Sophia Searl

F, b. circa 1835
  • Name Variation: Sophia Searl was also known as Sarah Sophia Searle.
  • Married Name: As of 1858,her married name was Scarf.
  • Last Edited: 13 Sep 2006

Family: James Scarf b. c 1835

James Scarf

M, b. circa 1835
  • Last Edited: 13 Sep 2006

Family: Sophia Searl b. c 1835

James Searle

M, b. 1858
  • Name Variation: James Searle was also known as Serle.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Eliza Serle

F, b. 7 June 1832, d. 1919
  • Married Name: As of 2 May 1859,her married name was Andrew.

Immigration

Eliza Serle witnessed the immigration of Mary Southon on 20 August 1857 at Vic, Australia, ; Ship "Undaunted."
  • Last Edited: 30 May 2013

Family: Joseph Andrew b. 18 Aug 1835, d. 10 May 1863

Joseph Andrew

M, b. 18 August 1835, d. 10 May 1863
  • Last Edited: 30 May 2013

Family: Eliza Serle b. 7 Jun 1832, d. 1919

Abigail Searls

F, b. circa 1839, d. 1908
  • Married Name: As of 1859,her married name was Foulkes.
  • Last Edited: 9 Mar 2023

Family 1: Joseph Yates Foulkes b. c 1835

Family 2: Alfred Snow b. c 1850

Joseph Yates Foulkes

M, b. circa 1835
  • Last Edited: 4 Sep 2006

Family: Abigail Searls b. c 1839, d. 1908

Egbert Searls

M, b. circa 1815
  • Birth*: Egbert Searls was born circa 1815.
  • Marriage*: He married (?) Hughes circa 1835.
  • Name Variation: Egbert Searls was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: (?) Hughes b. c 1815

(?) Hughes

F, b. circa 1815
  • Birth*: (?) Hughes was born circa 1815.
  • Marriage*: She married Egbert Searls circa 1835.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1835,her married name was (?) Searls.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Egbert Searls b. c 1815

George Thomas Searle

M, b. 1860
  • Name Variation: George Thomas Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Elizabeth Jane Searl

F, b. 1839, d. 1919
  • Married Name: As of 1860,her married name was Grove.
  • Last Edited: 21 Jan 2008

Family: William Grove b. c 1835

William Grove

M, b. circa 1835
  • Last Edited: 29 Apr 2007

Family: Elizabeth Jane Searl b. 1839, d. 1919

John Sands Searl

M, b. circa 1815
  • Birth*: John Sands Searl was born circa 1815.
  • Marriage*: He married Mary Ann Lavers circa 1835.
  • Last Edited: 12 Nov 2012

Family: Mary Ann Lavers b. c 1815

Mary Ann Lavers

F, b. circa 1815
  • Birth*: Mary Ann Lavers was born circa 1815.
  • Birth: She was born circa 1820.
  • Marriage*: She married John Sands Searl circa 1835.
  • Name Variation: Mary Ann Lavers was also known as Mary Anne Lavers.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1835,her married name was Searl.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1840,her married name was Searl.
  • Last Edited: 12 Nov 2012

Family: John Sands Searl b. c 1815

Jessie Agnes Serle

F, b. 3 March 1843, d. 1861

Immigration

Jessie Agnes Serle witnessed the immigration of Mary Southon on 20 August 1857 at Vic, Australia, ; Ship "Undaunted."

Additional Notes

  • Shared grave
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2011

James Serle

M, b. 7 April 1804, d. 3 November 1877

Immigration

James Serle immigrated in January 1854 to Vic, Australia, ; Ship "Duke of Northumbeland."
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2011

Family: Mary Southon b. 9 Mar 1807, d. 13 Feb 1861

Mary Southon

F, b. 9 March 1807, d. 13 February 1861
  • Name Variation: Mary Southon was also known as Mary Southern.
  • Married Name: As of 1832,her married name was Serle.

Immigration

Mary Southon immigrated on 20 August 1857 to Vic, Australia, ; Ship "Undaunted."

