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| George BARNARD (1831 - 1894) |
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| b. 30 Mar 1831 at Chiselhurst, Kent, England |
| m. (1) 22 May 1862 Maria Trafalgar BOURNE (1839 - 1874) at Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia |
| m. (2) 14 Jun 1879 Sarah Ann Wilkinson BOURNE (1845 - 1936) at Launceston, Tasmania, Australia |
| d. 11 Mar 1894 at Launceston, Tasmania, Australia aged 62 |
| Parents: |
| George William BARNARD (1791 - 1864) |
| Anne GREENSILL (1809 - 1879) |
| Events in George BARNARD (1831 - 1894)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 30 Mar 1831 | George BARNARD was born | Chiselhurst, Kent, England | |||
| 27 May 1845 | 14 | Immigration | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | per 'Kinnear' | |
| 22 May 1862 | 31 | Married Maria Trafalgar BOURNE (aged 22) | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1862/C000257 | |
| 21 May 1863 | 32 | Birth of daughter Maria (May) BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1863/C000959 | |
| 02 Sep 1864 | 33 | Death of father George William BARNARD (aged 73) | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 20 Oct 1864 | 33 | Birth of son George Walter BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1864/C001315 | |
| 20 May 1867 | 36 | Birth of son Charles Ashmall BARNARD | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 11 Apr 1869 | 38 | Birth of son Henry Greensill BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1869/C002467 | |
| 01 Oct 1870 | 39 | Birth of son Wilfred (Tim) Bourne BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1870/C002824 | |
| 18 Nov 1871 | 40 | Birth of daughter Mabel Theodora BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1871/C003021 | |
| 03 Feb 1874 | 42 | Death of wife Maria Trafalgar BOURNE (aged 34) | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | Note 1 | |
| 22 Jul 1874 | 43 | Birth of son Louis Fowler BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 22 Jul 1874 | 43 | Death of son Louis Fowler BARNARD | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1874/C1459 | |
| 06 Jun 1878 | 47 | Death of daughter Maria (May) BARNARD (aged 15) | Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 14 Jun 1879 | 48 | Married Sarah Ann Wilkinson BOURNE (aged 34) | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 19 Nov 1879 | 48 | Death of mother Anne GREENSILL (aged 70) | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||
| 11 Aug 1883 | 52 | Birth of son Ernest Dawson BARNARD | Queensland, Australia | 1884/C007174 | |
| 11 Mar 1894 | 62 | George BARNARD died | Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||
| Note 1: 1874/C001322
Mum's name given as Athmeer |
| Personal Notes: |
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GEORGE BARNARD was born at Lea, Chiselhurst, Kent, England, on 30th March 1831. He was christened on 5th May, 1831 at Saint Luke, Old Charlton, London. (IGI Record) He was the eldest son of the eleven children of George William Barnard and Anne Greensill.
In February,1845, aged 14, he and his family emigrated to Australia and settled at 'Landfall' homestead on the Tamar River near Launceston. There, young George completed the education he had begun at Blackheath in England. After leaving school he worked hard with his father in re-establishing the Landfall property which his father had owned since 1818 and which included house building, assembling a wheat grinding mill and construction of a dam across the creek to supply water to the mill wheel. This stood him in good stead and at the age of 26, George went to Victoria to manage a property named Caramut Station, owned by Mr D’Little and remained there till 1861, when he was attracted to Central Queensland by the glowing accounts of the country west of Rockhampton. The town of Rockhampton had only been established 8 years. He travelled to Rockhampton to look over some properties. On 22nd May, 1862, while living at Trelasdee near Rockhampton, he married MARIA TRAFALGAR BOURNE at the house of Mr Alhecht Feez Esq., in Rockhampton, according to the rites of the Church of England. Maria was the daughter of merchant Thomas Bourne and Ann Ashmall of Rockhampton. Sometime after the birth of their first child Maria (May) in 1863 and son George Walter in 1864, and following the death of his father at Landfall in 1864, George and Maria travelled to Tasmania where their second son Charles Ashmall was born in 1867. The family then moved back to Rockhampton. George carried on various pursuits with only partial success until 1871, when, in partnership with his brother Thomas, he purchased the 170 square mile property, Coomooboolaroo Station (aboriginal name for ‘meeting of the waters’) 14 miles south of Duaringa, 70 miles west of Rockhampton. They changed the stocking from sheep to cattle. There, by untiring energy and good management they made a comfortable home of slab walls and shingle roof of which there are photos. They became well known in the new district and offered