Someone from the BAWDEN family sent me this
many years ago, but the connection has been lost. It seems to clear up the
mystery of the enigmatic WILLIAM BAWDEN but I haven’t authenticated any of it.
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Descendants
of JOHN BAWDEN
(BOWDEN / BAWDEN are Cornish forms of the
Franch BAUDOUIN)
Generation
No. 1
1.
JOHN BAWDEN married ANN STUART.
Child of JOHN BAWDEN and ANN STUART is:
i. HUGH
BAWDEN, b. 1763, North Molton, Devonshire, England.
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Generation
No. 2
2. HUGH BAWDEN (f JOHN) was born 1763 in North
Molton, Devonshire, England. Bapt 17
Apr 1763. He married GRACE KINGDON 20
May 1790 in North Molton, Devonshire, England.
Children of HUGH BAWDEN and GRACE KINGDON
are:
i. HUGH
BAWDEN, b.1795, North Melton, Devonshire, England. Bapt 12 Apr 1795
ii. GEORGE
BAWDEN, b. 1800; Bapt 14 Aug 1800. d. 1806.
iii. WILLIAM
BAWDEN, b. 1804, North Molton, Devonshire. England.
iv. GEORGE
BAWDEN, b. 1810, North Molton, Devonshire UK; d. 12 Feb 1880.
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Generation
No. 3
3. WILLIAM BAWDEN (f HUGH, f JOHN) was born
1804 in North Molton, Devonshire. England.
William was born to Hugh and Grace in 1804 and christened on 15 Apri
1804 At North Molton, Devonshire. He
married ELIZABETH BLAKE 11 Feb 1823 in North Molton, Devonshhire, England.
Child of WILLIAM BAWDEN and ELIZABETH BLAKE
is:
i.
WILLIAM BAWDEN (OR4 BOWDEN), b. 1826, North Molton, Devonshire, England. Bapt
14 May 1826, North Molton, Devonshire, England
NOTES
:
1. William was born to William and Elizabeth
at North Molton and christened there on 14 May 1826.
2. Family legend is that William's daughter,
Joanna Miriam, was born in Adelaide c 1846 and that her father died while
Joanna was still a young child. There
is no record that I can find or mention in legend of William's marriage (which
could of course have been in England before he came to Australia) or of
Joanna's mother.
3. William was working as a labourer at
Gascote in Middlesex when he enlisted in the XI th Regiment (then known as the
North Devonshire Regiment) on 29 Nov 1844.
By Feb 1845, William was at Chatham Barracks from where detachments were
despatched to Sheerness to provide escorts for convict transport ships.
4. On 8 May 1945. William sailed on the
"DAVID MALCOLM" bound for Norfolk Island, arriving there on 25 Aug
1845, unloading convicts on 26 Aug and
sailing for Sydney, arriving there on 21 Sep and disembarking on 22 Sep
1845. He stayed in Sydney until
October, when he sailed for Van Dieman's Land, and by 30 Dec 1845, he was
located in Launceston. He stayed there
until embarking on 4 Apr 1846 for Adelaide.
He remained as a member of the South Australian detachment until late
Jun 1848. On 10 Apr 1848, he was
admitted to the Adelaide Hospital with a fever and was discharged on 19 Jun
1848.
5. From Jul 1848 to Dec 1856, William served
in New South Wales, probably spending most of this time at the newly completed
Victoria Barracks, Paddington, which were occupied on 5 Aug 1848. For some time in 1855 he was in "public
employ" and during the periods from Jul 1848 to Dec 1854 and again from
Jan 1856 to Mar 1856, William was recorded as being absent from monthly musters
at the Main Barracks on a number of occasions because he was on guard duty at
Cockatoo Island (guarding convicts) at the time.
6. On 11 Nov 1856, William was reported as
being Absent Without Leave and by Mar 1857 was recorded as being a deserter.
