TRIAL BAY AND SOUTH WEST ROCKS

TRIAL BAY WAS built in a later period than what I’m usually looking at. The connection with South West Rocks was earlier for my direct family. I do however have documents and images from Jan Maurice and Sanders’ were out there as Boatsmen and running a boarding house as well as one lad being remembered in the Memorial Pines. Killed in the war. So we took a drive out there on our recent 2 week Loop and took a look through the Boatsmen’s Houses which are carefully maintained and where,as usual, we encountered enthusiastic and helpful volunteers hanging on to our heritage with Tenacity. Below are some links to TRIAL BAY and some images from our exploration.

TRIAL BAY GAOL

Established in 1886, Trial Bay Gaol is the only example of a state prison specifically built to carry out public works. The intention was for prisoners to construct a breakwater in Trial Bay and create a safe harbour between Sydney and Brisbane.

http://www.kempsey.nsw.gov.au/clicka.htm

KEMSPEY AND THE MACLEAY RIVER

 

http://www.australianexplorer.com/photographs/nsw_architecture_trial_bay_gaol.htm

Trial Bay (Gaol) Photos – (New South Wales)

 

http://www.nnsw.com.au/southwestrocks/trialbay.html

TRIAL BAY GAOL Photo Gallery

 

http://migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au/places/zivillager/history.shtml

ZIVIL LAGER

 

http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/org/Trial_Bay_Gaol_National_Parks_and_Wildlife/about/

Trial Bay Gaol National Parks and Wildlife : COLLECTIONS AUSTRALIA NETWORK

 

TRIAL BAY IN 2001

 

LiveJournal Tags: MACLEAY RIVER,SOUTH WEST ROCKS,TRIAL BAY GAOL,BOATSMENS COTTAGES,AUSTRALIAN HISTORY

TRAVELLING THE MID NORTH COAST

CONNECTIONS FROM MURWILLUMBAH AND THE TWEED – BELLS, BIGNELLS, LAURIES AND MORE

NORMAN BELL was the older brother of JOHN BELL wife of MARY ANN MCNEIL. They had adjoining land at CONDONG on the TWEED.

Their parents were JAMES AND WILHELMINA as noted elsewhere. James was the housebreaker transported from Glasgow in 1831 on the YORK and WILHELMINA was the daughter of WILLIAM MCLEOD and JANET MACKAY who came on the JAMES MORAN in 1839. They married in 1839 at MAITLAND when WILHELMINA was 17 years old. Check in the search engine to the right for further details. It appears at this time that the Mcleods and Mackays came as a result of the ruthless clearances of the Sutherland Shires in the HIGHLANDS of Scotland. In the 1860s the BELL boys have land on the TWEED. The NSW BDM records indicate that their father JAMES died in 1859( to be verified). I do not know what brought the boys ( and perhaps more members of their family north from the Maitland Area). Land is also indicated to belong to WILHELLMINA BELL – mother ? sister ? daughter ?

NORMAN BELL was born 1845 and died 15 June 1924 . He is buried in BARRINGTON CEMETERY. His occupations are listed at TWEED RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY as farmer/grazier. Whilst on Tweed he was resident at CONDONG. Norman married in 1870 at DUNGOG NSW. His wife was AGNES FRASER HIGGINS and her mother was JANET LAURIE. As my mother used to tell me the BELLS and the LAURIES were ‘tied in somehow”. Her father was JOHN HIGGINS. Agnes Higgins was born at Pt Stephens in 1846 and died in CHATSWOOD, SYDNEY in 1929.

Their children;

names	birthdate and place	marriage date and spouse	death date and place
JANET LAURIE	1871 TWEED RIVER	1898 GEORGE BIGNELL MURWILLUMBAH
WILLIMINA A	1872 TWEED RIVER	JOHN A. GUNN COPELAND 1895	1911 STROUD NSW
JAMES WALTER	1874 PORT STEPHENS		15-8-1886 NSW
AGNES MARY	1876 PORT STEPHENS	GORDON A D CLARK STROUD 1915
ELIZABETH J	1878 PORT STEPHENS	JOHN STACE	PORT STEPHENS 1903
MARGARET CHRISTINA	1881 BARRINGTON	THOMAS FARLEY CRICK SYDNEY 1907
MARY HENRIETTA	1883 COPELAND	WILLIAM JAMES MARTIN STROUD 1907	22-8-1938 KRAMBACH NSW
JOHN JAMES	1889 COPELAND		1923 BARRINGTON
NOREINE F	1893 COPELAND

From these dates it appears Norman left the Tweed district by the early 1870s whereas John’s Children are born on Tweed between 1879 and 1890 with the youngest being born at Laurieton in the early 90s. Hmm. A rethink required again.

