Thomas and Elizabeth were married in 1871 so she was only 16. They had a son Thomas:
1872/C852
Thomas Illidge HEILBROM
Parents Thomas Illidge & Elizabeth FARROW
The son Thomas married Clara POULTON and was a carpenter living in Gympie.
No he didn't. This Thomas Illidge HEILBRONN died in 1926 (aged 69) and is buried with Clara (died 1935) in the Lutwyche Cemetery in Brisbane. His death reg:
1926/B50337
Thomas Illidge HEILBRONN
Parents: John & Mary BAILEY (Ancestry names her as Mary Bailey ILLIDGE)
No sign of another Thomas Illidge, so did Thomas LOWRY start life as Thomas Illidge HEILBRONN?
Debra
Births in Victoria
HEILBRONN John
Father John Mother Mary Bailey ILLIDGE
At Beechworth 1856 Reg#6325
HEILBROWN Thomas Illidge
Father John Mother Mary Bailey ILLIDGE
At Tarrgee 1858 Reg#14548HEILBRONN Lucas Percival
Father John Mother Mary Bailey ILLIDGE
At Rutherglen 1861
The Argus 3 June 1858
IN RE JOHN HEILBRONN.
Second meeting. Present, Mr. Laing, Official Assignee. The insolvent was not present.
Mr. Laing stated that the insolvent, who kept a public house near Beechworth, had not enough of property to pay for bringing him down to town. He had returned the lease hold interest of the land on which his house was built at Tarrawingee as worth £500. It consisted of 50 acres of land, rented for seven years, at a head rent of £150 a year. He, Mr. Jacomb, had communicated with his agent at Beechworth, and ascertained that there really was no lease executed, and no sane man would execute a lease as tenant at that rent. The inn (called the Eureka) was a wayside inn, and all the purchased land, about the 50 acres on which it stood, could be purchased in fee simple for 25s. or 80s. an acre. The building was a wooden one, wholly dilapidated, and would not sell for £20. The place was of no value for its stand as a hotel, for there was a really well kept hotel quite close to it. The furniture was of no value, but as lumber, consisting principally of gin and pickle cases, patched up with a few bush saplings.
The debts in this case were £2,007, and the assets were valued in the schedule at £529, of which this seven years' lease of the "hotel" and 50 acres at £150 a year, were valued at £500.
His Honor commented very strongly on the conduct of the insolvent in putting this fictitious value on his assets.
The meeting closed, and the Court rose
Cando
