Living [Parents]
They had the following children:
F i Living M ii Living
Jasper Hale was buried 1 on 11 Mar 1884 in Parkes Nsw, Australia. He married Mary Ann Nelson.
Mary Ann Nelson.Mary married Jasper Hale.
They had the following children:
M i James Hale
Maurice Bryant.Maurice married 1 Eliza Hale in 1912 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
The Bryant Family
Maurice Bryant was the first-born of seven children - five sons and two daughters, to Weeden and Elizabeth Ann (nee Stanford) Bryant. Maurice was born in April 1888, on a small holding south of Peak Hill, known as Kadina, the name of the family home. Also born at Kadina were the next two children - boys, and the three started their school days at "Half Time School", Kadina and "Ten Mile Ridges". The part-time teacher was Mr. A.S. Treyloun.
When Maurice was about eight years of age, the family "shifted camp" to a site a short distance east of the present Newell Highway on the Barrabadeen Creek, where Weeden Bryant established a small cottage, the family becoming self-sufficient in dairy products and vegetables. The three boys used to walk to Peak Hill to attend school. After completing this "formal" education, Maurice secured a position with Proprietary open cut mine as a "general fixer of plant". After much study and application he became plant engineer and was highly thought of by the management which on his departure from the mine, gave him a glowing reference.
In 1911 Maurice married Eliza Hale, of Parkes, the youngest child of James and Louisa Hale who had moved to McPhail. Eliza was a tutor to some of the mining families' children until her marriage.
Maurice Bryant was a keen and competent member of the Peak Hill Rifle Club, representing the club, with this team members, in matches all over Australia.
With the help of a family friend Bill Hutchins, Maurice built a home in Boori Street, and the first two Bryant children were born there - Hazel in 1913 and Cynthia in 1916. During the first half of 1916, the Bryant's purchased a farm, Merrilea, some seven miles west of Peak Hill, and the family increased to four with the birth of Harry in 1917 and Hall in 1922.
Mr & Mrs Bryant retired and lived in Derringbong Street, Peak Hill until their deaths, Maurice in 1963, and Eliza in 1975. Their daughter Hazel (Mrs Hugh McCarron) died in 1956. Cynthia and Harry live in Peak Hill, and Hal at Port Macquarie.1
The Bryant family is one of the prominent families in the Peak Hill Methodist Church.
Other addresses at which Maurice and Eliza lived:
1911 to 1916 - Boori Street, Peak Hill NSW 2869from 1916 - "Merrilea", Peak Hill NSW 2869
"A History of Peak Hill and District" p.241, Peak hill Centenary Book Committee ISBN 0 7316 5022 0
Eliza Hale [Parents] was born 1 on 4 Nov 1892 in Parkes NSW, Australia. She died 2 on 27 Jun 1975. She was buried 3 in Jun 1975 in Methodist Section, Row 3. Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia. She married 4 Maurice Bryant in 1912 in Peak Hill, New South Wales, Australia.
The Women's Auxillary of the Peak Hill PA & H Association was formed in 1971 to provide much needed finance for the Show Committee. The first meeting was held in the AIF Rooms on Saturday, 17th October, 1971. Eliza Bryant was one of those attending this meeting.
Dasha Brandt
They had the following children:
F i Hazel Louisa Bryant was born 1 in 1913. She died 2 in 1956. F ii Living M iii Living M iv Living
Robert William Russell [Parents] was born 1 in 1869 in Hill End,Bathurst,New South Wales,Australia. He died in 1869 in Carcoar,New South Wales,Australia. He married 2 Catherine Platt in 1896 in Port Maquarie, Nsw, Australia.
(1) N.S.W.BDM Index Birth #6450-1869
(2) N.S.W.BDM Index Death #3424-1869
Catherine Platt.Catherine married 1 Robert William Russell in 1896 in Port Maquarie, Nsw, Australia.
John Robert Gransden [Parents] was born 1 on 14 Sep 1783 in Strood, Kent, England. He was christened 2 on 6 Feb 1785 in Strood, Rochester, Kent, England. He married 3 Jane Ann Bingley on 1 Jan 1816 in Wymering, Hampshire, England.
Jane Ann Bingley.Jane married 1 John Robert Gransden on 1 Jan 1816 in Wymering, Hampshire, England.
Edward Symes.Edward married 1 Sarah Gransden on 17 Feb 1801 in St Thomas Church, Portsmouth, England.
Sarah Gransden [Parents] was born 1 on 4 Nov 1784 in Strood, Kent, England. She was christened 2 on 13 Mar 1785 in Strood, Rochester, Kent, England. She married 3 Edward Symes on 17 Feb 1801 in St Thomas Church, Portsmouth, England.
They had the following children:
M i Charles Edward Symes was born 1 on 28 Jan 1813 in Deptford, Kent, England. He was christened 2 on 13 Jun 1813 in St Paul, Deptford, Kent, England. M ii James Symes was born 1 on 18 Dec 1815 in Deptford, Kent, England. He was christened 2 on 25 Dec 1815 in St Paul, Deptford, Kent, England. M iii John James Symes was christened 1 on 9 Dec 1810 in St Paul, Deptford, Kent, England.
Living [Parents]
Other marriages:Einarsdottir, Eyglo Osk
They had the following children:
M i Living
Living [Parents]
Other marriages:Living
Eyglo Osk Einarsdottir was born on 27 Jul 1957 in Reykjavik,Iceland. She died on 3 Mar 1998 in Nowra,New South Wales,Australia. She was buried on 12 Mar 1998 in Worrigee,Nowra,New South Wales,Australia. She married Living.
