family and the difficulty in tracing branches through so many pages, the family has been divided into two parts. Part One outlines the descendants of James Battye, fuller of Upperthong, through his only son George (1735 - ) and George's first wife Martha Roberts. Part Two outlines the descendants through George and his second wife Abigail Bottomley.
James Battye, fuller of Battye Mill in Upperthong, who married Hannah Morehouse, had three daughters, but only one son - George (1735 - ). George married twice. During his first marriage to Martha Roberts they had three daughters and two sons - two of the daughters and one of the sons dying young. In his marriage to Abigail Bottomley they had seven daughters and three sons - one of the daughters dying young. From these eleven surviving children came 49 grandchildren and over 200 great-grandchildren. So began the Cartworth branch of the Upperthong line that produced a remarkable number of fullers, even into the late nineteenth century when the trade was dying.
John (1760-1826), the eldest-surviving son of George from his first marriage to Martha Roberts, went into partnership with his father, building & then working two fulling mills at Brownhill Lane, Cartworth. On John's death, in 1826, he left both of his fulling mills, known as Upper Brown Hill Mill and Lower Brown Hill Mill, and various lands in Cartworth and Holme townships to his seven
sons - James (1784 - 1845), Joshua (1788 - 1858), Jonathan (1790 - 1866), Thomas (1794 - 1874),
George (1798 - 1866), John (1799 - ) and William (1803 - 1853). To his three daughters, Sarah
(1782 - ), Hannah (1792 - 1869) and Nancy (1804 - 1852), John left to each of them the sum of one thousand pounds sterling.
The seven sons prospered, some eventually retiring on their savings and titling themselves “gentlemen”, as befitted men of leisure who no longer performed necessary work. In national elections they voted - to a man - as men of property, for the Tory candidate.
Perhaps the easiest way to understand this very large family is, first, through the offspring of John, all of them generation nine. Readers will note a large Australian branch. Almost half of this line now has roots in that country. It all began with the emigration of three cousins - Mark (1813 - 1899), son of Joshua, who went to Moyston in the State of Victoria in 1852; William (1832 - 1916), son of Thomas, who settled in Encounter Bay, South Australia in 1855; followed by Ben (1835 - 1889), son of George, who made his home first in Millicent, South Australia in the late 1850s. They were later followed by two nephews, Albert (1852 - 1915), who settled in Victor Harbor, South Australia in 1876 and George Alfred (1860 - 1897), a younger brother of Albert, who went to live in Koolunga.
A little is known of these early settlers. Fisher (1838 - 1897), the eldest, adopted son of Mark, worked first as an engine-driver for a number of mines in the Moyston area. He then went to Glenthomson as the innkeeper, finally settling in Ararat as proprietor of the Shire Hall Hotel. He was best known in the area, however, as an ardent cricketer, playing in early matches with the All-
England Eleven. William fell back on trades he would have been familiar with back in the Holme Valley, in England. He built a bark mill where bark was chopped, sifted and bagged, to be shipped to England for use in the tanning of leather. With another man, William established a woolcombing and fellmongering business along the bank of the River Inman. The current was swift enough to cleanse the wool fleece that was held in a basket while being washed in the river. In 1905 William and his wife Elizabeth (1836 - 1914) celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, attended by all of their children and eighteen grandchildren. [2]
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Our Haigh & Gurden Family
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