Emma LAMMAS b. 1859 Malvern, Victoria, Australia d. 14 Feb 1910 Bendigo, Victoria, Australia: Minter Exchange

1859 - 1910 (51 years)

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Name	Emma LAMMAS
Birth	1859	Malvern, Victoria, Australia [1]
Gender	Female
_UID	B5D07AB2C48149599A1D2E2FE70A9B427AB8
Death	14 Feb 1910	Bendigo, Victoria, Australia [2]
Burial	16 Feb 1910	White Hills Cemetery, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia [3]
Notes	Emma Lammas Minter, died at 152 Bridge Street in Bendigo on 14 Feb 1910 (#494) at the age of 51 years. Her cause of death was a cerebral haemorrhage and she was in a coma for four weeks preceding her death. Emma was buried (interment #15841) on 16 Feb 1910 at White Hills Cemetery. This private grave in compartment H is also the site of burial of her three infant daughters: Florence Elizabeth, age 1 yr and buried 30 Oct 1891 (internment #11749): Elsie Victoria, aged 9 months and buried 4 July 1893 (i#12213) Violet Elizabeth aged 9 months and buried 27 June 1894 (i#12459). August 2012: email contact from Mary Moffitt, who writes: "I have been researching the Lammas family for 45 years. I have had the date of birth, birthplace, the names of the parents and possible grandparents of my great grandmother, Martha Lammas for most of those 45 years. And I had much information about people with Lammas as their family name, but I could not connect the families or find out how Martha came to New Zealand. I could not find further records of the Lammas family in England either. Here in Nelson there is an extensive Lammas family, and during a visit to a ninety year old woman in that family, in 1982, I remember being told about a name-change. She described cabin trunks which brought the family's clothes to New Zealand as having one name inside the trunks and another on the outside. It was their trunk, not something bought or borrowed from someone else. Unfortunately she could not remember the name, but suggested Randall as a possibility. That sent me off on a wild goose chase, and I made no progress (on a limited budget) for many years. I failed to connect the two families. When searching through actual, old newspapers decades ago I found an 1868 advertisement asking Martha Lammas to communicate urgently with her mother, Mrs Brock, of Sandhurse(sic). Martha had been using another name, Griffen, for six years, and I thought Sandhurse must mean Sandhurst in England - and that was the wrong part of England altogether. But, I remembered the name-change story and saved the document. Only recently did I discover that Sandhurse(t) was an old name for Bendigo. I passed this information on to a younger cousin who had some funds for research. She investigated and we found that the Lammas family had emigrated to Victoria, Australia, in May 1857 aboard the 'Grand Trianon'. On board were:- Lammas, Leonard 42 Phoebe 33 Martha 12 Caroline 9 George W 1 Another ship listing shows Julia A Lammas 15 with them - possibly she was listed with the 'single women' ?????? Emma was born in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia in 1859. The family emigrated under the name of Lammas, but, once in Australia, they used the name Brock, and sometimes Lammas Brock. We think that the reason for this is that Leonard took his mother's maiden name at birth, because she was unmarried. We have a baptism for a Leonard Lummis, mother Harriet Lummis, Topcroft. We assume further that after Harriet married Samuel Brock when Leonard was two years old, the whole family then lived using the name Brock, but, when it came to registering the births of Leonard's children or emigrating, it was necessary to use his legal(?) birth name (although Leonard used Brock when he was married.) Once in Australia they chose to use the name that was familiar to them - Brock????? Leonard Lammas Brock died 31 December 1891, Bridge Street, Bendigo, born Topcroft, Norfolk, married Lincolnshire England at age 25 to Phoebe Punchard, Leonard's mother listed as Harriet Brock, previously Lammas. Father unknown. Buried White Hills. . Phoebe Lammas Brock died 19 September 1904, Bridge Street, Bendigo, born Alburgh, Norfolk, married aged 16 to Leonard Brock. Buried White Hills. Phoebe was Phoebe Punchard, father Robert Punchard. Children listed on the death certs are:- Julia Ann (dec) Martha Sarah (dec) Caroline (dec) George William Leonard Lammas Emma Emma was born in 1859 in Malvern, Melbourne, Australia. All we had about Emma was that she married in Australia. It was very interesting to find out about her on your site. I have yet to discover why Martha used the Lammas name in New Zealand, never Brock. She was a singer and was known on the goldfields as Martha Lammas, but as Griffen legally. I think that her brother George came to NZ and originated the other line of the Lammas family that I have found. I have found many references to him on the various goldfields. Martha was first married to and separated from T Griffen/Griffin before 1864. In 1865 my grandfather, William James, was born to her and James Joyce, and in 1868 she married George Moffitt, whose name William James adopted. She was a very good singer and her recitals are recorded in early NZ papers. For many years I thought that the urgent message from Phoebe to Martha must have been about Martha's husband's death, because Martha married George Moffitt later that year. This I could not ascertain, but we do know that Caroline Lammas/Brock died in 1868, so that could have been the reason for the urgent message. I am still keen to find out about Martha's marriage to T(Thomas?) Griffen (she must have been very young), and how she came to New Zealand, but one day it will pop up out of the ether, I am sure."
Person ID	I332	North Suffolk, Suffolk
Last Modified	12 Sep 2023

Father	Leonard LAMMAS, b. Abt 1815, Topcroft, Norfolk d. Bef 1 Jan 1898, Bridge Street, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 82 years)
Mother	Phoebe PUNCHARD, b. Sep 1823, Redenhall, Norfolk d. Bef 20 Sep 1904, Victoria, Australia (Age ~ 81 years)
Marriage	15 Aug 1838	St Mary, Long Sutton, Lincolnshire [4, 5]
Family ID	F524	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family John Minter, b. 14 Apr 1859, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia d. 3 Aug 1924, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia (Age 65 years)

Marriage 7 Aug 1878 Victoria, Australia [2]

Children

	1. Phoebe Emma Minter, b. 20 Dec 1878, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia d. Aft 1924 (Age 46 years)
	2. Rosetta Emma Minter, b. 31 Mar 1881, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia d. Aft 1924 (Age 43 years)
	3. Mabel Caroline Minter, b. 25 May 1883, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia d. Bef 16 Nov 1884, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 year)
	4. George Herbert Minter, b. 8 Oct 1885, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia d. Bef 24 Aug 1965, Victoria, Australia (Age 79 years)
	5. Ethel May Minter, b. 12 Jan 1888, Sandhurst, Victoria, Australia d. 1959, Victoria, Australia (Age 70 years)
	6. Florence Elizabeth Minter, b. 19 Oct 1890, Australia d. 29 Oct 1891, Victoria, Australia (Age 1 year)
	7. Elsie Victoria Minter, b. 13 Sep 1892, Australia d. Bef 4 Jul 1893, Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)
	8. Violet Elizabeth Minter, b. 1894, Australia d. Bef 27 Jun 1894, Victoria, Australia (Age 0 years)
	9. William John Minter, b. 3 Aug 1896, Australia d. 10 Apr 1973, Altona, Victoria, Australia (Age 76 years)

Family ID F112 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 8 Sep 2009

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Death - 14 Feb 1910 - Bendigo, Victoria, Australia

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Sources

[S131] Mary Moffitt, August 2012.
[S50] Victoria BMD index, July 2008 and later.
[S26] White Hills (Bendigo) Cemetery Register.
[S2] BMD index, Q4 1838 Holbeach 14/687. (Reliability: 3).
[S3] IGI.