1835 – 1918

Mary Ann CHANT married Edward STENT in Adelaide in 1856. It has been told that Mary met Edward on the ship Octavia on the way out from England to Australia in 1855. As the story goes Edward was a member of the Octavia crew. He may have changed his name due to the fact that he maybe left the ship AWOL. This happened quite a lot and changing their name made it a bit harder to find them. As the ships were returning to England empty not a lot of effort went into trying to find them unless they were really shorthanded. Anyway, we may never know and the name is proving quite hard to trace back. They had 8 children.

18/02/1857   Henry STENT born in Hermitage, died 05/05/1859 East Auburn S.A. 2 yrs.

26/06/1858   Arthur STENT born in Auburn, S.A. died 04/04/1860 Karinga S.A. 21 mths.

03/11/1860   Mary Ann STENT born in Karinga, died 11/02/1862 Karinga S.A. 12 mths.

06/03/1862   Elizabeth Ann (Bessie) STENT m. 1888 George Nathaniel Glastonbury.*

25/07/1863   Anne Maria STENT born at Karinga, Burra, died 29/09/1864 Karinga S.A. 14 mths.

01/07/1865   Jane STENT born Karinga, Burra died 03/02/1882 Adelaide 16 yrs.

11/07/1867   Alexander STENT born at Talisker Mines, Yankalilla m. 12/02/1887 Alice Charlotte Smith.

11/08/1869   Arthur STENT (2nd) born at Moonta died 08/01/1870 at 5 months.


In 1870   Mary Ann's husband Edward STENT died aged 39 and was buried 09/04/1870 in Moonta, South Australia.


STENT – BIGHAM

Later in 1870   Mary Ann (Chant) STENT married John BIGHAM – BINGHAM, they had 4 Children:-

  15/09/1871 John William BIGHAM. Died a baby.

  24/08/1872 John William BIGHAM. a baby.

  11/06/1875 Mary ELIZABETH BIGHAM **

  05/07/1880 William John BIGHAM. Died 11/02/1881 at 7 mths.

Mary Ann (Chant, Stent) Bigham died 7th October 1918 aged 83 years and was buried in Melbourne on 9th October, 1918.

Mary Elizabeth BIGHAM born 11.6.1875 in Stafford Street, South Australia. Mary Elizabeth BIGHAM married 1900 in Melbourne James John NAYLOR Born August, 1871 in Huon and died 29.10.1921.

Mary and James moved to the Eastern Goldfields not long after their first child, Alice was born. At present it is not known if they met in South Australia or Victoria but Victoria would be first guess. They set up house at Kallaroo which was an area east of Boulder and part of the Golden Mile. The original concept of the Golden Mile in 1897 was "from Hannan's Brownhill. Paringa, North Kalgurli and Brookmans Boulder on the north to Lake View South, Boulder Main Reef and Chaffers on the South." It was also amended to include "From the Croesus (Kallaroo) on the North to the Imperial and Hannan's Star on the South". Ironically this equates to a distance of about 3.8km – more than two miles.

James worked underground on the mines on the Kalgoorlie/Boulder Goldfields but unfortunately he contracted Silicosis (a miners complaint) and was sent to Wooroloo Hospital, near Perth, (Western Australia) where all patients with the same complaint were treated.

Mary and James NAYLOR had 13 children:-

Kallaroo and Brown Hill were suburbs of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia at the time. Brown Hill and Kallaroo are now in the vicinity of the huge Super Pit in Kalgoorlie – Boulder.

James John NAYLOR Died 29.10.1921 from Silicosis in the Wooroloo Hospital. He is buried in the Wooroloo cemetery grave number 181 Catholic section. He was 50 years old.

Mary Elizabeth Bigham NAYLOR passed away in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia on 03.01.1951 and is buried in the Kalgoorlie cemetery along with Alma Mary NAYLOR, Alice Lilian BENTLEY, Doris Emaline MATICH her daughters and Alfred George (Joe) NAYLOR her son.

Chant
Alexander Chant ¦ William Cocking
Alice Lillian Naylor. ¦ Arthur James Naylor. ¦ Doris Emaline Naylor. ¦ Eileen Bessie Naylor.
Ethel Catherine Naylor. ¦ John Henry Naylor. ¦ Louisa Evelyn Naylor. ¦ Alfred George Naylor.
David Bentley. ¦ Alma Bentley. ¦ Alfred Bentley. ¦ Doreen Bentley.
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