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JONES.— On the 8th August, at his brother's residence*, Summerville, after a lingering illness, borne with Christian patience. Walter Edwin Jones, late of Dargo High Plains, in his 55th year. Deeply regretted. (P.1, The Age, 16-8-1881.)

Alfred's residence would have been the 500 acre property near the north end of the parish of Tyabb which he called Almond Bush Stud. See its location on the parish map.
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232068718/view

By the start of 1883, Alf seems to have decided to retire from farming and to lease or sell his property on which Nurse Sage* spent her childhood days (source of this fact over 10 years ago was a descendant of pioneers whose identity I don't recall, but probably the late Leila Shaw.)
https://www.mpnews.com.au/.../the-unveiling-of-annie-sage/
https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/sage-annie-moriah-11601
From my PIONEERS OF SOMERVILLE journal.

By 1921, J.E.Sage was on Alfred Jones' Almond Bush Stud, carrying on the horse breeding tradition.

To Stand this season at Somerville At "Almond Bush" Travel if Required. The Champion Pony Stallion MALDON BEAUTIFUL Dappl.rt " foaled 1910, with good, clean, flat bone and plenty of muscle, style and action and stands about 18.2 hands high. Maldon is by Boy out of Fannie. Roy is by Fauntleroy. Maldon's dam, Fannie, is by Silver Prince, grand sire Silver King (imp). Maldon gained the Society's Champion Ribbon at Frankston in 1914, and in 1919 at Royal Show, Melbourne, First in Class as Sire of Harness Ponies, and Champion for Best Pony. TERMS...... For further particulars apply to J. E. SAGE*, Somerville. Also at Stud the Pure Bred Berkshire Boar bred by Dookie College ...... FeI lOs Shorthorn Bull At Stud .... Fee 10l.
(P.1s,Frankston and Somerville Standard, 4-11-1921.)
*John Edward Sage, son of Edward Arthur Sage and May Ann, nee Murray, born in 1882, was Nurse Sage's much older brother.


WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21
At Twelve O'clock.
SOMERVILLE
Six Miles from Frankston
THE ALMOND BUSH STUD
GA. BYRNE has received instructions from Alfred Jones, Esq., to SELL by PUBLIC AUCTION, at his residence, as above,
The whole of the Almond Bush Stud,
Consisting of 60 useful well-bred carriage and light harness horses ; about 30 unbroken, three and four years old, by L. L. and Moonbeam ; also 50 fat crossbred sheep and a pure bred bull. Luncheon provided.
Terms Cash.
G. A. Byrne Main Street, Mornington.
N.B. Train leaves Prince's Bridge for Frankston 7.30 a.m.
(P.3, Argus, 23-1-1883.)

JONES Walt Edwd (sic) Death
mother: Sarah COOPER father: Thos
(place of birth probably London)
place of death registration SNAPPER PT
spouse at death: RUDDELL, Jane
55 1881 8917/1881

EMAIL FROM LANCE HODGINS.
In response to your email concerning James Hodgins:
The James you refer to is my great grandfather, who came out to Australia with a cousin William. After a quick and fairly nonproductive visit to the goldfields, they teamed up with two sets of brothers - the Jones and McKerlie boys - to cut she-oak at Mt Eliza for shipment to Melbourne. Jones had been cutting on Davey's land, and by the time they joined forces they were cutting on JT Smith's property further around the coast - which subsequently was called "Canadian Bay".
The two Jones boys were British-born but had migrated to (Upper) Canada, from whence they came to Australia on the Scargo in 1853, along with the McKerlies.

The Jones boys stayed on in the Mornington/Somerville area - Alfred for much longer than his brother Walter (another story). From his property Alfred became a butcher and led a significant public life - witness Jones Road in Somerville. Walter became a grazier in the Dargo area.

JONES Alfd Death
mother: Unknown nee UNKNOWN father: Unknown
place of birth: London* death: Frankston, 84, 1906, 1617/1906
* As stated in his 1888 biography in Victoria and its Metropolis ; Past and Present, P 395.Summary.
Born in London,Alf went to Canada with his parents at the age of 12 in 1832. Arriving in Victoria in March 1853 he went to Bendigo with a party of 5 and found 15 ounces of gold in 5 weeks. He had no luck at McIvor's Diggings (Heathcote) and moving to FRANKSTON (Parish of!), supplied the town of Melbourne and the troop(er)s with firewood at three pounds ten shillings per load. After two years, competition had lowered profits so he rented Baxter's Flat for 5 years and in 1860 purchased 500 acres at Somerville, then called Tyabb (Parish of!).

Alfred's death record has no detail about his parents and having read Lance Hodgin's information above, I wondered if Walter's death record would supply the missing details, which it did.


Walter married Jane in 1873.
JONES Walter Edwin Marriage RUDDELL, Jane 1873 3870/1873

This is almost certainly Jane's death record and the name of the house at Hawthorn* where she died was probably Tuerong.
JONES Jane Death
mother: Isabella nee HALL father: Ruddell Ralph
place of death: Hawth, 59, 1890, 12112/1890
*https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/203712063
Auburn became Hawthorn East.

JONES—RUDDELL.—On the 26th inst., at Trinity Church, East Melbourne, by the Rev. H. N. Wollaston, Walter Edwin Jones, Esq., of High Plains station, North Gipps Land, to Jane, eldest daughter of Ralph Ruddell, Esq., late of Teurong, Mornington.
(P.1, Argus, 28-11-1873.)

Tuerong was occupied by George Bolton Eagle in 1843, and by William Dawson in 1845. Dawson transferred to John McKenzie and Joseph Hall* in July, 1849. Ralph Ruddell acquired the licence in 1852, and Vaughan and Wild ultimately in 1860.
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/140835733

*Ralph Ruddell's wife Elizabeth was a daughter of Joseph Hall.

Tuerong was the name of a run which extended south from the line of Tuerong Rd to the Westernport shore and adjoined the eastern boundary of Jamieson's Social Survey. There was one more transfer of the occupation licence before it was cancelled, back to Ralph Ruddell who purchased the Tuerong pre-emptive right. Joseph McIlroy often wrote about Riddells Plain, not realising that the man after whom the area was named was Ralph Ruddell. Ralph lost Tuerong Station due to insolvency in about 1863 and the Wilsons (descended from Bonnie William of Dundee) took over the property for some time.

See the Tuerong pre-emptive right on the Moorooduc parish map.
https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-232502739/view

Ralph's son, T.J.Ruddell, who married in 1877, obviously had fond memories of Tuerong as he named his houses in Oxley St Hawthorn and Cowper St Auburn (East Hawthorn) after the property.

On 2-7-1860, Jane's younger sister Margaret married John McMahon, second son of James McMahon, Esq., Long Beach Station, on the site of today's Riviera Hotel. Why was it then that her eldest sister did not marry until 1873? In 1855 Jane would have been about 14 year old and Walter Edwin Jones almost 30 years old. If she had seen the Canadian woodcutter and his brother Alfred at that time, its not too hard to imagine Jane developing a crush on the much older Walter.*