James married Lilly May LAVERICK Monday, 10 July 1905 who was born Thursday, 19 May 1881 to Robert LAVERICK and Ruth STOLBERT
OBITUARY Mr. James Henry Ruddy There passed away in the Nambour District Hospital on the 3rd instant, one of the oldest residents of the Montville district, in the person of Mr. James Henry Ruddy, at the age of 63 years.
Born at South Brisbane, the late Mr. Ruddy first came to Montville at the age of 18, when he took employment from the late Mr. Fred Smith. After working for sometime for the Smith brothers he selected a piece of land in Baroon Pocket which he worked for a short period. In 1905 he was married to Miss Lily May Laverack, who survives him. The late Mr. Ruddy acquired a property from the late Dr. Youngman on the Western Read which he worked for a number of years, subsequently selling out to the late Messrs. A. E. Brown and J. C. Unwin. Removing then to the Eastern end of the district, Mr. Ruddy established a very fine orchard property out near Mill Hill, which, a few years ago, he sold to his son-in-law (Mr. E. Glover). Purchasing Mr. J. J. Thomas' late property he built a home in which to live quietly.
The late Mr. Ruddy was always active in anything for the welfare of the district and its residents. He took an active part in the movement for the establishment of a sports ground for the district and was one of the guarantors to the bank fort the project, and up to the time of his death he was a trustee of the ground. He was a keen bowler, and until sickness intervened visited the green regularly. He was also a trustee of the Patriotic Fund.
The funeral moved from the Palmwoods Methodist Church to the Woombye cemetery, the Rev. J. J. Wilson officiating at the church and the graveside.
BOWLERS' TRIBUTE Tribute was paid to the memory of the late Mr. Ruddy when members of the Montville Bowling Club at the afternoon tea adjournment assembled in front of the flag which had been lowered to half-mast. Feeling reference was made by the president (Mr. L. G. Swain), who stated that all had revered the companionship of their late comrade and fellow bowler. Members stood in brief silence as a final mark of their esteem.
Family Notices. (1944, June 16). Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1922 - 1954), p. 2. Link to TROVE
LAVERICK.- The Relatives & Friends of Mrs. L. M. Ruddy, of Montville, are invited to attend the Funeral of her dearly beloved Mother, Ruth Laverick, to move from the Methodist Church, Palmwoods, To-morrow, Saturday, at 2.30. for the Woombye Cemetery.
Family Notices. (1944, August 11). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 6. Link to TROVE
DEATH OF MONTVILLE CENTENARIAN
Mrs. Ruth Laverick
Mrs. Ruth Laverick, who would have been 102 years of age on August 29 next, passed away at the residence of her daugluer, Mrs. L. M. Ruddy, Montville, with whom she had resided for the past eight years, on Thursday last. Born in the west of England, the late Mrs. Laverick arrived in Brisbane with her husband and young son on August 4, 1875, in the sailing ship, 'Rattle Bay.' Her husband died 35 years ago. Prior to coming to Montville, the late Mrs. Laverick had resided at Palmwoods and Sandgate. The funeral moved to the Palmwoods cemetery on Friday, the Rev. J. J. Wilson officiating at a service in the Palmwoods Methodist Church and also at the graveside.
Family Notices. (1944, August 18). Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1922 - 1954), p. 5. Link to TROVE
RUDDY, James Henry.- In loving memory of our dear husband. father, and father-in-law, who passed away on the 2nd June, 1944.
Mere words seem very futile,
Our sadness to reveal.
No pen can write expressions
To equal what we feel.
But with us, darling father.
The sweetest memories dwell.
And thoughts that you are happy
With the Christ you served so well.
Sadly missed by his loving wife, daughter, and son-in-law.
Family Notices. (1945, June 1). Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1922 - 1954), p. 5. Link to TROVE
RUDDY, J. H. - In loving memory of my dear brother and brother-in-law, who passed away 2nd June, 1944.
Sadly missed by all.
Inserted by M. and W. Vining.
Family Notices. (1946, June 7). Nambour Chronicle and North Coast Advertiser (Qld. : 1922 - 1954), p. 7. Link to TROVE
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At St. John's, Brisbane, by special license, by the Rev. E. K. Yeatman, Mr. D. Skyring, of Kedron Brook, eldest son of Mr. D. Skyring, sen., of Brisbane, to Miss Amelia Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. J. Sparkes, of Brisbane.
