Chapter 4: (William) John Eggleton (b.1795 d.<1881)

(William) John Eggleton was born in Broad Blunsdon in 1795. He was married twice. Little is known of his first wife, except that her name was Rachel and that she bore eleven children in the twenty years between 1824 and 1844. She apparently died in the mid-1840s, for (William) John remarried in October 1849. His second wife was Cricklade born Elizabeth Ann Smart. Elizabeth Ann bore two children by 1854, at which time her husband was 59 years old. She was the older sister of John and Catherine Smart, both of whom married children of (William) John’s first marriage; Elizabeth Ann’s step-children! One of these marriages took place two years before (William) John and Elizabeth Ann’s marriage, the other five years after.

After their marriage, John and Maria Ann (or Ann Maria) Smart went to South Australia aboard the Charlotte Gladstone, arriving at Port Adelaide in 1866. At the time of arrival, John was 37 years old and Ann was 44 years of age. They took with them their children; Sarah aged 15, William aged 13, Fanny aged 11, John aged 7, Asenath Ann aged 5 and Elijah aged 2 years. Their last child, Mary Jane, was born in Hope Valley, Australia. Mary Jane married John Thomas Andrew Payne in Adelaide in 1884. Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and is sited on the banks of the Torrens River. The couple went on to live in a cottage in Payne's Gully, located on the south side of Anstey's Hill Road, Inglewood, in Hope Valley approximately 10km Northeast of Adelaide. There they raised eleven children. Some of their descendants live in Adelaide to this day.

A little is known of (William) John and Ann Elizabeth’s other children. Initially after leaving home James lived with his brother (Matthew) Henry in Broad Blunsdon. (Matthew) Henry went on to marry Elizabeth Pearce in Highworth parish church. They soon moved to Llanwonno in Glamorganshire. This was a tiny hamlet situated in the hills between the Rhonda and Cynon valleys. The couple had only three children born in Llanwonno before (Matthew) Henry died. At the age of thirteen one of the children was working as a coal miner in order to help support his widowed mother and fatherless siblings.

John Thomas (Chapter 5) married Catherine Smart. Frederick James died as an infant. Mary Elizabeth married Moses Hale some months after their first child was born. They had four more children within marriage. Moses and his two sons were all agricultural labourers. Rhoda Jane married Henry Hallett. A second son named Frederick James had a twin Joseph Able. Both twins died soon after birth.

Charlotte Lydia spent a number of years in the local workhouse, where she gave birth to three base-born (i.e. illegitimate) children. The first of these, Richard Edmond (later Richard Edward) emigrated to the United Stated of America. He died in Brooklyn, New York in 1903. One of his grandchildren became an army colonel who in retirement was charged by his younger sister and brother to develop a family history in order to keep him occupied. This is still to be completed. Charlotte Lydia’s daughter Lydia went in to service when she was old enough. In 1874 Charlotte Lydia married Daniel Garlick, a Monmouth born schoolmaster who taught at the Highworth Union workhouse where his bride was, at least some periods of time, an inmate. Although only thirty years old when he married Charlotte Lydia, Daniel had apparently been teaching at the workhouse for at least eleven years prior to their marriage. It is possible that the couples first child, Herbert (aka Bert) , was born before the marriage of his parents. At the end of the nineteenth century the Swindon area was known as a centre for railway engineering. Herbert probably worked in the railway industry in Swindon before he emigrated to South Africa to work on the railroads there. Herbert’s sister Lydia (aka Liddy) married a GWR (Great Western Railway) employee who was killed in a work related accident in Swindon.

