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     Arthur John Chamberlain Braine was born in Derby, Derbyshire, in 1873, his Birth was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1873.¹

     Arthur John Chamberlain Braine was married to Emma Lizette Smart, daughter of William Smart and Emma Kirkham, in the Church of St. James the Greater, Derby, Derbyshire, in 1915.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Derby Registration District in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1915.²

     Arthur John Chamberlain Braine died on Friday, 9 March 1945 in 'Stratford', 51 Davenport Road, Derby, Derbyshire, his Death was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1945, He was survived by his wife, Emma.^3,4

     Probate for Arthur's Estate was granted at Nottingham.
     Probate Register Entry - " Arthur John Chamberlain Braine of 'Stratford', 51 Davenport Road, Derby, who died 9 March 1945. Probate granted on 23 November 1945 to Emma Lizzette Braine, Widow and Clara Smart, Spinster. Effects = £688 4s 7d."⁵

     Ethel May Homer was born in Derby, Derbyshire, on Saturday, 5 March 1892, her Birth was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1892.^1,2

     Ethel May Homer was married to Harold Smart, son of William Smart and Emma Kirkham, in the Church of St. James the Greater, Derby, Derbyshire, on Saturday, 25 March 1916.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Derby Registration District in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1916.³

     Ethel May Smart was left a Widow at the age of 42, on the Death of her husband, Harold, whose Death was Registered in the Derby Registration District, in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1934.⁴

     Ethel May Smart died on Thursday, 1 December 1977 in Derby, Derbyshire, her Death was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 1977.⁵

     Cyril Harris Garton was born in 1885.¹


     Cyril Harris Garton was married to Fanny Elizabeth Smart, daughter of William Smart and Emma Kirkham, in the Church of St. James the Greater, Derby, Derbyshire, in 1912.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Derby Registration District in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1912.²

     Cyril Harris Garton died on Wednesday, 26 May 1937 in Derbyshire, his Death was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1937, He was survived by his wife, Fanny.³

     Probate for Cyril's Estate was granted at Nottingham.
     Probate Register Entry - " Cyril Harris Garton of 72 St. Giles Road, Derby, who died on 26 May 1937. Administration granted on 16 July 1937 granted to Fanny Elizabeth Garton, Widow. Effects = £531 12s 3d."⁴

     Alan W. Garton, son of Cyril Harris Garton and Fanny Elizabeth Smart, was born in Derbyshire in 1920, his Birth was Registered at the Derby Register Office in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1920.¹

     Catherine Chadwick was born around 1830.


     Catherine Chadwick was married to Thomas Tipper, son of Thomas Tipper and Elizabeth Waterhouse, in Victoria, Australia in May 1865.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Victoria Registration District in May 1865. May.¹

     

     Gippsland Guardian, Victoria 16 February 1866
     POLICE
     Palmerston - Tuesday February 13 (Before C.J.Tyers, Esq. P.M.)
     Wife Desertion
     Thomas Tipper was brought up on warrent charged with having deserted his wife and left her without means of support.
     Catherine Tipper, sworn :- I was married to prisoner at Tarraville about eight months ago. Prisoner burnt the marriage certificate two or three months ago at Rosedale. Prisoner deserted me at Sale a fortnight ago. He took me from service at Mrs. Inglis' and took me to Sale, where he beat and kicked me, and told me he would make me go on the streets. I have been in several situations since I have been married.
     To prisoner :- I did not leave you in Sale of my own accord with another man. You did not ask me to go and get respectable lodgings at Sale.
     The prisoner made a long rambling statement, from which it appeared he had habitually neglected her. He stated his earnings were £1 to 25s per week.
     The bench ordered the prisoner to pay 7s per week for three months towards the support of his wife.

     
Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Mar 1911
A DISPUTED WILL.
PECULIAR CASE.
DISCLAIMED CHILDREN.

MELBOURNE, Monday.
The hearing of the Moore will case was continued today. A caveat has been
lodged against the grant of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, who, it is alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children The caveator is George Tipper one of the three sons of testatrix, all of whom she disclaimed. Mrs. Moore made her will on the afternoon of November 8 last, and in the early morning of November 10 she died. She left an estate valued at £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat are undue influence and testamentary incapacity.
Thomas Tipper, caveator, said that while he was in the Industrial school he was visited there by a man and woman. He saw the late Mrs. Moore before her death. He called at her place on one occasion when he was assaulted by Moore.
His mother called out, when he went to the house, "Who is there?''
Moore replied, "Tipper," and testatrix called out, "Kick him out, the blackmailer."
He was a cripple at the time and Moore assaulted him. While he was living at Redfern, New South Wales, he wrote to his mother, enclosing a photo of himself. This letter was returned to him with a note from his mother. He was 14 years of age. From the time he was 19 he had made inquiries for his mother. It was after his mother had married Moore that witness first learned that she had lived with Carrodus. Before he wrote the first letter to his mother he was told that she had property. He did not know the value of the property, but he thought it was worth "looking after."
His brother Harry told him that when he went to see his mother she called him a blackmailer, scoundrel, thief, and rogue."

