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Beard Family Tree
Beard - Bishop - Boddeus - Chaplin - Clements - Collyer - Connor - Deetmerink - Deijs - Drenth - Finch - Gerrie - Gilbert - Grenfield - Hall - Harms, de Jong - Havinga - Holland - Humphreys - Koeslag - Michel - Morgan - Nicholas - Oates - Olver - Osborn - Ouderdorp - Paas - Pellegrim - Petrie - Ponting - Pool - Rowe - Savage - Slomp Warring - Strauß - ten Broecke, Grauwert - Trembath - Veltkamp - Vivian - Vos - Warin - Watkins - Wellink - Westenborg - Wevers - White - Williams - Wisely

The name Beard may come from the words: bard or beard.

John Beard - Born about 1706. Died 20 May 1786 in Good Easter, Essex, England.
Mary Attredg - (Attridge) Chr. 26 December 1711 in Good Easter, Essex. Died 1801 in Roxwell, Essex, England. Daughter of Ed Attredg & Susan unknown.
Married 10 November 1731 in Good Easter, Essex, England.

William Beard - Born 13 July 1754 in Roxwell, Essex, England.
Lucy Gould - Born 20 January 1760 in Kelvedon, Essex, England.
Married 8 February 1780.

There is some dispute whether John Beard is the son of William Beard & Lucy Gould and the Grandson of John Beard and Mary Attridge.

John Beard - Born 23 July 1795 in Great Braxted, Essex, died 25 June 1854 in Great Totham, Essex, England.
Sarah Chaplin - (also Jane) Born 12 July 1801 in Kelvedon, Essex, England, died 7 January 1844 in Great Totham, Essex, England.
Married 9 November 1820 in Essex, England

In the 1841 UK census the family is living at Flaggy Bottom, Great Totham. John worked as a Wheelwright. On the same page is the family of the unfortunately named Epaphroditus & Sarah Chaplin living in May pole Barn, who could be relatives of Sarah.

The 1851 census has the family living at N? Pottery, Great Totham, Essex.

William Beard - Born 1825 in Great Braxted, Essex. Died 1912 in Maldon, Essex, England.
Phoebe Birdseye - (or Phebe) Born 1825 in Kelvedon, Essex, England. Died 1869 in Witham, Essex, England.
Married September 1846 in WItham, Essex, England.

William Beard - Born 1825 in Great Braxted, Essex. Died 1912 in Maldon, Essex, England.
Charlotte Cracknell - Born 1850 in Great Braxted, Essex, England.
Married 1875 in Dunmow, Essex, England.

John Jarvis - Born 14 July 1827 in Great Totham, Essex. Died 3 November 1914 in Normandy St, East Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Son of George Jarvis & Sarah Rushen.
Mary Ann Beard - Born 13 September 1829 Great Totham, Essex, England. Died 31 January 1914 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
Married 25 December 1847 in Maldon Rd, Great Totham, Essex.

After Sarah and George were born the family sailed for Australia on the "Hope" in 1852. They settled in Geelong, Victoria and had 10 more children.

John Beard - Born 1832 Great Totham, Essex.
Caroline Shelley - Born 1834 in Rivenhall, Essex. Daughter of Samuel & Ann Shelley.
Married December 1856 in Stepney, London, England.

Thomas Beard - Born 1841 in Great Totham, Essex.
Rebecca Parkinson - Born 1839 in Woolwich, Kent, England.
Married September 1862 in Kelvedon, Essex, England.

In the 1881 & 1901 census the family were living at 96 Maxey Road, Plumstead, Kent. Thomas's occupation was: Fitter &Turner.

George Beard - Born 1836 in Great Totham, Essex. Died 30 November 1911 in Euroa, Victoria, Australia.
Ann Collyer - Born 24 August 1850 in Norwood, South Australia. Died 1907 in Norwood, Victoria, Australia.
Married 24 June 1873 in Wesleyan Church, Colac, Victoria, Australia.

George Beard came to Australia as an assisted immigrant onboard the 'Constitution' which arrived in Manly, New South Wales on the 27 May 1855. An outbreak of smallpox occurred onboard the ship, 14 died and the ship was quarantined. Commemoration of the 150th year since the ships landing took place at at the North Head Quarantine Station, Manly, NSW on 17 July 2005, and was attended by a lot of descendents of those immigrants.

Also on the ship were Amos & Peter Beard, sons of Robert Beard & Mary Criswell from Longstow, Cambridgeshire. These Beard's may be distant cousins of the ones in Essex.

After arriving in Manly, George left for the goldfields of New Zealand. He found enough gold to later have made into a brooch for his wife. It is believed that he was nearly swept away by a flash flood while sleeping in what had been a dry river bed. He left New Zealand on the "Versailles" in 1862 to come to Port Philip, and then stayed with his sister Mary in Geelong. In 1873 he married Ann Collyer at Colac. They moved to Dooboobetic. Later they moved to land at Mount Hoogley near Dunolly in Victoria. In later years George was a Baker at Vermont on the outskirts of Melbourne. George & Ann were buried in the Box-Hill Cemetery.