They had the following children:
M i Living
Living [Parents]
They had the following children:
F i Living M ii Living
Raymond Wallace Cole [Parents] was born 1 on 18 Dec 1912 in Molong,New South Wales,Australia. He died 2 on 26 Aug 1972 in Paddington,Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. He was buried 3 on 28 Aug 1972 in Botany,Sydney,New South Wales,Australia. He married 4 Elsie Baker on 23 Jan 1932 in Orange,New South Wales,Australia.
Enlisted 26 April 1940, Paddington NSW. discharged 9 June 1942, Australian Army. Staff Sergeant NX13265-2/17th Btn.
WW2 Nominal Roll.
Elsie Baker was born 1 on 7 Feb 1908 in Dukinfield,Lancashire,England. She died 2 on 19 Aug 1991 in Orange,New South Wales,Australia. She was buried 3 on 21 Aug 1991 in Millthorpe,New South Wales,Australia. She married 4 Raymond Wallace Cole on 23 Jan 1932 in Orange,New South Wales,Australia.
(1)Places of Abode. a. Slack Road, near Old Road, Blackley. ( Manchester A-Z Street Directory, Map 40-2c.) b. Acton Street. c.Barwick Place. d.Pickering Street, off Rochdale Road.
I attended Burgess Street Girls School. ( off Rochdale Road.)
I played and relaxed and strolled in Queens Park, Harpurhey. ( Manchester A-Z Street Directory, Map 40-4c.)
I attended Sunday School at the Wesleyian Methodist Church, at the end of Pickering Street, across Rochdale Road.(2) 23 January 1932, at the Methodist Church, Orange, Elsie Baker, weaver, of Orange, New South Wales, Spinster, born Dukinfield, Cheshire, England aged 23 years, daughter of Charles Joseph Baker and May Ann Longden married Raymond Wallace Cole, carder, of Orange, New South Wales, Bachelor, born Molong, New South Wales, aged 19 years, son of Frederick Charles Cole and Theresa Purcell. Celebrant Wesley Stokes. Witnesses Alice Baker and Leo Pattison.
(3) My children Leslie and Stanley were born in the Private Hospital in Anson Street, Orange. Anne, Margaret, William and Francis were born in St Agnes House, known as Nurse Morgans, on the Bathurst Road,Orange.
(4) In January 1934, the workers at the Amalgamated Textile mill at Orange walked out in protest over wages cuts. The strikers, most of whom were women ( and mostly young) stayed out for three weeks in a dispute that reverberated all the way to the Trades Hall in Sydney, cost 78,000 pounds in lost wages and ultimately resulted in the removal from office of the state secretary of the Textile Workers Union.
The first confrontation of the strike took place on Monday, January 8, when a picket was set up at the mill gates at the 7:30am start time.
One mill girl was escorted through the gates by her father, one report has it that she was taken against her will, crying. The father, on leaving was set upon by a group of women strikers and emerged scratched and bleeding. The local paper ( The Orange Leader ) reported that he manfully 'warded them off with open hands to the best of his ability.'
Elsie Cole lives in flat at Glenroi Heights, an estate of mainly Housing Commission homes at the south eastern end of town. She came to Orange in 1931 and worked as a weaver at the mill. Elsie went on strike though remembers being reluctant to participate in picketing. "I kept away from it." she said.
Nevertheless she agreed with the strike. "Something had to be done."
Elsie remembers things getting better when her husband enlisted in the Army in World War 2, bringing in a steady income. "It was lovely to be able to dress the children." she said.
Elsie and her husband split up after the war and she continued to work at the woollen mills and raised her six children. "We're a very close family."(5) Eulogy offerred by J.Greg Kelson, 21 August 1991, Uniting Church, Millthorpe.
As the family historian I could tell you of the generations of the Baker family, the genealogy of Elsie Cole, but that is another story for another place. I first met Mrs Cole, I guess about 43 years ago at my grandfathers farm at Berkeley Vale on the Central Coast. I learned then that Mrs Cole was my Auntie Elsie and that is the form of address that I knew, not knowing that 10 years later, I would meet her children and be accepted by them and marry her eldest daughter, Anne.
Some years ago Auntie Elsie was invited to give a talk, in the Chapel where she worshipped. The theme of this discourse was "Courage", and the subject she based this talk on was her father. A young man with a wife and eight children who decided to sell all he had and leave the country of his birth, leave all his family and friends and migrate to Australia, unknown to himself, the uncertainties, the challenges. This discourse was truly a testimony of her father's courage and she concluded with a prayer that she too would have courage as exemplified by her father.
Let me expound on the "Courage" of Mrs Cole. As a young woman she too left her family to seek employment , came to Orange where she married and had a family of four sons and two daughters. Soon after the birth of her sixth child, she was left alone to raise and provide for them. She became not only a mother, but father, provider, comforter and teacher. She labored long with never ending love to honour this obligation to her children. Unlike her father, who had a wife and a brother to call upon for assistance, Elsie had to and did it all alone.
Though she was short in stature, she walked tall, never deviating from the truth and right, she had "Courage" more than enough. She is proud of her family, all have married and have families of their own, respected members of their individual industries and the community where they each reside.
Today we mourn the loss of this woman, but tomorrow I will rejoice and be thankful for the influence she has had on my life, the lives of my family, and my friends, and I testify to you she surely is a daughter of God. Amen.
They had the following children:
M i Living M ii Living F iii Living F iv Living M v Edward William Cole M vi Living