51

ANN TEVELEIN

Ann was born/baptised 27 May 1827 at St. Mary Northgate, in Canterbury, recorded as daughter of John and Margaret TEVELEIN, Saddler of New Ruttington Lane.

The baptismal registers and the census of 1841 show she had four siblings:

The baptismal records show Lucy and John as having the same parents as Ann, but in view of the break-up of marriage probably before 1837 and lack of birth/baptismal records, the father of Charles and Richard is yet to be ascertained - it may be a nasty insult to suggest the youngest two could have had a different father, but worse things have happened and information is not yet found to clarify this.

Of' these five children, Ann is the only one about whom we know anything further, and this is her story. The story of her father and his 12 Australian children (Ann's half-brothers and sisters) is told separately.

Australia

Ann Tevelein sailed to Australia on the "Corramandel", a barque of 639 tons, which called at Adelaide before arriving at Melbourne 26 April 1849. Her motive for coming to Australia could have been the demise of her mother (?and siblings?) and her desire to meet up with her father in Tasmania but she stopped in Melbourne to marry Francis STRINGER who was also on the "Corramandel", at St. Peters, Eastern Hill, on 23 June 1849, the witnesses being Claude Judkins and his wife Margaret, who were also passengers on the same vessel.

The actual ship's records are not available, but the newspapers published a list of those who landed in Melbourne, naming "MissTrevelyn" and "Mr. Stringer". The evidence of the marriage is sufficient evidence to accept the voracity of' this, but "Mr. and Mrs Bays" were also listed as passengers, and it is tempting to wonder if these were Ann's aunt and uncle (Lucy and Thomas Moys) who had lived next door to Ann's home in New Ruttington Lane, Canterbury in 1841. The handwriting of the report was obviously dubious as to accuracy anyway.

Her father, John, is known to have visited Melbourne on several occasions, from Launceston, and though the reason given was his involvement in temperance matters, there could easily have been a meeting of father and daughter on these occasions, and of' course several of his Australian-born children also transferred to Melbourne with their own families.

Like her father, Ann married twice, and the story of her "first" family, the Stringer family, is told separately. This to the story of the second marriage, the McINTYRE family. Certain it is that the Stringer and McIntyre children knew each other, and lived in Bendigo.

Three more children arrived:

was attributed to Francis Stringer. This does pose a query because when Ann finally married Arch. McIntyre on 2 Aug. 1871, she claimed to have been a widow since 1864, though in fact Francis did not die until 1876 and at Raywood, which was only about 10 miles away. If Ann really believed Francis had died in 1864, how did she account for registering Jessie as his daughter in 1867? This is not an endeavour to cast a slur on Ann, but an attempt to unravel the events of their life.

When marrying Arch, Ann claimed to have three children living (which was correct) and two dead, by her first husband; she must have forgotten the little Ann who died in 1863, only remembering Francis Edward Albert who died in 1857 and Francis Felix who had died so recently on 28 June 1871 - incidentally, Arch. McIntyre registered the death of the latter.

Ann was present at birth in 1879 of her grandson, Francis Felix Stringer, son of Francis Thomas Stringer and his wife Mary Rebecca Jane nee Smith.

The character of Francis Stringer is not known, but his sister Susannah Hyde was a very strong personality indeed, and was what we might call now a "real old battle-axe" - if Francis was like her, well, no wonder Ann and he parted.

58

Although Jessie Ann's birth in 1867 gave Francis Stringer as her father's name, she seems to have been known as Jessie McIntyre, and when she died 23 June1888 the registration showed Arch McIntyre as her father (which was probably correct).

McIntyre.

Archibald Swan McINTYRE was named after his father, Archibald who was a farmer, and his mother Maria nee SWAN. ItHe was born at Oban, Argyleshire, Scotland about 1837; Arch and his older brother John (born c.1827) both came to Victoria but whether there were any other siblings, or whether their parents came also to Australia, is unknown. John died aged 58 at sandhurst Hospital in 1885, but whether he married is a mystery.

