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| John MYLREA (1823 - 1907) |
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| b. 17 Mar 1823 at Andreas, Ayre, Isle of Man |
| m. 28 Feb 1853 Alice (Halse) WARREN (1827 - 1901) at Geelong, Victoria, Australia |
| d. 02 Aug 1907 at Yaamba, Queensland, Australia aged 84 |
| Cause of Death: |
| Influenza |
| Events in John MYLREA (1823 - 1907)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 17 Mar 1823 | John MYLREA was born | Andreas, Ayre, Isle of Man | |||
| 13 Apr 1846 | 23 | Birth of son William MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 02 Mar 1848 | 24 | Birth of daughter Isabella MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 23 Mar 1850 | 27 | Birth of son John Osborne MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 15 Apr 1852 | 29 | Birth of daughter Susanna (Susan) MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 28 Feb 1853 | 29 | Married Alice (Halse) WARREN (aged 25) | Geelong, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 14 May 1854 | 31 | Death of son William MYLREA (aged 8) | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 20 Jul 1854 | 31 | Birth of daughter Mary Jane MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 30 Mar 1856 | 33 | Birth of son James William MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 14 May 1857 | 34 | Death of son James William MYLREA (aged 1) | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 16 Jan 1858 | 34 | Birth of daughter Christina MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 07 Feb 1860 | 36 | Birth of son James William MYLREA | Lexton, Victoria, Australia | ||
| 21 Jun 1864 | 41 | Birth of daughter Alice Matilda MYLREA | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 17 Aug 1866 | 43 | Birth of son Marcus Aiken MYLREA | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 18 Dec 1868 | 45 | Birth of daughter Frances Emma MYLREA | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 30 Dec 1870 | 47 | Birth of daughter Margaret Agnes MYLREA | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 01 Feb 1874 | 50 | Birth of son Robert Graham MYLREA | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 11 May 1884 | 61 | Death of daughter Mary Jane MYLREA (aged 29) | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 10 Aug 1890 | 67 | Death of daughter Susanna (Susan) MYLREA (aged 38) | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | 1890/C3711 | |
| 16 Sep 1901 | 78 | Death of wife Alice (Halse) WARREN (aged 74) | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 06 Jul 1903 | 80 | Death of daughter Isabella MYLREA (aged 55) | Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia | ||
| 02 Aug 1907 | 84 | John MYLREA died | Yaamba, Queensland, Australia | ||
| Personal Notes: |
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From the site: http://www.mylrea.com.au
ON SOME LONELY SHORE John Mylrea was a Manxman, born in 1823 in Andreas, and my great great grandfather. He came to Australia in his youth and never left. John rode the roller coaster of stunning success and crushing failure as the infant outpost that was Australia lurched unsteadily to its feet to become a nation. Good and bad, his fortunes were mostly beyond his control - governments made unanticipated (and foolhardy) decisions, gold fever was fickle, the climate was well outside the experience of a man born on an island in the Irish Sea. Although his life as a pioneer was one that was shared with many of Australia's early European settlers, John's resilience and integrity are worth recording for posterity. His Australian family was large and his descendants many, and this story is largely for them. The title, On Some Lonely Shore, is taken from the words in the final verse of Ellan Vannin, the "unofficial" national anthem of the Manx. And in all my times of sorrow And on some lonely shore I'll go back to Ellan Vannin To my childhood days once more REQUIEM FOR A PIONEER On 3rd August, 1907, John Mylrea was laid to rest beside his wife of sixty years, Alice Warren. He was 84 years old. Two days earlier, he had died as a consequence of the influenza epidemic that gripped the district. He was buried at Mona Vale, his small grazing property just north of Rockhampton in central Queensland, Australia, and his home for the past decade. He had been born in 1823 (1) on the Isle of Man, where his ancestry could be traced back several centuries. His particular Mylrea clan were mostly farmers, a pursuit that John too carried on but not before he enjoyed success in other fields. John Mylrea migrated to colonial Australia when he was a young man, and spent the rest of his life there. Fortune smiled