4. The Moore family becomes established in Ilford area, NSW

In one generation, the Moores went from being convict and free immigrants to land-owners and established residents in the Ilford area of the Central West of NSW. We must bear in mind that they were the beneficiaries of the massacres of the original inhabitants of the land, the Wiradjuri people. 

Their prospects and fortunes, apart from a few minor brushes with the law, far outstripped their compatriots back in Ireland. They had been establishing themselves in trades and as farmers during the years of the Potato Famine back home. The 1860s in Ireland saw an increase in political activity aiming towards Home Rule. In 1858 in the US, John O'Mahony founded the Fenians, a secret militant organisation echoing in its name the Fianna - the warrior band of the legendary Celtic hero Finn McCool.

 
A branch is founded in Ireland by James Stephens, whose Irish Fenians call themselves the Irish Republican Brotherhood. In Ireland during 1867 various ineffectual attempts at uprising are put down Nevertheless there are explosions, violent deaths and executions as Fenians try to spring their arrested colleagues from police custody. 

Read more here 

At the time this was going on, twelve thousand miles away the Moores were buying land in Ilford (then called Kean's Swamp) and nearby.

Laurence Moore 1783 Queen's County/Laois, Ireland - 1836 Mulgoa, NSW (4th great grandfather)

On his arrival as a convict Laurence worked at Harrington Park as an assigned convict. After Mary, Daniel and John arrived, he was assigned to Mary, and they resided in Sydney. In the 1828 census they were living in George Street.  At that time he was an assigned servant, working as a labourer, but also had three head of cattle and employed a labourer named Patrick Murphy. (Piddington)

In 1836 they appear to be still living in Sydney, because Laurence is twice recorded as entering Sydney Gaol.

Laurence is recorded as entering gaol in January 1836. He was 5 ft 7 inches tall, stout, with a pale complexion, grey hair and hazel eyes. He had a tattoo of "mother" on his chest with a crucifix. The does not appear to be any detail about what he was in gaol for.

In March he was arrested for allegedly having stolen a hat from John Monk near the Market Wharf on Darling Harbour. The two men were walking together along Sussex St late on the evening of 28 March when the alleged offence occurred. Laurence was sent to Sydney Gaol on 30 March to await trial which took place on 23 April. He was found not guilty.

The description of him on entry to gaol was that he was grey-haired with a pale complexion. His occupation was labourer, and his year of birth given as 1783.

Not long after, Laurence died. His death is listed in the Register of Coroners' Inquests for 27 November 1837. Cause of death was given as "Visitation of God", which meant "natural causes" in today's parlance. There is no record of a Death Certificate.

He was buried at Sir John's Cemetery in Regentville, not far from Mulgoa. His headstone was inscribed:

"Erected by Michael Moore in
Memory of his father
Laurence Moore Who
Departed this life on
The eighth day of October
1836, aged 53 years.
Request in pace"









The cemetery where Laurence was buried was established by Sir John Jamison, owner of Regentville estate, for his Irish tenants. It was also used by other Catholic families in the area. It was situated on a hill overlooking the Nepean Valley and Blue Mountains. It is located in Lilac Place, Jamisontown.

Source: Penrith City Local History website 

Cemetery from Google maps

Mary Moore 1788 Ireland - 1852 Penrith NSW (4th great grandmother)

As little is known of Mary's life after her arrival in Australia as before.

Mary and Laurence had a daughter, Mary, born in Sydney the year after her arrival. She and Laurence were sponsors at the baptism of James and Margaret Russell's son John in September 1832 and Mary witnessed the marriage of her son Michael to Maria Ring in March 1834.

She seems to have been living with Michael and Maria at Mulgoa at the 1841 Census. The entry for the family includes a woman aged between 45 and 60. Mulgoa is not far distant from where Laurence was buried.

Mary Moore of Mulgoa was buried on 19 November 1852 by a Catholic priest, Michael Brennan, somewhere in the parish of Penrith. The burial register includes a ship's name Thames of London. It is not known in which cemetery she was buried, but as Michael erected a headstone to his father at St John's Cemetery in Regentville, near Mulgoa, she may have been buried with Laurence. 

Moving west 

Aboriginal Land

Laurence and Mary's sons Daniel, and then Michael, were the first of the Moores to buy land in Ilford in 1860 and 1861 respectively. 

The first Australians from this area are identified as the Mudgee and the Dabee people and are clans of the Wiradjuri nation.

A massacre has been documented at the Turon River on 1 September 1824 when a three-pronged attack by armed soldiers in daylight took place. 45 Wiradjuri men, women and children were driven into a swamp and killed.  Another took place in the vicinity of Rylstone on 5  -10 September 1824, when Chamberlaine, William Cox's overseer at Mudgee and two stockmen killed 16 Wiradjuri, probably all men, including a leader known by the settlers as Blucher. Source here.  

Blücher was a Prussian Field Marshall, an ally of the British, who earned his greatest recognition after leading his army against Napoleon at the Battle of The Nations at Leipzig in 1813 and the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. According to his biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1911), Blucher retained, to the end of his life, the wildness and tendency to excesses which had caused his dismissal from the army in his youth, but these faults sprang from an ardent and vivid temperament which made him a leader of people. While by no means a military genius, his sheer determination and ability to spring back from errors made him a competent leader. A popular German idiom, ran wie Blücher ("charge like Blücher"), meaning that someone is taking very direct and aggressive action, in war or otherwise, refers to Blücher.

A curious nickname for the British colonists to give an Aboriginal Elder, perhaps signifying some respect? 

Introduced diseases and illnesses also took a severe toll. The Rylstone history webpage also adds: 

"Dislocation of Aboriginal culture...advanced rapidly. The last coroborees known in Rylstone or its hinterland were held on the Mudgee hills in the 1850s. The dramatic increase in European population as a result of the gold rushes in the 1850s forced many Aboriginal peoples to retreat to the plateau above Hill End and exacerbated their alienation from traditional hunting grounds and campsites."

Bourke by Martin Archer Shee (c. 1837–1850)

On 26 August 1835, the Governor of NSW, Sir Richard Bourke issued a proclamation through the Colonial Office which implemented the doctrine of terra nullius by proclaiming that Indigenous Australians could not sell or assign land, nor could a person acquire it, other than through distribution by the crown. This principle, that there was no land ownership in Australia prior to settlement by the British Crown, stood until the Mabo Decision of the high Court in 1992.

The proclamation was prompted by John Batman, who when establishing a settlement which is now Melbourne, agreed to a treaty with the local Aboriginal inhabitants. Bourke's proclamation effectively declared Batman's treaty null and void and implemented the concept of terra nullius.

In other ways Burke was reasonably enlightened: he abolished the established church - the church of England, and gave all churches equal footing, and he was keen on the emancipation of convicts. Although a British Army officer, he was Irish-born, and a Whig. 

Laurence and Mary's descendants 

1. Michael Moore 1810 Laois, Ireland - 1872 Ilford, NSW (3rd great grandfather)

Michael married Maria Ring (3rd great grandmother - see separate entry) at St Mary's Church in Sydney on 16 March 1834. Maria arrived from Ireland as a 21 year old servant on the Red Rover, a 'bride ship' in August 1832. 

Michael and Maria spent the first few years together in the Mulgoa / Penrith / Windsor / Emu Plains district, during which time their six sons were born. 

At the 1841 Census, the Moore family were residing at Henry Cox's property "Glenmore", Mulgoa. There was also an older woman, most likely Michael's mother Mary. 

House which was the Plough Inn

In 1857 and 1858, Michael held the licence for the 'Turon Inn' at Running Stream on the main road between Mudgee and Sydney. In 1861 he opened the 'Plough Inn' at Kean's Swamp (as Ilford was then known). On 16 July 1861, Michael bought a forty acre block to the west of the village at Tara Creek. Michael farmed that land as well as running the inn. He was variously described as an 'inn-keeper' and 'farmer'. His sons also bought neighbouring blocks. They and their descendants were farmers and carriers, farmers and bee-keepers, farmers and mail-contractors, farmers and butchers, farmers and prospectors. 

Michael died on 26 September 1872, aged 62. 

Ilford Cemetery, general view

Maria outlived him by 20 years, and also outlived three of her six children. She died on 16 April 1895 aged 87. She and Michael are buried together at Ilford Cemetery. 

Children of Michael and Maria née Ring

Michael and Maria's six sons all married, mostly to young women from the Ilford area. 

John Fairfield and Catherine (née Byrne)

• John Fairfield (2nd great grandfather), born 1835 in Windsor, died 10 June 1869 at Round Swamp, married Catherine Byrne (2nd great grandmother) - see next chapter, born July 1833 in Carlow, Ireland, died 8 April 1914 at 'Tara', Ilford, aged 83.  John and Catherine remained at Round Swamp for the first few years. In 1862, he bought two blocks totalling just over 40 acres not far from his father's farm on Tara Creek, and named the property "The Willow", John died of a "low fever" at Tara Creek in1869 aged 34, leaving Catherine with seven young children. With the help of her sons, Catherine kept the farm going.  The eldest, Johnny, was 13 when his father died. Johnny lived to 91 years of age, and never married. he remained on 'The Willow' for most of his life, as did his brother Thomas "Dadder"(great grandfather), who married Fanny Weatherly (great grandmother) in 1893. They had 14 children. The property was enlarged by further purchases. Additional sources of income for the large family included the mail run between Ilford and Sofala.                         

• Laurence Ring, born 1835 at Mulgoa, died 28 March 1908 at Lithgow, married Esther Piesley in 1861, and following her death, Mary Finn in 1894
• Thomas, born 1836 at Mulgoa, died 1876 at Rylstone, married Frances Fitzpatrick in 1860. He died of typhoid and was buried at Ilford.
• Michael, born about 1840 at Mulgoa, died 1919 in Inverell. He married Eleanor (Ellen) Barnaby, daughter of an Inn-keeper at Round Swamp in 1866. 
• Frederick, born 13 September 1842 at Penrith, died 1893, married Anne Murray, daughter of a local farmer. They later moved to Queensland. 
• Robert, born 1845 at Emu Plains, died 9 April 1907 at Lithgow, married Harriet Giles, daughter of a local farmer and sister of Bridget Giles who married his cousin Daniel Bede Moore. Robert also died of typhoid and was buried at Bowenfels. 

Children of John Fairfield and Catherine (née Byrne)

• John (Johnnie), born 12 December 1855 at St Marys, died 5 November 1946 'The Willow', Ilford. Never married.
• Michael, born 11 August 1857 at Round Swamp, died 1908 at Ilford
• Maria, born 1 May 1859 at Round Swamp, died 1939 at Parramatta, married Samuel Stackpoole
• Thomas "Dadder" (Great Grandfather), born 21 February 1861 at Round Swamp, died 2 November 1935 at Mudgee, married Fanny Weatherly, born 1872 Rylstone, died 6 July 1949 at Kandos. They had 14 children! One of them was Thessel Agnes - Tessa- (Grandmother) who married Ted Briggs. 

Tom and Fanny Moore and the girls in the family

• Robert Lawrence (Bob), born 16 December 1863 at Kean's Swamp, died 24 October 1949 at Rylstone, married Hannah Russell
• Daniel Joseph (Dan), born 12 January 1866 at Kean's Swamp, died 11 July 1945 at Ilford, married Catherine Minehan
• Mary Bridget, born 8 May 1868 at Rylstone
• Agnes, born 1869 at Kean's Swamp, died 1959 at Rylstone, married James Guthrie

Dan, Bob and Johnnie Moore

Children of Thomas "Dadder" and Fanny née Weatherly

     (i)    Percy Hayden, born 1893 at Rylstone

Mel and Hayden Moore

     (ii)   Norman Thomas, born 1895, died 1980

Norman Moore

Norman and Eileen with children Bernard and Yvonne

    (iii)   Hilda Celestine, born 1897 at Rylstone, died 1944, married Thomas Partlett

    (iv)   Volney George, born 1899 Rylstone, married Kathleen Ritchie

    (v)    Thessel Agnes 'Tessa', born 27 February 1901 in Rylstone, died 8 August 1959, married Ted Briggs

Wedding of Tessa Moore and Ted Briggs at Moore house, Ilford

Tess Moore and Ted Briggs wedding

Tessa and Ted Briggs in the 1940s

Tessa Briggs née Moore

    (vi)   Daphne, born 1903 at Rylstone, died 1994 at Rylstone, married Douglas Neil Mills

Daphne Moore

    (vii)  Sylvia Mary, born 1904 at Rylstone, died 2001, married Earl Reynolds

Mary Moore and Earl Reynolds

    (viii) Doris Valerie, born 1906 at Rylstone

    (ix)   Colin Ernest, born 12 January 1909 at Rylstone, died 1997, married Marjorie

    (x)    Kathleen Beatrice, born 1910 at Rylstone

    (xi)   Irene, born 1912

    (xii)  Veronica Catherine, born 1914 at Rylstone, died 1994 at Mudgee

    (xiii) Iris J, born about 1916 at Rylstone

    (xiv)  Mavis E, born about 1918 at Rylstone

Daphne, Doris and Mary Moore. Baby ? 

2. Daniel Moore 1812 Ireland - 15 July 1868 Ilford, NSW (4th great uncle)

Daniel was apprenticed to James Russell as a blacksmith at the 1828 census and continued in that trade all his life. It appears he spent several years in the Maitland district, then moved to Mudgee and later to Ilford. 

Daniel's wife was Margaret Russell (née Moore), the widow of James Russell. They were married when he was 21 according to his death certificate. There is no record of the marriage in NSW. 

According to his death certificate, Daniel had nine children, four of whom pre-deceased him. The five living when he died were: 

• Daniel Bede, born 1835 - worked with his father as a blacksmith and also bought a number of larger blocks between the Sofala and Razorback Roads in Warrangunia Parish. He appears to be the only child who stayed in Ilford. He followed his father's trade and became a blacksmith, continuing to operate the smithy for some time after his father's death. In 1864 he married Bridget Giles, whose father was a police officer and later a publican at Sofala. Daniel had already bought land between Ilford and Sofala which, with additional purchases over time, became the property known as "Taraena" still owned by his descendants. He died in 1920 and was buried in Ilford. 
• Mary, born about 1837
• Ellen, born about 1840 - married a horse-breaker named George Light at Mudgee in 1863.
• Catherine (known as Kate Maria), born about 1842 - married in 1861 to Thomas Readford, whose family lived near Ilford. Died in Orange in 1877, following the birth of her tenth child. Buried in Orange.  
• Lawrence, born about 1845 - went north as a young man and spent the rest of his life in Queensland or northwestern NSW. He married Mary Anderson at St George in 1869. After working as a bullock driver around St George and as a stockman on various stations in the border district, he selected a block of land at Goodooga in NW NSW which he later transferred to Mary's step-father Beaumont Broadbent. Lawrence later selected another beside it. The two blocks together known as "Dhuroo" were the family home from 1875 until the early 1900s. Lawrence and Mary's nine surviving children grew up there and two others died as infants and are buried there. While at "Dhuroo" the challenges the family faced included a flood in 1890 which occurred while Mary was at home alone with the younger children and elderly parents. They were forced to take refuge on a nearby sandhill with no food except some flour and dripping until Lawrence was able to return. the waterhole near where the family lived is still known as Moore's Lagoon. 
  
