· 1840 BISHOP POLDING
During his first ‘tour of duty’ – his five years in NSW from 1835 to 1840 – Dr Polding went on “a missionary tour through the interior, and often those visits to distant stations, particularly at a later period………….. he visited the house of every settler in the district …………it is said that there is hardly a family in any part of that vast district which has not treasured up the recollection of some such visit,…………from the many letters of a later time giving interesting details of these expeditions, but in their proper place, an abundance of evidence will be forthcoming.” See also 1851. [Seek out this correspondence. FCM]
· 1840 LETTER TO COLONIAL SECRETARY.
Edmund Markham (Lachlan District) Letter 40/4550 Shelf 4/2478. (From Reese Index. Yet to obtain.)
· 1840 PASTURAGE LICENCES.
Pasturage Licences – 6 February 1840. Licences, from the Colonial Treasurer for depasturing stock beyond the boundaries of location, to 30 June next, on payment of the established fee…..
LACHLAN: Markham, Edmund.
· 1840 LEASES
Notice of the Colonial Treasury 12.2.1840.
List of leases that expire 31.8.1840. Original Notice dated 24.1.1837. Re-let 21.3.1839 by Notice dated 30.1.1839.
Lot to be re-let. Lot as re-let 21.3.1839.
Lot 474 Lot 440.
County: Bathurst. County or situation: Milburn Creek. No of acres: 1020. Present lessee: Edward Markham.
[N S W GAZETTE Feb 1840 P.224]
Lot 474 – 1020 acres, Bathurst County, let for 1 year from 1.4.1840 to 31.3.1841 for
£7/19/5 rent to Edmond (sic) Markham.
[N.S.W GAZETTE PAGE 421.]
· 1840 N S W GAZETTE
13 May, 1840. List of unclaimed letters at GPO 1 May, 1840: Markham, E
· 1840 MARKHAM LETTER TO SURVEYOR GENERAL
In his letter of January 4, 1841, giving his address as “MillBurn (Sic) Creek”, he referred to his letter of 5 May, 1840 re land for rent. [Letter of 5 May 1840 not yet found. See 1841 next below.
· 1840 NSW Gazette Page 171….Pasturage Licences – 6 Feb 1840
Licences from the Colonial Treasurer for depasturing stock beyond the Limits of Location, to 30 June next, on payment of the established fee: Markham, Edmund.
· 1841 MARKHAM LETTER TO SURVEYOR GENERAL
By letter of January 4, 1841, address Milburn Creek, he asked that land* be put up for Rent on the same day on which lot 474 of 20 March, 1840 will be put up next. (*1000ac on Milburn Creek, Mt McDonald side.)
“ MillBurn Creek, 4 January, 1841 Sir,
I beg leave to request that one section situated on the MillBurn Creek, Lachlan, may be let for rent on my application.
The above land is bounded on the West by MillBurn Creek, on the South by John Terry Hughes’ 1000 acre farm, and on the East and North by Section Lines.
The above land I applied for to rent by letter through the Post Office Sydney on or about the fifth day of May, last.
I hope it will meet your kind approbation to cause the above described land to be put up the day on which Lot 474 of the 20th March 1840 will be put up next.
I have the…etc… Edmund Markham
To The Surveyor General.” [Reel 1156] 41/2276.]
· 1841 BIRTH OF ELLEN AGNES MARKHAM
Index to Baptisms (Old Records) 1841.
Ellin (sic) (Edward/Biddy) Entry 2320 Vol62 (NSW State Library)
Ellen Agnes, second daughter, third child, was born at (old) Darbys Falls,(sic) [i.e. Spring Vale, Milburn Creek] on 7 April, 1841. Married Frederick Joseph O’Leary at Spring Vale on 13 January, 1859. 10 children, listed on other documents.
Died 21 August, 1921 aged 79 years at Kogarah, Sydney, NSW. Buried Woronora Cemetery, Sydney, NSW.
{At the time of her husband’s death in 1889 when he was a publican in Dubbo, her residence was Family Hotel, Dubbo.
· 1841 MARKHAM LETTER TO SURVEYOR GENERAL
Letter of 30 May, 1841 asking that Lot 2, 1000 acres at Milburn Creek, “advertised to be let on 20 may, but not let, there being no offer,” be put up for lease.
NSW Gazette page 1286 noted ” Lot 102. Originally advertised as Lot 145. Licensed 23rd September 1841 . Bathurst. Milburn Creek. 1000acres.”
