Jane Harriet Elizabeth Furze
Henry John Dysart Furze
Frank Hubert Sircom Furze
Eva Florence Furze
Harwood Alfred Furze
Harwood Godfrey Furze
Eva Margaret Edith Furze
Auntie Jinnie when young. She never had any kids married too late. Her Photo Album here
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Jane "Jinnie" with all her brothers L-R: Harwood, Henry John Dysart "Jack", and "Frank" Hubert Sircom Furze at her house of her husband DJW, on the corner of Wattle Ave -1A - Mildura opposite the Catholic school. About 1950 |
Jinnie with DJ Wilkinson and her beloved St Bernard |
Jack and Frank lived mostly in Shepparton and worked on their father's newspaper there until it was sold on his death.
Harwood Godfrey Furze b. 4-5-1905 Loch d. 18-5-1954 Mildura. He went to school at Scotch College where he was a boarder. Before WW2 he had a sporting goods and toy shop in one of the main streets of Mildura and rode one of the first motor bikes in MIldura. |
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1938
Harwood Godfrey Furze holding a newish baby - Elizabeth
1940
1940
Harwood Furze dressed in Army uniform - with his mother, at her
back door, Palm Avenue Mildura.Just before he went to war [ HIS FACE IS
BLURRED BY MOVEMENT OF THE CAMERA]
Date of Enlistment 26 Jul 1940
Locality on Enlistment MILDURA, VIC
THE CHANGI FLAG at the Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne 2005
acquired
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that once flew over Sultan of Malaya's Palace that was rescued by an
Aussie just before the Surrender to the Japs and taken in to Changi
prison camp. By the end of the war it was signed by over 100 prisoners
of Changi - 33 were from Victoria. It is on permanent display in
the Shrine Melbourne. They gave me a big photocopy of flag and the
HGF name close up. [ The flag must be about 10 foot tall ] It reads
H G.FURZE VX 48344 2/9 F.A. [ This is his Army number and his unit
is 2 of the 9th Field Ambulance Brigade.]
While Harwood was in the war we knew [I think] he was in Changi but we never knew if he was alive or not so every day for years Aunties Jinnie and mum [ Eva Margaret "Girlie" nee Furze were looking for the delivery of the newspapers to the gates of our houses in melbourne and Mildura, to see if he was listed as dead or missing. When Harwood came back from
the war he was on a white hospital ship which berthed at the old
wharf at port melbourne. He was not off loaded onto one of the many
trains lined up there but came many hours later in an Ambulance from
the ship to Spencer Street Station where he was transferred
to buses with hundreds of others. When Auntie Jinnie saw him there,
she ran through the barriers and went and kissed him through the
bus window. Then we all followed the men to the Royal Agricultural show
grounds in Flemington. There in a red brick building the men were
given a big meal and us kids were given lollies and balloons which we had
not seen for many years
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This is the "block" Harwood Furze was given after the war
A keen photographer
- on the lawn of Jinnies house Wattle Ave cc 1950
With his mate Bob who was a medical student - possibly taken outside
the cricket at MCG?
Three children all b Melbourne.
[living]
Henry Alfred Furze was a newspaper editor and printer and proprietor all his life.
At first he was an apprentice printer in Nagambie 2 miles from his fathers farm "Burra Murra" at Wahring.- at the "Numerka Standard. "??
1893 -95 He bought and/or ran Nathalia Herald" . This same paper was also run for some years by his elder brother Fred.
1896 their son Frank Hubert Sircom Furze born in Loch - Why did they go there? apart from buying the local newspaper.1899 Lessee of "Boort Standard" .
He founded the "Quambatook Herald" and "Donald Dispatch" and sold this prior moving to Loch
1901 established the "Loch Express" actually named "The Loch, Poowong and Bass Valley Express."1906. Henry Alfred Furze founded of the Duke of Connought Lodge in Loch
1906.Messrs. H A Furze and H.C Jacobs bought the Shepparton Advertiser from Ernest Haisman. [book about the first newspapers in the area, SLV]-obit says 1921In 1914 he founded the "Mildura Telegraph" and with the help of his sons Jack and Frank founded the Merbein "Irrigationist".
