21st April 1863 at Wesleyan Church Ford street Beechworth by Rev Geo B Richards, Mr John H Roberts to Miss Mary Anne Ellis.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/112895580?searchTerm=roberts - ellis
daughter Mary Ellen bio
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/roberts-mary-ellen-8227
https://www.geni.com/people/Mary-Roberts/6000000013929188590
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/246453531?searchTerm=john hartley roberts
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Jospeh Ellis was a local preacher and class leader whose forebears were Welsh miners who had migrated this far south.
He helped establish a Wesleyan Chapel in the little village of Ludgvon, in Cornwall, over against St. Michael's Mount and about three miles from Penzance. Ludgvon was a warm-hearted community of tin miners, fishermen and market gardeners who dated their revival of spiritual zeal from the appearance of John Wesley himself.
As well as being the local minister, Joseph Ellis kept a store which distributed wood and coal.
The first railway through this area broke into it's quiet seclusion and the Irish navvies that came with this railroad increased the custom of his store considerably. Unfortunately, they moved on without paying their bills. Trying not to lose his business, he left his wife and two children to hold on to what was left of it and set off for the Australian goldfields to hopefully become rich and return to "right every wrong".
He settled at Chewton in the Castlemaine area of Victoria, Australia where he became fairly successful as a miner. He then wrote to his wife to sell off his business to pay for tickets to Australia for herself and their children. However there was nothing left over after the sale and his wife and their children Mary Ann and Richard came out to Australia with what belongings they could gather, paying for their passage with the little they had saved personally.
The ship "Mermaid", on which they sailed, became a total wreck on its following voyage.
When Joseph Ellis heard about new diggings reporting great gold finds in the Ovens and Murray district, he trekked his family nearly the whole length of Victoria to Eldorado through virgin country without a road of any sort.
They bought one of the original town allotments building a bark hut for their home and creating a garden for home supplies.
Joseph Ellis then erected a Wesleyan chapel and became its steward, local preacher, Sunday school superintendent and the veritable pastor to the whole community.
The chapel was expanded into a Day School for the village and it was being run quite successfully by his seventeen year old daughter, Mary Ann Ellis.
Subsequently a qualified schoolmaster arrived in town and prepared his classrooms but no children came. He then had to capitulate and come to the Wesleyan Chapel and interview the little mistress. Then a partnership began which lasted nearly sixty years.
