Billiard Room
In Franklin on the 27th day of June 1857, Mary Ann Brady (née Furlong) married William Davies. Together they had five children, including twins who did not survive.
Mary Ann also had children to a previous husband (Francis Brady; drowned aged 28) who were brought up by their aunt & uncle Hill. Francis had arrived in Hobart with his family in 1833 (4 yrs old) from Ireland. He married Mary Ann in 1851.
(1) William Lewis Davies (b. 30 Jan 1860 - d. 27 Sep 1901)
(2) Anne Tidwal Davies (b. 4 Jan 1862 - d. 1947)
(3) Arthur Francis Davies (b. 19 Apr 1864 - d. 24 Sep 1935)
(4) & (5) Alfred Edward & Lily Davies (b. 22 Jun 1866 - d. 5 Jul 1866)
(1) William Lewis Davies was educated at the local state school in Geeveston.
He was then apprenticed for six years in Hobart as a blacksmith.
Upon completion he returned to Geevston where he acquired 100 acres of land;
8 of which he laid out as an orchard and is said to have cleared the land himself and planted 1200+ trees. William died, aged 41, unmarried.
William Lewis Davies.
(2) Anne Tidwal Davies married John Joseph O'Halloran in Geeveston on 26th Apr 1893. John was educated in horticulture and had a large property in Geeveston
(including 5 and a half acres of orchard). They had six children:
(i) John William Patrick O'Halloran (b. 13 Mar 1894 - )
(ii) Phillip Clement O'Halloran (b. 15 Dec 1895 - )
(iii) Thomas 'Hugh' O'Halloran (25 Sep 1897 - Nov 1985)
(iv) William Aloysius O'Halloran (14 Sep 1899 - 14 May 1964)
(v) Cicely Mary O'Halloran (22 Nov 1901 - )
(vi) Arthur Joseph O'Halloran (11 Jul 1904 - )
(3) In Southport on 21st Feb 1900 Arthur Francis Davies married Margaret Kennedy.
They had nine children:
(i) Mary Margaret Davies (17 Mar 1901 - 12 Sep 1985)
(ii) William Lewis Davies (21 Apr 1902 - 9 Nov 1961)
(iii) Anne Theresa Davies (25 Nov 1903 - 20 Jul 1976)
(iv) Margaret Mary Davies (26 Aug 1905 - 26 Jul 1964)
(v) Arthur Patrick Davies (10 Mar 1907 - 1919)
(vi) Theresa Genevieve Davies (19 Jun 1909 - 10 Nov 1975)
(vii) John Joseph Davies (1 Dec 1911 - 20 Jul 1978)
(viii) Harold Joseph Davies (3 Jun 1914 - 6 Feb 1948)
(ix) Gerard Joseph Davies (13 May 1917 - ) (m. Veronica Dillon) (Aunty Monica)
Arthur was born in Honeywood in the Huon District, but relocated his family to Port Cygnet to pursue the orcharding business. Arthur became assitant to Matthew Fitzpatrick (leading businessman in that district) and set up an orchard at 'Glen Fern' which at the time was but a cattle run; he cultivated 12 acres as an orchard.
Cicely Mary O'Halloran.
Portraits of Arthur Francis Davies.
Arthur's pictured here (middle front) with the first Municipal Council of Port Cygnet in 1908..
He was warden for 17 years.
Margaret and Arthur Davies.
Much of the information above was compiled from the Coad's history of Cygnet.
Many thanks and much respect to those responsible for the compilation.
Margaret (née Kennedy) Davies (b. 10 Apr 1881 d. 26 Sep 1925) died aged 44.
Mary, being the eldest child, became the maternal figurehead of the family.
Bill (Arthur and Margaret's second child) married Mildred Catherine Daly ('Millie') and had a daughter:
Veronica Mary Davies (b. 23 Jan 1943).
Margaret (the third child) became Sister Patrick Mary (of the Sisters of St Joseph).
Gerard (the youngest child) married Veronica Dillon ('Monica'). They had two children:
(i) Paul Gerard Davies (b. 14 Aug 1952)
(ii) Susan Margaret Davies (b. 14 Jul 1954)
Jack (John Joseph Davies) was Arthur and Margaret's seventh child. In 1940, on the 17th of July he was enlisted to serve in WWII. In the jungles of New Guinea he was shot in the arm by a Japanese assailant and was discharged on May 6th 1944. Before he went to war however John Joseph Davies married Marion Annie Hall and in 1947, on the 15th day of January, Marion gave birth to their only child, Anthony John Davies ('Tony').
above: Gerard and Jack.
above right: Tess (Teresa), Mary and Jack.
right: Millie, Bill, Sr Gerard (née Kennedy),
Sr Pat, Anne and Tony.
