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Explore your connections with a great man ......
Sir Samuel WAY - his ancestors and descendants
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 1846 - 1896 (50 years)
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| Name |
William Archibald Sinclair ('Billy') BLUE |
| Title |
Dr |
| Nickname |
Billie or Billy |
| Born |
10 Jan 1846 |
Poplar, London, UK  |
- His birth might have been 1847 rather than 1846.
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| Christened |
19 Jan 1848 |
Parish of All Saints, Poplar, County of Middlesex, UK |
| Gender |
Male |
| Education |
Education :
* Billy qualified as a doctor in England - L.R.C.P., Ed., M.R.C.S., Eng
* The Stirlings (whoever they were?) sent Billy to England to study at Guys Hospital and he returned in 1871 and took up the same profession in the same town as his father who had died five years previously. (ref : Gremell? p94)
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| Migration |
1852 |
| Migration : To SA on 'China' in 1852 - see the biography of his father, Sinclair Blue. |
| Achievements & main events |
Achievements :
* Doctor
* He was mayor of Strathalbyn from 1875 to 1879 and again 1883 to 1885 (this second term of mayor might have ceased because of his ill-health). (ref : Gremmell, p 94) |
| Notes for biography |
Anecdote : An odd aside is that in 1887 WP Dunk gave Billy a watch. It was a gent's gold hunting keyless chronograph with an inscription on the inside of the back case 'W.P.Dunk to W.A.S Blue, in kind remembrance, 1887'. It had a gold curb albert and fine links attached. We not know what Billy had done to prompt this gift but it it must have been something exceptional because the watch would have been of considerable value. It might have been around the time that he and Kitty were leaving Strathalbyn but it seems to have been personal to Blue from Dunk rather than general acknowledgement from the Strathalbyn Council, for example. William Peter Dunk was a civic minded businessman and freemason from Milang - a huge man said to be the tallest in the state. It seems that Billy's eldest son inherited the watch but it was stolen in 1902 from the home of Walter J Gollin in NSW. (ref : NSW Police Gazette, 10th Dec 1902, p 481)
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| Notes for biography |
Biography :
* Billy's mother, Mary, died the year before himself. |
| Notes for biography |
Health :
* Billy went overseas for his health in 1885 (when he was 39 years old) (ref : Gremmell? p94)
* It seems that ill health overtook him around the time he retired to Hahndorf. (ref : Butler p 264)
* While still a relatively young man (in his late 30s?), he became sick and thereafter lived quietly at Largs Bay and then Hahndorf. (ref : Butler p486)
* He died when he was only 50 years old.
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| Notes for biography |
Lineage :
* Parents : Sinclair BLUE and Mary Belworthy, nee COX.
* Paternal grandparents : Archibald BLUE and ???
* Maternal grandparents : Joshua COX and ???
* Siblings : ???
* Spouse : Kitty GORDON/GOLLAN in 1872 (he was 26 years and she was 18)
* Children : Sinclair, Archibald, William and Shylie
* Grandchildren :
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| Notes for biography |
Obituary : - The Register, 21st Sept 1896, page 5b |
| Notes for biography |
Summary : Billy was born in London in 1846. He migrated with his parents when he was xxxxx years old. He qualified as a doctor. Billy married Kitty GORDON when he was 26 years old. He became the major of Strathalbyn when he was 29 years. He died in in 1896, aged 50 years. |
| Occupation |
Occupation :
* Billy became a medical doctor in 1871. His father had been a doctor but died five years earlier. His mother dispensed medicines for him. (ref : Gremmell?? p94)
* He might not have continued to practice as a doctor when the family moved to Hahndorf.
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| Residence |
* Billy's earliest years were in London.
* He migrated with his parents when he was 5 years old.
* In 'The Lodge' while the Stirlings were in England (ref : Gremmell?? P94)
* Billy studied medicine in England in the late 1860s to 1871
* After their wedding in 1872, Billy and Kitty they lived in Alfred Place
* Later they lived to 'Castelowe' - in High St Strathalbyn. It had two stories and a tennis court. It was Dr Blue's surgery as well as the family home.
* For a while, they might have lived in 'The Dower House' as per item in the newspaper about the wedding of the John Forbes Gordon who was Kitty's brother. (South Australian Register, Adelaide, 23rd July 1888 p4)
* Billy and Kitty remained in Strathalbyn until about 1887 - he was Mayor until 1885 and as given a chronograph in remembrance in 1887.
* Largs Bay on the seaside, for a short time
* Hahndorf from the late 1880s until Billy died in 1896.
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| Biography |
"The mails used to come from Mount Barker by horseback twice a week. Then Dr. Blue, the first husband of Lady Way, got the contract. The mails were carried in a spring cart."
(Source: SA history articles, number 42 Strathalbyn, Early Transport) |
| Biography |
Billy was active in leading stage performances in Strathalbyn. Also Kitty and Shylie. |
| Died |
18 Sep 1896 |
Hahndorf, SA, Australia |
| Person ID |
I22 |
Samuel WAY |
| Last Modified |
20 Feb 2021 |
| Family |
Catherine Gillon ('Kitty') GORDON, b. 8 Apr 1854, Larbert, Stirling, Scotland, UK , d. 4 May 1914, 'Montefiore', North Adelaide, SA (Age 60 years) |
| Married |
24 Oct 1872 |
Residence of Donald Gollan in Point Sturt, SA [1] |
| Children of the marriage |
* They had three sons and then a daughter.
* It is interesting that they gave the three boys the names of Billy's own three given names, but in the opposite order.
* The daughter, Shylie, was the only one to have offspring - Kitty's and Billy's only grandchildren. |
| Wedding |
Wedding : Kitty and Billy were married on 24th October 1872 at the residence of Donald Gollan in Point Sturt by Rev. F. Slaney Pooie, B.A (ref : Australian Marriage Index - Strathalbyn, page 158 vol 93 and Southern Argus, Port Elliot, on 1 November 1872 p 2 Family Notices)
At the time of the wedding, Kitty was 18 years old and Billy was 26 years old.
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| Children |
| | 1. Sinclair BLUE, b. 31 May 1875, Strathalbyn, SA , d. 5 Oct 1914, Capetown, South Africa (Age 39 years) |
| | 2. Archibald Gollan BLUE, b. 15 Mar 1877, Strathalbyn, SA , d. 4 Mar 1847 |
| | 3. William Belworthy BLUE, b. 7 Aug 1879, Strathalbyn, SA , d. 13 Oct 1915, Alexandria, Egypt (Age 36 years) |
| + | 4. Shylie Katharine BLUE, b. 16 May 1882, Strathalbyn, SA , d. 3 Apr 1959, Thorngate (Age 76 years) |
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| Last Modified |
9 Jan 2017 |
| Family ID |
F7 |
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