MARK GREGORY AND THE UNION SONGS

http://unionsong.com/

I found MARK GREGORY’s UNION SONGS a good while back and with my Belmore Railway and carpentry background I identified strongly and quickly. Mark has now contacted us and added a new dimension to Melinda’s work with specific focus on her working class fire and passion.

This is what Mark says as he opens his site:

More than 640 songs and poems, over 260 Authors

Call them rebel songs, slave songs, songs of freedom, work songs, songs of dissent, songs of struggle, protest songs, liberation songs, labour songs, labor songs, workers songs, industrial folk songs, environmental songs, songs of equality, peace songs.

For over two centuries working people across the world have built trade unions. This site documents the songs and poems that they made in the process, union songs. It includes songs and poems that are being written today, as the process of union building continues all around the world.
Such songs are the work of famous poets as well as men and women whose names have been forgotten. They stretch back to ancient times and are being created today.

‘Songs are very strange. Why is a song like Pound A Week Rise – rescued from my personal “scrapheap”, because it was about a miners’ wage claim in 1962 and I did not think it relevant in the 70s, by Dick Gaughan in about 1975 – still recorded by Americans, Australians etc – I always say there is no such thing as an old song because it is new to someone if they have not heard it before.’
Ed Pickford

http://unionsong.com/

ELIZA MCNALLY

In the last month, 2 descendants of ELIZA have contacted us. Louise, who is related through EMELIA BOLLARD has forwarded this baptismal certificate and has give me permission to place her musings on the site. She is happy that it might help someone else researching as we are.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WITH THANKS.

FROM LOUISE

Bollard Family

Thomas Bollard (sometimes spelt Ballard) lived at Hardwick Yass in 1850 when he married Emma Whitehouse who also lived at Hardwick. Hardwick was one of three early historic properties established in the early 1800’s, Cooma Cottage, Douro and Hardwicke, by Henry and Cornelius O’Brien.

Henry O’Brien had Hardwick between 1837 and 1852 and during that time helped to save the Australian wool industry from bankruptcy. English demand for wool had dropped so prices plummeted, Henry developed melt down works on Hardwick designed to boil down sheep for tallow, which was sold to England and use for making gunpowder. It is believed that Hardwick is the original route that Hume and Hovell took through that area.

Emma and Thomas both appeared to be working there at the time of their marriage in 1850.

They were married in the Presbyterian Church.

Ellen…1851, John…1854, Thomas …1856, Mary…1859, William…1862, James (Joseph James)…1869, Patrick…1873, 2 other males.

Not much known about Thomas except he was born in Ireland and was about 55 in 1862 when William was born. He went to the Araluen goldfields early in their marriage. After which he worked as a manager of Middlingbank Station near Cooma. After this they moved to Molonglo Station where Thomas worked. It was during this time that the family encountered the Clarke Brothers Bushranger gang, Emma several times by herself with the children.

Their son Jack (probably John)  was speared and boomeranged at Coopers Creek, when he was about 24. He went to Northern Queensland as a stockman and the family were never able to discover what had happened to him, but presumed he had been killed by aborigines.

Emma was 30 when William Albert was born in 1862. At the time of her death on the 31^st July 1912, she was living with her son James, at 61 Buckland St Chippendale Sydney.

James indicated that her parents names were James Whitehouse and Bridget McNally, but on tracing records it seems feasible that he didn’t know their Christian names , or there was a mix-up on the form , as his name was James and his wife’s was Bridget. It appears more than likely that Emma (he spelt it Amelia) was actually Elizabeth Emelia Whitehouse born at The Sand Hills (later Surrey Hills) in Sydney and baptised on 25^th July 1833 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.

Her parents were recorded as Albert Whitehouse (printer) and Elizabeth McNally.

Emma is easily adapted from Emelia.

Family vocal history has always indicated that there was a connection with Henry Kendall, it is most likely that Emma’s mother , Elizabeth was a sister of Melinda McNally who married Basil Kendall and subsequently had a son Henry Kendall, the poet. This made Emma his first cousin.

