Allbeury

 Copies of documents kept by Alma Glover Allbeury House Purchase 1888 Document 1 Hand written letter and newspaper clippings Allbeury House Purchase 1888 Document 2 Handwritten transcription from original see document 1 above Mrs Allbeury 21 Aug 1888 Montague St (would have been South Melb) Dear Madam I made enquiries about the house you wrote about. I find the prices is raised to £600. Terms £50 deposit & balance as may be arranged. I send you particulars of another at £460. This one is not far from Camberwell Station & is in a prime high position but has the disadvantage in it distance from town but Camberwell is a very rising place. The house in (Hull or Hill st) is in a convenient position close to the train in Richmond, it is on the top of a hill going towards Kew. I heard of a wooden cottage in John St Hawthorn to rent 14/- per week, four rooms, bath, pantry [...?]. This is close to Glenferrie station & is in [...?] hands and he could show it to Mrs Foster. I hope...

Another item from the collection of Alma Glover (ongoing thanks) Transcription HENRY HERBERT & MARY KING of Bellvue Terrace, Rae Street, North Fitzroy.  Foster parents to the orphaned children of JOHN GEORGE & HARRIET ANN ALLBEURY, of Spencer St a& 62 Montague St, South Melbourne, September 1988. Henry was a Carriage Painter by trade & according to Auntie Doris, they were really wonderful people; the children of James & Evelyn (nee Allbeury) STREITBERG called them Grandma and Grandpa & I think in their latter years they may have lived in SUDBURY, the family fame at Darnum.  At least the rumour has it that one or other of them, or may-be both, died there of food poisoning (I shall work on that part of the story at some later date.) I don't know if they had a family of their own, but I have not heard of any. Auntie Doris remembers them from when she lived there as a child, with her parents and brothers and sisters at Shoobra Rd, Elsternwick, before they m...

   Letter to Berry Caithness  (nee Peterkin) from Marie Louise Backhurst (Grouville Jersey 16 Oct 1980 Names mentioned Henry Allbeury Elizabeth Gibaut Thomas Falle Elizabeth Falle Moise Gibaut Sarah Gavey Thomas Falle Moise-Amice Gibaut Jeanne Touzel Jean Gibaut Phillipe Gibaut Letter from Jack Allbeury 14 June 1978.  I've included the map of Melbourne General Cemetery that shows the Allbeury plots.  I haven't included printouts of nineteen century newspapers. Go to TROVE and search for Allbeury.  Key content: Henry G - died 3/1/1870 aged 3 years Bienamee - died 25/4/1887 aged 15 years Capt John George - died 5/6/1887 aged 61 years Harriet A Goding - died 14/91888 aged 50 years Letter from Mrs G Dolbel (sic) to Evelyn Streitberg undated but circa 1914.  The first is a cover note by Bess Peterkin and a transcription of the letter and the second a copy of the letter.  These entries are copied onto other pages of the blog as well. The square bracket ...

  Jerripedia has extensive information on the Dolbel's including the following family connections https://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Descendants_of_Daniel_Dolbel 6 James Dolbel (1800-11/1851, ae 51y, 4m) (St H > St J) liv. 1825  [13]  m (11/1823, St H)  Jeanne Marie Le Boutillier  (St J) d of Jean David  [14] 7 Mary Dolbel (1828?- )  [15] 7 William Dolbel (1830- ) (St J)  [16]  m (1866, St J) Eliza Mary Fauvel d of John (St S)  [17]  no issue 7 James Graham Dolbel (1832-1871) (St J)  [18]  m (1858 Lancs.) Louisa Albury d  of Henry   [19] 8 William James Graham Dolbel (1859-1874) (Eng.)  [20] 8 James Dolbel (1861- ) (St J)  [21] 8 John George Dolbel (1861- ) (St J > USA)  [22]  m (11/1892, Rhode Is.) Grace M. Watts (Rhode Is., USA) 9 James G. Dolbel? (USA) 9 Louisa A. Dolbel? (USA) 7 Anne Dolbel (1834- ) (St J)  [23] 7 Horatio Diamond Dolbel (1836-1897) (St J > USA)  [24...