Ralph GOUNDRY 1843 – 1923 – Genealogical Records

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Genealogy Event 1
Event Type: Birth
Event Year: ABT NOV 1843
Event Place: Old Coundon, Co. Durham

Genealogy Event 2
Event Type: Baptism
Event Year: 31 DEC 1843
Event Place: Coundon, Co. Durham
Record Source: and at Spennymoor Methodist Chapel the same day

Genealogy Event 3
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 28 APR 1870
Record Source: the General Post Office, Sydney had unclaimed letters addressed to Ralph GOUNDRY at Newcastle

Genealogy Event 4
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: 1871
Event Place: Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia
Record Source: when his daughter Elizabeth was born - the mother was named as Ellen GOUNDRY

Genealogy Event 5
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1 MAR 1873
Record Source: there was unclaimed mail for him addressed to Charters Towers, Queensland, New South Wales

Genealogy Event 6
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: BET 1874 AND 1891
Event Place: Northumberland, New South Wales, Australia

Genealogy Event 7
Event Type: Residence
Event Year: 1875
Event Place: Lambton, New South Wales, Australia
Record Source: when his daughter Frances was born - the mother was named as Ellen GOUNDRY

Genealogy Event 8
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUL 1876
Record Source: at a public meeting at Lambton he opposed a motion against spending £800 on a Public School there

Genealogy Event 9
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 3 FEB 1877
Record Source: at Waratah, New South Wales his wife Ellen GOUNDRY was committed for trial at Maitland on a charge of deserting her two children at Lambton

Genealogy Event 10
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 MAR 1877
Record Source: a newspaper stated that breeding greyhounds had become very popular and Ralph GOUNDRY of Lambton offered to back his slut "Luna" to run any greyhound in the colony twelve months old, at one hare, on any course, from £100 to £200 a side

Genealogy Event 11
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 JUN 1878
Record Source: a match between GOUNDRY's "Luna" and SCOTT's black dog took place at the Northumberland Hotel, Lambton - the stakes were £20 a-side, the dog which killed the first nine rabbits out of seventeen was to be the winner - the result was "Luna" nine rabb

Genealogy Event 12
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 2 DEC 1882
Record Source: he was one of several hundred signatories to a letter to a newspaper stating that if A.A.P. TIGHE, Esq. was a candidate in a forthcoming election they would support him

Genealogy Event 13
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JAN 1883
Record Source: at the Police Court, his daughter Frances GOUNDRY, "a girl of about eight years, on remand for her protection, was discharged; her father having undertaken to at once look after her, and have her removed from a house of ill-fame, kept by a man name

Genealogy Event 14
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 OCT 1883
Record Source: a meeting of the Lambton Miners agreed that "in future when a fatal accident occurs, the men, instead of ceasing work, remain in and give the widow of the deceased half of their earnings for that day" was defeated. The Miners' delegate tendered hi

Genealogy Event 15
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JAN 1884
Record Source: the New South Wales Police Gazette advertised "Missing since the 4th instant from an Institution at Manly, known as the "Good Samaritan Convent" - Lizzie GOUNDRY. About 12 years of age, fair complexion, hazel eyes, sandy hair cut short, long featu

Genealogy Event 16
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 MAR 1884
Record Source: as a member of the Sports Committee he signed the programme for the amusements at the Miners' Demonstration to be held on the Wallsend Athletic Club Ground.

Genealogy Event 17
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 MAR 1884
Record Source: at a meeting of the Hunter River District Convention of the International Order of Good Templars (a Temperance Organisation) Brother Ralph GOUNDRY was recommended as a District Deputy for the next year

Genealogy Event 18
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 21 JUN 1884
Record Source: Ralph GOUNDRY represented the miners of Lambton Colliery at a conference between the masters and miners with a view to forming Conciliation Boards for the amicable settlement of collieries disputes

Genealogy Event 19
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: JUL 1884
Record Source: he seconded a vote of thanks to the speaker at a lecture given to the Rosebud Lodge of Good Templars at Lambton.