Family Notices (1858, October 2). The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861), p. 2. Link to TROVE
At St. John's, Brisbane, by special license, by the Rev. E. K. Yeatman, Mr. Z. Skyring, of Kedron Brook, eldest son of Mr. D. Skyring, sen., of Brisbane, to Miss Amelia Louisa, eldest daughter of the late Mr. W. J. Sparkes, of Brisbane.
Family Notices (1858, October 6). The Moreton Bay Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1846 - 1861), p. 2. Link to TROVE
SKYRING. - On the 28th March, at her residence, Mumbeanna, Gympie, Amelia Louisa, the loving wife of Zachariah Skyring. sen., aged 53. Also, on the 3rd April, Zachariah Skyring, aged 66. The beloved parents of Mrs. W. Mc'Nutt, Gympie, Mrs. E. W. Cross, and Mrs. James Booth, South Brisbane.
Family Notices (1894, June 27). The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), p. 4. Link to TROVE
CROSS SKYRING. September 29, at St. Peter's Church, Gympie, Queensland, by Rev. J. Henry, Ernest William, eldest son of Joseph Cross, Rockley Hall. Balmain, Sydney, to Mary L. E. A., second eldest daughter of Zachariah Skyring.
Family Notices (1887, October 15). The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), p. 840. Link to TROVE
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THE SKYRING FAMILY - The Early Years
Daniel Budd Skyring, who with his wife, Ellen Lavinia, and their three children, arrived in Sydney in July 1833 on the 'Ester' was the son of Zachariah Skyring, who was apprenticed as a Carpenter, and later became a Builder and Publisher.
For 30 years until the early 1830's he published an annual Gazette 'Skyring's Builders' Prices and Specifications', later carried on by his son William Henry Skyring, for about 30 years.
Zachariah was the 3rd son of William Skyring, who is thought to have been a Militia Captain, and who was married in London on 5th November 1760 to a Sarah Chilcott. This information was supplied to me some 13 years ago by a Mr. Riki Thomas, who has lived in retirement near Lisbon, Portugal, for many years, and who has 'Skyring' as one of his Christian names.
He thought that he was descended from this marriage, but subsequent research showed that a Sarah Skyring had died in February 1762; there was no will, as married women did not make wills in those days.
Eventually my research Organisation found the Will of Mary Skyring who died in January 1777. She was a widow, and in her will made a William Preston, Cabinet Maker of Southwark, her Trustee and left one thousand pounds to maintain her dear children William, John, Zachariah and George and to set them out in the world as he thought fit.
Later the baptisms of 4 of the 5 children were found, these being recorded at St. George's, Hanover Square, London, where Captain William had married Sarah Chilcott. However, as the parents were shown as 'William and Mary Skyring it seemed obvious that they were the children of a second marriage, and at that stage my researchers did not find such a marriage.
Eventually they realised that while finding Mary Skyring's Will, they had not checked on the Will of her husband, William, who had died only 9 months before her death. She had been granted Administration but this had not been carried out before she died, and it was not until 1784, that a fresh application was made for the Administration.
In William's will he named the children's natural aunt, Eleanor Preston, as guardian, which left us with the problem of finding whether she was the sister of William or his apparent widow, Mary. My researchers failed to find the relevant marriages, but on a brief visit to London some months later; Riki Thomas traced the marriage in early 1763 of Eleanor Skyring to William Preston, and in November l763 that of William Skyring Widower, to Mary Tyzack.
Mary's Trustee, - William Preston, apparently put the eldest son, William and the youngest son, George, in the Royal Artillery, and the other two sons were apprenticed to a Tiler (John) and Zachariah, our forebear, to a Carpenter or Builder. His indentures have not been traced, although those of John have. His apprenticeship commenced in 1784 at which stage the eldest brother; William was shown as being in Quebec (k), Canada, possibly with the Army.
He was gazetted a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery in 1780 and perhaps it may have been the need to buy a further commission, and John's apprenticeship which was the reason or the renewed application for Administration of Captain William Skyring's will in 1784.
William (the younger) was gazetted a Lieut. Colonel before his death in 1806, he married a Elizabeth Austen, a connection of the novelist, Jane Austen, and they had 3 daughters.
John married well, and apparently changed his name to that of his wife's family, while George attained the rank of Major and died in Gibraltar in 1822.
