Darby Munro

Remember we told you about the famous racehorse Peter Pan .Bred by Rodney Rouse  Dangar 

Peter Pan won his 1934 Melbourne Cup carrying Darby Munro at 9 st 10 lb on his back and from an outside draw on a heavy track, hence his long odds of 14/1. In 1932, he also won the VRC Derby and the MacKinnon Stakes.
Peter Pan stood at Rodney R. Dangar’s country property Baroona, Whittingham, Singleton, New South Wales where he exclusively covered his owner’s mares. His stud career was cut short when he broke his leg in 1941 and was destroyed. Peter Pan is buried at Baroona, Whittingham, Singleton, New South Wales.
But this famous jockey we also met before . Ray told us about him.
The brother of Thomas Dunn (my G Grandfather, of your blog) emigrated to Melbourne, Australia and his son won the Melbourne cup (Fred Dunn - 1901) as did both sons of his daughter Susannah (James Munro in 1926 and Darby Munro, Aussies greatest jockey immortalised on a stamp, three times)

Peter Pan and Darby Munro, at Flemington
No doubt the dire straits of his family also caused younger brother David William (just one when his father died) to ship to Melbourne Australia, where one son, Frederick John - painted on his winning 1901 mount) and two sons of daughter Susannah Catherine

 all became famous jockeys and won the renowned Melbourne Cup (and one of them ("Darby" Munro to be declared Australia's Greatest Jockey and be commemorated on a 1922 stamp).

Elizabeth Rouw

Elizabeth Rouw wife of George Edward Arnold

Vader van de bruid Guillaume Rouw Moeder van de bruid Anna Ludica Smit Vader van de bruidegom John Arnold Moeder van de bruidegom Alida Lammer

Rodney Rouse Dangar

Mr. Rodney Rouse Dangar, well-known Australian pastoralist, prominent philanthropist and racehorse-owner, died in Sydney last Friday, aged 79.

Son of Mary Phoebe Dangar - Rouse and  Albertus Augustus Dangar

Mr. Dangar, a former A.J.C. committeeman, owned and bred Peter Pan, twice winner of the Melbourne Cup.

He turned down an offer of £50,000 by American buyers for Peter Pan. The horse won £34,938 in stake money.

PETER PAN'S OWNER.
Mr. Dangar at Kalgoorlie.
KALGOORLIE, Sept. 15.—Mr. R. R.
Danger, owner of Peter Pan, leaves for
Sydney tomorrow and will be unable to
witness any of the racing here. How
ever, this morning Mr. R. R. Gibbs, a
member of the committee of the Kal-
goorlie Racing Club, took him in hand
and included me in the party. Mr. Dan-
gar was motored to both racecourses and
was charmed with them, being particu-
larly interested in the excellent view from
the grandstands of the racing tracks from
the start to the finish. He expressed sur-
prise at what had been so ably done to
foster racing on the Goldfields. Later
Mr. Dangar, who has been interested in
mining for years, was shown over the
surface workings of the Lake View and
Star mine.
Mr. Danger told me that he is giving
Peter Pan a light season at the stud to
begin with and the mares to be sent to
the dual Melbourne Cup winner will in-
clude a few of his own. Mr. Dangar said
that his colt Brazilian, a half brother
to Peter Pan who won the Novice Handi-
cap at Randwick on Saturday, was a
good sort and likely to win races. "But,"
he added, "there will only be one Peter
Pan."

Mr. Dangar was a director of the National Bank of Australasia, Ltd., and of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, an ex-president of the Union Club, and a councillor of Cranbrook School.
He is survived by a daughter, Mrs. D. V. Ritchie, of Edgecliff.
Mr. Dangar contributed freely to dozens of charities, founded the Peter Pan Kindergarten, and endowed many hospital beds.
The funeral will be at South Head Cemetery to-day after a service at All Saints' Church, Ocean Street, Woollahra, at 11 a.m.

Albert Augustus Dangar

Dangar, Albert Augustus (1840–1913) husband of Mary Phoebe Rouse .

from Sydney Morning Herald


Mr Albert Augustus Dangar, the well known pastoralist and patriot, died at Baroona, Whittingham, near Singleton, on Saturday aged 73. He was reading in bed when he suddenly expired.

Few men were better known in Australian life, mainly because of his success as a breeder of stock, and owing to the many public-spirited and philanthropic acts for which he was responsible. He was one of the first practical supporters of the campaign which saw many contingents despatched to South Africa, including the Bushmen, to the funds of which he was a most liberal contributor. He also gave largely to the patriotic fund organised at the time for the purpose of providing assistance to those who suffered by the loss of breadwinners at the war. These acts were capped however by the splendid gift of £10,000 to the Dreadnought fund, similar amounts having been given by the late Mr S. Hordern, Mr W. F. Buchanan and Mr Walter Hall. Those four men who were moved to make their donations at a time of imperial stress have now all passed away.

Mr Dangar’s liberality went in many other directions. Singleton profited by this for there were few lists he did not head, while he defrayed the whole cost of the Dangar Cottage Hospital and was at the time of his death engaged in building a Church of England in a style equalled in few country towns. In addition to these gifts he practically defrayed the cost of a cricket ground, with a turf wicket-one of the few to be found in the provinces.

