George Briant and Emma Pateman
Parents : James Briant and Phyllis Picking
, David Pateman and
Mary Moule
George Briant (b1824 Ashwell, m Emma Pateman 1851 Ashwell, d 1900 Ballarat)
Emma Pateman (b1827 Arrington Cambridgeshirel, d 1910 Ballarat)
George Pateman Briant (b c1853 Ashwell, m Mary Fanny
Brook 1888 Ballaratl, d 1929 Ballarat)
James David Briant (b 1854 Geelong, m Mary Ann Odgers 1882 Ballarat, d
1943 East Oakleigh Vic)
Emily Ann Briant (b 1858 Ballarat, d 1944)
Julia Victotia Emma Briant (b 1859 Ballarat, d
1862) (Descendants in Ref
39 and 38)
Louisa Jane Briant (b
1861 Ballarat, m Edwin Farr 1884 Presb
Manse Ballarat, d 1945 Northcote)
Winifred Emma Farr (b 1890
Northcote, m Norman Thompson
1918 , d 1994 Preston)
Charles Joseph Briant (b 1863 Ballarat, m Anne
Augusta Lockett 1894, m Isabella Kerr 1906, m Rosabella Lillian
Scott 1909, d 1947)
Alfred Henry Briant (b 1865 Ballarat, m Emma Jane
Campbell 1891, d 1940 Kew)
Julia Victoria Briant (b 1870 Ballarat, m John
George Scott 1893, d 1959 Melbourne)
This page now
consists of three
distinct parts
The standard tree and links above.
A brief heads up by me.
The main notes on Emma and George
George and Emma's lives have been
comprehensively researched and described in Gwen Smalley's book
which
is available in full below. Gwen's book was published about
2005. In
2012 we were contacted by Michael Charter in England. He was
clearing
out his attic and found a bundle of old letters. Google and
BonesInTheBelfry found us.
The letters were to Emma's mother Mary
Pateman and her younger sister Mary Ann. Mary Ann kept
them. She married an Arthur Charter. The family must have been
prosperous enough to have a large house with an attic in which
you
can put things in and forget them.
The first letter is written on the
voyage out in 1854. The letters thin out after 1866 and the last
is
in 1872. There are 20 letters in all, plus some fragments. The
overall impression is of a daughter anxious to reassure her
family
they are doing well. Also how busy she is. Understandably with a
bakery to run and nine children all up. The bakery was called
the
Hope Bakery and was obviously a major bakery of the time as the
bakery created in Sovereign Hill was called the Hope Bakery.
Detailed correspondence, discussion and
research notes follow.
Les Rowley
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George Briant
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Emma Pateman
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George, Emma and George (Jnr) left Southampton
on 25/4/1854 on "Marshall Bennett", arrived Geelong 11/8/1854. See
shipping record. George was given as a carpenter. Disposal seems
to be on own account, William St Newtown. They were assisted
immigeants according to the Victorian records.
1865-99 ran the Hope Bakery, 38 Seymour St, Ballarat
(George Briant, Hope Bakery in 1862 Directory. James and George
Jnr were bakers also). There are photos of the bakery in Gwen
Smalley's book (below).
George was originally a labourer. George and Emma could read and
write
In the 1851 census, Emma had been a servant to Abraham Hale, 20
High St Ashwell. James was a Labourer
George and Emma Briant ; Goldrush
Immigrants Contents
and Text
Gwen Smalley has written a book on George and
Emma (her great grandparents). It is 44 pages. covering
their emigration to Ballarat in 1854, their establishment of the
Hope Bakery at the corner of Seymour and Neil Streets and their
selection of land at Boort, northeast of Ballarat in 1873, The
bakery was maintained, and the land was not a great success.
Problems developed with the Lands Department due to claims they
were absentee landowners. The farming enterprise finished in the
1880s, when the leases were transferred. The book finishes with a
chapter of personal family recollections. A recommended
read.
Emma Briant's Letters to England Images and Text
We were recently contacted by Michael Charter
from England. He had found a bundle of letters written by the
Briants in Ballarat over the period of 1854 to 1869, to her mother
and sister who stayed behind in England. Some research on both
ends established that they must have been handed down via Emma's
sister Mary Ann, who married Arthur Charter. Arthur and Mary Ann
are Michael's Great Grandparents.Follow the link above for the
letters
Mary
Ann (Polly) Odgers
Bev thompson has heaps of stuff about her and
her ancestors. If you are interested, contact us, and we will
forward the email.
Nicholas Odgers (1831-1909) - Extract from Cornish Pioneers of
Ballarat (Vol 1 (2 pps)
Ann Odgers Death Transcript (1 pps)
Ann Odgers Death Newspaper Report (1 pps)
Mary Ann Odgers list of Parents, Siblings and Children (1 pps)
Reginald Victor Wilfred Briant (son) (4 pps)
Mary Ann Odgers 2pps writeup of her life (2pps)
Polly's 50th Wedding Anniversary photo of family group
Polly's at tea (95th birthday) Newspaper Reports (two)
Acknowledgements
Thanks to Gwen and Harry Smalley, Glenis
Crocker, Kel Ellis, Elinor Moore, Valerie Woodgate and Patricia
Hone for their contributions to this part of our tree
Judy Schumer supplied photos of James David and Polly (Mary Ann).
Also wills for James David and Emma
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