on him for a long time; he arrived as a shepherd but soon climbed to exhilarating heights on the economic ladder. When the gold rush era in Victoria gathered momentum, he took on a mail delivery contract, then established a thriving livery business and later became a publican, an occupation that brought substantial wealth in the form of wave after wave of miners making their way to and from the gold fields. John and Alice had a large family and together they shared tragedies as well as triumphs, losses as well as gains, failures as well as successes. In his youth, he was adventurous and led a seemingly charmed existence. By the time he was 40, this boy from the Isle of Man had become a wealthy man and it was clear that the circumstances of life had dealt John Mylrea a winning hand. His early years in Australia were played out in the drama of early settlement, the gold rushes and a burgeoning pastoral industry. These circumstances combined to quickly catapult the young country beyond its penal beginnings to create the basis upon which its prosperity was assured. They were instrumental in John’s prosperity as well. He was in the right place at the right time in those heady days! It is not clear where John spent his first years in Australia. He might have been in Van Dieman’s Land (Tasmania) or in New South Wales in the late 1830s; he was definitely in the colony of Victoria in the 40s and 50s; and in the early 1860s, he was one of the first Europeans to travel north to the Port Curtis district in what is now known as central Queensland. The journey was one of well over 1,000 miles. John’s migration to the newly opened-up frontier of Port Curtis set the stage for his ascension to the role of “shepherd king” and his vast Lake Learmonth run was the backdrop for those pastoral ambitions. Once in Queensland however, it was as if the fates deserted him. As the years rolled by, his youthful “can do” spirit was seemingly displaced by something else – was it resignation, frustration or perhaps even ineptitude or stubborness? In the end, he lost almost everything and like so many others of his time, he ended his days in greatly reduced circumstances. John’s descendants are plentiful and most can be found still living in the central Queensland region. Today, his great great grandchildren are grandparents themselves. Some remain on the land; the majority have made the transition to urban life. The massive Lake Learmonth run is long gone from the family, although one small corner, Eden Bann, remains in Mylrea hands. A multitude of questions remains unanswered. How, when and why did John come to Australia? Where did he first set foot on Australian soil? How did an adaptable, entrepreneurial, and energetic individual come to lose everything? Was he the architect of his own destruction or was he a hapless victim? John’s story is enthralling. It has all the elements of tragedy, grief and failure mixed thoroughly with mystery, romance, and adventure. Email from John McNamara 23 July 2013 "I am currently researching material for 4th Pioneer Battalion AIF which was formed 16 March 1916 in Egypt. Robert Graham MYLREA appears on the Nominal Roll as an original member of this Unit. Originally joined 5th Reinforcements 25th Battalion, Rockhampton, 10 June 1915. Allocated to 45th battalion in Egypt (AIF expansion 1916) and then transferred to 4th Pioneer Battalion 16 March 1916. Do you have any family information, photos or diaries from WW1 which might prove useful in compiling a history of the Battalion? You are most likely aware of this Army Service file in the National Archives. http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/scripts/Imagine.asp?B=7989686&I=1&SE=1 In 1918 he gave his age as 48 years old to an Army Medical Officer which is at odds with the 1874 birth date on the web site. Many men of MYLREA’S age were shunted to the Pioneers in an effort to get rid of them along with many undesirables and troublemakers." |
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| - Reference = Diana Banks 17 Mar 2014 (Notes) |
| - Notes: have you seen the site: http://www.mylrea.com.au ?
I’ve been beavering away for some years on John Mylrea b 1823, whose parentage has turned out to be problematic (to say the least!). In the process, I amassed so much material on other Mylreas that I eventually put a lot of it onto this website. I’ve also written a book about John but the last chapter remains in limbo. It was my mother who wrote to the IOM registry and asked about his parentage BUT I’m not convinced that the answer was correct – it’s a 50-50 bet either way. A few of us from competing families are currently doing DNA tests in a last ditch effort to shed light on things. |