Boulton, Sarah (b. 24 Feb 1830, d. 28 Oct 1908)

Note: Sarah Boulton was born on 24 February 1830 at West Bromwich, England and married James Taylor at Drayton Qld on 16 January 1850. Witnesses were Thomas B.Hopkins and Henry Abbott. It is not known whether there was any connection between witness
Hopkins, who was a Doctor at Drayton, and Clarissa Boulton's second name of Hopkins. Could the families have been acquainted and/or related in England? Could it be a coincidence? As to witness Abbott, there are several mentions of Mr and Mrs
Abbott of Pikes Creek in Thomas Alford's Pikedale Journal/Diary.



Children born to the Taylors were George C. 1851?, John W. 1853?, Eliza Cecil 1856, Lydia Sarah 1858, Warwick Buckland 1863 [died 12 January 1910 in Queensland] and Unnamed 1866. All births were in Queensland.

Given Name: Sarah

Change: Date: 3 Jan 2004

Note: James Taylor was born at London on 26 January 1820 to parents John William Taylor and Ann Fielder who had married at Southwark, London, on 15 July 1802.



James Taylor arrived in Australia in 1840, settled on the Darling Downs in 1848, became Head Stockman for Henry Stuart Russell on Cecil Plains station, a partner in 1856 and sole proprietor in 1859.



He figures prominently in books concerning the history and development of the Darling Downs. He was very active in public affairs, a large land and property owner. He entered Queensland Parliament in 1860, was Minister for Lands in 1868 and
resigned in 1870, partly because of questionable land purchases it seems. He was also a City Councilor and Mayor of Toowoomba and was publicly referred to as King of Toowoomba.



James Taylor's forte was attending public meetings and frequently adopting the role of Chairman. He was a J.P. and was involved in everything from supplying the first steam engine for a flour mill, participating in public functions, donating
land for the establishment of a hospital, to running race meetings, to name a few of his activities.



He died at Toowoomba on 19 October 1895.

Given Name: James

Change: Date: 3 Jan 2004

Note: George Boulton 3 was born on 25 January 1819 at West Bromwich, England.



He did not marry and died at Cecil Plains Qld on 7 July 1891.

Given Name: George

Change: Date: 3 Jan 2004

Note: Thomas Richard Boulton was born on 28 January 1831 at West Bromwich, England.



Richard Symes Alford was an Uncle and the following is an extract from his Memoirs, written in 1908 -



"Mr Thomas R. Boulton, who had just sold his station Clifford on the Dawson, started to build an up-to-date hotel at the corner of Russell and Ruthven Streets, Toowoomba. Before the place was half finished Mr Boulton's funds ran out; nothing
more was done on the place. It was then called Boulton's Folly.

"Later on the property was purchased by the Queensland National Bank, which pulled down what Boulton had put up and then erected a fine building in which the Bank carries on its business".



Thomas Richard Boulton did not marry. He died at Brisbane in 1898.

Given Name: Thomas Richard

Change: Date: 26 Jun 2004

Note: William Staples Boulton was born on 28 September 1820 at West Bromwich, England.



He married Helen M.G.Stedman at Norwich, England in 1859 and died at Norwich on 4 August 1879. It is not known when he left Australia and settled back in England, nor whether any children were born to this couple.



Searching ancestry.co.uk shows William Staples Boulton died September Quarter 1879 [the same time as his wife] at Norwich, Norfolk, source BMD 1837-1983.

Given Name: William Staples

Change: Date: 20 Jul 2005

Note: Searching ancestry.co.uk shows Helen Mary Gertrude Stedman died September Quarter 1859 at Norwich, Norfolk,source BMD 1837-1983.

Given Name: Helen M.G.

Change: Date: 20 Jul 2005

Note: Martion Boulton was born on 9 June 1822 at West Bromwich, England. On 30 June 1851 he married Henrietta Bellenger Jones at Brisbane. Witnesses were Richard Warry and Robert A. Stain. Henrietta's parents were Thomas Bellenger and Jane; her
marriage to Martin Boulton therefore appears to have been her second.



Writings by Maurice French and other recorders of history of the Darling Downs contain widespread accounts of Martin Boulton's activities in the pioneering days of that area. The following comments are based on those writings, newspaper reports
etc.



It is not known when Martin moved from the family home at Paterson NSW to the Darling Downs but in about 1850 he gave up his job at Canning Downs station and opened a store at Leyburn, a township that was being established at Canal Creek, part
of C.W.Pitts' 1843 run. That store is mentioned in Thomas Alford's diary on his return from Bingara goldfields to Toowoomba - "11 November 1852, got to Canal Creek about 11 am and received a most hearty welcome from Martin Boulton and his wife,
they have a nice little store and well stocked....". Thomas Alford called at that store again on 2 December 1852 on his second trek to the Bingara goldfields.



After returning to Canning Downs for a period, Martin Boulton built a store at Drayton Swamp [Toowoomba] in 1857, then established a butcher shop, residence and piggery in Russell Street, near the present day railway crossing. He also owned a
residence near St. Luke's church and in the 1860s he established a row of terrace cottages on part of Mort Estate known as Boulton Terrace, which street name still exists.