Mr. McArthur (for the executors): “You say in one of your letters, "I have heard about your troubles.” ” What troubles do you refer to?"
"Her getting married to Moore. "(Laughter.)
“When did you first make up your mind that your mother was insane?''
"When people break the law and marry another person when the former husband is alive, I think they are insane."
ln reply to a further question, witness said he last saw his father in 1887.
Witness's brother Harry said he saw and spoke to his father in Bourke Street about the time his mother married Moore.
Thomas O'Neill said testatrix told him that Sir Rupert Clarke was her nephew and that the clerks in Sir Rupert Clarke's office used to call her "Aunty." She had spoken to witness about men wanting to marry her.
George Herbert Cattering, clerk in the Department for Neglected Children produced a record of the department, showing the committal of one son of Catherine Tipper on May 25 1871, from Collingwood and of another son in
1876. His record showed that the mother was in the hospital suffering from a disease of the heart and that the father was in the Benevolent Asylum in 1885.
Mr McArthur: “This is very important: It seems very doubtful now if she is the same woman.”
Mr. Justice Hood: “It raises considerable doubt.”
Another record showed: "Father dead. Mother lived with John Carrodus 1875."

Elizabeth Brennan said she knew Mrs.Moore as Mrs.Tipper when she was living in Little Smith-Street Richmond. She knew her three boys. The caveator was one of the boys.
Mr.Justice Hood: “I am fairly well satisfied that the testatrix was Mrs.Tipper: that she lived with John Carrodus, and that she had three children. But I am not satisfied that the caveator was one of them.”

The case stands part heard.


Adelaide Advertiser, 22 Mar 1911

SAID HE WAS NOT HER SON.

THE MOORE WILL CASE.

THOMAS TIPPER'S EVIDENCE.

Melbourne, March 20.

Tile hearing of the action in which the validity of a will made by Catherine Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, is disputed was continued before Mr. Justice Hood in the Banco Court today.
The caveator, Thomas Tipper, said he first thought his mother insane when he knew she was getting married without knowing whether her first husband were alive or dead, and when she could not recognise her own children. He wrote to her on one occasion threatening proceedings against her in the matter of her marriage certificate and for libelling the characters of his brother and himself. In the letter he said:- "I am very sorry I have to do such a thing to my mother, but others are before her own offspring, which has never been known before in British history or among the blacks of Africa." He also made use of the expression -"You a mother, despise your own flesh and blood, which no beasts of the field do to their young." He did not think it would be right to prosecute an insane mother for bigamy.

Thomas O'Neill, of Hoddle-Street West, Richmond, said he rented a shop from the testatrix, for nearly three years. When he took the shop she told him she was a widow, and that her relations had treated her badly. In fact, one of them had tried to poison her. One person who was against her had, she said, gone so far as to try to chisel the name off her dead husband's tombstone. The reason she gave for attempts to poison here was that her relatives wanted her property. Some man or other was always, according to her story, about to marry her. In Agricultural Show week of 1907 Mrs. Moore was visited by her son. Harry Tipper, a sturdy, respectable man, 6 ft. 2 in. in height, weighing 14 st. He was a champion cyclist, who had performed some extraordinary feats of weigh carrying whilst riding, and had also ridden the smallest bicycle in the world, weighing only 12 lb.

His Honor – “Eccentricity must run in the family when a son weighing 14 st. rides 12-lb. bicycle.”

The witness, continuing. said Harry Tipper called at his shop after his visit to his mother. Whilst he, was there Mrs. Moore came in, and called Tipper an impostor, a blackmailer, and a scoundrel. Subsequently the testatrix told the witness that Tipper's statement that he was her son was absurd, as she had never had any children. She had had charge of three boys, whose mother had dropped dead before her marriage to Moore. She said she was going to get married, and the Archbishop was going to lend her his carriage.
Her former husband, John Carrodus, she declared, came to her nightly in visions to "guide her in all things."

Ellen Elizabeth Brennan said she knew the testatrix over 30 years ago as Mrs. Tipper. She had three children, all boys, and ran away from them. In later years, when the witness spoke to her about her children, the testatrix denied that she had ever had any.


Hobart Mercury, 31 Mar 1911

CURIOUS WILL CASE. SON'S UNSUCCESSFUL ACTION.

MELBOURNE, March 31.

Mr. Justice Hood delivered his reserved judgment today in the Moore will case. A caveat had been lodged against the granting of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Richmond, who, it was alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children. The caveator was George Tipper, one of the three sons of the testatrix.

Mrs Moore made her will on November 8 last, and two days later she died, leaving estate of the value of £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, along with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat were that undue influence had been brought to bear on the deceased, and also on her testamentary capacity.

His Honor upheld the will, and ordered the caveator to pay costs.


Melbourne Argus, 5 APR 1911
FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE
HIGH COURT APPEAL.

Notice of appeal to the High Court was lodged yesterday by Messrs. Abbott and Beckett, the solicitors for the caveator, in the case of the will of Catherine Moore.

Mr. Justice Hood granted probate to the will, and made the caveator pay the costs. The matter is now to be tested in the High Court, the grounds of appeal, amongst others, being that the judgement was against evidence and the weight of evidence, and that the learned judge applied wrong principles and applied right principles wrongly.

     Thomas Tipper, son of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, was born in Sale, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, in 1866.¹


     Thomas was also known as George Thomas Tipper.

     George Thomas Tipper was included in the Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893.
     TIPPER     George Thomas     Born - 1866     Boy's Book 2, Page 213
     TIPPER     George Thomas     Born - 1866     Old Series 3, Page 664
     TIPPER     George Thomas     Born - 1866     Old Series 12, Page 90.²

     
Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Mar 1911
A DISPUTED WILL.
PECULIAR CASE.
DISCLAIMED CHILDREN.

