Hello, Re: a message i found posted by Lorraine Key in 2004 requesting information about the Killey family in western Australia!
My name is Jennifer Holman and my mother and I are currently researching our family history and mum is putting it all in a book for our family. My grandmother was Lillian Clare Alice Killey who I believe was adopted as the seventh child of Philip Thomas Killey and Annie Rose Wells. I will attach a piece that mum has written which says more.Mum and dad are currectly travelling on their yacht around the top end of Australia but she sent me this letter back in june. I will paste it here in its intirety for you to read.... Look forward to hearing from you soon! Regards, Jenny
Dear Jenny, Once upon a time there once was a girl called Lady Ann Clare who lived in Dorset. She fell in love the family coachman, a man by the name of Elliott. They ran away to marry and Lady Ann's family disowned her. There was only one child from this marriage, a daughter Elizabeth.
Elizabeth Elliott married a clerk by the name of William Wells.
When William Wells died (in England), Elizabeth was left with three young sons. She decided to imigrate, with her three sons, William, George and Alfred Joseph, to Australia and marry a Mr. Faulkner who was a close friend of her late husband. The first attempt met with a disaster, they were wrecked on the coast of Ireland!
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They did eventually reach Melbourne in 1847, the boys ages by then were, William 13 years, George 9 years and Alfred Joseph, 6 years old.
It is with this Alfred Joseph Wells, born in Hannington, England on 22.5.1841 who married Mahala Walden on the 24.5.1864. Note: some confusion on this marriage date.
(Mahala was born on 6. 8.1847) This couple were to become Nana's grandparents.
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On the back of an old photograph taken on their 53rd wedding anniversary, Mahala has written their wedding date as being 24.5.1864, two days after Alfred Joseph's 23rd birthday.
At the time of the birth of their first child Alfred Joseph Wells is recognised as a sawyer. They had 12 children, of whom three died. They had a shop in Castlemaine, Victoria and resided in premises over the top of the shop. It is presumed this involved the manufacture of umbrellas as this was the type of shop he was later to open in Hay street in Perth when they came to Western Australia to live.
Mahala came over to W.A. on her own with six of the children, Albertina (Cis), Ann, Alfreda, Beatrice, Launcelot (Lance), and Clare, leaving Melbourne for Fremantle on the Waroonga on February 1st 1896. Alfred and Mahala were to live in Monger Street Leederville.
The eldest son, Alfred Henry Wells and his wife Elizabeth Jane lived in Forrest Street Boulder at the same time as his sister Ann and her husband Phillip Killey lived in the same street around 1901. (Jenny, does this give you goose bumps?)
Alfred Henry, Ann's brother was at this time is listed as an umbrella maker like his father. Later he was to turn miner. (Jenny, both he and his wife are listed in the Ivanhoe electorate at Boorara where ever that is?)
Lance Wells, another brother, took up a property in the Wikepin district, 7 miles from the town. On the other side of the road was Ann and Phillip Killey's property. The Wells property was called Eden Hope. Mahala was 60 years old, in 1907 when she and Alfred Joseph left their home in Leederville to live on the farm with Lance. Later they came back to live in Bayswater. Alfred Joseph died at the age of 93. At this time he was living with daughter Ann at Elizabeth Street in South Perth.
Ann Rose Wells, born 31.12.1879, married Philip Thomas Killey who was born 3.2.1868. (He died 17.7.1930.... She died 25.9.1959)
They had 8 children of which Nana was the second youngest. Lillian Clare Alice, (Clare) born 31.7.1916. Clare began school in the Inkipinki district of Wickepin. The same school as Albert Facey, author of A Fortunate Life. (Incidently, we have been trying to get a copy of this book at every second hand bookshop we see along the way.)
Clare married William Thomas Holman on... etc, etc, etc! Now, does that satisfy you, I have made a start! Love Mum.