The deceased was a native of Neotsfield where he was born in 1840. His father, the later Henry Dangar, who arrived in Australia 1822, was one of the State’s pioneer pastoralists and a member of the old Legislative Council. There were five sons, Messrs W., H. C, F. H, Frank and A. A. Dangar. Mr H. C. Dangar, who is a respected member of the Legislative Council, and Mr F. H. Dangar survive. Mr A. A. Dangar gave way to a taste for sea life when a lad, but after spending three years in this way he decided to return to country pursuits. At that time Mr. A. H. Palmer (afterwards Sir Arthur Palmer, Premier of Queensland) was in charge of Gostwyck station, near Armidale, and the seafaring youth decided to study stock breeding under him. After a few years spent this way the five brothers formed themselves into a pastoralist company and in time Dangar Brothers acquired six fine properties including Gostwyck with Mr A. A. Dangar as manager. The stock list included 100,000 sheep and 25,000 head of cattle They made such progress at length that they decided to dissolve the partnership and divided up the stations amongst them. Mr. A. A. Dangar took Gostwyck and he afterwards acquired Mooki Springs and Noorindoo, a splendid property in S.W. Queensland. These three holdings gave him full scope for his ambitions. Gostwyck was celebrated even in those early days for its fine wool and it is many a day since it became world-wide in that respect, the clip often topping the market. Mooki Springs was principally used for horse breeding, and included that celebrated stud of Suffolk Punch horses which, with drafts from Neotsfield, the stud owned by Mr R. H. Dangar, have long been a feature of the Sydney horse sales. The Queensland property was devoted to the production of cattle and sheep, thus offering to the spirited owner the variety that he aimed at and which he succeeded in producing. His merinos at the Sydney sheep shows and the country exhibitions have frequently carried off the blue ribbons and his other stock have graced many a show ring wearing blue and tri-coloured ribbons. At Mooki Springs he also bred beef shorthorns and long-woolled Devon flock, the only one of the kind in the State, which he used for a merino cross. Many years ago he built a residence at Baroona, overlooking the town of Singleton. It is one of the finest country seats in the State.

Though the late Mr Dangar did not enter active politics, he was a keen observer of current events. His opinions on all questions were sound. For some years he presided over the Pastoralists’ Union and was at its head during the memorable maritime strike when the teamsters refused to handle the wool between the railway station and the steamer. He was a fluent public speaker and whenever he did address an audience he attracted keen interest. As a Church man he was enthusiastic, being a prominent member of the Anglican body. His life was moulded on methods. There was nothing slipshod which received his approval. His well-ordered home, with the picturesque grounds at Baroona, is a testimony to his love for system.

Mr Dangar was exceedingly successful in his own business. Few have been more so in the pastoral world. But he extended his interests in other ways. He was a member of the Great Cobar Syndicate which greatly enriched themselves by their acumen in acquiring that property. The syndicate owned a small coal mine at Rix’s Creek, near Singleton, where they lost a contract to supply the northern trains. They were at their wits end to know how they should keep this mine afloat, mostly in the interests of their men. So it was decided to get the Great Cobar, then closed down, on tribute, and use the Rix’s Creek coal or coke for smelting the Cobar ore. The scheme succeeded eminently, and the syndicate, eventually buying out the whole property, sold to the English company now controlling it.

Throughout the district where he lived all his life Mr Dangar was never known to have an enemy. He never cherished a grudge against any man, and he fought his battles openly, even with his best friends when they agreed to differ. In his employ are men who served him since boyhood, and his liberality was never stinted when merit demanded, as many know. How many of the poorer residents of the North benefited by his charity no-one will ever adequately know. Mrs Dangar, four daughters and three sons survive. Two of the daughters are married in England. The sons are Mr Rodney Dangar, Mr Norman Dangar and Captain Clive Dangar. They each acquired a station property some time since from their father and are now engaged in his footsteps.

Yesterday the British Immigration League telegraphed a message of sympathy to Mrs Dangar and family.

Elizabeth Rouse nee Adams

Elizabeth Rouse neé Adams  wife of Richard Rouse 

On the 26th day of December, 1849, Elizabeth, the beloved wife of Richard Rouse, Esq ,

of Rouse Hill, near Windsor, in the seventysixth year of her age.

Born in England in 1772 died in England
Death 26 December 1849

Richard Rouse

Richard Rouse (1774-1852), public servant and settler, was born on 26 February 1774 in Oxfordshire, England, the eldest son of Richard Rouse and his wife Elizabeth, née Taylor. He married Elizabeth Adams on 6 June 1796 and, with a letter of recommendation from the Duke of Portland, arrived in the Nile at Sydney in December 1801 as a free settler with his wife and two small children, one of whom had been born on the voyage. In March 1802 Governor Philip Gidley King granted Rouse 100 acres (40 ha) and he was soon well established on a farm at North Richmond on the Hawkesbury River. In July 1805 he was appointed superintendent of lumberyard at Parramatta. He moved to a house opposite the gates of Government House, Parramatta, and Margaret Catchpole, a convict servant of the family on the voyage and in the colony, was left as overseer at the North Richmond farm.


In 1806 Rouse welcomed Governor William Bligh as a man strong enough to protect the settlers from the despotism of the Rum Corps and was one of the governor's staunchest supporters. He signed several memorials sympathizing with the governor and was named by Bligh as one of the witnesses he wished to take to England. However, the trip did not eventuate as Bligh changed his mind.


This loyalty had cost Rouse his position as a public servant, but he turned his attention to his farms; on 14 January 1810 he was appointed superintendent of carpenters by Governor Lachlan Macquarie and in October 1814 was appointed auctioneer at Parramatta. He superintended the construction of many buildings, tollhouses and turnpikes in the vicinity of Parramatta, Windsor and Liverpool, including the renovation of Government House, Parramatta, in 1815 and the erection of the Parramatta Hospital in 1818, and gave evidence before Commissioner John Thomas Bigge on these building activities.