There was no ‘Bridget’ McNally in that family and all other sisters have been accounted for, so this adds weight to the family vocal history and the evidence pointing to Emma’s parents being Albert and Elizabeth (known as Eliza). The ship she came to Australia with the Mcnally Family in 1814 was the Broxbornebury, but on the Baptism cert for Emma it says ship’ 5 Islands’, this is a mystery, but no record of a ship of that name appears to have existed. It could have been the journey they came on as the Broxenbornbury did pass islands and pick up some stranded people, and it is not unlikely that a child of ten would mix up the name of a ship later on. Her parents were Patrick McNally and Judith Kilfroy McDermott, he was convicted for desertion from the 100^thregiment whilst serving in Canada and sent out for life.

Albert was a convict, convicted and sentenced for life at Worcester on the 8/3/1828 and sent on the ship Eliza. Records in the Sydney gazette of mid 1833 show an Albert Whitehouse, printer up on charges of forgery. He got off, due to lack of evidence, but others where charged, at the time he worked for a lithographer ( Henry Allen) in Pitt St as a printer. He was described as an artist on Emma’s death certificate, and a printer on her baptism certificate.

A comment was made in the court of being sent out for inappropriate use of printing skills.

Records show that an Albert Whitehouse died in 1833, it hasn’t been confirmed that that was him, but it seems a strange coincidence that Emma was baptised in July 1833 after having been born in 1831. Maybe he died and Elizabeth then baptised her a catholic. There is no record of any other children born to them.

There is a record of an Elizabeth Whitehouse death in 1857 at age 68 in Sydney, and also an Elizabeth Whitehouse appears on the 1841 census living at Surrey hills. Not yet proven that this was Emma’s mother but, Emma was born at the Sand Hills which later became part of Surrey Hills. To date no marriage record for Albert and Elizabeth has been found.

Another coincidence is that Emma and Thomas’s son James was also involved in the printing business, being a compositor. Moya Britten (William Bollard’s granddaughter, James’s grand niece) remembers James coming to visit her grandparents, at the Captains Flat Store, with all his newspaper friends.  William would take them to the river on fishing trips, leaving Bedelia to mind the store.  She also has vivid memories of visiting James when she was a child when they lived in Stanmore, after they moved from Chippendale. She can recall the smell of gas from cooking and perhaps lights etc of that area. She was terrified of a lady in the street who would go out into her front yard in her night dress.

James served in the 1^st Pioneer Battalion, 5^th Reinforcement, from Oct 1915 to July 1917 at the Western Front from August 1916 to July 1917.

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MENTION OF THE TERM 5 ISLANDS

http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWWollongong.shtml

 

The Five Islands was the name given to the Illawarra region by the explorers of the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.The earliest reference to this has been traced to Bass (of Bass and Flinders fame) Journal in the Whaleboat.

THE CLARENCE RIVER IN 1848

BASIL KENDALL was in SYDNEY early in 1848 when he received the 2 year sentence to PARRAMATTA GAOL. AT THIS stage he would appear that he did not serve that time in Parramatta and appears to have gone North with his family to Dr Dobie at Gordonbrook. Here are some more background images of the area to which they removed from Sydney.

READ ON:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article3715576

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article713702

The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 15 January 1848, page 2. News

THE CLARENCE RIVER.- The Phoenix had an unusually long passage, owing to boisterous weather, on her downward trip here. Since my last letter we have had a good deal of rain, sufficient to produce a fresh in the river, and from which Mr. Crabbe, an innkeeper at the Falls, about twenty miles above our proposed township, unfortunately lost his life; a small boat in which he was accidentally upsetting, and before he could be rescued, the force of the torrent bore him away. Mr. Crabbe was very greatly respected, and has left a wife and several small children to deplore their loss. Trade, owing to the wool season, is ex- cessively brisk. The country, from the late visitation of rain, now looks beautiful. There is wool enough already at Phillips’ and the other stores to give two cargoes, in addition to the one she now conveys, to the steamer, and teams are daily coming down. __________________________________ http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article713428 The Maitland Mercury… Wednesday 2 February 1848, page 3. 29.-Phoenix, steamer, 108 tons, Captain Wiseman, from the Clarence River the 26th instant. Passengers-Mr. Hunter, Mr. Plo- mer, Mr. Hayley, ten in the steerage, one constable, and four prisoners. The Phoenix was detained at the Clarence seven days, owing to the fresh in the river, consequent upon a continuation of heavy rains. Her cargo comprises 160 bales wool.