7. I can find no further record of William
and assume that, like many other soldiers who did not wish to return to
England, he just disappeared into the countryside.
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4. GEORGE BAWDEN (f HUGH, f JOHN) was born 1810
in North Molton, Devonshire UK, Bapt 12 Oct 1810 and died 12 Feb 1880. He married (1) JANE (OR JOAN) BUCKINGHAM 03
Apr 1834 in Twitchen, Devonshire. She
was born 1806 in England. He married
(2) ELIZABETH ESTER VINCENT 03 Sep 1872 in Kapunda SA, daughter of NICHOLAS
VINCENT and JAN VINCENT. She was born
1813 in Roseland, Cornwall UK, and died 01 Apr 1899 in Kapunda SA. She arrived in South Australia prior to
1851.
NOTES
:
1. Grace must have died prior to 1852
because she was not listed as one of George and Jane's children on the ship's
record when they migrated.
2. The family migrated to South Australia on
the OMEGA, departing Plymouth on 29 May 1852 and arriving at Adelaide on 24 Aug
1852. George was described as a farm
labourer; Jane and Mary were described
as domestics.
3. In 1867 the Adelaide Almanac and
Directory listed George as a farmer of Hawker's Creek, near Kapunda. Later directories from 1868 to 1873 list him
as a farmer of Kapunda The marriage
certificate for Joanna Miriam Bawden lists him as a farmer of Kapunda SA.
4. Joanna spent much of her early life
living with George - her great-uncle and was living on his farm at the time of
her marriage in 1868.
Children of GEORGE BAWDEN and JANE
BUCKINGHAM are:
i. MARY BAWDEN, b. 1835. bapt 13 Dec 1835,
Twitchen, Devonshire UK
ii. MARIA BAWDEN, b. 1838. Bapt 29 Apr 1838, Twitchen, Devonshire UK
iii. HUGH BAWDEN, b. 05 Nov 1840; Bapt 22
Nov 1840, Twitchen, Devonshire UK, d.
1932.
iv. FANNY BAWDEN, b. 1843; Bapt 26 Nov 1843,
Twitchen, Devonshire UK;d. 10 Oct 1932.
v. GRACE BAWDEN, b. 1847; Bapt 05 Dec 1847,
Twitchen, Devonshire UK; d. Abt. 1852.
Notes
for GRACE BAWDEN:
Grace must have died prior to 1852 because
she was not listed as one of George and Jane's children on the ship's record
when they migrated.
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Generation
No. 4
5. WILLIAM BAWDEN (OR BOWDEN) (f WILLIAM, f
HUGH, f JOHN) was born 1826 in North Molton, Devonshire, England. Bapt 14 May 1826, North Molton, Devonshire,
England
Child
of WILLIAM BAWDEN (OR BOWDEN) is:
6. JOANNA MIRIAM BAWDEN (WILLIAM BAWDEN (f
WILLIAM, f HUGH, f JOHN) was born 1846 in Adelaide SA, and died 24 Apr 1890 in
Nr Port Broughton SA. She married
GEORGE HAINES 12 Mar 1868 in Christ Church Kapunda SA, son of JAMES HAINES and
HANNAH FLOWER. He was born 07 Jul 1844
in Devizes, Wiltshire UK, and died 23 Jul 1930 in Adelaide SA - Buried at
Payneham Cem SA.
Notes
for GEORGE HAINES:
1. George was born to James and Hannah at
Devizes in Wiltshire UK on 7 Jul 1844.
At the age of 6 years, he accompanied his parents, brother and five
sisters as they migrated to South Australia.
They sailed on the TRAFALGAR and and arrived on 31 Mar 1850. The family lived initially near Walkerville
(Adelaide), then by 1853 moved to Tea Tree Gully and in 1859 moved to Allen's
Creek, or Allendale (now called Allendale North) near Kapunda. George stayed at Allendale North and was
married there at the age of 23 years.