On 8 October 1816 Rouse was granted 450 acres (182 ha) near the site of the battle of Vinegar Hill, in the Bathurst district; at the suggestion of Macquarie the grant was named Rouse Hill. The actual possession of the land had taken place a few years previously, as the Sydney Gazette had first mentioned Rouse Hill on 27 November 1813, and the homestead was begun soon afterwards. It took a few years to build and was a two-storey, twenty-two room house, which has been occupied by members of the Rouse family ever since.


In 1822 Rouse sent his sons in search of good pasturage in the area north-west of the Blue Mountains which had just been thrown open for settlement; in 1825 they took up land for him ninety miles (145 km) north of Bathurst at Guntawang on the Cudgegong River near Gulgong, which had recently been relinquished by George and Henry Cox because of the hostility of the Aboriginals in that region. This grant of 4000 acres (1619 ha) was gradually increased, and became two stations, Guntawang and Biraganbil, which were inherited by his sons Edwin and George. Both properties prospered and the Rouses were connected with progressive movements in the towns of Mudgee and Gulgong for many years. Rouse also acquired Ewenmar on the Castlereagh River, Gillendoon near Warren, Cobborah near Wellington and other land at Bathurst as well as the properties at Penrith and Richmond. By 1828 he possessed about 10,000 acres (4047 ha), but by then he had retired to Rouse Hill. There he devoted his time to the raising of sheep and cattle, the breeding of thoroughbred horses and the management of his various properties. He became well known for the quality of his stock, which he improved from time to time with imported sires, and he was the original owner of the 'Crooked R' brand, which was afterwards used by his sons.


Rouse was the type of pioneer that the colony needed, a devoted family man, a loyal member of the Church of England, a hard-working and honest public servant and a very efficient grazier. His many properties ensured the future of his three sons and four daughters who survived childhood, including Mary, the eldest, who married Jonathan, son of the missionary Rowland Hassall; Jane who married Alfred Kennerley, premier of Tasmania in 1873-76; Eleanor who married first John Terry of Box Hill, son of Samuel Terry and after his death, Major Thomas Wingate; George, one of the first boys enrolled at The King's School, Parramatta, when it opened in 1832; and Elizabeth Henrietta who married Robert, son of Richard Fitzgerald of Windsor. In 1847 W. Griffiths of Parramatta executed crayon drawings of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse, both then aged 73, and these are still at Rouse Hill. A copy of the portrait of Richard Rouse is hanging at the Australasian Pioneers' Club, Sydney. Mrs Rouse died in December 1849 and Richard on 10 May 1852. He was buried in a vault at St Peter's Church, Richmond.Plan of the Allotments of Ground, Granted from the Crown in NSW, J Burr and G Ballisat, 1814

Mary Phoebe Rouse 1847-1931

Phoebe Rouse 1847-1931

Mary Phoebe Rouse (1847-1931), known as Phoebe, was the fourth child of Edwin Rouse and his wife Hannah Hipkins and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but by the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death. This daguerreotype portrait is one of a suite of studio portraits of Edwin and Hannah’s three daughters taken at a single session. The girls were described by a family friend as ‘Blooming Emma’, ‘Laughing Lizzie’, and ‘Phoebe like a fawn’1. In September 1866 Phoebe married Albert Augustus (Abby) Dangar at St Matthew's Church, Windsor. He was the fourth son of the surveyor and pastoralist Henry Dangar and was himself a prosperous pastoralist. After their marriage Abby and Phoebe Dangar sailed for Europe on their honeymoon. On their return they settled at Baroona, a pastoral property near Singleton in the Hunter Valley, and raised a large family.

Dangar, Mary Phoebe (1848–1931)

Mrs. Mary Phoebe Dangar, widow of Mr. Albert Augustus Dangar, who was a prominent pastoralist in New South Wales, died at Baroona station, Whittingham, in the Singleton district, yesterday. She was in her 84th year. Her husband died at Singleton in April, 1913.

Born at Guntawang in the Mudgee district, Mrs. Dangar was the daughter of the late Mr. Edwin Rouse. She was associated with her husband in many benevolent and philanthropic works. After his death she continued to support and take a deep interest in the Dangar Cottage Hospital, at Singleton (a gift to the town by her husband); All Saints' Church of England, Singleton; the Red Cross Society; the Country Women's Association; and the Boy Scouts and other movements.

Mrs. Dangar is survived by two sons, Mr. Rodney R. Dangar, of Rotherwood, Sutton Forest, and Mr. Norman N. Dangar, of Palmerston station, Armidale, and four daughters, Miss Maude Dangar, of Baroona station; Mrs. Curtis Bennett, who lives in London; Mrs. Arthur Lovell, of Winchester, Hampshire; and Mrs. Roy M. Bell, of Esk, Queensland. Another son, Major Clive Dangar, who served with the A.I.P., and who owned Gostwyck station, Armidale, died shortly after the war.

The funeral will take place at Singleton this afternoon, when the remains will be placed in the family vault at All Saints' Church.

watercolour

family groups
Rouse, Edwin Stephen, 1849-1931.
Rouse, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 1845-1931.
Rouse, Mary Phoebe, 1847-1931.
Rouse, Emma, 1843-1928.
Rouse, Richard, 1842-1903.

