TO ALL MELINDA’s FRIENDS

To all of you who have contributed this year and helped to bring Melinda and NSW in the 19th Century to life, our thanks and best wishes for the Holiday Season and the Coming Year.
CHRISTMAS SONG
Old Christmas has come back once more
To greet us with his smile;
To lift our drooping spirits up,
And cheer us for awhile.

He brings to us good news from heaven,
And gifts from earthly friends;
Then let us take with grateful hearts
Whate’er our Father sends.

And let no bitter feelings mar (sic)
The pleasures of the day;
But let us guard and watch ourselves,
In all we do or say.

Though to some eyes the tear will rise,
While thinking of past days;
Yet God has been so good to us,
We cannot choose but praise.

And some of us will miss the clasp
Of a dear true hand now cold,
And looking backward to the past,
Feel now we’re growing old.

Yet cheer up brothers, sisters, friends,
And let us merry sing;
For why! this is the birthday of
The Christ of God, our King.

(Illawarra Mercury, December 25, 1884)

ELIZA AND MELINDA MCNALLY

One of the beauties of family oral history is the odd comment which colours in the sepia retrospective. I have found that in my BELL SANDERS research and now with Eliza’s descendants, am finding the same thing. Meg passed on to me that her father spoke of his grandmother Ellen,daughter of Eliza, as smoking a clay pipe and of his not being unable to understand her speaking.
Meg also passed on the possibility that Eliza was illiterate since nothing has been sighted with her signature and no letters etc. For PhD purposes, thats of interest because Melinda is educated at least to reading and writing level and in fact becomes a teacher as do two of her daughters, Mary Josephine and Christina Jane Kendall. . Some reports insinuate that Judith McNally was responsible for the educating just as ‘legend’ had it that Patrick was a son of Leonard McNally the Irish lawyer and traitor.
Now, it would seem that Melinda’s might have received her education entirely at the hands of the Hills and/or the Female Orphan School. We will see. Once again acknowledgements with thanks to the family.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION PARRAMATTA CHILDRENS COURT

http://www.caseyandlowe.com.au/pdf/pcc/pccs12.pdf

THE STORY OF THE AUSTRALIAN CHURCH

THE STORY

OF THE

AUSTRALIAN CHURCH

BY EDWARD SYMONDS
THEOLOGICAL ASSOCIATE OF KING’S COLLEGE, L

 

http://anglicanhistory.org/aus/symonds1898/

ABSTRACT

DIOCESE OF GRAFTON AND ARMIDALE

In the first instance the post of pioneer-bishop was offered to the Rev. S. R. Waddelow, but on the advice of a London physician he was reluctantly obliged to decline consecration. The Rev. W. C. Sawyer was selected in his place by the Archbishop of Canterbury, and was consecrated in Canterbury Cathedral on the Feast of the Purification, 1867, together with the good Bishop Milman for Calcutta. The bishop and his party reached Sydney at Christmastide. Leaving his wife at Morpeth, under the hospitable roof of Bishop Tyrrell, he pushed on at once to the scene of his future labours, riding to Armidale and returning to Newcastle by way of his eastern boundary at Grafton. Eight weeks later he took his family by steamer to Grafton, where he settled them in their new home on the banks of the Clarence, on March 13, 1868. On the 13th the bishop drove to evensong, ordering that his boat should take him home. The church was very full, and the service more than usually solemn and impressive. Shortly before ten o’clock, on the return journey, with his second son, two servants, and the two boatmen, the sail was hoisted, when, by some mistake never satisfactorily explained, the boat was capsized by a sudden gust of wind. The bishop, his sleeping boy, and one of the women servants were drowned, the bodies not being recovered for two days. With true Australian sympathy offerings were immediately collected throughout the diocese for the widow and orphan, amounting in a few weeks to £1700. A fatal oversight had been committed by some one in not placing the bishop’s life-belt in the [118/119] boat that night as usual. Bishop Sawyer was never even installed in office.

MUSTERS

WILLIAM M ROBBINS from the SCHOOL OF BUSINESS, CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY has written a fine article: MACQUARIE, MARSDEN and the SUNDAY MUSTER DISPUTE: some thoughts on the role of religion and the management of convict workers.