MELBOURNE, Monday.
The hearing of the Moore will case was continued today. A caveat has been
lodged against the grant of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, who, it is alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children The caveator is George Tipper one of the three sons of testatrix, all of whom she disclaimed. Mrs. Moore made her will on the afternoon of November 8 last, and in the early morning of November 10 she died. She left an estate valued at £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat are undue influence and testamentary incapacity.
Thomas Tipper, caveator, said that while he was in the Industrial school he was visited there by a man and woman. He saw the late Mrs. Moore before her death. He called at her place on one occasion when he was assaulted by Moore.
His mother called out, when he went to the house, "Who is there?''
Moore replied, "Tipper," and testatrix called out, "Kick him out, the blackmailer."
He was a cripple at the time and Moore assaulted him. While he was living at Redfern, New South Wales, he wrote to his mother, enclosing a photo of himself. This letter was returned to him with a note from his mother. He was 14 years of age. From the time he was 19 he had made inquiries for his mother. It was after his mother had married Moore that witness first learned that she had lived with Carrodus. Before he wrote the first letter to his mother he was told that she had property. He did not know the value of the property, but he thought it was worth "looking after."
His brother Harry told him that when he went to see his mother she called him a blackmailer, scoundrel, thief, and rogue."

Mr. McArthur (for the executors): “You say in one of your letters, "I have heard about your troubles.” ” What troubles do you refer to?"
"Her getting married to Moore. "(Laughter.)
“When did you first make up your mind that your mother was insane?''
"When people break the law and marry another person when the former husband is alive, I think they are insane."
ln reply to a further question, witness said he last saw his father in 1887.
Witness's brother Harry said he saw and spoke to his father in Bourke Street about the time his mother married Moore.
Thomas O'Neill said testatrix told him that Sir Rupert Clarke was her nephew and that the clerks in Sir Rupert Clarke's office used to call her "Aunty." She had spoken to witness about men wanting to marry her.
George Herbert Cattering, clerk in the Department for Neglected Children produced a record of the department, showing the committal of one son of Catherine Tipper on May 25 1871, from Collingwood and of another son in
1876. His record showed that the mother was in the hospital suffering from a disease of the heart and that the father was in the Benevolent Asylum in 1885.
Mr McArthur: “This is very important: It seems very doubtful now if she is the same woman.”
Mr. Justice Hood: “It raises considerable doubt.”
Another record showed: "Father dead. Mother lived with John Carrodus 1875."

Elizabeth Brennan said she knew Mrs.Moore as Mrs.Tipper when she was living in Little Smith-Street Richmond. She knew her three boys. The caveator was one of the boys.
Mr.Justice Hood: “I am fairly well satisfied that the testatrix was Mrs.Tipper: that she lived with John Carrodus, and that she had three children. But I am not satisfied that the caveator was one of them.”

The case stands part heard.


Adelaide Advertiser, 22 Mar 1911

SAID HE WAS NOT HER SON.

THE MOORE WILL CASE.

THOMAS TIPPER'S EVIDENCE.

Melbourne, March 20.

Tile hearing of the action in which the validity of a will made by Catherine Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, is disputed was continued before Mr. Justice Hood in the Banco Court today.
The caveator, Thomas Tipper, said he first thought his mother insane when he knew she was getting married without knowing whether her first husband were alive or dead, and when she could not recognise her own children. He wrote to her on one occasion threatening proceedings against her in the matter of her marriage certificate and for libelling the characters of his brother and himself. In the letter he said:- "I am very sorry I have to do such a thing to my mother, but others are before her own offspring, which has never been known before in British history or among the blacks of Africa." He also made use of the expression -"You a mother, despise your own flesh and blood, which no beasts of the field do to their young." He did not think it would be right to prosecute an insane mother for bigamy.

Thomas O'Neill, of Hoddle-Street West, Richmond, said he rented a shop from the testatrix, for nearly three years. When he took the shop she told him she was a widow, and that her relations had treated her badly. In fact, one of them had tried to poison her. One person who was against her had, she said, gone so far as to try to chisel the name off her dead husband's tombstone. The reason she gave for attempts to poison here was that her relatives wanted her property. Some man or other was always, according to her story, about to marry her. In Agricultural Show week of 1907 Mrs. Moore was visited by her son. Harry Tipper, a sturdy, respectable man, 6 ft. 2 in. in height, weighing 14 st. He was a champion cyclist, who had performed some extraordinary feats of weigh carrying whilst riding, and had also ridden the smallest bicycle in the world, weighing only 12 lb.

His Honor – “Eccentricity must run in the family when a son weighing 14 st. rides 12-lb. bicycle.”

The witness, continuing. said Harry Tipper called at his shop after his visit to his mother. Whilst he, was there Mrs. Moore came in, and called Tipper an impostor, a blackmailer, and a scoundrel. Subsequently the testatrix told the witness that Tipper's statement that he was her son was absurd, as she had never had any children. She had had charge of three boys, whose mother had dropped dead before her marriage to Moore. She said she was going to get married, and the Archbishop was going to lend her his carriage.
Her former husband, John Carrodus, she declared, came to her nightly in visions to "guide her in all things."

Ellen Elizabeth Brennan said she knew the testatrix over 30 years ago as Mrs. Tipper. She had three children, all boys, and ran away from them. In later years, when the witness spoke to her about her children, the testatrix denied that she had ever had any.


Hobart Mercury, 31 Mar 1911

CURIOUS WILL CASE. SON'S UNSUCCESSFUL ACTION.

MELBOURNE, March 31.

Mr. Justice Hood delivered his reserved judgment today in the Moore will case. A caveat had been lodged against the granting of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Richmond, who, it was alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children. The caveator was George Tipper, one of the three sons of the testatrix.

