From Karen Frater there was a second Margaret with birth date 21 April 1783. Presume one date is incorrect.
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Death Index 2428/1911 FRATER ALEXANDER Father: JOHN Location: NARRABRImore details from Karen Frater, Australia
ARRIVAL DETAILS
ALEXANDER FRATER AGED 22 OCCUPATION SHEPHERD, BIRTHPLACE KIRKNEWTON NORTHUMBERLAND. FATHER JOHN
PENELOPE FRATER NEE HAY , AGED 17 NATIVEPLACE SCOTLAND, FATHER PETER HAY MOTHER MARY MITCHELL
ARRIVED IN SYDNEY 6TH JUNE 1851 ABOARD THE "EMPEROR"
ARRIVAL DETAILS
ALEXANDER FRATER AGED 22 OCCUPATION SHEPHERD, BIRTHPLACE KIRKNEWTON NORTHUMBERLAND. FATHER JOHN
PENELOPE FRATER NEE HAY , AGED 17 NATIVEPLACE SCOTLAND, FATHER PETER HAY MOTHER MARY MITCHELL
ARRIVED IN SYDNEY 6TH JUNE 1851 ABOARD THE "EMPEROR"
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Approvals
Applicant Land district - County - Parish(es) Acres Annual rent £-s-dGaz HL No Applic No Reg No
FRATER Elizabeth Brewarrina - Narran - Coongham 10240 68-5-4 3 128 85-76 86-3475
FRATER George Sidney Brewarrina - Narran - Coongham 10240 68-5-4 3 127 85-77 86-3425From:http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/NSWW/Leases/1889.html
Homestead Refusals & Fofeitures in NSW
Applicant Land/District Acres R/W/F Date Gaz HL No Applic No
FRATER Elizabeth Brewarrina-Narran-Coonghan 10240 Forfeited-28June'89 2 128 85-76
FRATER G.S. Brewarrina-Narran-Coonghan 10240 Forfeited-28June'89 2 127 85-77Reversals of Forfeiture
Lessees Land Dist -County- Parish(es) Acres Date Gaz HL No Applic No
FRATER Elizabeth Brewarrina-Narran-Coongham 10240 … 3 128 85-76
FRATER George S. Brewarrina-Narran-Coongham 10240 … 3 127 85-77Closer and Soldier Settlement Transfer Files
Previous System Number File/Transfer Number Surname Firstname Residence of Owner Settlement Purchase Number Settlement Purchase Area Farm Number Parish County Remarks
[10/26013B] 17/06690 FRATER George Sidney Milfield near Narrabri 1911.40 Tibbereenah 72 Milner White
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au : birth reference index:
14449/1869 FRATER PENELOPE ALEXANDER PENELOPE MURRURUNDIFrom Christine Frater
Served in the Boer War and the 1st world warThis information is taken from http://www.womenaustralia.info/biogs/AWE0398b.htm and I believe refers to this Penelope:
Function: Armed services organisation
Location: New South Wales, Australia
The Army Nursing Service Reserve was established in 1899 and attached to the New South Wales Army Medical Corps. This was the first official female army nurses' organisation in the Australian colonies. Nurse Nellie Gould was appointed lady superintendent of the Reserve. On the 17 January 1900 Nurse Gould left with thirteen nursing sisters to serve in the Boer War as part of the British Army. The nursing contingent returned to Australia in 1902. The Reserve was replaced by the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS), that was formed post Federation.
Details
New South Wales Army Medical Corps attached to Imperial Draft Contingent - Roll of individuals entitled to the South Africa Medal and Clasps.Gould, Ellen Julia - Lady Superintendent
Johnstone, Julia Bligh - Superintendant
Austin, Anne - Sister
Frater, Penelope - Sister
Garden, Anna Gardiner - Sister
Hoadley, Emily - Sister
Lister, Elizabeth Ward - Sister
Martin, Marion Philippe - Sister
Matchett, Annie L - Sister
Newton, Nancy - Sister
Nixon, Elizabeth - Sister
Pocock, Mary Annie - Sister
Steel, Mabel - Sister
Woodward, Theresa E - SisterSources used to compile this entry: Guns and Brooches by Jan Bassett, Australian Women at War by Patsy Adam-Smith and Series B5204 National Archives of Australia.
