Lebbeus Hordern
1865 - 1931 (66 years)
Has 42 ancestors and 5 descendants in our family tree.
1853 - 1934 (81 years)-
Name Lebbeus Hordern Born 1865 Victoria, Australia 
Gender Male Occupation Real Estate Agent and Auctioneer Died 1931 Siblings 4 siblings 1. Cicelia Hordern
b. 1853, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
d. 1934 (Age 81 years)2. Ann Hordern
b. 1856, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England
d. 1944 (Age 88 years)3. William Hordern
b. 1862, Victoria, Australia
d. 1911 (Age 49 years)4. Arthur Hordern
b. 1873, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
d. 1955 (Age 82 years)Person ID I14774 Mitchell Families Last Modified 1 Oct 2010
Father 
William Hordern (ID:I2411)
b. 15 Nov 1831, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
d. 8 Oct 1881, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia (Age 49 years) Mother Cecilia Monger (ID:I2379)
b. 14 Dec 1834, Nailsworth, Gloucestershire, England
d. 8 Dec 1914, Auburn, Victoria, Australia (Age 79 years) Married 21 Dec 1852 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia [1] Address:
St Paul's CathedralPhotos 
'Stramshall', 173 Auburn Road, Hawthorn, VIC
This is the home that was built for William Hordern and Cecilia Monger by her father, William Monger. The Horderns lived there until 1917. On the left is the house shortly after it was built and on the right, the house as it appeared when it was auctioned around 1964.
The auctioneers listing says this about the house:
"Constructed for William Hordern esq. at the beginning of the land boom of the 1880's, "Stramshall" is a spendid example of the Italianate form of architecture so popular in the late-victorian era.
During the decade, many of Melbourne's most imposing residences were built, generally occupying the choice hilltop locations in the burgeoning suburbs of the fledgling metropolis.
Remaining in the original owner's family until 1917, "Stramshall" was subsequently converted to flats and remained as such until 1965 when it was purchased by the present owners. Carefully restored to highlight its abundant architectural and decorative features and subtly upgraded to incorporate modern facilities, it has provided comfortable and charming accommodation for a large family for almost thirty years.
Of triple brick construction, set on massive bluestone foundations and roofed in Welsh slate, Stramshall is a stately and substantial residence of some 490 sq metres or approximately 53 squares, having twelve principal rooms of mansion proportions.
On the ground floor a spectacular tessellated entrance foyer and stair hall open to three grand reception rooms and the current owners' master bedroom, which could be utilised as a fourth living area if desired. There is a well equipped Brazillian black bean kitchen, a cosy study with access to the walk-down wine cellar and a luxuriously appointed bathroom. The first floor comprises four enormous bedrooms, two complete bathrooms and a further two double bedrooms and kitchenette, the latter being readily adaptable to a self-contained granny flat if required. A wide return verandah on the ground floor and corresponding balcony on the first floor are both trimmed in elaborate cast iron filigree.
No fewer than eight marble fireplaces including two exquisite rouge marble examples grace the main rooms and original plaster work and detailed joinery are retained in beautifully preserved condition."Family ID F633 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Louisa Dewson Smith (ID:I14787)
d. 1951Married 1887 Age at Marriage He was 22 years - She was ?? Children 1. Mabel Louise Hordern (ID:I14788)
b. 1888
d. 1965 (Age 77 years)
2. Doris Amelia Hordern (ID:I14789)
b. 18 Sep 1889, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
d. 12 Dec 1970, Coburg, Victoria, Australia (Age 81 years)3. Marjorie Cecilia Hordern (ID:I14790)
b. 1891
d. 1980 (Age 89 years)4. Gwyneth Marjory "Molly" Hordern (ID:I14791)
b. 1894
d. 1931 (Age 37 years)5. Bruce Lebbeus Doughty Hordern (ID:I14792)
b. 1908
d. 1979 (Age 71 years)Photos 
'Pontefract': Home of Lebbeus Hordern, Melbourne. (c.1891)
'Pontefract', on the corner of Hardwicke Street and Whitehorse Road, was designed for Lebbeus Hordern by the architect, Mr H. J. Prockter. The 11 roomed house was designed with Marseilles pattern roofing tiles, large verandahs, and gables with Tudor detailing which were associated with the Queen Anne style of British housing.
'Pontefract' was built c.1891 on the western side of an allotment of land which comprised nine suburban plots. Sited on the brow of a hill it had superb views west across the Deepdene dip to Burke Road, north to the Great Dividing Range and east to the Dandenongs. Together with the Reid house Belmont, which was diagonally opposite on Whitehorse Road, Pontefract would have been a significant landmark for anyone travelling from Kew to Balwyn and beyond.
Between the house and Percy Street were paddocks where the Hordern's horses and cow grazed. The coach house and stables, with driver's quarters above, were located north of the house.
Louisa Hamilton, granddaughter of Lebbeus and Louisa Hordern, remembers her visits to Pontefract which she recalls as being light and airy - not at all like those Victorian houses with their dark and heavy furniture. Lebbeus and Louisa purchased much of the house furnishings when on an extended overseas trip in 1887. Louisa also remembers the large conservatory on the northern side of the house, her grandfather's photographic dark room beneath the dining room, and playing hide-and-seek in the extensive cellars under the house.Last Modified 1 Oct 2010 Family ID F3711 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Born - 1865 - Victoria, Australia 
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HORDERN, Lebbeus (1865-1931)
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Sources - [S3118] Monger's of Oz, Yvonne Edward (Reliability: 2), 14 Feb 2007.
- [S3118] Monger's of Oz, Yvonne Edward (Reliability: 2), 14 Feb 2007.