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Zenobia George

William & Zenobia Harvey



Zenobia George, the daughter of James George & Mary Dury born in 1826, Plymouth, England married William Harvey on the 26 January 1848 in Plymouth.  William was born 1827 also in Plymouth.  His father was Isaachar Harvey, mother unknown.


In the 1851 English censis William is listed as a copper miner.


William & Zenobia Harvey had 3 children.  William Henry Havey born 1849, Henry George Harvey in 1852 and Thomas George Harvey in 1853.


In 1859 Zenobia then married Thomas Williams.  It is not know what happened to William Harvey, we assume he died. It is interesting to note at the same time Thomas Williams is also listed as a copper miner on the English censis. 


Zenobia & Thomas Williams had 3 children and in January 1866, Zenobia & Thomas, 3 Harvey boys and 3 Williams children left London for Australia.  They arrived in Auckland, New Zealand  26 July 1866.  Later that year in October the 4th child of Zenobia & Thomas was born.  Louisa was born at Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.  It is interesting also to note that there was a copper mine there.


It is not known when the family came to Australia but William Henry Harvey was married in Australia in 1872.




William Henry Harvey


William Henry Harvey the first son of Zenobia & William Harvey was born in 1849 in Devon, England.  He came to Australia with the rest of his family via New Zealand.

He married Caroline Agnes Cahile on the 21 August 1872 at the age of 23.  Caroline was the daughter of Frank Cahile & Lucy Finucane.

In 1891 they had a daughter Lucy Zenobia Harvey in Chewton, Victoria.  William was listed as a minor at the time.

William died on the 21 August 1923 at Praham, where they lived for some time.

Lucy was a school teacher and died on the 25 September 1931 at the age of 40.  She did not marry or have any children.

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Caroline Harvey (in black) with the Williams about 1934

Caroline died 18 June 1939 at Cheltenham.  All three are burried together at the Brighton Cemetry in an unmarked grave.

Henry George Harvey


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Ann Watts

Henry George Harvey the Second son of Zenobia & William Harvey was born in 1852 in Devon, England.  He came to Australia with the rest of his family via New Zealand.


Henry married Anne Watts on the 1st January 1885 in Orange, New South Wales.  Anne Watts was the daughter of James & Margaret Watts of Camperdown, Victoria.  Anne was born in 1860 in Camperdown.


Henry & Anne Harvey had 6 children as follows:


Francis Lousia born 18 May 1886 in Orange.  She died 1898 in Corcoar, NSW from a mining accident.
Ethel Anne born 9 October 1888 in Tuena, New South Wales.
Zenobia Caroline born 1891 in Carcoar, New South Wales.
Henry George born 1894 in Carcoar, New South Wales.
William Arthur born 1898 in Carcoar, New South Wales.
Stella Vera born 7 July 1905 in Cobar, New South Wales.


Henry was a miner and died 16 Febuary 1911 in Cobar, New South Wales.  Anne died 18 November 1934 in Temora, New South Wales.




Thomas George Harvey


Thomas George Harvey the third son of Zenobia & William Harvey was born in 1854 in Devon, England.  He came to Australia with the rest of his family via New Zealand.


Thomas married Sara Ann Jacobs on the 3 January 1874.  Sara was the daughter of William Jacob & Sarah Milligan.  She was born on 28th February 1854 in Goldern Square, Victoria.


Thomas was killed in a mining accident on the 20th June 1889 in White Hills, Victoria.


Thomas & Sara had 4 children as follows:


Thomas George born October 1874 in Long Gully, Victoria and died 11th April 1875 in White Hills.
Elizabeth bron 1876 in Long Gully, Victoria.
Thomas George born 1881 in Long Gully, Victoria
Emily Louisa born 1883 in Long Gully, Victoria.


Sara died 24th April 1924 in White Hills, Victoria.

Williams Family

Thomas & Zenobia Williams

Thomas Williams

Zenobia George

Thomas Williams was born in Tavistock, Devon in about 1837, the son of George and Mary (Tapson) Williams.

Thomas became a miner, and in 1859 he married Zenobia Harvey, a milliner and dressmaker who was the widow of William Harvey. She was born about 1826, and was the daughter of James and Mary (Dury) George of Plymouth. Zenobia had three sons from her first marriage: William, Henry and Thomas Harvey.

Thomas and Zenobia Williams had a son, George (1859) and two daughters, Thirza (1861 at Gunnislake, Cornwall) and Emma (1853 at Latchly, Calstock).