Mrs Moore made her will on November 8 last, and two days later she died, leaving estate of the value of £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, along with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat were that undue influence had been brought to bear on the deceased, and also on her testamentary capacity.

His Honor upheld the will, and ordered the caveator to pay costs.


Melbourne Argus, 5 APR 1911
FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE
HIGH COURT APPEAL.

Notice of appeal to the High Court was lodged yesterday by Messrs. Abbott and Beckett, the solicitors for the caveator, in the case of the will of Catherine Moore.

Mr. Justice Hood granted probate to the will, and made the caveator pay the costs. The matter is now to be tested in the High Court, the grounds of appeal, amongst others, being that the judgement was against evidence and the weight of evidence, and that the learned judge applied wrong principles and applied right principles wrongly.

     Alfred Henry Tipper, son of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, was born in Sale, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, in 1867.¹


     Alfred was also known as Harry Alfred Tipper.

     Alfred Henry Tipper was included in the Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893.
     TIPPER     Alfred     Born - 1867     Boy's Book 1, Page 108
     TIPPER     Alfred     Born - 1867     Old Series 3, Page 663
     TIPPER     Alfred     Born - 1867     Old Series 12, Page 141.²

     
Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Mar 1911
A DISPUTED WILL.
PECULIAR CASE.
DISCLAIMED CHILDREN.

MELBOURNE, Monday.
The hearing of the Moore will case was continued today. A caveat has been
lodged against the grant of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, who, it is alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children The caveator is George Tipper one of the three sons of testatrix, all of whom she disclaimed. Mrs. Moore made her will on the afternoon of November 8 last, and in the early morning of November 10 she died. She left an estate valued at £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat are undue influence and testamentary incapacity.
Thomas Tipper, caveator, said that while he was in the Industrial school he was visited there by a man and woman. He saw the late Mrs. Moore before her death. He called at her place on one occasion when he was assaulted by Moore.
His mother called out, when he went to the house, "Who is there?''
Moore replied, "Tipper," and testatrix called out, "Kick him out, the blackmailer."
He was a cripple at the time and Moore assaulted him. While he was living at Redfern, New South Wales, he wrote to his mother, enclosing a photo of himself. This letter was returned to him with a note from his mother. He was 14 years of age. From the time he was 19 he had made inquiries for his mother. It was after his mother had married Moore that witness first learned that she had lived with Carrodus. Before he wrote the first letter to his mother he was told that she had property. He did not know the value of the property, but he thought it was worth "looking after."
His brother Harry told him that when he went to see his mother she called him a blackmailer, scoundrel, thief, and rogue."

Mr. McArthur (for the executors): “You say in one of your letters, "I have heard about your troubles.” ” What troubles do you refer to?"
"Her getting married to Moore. "(Laughter.)
“When did you first make up your mind that your mother was insane?''
"When people break the law and marry another person when the former husband is alive, I think they are insane."
ln reply to a further question, witness said he last saw his father in 1887.
Witness's brother Harry said he saw and spoke to his father in Bourke Street about the time his mother married Moore.
Thomas O'Neill said testatrix told him that Sir Rupert Clarke was her nephew and that the clerks in Sir Rupert Clarke's office used to call her "Aunty." She had spoken to witness about men wanting to marry her.
George Herbert Cattering, clerk in the Department for Neglected Children produced a record of the department, showing the committal of one son of Catherine Tipper on May 25 1871, from Collingwood and of another son in
1876. His record showed that the mother was in the hospital suffering from a disease of the heart and that the father was in the Benevolent Asylum in 1885.
Mr McArthur: “This is very important: It seems very doubtful now if she is the same woman.”
Mr. Justice Hood: “It raises considerable doubt.”
Another record showed: "Father dead. Mother lived with John Carrodus 1875."

Elizabeth Brennan said she knew Mrs.Moore as Mrs.Tipper when she was living in Little Smith-Street Richmond. She knew her three boys. The caveator was one of the boys.
Mr.Justice Hood: “I am fairly well satisfied that the testatrix was Mrs.Tipper: that she lived with John Carrodus, and that she had three children. But I am not satisfied that the caveator was one of them.”

The case stands part heard.


Adelaide Advertiser, 22 Mar 1911

SAID HE WAS NOT HER SON.

THE MOORE WILL CASE.

THOMAS TIPPER'S EVIDENCE.

Melbourne, March 20.

Tile hearing of the action in which the validity of a will made by Catherine Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, is disputed was continued before Mr. Justice Hood in the Banco Court today.
The caveator, Thomas Tipper, said he first thought his mother insane when he knew she was getting married without knowing whether her first husband were alive or dead, and when she could not recognise her own children. He wrote to her on one occasion threatening proceedings against her in the matter of her marriage certificate and for libelling the characters of his brother and himself. In the letter he said:- "I am very sorry I have to do such a thing to my mother, but others are before her own offspring, which has never been known before in British history or among the blacks of Africa." He also made use of the expression -"You a mother, despise your own flesh and blood, which no beasts of the field do to their young." He did not think it would be right to prosecute an insane mother for bigamy.

Thomas O'Neill, of Hoddle-Street West, Richmond, said he rented a shop from the testatrix, for nearly three years. When he took the shop she told him she was a widow, and that her relations had treated her badly. In fact, one of them had tried to poison her. One person who was against her had, she said, gone so far as to try to chisel the name off her dead husband's tombstone. The reason she gave for attempts to poison here was that her relatives wanted her property. Some man or other was always, according to her story, about to marry her. In Agricultural Show week of 1907 Mrs. Moore was visited by her son. Harry Tipper, a sturdy, respectable man, 6 ft. 2 in. in height, weighing 14 st. He was a champion cyclist, who had performed some extraordinary feats of weigh carrying whilst riding, and had also ridden the smallest bicycle in the world, weighing only 12 lb.

