Philip Burgoine
| First name | Philip |
|---|---|
| Last name | Burgoine |
| Country of Origin | England |
| Date of Birth | 1800 |
| Year of Arrival in Australia | 1864 |
| Submitted by | Don Cunnington |
Story
Family of Philip Burgoine and Rhoda Kellam
Life Before Australia
1800 Philip Burgoine was born in Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Leicestershire, England, the son of Joseph Burgoine, a farmer, who died 6 March 1858 age 88, and his wife Mary, who died 18 December 1836 age 67.
1805 Rhoda Kellam was born, the daughter of Charles (or Joseph) Kellam (born 1768, Waltham-on-the-Wolds) and Ann Musson. Charles and Ann were married in Waltham-on-the-Wolds on 23 November 1790. They had 5 children – Sarah (b.1791), Thomas (b.1793), Elizabeth (b.1795), Charles (b.1801) and Rhoda (b.1805).
27 November 1827 Philip Burgoine married Rhoda Kellam. They had 11 children, 7 children survived – Mary (b.1828), Thomas (b.1830, d.14/04/1896), Joseph (b.1832, d.06/03/1889), Keziah (b.1838, d.1921), Rhoda (b.1842), Ann (b.1844 d.25/12/1905), and Elizabeth (b.20/01/1849, d.22/09/1913).
Their first child, Mary (b.1828) married John Johnson from Fen Drayton, Cambridgeshire, and did not emigrate.
10 October 1854 Joseph, (born in 1832, their second son) sailed to Australia aboard the “Orwell”.
January 1855 Joseph arrived at Port Philip.
19 February 1857 Joseph married Ann Elizabeth Dowell in St.John\’s Church of England, Melbourne. Ann was born 1835-36 at Barwell, Leicestershire the daughter of George Dowell and Annie Worth. They had a daughter, Annie, born 1858 in Sailors Gully, Eaglehawk, (Central Victoria) and a son, Philip, born 1859 (died 1861) at Pegley Gulley, a gold mining area. It is thought that during this time Joseph may have found gold, as in 1858 he purchased 373 acres of land at nearby Sutton Grange where he lived in a ‘6 roomed slab house with an iron roof\’.
1860 their daughter, Keziah (b.1838) married Ferdinand Sahlberg (b.c.1826) the son of Charles Sahlberg. Ferdinand died Bendigo 1903 age 76 and Keziah died Bendigo 1921 age 82.
16 February 1861 Aboard the “Kent”, a J Burgoine, miner, sailed to England with a young daughter. (No mention of his wife)
3 November 1861 In Waltham-on-the-Wolds, Emily Dowell Burgoine was baptised the daughter of Joseph and Ann (Elizabeth?) Burgoine.
21 January 1862 The “Lincolnshire” sailed from Plymouth. Steerage passengers included Thomas Burgoine, (age 31, goldseeker), Joseph Burgoine (age 29, goldseeker), with his wife Ann, their daughter Annie and an infant (Emily ?), Keziah (Burgoine) (age 24) with her husband Ferdinand Sahlberg, and Ann Burgoine (age 17, spinster). They arrived in the colony on 26th April 1862.
22 September 1864 Philip Burgoine, with his wife Rhoda, their daughter Rhoda and her husband John Brown, and their youngest daughter, Elizabeth, followed the above 4 children to Australia. They departed from Liverpool aboard the “Red Jacket”. Also on board was Thomas Sharp Cunnington who would later marry their daughter Ann.
Life in Australia
21 December 1864 Philip and Rhoda Burgoine arrived in the colony and settled in Sutton Grange where their son Joseph had purchased land.
11th June 1867 Their daughter Ann married Thomas Sharp Cunnington at her father’s residence at Sutton Grange. Ann’s sister, Rhoda Brown, and her brother Thomas, were the witnesses. Their children were – Bert (b.23.12.1877, d.5.7.1963), Cecil (b.13.2.1879, d.20.11.1951), Percy (b.21.2.1881, d.21.11.1959), Philip (b.9.6.1883, d.24.12.1964) and Lesley (b.1.12.1888, d.29.3.1959).
1 May 1872 Their daughter Elizabeth (b.1849) married at Elmore, (Northern Victoria), Francis Thomas Squires Cox (b.1844 Doulting Nr. Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England, the son of Thomas Cox and Harriet Squires). Their marriage certificate was witnessed by his father, Thomas, and her sister, Annie Cunnington. They settled in Elmore.
In 1873 their son Thomas (b.1830) married Elizabeth Nation Williams (b.c.1844 Hobart Town) the daughter of William Stanley Williams and Esther Mary Figg. Thomas owned land at Diggorra in Northern Victoria and died 14 April 1896 age 65 years. Elizabeth died 12 September 1922.
In 1887 Joseph Burgoine bought a further 208 acres from John Thomas Patterson and Joseph Kellow for £600. At the time of his death, he was also leasing land from John Ferguson. It appears that this land may have passed down to son-in-law John Farrar, and then to his grandson John William Joseph (Jack) Farrar.
25 November 1881 Rhoda Burgoine died, and was buried, at Rochester, age 75.
13 April 1882 Philip Burgoine died at Sandhurst (Bendigo) and was buried at Rochester, age about 82 years.
6 March 1889 Joseph Burgoine died and was buried 8 March 1889 in the Sutton Grange cemetery. An inquiry into his death shows that at about 3 pm while standing on some scaffolding about 8 feet from the ground, and holding a rafter for about 10 minutes, he fell probably due to giddiness. Dr Thomas J Barr from Castlemaine diagnosed death due to a fracture of the 3r