Absalom Family

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Stephen Absalom was born in 1823 in Wilcot, Wiltshire England and died at Schnapper Point on 25 December 1906 aged 83 years. He married Ann Elizabeth Smith on 1 May 1852.

They boarded the ship the "Rose of Sharon" on 10 January 1855, and reached Sydney in April 1855 after a voyage of three months.

Stephen bought land and helped develop the area known as Green Island (Benton’s Road-Craigie Road). He farmed, established a slaughter yard and butchery in partnership with his sons.

Stephen Absalom	b. Wilcot Wiltshire England 1854. Died Sydney 1856
William (Steve) Stephen Absalom	b. Collingwood 1857. Married Louisa Ellen Jeffrey. Died Mornington 1922
John James (Jim) Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1861, Married Maude May Male in 1903. Died at Mornington in 1947

Children born to John and Maude were:

John James Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1904. Died 1977
Anna Elizabeth Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1906
Georgina Avis Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1908. Died 1924
William Stephen Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1911
Dorothy May Absalom	b. Schnapper Point 1913
Annie Evelyn Absalom	b. Mornington 1918. Died 1983
Henry Spencer Absalom	b. Mornington 1924. Died 1950

Ann Elizabeth Absalom b. Moorooduc in 1865. Married Albert Edward Wilson in 1884, son of Charles Bowman Wilson. They had seven children, and Ann died at Prince Henry’s Hospital in Melbourne in 1895. Georgina Avis Absalom b. Moorooduc 1869. Married Charles Wilson, son of John Bowman Wilson on 25 February 1892. After the death of Charles in 1895, Georgina married James Male in 1900. She died in Somerville in 1938 aged 69 years.

 

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