THE INFORMATION I HAVE IS THAT NO 49 IS JOHN BELL’S LAND . ( YET TO BE VERIFIED AS ONE MAP INDICATES CONDONG AND ONE IS FURTHER ALONG NEAR STOTTS CREEK)

 

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GEORGE  BIGNELL. IN 1898 AT MURWILLUMBAH MARRIED JANET LAURIE BELL DAUGHTER OF NORMAN BELL WHO WAS BROTHER OF JOHN BELL, GRANNY’S HUSBAND.  http://www.aif.adfa.edu.au:8080/showPerson?pid=22518

 

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FROM THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1368785 There is mention of a MR BELL managing the ABBOTSFORD SUGAR MILL on the TWEED.

 

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MURWILLUMBAH LINKS

http://www.mit.edu/~dfm/genealogy/sercombe.html Sercombe Families

TWEED RIVER

THANKS TO THE TWEED RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY, I HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT THE BELLS ON THE TWEED. AT CONDONG CREEK.

TWEED RIVER AT TUMBULGUM NEAR THE BELL LAND.	MT WARNING FROM BILAMBIL.	TUMBULGUM STORE.

 

James Bell’s widow, Wilhelmina Bell (b 1820) did not remarry. She died in 1903 under the name Bell as a widow. She was 83. She was the daughter of William McLeod and Janey McKay. She died on the 2nd March 1903. She married James Bell at age 17 years at Maitland.

At the time of her death her children were:

Mary (Laurie) 57	Wilhelmina (Dinsey) 56
Norman 54	John 52
Margaret (McEachran) 50	Elizabeth (Walker) 48
Christina (Quirk) 47

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Now John it was who was married to Granny Bell ( Mary Ann Mc Neill) . He had land on the Tweed from 1869 till app 1890 when they went South and Laurieton became the centre of our Bell universe. My own Grandfather Mick Bell ( William Allen) was one of their children. Mick ( Poppa Bell) and Jessie Sarah Ready ( Nana Bell) spent most of their married lives in Redfern and then in TWEEDMOUTH Avenue , ROSEBERY . Coincidence ?

Now in the 21st Century , Lynne Bell Sanders, lives in Bilambil on the Tweed and lived from 2002-2005 in TUMBULGUM which is within 5 kilometres of where the 3 BELLS had their land grants . That was Norman, John and Wilhelmina. Susan Sanders Pomroy lives in Port Macquarie within kilometres of LAURIETON. ( Note that Mary Bell married a LAURIE) . 