· 1841 N S W CENSUS
Edmund Markham Milburn Creek 1841 Census
Males 2 and under 7 – 1 Males 21 and under 45 – 9
Females 2 and under 7 – 1 Females 21 and under 45 – 2
TOTAL – 13
Males married – 2; single – 8; Females married – 2; single – 1.
Born in Colony: Males – 1 Females – 1
Arrived Free: Males – nil (sic); Females – 2
Other free persons: Males – 3 Females – nil
Ticket of Leave: Males – nil Females – nil
In government employment: Males – nil Females – nil
In private assignment: Males – 6 Females – nil
Religion:
C of E – 5; C of Scotland – 1; RC – 7
Occupations: Landed proprietors – 1 Shepherds – 8 Others – 4
Totals Males 10 females – 3
Houses:
1 finished, inhabited, wood. No others.
[NOTE: Only three properties on Milburn Ck. ]! ?
· 1842 1020 ACRES ON MILBURN CREEK.
Govt Gazette page 281. Lot 64 originally lot 110. Bathurst. Milburn Creek. 1020 acres. Edmund Markham.
· 1842 UNCLAIMED MAIL AT G P O.
SMH 8 September, 1842. “The following is the list of unclaimed letters for the month of August, 1842…..Edward Markham….”
· Ca. 1842 ABORIGINES
“The Markhams were reputed to be on friendly terms with the local aborigines by providing them with meat whenever they killed cattle, and the aboriginal women were also said to help with clothes washing in the creek.”
[Darbys Falls : A Bush Village’ by Heather Hudson.]
· 1843 POSTAL SERVICES
Postal Services commenced to Carcoar in 1843, to Canowindra in 1847, and Cowra in 1850. [RAHS 1901]
· 1843 GOVERNMENT GAZETTE (DATE?)
John Neville’s 1920 acres was described as “bounded on the south by the 1102 acres leased by Shaughnessy…….. etc.’ Later (Seventies) maps show this 1102 acres, at the point, opposite Edmund Markham’s 1002 acres, where Milburn Creek meets the Lachlan, broken up into 17 smaller blocks, including the location of the original Darbys Falls, Markham’s 55 acres, as well as blocks marked to Newham, West, Nicholas Jordan, Oliver, Whitty etc.
· 1844 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
12 July, 1844
At a sale at Bathurst on 20 March 1844.
Edward Markham purchased 1020 acres in
Bathurst County for £7.19.4 ½
Extract: “OCCUPATION LICENCES: The Occupation licences for Lands within the boundaries, advertised by the Notices in the Government Gazette of 20th and 27th February, 1844, have been sold to the undermentioned parties by auction, on the 20th and 21st March last, and the prices affixed to each respectively, have been received:
17. Bathurst 1020 acres Edward Markham £7/19/4 ½
· 1844 1844 LACHLAN FLOOD
“…the great 1844 flood in the Lachlan River.” [O’Shaughnessy Diary.] Described elsewhere as ‘the first flood known to white people.’
· “……… we reached Neville’s station, about a mile from where now stands the town of Cowra. There was no sign of a town at that period, the only house near the present town site being that occupied by the district poundkeeper, a Mr. Best. We camped at Neville’s for the night, lodging in the men’s quarters. The great flood out in that part was then subsiding, and coming along by the river (Lachlan) we saw several carcases of horses and cattle high up in the branches of the trees. About two miles from Nevilles, we saw the tree where two men belonging to Lees’ Station had taken refuge from the flood, staying there a day and night before they were rescued by blacks in their canoes. Hundreds of drowned sheep were lying on the flats, and the late Mr. James Butler, of Merriganowrie Station, lost over 1000 fat sheep in the back- wash of the river, which, of course, had overflowed its banks for miles. It was the greatest flood ever known on the Lachlan side.”
[ McAlister: Old Pioneering Days in the Sunny South.]
· 1844 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
5 August, 1844
“Land sale – sold by auction on 6 May 1844
and price affixed to each has been received”..,…”Carcoar, 2 roods 16 perches by
Edward Markham £4 .16.0”
· 1844 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD.
Date ? Title Deeds
27. Edward Markham, 2 roods 16 perches, Carcoar.
[This is about half acre on Jones St Carcoar, backing on to the river. ]
· 1844 N S W GAZETTE
8 November 1844 Page 1364
Proclamation of 4.4.1844, Deeds dated 16.8.1844. Carcoar 2r. 16p. Allotment 4 of Section 15. Upset price L8 per acre
Deeds title executed in name of Edmund Markham of Milburn Creek.
