(alias Ester Eccles) was 17 years of age when she was tried at the Preston Quarter Sessions in January 1787, and found guilty, for having stolen a scarlet woollen cloak, a blue stuffed quilted petticoat and a black silk hat. Many years later Ellen’s daughter Mary Ann claims that her mother said very little about the Old Country, however she felt that her mother did not steal the goods at all, she felt that Mr Standen gave her mother the articles, but when the return on his investment was not what he expected he cried thief.   Following her trial and sentence of seven years transportation, she was brought to Portsmouth by the turnkey of Lancaster gaol and embarked on Prince of Wales.

At Port Jackson, on 24 May 1789, a daughter Mary Anne, by James Wilson was baptised.  With the child she was sent to Norfolk Island by Sirius on 4 March 1790.  Two years later Mary Anne died.

Ellen stayed on Norfolk Island, except for a brief return visit to Sydney Cove, and had five more children.  In 1808 with Thomas Guy, whom she later married in Hobart in 1812, and three of the children, sailed to Van Diemen’s Land (Tasmania) by City of Edinburgh. Ellen alias Esther Guy, age given as 72, died at Black River, New Norfolk Tasmania on 12 November 1839 from natural causes.

Honouring her WWI descendants

215 George Bilston MID
Corporal promoted Sergeant “A” Company 38 Battalion (June 1916)
attached to 9^th Training Battalion
Born 14 March 1898 Invercargill, New Zealand to George Stone and
Helen (Ryan) Bilston
Occupation Labourer
Enlisted 7 March 1916 Horsham Victoria aged 18
Next-of-kin Father George Stone Bilston, Natimak Victoria
Embarked Melbourne 20 June 1916 aboard HMAT Runic A54
Service in France and Belgium

Mentioned in Despatches This NCO was in charge of a strong post in Merret Wood on 31/3/18 and whilst so placed, his conduct and example to his men during heavy enemy shelling calls for special mention. Sgt Bilston has on all occasions in the past, both in and out of the line, shown constantly good work.

Returned to Australia 27 October 1919 per HT Raranga
Discharged 19 December 1919
Died 11 March 1980

WW11 V82900 Enlisted Horsham Victoria Next-of-kin wife, Emily Dorothy Bilston

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Francis Hope Lascelles
Lieutenant King’s Royal Rifle Corps, 14^th Battalion of the 60^th Rifles, 42^nd Brigade
Born 19 October 1891 at Recluse Newtown Geelong to Edward Harewood and
Ethel (Dennys) Lascelles
Attended Geelong Grammar School. Active in sport
Gained experience in the wool industry in Bradford, England, and later joined the staff of Dennys Lascelles Ltd, Geelong Victoria
Left Melbourne for England in 1915
Gained a commission in the British Army King’s Royal Rifle Corps at Belbus Park, Purfleet, England
Put in charge of a machine gun section
Killed in Action 22 August 1917 at Zillebeke, Flanders, during the third Battle of Ypres Honoured on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing at Zonnebeke in Belgium
Panel 154 to 159 and 163A

Tyne Cot Memorial

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1661 Charles Allan Stone (Brother to David Blair Stone)
Sergeant 51^st Battalion then Australian (Anzac) Provost Corps
Born 8 August 1893 Heywood Victoria to Samuel Campbell and
Jean McKillop (Allen) Stone
Occupation Clerk, Railways
Previously served in 86 Infantry Militia
Enlisted 19 May 1915, aged 21, Blackboy Hill, Western Australia
Next-of-kin father Samuel Campbell Stone
Embarked Fremantle Western Australia 22 July 1915 aboard HMAT Demosthenes A64 Service in France
Returned to Australia per HT Hororata disembarking 30 May 1920
Discharged 26 August 1920
Died 1962

3928 David Blair Stone (Brother to Charles Allan Stone)
Private W.2 Rifles
Born 16 January 1891 Heywood Victoria to Samuel Campbell and
Jean McKillop (Allen) Stone
Occupation Farmer and Accountant
Previously served 2 years Cadets
Enlisted 17 July 1917 aged 26, Blackboy Hill Western Australia
Next-of-kin father Samuel Campbell Stone
Discharged 6 June 1918 medically unfit, recurring Bronchitis and Pleurisy
Died 1972

 

2661 John Stanley Wheeler
Private 4^th Infantry Brigade, 14^th Infantry Battalion, 8^th Reinforcements Ranks
Lance Corporal then Corporal
Born 15 February 1895 Condah Victoria to John and Elizabeth Harriett (Carter) Wheeler Occupation Labourer
Enlisted 6 January 1915 aged 19, next-of-kin Father J Wheeler, Wallacedale Victoria Embarked Melbourne 2 August 1915 aboard HMAT Suffolk A23
Service in Gallipoli 1915, Egypt 1916-18, France 1916-18 – Wounded in action Returned to Australia 8 April 1918 per HT Karoola
Disembarked 26 May 1918
Discharged 26 June 1918
Died 18 August 1947