Herbert Bertram
OSBORN
Margaret
Atkinson GRAY
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These are the parents of Ella Coraline
Osborn, who married John Hinton Edmonds at Wudinna Sth Aust in 1934.
This is only a summary file to aid further
research, but for more detail...
Refer also (in Chrons SA) “Isaac Robert
Gray & Elizabeth Pearce”
Refer also (in Chrons SA) “John Ash Osborn
& Elizabeth Paynter”
Refer also (in The Stories) “The Osborn
Girls”
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Herbert Bertram
Osborn’s early life
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10/6/1876 –
Herbert Bertram Osborn (apparently always called ‘Bert’) was born at Kersbrook
in the Adelaide Hills, the fifth child of John Ash Osborn, a local farmer, and
his wife Elizabeth (nee Paynter). At that time his elder siblings were brothers
Richard 7 and James 4, and sisters Rachael 8 and Edith 5 [xx]
27/9/1878 – His
younger sister Ethel was born [xx]
11/1/1880 – His
younger brother Reuben was born (but Rueben died as an infant) [xx]
30/6/1882 - Aged
only 6, Bert’s mother died and was buried at Kersbrook [xx]
c 1895 – There’s
little else on hand for Bert Osborn. Apparently he spent some time as a young
man in the Sth East as a contractor, but the pre-marriage time of this ancestor
really needs some further research.
[xx]
For more detail on his early life refer
also (in The Stories) “The Osborn Girls”
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Margaret
Atkinson Gray’s early life
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12/5/1876 -
Margaret Atkinson Gray was born, the eldest child of Isaac Robert Gray, a mason
of Payneham, and wife Margaret (nee Pearce), at Glynde near Adelaide, (regd
15/6/1876) [k]
1879 to 1883 –
There were 3 brothers and a sister born at Glynde [xx]
1884 – Another
sister was born, at Kersbrook [xx]
c 1885 – When
Margaret was about 9, the Gray family moved to South Melboure in Vic, today an
inner suburb on the outskirts of Melbourne CBD, where they had two more
children (twins). [xx]
c 1887 – The
family moved to Balwyn, about 10kms east of the city, where they had another
dau, their ninth child. [xx]
1891 – When
Margaret was about 15 the family moved much further east, to the Seville
Lilydale area, where they had a mixed farm and market garden, and went on to
have four more children. [xx]
1891 to 1897 –
Somewhere in this period Margaret moved back to Adelaide. (Margaret’s parents
returned to SA in the early 1900s, and bought a house at Seaton in the western
suburbs of Adelaide.) [xx]
before 4/3/1898
– Margaret took up a position as a general maid and as a "nanny" to
the clergyman's children at the Wesleyan parsonage at Payneham [xx]
For more detail on her early life refer
also (in The Stories) “The Osborn Girls”
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MARRIED -----------------
16/3/1898 -
Herbert Bertam Osborn (21, bach, Gardener of kersbrook, father John Ash Osborn)
married Margaret Atkinson Gray (21, spin, General Servant of Payneham, father
Isaac Robert Gray) in the Wesleyan parsonage at Payneham, witns CA Gray (wife's
brother) of Glynde, E Parker (his sister) of Kersbrook, and T Svenson of Pt
Ad [a]
For a good deal of other detail on their
early life together refer also (in The Stories) “The Osborn Girls”
1899 (to 1918) -
Had ten children at Kersbrook over 19 years, 9 surviving infancy [f] [xx]
1901 (to 1904) -
Directories list him as a Contractor of Kersbrook and his brother Richard the
same. James shown as a farmer. [b]
14/7/1903 -
Opened a Savings Bank SA account (95148)
[e]
7/2/1903 - His
dad died at Kersbrook aged 60 [xx]
1904/05 – Rates
Notices for Para Wirra...
Ann Osborn (occ/owner) Allots 60,
291,211,212,213 1 acre, Cottage & Garden.
Herbert Osborn (occ), SA Govt (owner),
HB(?) 205, 206, 13 acres 3 roods, Yackaville, House & Garden.