Though the McIntyres lived in the Bendigo area of Victoria, Ann's link with her father in Tasmania was evidentally still strong, because the Launceston "Examiner" of 8 Nov. 1877 carried an item:

"A MAN'S ARM TORN OFF
A shocking accident occurred at Sandhurst last week. A miner named Archibald McIntyre was working on a stage in the grand Trunk Company's shaft, Derwent Gully, when one of the slabs slipped and he was precipitated to the bottom, a depth of 50 feet, and in falling had his right arm torn completely off, only leaving about 1 inch of the bone united to the shoulder. There was very little blood lost. The unfortunate sufferer was at once taken to the hospital where the remaining portion of the arm was skilfully excised from the shoulder-joint by Dr. Hinchcliff. The patient lies in a rather precarious state at present from the great shock to his system."

Archibald McIntyre lived at Golden Square when he and Ann married in 1871, but the loss of his arm in 1877 would have put a stop to his mining occupation and so after his recovery he became a mining agent, living at High St, Bendigo. In 1883 he and Ann were living in Bullock Green Road (now McKenzie St. West) and he ran a share-broker business in Bull St. Sandhurst, (now Bendigo), but he was residing at the National Hotel when he took his own life on 10 June 1890.

He is buried at Kangaroo Flat, as also is Jessie who died 1888. the inquest papers on his death are available, and copy is with this story.

When Arch. died only Clara would have been still living with Ann, as Myra had already married David (John) ANDREW in 1888; Ann was living with Clara (by then Mrs David Andrew) when she herself died 12 Feb. 1896 aged 67.

Andrew.

David Andrew was born at Castlemaine according to one certificate and in the Loddon district according to another. He was an Estate Agent and Auctioneer and was mayor of Bendigo on three occasions, 1909-1910, 1913-1914 and 1920, and was also a senator for Bendigo. He acquired considerable property holdings, mainly in the prime areas of Bendigo business district. He was covered in "Who's Who in Australia" 1927, and copy of that is attached.

David and Myra Andrew had two children:

Hamish married:

1. Violet WILSON, but she died 27 Feb. 1948, at Bendigo, and
2. Margaret Lillian KENNEDY, who was a widow with two children, Lola and Donald

Hamish died 5/3/1956 aged 64, but Margaret survived until she was aged 81.

She died 14/12/1979.

Sadly, Myra died aged 27, on 7 Sept.1892, and the existence of the young Hamish may have influenced David to marry her sister Clara the following year. David and Clara also had two children:

1. Myra, known as Marjorie. Born 1894
2. Dorothy, born 1896.
   

1. Marjorie married James Taylor whose family was in the hotel business. She died 1945 and James 14/8/1954, leaving one son, Terrence James who was born in 1933, and married Shirley WOOD, their only child being Christopher Terrence James who was born 27/6/1959 and is not yet married.
   
2. Dorothy is reputed to have been a "tomboy" who did not like dressing in female clothes - this caused considerable consternation to David during his Mayoral years, not to mention embarrassment. Dorothy married J. REID, ... . She and Reid had a son John F. Reid, born 1929, but he was killed in a car accident in 1965, unmarried.

Dorothy is still alive in 1986, but is living at the Bendigo Home and Hospital for the Aged, and regrettably is senile.

So the carrying on of the Andrew name and the Ann Tevelein blood rests with Chris. Taylor, ...

Hamish was employed in his grandfather's business as salesman and auctioneer, and carried on the business after the latter's death. In his later years he had a grocery and produce store in Lyttleton Terrace, Bendigo. When his first wife, Violet died, he took on a housekeeper, Margaret Kennedy whom he married several years later. Margaret's daughter Lola Kennedy married a Bendigo electrical contractor, Harold ROSS, and they live in N.S.W. ...

An undated newspaper item sheds some 1ight on Harold and Lola Ross: