Anthony Beale (1858 - 1944)

Born 1858 in Plenty River, Colony of Victoria

Ancestors

Died 29 Mar 1944 at about age 86 in Greensborough, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Anthony Beale was born in the Colony of Victoria (1851-1900)

Birth

Anthony Beale was born in 1858 to John Lindsay Beale and Emma Bennett at 'St. Henena', Plenty River, Colony of Victoria (now Greensborough, State of Victoria, Australia)^[1][2]

Marriage

John married Ida Ellen Harper in 1889.^[3]

Death

Anthony Beale died 29 May 1944 at the age of 86 and was interred at St Katherine's Church, St Helena, Victoria, Australia.^[4][5][6]

Obituary

“St Helena pioneer's funeral in family churchyard”.
A link with early Melbourne was broken yesterday by the death of Mr Anthony Beale, of St Helena, near Greensborough. Mr Beale, who was 86, was a grandson of Major Anthony Beale, a pioneer settler of Greensborough district, who came with his family to Port Phillip settlement in 1839, from the island of St Helena, where he had been stationed as paymaster-general of the British East India Company for many years, including the period of Napoleon Bonaparte’s exile in captivity on the island. After living for a few years in a home built at New Town (now Fitzroy), the Beale family moved to a selection about 12 miles to the north near the Plenty River, in what is now the Greensborough district, and named their new home St Helena. The major’s wife, Katherine Rose Beale, died in 1856, and to her memory her husband erected the miniature chapel which still stands in a cluster of cypress trees by the St Helena home, a mile or so off the main Greensborough road. Originally it was named the Rose Chapel, but after Major Beale’s death it was given to the Church of England, and became known as St Katherine’s Church. The little churchyard has been used as a private burial ground for members of the Beale family, and it is there that Mr Anthony Beale will be buried on Wednesday after a service conducted in the little church by Rev. A. J. Barford, vicar of Greensborough. The home, from which the casket will be carried, is the fourth house built by the Beale family on the St Helena property.”^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index: report of the birth of Anthony Beale in St Helena in 1858; father: John Lindsay Beale; mother: Emma Bennet [sic]; registration number 11089/1858; accessed 18 Dec 2022
2. ↑ Tribal Pages
3. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index record of the marriage between Anthony Beale and Ida Ellen Harper in 1889; registration number 2358/1889; accessed 18 Dec 2022
4. ↑ Victorian Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages online index: report of the death of Anthony Beale in 1944 in Greensborough at the age of 86; place of birth: St Helena; father: John Lindsay Beale; mother: Emma Bennet; registration number 20704/1944; accessed 18 Dec 2022
5. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954) 25 Jul 1944 p3; accessed 18 Dec 2022
6. ↑ Gravestone inscription
7. ↑ National Library of Australia - Trove The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957) 25 Jul 1944 p2; accessed 18 Dec 2022