My name is Matthew Walter Guppy. Below is my research on Walter Guppy, James Guppy's younger brother.
James Guppy’s youngest brother Walter Guppy aged 17 years old arrives a month later after James Guppy from London aboard the barque ‘Prince Regent’ being the 13th immigration ship to arrive at Port Adelaide, South Australia on 20th July 1849.
James Guppy along with his wife and four young children moved from Adelaide around 1853 to commence farming on leased sections of the Parra Wirra Hundred from The South Australian Company. Their property was located the Adelaide Hills district of Talunga at Chain of Ponds, which today is near the town of Kersbrook.
Walter Guppy also followed his brother James into farming leasing 80 acre sections of the Para Wirra Hundred and the Moorooroo Hundred at Tanunda Creek in Flaxmans Valley near the Barossa. Both James and Walter Guppy were mentioned in a South Australian Government Gazette dated 13th April 1854 as being rate payers of Parra Wirra.
However on the 10th July 1856 tragedy struck the family when James Guppy dies at 32 years of age from Inflammation of the Lungs at Chain of Ponds leaving behind his widowed wife and four young children. Walter Guppy (jnr) who was 10 months old at the time of his father’s death would never know his father in real life.
Walter Guppy (senior) who was informed of his brother’s death resumes the responsibility as head of his deceased brother’s family. Later on the 7th November 1856, Walter marries Widow Mary Ann at the ‘Swiss Cottage’, Rundle Street in Adelaide where William Griffin, Mary’s father and her sister, Eliza Leane (nee Griffin) are witnesses to the ceremony.
The following year Walter Guppy (snr) auctions off his Lease Sections 2461 & 2466 of the Parra Wirra Hundred. The auction was held at Chain of Ponds by Mr Thomas Powell on the 1st October 1857 where all his farm equipment, livestock and household furniture was sold. It is believed that Walter’s estate and James remaining equipment was being sold off in anticipation to leave South Australia with Mary Ann and the children destined for Benalla, Victoria.
BJ Bennett (not verified) on Thu, 2019-02-28 15:40
This is a follow-up on Walter Guppy, from his obituary.
Walter Guppy born 7 May, bap 5 June 1831 North Wootton, Somerset son of John Guppy 1770-1850 and Hannah Davis. “He came to Australia in 1850. When the discovery of gold took place he followed the occupation of a digger for some little time, and then settled down on South Australia for a year or so. In 1858 he decided to come back to Victoria. and in the same year he purchased the Moore Park property on the Broken River, about two miles below the town of Benalla. He was a member of the old Road Board, also of the Shire Council when it was formed.He was a prominent member of the Primitive Methodist Church in Benalla, and too a leading part in the erection of the old church building which is now the property of the Anglican Church. When the Agricultural Society was formed he was one of the promoters,and took a leading part in its development. About 1898 Mr Guppy decided to retire from farming and went to reside in Melbourne, first at Mont Albert, and later at Canterbury. His wife predeceased him a few years earlier.” [Benalla Standard, 21 April 1922]
He died 13 April 1922 at Canterbury and was buried at Benalla, survived by a grown-up family of sons and daughters, and numerous grandchildren. Married Mary Anne Griffin 1829-1916 on 7 Nov 1856 in Adelaide. An unreserved clearance sale was held on account of Mr Walter Guppy sen of Moore Park, the vendor having determined to hereafter settle n Melbourne. {The North Eastern Ensign, 18 March 1898.]
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