hospitality to many weary travellers as they struggled over bush tracks with their movement to and from the West which was being rapidly opened up to grazing. On 3rd May, 1874, after 12 years of marriage, his wife, Maria died of remittent fever, two months after giving birth. Their youngest child Mabel was only three years old. Maria's sister Sarah (Aunt Sis), came to care for the children. In 1876, the railway line which had already been in operation between Rockhampton and Westwood, 30 miles west of Rockhampton, since the late 1860's, was extended westward and it was a notable day in 1876 when the first train passed over the new railbridge at Boolburra on the Dawson River within a few miles of Coomooboolaroo. This helped greatly with the conveyance of their livestock to meatworks at Lakes Creek, and provided easier and more comfortable travel by the family to visit Rockhampton. Thomas returned to Tasmania and married Elizabeth Gaunt. Landfall, the property of the late George William Barnard was sold in 1876 to the Archer family. Thomas began working for his father in law Mathius Gaunt. Thomas died in 1891 as a result of being gored by a bullock on his father in law’s property. In 1878, at the age of 15, May died while visiting Tasmania, in Bothwell, Tasmanian Midlands, from ardent fever after measles. On 14th June, 1879, 5 years after Maria’s death, in the Tamar Independent Church, Launceston, Tasmania, George and Sarah were married. Sarah was born Sarah Anne Wilkinson Bourne in Birmingham, England on 12th February, 1845. Four years later, on 11th August, 1883, a son, Ernest Dawson, was born to George and Sarah. The property, Coomooboolaroo, experienced both good and bad times and some of the worst droughts and floods in the history of the district. There was also much unrest in the beef processing industrywhich seriously affected both the sale price and the demand of cattle at meatworks. With the assistance of sons Charles, and Henry and Wilfred, George concentrated on cattle grazing. George Barnard was a member of the divisional board from 1881 until 1894. He was one of the most successful entomologists and oologists in the Australian Colonies, his collection of insects and bird's eggs being considered by experts two of the finest in the Southern Hemisphere. This collection had increased, with the help of his sons, who travelled far and wide to collect new specimens not previously discovered, to such an extent in 1891 that he built a private museum at the station and found it none too large. There is a photo of the museum at Coomooboolaroo. He had, for many years, been in constant communication with Dr Livett, Mr Meyrick and other leading entomologists and naturalists in England, France, India, Chile and Finland and with the leading curators of the Australian museums. By these means he was able to add very materially to the beauty and variety of his collections by his exchanges. Many well known naturalists from overseas came to Coomooboolaroo to inspect the museum and discuss matters with the family in a very congenial atmosphere. He was much assisted by his son Charles who was also highly regarded in the field, and his daughter Mabel also a collector, and by his clever and talented wife, Sarah, who, with her paint brush and pencil, often reproduced some rare specimen while it's brilliant colours were fresh. One such prized painting is now displayed in the home of Colin and Enid Barnard of Biggenden. Many of the local aborigines were employed as stockmen and housekeepers. They taught the Barnard children bush lore and the local native languages. George had been for some time in delicate health and feeling the heat of the summer, went to Launceston with his son Henry Greensill in 1894 and for some time seemed to improve. However, he gradually failed and died there aged 63 years on 11th March 1894 from lung congestion. He was laid to rest in a family plot with his brother Thomas and his wife Elizabeth and adjacent to his father, mother and sister at the pretty little St Matthias Churchyard, overlooking the Tamar River at Windemere, 16 kilometers north of Launceston. This is the last Will and Testament of me George Barnard 9th December, 1893 George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo near Duaringa in the Colony of Queensland, Grazier:- I give, devise and bequeath my land and two cottages thereon at the corner of Archer and Alma Streets, Rockhampton and all of my household furniture and books at Coomooboolaroo, to my wife, Sarah Ann Wilkinson Barnard, absolutely, and I devise my lane in Bolsover Street, Rockhampton, unto my son George Walter Barnard, absolutely. I give, devise and bequeath all the rest and residue of my real and personal estate whatsoever and wherever and of whatever nature including my share and interest in the station, Coomooboolaroo, and stock, unto my executors and trustees herein named, upon trust to pay all my just debts and funeral and testamentary expences and to divide the balance of monies remaining to my credit at the bank at the time of my decease or