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9. Ellen (Helen) TANNER was christened on 24 Feb 1815 in Ringwood, Hampshire. She was born about 1815 in Ringwood, Hampshire. She emigrated on 26 Aug 1852 from Plymouth to Port Philip Bay, Australia. They paid their own passage on the ship "Prince Alfred". "Mr and Mrs Cleal aged 24 and 23 years (sic)" arrived at Port Philip in December 1852. They probably lied about their ages on the shipping documents as Helen was a spinster aged 37 on her marriage certificate issued two weeks before she set sail. She died of Accouchement and Puerperal Fever (certified) on 15 Sep 1856 in Victoria Street, Melbourne, Australia. The child also died. There is no record of the child that Helen died giving birth to either in the birth records or the burial register and so it was probably stillborn or died shortly after birth and buried with its mother in the family grave. The child is noted on Jacob's third marriage certificate (unnamed and deceased).

Ellen (Helen) TANNER and Jacob CLEAL were married on 10 Aug 1852 in Chelsea, Middlesex. At the time of his marriage to Helen, Jacob was a widower. His father was also called Jacob and was a Clothier. Jacob CLEAL was born about 1809 in Somerset. The Cleal Family. Jacob's grandparents were James Cleal (d.1787 Somerset) and Jane (d.1814 Horton, Ilminster, Somerset). James owned at least three properties from 1766 onwards in Horton and the property was passed to his widow Jane in 1789. James and Jane had five children:-
James (aka Jacob) - details follow
Jane (1755),
Joseph (1757),
Benjamin (1761)
Betty (m.1787 John Matthews; 6 children between 1787 and 1796)
James (aka Jacob) married Sarah Gawler (b.1768; father George Gawler; mother Sarah Standerwick) on 19 August 1790 in Broadway, Somerset and they had ten children:-
Sophia (b.1792),
Phoebe (b.1795; m.1828 Edward Mitchell; 5 children between 1829 and 1841),
Arabella (b.1796; m.1829 Stephen Smith; 5 children between 1830 and 1837; d.1880),
James (b.1799; m.1827 Jessie Winter; 6 children between 1828 and 1838; d.1887; occupation builder and carpenter),
Hannah (b.1802; m.1833 John Langston; d.1868),
Thomas (b.1804)
Daniel (b.1806; late 1820s set up a successful biscuit company in Drummond Street, off Euston Square, London; m.1830 Catherine Lantham; 7 children between 1833 and 1847; m.abt 1860; 9 children between 1861 and 1879; d.1882 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; occupation baker - 1839 London, 1843-1851 Toronto, Canada, 1857-1881 Victoria, Australia)
Jacob (b.1811 - details follow in narrative
Jane (b.1811)
Sarah (b.1814)
Just after their marriage in 1791 James and Sarah lived in a house in Broadway owned by William Standerwick (a relative of his mother-in-law?) and he paid 8s 4d tax. The family stayed in the house until 1794. James was a clothier and the family was quite well off, mainly due to Sarah's family. In 1811 he took over two of his mother's properties in Horton and, although he sold them in 1814, he continued to live in them until 1826 and possibly even up to 1831. By 1841 Sarah was widowed and lived with her married daughter Arabella in London and she lived there until her death in 1849.
He lived in London between 1827 and 1835. Jacob and most of his siblings lived in London and between 1827 and 1833 at least five of his siblings married in St. George's Church, off Hanover Square, London. This is the church where Jacob's first marriage took place on 21 September 1829. He married Mary Ann Young by banns and the witnesses were Daniel Cleal (his brother) and C. Lantham (Daniel's future wife). Jacob and Mary Ann had three children:-
Frederick (b.1830; died young),
Rosabella (b.1831; m.1848 William Barrett in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; 12 children between 1849 and 1875; 1848-1851 lived in Canada; 1851-1857 lived in America; left New York on 7/12/1857 on the Reinhard and arrived in Melbourne, Australia on 7/3/1858 with her sister Emma and her son; d.1925 Malvern, Victoria, Australia,
Emma Priscilla (b.1834; m.1854 Robert Blake; 1 son born 1854; widowed 1855; 1857 went to Australia; m.1860 William George Tayler; 3 children between 1861 and 1868; widowed 1879; m.1880 Robert Bell Walker (a widower with 11 young children); widowed 1899; d.1914 Lara, Victoria, Australia
By the early 1840s Jacob's wife and son had died and he went to Canada with his two daughters (as well as his brother Daniel and his wife and children). Jacob and Daniel set up a successful biscuit company in Toronto and in 1846 Jacob is listed as a baker at 162 King Street East, Toronto. This was also the address of an inn which Jacob ran. In 1848 Jacob's daughter Rosabella married at the age of 16. However on 7 April 1849 a fire started in the stable of the inn and the resulting fire almost razed Toronto to the ground. Jacob and Daniel lost all they had - their homes and their businesses. In early 1851 Jacob and Daniel were in Walpole Township, Haldimand County, Canada. Jacob was listed as a farmer and his daughter Emma was with him. Daniel was a baker and his wife and three children were with him. Jacob and Daniel went to San Francisco later in 1851 (possibly following the "gold"). Jacob had stayed in contact with his family in England and in late 1851 or early 1852 he returned to England and stayed with his sister Hannah at 10 Bretten Terrace, Chelsea. Her husband, John, was a gilder. It is here that Jacob married his second wife.
In 1852 he was a Carpenter and Joiner in Chelsea, Middlesex. He emigrated about 1854 from England to Melbourne, Australia. They paid their own fare. After Helen's death Jacob remarried in 1857. His third wife was Elizabeth Amelia Druce (b.1836 Liverpool, Lancashire; d.1922 Glenhuntley, Victoria, Australia). They had eleven children:- Frederick (1858-1858), Harry (1859-1893), Willie (1861-1925), Minnie (1862-1935), Elizabeth (1863-1863), Edward William (1864-1895), George (1867-1935), Charles Alfred (1868-1869), Charles Jacob (1871-1933), Elizabeth Amelia (1873-1939) and Thomas (aka James 1876-1961). Jacob and his family lived in Melbourne and he was a boarding house keeper in 1859, between 1864 and 1867 he owned a Parisian Cafe and between 1868 and 1878 he ran Cleal's Hotel. He died on 24 Jun 1898 in South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.