George named his 2nd son George Innes Beard, and his 3rd son Richard Clemens Beard. Clemens was the surname of Ann Collyer's mother, the name Innes does not appear anywhere in Ann's ancestry, so it is possible that Innes surname name crops up somewhere further back in the Beard or Chaplin families.

George's son George Innes invested a lot of time and money into the families farm, only to lose out, as on his fathers death bed, his sister Ada influenced her fathers decision to have his will changed.

George Beard's will as of 24 November 1911:

This is the last will and testament of me George Beard. I give devise and bequeath unto George Innes Beard, Mary Ann Walker, Richard Clemens Beard, Charles William Beard and Victor Alexander Beard each 1 of my life insurance.
Out of Property Ada Louisa Beard 100 Australian Pounds, balance after all debts are paid to be equally divided amongst all members of the family except John Henry beard. The bakery business running in the name of G. Beard & Son to still go on for the present under that name. The son carrying on the business to pay to the others their share and I hereby appoint Philip Carne of Euroa bank manager executor of this will in the witness where I have here unto set my hand this twenty fourth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and eleven. signed George Beard.

John Henry Beard - Born 1876 Conover, Victoria, Australia, died 1 March 1944 in Shenton Park, Western Australia.
Ellen Margaret Moore - Born 1867 in Majorca, Victoria, Australia. Daughter of Samuel Edward Moore & Ellen Tucker.
Married 1899 in Coolgardie, Western Australia.

John had a sheep property in Perth, Western Australia.

George Innes Beard - Born 6 January 1878 Charlton, Victoria, Australia, died 1956 Prospect, NSW, Australia. Occupations: Gold Miner, Engine Driver & Farmer & Missionary.
Mary Eliza Williams - Born 28 March 1879 in Dunolly, Victoria, died 6 September 1979 in Kempsay, NSW, Australia.
Married 24 March 1902 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia

George served in the Victorian Rangers for 9 years before WW1, on his military record it lists his trade as Engine Driver.

About 1919 the family moved to the Port George IV mission which was also known as the 'Kunmunya mission', it lies between Derby & Wyndham in the West Kimberley region. George took up a job as a missionary & protector of Aborigines , Mary was a nurse.

They were well respected by the local Worora aborigines, who had given Lynda the name "Werraurulla" which meant "kangaroo's knee", Jean was named 'Boorawulla' which meant "kangaroo's thigh", as children the names obviously related to their height. Bobby Love, the son of the local presbyterian minister was known as "Kometi Korruk Pooma" which meant "little boy who picks his nose".

The Beard family later moved back to Maryborough, Victoria, and then on to New South Wales. Years later the aboriginals from the mission offered to pay the airfare for Mary Eliza Beard to fly to Broome so they could see her again, but sadly she was well up in years, and didn't feel that she could handle the trip.

If your interested in learning more about the Kimberly and the Worora people, have a look at these links:

Richard Clemens Beard - Born 16 March 1880 in Dooboobetic, Victoria, Australia, died 31 December 1939 in Daylesford, Victoria, Australia. Occupation: Railway Ganger
Beatrice May Dear - Born 25 July 1883 in Dunolly, Victoria, Australia. Died 8 September 1975. Parents: Frederick Jonah Dear & Mary Ann Appleford.
Married 15 March 1905 in Dunolly, Victoria, Australia.

Charles Penrose Walker - Born 1880 in Maryborough, Victoria, Australia. Son of Charles Walker and Fannie Penrose.
Mary Ann Beard - (aka Polly) Born 1884 Dooboobetic, Victoria, Australia.
Married 1903 Victoria, Australia.

Mary got pregnant at a very young age, after having one more child she became legal age and was able to marry the 'culprit' ;-). They lived in the Adelaide Hills.

Robert Watson - Born 1889.
Amy Elizabeth Beard - Born 20 May 1889 Charlton Victoria, Australia, died 1935 Malvern, Victoria, Australia.
Marriage details unknown.

Amy & Robert were Presbyterian Missionaries in South Korea.

Victor Alexander Beard - Born 7 February 1891 in Charlton, Victoria, Australia, died 1976 Warragul, Victoria, Australia.
Bertha Margaret Scott - Born 12 October 1890 in Port Pirie, South Australia, died 1975 in Warragul, Victoria, Australia. Daughter of James Scott & Felicia Rosina Saint.
Married 6 April 1915 Residence of James Scott, Gawler, South Australia

Victor inherited his fathers Bakery business, he also worked in the 1st Field Bakery during WW1.

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