His Honor – “Eccentricity must run in the family when a son weighing 14 st. rides 12-lb. bicycle.”

The witness, continuing. said Harry Tipper called at his shop after his visit to his mother. Whilst he, was there Mrs. Moore came in, and called Tipper an impostor, a blackmailer, and a scoundrel. Subsequently the testatrix told the witness that Tipper's statement that he was her son was absurd, as she had never had any children. She had had charge of three boys, whose mother had dropped dead before her marriage to Moore. She said she was going to get married, and the Archbishop was going to lend her his carriage.
Her former husband, John Carrodus, she declared, came to her nightly in visions to "guide her in all things."

Ellen Elizabeth Brennan said she knew the testatrix over 30 years ago as Mrs. Tipper. She had three children, all boys, and ran away from them. In later years, when the witness spoke to her about her children, the testatrix denied that she had ever had any.


Hobart Mercury, 31 Mar 1911

CURIOUS WILL CASE. SON'S UNSUCCESSFUL ACTION.

MELBOURNE, March 31.

Mr. Justice Hood delivered his reserved judgment today in the Moore will case. A caveat had been lodged against the granting of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Richmond, who, it was alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children. The caveator was George Tipper, one of the three sons of the testatrix.

Mrs Moore made her will on November 8 last, and two days later she died, leaving estate of the value of £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, along with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat were that undue influence had been brought to bear on the deceased, and also on her testamentary capacity.

His Honor upheld the will, and ordered the caveator to pay costs.


Melbourne Argus, 5 APR 1911
FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE
HIGH COURT APPEAL.

Notice of appeal to the High Court was lodged yesterday by Messrs. Abbott and Beckett, the solicitors for the caveator, in the case of the will of Catherine Moore.

Mr. Justice Hood granted probate to the will, and made the caveator pay the costs. The matter is now to be tested in the High Court, the grounds of appeal, amongst others, being that the judgement was against evidence and the weight of evidence, and that the learned judge applied wrong principles and applied right principles wrongly.

     Alfred Henry Tipper, son of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, died in 1944, in Victoria, Australia, Victoria, "aged 77 years".³

     William Tipper, son of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, was born in Lucknow, Victoria, Australia, Victoria, in 1869.¹


     William was also known as William Glenalladale Tipper.

     William Glenalladale Tipper was included in the Index to the Children's Registers of State Wards, 1850 -1893.
     TIPPER     William Glenalladale     Born - 1868     Boy's Book 1, Page 109
     TIPPER     William Glenalladale     Born - 1868     Old Series 3, Page 664
     TIPPER     William Glenalladale     Born - 1868     Old Series 12, Page 507.²

     
Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Mar 1911
A DISPUTED WILL.
PECULIAR CASE.
DISCLAIMED CHILDREN.

MELBOURNE, Monday.
The hearing of the Moore will case was continued today. A caveat has been
lodged against the grant of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, who, it is alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children The caveator is George Tipper one of the three sons of testatrix, all of whom she disclaimed. Mrs. Moore made her will on the afternoon of November 8 last, and in the early morning of November 10 she died. She left an estate valued at £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat are undue influence and testamentary incapacity.
Thomas Tipper, caveator, said that while he was in the Industrial school he was visited there by a man and woman. He saw the late Mrs. Moore before her death. He called at her place on one occasion when he was assaulted by Moore.
His mother called out, when he went to the house, "Who is there?''
Moore replied, "Tipper," and testatrix called out, "Kick him out, the blackmailer."
He was a cripple at the time and Moore assaulted him. While he was living at Redfern, New South Wales, he wrote to his mother, enclosing a photo of himself. This letter was returned to him with a note from his mother. He was 14 years of age. From the time he was 19 he had made inquiries for his mother. It was after his mother had married Moore that witness first learned that she had lived with Carrodus. Before he wrote the first letter to his mother he was told that she had property. He did not know the value of the property, but he thought it was worth "looking after."
His brother Harry told him that when he went to see his mother she called him a blackmailer, scoundrel, thief, and rogue."

Mr. McArthur (for the executors): “You say in one of your letters, "I have heard about your troubles.” ” What troubles do you refer to?"
"Her getting married to Moore. "(Laughter.)
“When did you first make up your mind that your mother was insane?''
"When people break the law and marry another person when the former husband is alive, I think they are insane."
ln reply to a further question, witness said he last saw his father in 1887.
Witness's brother Harry said he saw and spoke to his father in Bourke Street about the time his mother married Moore.
Thomas O'Neill said testatrix told him that Sir Rupert Clarke was her nephew and that the clerks in Sir Rupert Clarke's office used to call her "Aunty." She had spoken to witness about men wanting to marry her.
George Herbert Cattering, clerk in the Department for Neglected Children produced a record of the department, showing the committal of one son of Catherine Tipper on May 25 1871, from Collingwood and of another son in
1876. His record showed that the mother was in the hospital suffering from a disease of the heart and that the father was in the Benevolent Asylum in 1885.
Mr McArthur: “This is very important: It seems very doubtful now if she is the same woman.”
Mr. Justice Hood: “It raises considerable doubt.”
Another record showed: "Father dead. Mother lived with John Carrodus 1875."