Thomas and Zenobia, their three children and Zenobia's three sons left London, England on 25 February 1866 on the 'Monarch'. The ship was unfit to sail and, after 42 days, was docked at Rio. The second officer deserted the crew and Thomas was 'engaged to supply his place'. They docked in Auckland on 26 July 1866. Louisa, their third daughter, was born in October 1866 at Great Barrier Island.

The first record we have of them in Australia is an application dated February 16, 1877 for 320 acres of land, Allotment 53, Section C, in the Parish of Ulupna, County of Moira. Thomas gave his occupation as a miner of Alabama, Long Gully, Sandhurst, and stated that he owned one quarter of an acre there.

The licence was granted on 1 June 1877 and they moved onto the block in November, 1877. By 1878, they had built a log house with an iron roof, put up one mile of first class chock and log fencing, grubbed 23 acres and ringbarked 40 acres of trees. They had also built dams and cropped 20 acres of the land.

The following year they built two sheds and a dairy, and cropped 46 acres, as well as doing more grubbing and ringing. The lease was granted on 1 June 1880.

Thomas died in November 1882 in Melbourne, and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery. The lease of the property was transferred to Zenobia in 1894, who immediately transferred half to her son, George, and leased the other half to him. Zenobia owned a house in Waaia and we presume she retired there until she went to live with her daughter, Thirza, at Nagambie, where she died in 1905. She is buried in Nagambie Cemetery. On Zenobia's death, her half of the farm passed to Thirza, who transferred it to George.



George Williams

George & Elizebeth (Mills) Williams

George Williams was the only son, and eldest child of Thomas and Zenobia Williams. He was born at Tavistock, Devonshire, England, on 29 December 1859 and came to Victoria via New Zealand, arriving around 1866. He came to Ulupna when his parents selected a 320 acre farm in 1877. This farm was called 'Atholdale'. After his father, Thomas, died in 1894 the title of the land was transferred to George. He married Elizabeth Mills in 1885 and they had 8 children; 7 girls and 1 boy.

George and Elizabeth attended the Yalca South Methodist church, where George was the choirmaster. The first house built on 'Atholdale' was flooded, so they moved to another spot, near the centre of the farm, but that was burnt down one night. The only thing saved was the wheat cheque that was in George's trouser pocket. Neighbours, half a mile away, didn’t know about the fire for 2 weeks because there was so much bush around. The next house was built midway between the two previous sites, where George & Elizabeth lived until they retired to Tocumwal Road, Numurkah in 1922. The road was also known as "Blink Bonnie". George died on 8 April 1924 in Numurkah.



Elizabeth (Lizzie) was born at Beckworth, the sixth child of Robert & Ellen (Adam) Mills and lived with her parents at Caralulup, until they came to Waaia about 1880. She was a needlewoman, making clothes for her many grandchildren. She crocheted many doyleys, giving each of her granddaughters a fine selection of crochet work for their 21st birthdays. She was able to continue this hobby until 6 months before her death, on 26 March 1954, at the great age of 93 years.

Sis Patten, Edith Girdler, Murial Mills, Ethal Sizer,
George Williams, Clarice Laker, Amy Amos & Lily Amos

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Emma Williams

Louisa Williams

Lousia Williams

Lousia the forth child of Thomas & Zenobia Williams was born in October at Great Barrier Island. Her family had left London, in January that year to come to Australia.  It is believed that they may have went to Great Barrier Island to have Lousia and escape the Maori wars in New Zealand. Great Barrier Island may have been a safe haven but also had a copper mine on it and Thomas was listed as a Copper Miner on Louisa Birth Certificate.


Joseph Henry Baldwin at the age of twenty, while working as a contractor at Yalca, met and married Louisa Williams in 1889. Their fisrt child, Albert Victor was born at Barwo in 1889 and lost his life while serving with the AIF in France in 1917. Arthur born at Numurkah in 1891 married Elizabeth Sharp. Florence born 1894, married Edga Barrass, Joseph Leslie born 1896 at Barwo married Ellen Tuck. Ernest born 1899 at Barwo married Amy McNair and Archie born 1901, married Daisy Tuck.

Joseph left his family and went to Western Australia to live, where he is believed to have died a pauper. Louisa had a small property planted with fruit trees on the Broken Creek at Barmah East. With the help of her two eldest sons, they farmed and milked seventy cows on shares with the Wright family. The milk was separated and cream taken to Picola Railhead to go to Numurkah Butter Factory.