Hendrik Vlieland

Op heeden den 6e februari 1798 compareerde voor ons Sr. Gerhardus Adrianus
Entink secretaris mitsgaders voor de burgers Jan Hoekman en albert van 
Noord, schepenen der beide Noordwijken, Langeveld en Offem; Hendrik Vlieland, thuis hoorende te Grefzeyl in Pruissen, doch op 't passeren dezes alhier present, ons secretaris en schepenen bekend in qualiteit als
schipper gevoerd hebbende het bomschip de jonge Elisabeth, dog welk schip te Rotterdam belaaden zijnde met zoute visch, kaas en andere soorten van
koopmanschappen op de reijze van daar naar Havre de Grace is genomen geworden door een Engelsch Koningsschip genaamd (zo als hij comparant is geinformeerd geworden)\Harpy, onder commando van Henry Bazely, esquire.
De welke verklaarde ten behoeven van alle de geenen wien zulks zouden mogen
aangaan en om te dienen daar en wanneer zulks zal nodig zijn, waar en waarachtig te weezen dat na dat zijn comparantes voornoemde schip en lading in de maand november des gepasseerdern-jaars 1797 op de bovengemelde wijze van-deeze stad na Havre de Grace door den bovegenoemde Henry Bazely commandant van het Engels Koningsschip Harpy was genomen, hij comparant op dat schip overgebragt was en daarna terwijl de zee zeer hoog stond, zijn schip de jonge Elisabeth uit het oog of gezigt verlooren had en hij al verder op den 22e der voornoemdemaand november van het voornoemde Koningsschip Harpy te Dover was aan land gezet,zoals zulks alles omstandig blijkt bij eene verklaaring door hem comparant op den zeIven 22e november voor Phineas Kennets notaris en in de stad en haven Dover in 't graafschap Kent en getuigen gepasseerd en op den 25e dito voor James Gravener een meester extraordinair in zijn Majesteijts Hooge Hoff van Cancelary beeedigd.
Hij comparant te Dover voornoemt of op eenige andere plaats niets hoegenaamdheeft gehoord of vernoomen van het door hem gevoerde schip, de jonge Elisabethof desselvs lading hier voren gemeld, maar dat hij comparant vervolgens hier te landen gearriveerd zijnde is geinformeerd geworden, dat te Noordwijk aan Zee op strand was aangedreeven of gespoeld en voorts geborgen een gijk van een grootzeijl van een bomschip, nevens een slaggaarde, dat hij comparant die twee stukken geexamineerd hebbende en dezelve heeft herkend en bevonden, dat dezelve gijk en slaggaarde behooren tot het voornoemde door hem gevoerde schip de jonge Elisabeth en dat hij comparant daar omme ter goeder trouw vastelijk geloofd en 't daar voor houd, dat het zelve schip de jonge Elisabeth met desselvs lading ten tijde dat hij zig aan boord van het meer gemelde schip Harpy bevond, het zelve uit het oog had verlooren, verongelukt en totaal verlooren gegaan is. Compareerde nog meede voor ons secretaris en schepenen de burgers Maarten
Kruijt, meester scheepstimmerman wonende te Noordwijk aan Zee en Jan de Booy, meestersmit wonende te Noordwijk Binnen, ons secretaris en schepenen bekend, dewelke meede verklaarden ter requisitie van alle de geenen welke aan desen eenigsints qeleegen zouden mogen zijn waar en waragtig te zijn dat ons bij examinatie gebleeken is, dat de te Noordwijk aan Zee gestrande gijk dezelve is welke ik tweede deposant in qualiteijt als scheepstimmerman hebbe gemaakt en ik derde deposant in qualiteijt als smit hebbe beslagen voor het bomschip genaamd de jonge Elisabeth in den jaare 1796 (doorgehaald: voor Bouwmans en zoon te Grefzeijl in Pruissen) nieuw uitgehaald. Erkennen aan de lengte en zwaarte van dezelve en aan 't beslag om dezelfde leggende. Bereid zijnde zij gezamentlijke deposanten het hier vooren staande gedeposeerde ieder in den haare met solemnele eede te bevestigen.
Ondertekend door:
H = merk van Hendrik Vlieland. (slaggaarde = peilstok)
Fuijt van Leeuwen Maarten Kruijt Jan de Booy Jan Hoekman Aalbert van Noord G.A. Entink, secretaris
all the original papers of this  event


On February 6, 1798, he compared Sr. Gerhardus Adrianus

Entink secretary for the citizens Jan Hoekman and albert van

Noord, aldermen of both Noordwijk, Langeveld and Offem; Hendrik Vlieland, who is at home in Grefzeyl in Prussia, but on this pass, present here, our secretary and aldermen known in quality as

skipper having carried the young Elisabeth bomb ship, dog which ship loaded in Rotterdam with salty fish, cheese and other types of

merchants on the way from there to Havre de Grace have been taken by an English King ship called (so if he is informed comparant) \ Harpy, under the command of Henry Bazely, esquire.

The one declared for the benefit of all those who would be allowed to

and to serve where and when necessary, true and true, after that, the aforementioned ship and cargo in the month of November of the 1797 year passed in the above-mentioned manner from this town after Havre de Grace by the the aforementioned Henry Bazely commander of the English Royal Ship Harpy had been taken, he had been transferred to that ship in a consistent manner and then while the sea was very high, his ship had lost sight of young Elisabeth and he was already on the 22nd of the aforementioned November. of the aforementioned King's ship Harpy at Dover had been set ashore, as is evident from a statement made by him on November 22nd before Phineas Kennet's notary and in the town and port of Dover in County Kent and witnesses passed by and on the 25th ditto for James Gravener a master extraordinaire in his Majesteijts Hooge Hoff of Cancelary.