This was two years after his father had died and at this stage George
was farming, presumably on his father's farm.
2. Joanna Miriam was born in Adelaide c
1846. Her father was William Bowden and
Joanna's surname is spelt Bowden on some documents. Her christian name is spelt Johanna on George's headstone in
Payneham Cemetery. I can find no record
of Joanna's mother and I have heard no mention of her in family legend. However, family legend is that her father died
while Joanna was still a young child and that she spent much of her early life
living on the farm of a George Bawden, her uncle. He was actually her great-uncle.
In 1867 George was recorded in the "Adelaide Almanac and
Directory" as a farmer of Hawker's Creek near Kapunda. At the time of her marriage, Joanna gave her
residence as being Ross's Creek. These
two creeks are in the same area to the south west of Kapunda and join just
prior to flowing into the Light River.
3. George and Joanna Miriam were married in
the Christ Church, Kapunda on 12 Mar 1868.
The witnesses were a Fanny Lord of Mitcham and her uncle George
Bawden. For the next ten years George
and Joanna lived at Allendale North and while living there, the first seven of
their children were born.
4. 1878. the year the family left Allendale,
was a year of significant agricultural expansion in South Australia. The stump-jump plough had been invented in
1876 and this made the farming of virgin land much easier. In 1877, a new Scrublands Act replaced the
one which had operated for the previous 11 years. Under the old Act scrubland could be leased in blocks not greater
than 1 square mile for a period of 21 years with an annual rent of 10 shillings
per acre with the right to buy at any time at a price of 20 shillings per
acre. The new Act reduced the price
from 10 shillings to 4 shillings per acre per annum. During the next 4 years, some half a million acres were taken up
and it was during this time that much of the Broughton area was opened up. Farmers had already replaced sheep men in
the lower Broughton area under the old Act.
5. During the nine years following their
move to Mundoora, George and Joanna had another six children.
6. The first few pioneering years were hard,
1879-80 were years of poor yield and were followed by two further years of
drought, with some areas also suffering locust infestations. George carted stock water 16 miles from the
River Broughton and drinking water from Crystal Brook, a distance of 20
miles. He was a member of the local
Agricultural Bureau from its inception and also a trustee of the Methodist
Church where he rendered service as superintendent of the Sunday School and
leader of the singing in the church.
7. In 1890 Joanna Miriam was accidentally killed
when a cart turned over. They were
visiting friends in the Port Broughton area and the accident occurred on the
property of Mr E Dennis, killing her at the age of 44 years. In 1897 George re-married and his second
wife was Elizabeth Levett, who came from Portland in Victoria.
8. In 1906, George sold the farm and retired
to Adelaide, where he resided until his death in 1930. For some years he worshipped at Maughan
Church and then about 1925 he moved to Mitcham. For the last three years of his life he lived in North Adelaide,
and at the time of his death his address was 17 Davis Place, North Adelaide.
9. George died on 23 July 1930 and was
buried at Payneham Cemetery. He was
survived by Elizabeth his second wife, 12 children, 49 grandchildren, and 10
great-grandchildren.
Children
of JOANNA BAWDEN and GEORGE HAINES are:
i. ALICE MARIA6 HAINES, b. 01 Nov 1869,
Allendale North SA; d. 13 Oct 1934; m. EDWARD GARDINER, 04 Oct 1891; b. 29 Mar
1860, Meadows SA; d. 10 Aug 1902, Adelaide SA Buried at Payneham SA.
ii. HARRY HAINES, b. 13 Jun 1871, Allendale
North SA; d. 13 Nov 1940, Booleroo Centre SA; m. PEARL MARGUERITE (MADGE)
AITKIN; b. 1885; d. 05 Oct 1948, Arwakurra, nr Booleroo Centre SA Buried at
Booleroo Centre SA.
Notes
for HARRY HAINES:
Harry
farmed with his brother, William Martin, at Mitchelville, then at Utera, before
moving to Booleroo Centre.