which may fall in afterwards, equally, between my said wife and my children by my first wife living at the time of my decease. Upon trust that they, my said trustees, shall execute and sell, call in and convert into money such parts thereof as shall not consist of ready money, in such manner as they shall think fit, but as to revisionary property not until it falls into possession unless it shall appear to my trustees that an earlier sale would be beneficial, and so that they shall have the fullest power to postpone the sale, calling in or conversion of the whole or any part or parts thereon during such period as they shall think proper, without being responsible for loss. And to hold one thousand pounds of the whole money so desired by such calling in trust with power to invest the same in any such good investments as they think proper and to receive the income thereon and pay the same annually unto my said wife for her sole and separate use and benefit during her lifetime or widowhood and after her death or marriage to hold same in trust for my son Ernest Dawson Barnard until he shall attain the age of twenty five years. And to hold the balance upon trust with power to invest the same for all my children by my first wife, equally, share and share alike as tenants in common until they respectively attain the age of twenty five years but if any one or more of such children shall die under that age without leaving lawful issue then as well the original share intended to be hereby provided for as the share or shares by virtue of this previous clause or proviso accruing to each such child so dying do aforesaid shall from time to time to accrue and belong to the others or other of such children by my first wife in equal shares. And I authorise my trustees to postpone the sale and conversion of all or any part of my said real and personal estate until they or he shall think proper and most beneficial so to do. And as to my share and interest in the station Coomooboolaroo and the partnership business thereon with my brother, I hereby express my particular desire that they, my trustees or trustee, should carry on or join in carrying on such partnership business as now carried on by me and my brother and not sell the same for the purpose of making final distribution under this my will, until such property increases in value. And for the purpose of carrying on the same, retain and employ my share of the capital which shall at my death be employed therein with power generally to concur in acting in all matters relating to the said station business, as if they were beneficially entitled to my share and interest therein. And I shall further declare that should any child or children desire to get his share or shares before final distribution, I desire my executors and trustees to arrange to pay the same if convenient and practicable without damaging the working of the station business and my trustees shall be free from all responsibility and be fully indemnified out of my estate in respect of any loss arising in relation to the said business. And it is my wish that my sons Charlie and Harry shall continue to manage the station and be paid a fair salary for doing so. And as long as my said trustees shall continue to carry on my interest in the said station business, I direct that they shall receive the income or profits derived there from and divide the same equally between my children by my first wife, share and share alike, but if any of my said children shall have been paid his or her share as aforesaid, he or she shall not be entitled to share in the said profits as aforesaid but the profit shall be divided among the other children by my first wife. And I direct my executors and trustees to permit my said wife to have use of and enjoy my collections of natural history until it is agreed upon by my sons which of them is to hold the said collection absolutely and on such agreement being come to then I direct my said executors and trustees to hand over the same to such son. And in default of such agreement as aforesaid, I desire my said executors and trustees to sell my said collection and to divide the monies to arise from such sale equally between my said wife and my four sons by my first wife. And I request my dear wife to properly maintain, educate and bring up our son Ernest Dawson Barnard. And I declare that so far as concerns the trusteeship of this my said will that vacancies occurring thereon from death or otherwise may from time to time be supplied by the other trustee or trustees for the time being, or if none such by the disclaiming or resigning trustee or trustees or if none such then by the acting executor or executors for the time being, or the administrator or administrators for the time being, of the last deceased trustee. And I appoint my son George Walter Barnard of Peak Vale and Francis Helvetius Hobler of Bucknalla Westwood, executors and trustees of this my will and I devise the said Francis Helvetius Hobler in case he shall take out probate of my will, the sum of fifty pounds for his trouble