http://lynnesheritage.wordpress.com/2008/03/25/bells-and-dinseys-and-tweed-pt-2/

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THE TWEED FROM THE NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA NEWSPAPERS DIGITISATION PROJECT.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2186819 SYDNEY GAZETTE 1826	It is thought by some, that the river lately discovered by Captain Logan, 50 miles to the South  of Moreton-bay, and immediately under Mount Warning, designated the DARLING RIVER, is the same of which the late Mr. Uniacke speaks, in Judge Field’s compiled work on this Colony Mr.Uniacke accompanied Mr. Oxley in a tour to Moreton-bay, and it appears that they fell in with a bay, or river, to the south of Moreton-bay, to which the name of the Tweed was given, but we cannot bring ourselves to believe that the Tweed and the Darling are one and the same, READ ON.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2188791 THE STORY OF CAPTAIN LOGAN’S EXPLORATION SOUTH OF MORETON BAY AND DOWN TO MT WARNING The Sydney Gazette and… Friday 17 August 1827, page 2	June 13th. Continued my route eastward, over a very diflicult and mountainous country ; at length perceived Mount Warning, direct in my course   READ ON
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2193237 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 22 August 1829, page 2.	EXTRACT FROM THE DIARY OF CAPTAIN BARBUS HM COLONIAL SCHOONER “ALLIGATOR” : AS HE SEARCHES IN 1827 FOR THE WRECK OF THE “ELIZABETH”, POWDITCH. BETWEEN CAPE BYRON AND THE SOLITARY ISLES. COMING ACROSS  RIVER ENTRANCES AND BARS AND NOTING THE LATITUDES ETC. THE HEADLANDS OF CAPE BYRON AND POINT DANGER PROVIDE THE PRIMARY SIGNIFICANT LANDMARKS FOR THESE RIVER MOUTHS.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2193497 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 26 September 1829	THE CONCLUSION OF AN ARTICLE WRITTEN BY A MEMBER OF CAPTAIN LOGAN’S PARTY  EXPLORING THE NORTHERN RIVERS. HE TELLS OF PIERCING COLD AND A PLAIN COVERED WITH EMU.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2201896 The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 26 December 1835, page 2.	A PROSPECTUS IS ISSUED FOR A COMPANY WHICH ENCOMPASSES MUCH OF THE NORTH. “……..the territory within the limits specified in the Prospectus, possesses no less than five large beautiful rivers; viz. the M’Leay, or the Trial of Cunningham, the Brimbo, or the Big River, the Brisbane, one unnamed as yet, which empties itself into the sea near Double Point, and the Boyne, besides the Tweed, and a multiplicity of minor ones; and that it possesses numerous harbours, bays, and roadsteads for the anchorage of shipping; some of them as yet but very imperfectly known ” READ ON This article has implications for many matters including immigration which is the method by which Wilhelmina Mcleod and her mother Janet Mackay later came from the SUTHERLAND SHIRE ( arriving in 1839 ) . THIS IS THE STORY OF A GRAND VISION.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article678614 The Maitland Mercury… Wednesday 28 January 1846, page 3.	The Barque, GOLDEN FLEECE, 120 tons , CAPTAIN JOHNSON,arrived in Sydney from the RIVER TWEED with 70,000 feet CEDAR.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article680149	The steamer, THISTLE, making its way between SYDNEY and MORETON BAY spotted a large boat on the beach. Unable to land a boat due to conditions the Thistle proceeded into Moreton Bay to discover that two of the crew had arrived there. The boat belonged to Mr Burgess and had been making its way from TWEED to MORETON BAY. READ ON
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article682934 The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 11 July 1846,	THE death of two sawyers is reported on THE TWEED RIVER. A murder it was. READ ON