A very extraordinary occurrence, and in which equally extraordinary presence of mind was displayed, on a snake visit, happened a few days since. A gentleman of the name of Gannon, staying at Phillips’ stores, being alarmed by a noise outside, about 2 P.M. on the 24th ultimo, rose from his bed for the purpose of going out and discovering the cause. Whilst in the act of unfastening the door, by removing a heavy wooden bar, a large snake, of the carpet species, six feet five inches, as described per measurement after death, fell bodily on Mr. G.’s left shoulder, and then slowly spread itself along the arm. Assistance was called for, but which was however some time in arriving, and during the arrival of which Mr. G. managed to keep as unnerved as possible, at all events suffi- ciently so to contrive to open the door and get outside, but during the time of this pro- cedure, the snake had coiled itself round Mr. G.’s body, the tail was around the wrist, the body part in a double fold on the bend of the arm, and the head over the left shoulder, spreading across the back, and crossing over the right shoulder, its neck and head up to the chin and lips, across which Mr. G. states be distinctly felt the reptile twice or thrice pass its head. A stick could not be found, but Mr. G., after getting hold of an axe, con- trived sufficiently to remove the coils of the upper portion of the reptile so as to attack it when it was in such a position as prevented its injuring him, and on which it wholly un- coiled itself and made off; but so great was Mr. G.’s trepidation incident on his escape, that the snake got away some five or six yards from him : he however then rallied, overtook, and finally killed it. On examining it, it was found to be a female, and on opening it two young ones were found inside its body. -Extract from Letter.-S. M. Herald,

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article713447 The Maitland Mercury… Wednesday 2 February 1848, page 3. CLARENCE RIVER. , (From the S. M. Herald, January 31.) Committal for Poisoning Blacks.-The Phoenix, which arrived on Saturday morning, brings intelligence of one of the most extensive squatters in the district, Mr. Coutts, being committed for the poisoning of several of the aborigines. The following particulars of the case are gained from a letter dated 18th instant. In the year 1840 Mr. Thomas Coutts located on this river, at Kangaroo Creek, about thirty miles inland, and at that time his cattle numbered between eight und nine hundred, his sheep upwards of five thousand ; but owing to the repeated depredations of the blacks, he can now only number half his quantity of sheep und cattle. There has, moreover, been two of his men murdered by the blacks, as was also a fine intelligent boy, who was most barbarously so, no later than twelve months since; protection was applied for in the proper quarter, but none was rendered. Owing to the above occurrence, which of course spread like lightning, it was with much difficulty Mr. Coutts could get men to hire with him, and then only at a very advanced rate of wages. About a fortnight since a great sensation was created at the township, and indeed along the river, in consequence of a report having been circulated that Mr. Coutts had poisoned some of the aborigines, and that some of their sable brethren had gone to the Commissioner of Crown Lands to report the case. The excitement was heightened when, some few days afterwards, it was observed that the commissioner, two policemen, and the chief constable, accompanied by a servant of Mr. Coutts-then, by the way, in custody on a warrant-proceeded in the direction of Mr. Coutts’s station. Curiosity was on the qui vive for two days after, until it was learned from a black boy attached to the commissioner that his master was returning, and that the objects of the expedition were then discovered. The commissioner and party had proceeded to a black camp for information, and they there found, and took away from thence, a piece of damper, which the blacks there encamped said was the remainder of one that had caused the death of several, and seven bodies were pointed out which were said to have died from partaking of the damper, and four of these bodies were found to be dead at a waterhole. The commissioner’s party then proceeded to Mr. Coutts’s, and took that gentleman in custody, on a warrant, issued on the affidavit of his servant, then in custody for horse stealing, and which averred that Mr. Coutts had twelve months previously shot an aboriginal, but the circumstances already detailed were, at this time, kept from Mr. Coutts’s knowledge, and in fact he did not know a single iota about them until he arrived at the court-house in the township. On the case, in due course, coming on for hearing, the commissioner stated that from information he had received, he went to the black camp, found the bodies and damper, and subsequently proceeded to Mr. Coutts’s station, and ordered him to be apprehended ; two of Mr. Coutts’s servants were examined, but only proved that they had heard from the blacks that Mr. C. had given them some flour which produced the effect alluded to, and another witness stated that he had seen Mr. C. give the blacks a bag, which he supposed to contain flour, and at which time Mr. C. had a paper in his band, which he also supposed contained poison. The bench, in committing, allowed bail Mr. Coutts in £1000, and two sureties in £500 each ; but no sureties sufficient to satisfy the magistrates being tendered, Mr. Coutts was forwarded to Sydney by the last steamer.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article713394 Feb. 2. THE ALLEGED MURDER OP THE ABORIGINES AT CLARENCE RIVER.- On Monday last, Mr. Thomas Coutts, who was committed by the bench of magistrates at Grafton, Clarence River, on an alleged charge of poi- soning certain aborignal natives at KangarooHelp Creek, in the above district, was brought before Mr. Justice Manning in chambers, by a writ of habeas corpus, and upon the motion of Mr. Nichols was admitted to bail, to appear at the March sittings of the criminal court at Sydney, to take his trial on such information as the Attorney General may prefer against him. The defendant was bound in the sum of £500, and his sureties, Messrs. John Campbell, merchant, and Mr. F. Garnison, grocer, in the sum of £250 each. The bail having entered into the requisite recognizances, Mr. Coutts was discharged. Herald, Feb. 2.                                         COUTT’S CROSSING GRAFTON 2008

