BRYAN OVEREND

David Clement said

July 7, 2009 at 11:24 pm e

I am researching Bryan Overend, one time captain of Lady Nelson and Estramina, and crew member of Emu when it sank at Cape Town 1816. He disappears from sight after this. Do you have any information on Bryan, please.

David

FURTHER BACKGROUND SITES.

• http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=9a375375945078845e0dc27e3230a73f&topic=383665.45

D. Clements is looking for info on one Bryan Overend( Overhand).

My own ancestor Thomas Sanders appears to be mentioned there as well. From the 1700s as well as more McNallys.  Can you help ?

• Thomas Anderson
  A School Teacher in early New South Wales
  by Grahame Thom

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/grthom/web/anderson.html

• Ann Overend
• http://records.ancestry.com/Ann_Overend_21_Jul_1805_records.ashx?pid=127666069&gss=seo

ROCHDALE RIOTS

Thanks to MARK GREGORY’s research, we have been led to a 1795 verse from the ROCHDALE FOOD RIOTS in the UK. This forms the chorus and partial verse of Melinda’s  COLLIER’S STRIKE SONG which is written about an ILLAWARRA COAL STRIKE.

The ROCHDALE  BUROUGH WIDE CULTURAL TRUST WEBSITE informs us that they located the verse on a typewritten piece of paper in their archives which a long ago librarian had typed up. At this time, that’s all the details we have. Mark and his compatriots see an indication of the ongoing thread of working class folklorist tradition extending to Melinda’s song.

Below are some  articles referring to the situation in Rochdale in 1795.

Whitehall Evening Post (London, England), Saturday, July 11, 1795; Issue 7593

The MORNING POST and FASHIONABLE WORLD of AUGUST 6 1795 reported riots in which three people were killed  by the VOLUNTEERS. The riots continued after the letters had left.

The COURIER AND EVENING GAZETTE of AUGUST 11(LONDON ENGLAND) gave the names and details of the men killed. One was 80 years old and in no way connected with the riots and other by the name of FLETCHER was equally uninvolved. A boy had his arm broken and many more were wounded by the VOLUNTEER FENCIBLES.

FROM THE STAR Star (London, England), Monday, August 24, 1795; Issue 2189.

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.

_____________________________

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.

WOMEN AND WRITING IN THE 19TH CENTURY

 

Romanticism & Gender By Anne Kostelanetz Mellor Mellor, Anne Kostelanetz. Were Women Writers “Romantics”? MLQ: Modern Language Quarterly – Volume 62, Number 4, December 2001, pp. 393-405	Taking twenty women writers of the Romantic period, Romanticism and Gender explores a neglected period of the female literary tradition, and for the first time gives a broad overview of Romantic literature from a feminist…
Sarah Helen Power Whitman (January 19, 1803 – June 27, 1878) Poet, Essayist, Transcendentalist, Spiritualist; Romantic interest of Edgar Allen Poe Sarah Helen Power Whitman was born in Providence, Rhode Island. Her father was a prosperous merchant, but went bankrupt in the War of 1812. On a trip to the West Indies, he was captured by the British and, although he was released, chose not to return to his family for another 19 years. _____________________ VICTORIAN WOMEN WRITERS PROJECT INDIANA UNIVERSITY ________________ Written by Herself By Frances Smith Foster   This is the first comprehensive cultural of history of literature by African American women prior to the Twentieth century. Beginning with the earliest extant writings, Frances Smith Foster her textual analysis	EMILY DICKINSON (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) Poet, lived in Amherst, Massachusetts Emily Dickinson, whose odd and inventive poems helped to initiate modern poetry, is an enigma, a mystery, a paradox. Only ten of her poems were published in her lifetime. We know of her work only because her sister and two of her long-time friends brought them to public attention. Most of the poems we have were written in just six years, between 1858 and 1864. She bound them into small volumes she called fascicles, and forty of these were found in her room at her death. She also shared poems with friends in letters. From the few drafts of letters that were not destroyed, at her instruction, when she died, it’s apparent that she worked on each letter as a piece of artwork in itself, often picking phrases that she’d used years before. Sometimes she changed little, sometimes she changed a lot. It’s hard to even tell for sure what “a poem” by Dickinson really “is,” because she changed and edited and reworked so many, writing them differently to different correspondents	Private Woman, Public Stage By Mary Kelley In the decades spanning the nineteenth century, thousands of women entered the literary marketplace. Twelve of the century’s most successful women writers provide the focus for Mary Kelley’s landmark study
MUNSTER WOMEN	Postcolonial Poetry in English By Rajeev Shridhar Patke This book offers an introductory survey of contemporary poetry in English from all the regions that have developed into modern nations from the former British Empire. It is ideally suited for readers interested in world.	HAVE YOU NO LANGUAGE OF YOUR OWN NO WAY OF DOING THINGS DID YOU SPEND ALL THOSE HOLIDAYS AT ENGLAND’S APRON STRINGS ? E K BRAITHWAITE EMIGRANTS

MELINDA – THE MYSTERY DEEPENS

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

EDITH EMILY ( KENDALL) EVANS

 

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.

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.

_________________________________________

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

FIDELIA S. T. HILL POET

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2549850

The Sydney Gazette and… Tuesday 2 June 1840, page 1.

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS