Samuel Wallace Alexander Walsh Bickley

Known as Wallace Bickley.

Wikipedia (snip)

In April 1833 (Wallace Bickley) married Marianne Thomson. In 1837 he emigrated to India to work for the British East India Company, developing the trade in horses between Western Australia and India.

Marianne died in India in June 1841, she had one daughter; Isa Izon Bickley.

The following February Wallace married Elizabeth Burke née Tynan.

Wallace Bickley and Elizabeth Tynan had children in India, and 2 children WA BDM: 1853 Unnamed F (Blanche) ; 1854 Wallace Izon, at Canning, and he died at Canning on 17 December 1854 as the only son.

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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth WA) Wed 5 Jul 1876 DEATHS.

BICKLEY.— On the 30th June, 1876, at his residence, Cliff Street, Fremantle, W.A., of disease of the heart, in his 66th year, Samuel Wallace Alexander Walsh Bickley, eldest son of the late Samuel Bickley, of Kent, grandson of the late Sir Francis Bickley, and Sir Thomas Dunlop Wallace.

The West Australian Times Perth Tue 4 Jul 1876

OBITUARY.

Wallace Bickley Esq., died of heart disease at his private residence, Cliff Street, on Friday evening last, (30th June,) much regretted by a large circle of friends, and leaving a widow (second wife) and several daughters. The deceased had been suffering for the past six months, and for the last fortnight the pain at his heart, it is said, was almost incessant. His remains were interred at the Church of England new cemetery.

The funeral took place on Sunday last at 4 p.m., and was attended by a large number of per- sonal friends, many from Perth and Guild- ford, besides a numerous concourse of port residents.

The chief mourners were, Mr. Wallace Davis, and Mr. Edward Ashton, son-in- law, and Mr. S. J. Spurling, nephew. The pall bearers were :—Mr. E. Solomon (partner,) Mr. T. Stockley King, Mr. A. Francisco, Mr. Louis Samson, Mr. W. Stone, Mr. Herbert Ashton. Among the followers were—Honble. L. S. Leake, Speaker of the Legislative Council. Hon. Acting Comptroller General, Hon. Sept. Burt, M.L.C., Major Finnerty, G. W. Leake, Esq., Crown Solicitor, Mr. J. G. Lee Steere, M.L.C., Mr. Geo. Shenton, M.L.C, Mr. W. S. Pearse, M.L.C., Mr. W. E. Marmion, M.L.C., Jno. Stone, Esq., J.P. H.M. Lefroy, Esq., J.P., Chairman of the Port Municipality, and several of the councillors.(snipped long and interesting article).

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Wikipedia

Wallace Alexander Bickley (11 October 1810 – 30 June 1876) was an early settler in the Swan River Colony of Western Australia, who became a Member of the Western Australian Legislative Council.

Born in Kent, England on 11 October 1810, he was christened Samuel Wallace Alexander Bickley but his first name was dropped to distinguish him from his father Samuel. He was educated at Dr Butters' College in Shropshire, and spent some time in Germany, before emigrating to Western Australia on board the Protector in February 1830. He set up a trading business and in April 1833 he married Marianne Thomson. In 1837 he emigrated to India to work for the British East India Company, developing the trade in horses between Western Australia and India. His wife died in June 1841, and the following February he married Elizabeth Burke née Tynan.

In 1851, Bickley returned to Western Australia. He became the owner of Kenwick Park in the Canning district. Over time he became one of the leading merchants in Fremantle, becoming an agent for Lloyd's of London and a representative of the Melbourne Shipowners' Association. In the 1860s he invested in mining in the Geraldton district. Bickley donated the Canning community a 1.5-hectare (3 3⁄4-acre) parcel of land on Bickley brook near Albany Highway for the building of a school, police station, church and cemetery.[1] In 1867 he became a Justice of the Peace. He was a regular contributor to the Fremantle Herald, and became Chairman of the Marine Survey Board. On 29 July 1872, Bickley was nominated to the Western Australian Legislative Council, remaining in the seat until his death at Fremantle on 30 June 1876.

The Perth suburb of Bickley is named after him.

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The Inquirer and Commercial News (Perth WA) Wed 5 Jul 1876

OBITUARY. MR. WALLACE BICKLEY.

Another old identity has passed away from amongst us—Mr. WALLACE BICKLEY. The deceased arrived here soon after the Settlement was proclaimed —in the course of the year 1829—from which time he maintained an almost unbroken connection with its mercantile affairs.

He was a gentleman of considerable literary ability ; while his knowledge of shipping and mercantile business—encouraged as it was in early life by the example of his father who was a leading broker in the London Stock Exchange, and further developed by travel through the chief European capitals, and finally by a long period of service in an important department of the East Indian Company's civil service at Calcutta—entitled him to rank as an authority in such matters. He held the office of Lloyd's Agent, and was the representative of the Melbourne Shipowners' Association and of other underwriting and assurance firms, at Fremantle, for many years prior to his death.

Mr. Bickley was appointed a nominee member of the Legislative Council under Governor Weld's Administration, in 1872—holding his seat until the end of the last session, when he resigned, in consequence of a disagreement with Governor Robinson as to the status of nominees in Council. That the deceased had faults proved him human, but, whatever his shortcomings, either as a politician or in other public matters in which he interested himself, we believe, his greatest enemies in regarding the issue had seldom any fault to find in him after all. Mr. Bickley was also a justice of the peace, and, until failure of hearing compelled him to relinquish that duty he occasionally acted in a magisterial capacity at the Canning.

Recently he joined his son-in-law Mr. L. A. Manning in the business which is now carried on under the style of Messrs L. A. Manning & Co. Mr. Bickley fell seriously ill only about a fortnight ago, the malady to which he succumbed being an affection of the heart, of which he died somewhat suddenly, at his residence, Fremantle, about midnight on Friday last. The funeral took place on Sunday afternoon, among the numerous followers being many of the most respectable residents of the Port, and a large number of the leading citizens of Perth. The deceased —whose remains were deposited in the Church of England Cemetery, the service being read by the Rev. D. Glyn Watkins—had reached his 66th year.