THOMAS BARKER AND HIS SILVERWARE

Today we had the pleasure of encountering some BARKER History on a visit to the TWEED REGIONAL ART GALLERY.

The great pleasure for us lay in the Exhibition which was just opening when we arrived. GREAT COLLECTIONS it is called and is on NSW REGIONAL TOUR.

GREAT COLLECTIONS, as per the blurb;

is a landmark exhibition that brings together iconic treasures from the eight premier cultural institutions of NSW.

The pleasure for us was in one particular section which was the THOMAS BARKER silverware and plaque. Not at all what we expected on a Murwillumbah Morning. There it was – 1830s-1850s artefacts from the man who had BASIL KENDALL tried for his dodginess. The man who employed PATRICK McNALLY and probably my own ancestor, or step/ancestor, HENRY SAMUELS. A great pleasure to be within one sheet of glass from actually touching the history we are seeking. Thanks, ART GALLERY. There was a silver platter presented to THOMAS BARKER for his contribution to the Scottish Immigrants. A plaque of Thomas’ head from 1850 and other oddments from the 1830s and 1840s.

VIEW OVER TWEED VALLEY FROM REGIONAL ART GALLERY.

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.

INTERNET ARCHIVE BOOKS

WOOD PAVING IN SYDNEY STREETS http://www.archive.org/stream/streetpavinginsy00bellrich	SYDNEY MAGAZINE OF SCIENCE AND ART
SYDNEY AT SUNSET AND OTHER VERSES	SYDNEY UNIVERSITY

 

 

POEM ON THE DEATH OF THE REV RICHARD HILL

POETRY BY A LADY

FROM THE SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NSW ADVERTISER THURSDAY 13 NOVEMBER 1823

 

original poetry  – by a lady.

Thou bid’st me deck my face in smiles

That wears a heart so sad;

Thou bid’st me court gay pleasure’s wiles,

When nought can make me glad.

 

How can I wear a chaplet gay,

Of fancy’s brightest flow’rs?

Or sing a merry roundelay,

And dance away the hours?

 

A smile of grief is all I know,

Of gloomy sorrow born;

A with’ring sense of bitter woe,

O’erpow’rs this heart forlorn.

 

I’ll pluck the gloomy cypress tree

To dress my aching brows;

“Twill make a garland met for me,

“Twined with the dark death rose.

 

No strains of mirth my notes employ,

To hasten time’s dull wing;

For ev’ry lost departed joy,

I mournful requiems sing.

SIDNIA.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182371

POETESS: ANNE STANHOPE GORE

TO DATE ACCREDITED AS THE FIRST IDENTIFIABLE AUSTRALIAN WOMAN POET

POEMS PUBLISHED IN THE AUSTRALIAN

8TH SEPT AND 15 DECEMBER 1825

Her early death precluded any chance of her writing career developing beyond these two publication dates.

Her birth could well be in the 1813-1815 period in Sydney and her death appears in 1836 , 3 years after the death of her mother. A S G wrote from her father’s home on the North Shore of Sydney where according to ADB on her father’s site, she lay unburied along with her parents for some years under palings. A strange interpretation but there you are !

TAKE A LOOK AT THE BRIGHT AND FIERY TROOP edited by DEBRA ADELAIDE.

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check WILLIAM GORE ADB and

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2177790

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182417

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2182635

The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 19 January 1833, page 3. Family Notices

DIED,

At Artarmon House, North Shore, on the morning of the 17th instant, in the 49th year of her age, to the inexpressible grief of her husband and family, Ann, the wife ol William Gore, Esq., many years Provost Marshal of this Territory. Mrs. Gore was a lady devoted to her family, of accomplished manners, unostentatious piety, and unfeigned benevolence of heart.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2210415

The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 22 November 1836, page 3. Family Notices

On Saturday morning last, after a
severe and protracted illness, Miss Ann Stanhope, fourth daughter of William
Gore, Esq., of Artarmon, North Shore.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2207871

O’Shaughnessy, Edward (1801 – 1840)

http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020271b.htm

Edward’s poems appear in the Gazette under ” E. O’S.”

Here is one sample :

Souls of the Just ! whose truth and love

Like light and warmth once lived below

Where have ye ta’en your flight above

Leaving life’s vale in a wintry woe ?

God has withdrawn you near his throne,

Centre and source of brightness all,

As o’er yon hills the evening sun,

Recalls his beams when shadows fall.

 

But there are wistful eyes that find

A loss in every parting ray,

And there are exiled souls behind,

That long with you to fly away,

Oh ! happy hour, when ev’ry germ

Of captive spirit shall be free,

And shine with you, all bright and warm,

Around one glorious Deity !

E. O’S.

 

The Convict who became Editor of the Gazette as well as poet.

IN THIS YEAR – 1837 – including selected poetry

1837 has now come to our attention as a very significant year in the life of MELINDA MCNALLY KENDALL. She married BASIL O KENDALL in 1835, on the 1 August . A child appears to have been born shortly later and then died . Those details are under investigation now. Basil and Melinda were living in Sydney at this time. They are still there  in early 1837 when a series of very dodgy events take place. In fact there is strong indication that BASIL and DODGY are inseparable terms. SYDNEY in 1837 – lets look at the NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIAN HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS and see what was happening in Sydney in this time. The KENDALL Boys are working for THOS BARKER at one or other of his mills. What else is happening as a background to the life of this young wife.

I have included some lines of verse published in that year. The first proven MELINDA poems were published in ILLAWARRA MERCURY in the early 1880s but it is believed from anecdotal evidence that she wrote in years much earlier than that. I have therefore included other lines by other poets published as were hers in the Newsapers. We know she grew up on the Hawkesbury Banks as did Harpur and Tompson. Obviously she is the parent preceding the poetry of HENRY KENDALL. As to what when and where she was writing – the search continues. In the meantime – 1837 in SYDNEY. Her year of marital alteration.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2187360 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 11 January 1827, page 1.	TOMPSON’S POEMS: NOTICE.-Mr. Robert HOWE alone is impowered hy me to receive Payment for the Copies of this Work, which are, or may be, delivered to Subscribers. C. TOMPSON. Clydesdale, Dec. 30, 1826. Also for sale was a book of sacred poetry, the sales of which would be appropriated towards the debt incurred in building the SCOT CHURCH. Rev Mr Dunmore Lang’s poems these were.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208646 An original piece of poetry from 1837. The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 3 January 1837, page 3.	ORIGINAL POETRY The following doggerel we publish for the amusement of our readers ; they are evidently from the pen of some school boy not yet out of his teens. The last lines of the two last verses made us laugh outright ; but let them speak for them- selves : – LINES TO MISS -. You’ll press my hand-you’ll kiss my brow, And thrill in my embrace ; But when I’m gone what doubts will throw Their wildness on thy face You’ve held me-press’d me to your heart, Your lips have clung to mine ; Then sworn your love-you could not part Such happ ness was thine. And when our lips in passion mov’d — Responsive to our bliss. ”I was then you said how true you lov’d, No words could equal this. . . . Now you doubt me-and you’ve spurn’d me, Because (you know not why) All my gilts-they are returned me With not e’en tear or sigh ! Well ! since ’tis so, we’d better part, So now I’ll say-” Farewell !” I’ve left some fraction of my heart, And that I’ll use right well . But-hate me-this is all I’ll ask In future girl from thee; I thought ‘twould be a heavier task – But thank my stars I’m free.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208685 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 5 January 1837	ROBERT LILLY who was steward on the ISABELLA stands in court accused of stealing a quantity of tortoiseshell. CHARLES MORGAN LEWIS who was COMMANDER of the ISABELLA – identifies the tortoiseshell and states that he has never seen one piece of tortoiseshell which was like another. The penalty for stealing tortoiseshell was no small thing.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208694 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 5 January 1837, page 4	LINES BY ELIZABETH ANN BRIDGES, AGED ELEVEN YEARS: On her Sister Margaret Jane, who died June 14, 1833. aged nine years and eleven months. On that sad morn we stood around her bed, And gazed upon her altered countenance, Each feature bore the stamp of death – Death held her firmly in his cruel grasp ; READ ON –
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208755 The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 10 January 1837, page 4.	STANZAS. I saw thee ‘mid the festive blaze Of many a laughing, sunny eye ; And sylph-like through the dance’s maze Glide gracefully. I saw the thousands round thy throne, And all the glory gather’d there; And then I felt for me alone Was dark despair. Thy forms undimm’d, thy joyous eye Creates an atmosphere of light ; And angels love to wander nigh A gem so bright. But look on me. There was a time, When I could smile as well as thou, And glory in unwasted time; How alter’d now ! . .. .. .. … If thou art happy, why not I ? Thy bridal wreath I gladly twine, Fix the last, sacred bud, and die, All joy is thine. . . . . Live ,then, another’s heart to bless; But when a new-form’d grave you see, Dark with the dullest loneliness, Then think of me !
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208809	AUTHORS ARE LIKE SHEEP. THEY RUN AFTER ONE ANOTHER WITHOUT KNOWING THE WHY OR WHEREFORE. READ ON : It is followed by an intriguing discourse on ROMANICISM and the CONVERSION OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208813 SELECT POETRY of a love parted across the seas. The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 12 January 1837, page 4.	THE PARTED GIRL The evening shades have gather’d o’er Yon bark upon the billow READ ON
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2208960 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 21 January 1837, page 4	TO MY WIFE I’VE SLIGHTED THEE , I’VE BLIGHTED THEE READ ON : This is a deeply moving piece. Slighted and Blighted in Heart but not in Fame. The Fame remains unsullied.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2209084 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 28 January 1837, page 3.	” CHARMING JACK “ whilst playing billiards with other lads ‘of similar kidney ‘ exited with the BLACK BALL. BLACK-BALLED himself they called it. It was in a public house in Castlereagh-street  kept by MR BROWN and his wife. READ ON TO DISCOVER HIS FATE BEFORE THE BENCH :
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-articl e2209381	ASSIGNED SERVANTS. A COMPLAINT IS MADE by an ENQUIRER as to why the NEW SETTLERS are having to wait for extended periods for servants to be assigned to them. Ship after ship goes past and still they have no men. The EDITOR of the SYDNEY GAZETTE promises that  he will have more to say on the subject if the Enquirer’s complaints be proven to be true.

MURDER AND MAYHEM

	A MISCELLANY OF MURDER AND MAYHEM IN THE 19TH CENTURY IN THE COLONY
1803	http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article625757 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article625758	most barbarous and dreadful MURDER

 

 

 

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MORE OF MUDIE AND HIS VIEWS OF THE COLONY

MUDIE’S ROMANCE OF THE FELONRY OF NSW

By the colonial law, a convict only holds his ticket-
of-leave during ” good behaviour.” For any irregular,
immoral, or unlawful conduct, his ticket-of-leave ougtyt
to be taken from him, and he is subjected to such further
punishment as the summary tribunal before which
he is tried may apportion to his offence.
Independently of the gross public immorality, and
indecency of Watt being at all connected with the Sydney
Gazette, and independently of the infamous purposes to
which he prostituted that government journal, he was
at the time living in open contempt of a colonial regulation
whereby he was bound to attend a general muster
of all the ticket-of-leave men, at stated periods, within
the district of Sydney ; he was at the same time leading
a life of profligacy ; he was known to be habitually a
liar in private, as he was a traducer and a libeller in
public ; he was living in open adultery with a female
runaway convict, transported for life, who bore two

children to him, and whom he had the audacity to send
to the factory, that her lyings-in might be defrayed at
the public expence ; and that the offspring of his adulterous,
and (in other respects by the colonial law) peculiarly
criminal intercourse, might be maintained at the
expense of the same public, whom he was daily demoralizing
and endangering by his pestilent and atrocious
writings.

MUDIE’S METHOD OF DEALING WITH RECALCITRANT ROMAN CATHOLICS ET AL :

The convicts, as may be readily supposed, are generally
profligate, treacherous, dishonest, and mutinous.
It is a fearful thing for an agricultural settler to be
placed in the midst of from twenty to fifty such labourers
and household] servants, — prejudicially operating,
by their atrocious example, their disgusting manners, and
horrid language, upon his family,— and continually engaged,
more or less, in plundering him and his neighbours.
Even when divine service was performed at the
establishment of the author, which he procured being
done as often as circumstances would permit, many of
his convict servants falsely excused their non-attendance
on the plea of their being Roman Catholics. Their
object was, to go upon predatory excursions while the
family and the rest of the establishment were engaged
in the ordinances of religion. This purpose, however,
as soon as discovered, was defeated, by compelling all
the real and pretended Roman Catholics to muster out-
side the building, and to remain there during the time
of worship. Their conversion to Protestantism was
miraculous, none of them withstanding this tett act more
than twice or thrice,— but all successively taking their
places in the congregation.
From the lenity of the colonial government in the
treatment of these ruffians, not only are they insubordinate
and mutinous, but they are even full of high notions
of their own dignity !
Masters have been reproved for speaking with too
little respect to the gentry assigned to them
as servants !