Also from other sources
By Max ChamberlainMore than 60 Australian nurses appear to have gone to the Boer war, either provided by governments or by privately raised funds or at their own expense. They served with the New South Wales Army Medical Corps units, in British hospitals - Field, Stationary and Base - or on hospital ships and trains. Initially they experienced some resistance from the regular British Army Nursing Service and local nurses, but performed well in scattered groups or singly from Cape Town and Durban to Rhodesia. They nursed the wounded but found a higher proportion of cases suffered from diseases such as enteric fever (typhoid).
A group of 14 New South Wales nurses departed Sydney on the Moravian with the 2nd NSW contingent on 17 January 1900:
E J Gould P Frater E W Lister N Newton M Steele J B Johnston A C Garden M Martin E Nixon
T E Woodward A Austin E Hoadley A J Matchett A B M Pocockhttp://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/Items_listing.asp?S=2&F=1&O=0&T=I&C=96
Title (KF has a copy)
Frater Penelope : SERN Matron : POB Yarraman NSW : POE Cairo Egypt : NOK M Frater Penelope
Series number B2455 Control symbol FRATER P Contents date range 1914 - 1920Access status Open Location Canberra Barcode 4024718
1851 Census (17.5.2008)
Parish 811 Yetholm in Kirk Yetholm, Roxburghshire
Ed 3 Page 8 Household 30 Roll CSSCT1851_204
Isabella FRATER 63 born circa 1788 Merton, Roxburghshire Head Female Pauper Ag Lab Widow
James FRATER 24 born circa 1827 Newton, Northumberland Son Male Ag Lab
From Karen Frater Australia
Karen gives Birth year as 1852 in TRINKNEY,LIVERPOOL PLAINS,MORTON STATION,NSW
From Karen Frater Australia
Karen gives Birth year as 1852 in TRINKNEY,LIVERPOOL PLAINS,MORTON STATION,NSW
Barbara Jane Lawrence, eight years as the wife of Scots selector Alexander Frater provided the material for her work Bush Studies. She moved to Sydney with her three children when Frater deserted her in 1887.
The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. Barbara "Baynton" was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton.
Born in 1857 at Scone NSW, Australia. Died 1929
Barbara Baynton was the author of Bush Studies (1902) which depicted the reality of the harshness of early Australian bush life which contrasted with the heroic depiction of the rural experience of her contemporary Henry Lawson.
Baynton was born Barbara Jane Lawrence of immigrant Irish parentage. Her eight years as the wife of Scots selector Alexander Frater provided the material for her work Bush Studies. She moved to Sydney with her three children when Frater deserted her in 1887, and began writing articles, poems and journals which were published in The Bulletin newspaper. Her second marriage in 1890 to affluent Dr Thomas Baynton brought her into a literary circle.
Bush Studies was published in London in 1902 during the time of her marriage to the eccentric Lord Headley. Her oeuvre was small, Bush Studies and Human Toll, but she presented a realist picture of working class characters in local settings and Bush Studies has long been regarded as a classic of Australian literature.
