Alexander William Going Talbot
Birth
Death Marriage Spouse Father Mother Siblings Children |
1819-1826
24 February 1871 28 November 1853 Mary Agnes Wollaston William Talbot Jane Langley Adelaide Talbot Constance Talbot Denmark Talbot Gerald Talbot Charles Chetwynd Langley Talbot Ramsden Gledstanes Talbot |
Location
Location Location |
Killenaule, Tipperary, Ireland
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Madras, India |
Alexander William Going Talbot was born sometime between 1819 and 1826 in Killenaule, Tipperary, Ireland to William Talbot and Jane Langley. He was known as Bill.
His middle names are most likely taken from his maternal grandmother Elizabeth Going’s brother William Going. William developed the coal mines in Earlshill near Killenaule. Not much is known of Bill's early life. Some information and ideas can be found here. He was a Captain in the British Army in India (Her Majesty Queen Victoria's 104th Regiment). The British had been in India since when on 31 December 1600, Queen Elizabeth I of England granted a group of English merchants a charter to establish a joint-stock company which became known as the East India Company. |
He married Mary Agnes Wollaston on the 28th of November 1853 at the Indian Mission Chapel, Davidson Street in Madras, India. She was known as Agnes.
Agnes had previously been married to Sgt James Strain. She had 3 children with James; Mary Agnes Strain, who died when she was 2 years old, Jane Charlotte Strain, who was born in 1847, and James Edward Strain, who died in India aged 3 years. Sgt James Strain had died in Bangalore on the 9th of June 1849. Jane Charlotte Strain changed her name to Jane Charlotte Talbot when her mother married Bill.
Bill and Agnes had 4 children while in India; Adelaide, Constance, Denmark, and Gerald, who all died as infants from Cholera.
Bill, Agnes, and Jane left India in 1855. 2 years before the Indian Rebellion of May 1857.
Bill and Agne’s child Charles Chetwynd Langley Talbot was born in January 1856 at sea on the way to New Zealand. The Talbots went to New Zealand as Agnes' brother lived there.
Bill, Agnes, Jane, and Charles left Auckland on the 7th of June 1856 and arrived in Sydney Harbour on the 28th of June. They were aboard the 236 ton brig “Moa”.
Bill and Agnes had 4 children while in India; Adelaide, Constance, Denmark, and Gerald, who all died as infants from Cholera.
Bill, Agnes, and Jane left India in 1855. 2 years before the Indian Rebellion of May 1857.
Bill and Agne’s child Charles Chetwynd Langley Talbot was born in January 1856 at sea on the way to New Zealand. The Talbots went to New Zealand as Agnes' brother lived there.
Bill, Agnes, Jane, and Charles left Auckland on the 7th of June 1856 and arrived in Sydney Harbour on the 28th of June. They were aboard the 236 ton brig “Moa”.
On the 10th of May 1858 his son Ramsden Gledstanes Talbot was born in Ulladulla, New South Wales.
In 1859, Bill applied for a grant of 50 acres of land in Ulladulla.
In 1859, Bill applied for a grant of 50 acres of land in Ulladulla.
He came to Kilcoy, Queensland around 1862 with his wife Agnes and their children.
The first Europeans to arrive in Kilcoy, Queensland in 1841 were Sir Evan and Colin John Mackenzie, sons of Sir Colin Mackenzie, from Kilcoy in Scotland. Their family had held lands in Kilcoy, Scotland since 1618 and ran a type of sheep they called “Kilcoythen” sheep, owned their own ships, and were financiers. In 1848 Captain Louis Hope (the seventh son of the Fourth Earl of Hopetoun) having left the Coldstream Guards Regiment arrived in the Brisbane Valley. The land he selected was at the western side of Kilcoy, and he named the estate Hopetoun Station after the family estate in Scotland. Louis Hope used the land predominately to breed horses for sale to the British Army in India although he also ran sheep and beef cattle. Bill became the manager of Kilcoy Station in 1864. Kilcoy Station was a cattle station owned at the time by Captain Louis Hope. Captain Hope had purchased the Station on the 11th of September 1854 from Charles Atherton. Bill and his family lived at the Station. He was known as Captain Talbot. |
The mountains around Kilcoy are named for Bill and Agnes’s 6 children; Adelaide, Constance, Denmark, Gerald, Langley, and Ramsden. The first 4 mountains are named for the children Bill and Agnes lost to illness in India, and the last 2 from the names of their 2 boys Charles Chetwynd Langley Talbot and Ramsden Gledstanes Talbot.
On the 15th of March 1864, Bill and another worker from the Kilcoy Station, 21 year old Simon Charles Ramsay Taylor, were involved in a serious accident which left Simon dead and Bill severely injured.
On the 15th of March 1864, Bill and another worker from the Kilcoy Station, 21 year old Simon Charles Ramsay Taylor, were involved in a serious accident which left Simon dead and Bill severely injured.
Simon was the eldest son of George Taylor, Esq., of 10, Royal Parade, Cheltenham, England. He was buried at Kilcoy Station.
Bill died on the 24th of February 1871 in Brisbane aged 45 years. He was buried on the 4th of March at Kilcoy Station alongside Simon Taylor. Both men were removed from Kilcoy Station and buried in Kilcoy Cemetery on the 22nd of April 1907.
His death certificate lists his cause of death as Phthisis which is a disease characterised by the wasting away or atrophy of the body or a part of the body. This was the result from his horse riding accident 7 years earlier as Bill’s son Ramsden’s obituary mentions that his father had died due to a fall from a horse.
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References
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/phthisis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoy,_Queensland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/indian_rebellion_01.shtml
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilcoy,_Queensland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/indian_rebellion_01.shtml