More
About PEARL MARGUERITE (MADGE) AITKIN:
Occupation:
Schoolteacher
iii. FANNY LOUISE HAINES, b. 22 Aug 1872,
Allendale North SA; d. 04 Sep 1946; m. WILLIAM (BILL) SHEARER.
Notes
for WILLIAM (BILL) SHEARER:
Living
at Mundora SA at the time of his marriage
iv. MATILDA PRISCILLA HAINES, b. 27 Oct
1873, Allendale North - Kapunda SA; d. 26 Aug 1957; m. THOMAS ALAN WILSON; b.
16 Jun 1862, Pewsey Vale SA; d. Aug 1956, West Hindmarsh SA.
Notes
for THOMAS ALAN WILSON:
Living
at Miltalie SA at the time of his marriage.
Thomas
was a farmer, clerk and librarian.
This
was his second marriage, the first having been to Evelyn Mary Cowled who died
in 1915.
Evelyn
and Thomas had the following children:
Allan Moore Wilson 1894-1985
Malcolm Humphrey Wilson 1895-1962
Marian Olive Evelyn Wilson 1899-1978
v. WILLIAM MARTIN HAINES, b. 03 Jan 1875,
Allen's Creek SA; d. 15 Jul 1955, Adelaide SA; m. (1) CLARICE COWLED, 27 Sep
1905, Nonowie Station near Whyalla SA; b. 10 Dec 1877, Red Hill SA; d. 15 Jan
1925, Cowell SA; m. (2) EDITH BALD, 10 Mar 1930; b. 1882, Charters Towers Q; d.
01 Apr 1955, Port Lincoln SA.
Notes
for WILLIAM MARTIN HAINES:
1. William Martin was usually called Martin
or Mart. He was born to George and
Joanna Miriam at Allen's Creek, or Allendale, on 3 Jan 1875 and moved with his
family to Mundoora in 1878. As a young
man Martin worked for some years in the ore smelters established at Port Pirie
in 1888-89 to treat ore from Broken Hill in New South Wales.
2. In 1900 he took up a farm at
Mitchellville in the Hundred of Warren near Cowell, after having ridden around
on a bicycle to inspect it (a trip of about 270 kilometres each way). He had applied for this scrub block which was
granted to him by the Government on a perpetual lease of 6 pounds per
annum. He then bought a horse and dray
and moved it to the block (a six day trip).
He and his elder brother Harry worked the farm under the name of
"HAINES BROS" and for some years their sister, Matilda, kept house
for them. The first house was a simple
hut, which was still standing in 1986.
Initial clearing was done only with an axe, but later with a team of 12
bullocks which was also used to scoop out dams for water catchment.
3. Family legend is that during the first
few years the boys cleared land and planted crops and then went back around to
Port Pirie to work at the smelters until it was time to return to the farm to
harvest their crops. It is also family
legend that until fences were constructed, the horses were only hobbled each
night. At one stage, the horses escaped
and headed for home, which meant that initially they headed north. The boys followed up and after a day or two
caught up with them among the horses on "Nonowie Station", about 60
miles to the north. This is supposedly
how Martin and Clarice met.
4. Clarice was born Humphrey David and
Harriet Mary at Red Hill on 10 Dec 1877.
In 1883, she moved with her family to the "Goongoona" property
in the Hundred of Pirie in the Lower Broughton area. About 1891, the family moved again, this time further down the
Broughton River to the "Enderly" leases. In 1896, Humphrey David took up a lease near where Whyalla now
stands and Harriet Mary and the girls moved to the area, named
"Nonowie", in 1898.
5. Mart and Clarice were married at
"Nonowie" on 27 Sep 1905 in a double ceremony with Muriel Cowled and
Ern Styles. all of their children were
born while they were living at Mitchellville.
The farm was named "Laangy", an aboriginal word meaning home.