(MELINDA is recorded as Protestant whilst living with the Hills, the Reverend being Anglican. The McNallys are  Roman Catholic and in 1824 Patrick has Melinda baptised Catholic at St Marys. In later years Melinda takes her own children to St James Anglican for baptism. Her marriage to Basil Kendall takes place in the Presbyterian Church. )

Back to ROBBINS and MUSTERS. www.csu.edu.au/faculty/business/business/staff/docs/bill_robbins.rtf

http://www.aomevents.com/conferences/AIRAANZ/RefereedPapers.pdf#page=469

ABSTRACT:

The role of religion has been recognised as an ingredient in the transformation of preindustrial
worker attitudes and values. While official objectives for transportation of
convicts to New South Wales certainly gave religion an important role, some historians
have been less than convinced of its impact in reality. This paper will examine +the role
of religion in transforming convict worker attitudes by examining a dispute between
Governor Macquarie and the Reverend Samuel Marsden over their attitudes toward a
Government Order requiring convicts to be mustered on Sunday mornings. The Governor
argued access to worship would improve convict morals while Marsden, the Chief
Chaplain of the colony, argued these musters only increased convict lawlessness and
decreased employer control over their convict labour. In analysing these opinions, the
paper concludes that religious motives were only a minor consideration and that at the
heart of the dispute was a conflict over the power of capital and labour in the colony.

The Reverend Henry Fulton claimed the
Order had kept the convicts ‘from thieving, drinking and lewdness’ while James Mileham
asserted that the Order had reclaimed Sunday from the convicts who had before its effect
‘spent it in Idleness and Debauchery’ (HRA I Vol. IX. Macquarie to Bathurst, 4 December
1817, Enclosures No. 8 & 12: 522 & 529).

    1802

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SITES OF INTEREST

• Tradition and Change: Australian churches and the future Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney

• ‘The most outrageous conduct’ Convict rebellions in colonial Australia

By Tom O’LINCOLN




Religion sometimes restrained the Irish. Because of hostility to the Roman church, the authorities very seldom allowed Catholic priests to hold mass before 1820, but after that they relented, knowing that the priests would counsel submission to the system. However even among the Irish, probably only a minority heeded such counsel. Other clergy had very little effect. A chaplain named Hasell preached at Castle Hill on the very day of a famous rebellion; he might have saved his breath. A lot of non-Catholic convicts were hostile to religion because, from the ‘flogging parson’ Samuel Marsden onwards, they were part of a repressive apparatus, often serving as magistrates and ordering the lash. As the popular demagogue J.D. Lang joked, in some countries the clergy might ‘take the fleece’ but New South Wales was the only place they were ‘openly authorised … to take the hide also, or to flay their flock alive.’ (Quoted in Buckley and Wheelwright: 58).

 

• HASSALL FAMILY SITE     http://www.hassall.org/

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MORE SITES TO SEE RE MUSTERS. MUSTERS WERE A FREQUENT EVENT AS THE MEANS OF TALLYING SUCH THINGS AS SETTLERS IN AN AREA, CONVICTS ARRIVING ON SHIPE ETC BUT THE SUNDAY RELIGIOUS MUSTER HAS OTHER ELEMENTS. BELOW ARE SOME ITEMS RE GENERAL MUSTERS.

• Archives in Brief 2 – Convict records
• SAG Basics on convicts to NSW
• NSW – Wives & Children of Irish Convicts: musters & other papers for NSW 1825-1840

Published by the Central Coast Family History Society in 200?, this CD contains an incomplete index to the wives of convicts, and female convicts with accompanying children, mentioned in the NSW Musters and Other Papers 1825 – 1840 held at NSW State Records ( 2/8241 to 2/8282 & reels 2417 to 2428).

• Irish Women in Colonial Australia

By Trevor McClaughlin

• This list of censuses and musters was prepared by Graham Lewis and is posted in

          CONVICTS TO AUSTRALIA

• LACHLAN AND ELIZABETH MACQUARIE (LEMA)

Monday 21. Octr. !
I left Parramatta early this morning accompanied by Mrs. Macquarie and Son in the Carriage, and arrived at Sydney at 8,O’Clock; having come down for the purpose of taking the General Annual muster at Sydney and remaining here till completed. —

 

• ROBERT CARTWIGHT 

 

• Accounting concepts in the construction of
  social status and privilege: a microhistorical
  study of an early Australian convict
  J. Bisman

 

• PENTRICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY. JOHN ONIONS

        http://www.pentrich.org.uk/index.html

JOHN ONIONS (1768-1840)

According to his indent papers, filled out at the time of his transportation, John ONIONS was born in Shropshire around 1768. He was probably a cousin of the ONIONS family who were Iron masters living in Madeley. If John hails from Madeley, he may well have heard thepreacher John WESLEY who often visited his friend John FLETCHER of Madeley and preached in the old church at Madeley Wood. When John was aged about 20 years, he became an Evangelical Christian and became interested in the singing of Sacred Music. WESLEY advised his followers…

… ‘to sing lustily and with good courage, be no more afraid of your voice now, than when you sang the songs of Satan’.

