The children of Sir Abraham Ellerman dispersed to all parts of the globe. Whilst his son Charles Frederick Ellerman (my GG grandfather) went to England, another brother came to Australia. Here follows an account of their history.
The sons of Abraham III, Horatio (b. 1/9/1822) and Henry (b. 23/10/1827) had gone to Australia and it is possible that this decision was made as there was not sufficient room for them all in the family business. However, Horatio was not quite 17 years of age when he set sail from London on 14/8/1839 in the barque “Florentia” which arrived in Sydney 162 days later on 23/1/1840. Horatio spent about 3 years in NSW, possibly in the Goulburn, Yass and Cooma districts, and then we find him about 120 km north-west of Port Phillip (Melbourne) with 80 head of cattle. Here he became associated with overlanders Darlot and Carter with 400 head of cattle and they set off westward looking for country on to set up as squatters. They travelled with two teams of bullocks pulling wagons, with the country in a dreadful state with incessant rains and with the wagons bogged to the axles on occasions. Eventually, after about 3 months, they selected some land close by the present town of Horsham, on the Wimmera river and called the property North Brighton. About two years later, Horatio selected his own land further down (north) the Wimmera river on a property he called ‘Antwerp’ after the town of his birth. Horatio’s Antwerp was of about 128,000 acres with the river passing through its centre from south to north. About the end of 1846, Horatio was joined by his brother Henry and they operated the property together. In 1854, the brothers acquired Lake Hindmarsh station and later Henry went there to reside. In the meantime, Horatio was married on 20/3/1851 to Anne Westgarth and they subsequently had six children:-

1. Clarence Henry, b. 22/9/1853
2. Eliza, b. 30/7/1855
3. John Westgarth, b. 2/4/1857,
4. Lydia Anne
5. Gustavus, b. 28/10/1861,
6. Abraham Daniel Frederick, b. 22/8/1865

Henry also married, on 20/8/1861, to Emma Griffin Buller and they had a daughter, Emily Constantia Westropp, but it is not known if they had any further children.

However, the seasons did not favour Horatio and Henry over the years and they had some very lean times; eventually they transferred their grazing licences. Horatio applied to be admitted or received into the ministry of the Presbyterian Church on 2/8/1865 and was licensed as a probationer on 31/1/1866 and was ordained and inducted into the north west Wimmera charge on 16/5/1866. About this time the grazing licence for the “Antwerp” station was transferred from Horatio to John Wilson.

In 1869, Henry and Emma and their daughter left Lake Hindmarsh station and it is not known where they went. Henry was found to be working on a station just north of Dimboola in 1873 and it is rumoured that they went to America. Also, another Horatio is believed to have arrived in Victoria, as there was a meeting of a “Horatio Ellerman Jnr” as Clerk of the first race meeting (Horses) held in Dimboola on 3/4/1873 and it has been assumed in the light of the events that followed, that he was the fourth child of Charles Ellerman in London and he could have been staying with the “Antwerp” Horatio at the manse at Dimboola. He migrated to the USA (more of which later)

On 2/6/1874, Horatio Snr. Received a call from the Lismore parish and he was inducted there as the minister on 4/8/1874. Lismore is a small town with a large parish, about 25 miles north of Camperdown Victoria. Horatio Snr. Continued ministering at Lismore for some 13 years until his death from pneumonia on 8/1/1887 at the age of 64 and he was buried in the Lismore cemetery.

His wife and members of his family who had not already left to pursue their own vocations, went to live in a house in Power St in Hawthorn, a Melbourne Suburb.

Not very much is known of Horatio Snr’s children; however, the eldest son was Clarence Henry, born at Antwerp Station in the Wimmera district of Victoria on 22/9/1853. He attended Scotch College, Melbourne. Entering there on 11/2/1867 and the date of leaving is unknown. He worked on different sheep and cattle stations around Victoria and was married on 20/8/1879 to Helen Morton Yeats. He was first a jackeroo, station hand and later overseer and about 1880 or 1881 he became manager of “Nimagee” station in the Lachlan district near Cobar and several years later the family moved to “Glenbrook” station near Cooma in NSW, remaining there until 1890. Clarence Henry then purchased a stock and station agency at Young in NSW which he conducted there until his death in 1921.

Eliza did not marry and lived in Power St in Hawthorn until about 1900 when she moved to Royal Pde and then Bay St in Mordialloc, another Melbourne suburb.

Horatio’s wife, Anne, died at Power St in Hawthorn on 8/1/1887 and was buried in the Booroondara General Cemetery, Kew, Melbourne.

Eliza died on 8/8/1933 and is also buried in the same grave as her mother in the Kew Cemetery.

John Westgarth: No information but there is a suggestion that he might have gone to Queensland but he may have gone to America with his uncle Henry. Rev. Morey believed that a young male did go with him.

Lydia Anne: Like her sister Eliza, Lydia did not marry and they probably lived together in Hawthorn and then Mordialloc. She died in hospital in a Melbourne suburb and was buried in the New Cheltenham cemetery which was near Mordialloc.

Gustavus: He also went to Scotch College in Melbourne, as did John Westgarth, and he worked in the Bank of Australasia in Victoria, being manager of their branches in a number of towns, the last known being Foster on the south coast, where it is believed he retired and may have joined his son-in-law, Roy Paterson as commission or real estate agents. He died on 27/1/1930 aged 68 years and was buried at Kew cemetery in the same grave as his mother and his sister Eliza.

Abraham D. F. Ellerman: Attended Scotch College, beginning in Feb. 1879, but for how long is not known. However, 4 months after his father’s death in 1887, he re-entered Scotch College when he was almost 22 years of age. It is possible that he did not marry but stayed with Gustavus and family and followed them from bank to bank. It is not known where he died or was buried.

Horatio ex London: (Father of Charles Digby?) Born in London on 9/4/1848 and it is assumed he is the one at the Dimboola Races in 1873. On 16/10/1875, he was married in St Peters Church in Melbourne to Fanny Louisa Madeline Scott (Certificate No. 2077 or 3839) and it is thought that they had 4 children:-

1. Fanny Rosalind, b. 1877 in Melbourne, Birth Certificate # 10156; she did not marry, and died in Melbourne on 17/6/1947, aged 70. Death Cert. #7012 (Philip Ellerman has a copy in Wagga).
2. Violet, b. about 1878 in Melbourne, Cert. # 19441. Max Ellerman of Brisbane believes that she went to the USA?.
3. Charles Digby, b. at Hay, NSW on 19/2/1880, Cert # 16247, where his father was the sheep manager of Eli Elwah stud sheep property.
4. Ernest Horatio, b. 1881, cert # 19697; nothing further known.

Horatio’s wife, Fanny Louisa died in Victoria (probably in South Yarra, Melbourne), aged 27 years; cert #8941, in 1881?

It is believed that Fanny Rosalind lived initially with Eliza and Lydia and at the time of her death she was residing in Canterbury Rd, Toorak and she was described as a domestic servant.

On 14/2/1885, Horatio married for a second time to a spinster, Mary Isabella Robertson. They had at least one child, Lillian Mary, b. about 4/8/1895, d. 13/10/1895, aged 2 months and 9 days.  ¶ 7:44 pm