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James William Petterd b 12/5/1880 A marriage between Aspacia Palfreyman and James William Petterd, son of Ja mes Augustus Petterd and Elizabeth Ann Miles, gives us the opportuni ty to delve into the unusual names of the Palfreyman children and the top ic by Louis Daniels, gives an interesting insight into the times. Louis D aniels is also related to the Miles family by marriage and has been very g enerous with his research. This article was first printed in the "Tasmani an Ancestry Magazine", September 2002 and I thank Louis for his permissi on to use it in our Petterd history. Patriarch and Pilot - By Louis Daniels, Canberra, ACT (Thanks to Lou for p ermission to use this material). Isaac Hardcastle Palfreyman and Arthur Leonard Long: Grandfather and Gran dson Many researchers of family history checking marriages in Hobart around t he turn of the century will have found ceremonies conducted by the Rev 'd I H Palfreyman of the King Street Church, North Hobart. My curiosity w as aroused by the fact that he married my great-grandmother Amy Clea ry to three different husbands, in 1900, 1903 and in 1917. On the documen ts for the first two he described her as a spinster, and the third ti me as a widow. At least the first was correct. Then I discovered that his eldest daughter, Amy, had married the neph ew of my great-grandmother's grandmother, Thomas Long. That was enou gh to set me off to find out more about him. Isaac Hardcastle Palfreyman was born in Hartington, Derbyshire in 1835, s on of staunch Methodists, Thomas and Elizabeth Palfreyman, who liv ed on a farm belonging to the Duke of Devonshire. He was educated at t he Independent College, Rotherham, Yorkshire, and was ordained in the Cana an Street Church, Nottingham, by the Rev'd Dr S Antcliff, in 1859. He w as assistant pastor at Rotherham Primitive Methodist Chapel, and then beca me pastor of the Chapel at Grantham, Lincolnshire until he respond ed to a call to the colonies. Isaac came to Victoria from England in 1861 to be assistant pastor at t he Humffray Street Primitive Methodist Mission in Ballarat. Two years lat er he moved to Benalla, and four years later to Longford in Tasmania, taki ng charge of that circuit in 1872. In 1874 he moved to the Penguin and Ta ble Cape Circuit on the North West Coast, running a large farm at Table Ca pe at the same time. In 1881 Palfreyman moved to Hobart to be pastor of the Murray Street Fr ee Methodist Church. However he seems to have been something of a free sp irit, for after two years he and some friends broke with the Free Methodis ts and established their own Independent Church in King Street, North Hoba rt, (now Upper Pitt Street). There he built a wooden Church with seati ng for 200, and recruited a sizeable congregation. Services were held twi ce each Sunday, with a large Sunday school and an active Band of Hope, a t emperance movement. My grandmother Tiny Allan attended the Sunday scho ol as a child, as her Bible was a prize awarded for memorising a Bible ver se. The King Street Church is now a Scout Hall. The Cyclopedia of Tasmania includes a feature on Isaac Palfreyman with a p hotographic portrait. By 1900, so it says, Palfreyman was "in the decli ne of life, and is assisted in his Church work by efficient laymen." The a uthor was not to know that his years of decline would last another 20 year s, and the number of marriages performed by him continued at a high rate u ntil almost the end of his life. Almost all of them took place, not in t he Church, but in the impressive Palfreyman home, "Hardcastle", just arou nd the corner. Many of them were couples from rural areas, and also ma ny remarriages after divorce, none of whom would have been married by t he mainstream churches. Many more were mixed marriages, contracted betwe en couples avoiding the stress of either Catholic or Anglican requirement s. The impression is given that many were quite perfunctory affairs, wi th members of the Palfreyman family standing in as witnesses. He was the