AND THE STORY OF THE PENTRICH REBELLION

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FOR NEWS REPORTS OF MUSTERS

http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/

• http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2449887

  Colonial Times and Tasmanian Advertiser  Friday 6 April 1827

• The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 6 January 1827, page 2, 3 SAYS

  http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187291

• THE COLONIAL ALMANACK.-The veracity of the Chronological Information in
  this little work being called in question, by

 

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MISCELLANY

• ERICA AND TOM’S PLACE http://www.geocities.com/erica_and_tom/

 

• SYKES FAMILY http://www.sykesfamily.com.au/sarah.htm

 

• The Irish In The New Colony
  James Doyle (1765 – 1836)
  Andrew Doyle (1774 – 1841)
  James Augustine Cunneen (1826 – 1889)
  Richard Fitzgerald (1771 – 1840)
  Patrick Hand (c.1777 – 1827)
  James Dunn (? – 1837)
  Michael Lamb (c.1774 – 1860)
  Dennis McCarty (c.1768 – ? )
  Patrick Partland (c.1772-?)  FROM ST MATTHEWS CATHOLIC CHURCH PARRAMATTA

 

• EUREKA COUNCIL To promote interest in Australian History and the preservation of Australia’s Heritage http://www.eurekacouncil.com.au/

 

• ORPHANS SCHOOLS http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/2474/8/08BubaczThesisConclusion.pdf

Our understanding about the social conditions and family circumstances of the
children who were admitted to the Orphan Schools has been enriched by this research.
It has provided us with an appreciation of the social and financial problems
experienced by many families, and which impinged on the lives of their children.

 

MELINDA AND THE HILLS

NOTE: THESIS MATERIAL IN THIS SITE IS TO BE TREATED AS AT DRAFT LEVEL ONLY.
We now have contact with three direct McNally descendants which I was beginning to despair of. Meg has sent details of a letter written by our Rev Richard Hill. He was writing to the Colonial Secretary of the time – Mr Mcleay. 11 January 1827. The details are with State Records and abstracted from that are these few snippets. (We know Patrick was in trouble with the law in 1822 app over the pig stealing and fence erection out at Castlereagh). In this letter of 1827, Patrick had been ordered to Prisoners’ Barracks for not attending Sunday Muster. (There are some good references to the relevance of Sunday Musters on the Net). Rev Hill had written a petition on behalf of Judith for Patrick to be returned to his family. On the 11th January 1827, Rev Hill, amongst other details, states to the Superintendent of Convicts that he has “has always considered her ( Judith) a very striving and deserving woman.”
He also speaks of knowing her for several years and that his wife Mrs Hill was bringing up one of the McNally girls. (It is Melinda also known as Matilda who is recorded as resident with the Hills in musters and censuses of the 1820s.)
This is another solid addition to the profiles we are building up.
Acknowledged with Thanks.
Why was it Melinda who was being ‘ brought up by’ the Hills?
She is the only child within the age range of the Female Orphan School on whose board both Hills held senior positions. Did she have a particular gift or liability?

CANADA – 1812 WAR – MORE RESOURCES

 

 