. . . (William) John EGGLETON b.1795 d.<1881 m.Rachel b.c1811 d.<1849
. . . . .Maria Ann\Ann Maria EGGLETON b.1824 m.John SMART b.1828
. . . . . . Sarah SMART b.c1851 d.>1866
. . . . . . William SMART b.c1853 d.>1866
. . . . . . Fanny SMART b.c1855 d.>1866
. . . . . . John SMART b.c1859 d.>1866
. . . . . . Asenath Ann SMART b.c1861 d.>1866 m.- -
. . . . . . Elijah SMART b.c1864 d.>1866
. . . . . . Mary Jane SMART b.>1866 m.John Thomas Andrew PAYNE b.c1855 d.1932
. . . . . . . Elijah William (aka William) PAYNE b.1887 d.1965
. . . . . . . Phyllis Aldena PAYNE b.1891 d.1893
. . . . . . . Alma Ida PAYNE b.1895 m.John Stuart CHAPMAN
. . . . . . . . .Edna Ida CHAPMAN b.1916
. . . . . . . . .Keith CHAPMAN
. . . . . . . . .Rita CHAPMAN
. . . . . . . . .Ronald Stuart CHAPMAN m.- -
. . . . . . . . . . Lorraine CHAPMAN m.- DUFFIELD
. . . . . . . . .Mona CHAPMAN m.- CHAMBERLAIN
. . . . . . . . . . Joyce CHAMBERLAIN
. . . . . . . . .child CHAPMAN
. . . . . . . Walter PAYNE
. . . . . . . Iris PAYNE
. . . . . . . Linda PAYNE m.- MULLET
. . . . . . . Elsie PAYNE m.- ARNOLL
. . . . . . . John PAYNE d.1919
. . . . . . . Esther PAYNE m.- SAUERWALD
. . . . . . . Howard PAYNE
. . . . . . . Albert PAYNE
. . . . .James EGGLETON b.c1825 d.>1851
. . . . .John Thomas EGGLETON b.1827 d.>1881 (Chapter 5)
. . . . .(Matthew) Henry EGGLETON b.c1829 m.Elizabeth PEARCE b.c1838 d.>1881
. . . . . . Lydia EGGLETON b.c1867 m.- -
. . . . . . Morris EGGLETON b.c1868 d.>1881
. . . . . . Frederick EGGLETON b.c1878 d.>1881
. . . . .Frederick James EGGLETON b.1833 d.1833
. . . . .Mary Elizabeth EGGLETON b.1834 d.>1881 m.Moses HALE b.c1825 d.>1881
. . . . . . Jane HALE (EGGLETON) b.1854
. . . . . . George HALE b.c1856 d.>1881
. . . . . . Caleb HALE b.c1870 d.>1881
. . . . . . Emma HALE b.c1872 d.>1881
. . . . . . Olive HALE b.c1876 d.>1881
. . . . .Rhoda Jane EGGLETON b.c1837 m.Henry HALLETT
. . . . .Frederick James EGGLETON b.1840 d.1840
. . . . .Joseph Able EGGLETON b.1840 d.1840
. . . . .Charlotte Lydia (aka Lydia) EGGLETON b.1842 m.Daniel GARLICK b.c1844 d.<1903
. . . . . . Herbert D. (aka Bert) EGGLETON/GARLICK b.c1873
. . . . . . Lydia (aka Liddy) GARLICK b.c1875 d.>1881
. . . . . . William GARLICK b.c1877 d.>1881
. . . . . . Raymond GARLICK b.c1879 d.>1881
. . . . . . Beatrice GARLICK b.cMay 1880 d.>1881 m.- -
. . . . . . Dick (aka Richard Edward) EGGLETON b.1862 d.1903 m.Maria Carroll b.1867 d. 1927
. . . . . . . Richard Edward EGGLETON b.1890 d.1971 m.Margaret A. CUNNIFF b.1885 d.1951
. . . . . . . . .Richard E. Jr. EGGLETON b.c1916 m.- -
. . . . . . . . . . Rich EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . male EGGLETON
. . . .. . . . . female EGGLETON
. . . . . . . Albert S. EGGLETON b.1895 d.1971
. . . . . . . Harold John EGGLETON b.1901 d.1947
. . . . . . . Charles P. EGGLETON b.1903 d.1989
. . . .. . . . . Charles EGGLETON m.- -
. . . . . . . . . . Christine EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . . . child EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . . . child EGGLETON
. . . .. . . . . James EGGLETON m.- -
. . . . . . . . . . Michael EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . . . child EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . . . child EGGLETON
. . . . . . . . . . child EGGLETON
. . . .. . . . . Connie EGGLETON
. . . . . . Lavinia EGGLETON b.c1867 d.>1881
. . . . . . Rosina EGGLETON b.c1869 d.>1881
. . . . .Frederick James EGGLETON b.1844 d.<1851 m.Ann Elizabeth SMART b.1823
. . . . .Ellen Rachel EGGLETON b.1851 d.>1861
. . . . .Roseanna\Rosanna\Rose H. EGGLETON b.1854 m.Albert HOBBS b.c1856