  
  Lawrence later lived at Augathella, Queensland where his son Larry had a small property. He died at his daughter's home near Thallon, Old in 1924 and is buried in the Thallon Cemetery. 
  
  
  Two of Lawrence and Mary's sons served in France in World War 1. Tom was killed at Bullecourt in 1917 and is buried in an unmarked grave in a location described as "in the vicinity of Maricourt Wood." He is commemorated on the memorial at Villers-Bretonneux. 
  
  
  Tom's brother Richard was seriously wounded but recovered. 

Margaret is believed to have died in Sydney in 1845, not long after Lawrence was born. 

Margaret had three children with James Russell

• James, born 2 June 1826 at Parramatta, died 31 August 1886 at Camperdown
• Elizabeth, born 19 June 1830 in Sydney, died 17 September 1903 at Oatlands
• John, born 2 March 1832 at Sydney, died 25 August 1907 in Toowoomba

After Margaret's death, Daniel established a relationship with a widow named Johanna Looney née Noonan. They were both arrested on forgery-related charges at Mudgee in 1849, having apparently come into town to be married. Johanna was acquitted, but Daniel, who had also been tried shortly before on a desperate charge of forgery, was sentenced to three years ion road gang on 22 September 1849.  After serving a little over a year, he was freely and unconditionally pardoned on 18 October 1850.

Johanna was pregnant when she was arrested and gave birth to twin girls in Bathurst gaol. They were born in 1849 and named Margaret and Mary. 

The relationship between Daniel and Johanna appears to have continued for a while after he was released from prison, but ended well before his death. Current members of both families were unaware of it until recently. A descendent of one of the twins contacted the Moore family a few years ago, having discovered the connection to Daniel. 

When he entered prison Daniel was described as being 5 feet 61/2 inches tall, of stout build, with hazel eyes, a 'fresh' or 'pale' complexion, and 'brown' or 'dark' hair. 

On 7 May 1860 he bought a 5 acre block of land on which he established a smithy. It was in the village of Ilford on the Mudgee Road near the intersection with the Sofala Road.

Daniel was the first of the Moore family to own land in the Ilford area. Within a year his brother Michael purchased his farm. The descendants of the two brothers live in the area today. 

Daniel died suddenly on 15 July 1868 of a ruptured blood vessel and was buried at Round Swamp. His gravestone was erected by his sister-in-law Maria Moore (née Ring). The inscription reads: 

Sacred to the memory of Daniel Moore who departed this life July 16th 1868, aged 52 years. May he Rest In Peace

All you that my grave do see
Prepare yourselves to follow me
Repent in time, Make no delay,
For I, in haste, was called away. 

Erected by his affectionate sister-in-law, Maria Moore

3. John Moore 1813 Laois, Ireland - ? 1868 Mudgee  (4th great uncle)

John was apprenticed as a baker in 1828. 

He was arrested in Sydney and entered Darlinghurst Gaol on 12 October 1836 to await trial. He was discharged after trial on 1 November 1836. The gaol record describes him as 5 ft 11 inches tall, with a sallow complexion, black hair and hazel eyes, and his trade as blacksmith. 

John Moore of Mulgoa (the same location as his mother and brother Michael married Catherine Dolan at St Nicholas Church, Penrith on 29 January 1855. Catherine was from The Sugar Loaf, which is not far east of Ilford. Witnesses at the marriage were John Byrne of Mount Vernan and Maria Moore (who would be Michael's wife) of Mulgoa. 

A John Moore who had been in the colony for 43 years, that is, arrived in 1826, died at Lawson's Creek in 1868 and was buried at Mudgee. No information about his family is included in his death certificate and his age was stated to be 67, not 55. 

There are numerous people born in NSW, some around Rylstone, in the years after 1855 with parents named as John and Catherine Moore.

4. Mary Moore 1827, Sydney NSW -  (4th great aunt)

Nothing is known about Mary other than she was 11 months old at the 1828 Census. 

For the information in this chapter I am indebted to Bob Starling and his publication Thames Immigration Ship Cork Ireland to Port Jackson, Sydney 1825-1826 Volume 2. Published October 2012, held in the collection of the Society of Australian Genealogists in Sydney. 