Louisa's two oldest sons took up farming on the shares with draught horse teams. They eventually sold out at Barmah East and took up two blocks of land opened up by the NSW Government for closer settlement at Barooga.
Louisa died at Mooroopna in 1924 and is buried in Cobram Cemetery

Mills Family

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Robert & Ellen (Adam) Mills




Ellen (Adam) Mills

Robert Mills was born at Paisley, Scotland on the 24^th November 1828, to parents William & Elizabeth (Oatley) Mills. 


On the 5^th June 1849 Robert married Ellen Adam, the daughter of James & Jessie Adam.  Ellen was born on the 17^th April 1829, also in Paisley, Scotland.

Miltiades ship

Their first two children, William & Jessie were born in Scotland.  On the 7^th July 1852, the four of them boarded a ship, ‘Miltiades’ at Liverpool with 310 other people, for a 99 day voyage to Melbourne, Australia.

They moved to Geelong where Robert got a job as an Agricultural labourer and in 1854 James was born.  Sometime later they moved to Sandhurst (Bendigo) and Robert was gold mining at Eaglehawk.  Robert  Adam was born in 1856.  They then moved to Evansford area where Robert was farming and in 1858 John was born.  Elizabeth, Thomas, Agnes, Jane and Andrew were all born in the area. 

Robert leased 18 acres of land in the Parrish of Caralulup in 1870 which late he bought.  In 1880 they moved to Waaia where they farmed 197 acres.   Robert died, 31^st October 1894 and Ellen 1^st June 1896.

William Mills

Emma Rawlings (Thompson) Mills

William Mills

Jessie Mills

Jessie (Mills) Bigger

Jessie Mills was born 26^th June 1851 in Paisley, Scotland.  She was the second child to Ellen (Adam) & Robert Mills.

She married James Biggar on the 28^th June 1871 at Lexton Bellevue Hotel.  James was born 16^th December 1845 to parent Margaret (Grieve) & James Biggar in Melbourne.

They had 3 children;

James born 1872

Robert born 1874

Jane Agnes born 1877

They had a farm in the Nathalia area.  James died on the 30^th August 1909 in Numurkah and Jessie died, 1^st December 1934 at Reservoir.

James Mills

James Mills

Elizabeth Wisbeden
(Matthews) Mills

James Mills was born 6th January 1854 in Geelong, Victoria.  He is the third child of Ellen (Adam) & Robert Mills.

James married Elizabeth Wisbeden Matthews in 1914.  Elizabeth was born in 1870 in England to parents, Robert & Harriet (Shaw) Matthews. James and Elizabeth were both deaf.

They had a farm near Waaia and did not have any children.

After James death, 31 August, 1936, Elizabeth returned to England and she died 25 May 1953.

Robert Adam Mills

John Mills

John Mills

John "Jack" Mills was born 20th September 1858 at Evansford, Victoria.  Jack was the fifth child of to Ellen (Adam) & Robert Mills.

Jack was a farmer.

Jack did not marry nor did he have any childred.

Jack died 25 April 1944 at Numurkah, Victoria.

Elizabeth Mills

Thomas Mills

Thirza (Williams) Mills

Thomas Mills

Andy, May & Richard Mills

Agnes Mills

Jane Mills

Jane (Mills) & Richard Thompson

Jane Mills was born 9th November 1868 in Evensford, Victoria.  She was the nineth child to Ellen (Adam) & Robert Mills.

She married Richard Thompson in Mooroopna, Victoira on the 8th February 1895.  Richard was born 2nd March 1971 to Mary Jane (Irvine) & William Thompson at Kangaroo Flat, Victoria.

Jane Thompson

They had 8 children.

Mary Jane Irvine born 1895

Andrew John born 1897

Richard Arthur born 1898

William Robert born 1899

Henry Frederick born 1901

Wilton born 1903

Wilmot Charles born 1906

Helen Jean born 1910

Richard died 15th November 1936 in Albury, New South Wales, while Jane was killed with their daughter Helen in a car accident on the 5th October 1950 at Gregory, New South Wales.

Andrew Mills

Andrew Mills the tenth child of  Ellen (Adam) & Robert Mills was born 29th May 1871 at Evansford, Victoria.

Andrew did not marry nor did he have any children.

He died 26th May 1897 at Waaia, Victoria

Thompson family

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