James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835

James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835 - 1905)

Farmer, Inkeeper, Painter

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
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

Near Relatives of James Lewis BURT AUSTIN (1835 - 1905)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Grandfather	George LEWIS
Grandmother	Ann WINTON

Father in Law	James BRYCE

Father	James BURT			abt 1837
Step Father	Joseph AUSTEN	20 Sep 1816	Rolvenden, Kent, England	26 Sep 1890	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	74
Mother	Sophia Winton LEWIS	13 Feb 1814	Tenterden, Kent, England	31 Jul 1893	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	79

Self	James Lewis BURT AUSTIN	abt 1835	Kent, England	13 Jul 1905	Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia	70

Wife	Jane STOTT		Somerset, England	24 Dec 1865
Wife	Agatha BRYCE		Cape of Good Hope, South Africa	21 Dec 1921

Son	George Lewis BURT AUSTIN	13 Nov 1859		21 Aug 1943	Ryde, New South Wales, Australia	83
Son	Albert J AUSTIN	abt 1862
Daughter	Agnes Agatha Bryce AUSTIN	22 May 1867	Clarence River, New South Wales, Australia	11 Aug 1913	Coraki, New South Wales, Australia	46
Son	James A AUSTEN	1869	Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia
Daughter	Jessie A BURT	1871	Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia
Son	Arthur Ernest A BURT	1874	Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia	15 Jun 1874		0
Daughter	Adelaide Mabel BURT	1875	Lawrence, New South Wales, Australia
Son	Albert M (David) AUSTIN	1878	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Daughter	Beatrice Maud BURT	1880	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Daughter	Ethel M A BURT	1883	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia

Half Sister	Mary Ann AUSTEN	1839
Half Sister	Helen (Ellen) AUSTEN	1841	New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	Thomas AUSTEN	1843	New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	William Koolcan AUSTEN	1845	New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	George AUSTEN	1847	New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	Frank AUSTEN	1849	New South Wales, Australia
Half Sister	Emma AUSTEN	1851	New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	Joseph AUSTEN	1853	New South Wales, Australia
Half Sister	Sophia AUSTEN	1855	New South Wales, Australia
Half Sister	Sarah Jane AUSTEN	1858	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Half Brother	Charles Winton AUSTEN	1860	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia

Daughter in Law	Sarah KELLY
Son in Law	Richard JONES

Grandson	John T AUSTIN			1888	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Ethel Jane M AUSTIN	1882	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia	1953	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	71
Granddaughter	Elsie May Burt AUSTIN	1883	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	Arthur I F T AUSTIN	1888	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Ruby O AUSTIN	1889	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Agnes V AUSTIN	1891	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Alice I AUSTIN	1892	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Pearle B AUSTIN	1894	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Lilly M AUSTIN	1895	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Amy V AUSTIN	1896	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	George L AUSTIN	1898	Grafton, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter	Ethel Maud JONES	1889	Inverell, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson	William Ernest JONES	1891	Inverell, New South Wales, Australia

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:

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:

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- Reference = Mark Rogers - email 15 Nov 09 (Name, Notes)

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