Descendents of Henry Mount + Florence/Queenie Gower
- in Australia
contact: John Davis webmaster@ivu.org

Fred|
Mount|
b.1919| NSW|
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2 boys|

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The SS Ormuz that took Harry Mount to Australia in 1908

Florence ("Queen") Mount (nee Gower) with husband Harry and first two boys Jack and Christie.

Queenie - Florence - holding on to Christopher Mount and Jack Mount in front

Fred Mount as a baby. He was born 6 weeks premature and delivered by his father out on the dairy farm. Henry came in, delivered the child then went back to milking the cows!!

Right is Florence (Queenie) Mount /Gower. Left is Bertha Gower. Harry Mount at the rear and Queen's children L-R Jack, Christie and Fred.

Florence Mount (nee Gower) kneeling comforting a crying Fred Mount. Bertha Gower standing with the towel. Boys in water, Chris Mount on left and Jack Mount on right.

(L-R) Jack Mount, friend, Chris Mount and Fred Mount.

Family photo - front row sitting on left Fred Mount, right is Chris Mount. Standing on left is Florence Mount (nee Gower), Henry Mount, and eldest son is Jack Mount.

This is a pioneer built house, built by a Mr, Collingwood at Springbrook, Queensland in the 1920s. My grandmother, Bertha Newman (nee Gower & not yet Pearson) lived an impoverished life here after the disappearance of her first husband, Frank Newman, The people on the balcony look like they could be Queenie Mount's family (nee Florence Gower). But I could be wrong.

Queenie (Florence) Mount, nee Gower, in later years

Harry Mount, born 1878 (and living in the same house as the Gowers in 1881), left London for Sydney on 10 July 1908 on the S.S ORMUZ- he left 5 yrs earlier than Florence (on her list she is listed as a machinist) He was listed as a 'Gent'.

Ormuz (1886-1912 - 6,031gt) Sold to Cie de Nav. Sud-Atlantique in 1912, renamed Divona.

Florence Emily Q. Gower (she was listed that way) left from London (probably late April 1913) on the Miltiades, arriving in Sydney on June 9, 1913, she was 28. No other members of her family were on board. Henry Mount, 35, whom she had known from childhood, was already in Australia and she married him on November 11, 1913.

Miltiades - was built in 1903 by Alex Stephen & Sons at Glasgow with a tonnage of 6793grt, a length of 454ft 10in, a beam of 55ft and a service speed of 15 knots. She was built as the Miltiades for the Aberdeen Line and commenced her maiden voyage from London - to Sydney via Cape Town and Melbourne on 3rd November 1903. In 1913 she was lengthened to 504ft 4in, which increased her tonnage to 7814grt, and given a second dummy funnel. She was requisitioned as a troopship in 1915 and returned to commercial service to Australia on 4th June 1920. At the end of 1920 she was purchased by Royal Mail and renamed Orcana. She was transferred to PSNC in 1922 as a replacement for the three 'O's which were transferred to the North Atlantic. On 11th August 1922 she commenced the intended 'Round South America' service, Liverpool - Montevideo - Valparaiso - Panama Canal - Liverpool but as she was expensive to operate after one voyage she was laid up, firstly at Liverpool and then at Dartmouth. In 1924 she was towed to Holland and broken up at Hendrik-ido-Ambracht.

From Delma on Ancestry World Tree:
Florence Emily GOWER; Birth: Aug 1884 in Kent England ; Death: 7 Aug 1968 in Tweed Heads N.S.W. Australia
Marriage Henry George MOUNT b: Sep 1878 in Lydden Kent, England
Married: 11 Nov 1913 in Ballina, N.S.W. Australia

Jack Harry MOUNT b: 23 May 1915 in Ballina, N.S.W. Australia; Death: 4 Feb 2001 in Tweed Heads. Marriage: Phoebe Evelyn WILLEN b: 20 Aug 1911 in Murwillumbah, N.S.W Australia
Married: 11 Nov 1935 in Cudgen ,

From Sue: Christopher Mount born 29 May 1917 in Teven NSW in Australia. Died 30 July 2007 in Southport, QLD, Aust. He married on 23 April 1949 to Beverly Florence Hall. She was born 24 September 1932 in Rainbow Bay, QLD Aust. Died 13 September 2003 in Tweed Heads, NSW Aust. They had six children between 1949 and 1956. 3 boys and 3 girls.