He compares in Dover or has not heard or heard of anything in any other place from the ship that he carried, the young Elisabeth or Desselvs cargo reported above, but that he then arrives to land here has been informed that in Noordwijk aan Zee had been drifted or washed on the beach and also salvaged a barge from a barge ship, in addition to a bombardment, that he comparant had examined those two pieces and recognized them and found that the barge and batting belong to the aforementioned ship the young Elisabeth and that he complies there for good faith and firmly believes that the self-employed ship was the young Elisabeth with Desselvs cargo at the time he was on board of the more frequently reported ship Harpy, the self from the had lost their eye, had an accident and lost Compared also for our secretary and aldermen Maarten

Kruijt, master ship carpenter living in Noordwijk aan Zee and Jan de Booy, mastersmit living in Noordwijk Binnen, known to us as secretary and aldermen, who also stated in order to requisition all those who might be somewhat disagree that we are true upon examination it was found that the beach stranded in Noordwijk aan Zee is the same which I made in second grade as a ship carpenter and I finished in third grade as smit for the bombship called the young Elisabeth in the year 1796 (canceled: for Bouwmans and son in Grefzeijl in Prussia). Recognize the length and weight of the same and the batter around the same laying. Being willing to be joint depositors, the aforementioned deputy will confirm each of them in their own oath.

Signed by:

H = brand of Hendrik Vlieland. (beating string = dipstick)

Fuijt van Leeuwen Maarten Kruijt Jan de Booy Jan Hoekman Aalbert van Noord G.A. Entink, secretary


all the original papers or this event

Cornelis Vlieland Havre de Grace

Elizabeth Monfries

Name: Elizabeth Monfries
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1891
County: Glamorganshire
Parish: St John Cardiff
Ecclesiastical Parish: ST ANDREWS
Registration District: Cardiff
Gender: Female
Age: 22
Marital Status: Single
Relationship to Head of Household: Daughter
Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
Birthplace: Glamorganshire, Wales




Charlotte Monfries
Head
F
67
Broad Clist, Devonshire, England

Margaret Monfries
Daughter
F
25
Germany

Elizabeth Monfries
Daughter
F
22
Glamorganshire, Wales

D Davies
Boarder
M
32
Llanfair-Ar-Y-Bryn, Carnarvonshire, England

Annie P Collow
Servant
F
22
Oxfordshire, England

Charlotte H Hall
Granddaughter
F
3
India British Subject



Name: Elizabeth Monfries
Event Type: Census
Event Date: 1911
Event Place: Llandaff, Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom
County: Glamorganshire
Parish: Llandaff
Sub-District: Llandaff
Sub-District Number: 1
District Number: 588
Enumeration District: 4
Registration District: Cardiff
Gender: Female
Age: 42
Marital Status: Single
Marital Status: SINGLE
Occupation: GOVERNESS
Number in Family: 4
Birth Year (Estimated): 1869
Birthplace: Cardiff, Glamorganshire
Relationship to Head of Household: Sister-in-law

Emma Rouse

Emma Rouse (1843-1928), was the second child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales.

She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but by the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death. In 1871 Emma married Lieutenant Dudley Davison  Batty, an English army officer, in London. They had met on board the sailing ship Sobraon in 1869, when Emma and her mother, brother Edwin and sister Lizzie were returning from a European trip and Dudley Batty was making a sea voyage for the sake of his health. 

watercolour

family groups
Rouse, Edwin Stephen, 1849-1931.
Rouse, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 1845-1931.
Rouse, Mary Phoebe, 1847-1931.
Rouse, Emma, 1843-1928.
Rouse, Richard, 1842-1903.

Emma Rouse's Beeton's book of household management, 1863. Photo Jacqui Newling © Sydney Living Museums R89/79

Dudley Batty died in 1878 and Emma never returned to Australia. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].

Emma Rouse is the mother of Dudley Batty.

We know that Dudley Batty her son was married with Phoebe Mary Vlieland and he toon photographs of Rouse Hill while visiting.

* South Kensington seems to have been the Batty family home – Comeragh Road, where Phoebe and Dudley lived at Aubrey's birth is just round the corner from Redcliffe Gardens, where Dudley's elder sister was stillborn (20 November 1872, Sydney Herald 27 January 1873) and where he and his wife Emma lived on their marriage (20 July 1871) – officiated by Dudley's two brothers, Edmund and George Staunton, both Reverends (Sydney Herald, 2 October 1871)!

Source: Rouse Hill House & Farm ; R86/513-4

MARRIAGES. On July 20, at St. John's Church, Fulham, by the Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Sydney, assisted by the Rev. Edmund Batty,

vicar, and the Rev. George Staunton Batty, brothers of the

bridegroom, DUDLEY BATTY, Esq., Lieutenant unattached late

66th and 67th Regiments, to EMMA, eldest daughter of the lateFix this text

EDWIN ROUSE, Esq., of Rouse Hall, Australia.

This carte-de-visite is one item within a small album containing photographs of members of the extended Rouse and Terry families.Emma Rouse (1843-1928), was the second child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Terry Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but at the time this photograph was taken she was living with her siblings and widowed mother at Rouse Hill. This carte-de-visite portrait seems to be one of a suite of four studio portraits of Edwin and Hannah's children taken at a single session. In 1871 Emma married Lieutenant Dudley Batty, an English army officer, in London. They had met on board the sailing ship Sobraon in 1869, when Emma and her mother, brother Edwin and sister Lizzie were returning from a European trip and Dudley Batty was making a sea voyage for the sake of his health. Dudley Batty died in 1878 and Emma never returned to Australia. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].

Source:
Rouse Hill House & Farm ; HR88/18-17. The Hamilton Rouse Hill Trust Collection.

Rights:
You may save or print this image for research and study. If you wish to use it for any other purposes, you must contact the Historic Houses Trust to request permission.

