AUS Norfolk Island Subscribers' Ancestors and Their Families

Notes

Charles Joseph JONES

Buried Church of England Portion, General Cemetery Goulburn Blacksmith
Died at 61 Emma Street Eastgrove, Goulburn. Informant of death James A Nevill, Brother in law Certified by Ada Ewing, daughter of Waverley: Witness W (?) C Ewing
Baptism ref # 1853 550 70.
Goulburn Evening Penny Post 7/3/1911 reported "Charles died of heart failure following on complications. Many years ago had a blacksmith's shop where Salvation Army Barracks now stand (in Auburn St)."
1882 District Directory shows a Clifford St address of Blacksmith forge.
Sarah McFarling, servant of Goulburn in 1865 when married. Witnesses Grace McFarling
(spelling as in register) and J A Woodhill. Civil Reg #840.
Second wife was Annie Elizabeth Nevill,age 33, Tailoress of Goulburn in 1899.
Marriage witnesses Nathaniel Nevill & James N Nevill.
1899 usual address 35 Surrey St Darlinghurst. Listed as Shoeing smith & Coach smith

Sarah McFarling MCFARLANE

Death registration #1918. Cause of death; Acute bronchitus & phthisis.
Religion, Wesleyan/ Presb. Birth reg #V18424324 47. Ref roll #5016 refer 5307
Baptised by Rev Garrie DD. Witness at marriage Grace McFarline. NB McFarline.
No reference to her parents in church marriage records.
NB McFarlane at birth. Some records show spelling as McFarling.
Rookwood old CoE Section CCC Grave 362.

Daniel McFarlane (MACFARLINE)

Resided at King St Newtown in August 1844 & Goulburn 1847.
Resided at Auburn St Goulburn around 1871. Lived in Goulburn 1848 and 1871
at least, may have lived there after that time. Source, Pioneer Register of
Goulburn & District pre 1860. Presbyterian & Church of England.
Marriage reg #1841665 25C & V1841161 44B. Both illerate at marriage.
Had lived with son John at Crown St. Surry Hills for 8 months.

Susannah (Susan) PARTRIDGE

Baptised see old records. entry 8051 vol 1 1825. Church of England. Source document for birth "The Pioneers Register" Vol XXIV. Marriage #665 25C
Birth reg # V18258051 1C AND V434 10 AND 31 44A.

Susannah (Susan) Partridge b. 20 Aug 1825, Port Macquarie,, 29 June 1827, St Thomas' (Co Ayr), (daughter of Stephen Partridge and Sarah Williams)

m. 9 Nov 1841, in St Thomas' C o E, Port Macquarie, Daniel McFarlane, b. c1815, Sydney NSW, (son of John McFarlane and Grizel (Grace) Johnston) occupation Bootmaker, Free, d. 5 April 1896, Liverpool asylum, buried: 6 April 1896, Liverpool Presbyterian Cemetery.

Susannah died 28 Oct 1891, Redfern, buried: 30 Oct 1891, Rookwood C o E. Baptised see old records. entry 8051 vol 1 1825. Church of England.

Lived in Auburn St Goulburn in 1871. Died at 213 Bullananing St, buried next to daughter, Jane Morrison.

Daniel: Resided at King St Newtown in August 1844 & Goulburn 1847. Resided at Auburn St Goulburn around 1871. Lived in Goulburn 1848 and 1871 at least, may have lived there after that time. Source, Pioneer Register of Goulburn & District pre 1860. Presbyterian & Church of England. Marriage reg #1841665 25C & V1841161 44B. Both illerate at marriage. Had lived with son John at Crown St. Surry Hills for 8 months.

Mary Ann MCFARLING

Baptised see old records 1851 vol 1239 record 52. Presbyterian
Birth reg # v18541239 52

John MCFARLING

Baptised see old records 1850 (?) vol 1240 record 52, Presbyterian
Birth reg V18541240 52. Lived at Crown St Surry Hills in 1896.

William MCFARLING

Lived at Bourke St Goulburn in 1896.

Joseph MCFARLANE

Birth reg #6755. Death reg 3572.

James MCFARLANE

Death reg 13053.Lived at Leichhardt in 1896.

Stephen PARTRIDGE

Arrived Sydney 7-2-1814 ship "General Hewitt" asCorporal 46th Regiment.

Source document on marriage and family, "The Pioneers Register" Vol XXIV
New source James Mc Clellands' "Convict & Pioneer History" Page 102 List of early pioneers stated Stephen appointed 1st Superintendent of Convicts
at Port Macquarie 30 Nov 1821. Salary 50 pounds per year.
Death reg # 529. Marriage ref #v1816959 3A & V1816232 7. 1830, Innkeeper at Port Macquarie.

See separate publication on his progeny.

Stephen Partridge b. Jan 1793, Crewherne, Somersetshire, England, 30 June 1793, Crewherne, occupation Superintendent of Convict,

m. (1) 19 Aug 1811, in Brixham, Devon, England, Sarah Cook, b. c1780, d. Oct 1811, England, m.

(2) 2 Dec 1816, in St Phillip's Sydney, Sarah Williams, b. c1801, Sydney, occupation Born Colony, d. 27 April 1831, Port Macquarie, St Thomas (Co Ayr), buried: 29 April 1831, St Thomas' Port Macquarie,

m. (3) 18 March 1834, in Port Macquarie, Julia Cotterdown, b. 1811, Bantry, County Cork, Ireland, occupation Convict servant, d. 26 May 1889, Port Macquarie, buried: 28 May 1889, C of E section Port Macquarie.

Stephen died 18 July 1878, St Thomas' Port Macquarie, buried: 21 July 1878, Historic Pioneer Cemetery, Port Macquari.

He enlisted into the British Army in 1811 to the 46th Foot (South Devon's Regiment). On 19 August 1811 he married Sarah Cook at Brixham, Devon, just a few miles from the Army Establishment, and she died the same year.

He arrived in the Colony on the 7 February 1814, as one of the Military detail attached to the transport, General Hewitt. On 2 December 1816, he married Sarah, the daughter of James and Rachael Williams at St. Phillip's Church, Sydney.

Transferring to the 48th Regiment (Northumberland) upon the departure of the 46th regiment to India, his future progression in the Colony saw him appointed Overseer of the Lumber Yard prior to his retirement from the Army, to become Superintendent of Convicts and Public Works attached to the penal settlement at Port Macquarie. 30 Nov 1821. Salary 50 pounds per year.

Arriving with his wife and two children, Thomas and Jane, on 21 April 1821; in the following seven months, he was able to report the construction of a residence for the Commandant, Captain Allman, four weatherboard barracks to house the Military Personnel and Officials attached to the settlement, large huts to accommodate three hundred convicts, a provision store, a granary, and a Guard-House.

In 1828, as a result of the Commissioner's Enquiry Report, his conduct came under their notice; particularly in regard to him being a considerable dealer on the settlement, trafficking with the prisoners and with imputations that he was feeding his stock with Government grain.

His resignation as Superintendent of Convicts preceded the closure of the penal settlement, and he was successful in obtaining the Landlordship of the "New Inn", the licence he held for three years.

Following this, he obtained the position of an ordinary constable and held it until 1862.

He was originally granted 640 acres and had sold this to Major A.C. Innes. Today the area is known as Thrumster, and situated on the Oxley Highway 10 kilometers from Port Macquarie.

He had other small holdings. In 1831, his wife Sarah died, by whom they had seven children, five of whom were born in Pt. Macquarie.

In 1834 he married Julia Cotterdown, an Irish convict assigned to his service; a union which produced another family of children. He died aged 88 years, 6 months, six weeks and 4 days, on 18 July 1878, from decay caused by old age; and was buried on 21 July 1878, from St. Thomas' Church.

His wife Julia died on 26 May 1889, and is buried in the General Cemetery. Marriage ref #v1816959 3A & V1816232 7. Death reg # 529.

Stephen Partridge was a juror in the inquest of John Egan's murder in February 1828.

The "New Inn" was located in Allman St. (now Hay Street). Frances (Fanny) Murray was a female convict assigned to Stephen Partridge. She was tried on 11 October 1836 for "absenting herself from her Master's house" and reprimanded. William Belcher was a male convict assigned to Stephen Partridge.

Sarah WILLIAMS

Source document "The Pioneers Regist r" Vol XXIV
Death reg # V183113 44B AND V18311649 15 AND V18319555 2C. Moved to Port Macquarie in 1816.

Stephen PARTRIDGE

Source document for birth "The Pioneers Register" Vol XXIV. Birth ref #6563 1
Birth ref #v18174165 1B & V1817144 6. Marriage ref #v18341323 18 & v183430
44B

Rachel Frances PARTRIDGE

Source document for birth "The Pioneers Register" Vol XXIV.
Birth roll 5016 ref 33.

Grace MCFARLING

Baptised see old records 1844 record 94 (?) vol 139 Presbyterian
Birth reg V184494 139. Marriage # 18682300.

Rachel MCFARLING

Baptised see old records 1848 vol 1238 record 52. Presbyterian
Birth reg v18541238 52

James WILLIAMS

1st Fleet Marine 23rd Company on "Sirius". See Mollie Gillen "The Founders". From "The Founders of Australia"; "James Williams was a Private Marine 23rd (Portsmouth) company, He joined 'Sirius" as part of the ship's compliment on 24 February 1787.

He joined the Marine Corps on 16 March 1872 and served in the East Indies in 1783-85.

From Port Jackson on 2 October 1788 he was sent to Norfolk Island by "Golden Grove", having made a will to William Stanley on 30 August.
At Norfolk Island on 26 April 1789 Williams received 24 lashes after a quarrel with a fellow Marine (12 for the quarrel and 12 for fighting in the hut of a convict.)