VOYAGE UP THE CLARENCE RIVER

I include this prose piece from Henry Kendall because it describes the trip up the Clarence. It would seem that this is a description of the Kendall arrival there in the late 1840s following Basil Kendall’s conviction for forgery. Details to be checked later.  Having been twice to the Clarence this year, I am interested in the evocations of this piece.

FROM MRS HAMILTON-GREY

Kendall’s prose description of the Clarence was written at a date not known. We have it from a periodical giving it as from ‘ a manuscript in the possession of Miss Evangeline Moore, of Marrickville, whose father J Sheridan Moore, Editor of a Sydney Magazine, etc. etc was Kendall’s first friend as a young man, to his ambition of being a poet:-

from the GRAFTON INDEPENDENT

VOYAGE UP THE CLARENCE RIVER

 

  

 

 

Acknowledged with thanks. TG.

MENTIONS OF MELINDA

MOST OF THE QUOTATIONS ARE FROM HAMILTON-GREY – and her version of life is a little unusual. I, myself, wonder where father Basil was when the twins Henry and Basil Edward arrived catching their mother so unprepared that she did not even have a cradle for them and burly Jim Burkenshaw carved one from a log. I don’t imagine that heavily pregnant mothers customarily provided the cradle. How did the mother become known as incompetent in  this situation with Daddy only 2 years previously spending most of the year indulged in criminal activities or the court and prison matters resultant from them ? Consider also the probability of an early labour with the birth of twins.

from HG.

When Jim Burkenshaw and his mates were creating the Twin Cradle from a massive log and making cedar rockers, Mrs HG describes them as ‘ revelling in doing good” and says of MELINDA;

the poet’s mother, whose beauty, vivacity and genuine kindness of disposition would appeal to those rough bushmen of the early times in the Ulladulla District. We are told that  in those early times, she was often termed by many of the bush folk “THE FLOWER LADY’; which soubriquet was more dear to her romantic soul than any other title that the chance of birth and pedigree, or any honour conferred by royalty or parliament, would have been; for Mrs Basil Kendall’s naturalness  was one of her most distinctive features of character – as became the mother of a poet.

I’m not sure that Melinda was aware of that on the day of said Poet’s birth but Mrs HG has these recollections from an elderly gentleman of the district and if we leave out HGs interpretation, we are left with which I am delighted.

Mrs HG also has it from Henry Evans – husband of Edith Emily, Melinda’s youngest child, that Henry Kendalls’ first poem was written when he was 10 years of age ( never printed), It read as follows;

Mother, Mother I have read the Pilgrim’s Progress through -

Mrs HG then says

This little manuscript was carefully preserved by his mother for many years and the history of it was related by her to her son-in-law, who , as a very young man, when only a junior clerk in the Post Office, Sydney, and one of the young people frequently visiting their home at Enmore found great favour with Mrs Basil Kendall to the extent of giving her young daughter to him in marriage at the early age of 16.