Material Type:
Picture
Record number:
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Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen, geboren op 10 januari 1815 te Well
daughter of Wouter van Genderen, landbouwer van beroep
MoederPetronella Wolffers, zonder beroep

Father Johannes van der Voet

Mother Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Deceased Jan Frederik van der Voet, born in Warmond, 43 years old

Partner Christophora Henrica Ernestina Gerharda Lichtenbelt


Marriage on August 21, 1884 in Vleuten, province Utrecht (Netherlands)

Father of groom Johannes van der Voet

Mother of groom Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Groom Jan Frederik van der Voet, born in Warmond, 33 years old

Bride Christophora Henrica E G Lichtenbelt, born in Broek in Waterland, 35 years old

Father of bride Jan Hendrik Lichtenbelt

Mother of bride Johanna Hendrika Wilterdink


Marriage on September 30, 1880 in Vleuten, province Utrecht (Netherlands)

Father of groom Jan Hendrik Lichtenbelt

Mother of groom Johanna Hendrica Wilterdink

Groom Jan Hendrik Lichtenbelt, born in Aalsmeer, 28 years old

Bride Catharina van der Voet, born in Warmond, 24 years old

Father of bride Johannes van der Voet

Mother of bride Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen



Death on February 22, 1936 in Utrecht, province Utrecht (Netherlands)

FatherJohannes van der Voet

MotherAdriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Deceased (female) Catharina van der Voet, 64 years old

PartnerJan Hendrik Lichtenbelt


Marriage (huwelijksakte) on September 30, 1875 in Warmond,

Father of groom Gerardus Adrianus Melchier

Mother of groom Maria Wilhelmina de Jong

Groom Hendrik Willem Melchier, born in Spaarndam, 28 years old

Bride Cornelia van der Voet, born in Warmond, 25 years old

Father of bride Johannes van der Voet

Mother of bride Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen



Marriage (huwelijksakte) on November 25, 1875 in Warmond, province Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)

Father of groom Maarten Spaargaren

Mother of groom Jawiktje Vooren

Groom Johannes Cornelis Spaargaren, born in Oegstgeest, 22 years old

Bride Wilhelmina van der Voet, born in Warmond, 22 years old

Father of bride Johannes van der Voet

Mother of bride Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen








Marriage (huwelijksakte) on May 24, 1877 in Warmond, province Zuid-Holland (Netherlands)

Father of groom Matthijs Willem Spoor


Mother of groom Anitte Klara Krijna van der Gaag

Groom Karel Abram Spoor, born in Voorburg, 23 years old

Bride Aaltje van der Voet, born in Warmond, 24 years old

Father of bride Johannes van der Voet

Mother of bride Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen









Marriage on September 30, 1902 in Zandvoort (Netherlands)






Father of groom Jacobus Everhardus Vlaanderen

Mother of groom Jacoba Johanna Couvee

Groom Jacobus Everhardus Vlaanderen, born in Leiden, 67 years old, hotelhouder by profession

Bride Margaretha van der Voet, born in Warmond, 47 years old

Father of bride Johannes van der Voet

Mother of bride Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Remark Weduwnaar van Cateau Stikkelorum. Weduwe van Cornelis Pieter Vlieland.


Death on July 21, 1928 in Haarlem (Netherlands)

Father Johannes van der Voet

Mother Adriana Wilhelmina van Genderen

Deceased Margaretha van der Voet, born in Warmond, 73 years old

Widower Jacobus Everhardus Vlaanderen

Remark Eerder weduwe van Cornelis Pieter Vlieland






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Richard Rouse

The plaque erected by the employees of Guntawang commemorates Richard Rouse (1842-1903)

Richard Rouse (1842-1903) and Richard junior (1843-1906), pastoralists and stud-breeders, were first cousins and grandsons of Richard Rouse of Rouse Hill. Richard was born on 2 January 1842 at Guntawang, near Mudgee, New South Wales, eldest son of Edwin Rouse, grazier. In 1861 he managed Guntawang, 4000 acres (1619 ha) on the Cudgegong River near Mudgee and inherited it on the death of his father the next year.

He bred pedigree carriage horses, cattle and merino sheep and Guntawang became noted for its lavish hospitality. He also held other properties. He was also the principal shareholder in the Guntawang Freehold Gold Mining Co. He represented Mudgee in Parliament 1876-77 and 1879. In 1895 he published The Australian Horse Trade, which stressed the breeding advantages of the ’Yorkshire coach-horse’ for the United Service Institution. Rouse was a magistrate and regularly sat on the bench. He was also mayor of Gulgong in 1876 and 1899-1903 and a member of the Union Club and first president of the Gulgong Turf Club in 1871.

Tablet erected by the employees of Guntawang to Charlotte Rouse, the wife of Richard Rouse.

Richard Rouse bred pedigree carriage horses, cattle and merino sheep and Guntawang became noted for its lavish hospitality. He also held other properties. He was also the principal shareholder in the Guntawang Freehold Gold Mining Co.



He represented Mudgee in Parliament 1876-77 and 1879. In 1895 he published The Australian Horse Trade, which stressed the breeding advantages of the ’Yorkshire coach-horse’ for the United Service Institution. Rouse was a magistrate and regularly sat on the bench. He was also mayor of Gulgong in 1876 and 1899-1903 and a member of the Union Club and first president of the Gulgong Turf Club in 1871. Richard married Charlotte Emily, the daughter of James Barnard, in 1865 in Hobart Town.

Lizzie Rouse 1845-1931

Lizzie Rouse 1845-1931


Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rouse (1845-1931) was the third child of Edwin Rouse and his wife Hannah Hipkins and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill. She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but by the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death. This daguerreotype portrait is one of a suite of studio portraits of Edwin and Hannah’s three daughters taken at a single session. The girls were described by a family friend as ‘Blooming Emma’, ‘Laughing Lizzie’, and ‘Phoebe like a fawn’1 – although Lizzie is sombre, not laughing, in this photograph. As a young woman Lizzie travelled back and forth between Australia and England with her mother and siblings. In 1884 she married Scottish-born Major Frederic Buckley Campbell of the Connaught Rangers in London and remained in England for the rest of her life.

