June 2019 – Edition 171 – Jerrems Journal

June 2019 – Volume 171

Volume 171| June 2019

Your monthly Jerrems news and updates

Greetings. Our first Journal released from the state of Georgia. Sharon and I moved on June 1st. So far we have been very active.

Ray has another story below with some historical photographs.

Enjoy.

PS: Next month we might has some family fishing stories and photos. If you have a whopper to tell, send it in.

LENTON HISTORY PART 6

Introduction

Above is a photo of a rural scene at Wolumla, where Philip Behl had a farm.

This article continues the story of the Lenton family, who were the ancestors of my wife Diane.

In my previous article we left the orphaned Louisa Eleanor Chislett, my wife’s great grandmother, being selected at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children by Philip Behl.

Philip Behl chooses Louisa

One can imagine the trepidation with which little Louisa (at the tender age of 12) first met Philip Behl in December 1872. For her, he was a potential benefactor who could change her life forever. Yet she was a city girl with no rural experience. Perhaps she had shown an interest in looking after the Asylum’s large farmyard and this had been observed by the Asylum’s staff.

In any case rural experience was not essential because her duties would be basically to help on Philip’s farm as a maid, particularly because Philip and Mary (who had married in 1866) already had three children (John Lewis Behl (1867-1935), Margaret Elizabeth Mary Behl (1866-1935) and Philip (having the same name as his father) (1871-1932).

This leaves open the question whether Phillip’s decision to foster Louisa was activated by philanthropic motives or hard-headed Teutonic pragmatism based on the fact that foster children were not paid.

How to travel to Wolumla?

This photo of a spartan mail coach and rudimentary inn starkly illustrates the drawbacks of travelling by coach. In Louisa’s case the roads to Wolumla (320 miles south of Sydney) were very rough, traversing deep river inlets and mountainous terrain, in common with the whole of the east coast of New South Wales. Coaches were very uncomfortable, the roads were very rough and accommodation was challenging. Added to this, the railway did not even reach Nowra, only a third of the way to Wolumla, until 1893.

When we think about coach travel in Eastern Australia the legendary coach network of Cobb and Co comes to mind. It had a huge network of coach lines in inland Victoria and NSW and in the 1880s was the largest transport enterprise in Queensland running some 3000 horses a total of around 10,000 miles a week, similar to Wells Fargo in the United States. However it did not operate on the east coast of NSW. It is therefore most likely that Louisa and Philip travelled to Wolumla by coastal steamer, in itself an adventure for a 13 year old city girl.

Coastal Steamers

Here is a photo of the coastal steamer “Namoi”, which ran on the northerly New South Wales Newcastle/Hunter Valley route.

Coastal steamers, owned by the Illawarra Steam Navigation Company, had a weekly “milk run” on the southerly route from Sydney to Eden, carrying back to Sydney wool, cedar, coal and a variety of raw materials. The company was to play a leading role in the development of the South Coast of New South Wales. Passengers only formed a minor part of their operations, their accommodation would have been rudimentary.

At the time when Philip and Louisa would have set off from Sydney Town some of the steamers were paddle steamers, and some were the more modern “steam packets” which were screw (propeller) driven. In fact the slower paddle steamers had the advantage that they were more manoeverable in narrow bays, they could negotiate shallower waters, and they could come in gently at the smaller wharves.

Although the coastal trade was dominated by the North Coast ports situated in the major rivers there was still an active “mixed goods” trade to the south, where steamers called in to small coastal ports at Wollongong, Kiama, Shoalhaven, Ulladulla, Narooma, Bermagui, Tathra and Eden.

A typical iron paddle steamer was the ill-fated “Maitland”, 70 metres (230 feet) long and 880 tonnes, which was built in 1870 and was wrecked in 1898 with the loss of 24 out of 63 people.

Louisa and Philip would have joined their steamer where it was loading goods at (most likely) Darling Harbour, which had a number of “finger” wharves jutting out like fingers into the bay, Circular Quay being reserved for international vessels.

The trip to Wolumla

This is a photo of the view looking out through the Sydney Heads from inside the Harbour.

