52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 23 - Namesake - Dorothea Ellen (Atkinson) Fullerton

This year I am taking part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts.

The theme for Week 23 (June 3-9): Namesake.

I am running late yet again. For week 23's theme, Namesake, I have chosen to write about my 2 x great grandmother Dorothea Ellen (Atkinson) Fullerton.

Dorothea was variously recorded on different records as Dorothy Eleanor, Dorothy Ellen and Dorothea Ellen. She was born on 24 March 1857 at Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, the daughter of James Atkinson and Catherine Helen (Pickis) Atkinson.¹
She married Peter Fullerton on 1 July 1876 at St Kilian's Catholic Church, Sandhurst (Bendigo).² She and Peter had a family of 12 children - 9 daughters and 3 sons, 11 lived to be adults. The Fullerton family lived on a farm called 'Clover Banks' at Avonmore near Elmore, Victoria, Australia. Dorothea died on 9 August 1923 and was buried at the Elmore Cemetery.³

My paternal grandmother was named after her grandmother Dorothea.

Who was Dorothea named after?

I believe that her given name Dorothea/Dorothy was probably named after her mother Catherine's maternal aunt Dorothy (Bond) Purvis. Her middle name Eleanor/Ellen was likely named after her paternal grandmother Eleanor (Crisp) Atkinson.

References

1. Victoria, Australia, birth certificate 4641(1857), Dorothy Eleanor Atkinson. Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Melbourne.
2. Victoria, Australia marriage certificate 3967 (1876), Peter Fullerton and Dorothea Ellen Atkinson; Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Melbourne.
3. Victoria, Australia, death certificate 10085(1923), Dorothy Ellen Fullerton. Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages Victoria, Melbourne.

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 21 - Military - George Brown Fullerton DCM

This year I am taking part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts.

The theme for Week 21 (May 20-26): Military.

For this week's theme, I have chosen my great grandmother's brother George Brown Fullerton DCM (1890-1917).

I have not had time to write a blog post so I will direct readers to George's Wikitree profile. 

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 8 - Family Photo - J.W. Smith and Family

This year I have decided to take part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts. 

The theme for Week 8 (Feb. 18-24) is: Family Photo.

For this week's theme, Family Photo, I have chosen to share a photograph of my grandmother's family, taken at the time of my grandmother's wedding in 1936. 
My grandmother was the daughter of James William Smith and his second wife Agnes Fullerton. 

This photograph shows J.W. Smith, his wife Agnes, and 11 of J.W.'s 13 living children in 1936. 

J.W. Smith and Family, 1936. A scan of an original photograph. Click the image for a larger view.

J.W. Smith and his first wife Hanora Hanley married in 1897 and had four sons (James, Joseph, Cyril and Ivo) and one daughter (Audrey). Joseph died in 1902 when almost 6 months old. Hanora died in December 1908 at Elmore, Victoria, Australia. 

J.W. Smith and his second wife Agnes Fullerton were married in 1910 and had four sons (William, John, Robert, Francis) and five daughters (Dorothea, Ellen, Evelyn, Joyce and Kathleen). 

Using Adobe Photoshop Elements, I digitally added photographs of the two living children who were missing from the original 1936 photograph: James (Jim) and Cyril (Syd).

J.W. Smith and Family. Digital creation. Click the image for a larger view.

As part of a Smith family reunion, held in October 2017, I created a Facebook Group for the descendants of James William Smith and first wife Hanora Hanley and his second wife Agnes Fullerton. All descendants are very welcome to request to join the Facebook Group.

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 5 - At the Library - Thomas Fullerton

This year I have decided to take part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts. 

The theme for Week 5 (Jan. 29- Feb. 4) is: At the Library.

I have decided to write about an ancestor (not direct line ancestor) that I found some information about from a library. I don't often get to research at a library.
I went back through my research and discovered notes for a time I went to the National Library of Australia in Canberra in August 2008. My sister and her family were visiting Canberra and took me along for the trip.

