Armytage Family

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Agent TypeFamilyActivities & OccupationsFarmersGraziersHistoryGeorge Armytage (1795-1862), arrived in Sydney in 1815 but soon took up land in Van Diemen's Land, where he married the daughter of a convict and had seven sons and four daughters. In 1847 he followed his sons, Thomas and Charles, to Port Phillip where the family had established pastoral holdings and came into conflict with Aboriginal peoples. George’s third son, Charles, married Caroline Tuckwell in 1856; they lived near Fulham in the Western District until moving to Como in South Yarra 1864. Charles and Caroline had five sons and five daughters, one of whom died in childhood. Charles died in 1876, at which time Caroline took over the management of thefamily’s estates.
Caroline Armytage took her family to Europe at the end of 1876 for four years, the first of several periods of travel. In the 1880s Como was redecorated with items from this grand tour, as befitting a family that was part of the social elite of Melbourne. Eventually the sons took over the
pastoral properties, while the daughters continued to reside at Como with their mother. The daughters inherited Como on their mother’s death in
1909.
The sisters were close, even after Constance married Capt. Arthur Fitzpatrick in 1906 and moved to England and Ada moved to Holm Park. Ada, Constance and Leila were in England at the outbreak of WWI: Leila and Constance served with the Red Cross as volunteers in a French hospital. At the end of the war, the sisters returned to Melbourne, including Constance, whose marriage had ended. Constance Fitzpatrick and Leila Armytage left Como in 1959, when the newly formed National Trust of Victoria raised money to purchase the property and its contents by a public campaign, one the first of its type in Australia.Search records of this agent

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