Information also sourced from Over Cherry Tree Hill: 150 Years of Pioneer Settlement edited by Margaret Piddington, The Cherry Tree Hill Community Press, Ilford, 1989.

21. From England: George and Sarah (née Garraway) Weatherley (Briggs lineage)

The Weatherl(e)ys from Ruislip and Pinner

The Weatherlys hail from the Ruislip and Pinner areas of Middlesex, which are now an affluent part of greater northwest London, near Harrow.  Their name has variously been spelt Weatherly and Weatherley. The current family 

The Ruislip parish church, St Martin's, dates to the 13th century and remains in use. An earlier church is believed to have been built during the Norman period, as a stone was found within the grounds with markings from that time. The name St. Martin is believed to have been given to the church by the monks of the Bec Abbey, after Martin of Tours, a saint in Normandy. 

The buildings at the northern end of Ruislip High Street form the core of the original village square and are now Grade II listed. It originally featured a central water pump which was moved out of the road in the 1970s as a result of increased traffic.

[London : Cassell & Co., 1883]. An  antique print of the old parish church of St. Martin and the centre of the nineteenth-century village. Originally produced for the part-work “Greater London : A Narrative of its History, its People and its Places” published between 1882 and 1884.

Wood engraving on paper. Later hand colour.  See here 

“Pinner [was] primarily a place of people getting their living from the land, but by 1800 things were ready for a change. Many people had already sold their rights in their small pieces of land to more prosperous farmers and over the next couple of decades what remained of the great fields to the south were privatised, most small owners being bought out. This was the first great change in Pinner since medieval times and made it a place of a few farmers and many agricultural labourers. 

Pinner. 1828 Engraving by G Cooke Views in London and its vicinity, 1834 

“The population of Pinner rose in the early 19th century as it did in the country as a whole. Most were ordinary folk who were accommodated in new houses added to the existing hamlets or along roadsides leading from them, on small plots created by the privatisation. The occupants worked on local farms, set up or assisted in the extra shops or businesses required by the greater numbers, or became servants.”  - Pinner Local History Society

The early Weatherleys

William Weatherley and his wife Martha - 8th great grandparents - had three sons. James - 7th great grandfather - was born in 1636 in Middlesex and baptised 27 November 1636 at St Giles, Ickenham, Middlesex. Brothers Richard was born in 1638 and Thomas in 1640. 

Who James married is unknown, but he had a son James - 6th great grandfather - who was baptised on 8 March 1673 at St Mary the Virgin, Harefield, Middlesex. He married Ann Gladman (6th great grandmother) on 27 January 1698 at St Martin Outwich. Ann was born in 1678 and died in 1733.

James and Ann had children Mary (1697 -), James - 5th great grandfather - , Hannah (1702 -1703), William (1704 -) and Richard (1714 -)

James - 5th great grandfather - was born in 1700 in Rusilip and baptised 27 March 1700 at St Mary the Virgin, Harefield. He was buried in St Martin’s Ruislip 4 Dec, 1783, aged 83. He married Hannah Curwen - 5th great grandmother - on 18 June 1740 at St Mary’s, Harrow, Middlesex. Hannah was born about 1715 and died in 1759 at Ruislip.

James and Hannah’s son William - 4th great grandfather - was born in Ruislip in 1750, married Mary née Fearn - 4th great grandmother - on 26 Jan 1777 at Ruislip. He died in 1804 at Ruislip, aged about 54. Mary was baptised 7 June 1752 at St Martin’s Ruislip. She died in Ruislip in 1834, aged about 82.

We know with certainty of one child of William and Mary, John - 3rd great grandfather - born 27 Feb 1785 in Ruislip. He and Penelope Reading - 3rd great grandmother - were married 2 Sep 1822 at St John the Baptist, Hillingdon, Middlesex.

There may have been other children, for example James - listed at 1841 Census as a publican aged 65 (born about 1776) and William - listed at Census 1841 as an agricultural labourer aged 60 ( born about 1781), These two names would fit as family names - James being grandfather and William as father.

John and Penelope (née  Reading) Weatherley and children Ralph, George, John and Joseph.

At the 1841 census, taken 6 June 1841, there were various Weatherleys living in the Ruislip and Pinner areas. William and Mary, parents of John were both dead by then.

John, and his wife, Penelope are listed, with four children. Second son George - 2nd great grandfather - is the one who emigrated to Australia.

1841 Census : Middlesex - Pinner - District 12. Hundred: Gore

Address: 20 Pinner Green
John Weatherley age 50 Agricultural Labourer
Penelope 45
Ralph 18 or 15 Agricultural Labourer
George 14 Agricultural Labourer
John 10
Joseph 8

[Note about ages: The ages of people over 15 years old were usually rounded down to the nearest 5 years. For example, someone who was actually 24 years would have their age listed as 20, and someone who was actually 27 years old would have their age listed as 25.]

George was baptised on 8 July 1827. He married Sarah Garraway in 1852 in Pinner.