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article683611 The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 8 August 1846, page 2	THE barque Golden Fleece and the cutter Catherine still remained bar-bound at the Tweed ; the crew of the latter had been overland to Brisbane to obtain supplies.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article684452 The Maitland Mercury… Wednesday 2 September 1846, page 2	Loss of the ” Coolangatta.”-The Tamar, steamer, which arrived on Sunday from Moreton Bay, brought intelligence of the loss of the schooner Coolangatta, which vessel was driven ashore from her anchors in a gale of wind a short distance to the northward of the River Tweed
1846	ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY Golden Fleece, barque, 120 tons, Captain Collins, from the Tweed, with a cargo of cedar.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article696503 The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 9 February 1850, page 4	A NUMBER OF NEW POLICE DISTRICTS ARE FORMED. ONE OF THESE IS : 47:  Tabulam-In the squatting district of Clarence, and embracing the county of Rous, and part of the county of Richmond, bounded on the north by the range dividing the waters of the Logan, and other rivers from those of the Clarence, Richmond, and Tweed Rivers, from Point Danger to the great dividing range , on the west by the great dividing range, and a Line bearing south crossing the Rocky River at a point where the banks close in abruptly, about miles east of “Frocester,” Mr Bloxsome’’s station, to a line bearing east from the Bolivia Range , on the south by that line to the Clarence River, thence by a line bearing north-east to the range dividing the waters of the Clarence and Richmond Rivers, and by that range to the sea , and on the east by the sea to Point Danger aforesaid
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article680846 The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 23 August 1851, page 3.	The Effort, from the Tweed River, reports the Ocean Queen, schooner, ashore on the North Head of the Tweed Bar, on the 12th instant, and not likely to be got off
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article679073 The Maitland Mercury… Wednesday 8 October 1851	ARRIVALS OF STEAMERS IN SYDNEY Naughten, from the Tweed River, with 34,000 feet cedar
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article667445 The Maitland Mercury… Saturday 28 May 1853,	ARRIVALS OF COASTERS. Flirt, from the Tweed, with 30,000 feet cedar ;
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article682053                        1853	EXPORTS TO LONDON FROM THE NORTHERN RIVERS
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2458489 The Courier (Hobart,… Saturday 21 March 1857, page 2.	LOSS OF ANOTHER SHIP ON THE TWEED BAR – THE “FAVOURITE ” .
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1279444 The Brisbane Courier Saturday 30 September 1865	A HARD CASE – A story  of mistaken identity as Mr William Smith of the TWEED RIVER assists a friend in tracking down a horse thief.
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1302592 The Brisbane Courier Saturday 24 April 1869, page 4.	The ketch Maid of the Mill has arrived, with a small parcel from the Tweed River
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1297593 The Brisbane Courier Saturday 2 October 1869, page 4.	CLEARANCE. October 1.-Sarah and Jane, cutter, 15 tons, Captain W. Griffin, for the Tweed River. Passengers : Mr. and Mrs. W. Jones and family (3), Mr. and Mrs. Hy. Carey and family (4).
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1297561 The Brisbane Courier Saturday 2 October 1869, page 4.	THE MAIZE TRADE BECOMES BIG ON TWEED
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1303128 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1300217	THE KETCH MAGGIE LOGAN 1869
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1302073 The Brisbane Courier Saturday 20 November 1869, page 4.	Maize maintains its price, but the supply seems to be small The shipment from the Tweed River by the Sarah and Jane realised 4s 3d per bushel