The poem was lost and only the first line remembered. Mrs Basil Kendall was careful to keep Kendall supplied with the best literature she could obtain with her limited means and the PILGRIM’S PROGRESS was in the boy’s possession at an exceptionally early age. That book – with the Bible- and Bible stories- won his childish interest particularly.

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While I am at it , I shall put in Mrs HGs view of the family situation following the death of Basil O on the Clarence.

It will be remembered by those who have read POET KENDALL that when Basil Kendall, the father of the poet, died on the Clarence River, Mrs Basil Kendall, with her twin sons an her little daughters, returned to Sydney, but not to Ulladulla. Mrs Basil and the twins found a refuge with Mrs Basil Kendall’s father, brother and sisters, some few miles out of Wollongong. But having no means of her own, and no way then, of providing a home for her family of five children, all of tender age, she had no alternative than to accept the only terms offered her by her husband’s more wealthy relatives, and consent to be separated from her three daughters – JANE, MARY JOSEPHINE and EDITH EMILY ( the latter of a VERY tender age).

 

from HG

It was Sheridan Moore who introduced Kendall to Michael after Kendall’s mother had taken him to see Sheridan Moore and submitted his collection of poems to the critical judgement of that gentleman, who proposed that the same collection of poems should be published in volume form and subscriptions invited to pay the expenses of the publication.

 

Acknowledged with thanks. TG.

A LETTER FROM JANE

The letter is from one of Mrs Hamilton-Grey’s books. She says that it is from JANE, the eldest daughter of Basil and Melinda who is named on Melinda’s death certificate. Jane was a teacher and is said to have worked with Caroline Chisholm at one time. She was born CHRISTINA JANE in 1842 and lived till 1903 when she died in the Granville District of Sydney.The letter appeals to me partially due to its being the only one we have found and also because of the poignant mention of her mother who receives a ‘bad press’ from Henry and other recountants.

WRITTEN FROM PITT-STREET TO A NIECE ( IF this is a blood niece then it would be the daughter of either Henry or Edith Emily. Mary Josephine is already dead by this time and therefore  is not the niece’s ‘mother’ to whom Jane refers in the letter. Basil Edward died without marriage or children that we know of. It is more likely to be Emily than Henry’s widow Charlotte due to the unhappy connections of the family with her. There is also a possibility of the niece not being “niece” in the technical sense of that word. However, Jane writes the following with affection.)

2 August 1895

My Dear ____________,

    I was much pleased to get your long letter; indeed it made up for your mother’s two or three lines,although they are always welcome. I am glad you are soon to be settled in life, and hope you may be happy. In most cases it depends on ourselves whether we are happy or miserable. We make our own little world, for either good or evil. Commence your married life as you intend to end it. Meet one another halfway and all will be well.  I am glad , for your sake,  that your “Boy” is a temperance man, but there are other Sins besides Drunkenness. I had a letter from Mr Simpson last week. He never forgets you and your mother. I am going to write to him this week and will not forget to tell him of your engagement, etc. He is quite well, his letters are a comfort to me, so cheerful and consoling. You do not seem to be in a hurry to get married;and your ‘love’ does not seem very “hot”; but I think you will always be better for that;from what I have read about “hot love” it soon gets cold. You must know ( or your mother will tell you ) I was never in love myself except with my dear old mother – so that I cannot give you any points about love; but write and tell me about all your affairs. I am much interested. Wishing you all happiness and with love to your mother, believe me,

Your affectionate

Aunt Jane.

 

Representational graphic only. This is NOT Jane Kendall. Courtesy of ETC FLORIDA

 

 

http://www.myheritage.com/site-29770641/melinda-mcnally-kendall-web-site

Thanks to TG for passing on extensive photocopies of information.

