Benjamin FREE

1871 - 1961  (90 years)  Submit Photo / Document

• Name	Benjamin FREE  [1, 2]
  Relationship	with Rodney VOJVODICH
  Birth Record	1871	New South Wales, Australia
  	#4765
  Born	21 Jan 1871	Raglan, New South Wales, Australia
  Gender	Male
  Died	6 Apr 1961	Rosewater, South Australia, Australia
  	Cause: Coronary Thrombosis - Hypertension
  	118 Russell Street
  		FREE-Benjamin1871-DC001
  Buried	8 Apr 1961	Dudley Park, South Australia, Australia
  	TAK Section, Row 17, Site 225N
  		FREE-Benjamin1871-DE001
  Patriarch & Matriarch	Unknown FREE,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. DECEASED  (4 x Great Grandfather)  Elizabeth UNKNOWN,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. DECEASED  (2 x Great Grandmother)
  Person ID	I903	MyBradyTree | BRADY, KLF, MAC, SMF, MW2, VOJV
  Last Modified	1 May 2022

  
  

  Father	William FREE,   b. 2 Mar 1829, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire, England ,   d. 2 Jun 1890, Corack, Victoria, Australia  (Age 61 years) Other Partners: Louisa CHAPMAN  m. 16 Nov 1848
  Mother	Eliza FLAVELL,   b. 29 Nov 1840, Landbeach, Cambridgeshire, England ,   d. 7 Jan 1925, Corack, Victoria, Australia  (Age 84 years) Other Partners: William BRUCE  m. 7 Nov 1894
  Married	26 May 1856	Winchelsea, Victoria, Australia   [1]
  	CofE, St Thomas
  Reference Number	#1380
  Children	14 children
  1. John FREE,   b. 25 May 1856, Mount Hope, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 8 Dec 1918, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
  2. William FREE,   b. 25 Jul 1858, Mount Hope, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 1859
  3. William FREE,   b. 29 Jan 1860, Mount Hesse, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 29 Jun 1951, West Leederville, Western Australia, Australia
  4. Samuel John FREE,   b. 29 May 1861, Mount Hesse, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 15 Jun 1939, Lalbert, Victoria, Australia
  5. Phoebe Ann FREE,   b. 7 Jul 1862, Teesdale, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 16 Aug 1927, Watchem, Victoria, Australia
  6. James Oswald FREE,   b. 13 Mar 1864, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 20 Jan 1922, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
  7. Charles FREE,   b. 4 Jul 1865, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 17 Feb 1931, Wanganui, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand
  8. Alice Martha FREE,   b. 24 Nov 1866, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 10 Jun 1949, Birchip, Victoria, Australia
  9. Alfred FREE,   b. 11 Nov 1868, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 22 Jan 1946, Beverley, Western Australia, Australia
  10. Alexander FREE,   b. 11 Nov 1868, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 16 Feb 1869, Mount Cole, Victoria, Australia
  11. Benjamin FREE,   b. 21 Jan 1871, Raglan, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 6 Apr 1961, Rosewater, South Australia, Australia
  12. George Bruce FREE,   b. 6 Oct 1875, Raglan, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 12 May 1948, Mornington, Victoria, Australia
  13. Mary Ann FREE,   b. 30 Jul 1878, Raglan, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 18 Jun 1948, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
  14. Oswald Hawsuel Ernest FREE,   b. 2 Oct 1881, Corack, Victoria, Australia ,   d. 3 Mar 1964, Murrayville, Victoria, Australia
  Family ID	F493	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Maud UNKNOWN,   b. UNKNOWN,   d. DECEASED
  Married	UNKNOWN
  Children	+ 1. Mavis FREE,   b. 1907,   d. DECEASED â–» Douglas William STEWART  m. UNKNOWN
  Last Modified	1 May 2022
  Family ID	F20446	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

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  		Birth Record - #4765 - 1871 - New South Wales, Australia Born - 21 Jan 1871 - Raglan, New South Wales, Australia Died - Cause: Coronary Thrombosis - Hypertension - 6 Apr 1961 - Rosewater, South Australia, Australia Buried - 8 Apr 1961 - Dudley Park, South Australia, Australia  = Link to Google Earth
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  FREE-Benjamin1871-LO001 Free Lane (Parish of Duddo in the Mallee,Victoria) Points to road leading to Benjamin Free's property.

  
  

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• Notes

  Memories of Benjamin Free as told to us by Murray McGough now aged in his nineties, who with his parents was a neighbour of Benjamin in the Mallee. Des & Fay Menzel visited Murray on 12th September 2013 he remembered Benjamin Free (known as old Ben Free ) to be short & plump in stature & to Murray then a youngster thought Ben to be quite old and knowledgeable who kept pretty much to himself. According to Murray ( who passed away two weeks after our visit) Ben & Maud Free arrived in the Mallee about 1919 with a daughter Mavis aged 12 years according to the Pallarang school records( have not confirmed if Ben & Maud were married) both Maud and Mavis loved to sing and were very keen to perform on the stage in the local concerts. Ben was a wheeler & dealer in sheep buying & selling through the local Stock Agent in the district. As told to us by Murray Ben owned a horse operated chaff cutter and cut chaff for the local farmers and that Mavis married a local farmer in the Mallee. After her husband's early death she then married a man in Adelaide and about that time Maud left Ben and moved away from the Mallee having saved enough money of her own to leave. Ben continued to live in the Mallee employing several housekeepers until............ In June 2014 we continued our research of Benjamin visiting Des's cousin in Murrayville Victoria who told us Mavis had married Douglas Stewart a local farmer in the district who had died quite young and was buried in the Cowangie cemetery. We visited the Cowangie cemetery and found where he was buried, headstone reads Douglas William Stewart died 2 Mar. 1942 aged 41 years beloved husband of Mavis and father of Dorothy. We then travelled to Watchem, Victoria and was told Benjamin farmed close to his mother Eliza's property at Watchem. ( To date this is all we have been able to find out about Benjamin Free, hope this is of some help.) Desmond & Fay Menzel - 2014

  
  

• Reference

  Darryl Brady. (2022, May 21). Benjamin FREE. Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. Retrieved from https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I903&tree=BRADY2008