minister to whom you went if your local Church was out of the q uestion. Divorce made remarriage in Church very difficult, certainly f or Anglicans and Roman Catholics. The marriage records were written in va rious handwriting styles, so his family most likely helped out as Isaac 's penmanship grew progressively more feeble. One feature of his servi ce seems to have been an automatic notice in the Mercury soon after the ev ent, perhaps a way of alerting friends and relatives that the deed had be en done. The King Street Church seems to have faded away after its founde r's death in 1921. Isaac married Martha Lucy Albury, granddaughter of the pioneer Primitive M ethodist minister in Victoria, the Rev'd John Ride. They were marri ed at Brighton, Victoria, on 29 March 1867, and they had a family of seven teen, the first two born at Longford, Tasmania, the next two born at Brigh ton, in Melbourne, then five at Emu Bay (Burnie), Tasmania, and the re st in Hobart after Isaac came there to minister. He died on 3 June 19 21 at "Hardcastle", his home in the angle of Arthur and Andrew Streets, No rth Hobart, aged 87. He had the house built in 1887 for his large fami ly of fifteen children, soon to be enlarged by two more. This historic ho me has been restored in recent years. Martha Palfreyman died 10 Novemb er 1930, aged 83. Isaac was a wealthy man, investing 500 pounds, a third of the original cap ital, in H Jones & Co, and so launched the brilliant financial career of h is son, Achelon. Perhaps the business acumen noted in his children was in herited from their reverend father. Many have noted the curious preference for names beginning with "A" in t he Palfreyman family. Someone with a more literary turn of mind may be ab le to source the more unusual ones. · Martha Lucy (Amy) Palfreyman, born 24 February 1868, Longford, (856), ma rried Thomas LONG, 20 December 1893, King Street Church, North Hobart, di ed 28 March 1958, Teatree, aged 90. · Agnes Edna Palfreyman, born 26 January 1869, Longford, (824), died 5 Mar ch 1869, Longford, (244), aged one month · Addison Thomas Palfreyman, born December 1870, Brighton, Victoria, (1870 ), chemist, lived 5 Boa Vista Road, New Town, died 6 November 1961, at h is home, aged 90. *"Addison - probably named after Joseph Addison essayist and magazine prop rietor" · Abelard William Palfreyman, born 1871, Brighton, Victoria, (7490), solic itor and notary public, Cue, W A, died 27 December 1915, Western Australi a, aged 44, buried Cornelian Bay *"Abelard perhaps named after the monk who famously got involved with Helo ise, niece of a Canon. Lost his enthusiasm for life for it!" · Athanard Joseph Palfreyman, born 1873, draper, Hobart, died 18 May 190 6, at his parents' home, North Hobart, from pernicious anaemia, (0288), ag ed 33. *"Athanard, probably Saxon" · Achelon Williscroft Palfreyman, born 17 January 1874, Emu Bay, (329) mar ried Ellen Gwendoline REID, 24, 28 March 1900, King Street Church, North H obart, partner in H Jones & Co, lived St Leonards Sydney, died 24 Octob er 1967, Toorak, Melbourne, aged 67. *"Achelon probably Biblical and also Saxon". · Aspacia Palfreyman, born 21 July 1875, (345), married James William PETT ERD, 24, son of James Augustus Petterd & Elizabeth Miles, engineer, 24 Oct ober 1904, King Street Church, North Hobart. *Aspacia, Well known courtesan, good friend of Pericles" · Albany Rupert Palfreyman, born 19 August 1876, Emu Bay, (335), died 20 J uly 1966, 2 Bellevue Parade, New Town, aged 89. · Ayesha Palfreyman, born 9 February 1878, Emu Bay, (353), married Harry C arruthers FRIEND, 30, banker, 8 September 1902, King Street Church, Nor th Hobart. *"Ayesha, from Rider Haggard's "She", the Mountain Chieftainess of "she w ho must be obeyed". · Myra Palfreyman, born 11 July 1879, Emu Bay, (843), died 8 April 1908, H obart, (1422), aged 23. · Isaac Hobart Palfreyman, born 1882, (873), died 24 May 1883, Hobart, (87 3), aged one. · Martha Harriett Palfreyman, born 12 April 1883, Hobart, (810) · Aristides Isaac Palfreyman, born 1 September 