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family groups
Rouse, Edwin Stephen, 1849-1931.
Rouse, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 1845-1931.
Rouse, Mary Phoebe, 1847-1931.
Rouse, Emma, 1843-1928.
Rouse, Richard, 1842-1903.

Edwin Stephen Rouse

Early Photographs of Edwin Stephen Rouse and his wife Bessie

The family Rouse outside their home in 1859

Edwin Stephen (1849-1931) married well, in 1874, and Bessie Buchanan (1843-1924) became the mistress of Rouse Hill. (His mother, Hannah, lived much of the remainder of her life in England with two of her daughters). Again the house was redecorated, in Bessie's fashionable taste for Art Decoration, while Edwin Stephen improved the estate, notably by the building of impressive stables in 1876 designed by the architect John Horbury Hunt.

Edwin and Bessie's two daughters, Nina and Kathleen were born in 1875 and 1878, into the leisurely confident world of the late 19th century squattocracy, but the financial troubles of the 1890s - the economic depression that affected city and country alike - cast shadows over this sunlit landscape of picnic races, house parties and seasons in town. Those shadows grew with the 20th century and Edwin Stephen's lack of business sense.


In 1895 Nina Rouse made a socially suitable match with George Terry of nearby Box Hill, where they lived extravagantly for a few years and brought up their five sons, but returned to Rouse Hill, bankrupt and resented by Kathleen, soon after Bessie's death in 1924.


Kathleen, in love with a Latvian emigreé refused residency in Australia and working in Manchuria, travelled to see him in 1930 and again two years later. She never returned from Manchuria; in August 1932 she was murdered in Harbin. The exclusion of her sister and her nephews as beneficiaries of her will caused further conflict within the family and the furnishings of the house narrowly escaped dispersal.


Nina and George Terry remained at Rouse Hill, George dying in 1957. Nina lived on with her reminiscences and the remnants of an affluent past until her death in 1968. As her grand-daughter, Caroline Thornton has written 'Granny seemed to hold the key to another world'.


Attrition of the farm through subdivision left only 100 acres, but in and around the house little was changed, little was added. Nina's son, Gerald, and his family lived in the cottage beyond the farmyard; another son Roderick lived nearby. After further subdivision between her sons, all that remained of the estate was 20 acres (13 hectares) in the ownership of Gerald and Roderick Terry. In 1977 Roderick sold his share of Rouse Hill to his daughter Miriam, and her husband Ian Hamilton.

Rouse, Edwin Stephen (1849–1931)


Mr. Edwin Stephen Rouse, who died at his residence, Rouse Hill House, Rouse Hill, on Tuesday, was a member of a very old Australian family. He was 82 years of age.

Born at Guntawang, he was the younger son of the late Mr. Edwin Rouse of Guntawang and Rouse Hill and a grandson of Mr. Richard Rouse, the pioneer. He was educated at Macquarie Fields and resided at his home at Rouse Hill since 1854. In 1874 he married Miss Elizabeth Ann Buchanan at St. John's Church, Darlinghurst. He and his brother Richard Rouse of Guntawang, were the breeders of a noted breed of carriage horses and also were successful on the turf, winning the Sydney Cup for two successive years with their mare, Viva, the trainer being the veteran Mr Harry Rayner of Randwick. Mr. Rouse was for 60 years a member of the Union Club. Mrs Rouse predeceased him. Two daughters survive him.

The funeral took place at St. Matthew's Church of England cemetery, Windsor, after a service held in the Rouse Hill Church.

The chief mourners were—Mrs. G. A. Terry and Miss Kathleen Rouse (daughters), Mr. G. A. Terry (son in law), Messrs G. R. E. G. and N. Terry (grandsons), Miss Marian Rouse (niece), Mrs. Stanley Rouse (niece), Mr. John G. Rouse (nephew), Mrs. R. B. Terry (granddaughter), Among others present at the graveside were:—Mr. W. Young (representing Mr. R. R. Dangar (nephew), Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Gosling, Miss Pringle, Miss Pendergast, Mrs. Haigh, Miss Mildred Callaghan, Mr. and Mrs. Crowley, Mr. Norman Cox, General Paine, Messrs. J. B. Johnstone, Horsley, Cecil Iceley, Arthur Thompson, Wright, Pearse (senior), E. and C. Pearse, Jamieson, and Nash and the staff of Rouse Hill House.

Edwin Rouse (1806-1862)

Photograph on ivory of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862), hand coloured simulating a miniature painting and mounted in purple velvet case. Possibly intended as a mourning object belonging to either his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) or his youngest son, Edwin Stephen (1849-1931). The design of the case, with integral stand, suggests it was an intimate keepsake intended for travelling.

Edwin Rouse was the fourth child of Richard Rouse (1774-1852), builder of Rouse Hill House in the Parramatta district of New South Wales, and his wife Elizabeth Adams (1772-1849). Born five years after his parents emigrated to New South Wales, Edwin played a key role in the establishment of his father's substantial pastoral holdings near Mudgee, including the property Guntawang. Edwin remained west of the mountains until after the death of his father, marrying Hannah Hipkins in 1840 and residing at Guntawang with their five children. After the death of his father, the family relocated to Rouse Hill House in 1855. [ref. Caroline Rouse Thornton Rouse Hill house and the Rouses 1988].

DEATH.
ROUSE-On the 10th April, at Percy Lodge, Potts' Point, Edwin
Rouse, Esq., of Rouse-hill, near Windsor, aged 56 years.

Edwin (1806-1862), inherited Rouse Hill. With his English-born wife, Hannah (nee Hipkins), Edwin brought the plain, solid Georgian house up to date. After years of living at Guntawang, the principal family property west of the mountains, Edwin and Hannah renovated Rouse Hill, probably engaging the architect-builder James Houison. They added the canopied verandah and the two storeyed service wing, installed marble chimney pieces on the ground floor and bought furniture in the fashionable Louis revival style.


