Malachi WATERS b. ca 1831, Co Limerick, Ireland was married in 1856 in Ireland to Mary KANE b. ca 1836, Co Clare, Ireland.
Malachi & Mary arrived at Portland in Oct 1856 on the "General Hewett" and were employed near Horsham by Mr I SMITH.
Their first child, Michael Thomas WATERS was born in the Horsham area and the remainder of their children had births registered at Portland in S-W Victoria.
Malachi & Mary WATERS were living at Digby in 1892 when their youngest son Thomas WATERS, then aged 14-15 years accidentally shot himself when rabbitting and was buried in the Digby cemetery.
Malachi & Mary WATERS died at Wallacedale and were both buried at Digby in 1902 & 1908 respectively.
Malachi WATERS & Mary KAIN appear to have had the following family:
- Michael Thomas WATERS b. c.1856, Horsham, Vic m. Susan Mary GULL
Michael appears to be a member of the large WATERS family of Malachi WATERS and Mary CAIN and was born near Horsham, although his birth does not appear in the birth Index. Michael WATERS became a labourer and selector on "Pieracle Station" near Digby and they had the following family:
- Annie Elizabeth WATERS b. 1876, Digby, Vic ..... (last heard of at the "Henty Tea Rooms" Casterton in 1916);
- Helen May WATERS b. 1878, Digby, Vic, d. 1962, m. Robert John BLACK 1876-1961;
- Susan Blanche WATERS b. 1880, Digby, Vic, d. 1960, Sandford, Vic;
- Rachel Honora WATERS b. 1882, Digby, Vic, d. 1950, m. Donald Fraser SMITH 1881-1972;
- William Thomas Joseph WATERS b. 1884, Digby, Vic, d. 1885;
- Joseph WATERS b. 1886, Digby, Vic, d. 1965 m. Edith Mary PRESSEY 1876-1969;
- Sophia Mary WATERS b. 1887, Digby, Vic, d. 1979, m. Ewen "Hughie" ANDISON 1884-1973 (went to NSW);
- Edward Henry WATERS b. 1889, Digby, Vic, d. 1916, Western Front, France
- WW1 1st AIF, 5th Battalion
- WW1 1st AIF, 2nd Machine Gun Company
- DOW 19 Nov 1916, France
- Digby Avenue of Honour Tree No 40, planted by Miss Annie WATERS
- Thomas Patrick WATERS b. 1893, Digby, Vic; d. 1946, m. Olga Eva McWHIRTER 1899-?
- WW1 1st AIF, 39th Battalion, enlisted 7 Apr 1915
- WW1 1st AIF, transferred to 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, 5 Aug 1916
- Wounded on 2 occasions in 1917
- WW1 1st AIF, 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, RTA 28 Jun 1919
- Digby Avenue of Honour Tree No 5, planted by Mrs H ANDISON
- Martin William WATERS b. 1895, Digby, Vic. d. 1967, m. Christina JELLY 1895-?
- WW1 1st AIF, 39th Battalion, enlisted 22 Mar 1916, served in France
- WW1 1st AIF, transferred in France to 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, 11 Aug 1917
- WW1 1st AIF, 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery, RTA 29 Jun 1919
- Digby Avenue of Honour Tree No 55, planted by Mr G L SIMKIN
- Thomas WATERS, b. 1859, d. 1965 Portland, Vic;
- Ellen Mary WATERS, b. 1861, Portland, Vic. d. 1953, m. William Ross FRASER 1861-1929. William FRASER was b. 1861, Edinburgh, Scotland, son of Duncan FRASER & Grace ROSS. William ROSS & Ellen WATERS had 9 children at Mount Gambier, Condah & Wallacedale as follows...
