John Anthony Fernance (1843 - 1940)

Born 21 Jul 1843 in St Albans, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Husband of Mary Wright — married 30 Oct 1895 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 23 Oct 1940 at age 97 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

John Anthony Fernance was born on 29 Jul 1843 in MacDonald River, New South Wales, Australia as the fourth child of John Anthony Fernance and Elizabeth Thompson. He had ten siblings, namely: Jane, Sarah, Amelia, Charles Thomas, Elizabeth, George Matthew, Joseph William, Mary Ann, Hannah, and Jessie.

When he was 22, he married Mary Wright,daughter of John Wright and Phoebe Clark, on 24 Jul 1866 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia.

John Anthony Fernance and Mary Wright had the following children:

• Mary Eliza Fernance was born on 09 Jun 1867 in Laguna, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1933 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
• Albert James Fernance was born on 27 Dec 1868 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 06 Jul 1956 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
• Emily Ann Fernance was born on 20 Sep 1870 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. She died on 04 Jan 1943 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia. She married Ernest Alfred Sternbeck on 30 Oct 1895 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia.
• Ernest John Fernance was born on 07 Oct 1872 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 29 Apr 1959 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
• Ada Elizabeth Fernance was born on 22 Dec 1875 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1931 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia. She married Duncan Jeremiah Diplock in 1910 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
• George Joseph Fernance was born on 25 Jun 1878 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 29 Jan 1958 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia. He married Ethel Maude Leslie in 1902 in Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia.
• Labin Anthony Fernance was born on 05 Nov 1880 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 30 Sep 1957 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia. He married Kate Gallagher in 1898 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
• Raymond Charles Fernance was born on 18 Mar 1883 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 05 Apr 1962 in Haberfield, New South Wales, Australia. He married Gladys Pratley in 1923 in Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia.
• Herbert Earle Fernance was born on 24 Sep 1885 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. He died on 19 Oct 1955 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia.
• Alice Victoria Fernance was born on 26 May 1889 in Wollombi, New South Wales, Australia. She died in 1929 in Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia. She married Samuel Hector Banfield in 1915 in Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia.

He spent his early life at St. Alban's, where he was a farmer. In those pioneering days the market was in Sydney and regularly Mr. Fernance took his produce to the market there. Poultry, eggs, tobacco, bacon, etc., were the chief products. He grew maize and wheat. The latter was ground into flour at the district mill. For many years he ran his farm and grazing property on the old Sydney road. From this property he retired some eighteen years ago and came to Cessnock to reside. For some years before he died he lived with his daughter, Mrs. E. A. Sternbeck, of View-street, Cessnock.^[1]

He was 97 when he died on 23 Oct 1940 in Cessnock, New South Wales, Australia. John was buried in Cessnock Cemetery, Cessnock, Cessnock City, New South Wales^[2]. Before he died he was the oldest residents of the Cessnock District^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Oldest Resident Dead (1940, October 25). The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder (NSW : 1913 - 1954), p. 5. Retrieved October 18, 2023, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article104630527
2. ↑ Memorial: Find a Grave (has image)
   Find A Grave: Memorial #122335387 (accessed 18 October 2023)
   Memorial page for John Fernance (27 Jul 1843-22 Oct 1940), citing Cessnock Cemetery, Cessnock, Cessnock City, New South Wales, Australia; Maintained by forget me not (contributor 47777678).

https://familyhistory.bdm.nsw.gov.au

• Birth:
• Death: 26081/1940 FERNANCE JOHN JOHN ELIZABETH CESSNOCK
• Marriage: 3374/1866 FERNANCE JOHN WRIGHT MARY WOLLOMBI