Elizabeth Brennan said she knew Mrs.Moore as Mrs.Tipper when she was living in Little Smith-Street Richmond. She knew her three boys. The caveator was one of the boys.
Mr.Justice Hood: “I am fairly well satisfied that the testatrix was Mrs.Tipper: that she lived with John Carrodus, and that she had three children. But I am not satisfied that the caveator was one of them.”

The case stands part heard.


Adelaide Advertiser, 22 Mar 1911

SAID HE WAS NOT HER SON.

THE MOORE WILL CASE.

THOMAS TIPPER'S EVIDENCE.

Melbourne, March 20.

Tile hearing of the action in which the validity of a will made by Catherine Moore, of Elizabeth Street, Richmond, is disputed was continued before Mr. Justice Hood in the Banco Court today.
The caveator, Thomas Tipper, said he first thought his mother insane when he knew she was getting married without knowing whether her first husband were alive or dead, and when she could not recognise her own children. He wrote to her on one occasion threatening proceedings against her in the matter of her marriage certificate and for libelling the characters of his brother and himself. In the letter he said:- "I am very sorry I have to do such a thing to my mother, but others are before her own offspring, which has never been known before in British history or among the blacks of Africa." He also made use of the expression -"You a mother, despise your own flesh and blood, which no beasts of the field do to their young." He did not think it would be right to prosecute an insane mother for bigamy.

Thomas O'Neill, of Hoddle-Street West, Richmond, said he rented a shop from the testatrix, for nearly three years. When he took the shop she told him she was a widow, and that her relations had treated her badly. In fact, one of them had tried to poison her. One person who was against her had, she said, gone so far as to try to chisel the name off her dead husband's tombstone. The reason she gave for attempts to poison here was that her relatives wanted her property. Some man or other was always, according to her story, about to marry her. In Agricultural Show week of 1907 Mrs. Moore was visited by her son. Harry Tipper, a sturdy, respectable man, 6 ft. 2 in. in height, weighing 14 st. He was a champion cyclist, who had performed some extraordinary feats of weigh carrying whilst riding, and had also ridden the smallest bicycle in the world, weighing only 12 lb.

His Honor – “Eccentricity must run in the family when a son weighing 14 st. rides 12-lb. bicycle.”

The witness, continuing. said Harry Tipper called at his shop after his visit to his mother. Whilst he, was there Mrs. Moore came in, and called Tipper an impostor, a blackmailer, and a scoundrel. Subsequently the testatrix told the witness that Tipper's statement that he was her son was absurd, as she had never had any children. She had had charge of three boys, whose mother had dropped dead before her marriage to Moore. She said she was going to get married, and the Archbishop was going to lend her his carriage.
Her former husband, John Carrodus, she declared, came to her nightly in visions to "guide her in all things."

Ellen Elizabeth Brennan said she knew the testatrix over 30 years ago as Mrs. Tipper. She had three children, all boys, and ran away from them. In later years, when the witness spoke to her about her children, the testatrix denied that she had ever had any.


Hobart Mercury, 31 Mar 1911

CURIOUS WILL CASE. SON'S UNSUCCESSFUL ACTION.

MELBOURNE, March 31.

Mr. Justice Hood delivered his reserved judgment today in the Moore will case. A caveat had been lodged against the granting of probate to the will of Catherine Elizabeth Moore, of Richmond, who, it was alleged, forgot that she was married to Thomas Tipper, by whom she had three children. The caveator was George Tipper, one of the three sons of the testatrix.

Mrs Moore made her will on November 8 last, and two days later she died, leaving estate of the value of £907. The bulk of the estate goes to her widower, who, along with William Arthur Jones, is the executor. The grounds of the caveat were that undue influence had been brought to bear on the deceased, and also on her testamentary capacity.

His Honor upheld the will, and ordered the caveator to pay costs.


Melbourne Argus, 5 APR 1911
FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE
HIGH COURT APPEAL.

Notice of appeal to the High Court was lodged yesterday by Messrs. Abbott and Beckett, the solicitors for the caveator, in the case of the will of Catherine Moore.

Mr. Justice Hood granted probate to the will, and made the caveator pay the costs. The matter is now to be tested in the High Court, the grounds of appeal, amongst others, being that the judgement was against evidence and the weight of evidence, and that the learned judge applied wrong principles and applied right principles wrongly.

     Emily Henrietta Tipper, daughter of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, was born in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in 1870.¹


     Emily Henrietta Tipper, daughter of Thomas Tipper and Catherine Chadwick, died in 1870 in Victoria, [ L6] her Death was Registered at the Victoria Register Office in 1870.²

     Alice Southern was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1806.


     The U.K.Census of 7 April 1861 listed her as the Mother of the Head of Household - Ann Tipper, at 9 Torbock Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, who is recorded as -
          Ann Tipper     Head     Widow     23     Housemaid     LAN. Liverpool.¹
     Alice's entry for the 1861 Census was recorded as -
          Alice Southern     Mother     Widow     55     Laundrymaid     LAN. Liverpool.¹

     William Southern, son of Alice Southern, was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1841.


     The U.K.Census of 7 April 1861 listed him as a Brother of the Head of Household - Ann Tipper, at 9 Torbock Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, who is recorded as -
          Ann Tipper     Head     Widow     23     Housemaid     LAN. Liverpool.¹

     Thomas Southern, son of Alice Southern, was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1838.