Genealogy Event 20
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1 AUG 1884
Record Source: he addressed a meeting of the Blue Ribbon Army, another Temperance Society, at the Baptist Chapel, Elder Street

Genealogy Event 21
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 2 OCT 1884
Record Source: a Miners' delegate meeting agreed that "the District Officers and Messrs. J. SUMMERS and R. GOUNDRY be a Sub-committee to draw up rules for the guidance of the Board of Conciliation in conjunction with representatives from the proprietors"

Genealogy Event 22
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 OCT 1884
Record Source: he was appointed to the Banquet Committee for the forthcoming Eight-hours Demonstration of the trades in the city and district.

Genealogy Event 23
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 OCT 1884
Record Source: he was a marshall at the annual celebration of the inauguration of the eight-hours system of labour in the Hunter River District, held at Newcastle Racecourse - "Along the route the various trades were emblematically represented by conveyances cont

Genealogy Event 24
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JAN 1885
Record Source: a meeting of the miners' delegates elected R. GOUNDRY onto a Committee to arrange the Miners' Annual Demonstration

Genealogy Event 25
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 7 FEB 1885
Record Source: as a member of the Sports Committee he signed an advertisement for competitors for the Sports at Lambton, part of the Miners' Demonstration to be held on March 5th

Genealogy Event 26
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 MAY 1885
Record Source: he chaired a tea meeting and concert of the Hope of Lambton, I.O.G.T., "whilst a goodly mustering of his large family of fellow brothers and sisters, all in full regalia, were seated round him on the platform".

Genealogy Event 27
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 AUG 1885
Record Source: a meeting of the Lambton Miners proposed that they should receive similar wages to those at Wallsend.

Genealogy Event 28
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 SEP 1885
Record Source: at a miners' meeting to decide whether the members of the H.R. Coal Miners' Protective Association should accept the proposal of the coal proprietors, Mr. Ralph GOUNDRY of the Lambton mine said "this was the first time he had had the honour to addr

Genealogy Event 29
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1 OCT 1885
Record Source: a meeting of Lambton Colliery employees was told that some of them had given notice that they did not intend to pay to Dr. LEACOCK any more, and had signed a paper requesting that money should not be stopped in the office and they should be allowe

Genealogy Event 30
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 2 OCT 1885
Record Source: Ralph was elected to the Executive.

Genealogy Event 31
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 3 OCT 1885
Record Source: at a meeting of the Lambton miners it was proposed that Mr. JONES, the Check-weighman, and Mr. GOUNDRY, the Delegate, form the deputation to meet Mr. SHANNON, the Company's Managing Director. Mr. JONES was willing to go, but doubted whether he wou

Genealogy Event 32
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 OCT 1885
Record Source: Mr. R. GOUNDRY told a meeting of Lambton miners that they had had a long discussion with Mr. SHANNON, Managing Director of the company in Sydney about the rates of pay for certain types of work - the miners claimed the same as the Company paid at i

Genealogy Event 33
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 NOV 1885
Record Source: a Public Meeting was held to present Mr. Jacob JONES with "an illuminated testimonial, together with a purse of sovereigns, previous to his departure for fresh fields and pastures new." The testimonial was signed by the Committee, including its Se

Genealogy Event 34
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 1 DEC 1885
Record Source: a motion to consider the formation of a Trades and Labour Council for the Hunter River district, supported by Mr. R. GOUNDRY and others, was carried unanimously.

Genealogy Event 35
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 4 DEC 1885
Record Source: a letter to a newspaper, signed by R. GOUNDRY, A.G. HAMILTON and R. MOONEY, the members of the deputation from Lambton, said they had met the Superintendent of the Lambton Company and requested that the miners get get the same sliding scale as tho

Genealogy Event 36
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 JAN 1886
Record Source: he was appointed as one of the executives of the Newcastle Miners' Association for the ensuing quarter.

