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Subject: Re: Titus & Ester Farmer
Date: 10 Jan 2006 20:54:59 -0700

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Hi,

I have gathered a fair bit of information on the Farmers over a decade ago but haven't done very much with it. I have not looked at it for several years so I am a bit rusty about what I have got. Some has been researched by myself but a lot I was given.
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Joe Moore

His children were:
Titus Wallis
Daniel c1841 Essex
William b1843 died on voyage
Edward Jan 1855 Chilwell
Ellen Bichard spt 1857 Chilwell
Jane Bichard Sept 1857

I wrote the following two paragraphs a long time ago which is part of a summary of the family. I tend to collect bits and pieces of family facts and stories rather than dates.

Titus (jnr) was born in Essex probably at Halstead and came out to Victoria in 1849. His father Titus and his mother Esther(Wallis) and his two brothers William and Daniel made up the family on the ship Travancore( I have an account of the ship’s voyage by another of the passengers). The Travancore was hired as a part of a scheme by John Dunmore Lang to bring "good Protestants" to settle Australia. The ships were especially fitted out and only people of outstanding character were chosen and generally they were skilled as well. They were enticed to Australia with promises of land but, as Titus’s younger brother was to later complain, there was no land available that met their expectations when they arrived.

Titus and the family settled in Geelong in Pakington st. He opened a store and I assume that it was as a currier that he conducted business. This being his profession (a currier was a person who dressed leather for further treatment). In the subsequent years Titus bought land in the parish of Moorlap, lived in Chilwell (now called Newtown and which I think was used interchangeably with Geelong.) and started the move to Caramut where the family was to make a substantial impact. In this time he became an inn keeper and his name might have become confused with his son’s in the history books of the area. He died in 1869 but his death was preceded by the death of his son William and the birth of Jane Bichard in Geelong in 1857 and of several other children some of whom may have not been recorded. At least two of the children died within a year of their birth. The following names also appear in the registers but at this stage I am unable to see how they fit in: Sarah Ann d!
aughter of Jane Farmer, Chilwell 1862; John Lloyd Farmer son of Sarah Farmer, Chilwell 1858.

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