Johannes Heinrich Schoen was born in 1724 in Mulhouse, Alsace.
He became a naturalized British citizen in 1753, a year after he married Dorothy Finch at Mortlake in Surrey.
In a letter from his granddaughter, Anne Davies of Bracknell to her nephew George Schoen Davies in 1864 about their ancestry, [he] "came to England from the Canton of Berne in Switzerland with his sister - he was quite a gentleman but no profession and little property - he set up a business at Newgate Street London as a wholesale merchant; this was a great offence to the family as he was the first tradesman in the family and he was a great pull to poor Mrs Finch and much reduced her income. My mother was the only daughter - there were 7 sons but only 3 lived to grow up -that was my uncles George, Henry and William"
John Henry Schoen died about same time as his wife in 1788. Their daughter Dorothy was aged 13 and at boarding school.
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23.4.17
Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen
Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen was born in London in 1763. She was the only daughter of John Henry Schoen and Dorothy Finch. She had five older and one younger brothers. Three of her brothers survived. George Letheuillier Schoen was a Doctor of Law at Oxford, and Henry and William "went on to occupy important positions".
Dorothy's parents died in 1788 when she was 13 and at boarding school. She then lived with her grandmother Mary Finch and her great Aunt Anne Letheuillier.
Mary Finch died shortly before her marriage to Rev. John Davies in 1796, soon after he finished his studies. It seems [from other ancestors] that a wife was a useful acquisition at this stage of a clerical career.
Family information received suggested that although she had been brought up strictly in the established church, she had incurred the displeasure of her family by becoming a non-conformist and had further increased the rift by marrying a Methodist minister. I wonder if this may have occurred in her parents' generation as later information has suggested that the Schoens came from a background of dissent, while the Finches were aristocratic.
Dorothy and John Davies had four daughters and two sons. Their eldest daughter who was not married, lived with them. Ebenezer, the youngest, emigrated with his young family, to Victoria in 1849.
Dorothy died at Warfield in 1846 aged 81. They had moved from Reading to Bracknell Congregational Church in Berkshire in 1844.
Dorothy's parents died in 1788 when she was 13 and at boarding school. She then lived with her grandmother Mary Finch and her great Aunt Anne Letheuillier.
Mary Finch died shortly before her marriage to Rev. John Davies in 1796, soon after he finished his studies. It seems [from other ancestors] that a wife was a useful acquisition at this stage of a clerical career.
Family information received suggested that although she had been brought up strictly in the established church, she had incurred the displeasure of her family by becoming a non-conformist and had further increased the rift by marrying a Methodist minister. I wonder if this may have occurred in her parents' generation as later information has suggested that the Schoens came from a background of dissent, while the Finches were aristocratic.
Dorothy and John Davies had four daughters and two sons. Their eldest daughter who was not married, lived with them. Ebenezer, the youngest, emigrated with his young family, to Victoria in 1849.
Dorothy died at Warfield in 1846 aged 81. They had moved from Reading to Bracknell Congregational Church in Berkshire in 1844.
11.11.11
The Great War 1914-1918
Remembering those relatives [siblings of my grandparents] who served in the Great War 1914-18.
Dr William Hart Steel 1872-1959, served with the British Navy. Eldest son of Dr TH Steel and Isabella. His wife Phoebe Hodgson was a nurse in this war. They married in 1929.
Lt-Col. Thomas Heron Steel OBE 1877-1942. A Captain in the Scottish Regiment before the war, he was a leader at Gallipoli, Steele's Post being named after him. Fifth son.
Captain John Hart Steel 1891-1968, youngest son. Recommended for a Military Cross.
Howard Erskine Davies, 1881-1817, fifth son of Sir John Mark Davies and Emily, died of wounds in the 3rd Canadian Hospital, Boulogne, France in May 1917, leaving a wife and 21 month old daughter.
Cecil Wellington 1888-1979, third son of Henry and Jessie Wellington, was a medical orderly with 1st AGH. He was gassed during the war and never fully recovered.