 

 

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SOME MORE SANDERS STORY FROM JAN AND BARRY MAURICE

1. WILLIAM SANDERS m SARAH STARK c 1768 probably at Tifford outside KENTON near EXETER DEVON.

2. Their son  WILLIAM was baptised on 11/11/1792 at Tifford and was probably born the same day or the day before according to the custom of the time. He later married ELIZABETH GREEN. Their son :

3. WILLIAM was born at KENTON on 15/4/1823. He married MARY ANN SKIVINGS who was born in 1830. Mary’s parents were both born at KILLERTON ( also known as Broad Clyst) near EXETER, Devon.  Her mother, GRACE, was born in 1804. William and Mary  arrived in Sydney on board the VICTORIA on 2/9/1849, Mary possibly pregnant with their first ( surviving ) child.

They settled in the MACLEAY DISTRICT. Oral history has it that William was invited to come to Australia by a retired British Army Colonel to be employed as an expert ploughman having become known as such back in Devon. William is also reputed to have introduced blackberries to the North Coast. This act of folly earned him the nickname ” BLACKBERRY BILL”. William was also a champion rower and rowed in the Kempsey Regatta of 1856. William died on 19/12/1910 aged 87. Mary died on 13/11/1882 aged 52, the mother of 13 children.

Husband    WILLIAM SANDERS    Birth    Apr. 15, 1823    KENTON DEVON ENGLAND    Marriage    Aug. 28, 1848    EXETER ENGLAND    Death    Dec. 19, 1910    FREDERICKTON KEMPSEY    Burial        FREDERICKTON    Other Wives        Parents    WILLIAM SANDERS and ELIZABETH GREEN	Wife    MARY ANN SKIVINGS    Birth    About 1830    SILVERTON DEVON ENGLAND    Death    Nov. 13, 1882    FREDRICKTON KEMPSEY NSW AUSTRALIA    Burial        FREDERICKTON CEMETERY    Other Husbands        Parents    GEORGE S SKIVINGS and GRACE
Children
1    ELIZABETH GRACE SANDERS    Gender    Female    Birth    Oct. 28, 1850    HORSLEY NSW    Husband    EDRED EVERSON    Marriage    Aug. 3, 1868    SUMMER ISLAND MACLEAY RIVER NSW    Death    Jan. 30, 1904    KINCHELA NSW    Burial	2    HARRIET FRANCES SANDERS    Gender    Female    Birth    Jun. 4, 1852    YARRABANDINI NSW    Husband    THOMAS ROWE    Marriage    Dec. 6, 1869    KINCHELA NSW    Death    Oct. 13, 1942    DUNGOG    Burial
3    WILLIAM GEORGE SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Feb. 11, 1854    YARRABANDINI NSW    Wife    ELIZABETH HURELL    Marriage    Jul. 30, 1879    KINCHELA NSW    Death    Aug. 10, 1923    SOUTH WEST ROCKS NSW AUSTRALIA    Burial	4    FREDERICK JOHN SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Oct. 18, 1855    MACLEAY RIVER NSW    Wife    LUCY JANE HURRELL    Marriage    Apr. 11, 1878    KINCHELA    Death    Jan. 23, 1921    MARRICKVILLE SYDNEY AUSTRALIA    Burial
5    CHARLES HENRY SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Jan. 1, 1860    AUSTRAL EDEN    Wife    MARY ANN PARTRIDGE    Marriage    Aug. 17, 1881    SUMMER ISLAND MACLEAY RIVER NSW    Death    Jul. 16, 1926    MACKSVILLE    Burial	6    ALFRED SIVERT SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Jan. 4, 1861    FLATTORINI ISLAND    Wife    EMILY JANE MINCHEN    Marriage    Apr. 29, 1886    SMITHTOWN    Death    1933    KEMPSEY    Burial
7    ERNEST ALBERT SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Dec. 21, 1862    FLATTORINI ISLAND    Wife    ANNIE JANE PARTRIDGE    Marriage    Jun. 9, 1886    SUMMER ISLAND MACLEAY RIVER NSW    Death    Nov. 20, 1911    UPPER UNKYA    Burial	8   MARY ANN SANDERS    Gender    Female    Birth    Nov. 17, 1864    FLATTORINI ISLAND    Husband    JOSEPH ISAAC HARRIS    Marriage    Jun. 7, 1885    AUSTRAL EDEN    Death    Dec. 4, 1941    BRISBANE    Burial
9    WALTER THOMAS SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Mar. 18, 1867    KINCHELA CREEK    Wife    ELIZABETH PARTRIDGE    Marriage    Jul. 10, 1895    KEMPSEY    Death    Jan. 24, 1922    KEMPSEY    Burial	10    AGNES JANE SANDERS    Gender    Female    Birth    Jul. 9, 1869    KINCHELA CREEK MACLEAY RIVER NSW    Husband    CHARLES HENRY WILLIAM  TAYLOR    Marriage    Nov. 25, 1891    ST LEONARDS    Death    Aug. 6, 1951    QUEENSLAND    Burial        LUTWYCHE CEMETERY BRISBANE
11    EDRED JAMES SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Oct. 2, 1870    KINCHELA CREEK    Wife    ANNIE EDITH NELSON    Marriage    Dec. 25, 1912    WEST KEMPSEY NSW AUSTRALIA    Death    Mar. 26, 1938    KEMPSEY    Burial	12   SARAH ELLEN SANDERS    Gender    Female    Birth    Jan. 27, 1872    KINCHELA CREEK    Husband    ROBERT EVAN KITCHING    Marriage    Oct. 26, 1895    SYDNEY AUSTRALIA    Death    Feb. 9, 1946    CAMPBELLTOWN    Burial
13    CHRISTOPHER GEORGE SANDERS    Gender    Male    Birth    Jul. 3, 1873    KINCHELA CREEK    Wife        Marriage            Death    Jan. 3, 1882    KINCHELA CREEK    Burial

   

 

      

 

      

         

   

 

the SANDERS COME TO KEMPSEY

Jan Maurice descends from AGNES JANE TAYLOR. The parents of Agnes were WILLIAM SANDERS and MARY JANE SKIMMINGS ( Elsewhere recorded as MARY ANN SKIVINGS Name on birth certificate ). Agnes was born the 10th child on 9th July 1869 in Kinchela NSW.

From papers received from JAN and BARRY.