Genealogy Event 37
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 JAN 1886
Record Source: the Secretary told a meeting of the Lambton miners that a deputation, including Mr. R. GOUNDRY, had met the Manager of Lambton Colliery with a view to trying to bring about a settlement. The miners' request that reporters be allowed into the meeti

Genealogy Event 38
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 JAN 1886
Record Source: Mr. R. GOUNDRY was in a deputation from the Hunter River Miners' Association which met the Minister of Mines. They said there had been many complaints about bad ventilation in some of the mines and there had recently been a strike because of this

Genealogy Event 39
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 21 JAN 1886
Record Source: a meeting of Lambton miners agreed that a letter from the Manager of the colliery would not be considered as "the purport of the letter was that such concessions as the Manager had to offer were now withdrawn, and everything was as before the strik

Genealogy Event 40
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 27 JAN 1886
Record Source: a meeting of the Lambton miners unanimously elected Mr. GOUNDRY as District Chairman. The meeting was told that a local employer had declined to employ union men and a meeting of the Coal Trimmers' Association had been held to consider the situati

Genealogy Event 41
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 FEB 1886
Record Source: Ralph GOUNDRY wrote to a newspaper denying that he had told Mr. SHANNON that the strike would not last a week. He said it would never have taken place if the Company had acted in the same manner as all the other companies in the district who for y

Genealogy Event 42
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 3 JUN 1886
Record Source: it was reported that a meeting had been arranged in Newcastle between the Associated Colliery proprietors and delegates from the Labour Conference with a view to bringing the strike to an end - Mr. GOUNDRY was to represent the Lambton miners

Genealogy Event 43
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 FEB 1887
Record Source: about 2,500 people attended a meeting to nominate candidates to represent Northumberland. One of the nominations, for John OSBORNE, was made by H. RUSHTON and R. GOUNDRY - Mr. OSBORNE, who received continued cheering, proclaimed himself devoted t

Genealogy Event 44
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JUL 1887
Record Source: a miners' meeting at Wallsend was described as "hardly a grand success as barely 1,000 men put in an appearance" because "the subject to be discussed is practically limited to a comparatively small portion of the mining community." The meeting wa

Genealogy Event 45
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 22 AUG 1887
Record Source: over 4,000 attended the Miners' Aggregate Meeting at which a letter from the Secretary of the Masters' Association was read out stating that they did not consider the tributing system a matter within their province to discuss and that "it is useles

Genealogy Event 46
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 NOV 1887
Record Source: a meeting of miners' delegates at Newcastle accepted a letter of resignation from the Miners' Chairman and Ralph GOUNDRY was elected for the remainder of the term.

Genealogy Event 47
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 FEB 1888
Record Source: the western district miners held their annual Eight-hour Demonstration on the Lithgow Racecourse, 300 miners marched in procession to the ground where speeches were delivered from the grandstand. A resolution was passed to make eight hours a lega

Genealogy Event 48
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 11 MAR 1888
Record Source: between 4,000 and 5,000 attended the Miners' Demonstration at Lambton Park, the Chairman was Mr. R. GOUNDRY, President of the Hunter River Miners' Mutual Protective Association.

Genealogy Event 49
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 JUN 1888
Record Source: at a meeting of the Hunter River Miners' Association "there were about 2,000 present including a fair sprinkling of females. Two or three brass bands played before the meeting opened. The chair was taken by Mr. Ralph GOUNDRY, president of the Hun

Genealogy Event 50
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 JUN 1888
Record Source: Mr. James FLETCHER, M.L.A., met a deputation from the South Waratah miners with Mr R. GOUNDRY and Mr James CURLEY (District Chairman and General Secretary) regarding the dispute between them and the Company - the men said they were prepared to acce

Genealogy Event 51
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 JUL 1888
Record Source: a meeting of the miners' delegates and district officers resolved that the agreement for arbitration for the South Waratah miners be accepted, subject to the rise and fall of the district rates, and that the district officers and a deputation fro

