John Lindsay Robert Guest (born 2 December 1960) is the Leader industry Divisions and Policy with the Victorian Automobile Chamber of Commerce (VACC).
He is the member of the Hallifax family and a 3rd great grandson of Ambrose William Hallifax (1821-1874).
Ambrose was the first of the Hallifax/Waterhouse family to emigrate to Australia in 1847 [1], [2]; and a pioneer in commercial mining in Australia.
Ambrose was Captain of both the Kapunda Copper mine in South Australia and the Coopers Creek copper mine in East Gippsland, Victoria [3].
Ambrose’s grandfather, Robert Hallifax (1752-1838) is known to the College of Arms as the last entry in the Hallifax family pedigree registered on 16th December 1778 (Ms 7D14445) [4].
The first name in the registered pedigree is another Robert Waterhouse (1585-1629) and it was this Robert Waterhouse who was the first to take the surname Hallifax [5].
Robert (Hallifax's) parents are Robert Waterhouse (1544-1592) (Esq of Shibden Hall) (Barrister) and member of the British Parliament; and Jane Waterhouse (1557-1607) [6], (refer: The History of British Parliament, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1558-1603/member/waterhouse-robert-1544-98).
It is Dr J.W. Walker (1931, 403) in his extensive and thorough genealogical study of the united Burgh-Waterton family in which his study was published in the Yorkshire Archaeological Journal (Vol, 30) records that Robert Waterhouse (born 1544) married Jane Waterton on April 11, 1580 at St Michael-le-Belfrey, Our Lady's Church, Wragby, Yorkshire, England [7a], [7b].
Through the union of Robert Waterhouse and Jane Waterton, John’s 11th great grandmother, he is subsequently a direct descendent of Norman de Areci named in the Doomsday Book (1086) [8], [9], [10], (a.k.a, Norman Darcy, Norman de Adreci) [11] .
References:
1. Ambrose William Hallifax, English Selected Births and Christenings, 1538-1975, FHL Film Number 1041155.
2. Australian Death Index, 1787-1985, Registration Number 602.
3. Enever, J., (2008), ‘Not for Want of Trying’ The history of the Coopers Creek Copper Mine, Victoria’ in Journal of Australasian Mining History, Vol. 6, September 2008.
4. Hallifax. J., & Hallifax. R. (1788). Hallifax Family Pedigree, College of Arms, London, 16th December 1778 (Ms 7D14445).
5.Turner (1883), in “Biographia Halifaxiensis: A Biographical and Genealogical History of Halifax Parish (Vol 1), (p275).
6.The History of British Parliament, http://www.histparl.ac.uk/volume/1558-1603/member/waterhouse-robert-1544-98.
7a. Walker, J.W. (Dr) (1931). Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire and the Waterton’s of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, J.W. Walker, O.B.E., F.S.A., reprinted from the Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1931.
7b. Walker, J.W. (Dr) (1931). The Burghs of Cambridgeshire and Yorkshire and the Waterton’s of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. J.W. Walker, OBE, FSA, The Journal of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, 1931.
8. Walker (1931, pp349-350, p417).
9. Burke, J (1847), A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Landed Gentry of Great Britain & Ireland by John Burke, Esq. (author of the Peerage and Baronetage etc.) and John Bernard Burke, Esq. of the Middle Temple, Barrister at Law, Vol. 1 - A-L. published in 1847 (p1531).
10. W.B. Stonehouse, MA. (1831), The History and Topography of the Isle of Axholme, being that part of Lincolnshire, which is West of the Trent, Longman, Rees, Orme (London 1839) p446.
11. Burke J. (1838) Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, Volume 3, p143.