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Born, Janice Hume Chapman The Sydney Morning
Herald 20 October 1932 |
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Seventh
generation of native-born Australians. On
October 6, Janice Hume Chapman, who, on her mother's side, is the first of
the seventh generation of native-born Australians, was born at Manly. Very
few, if any, other Australian families can claim such a record. The
descent of the child is traced in the following way. In
1792, a Bourbon refugee, Marie Gabriele Huon de Querilleau, fled from France to England during Robespierre's reign of terror. His
property was confiscated and he afterwards came to Australia in the regiment
of which John Macarthur, of Camden, was the captain. He
obtained a grant of land and settled at what is now Fairfield. In
1797 his daughter Ga Elizabeth Huon,
was born and in 1813 she married Captain William Mitchell, a retired officer,
who engaged in sheep-farming near Bungonia. This
Captain William Mitchell and Elizabeth Huon, his
wife, were the founders of the well-known Mitchell family of Albury and the
Upper Murray. Among
other children, Captain and Mrs. Mitchell had a daughter, Emma, who married
Francis Rawden Hume, son of Andrew Hamilton Hume. To
them was born a daughter Mary, who married Robert Henry Kennedy, of Woonaminta. a member of one of the best known of the
pioneer squatting families Mrs. Kennedy's daughter became the wife of J F
Kenyon, once of Yass, and for many years a police magistrate in New South
Wales Mrs. Kenyon, who is still living, with a son at Mosman,
was therefore, the fourth in the line of Australian descent. The
fifth generation is represented by Mr. Cyril Kenyon, son of J F Kenyon (now
manager of the A ML and F. Co.). His
third daughter. Phyllis Hume Kenyon (now Mrs. C. R Chapman), is the mother of
the newly-born child Janice, who is, therefore of the seventh generation. Mr.
Chapman is a Sydney journalist. |