Genealogy Event 52
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 JUL 1888
Record Source: at a miners' meeting at Newcastle it was resolved that the General Secretary should inform the Waratah Company that the Board objected to Henry STOKES and Hugh WALKER as arbitrators as it alleged they were both directly interested in the coal trade

Genealogy Event 53
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 30 JUL 1888
Record Source: about 2,000 men present at a miners' conference held at Lambton were told by Mr. R. GOUNDRY, the miners' Chairman, that the meeting's purpose was to decide what action to take regarding the proposed agreement with the masters. Two resolutions wer

Genealogy Event 54
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 AUG 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that "A crisis has been reached in the dispute between the Newcastle miners and the colliery proprietors, and 14 days' notice of a general strike will be given by the miners on 13 August. At a conference on 11 August between r

Genealogy Event 55
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 24 AUG 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that as long as there had appeared to be the slightest prospect of a settlement a large section of the people had held a strong belief that the threatened strike of the miners, with its attendant serious consequences, would b

Genealogy Event 56
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 AUG 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that "The Great Northern mine requires opening up, there being only 85 men employed there now whereas if the work is allowed to proceed over 200 additional men will be added. The miners estimate that with 300 men they could ra

Genealogy Event 57
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 7 SEP 1888
Record Source: a newspaper commented that the main topic was the meeting the following day between the masters' and miners' delegates which it hoped would have a satisfactory conclusion. It said people seemed to have lost sight of the possibility of difficultie

Genealogy Event 58
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 8 SEP 1888
Record Source: the conference between representatives of the masters and the miners considered the the draft agreements submitted by each side to agree which one should terminate the strike. The miners' representatives included Mr. GOUNDRY who told Mr. GREGSON f

Genealogy Event 59
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 SEP 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that the latest news from the Southern collieries was that the management of the Mount Kembla colliery had offered an increase of 12½ per cent on the present hewing prices, which would probably be accepted by the Miners and ave

Genealogy Event 60
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 SEP 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that heavy rain at Newcastle had prevented a demonstration which the miners had planned for that morning. Miners in the vicinity of the Newcastle Colliery had arranged to burn the efiigies of a number of the masters and minin

Genealogy Event 61
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 OCT 1888
Record Source: a newspaper reported that miners at the Stockton colliery would resume work the next day, much to their satisfaction as they were thoroughly sick of the strike and their only regret was that they ever left their work - they had lost six weeks' earn

Genealogy Event 62
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 20 OCT 1888
Record Source: the Newcastle Weekly Chronicle, published in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England reported that "A great strike has been proceeding in the coal field of New South Wales ever since the 27th of August. Unfortunately it has been accompanied in its later stag

Genealogy Event 63
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 31 OCT 1888
Record Source: the conference of associated colliery masters and miners' delegates resumed after adjourning for a week to give the delegates time to consider the effects of the scale proposed by the masters for payment for refuse in coal seams, and "the delegate

Genealogy Event 64
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 3 NOV 1888
Record Source: at a meeting at Newcastle, Mr. GOUNDRY remarked that each side should sink all differences and not allow anything that had transpired during the strike to interfere with the harmonious working of the mines. He hoped the masters would allow the me

Genealogy Event 65
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 13 NOV 1888
Record Source: the representatives of the Associated Colliery Masters and the Miners' Association met to sign the agreement which had been approved by both parties. A delegate from the Minmi Colliery said that although he was present it was only to make known th

Genealogy Event 66
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 3 JAN 1889
Record Source: the Newcastle Miners Delegates' Board accepted the resignation of Ralph GOUNDRY, the District Chairman, who had played such an important part in the recent strike.

