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The ship Sir John Lawrence, 700 tons, Captain Ellery, from London 20th August, Plymouth 5th September, 1863 arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 14th December 1863
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Some of the passengers:
- Christopher Dyer, wife Leticia Lewis and daughters Mary Anne and Ellen. Ellen married Charles Bilney and Mary anne married John George Duthy and later Joseph Spicer.
Obituary of passengers on the voyage
Captain Michael De Dear, who died recently at Port Pirie, was one of the pioneers of the town. He was 86 years of age and was a native of Crete. He came to Australia when little more than a youth. During the early years of his residence in the State his home was at Port Augusta, where he owned several sailing craft. In 1872 he removed to Port Pirie, and was for many years in the coastal shipping trade in Spencer Gulf. At one time he possessed considerable means, but he sustained a severe stroke of ill fortune in having his vessel, the Mercury, when loaded with flour, run down and sunk by a steamer. Neither the Mercury nor the cargo was insured. A few years ago Captain De Dear, with the members of his family (his wife died several years ago), removed to Sydney, but he returned here and remained at Port Pirie until his death. He was a foundation member of the Port Augusta Foresters' Lodge, and had been a member of Court Pirie for upwards of 47 years. He was a foundation member of the Port Pirie Pioneers' Association. He left six sons (Messrs. C. De Dear, Port Adelaide; B. De Dear, Port Broughton; Hector De Dear, Pirie South: and Leo, Claim, and (Clem, De Dear, New South Wales) and four daughters (Mesdames West, Norwood; H. M. Pimlott, Pirie South, and Misses Clythe and Gwen De Dear, New South Wales). There are 14 grandchildren.
Obituary. (1920, June 26). Chronicle (Adelaide, SA : 1895 - 1954), p. 12. Retrieved January 29, 2016
Further research has revealed that Michael's real name was Miltiades Bidzanis/Bidzanakis - Michael De Diar - a very interesting read...
He signed on to the ship Sir John Lawrence for Australia. He arrived in Port Adelaide on Friday 30 August 1861 and a few days later he signed off the ship, in this way becoming only the second recorded Greek in South Australia.
In Port Pire, he married Elizabeth J.M., whose surname is unknown, but who was reputedly a French migrant, she was forty-one years old when she died on 27th January 1876. and she bore him three sons. Very little information has survived about this marriage, or about their children, except that two of the sons were named Ernest Charles and Harilaos Richard, while for the third we know only the initials C.E.H.
16 May 1878, Bidzanis remarried, this time to Florence Edith Mary Davidson a twenty-one year old Australian-born woman from Geelong, Victoria who bore him 10 children:
Athena Ellen (d. 1967), Cleopatra Emily (d. 1975), Cleanthe (Clyanthe) Edith (d. 1970), Constantine Theophilos (d. 1971), Demetrios Harilaos (d. 1974), Hector John (d. 1959), Leonidas George (d. 1963), the twins Clarence Andreas Themistocles (d. 1966) and Clement Spynidon Miltiades (d. 1974), and Gwendolin Olga (d. 1974) named after the then Queen of Greece, Olga.
Port Pirie Cemetery
- DE DEAR, Elizabeth J M
- DE DEAR, Hector John & Lillian Maude
- DE DEAR, Norah
- DE DEAR, Royston Hector & Audrey Violet
Stories
- Very rough voyage.
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