In the late 1850s there was much public debate concerning amalgamation of the townships of Drayton and The Swamp or separation of those two settlements. This resulted in The Swamp being officially declared a separate town named Toowoomba in
1860 [the name Elizabeth Alford had called her home there in 1852] and election of Toowoomba's first Municipal Council. Martin Boulton was very active in these civic affairs and was elected to that Council.



Other matters in which Martin became involved included committees to establish a Toowoomba School of Arts, to launch the Darling Downs Agricultural Society [which became the Royal Agricultural Society of Queensland] and to run race meetings on
the Downs, to name a few. Also, he was one of St. Luke's church's first Church Wardens.



Children born to Martin and Henrietta were Jane Walker 1852 [married William Baron Lethbridge of Mitchell Qld on 28 December 1876] and died on 2 March 1926, George Staples 2 May 1854 [married Elizabeth Dove Gilbert on 6 June 1894] and died 10
July 1937, William Edward 1855? [died 1932], Martin 1857 [unmarried] died 1941 and Henrietta 1860?



Martin Boulton died at Roma Qld on 29 May 1894 and Henrietta died in Queensland on 17 March 1910.

Given Name: Martin

Change: Date: 25 Apr 2011

Given Name: Henrietta Bellenger

Change: Date: 25 Apr 2002

Note: Children to this marriage were 2 sons and 4 daughters.

One daughter, Fanny, was a Missionary in India.

Given Name: Francis Sutherland

Change: Date: 26 Apr 2010

Note: Rachel Gordon Warner's marriage to Richard Symes Alford on 2 December 1893 was her second. Her maiden namne was Ogg.

She had married Charles James Warner in Queensland on 20 December 1877. He died in Queensland on 14 April 1886. His parents were James Warner and Clara Brandon.

A third marriage occurred on 11 June 1924 when Rachel Gordon Alford married Percival Ethelbert Lahey.

Given Name: Rachel Gordon

Change: Date: 20 Aug 2019
Time: 16:22

Note: These notes are based on writings in A History of St Luke's, Toowoomba, by Max Brightman.



The Reverend Vincent Ransome arrived in the colony from England on 11 September 1860 as a member of a party of priests and teachers accompanying Bishop E.W.Tufnell who had been appointed Archbishop of Brisbane. Vincent's brother, H.C.Ransome, a
teacher, was also in the party.Vincent was Rev. Benjamin Glennie's replacement at St Luke's.



Vincent had been educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and St Augustine's College, Canterbury. He was ordained deacon in 1859 and priest in December of that year by the Bishop of London.....In the period before sailing to Australia he served a
curacy at Exeter Cathedral.



Arriving at Toowoomba in late September 1860, Vincent attended a meeting of church members at which St Luke's first wardens were appointed - Martin Boulton, Thomas Alford and Robert White. Their duty was to "collect from house to house towards
maintenance of their clergyman..." Later that month a stipend of 300 pounds per year and a house in which to live was set for Vincent by the Bishop.



Unfortunately for Vincent the stipend was never reached, he was paying from his own funds to maintain the church's school and Sunday School and after two years he asked the Bishop that he be removed from Toowoomba. He preached his final sermon
on 1 November 1863 and returned to England with his wife Mary [nee Alford] whom he had married on 25 June 1861. They settled at Weymouth, Dorset, where Vincent worked amongst the poor for twenty years, eventually becoming the Rector in the
village of Compton-Bassett in the Diocese of Salisbury.



Vincent retired in 1915 at the age of 80 years and died in 1922 at the age of 87 years.

Given Name: Rev. Vincent Frederick

Change: Date: 20 Jul 2004

Given Name: Elizabeth Crofton

Change: Date: 11 Aug 1999

Given Name: Kathleen Carlton

Change: Date: 11 Aug 1999

Given Name: Sarah Margaret

Change: Date: 6 Feb 2018
Time: 16:55

Given Name: Augusta Florence

Change: Date: 9 Jun 2004

Note: Sophia Boulton was born on 4 November 1832 at West Bromwich, England.



After arriving in Sydney on 25 January 1839, the family settled in Paterson NSW. Elizabeth, the eldest child, was the first to leave the family home when she moved to the Darling Downs in mid 1842. Each of the other children moved during the
following years, with the exception of Sophia who remained with her parents.



Then on 5 July 1849 Mr and Mrs Boulton and Miss Boulton [Sophia] departed Sydney for Moreton Bay on the 'Helen' to start a new life on the Darling Downs.



Sophia never married. Her father died on 10 January 1862 and her mother died on 6 July 1875, both at Toowoomba. Sophia then lived with her sister Elizabeth Alford [nee Boulton] at the corner of Russell and West Streets, Toowoomba, who died on
12 October 1905.



Sophia Boulton died at Toowoomba on 16 October 1914.

Given Name: Sophia

Change: Date: 3 Jan 2004

Given Name: George F.

Change: Date: 8 Mar 2007

Note: Record of death shows parents as Michael E. Murnin and Kate A.

Given Name: Male

Change: Date: 11 Feb 2008

Note: Also spelt Pittak.

Given Name: William

Change: Date: 4 Apr 2007

Given Name: Samuel Augustus

Change: Date: 4 Nov 1998