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Family History Notes - Boyer, Luke

Ship Standard - 287 passengers from London & Plymouth 15/6/1852.

BLYTH, Captain John

MEADOWCROFT, John Senr (//c1800-18/9/1854) Died SA (prob Adelaide). Carpenter from Lambeth, London, England.

MEADOWCROFT, Mrs J nee Louisa WHITE (//c1803-11/7/1870) Died Adelaide SA, at her residence Flinders St.

MEADOWCROFT, Martha Lucy (//c1832-23/9/1902) Died Adelaide SA. m 1/7/1857 St Andrew Adelaide, Charles Humpherys.

MEADOWCROFT, Mary Ann Elizabeth (//c1836-3/4/1917) Died Rose Park SA.

MEADOWCROFT, John Frederick Junr (//c1839-18/9/1909) Died Forestville SA, at his residence Charles St. Storekeeper; Goolwa, Laura, Caltowie then Clerk; Kingston S-E Later Agent; Forestville. m 25/7/1866 St George Magill, Eleanor nee Lewis (nb).

Ship William Mitchell - c160 passengers from London 27/8/1840

HARVEY, Captain Francis

LEWIS, Robert Senr (//c1812-6/10/1889) Died Adelaide SA (of Echunga). Blacksmith from Kingscote, Glos, England. Blacksmith; Adelaide, Echunga. Anglican.

LEWIS, Mrs Robert nee Sarah PALMER (//c1813-25/4/1897) Born Bristol, Glos, England. Died Echunga SA. Obit Chronicle 8/5/1897.

LEWIS, Robert Junr (/5/1839-3/7/1891) Died Langhorne Creek SA. Blacksmith; Echunga, Langhorne Creek. Anglican. m 14/9/1864 St George Woodforde, Frances nee JONES (//c1837-25/7/1916) Died Angas Plains SA. Father; John.

Born SA

Stephen Lewis b c1843 SA – birth not registered m 11/5/1872 Bride father Robert Clifford residence Langhorne Creek, Harriett nee CLIFFORD (//c1847-//) Parents – Robert Clifford & Charlotte nee PERRY

Eleanor Lewis b 3/3/1847 Light Square Adelaide d 7/9/1923 Perth Hospital (of Malpas Bassendean) m 25/7/1866 St George Magill, John Frederick Meadowcroft

Family of John Frederick Meadowcroft & Eleanor nee LEWIS

Third daughter

Elsie Adeline Meadowcroft b 22/10/1875 Currency Creek m 26/12/1900 Methodist Church Goodwood, William LUKE (//c1871-//) Son of John Luke.

Some background re William Luke

His father, John Luke, worked as a miner for many years in the old Port Phillip Mine in Victoria. Born c1837 d c August 1907 Clunes Vic, at the residence of his sister, Mrs Crawford of Smeaton Road, of pneumonia.

John Luke the Younger was the son of John Luke the Elder and Sarah Mary Luke. Because his mother’s maiden name is unknown at this point, it is likely that John Luke the Younger emigrated alone or with his parents from probably Cornwall, England. Perhaps at Clunes Vic, John Luke the Younger m Martha nee FORD, a daughter of John Ford and Sarah nee HAMMOND, and probably born in Victoria. Names and dates for some of the events above would come from the Victorian Births, Deaths and Marriages records.

Family of John Luke and Martha nee FORD

Martin Luke b & d 1865 Clunes Vic

Mary Jane Luke b 1867 Clunes Vic

William Luke b 1871 Clunes Vic

Eveline Luke b 1877 d 1878 Clunes Vic

Only Mary Jane Luke and William Luke apparently survived to reach adulthood. No mention of Mary Jane Luke in SA. William Luke must have made his own way to SA, where he m 26/12/1900 Methodist Church Goodwood, Elsie Adeline nee Meadowcroft.

The newly married couple made their way to Broken Hill NSW, where their four sons and two daughters were born. The youngest son died in infancy. Elsie Adeline Luke nee Meadowcroft d 11/6/1911 Broken Hill and her husband William Luke d 1/1/1918 Broken Hill.

It seems that the children returned to their Grandmother Meadowcroft in SA. Grandfather JF Meadowcroft had died before his daughter Elsie Luke died. Elsie Luke’s two surviving sisters and her eldest brother moved to WA with their families. Grandmother Meadowcroft and apparently her granddaughter Florence Luke also went to WA, where Florence Luke m a Mr Cook.

Martha Elsie Luke remained in SA perhaps with relatives (likely her uncles) in the vicinity of Forestville, because she married Carl Roy Bansemer on 18/10/1930 at the Methodist Church Goodwood, where her parents had married some thirty years previously. Her three brothers, Colin, Martin and John Luke, apparently were fostered out to different families, but all came to work in the Glen Ellen Cannery at Hahndorf and Norwood, which John Luke’s foster mother, Miss Dorothy Darby (later Mrs AM Boyer), had established.

The Boyer/Darby family

Alexander Morris Boyer 33 m 28/11/1928 St Andrew Walkerville, Maude Millicent nee NORMAN 32 Daughter of William Hart Norman

Maud Millicent Boyer d 5/11/1929 Walkerville North (of Clare).

Alexander Morris Boyer 39 m 20/10/1934 St Paul Hahndorf, Dorothy Josephine nee DARBY 46 Daughter of James Darby

Alexander Morris Boyer d 27/9/1970 Gilles Plains (0f Linden Park)

Frank Everitt 26 (Father – Robert Everitt) m 12/12/1895 Bride father residence Holder Village, Alma Rose nee DUNKERTON 17 (Father – Joseph Dunkerton)

Frank Everitt d 12/11/1913 Meningie aged 44 years 6 months

Family of Frank EVERITT & Alma Rose nee DUNKERTON

Alma Elsie Everitt b 25/2/1897 Waikerie

Frank Eustice Everitt b 24/3/1900 Kensington

Iris Margaret Rose Everitt b 11/5/1906 Meningie

Mavis Mary Everitt b 5/9/1904 Meningie

Joseph William Dunkerton 21 (Father – Joseph Dunkerton) m 1/9/1904 St Matthew Kensington, Lucy Isabell Frances nee WELLER 23 (Father – Alfred Weller)

Pearl Josephine Dunkerton d 6/4/1909 Aboard Kanowna (of Subiaco WA), aged 1 yea