One thing I had on my to-do list for the library was to view the Deniliquin Chronicle and Riverine Gazette on Microfilm for the period November-December 1865. My purpose in doing this was to find the original version of a news item related to the death of my 3 x great uncle, Thomas Fullerton. During my time at the National Library, I found the original notice and made a copy of it. The article was first published in the Deniliquin Chronicle, 18 November 1865, page 4, column 5. 

I wrote the following about Thomas on this blog, in its previous form, on 11 September 2012, under the title Trove Tuesday - Thomas Fullerton of Hill Plain, Deniliquin.

The following article regarding Thomas Fullerton, though a very sad article, is one of my most appreciated, and least expected, Trove discoveries. I had learnt, through a reference provided by the Deniliquin & District Historical Society, that in 1865 there had been an inquest into the death of a young shepherd, Thomas Fullerton, who had died at Hill Plain near Deniliquin, New South Wales. 

Unfortunately, the death certificate gave no information about Thomas' family, and while the inquest index existed for that era in New South Wales, the actual inquest records no longer existed. I thought I was not likely to find any other information to verify that this Thomas was part of my Fullerton family. My best hope was newspapers - but which newspaper? How many rolls of microfilm would I need to trawl through? 

Enter the National Library of Australia's Newspaper digitisation in 2008. At that early stage in the digitisation none of the digitised newspaper titles looked relevant for Deniliquin news - perhaps the Argus, but that was a long shot I thought. Without high expectations of finding any reference to Thomas, I searched for 'Fullerton' and 'Deniliquin'. There it was! In December 1865 the Brisbane Courier had reprinted an inquest report from the Deniliquin Chronicle. The inquest report mentioned Thomas' sister Bridget Fenelon, and thus provided the evidence I needed to place young Thomas on my family tree. Until that time, Thomas' existence had been somehow forgotten in family records and oral history. Previously, the only evidence for Thomas' existence was a record of a Thomas 'Fuller' baptised at Castlemaine, Victoria in 1854. I like to think that Thomas provided a little help in my research. While the information I found about him was very sad, finding it meant that his story would no longer be forgotten. 

"I take the following report from a Deniliquin paper, as it relates to a subject in which not only the faculty but all heads of families must feel an interest. Medical science has not yet reached perfection, great as its triumphs are: 

"On Tuesday last the Police Magistrate attended at Hill Plains to hold an inquiry respecting the death of a lad aged thirteen years, named Thomas Fullerton, who had been found lying dead in his bed on the previous day by Mr. Clancy, sheep overseer to Mr. Hogg, of Mathoura station. The first witness examined was Bridget Fenelon, a married woman and sister of deceased, who deposed that on Sunday evening last she was milking a goat, and her brother held the animal by its horns; the goat giving a plunge forward struck deceased either in the breast or stomach, from which he appeared to suffer somewhat; he ran a few yards after the goat, and then laid down and complained of sickness, and remained drowsy the whole of the evening afterwards. On Monday, she finding him no better started for Deniliquin, and, on her return in the afternoon, found he was dead. John Clancy, the overseer deposed that being in the neighborhood on Monday, and requiring the assistance of deceased, he went to the hut believing deceased to be asleep, and found him on the bed dead and his body cold. A. W. F. Noyes, Surgeon, of Deniliquin, who attended the inquiry for the purpose of making the post mortem, deposed that he had done so, and found that the cause of death was hydatids in the heart, and that no marks of violence likely to arise from the butting of a goat were noticeable on the body. This is the second death which has been attributed here within a twelvemonth or so to that very obscure form of disease - hydatids. The former was a girl of about sixteen years, who died in the hospital, and the organ in which the hydatids were found was the brain, some four or five hundred being discovered in one side of that organ. The professional gentlemen engaged considered the features presented by that case exceedingly singular, and those of the present are viewed as being still more extraordinary and unusual. Some of the hydatids were attached to the heart, and one, which was taken out, was found floating in the blood contained in the left ventricle. The lad appears to have occasionally been subject to fainting fits, and those are supposed to have been produced by the interference of this organic growth with the action of the valves of the heart. The subject as affecting the human frame is exceedingly obscure, but the infrequency of its known occurrence commends itself to the notice of the professional man."

