| Note | NOTE: Age varies in records. Birth is probably between 1830 and 1835. |
| Birth | William Foulsum was born circa 1833 in Hingham, Norfolk, England. |
| INFO | Possible -- CENSUS 1841 (6 jun 1841). Norfolk Hingham. Watton Road. William Foulsham age 7, born in county, in household with Elisabeth Drake, 20 and Mary Drake age 7. Note: Caroline Foulsham age 25, F.S. [female servant] is in nearby household. (GBCens1841 H.O.107/767/13 8:8.) |
| INFO | Possible. CENSUS 1851 (30 Mar 1851) Hingham, Norfolk. Iyay (??) White. Robert Sarge (?) family. William Foulsom, serv. unmar, 18, house servant, b. Norfolk Hingham. (GBCens1851 HO107/1817 252:20.) |
| Marriage | He married Maria Smith 1857. |
| INFO | Probable: CIV REG INDEX Marriage. 1857 JunQ William Foulsum, Maria Smith. Holbeach 7a:625. (FreeBMD.) |
| INFO | SHIP DEPARTURE. Ship "Annie Wilson", master John Duckett, carrying 374 statute adults for a voyage of 140 days. Bound for Melbourne. Embarkation: Liverpool. Passengers include: Foulsum, William, 26, Ag. Lab., English. Foulsum, Maria, 21, English. (VicInPassFMP.) |
| INFO | IMMIGRATION INDEX. Index to Assisted British Immigration [to Victoria, Australia] 1839-1871. Foulsum, Willm, age 26, arrival Jan 1859 on ship "Annie Wilson" book 13, page 292. Same arrival for Maria Foulsum, age 23. (AssBrImmPROV.) |
| INFO | UNCLAIMED MAIL. Victoria Government Gazettes. Country List of Unclaimed Ship Letters, June 1863. Geelong #19. Foulsum William. (VicGovGazFMP, 1863, p.1583) Note: also listings for 1860, 1862, 1864. |
| INFO | DRAINAGE PROBLEM. Newspaper report of Leigh Shire Council. Geelong Advertiser, 14 Aug 1883, p.4. "Correspondence. ... From W. Foulsum, Rokewood, calling the council's attention to the drain alongside his fence being washed away. . . . The President moved: --That the engineer inspect the drains complained of, and bring up a report on the work required and cost of same. ..." (GeelongAdTro.) |
| INFO | MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE. 1892 Marriage in the Distr of Grenville. #212. m. 1 Jan 1892 at St. John's Church Ballaarat. William Foulsum, widower, wife d.1890; no children living or dead; b. Hingham, Norfolk, England, farmer, age 57, residence Invermay near Ballaarat; parents not known. Clara Fiddick Fraser (nee Swinbourne) widow, husband d.1884, 3 children living, none dead; b. Melbourne Victoria; housekeeper, 37, residence Invermay near Ballaarat. Parents James Swinbourne, engineer; Elizabeth Weston (Farmar). Married, by license acc to rites of Ch of England, by R. Johnson Mercer, clerk in Holy Orders, St. John's Church, Ballaarat. Witnesses: Sophia Lewis Cave-Wilkinson and William Haney? Bant?. (VicCertMarr 1892 #149) NOTE: good signatures. |
| Marriage | William Foulsum married Clara Fiddick Swinbourn, daughter of James Swinbourn and Elizabeth Weston Farmar, 1 January 1892 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. |
| INFO | CIV REG INDEX AUST Marriage. Wm Foulsum (b. England) and Clara Fiddick Fraser. Reg. Victoria 1892 #149. (VicBDMFed.) |
| INFO | DIRECTORY Ballarat 1896-97. Foulsum, William, grocer, Eureka-st, B.E. [Ballarat East]. (BallaratDir LDS993946 1896-97.) |
| INFO | LAND PAYMENT. Listing in Victoria Government Gazettes, 1899, p.982, for yearly payments under section 99 of the Land Act 1890. #2294 Wm. Foulsum, area 3 acres in Ballarat East, license date 1.1.99, payment £1-0-0, payable to receiver of revenue at Ballarat. (VicGovGazFMP) Note: similar listings for 1896 and 1898. |
| INFO | DEATH CERTIFICATE. District of Ballarat #29763. William Foulsum, laborer, male, age 73. Died 24 Dec 1904 at Armstrong Street, City of Ballarat, County Granville. Cause: Cancer of stomach, heart failure. Parents unkn. informant Stephen Wellington, authorized agent, 144 Sturt St. Ballarat. Registered Ballarat 26 Dec 1904, Sam Walker. Burial 26 Dec 1904 at Ballarat New Cemetery. Undertaker Stephen Wellington. Mininster Leo Perryman. Witnesses Cletas? Wellington. Birthplace, marriage, children all unknown. (VicBDMWeb 1904 #11280.) |
| Death | William Foulsum died 24 December 1904 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. |
| INFO | BURIAL at Ballarat New Cemetery. 26 Dec 1904. William Foulsum, 74, of Armstrong St. Ballarat, labourer. Burial area: COFEC, sect 5, loc 36, 2A. NOTE: same burial location as wives Maria and Clara. (BallNewCemRg LDS6200449 E13.) |
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