1915 Tall "silver"(e.p.n.s.) teapot inscribed
"To Mrs H.A.Furze from her lady friends as a token of esteem on the occasion of her leaving the District.Loch 10 September 1815."1920 in October, he sold the Telegraph and Irrigationist [from his obituary's in local Sunraysia Daily and Shepparton papers."] which merged with the Mildura Cultivator to become the Sunraysia Daily.
In Mildura he was chairman of the cricket club, rifle shooter, active Mason -serving one term as a Master .
1921 took an active part in running the Shepparton Advertiser.1927 President of the Shepparton Agricultural Society.
Member of the Shepparton Golf Club, bowling club, billiards player at the mechanics Institute
For 27 years he was a JP.H.C. Jacobs retired and made " other arrangements for the control of the Shepparton "Advertiser" [from Jack Furze's "Furze Family in Australia" 1994 but what source?] 8 weeks before Henry's death August 1929 in Shepparton.
At the time of his death he lived at "his home" in Wyndham Street, Shepparton and his sons Jack & Frank lived in Shepparton and were instructed to pay a specific sum to keep his wife as was the custom.
His wife Eva Francis, and children: Jinnie, Harwood, Eva "Girlie" , it seems usually lived in Mildura.
His brother Joseph predeceased him, but brothers Fred Furze of Rutherglen, and Frank Furze of Wyuna outlived him.
At the time of his death he owned a "secondhand" Buick car & got rent from 2 shops, and a billiard saloon.
He owned property at the Mildura of 2 shops and a Billiards Saloon, in Langtree Avenue, lot 30, section 40, block D, subdiv 2144... a weather board house and land at Wyndham Street Shepparton, Crown allot 8 etc.etc. all in the will.
Some of Henry Alfred Furze's newspapers
On the front porch of Palm Ave house Mildura - near the Chaffey mansion - c 1915
L-R Eva Francis Bingham nee Muntz, friend, Harwood, Jane Harriet Elizabeth Furze, Eva Margaret Edith Furze "girlie", John Muntz father of Eva F B., Henry Alfred Furze. The two eldest sons may be away at the WW1.?
Clearly Jane Harriet Furze on far right, and Eva Margaret Furze her little sister 3rd from right in dark dress.
c 1916 at Woodend a New Years Day Picnic Unknown others in this photo. Probably all Muntz cousins.
This will was made at Shepparton July 1929 in the presence of solicitors
He names his executors and trustees as all his children except Eva Margaret Edith Furze.
He left all his Mildura assets in equal shares to Jane, Harwood and Eva Margaret Furze to pay his widow 4 pounds 10 shillings a week in her lifetime.
He left all his assets in equal shares in Shepparton [except his household things] to his sons John Henry Dysart Furze and Frank Hubert Sircom Furze charge with the payment to my wife during her lifetime of 3 pounds per week.He left his life insurance to wife subject to probate and the rest to her after the payments of debts - the last will etc
signed H, A. Furze - he did not write the actual text above his name.
The total of his estate seems to be 8,482 -6-6 pounds shillings and pence of which
4,800 pounds was in real estate and 3,805 pounds in personal estate.At the time of probate the executors were: Jane Harriet Furze and Harwood Godfrey Furze of Mildura , who were Trained Nurse and Sports Depot Proprietor respectively and Henry John Dysart Furze Journalist and Frank Hubert Sircom Furze were both of Shepparton.
The land in Mildura was # 3676 Folio 735084 and Vol 5073 and Fol 1014529
Land Certificate of Title seems to show a sketch of a block on 8th Street.
Newspapers available at the SLVictoria :
Mildura
Merbein Irrigationist 12 Nov 1919 - 29 Sep 1920
Mildura and Merbein Sun 08 Jan 1921 - 29 Oct 1921
Mildura Cultivator 19 May 1888 - 23 May 1888
Mildura Irrigationalist and Murray River Advocate 08 Feb 1888 - 29 Sep 1920,
06 Jun 1891 - 23 Dec 1893
Mildura Telegraph 05 Dec 1895 - 06 Jun 1896,
May 1913 - Sep 1926
Sunraysia Daily 02 Oct 1920 - 31 Dec 1990,
02 Jan 1995 - 30 Dec 2000Shepparton
Shepparton Advertiser 08 Jul 1886 - 30 Dec 1920
Shepparton News 22 May 1879 - 12 Dec 1970
To add information with sources please contact Liz - great granddaughter of Henry Furze, email