6. Much of the timber cut during the
clearing of the farm at Mitchellville was shipped across Spencer's Gulf to Port
Pirie. It was cut into 4,6, and 8 foot
lengths. The 4 foot lengths were called
"bakers wood" and were used for firewood, whereas the longer lengths
were used for fence posts. The timber
was shipped from the beach at the bottom of the farm, about one mile from the
house. Initially, so was their grain,
and at one stage a storage shed was erected at the beach and Martin was
appointed as the government agent.
However, before the shed was built, the grain was carted to the beach
and stacked to wait for collection by ketches from Port Pirie. As the beach was very shallow, the ketches
could only come in on a high tide and they would then be left high and dry on
the low tide. For this reason, they had
relatively flat bottoms. The farmers
would then reload the bags of grain onto waggons and drive them out to the boat
and load the wheat directly over the side; sometimes working in water up to the
horses' flanks.
7. Charles Martin started school when he was
7 years old, having waited until Humphrey George (or George as he was usually
called) turned 6 so that they could attend together. They attended the Mitchellville school driving a horse and sulky
to get there. Mrs Junie Franklin was
one of their teachers at Mitchellville, a small school with only one teacher at
a time.
8. When the children's uncle David left Utera,
the family went to live on that farm.
It became Martin's and he used it to run some stock on until he later
sold it. While there, the children went
to school at Utera, about 3 miles from the farm, where Minnie Du Bois (nee
Guidera) an aunt of Charles Du Bois (who later married Clarice Maud Haines)
taught them. They later went to
Playford School about 4 miles from the farm.
9. On 15 Jan 1925, Clarice died and was
buried at Cowell.
10. At this stage, Clarice Maud took over
the housekeeping duties for the family; she was 13 and a half years old.
11. Martin build his own house on the
farm. Initially, it consisted of two
parts with the front containing four, high-ceilinged (12 foot) rooms and the
back consisting of a lean-to extension.
The back section included the kitchen and a dairy room. At one stage, Martin and the boys rebuilt
the roof so that the whole house was placed under the one roof line and the
ceiling was raised in the rear part of the house. When this was done, each sheet of galvanized iron was
re-used. But first, small patches were
soldered over all holes, including nail holes.
At lot of the timber used in this job was cut from large oregon beams
which has been thrown overboard from ships plying the Gulf and washed ashore at
Mitchellville.
12. For a long time the farm work was done
using Percheron draught horses. At one
stage Martin had 18 draught horses - he operated two teams of 8 mares (which he
used to work line abreast), a spare mare and a stallion. To look after such a team or horses was
quite a problem in itself. They were
fed first up in the morning, at midday, then when they came back in from work
before sundown (to be rubbed down to prevent them catching chills), and again
last thing at night. Initially, all of
their chaff was cut by hand (later by machine) and then mixed with other feed
including copra and molasses.
13. The farm was not in a high rainfall area
(average just under11 inches per year) and it included some sand ridges which
drifted leaving the root systems of some trees standing 5 or 6 feet above
ground level. In 1929, they experienced
a very bad season of drought and the family was forced to leave the farm for a
while and head south to better country to agist their horses and thus keep them
alive. When they returned it took
months to clear sand drifts from around the house and along fences. When Martin eventually sold his horses in
1937 he had a total of 27, including a hack.
At this stage he and the boys were working 3 x 8 horse teams and they
were all replaced with the farm's first tractor, which was caterpillar-driven.
14. During the trip south in 1929, Martin
met Edith Bald (a widow) at Yeelanna, and they married on 10 Mar 1930. Edith was born c 1882 in Charters Towers,
Qld and her first husband (Bald was her married name) was a bank manager who
died in South Australia. Edith had a
daughter, Mary, from this first marriage.
15. Martin and his youngest son,
Richard, share-farmed the property from
the end of World War II until 1952, when Richard and his family moved to
Western Australia.