1884, Hobart, (2276), marri ed Evelyn Marguerite Anderson, 20, 6 November 1909, King Street Church, No rth Hobart, died 4 April 1967, Hobart, aged 82. *"Aristides, Classical Greek." · Athelstan Aysene Palfreyman, born 1 October 1886, Hobart, (1399), marri ed Amy Pearl, died 25 March 1948, 2 Bellevue Parade, New Town, aged 61. A my died 5 April 1955. *"Athelstan - Saxon King". · Olive Quintencin Palfreyman, born 5 June 1888, Hobart, (262) *"Quintencin - 15th child" (Quindecem/im 15th) · Arthur Sedecin Palfreyman, born 13 November 1889, Hobart, (1522), di ed 5 September 1895, Hobart, aged five, (294) *"Sedecin - 16th child" (Sedeem/im 16th) · Anderbon Eric Palfreyman, born 7 July 1892, Hobart, enlisted 17 May 191 6, 2nd Lieutenant, 3rd Royal Flying Corps, killed in action, 23 May 191 6, Belgium, aged 25. Amy was the eldest of the family, registered as "Martha L", presumably Mar tha Lucy, after her mother, but obviously renamed later, as another daught er was called Martha in 1883. Perhaps two Martha Lucys in one house was t oo confusing. She married Thomas Long, a pioneer of sheep breeding in Tas mania. He introduced purebred Shropshire sheep on his Forcett proper ty in 1895, and when he bought "Torwood" at Teatree in 1906 he created o ne of Tasmania's leading studs, along with Thomas Burbury of Jericho, a nd Studley Steele of Lewisham. He was a master exhibitor, famed for his m eticulous preparation of his sheep, and successfully exhibited at the Hoba rt, Launceston and Melbourne Shows for about 40 years, often dominating t he ring by gaining awards in every class. Around 1915 he joined Burbury a nd Steele in exporting stud sheep to Japan, and "Torwood" bloodlines cou ld be found all over Australia. He also judged several sheep breeds at Ta smanian and Melbourne Shows. He took a leading role in public life, serving an unbroken 26 years as a B righton Councillor from the inception of local government in 1908 until 19 34. He was chairman of Teatree ward, and was instrumental in having the b oundaries between Brighton and Richmond revised to facilitate the more equ itable distribution of maintenance funds on the roads linking the two muni cipalities. On 10 March 1930 he was appointed a Justice of the Peace. F or many years he was a Churchwarden of St Thomas's Teatree. Thomas and Amy were married for 62 years. He died on 1 August 1955, ag ed 92. Amy died 28 March 1958, at "Torwood", aged 90. Their most famous son was Arthur Leonard Long, born 15 August 1896, at For cett (2443). He enlisted on 31 May 1915, in the 6th Australian Flying Cor ps, and rose quickly to the rank of Lieutenant. He transferred to the Roy al Flying Corps, and returned to Australia on 27 May 1919. He became a St ock & Share broker, and married Mary McKenzie on 8 July 1919, the daught er of Dr Forbes McKenzie, of Melbourne. Arthur Long was the first man to fly across Bass Strait, on 16 December 19 19. He had joined the Royal Flying Corps soon after enlisting in 191 4, as did his uncle, Anderbon Palfreyman, and flew with the rank of Capta in in low-flying attacks on German positions in France. After the War end ed he returned to Tasmania with a single engine Boulton and Paul P9 bipla ne which he had bought with deferred pay, and shipped across Bass Stra it on the MV Loongana on 20 September 1919. It was trucked to Hobart f or assembly. The first commercial flight made in Tasmania was on 27 October 1919, wh en Arthur made a return flight from Hobart to Launceston, via Deloraine, d ropping souvenir copies of the Mercury and delivering the paper to the tow ns where he landed. His passenger was D K McKenzie of the Mercury. Th ey took off from Elwick at 6.50 am and dropped bundles of the paper at Pon tville (7.17 am), Kempton (7.30 am), Melton Mowbray (7.32 am), Jericho (7. 