George and Sarah Claringbould's eldest son was Lieut. William Skyring who was a member of the first expedition to survey the region of Tierra del Fuego under the command of Captain Phillip Parker King, R.N. The two ships in the expedition were the 'Beagle' and the 'Adventurer' and Skyring commanded the Beagle for a time after Stokes, the Captain committed suicide. Eventually Lieutenant Fitzroy was given the command, and it was he, who apparently, helped to interest Charles Darwin in taking part in the second expedition. He named a large sound in the area 'Skyring Water'. By this time, Skyring (by now a Naval Captain) was doing a marine survey of the West Coast of Africa, where he was killed by natives in 1833.
He would have been a first cousin to Daniel Budd Skyring, our first Australian forebear, and I have a feeling could have perhaps interested him in migrating to Australia. Captain Phillip Parker King was the son of Phillip Gidley King of the First Fleet, and was born while his father was the Commandant on Norfolk Island. He had done marine surveying on the Australian coast. All Major George's family appears to have made well connected marriages and my Lisbon fellow researcher and distant cousin, is a descendant of his.
Skyrings and Styrings (spelled in various forms) abounded in earlier years in the north of England, and there are still Styrings there. Some 20 years ago, another cousin unearthed a Mr. Harold Styring in Sheffield, who was convinced that 'Skyring' was a corruption of 'Styring'. He was a Fellow of the Royal Viking Research Society and the Royal Society of Linguists and he maintained that the Styrings were descended from a Danish Viking 'Styr' who settled on the Yorkshire coast in the 10th Century.
Of course, some of the older Skyrings dispute the Styring idea, as, of course, the 'Sk' is also Scandinavian. That is something we'll never know, but it seems apparent that the family came from northern England, and at present, my researchers have spent months trying to find d link with the various recorded Births, Deaths, Marriages, and to establish when our forebears came south.
The Tyzacks were one of several Huguenot families who fled to England in the 16th Century from Lorraine in France after the St. Bartholomew Massacre of the Protestants.
They settled in the Midlands and Northern England and were engaged in making pots for greenhouses, and the name is still prominent in the steel industry in Sheffield, Cutlery was one of their main manufactures.
It appears that the name 'Zachariah' came into the family through Mary as the I.G.I. sheets show a number of Tyzacks who bear this name. There is a Mary, who would be possibly the right age, who is the daughter a Zachariah Tyzack and his wife Mary (nee Errington), but we have not been able to establish at this stage if she is the woman who married William in 1763.
Interestingly a Zachariah Tyzack is in the family tree of Margaret Tyzack, an actress with the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and he was drowned in 1770; our Zachariah was baptised in December 1770!
AUSTRALIAN FAMILY.
After Daniel Budd Skyring and his family arrived in Sydney in 1833 he apparently was involved in brick kilns in the vicinity of where Redfern Station now stands, and he had a Tailor's Shop.
Subsequently he managed an Estate for a Solicitor called Norton, in what is now the Lewisham/Leichhardt area of Sydney; it was called the Elswick Estate, and there are Elswick and Norton Streets, there today. The 1841 Census shows Daniel Budd Skyring residing in the Parish of Petersham and 8 persons living in a brick house.
It is not known what prompted Daniel Budd Skyring's migration to Australia, as the family seems to have been in fairly comfortable circumstances. Family legend has it that he married his mother's maid, which caused dissension with his family.
In any case he married Ellen Lavinia Dunn at St. Luke's Old Street in 1825. The two older children, Eliza and Zachariah, were baptised at St.Mary Abbot's, Kensington, London, but we have not traced Daniel's baptism. Daniel Budd Skyring is shown on the House of Commons Return List of Emigrants 1825-1832 as Daniel Skyring, Bricklayer, who paid 20 Pounds as an Assisted Emigrant for himself, his wife and 3 children.
After 10 years in Sydney, during which time he made several trips north to the Moreton Bay settlement, he took his increased family in August 1843 there permanently on the 'Wanderer'. They were among the first free settlers there, and he took with him cattle, horses, timber and planks; the livestock included 2 imported bulls and a cow, the first dairy herd stock in the area. These were unloaded at Petrie Bight on the Brisbane River, together with the family's piano. A few years ago there was still a Skyring Terrace near the wharves and running towards Newstead.
On land bought at the corner of Queen Street and what is now Edward Street he built the first brick shop, which was run by his wife and two daughters as a Cash Trading Centre, and known as the 'Busy Bee'. This later became Southerden's Store.
He was an enterprising man - he owned a quarry, and on properties near the Brisbane River and in Ann Street, he grew grapes, pineapples, sugar and cotton, which were shipped to Sydney. He also owned a dairy at what is now Kedron, which was worked by his sons. The plantation near the River was left to one of his sons, Thomas, on his death in 1882. All Hallows Convent, which overlooked the land, needed to extend, and it was sold to them by Thomas.