[Carcoar had been ‘notified as a village’ in the Government gazette of 29.8.1839. The first land sale of town allotments took place on July 9, 1840. Further sales on 10.12.1840 and 11.3.1840.
By 1850, Carcoar (population 303) was the most populous western town after Bathurst, 2252 pop.]
1844 LETTERS TO COLONIAL SECRETARY
447/8460 – 11th November 1844
Sydney 11th Nov 1844 Edwd Markham Respecting Amt due to him for supplies to Carcoar District
In the year 1843 I was the Contractor for the Supply of Rations of Provisions, Forage,
For the Colonial Service in the District of Carcoar. And entered into a Bond for the due performance of my Contract which I satisfactorily fulfilled.
In January last I forwarded my Accounts duly signed and sworn to for Supplies to the Lock up for Provision And for the period from the 1st July to 31 December 1843 Amounting to Fifty Pounds Four Shillings and ten pence to the Office of the Auditor General for payment. And after numerous applications have been informed the Amount Cannot be Paid withoutthe Sanction of His Excellency the Governor. I therefore Most Humbly beg you will investigate this matter and as I am in Sydney at present, I shall be able to give any Explanation that may be required respecting the justiness of my Claims.
To The Honourable The Colonial Secretary
I remain, Sirs, Your Most Obdt Servant
E. Markham
42 Clarence Street
Sydney
[SRNSW Shelf 4/2478 Reel 1927]
· 1844 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
15 November, 1844
Colonial Secretary’s office on 6 November
1844 distributed title deeds dated 14 September 1844 (to R.G. office) – Edward Markham, 2 roods 16 perches at Carcoar.
· 1844 SHAUGHNESSY DIARY
Now 9 years old, Shaughnessy, according to his diary entry
“ used to walk three miles to school at Spring Vale, Edmund Markham’s place, and back each evening except on Friday. I stayed all night for half a day’s school on Saturday.”
[Try to identify house and route!]
· 1845 SYDNEY MORNING HERALD
2 January, 1845.
Contracts for 1845.
“Tenders accepted tor furnishing supplies (forage) for the Colonial Service in Carcoar, Mr E. Markham”.
1846 POPULATION
Population in 1846: Bathurst Town 1883; Carcoar 73; County Bathurst 4391 (2799M – 1592F) 1701 under 21;
Lachlan District 2198 (1569M – 629F) 583 under 21.
· 1845 Letters to Colonial Secretary.
Edmund Markham, Carcoar. Letter 45/171 Shelf 4/2694 – 5.
Joan Reese Index.
· 1845 ARRIVAL OF EDMUND’S SISTER ANNE
Arrival of the ‘Herald’ at Port Jackson 9 February, 1845.
Edmund’s sister, Anne Catherine (Markham) Grum, (aged 27 according to herself, or 24 according to Emigrant certificate), from Rathkeale . Parents’ names James and Ellen, deceased (Refers probably only to her father.), Roman Catholic. Reads, has a brother Edmond in the Colony. Not known where he lives.
Accompanying her husband William Grum 35 (or 32 on certificate) Farm labourer, from Ballingarry, Co. Limerick, Roman Catholic. Reads and writes. Has females under protection: Ellen Grum Sister; Towhill, neice. Relations in the Colony: William Curtain, Brisbane Water. Parents’ names also James and Ellen. They go first to William Curtain at Brisbane Water .
[Aubrey Murray wrote that both Grums died at Milburn Creek -buried at Kangaroo Flat.]
· 1845 LETTER TO COLONIAL SECRETARY
45/171 – 6th January 1845
To His Excellency Sir George Gipps Kt Captain General and Governor in ChiefOf the Territory of New South Wales and its Dependencies etc. etc. etc. etc.
Edmund Markham
Respecting his claim for supplies furnished to Carcoar District
The Humble Memorial Of Edmund Markham of Carcoar
That your Memorialist, in consequence of the Failure of Mr. William Frederick Raitt to fulfill his Contract for Supplies of Provisions and Forage in the District of Carcoar for the Year 1843, entered into a Bond on the 21st day of April 1843 for to supply whatever might be required in that District during the remainder of that year.
That your Memorialist according to the Contract he had entered into satisfactorily performed the same.
That your Memorialist early in January of the present year, sent in his Accounts for Provisions, Fuel and Light supplied to the Lock up at Carcoar for the period from 1st July to 31st Decr 1843 amounting to £50.4.9 the same being duly attested and Certified and after numerous applications was informed that the same could not be paid without the Sanction of your Excellency.