in acting as my executor and carrying out the trusts of this my will. And I appoint my dear wife guardian of our son Ernest Dawson Barnard. In witness whereof I have hereunder set my name in this and each of the three preceeding sheets of paper of this my will this ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety three. signed (George Barnard) THE LATE MR GEORGE BARNARD From the Morning Bulletin of March 28th. 1874 (Written by Frank Hobler) Many of our readers will already know of the announcement of the death of Mr George Barnard of Coomooboolaroo Station in Duaringa, which took place at Launceston on the 11th instant. Mr Barnard was born at Chiselhurst, Kent, England in 1830, and was the eldest son of William Barnard, a captain in the merchant service, who, in his young days, served as a midshipman in the Royal Navy. Captain Barnard, like many others, emigrated to Tasmania in 1845 and received a valuable grant of land from the Government, which he called ‘Landfall’, where he settled down to pastoral and agricultural life. ‘Landfall’ is situated only a few miles from Launceston, and young Barnard was enabled to complete the education there that he had begun at Blackheath when a small boy. After leaving school he remained with his father until twenty-six years of age when he obtained the management of Caramut Station in Victoria, the property of Mr De Little. There he remained until 1861, when he was attracted to Central Queensland by the glowing accounts of the country. Here Mr Barnard carried on various pursuits with only partial success until 1872, when, in partnership with his brother Tom, he purchased Coomooboolaroo Station which he held through good and bad times and where, by untiring energy and good management, he made a comfortable home and brought up a family of five sons and one daughter. Mr Barnard’s daughter married Mr Frank Hobler of Bucknalla, Westwood. Mr Barnard was one of the most successful entomologists and oologists in the Australian Colonies, his collection of insects and birds being considered by experts to be two of the finest in the southern hemisphere. This collection had increased to such an extent that he built a private museum at the station and found it none too large. He has for many years been in constant communication with Dr Livett, Mr Meyrick and other leading entomologists and naturalists in England, France, India, Chile and Finland and with the leading curators of Australian Museums, and by these means has been able to add very materially to the beauty and variety of his collections by his exchanges. He was much assisted by his children who, from infancy, took an interest in his pursuits, and by his clever and talented wife, who, with her paint brush and pencil, has often reproduced some rare specimen while it’s brilliant colours were fresh. Mr Barnard had, for some time past, been in delicate health and, feeling the heat of last November very much, he went to Tasmania accompanied by his son Harry, and for a time seemed to rally; but eventually he became worse, and, after a few days in bed, he passed away very quietly at the age of sixty three years. His remains are laid at rest beside those of his father and mother, in the pretty little churchyard at Windemere. Owing to the severe drought years and fluctuating meat markets, none of his sons was in a financial position to carry on the museum collection, so it’s contents were reluctantly sold to the Hon. Walter Rothschild’s Museum in Tring, England. As a result, Australia lost one of it’s finest natural bird, animal and insect collections. Sons, Charles and Harry continued to manage Coomooboolaroo after their father’s death. However, the country was about to face a crippling drought and by 1902 their 5,000 head of cattle was reduced to a bare 300 through starvation and disposal at a great loss. Henry and his young family bought a nearby property “Binbee’ and his brother Charles continued with Coomooboolaroo until his death in 1942. The management was taken over by Charles’ only son Hubert. Sarah died in 1936 and is buried at Duaringa. Her mother, Ann Ashmall, who lived with the Barnard family for some time, died in 1899 and is buried at Coomooboolaroo by the lagoon. An interesting first hand account by Henry Barnard of the town of Duaringa in included. In November 1906, this sombre poem was penned, probably by Sarah: “One lonely heart at the old homestead, bereft of all. They have all fled. All are scattered, and some have fled. May, the eldest, was first to go, With her golden hair, to the land of snow. That was the end. God loved her so. Father has gone to the land of the Leal, Still to be learning, to love and to feel. Joy in the beautiful, true and the real. In the grassy bed, ‘neath the gum tree’s shade, In the fullness of time, was Grandma laid. Here will her memory never fade. A lonely cross, and the water near So still you can almost think you hear ‘Live for others, and have no fear’ Four little men with butterflies gay, Now, no more, in the garden play. Little ones, three, of their own have they. |