16. On the sale of the farm in 1954, Martin
and Edith retired to Port Lincoln.
However, he did not live there for long. Edith died at Port Lincoln in April 1955 and soon afterwards
Martin moved to Wudinna to live with his daughter, Maud Du Bois. He soon moved to Adelaide and died on 15 Jul
1955 at the Daw Park Private Hospital, Springbank. He was buried on 18 Jul at Centennial Park Cemetery, Springbank
(Adelaide) SA.
NOTE:
“I (Richard Haines) can remember visiting the farm when I was quite
young. It had a dairy with some house
cows and a dairy room next to the kitchen where the family separated cream and
made butter. They ran sheep and were
therefore able to provide some (if not all) of their own meat. The farm had a fowl run, fruit trees and a
vegetable garden. I'm not sure whether
or not they had pigs but I think they did.
The farm adjoined a beach and blue swimmer crabs, flounder and garfish
were caught there; the flounder by
spearing. I remember Dad (Charles
Martin Haines ) saying that Martin caught eels in a creek which ran onto the
beach and used strips of their skins to make boot laces. I remember a large shed with a pile of scrap
metal next to it. It contained all the
bits and pieces necessary for a farmer to do his own repairs and maintenance,
including a forge, an anvil, a drill, a lathe and welding equipment.”
vi. THOMAS DAVID HAINES, b. 03 Mar 1876,
Allendale North SA; m. NELL BLIGHT; b. 20 Aug 1879, Napperby, near Port Pirie
SA.
vii. EMILY ADA (ADA) HAINES, b. 04 Aug 1877,
Allendale North SA; d. 01 Aug 1960; m. ALF TRELOAR.
Notes
for EMILY ADA (ADA) HAINES:
Ada
and her sister Cecilia Hannah (Siss) conducted a boarding house at 18 Mill
Street, (between Grote St and Wright St) Adelaide. They were both single at the time. They were running it in 1919 and during the 1920's when their
father George and his second wife Elizabeth boarded there.
viii. MARY EDITH (POLL) HAINES, b. 09 Jun
1879, Mundoora SA; d. 05 Apr 1970, Buried at Burra SA; m. FRANK LONGBOTTOM,
1902; b. 1877; d. 02 Feb 1951, Buried at Burra SA.
ix. FLORENCE (FLOSS) ELIZABETH HAINES, b. 20
Aug 1880, Mundoora SA; d. 28 Mar 1945, Buried at North Brighton SA; m. HERBERT
CHARLES LANGLEY; b. 1888, ?Currency Creek SA-; d. 18 Jun 1974, Buried at North
Brighton SA.
Notes
for HERBERT CHARLES LANGLEY:
Herbert
was living at Currency Creek SA at the time of his marriage.
x. ARTHUR GEORGE HAINES, b. 30 Sep 1882,
Mundoora SA; d. 21 May 1889.
xi. MABEL JANE HAINES, b. 06 Feb 1884,
Mundoora SA; d. 12 Sep 1946; m. ERNEST HARRY (HARRY) EDMONDS, 13 Apr 1910; b.
28 Aug 1883, ?Pygery SA; d. 08 Apr 1962.
Notes
for ERNEST HARRY (HARRY) EDMONDS:
Harry
Edmonds was living at Pygery SA at the time of his marriage.
For
some years Harry Edmonds was a Member of the Legislative Council of South
Australia.
xii. CECILIA (SISS) HANNAH HAINES, b. 14 Apr
1886, Mundoora SA; d. Sep 1952; m. PATRICK DEAN; b. 04 Apr 1878.
xiii. FEADORE VICTORIA HAINES, b. 20 Jun
1887, Mundoora SA; d. 22 Aug 1958; m. GEORGE DAVIS; b. 02 Mar 1883, ?Adelaide
SA; d. 15 Dec 1967.
Notes
for GEORGE DAVIS:
George
was living in Adelaide at the time of his marriage.