Philip Henry AYDON

[cando]

Nelson Evening Mail.....Is this F. ROSCOW Hon. Sec. your Frederick?  Advertisments over a number of years have this name.
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0q5l/

There is also mention of a Mrs Roscoe in 1874 on a passenger list to Wellington in the same paper.

Info available on birth certs in Vic in an earlier post.  Perhaps I should have given the link to purchase
https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search?action=purchaseImage

BRADSHAW Rosa Emily
Father James Benjamin  Mother Agnes Rosa Annie SMITH
At North Melbourne  1859  Reg#857

However this child died aged 7 weeks in the same year.  Does however make me wonder if the mother was Philip Henry's wife.  The birth certificate would given details about the mother eg her age and place of birth and if there had been any previous births to the marriage.  I can find no other details for this Agnes on the Aus records.

Cando

Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practise to deceive!
 Sir Walter Scott

Getting back to the OP's request....info on Philip Henry AYDON

One record in a Melbourne directory but is it him?  There was a Philip AYDON in South Aus connected with the railways but noted as an apprentice. 

Was Philip AYDON on the 1861 census...did he remain in England?  There are a number of Philip AYDON deaths....bearing in mind he is noted as Henry AYDON on Archibald birth registration.

I found a Philip M AYDON [corrected to H by a subscriber to ancesty.uk] on the 1861 census living at 74 Church Place, Grappenhall, Cheshire.  He was the only person at the address and listed as 34 years, head, gentleman born Wakefield, Yorkshire.  Next door at 72 was a Maria AYDON, 60 years, Visitor, Married, Landed proprietor born Warrington, Lancashire. Could this be your Philip Henry and his mother Maria?  If so, perhaps he and Agnes had separated by this time.

Cando

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

There were unclaimed letters being held at the Melbourne GPO 30th November 1852 for a P. H. Aydon, Melbourne.

This may indicate that P.H. Aydon was in Melboune by that date.

Regards
Gerry

[cando]

1866  P.H.Aydon, parcel on the LIGHTNING from Liverpool
http://www.rootschat.com/links/0q5o/

Candp

[cando]

Melbourne Directory (Sands) 1870
Aydon, Philip., 86 Park-st-west, Em. H.

Gerry

The Argus Tuesday 15 November 1870

Missing friends, messages, etc.

BEECHWORTH.- Advertiser for address of W. D. BANKS, write to Aydon, 64 Park-street east, Emerald-hill.


Same street but different number.

Cando

[cando]

Bearing in mind Philip Henry was noted as Henry on Archibald's birth reg...and leaving no stone unturned

http://www.rootschat.com/links/0q5p/
The Argus Monday 30 July 1888

VICTORIAN RAILWAYS CLERICAL ASSOCIATION.

An adjourned meeting of the Victorian Railway Clerical Association was held at the Prince's Bridge Hotel on Friday, Mr. W. U. Ritchie being in the chair. The following elections took place :-President, Mr. W. Walker (engineers' branch) ; vice-presidents, Mr. R. Anderson (traffic branch), Mr. W. G. Ritchie (accountants' branch), members of council, Messrs. H Aydon,.........


Cando

[rosball]

On www.naa.gov.au there is a discussion/dispute/query about the trusts of the will of Benjamin Henry Leete, deceased in  1925
item .A10071, 1925/3


The people concerned are:
AYDON Frederick
MAAS Harry Rickard, MAAS Noni Rickards, MAAS Dorothy
HARWOOD Harry
etc
versus
LEETE John Charles
BROADBENT Madge Adelaide Rickards
etc

The document has not been digitised but it is tempting to think that it may be a dispute and that the people concerned were required to establish their relationships etc.

regards,
   Ros

[cando]

There are numerous news items about both the husband Benjamin LEETE aka Harry RICKARD and wife's Katie's estates and issues.  Their dau Noni Rickards MAAS died in 1921 and Katie in 1922.

Index of Wills and Probate in the UK
1913
LEETE Benjamin Henry (commonly known as RICKARDS Harry) of Sydney New South Wales died 13 Oct 1911 at 3878 London-road Thornton Heath surrey  Probate Sydney to John Charles Leete  Frederick Aydon and Kate Richards Leete.  Effect £12722.16s.7d. in England.  Sealed London 9 July.

It would be good if we could help the OP with her search for information on Philip Henry AYDON afterall that was his/her request.

Cando

[Rosannel]

Philip Henry Aydon was employed as a tally clerk in Dept 192 of the Victorian Railways from 1 July 1878 until he resigned on 30 April 1891. He had previously been employed by the Hobson Bay Railways - he appealed to the Victorian Parliament sometime during his employment there (don't have the date to hand). His son, Frederick, was also employed by Victorian Railways.
When Agnes died in Nelson her husband's address was give as Sandridge, the old name for Port Melbourne. I have never been able to find a death certificate for Philip Henry - he was my great great grandfather.

[Rosannel]

Continuing P. H. Aydon:
He appealed to the Victorian Parliament (Parliamentary Debates Vol. 67, 1991, pages 1821-4) because his name had been omitted from the list of permanent employees of the Hobson Bays Railway Co. when it was taken over by the Victorian government in 1878. It appears that it may have affected his retirement - perhaps a pension - in some way. He would have been aged around 65 by then. Interestingly he (called Henry Aydon here) was described as follows- 'He was one of these mild-tempered Englishmen who were not aggressive enough to assert their rights.' (page 1822).

Other facts listed on his Vict. Railway records - his marital status is given as a widower, and there is another comment St. 20.9.65? - perhaps a reference to when he began working for the Hobson Bay Rail. Co.
He must have been working for them when Agnes died in 1875 because it shows her husband, Philip Henry Aydon, as living in Sandridge then (a terminus of the Hobson Bay Rail. Co.). There is no suggestion on her death cert. that she ever remarried, or presumably P.H. either unless his second wife had died also).

Henry/Philip (seems to have used both names at different times) and Agnes were married in Eagle Hawk Gully on the outskirts of modern Bendigo - a major goldfield in 1853. I visited there a few years ago - the bottom of the gully is now a park. Archibald was born in Ballarat, and Frederick in Acoca, so the family must have moved from one Victorian goldfield to the next during the 1850s.