- Mary Grace FRASER b. 1886, d, 1886, Mount Gambier, SA.;
- Mary Grace FRASER b. 1886, Mount Gambier, SA., d. 1889, Hamilton, Vic;
- William Ross FRASER b. 1891, Condah, Vic, d. 1959, m. Rose May SPURLING 1889-1957;
- Nora Grace FRASER b. 1894, Digby, Vic, d. 1963, m. James Alfred PALMER 1886-1948;
- Kathleen Margaret FRASER b. 1896, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1973, m. James William BREBNER 1898-1975;
- Mary Josephine FRASER b. 1899, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1964, m. Edward John WHITE 1894-1959;
- Isabella Helen FRASER b. 1901, Wallacedale, Vic, d. 1983, m. Charles James GRUNDY 1902-1909;
- Norman Machi Patrick FRASER b. 1905, d. 1905, Branxholme, Vic;
- Ewen Keith FRASER b. 1907, Wallacedale, Vic, d. ___, m. Gwendoline Isabelle HARTUP 1914-;
- Peter John WATERS, b. 1863, Portland, Vic. ...............?
- Patrick Joseph WATERS, b. 1864, Portland, Vic, d. 1934, m. Isabella Tasman CARTER 1880-1946 (9 children in the Branxholme area);
- Arthur Joseph WATERS b. 1902, ___, d. 1973, m. Doris Emily BOWKER 1904-1984;
- Stella WATERS b. 1905, d. 1905, Branxholme, Vic;
- Eric Francis WATERS b. 1907, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1984, m. Ilma Jean AINSWORTH;
- Mary Isabel WATERS b. 1909, Branxholme, Vic, m. Alan Carl James DEAN 1907-;
- John Robb WATERS b. 1910, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1983, m. Eileen Margaret HICKMER 1915-;
- Wallace Michael WATERS b. 1912, d. 1917, Branxholme, Vic;
- Norman WATERS b. 1913, Branxholme, Vic, m. Mavis Beryl McINTYRE 1917-;
- Michael WATERS b. 1916, d. 1916, Branxholme, Vic;
- Elspeth Eliza WATERS b. 1919, Branxholme, Vic, m. Edward James "Ted" SPENCER;
- John Alexander WATERS, b. 1864, Portland, Vic, d. 1943, m. Mary Elizabeth LEONARD 1869-1939 (14 children in the Branxholme area 1891-1913);
- William Thomas Francis WATERS b. 1891, Hamilton, Vic, d. 1952;
- James Martin WATERS b. 1892, Heywood, Vic, d. 1955, m. Annie Josephine CROTTY 1898-1962;
- Thomas John WATERS b. 1894, Digby, Vic, d. 1936, m. Gladys Muriel JENKINS 1896-1974;
- Peter WATERS b. 1895, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1958;
- Winifred Mary WATERS b. 1897, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1956, m. Ivan John James HAMILTON 1902-1961;
- Catherine Elizabeth WATERS b. 1898, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1955, m. ___ BROWN;
- Mary Ethel WATERS b. 1901, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1961, m. James Stanley DARK 1893-1977;
- Eileen Margaret WATERS b. 1903, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1968, m. Andrew Joseph RITCHIE 1907-1979;
- Lilian Frances WATERS b. 1903, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1978, m. ___ ALLINSON;
- Annie Frances WATERS b. 1905, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1958, m. ___ ALFORD;
- Leo Malachi WATERS b. 1908, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1971;
- Rosalie Josephine WATERS b. 1909, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1972, m. Leslie Joseph GROWNEY;
- John George WATERS b. 1911, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1963;
- Leonard Matthew WATERS b. 1913, Branxholme, Vic, d. 1969 ;
- Mary Ann Ethel WATERS, b. 1866, Portland, Vic. d. 1954, Perth, WA, m. 1893 Victoria, to George Windsor MENAGH 1864-1949 (went to WA after 1893);
- William Thomas MENAGH b. 1893, Carlton, Vic, d. 1968, Perth, WA, m. ..?.. (Served in WW1 as Pte 1417, 10th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, enlisted from WA);
- William Francis WATERS, b. 1869, Portland, Vic, d. 1932 m. Grace Elizabeth CLARKE 1877-1925 (12 children in the Digby area 1895-1919);
- William Thomas WATERS, b. 1895, Digby, Vic, d. 1967, m. Pearl Florence Allen McLEAN 1900-?