THE CONVICTS WHO DIED ON THE SURRY I

FROM SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 1814 PAGE 2.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628980

FROM THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE SYDNEY SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 1814

The contagious and diabolical disease which prevailed on board the Male Convict Ship SURRY, on her late passage hither from England having been fatal to thirty-six of the Convicts destined for this Place, His Excellency The Governor, deems it expedient that the Names of the unfortunate Sufferers shall be published in order that their Friends shall be officially apprised of their Decease.

List of thirty six convicts who died at sea on board the Ship Surry on her voyage from England to New South Wales with the names of the Hulks from whence they had been embarked and the dates at which they died

NAME	FROM WHAT HULK	WHEN DIED
ANTON JACKSON	RETRIBUTION	9 JUNE 1814
SAMUEL SMITH	“	13 “
CHARLES GAMES	“	15 “
JOHN EADES	“	2O”
JOHN OLIVER	“	22″
WILLIAM HASEL	“	27
WILLIAM BROWN	“	27″
JOHN PARSONS	“	28″
WILLIAM BOURNE	“	30″
THOS WHEELER	“	6 JULY 1814
Wm EDWARDS	“	11″
JAMES PHILLIPS	“	19″
JOHN PE?S	“	19″
CARTER TUCK	ZEALAND	10 JUNE 1814
JOHN MOTT	“	21″
TIMOTHY REAGAN	“	23″
WILLIAM BATTY	“	13 JULY 1814
JOHN RANSOM	LAUREL	12 MARCH 1814
HENRY PAGE	“	21 JUNE 1814
JAS GLADDING	“	22″
JAMES CLARKE	“	1 JULY 1814
CHRIS. RAPPS	“	2″
WILLIAM DAVEY	“	3″
SAM ABRAHAMS	“	5″
THOMAS HADLEY	“	7″
WILLIAM BAKER	“	22″
ISAAC GILES	CAPTIVITY	22 MAY 1814
JOHN JOTCHAM	“	25 JUNE 1814
WILLIAM BROWN	“	27″
THOMAS MOTT	“	28″
JOHN COOPER	“	29″
JOHN  LACEY	“	1 JULY 1814
RD. WILKINSON	“	4″
JOHN JONES	“	5″
CHARLES BALL	“	19″
RD ALIARTON	“	25″

 

BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

J T CAMPBELL SECRETARY. 

THE COMING OF STEAM POWER

THE REPUBLIC OF PEMBERLEY : SOME JANE AUSTEN ADDICTS: WE HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE

NOT AUSTRALIAN BUT 19TH CENTURY INDEED.

http://www.pemberley.com/index.html

IN THIS YEAR: 1814 ; SYDNEY GAZETTE SATURDAY 30 JULY

 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628958

POST OFFICE.

THE LETTERS WHICH ARRIVED PER THE SHIPS BROXBORNEBURY AND SURRY ARE READY FOR DELIVERY AT THIS OFFICE.

D WENTWORTH ESQ	CAPTAIN EBER B(Paper torn)	CHARLES GRIMES ESQ
CAPTAIN BRABYN	G (Paper torn)	JOHN BIRCH ESQ
J THOMPSON ESQ	R FITZ ESQ	JOHN HEN?LEY ESQ
MR SAMUEL FOWLER	MR G K NICHOLLS	MR JAMES LARRA
MR WILLIAM EVANS	MR RICHARD PALMER 2	MT WILLIAM BILTON
MR C S BRIDGES	MR ROBERT LOWE 5	MR EDWARD PUCH 2
CAPTAIN GWYNN	MR G M WOODHOUSE	MR W D CAMPBELL
MR M CAMPBELL	MR MICHAEL WHALAN	MR WILLIAM NORTH
MR H ST YOUNGE	J PURCELL	MRS RILEY
MRS SARAH HALL	MRS ANN TROTTER	MRS ELIZABETH CHIDAY
JOHN INGRAM	JOHN WILLIAMS	GEORGE LITTLE
DAVID FRIVIN	WILLIAM BRIGHALL	WILLIAM PRYER
SARAH HENDERSON	CHARLES R RUTHERFORD	Wm THORP
JOHN MILLS	THOMAS GILBERT	FRANCIS ALLEN 3
JOHN SNOWDEN	JOSEPH BONIE	THOMAS HAFFNELL
WILLIAM WIGGETT	GEORGE GLASS	JOHN MACKLEY
ELIZABETH RICHES	EDWARD GALTON	JOHN OR JANE HALL
JOHN ORNETT	JAMES MULLEN	JAMES LENNARD
JOHN SPOONER	JAMES CHAMBERLAIN	MARY BREWSTER
BENJAMIN JAMISON	FRANCIS DUDDENEGE	WILLIAM HARDEN
ELIZABETH MEREDITH	JAMES DAGGER	JAMES SETTEREE
JOHN COBB	ROBERT ANNANDALE	JOHN WELLINGTON
JOHN DARE	Wm COX ESQ 1 PARCEL	MR Wm WALKER DITTO

