Mark Hayes - born 22 May 1852
First born Australian Hayes
The following documentation was collated mainly by Jack Hayes ~
Mark and Maria's first Australian born child, Mark, who was born on 22 May 1852, according to his baptismal entry [1] may in fact have been born at the McIvor Inn but we have no way of precisely knowing this. We can assume that Mark and Maria were working there at time.
Mark was christened at Tooborac at the McIvor Inn on 4 November 1852 [2] almost six months after his birth, by the Rev William Singleton. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Reverend Singleton had arrived in the colony from Ireland in October 1849, accompanied by his large family. Within a month of his arrival, he had accepted the position of Church of England Minister of the newly formed parish of Kilmore. His circuit at the time extended an immense distance from near Melbourne to the Murray River [3]. Reverend Singleton was required to traverse his circuit on horseback, obviously stopping off at settlers’ huts and licensed premises like the McIvor Inn, to fulfil his pastoral responsibilities.
Baptised at the McIvor Inn at the same time as Mark Hayes, was Mary Anne Hutson, the daughter of William and Mary Hutson (nee Bryant), who had arrived in the colony in February 1849 from Sussex. William Hutson, like Mark Hayes Senior, was employed as a labourer at the McIvor Inn [4] and was later to select land at Moranding, a locality between Kilmore and Tooborac.
The infant, Mark, was presumably near death when baptised and did not live long after his baptism, as Mark Hayes’ original Family Bible, in the possession of Alan Hayes of Mornington, records, that the infant Mark died at the McIvor Inn, aged six months. The exact date of the infant’s death is not recorded and as this event preceded the official Victorian Government’s civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, there is no way of ascertaining this.
Where the infant, Mark, was buried we do not know for sure but it is likely he was buried near the McIvor Inn and joined the many amongst the early settlers, their wives and children, who found lonely and unmarked graves around Australia.
[1] The entry for Mark Hayes’s baptism, was No 28 in the Church of England Baptismal Register for Kilmore and lists his birth date as 22 May 1852, Mark is recorded in the church register as a labourer at the McIvor Inn.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Lowden, J., Kilmore Anglican Parish 1849-1999, Kilmore Historical Society Newsletter, March 2000. The Kilmore Church Register actually shows baptisms at Wallan, now an outer suburb of Melbourne to as far afield as Echuca.
[4] The entry of the Mary Anne Hutson’s baptism, which lists her birth date of 9 October 1852, was No 27 in the Church of England Baptismal Register for Kilmore
Mark and Maria's first Australian born child, Mark, who was born on 22 May 1852, according to his baptismal entry [1] may in fact have been born at the McIvor Inn but we have no way of precisely knowing this. We can assume that Mark and Maria were working there at time.
Mark was christened at Tooborac at the McIvor Inn on 4 November 1852 [2] almost six months after his birth, by the Rev William Singleton. A graduate of Trinity College, Dublin, Reverend Singleton had arrived in the colony from Ireland in October 1849, accompanied by his large family. Within a month of his arrival, he had accepted the position of Church of England Minister of the newly formed parish of Kilmore. His circuit at the time extended an immense distance from near Melbourne to the Murray River [3]. Reverend Singleton was required to traverse his circuit on horseback, obviously stopping off at settlers’ huts and licensed premises like the McIvor Inn, to fulfil his pastoral responsibilities.
Baptised at the McIvor Inn at the same time as Mark Hayes, was Mary Anne Hutson, the daughter of William and Mary Hutson (nee Bryant), who had arrived in the colony in February 1849 from Sussex. William Hutson, like Mark Hayes Senior, was employed as a labourer at the McIvor Inn [4] and was later to select land at Moranding, a locality between Kilmore and Tooborac.
The infant, Mark, was presumably near death when baptised and did not live long after his baptism, as Mark Hayes’ original Family Bible, in the possession of Alan Hayes of Mornington, records, that the infant Mark died at the McIvor Inn, aged six months. The exact date of the infant’s death is not recorded and as this event preceded the official Victorian Government’s civil registration of births, deaths and marriages, there is no way of ascertaining this.
Where the infant, Mark, was buried we do not know for sure but it is likely he was buried near the McIvor Inn and joined the many amongst the early settlers, their wives and children, who found lonely and unmarked graves around Australia.
[1] The entry for Mark Hayes’s baptism, was No 28 in the Church of England Baptismal Register for Kilmore and lists his birth date as 22 May 1852, Mark is recorded in the church register as a labourer at the McIvor Inn.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Lowden, J., Kilmore Anglican Parish 1849-1999, Kilmore Historical Society Newsletter, March 2000. The Kilmore Church Register actually shows baptisms at Wallan, now an outer suburb of Melbourne to as far afield as Echuca.
[4] The entry of the Mary Anne Hutson’s baptism, which lists her birth date of 9 October 1852, was No 27 in the Church of England Baptismal Register for Kilmore