Last
update July 2009 Created by Tony Maple: imlac2005@grapevine.com.au
Charles Maple & Elizabeth Gann
Thomas MAPLE
m. Elizabeth ANSLEY
Charles
MAPLE
b.
5-04-1842 Ickham, Kent
d.
21-03-1932 Forestville, SA
m.
22-03-1864 Spring Bank
Elizabeth
GANN
b.
30-03-1845 d.10-10-1923
Charles
Thomas MAPLE 1865-1919
Elizabeth
Mary MAPLE 1867-1943
James
Austin MAPLE 1869-1953
William
Henry MAPLE 1871-1950
Agnes
Susan MAPLE 1872-1962
John
Robert MAPLE 1874-1944
Alfred
Ernest MAPLE 1876-1952
Alice
Emma MAPLE 1878-1966
Bertie
Edward MAPLE 1880-1976
George
Alexander MAPLE 1882-1954
Catherine
Jessie Louisa MAPLE 1884-1972
Horace
Stephen MAPLE 1887-1955
Charles
Maple was born at Ickham, Kent, England in 1842 and was 10 years old when he
emigrated with his parents to South Australia. In 1864 Charles married
Elizabeth Gann who had arrived with her parents, Austin and Mary Gann, from
Lincolnshire, England in 1855.
Charles
appears to have worked on Thomas’s farm and at nearby Salt Creek before
taking up a farm at Hay Flat near Yankalilla. The land in those days was
cultivated with a single furrow plough drawn by a bullock, and at harvest time
the wheat was cut with a sickle. Charles became an expert with the scythe,
reputedly able to cut 2 acres per day, and won a ploughing competition.
He
and Elizabeth had 12 children and their births are recorded in the family
bible. In 1893 they purchased Hillside at Hay Flat for 145 pounds. Over a period they acquired
more land, possibly to help set up their older sons in farming.
After
40 years at Yankalilla Charles and Elizabeth moved to Forestville near
Adelaide. The move seems to
have been partly to enable the education of their younger children, and partly
to hand over the farms to their older sons.
Elizabeth
died in 1923 and Charles lived on at Hillview at Forestville until his death in 1932. Their son, John
Robert Maple, continued to farm at Yankalilla until 1936, but many of their
children and grandchildren moved to other parts of South Australia or beyond.
Charles Maple c. 1931
Elizabeth Maple
