Dennis Carr's son - George Alfred CARR
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George Alfred Carr was born in Jarrahdale in 1886. He was orphaned in 1895, along with his brothers and sisters, when Dennis passed away.
George Alfred Carr (age 22) married Hannah Mary White (age 21) the daughter of William White and Julia White (nee Bresnahan) on 10 February 1909 at St Isidores Catholic Church, Jennacubbine W.A. (See Church photos taken 2003). Prior to their marriage George Alfred Carr was living at Jennacubine and Hannah living at Yarramony. Children to the marraige were; Wilfred Dennis Carr, Gerard George Carr, Martha Mary Carr, Bertha Carr and George Bernard Carr.
Both George Alfred Carr and William White were farmers at the time of the marriage.
George Alfred Carr was a very good footballer. He played football for Wongamine and was part of the 1911 Premiers team - captain we think. (See photo) George also played football for Jennacubine and won a number of medals confirming his ability. A photo of George in the 1915 Jennacubine football team (red and black team colours) can also be found today in the Jennacubine Tavern, courtesy Battye Library.
George Alfred Carr died at age 42 years, on 18 May 1930, at Konnongorring, leaving his wife Hannah and their 4 living children at the time.
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George Alfred Carr Family Ties with the Whites, Bresnahans and the Toohey Families
The following extracts from the book entitled "Goomalling A Backward Glance - A hisory of the District", written by Barbara Sewell depicts some of the family ties that relate to the current descendents of the George Alfred Carr family.
(Page 59 refers) "Dennis Bresnahan, a small farmer of Irishtown, purchased land at Chitibin between the Coynes and William White of Yarramony, which he named "Tipperary Downs". White and Bresnahan were related through marriage, each having wedded daughters of Irishman, Patrick Toohey. Bresnahan also a sandalwood cutter and teamster who explored and gathered the wood in the regions north of Northam. Early Lands Department maps indicate a soak by his name in the Ucarty district."
(Pages 61-62 refer) "Simultaneous to the close settlement of farms being taken up at Wongamine and Chitibin, and along the road to Goomalling, land was also annexed north of Northam, in the Jennapullin and Yarramony districts. Whereas the Wongamine area was predominantly settled by expirees who had been sent to the Newcastle Convict Depot upon their arrival, and who subsequently gained employment in the region, the Yarramony district was settled by a mix of ex-convicts, colonial immigrants and first generation born colonial sons. Farms were generally much larger, having been chiefly taken up as Special Ocupation Leases.
William White was amongst the first permanent pioneers of the Yarramony district. He had come to the Swan River Colony from India with his father, attached to the Imperial Troops. In 1853 he married Honarah Toohey at York, an Irishwoman, who arrived in January of that year from Naneah, County Tipperary, aboard the "Travencore". In the 1860's White leased land in the Northam district of Irishtown and Noggojeering, extending his leases during the following decade to Yarramony and northward to what later became the Jennacubine townsite. Early in 1876 along with his sons, William Junior and James, he took out 1,000 acres in SOLs 893 and 899 in William Chidlow's pastoral,lease, which that gentleman had failed to renew. William White, whose sons were approaching marriageable age when he moved to Yarramony, gradually acquired freehold blocks during the 1889s and 1890s. John Mallon, an expiree held land alongside White."
Note refernce material obtained from White family reunion states that ; William Whites father was James White born 1800 Halifax, died 14 July 1841 Perth who had married Ellen ... born in 1800/4 Ireland and who died on 27 February 1884 at York. James and Ellen had John James White who was born in the West Indies in 1826, William White junior, Mary Ann White born 19 June 1834 at Perth, Michael White born at Perth 24 July 1837.
William White junior was born on 1 April 1831, married Honariah Toohey (born 1833 in Ireland) on 19 May 1853 at York and he died on 8 August 1884. Honariah died on 17 February 1908. The nine children to the marraige of William and Honoriah were Mary Ann White, James White who later in life married Ellen Bresnahan, William White who later married Julia Bresnahan, Margaret White, Michael White, John White, Patrick White, Hannah White and Ellen White.
(Page 68 refers) "William Herbert Eaton, Thomas Brookes, Patrick Hennessy, Michael J Lawler, Patrick Bowen, James Williams, William and Michael White, William Watson, Patrick Ryan and his aboriginal companion, Billy Mimel, were among others who spent considerable time on the Goldfields duing the nineties, working arduously to boost their earnings for the developoment of their largely virgin Goomalling farms."
(Page 148 refers to a James Bresnahan) "The visitors were led through first class forrest country to Lake Ninan by James Bresnehan, a good bushman who was familiar with the district. The visit of the Parliamentary party and subsequent promise of a railway gave great momentum to the closer settlement and agricultural development of ther Konnongorring, Wongan Hills, and regions north."
(Page 360 refers) "William (1831-1884) and Horarah White's land stretched from Noggejeering to Jennacubine. Their family of five sons and four daughters - Mary Ann, James, William, Margaret, Michael, John, Patrick, Hannah and Ellen, were tutored by a ticket of leave man who was engaged as a school master. Other ticket of leave men were employed as shepherds until the boys could tend the flocks. The White family eventually sold the Noggojeering property to Roy Forward and settled at Yarramony, here they built a stone home with cellar and stables. When William died, Hanorah, who possesed tireless energy, great business capacity and an exceptional devotion to her family, carried on clearing and development of the land with the assistance of the boys from a Catholic orphanage. Following her death in 1908, the estate was divided and purchased by her son, John, and sons in law, Richard Leeson and Paddy Ryan.
Jimmy White (1856-1909), the eldest son of William and Honorah, married in Irishtown in 1882, Ellen, daughter of Dennis and Bridget Bresnahan of "Tipperary Downs", Chitibin. Jimmy lived at Irishtown for a few years after his marriage and later acquired "Maitland" farm in the Daudabin district from the Coynes. In 1924 he disposed of the property to move to "Thistleton", situated nearer Jennacubine. As his large family grew up they too became inextricably entwined with Jennacubine district.
William (1857-1931), the second son of William White senior, married at Northam in 1880, Julia Bresnahan, daughter of Dennis. They settled in the Yarramony and Jennacubine districts where William built up a splendid farm, "Hillside". Possessed of a jovial disposition, with a happy sense of wit, William took a keen interest in sport. As a lover of horses he was considered a keen judge of that animal and became a most successful exhibitor at surrounding district shows. He was a foundation member of the Mumberkine Hall Association and member of the GRB 1902-07. Julia and William reared a family of seven, three daughters and four sons, all of whom held a long association with the Goomalling district. Henry Vernon (Harold), the eldest, married Gwelda Perrin, the daughter of long time Wongamine school master. W.S. (Willy) pioneered land at Konnongorring. Joe married Rose, daughter of W.J. Lawler of Wongamine, and lived on a small farm on the main Toodyay-Goomalling Road at Wongamine. Later, when he managed Leeson's farm "Glen Hollow" at Konnongorring, he purchased a small block at Botherling. Paddy farmed at "Hillside" with his father until about 1920 when the property was sold to Ross Moore (later Peter Leeson's) and the Whites transferred their interests to Konnongorring. Chrisie, the eldest daughter, married Eli Atkinson, a Southern Brook farmer and raised a large family including two sets of twins. Hannah married George Carr and farmed at Konnongorring until her husband's death in 1930. May, the youngest, married Basil Carroll and lived at Morawa and Subiaco."
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