Cliff Wellington 1890-1954, fourth son, with 5 Bn when wounded in France in October 1917, then he was a sergeant at AIF headquarters in London, returning to Australia in 1920.
Malvern Vail, 1893-, fourth son of Luke and Catherine Vail, served in 7 Battalion AIF.
Cecil Vail, 1897-1966, youngest surviving son, went to France with 37th Battalion in 1916, returned to Australia in 1917 and was discharged permanently unfit in Feb 1918 with a pension.
Dr William Hart Steel 1872-1959, served with the British Navy. Eldest son of Dr TH Steel and Isabella. His wife Phoebe Hodgson was a nurse in this war. They married in 1929.
Lt-Col. Thomas Heron Steel OBE 1877-1942. A Captain in the Scottish Regiment before the war, he was a leader at Gallipoli, Steele's Post being named after him. Fifth son.
Captain John Hart Steel 1891-1968, youngest son. Recommended for a Military Cross.
Howard Erskine Davies, 1881-1817, fifth son of Sir John Mark Davies and Emily, died of wounds in the 3rd Canadian Hospital, Boulogne, France in May 1917, leaving a wife and 21 month old daughter.
Cecil Wellington 1888-1979, third son of Henry and Jessie Wellington, was a medical orderly with 1st AGH. He was gassed during the war and never fully recovered.
Cliff Wellington 1890-1954, fourth son, with 5 Bn when wounded in France in October 1917, then he was a sergeant at AIF headquarters in London, returning to Australia in 1920.
Malvern Vail, 1893-, fourth son of Luke and Catherine Vail, served in 7 Battalion AIF.
Cecil Vail, 1897-1966, youngest surviving son, went to France with 37th Battalion in 1916, returned to Australia in 1917 and was discharged permanently unfit in Feb 1918 with a pension.
16.2.09
John Davies
John Davies was born in 1769 in Caermarthenshire, Wales. His father was a respectable farmer. He joined the Church of the Calvinistic Methodists in 1786 and studied at Trevecca College in Wales. In 1792, the ministers from Trevecca moved to Cheshunt in Essex, where he continued until 1795.
Soon after he finished his studies, John married Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen. They had six children, the eldest being born at Handsworth in Staffordshire.
After a period at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, where their youngest child Ebenezer was born in 1808, John became minister at Whitstable in Kent, then later he moved to Reading. He became minister of Bracknell congregational Church in Berkshire iuntil 1844. In the 1841 census hw was living in Warfield with his wife and eldest daughter. His younger son and his wife were also present. He was still living at Warfield in 1851 with his daughter, his wife having died in 1846.
Rev. John Davies died at Bracknell in 1861 aged 91.
Soon after he finished his studies, John married Dorothy Anna Maria Schoen. They had six children, the eldest being born at Handsworth in Staffordshire.
After a period at Tetbury in Gloucestershire, where their youngest child Ebenezer was born in 1808, John became minister at Whitstable in Kent, then later he moved to Reading. He became minister of Bracknell congregational Church in Berkshire iuntil 1844. In the 1841 census hw was living in Warfield with his wife and eldest daughter. His younger son and his wife were also present. He was still living at Warfield in 1851 with his daughter, his wife having died in 1846.
Rev. John Davies died at Bracknell in 1861 aged 91.
Ruth Bartlett
Ruth Bartlett was born in 1812 at St Andrew, Holborn, in London, the youngest daughter of Mark and Elizabeth Bartlett. She married Ebenezer Davies at St Clement Danes, Westminster, in 1831. They had 11 children, the youngest daughter dying at 5 weeks of age in 1849 shortly before they migrated to Victoria in a group of selected Presbyterians. The Travancore arrived in Geelong in November of that year. She had two more sons born in Geelong but she and her youngest died following the final birth. She was 41 years old. She was buried at Eastern cemetery in Geelong.
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Emily Frances Scales
Emily Frances Scales was the second daughter of Rev. Alfred Scales and Sarah Angus Dickinson. She was born at Alston in Cumbria in 1846. Her parents emigrated to Victoria in 1853 with five children. After her baby brother and her elder sister died, her mother left the ship in Cape Town with the remaining children. They arrived in Melbourne the following year, another brother having died in South Africa. Settling in Geelong, she became older sister, by 12 years, to four more girls.