In the meantime as the family grew up they scattered and entered into various occupations in a growing colony, such as grazing, timber milling, flour milling and dairying.
The two elder sons, Zachariah and Daniel, had land in the Grovelly district which they sold to the evident displeasure of their father.
They took up leases in the Maroochydore district and were the first cattlemen to enter the district. These leases were allowed to lapse a few years later, and they eventually settled in the Gympie area - Zachariah at Mooloo on Pye Creek, and Daniel on Skyring Creek. He called his property 'Bellwood' because of the numerous bellbirds in the area. Descendants of Zachariah live in the Pye Creek area, and of Daniel still at 'Bellwood'.
Ellen Lavinia died in July 1863 aged only 58 having had a strenuous live in a new colony, and having borne 11 children, 8 of whom lived to adulthood. Daniel Budd Skyring died on 21st February 1882 aged 78 years, an Obituary appearing in 'The Queenslander on 4th March 1882. They are buried high on the hill in Toowong Cemetery, Brisbane, Ellen's body having been transferred from Fortitude Valley where she had been buried originally.
When her husband Daniel died, he was interred with her
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Ellen was originally interred in Paddington Cemetery.
On Monday, the 27th instant, at twenty minutes past six o'clock p.m., at her residence, Fortitude Valley, Mrs. D. Skyring, senior, aged 59 years.
She departed this life happy in Christ the Lord.
Family Notices (1863, July 28). The Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1861 - 1864), p. 2. Link to TROVE
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Edith Mabel Blanche Parkman SKYRING (4/9/1905)
On the 8th July, by the Rev. N. Turner, Thomas Skyring, third son of Mr. D. Skyring, senior, Brisbane, to Elizabeth Emma, eldest daughter of Mr. Thomas Shapcott, of the same place.
Family Notices (1862, July 11). The Courier (Brisbane, Qld. : 1861 - 1864), p. 2. Link to TROVE
SKYRING.- On the 3rd May, at his residence, Roscrea, Harcourt street, Teneriffe, Brisbane, Henry Albert Skyring, sawmiller and timber merchant, East Bundaberg, second youngest son of the late Daniel Budd Skyring, Ann street, Valley, Brisbane, dearly beloved husband of Emily Skyring, in his 58th year.
Family Notices (1904, May 13). The Week (Brisbane, Qld. : 1876 - 1934), , p. 18. Link to TROVE
MALCOLM. William, Ryder Street. Wynnum North (Metropolitan Funerals)
Family Notices (1954, February 6). Brisbane Telegraph (Qld. : 1948 - 1954), p. 8 (CITY FINAL). Link to TROVE
MALCOLM, Mr. William, 36 Ryder Street, Wynnum North. Relatives and Friends of Mrs. L. E. Malcolm and Family are respectfully informed of the death of her beloved Husband, their Father, Father-in-law and Grandfather. The Funeral is appointed to leave the Parlour, 400 Wickham Street, To-day (Monday) for Hemmant Cemetery, after Service commencing at 10.45 a.m.
Family Notices (1954, February 8). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 12. Link to TROVE
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INNES. Relatives & Friends of Mr. & Mrs. R. M. Innes, Mr. & Mrs. A. O. Grant, Mr. & Mrs. A. H. Innes, Mr. & Mrs. J. Minehan (Sydney), Mr. & Mrs. B. J. Innes, Mr. & Mrs. F. C. Innes (Warwick), & Families, P.O. & Mrs. R. E. Innes, R.A.N., L/C. G. G. Innes A.I.F.. & Miss Janet Innes, are invited to attend the Funeral of their beloved Father, Father-in-law, & Grandfather, Richard Arthur Innes, late of 130 Lutwyche Road. Bowen Bridge, to leave the Funeral Chapel. 17 Peel St., South Brisbane, This (Monday) Afternoon, at 3 o'clock, for the Lutwyche Cemetery. Service at 2.45.
INNES. Brisbane Queensland Royal Arch Chapter, No. 3. Officers & Members of the above Chapter are invited to attend the Funeral of their late Comp. Richard Arthur Innes, to leave the Funeral Chapel. 17 Peel St., South Brisbane, as per family notice. By Order. Ex. F.P.
Family Notices. (1945, October 1). The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), p. 6. Link to TROVE
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