- WW1 1st AIF, 8th Battalion, enlisted 3 Feb 1916
- WW1 1st AIF, 8th Battalion, wounded twice in France
- WW1 1st AIF, 8th Battalion, RTA 12 May 1919
- Digby Avenue of Honour Tree No 64, planted by Mrs W WATERS
- Edward John WATERS, b. 1897, Digby, Vic, d..........? (went to NSW and last heard of working in outback Queensland in 1939)
- WW1 1st AIF, 9th Light Horse Regiment, enlisted 7 Jul 1915
- WW1 1st AIF, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, transferred to 30 Nov 1916
- WW1 1st AIF, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, wounded in France
- WW1 1st AIF, 5th Machine Gun Battalion, RTA to 6 Jan 1919
- Digby Avenue of Honour Tree No 58, planted by Miss E WATERS
- Leslie Francis WATERS, b. 1899, Digby, Vic, d. 1976, m. Lilian May LANYON 1902-1965;
- Elizabeth Lily May WATERS, b. 1901, Digby, Vic, d, 1973, m. Duncan McCALLUM 1895-1968;
- Mary Ethel "Mollie" WATERS, b. 1904, Digby, Vic. m. John Stanley O'BRIEN 1899-1977;
- Rose Shand WATERS, b. 1906, Digby, Vic, d. 1981, m. Frantz John "Frank" KOCH 1881-1952;
- Florence Shaw WATERS, b. 1906, Digby, Vic...........?;
- Nora Grace WATERS, b. 1909, Digby, Vic, d. 1997, m. John Vernon SPENCER 1904-1968;
- George Windsor WATERS, b. 1910, Digby, Vic, d. 1954;
- Louise Annie WATERS, b. 1912, Digby, Vic, d......, m. ____ HAYDEN;
- Ruby May WATERS, b. 1917, Digby, Vic.......
- Beryl Grace WATERS, b........., m. _____ STRANGE
- Kate WATERS, b. 1870, Portland, Vic., d. ..?.., m. 1896, Victoria to George CARLSON, b. .... Sweden and they moved to Western Australia;
- Bridget Mary WATERS, b. 1872, Portland, Vic. d. 1952, m. Simon Peter DARCY 1864-1950, b. Hamilton, S-W Vic.;
- Elizabeth WATERS, b. 1873, Portland, S-W Vic., d. 1952, Fremantle, WA, m. 1897, Perth, WA, to George Hills RUNDLE 1872-1937, b. Tasmania, d. WA;
- Margaret Mary WATERS, b. 1875, Portland, S-W Vic, d. 1959, Melbourne, Vic., m. Bruce Hilliard JOHNSTON 1877-1956 b. NSW, d. Kyneton, Victoria and they had the following known family....
- Leo Edward Malachi JOHNSTON b. 1902, Perth, WA, d. 1973, Melbourne, Vic., m. ...?...
- Calvin Martin JOHNSTON b. 1904, Perth, WA, d. 1972, Melbourne, Vic., m. Kathleen O'CONNOR
- Bruce Joseph JOHNSTON b. 1908, Perth, WA, d. 1952, Melbourne, Vic., m. Olive Alice Mary ADAMS
- Elsie Mary "Bonnie" JOHNSTON b. 1911, Melbourne, Vic., d. ...?..., m. David William KETTELS
- Gordon Hope JOHNSTON b. c.1914, ...?... d. 1983, Melbourne, Vic., m. ...?...
- Lanloh Malachi JOHNSTON b. c.1917, ...?... d. 1982, Melbourne, Vic., m. ...?...
- Robert Matthew JOHNSTON b. 1920, ...?... d. 1953, Melbourne, Vic., m. Catherine Phyllis POOLE
- Hanora Vera "Nora" WATERS, b. 1877, Portland, Vic, d. 1918, Subiaco, WA, m. 1907 to Edward MYERS ..?..;
- Thomas WATERS, b. 1879, Portland, Vic, d. 1892, Digby, S-W Vic (accidentally shot himself when rabbitting).