Additional Notes

  • Shared grave
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2011

Family: James Serle b. 7 Apr 1804, d. 3 Nov 1877

Hannah Summersett

F, b. circa 1780
  • Birth*: Hannah Summersett was born circa 1780.
  • Marriage*: She married James Southon circa 1800.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1800,her married name was Southon.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: James Southon b. c 1780

James Serle

M, b. 1781
  • Last Edited: 15 Mar 2012

Family: Agnes Dunsford b. 1781

Agnes Dunsford

F, b. 1781
  • Last Edited: 15 Mar 2012

Family: James Serle b. 1781

Betsey Buttress

F, b. 1806, d. 1865
  • Name Variation: Betsey Buttress was also known as Elizabeth Buttress.
  • Married Name: Her married name was Serle.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Frederick William Dunsford Serle b. 6 Feb 1806, d. 1872

Thomas Buttress

M, b. circa 1780
  • Birth*: Thomas Buttress was born circa 1780.
  • Marriage*: He married Eliza Knight circa 1800.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Eliza Knight b. c 1780

Eliza Knight

F, b. circa 1780
  • Birth*: Eliza Knight was born circa 1780.
  • Marriage*: She married Thomas Buttress circa 1800.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1800,her married name was Buttress.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Thomas Buttress b. c 1780

Jane Serle

F, b. 1867
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

John Serle

M, b. circa 1840
  • Birth*: John Serle was born circa 1840.
  • Marriage*: He married Mary Anne Dunn circa 1860.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Mary Anne Dunn b. c 1840

Mary Anne Dunn

F, b. circa 1840
  • Birth*: Mary Anne Dunn was born circa 1840.
  • Marriage*: She married John Serle circa 1860.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1860,her married name was Serle.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: John Serle b. c 1840

Elizabeth Jane Searle

F, b. 1870, d. 1872
  • Name Variation: Elizabeth Jane Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Hannah Searle

F, b. 1871, d. 1911
  • Name Variation: Hannah Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 2 Mar 2023

John Sands Searle

M, b. 1873, d. 1874
  • Name Variation: John Sands Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Alice Searl

F, b. 1875, d. 19 August 1951
  • Name Variation: Alice Searl was also known as Alice Searle.
  • Last Edited: 15 Feb 2023

Louisa Searl

F, b. 1878, d. 27 October 1956
  • Name Variation: Louisa Searl was also known as Louisa Searle.
  • Last Edited: 15 Feb 2023

Lydia Searle

F, b. 1882, d. 1969
  • Name Variation: Lydia Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Married Name: As of 1907,her married name was Bruce.
  • Last Edited: 2 Mar 2023

Family: James Arthur Bruce b. c 1880

James Arthur Bruce

M, b. circa 1880
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Lydia Searle b. 1882, d. 1969

Emily Searle

F, b. 1879, d. 1880
  • Name Variation: Emily Searle was also known as Searl.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Walter Searle

M, b. 1863, d. 1937
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Caroline Serle

F, b. circa 1865, d. 1868
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

William Serle

M, b. circa 1840
  • Birth*: William Serle was born circa 1840.
  • Marriage*: He married Alice Ann (?) circa 1860.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Alice Ann (?) b. c 1840

Alice Ann (?)

F, b. circa 1840
  • Birth*: Alice Ann (?) was born circa 1840.
  • Marriage*: She married William Serle circa 1860.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1860,her married name was Serle.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: William Serle b. c 1840

Walter Henry Serle

M, b. 7 September 1839, d. 23 February 1921
  • Name Variation: Walter Henry Serle was also known as Walter Henry Serle.