Some more notes from Bertha's grandaughter: I did visit 'Queen' or 'Queenie' (Florence) Mount (nee Gower), my grandmother's older sister by 14 years, a couple of times with my parents when I was very small. I remember she gave us sardines to eat and I was too afraid of my father and too polite to refuse them even though I detested sardines. When nobody was observing, I gulped them down whole in one go to get the ordeal over and done with.

I didn't really get to know Aunty Queen, as we called her, because it was an adults' world in those days and children were to be "seen and not heard". . . . relatives can be scattered over thousands of miles and you don't really get to know their children so, on the few occasions when they come to visit, the children are just strangers that tag along. People have enough problem keeping tabs on their own grandchildren, let alone those of their siblings who do not live near. Anyway, I was really young on the few occasions I met Aunty Queen (probably only 3-4). As I said, it was a grown-ups' world and they would talk among themselves. You would give a shy 'Thankyou' and slink away or try to be invisible because you had always been told that kids don't belong in a grown-ups' world. That's the way it was then. But I did get the impression that Aunty Queen was a really nice old lady whom I would have liked to have got to know - except for the sardines! My father always took a lot of photos and I remember that when I was probably about 9 years old my father travelled without us to visit Aunty Queen and took a photo. I remember her more from the photo than from actual contact. I never saw her again.

Queen's son Jack marriied a Fijian lady whose given name, I was told, was Feeble but we called her Phoebe. I remember seeing her once. She was rather slender and good looking. They had a daughter- very Fijian looking. She was a play-mate to my older sister, for a short while when we lived nearby. They used to rough and tumble. She seemed to have been a lot of fun but I did not get to know her because, at the time, I was too young.

(L-R) Jack Mount, Chris Mount and Fred Mount.

Jack Mount.

Jack, Chris, Fred swimming.

4 generations - Squatting is Don Mount holding one of his daughters. Standing on left is Phoebe Mount (nee Willan) and on right is Florence Mount (nee Gower).

3 generations - Florence Mount (nee Gower) Phoebe Mount (nee Willan) and her daughter Janice Mount.

left side nearest to the camera - Janice Mount (daughter of Jack & Phoebe Mount), Phyllis Mount (wife of Fred, nee Everson), Fred Mount (youngest son of Florence and Henry).
right side start nearest to the camera - Jack Harry Mount (eldest son of Florence and Henry) Phoebe Mount (wife of Jack, nee Willan), Aubrey Mount (2nd son of Jack and Phoebe, Judy Mount (wife of Aubrey Mount, nee Budd)

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Two views of the Miltiades - that took Florence/ Queenie to Australia, June 1913

Henry George Mount and Florence Mount (nee Gower)

Queenie & Bertha (sister) with Queenie's three boys. My grandmother added a note 'Queen loved to pose'

Bertha Gower, Christopher Mount & Fred Mount on Taffy, Teven

Left to right, Jack Mount, Florence Mount (nee Gower sitting) Henry Mount, Fred Mount (seated) and Chris Mount (standing)

Elizabeth Startup/Gower and Jack Mount, Christopher Mount and Fred Mount (1920s)

Fred Mount "going shooting"

Jack Harry Mount.

"Queenie" Florence Mount (nee Gower).

Jack Harry Mount and Phoebe Mount (nee Willan)

Donald Mount, eldest son of Jack and Phoebe Mount, eldest great grandson of Granny Gower.