That your Memorialist being in Sydney a short time ago addressed a Letter to the Honorable the Colonial Secretary respecting the said Accounts and on the 14th November last to Memorialist’s Surprise received an Answer from the Officer stating
“I am directed to inform you that His Excellency has no Funds out
of which he can defray the Charge”
That your Memorialist was bound himself and two responsible Sureties in a Bond of Five Hundred Pounds to supply whatever might be required and after doing so is informed that there is “no funds” out of which he can be paid. Is this Fair, Just or honorable, How would the Government Act if when your Memorialist wasa pplied to for his Assessment or any other claim, Your Memorialist was to answer “I have no Funds out of which I can pay such Claims”. It is well known such an answer would not satisfy the Government but means would be taken to compel your Memorialist to Liquidate the same. Then why should such an Answer be given to Memorialist for a small sum of £50.4.9 a just demand for Articles he was bound to supply under a heavy Penalty and in Terms of his Contract.
That your Memorialist cannot afford to lose so large an amount and previously to taking any other Proceedings for the recovery of the same feels most assured that some error or misunderstanding has occurred respecting the nature of his Claim and fully relies (now he has fully explained the Circumstances) that
Your Excellency will be pleased to recognise his Case and Act with Justice to your Memorialist who as in duty bound will ever pray
Ed Markham
Carcoar
30th December 1844.
44/8486 12th November 1844
Markham’s Claim for Supplies furnished to Carcoar District No. 181 – Memorandum in reply to a reference by the Colonial Secretary on a letter from Mr. E. Markham respecting his accounts for supplies to the Police at Carcoar during the half year ended 31 Dec 1843 amounting in all to _____£50.4.9.
By your Circular dated 21 September 1842, the sum of £50 was allowed as the expenditure for “Contingencies” in the District of Carcoar for the year 1843.
On the accounts referred to being forwarded to this office, it was found that if paid, the total expense for Contingencies during that year would amount to £135.10.5
An explanatory letter from the Bench of Magistrates was called for, and submitted with the accounts, in my letter
The Hon
The Colonial Secretary
Note on letter
I can only repeat that I have no funds out of which I can defray this charge. I see no reason to doubt that had the economy been observed and the business of the Bench been properly attended to, the sum provided for contingencies would have been sufficient at Carcoar as elsewhere
· 1846 RETURN TO PROSPERITY
The slump of the early forties, which followed the drought of the late thirties, led on to recovery and by 1846 prosperity came again, and with it, an increase in population.
· 1847 DONATION TO BUILD CARCOAR CHURCH
Sydney Chronicle 2 October, 1847.
“Arrangements will almost immediately be made for the erection of a church at Carcoar towards which nearly L300 has already been collected by the Rev Messrs McGrath and Slattery, including the liberal donation of ₤50 from Mr Markham.”
“The first subscribers to the erection of the Catholic Churches of Carcoar and King’s Plains. The list begins thus:
Mrs Edward Markham ₤10/0/0
Thomas Slattery ₤ 1/0/0
(Catholic Cowra. An Outline of its History. Pub:1939)
· 1848 EDMUND GRUM
Edmund only child of Ann Catherine (Markham) and William Grum, born Blayney district 4 January, 1848. Apart from his part in the Will, we have no further knowledge of his life or death. [Birth Details?]
· 1847 CONTRACT FOR COLONIAL SERVICE.
Contracts for 1848.
The following list of persons have been accepted for furnishing supplies of Provisions and Forage for the Colonial Service in the Districts undermentioned, during the year 1848, is published …. E Deas tHOMPSON.
…..
Carcoar – Mr Edmund Markham.
.
· 1848 WELLS GAZETTEER*
“BALLYLIN: In the County of Bathurst NSW; on the Lachlan River, with its junction with the Milburn Creek; the estate of Edmund Markham, situated thirty miles from Carcoar.” [ Note: Ballylin Townland in Co. Limerick, three miles from Rathkeale was alongside Mt Brown, where Edmund was arrested ‘in his home’.]
[ “A Geographical Dictionary or Gazetteer of the Australian Colonies 1848’ by W H Wells.”]
· Ca. 1849 “BALLYLIN WOOL”
“Walter Newham remembers seeing the “Ballylin” wool brand in the old shed eons ago.”