 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628958

( DON’T FORGET TO LOOK AT THE NLA http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home SITE FOR A WEALTH OF AUSTRALIAN NEWSPAPERS 1788 – 1954. ITS A FREE SERVICE AND CAN DO WITH YOUR ASSISTANCE – EDITING, TAGGING, TRANSCRIBING. )

MRS JAMES FOSTER No 11 O’CONNELL-STREET PRESENTS COMPLIMENTS TO THE LADIES OF THE COLONY THAT SHE NOW HAS ON SALE :-

AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF LADIES’ DRESSES	WHITE BLACK AND COLOURED TRIMMINGS	WHITE AND COLOURED SHOES
WHITE SARSNET	BED FRINGE	SEWING SILK OF VARIOUS COLOURS

 

Not that Judith was likely to be shopping for fashions at the time. Also it was only after peace was declared between France and England that the English realised how far behind they were fashionwise. Add a long sea voyage and NSW was in all probability WAY behind the times. Perhaps the least of Judith’s concerns.

BACK TO THE PAPER:

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628958

A few days previous to the  30 July, a Red Morocco Pocket-Book had been lost between Pitt and George Streets. It contained 27s 6d in Currency bills, a note of hand drawn by JOHN PALMER ESQ in favour of MRS ARMYTAGE, 3 receipts for 11Pds each and a number of other papers and memorandum of no use to anyone but the owner. Said Owner was offering a very liberal reward to any Person who delivered the Book with its contents to MRS ARMYTAGE 88 Pitt-street.

Out in the District of Minto, CHARLES THROSBY ESQ was cautioning all Person against trespassing on the farm of JOHN TULL. The trespass included that of stock.He threatened prosecution in EVERY case of Detection.

Two steady and active youths were wanted as Apprentices to the business of SADLER, COLLAR and HARNESS MAKER. 4 years was the least term to be taken Particulars were with WILLIAM HIBBURD at PARRAMATTA.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628962

SATURDAY 13 AUGUST 1814 SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NSW ADVERTISER

A cart driven by a servant of JOHN HARRIS ESQ of ULTIMO,with provision for his stockmen at the SOUTH CREEK was stopped near Moore’s Bridge on the Liverpool Road and robbed – by a ruffian with a musket and pistol. The Ruffian took all the provisions as well as the mare which pulled the cart. The mare had not been heard of since nor seen. The mare is described as remarkable – a bay inclined to sorrel with a white mane and tail.

John Harris features later in the lives of the McNallys in conjunction with the pig stealing at Castlereagh. Whatever may be the rights or wrongs of the theft of the pigs, Harris was giving credit to Judith and provisioning the family.

The Gazette had heard from the Broxbornebury that several months before she departed from England , information had been received that a French armament of 3-4 frigates had been sent from France for the purpose of putting down on the Coast of NSW. Was it to open a sanctuary for privateers? Such was the suggestion made in the Gazette. A hiding-mode rather than open hostility. Whatever the French had intended did not come to pass. The ‘design of the french Government was doomed to fail in the onset’ for the frigates were taken when scarcely at sea.

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Regency Fashion History
1800s Costume History

http://www.fashion-era.com/regency_fashion.htm

1800-1825 is it Late Georgian, Regency or Both?

The period 1800-1837 is part of the Georgian era. George III was insane after 1811, but alive until 1820. His son the Prince Regent, George, acted as Regent for nine years of the King’s madness, then reigned 1820-1830. Because of the influence of the Georgian Prince Regent on the era, it is known as the Regency.