It was Edwin Rouse's other land holdings, beyond the mountains, rather than the Rouse Hill House & Farm, that supported the Rouse family. This wealth was enjoyed into the next generation by Edwin's son, Edwin Stephen Rouse who, aged twelve, inherited Rouse Hill on his father's early death in 1862.


Edwin Stephen (1849-1931) married well, in 1874, and Bessie Buchanan (1843-1924) became the mistress of Rouse Hill. (His mother, Hannah, lived much of the remainder of her life in England with two of her daughters). Again the house was redecorated, in Bessie's fashionable taste for Art Decoration, while Edwin Stephen improved the estate, notably by the building of impressive stables in 1876 designed by the architect John Horbury Hunt.

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family groups
Rouse, Edwin Stephen, 1849-1931.
Rouse, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 1845-1931.
Rouse, Mary Phoebe, 1847-1931.
Rouse, Emma, 1843-1928.
Rouse, Richard, 1842-1903.

Hannah Terry Rouse née Hipkins

Hannah Terry Rouse 1819-1907


Hannah Terry Rouse, nee Hipkins (1819-1907) was born in Tipton, Staffordshire, England, daughter of Stephen and Nancy Hipkins, She came to New South Wales in 1837 with her aunt and namesake Hannah Terry, widow of John Swan Terry and sister-in-law of well-known Sydney wealthy emancipist Samuel Terry. Hannah Hipkins met her future husband Edwin Rouse, third son of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill, at the Terry family property Box Hill, near Windsor, the home of Edwin’s sister Eleanor Terry. They married in 1840 and lived for the first fifteen years of their marriage on the Rouse family property . By the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the estate following his father's death. In her long life Hannah travelled to Australia and back to England four times, spending more and more time in England. She died at Brighton, Sussex, in 1907.

She was the mother of Emma Rouse .

Emma Rouse (1843-1928), was the second child of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) and his wife Hannah Hipkins (1819-1907) and was a granddaughter of Richard and Elizabeth Rouse of Rouse Hill in the Parramatta district of New South Wales.
She was born at the Rouse family property Guntawang near Mudgee but by the time this photograph was taken, probably in late 1855, Edwin and Hannah Rouse and their children had come to live at Rouse Hill, Edwin having taken responsibility for the property following his father's death. In 1871 Emma married Lieutenant Dudley Davison Batty, an English army officer, in London. They had met on board the sailing ship Sobraon in 1869, when Emma and her mother, brother Edwin and sister Lizzie were returning from a European trip and Dudley Batty was making a sea voyage for the sake of his health.

Hannah Rouse’s cameo ring
This cameo ring is probably a travel souvenir. It belonged to Hannah Terry Rouse (1819-1907), the widow of Edwin Rouse (1806-1862) of Rouse Hill House and it is likely that she bought it during her ‘Grand Tour’ of Europe in 1868-1869, when she was accompanied by two of her daughters and her younger son, Edwin Stephen Rouse. Hannah owned a copy of John Murray’s Handbook to Rome and its Environs which she bought while staying at the Hotel d’Angleterre in Rome in February 1869. This guidebook provided advice on where to buy antiquities, mosaics and cameos. Cameo jewellery was a fashionable memento of a trip to Italy and immensely popular during the reign of Queen Victoria. They often depicted subjects drawn from ancient Rome, such subjects being thought to connote the wearer’s connoisseurship, taste, and classical learning. Hannah’s ring features a profile of the Roman Emperor Augustus. It is made of moulded white glass adhered to a dark glass ground and is set in a twisted gold rope frame. Hannah is wearing it in a photograph taken in the studio of London photographers Elliott & Fry, perhaps taken shortly before her return to Australia.

Hannah Rouse’s onyx brooch


There are several mysteries about this elegant enamelled gold brooch, beginning with its date and original owner. It is believed to have belonged to Hannah Terry Rouse, nee Hipkins (1819-1907) of Rouse Hill House, and to have been acquired following the death of her husband Edwin Rouse in 1862. The brooch, 2.5cm in diameter, certainly has the appearance of a mourning brooch, with a central onyx encircled with a band of black enamel set with seed pearls, denoting tears. The pearls are also ‘colourless’ and therefore appropriate for mourning but the onyx is polished to reveal a narrow band of white in the black and the combination of white and black was fashionable in Victorian times, representing a form of elegant reticence for married women of a certain age. Mourning brooches of this kind would usually have a glass back containing a lock of the loved one’s hair. There is no such compartment on this brooch but there is evidence that the back has been remade and the safety pin is definitely a later addition. Perhaps the original back was replaced because the glass had broken?

DEATH OF MRS ROUSE



News has come to Sydney of the


death, at Brighton, England, on the
4th instant, of Mrs Hannah T. Rouse,
a very old colonist, at the age of 87
years. She was the widow of the late
Mr Edwin Rouse, of Rouse Hill and
Guntawang. Her eldest son, Mr Ric-
hard Rouse, of Guntawang, died three
years ago. Three daughters and one
son survive her—namely, Mrs Dudley
Batty (Brighton), Mrs Frederick
Campbell (Kent), Mrs A. A. Dangar
(Baroona, Singloton), and Mr Edwin
S. Rouse (Rouse Hill).
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family groups her children
Rouse, Edwin Stephen, 1849-1931.
Rouse, Elizabeth (Lizzie), 1845-1931.
Rouse, Mary Phoebe, 1847-1931.
Rouse, Emma, 1843-1928.
Rouse, Richard, 1842-1903.