[Helen Ousby letter to Joan Dawes 26.7.1986]
· 1849 LETTER TO BOARD OF EDUCATION
Edward Markham of Milburn Creek as one of the “Patrons” of the bid, on 16 April 1849 signed, along with five other leading landholders (H.M. Fulton, Mufton Park; W. Redfern Watt, Bumbaldry; John Wood, Brundah; R.N. McDiarmid, Waugoola; James Sloan, North Logan) a submission to the Commissioners of the Board of Education seeking erection of a school in “Cowra, Lachlan River”. 158 children (of whom “about 40 expected to attend the school when arrangements can be made to board the children too distant to attend classes.”)
H.M. Fulton was the son of Rev. Henry Fulton, who had been one of Ed’s referees in 1830. (See box at 1829 above.) He, at this time was managing his father’s property of 19,000 acres.
James Sloan had been Arthur Ranken’s overseer from 1827, but by now owned substantial properties in the district. He died in 1859.
John Wood was one of the earliest pastoralists to enter the Lachlan District, including, in 1834 in what is now Woodstock, and along the Belubula River. His main property, Brundah, was established with his son, at the foot of the Weddin Mountains. Grenfell claims him as the first white settler in the Grenfell district.
W Redfern Watt, was the nephew Dr Redfern Watt, Emancipist, and surgeon and friend to Gov. Lachlan Macquarie, who was associated with the Lachlan Valley from 1827. Dr Watt left for England in 1833 and did not return. His nephew, living at Waugoola, managed his uncle’s substantial holdings from 1836 and then lived at Bumbaldry after purchasing it in 1839. Watt also carried on the correspondence with the government on behalf of those petitioning for a school.
R N McDiarmid, Watt’s brother in law, was listed as Superintendent of Waugoola from 1842. [Cowra on the Lachlan and Pioneer Roots Cowra.]
· 1849 CONTRACT FOR COLONIAL SERVICE.
·
ColSec Office Sydney 19 November 1849.
Contracts for 1850.
The following list of persons have been accepted for furnishing supplies of Provisions and Forage for the Colonial Service in the Districts undermentioned, during the year 1848, is published …. signed E Deas Thomson.
…..
…..
Carcoar – Mr Edmund Markham.
…..
· 1850 BATHURST FREE PRESS
E. Markham, Spring Vale 18.11.1850 in published notice, warned persons to take trespassing cattle off “my run, at the Lachlan River”. “ Persons found trespassing…will be dealt with according to law.”
[In NSW, fences were relatively uncommon until the 1850s, when new technology allowed cheap wire fences. Prior to this, fences were too expensive for many stockowners and farmers, and stocks were generally tended by shepherds and herdsmen. The herdsmen and shepherds protected the animals from predation by dingoes, aborigines and by thieving neighbours. They also ensured that the stock did not trespass onto neighbouring property, damaging crops, and giving rise to civil claims for damages. Trespass was an important issue in the early years of the Colony. Successive Governors and the Courts developed laws and practices to reduce the nuisance of trespass. RAHS Vol 84 Part 2.]
· 1850, 1851 DROUGHT
‘Great drought ‘ of 1850,51 , followed by flood in June, 1852. 80 drowned in one night at Gundagai on the Murrumbidgee.
· 1851 MORE BISHOP POLDING
Polding visited the Bathurst District in September 1851 for two months. In September, 1853, he visited for three months. He visited Bathurst, Carcoar and threaded his way through the Lachlan River district to Burrowa. [Planting the Celtic Cross, by Father Brian Maher.]
1850s Law and order
Harsh punishment did not deter the vagabonds, who roamed the lonely stretches of the Lachlan Valley. Hiding out, often as far away as the Abercrombie Mountains, where they could conceal the stolen stock, rustlers preyed on cattle pastured along the fertile banks of the Lachlan River. Settlers we forced to hobble horses every night, or lose them to the disreputable characters who made a living trading stolen livestock.
In September 1851, the Lachlan correspondent for The Bathurst Free Press And Mining Journal, alerted squatters to a regularly practised deception: “The practice has been extensively carried out by ruffians of conveying their neighbours’ horses into the mountain vastnesses, with which they are well acquainted, and waiting until a reward has been offered, when the animals would be returned and the reward claimed. [Cowra on the Lachlan.]
· 1853 BIRTH OF MARY MARKHAM
Mary, fourth child of Edmund Markham born on 18 November, 1853 at (old) Darbys Falls (sic) [i.e. Spring Vale on Milburn Creek]. Married Patrick Joseph O’Leary at Wentworth Gully, near Grenfell on 7 January, 1873. Seven children, listed on separate document. Died 1 January, 1932 in Sydney. Buried Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, NSW.)