42 am) and Oatlands (7.49 am). Encountering a cloud bank which obscured t he land, and with an unreliable compass, they found themselves over Mar ia Island, turned inland, and regained their route, dropping papers at Ro ss (8.50 am), Campbelltown (9.01 am), Longford (9.15 am) and Westbury, Th ey landed at Deloraine at 10 am to transfer papers to the railway for deli very to the north-west, took off at 11.30 am, landed at Launceston, and th en returned to Hobart. On 15 December 1919 he made his first attempt to cross the Strait, but str ong winds forced him back. Next morning, having installed extra fuel tank s, he tried again. He died 3 November 1954, at his home Broadford, Victoria, (22765), aged 5 8. The Mercury obituary on 4 November 1954 tells the story: The plane was a two-seater with a 90 horsepower engine, described by aviat ion writers of the day as "a patchwork job, a mass of struts and wires, a nd intolerably slow", was no bigger, and far less efficient than the De Ha villand Moths used until recent years. It was capable of 85 mph, but t he landing speed of between 65 mph and 70 mph was dangerously high, a nd it had a range of only 200 miles. Mr Long, hearing that a Melbourne airman proposed to attempt the crossin g, decided to beat his rival to what was to be acclaimed as an epic fligh t. Despite adverse weather reports, he left Stanley on December 16, 191 9. There was a chance that the engine would overheat, and to prevent th is he fitted a one gallon tin of oil to tip into the sump when he pull ed a cord. Flying into the teeth of a strong north-west wind, he set a direct cour se for Melbourne, one that took him over 200 miles of uninterrupted wate r. For four hours he was out of sight of land and buffeted by wind, whi le low clouds at times forced the little machine perilously close to the s ea. His average height was between 500 feet and 1,500 feet and he did n ot sight King Island. Mr Long landed at Torquay, only a few miles west of Point Lonsdale, four h ours after his takeoff. The cord leading to the oil can had broken duri ng the flight, and he had to pour the precious fresh oil in by hand. Mr L ong delivered a message from the Governor of Tasmania, Sir Francis Newdega te, to the Governor-General, Sir Ronald Munro Ferguson. The flight was re cognised by the Tasmanian and Victorian Parliaments, and Chambers of Comme rce, and the Royal Society of Victoria, which erected a monument at Torqu ay commemorating it. In the same machine, he won the first Australian Derby, flown over 10 la ps between the Epsom racecourse and a balloon suspended from Princes Bridg e. Mr Long also surveyed the route for the electricity transmission li ne from the Great Lake to Launceston. He earned the congratulations of the Tasmanian Parliament when the Premi er moved a resolution heralding a new era in aviation in Australia, and ex pressing gratification that the feat was accomplished by a Tasmanian. T he Victorian Government did likewise, and the Royal Society of Victoria er ected a memorial at Torquay commemorating the event. The Tasmanian Socie ty did the same at Stanley. In 1920 he was hired by C J de Garis of the Australian Dried Fruits Associ ation to fly his plane for a month to launch a new service from Melbour ne to Adelaide via Mildura. De Garis was full of praise for Long's ski ll as a pilot. Arthur re-enlisted when the Second World War began and served with the RA AF as a Squadron Leader. Between the Wars he had put his experience to go od use, making important recommendations to the Commonwealth Government re garding the development of commercial aviation. In the 20s he became a su ccessful stock and sharebroker in Melbourne, and in later years was a dire ctor of a number of leading companies. In 1942 he bought two large grazi ng properties at Yea and Broadford, and it was at the Broadford property t hat he died on 3 November 1954, aged 58. He has a street, Long Place, named after him in the Canberra suburb of Scu llin, where the theme for street names is aviators. It must have been a g reat satisfaction to the old man in his declining years to see his descend ants making such a significant mark on his adopted country. The Palfreym an name is a distinguished one in Tasmania, and owes much to the adventuro us spirit and strong Protestant work ethic of its patriarch. |