1851 Census 

By the 1851 Census (taken 30 March), Penelope Weatherley was a widow. Her husband, John had died 5 Feb 1848, in Pinner, aged 62. Penelope was aged 54, and her occupation was Laundress. Her address was Pinner Common, where whe was living with her son, Joseph, aged 18, an agricultural labourer.

George, age 23 was living in Pinner Gardens, in a house with Alfred Bradbury and family. Bradbury was a licensed victualler - a person licensed to sell alcohol - in other words, a publican.

George’s relationship to Bradbury was listed as “servant”, and his profession Ostler. An ostler was employed to look after horses at an inn. George has moved on from agricultural labouring.

The Garraway Family

Also, living in Pinner, at the 1841 Census, was George’s future wife, Sarah Garraway and her parents James and Ann. Like George and his father, Sarah’s father was an agricultural labourer.

Address: 48 Dingles, Pinner Common.
James Garraway age 47 Ag lab
Ann Garraway 47
Sarah Garraway 9

James was born in 1794, his wife Ann, née Druce, in 1795. James' father was also James, his wife Elizabeth.

George and Sarah’s marriage and children

George and Sarah Garraway - 2nd great grandparents - married on 1 May, 1852 at the Parish Church, Pinner. George was 24, and Sarah 20; it was the day before her 21st birthday. She was listed as a “minor” on the marriage record.

Both fathers, John Weatherley and James Garraway, and George were described as labourers. Sarah’s profession was given as servant.

On 18 May, 1854, their daughter Sarah was born, and on 27 Feb, 1856, son George. Both were born in Pinner.

Emigration to Australia

The family of four emigrated to Australia aboard the Anna Maria, arriving on 25 June, 1857. It was a bounty ship carrying assisted immigrants. (Source: List of Assisted Passengers arriving in NSW). According to assisted immigration records, it appears that they were the only Weatherleys (or Weatherleys) to arrive by this method.

The family travelled fairly soon after to the Central West. Their next child, Emma, was born in 1858, in Rylstone. They settled on a forty acre block in the Kean's Swamp area (source: Margaret Piddington, ed Over Cherry Tree Hill, p 223)










George and Sarah’s children 

• Sarah b 18 May 1854, Pinner; m John Cafe, Rylstone, 1875; d 15 Oct 1921, Ilford. Aged 67
• *George - 2nd great uncle - b 27 Feb 1856, Pinner; m 1. Catherine Macbeth, Ilford 22 Dec 1879 (10 children), and 2. Mary Eileen Agnes Bowling at Turill 20 May 1911 (13 children). He died 6 March 1934 at Dunedoo, aged 78. 
• Emma b 1858 Rylstone, m 1875 Michael Murphy, Rylstone, d 1934 Ryde, aged 76 
• John b 1860 Mudgee, possibly/probably m 1915 Irene R Vidler, S Peters, d 1945 District hospital, Rylstone, aged 85 
• James b 1862 Mudgee, m 1893 Emma Tompkins, Bathurst, d 1911 Bathurst. A coroners inquest on 6 July 1911 showed that he died of suffocation by hanging - his own act. Aged 49. 
• Elizabeth b 1865 Rylstone. Two possible marriages are listed: 1897 to George Collett, at Rylstone, and 1900 to Richard Ross, at Rylstone. No record of death. 
• Mary Ann b 6 July 1867, Ilford. Probably m 1898 Samuel Erskine, Sydney. Samuel Erskine d 1916 in Charlestown. MaryA Erskine m George Cook, 1926, Waratah. d. 30July 1956, Paddington. Aged 89 
• Ann b 1869 Rylstone, d 1938 Stockton, aged 69 
• Frances (Fanny) - great grandmother - born 10 February 1872, Cunningham’s Creek married Thomas Moore - great grandfather 11 April 1893, Mudgee; died 6 July 1949, Kandos, aged 77  
• Joseph b 11 Dec 1874, Ilford, m 1902 Clara Slapp, Rylstone, d 1955 Mudgee, aged 81. Joseph was a shearer. After marriage, they rented a property, 'Round Mount', and in 1903 took up the property 'Woodbine'. More land was purchased by Joseph and descendants. Clara died in 1965 aged 90. 'Woodbine' had been sold to two of their sons, and they retired to 'Moorefield', a small property near Mudgee, later moving into the town (Piddington, ed Over Cherry Tree Hill, p 

Left: Grave of Fanny Moore, née Weatherley at Ilford Cemetery

* George’s second wife, Mary Bowling, was Aboriginal. She became pregnant to a farm owner, and George offered to marry her. They went on to raise George’s children from his first marriage, and had 12 together. George was acknowledged as the father of his second wife’s first child.

When George died, his Aboriginal family had to walk 500 metres behind and were not allowed at his graveside. 

Deaths of George and Sarah

George died on 15 Dec 1887, Sarah on 16 March 1914. Both are buried in Ilford Cemetery.

