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The Elson Family
Compiled by Robert Elson
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The first Elson in South Australia, William Elson, arrived on
20th June 1849 on the Florentia from England. William, born just outside
Manchester in Royton near Oldham in 1825, was the oldest of three children
born to John Elson and Mary Midford and was christened on 9th July 1826
at Manchester Cathedral, Lancashire. John Elson's parents and family lived
in Oldham near Manchester and according to the 1841 census forty seven
members of the Elson Family lived in Oldham at that time including John,
William, who was fifteen and his sister, Mary, who was twelve. William's
mother, Mary, was born.to Michael born in 1770 and Mary born in 1780 at
Lawton, Cheshire on 20th January 1804, and christened at Christchurch,
Alsager in the same region on 31st January 1804. John and Mary married
on 6th January 1824 at St. Giles, Newcastle under Lyme, Staffordshire
and lived for a while at the Lawton Salt Works.The other two children were
Michael Wutter, christened on 14th October 1827, also at Manchester Cathedral
and Mary, who married Henry Edward Patten, born in Newington in 1827, in
1850 at Newington in Surrey. William was a devout Anglican and before sailing
for South Australia was a teacher at the Trinity Church of England Sunday
School in the town of Salford which is now an inner suburb of Manchester.
The staff at the school presented William with a copy of Cruden's
Bible concordance as a farewell gift with the following inscription
in gold lettering inside the book - " Presented by the teachers of Trinity
Church Sunday School. Salford, to Mr. William Elson as a Memorial of their
Regard Towards him in assiduously promoting the Cause of Christian Education
in the above school. January 30th 1849" ( Curtis, Pat. Provis Family
1854-1984, p. 33). On arriving in South Australia he continued his
work promoting the Christian faith by becoming a Church of England lay
reader. According to the Florentia's passenger
list, however, his occupation was postmaster and he did in fact become
the postmaster at Port Lincoln some years after arriving in South Australia.
William also taught school during the voyage to South Australia, but was
sea sick for most of the time. His decision to come to South Australia
was apparently driven by his dislike of his step father, Mr.Thomas Cooper.
William's father, John Elson, died in 1844 and his mother remarried having
a child by Thomas called Joseph. One source refers to his sister accompanying
him on the voyage to South Australia, but this is not the case as his sister,
Mary, remained in England, marrying a year after William sailed for South
Australia and according to official records in 1851 she together with her
husband, Henry, as well as his mother Mary, born in 1797, were living
at 13 Windsor Street, The Palace, Brighton.
From Left First Son: Midford Elson, Mother: Frances
Ann Elson (nee Provis), First Daughter: Mary Vaughan (nee Elson)
(Possibly taken in 1883 at the funeral of Father: William
Elson)
Frances Ann Provis was born in a village near Bath called Foxham
on 24th December 1831 and was the daughter of the teacher at the village
of Atworth, Joseph Provis, who was a friend of the parish priest, the
Reverend Hale. When the
Rev'd Mathew Blagden Hale ,who later became Bishop of Perth and eventually
Brisbane, decided to follow the first Bishop of Adelaide, Augustus
Short, to South Australia as archdeacon, after the deaths of his wife
and mother in 1845, Joseph Provis probably suggested that Frances accompany
him and his two daughters, Amy and Mary, as their governess, since Frances
taught alongside her father Joseph and sister Matilda at the Atworth school.
Pat Curtis in her Provis Family history states, however, that Frances
Ann was Bishorp Short's children's governess and according to John Hale,
great grandson of Walter Hale, Maria McKenzie of about the same age as
Frances Anne, who later married Walter Hale, a cousin of Archdeaon Hale,
was the governess of the Archdeacon's two daughters. The governesses
sailed with the households of Bishop Short and Archdeacon Hale to South
Australia on the Derwent, arriving at Port Adelaide in 1848
William met Frances Ann in Adelaide through their common involvement
in the Church of England soon after arriving in the Province and they married
on 27th October 1851 in St. John's Church, Halifax Street, Adelaide. At
that time St. John's was in a very isolated part of the city surrounded
by paddocks. The original St. John's Church building was moved to Moore
Street, Adelaide in 1880 to become St. Mary Magdalene's Church. The couple
settled soon after in the village of Unley which was just over the Parklands
from the church. SA state records (GRG 45/43 and GRG 5/30) indicate that
William was digging for gold on the gold fields in Victoria not long after
his marriage, sending "6 oz 5 dwt of gold to ELSON F A which arrived by
escort 2 on 5-5-1852". Elson FA was Frances Ann, his wife. The records
indiciate that he went to the gold fields with his borther-in-law, Frederick
Gregory Provis, who also sent some of his gold to Frances Ann with the
gold from Wlliam on 5th May 1852.
They had fifteen children altogether, four of whom were born in Unley:
Midford born in 1852, Mary in 1854, Alice in 1856 and Frances in 1857,
There may have been another child born in Unley after Midford, called Janetta,
named after Frances Ann's mother, who died at 15 months.
In 1860 they went to Port Lincoln where William worked as the Postmaster
for twelve years. After settling in Port Lincoln the remaining ten children
were born: Wilberforce in 1862, Mathew also in 1862, Frewer in 1863, Christopher
in 1864, Gertrude Amelia in 1868, Joseph, John, Lydia Maud in 1867, Naomi
and Walter John in 1869.
William worked as a shoemaker in Port Lincoln after being postmaster.
William and Frances Ann later moved to Cleve where three sons had children
and already established themselves and some of their daughters were teachers.
William had a stroke at his home, Eversley Farm, Cleve and went into a
coma dying there five days later on 29th August 1883 before the doctor
arrived at the age of 58. Frances died in Cleve 14 years later in
1897 at the age of 65.
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