Friends

Of

Hastings

Cemetery

We have been exploring people with an

 Australian Connection in the Cemetery

  Here is a partial list, those not linked have not (yet) been written up..

• Abbott, David - went to Australia aged 19, studied and became a solicitor and large land owner in Victoria.  Visited Hastings regularly from 1913 until his death.  Died in Buchanan Hospital while visiting his daughter in Hastings.

Hastings and St Leonards Observer - Saturday 07 July 1917 - Mrs. Robertson, nee Miss Abbott Australia, has been visiting Hastings with her husband, ami she has verv kindly entrusted the Hon. Secretary with a trophy-to be to the Sea Angling Festival Committee in commemoration of visits to the Hastings and St. Leonards Festivals. This trophy lias been especially brought from Australia and is typical our Colony

• Bennett, Hugh Chaffey [junior] was the Captain of the SS Orotava according to his memorial. A record of Mariners and ships in Australian Waters, 27th March, 1885, lists as crew on the Port Adelaide, sailing from the Port of London to Sydney.

Hugh Chaffey  the Younger - The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA  Tue 21 Apr 1896 - Page 6  OUR ANGLO-COLONIAL LETTER. - well known in Australia as the third officer of the Orient

 Bovis, George Charles, wife Elizabeth & daughter – a slight Australian reference, but intruging 'My Dear.  Bessoms from Harry. Australia

 Browne, Margaret & Dr. John Harris - Pastoralist in South Australia, member of Sturt’s expedition, credited with saving his life, and much more, ably supported by his wife

 Cannon - Martin M. & Eliza [wife] (Late of Australia) A genealogical puzzle…

 Corbett, Andrew Gibson –The Corbett family were in Victoria by 1866.  They were involved in scandal. misadventure and litigation.

• Dalrymple, George Augustus Elphinstone  Scottish, Explorer in Queensland, where there is a memorial to him, and once a region named after him.

 De Falbe, Charles Vigant Monterosi – Commander in the Danish Royal Navy.  Australia connection through his wife Emmeline, great niece of John Macarthur and granddaughter of Philip Gidley King.  Her first marriage was to George Farquhar Leslie.  New South Wales

 Dewar ,John Lart - died about 15th May in North Queensland, remembered on the grave of Emma Dewar,

• Duncan, Alexander - Rev. MA.' For over 30 years in New South Wales, Australia. Died at HastingsEwbank, Emma Jane - Emma died at St Leonards. She was the widow of William Withers Ewbank.  They had married on 1 May 1862 at Christchurch, North Adelaide, South Australia.  On Emma's  gravestone there is a memorial to their second son, Charles who was born was born on 27 November 1865 at Blakistan, South Australia.. "In loving memory of Charles Augustus Ewbank who went home July 1 1895 aged 29. Buried at sea”.
• Foster - In loving memory of Jane Foster,  of Clapham Park, London. Died 22nd February 1894 aged 72. 'Underneath are the everlasting arms'.  Charles T. Foster died 25th January 1890 Interred at Hobart, Tasmania. Clara Foster, daughter of Thomas and JAne Foster. Died 14th February 1936
• Fuller,  William Hector  1932. Dorothy Ethel Bourne, nee Fuller, 1940. Mabel Daisy Hagan, nee Fuller, passed away Australia 1969.
• Furniss, Harry  - He wrote and illustrated his travels in America and Australia. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3507909

 Gedge, William Edward. Emily Isabella & baby Herbert - William spent many years in Ghana and the family then went to Melbourne, where Herbert was born (and died) William was a Landing Waiter in the Customs Service, Victoria

 Hanby, Edward Wrey = His parents retired to Tasmania and his Mother died there in 1920.  His Father was later appointed Municipal Commissioner, Dehra Dun, and served for eleven years...

 Hansard, Arthur Agar  - - Master Mariner, a varied life, sailed between England and Australia over many years, lived in Queensland for some years, retired to England

 Huckle, Dr. Arthur Headley - was born in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia in 1870.

 Icely, Caroline Charlotte - eldest daughter of a family listed in “Australian Royalty: Geneology of the colony of NSW

 Lewis, William - Melbourne, Australia.  Died at Buchanan Hospital, Hastings.  Beloved only son of Ethel and Russell Lewis, Stoneleigh, Beaufort, Victoria.