No doubt the most exciting part of the trip for little Louisa would have been sailing down Sydney Harbour and going out through the Heads. Perhaps she would have had mixed emotions, leaving her hometown of Sydney for a completely new environment.

Louisa was discharged from the orphanage on 9th December 1872, so the weather would have been hot.

The trip would have been leisurely because for navigational reasons the ships could only travel during the daytime.

It is likely that Philip and Louisa disembarked at Tathra, the closest port to Wolumla. Hopefully they had brought some Christmas presents for the young children.

Wolumla in 1859

The photo of the Wolumla area at the head of this article looks west towards the distant mountains, painting a somewhat idyllic picture of the typical modern Wolumla landscape. In 1859, when Philip was granted the land, there would have been a quite different scenario of undulating land covered in scrub and trees which the Government required the grantee to clear and fence, provide accommodation and carry out agricultural pursuits. At least the land was fertile, the rainfall was reliable and the coastal climate was mild. In the nearby hills there was also an abundance of timber with which to build a hut and install fences.

It is very likely that a number of holdings would have been released at the same time, so the settlers would have worked together when necessary.

Although 32 acres sounds like a lot of land, the dilemma for a new settler would have lain in what to do with it after the scrub and trees had been grubbed out, and where to live.

Where to live

When Philip first arrived at his farm in Wolumla his first priority would have been to construct a hut as quickly as possible for the least expense, using local materials. All local huts would have had bark roofs and dirt floors, but the options for walls would have been to use (a) vertical sheets of bark or split logs or (b) “wattle and daub”. I will explain these in a later article.

Farming practices

Settlers were not provided with any money, supplies or equipment, so many of them had to start from scratch. In those days the most common form of land usage was subsistence farming, where the settler was as self-sufficient as possible to save money, growing vegetables, raising poultry, at least one milking cow, pigs and possibly some sheep for food. Small wheat crops were also possible, but this produced the dilemma of whether to keep a horse.

Philip was a tanner, so he may not have had any farming experience. However he may have supplemented his farming income with tanning, bearing in mind the wide use of tanned leather in those days for horse harnesses and saddles and boots. The bark of wattle trees, which grew prolifically on creek banks, was used extensively in Australia for tanning.

Conditions in 1872

When Louisa arrived at Wolumla shortly before Christmas in 1872, 13 years after Philip took up the holding, the farm would have been well established with a much-improved small timber cottage and outbuildings. Louisa may have slept in a verandah “lean to”.

Louisa’s duties

I think Louise would have found her new situation to be a culture shock. She would have been very busy carrying out household chores and helping with the young children. On the other hand she would have had a much better family environment compared with the orphanage.

Arriving shortly before Christmas in 1872 she would have had to settle in quickly, and her workload would have increased when Mary had a fourth child (Emma Jane) in 1875.

If she was still living in Wolumla in 1882 when she was 22 (which is possible) the children would have been able to attend the newly opened primary school.

Louisa marries Charles

Here are much later photos of Louisa and Charles.

The next positive sighting of Louisa is in 1885 when she married Charles. Louisa was 25, which raises questions of what she had been doing in the previous years because from a statistical viewpoint the average age for marriage for women would have been about 20.

I would estimate that she had stayed a considerable time at Wolumla before venturing back to the “big smoke” of Sydney.

The couple were married at the Wesleyan Church, Waterloo on 29th April 1885, which was demolished a considerable time ago.

They had quite a large family, as follows:

Florence Ada1886-7
Alfred Chislett 1887-1949 (my wife’s grandfather)
Ethel Alice 1888-1970
Walter Joseph 1891-1910
Beatrice Margaret 1892-1966
Harry Talmadge 1894-1950
Eleanor Louise 1899-
Charles Albert 1901-1958.

No doubt Louisa’s experience in helping bring up the Behl children in Wolumla stood her in good stead.

In contrast with the children of Charles’s first marriage (where all three children and their mother Eliza died), the couple’s only child to die during childhood was their first child Florence Ada.

The family lived in a number of houses in Redfern and Waterloo, where Charles had bootmaking shops.

