| [Index] |
| James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835 - 1905) |
| Farmer, Inkeeper, Painter |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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George Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1859 - 1943) Albert J AUSTIN (1862 - ) Agnes Agatha Bryce AUSTIN (1867 - 1913) James A AUSTEN (1869 - ) Jessie A BURT (1871 - ) Arthur Ernest A BURT (1874 - 1874) Adelaide Mabel BURT (1875 - ) Albert M (David) AUSTIN (1878 - ) Beatrice Maud BURT (1880 - ) Ethel M A BURT (1883 - ) |
James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835 - 1905) + Jane STOTT ( - 1865) Agatha BRYCE ( - 1921) |
James BURT ( - 1837) | ||
| Sophia Winton LEWIS (1814 - 1893) | George LEWIS | |||
| Ann WINTON | ||||
| b. abt 1835 at Kent, England |
| m. (1) 31 Jan 1859 Jane STOTT ( - 1865) at Grafton, New South Wales, Australia |
| m. (2) 05 Feb 1866 Agatha BRYCE ( - 1921) |
| d. 13 Jul 1905 at Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia aged 70 |
| Cause of Death: |
| cerebral haemorage |
| Parents: |
| James BURT ( - 1837) |
| Sophia Winton LEWIS (1814 - 1893) |
| Step Parents: |
| Joseph AUSTEN (1816 - 1890) |
| Events in James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835 - 1905)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| abt 1835 | James Lewis BURT AUSTIN was born | Kent, England | 18 | ||
| abt 1837 | 2 | Death of father James BURT | 18 | ||
| 11 Dec 1839 | 4 | Immigration | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | per 'James Pattison' | 18 |
| 11 Dec 1839 | 4 | Immigration | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | per 'James Pattison' | 18 |
| 31 Jan 1859 | 24 | Married Jane STOTT | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 13 Nov 1859 | 24 | Birth of son George Lewis BURT AUSTIN | 18 | ||
| abt 1862 | 27 | Birth of son Albert J AUSTIN | 18 | ||
| 24 Dec 1865 | 30 | Death of wife Jane STOTT | 18 | ||
| 05 Feb 1866 | 31 | Married Agatha BRYCE | 18 | ||
| 22 May 1867 | 32 | Birth of daughter Agnes Agatha Bryce AUSTIN | Clarence River, New South Wales, Australia | 18 | |
| 1869 | 34 | Birth of son James A AUSTEN | Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia | 1869/11317 | 18 |
| 1871 | 36 | Birth of daughter Jessie A BURT | Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia | 1871/10798 | 18 |
| 1874 | 39 | Birth of son Arthur Ernest A BURT | Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia | 1874/11413 | 18 |
| 15 Jun 1874 | 39 | Death of son Arthur Ernest A BURT | 18 | ||
| 1875 | 40 | Birth of daughter Adelaide Mabel BURT | Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia | 1875/11915 | 18 |
| 1878 | 43 | Birth of son Albert M (David) AUSTIN | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 1878/13178 | 18 |
| 1880 | 45 | Birth of daughter Beatrice Maud BURT | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 1880/14956 | 18 |
| 1883 | 48 | Birth of daughter Ethel M A BURT | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 1883/18255 | 18 |
| 26 Sep 1890 | 55 | Death of step father Joseph AUSTEN (aged 74) | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 35 | |
| 31 Jul 1893 | 58 | Death of mother Sophia Winton LEWIS (aged 79) | Grafton, New South Wales, Australia | 35 | |
| 13 Jul 1905 | 70 | James Lewis BURT AUSTIN died | Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia | 18 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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James Lewis Burt AUSTIN
Born: approx 1835 in Kent, England Married: 1. Jane Stott in 1859 at Grafton 2. Agnes Bryce on 5 Feb 1866 at Grafton Occupations: Farmer, Innkeeper, Painter Parents: James Burt and Sophia Lewis Died: 13 July 1905 at 3&1/2 Mary St Waterloo, Sydney, the home of his daughter Adelaide Pritchard Lewis, as he appears to have been commonly known was born in Kent about 1835 and arrived in Australia aged 3, with his mother and step-father on the "James Pattison" on 11 December 1838, after sailing from Plymouth on 28 April 1838. The ship was 514 tons and was captained by Jas. Cromarty. It is possible that Lewis was the child of an earlier marriage of Sophia's to James Burt, but there is no contemporary record of this. It is just as likely that he was a natural (illigitimate) child. Joseph and Sophia were married on 11 April 1838 in Kent, just two and a half weeks before the ship sailed. He was the oldest of a large number of children. There were 12 other children born to Joseph and Sophia. Initially the family lived in Sydney at Woolloomooloo (1841) and Surrey Hills (1843). By 1845 they were living at Koolcan Station, and by 1847 the family had settled in Grafton. His step-father was a carpenter building houses in the area. Lewis appears to have had an identity crisis in the early part of his adult life. He variously used the surnames of Burt and Austin (or Austen) and seems to have used both James and Lewis as his preferred given name. Later in life he seems to have settled on Lewis Austin as his preferred name. Lewis married Jane Stott, the Somerset-born daughter of publican on 31 January 1859 (ref 59/1973) when he