Fashion for 1814

http://www.printsgeorge.com/Jane_Austen-fashion.htm#1814

 

http://janeaustensworld.wordpress.com/2008/01/20/social-classes-in-england-1814/

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THE REPUBLIC OF PEMBERLEY : SOME JANE AUSTEN ADDICTS: HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS ONE

http://www.pemberley.com/index.html

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 ; SYDNEY GAZETTE SATURDAY 30 JULY

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628955

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 ; SYDNEY GAZETTE SATURDAY 30 JULY

JEOFFREY H BENT Esq arrived on the 28^th July to be Judge of the SUPREME COURT of JUDICATURE. This court had been recently established for the Territory of New South Wales. As we know, Judge Bent had come per the BROXBORNEBURY. (He kept a diary of the voyage which is available for reading at NLA but which I do not have access to much as I would like to.)

On the 30^th July the Broxbornebury was at anchor in Sydney Cove. Judge Bent was to land in the forenoon of the 30^th and to be greeted with a 13 Gun salute from Dawe’s Battery. This was a command of his Excellency the Governor ( LACHLAN MACQUARIE) and H C ANTILL was major of Brigade.

Under GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS from HEAD QUARTERS, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY came this mention of the SURRY.

“ The male convict transport , SURRY, which arrived in this harbour from England on the 28^th instant, having brought a malignant fever of a very infectious nature of which the Master ,first Mate, and forty other men have died during the voyage, previous to the arrival of the ship in this port; His Excellency the GOVERNOR had deemed it expedient to use every possible precaution to prevent the danger of the Contagion extending from her to the population of the Colony; and with this view he has given orders to institute the most rigid Quarantine Regulations in respect to the Ship herself and all Persons on board her until such time as the Fever has entirely subsided and the People now infected are recovered,

It is therefore the Governor’s most positive Orders that no Persons whatsoever ( the Medical Quarantine Officers and their Attendants excepted) shall have any intercourse or Communication of any sort with said Ship or the Persons now on board her until such Time as she is relieved from Quarantine which will be announced in Public Orders; and the Governor further directs and commands that no Person shall visit or have any intercourse whatever with the Military Detachment, Sailors and Convicts who are about to be landed from the said Ship on the North Shore of Port Jackson; where they are to remain encamped under strict Quarantine Regulations until further orders:- There will be a Guard on board the Ship Surry and also on the North Shore; to enforce these Orders; and any Person detected in attempting to act in Disobedience of them will be confined and most severely punished”

By order of his Excellency,

The Governor.

J T CAMPBELL Secretary.

The Governor was greatly agitated in the matter of the runaways and Bushrangers . He directed that any person known to be harbouring them or holding intercourse with them would forfeit EVERY INDULGENCE on the part of the Government. They would also be PUNISHED “with the utmost rigour of the law”.

The Governor also reflected ‘with the greatest abhorrence’ on the unparalleled depravity of DENNIS DONOVAN. Donovan had been recently executed. The Governor was horrified that Dennis, instead of repenting and praying to his ‘offended creator’ went out of his world ‘protesting in the most solemn manner his total innocence of the murders of the two unfortunate men, JENKINS and EDWARDS at the Parramatta Turnpike. Hmmm! Two innocent men had apparently been accused of the crimes and almost met an early end on the Gallows –the Governor considered that Dennis Donovan from ‘detestible malignity to his fellow creatures and to life itself’ would not confess even at the cost of the two innocent men’s lives

(THE DETAILED ARTICLES AS WRITTEN AT THE TIME CAN BE SEEN IN NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ONLINE HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628955)

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AND FROM THE BROXBORNEBURY:

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE TO EVERY PERSON THAT CAPTAIN THOMAS PITCHER OF HIS MAJESTY’S HIRED STORE-SHIP BROXBORNEBURY, WILL NOT PAY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID ANY DEBTS THAT THE SEAMEN OR ANY OTHER PERSON UNDER HIS COMMAND MAY CONTRACT WITHIN THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

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• WEBSITES OF INTEREST:Tracing the history of citizenship and rights for Indigenous people

http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/hsie/background-sheets/tracing-the-history-of-citizenship-and-rights-for-indigenous-people/