Children of Thomas and Fanny Moore (née Weatherley) 

• Percy Hayden born 1893 (32237/1893) 
• Norman T born 1895 (16699/1895), died 1980 
• Hilda Celestine born 1897 (16220/1897), m 1931 Thomas H Partlett Rylstone, d 1944 
• Volney George b 1899 (24846/1899), m 1932 Kathleen M Ritchie Rylstone 
• Thessel Agnes b 27 Feb 1901, m Edward “Ted” Briggs 1921, d 8 Aug 1959 - Grandparents
• Daphne M b 1903 (1579/1903), m 1932 Douglas Neil Mills, Mudgee, d 1994 Rylstone 
• Sylvia M b 1904 (36501/1904), m 1935 Earl V Reynolds, d 2001 
• Doris Valerie b 1906 (38821/1906) 
• Colin Ernest b 12 Jan 1909 (8158/1909) m 1938 Marjorie, d 1997 
• Kathleen Beatrice b 1910 (43197/1910), m 1935 Norman H Price, Rylstone 
• Irene B b 1912 (34511/1912) 
• Veronica Catherine b 1914 (53563/1914), d 1994 Mudgee 
• Iris J b abt 1916 
• Mavis E b abt 1918 

Meanwhile, back in England….

At the 1861 Census George and Sarah Weatherley are in Australia.
George’s siblings can be tracked through Census records. 

1. Ralph Weatherley - eldest brother of George - and family

The older brother of George, and family (3rd great uncle)

1841 - Ralph (baptised 15 Feb 1824), was living with his parents and siblings. On 11 June 1848 he married Louisa Fox (father Isaac Fox ) at Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire. She was born in Pinner.

In 1851 Ralph, an agricultural labourer, and Louisa were living at Jool (?) St, Ruislip, with no children.

Ten years later, in 1861, Ralph, now 38, and Louisa, 40, were living in Oxey Lane, Harrow (very near Pinner) had four children (1st cousins, 3 x removed) :

• 1.1 Louisa aged 8, born in Pinner 
• 1.2 Charlotte, aged 6 b Pinner
• 1.3 Ralph, aged 4, born Bushey, Middlesex
• 1.4 Joseph, aged 1, born Pinner

In 1871, their address was again Pinner. The four children were still living with them. Ralph was still a farmer’s labourer, and Louisa was a laundress. The two eldest children, Louisa (aged 17) and Charlotte (aged 15) had no profession listed. Ralph (aged 12) is a scholar (ie at school)

In 1881, only Ralph (junior) is not listed with the rest of the family. The other three siblings were still with their parents in Pinner. Ralph Snr was an agricultural labourer, wife Louisa, and daughters Louisa and Charlotte are all laundresses. Youngest son, Joseph, aged 21 is a butcher.

1.3 Ralph Junior: He married Annie Cheal (born about 1859) on 25 Dec 1881, at St Mark’s Church in St John’s Wood (Marylebone). Ralph’s address was 3 Elgin Mews. His father, Ralph, was named as a farm bailiff. The 1901 census lists them as living at the Stables, Edgcombe Hall, Wandsworth. Ralph was a coachman. The 1911 census states that they had no children. Ralph was a coachman. In 1911, Annie was a needlewoman at a Hearn laundry. They lived at 5 Coles Childs Cottages, Bromley, Kent. Ralph Jnr died in 1931, aged 74 and was buried at All Saints, Harrow. His abode at time of death was was Redhill House, Edgeware.

1n 1891 Ralph (Snr) and wife Louisa were living in Eastcote Rd, Ruislip. Charlotte (34) was living with them. She and mother, Louisa, were laundresses. Ralph Jnr was as above. Meanwhile, sister Louisa had married

1.1 Louisa (Jnr) was born in 1853 in Pinner. On 15 May, 1887 she married Thomas Nash at Ruislip. She was buried in Ruislip on 6 Jan 1922, aged 68.

Louisa and Thomas had two children (2nd cousins, 2 x removed) , Louisa Lottie b about 1890 and Thomas Joseph, born about 1891. In the 1891 census, they lived at Pinner Green. Thomas was a general labourer, born in Eastcote (Ruislip).

By 1901 their address was The Case Is Altered, and Thomas was named as a Hedge Cutter. In 1911 their address was still The Case Is Altered, and his profession was listed as a Beer House Keeper. Daughter Louisa (age 21) and son Thomas (age 20) are still living with them.

The Case is Altered is still a traditional pub in Pinner. The name originates from colloquial Spanish at the time of the Peninsula War. Case Desaltar loosely translates to Jumping House. Over the years sign writers have altered letters to try to give it an English meaning where none existed.

http://www.caseisalteredpinner.co.uk/the-case-is-altered-home.html

2. John Weatherley - younger brother of George 

John was baptised 3 May 1829, Ruislip. He didn’t marry, and died in December 1889 in Willesden, London.

The following is the most likely biography for John, however, there are several John Weatherleys.