NEWS AND NOTES. (1865, December 1). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 3. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1283199 

The same article also appears in the following newspapers on Trove:

• (1865, November 25). Bendigo Advertiser (Vic. : 1855 - 1918), p. 3. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article87928349
• (1865, November 27). Empire (Sydney, NSW : 1850 - 1875), p. 4. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63240129
• (1865, December 7). Queanbeyan Age and General Advertiser (NSW : 1864 - 1867), p. 2. Retrieved January 28, 2019, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article30636352

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 4 - I'd Like to Meet - Peter Fullerton

This year I have decided to take part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts. 

The theme for Week 4 (Jan. 22-28) is: I'd Like to Meet.

This weeks' theme was a difficult one for me as I was unsure which ancestor to chose. 

I decided to choose my great-great grandfather Peter Fullerton, because I would like to know the answers to a few questions about his family and he would probably be able to tell me those answers. 

I'd like to meet my great-great grandfather Peter Fullerton so that I could ask him these questions:

• Where and when were his parents William Fullerton and Mary Dunne born? 
• Who were his grandparents? Was his paternal grandfather Peter Folliard from Naas, Kildare?
• Why did his father William appear to change his name to Fullerton when he immigrated to Australia?
• Did his parents have any other relatives living in Australia?
• Why did his parents decide to immigrate to Australia?
• Where does the Spanish ancestry story come from? Is there any grain of truth in the story?
• Is there any truth in the story that he was going to go on the Burke and Wills Expedition but did not go?
• What did he and his father do in New Zealand in 1863? Did they find any gold?
• What were his experiences droving cattle with his brother James? 
• Was his father ever involved in the droving?
• Who did they work for droving cattle? 
• What stock routes did they follow?
• Why did his father leave the property at Elphinstone? 
• What plans did his father have for the properties he owned in Richmond?
• Where was his brother Thomas buried when Thomas died in 1865?
• Where is the gravesite of his mother Mary (Dunne) Fullerton at the Castlemaine Cemetery?
• Where is the gravesite of his father William Fullerton at the Inglewood Cemetery?
• What information about his brother James did he hear in Victoria after James died in Queensland in 1889? 

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52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks - Week 1 - First - William and Mary (Dunne) Fullerton

Happy New Year!
This year I have decided to take part in Amy Johnson Crow's 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks blogging prompts. 

The theme for Week 1 (Jan. 1-7) is: First.

One of Amy's suggestions for this weeks theme is: 

Who was the first ancestor to arrive in the country? 

My first ancestors to arrive in Australia were my 3 x great-grandparents, William Fullerton and Mary (Dunne) Fullerton. They arrived at Port Phillip (Melbourne) on 30 September 1840 on the barque Himalaya. 

You can read more about the Fullerton's on my Fullerton Family History blog: A Summary of the Fullerton story.

© 2019. Australian Genealogy Journeys. This post was originally published at https://ausgenjourneys.blogspot.com/2019/01/52-ancestors-in-52-weeks-week-1.html
52 Ancestors in 52 weeks is © Amy Johnson Crow. 

Hello World

This is the first post on my renewed Australian Genealogy Journeys blog.

As in my previous blog, I am hoping to share ideas, news, discoveries, successes and failures as I research my Australian family history. I will also blog about my genetic genealogy discoveries.

In addition to this blog I will also be blogging about my Fullerton Family History on a separate blog, with a particular focus on my searches for Fullard, Follard, Folliard and variants in county Kildare Ireland and surrounding counties.

Thank you for following.

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