For further information: Dixon Miriam, The Real Matilda; Anne Summers, Dammed Whores and God's Police; Lucy Frost, An Affinity with Pain in S Walker Ed Who is She UDP 1983; Barbara Baynton, Bush Studies Introduction and Memoir;thank you for your enquiry about Penelope Gullett and your Frater family research. The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. The finding aid that you refer to is for the papers of Sir Henry and Lady Penelope Gullett, which are held in our Manuscripts Collection. However, it appears from the paragraph you quoted that the biographical information on Lady Gullett was taken from a 'Sydney Morning Herald' newspaper obituary on 12 Dec 1960, not from information held in the Gullett papers themselves. I have checked the introduction to a book of Baynton's writings, called "Barbara Baynton", edited by Sally Krimmer & Alan Lawson (published by University of Queensland Press in 1980 as part of the "Portable Authors" series), which gives a fairly detailed account of Baynton's life. It states that she was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton. It also discusses her apparent concealment of her true parentage, date of birth and other details of her early life. Apparently, even her family believed things about her that were later proved incorrect. This might explain the father being named as "Henry" in the obituary. If you cannot locate a copy of the book in the UK and are interested inobtaining a copy of the introduction, you can request a photocopy from our Document Supply Service's "Copies Direct" facility. Details of the service, prices, and an online order form can be found at <http://www.nla.gov.au/dss/individuals_and_business.html> . You would need to specify the pages you need copied - the introduction is contained in pages ix to xxxiii of the book. There is also a portrait of Baynton at page viii, immediately before the Introduction. There is a also a comprehensive biography called "Barbara Baynton: Between Two Worlds", written by a descendant, Penne Hackforth-Jones (who is also an Australian TV & film actress). It was first published by Penguin in 1989, and again by Melbourne University Press in 1995. It would go into much more detail on Baynton's life. If you can't get a copy locally, you might find it on a second hand book site via the internet. Or, you could request an international interlibrary loan through your local public library. You should be able to order copies of the relevant certificates from the NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages. Their website, with searchable indexes, is at: <http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/> . If you want to get a copy of the obituary, you may be able to track down microfilm copies of the Sydney Morning Herald in major UK libraries or university libraries. Although indexes have been produced for the newspaper that cover the period you need, they do not include personal notices or obituaries. This would mean going through the whole edition to find the article.
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This is the biography detail from the Australian Dictionary Biography
BAYNTON, BARBARA JANE (JANET AINSLEIGH) (1857-1929), writer, was born on 4 June 1857 at Scone, New South Wales, youngest daughter of John Lawrence, carpenter, and his wife Elizabeth, née Ewart, who had arrived in Sydney from Londonderry, Ireland, as bounty immigrants in the Royal Consort on 9 November 1840. However Barbara later alleged that her father was Captain Robert Lawrence Kilpatrick of the Bengal Light Cavalry. By 1866 the Lawrences had moved to Murrurundi. Educated at home, Barbara enjoyed the works of Dickens and the Russian novelists; she became a governess with the Fraters at Merrylong Park, south of Quirindi. On 24 June 1880 at Tamworth Presbyterian Church she married Alexander Frater junior, a selector. Next year they moved to the Coonamble district, where she bore two sons and a daughter.In 1887 Frater ran off with Sarah Glover, a servant in his household; Barbara took her children to Sydney, instituted divorce proceedings and was granted a decree absolute on 4 March 1890. Next day at St Philip's Church of England, claiming to be a widow, she married a 70-year-old widower Thomas Baynton, who was a retired surgeon with literary and academic friends who visited his home at Woollahra. Financially secure, Barbara began to add to her husband's collection of Georgian silver and antiques. Robust and vigorous, overflowing with vitality, she also began to write short stories, verse and articles for the Bulletin. Her first story, 'The Tramp', was published in December 1896. A. G. Stephens became a close friend.
After failing to find a publisher in Sydney for her collection of six short stories, in 1902 Barbara Baynton visited London where, with the help of Edward Garnett, the critic, Bush Studies was published that year by Duckworth & Co. She did not romanticize bush life and showed a savage revulsion against its loneliness and harshness. 'A Dreamer', 'The Chosen Vessel', 'Scrammy 'and' and 'Squeaker's Mate' are chilling tales of terror and nightmare, built up detail by detail rather than by atmosphere and the supernatural. Stephens reviewed Bush Studies in the Bulletin, 14 February 1903: 'So precise, so complete, with such insight into detail and such force of statement, it ranks with the masterpieces of realism in any language'. To Vance Palmer, 'Bush Church' and 'Billy Skywonkie' had 'a robust masculine humour'. Writing powerfully, with economy of style, Baynton used certain symbolic and recurrent themes, notably the strong maternal instinct, the loyalty of the dog, the isolation of the bush and a bitter insistence on man's brutality to woman, which gave unity to the stories and lifted them above the plane of simple realism.