He returned to Port Jackson by "Supply" on 12 February 1791 and in March was discharged from the ships books to the Port Jackson detachment,, RNSW Regiment (Rum Corps)

Deciding to become a settler, he returned to Norfolk Island by "Atlantic" on 26 October 1791 and was given 60 acres on the left of Cascade Road, Phillipsberg, selling grain to the stores from 1792. It has been established this grant was never gazetted.

He left the island in September 1792 by "Atlantic" and joined the NSW Corps. He was back at Norfolk Island in 1793, arriving by "Kitty" in February.

He was transferred back to Sydney at the end of 1794 and discharged from the company of George Johnson in October 1799. Williams transferred to the Invalid (later Veteran) Company in 1810. By September 1808 he had served 26 years 234 days; he was then aged 48 years and six months.

Born at Rixham (Wrexham) Denbligh, Wales, he was a blacksmith, 5ft 8 ins tall, with a long dark complexioned face, black hair and hazel eyes.

In 1806 Williams was living with Rachael Watkins (Neptune 1790) who in that year was recorded with one son and three daughters; Susannah (b1792), Ann (b1794) and Michael (b c1802). She was sent to Norfolk Island in August 1790 and returned to Port Jackson after 1796. The date at which her relationship commenced with Willaims is uncertain.

He was on guard duty at South Head when he died on 16 March 1820. His burial was registered at St Phillip's Sydney and possibly died or was buried at Concord, age given as 70.

His wife and several of her children later worked for the manufacturer Simeon Lord at Botany where Rachael died on 10 February 1840, aged about 80.

Rachel WATKINS

Arrived in Sydney aboard the "Neptune" 28 June 1790. See published notes from "Women of the Neptune".

May have been married on Norfolk Island, with 100+ couples, by Rev Richard Johnson, no records reached NSW.

Cert of Freedom noted 16 June 1810, Sydney Gazette.

"1790 to 1854" book notes she had twin grandsons in 1828 Muster. See published notes from "Women of the Neptune". From "Britian's Grim Convict Armada of 1790" by Michael Flynn, located in the Library of Australian History.

"Rachel Watkins was sentenced to seven years transportation to America, at the March 1785 Hereford Assizes for the theft of goods in two burgularies in August 1784 at Wormbridge and Allensmore. She remained in Hereford Gaol until 1789 when she was sent with three other women to London for embarkation on the "Neptune" transport. The Neptune (809 tons) embarked 424 males and 147 females of which 147 males and 11 females died at sea on the 160 day voyage. Departed Portsmouth 19 January 1790.

On 1 August 1790, after landing at Sydney Cove, Watkins was among 194 male and female convicts sent to Norfolk Island on the "Surprise".
She was an energetic and independent woman: in early 1791, apparently, she was allowed a piece of land at Charlotte Field (Queensborough) under Major Grose's plan to encourage convicts to support themselves independently (only three other Second Fleet women Elizabeth Douglass, Catherine Heyland and Mary Tuck,qqv, were allowed land on the same basis). In February 1791 a government sow was issued to Watkins, who shared it with the First Fleet convicts Jeremiah Leary and Joseph Paget. Both men were themselves cultivating plots in Queensborough. All three were probably still required to do some
government work, but allowed time to care for their vegetables and maize.

By 1793 Paget was living with Jane Brooks(qv).

Leary lived on the island until he died in 1807.

By 1 July 1791 Watkins had cleared 47 rods of her land. Her sentence expired in March 1792.

Watkins bore two daughters; Susannah (May 1792) and Ann (June 1794) and was still on the island with them in late 1796. Between 1797 and 1801 she returned to Sydney, bearing two more children Sarah (c1798) and Michael (c1803).

In 1806 she was recorded as living with the First Fleet Marine James Williams, a blacksmith and marine who had been sent to the island in 1788 and elected to stay there when the Marines were recalled.

He sailed for Sydney in 1792 where he joined the NSW Corps. He returned to the island in February 1793. He appears to have sailed for Sydney in October 1794.
Williams was certainly the father of the youngest child and probably fathered all of Rachel's children, no document linking the couple in 1790s has been traced and surviving documents of 1791 do suggest that Rachel was unattached in that year.

He transferred to the colonial Veteran Company when the Corps was withdrawn in 1810 and was stationed at South Head when he died in March 1820.

In 1822 Rachel sailed for Newcastle on the "Elizabeth Henrietta" and on to Port Macquarie with her son Michael to live with her daughter Sarah, wife of Stephen Partridge, Superintendent of Convicts there.

By 1828 Rachael, age given as 69, and other family members were employed by Simeon Lord at Botany. She died there on 10 February 1840 and was interred at Elizabeth Street Burial Ground (on the site of modern Central Railway Station, Sydney) on the 12th, her age given as 98 (but probably nearer 81).

Michael (Richard) WILLIAMS

1828 Muster shows him at Port Macquarie. Was apprentice carpenter at Port
Macquarie lumber yard in 1822 following request by brother in law, Stephen
Partridge (reel 60669 4/3506 page 51) and his passage from Sydney to Port
Macquarie (6009 4/3506 page 51).