Charles Savige

Biography

Charles SAVIGE was born on September 30, 1859 in Stawell, Victoria, Australia. His parents were John SAVIGE and Emma RUSSELL.

Charles married Christina MURRAY in 1886 in Victoria, Australia. Together they had the following children:

• Charles Roy ;
• Allan Murray ;
• Thellastine Margaret ;
• Dr Harold William ;
• Lindsay ;
• Mary Christina ;
• Edgar Russell .

Christina died 5 October 1910 and Charles married Christina Jane DIVER in 1911 in Victoria, Australia. Together they had the following children:

• Hazel Jean .

Charles died on March 5, 1942 in Coburg, Moreland City, VIC, Australia and was buried in Hazelwood Cemetery, Hazelwood, Latrobe Valley, Victoria, Australia.

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Charles Savige, third son of John and Emma was born at Lake Lonsdale, near Stawell where John had been following the gold rushes, on 10th November 1861. He died in Melbourne in 1942. Charles married Christina Murray, daughter of William Murray and Mary Ann (nee White), of Trafalgar.Christina, born Camberwell 1859, died Morwell Bridge 10th October 1910, married Charles at the Church of England, Trafalgar, in 1886. My father was a butcher at the time at Coalville. Later he moved the shop to Narracan Falls, where he used to supply meat to the camps of the railway workers who were constructing the new line from Mote to Thorpdale. When the line was comple ted, he opened another butcher's shop at Narracan. A lot of country was being opened up along the McDonald's Track and Charles supplied meat to the surveyors as far as Leongatha, Mirboo and Meeniyan. He told me he lost two horses while crossing the Tarwin River at Mirboo South on one trip. It certainly must have been a hard life.Mother and Father lived on a property which Father had bought in its natural state, about miles north‑west of the falls; he cleared the land when not on trips with meat, but he must have employed labour to have done all this work.I can recall my mother talking about the great bushfire sometime in the 1890's when she hi get into a dam with her four children. I think it was known as Black Friday bushfire. When my grandfather went to "Riverside", Moe, my father selected a block of land near Morwell Bridge, not far from "Riverside", but did not go there. Charles went into a tailoring business his elder brother, John, at 176 Flinders St., Melbourne. I think he had the call of the land a, only stayed a short time, then he bought the adjoining block of 365 acres at Morwell Bridge which been partly cleared. I believe it belonged to the old briquette company which had become bankrupt. Father bought the old brick factory, pulled it down and built a lovely home with a big lounge, five bedrooms, large dining‑room and kitchen, plus a brick dairy. He named the property of 640 acres "Hope Dale", and that was where I was born on 21st September 1900.I was told that Father employed his brother Bert to help build the house, bringing the bricks from the brown coal mine on a trolley and then carting them to the house site by bullock team; I still see the old wagon with solid wheels cut from red gum.Bert Savige did quite a bit of bridge‑building and Father used to cart the timber onto the job with his bullock team." Hope Dale" was a beautiful property and the Latrobe River ran right through it. Its big lagoons always had duck on them and perch in the river weighed up to 5 lbs. Very often Father would invite people from Melbourne to shoot quail and snipe. I think that shooting was one of his main hobbies. He was a good horseman and always had a good pair of horses for his buggy.One pair he called Don and Murmer. Once, my brother Harry, home for Christmas from University was shearing a sheep when it kicked and drove the blade into his leg cutting the main artery. We harnessed the pair up and drove to Morwell, a distance of six miles, in under half an hour. Harry survived and later became a doctor.Once a year, my father would go out to buy cattle around his old meat round ‑ Leongatha, Mirboo and Narracan ‑ and would often bring back up to 200 and 300 head. He would then hold an auction sale arranged by Theo. B. Little and Co. and people would come from miles around. 1 am sure he made quite a lot of money from it.We had a big bend in the river near the old coal mine and this was a favourite place for picnic Once a year, a football team from Walhalla would corm down and play a local team; this would be about 1905 to 1912. In 1910 my mother died. I was 10 years of age, the youngest of the family of seven. My brothers, Allan and Lindsay, were away and the remainder still lived at home. In 1912 my father married Jane Murray, widow of my mother's brother, Jim, who died September 1910, and brought the whole family of six Murrays home to "Hope Dale"; as my father said: "Like a hen with six chickens" – the eldest child was 12 years old.There was one child by this marriage, Hazel, born at Morwell on 28th March 1913. Traralgon in 1966.In 1914 when the Great War started, my sister Thella was a nurse at Heidelberg Hospital on 2/6 a week, Harry a medical student at Melbourne University, Allan a schoolteacher, Roy and I were at home and Lindsay went to the war. Harry later went to the war as a doctor. About this time the family seemed to break up, Mary went to Melbourne to do office work, Roy was a cattle‑dealer and I went into a motor garage at Sale. Later, I came to Melbourne in the motor industry, in 1921 joined the air force as a gunnery and armament instructor and, after leaving the air force in 1928, I worked in the motor industry then started my own business as a clothing manufacturer in 1931.I must add here that my brother, Lindsay, after returning from the war in 1919, was the first person to be employed with the State Electricity Commission at Yallourn; he was forest ranger and No.1 on the payroll. Lindsay was one of those who welcomed Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Yallourn in 1954, and gave her the outline of the history and growth of Yallourn. In 1919 the S.E.C. acquired "Hope Dale" to get the brown coal to generate power for the state. The price offered to Charles was unacceptable to him so he took them to Arbitration Court and was awarded a higher figure. Where the open cut is today, was once "Hope Dale".My mother, father and Roy are buried in Morwell, Thella at Trafalgar, Lindsay at Lakes Entrance, Allan, Springvale, Harry, Brisbane Crematorium and Hazel was cremated at Springvale. Mary and myself are the only surviving children of Charles.(Jane, second wife of Charles, died on 10th December 1945 at Morwell.)

