New South Wales
Buckley
Sarah BUCKLEY, c.22 AUG 1813 Almondbury, Yorkshire. She was only 5 years old when she was sent to Australia with her convict parents, James and Mary Buckley, charged with larceny. They lived in Sydney, where Sarah married Thomas Pike in 1834. They had 8 children.
Crosley
Jeremiah CROSLEY, c.06 OCT 1811 Cleckheaton, Yorkshire, son of James and Martha, was sentenced to 7 years for larceny. He left England in 1832. He served as a convict under Gov. Burke. He received his Ticket of Leave in 1838. He married Sarah James and they had 15 children. He died in 1884.
Crossland
James Andrew CROSLAND, 5th child of Andrew and Mary Crosland was born in Thorne, Yorkshire, in 1807. He married 1832 in Doncaster to Elizabeth Burton, they had 3 children. After Elizabeth died, James married in Sheffield in 1847 to Jane WADSWORTH, who was 26, daughter of James and Maria of Wadsworth. James, with his new wife and 3 children sailed to New South Wales on the "Thomas Arbuthnot". By 1861, they had moved from Sydney to Berowra Creek, north of Sydney, where James built boats and farmed. Later, the family moved to Spencer, where his sons continued to build boats.
Rev. Richard John Johnson (1753-1827)
Richard Johnson was born in Welton, Yorkshire and appointed chaplain to the First Fleet that went to Australia.
He tried to convert the convicts over the years that he was there and found it very tiring. He returned to England in 1800 due to poor health. He died in 1827.
Samuel Marsden
Samuel was born at Horsforth near Leeds in 1764. He was ordained in 1794 and went to New South Wales, Australia to assist Richard Johnson.
After Johnson returned to England, Marsden would be the only chaplain in the colony until 1831. He became known as the 'flogging parson' for the way he handed down punishment as magistrate for the colony. He used the cat 'o nine tails in extreme severity. Visiting dignitaries were shocked.
Lucy Osburn (1836-1891)
Lucy born in Leeds, Yorkshire, was Lady Superintendent of the Sydney Infirmary, New South Wales. She laid the foundation of modern nursing throughout Australia. Lucy arrived in Sydney in 1868, soon she was overseeing the care of Queen Victoria's second son, Prince Alfred, who someone had shot in an attempt to assassinate him. She resigned in 1884 and returned to London, taking care of the poor. In 1889, too ill to continue working she retired to Harrogate, Yorkshire to live with Annie Osborn where she died in 1891. Read More
Seagrave
Thomas Boycott Seagrave, 66, Builder. Frances Kate, 65, wife, of 66 Manvers Road, Mexborough, Nr Rotherham. Sailed out on 27 Feb 1922, (under The Empire Settlement Act), ticket No 1227, Hobsons Bay, bound for Sydney.
In 1881 The Seagraves were living at 93 Queen Street, Swinton, Rotherham, Yorkshire:
- Thomas SEAGRAVE, head b.1836 Bulwell, Leicestershire, bricklayer
- Kate SEAGRAVE, wife b.1838 Swinton, Yorkshire
- Moses SEAGRAVE, son b.1874 Kilnhurst, Yorkshire
In 1901 the family were living at 58 Frederick St, Swinton with son Oliver age 18, Bricklayer, born New South Wales, Australia. In 1911 living at Highwoods Road, Mexbro near Rotherham:
- Seagrave, Thomas Boycott, head, Mar, 55, Bricklayer and Builder, born Nottinghamshire Bulwell
- Seagrave, Frances Kate , wife, Mar, 54, married 33 years born Yorkshire Swinton
- Seagrave, Oliver Hamilton , son, Mar, 28, Bricklayer and Builder, born , New South wales Australia
- Seagrave, Laura. daur in law, 27, married 4 years, born Yorkshire Mexbrough
- Seagrave, Thomas Hamilton, grandson, 3, born Yorkshire Adwick on Dearne
This family came home and then emigrated a second time in 1922. In 1930, Thomas Boycott SEAGRAVE was living in Sydney, district Werriwa sub district Woonona . His wife, Frances Kate was there too, also Oliver, his wife Laura and their son, Thomas, who would have been 47. Oliver, Laura and Thomas were in the same sub district in 1936.
Waddington
Isaac WADDINGTON born 1852 at 12 Wells Street, Bradford, Yorkshire, only surviving child of Joshua and Sarah Waddington, booksellers in Bradford. Isaac emigrated to Australia in 1887 on the Corona. He settled in Cooma in the Snowy Mountains, New South Wales, where he worked as a clerk and as Band Master of the Cooma Brass Band. He married (1) 1882 Florence Davidson in Cooma, they had one child, Charles. She died in 1885. Isaac then married (2) Flora Hicks, they had 9 children. Young Charles, born 1883 in Cooma, emigrated to the US in 1901 where he became a citizen. In WW1 he became a Warrant Officer Bandmaster in the 22nd. Inf. US Army. Flora Waddington nee Hicks was born in Hovingham, Yorkshire. Her parents ran a School for Young Ladies in Sussex. Her sister, Fanny married a school teacher and they emigrated to Queensland, Australia. Flora followed soon after in 1887. She was a singer and met Isaac when they were both playing in a Gilbert and Sullivan Company. They married and settled first in Cooma, then Melbourne then finally in Sidney where all their 9 children were born. Isaac taught all his children music and the boys to play the cornet. Some played with brass bands and orchetras.UK New South Wales and Tasmania, Convict Musters, 1806-1849
New South Wales and Tasmania, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859