In 1903 Barbara Baynton returned to Sydney where her husband died on 10 June 1904, leaving her his whole estate, valued for probate at £3871. She began investing on the Stock Exchange, particulary in the Law Book Co. of Australasia Ltd of which she later became chairman of directors. An astute businesswoman, she also bought and sold antiques and started her fine collection of black opals from Lightning Ridge. She contributed occasional forceful articles to the Sydney Morning Herald on the 'Indignity of Domestic Service' and other women's issues. She spent the next years between Australia and London, where she lived 'in a succession of increasingly fine houses', surrounded by Chinese lacquer, Chippendale furniture, ornate porcelain and silver. Something of a celebrity in literary circles, she entertained lavishly and knew many famous people. She found time to write her only novel, Human Toll (London, 1907) which, despite its melodrama and 'unsure management of structure', included in A. A. Phillips's opinion 'some of her most characteristic writing … and maturer insights into human behaviour'. During World War I she opened her house in Connaught Square to British and Australian soldiers, and in 1917 published Cobbers, a reissue of Bush Studies with two new stories, including 'Trooper Jim Tasman'.
On 11 February 1921 Barbara Baynton married Rowland George Alanson-Winn, fifth baron Headley, president of the Society of Engineers and of the Muslim Society in England, and a sportsman. Next year he became bankrupt. Outraged when he refused the throne of Albania, she returned to Melbourne in a huff. She built a house at Toorak, near her daughter Penelope who had married (Sir) Henry Gullett in 1912, and furnished it with Queen Anne and Georgian pieces. Bored with it, she sold its contents with such success that she returned to England and brought back another shipload of antiques. Dark, with heavily lidded, watchful eyes, she loved jewellery, especially opals and pearls, and beautiful clothes. With considerable charm, 'a devastating wit', a caustic tongue and a domineering personality, she had the ability to amuse and impress people. W. M. Hughes found her 'a remarkable woman'.
Lady Headley died of cerebral thrombosis at her home at Toorak on 28 May 1929 and was cremated. Her estate was sworn for probate at £160,621. She was survived by her first and third husbands and by two sons and a daughter of her first marriage; a son by her second husband had died in infancy. Robert Guy Frater, her second son, inherited her adventurous spirit: he went to the South African War at 15, raised soldiers for a Chinese warlord, served in the Archduke Ferdinand's bodyguard at Sarajevo and, with his brother, fought with the British Army in World War I. Her portrait by John Longstaff is held by the Frater family.
Select BibliographyS. Krimmer, ‘New light on Barbara Baynton’, Australian Literary Studies, Oct 1976, and for bibliography; Supreme Court, W. J. Windeyer divorce note books, 1889 (State Records New South Wales); private information. More on the resources
Print Publication Details: 'Baynton, Barbara Jane (1857 - 1929)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, Melbourne University Press, 1979, pp 222-223.
Barbara Jane Lawrence, eight years as the wife of Scots selector Alexander Frater provided the material for her work Bush Studies. She moved to Sydney with her three children when Frater deserted her in 1887.
The National Library is unable to do any in-depth research on genealogical enquiries, but I think that I can give you some relevant information on this. Barbara "Baynton" was born to John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart on 4 June 1857, and was first married to Alexander (not Andrew or Henry) Frater, son of Alexander Frater and Penelope Hay, at the Tamworth Presbyterian Church on 24 June 1880. Their children were Alexander Hay, Robert Guy and Penelope. It goes on to discuss her divorce from Frater, and marriage (the next day!) to Dr Thomas Baynton.
From a single source. Not verified on other trees. [Could this have been a mis-read and published? Original may be Gladys]