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Jeremiah H. Rolfe, 18081880 (aged 72 years)

Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial
Name
Jeremiah H. /Rolfe/
Surname
Rolfe
Given names
Jeremiah H.
Family with parents
father
17821825
Birth: 7 May 1782 19 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 17 November 1825Writtle, Essex, England
mother
1782
Christening: 15 September 1782 34 27 Writtle, Essex, England
Death:
Marriage Marriage21 December 1802Writtle, Essex, England
elder brother
2 years
elder brother
18041857
Birth: 3 June 1804 22 21 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 1857Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
20 months
sister
1806
Christening: 16 January 1806 23 23 Writtle, Essex, England
Death:
2 years
himself
Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial
18081880
Birth: 17 January 1808 25 25 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 16 November 1880Queensland, Australia
6 years
younger brother
All Saints Church, Writtle, Essex, England
18131898
Birth: 1813 30 30 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 2 January 1898Chelmsford, Essex, England
2 years
sister
1814
Christening: 18 December 1814 32 32 Writtle, Essex, England
Death:
16 months
sister
1816
Christening: 14 April 1816 33 33 Writtle, Essex, England
Death:
22 months
younger sister
1818
Birth: 15 February 1818 35 35
Death:
2 years
younger brother
1820
Birth: 2 April 1820 37 37 Writtle, Essex, England
Death:
4 years
brother
Family with Sarah Kemp
himself
Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial
18081880
Birth: 17 January 1808 25 25 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 16 November 1880Queensland, Australia
wife
18031855
Birth: 1803 25 23
Death: 6 April 1855Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
Marriage Marriage21 September 1829Writtle, Essex, England
9 months
son
18301883
Christening: 13 June 1830 22 27 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 6 December 1883Hervey Range, Queensland, Australia
19 months
son
18311895
Birth: about 1831 22 28
Death: 13 December 1895Clermont, Queensland, Australia
3 years
son
18341893
Birth: 6 April 1834 26 31 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 11 June 1893Tambo, Queensland, Australia
2 years
daughter
18361838
Christening: 3 April 1836 28 33 Writtle, Essex, England
Burial: 18 March 1838Writtle, Essex, England
2 years
son
The ship Amelia Thompson c. 1841
18381843
Birth: 27 June 1838 30 35 At Sea
Death: 1843
5 years
daughter
18421924
Birth: 24 November 1842 34 39 Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 23 August 1924Atherton, Queensland, Australia
2 years
son
18441908
Birth: 12 December 1844 36 41 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 25 March 1908Clermont, Queensland, Australia
2 years
daughter
18471886
Birth: 20 March 1847 39 44 New South Wales, Australia
Death: 29 June 1886Clermont, Queensland, Australia
Family with Julia Hayes
himself
Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial
18081880
Birth: 17 January 1808 25 25 Writtle, Essex, England
Death: 16 November 1880Queensland, Australia
wife
1817
Birth: 1817Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
Death: Belyando River, Queensland, Australia
Marriage Marriage25 September 1855Swan Hill, Victoria, Australia
Birth
Christening
Birth of a brother
Christening of a sister
Christening of a sister
Birth of a sister
Christening of a sister
Address: First Meeting House, Baddow Lane, Chelmsford, Essex, England.
Birth of a brother
Christening of a brother
Christening of a brother
Burial of a maternal grandmother
Death of a father
Burial of a father
Marriage
Christening of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a son
Christening of a son
Christening of a daughter
Burial of a daughter
Emigration
on the Amelia Thompson
29 March 1838 (aged 30 years)
Birth of a son
Note: On the ship Amelia Thompson.
Christening of a son
Address: St Stephen's Church, Penrith, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Birth of a daughter
Death of a son
Birth of a son
Birth of a daughter
Burial of a paternal grandmother
Death of a wife
Marriage Witnesses
W. & E. Rolfe
Marriage of a son
Marriage
Death of a brother
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a daughter
Marriage of a son
Marriage of a son
Death of a mother
Death
Address: Pioneer Station, Queensland, Australia.
Burial
Last change
14 February 202308:16:46
Author of last change: Danny
Note

RGI deaths 80/000276

Excerpt from the book "SWAN HILL" by Arthur Feldtman:

"The Lower Murray Inn (at the corner of what are now CampBell and McCallum Streets) was the first accommodation for visitors to Swan Hill. John McCrae and Gideon Rutherford raised the sunken punt and used the timber to construct the Inn in 1848, building the nucleus of the town. A modest enough nucleus it was--a wood and log building of four rooms with a shingle roof and a front verandah. A liquor licence was necessary before the hotel was bult--even at this early date in our history.

In a room at the rear of the Inn, mail was simply emptied out of the mail bag on to the general store counter, and the residents came in and sorted out their rare and precious letters for themselves. As this combined hotel and general store was owned and operated at the time by John McCrae, it was appropriate that on 1 January 1849 he was appointed the first official Postmaster at Swan Hill. The appointment was made by the infant colony's postal administration, and it is commemorated by a bronze plaque placed on the facade of the modern Swan Hill Post Office in 1964.

After four years, McCrae was succeeded in the position by his brother-in-law, Gideon Rutherford, and, when the two men left Swan Hill in 1854 JEREMIAH Rolfe, who took over the licence of the Inn, also took over the postmaster's job. In 1857 there must have been a short drought for thirsty citizens, because on 3 July of that year Rolfe's licence was cancelled for a breach of the liquor laws, and the town was without a hotel. Rolfe's misdemeanour could not have been serious, because it was reported in the Bendigo Advertiser that on 31 August the licence had been restored. The next proprietor was Thomas Dick who had a hand in many business enterprises in the area. He ran the punt, had a butcher's shop, baker's shop, was a builder of some standing, and was involved in several other activities. Perhaps too many activities, as they led to his insolvency in 1860. The next owner was James, Gray, another punt operator, and it is appropriate that Gray promptly renamed the hostelry The Punt Hotel.

Rolfe was followed by a succession of postmasters, two of whom were George B. Perkins and T.H. Sparkes.

Note

Witnesses: W.&E.Rolfe

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Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial
Jeremiah Rolfe's Memorial