     The U.K.Census of 7 April 1861 listed him as a Brother of the Head of Household - Ann Tipper, at 9 Torbock Street, Liverpool, Lancashire, who is recorded as -
          Ann Tipper     Head     Widow     23     Housemaid     LAN. Liverpool.¹
     Thomas's entry for the 1861 Census was recorded as -
          Thomas Southern     Brother     Unmarried     23     Brewer Labourer     LAN. Liverpool.¹
     Thomas's entry for the 1861 Census was recorded as -
          William Southern     Brother     Unmarried     20     Baker     LAN. Liverpool.¹

     Andrew Quayle Bagnall was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1858.


     Andrew Quayle Bagnall was married to Elizabeth Tipper, daughter of James Tipper and Ann Southern, in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1879.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the West Derby Registration District in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1879.¹

          In the 1881 U.K.Census, held on Sunday, 3 April 1881, Andrew was recorded as the Head of the Household at 28 Abbey Street, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, also in the Household were Elizabeth Bagnall and Samuel Bagnall,
     the listing for the Household is -
          ; Andrew Q. Bagnall     Head     Married     23     Engine Turner in Works     LAN. Liverpool.²
          ; Elizabeth Bagnall     Wife     Married     20     ---     LAN. Liverpool.²
          ; Samuel Bagnall     Son     ---     1     ---     LAN. Liverpool.²

     Andrew Quayle Bagnall has not been located in the UK Census of 5 April 1891.³

     Samuel Bagnall, son of Andrew Quayle Bagnall and Elizabeth Tipper, was born in Liverpool, Lancashire, in 1880, his Birth was Registered at the Liverpool Register Office in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1880.¹

     The 1881 U.K.Census  listed him as a son of the Head of Household - Andrew Quayle Bagnall, at 28 Abbey Street, Everton, Liverpool, Lancashire, who is recorded as -
          Andrew Q. Bagnall     Head     Married     23     Engine Turner in Works     LAN. Liverpool.²
     Samuel's entry for the 1881 Census was recorded as -
          Samuel Bagnall     Son     ---     1     ---     LAN. Liverpool.²

     James Easton was born on Saturday, 24 February 1883.¹


     James Easton was married to Dorothy May Bull, daughter of John Henry Bull and Kate Farmer, on Sunday, 26 July 1914 at the Parish Church, Stoke Newington, London.
     the Parish Church Marriage Register - "#270 - 26 July 1914; James Easton; 31; Bachelor; Mechanic of 49 Nevill Road; son of Alexander Easton, Grocer and Dorothy May Bull; 19; Spinster of 49 Nevill Road, daughter of John Bull (deceased), Soldier. By Banns. Both signed. Witnessed by Lilian Rose Bull."^2,3

     James Easton and Dorothy May Easton were listed on the Electoral Roll of 1930 in 92 Greenford Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex, together with Kate Bull.⁴

     James Easton and Dorothy May Easton were listed on the Electoral Roll of 1933 in 92 Greenford Avenue, Harrow, Middlesex, together with Kate Bull.⁴

     James Easton and Dorothy May Easton were listed on the Electoral Roll of 1947 in 83 St. Joseph's Drive, Southall, Middlesex, together with Kate Bull and Alexander John Easton.⁴

     James Easton and Dorothy May Easton were listed on the Electoral Roll of 1951 in 83 St. Joseph's Drive, Southall, Middlesex, together with Kate Bull.⁴

     James Easton and Dorothy May Easton were listed on the Electoral Roll of 1954 in 83 St. Joseph's Drive, Southall, Middlesex, together with Kate Bull.⁴

     James Easton died in 1970, in Surrey, Surrey Northern,"Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter."⁵

     James Alexander Easton, son of James Easton and Dorothy May Bull, was born in Middlesex in 1916, his Birth was Registered at the Brentford Register Office in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1916.¹

     Photograph of James Alexander Easton, about 1920.²

     James Alexander Easton, son of James Easton and Dorothy May Bull, died on Tuesday, 29 September 2015,"     James Easton passed away this week, on Tuesday eve. 8p.m., he was 99 on 24 August. never quite made the 100.
     Apparently he had a fall on 30 July and although he seemed OK didn't fully recover."³

     Alexander John Easton, son of James Easton and Dorothy May Bull, was born in Middlesex in 1925, his Birth was Registered at the Brentford Register Office in the Apr-May-Jun Quarter of 1925.¹

     On the 1947 Electoral Roll of Southall, at 83 St. Joseph's Drive, in the household of James Easton, Alexander John Easton, was Registered.²

     Alexander John Easton, son of James Easton and Dorothy May Bull, died in 2014.³

     Doreen May Easton, daughter of James Easton and Dorothy May Bull, was born in Middlesex on Saturday, 29 September 1917, her Birth was Registered at the Brentford Register Office in the Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 1917.¹

     Photograph of Doreen May Easton, about 1920.²

     Harold Noble Batter was born in Yeasley, Middlesex, in January 1900.


     Harold Noble Batter was married to Lilian Rose Bull, daughter of John Henry Bull and Kate Farmer, in Middlesex in 1924.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Brentford Registration District in the Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 1924.¹

     Harold Noble Batter died on Tuesday, 13 September 1955 in Middlesex, his Death was Registered at the Ealing Register Office in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1955, He was survived by his wife, Lilian.²

     Albert E. Connelly was born in 1924.


