nellibell49
Posted by nellibell49 on July 22, 2008
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.
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 21, 2008
FROM CATHY AT UQ , WE have the information below regarding Basil and his Crime.
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 21, 2008
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Continuing with the sorting through of the HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS research, here is a police incident in Leeds 1848. In 1848, Melinda’s husband Basil Kendall had been arrested and convicted of a crime which at this time I read to be - forging and uttering but which details I shall reclaim shortly from the bowels of my computer files. He was sentenced to two years hard labour. Whether that was served in Parramatta Gaol as oral history has it or whether he were assigned to Dr Dobie on Gordonbrook Station on the Clarence River - we do not yet know. Be that as it it may - in England, Sarah Rich was endeavouring to do away with herself. Drugs appeared to be a problem then as they appear to be in the 21st Century. Melinda,according to legend, hearsay and Mr Ackland and Mrs Hamilton-Grey, had taken to the bottle. Certainly it was in this period of the late 1840s to 1852 that she lived on the Clarence with Basil dying there in 1852. We have TW Bawden’s series of lectures on the formative Clarence years and there some wild doings. Meanwhile in England - |
northern star and national trades journal leeds england saturday 21 october 1848 iss 574 police report2
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 20, 2008
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 20, 2008
FROM A BRITISH NEWSPAPER OF THE 1820s : a period during which Melinda lived first with her family in the Hawkesbury Region and then in Rev Richard Hill’s household in Castlereagh Street, Sydney.
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 17, 2008
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.
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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Posted by nellibell49 on July 14, 2008
Emerging from my 10 days with access through SAG to GALE HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS OF THE UK as kept in the BRITISH LIBRARY this extract is a part of the backdrop of the World in the year prior to Melinda’s Birth.
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Placing the extract in context :1814 SEES Patrick and Judith and the three children - Mary , William and Eliza sailing from England to New South Wales. Patrick as a convict on the Surrey I and Judith coming “free” on the Broxbornebury. |
extract from the CALEDONIAN MERCURY AUGUST 29 1814 :
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 11, 2008
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Posted by nellibell49 on July 2, 2008
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Posted by nellibell49 on June 25, 2008
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 | “ | “ | “ | “ | “ |
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