MELINDA AND BASIL’S MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE

1844 - BAPTISM OF MELINDA AND BASIL’S CHILDREN AT ST JAMES CHURCH SYDNEY

IN 1844 Basil and Melinda have the children baptised at St James Church in Sydney. The former minister of St James was the Rev Richard Hill in whose household Melinda spent most of the 1820s and where she is twice listed in census figures as SERVANT. Family legend has her as a beloved foster daughter turning fine hems and writing pleasant verse but that doesn’t appear to be the case at this time. Family legend also says she took the children to Sydney to be baptised by the said Hill - but he was long dead by 1844  from apoplexy in the vestibule of St James in 1836 and if some of the letters we have copies of and which were written by him are as true as they appear to be - then apoplexy would not be a surprising termination for him. It seems that Basil and Melinda had left their farming life at Kirmington on the Illawarra by 1844 and were living in Sydney. This is how this record reads as well as I am able to transcribe :

when baptised	when born	child’s christian name	parents’ CHRISTIAN	names SURNAME	abode	quality or profession	by whom the ceremony was performed
oct 19 or 29( writing unclear)	august/april 1839 18th(appears to read august but the twins were born in April)	BASIL EDWARD	BASIL AND MELINDA	KENDALL	SOUTH HEAD ROAD	WRITING CLERK	CHAS. C KEMP
“	“	THOMAS HENRY	“	“	“	“	“
“	JANUARY 29 1843	JANE CHRISTINA	“	“	“	“	“
“	JUNE 11 1844	MARY JOSEPHINE	“	“	“	“	“

MUSTERS AND CENSUSES AND ARCHIVES ! AAH !

NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL ARCHIVES - ARMIDALE.

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FROM THE FILES AT THE CLARENCE  HISTORY SOCIETY AND UNE REGIONAL ARCHIVES WE HAVE SOME MUSTER AND CENSUS DETAILS. Mr William Oates in Armidale brought us in from the cold of Armidale in Winter and introduced us to the Archives held there as well as explaining what he could and accessing files for us. William told us that Armidale and Grafton had a strange relationship. Finding a way from the New England down to the Clarence created an interesting dynamic then as it does today.  William took us upstairs to the Stack. It included a 15th century document found in a shearing shed on the New England. He wished us well on the Clarence and we had hoped to find ledgers or station books for Gordon Brook or Bushy Park which didn’t happen - YET. We were however able to access , in both towns , various papers , books and documents. Includijng the Musters and Census. McNally turned out to have even more spelling variants than we had so far considered. 

• 1814 MUSTER - JUDITH MCANNALLY, BROXBORNEBURY, 3 CHILDREN , WIFE OF P MCNALLY.

 

• 1822 MUSTER

 

MCINNALTY,PATRICK	TL	SURRY I	LIFE	COUNTY GAOL SYDNEY
MCNALTY, JUDITH	CF	BROXBORNEBURY	WIFE OF P MCNALTY	WINDSOR
MCNALTY, MARY  15	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, WILLIAM  12	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, ELIZA  10	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, MATILDA 6	CF	BROX		WINDSOR
MCNALTY, SARAH 3	CF	BROX		WINDSOR

 

• 1823 MUSTER

MCNALTY, PATRICK ,	TL	SURRY I 1814	LIFE	GOVT SERVANT TO WIFE
MCNALTY, JUDITH	CF	BROXBORNEBURY 1814	HOUSEHOLDER	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALTY, MARY  17	BC		CHILD OF JUDITH	KENT STREET SYDNEY
MCNALTY, WILLIAM  15	BC		“	“
MCNALTY, ELIZA  12	BC		“	“
MCNALTY, MATILDA  9	BC		CHILD OF JUDITH SERVANT	WITH REV MR HILL
MCNALTY, SARAH  5	BC		“	KENT STREET SYDNEY
MCNALTY, JOHN  2	BC		“	KENT ST SYDNEY

 

• 1825 MUSTER ? MCANNALTY PATRICK EMPLYED BY UNDERWOOD SYDNEY ?