Immigration

Walter Henry Serle witnessed the immigration of Mary Southon on 20 August 1857 at Vic, Australia, ; Ship "Undaunted."
  • Last Edited: 19 Aug 2011

Family: Kate Grocock b. 10 Mar 1852, d. 20 Jul 1938

Kate Grocock

F, b. 10 March 1852, d. 20 July 1938
  • Married Name: As of 1868,her married name was Serle.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Walter Henry Serle b. 7 Sep 1839, d. 23 Feb 1921

Herbert Henry Serle

M, b. 1869, d. 1870
  • Last Edited: 6 Feb 2011

Percival Serle

M, b. 18 July 1871, d. 16 December 1951

Additional Notes

  • SERLE, Percival (1871-1951),
    editor and biographer,

    (View this painting at the National Library of Australia Web Site)

    [NOTE: This biographical note did not form part of the Dictionary of Australian Biography. It just seemed like a good idea to have a biography of the biographer.--Colin Choat]
    was born at Elsternwick, Victoria. He worked for twenty years in a life assurance office before becoming chief clerk and accountant at the University of Melbourne. In 1910 he married the artist Dora Beatrice Hake. Moderately successful with investments, he was able to retire in 1920 to pursue his cultural interests, although he ran a second-hand bookshop in the Eastern Market, Melbourne, in the Depression years 1931-36. He was guide-lecturer at the National Gallery of Victoria 1929-38, curator of the Art Museum of the Gallery 1934-36, and member of the council of the Victorian Artists' Society for about forty years. He was also president of the Australian Literature Society 1944-46. Serle's first publication was an edition, with notes, of A Song to David and Other Poems (1923) by Christopher Smart, the eighteenth-century English poet. Serle's meticulous scholarship is evident in A Bibliography of Australasian Poetry and Verse: Australia and New Zealand (1925), a much-needed reference work of Australian literature at that time, to which later bibliographies were indebted. To complement his Bibliography he published, in collaboration with 'Furnley Maurice' and R.H. Croll, An Australasian Anthology (1927), a standard Australian literary work not supplanted until after the Second World War. His most significant work, laboured over for almost twenty years, was his Dictionary of Australian Biography (1949). It comprises more than 1000 biographical sketches of prominent Australians or people connected closely with Australia. In 1944 Serle edited the poems of 'Furnley Maurice' and in 1951 published A Primer of Collecting. Serle brought to all his literary work a rigorous sense of, and passion for, scholarship. A commemorative number of Southerly was published in 1953 and his son, Geoffrey Serle, has written the memoir Percival Serle (1988).
    From The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature (Second Edition, 1994).
  • Last Edited: 12 Oct 2007

Family: Dora Beatrice Hake b. 2 Sep 1875, d. 10 Sep 1968

Dora Beatrice Hake

F, b. 2 September 1875, d. 10 September 1968
  • Married Name: As of 1910,her married name was Serle.
  • Last Edited: 12 Oct 2007

Family: Percival Serle b. 18 Jul 1871, d. 16 Dec 1951

Sidney Hake

M, b. circa 1850
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Charlotte Helen Hemsley b. c 1850

Charlotte Helen Hemsley

F, b. circa 1850
  • Birth*: Charlotte Helen Hemsley was born circa 1850.
  • Marriage*: She married Sidney Hake circa 1870.
  • Married Name: As of circa 1870,her married name was Hake.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Sidney Hake b. c 1850

Katharine Beatrice Serle

F, b. 1912, d. 1958
  • Married Name: As of 1936,her married name was Grierson.
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: John Sampson Grierson b. c 1910

Robert Percival Serle

M, b. 18 November 1914

Military Service

Milit-Beg15 August 1940Caulfield, Vic, Australia,
Milit-End13 November 1945

Additional Notes

  • Next of Kin given as Percival Serle
  • Last Edited: 6 Apr 2020

Family: Margaret Marian Florence Worrell b. c 1915, d. 1989

John Sampson Grierson

M, b. circa 1910
  • Last Edited: 23 Sep 2006

Family: Katharine Beatrice Serle b. 1912, d. 1958

Elizabeth Charlotte Searl

F, b. circa 1845
  • Married Name: As of 1870,her married name was Norburn.
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: William Norburn b. c 1845

William Norburn

M, b. circa 1845
  • Last Edited: 15 Jul 2006

Family: Elizabeth Charlotte Searl b. c 1845