[Edgar Savige, in "Savage 1739 - Savage 1974" by Margot Titcher (Dandenong, 1974)]

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The Saviges were a well-known family from Coalville and Narracan.

Warragul Guardian and Buln Buln and Narracan Shire Advocate 22 Feb 1883 WARRAGUL LAND BOARD. Charles Savige, 140 acres Narracan; recommended

MARRIAGE 1 First name(s) Charles Last name Savige Sex Male Marriage year 1886 Spouse's first name(s) Christina Spouse's last name Murray State Victoria Country Australia Record set Victoria Marriages 1836-1942 Registration number 3222

Great Southern Advocate 8 Aug 1890 GAZETTE NOTICES. August 1. 145acres Or 30p from Charles Savige to Charles Savige and John Savige, Narracan.

Morwell Advertiser 22 Sept 1899 TENDERS invited (labour only) for Bricklayer's and Carpenter's Work in the erection of a Six roomed Villa for Charles Savige, Esq. Plans and specifications to be seen at Tulloch's Mart, Morwell. Tenders close on Saturday, tlhe 30th inst., at 12 noon.

Charles' wife, Christina, dies in 1910.

MARRIAGE 2 First name(s) Charles Last name Savige Sex Male Marriage year 1911 Spouse's first name(s) Christina Jane Spouse's last name Murray (born Diver) State Victoria Country Australia Record set Victoria Marriages 1836-1942 Registration number 5839

Traralgon Record 20 Jan 1911 UNRESERVED CLEARING SALE Mr Charles Savige's Dairy Herd. MORWELL. Thursday, 26th January. : THEO. B. LITTLE & CO have received instructions from Mr Charles Savige to sell on the property, " Hope dale," at 1 p.m. sharp- (There follows a long list of dairy cows, horses, sheep, pigs and some farm implements)

Traralgon Record 4 Dec 1917 Police Court.-At the Traralgon Police Court on Friday, before Messrs R. Canfield and Walter West, J's.P. An application for a stage carriage license between Morwell and the Coal Mine, by Charles Savige, was granted..