Emily married John Mark Davies in 1865 and moved to Melbourne where they lived through the boom years of Marvellous Melbourne, into the crash of the 90s. She had fifteen children, the first four dying soon after birth, then a daughter drowned and a son lost, and another killed in France in WW1.
She became Lady Davies when her husband was knighted in 1918. He died in 1919. Emily died at her home Valentines in Wattletree Road in 1932, aged 86 years.
Emily married John Mark Davies in 1865 and moved to Melbourne where they lived through the boom years of Marvellous Melbourne, into the crash of the 90s. She had fifteen children, the first four dying soon after birth, then a daughter drowned and a son lost, and another killed in France in WW1.
She became Lady Davies when her husband was knighted in 1918. He died in 1919. Emily died at her home Valentines in Wattletree Road in 1932, aged 86 years.
Ebenezer Davies
Ebenezer Davies was born in 1808 at Tetbury Gloucestershire, England. He had little education and left home at an early age because his parents could not support him. He was employed in general trading in London when he married Ruth Bartlett in 1831 and later acquired a straw hat manufactory at Halstead, in Essex. In 1849 he emigrated with his wife and nine children to Geelong in Victoria where he owned a tannery.
His wife died in childbirth in 1853.
He remarried in 1857 to Jane Vines and had five more children, however only 2 of them survived infancy.
Ebenezer moved to Melbourne in old age and is buried at St Kilda cemetery.
John Mark Davies
John Mark Davies was born at Halstead in Essex in 1840, the second son and fifth child of Ebenezer Davies and Ruth Bartlett. The family, with nine surviving children emigrated to Victoria where they settled in Geelong.
John joined a solicitor's office in 1852 and was articled for six years. He was admitted to the Supreme Court as a solicitor and proctor in 1863 and moved to Melbourne as representative of his firm. He became engaged to Emily Frances Scales from Geelong a year later and they married in December 1865.
Initially they lived in a 5 room brick house near the railway station in Toorak Road, buying 11 acres of land in 1872 and building a 17 room house.
In 1873 he went into partnership with James Maitland Campbell, son of Rev. AJ Campbell of Geelong. At this time the Toorak Presbyterian Church was also built and he was part of the Board of Management for 20 years until after they moved to East Malvern where he built his Italian Renaissance style mansion on 25 acres.
He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1889 serving in various senior roles.
The family, with 5 children still living at home, moved to a smaller house on Wattletree Road in 1912. and Valentines mansion was subdivided and sold.
He was appointed KCMG in January 1918 and resigned from the Legislative Council in June 1919, following a stroke. He died three months later and was given a State funeral. Although buried at St Kilda cemetery, there is no headstone.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
John joined a solicitor's office in 1852 and was articled for six years. He was admitted to the Supreme Court as a solicitor and proctor in 1863 and moved to Melbourne as representative of his firm. He became engaged to Emily Frances Scales from Geelong a year later and they married in December 1865.
Initially they lived in a 5 room brick house near the railway station in Toorak Road, buying 11 acres of land in 1872 and building a 17 room house.
In 1873 he went into partnership with James Maitland Campbell, son of Rev. AJ Campbell of Geelong. At this time the Toorak Presbyterian Church was also built and he was part of the Board of Management for 20 years until after they moved to East Malvern where he built his Italian Renaissance style mansion on 25 acres.
He was elected to the Legislative Council in 1889 serving in various senior roles.
The family, with 5 children still living at home, moved to a smaller house on Wattletree Road in 1912. and Valentines mansion was subdivided and sold.
He was appointed KCMG in January 1918 and resigned from the Legislative Council in June 1919, following a stroke. He died three months later and was given a State funeral. Although buried at St Kilda cemetery, there is no headstone.
