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Harriet SEDDON v Edmund APPS
Creswick Police Court, Cause List, Tuesday 20 Oct 1863
"Leaving his two illegitimate children without adequate means of support. Plaintiff who is about 25 yrs of age appeared to give evidence. Plaintiff (should read Defendant) admitted that the children are his own.
The Bench made an order for 15s per week, for 3 months from this date." [as reported in Creswick & Clunes Advertiser 21 Oct 1863]

Harriet SEDDON v Edmund APPS Tuesday 20 October 1863
Cause: Leaving his two illegitimate children without adequate means of support.
Decision: Order for 15/-per week for three months from this date. (Entry below)

Edmund APPS, Brickmaker, (b abt 1822), d 5 Jun 1901 aged 79 yrs Benevolent Asylum, City of Bendigo, bur 7 Jun 1901 Bendigo Cemetery, Plot Mon P2, Section 16519, Interment Number 16541.. Edmund APPS was born Kent, England and had lived 56 yrs in Victoria (arr abt 1845). The informant was an Authorised Agent, Barnard Street, Bendigo who recorded as 'unknown', details of the parents of the deceased and whether he was married or had issue. [Death certificate 4720, register entry number 23856]

Bendigo Benevolent Asylum and Lying-In Hospital
To the Committee of Management 10 May 1898
Gentlemen, I believe the circumstances of the bearer, Edward APPS to be necessitious, and consider him a fit subject for relief from the Asylum, and I beg to recommend him accordingly for relief.
I am, Gentlemen,
Your most obedient Servant,
James BUICK MD
Name: Edward APPS, 76 yrs, (b abt 1822), Married, Two Children, Former employment or situation in life: Brickmaker, Last Place of settled Residence: Bendigo, Present Residence: Bendigo Hospital, Length of Residence in Victoria: 56 yrs (arr Vic abt 1842), Length of Residence in the District: 30 yrs (arr Bendigo abt 1868), Native Place: Kent England, Infirmity or Complaint: Debility, Parents' Names and Rank or Profession: Michael & Sarah APPS, Irrigator, Particular relatives or friends: Son, Thomas APPS, Miner, Hargraves Street, Bendigo. (Son, Michael Thomas Edmund/Edward APPS SEDDON LEWIS, Brickmaker/Miner was living in Bendigo from 1893-4 to 1902.)
Edmund APPS, aged 76 yrs, was admitted on 18 May 1898 to the Bendigo Benevolent Asylum [p306]
Male Inmates 1898
Number 201, 18 May 1898, APPS Edward, aged 77, (birthday between 10th and 18th May?), Cause of Admission: Ulcers, Occupation: Brickmaker, Locality received from: Bendigo, Religion: C of E, Birth Place: England
Male Inmates 1900-1901
Number 23, Admitted 18 May 1898, APPS Edward, aged 79, (b abt 1821-22), Cause of Admission: Ulcers, Occupation: Brickmaker, Discharged: Died at 3.45 am on 5th June 1901, Locality received from: Bendigo, Religion: C of E, Birth Place: England.

Harriet SEDDON was born abt 1842 Hobart Town Tasmania, Father Thomas SEDDON Brickmaker and Mother: Mary ms HURST, according to the certificate of her marriage to Henry LEWIS on 17 Oct 1866 at Creswick. [Vic 3465] Her death certificate states that it was not known how long she had lived in Victoria and I have not found shipping from Tasmania to Victoria. Perhaps she came over Bass Strait as a teenager with her father who arrived about 1860 according to his death certificate. It is not known if her mother also came to Victoria.
Harriet LEWIS d 22 Apr 1907 aged 63 yrs, 67 McIvor Road, Bendigo, Victoria d/o Thomas SEDDON/Mary SEDDON m.s. unk [Vic 3624]
Harriett LEWIS bur 24 Apr 1907 White Hills Cemetery (Bendigo) [C of E MON I1 Grave Number 15386]

Children of Harriet SEDDON and Edmund APPS and (from 1866) Henry LEWIS