James Hall (b. circa 1850) married Caroline Howard Weeks (b. 19 Jan 1850)
and had a son: Charles Lane Hall (d. 24 Aug 1967).
In Corowa, Victoria, 1912 Charles married Catherine Conrick. They had five children:
(i) Marion Annie Davies (b. 24 Jun 1913 in Warragul, Victoria d. 8 June 1983)
(ii) Frank
(iii) Alice ('Mick' married twice; the second time becoming Alice Milton)
(iv) Ronald Edwin (d. 18 Jul 1990)
(v) Geoff
top left: Marion Annie (née Hall) Davies.
top right: Marion and Jack.
left: Mick and Marion.
above: Jack and Marion.
below: Charles Lane Hall and Tony.
On the first day of July 1825, Richard Beaumont (1804 - 1884) married Mary Drake (1805 - 6th Dec 1887).
In 1838 they had a daughter, Mary Hannah Beaumont.
In 1854 the Beaumonts sailed on the Balmoral from Liverpool to Sydney.
Also on the trip was George Allen Laycock (1830 - 20th Oct 1885).
In Port Sorell on the 28th day of May 1860 George and Mary were married.
Together they had 15 children:
(1) George William Laycock (25th Sep 1857 - )
(2) Alfred Laycock (4th Oct 1861 - 20th Oct 1929)
(3) Joseph Laycock (15th Sep 1862 - )
(4) Beaumont Laycock (10th Oct 1863 - Oct 1920)
(5) Alan Laycock (22nd Feb 1865 - 30th Nov 1902)
(6) Richard Norman Arthur Laycock (11th Aug 1866 - 1930)
(7) Mary Laycock (4th Jun 1868 - )
(8) Anna Laycock (26th Nov 1869 - )
(9) Elizabeth Louisa Laycock (30th Nov 1871 - )
(10) Charlotte Laycock (17th Feb 1873 - )
(11) Ellen Laycock (9th May 1875 - )
(12) John Thomas Laycock (13th Nov 1878 - )
(13) Frances May Laycock (1st May 1881 - 25th Mar 1882)
(14) Charles Freeman Laycock (17th Apr 1883 - 17th Jun 1952)
(15) Florence Ethel Laycock (4th Mar 1885 - )
Mary Hannah Laycock (née Beaumont) passed away on 31st Mar 1912 revered as a pioneer of the Devonport district.
A native of Yorkshire she and her parents arrived in Devonport 1855.
Charles Freeman Laycock married Roseanne Tressize (1882- 24.7.1958). They had five children:
(i) Mary Hannah (28.1.1906 – 21.11.1907 (choked on a pea!)
(ii) Florence Ethel Doreen (6.1.1908 – 31.12.1990) (m. Clarence Charles Augustus McVilly 18.7.1896 - 17.6.1970)
(iii) Hilda Maude (4.12.1910 – 8.5.1972) (m. Frank Dawson)
(iv) Oscar Charles (28.9.1914 – 20.3.2002) (‘Tom’)
(v) Bonnie Robin (28.10.1919 – 1919) (died at birth)
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Tom thought his mother’s maiden name was ‘Price’,
but on he and Val’s marriage certificate
‘Tressize’ was put in place of ‘Price’.
No one thus far has located a birth record
(or much information at all) for Roseanne.
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Rose Laycock (née Tressize)
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Tom married Valerie May Nurse (b. 1925) on the 9th day of November 1948.
In Stanley on the 29th day of September 1920, Stanley George Nurse (b. 9 Jun 1890 in Hinckley, England, d. 20 Mar 1957 in Latrobe) married Ada Gertrude Wainwright (b. 26 Aug 1897 d. 19 Jun 1965). They had five children:
(i) Aileen Annie Nurse (b. 22 Jul 1921 d. 3 Nov 2007)
(ii) Geoffrey George Nurse (b. 10 Oct 1923 d. 29 Aug 1990)
(iii) Valerie May Laycock (b. 22 Mar 1925)
(iv) Audrey Clare Treanor (b. 20. Oct 1928 d. 24 Jul 2014)
(v) Robert Stanley Nurse (b. 9 Jun 1936)
l-r back: Stanley, Aileen, Val and Geoff.
l-r front: Audrey, Robert and Ada.
Tom, Suzanne, Val, Christopher, Jennifer and Kerry
Tom, Suzanne and Val