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The History of the Qualtrough Family in Victoria
By Malcolm
Qualtrough and Trevor Hall - Written about 1990
(Amended April 2002) with Contributions and Research by Elizabeth Feisst,
Lyn Fawcett (Hampel) and Faye Cousens.
Descendants of Rev Joseph Qualtrough and Agnes McCullock
- James Qualtrough and Lydia Howe (Thorburn)
See 4 Generation Chart of Descendents (pdf File 12kb)
The greatest majority of today's descendants in Australia owe their presence to James Qualtrough who arrived from the Isle of Man in July 1854 on the James Carson age 24.
Eleventh in line of Joseph & Agnes' children James Qualtrough, was baptised 16 January 1832 at Lonan. James attended King Williams College leaving in 1848.
Like his brothers, James went to Melbourne and took up land at Diamond Creek, north of the colonial capital. He met and married a widow Lydia Thorburn (nee Howe) who already had 2 children by her first marriage. James and Lydia had 2 daughters prior to their marriage in 1863 then proceeded to have six more children. There are many descendants of James and Lydia living in Victoria,
James, who was originally a Minister of Religion, lived in Collingwood. He eventually married Lydia Howe-Thorburn, born 1832 in Cambridge, Cambs., England.
They settled in Wattle Glen where they worked as orchardists and market gardeners.
Lydia had first been married to Alexander Thorburn on the 5th of March 1849 at St James Church in Melbourne. and they had three children, William, Agnes and James. They may also have had another child, Jane who died in 1853 Three of Agnes's daughters had the middle name Jane as well.
See also Lydia's Death
In 1854 Alexander Thorburn died, and presumably Lydia went to live with James Qualtrough in 1859. Lydia later married James Qualtrough at St Marks, Fitzroy on the 5th of July 1863. They were both living in East Collingwood at this time. On the Marriage Certificate it also states that her husband had died on the 9th of March 1854 and that she was a widow. They then had eight more children.
MARY QUALTROUGH, b. 1859, Victoria, Australia.
EMMA QUALTROUGH, b. 1862, Victoria, Australia.
AMELIA QUALTROUGH, b. 7 October 1863, Diamond Creek, Vic, Australia.
HENRY QUALTROUGH, b. 1864, Diamond Creek, Vic, Australia; d. 1943.
FRANCES EMILY QUALTROUGH, b. 1866, Diamond Creek, Vic, Australia; d. 1934, Collingwood,Melbourne, Vic Australia.
EDWARD JAMES QUALTROUGH, b. 1868, Diamond Creek, Vic,Australia; d. 1932, Nillumbik, Vic, Australia.
ALICE JANE QUALTROUGH, b. 23 November 1869, Diamond Creek, Vic,Australia; d. 1901, Narrandera, NSW, Australia.
LYDIA QUALTROUGH, b. 8 December 1872, Diamond Creek, Vic,Australia.
James lost everything in a fire that raged through Diamond Creek in February 1893,