Lenton Parade, Waterloo

Originally Schimmel Street, this street was renamed as Lenton Parade during the First World War, as the result of anti-German sentiment. Charles had a shop nearby. Incidentally, a street in Wolumla has been named after the Behl family.

Charles the Mayor of Waterloo

Here is a photo of Waterloo Council’s Council Chambers (taken in about 1900) and Charles, resplendent in his mayoral robes.

Charles was appointed the mayor of Waterloo in 1917 and held office until 1920. This makes him unique in the annals of the Journal, although my grandfather Alfred and my great uncle Edwin served as aldermen on the Lane Cove Municipal Council.

At about this time Charles and his family moved to The Avenue, Ashfield and lived in a house they named “Narellan” in memory of the village where Charles was born.

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Waterloo Council’s Council Chambers

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ouisa the Mayoress

Here is a photo of Louisa, possibly dressed formally for a Council function. If this is correct she would have been in her late fifties.

Louisa and Charles die

Louisa died in 1938 aged 78 and Charles died in 1942 at the age of 84.

Louisa was buried in the Methodist Section of Sydney’s vast Rookwood Cemetery and Charles’s ashes were interred there also. No gravestone was erected, possibly due to Second World War stringencies.

Conclusion

This almost completes the history of the Lenton family, the only person remaining is Alfred Chislett Lenton 1887-1949 (my wife’s grandfather) who I will write about in a later article. Also, a number of distant cousins served in the First World War.

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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Above is a photo of a rural scene at Wolumla, where Philip Behl had a farm. </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>This article continues the story of the Lenton family, who were the ancestors of my wife Diane. </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>In my previous article we left the orphaned Louisa Eleanor Chislett, my wife’s great grandmother, being selected at the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children by Philip Behl. </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold;“>Philip Behl chooses Louisa </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>One can imagine the trepidation with which little Louisa (at the tender age of 12) first met Philip Behl in December 1872. For her, he was a potential benefactor who could change her life forever. Yet she was a city girl with no rural experience. Perhaps she had shown an interest in looking after the Asylum’s large farmyard and this had been observed by the Asylum’s staff.  </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>In any case rural experience was not essential because her duties would be basically to help on Philip’s farm as a maid, particularly because Philip and Mary (who had married in 1866) already had three children (John Lewis Behl (1867-1935), Margaret Elizabeth Mary Behl (1866-1935) and Philip (having the same name as his father) (1871-1932).  </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>This leaves open the question whether Phillip’s decision to foster Louisa was activated by philanthropic motives or hard-headed Teutonic pragmatism based on the fact that foster children were not paid. </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>The photo of the Wolumla area at the head of this article looks west towards the distant mountains, painting a somewhat idyllic picture of the typical modern Wolumla landscape. In 1859, when Philip was granted the land, there would have been a quite different scenario of undulating land covered in scrub and trees which the Government required the grantee to clear and fence, provide accommodation and carry out agricultural pursuits. At least the land was fertile, the rainfall was reliable and the coastal climate was mild. In the nearby hills there was also an abundance of timber with which to build a hut and install fences. </span>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>When Philip first arrived at his farm in Wolumla his first priority would have been to construct a hut as quickly as possible for the least expense, using local materials. All local huts would have had bark roofs and dirt floors, but the options for walls would have been to use (a) vertical sheets of bark or split logs or (b) “wattle and daub”. I will explain these in a later article.  </span>
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<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Alfred Chislett 1887-1949 (my wife’s grandfather) </span></li>
<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Ethel Alice 1888-1970 </span></li>
<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Walter Joseph 1891-1910 </span></li>
<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Beatrice Margaret 1892-1966 </span></li>
<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Harry Talmadge 1894-1950 </span></li>
<li style=”font-size: 14px;“><span style=”font-size: 14px;“>Eleanor Louise 1899- </span></li>
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<span style=”font-size: 14px;“>This almost completes the history of the Lenton family, the only person remaining is Alfred Chislett Lenton 1887-1949 (my wife’s grandfather) who I will write about in a later article. Also, a number of distant cousins served in the First World War.</span> 
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