Hillingdon House about 1900

In 1851 John, aged 19, was a baker. He was living at a large house, Hillingdon House, owned by the Cox family. There were many other servants, cooks, bakers, a curate and others. This makes sense considering the profession he later pursued. 

In 1861 John’s address was 2 Hyde Park Gardens, Paddington, and he was the Butler. Head of the house, Judith Gee, 54, and her sister Elizabeth aged 52, lived at 1 Hyde Park Gardens. They were “Fund and Landowners”

3. Joseph Weatherley - younger brother of George 

Joseph was born in Hillingdon and baptised on 21 July 1833. 

At the 1851 census he was with his mother in Pinner and an agricultural labourer aged 18.

On 11 Nov 1860,  at St John the Baptist, Hillingdon, Joseph married Charlotte Bateman, daughter of George Bateman, labourer. She was born in Amersham, Buckinghamshire in 1838. Both were resident in Hillingdon.

In 1861 they were resident at the Queens Head, Hillingdon, Charlotte was aged 22, born in Amersham, Bucks and their daughter Elizabeth was age 3, born in Chalfont, Bucks.

The family in 1871 were living at 2 Burrs Row. The children were Elizabeth, aged 13, a scholar; Emily, aged 8, a scholar; Caroline, aged 6, a scholar and George, aged 2. All were born in Hillingdon.

The 1881 Census finds them still living in Hillingdon. Emily, aged 19 was a domestic servant; there was also George, aged 10; Nelly, aged 5 and Louisa, aged 3. Daughter Elizabeth was living at Farm Cottage, Barrow Point, Pinner, as a servant.

Joseph died some time between 1881 and the 1891 census, though there appears to be no record.

In 1891 Charlotte, a widow and charwoman was at 2 Fox Lane, Hillingdon, with her youngest daughter Louisa aged 13, a scholar.

The 1894 electoral roll for Hillingdon shows Charlotte is at Hemp-row, Cowley St, Uxbridge.

In 1901: Charlotte was living at Cowley, Middlesex, perhaps in an Alms House (next to one in census)

Charlotte died in 1902, aged 67 at Uxbridge.

The story of George Weatherley Junior

This information from the website http://www.moorefamily.org.au/indiI06052.html. 

Unfortunately the author is not known, although they give the following acknowledgement:
This information given to me by Maureen Streeter, granddaughter of George and Lucy. I have mainly quoted Maureen.

If anyone is the author, please ,make contact so that a proper acknowledgement can be made. 

"George was a left handed man very stern but very fair, it has been said of him that he was a man's man, he tried to teach his sons the harsh ways of the bush in which they lived. Kathleen [sic] died leaving George alone. George worked on various stations in the area and eventually he met my grandmother, Lucy. Lucy was an Aboriginal woman and pregnant with another man's child at the time she met George. Because of the way she was being treated by the owners of the property/station where she was a servant, George asked Lucy if she wanted to leave the station and go with him. She agreed. I don't know if Bridget was born before or after they married but Bridget is not George's child although she never found out until she was in her 70's and trying to apply for a pension. It was the hardest thing my Lucy ever had to do was telling Bridget about her conception. You see Lucy was raped which was a common occurrence in those days.

"However, George and Lucy were married and had a happy life. When George died Lucy was left with very young children the youngest being 2 years old. As the second family (because they were Aboriginal) they were not allowed to walk behind the wagon that carried George's coffin on the day of the funeral. They had to walk some 500 yards behind the first family. The second family know that their father George is buried somewhere in Dunedoo cemetery but because of the distance they had to stand and the age of those that are left they are unable to remember where. Lucy is buried in the middle of her two sons Tom and John at the same cemetery.

"Lucy raised her children on her own never remarrying. She lived with my family for many years. She spoke with devotion for George of how much she loved him and what a good man he was. Lucy was a Catholic and George a Church of England. he would ensure the children each said their prayers at night and before meals. Lucy would walk the 13 children ??miles to church each Sunday and always upon their return home to breakfast on the table with George proudly standing there to greet them.

"They lived in many towns Gulgong, Uarbry, Dunedoo, Cassilis, Ilford and many many more. Uncle Joe was a poet and made a tape recording of what it was like growing up in those times and without a Dad. I have been told George was a well renowned maker of whips that people would come from miles just to acquire.

"From my Grandmother's stories of George and my Uncle and Aunty's stories about him I think George must have been one heck of a man. For a woman to love him just as much 30 odd years after his death he was truly remarkable. I'm sure I have not done George justice but I do know he was a man filled with respect, love and compassion for his fellow man and certainly a man to be proud of as a brother, son, husband, father, grandfather, cousin etc."

"Sources

1. Birth Certificate 2. Death Certificate 3. Child's Birth Certificate 4. Marriage Certificate 5. Son's Marriage Certificate 6. Immigrant Index 1884-59 State Records New South Wales 7. Mother's death certificate 8. NSW Internet Record of Births 9. NSW Internet Records of Marriage"