James T Osborn (occ/owner), Sect 6087, 82
acres, Kersbrook, Cottage & Garden.
Richard Osborn (occ), SA Govt (owner), HB
207, 208, 20 acres, Yackaville [j]
It’s said that Jim, [the
eldest son], got the land that his father leased, being the best, and had a
cottage.
A heap of Parkers also had
land, in the Maidstone and Mt Gould area, biggest piece was George Parker’s 127
acres freehold at Mt Gould.
1911 - Herbert
Osborn, "Blocker", Jas Osborn, "Gardener", Richard Osborn,
"Contractor", all of Kersbrook
[b]
1910s ? – Dau
Ella remembers her mum telling how Bert and her and Bert’s brother Jim would
stop off at “The Morning Star” pub at Chain of Ponds for a beer on the way home
from market, but wife Margt would never go in as pubs weren’t the place for
respectable women, but sister-in-law(?) Mary Langley arrived, called out to her
to come in for a drink, but on a (polite but firm?) “no thanks” Mary called out
“You miserable shit!” and went in on her own
[g]
?/10/1924 - Aged
48, Bert took up a scrub block at Yaninee, sections 24 and 29 of "Pinbong
4" (map in files), and moved there initially with their two eldest
unmarried children, dau Vera (17) and son Harold (19). [c] [d]
?/2/1925 - The
rest of the family (exc two eldest girls, by then married) arrived at the farm,
which was 1,000-odd acres of scrub, where they built a "house" of
native pine and cor iron, being one big room partitioned by super bags [c]
There’s a good deal of material on
these years at Yaninee on
the West Coast in (in The Stories) “The Osborn Girls”.
1925 ? – Bert
joined the Yaninee Cricket Club, made 100 one Sat when his wife wasn’t there,
but next week when she did come, he made a duck [g]
6/1/1926 – There
is a receipt in Bert’s handwriting (Sturt View Yaninee”) for what looks like a
progress payment of £26 for “the second half yearly instalment and interest on
Section Nos 4677-4787 Hundred of Para Wirra” made out to O.P. Morgan, signed and
duty stamped, with note added “Happy New Year to you all 1926” [h]
Dau Ella thought that the
old place was sold for £300 to Orlando Morgan of Chain of Ponds, who married a
Goodrich girl and had a dau who lived on the property until “recently”
[2008]. [g]
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DEATH OF SPOUSE -------------
25/7/1926 - Aged
50 Bert died at home and was buried in the Yaninee cemetery [xx]
There is a will reference, see Wills Index
1906-1930 No 46087.
In 1933 when dau Ella turned 21 she
received £100 from her dad’s estate, held in trust for her (and also each?
some? of the others??) as he didn’t make a will. [g]
25/7/1926 -
Husband Herbert died on their farm at Yaninee leaving her to struggle on
raising the remaining children (only the 4 youngest girls were home by this),
right through the Depression, staying on till just after dau Ella married in
March 1934), then just walked off the property, which was taken up by a
neighbour, moved into a rented house in Wudinna, then moved to Adelaide abt
1939, living out her days staying for various periods with her daughters and
their families, at Cudlee Ck, West Coast, Athelstone, and Blair Athol. [xx]
28/8/1951 –
Margaret died at the home of her dau Elsie at Blair Athol aged 75 and was
buried at Cheltenham (Plot 4B Nth, Path 1, Sect P, Road O), inscription
"In Loving Memory of M A Osborn, died 28 Aug 1951 aged 75, God's will is
best" [m] [xx]
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SOURCES ...
[a] Mar certif
[b] SA Directories - Ad Lib
[c] Life notes of daus Elsie and Mavis
[d] Le Hunte Council records
[e] Savings Bank index - Ad Lib
[f] SA Births Index - SAGHS
[g] Oral history ex dau Ella
[h] Assorted original documents (or p/copies)
[j] Gumeracha Hist Soc collection
[k] Birth certificate
[m] Headstone
[xx] Ex file notes & prior generation's data
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