 

• 1828 CENSUS

MCKNALLY, PATRICK F45	GS	SURRY I 1814 L	C.	LABOURER	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY MARY 19	CF	BROX 1814	C	HOUSEKEEPER JAS MARTIN	KENT ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY MATILDA 11	BC		P	WITH REV HILL	CASTLEREAGH ST SYDNEY
MCNALLY WILLIAM 18	BC		C	AT PATRICK KEIGHRAN	AIRDS
MCNALTY 40	GS	SURRY I 1814 L	C	CARTER THOS BARKER	KENT ST SYDNEY

KENDALLS IN GRAFTON ACCORDING TO BAWDEN

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One book which we purchased from the Clarence History Society is the Bawden Series of Lectures with accompanying notes by C.C.LAW. T. Bawden delivered these lectures on the FIRST FIFTY YEARS OF SETTLEMENT IN THE CLARENCE DISTRICT at the GRAFTON SCHOOL OF ARTS IN June 1886, July 1886 AND August 1888. Mr Bawden came to the Clarence in one of the very first overland parties as a 9 year old boy travelling with his family.

As with most research into Melinda and her family, there are conflicting stories and mysteries. As we hunted for Basil’s grave , we had several accounts of the Kendall period on the Clarence. Basil was arrested for some dodgy dealings with a cheque and his brother-in-law’s name. The Marjorie Kendall book “KISSIN COUSINS” says that Basil presented this cheque on Dec 15,1847. When it was declared to be a forgery ( the signature was in the name of THOMAS WHEATON BOWDEN who was married to Sister Susannah and was declared bankrupt earlier in the year of 1847) a warrant was issued on Dec 23 1847 and Basil was arrested in his home on Christmas Eve and sentenced early in 1848 to two years in Parramatta Gaol.

Did he actually serve this time in Parramatta ? Were convicted criminals still assigned as servants in this time ? Might Basil have been sent with Dobie as such ?

On Page 105 Of BAWDEN’S LECTURES with notes by CC LAW , Mr Bawden says( THIS  being the only first hand report we have of this period at this time );

It was at Gordon Brook that I first knew the poet Kendall. Mr and Mrs Kendall were engaged by Dr Dobie in Sydney to take charge of a sheep station and two flocks of sheep.  One of these flocks was tended by the poet Henry Kendall and his twin brother Basil who was also animated to a slight extent with the poetic fire. After living 12 months at Gordon Brook, the Kendall family left and came to Grafton where Mr Kendall kept a school for some years up to the time of his death. His remains lie in the Old Cemetery at South Grafton. From his time of leaving Gordon Brook, I saw no more of Henry Kendall until some years afterwards he came to Grafton as a clerk in the office of that extraordinary man JAMES MICHAEL LIONEL.

 

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RYERSON INDEX TO DEATH AND OBITS IN NEWSPAPERS

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Because the Index was originally created by the Sydney Dead Persons Society, it concentrates on notices from NSW papers, although some papers from other states are included also. Within NSW, the bulk of the entries are from the two Sydney papers, the “Sydney Morning Herald” and the “Daily Telegraph”.

Indexing is being continuously carried out by a team of volunteers, too numerous to mention individually, who give freely of their time to ensure the site continues to grow. Site updates occur every couple of weeks, and more often in periods of high activity.

The index itself cannot by definition be considered a primary source of data, but is purely a research aid to direct the researcher to the original source of a notice.”

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MCNALLY FAMILY

We are seeking any information on the MCNALLY family.

		PATRICK MCNALLY 1787-1858	JUDITH/JULIA KILFROY/ MCDERMOTT
MARY MCNALLY 1807-1857	WILLIAM MCNALLY 1810 - 1875?	ELIZA MCNALLY 1814-1893?	MELINDA MCNALLY 1815-1893	SARAH MCNALLY 1820-1892	JOHN MCNALLY 1824-1876

 

 

 

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QUEENSLAND BDMs

http://www.justice.qld.gov.au/829.htm

INC ENTRY FOR MARY JOSEPHINE YATES ( nee KENDALL )

1881/C1653

Yates

Mary Josephine

Basil Kendall

Melinda McNally