Annie Burgess

GEDCOM Note

Annie was born on the Bendigo goldfields at Long Gully in 1853. When 18 years old, she married John Roberts, a 30 year old miner working at the Frederick the Great mine at Sebastian. After their marriage, they lived at Sebastian where her husband worked as a mine manager.
Their first 3 children - Robert (1872), John (1874) and Margaret (1876) - were born there. When Annie's mother died in 1874, her father and brothers, Charles and John moved in with them.
About 1879 Annie and John moved to Elmore. Eva Jane Elmore Roberts was born there in that year.
By 1880, with Annie's brothers, they moved to a farm at Durham Ox. It was here that her crippled brother, John died in 1880. Annie's eldest daughter, Margaret also died on the farm in 1885, aged only 9.
Sometime later the family moved to a farm at Yassam, now known as Beauchamp (near Lake Boga and Swan Hill).
Bonnie Roberts (Morvell) described her childhood memory of her Grandmother, Annie as follows -
"I remember she was a petite lady. (She) wore long black dresses to the floor and she wore 'little' bonnets tied under her chin (black of course) and a little black bag. She was a stern lady, not very demonstrative toward me."
After death of her husband, Annie lived with her youngest daughter, Dorothy at Manning Tree Rd, Hawthorn, Melbourne.