Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe (abt. 1834 - 1900)

Born about 1834 in England

Ancestors

Husband of Adelaide (Miller) Ayliffe — married about 1857 (to about 1900) in Adelaide, South Australia.

Died 27 Mar 1900 at about age 66 in Coolgardie, Western Australia, Australia

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Biography

Thomas Ayliffe came free to the Colony of South Australia (1836-1900)

Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe (1834 – 27 March 1900) was four years old when the family left England for South Australia on the Pestonjee Bomanjee arriving on the 12th of October 1838.

At age 18 he joined the gold rush to Victoria and sent 6 oz. of gold to his mother.

He was a contractor who did a lot of business for the Government, including the Bay Road, the South Road, the Morphett Street bridge and the Clarendon bridge and became quite wealthy. He developed on his property a valuable quarry, from which much quartzite and bluestone was obtained.

He subsequently engaged in cattle speculation, but lost heavily, and was declared insolvent in 1861.

In 1873 he went to New Zealand, where he invested in gold mining ventures, then eight years in the Northern Territory. He was again living and working in Adelaide, South Australia from 1881 or maybe even earlier as an auctioneer and commission agent, with offices in Currie Street. He then returned to gold mining in Western Australia where he died at Kanowna in 1900. [1]

Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe married Adelaide Miller (1831 – 2 March 1923) in 1857 at or about Adelaide, and they would go on to have numerous children including possibly:

George Edward Hamilton Ayliffe (11 October 1858 – 21 November 1936)

Fanny Adelaide Ayliffe (23 May 1860 – 21 August 1913)

Percy St. Barbe Ayliffe (17 December 1865 – 29 June 1927)

Olave (Olive?) Adelaide Ayliffe (4 April 1871 – 18 February 1933)

Note: As many as 17 children were born between 1850 and 1871 in South Australia as children of "Thomas Ayliffe". There seems to be some confusion about which particular "Thomas Ayliffe" fathered which of these children as he had cousins and an uncle with similar names.

Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe is buried at Kanowna, north of Kalgoorlie-Boulder City in Western Australia, Australia.

Born ABT 1834. ^[1]

Immigration: OCT 12 1838. Pestonjee Bomanjee. ^[2]

Sources

• Marriage (m. MILLER, Adelaide) Citation

SA BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: Ade 32/242 Text: Groom Given Name(s): Thomas Hamilton Groom Last Name: AYLIFFE Bride Given Name(s): Adelaide Bride Last Name: MILLER Marriage Date: 1857, November 14 Marriage Place: St Luke Adelaide Groom Age: FL Groom Approx. Birth Year: Groom Marital Status: N Groom Father: George AYLIFFE Bride Age: FL Bride Approx. Birth Year: Bride Marital Status: N Bride Father Name: John MILLER District: Adelaide Symbol: Book/Page: 32/242

• Death Citation

WA BDM (Secondary evidence) Page: 752/00 Text: First name(s) Thomas H Last name Ayliffe Death year 1900 Place Coolgardie State Western Australia Country Australia Registration number 752/00 Record set Western Australia Death index

1. ↑ Source: #S9 http://www.hamiltonewell.com.au/pdfs/The_Alyiffe_Family_as_collected_by_Ian_Hamilton_1977.pdf Certainty: 0
2. ↑ Source: #S6 Certainty: 2

• Source: S6 Leadbeater, B FamilyHistorySA Italicized: Y
• Source: S9 Misc. internet source Italicized: Y

• His Grandfather's Biography: Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hamilton_Ayliffe

• Descendants of Thomas Hamilton AYLIFFE from the Kangaroo Island Pioneers Association website. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://sites.google.com/site/kipaview/featured-family-tree/thomas-hamilton-ayliffe

• Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe 1835–1900 - LHR3-YVH. from the FAMILY SEARCH website. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LHR3-YVH

• Hamilton, Ian, 1977, The Story of the Ayliffe Family History, first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: http://www.hamiltonewell.com.au/pdfs/The_Alyiffe_Family_as_collected_by_Ian_Hamilton_1977.pdf

• The PESTONJEE BOMANJEE 1838 from the BOUND FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA website. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/1838PestonjeeBomanjee.htm

• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178104028/thomas-hamilton-ayliffe : accessed 11 April 2021), memorial page for Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe (unknown–27 Mar 1900), Find a Grave Memorial no. 178104028, citing Kanowna, Kanowna, Kalgoorlie-Boulder City, Western Australia, Australia ; Maintained by Danelle Warnock (contributor 49077313) .

• Family Notices from the Evening Journal (Adelaide, SA : 1869 - 1912) of Monday 2 April 1900, Page 2. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/199955279?searchTerm=%22Thomas%20Hamilton%20Ayliffe%20%22

• THE LATE MR. T.H. AYLIFFE. from The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA : 1889 - 1931) of Tuesday 3 April 1900, Page 7. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36951684?

• Thomas Hamilton Ayliffe from GENI. first accessed online on the 10th of April, 2021 at: https://www.geni.com/people/Thomas-Ayliffe/6000000056562541821