Genealogy Event 67
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 9 JAN 1889
Record Source: at the monthly meeting of the Lambton miners the minute accepting Mr. GOUNDRY's resignation as District Chairman was adopted without any comment

Genealogy Event 68
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 28 JAN 1889
Record Source: a newspaper reported that Mr. James WRIGHT "who will seek the suffrages of the Northumberland electors in the freetrade interest, who arrived yesterday, would speak at Wallsend tomorrow". It was generally thought that although he was well known i

Genealogy Event 69
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 5 FEB 1889
Record Source: Ralph GOUNDRY attended a banquet at the Lyceum Hall given by the citizens of Newcastle to the Mayor in return for his recent hospitality

Genealogy Event 70
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 14 FEB 1889
Record Source: Mr Ralph GOUNDRY gave evidence as to the existence and thickness of the coal underlying the estate in an arbitration case in which the trustees of the GLEN-MITCHELL estate claimed £77,000 from the Government

Genealogy Event 71
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 16 FEB 1889
Record Source: the hearing into the dispute between the management of the South Waratah colliery and the miners employed there resumed in the Referee's Court at Newcastle Court-house. It concerned the rates paid for various thicknesses, bands and seams. It wa

Genealogy Event 72
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 MAR 1889
Record Source: the full text of the award was published: Mr. CURLEY produced three miners, including Ralph GOUNDRY, who were employed at different mines. The judgement was "My award in this reference is that the claim for an increased hewing rate, and for an inc

Genealogy Event 73
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 APR 1889
Record Source: a crowded and enthusiastic public meeting was held under the auspices of the Newcastle branch of the Irish National League to arrange measures for the reception of the Irish delegates. It was agreed that "this meeting pledges itself to make ever

Genealogy Event 74
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 15 MAY 1889
Record Source: Mr. Ralph GOUNDRY was Chairman of a meeting of the Committee appointed to make the arrangements for the visit of the Irish delegates to Newcastle. A suitable address was submitted to the meeting, and it was decided that it should be printed on sat

Genealogy Event 75
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 18 MAY 1889
Record Source: 400 people were present to meet two of the Irish delegates when they arrived at the station. In the evening about 1,200 people attended a meeting at the Elite Skating Rink, Newcastle where the Chairman announced that the collection reached £520

Genealogy Event 76
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 MAY 1889
Record Source: he spoke at a meeting in Newcastle in support of the "Irish cause"

Genealogy Event 77
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 26 JUN 1889
Record Source: a newspaper article in England reported that "In the vicinity of the antipodean namesake of our own city of Newcastle we come across places bearing the familiar names of Wallsend, Hetton, Whickham, Stockton, Alnwick, Hexham, Lambton, Belford, Warkw

Genealogy Event 78
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 10 JUL 1889
Record Source: a newspaper editorial about Ireland reported that "Queensland is now being canvassed. An unparalleled reception there has marked the sympathy of the Australian people with the Irish cause. On 16 May a great banquet took place at the Shamrock Clu

Genealogy Event 79
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 29 AUG 1889
Record Source: he occupied the chair at a charity concert held in the Music Hall - "There was a large attendance, as the proceeds were to be given to Mrs. BRYANT and family, so lately bereaved of their husband and father"

Genealogy Event 80
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 25 SEP 1889
Record Source: a newspaper article read: "At the next general election there will be no lack of candidates in the field for Newcastle and Northumberland. . . . Another candidate will probably be Mr. Ralph GOUNDRY, who has also occupied a leading position among th

Genealogy Event 81
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 19 OCT 1889
Record Source: unclaimed letters awaiting collection at Sydney General Post Office included some for Ralph GOUNDRY, Burwood.

Genealogy Event 82
Event Type: Custom Event
Event Year: 12 NOV 1890
Record Source: an advert. read: "Inquiry is requested to be made for the present whereabouts of Elizabeth GOUNDRY. She is 16 years of age, fair complexion and hair supposed cut short; old mark of abcess on forehead; dress not described. She left the Sydney Hosp

Genealogy Event 83
Event Type: Death
Event Year: 16 SEP 1923
Event Place: Addison Street, Crook, Co. Durham
Record Source: Age: