Joseph Douglass 1782-1865: First Settler at Kurrajong Heights NSW

http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/douglass/index.htm 

A family genealogy site with background for the 1815 period in NSW and some beautiful images.

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

1815- MR SADLER’S BALLOON

MELINDA was born October 16th 1815 in Pitt Town on the Hawkesbury River in NSW. She was the fourth child of PATRICK and JUDITH McNally and the first of their children to be born in the Colony of NSW following Patrick’s transportation as a convicted deserter from the 100 Regiment in Canada.

PITT TOWN LINKS.

• PITT TOWN HERITAGE MAP
• http://www.heritageaustralia.com.au/search.php?state=NSW&region=6&view=466
• Pitt Town District Cultural Precinct
• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-NSW-HILLS-HAWKESBURY-HUNTER-VALLEY/2004-10/1098579075
• http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/church/index.html 

Meanwhile, back in England, Mr Sadler is ascending in his balloon almost certainly oblivious to the life of a small family on the banks of the Hawkesbury.

From the CALDEONIAN MERCURY , EDINBURGH SCOTLAND , OCTOBER 2 . ISSUE 146402.

THE BIRTH OF THE NEWSPAPER IN AUSTRALIA

http://www.cultureandrecreation.gov.au/articles/newspapers/

 

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LYNNE BELL SANDERS

CASTLEREAGH

LAND GRANTS

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/print.asp?id=235

ON THE PENRITH CITY SITE

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/index.asp?id=458

Thanks to TM - we now have letters from Rev Fulton at Castlereagh House in 1822 and 1824 - in which he gives details of the transactions between himself and Patrick McNally. Seems Major Druitt who was chief engineer for the Colony, had contracted Patrick to build a fence around Rev Fulton’s Glebe. Fulton had a school called CASTLEREAGH HOUSE.

This fence building contract led to trouble with Patrick and others being accused of stealing 5 pigs. Patrick was to be acquitted of this crime but on reading further into it - it appears that he spent a least some time in County Gaol as a result , that financial difficulties were experienced by Judith and the children and that it resulted in their leaving the Hawkesbury and moving into Sydney Town. The illustration below from the Western Sydney Libraries is not what  I expected. I expected a two storey grand residence but there it is. Now Patrick was to build the fence but somewhere in that happening came the ” pig stealing” from Mr John Harris , a settler.

LAND GRANT 30 Jun 1803
King
John Harris
90 ACRES
Castlereagh

http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/print.asp?id=1474

Who knows what happened ? Who knows what it led to ?

In the interest of the Poet who is Melinda, this does in all probability place her near the ACADEMY which housed Charles Tompson Jnr. The Native Minstrel, a boy born in the colony as was Melinda and of a similar age to her brother and sister William and Mary.

 

CHARLES TOMPSON JNRS DEDICATION TO REV FULTON IN WILD NOTES (FROM THE LYRE OF A NATIVE MINSTREL )

FULTON LINKS

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010388b.htm

www.granvillehistorical.org.au/Newsletters/June%20Guardian%202005.pdf

http://www.westernsydneylibraries.nsw.gov.au/westernsydney/fulton.html

Rev John Fulton’s Classical Academy

http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/lists/index.html

EXTENSIVE RESOURCES FOR HAWKESBURY

 

MAJOR DRUITT LINKS

http://freepages.history.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~garter1/georgedr.htm

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010308b.htm

 

 

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LYNNE SANDERS-BRAITHWAITE

PITT TOWN NAMES

http://www.hawkesbury.nsw.gov.au/files/26848/File/PittTownNamebackgroundinformationnames.pdf

These are the names proposed for streets in Pitt Town. They are mostly selected from the names of early settlers and there is some background data here.

http://www.hawkesbury.org/?c=placenames&action=view&placenameid=46643

HAWKESBURY HISTORY

http://www.hawkesburytourism.com.au/hawkesbury-history.html

PITT TOWN

http://www.pitttown.com/pt_history.htm

www.hawkesburytourism.com.au/hawkesbury-maps/…

REV FULTON

1835 Fulton, Henry (1761-1840), clergy­man, was born in England. On 1 March 1788 he enrolled as pensioner at Trinity College, Dublin (B.A., 1792). He was or­dained to the ministry of the established Church of Ireland by Bishop Barnard of Killaloe. He married Ann (1766-1836), daughter of Rev. James Walker of Water-ford and rector of St Cronan’s, Roscrea, Killabe, in whose parish he served for a short time. William Knox, Barnard’s suc­cessor, admired Fulton’s scholarship and ability and gave him preferment. In the Irish rebellion of 1798 Fulton was impli­cated. He was convicted at Tipperary in August 1799 of seditious practices and sentenced to transportation for life. Unlike seven of the seventy-three political pris­oners who sailed in the Minerva for Sydney from Cork, Fulton had not ’sur­rendered for self-transportation’, although Bishop Knox thought he had and told the archbishop of Canterbury in 1807 that ‘[Fulton's1 Friends declared that his Con­fession was extorted by fear of a species of torture at that time too common'. Governor Hunter was somewhat per­plexed how men like Fulton, 'bred up in a genteel life', should be employed, but the departure of Richard Johnson [q.v.], the principal chaplain, enabled Fulton to resume his profession. On 8 November 1800 he was conditionally pardoned and sent as an assistant chaplain to the Hawkesbury and then in February 1801 to Norfolk Island. Governor King ‘would have given

him a Free Pardon but that [he awaited] an answer from Ireland or England respecting an application in his favour. Fulton did well at Norfolk Island, was granted a full pardon in 1805 and returned to the mainland in 1806. He did duty at Sydney and Parramatta for Samuel Marsden [q.v.], who was absent on leave in England, and he served on the Civil Court and the Com­mission of the Peace. He asked Knox, now bishop of Derry, to help him to gain a Crown chaplaincy an a part of the principal chaplain’s stipend. This latter request aroused Marsden’s wrath but the Colonial Office gave the governor a general authority to further Fulton’s interests.

These proceedings were nullified by the rebellion in January 1808 against Bligh. Fulton admired Bligh’s policy towards the Hawkesbury settlers and shared his dislike of the monopolists. He was in attendance at Government House for the greater part of the day of Bligh’s arrest; he was then confined to his own house and interrogated, without success, by the rebels. On 30 January he was suspended from duty. He remained conspicuously loyal to Bligh, served as his private chaplain and declined to officiate publicly while the governor remained a prisoner. He was an emissary of Bligh when Colonel Foveaux [q.v.] arrived and took command. He denounced the rebel administration to Castlereagh - ‘they are building a Babel’ - and, with Gore, Palmer and the mpbells[qq.v.], signed an address of loyalty to Bligh. He received moral support from the former missionaries then resident in the colony, who wrote to their society in his favour. Fulton’s rela­tions with Protestants of all kinds were invariably cordial.

Fulton was restored to his situation by Governor Macquarie on 8january 1810. He went to England with Bligh to testify at Lieut Colonel Johnston’s [q.v.] court martial, where he denied that a revolution would have broken out if the military had remained quiet. On 31 May 1811 he secured a regular Crown chaplaincy. On his return to the colony in the Mary in May 1812 he was retained in Sydney until on 18 June 1814 he was made resident chaplain in charge of Castlereagh and Richmond. Later the area of his ministra­tion was diminished by the formation of new parishes. As Castlereagh stagnated Penrith became more important in his work. He remained active until his death at Castlereagh on 17 November 1840. His wife Ann had died at Castlereaghon 4 August 1836. They had seven children, of whom two died in infancy.

Fulton identified himself closely with the Hawkesbury, whose inhabitants he had championed in Bligh’s time. He served on the bench until 1827 and promoted philanthropic and religious societies. The special interests of the Anglican church did not worry him much, except when Roman Catholicism was concerned. In 1833 he engaged in a controversy with Catholic apologists, in which he published Strictures upon a Letter lately writtcn by Roger Therry Esq., to Edward Blount Esq., Reasons why Protestants think the worship of the Church of Rome an idolatrous worship and A letter to the Rev W B Ullathorne. Three years later he led the ‘Protestant party’ in his district in its opposition to Governor Bourke’s educational policy.

Education was Fulton’s chief interest. He had always been a good scholar; the inventory of his library shows a wide range of books, with an emphasis on mathematics. On 11 July 1814 he opened a seminary at his new parsonage, Castlereagh House, where he instructed young gentlemen in classics, modern languages and ’such Parts of the Mathematics, both in Theory and Practice, as may suit the Taste of the Scholar’. Among his pupils was Charles Tompson junior [q.v.], whose Wild Notcs, from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel (1826) was dedicated to him. The first, and longest, piece in the volume, ‘Retrospect’, praised Fulton as a teacher and pastor.

MAPS OF THE COUNTY CUMBERLAND

MAPS OF THE COUNTY CUMBERLAND