William Slade Vincent

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Travels of the Millar/Buzzard Families to England

After her first husband’s death on 30th July 1892, Emily Alice, travelled from Melbourne to England [22] on the “Ormuz” on 6th June 1896, with her father Charles Gibson Millar, Charles’s Irish valet Mr. Atkins, children Saide Russet and Muriel Constance. (Charles Gibson’s first wife died in 1870 and he re-married in 1873. Saide and Muriel were from Charles’s second marriage to Georgina Helena Smith). They travelled to England as Saide was to be married to George Prideaux Millett on 23rd September 1896 at St Margaret’s, Westminister, London. [21]

Emily Alice returned to Australia, departing London on 14th October 1897 on the “Ophir”. [23] The return voyage was with her father, half-sister Muriel, her aunt Emily Blanche Langtree (Charles Gibson’s sister), her cousin Ada Beatrice Langtree and Charles Gibson’s nurse.

In the following year, Emily Alice made another important trip to England, departing Melbourne on 4th April 1898 onboard “Austral”. [24] The party on this trip included Charles Gibson Millar, Emily Alice Buzzard, a Miss Millar (assumed to be Muriel Constance Millar as she was the only Millar daughter not married at the time), together with Mrs. Carmichael (the nurse for Charles), Millar, Vera, Marjorie and Alys Buzzard (the four children of Alfred Ernest) and a nurse governess, Miss Locke, for the children.

In England, Emily Alice married Major William Slade Vincent, at the Presbyterian Church in York, England on 15th August 1898. [25] Where they met and the reason they chose to marry, in England, is unknown.

Marriage of Major William Slade Vincent and Emily Alice Buzzard

Transcript:

“VINCENT - BUZZARD. - On the 15th August, at the Presbyterian Church, York, England, by the Rev. Alexander Stirling, William Slade Vincent, Major, late of Townsville, Queensland, tom Emily Alice Buzzard, Questa, St. Kilda, Melbourne.”

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[21] Argus (Melbourne, Victoria : 1848 - 1957), Thursday 29 October 1896, page 1
[22] Find My Past
[23] Find My Past
[24] Find My Past
[25] Argus (Melbourne, Victoria : 1848 - 1957), Saturday 1 October 1898, page 1