Thomas Mason
Born: 26 Jan 1857 in Hurtle Vale, Adelaide SA.
Parents: Joseph Mason and Ellen Kirk
Married: Catherine Eaves (b. 19 Jul 1865) married 1881 in VIC
Died:
Details
Thomas was born on the 26th of January in 1857 in Hurtle Vale, Adelaide SA.
From Mannings Place Names of Sth Aust: HURTLE VALE - east of McLaren Vale
was 'visited by a party of gentlemen, including David McLaren, and named
after the first Commissioner of Crown Lands, James Hurtle Fisher.' Its
Aboriginal name was kowie-munilla. The name was applied to a subdivision of
section 501, Hundred of Noarlunga, when John Wauchope cut it up into 16
allotments circa 1853. Bailliere's South Australian Gazetteer of 1866 simply says "Hurtle Vale, County Hindmarsh, is the name given to an alluvial flat running down to a tea-tree scrub swamp, and lying near the township of Reynella. Much of this flat is taken up for cultivation purposes.
He married Catherine Jane Teresa Eaves in 1881 in Victoria. She was born on the 19th July 1865, (daughter of William Walking/Wilking Eaves and Louisa Reit).
In 1903, the Victorian Electorial Roll lists them as living in Mandurang (near Bendigo). Thomas was listed as a farmer, Catherine as home duties.
Children
They had 11 children:
- Herbert Mason
- Nellie Mason, b. abt 1886, d. 1889 in Whroo, VIC aged 3.
- Alice Violet Mason, b. abt 1888, d. 1889 in Whroo, VIC aged 1.
- Agatha Olive Louisa Mason, b. 1889 in Whroo. She married Jno James, married 1921.
- Evelyn Ann Mason, b. 1892 in Barraport, VIC.
- Thomas Mason, b. 1894 in Barraport, VIC.
- Edward Conrad Mason
- Catherine Eulalie Elizabeth Mason, b. 1898 in Barraport, VIC.
- Anges Ruth Amy Mason, b. 1902 in Barraport, VIC, d. 1904.
- George Rupert Mason, b. 1902 in Barraport, VIC, d. 1903 in Bendigo, VIC aged 1.
- Pauline Joyce Maude Mason, b. 1903 in Barraport, VIC. She married Jos Noel Vickers, married 1926.