UPDATE: In less than twenty-four hours of posting the photo, an Australian descendant of Susan (Marrinan/Willis) Moreland (her grand-daughter) wrote that:
Rather than delete this blog post about our Australian Moreland ancestors, I have decided to leave it here to honour Charles, Susan and Ena Mary Moreland (who died August 26th )and hopefully one day, I will find photographs to add to our tree."Thanks for the photo. I don't think this is my family in the photo... In 1941 the war was on and my mother was living with my Nanna Susan Moreland (her mother-in-law). She ... definitely didn't go overseas then or to my knowledge ever. Ena Mary Moreland (that's what written on her death certificate) did die on 26th August 2010. She was 17 in 1941. She was the daughter of Charles Moreland and Susan Moreland. Ena was deaf and had no children. She never went overseas, that I know for sure..."
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| Picture known as "Visitors from Australia" taken at Tufts's Cove, Nova Scotia In the private collection of Barbara (Creighton) Huston Picture taken summer 1941 with Dorothy (Moreland) Creighton and her children: Kenny was 1 (born Aug 1940), Barbara 7, Claire 11 and three visitors from Australia |
In 2010, my cousin Bruce Creighton (who has researched the Creighton name extensively) shared with me that our 2nd great grandfather Charles Moreland 1858–1930 (born in Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland) died on the 6th of August, 1930 in Melbourne,Victoria, Australia.
Charles was the eldest son of James Moreland (1836-1901) and Mary Mulholland (1839-1896) who both were born in Antrim, Northern Ireland and died in Dunoon, Argyll, Scotland
Charles married three times:
- Marriage to Agnes Bell Hind (1852-1888) on the 27th of February 1877 in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
- Marriage to Elizabeth Wright (1850-1920) in 1896 in Sydney, New South Wales.
- Marriage to Susan Marrinan (1875-1961) in 1922 in Victoria, Australia
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| The Family Group Sheet for Charlees Moreland |
Charles Moreland Was A Fireman His Entire Life
The earliest records of Charles show him as a "fireman & trimmer" on ships. A "fireman" in this context is not someone who puts out fires but rather someone who maintains fires on a ship.- A fireman, stoker or watertender is a person whose occupation it is to tend the fire for the running of a boiler, heating a building, or powering a steam engine. Much of the job is hard physical labor, such as shoveling fuel, typically coal, into the boiler's firebox.
- A coal trimmer or trimmer is a position within the engineering department of a coal-fired ship which involves all coal handling tasks, starting with the loading of coal into the ship and ending with the delivery of the coal to the stoker or fireman.
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| Stoker Coaling one of the Furnaces in the Stokehold of a Steamship c 1910 The Scientific American | GG Archives Maritime Collection |
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| Source: My Ancestor Was A Stoker - PressReader https://www.pressreader.com › who-do-you-think-you-are-magazine |
The earliest ship's manifest shows 31 year-old Charles aboard the ship Balmoral Castle in March 1889 sailing from Glasgow to New South Wales, Australia one of 11 fireman. (Charle's first wife Agnes had died on the 3rd of January 1888. All of their three children, Catherine, John (my great grandfather) and Mary, were sent to workhouses in Scotland and Agnes' (who was the illegitimate daughter Jemima) was sent to Canada as part of the British Home Children movement.)
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Finding Ena Moreland - Too Late
My cousin Bruce believes that one of the women in the photo at Tuft's Cove was Ena Moreland daughter of Charles Moreland and Susan Willis. (Could the other one be her mother Susan Moreland who died in 1961?) In 2010, Bruce wrote:
"I've found another relative. The sad thing is, she just died last week before we could get information to her. Ena Moreland lived in Australia.... Ena was Nana's half Aunt (great-grandfather John Moreland's half sister)....
Ena was born in 1924. Charles died in 1930. Here's the story, as Bruce was told (edited)...
- "Charles left in the mid-1880's to Australia. He left children Catherine, John and Mary with our great-great-grandmother Agnes Belle. Agnes died in 1888 and Charles hadn't returned, so John and Mary ended up in the Lochgilhead Asylum aka Poor House (as known by the 1891 census). Not sure what happened to Catherine at this point. Then when I see John's 1916 Attestation Papers for WW1 he has his father, Charles, living in Melbourne Australia."
- "In 1916 in Australia, Charles was married to Elizabeth Wright. I'm not sure if they have any children. I cannot find any yet. Elizabeth died in 1920."
- "Charles then marries Susan Willis in 1922 and they have their only child Ena."
- Story passed on by Willis descendants still living in Australia: "Ena was sick when she was 7 which caused her to become deaf. When Charles passed away, Susan sent Ena to the Waratah School for the Deaf in Sidney so that she could learn sign language and read lips and Ena went home school holidays to her mother and siblings"
- "Susan died in 1961. She's buried with Charles and her first husband James" (The cemetery iss called Cobourg Pine Ridge and can be searched here: http://www.gmct.com.au/deceased-search/).
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| Source: Ancestor Search GMTC Public |
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| Source: Death Notice for James Willis The Age; 2 Sep 1921 |
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| Susan Moreland Funeral Notice; The Age (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) · 6 May 1961, Sat · Page 21 |
from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=pu...The registration numbers below
MORELAND Charles ; Father Moreland James Mother Mary MULHOLLAND ; Death Place FITZROY 72 years 1930 Reg #9472 (see death certificate below shared with me by Erin Sullivan) MORELAND Susan ; Father Marrinan Unkno Mother UNKNOWN ; Death Place Kew ; 86 years 1961 Reg#8161 Inquest Index : MORELAND Susan; 1961 Reference 872 ; Cause Cardio Vascular Degeneration ; Inq Date 19 May 1961 WILLIS James; Father James WILLIS Mother Mary NEIL; Died at Fitzroy 41 years 1921 Reg#9849; MORELAND Elizabeth; Father WRIGHT Thomas Mother Ann SMITH; 70 years 1920 Reg#11550
MORELAND Charles aged 72 years was buried on 6 Aug 1930 [very much doubt if he died the same day] MORELAND Susan age 86 years was buried on 2 May 1961 and also in the same grave : WILLIS James aged 41 years was buried on 2 Sep 1921 (Susan's first husband); "WILLIS James aged 41 years was buried on 2 Sep 1921" death notice of James WILLIS, published 2 Sep 1921; http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/206705884?searchTe...
WILLIS. - On the 1st September, at his residence, No. 38 St. David Street, Fitzroy, James, the dearly loved husband of Susan Willis, loving father of Dorothy and James, and loved brother of Cis and Em, aged 41 years. At rest.
MORELAND Charles 33 Hancock Street, South Melbourne Fireman MORELAND Elizabeth 33 Hancock Street, South Melbourne Home duties
MORELAND Charles 44 Stead Street, South Melbourne Fireman MORELAND Elizabeth 44 Stead Street, South Melbourne Home duties
MORELAND Charles 44 Stead Street, South Melbourne Fireman
WILLIS Susan 30 King Street, PRAHRAN
MORELAND Susan 93 Napier Street, Fitzroy Home duties
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Australian Death Record for Charles Moreland. 1930 (with thanks t Erin Sullivan) |
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| Australian Death Record for Charles Moreland. details (enlarged) |
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| Australian Death Record for Charles Moreland. details (enlarged) |
This blog post was possible with thanks to information from Bruce Creighton, Erin Sullivan, Vicki Willis, and Candybella @ ancestry. I am grateful for the help of Willis descendants in Australia who have clarified that the three Australian visitors are NOT our MOreland kin.
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