(1871 - 04/05/1953)
He died in Bunbury. Edwin married Julia Catherine Sinclair (1880 - 20/10/1960). Catherine died in Bunbury. She was the daughter of John and Julia. Their children were Margorie Gwen, Alechea, Margaret, Elizabeth (1909-1926) and others.
(1838-)
Joseph was the son of William. He arrived on 31/12/1862 in York. He was married on 26/06/1880 to Elizabeth McPherson in Busselton. Elizabeth was the daughter of Alexander and Elizabeth Jane. Joseph worked in Bunbury as a sawyer. He employed a ticket of leave cook in 1871, a ticket of leave sawyer in 1869, and a ticket of leave servant in 1882.
He employed a ticket of leave labourer in 1869 at Bunbury.
(1825-)
He was an expiree, meaning he was an ex-convict who completed his sentence. George arrived on 29/05/1863 on the Clyde. In Bunbury he worked as a mason and builder of the ship Paradise. He employed four ticket of leave men, labourers and a bricklayer from 1867 to 1868. He may have travelled to Hamburg on 16/01/1878.
Records mention that he sailed from Bunbury to Fremantle on 03/02/1879 on the Rob Roy.
(1814-)
George arrived before 1843 with his sister Mary Ann. He married sometime during 08/1844 in Bunbury to Elizabeth Piggott (1814-). George was a tailor in Perth in 1843. His wife left for South Australia on 04/1845 for Victoria. He left in July.
He died in Bunbury and was a bricklayer from 1879 to 1884.
(1839 - 22/12/1886)
He was an expiree, meaning he completed his sentence as a convict. Thomas arrived on 22/12/1866 on the Corona. He worked in Bunbury as a labourer. He was admitted to the Fremantle Depot Hospital on 10/02/1886.
(-20/02/1921)
He was born in Ireland and died in Fremantle. He was the son of Patrick and Catherine Rachel. He was married on 17/11/1894 to Ellen Forrest Scott (17/10/1873-27/12/1955) in Perth. Ellen was born in Bunbury and died in Mosman Park. She was the daughter of John Robert Scott. Their children were Patrick Thomas (1895-WW2) and Dulcie Margaret Catherine Rachel (1907 - 1950). Patrick worked as a lighthouse keeper at Cape Naturaliste. He served in World War I (1916) and died at a military base hospital, Fremantle. His wife was a shop assistant during his absence in France. His religion was the Church of England.
Patrick David Baird’s obituary
The South-Western News (Busselton, WA : 1903 - 1954)
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(1836-)
He was born in Ireland. He arrived on 13/03/1855 on the Berkshire. James was married on 15/01/1856 to Catherine Robinson in Bunbury. He worked as an agricultural labourer.
(1819 - 15/06/1885)
Thomas was born in England and died in Perth. He arrived in February 1847 on the Java. He married Susannah Adelaide Pomeroy (1832-) on 10/01/1850. Susannah was born in England and arrived on the Diadem. Their children were Susannah (1852-) and Emily Sarah (1854-1931/1932). He was a Private of the 96th Regiment at Bunbury in 1847 and was promoted to Lance Corporal and transferred to York where he was a Police Sergeant. He had Town Lots in 1860. He employed three ticket of leave men at York and Toodyay in 1851, 1855 and 1868. He was a collector for the Perth Town Council. His religion was Wesleyan.
(05/11/1841-29/051923)
William was born in England and died in Wagin. He arrived in Western Australia in 1876 on the Lady Elizabeth. William married Selina Caroline Brown (06/02/1851-05/09/1929) in England. Selina was born in England and died in Northam. Their children were Annie Selina (1875-), Alice (1877-), John Henry (1879-), born in Bunbury and Robert (1881-). William was a labourer then a town ranger and pound keeper in Albany from 1885 to 1889.
He departed for South Australia on 5/10/1883 on the Franklin. He left for South Australia or Bunbury on 24/11/1883 and to Bunbury on 14/101883.
They arrived from the Eastern colonies to Bunbury on 5/8/1887 on the ship Albany.