was 22. She had apparently only been in the colony about a year and it appears that her father never came to Australia. At the time Lewis was apparently a ferryman. There were two children by the marriage: George Lewis BURT b. 13 Nov 1859 Albert J b. about 1862 Jane died on 24 September 1865 aged 28 years, (CRE 26.9.65) and 4 and a half months later on 5 February 1866 Lewis married Agatha Bryce. Agatha Bryce was the Cape Colony-born eldest daughter of James Bryce, who had died on 16 Feb 1864 after a nervous breakdown, attributed to his failure in business. He was a native of Leith and had been a master cooper before becoming a publican. Interestingly, both wives were the daughters of publicans. Lewis apparently had held the licence of a hotel at Yates Flats and in April 1865 he took over the licence of the Lawrence Hotel. On taking over the hotel he put on a dinner said to have been "the best spread ever seen in the district" with dancing until daylight. The hotel had been built by the recently deceased James Bryce, who was later to be his father-in-law. Lewis boasted a "first rate table" and "clean rooms". He was living in the hotel at the time his first wife died and when he married for a second time. He offered the stock and lease of the hotel for sale on 27 November 1866, however it appears that the sale was unsuccessful as there was a report in the "Examiner" that he had re-opened the hotel with a shooting match. The prize for the double barrelled gun contest was 6 guineas and the single barrelled prize was 3 guineas. By this time Lewis was facing stiff competition from the Commercial Hotel. The dinner following Lawrence's first horse race on 18 March 1867 was held at the Lawrence Hotel, but Lewis put the stock and licence for the hotel on the market again on 30 October 1867. By the time of baby Agnes's baptism towards the end of 1867 the family was living across the river from Lawrence at Southgate where Lewis was a farmer. Lawrence is described in the 1866 NSW Gazetteer as a town of population about 500, with 2 hotels, the Commercial and the Lawrence. It was a pastoral and agricultural town with the main crop being maize. Communication was twice weekly by steamer to Grafton and Maclean (its about half way between) otherwise by horse or dray. There were 2 wharves and stores, chiefly for goods in transit from Sydney to New England. Lawrence was also known as The Elbow. William Robertson had established a large property here in 1842, and in 1860 he owned the Lawrence Inn. A Post Office was established in 1859 and in 1861 the township was laid out. A school opened in 1868 and a police station opened in 1872. Southgate was originally a 30000 acre property in the 1840's, but following a drought the riverfront area was surveyed as 50 acre farms in 1856 and auctioned in the following year. In 1870, CSR set up a small sugar mill at Southgate but later amalgamated it with into a larger mill at Harwood. Early experiments with cotton were abandoned when prices fell at the end of the American Civil War. There were 8 children by his second marriage. Agatha Bryce (Agnes) AUSTIN b.22 May 1867 James A AUSTEN b. 1869 ref 69/11317 Jessie A BURT (Read) b. 1871 ref 71/10798 Arthur Ernest A BURT b. 1874 ref 74/11413, died 15 June 1874 Adelaide Mabel BURT (Pritchard) b. 1875 ref 75/11915 Albert M (David) AUSTIN b. 1878 ref 78/13178 Beatrice Maud BURT b. 1880 ref 80/14956 Ethel M A BURT b. 1883 ref 83/18255 By 1878 Lewis was living in Grafton. In the official P.O. directory of NSW for that year he gives his occupation as labourer. He owned a block of land next to his step-father in Mary Street, Grafton adjoining “Huntingdon”. On a 1910 plan of Grafton, the block on the corner of Mary & Hoof Sts, Grafton, opposite the gaol site is marked as having been his. The block adjoined that of his step-father. Both were 2 acres 3 perches in size. Around the turn of the century he lived at Grafton, possibly with one of his sons (James), and listed his occupation as a painter. In 1903 he was living in Sydney, probably in rented accommodation, moving into 6 Short St, South Sydney in that year. With him were his wife, Agnes, his daughter Beatrice and his youngest son Albert David. He died at 3&1/2 Mary St, Waterloo in Sydney of a cerebral haemorage on 13 July 1905, aged 70 and was buried at Rookwood Cemetary. His death was marked by a very brief notice in the "Clarence River Examiner" which noted that his son James was still living in Grafton. References: (1) Death Certificate, 1905/10960 (2) Marriage Certificate, 1866/2068 (3) "Laurence", A History of the Clarence River Settlement (4) Sands Directories (5) Electoral Rolls (6) Clarence River Examiner - misc dates (7) Mackey, Nola M, "Clarence River Register: births, deaths & marriages." Grafton (8) NSW Lands Dept Map - Grafton 1910 |
| Source References: |
| 18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool |
| - Reference = Mark Rogers - email 15 Nov 09 (Marriage) |
| - Reference = Mark Rogers - email 15 Nov 09 (Birth) |
| - Reference = Mark Rogers - email 15 Nov 09 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = Mark Rogers - email 15 Nov 09 (Death) |