• Lindsay  - To the cherished memory of my dear husband John Menzies (Of Sydney Australia) who passed hence February 16th 1913 aged 52 “A gifted singer dearly loved. Goodnight sweet love, God keep thee in his care”  Also of Helen Lindsay, much loved mother of the above who fell asleep July 10th aged 84 (Interred at Sydney)

 McDougal - Sacred to the memory of Robert Mcdougal late of Melbourne in the colony of Victoria who died at St Leonards- on-sea 13th of October 1880 aged 59 "Thy will be done"  Also Duncan Mcdougal who died at Knellstone Udimore on 4th April 1942 Much beloved

• Matters Porter, Muriel - born in South Australia, a suffragist who was the first woman to "speak" in the British Parliament (cremated)
• Mills, John Vivien Gottlieb - After he was transferred to the Colonial Legal Service, Mills held several positions including Solicitor General in Singapore and Supreme Court Judge in Johore.  He retired in 1939/40 aged 53.  He went to Australia, worked in the Federal Attorney-General's offic e and returned to Enlgand after the war to take his MA at Oxford in 1945.
• Milne - Sacred to the memory of Mary, beloved wife of David A. , Geelong, Australia, and daughter of Henry Wheeler M.D., Norwich, who died at Hastings December 27th 1907, aged 42 years.

 Minet Family - Leah Fortrie and daughters Geraldine Helena, and Delia Jane Parker - Mother and sisters of Cecilia Tubbs q.v.  Geraldine and Delia spent some years in the Antipodes and in Victoria were involved variously in Theosophy. Spiritualism and Geraldine in a failed mining venture.

 Morphett, Ann & elder daughter  Fanny Australia.  Wife of George Morphett.  They lived in North Adelaide for some years. South Australia

 Pritchard, Dr. William Clowes - born in Australia.  Came to England with a B.A. from the University of Sydney. New South Wales

 Rasmussen, Andrew, Henrietta & John – John drowned in the Red Sea on a voyage home from Australia.  

• Percival, William Spencer, author "The Land of the Dragon" in which William gives an idea of the life he lived. - “I have had a few close shaves, and seen a few near things.  ...... and from the charge  of a herd of wild buffaloes in Central Australia.
• Russell, Anthony Charles , -who died 22nd April 1938 aged 5 years. “In loving memory”. Also of his father, Charles Alfred Russell, died 12th November 1977 aged 73 years.- "At Rest" Cremated Australia.
• Strachan Amelia Hannah, Widow of James Strachan,who practised as a chemist in Orange, New South Wales.

 Thrupp, Leonard William & Annie Elizabeth, daughters Ada & Clara - daughters born in Adelaide, South Australia before the family retired to St Leonards.

 de Wesselow, Francis Guillemard Simpkinson, nephew  of Lady Franklin; a topographical draughtsman for the Navy.  Served at the Rossbank Observatory.   Several of his paintings at the W L Crowther Library, Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office.’  Currently, July 2023 – there is an exhibiton of his work at the Tasmanian Museum. “Simpkinson’s Hobart”  . Tasmania, Flinders Island, Victoria

 Williams, Harold Elphee & wife Blanche Daisy - the couple went to Queensland, two children were born there; Harold died in 1915 and is buried in South Brisbane Cemetery. Blanche and their two children, returned to St Leonards.

 Wilson, Eliza & Charles - Charles late of Sydney NSW, little else known, recorded because of the state of memorial.

• Wolfen, William and Mary, and his second wife Amy - William was born in Prussia, spent some time in Australia, where he was the honorary Consul for Sweden for which he was awarded the Chevalier de L'Ordre Royal De Wasa.  “The many friends who knew Mary in Sydney and later London and St. Leonards, and all the poor who came in her way, found her most kind-hearted, and unselfish woman, and she was a devoted wife.”
• Wood, Percy Victor = 3 brothers buried in the Cemeetery, two of whom died in WW1 action.  Place of Birth: Hastings, Place of Enlistment: Brisbane, QLD, Australia Next of Kin: Wood, A (father)