AGNES JANE TAYLOR

WILLIAM, her father, was an expert ploughman and was brought out to the Colony from DEVON UK for his skills. While in Kinchela he had a keen interest  in rowing and was a champion oarsman who rowed in the Kempsey Regatta 1856 and entered many races. He was also known as Blackberry Bill as he spread the seeds around the Kempsey District.

The youngest brother of Agnes, CHRISTOPHER, was accidentally shot by his brother’s rifle  on 3 January, 1882, when he was 9 years old. Mary  Jane was a midwife in the district.

William died 19 December 1910 age 87 years and Mary died 13 November 1882 aged 52 years.

When Agnes was 22 she was living in “BROMPTON” Anson St Surry Hills. She was a domestic servant married in St Thomas Church of England Willoughby NSW , November 25th 1891 to Charles William Henry ( Bill) Taylor whose address was Appin , the Minister Stephen H Childe.

After the wedding they went to live in Appin on Elladale farm. Brooks Point Road, Appin. Every Saturday, she would drive the horse and sulky to Campbelltown so that their youngest son Barrington Walter could have piano lessons by Miss Vernon, then on Saturday nights he’d play for the local dance when still a teenager taking over from Bessie Dwyer. Their eldest son, William Harold joined the Army in 1916 as a 17 year old and served overseas, marrying Margaret ( Maggie) Yates when he was 21 years in Lancashire England.

Lionel ( Jack) stayed on the farm. Two girls married and moved to Queensland to live another daughter, Ellen, Mrs Gridley.

On the 9th April at 64 years Bill died and was buried in St Marks Cemetery, Appin. No headstone.

When Barrington married Phyllis Abbott in 23 December 1935, Agnes went to the wedding at St John’s Parramatta and the reception at the CAROLLIAN. Her address was Appin.

In her later years, Agnes came to live in Campbelltown with Lionel and his wife in 28 Chamberlain St Campbelltown. her younger sister Sarah with husband Robert Kitchings also lived in Campbelltown and when sarah died 15 February 1946, Agnes Jane was the last of William and Mary’s family alive. She was in her 80s but still did beautiful  crocheting and knitting. Agnes died in Queensland  8th August 1951. Buried in Lutwyche Cemetery.

 

 

http://www.myheritage.com/site-29656891/lynne%27s-heritage-web-site

 

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

NEWS FROM WESTERN AUSTRALIA. SANDERS.

My Grandmother Agnes Jane was born 9-7-1869 and married 25-11-1891 Nth Sydney Charles Henry William Taylor “Bill” [we call him CHW] Agnes died 6-8-1951 in Queensland and is buried with her daughter Ellie Gridley in Lutwyche Cemetery CHW died 1931 in Liverpool Hospital and is buried in St Marks Cemetery Appin.  When Sarah Ellen Kitching nee Sanders died 15 Feb 1946 in her Obituary Agnes is listed as the only surviving member of the original Sanders family.
William and Mary Ann weren’t the first Sanders to arrive in Australia another member of the family Thomas Sanders a convict arrived 1-8-1791 with the 3rd Fleet on the Matilda born 16-8-1766 died 3-9-1846 buried St Johns Cemetery Parramatta he owned a property at Prospect.   Thomas was the brother of William born 1770 who married Sarah Stark 8-10-1790.   I’d say this is the property William and Mary Ann stayed when they first arrived and their first child Elizabeth was born before they went north.   Agnes and husband had 7 children they settled in Appin NSW and lived in Elladale Cottage [still there today] and in 1912 purchased the property and when CHW died in 1931 Agnes continued to live there until she went to live with her son in Campbelltown and the property was sold in 1946.   When Agnes was in her 80s she went to live in Queensland where her three daughters were living and died in 1951.
She and CHW had 4 girls one died in 1922 and 3 boys William Harold, a Army Officer who died in NZ, Lionel who had a hard life but liked the drink died in 1972 and my father Barrington Walter born 1908-1973 a musician we lived in Parramatta.

Thanks to Jan and Barry Maurice who have contacted me from WA.

 

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MANNING HISTORICAL SOCIETY

Granny Bell was born in Taree on the Manning.  Both Bells and McNeills have history on the Manning.

Manning Valley Historical Society

 

LYNNE BELL SANDERS