Ann Amelia,
eldest daughter of Jane and Isaac Adsett, married Henry Denning (from
Monmouthshire, England) in 1877. The
following passage is reproduced from The
Adsett Families 1851-1981:
http://www.adsetthistory.com.au/ads5.htm
She married a coal miner, Henry Denning. The wedding ceremony was
performed by a Wesleyan Methodist minister in the Goodna residence of her
father, Isaac Adsett.
They then lived on a 100-acre property at Glamorganvale which had
been selected by Henry in 1876. Fourteen acres were cultivated, seven acres
were fenced and two acres were cleared and stumped. Beside the two-roomed house
and barn, an underground tank of bricks was built. The homestead still stands,
overlooking the township of Glamorganvale.
The property lay between Glamorganvale and Tarampa and the two
centres are not more than a few miles apart. Aborigines were troublesome during
the family's early years on the farm, and the house was secured each night.
Firearms were held in readiness for self-protection. During his last years
Isaac Adsett lived here with the Denning family, occupying a room under the
residence.
On the Tarampa farm the Denning family milked twenty to thirty
cows. Fodder, vegetables and grapes were grown. Each Friday a trip was made to
Ipswich to sell butter and produce. Ann Denning was esteemed as a cook, and she
had good skill in needlework. She made clothing for the family, and also
accepted work from outside the family.
The family lived for many years at Tarampa before moving to
Sandgate, probably in the early 1920s. In Sandgate Henry Denning worked in a
sawmill. During this period the Smallwood family lived with them.
Ann Amelia Denning died in December 1924, in Sandgate. Henry
Denning continued to live for a time in Sandgate. but later held a property at
Roma. where he cultivated grapes. Later yet he held a property at Burpengary.
His death took place at Booval in 1947. Descendants remember him as a deeply
religious man. Henry and Ann Amelia Denning are buried at Bald Hills.
Four sons and three daughters were born to Ann Amelia and Henry
Denning. The first two sons, William John (born 1878) and Charles (1880) died
in early childhood.
The eldest daughter, Louisa Matilda, was born in 1886. She married
Joseph Smallwood, and the couple had one son, Norman. Joseph Smallwood was a
dairy farmer at Lake Clarendon, with a milk run in Ipswich. The family later
shifted house into Lowood, and lived there until the middle 1920s. At this time
a property of 53 acres at the back of Bundamba Racecourse was purchased, and
the couple retired here.
James Herbert Denning (born 1888) was the first son to reach adult
years. He married Elsie Walton, and the couple had a daughter, Nyria, and a
son, Leslie. James Denning worked for the Hargreaves jam factory, in Manly. The
family home was in Mountjoy Terrace.
Jane Elizabeth (born 1889), second daughter of Ann and Henry
Denning, married Edward Francis Mensforth in 1921. They had two children, Edna
and Edward. Edward Mensforth was a moulder, working for the railway workshops
at Woodend.
Georgina Amelia, the third daughter, was born in 1892. She married
Isaac Denning, a cousin, who worked a small crop farm at Manly. Their two
children were Elspeth and Desmond. The family later lived at Brackenridge.
Francis Henry Denning, youngest of the family, was born in 1895.
He married Irene Violet King. There were six children in the family, Sylvia,
Stella, Douglas, Marjorie, Hazel, and Valma. Frank Denning was at first a dairy
farmer at Kadanga, near Gympie. In the 1930s he held a property in the Murgon
area, and later he worked a dairy farm in Manly Road, growing small crops.
According to the census records Georgina and Isaac Denning lived in Quinlan Street Deagon, Sandgate and were fruit farmers in the years 1917 to 1925
Ann Denning is buried at Bald Hills Cemetery.
| 1 | Ann Amelia | F | 69 | 22 Nov 1855 | Brixton England | 6 Dec 1924 | Bald Hills Cemetery |
http://gdavis.id.au/family/p00024.htm photographed by Greg DAVIS, 2000
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