(c.1819-c.1846)
Thomas Ault was a Private in the 51st Regiment, also known as the 2nd Yorkshire West Riding (reference). This Regiment served in New South Wales, Western Australia and Tasmania (reference). It is unclear if Thomas served in New South Wales, but he was in Western Australia and very likely Tasmania.
Thomas arrived in the Swan River Colony on 25 June 1840 on the Runnymede with his Regiment (reference). The Runnymede was an 838-ton ship that came from Hobart Town (Hobart, Tasmania) and arrived at King George’s Sound (Albany, Western Australia) (reference). Thomas would have been one of the 132 rank soldiers that came as part of the detachment of the 51st Regiment (reference). It appears that the Runnymede dropped off passengers at Kind George’s Sound before continuing onto Fremantle (reference). The 51st then marched to Perth on the morning of 26 June to relieve the detachment of the 21st Regiment (reference). On the morning of 27 June, Thomas and the rest of the division were inspected on the barrack grounds by his Excellency the Governor, John Nutt, and the Commandant, Major Irwin (reference). John Hutt informed them of their excellent work and what was expected of them in the Swan River Colony (reference).
By 1844 Thomas had travelled to serve with his Regiment in Bunbury. He had married Ellen, and their son, Thomas, was born on 14 August 1844 in Bunbury (reference; reference).
He was stationed at Bunbury before leaving for India with the Regiment in 1846. Unfortunately, all of the Regiment died of cholera while in India by 1861 (reference).
Arrival of the Runnymede 1840
The Perth Gazette and Western Australian Journal Sat 27 Jun 1840 Page 2
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(1841-).
He was an expiree, an ex-convict. William arrived on 12/09/1864 on the Merchantman. On 06/04/1882 he departed for London and then returned 03/10/1882. Between 1873 and 1889, William worked as a Bunbury storekeeper. He employed nine ticket of leave men between 1868 and 1873 as servants. He also employed two tailors from 1872 to 1873.
(c. 1813-1873)
Thomas Ashford was a boatman and publican born around 1813 (reference; reference). However, according to the Western Australian Bicentennial Dictionary he was born in 1807. The dictionary also states he arrived in the area on the Parkfield, that he was a shoemaker in Australind and an agent for the Inquirer newspaper at Bunbury in 1850. He first appears in the newspapers in 1853, advertising a cottage to let in Bunbury that contained five rooms and a well that provided excellent water (reference). In 1856 he announced in The Inquirer and Commercial News newspaper that he was a licensed boatman of Bunbury who would be shipping goods for a price (reference).
In 1857 Thomas signed a petition against the introduction of Female Convicts to the Swan River Colony (reference). In 1858 he travelled to Perth from Bunbury on the cutter Zillah (reference).
Thomas left the colony from Bunbury in 1861 but returned to work with William Spencer (reference). Thomas Ashford was a contractor for the old Commissariat building on Arthur Street in partnership with William Spencer (reference). Thomas and William Spencer partnered in other ventures in Bunbury, including the Wellington Hotel (reference). The partnership between the two as hotelkeepers of the Wellington Hotel was dissolved on 31 December 1872 (reference). Thomas and William had previously dissolved partnerships, such as in 1862 (reference). According to the Western Australian Bicentennial Dictionary Thomas worked as an innkeeper in partnership with his son between 1869 to 1872.
Thomas was also a part of the community. He donated four Spanish silver coins dating between 1721 to 1726 to the Swan River Colony museum in 1867, which became the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip (reference). He also purchased some of the shipwrecks in Bunbury to salvage the timber (reference).
Thomas died on 24 October 1873 at 60 years old (reference).
Petition against Female Convicts 1857
The Perth Gazette and Independent Journal of Politics and News Fri 3 Jul 1857 Page 2
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John was a shipowner in Bunbury in 1877.
(1861-24/09/1923).
On 29/12/1875, Josephine married Henry Trigwell, a coachbuilder, in Bunbury. Henry was the son of Henry and Agnes.
John was born in Ireland and arrived on 26/10/1862 on the Tartar with his wife Catherine, brother Archibald and sister Jane. John and Catherine had one child, Caroline Josephine (1859-). John employed a ticket of leave labourer in 1867 in Bunbury.