Sketches illustrating the early settlement and history of Glengarry in Canada : relating principally to the revolutionary war of 1775-83, the war of 1812-14 and the rebellion of 1837-8, and the services of the King’s Royal regiment of New York, the 84th or Royal Highland regiment, the Glengarry light infantry regiment, and the Glengarry militia (1893) Macdonell, J. A. (John Alexander), 1851-1930
The annals of the war : illustrated by a selection of historical ballads (1913?) Harper, J. M. (John Murdoch), 1845-1919
History of the American troops, during the late war, under the command of Colonels Fenton and Campbell, giving an account of the crossing of the Lake from Erie to Long Point; also, the crossing of Niagara by the troops under Gen’ls Gaines, Brown, Scott and Porter. The taking of Fort Erie, the battle of Chippewa, the imprisonment of Col. Bull, Major Galloway, and the author (then a captain) and their treatment; together with an historical account of the Canadas (1830)  White, Samuel AMERICAN VIEW
Ten years of Upper Canada in peace and war, 1805-1815 : being the Ridout letters with annotations (1890) Ridout, Thomas, 1754-1829 ; Edgar, Matilda Ridout, Lady, 1844-1910	JAMES HANNAY How Canada was Held for the Empire: The Story of the War of 1812
A beautiful rebel : a romance of Upper Canada in eighteen hundred and twelve (1909) Campbell, Wilfred, 1858?-1918 http://www.archive.org/details/beautifulrebelro00campuoft

BRITISH MILITARY – DESERTION and OTHER ODDMENTS

Back to the 1812 War and Canada. From the INTERNET ARCHIVE, some more books and notes including articles referring to DESERTERS in the Military. Patrick McNally was absent from his Regiment from 1810-1812 and his court martial resulted in his transportation to New South Wales. To place him in the context of the times and places, here are some other desertions and their consequences.

Officers of the British forces in Canada during the war of 1812-15 (1908)

Irving, L. Homfray; Canadian Military Institute

PATRICK MCNALLY  was a soldier of the 100 Regiment in Canada at the time of his Court Martial.

http://www.archive.org/details/officersofbritis00irvi 

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FROM THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY APRIL 13 1812. GLASGOW.

+1809$&inPS=true&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&scale=0.33&enlarge=&nav=next&docPage=article">PETER NEISH 

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THE HULL PACKET AND ORIGINAL WEEKLY. 1809 JULY 18

MAYBE NOT OUR ALBERT

WELL. following incoming information which indicates ALBERT WHITEHOUSE, partner of ELIZA MCNALLY and father of ELIZABETH EMELIA(known as EMMA and referred to as AMELIA in her obituary) died as a convict in Port Macquarie in 182 or 1833. Nice Conspiracy theory I had there for Basil Kendall and Albert but perhaps not true.

Good One Lynne ! An hour in the stocks for that one.

 

ALBERT WHITEHOUSE

As we know, BASIL KENDALL, husband of MELINDA, was brought before the courts over a series of forgeries and other activities of that nature. First records we have found are 1837 and the last was 1847. To date, we haven’t identified the consequences of his trials. In 1848, he was sentenced to 2 years in Parramatta Gaol but as to whether that was served, we haven’t found the records. He was however on the Clarence River very shortly after his trial, dying there in 1852.

In the Gazettes of1837 ( a full decade earlier) Basil is mentioned a number of times in connection with crimes in collaboration with a young Mr Berry against BARKER’s Mill. Following this period, Basil is relocated in ULLADULLLA with his Melinda and the twins, Basil E and Henry, are born at Kirmington in 1839.

I mention this in connection with Albert Whitehouse – musings (as Louise calls them) entirely. Said Albert is accused of forgery in Pitt-street in 1833. In 1835, Basil and Melinda marry in Sydney so they are contemporaneous. If this ALBERT is indeed the partner of ELIZA ( Melinda’s older sister),there could well be a connection between Basil and Albert. I am suggesting that due to the common nature of the crimes, places of residence and McNally relationships.

Albert and one other of the accused in his case managed to evade conviction due to lack of evidence but the Judge recommended that they be sent away – ‘ removed to a distant part of the colony where they could not exercise that ingenuity for which it appears they had been transported to this colony and beyond the reach of temptation.’ 

In the unlikely event that this Albert is not the one connected to Eliza McNally,nevertheless the recommendation of the Judge reinforces the idea that Basil might well have escaped prison but been sent to a place where he might escape temptation.

• in the 1830s south to the remote ULLADULLA with his older brother and family.
• in the 1840s to the Land beyond the Boundaries of the CLARENCE RIVER. n.b. Hindmarshes were also on Clarence at that time.

The SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NSW ADVERTISER of SATURDAY JUNE 29 1833.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2212662

The accused in 1833 are ALBERT WHITEHOUSE,THOMAS BUCKLER and ROBERT LORMER.  They were concerned in FABRICATING and UTTERING forgeries on the BANK OF NSW. The notes had been made on a lithographic press.