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FIFTH GENERATION
274. Susannah Lilla
Plummer (29) was born on 14
Nov 1879 in Torquay, Tasmania, Australia. She died on 24 Dec 1926 in
Launceston, Tasmania, Australia. She was buried in St. Paul's, Devonport,
Tasmania, Australia.
She was married to Arthur Charles William Medwin on 20 Apr 1905 in
Tasmania, Australia. Arthur Charles William Medwin(29) was born on 28 Mar 1881 in Horton,
Tasmania, Australia. He died on 14 Aug 1909 in Devonport, Tasmania,
Australia. He was buried in St. Paul's, Devonport, Tasmania, Australia.
William (1798-1869) his wife Elizabeth Sarah (Cock) (1793-1868) and his
eight children arrived at Wellington NZ from Wycombe, England on the
Slains Castle in 1841. Conditions were not what they expected, so the
Medwins boarded the Ullswater and arrived in Launceston later that year.
The family settled on the east bank at Black River, where they farmed for
many years. Their five sons, Edwin, John, Mathias, William and Thomas were
all farmers as well, though Thomas later became a storekeeper in Church
St. Stanley, in 1871. Thomas was born in 1837 in London and died in 1904.
He had seventeen children; George, Mary, David, Charlotte, Rachel, Rachel,
Herbert, Alice, Annie, Minnie, Lemuel, Arthur, Eliza, Thomas, Andrew,
Philip and Leslie. Elizabeth Medwin must have been a resourceful woman:
once when bushrangers Bradley and Connor called, planning revenge on
William for having replaced Bradley services with the more reliable ones
of a ticket-of-leave man, Elizabeth calmly tied up 60 pounds in her
skirts, keeping 2 pounds visible. Since William was not at home, the
bushrangers took food and the two pounds and went away, leaving the bulk
of the family savings safe in Elizabeth's skirts. William, Elizabeth,
their grandson Mathias and one of their daughters are buried at Stanley.
This Mathias bought 310 acres of land from his grandfather, William, and
settled with his Irish wife, Mary, and their ten children. One of their
sons was named Luke. His property at Black River was called
"Mayura" His wife Annie was well known for her bonnet and boots:
on one occasion she walked from Flowerdale to Black River with a goose
under one arm and a cow and a calf behind her. Luke and
Annie's son Allan had property at Mawbanna where he lived with his wife
Mary Ellen "Mollie" and nine children. Mollie was born in Cork
and after serving with the Womenï's Army in France during WWI, she came
to Tasmania with her husband to take up farming at Mawbanna, where she
helped the local bush nurse. During her lifetime she built no fewer than
five houses. During the 1940's the family moved to Black River, where the
property had been left to Allan by Luke. Mayura is now known as Gateforth.
150 people turned up to the Medwin Reunion held at Wynyard in 1987. |