Maria Colletta Elena Birkbeck (b. 6 March 1840 - d. Events 1079 - Omar Khayyám completes the Iranian calendar. 1454 - Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of Year 1840 ( MDCCCXL) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Leap year 19 December 1897), was the first wife of William Knox D'Arcy of Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Events 324 - Licinius abdicates his position as Roman Emperor. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common The entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy ( October 11, 1849 - May 1, 1917) was one of the principal founders of the oil and Petrochemical Rockhampton is a regional city and Local Government Area located in Queensland, Australia.
Elena was born in Mexico in 1840, the only daughter of Samual and Damiana Birkbeck. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. Samual was a mining engineer from Illinois in the United States. The State of Illinois ( roughly ill-i-NOY is a state of the United States of America, the 21st to be admitted to the Union. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the He was descended from the English Birkbecks, a Quaker family with an interest in education (George Birkbeck, founder of the London Mechanics' Institute was a family member). George Birkbeck ( 10 January 1776 &ndash 1 December 1841) was a British doctor, Academic, Philanthropist, an Birkbeck University of London, sometimes referred to by its former (and still legal name Birkbeck College or by the abbreviation BBK, is a constituent college He met his wife, Damiana de Barre Valdez, whilst working in Mexico, managing a silver mine. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America.
In 1861, the Birkbeck's left Mexico and took up the "Glenmore" run at Parkhurst, to the north of Rockhampton. The original homestead of a pastoral run north of Rockhampton, Queensland, now operated as a Tourist attraction. The Birkbecks, of mixed English and Spanish descent and Catholic, were an exotic addition to the frontier township of Rockhampton in the 1860s.
Elena married William Knox D'Arcy (b. The entrepreneur William Knox D'Arcy ( October 11, 1849 - May 1, 1917) was one of the principal founders of the oil and Petrochemical 1849 d. 1917) at St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, Sydney on 23rd October, 1872. D'Arcy was already a successful business man and land speculator, but later became extremely wealthy after 1882 when he became a founding partner in the Mount Morgan Mine syndicate. Mount Morgan is a town located in central Queensland, Australia.
Elena and D'Arcy lived first at Ellen Vanin, in Kingel Street, Wandal, Rockhampton, where they had a family of two sons and three daughters (Frank, Elena, Lionel, Violet and Ethel. In 1889 D'Arcy and Elena moved to England with their family, living at Stanmore Hall and Bylaugh Park and also keeping a house in Grosvenor Square, London. Bylaugh Hall, also known as Bylaugh Park, is a country house situated in the village of Bylaugh in Norfolk, England. Grosvenor Square (pronounced "Grove-ner Square" is a large garden square in the exclusive Mayfair district of London, England.
On her arrival in England, Elena was presented at Court, and the D'Arcys kept up a fast-paced and luxurious lifestyle.
Elena died in England in December, 1897.
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