BIO from Ancestry written by Edgar Savage, son of Charles. Charles Savige, third son of John and Emma was born at Lake Lonsdale, near Stawell where John had been following the gold rushes, on 10th November 1861. He died in Melbourne in 1942. Charles married Christina Murray, daughter of William Murray and Mary Ann (nee White), of Trafalgar.Christina, born Camberwell 1859, died Morwell Bridge 10th October 1910, married Charles at the Church of England, Trafalgar, in 1886. My father was a butcher at the time at Coalville.Later he moved the shop to Narracan Falls, where he used to supply meat to the camps of the railway workers who were constructing the new line from Moe to Thorpdale. When the line was comple­ted, he opened another butcher's shop at Narracan. A lot of country was being opened up along the McDonald's Track and Charles supplied meat to the surveyors as far as Leongatha, Mirboo and Meeniyan. He told me he lost two horses while crossing the Tarwin River at Mirboo South on one trip. It certainly must have been a hard life.Mother and Father lived on a property which Father had bought in its natural state, about miles north‑west of the falls; he cleared the land when not on trips with meat, but he must have employed labour to have done all this work.I can recall my mother talking about the great bushfire sometime in the 1890's when she had to get into a dam with her four children. I think it was known as Black Friday bushfire.When my grandfather went to "Riverside", Moe, my father selected a block of land near Morwell Bridge, not far from "Riverside", but did not go there. Charles went into a tailoring business with his elder brother, John, at 176 Flinders St., Melbourne. I think he had the call of the land a, only stayed a short time, then he bought the adjoining block of 365 acres at Morwell Bridge which been partly cleared. I believe it belonged to the old briquette company which had become bankrupt. Father bought the old brick factory, pulled it down and built a lovely home with a big lounge, five bedrooms, large dining‑room and kitchen, plus a brick dairy. He named the property of 640 acres "Hope Dale", and that was where I was born on 21st September 1900.I was told that Father employed his brother Bert to help build the house, bringing the bricks from the brown coal mine on a trolley and then carting them to the house site by bullock team; I still see the old wagon with solid wheels cut from red gum.Bert Savige did quite a bit of bridge‑building and Father used to cart the timber onto the job with his bullock team."Hope Dale" was a beautiful property and the Latrobe River ran right through it. Its big lagoons always had duck on them and perch in the river weighed up to 5 lbs. Very often Father would invite people from Melbourne to shoot quail and snipe. I think that shooting was one of his main hobbies. He was a good horseman and always had a good pair of horses for his buggy.One pair he called Don and Murmer. Once, my brother Harry, home for Christmas from University was shearing a sheep when it kicked and drove the blade into his leg cutting the main artery. We harnessed the pair up and drove to Morwell, a distance of six miles, in under half an hour. Harry survived and later became a doctor.Once a year, my father would go out to buy cattle around his old meat round ‑ Leongatha, Mirboo and Narracan ‑ and would often bring back up to 200 and 300 head. He would then hold an auction sale arranged by Theo. B. Little and Co. and people would come from miles around. 1 am sure he made quite a lot of money from it.We had a big bend in the river near the old coal mine and this was a favourite place for picnic Once a year, a football team from Walhalla would corm down and play a local team; this would be about 1905 to 1912.In 1910 my mother died. I was 10 years of age, the youngest of the family of seven. My brothers, Allan and Lindsay, were away and the remainder still lived at home. In 1912 my father married Jane Murray, widow of my mother's brother, Jim, who died September 1910, and brought the whole family of six Murrays home to "Hope Dale"; as my father said: "Like a hen with six chickens" – the eldest child was 12 years old.There was one child by this marriage, Hazel, born at Morwell on 28th March 1913. Traralgon in 1966.In 1914 when the Great War started, my sister Thella was a nurse at Heidelberg Hospital on 2/6 a week, Harry a medical student at Melbourne University, Allan a schoolteacher, Roy and I were at home and Lindsay went to the war. Harry later went to the war as a doctor.About this time the family seemed to break up, Mary went to Melbourne to do office work, Roy was a cattle‑dealer and I went into a motor garage at Sale. Later, I came to Melbourne in the motor industry, in 1921 joined the air force as a gunnery and armament instructor and, after leaving the air force in 1928, I worked in the motor industry then started my own business as a clothing manufacturer in 1931.I must add here that my brother, Lindsay, after returning from the war in 1919, was the first person to be employed with the State Electricity Commission at Yallourn; he was forest ranger and No.1 on the payroll. Lindsay was one of those who welcomed Queen Elizabeth II on her visit to Yallourn in 1954, and gave her the outline of the history and growth of Yallourn. In 1919 the S.E.C. acquired "Hope Dale" to get the brown coal to generate power for the state. The price offered to Charles was unacceptable to him so he took them to Arbitration Court and was awarded a higher figure. Where the open cut is today, was once "Hope Dale".My mother, father and Roy are buried in Morwell, Thella at Trafalgar, Lindsay at Lakes Entrance, Allan, Springvale, Harry, Brisbane Crematorium and Hazel was cremated at Springvale. Mary and myself are the only surviving children of Charles.(Jane, second wife of Charles, died on 10th December 1945 at Morwell.) [Edgar Savige, in "Savage 1739 - Savage 1974" by Margot Titcher (Dandenong, 1974)]

DEATH & BURIAL First name(s) Charles Last name Savige Age 81 Sex Male Birth year 1861 Death year 1942 Father's name Savige John Mother's name Emma Russell Death place Coburg State Victoria Registration number 2715

The Argus 6 March 1942 The Age, same day SAVIGE. —On March 5, at Melbourne, Charles Savige, the dearly beloved husband of the late Christina and loving father of Allan, Thella (Mrs. A. Chamberlain), Harry, Lindsay, Mary (Mrs. N. Persee), Roy, and Edgar, aged 81 years, —Deeply mourned.

SAVIGE. —On March 5, at Melbourne, Charles Savige, of Morwell, the loved husband of Janet, and loving father of Hazel, aged 81 years. —At rest.

SAVIGE. — The Funeral of the late Mr. CHARLES SAVIGE will pass through Morwell TO-MORROW at 2.15 p.m., enroute to the Hazelwood Cemetery. NELSON BROS.. Coburg. MW1301 and 1302.

The above makes clear that Charles remarried after Christina's death to Christina Jane Murray, and had another family.

Record set Victoria Wills & Probate First name(s) Charles Sex Male Last name Savige Grant year 1942 Death year 1942 Occupation Property Owner Residence Moe State Victoria Country Australia Nature of grant P Death date 05 Mar 1942 Grant date 16 Jul 1942 To whom committed - File number 333/318 Order link VPRS 28/P3, unit 3659;

In 1939, 33 adult Saviges were registered to vote in Moe/Narracan/Trafalgar and district. Most of them are probably descendants of Charles, and, with their children make quite a clan.

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Born in Lake Lonsdale, Victoria, Australia on 10 Nov 1861 to John Savige and Emma Russell. Charles Savige married Christina Murray and had 8 children. He passed away on 05 Mar 1942 in Coburg, Victoria, Australia.
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