     Albert E. Connelly died in 1968 in Middlesex, his Death was Registered at the Ealing Register Office in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1968.¹

     Norman G. Pearman was born on Wednesday, 13 October 1915.¹


     Norman G. Pearman died in March 1997 in Middlesex, his Death was Registered at the Ealing Register Office in the March of 1997.²

     Edward George Bull, son of John Henry Bull and Kate Farmer, was born in Jersey, Channel Islands, on Sunday, 16 March 1902.^1,2
     He was Baptised on Sunday, 19 July 1903.
     ; Entry #1053 - Born on 16 March 1902 - Edward George Bull, son of Kate Farmer and John Bull, a Gardener, was Baptised by John A. Balleine, Rector.     
Sponsors - Thomas Morish Leatt and Ellen Lockwood.³

     Photograph of Edward George Bull, in 1907.⁴

     In the U.K.Census of 2 April 1911, Edward was recorded as residing at 24 Canton Road, Enfield, Middlesex.
     Edward's listing is -
     Edward George Bull     Visitor     9     ---     ---     CHI. Jersey     (in the household of Clifford Maxwell and his family).⁵

     Edward George Bull, son of John Henry Bull and Kate Farmer, was married to Dorothy Florence Rebecca Smith in Essex in 1923.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the West Ham Registration District in the Oct-Nov-Dec Qtr. of 1923.⁶

     Family notes say that 'Ted' died while in the Navy.⁷'

     Edward George Bull, son of John Henry Bull and Kate Farmer, died in 1930 in Kent, his Death was Registered at the Medway Register Office in the Jan-Feb-Mar Qtr. of 1930, He was survived by his wife, Dorothy.⁸

     Harold Lancelot Spens-Black, son of Norman Sands Spens Black and Mildred Ida Sandes, was born in Scotland in 1883.


     Photograph of Harold Lancelot Spens-Black with Mildred Ida Spens-Black and his brother, about 1910.¹

     Harold Lancelot Spens-Black, son of Norman Sands Spens Black and Mildred Ida Sandes, was married to Hilda (Florence) Higman in Ireland in 1918.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Dublin North Registration District in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1918.²

     Harold Lancelot Spens-Black, son of Norman Sands Spens Black and Mildred Ida Sandes, died on Monday, 1 March 1943 in Bedfordshire, his Death was Registered at the Bedford Register Office in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1943, He was survived by his wife, Hilda.^3,4

     Probate for Harold's Estate was granted on 25 May 1950 at Birmingham.
     Probate Register Entry - " of 25 Spenser Road, Bedford who died on 1 March 1943. Administration granted to Hilda Frances Spens Black, Widow. Effects = £216 12s 6d."⁵

     Hilda (Florence) Higman was born about 1892.


     Hilda (Florence) Higman was married to Harold Lancelot Spens-Black, son of Norman Sands Spens Black and Mildred Ida Sandes, in Ireland in 1918.
     Their Marriage was recorded in the Dublin North Registration District in the Jul-Aug-Sep Quarter of 1918.¹

     Hilda (Florence) Spens-Black was left a Widow on the Death of her husband, Harold, whose Death was Registered in the Bedford Registration District, in the Jan-Feb-Mar Quarter of 1943.^2,3

     Hilda (Florence) Spens-Black died in 1968 in Kent, her Death was Registered at the Sheppey Register Office in the Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 1968.⁴

     Mildred Black, daughter of Norman Sands Spens Black and Mildred Ida Sandes, was born around 1890.

     Ethel M.Q.S. Spens-Black, daughter of Harold Lancelot Spens-Black and Hilda (Florence) Higman, was born in Lancashire in 1921, her Birth was Registered at the Blackburn Register Office in the Oct-Nov-Dec Quarter of 1921.¹

     Emma Hudson, daughter of William Hudson and Maria Orme, was born in Derby, Derbyshire, in 1872.¹


     The 1881 U.K.Census  listed her as a daughter of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 175 Abbey Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     39     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.²
     Emma's entry for the 1881 Census was recorded as -
          Emma Hudson     Daughter     ---     9     Scholar     DBY. Derby.²

     The 1891 U.K.Census  listed her as a daughter of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 1 Mount Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     49     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.³
     Emma's entry for the 1891 Census was recorded as -
          Emma Hudson     Daughter     Single     19     ---     DBY. Derby.³

     Ann Amelia Hudson, daughter of William Hudson and Maria Orme, was born in Derby, Derbyshire, in 1874.¹


     The 1881 U.K.Census  listed her as a daughter of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 175 Abbey Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     39     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.²
     Ann's entry for the 1881 Census was recorded as -
          Ann Amelia Hudson     Daughter     ---     7     Scholar     DBY. Derby.²

     The 1891 U.K.Census  listed her as a daughter of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 1 Mount Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     49     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.³
     Ann's entry for the 1891 Census was recorded as -
          Ann A. Hudson     Daughter     Single     17     Money taker in Chemist Shop     DBY. Derby.³

     John William Hudson, son of William Hudson and Maria Orme, was born in Derby, Derbyshire, in 1880.¹


     The 1881 U.K.Census  listed him as a son of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 175 Abbey Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     39     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.²
     John's entry for the 1881 Census was recorded as -
          John William Hudson     Son     ---     1     ---     DBY. Derby.²

     The 1891 U.K.Census  listed him as a son of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 1 Mount Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     49     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.³
     John's entry for the 1891 Census was recorded as -
          John W. Hudson     Son     Single     12     Scholar     DBY. Derby.⁴

     Maria Hudson, daughter of William Hudson and Maria Orme, was born in Derby, Derbyshire, in 1883.¹


     The 1891 U.K.Census  listed her as a daughter of the Head of Household - William Hudson, at 1 Mount Street, Derby, Derbyshire, who is recorded as -
          William Hudson     Head     Married     49     Coal Agent     DBY. Derby.²
     Maria's entry for the 1891 Census was recorded as -
          Maria Hudson     Daughter     Single     8     Scholar     DBY. Derby.³