Birth date: 25 Aug 1858
Birth place: Encounter Bay, South Australia, Australia
Death date: 28 July 1917
Death place: Meningie, South Australia, Australia
From the book by Beryl Jarvis :
Born 25 August, 1858 and registered at the Encounter Bay Registrar (Victor Harbor).
Edward or Ted as he was known is said to have gone to New Guinea and worked there
before returning to live in the Meningie area. What he did there is not known.
His occupation was a farmer and he lived near Meningie. Here he met his wife, Mary
Malone (nee Roberts). Mary had been widowed and had several children when she
married Edward. Date unknown as yet.
A short time before he became sick a Mr Battye from Victor Harbor visited him and told him his mother was dying and he had better come straight away if he wanted to see her. (This was relayed to Joan Haskett by her mother, daughter of Edward) Edward contracted tuberculosis and alter a long illness died in c 1917. He is buried in the Meningie cemetery in an unmarked grave.
Edward and Mary (Malone) had one child, a daughter Mary Ellen born 27 May 1904 at
the station property called “Waringee”. This was not their property. They had a small
farming property near Meningie. After Edward died Mary Ellen went to boarding school at Mount Barker, later worked at the telephone exchange in Adelaide where she met Vinrace Howie
Mary Jarvis married to Vinrace Wilton Howie in 1922 . Vinrace was a farmer from
Willunga. After the end of WWI they and their children moved to Nerang and ran a dairy under the land scheme for returned service men. This was near Lake Alexandrina.
Their children were :
Joan born 1923 married Nick Haskett 20 May 1944 and they had 5 children:
Monica Joan b 12/1/1945
Mary Bernadette b 29/10/1947
Anthony James b 25/3/1953
Claire Margaret b 17/11/1955
Peter Damien b 21/5/1959
Ron b 1929 married Mary . They had 4 children :
Mary Terese
Bernard John
Gerard Brenton Paul
Denise b married Pat Francis McNamara and they had 4 children :
Angela
Paul
Catherine
Bernard
Ellen Maria
Born 14 September, 1860 registered at Sheoak Hills Registrar.
Above record shows she married John Mackerell Phillips on 5/10/1877.
Joshua John
Born 19 August, 1862 at Bald Hills, died 1885 at Encounter Bay.
Emma
Born 31 December 1864 registered at Encounter Bay Registrar. Married Harry Duell a dairy farmer and they lived near Salisbury. They had one daughter Gertrude Claire. Gertrude married Jack Carlier and they had a son Robert.
Amanda
Born 9 January 1867 at Yankalilla. Amanda Jarvis married a Harry Smart. No more information on this person.
Arthur
Born 20 November 1868 at Inman Valley - died 16 September, 1946 at the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide. Buried at West Terrace cemetery. They had 6 children (Details of children in chapter)
Edith Jervis
Born 3 August, 1879 at Inman Valley. This is obviously a mistake in the spelling of the
family name JARVIS. Father was named Joshua and mother Mary Ann Barrett. Entry -
Book no. 87 on page 148.
No marriage.
Walter
Born 4 Jan 1877 at Jamestown - was only 7 months old when his father Joshua was
accidentally killed - died 11 November 1969 at Victor Harbor. Recollection of Walter by
Eunice Jarvis was that he was a happy soul who only put in his false teeth when he went out and wanted to look respectable.
He was a farmer and married Adelaide Matilda Polkinghome born on 17 Oct 1873 at
Yankalilla. They had six children :
1) Edith Maude born 2 June 1894 Yankalilla.
married Sydney Millard and they had 5 Children :
Kevin, Lindsay, Rita, Allan & Margaret.
2) Basil Clarence born 9 Aug 1896 Inman Valley died 1976 Victor Harbor
married Elizabeth McCallum 1927. Children :
Cora, Audrey, Heather, Matthew
3) Florence May born 1898 Inman Valley.
married Heimich Williams 1923
4) Frances Pearl born 9 Sep 1900 Yankalilla
5) Ethel Gladys born 1902 Inman Valley
6) Sydney George born 1905 Inman Valley