Australian Dictionary of Biography
Marion Ethel Davies
Marion Ethel Davies was born at Irving Road, Toorak [Melbourne] in 1875. She was the fourth child and second daughter of eleven children born to John Mark Davies and Emily Frances Scales. She attended Cornelia Ladies College along with her sister Lil. From about 1880 the family lived in a new 16 room house in Kooyong Road, which was sold in 1891, when they moved to their recently completed mansion in East Malvern. This was the end of the Land Boom and the family had been heavily involved. With most of the mansion locked up, they lived in part of it and the sisters worked to maintain it.
In 1911, Marion married David Steel whose family had also attended the Toorak Presbyterian Church, and the Steel and Davies boys had been at Toorak College together. The following year, she gave birth to twin boys, then three more sons and a daughter arrived by 1919.
During the first World War, they lived at Brunswick, moving to 88 Stanhope Street in Malvern until 1923 when they moved to a larger house at 121 Stanhope Street until 1935. They then moved to 6 Nott Street, Malvern, a few doors from his brother Will, and always not far from the Davies sisters.
Five of Marion's six children served overseas in the second World War and she wrote regularly to all of them. Her eldest, John, who had gone farming with his brother David, was part of the ill-fated 8th Division which was sent to Java in February 1942 and were sent to the Burma railway. Marion was probably one of the mothers, wives and girlfriends who met each week to provide mutual support in the absence of news. Although John survived the worst of the railway construction in 1943, he succumbed to the deprivations in Thailand in October 1944 although his family did not learn of this until the end of the war a year later.
In the 1950s, Marion became blind following unsuccessful operations for cataracts. She wrote regularly to her daughter Mary in England using a hat elastic writing aid to keep her lines on track and taught herself Braille to continue her love of reading. Her husband died in 1961 and she continued in her home with a live-in companion until about a year before she died, when she moved to a nursing home nearby. She died in 1966, just short of her 91st birthday, survived by four sons, a daughter, and ten grandchildren.
In 1911, Marion married David Steel whose family had also attended the Toorak Presbyterian Church, and the Steel and Davies boys had been at Toorak College together. The following year, she gave birth to twin boys, then three more sons and a daughter arrived by 1919.
During the first World War, they lived at Brunswick, moving to 88 Stanhope Street in Malvern until 1923 when they moved to a larger house at 121 Stanhope Street until 1935. They then moved to 6 Nott Street, Malvern, a few doors from his brother Will, and always not far from the Davies sisters.
Five of Marion's six children served overseas in the second World War and she wrote regularly to all of them. Her eldest, John, who had gone farming with his brother David, was part of the ill-fated 8th Division which was sent to Java in February 1942 and were sent to the Burma railway. Marion was probably one of the mothers, wives and girlfriends who met each week to provide mutual support in the absence of news. Although John survived the worst of the railway construction in 1943, he succumbed to the deprivations in Thailand in October 1944 although his family did not learn of this until the end of the war a year later.
In the 1950s, Marion became blind following unsuccessful operations for cataracts. She wrote regularly to her daughter Mary in England using a hat elastic writing aid to keep her lines on track and taught herself Braille to continue her love of reading. Her husband died in 1961 and she continued in her home with a live-in companion until about a year before she died, when she moved to a nursing home nearby. She died in 1966, just short of her 91st birthday, survived by four sons, a daughter, and ten grandchildren.
David Steel
David Steel was born in Horsham, Victoria, in 1876. His father was a doctor from Glasgow. He was the third son, and fourth of nine children. The family moved to Melbourne around 1880 and he attended Toorak College. In 1893, his father died suddenly and he was sent to India to his uncle's company to learn the tea trade. He and his younger brother Tyke traded as Steel Brothers Tea merchants in Melbourne although Tyke then left to go farming.
In 1911 David married Marion Davies, whose family had long been associated through school and church. They had five sons; two of whom became doctors and three went farming, and a daughter.
David was a dedicated elder of the Armadale Presbyterian Church. He died in 1961 in his 85th year.
In 1911 David married Marion Davies, whose family had long been associated through school and church. They had five sons; two of whom became doctors and three went farming, and a daughter.
David was a dedicated elder of the Armadale Presbyterian Church. He died in 1961 in his 85th year.
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