1854 FIRST SALE OF TOWN BLOCKS, COWRA
28 September, 1854. 49 blocks sold.
One lot purchased by Edward Markham, Milburn Creek. [Cowra on the Lachlan. Block not specified in reference book.] Markham’s former assignee, Henry Carvill, (See box opposite 1848), bought 3 blocks.
· 1855 BATHURST FREE PRESS
Ed. Markham by public notice offered 400 cattle for sale “at Spring Vale, Milburn Creek, Lachlan River”
· 1856 REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES
Edmund and Bridget Markham are listed as witnesses at the marriage, in the Lachlan District – Abode Cowra – of Thomas O’Shaughnessy “Uncle Shock”, and Margaret Walsh. (Margaret’s sister, Ellen, married James Markham two years later.)
· 1856 TOWN BLOCK COWRA
NSW Gazette. Page 2108. Registry of Title Deeds 31 July 1856.
Edmund Markham 1 Acre
· LATE – 1850s “Catholic Cowra”
“A burnished memory of Father Bernard (Murphy) is preserved amongst the heads of the most ancient clans of the Cowra district. The Markhams, Jordans, Whittys, O’Briens and O’Dwyers, the Dalys, the Walshes, Searsons. He is pictured riding down from Mt McDonald into Spring Vale to celebrate the Holy Sacrifice for this closely populated, if isolated, Catholic Settlement. When “Paddy O’Dwyer armed with his fiddle rode with Patrick O’Brien and company from the districts of Morongla and the middle Lachlan to the hospitable home of the Markhams for a periodical night of dancing, we can feel sure that Fr. Bernard somehow graced their happy gatherings.”
[Catholic Cowra: An Outline of its History. Pub: 1939)
· MID 19 CENTURY Nineteenth Century Bathurst Newspaper.
“Go to the Markhams, the Whittys, the Ryans, ……the Newhams, Nevilles, O’Briens, ……….For they are the farming element who form the backbone of the nation,
whilst the big station-owning families are going the consumptive way of luxurious living.”
(Catholic Cowra. An Outline of its History. Pub:1939)
· 1858 BANK OF N S W
Bathurst Current Account Ledger, folio 348 shows that Edmond Markham had a current account at Canowindra. He withdrew L150.0.0 on March 16, 1858, leaving a balance of L337.16.6 [Westpac Historical Services, Sydney. Ph. 9763 5679.]
· 1858 BLOCKS 6 (46ac.) AND & (44ac.)
Lands Map records sale at Carcoar on 14 April, 1858 of blocks 6 and 7 on Milburn Creek, parish of Milburn, Co. Bathurst, to Edmund Markham, whose name is recorded on each block. The document refers to “the measured land, known as Markham’s Old Farm, which embraces a Flat of fair average soil which has been cleared and cultivated for many years.”
· 1858 REGISTRAR OF MARRIAGES
James Markham is shown as ‘Bachelor/Grazier of Spring Vale’ on his marriage Certificate of 23.5.1858 to Ellen Walsh, Spinster, of Cowra in Cowra. Witnesses Daniel Neville and Catherine Hartigan. Ages are not shown.
(NOTE: Margaret Wilkinson points out the following in her book on the Walsh family:
“Ellen Walsh was the youngest of the Walsh family who emigrated from Castle Erkin farm, Co. Limerick, to the Cowra district of New South Wales. Although her death certificate states that she had been 62 years in New South Wales when she died in 1916, (thus arr. 1854) there is no record of her arrival by ship but as she was sponsor at the baptism of her brother Patrick’s daughter (Sarah) on 16 May 1852 at the Weddin Mountains, it seems likely that she travelled out under the protection of her married sister (Mrs Catherine Hartigan) in 1850 on board the Lord Stanley when Ellen would have been fifteen years old. )
FATHER Bernard Murphy, who married them, was based in Carcoar for ten years from 1853 to 1863. He became known as “the parish priest of the Lachlan”, for the long distances he travelled.
1859 BIRTH OF EDMUND AND BRIDGET.
James’ birthplace (in 1836) is shown as “Milburn Creek “ on birth certificate of James/Ellen’s twins 4 July, 1859, who were also shown as “born at Spring Vale near Milburn Creek.” Grazier, age 23 years, his current residence (in 1859) is shown as ‘Spring Vale’ and Ellen age 24 years, born Co. Limerick, Ireland.
(Edmund was the elder born of the twins, Bridget being the other.. Eight more children were born – Thomas 1862, Patrick 1864, James 1866, Francis 1868, Nicholas 1870, William 1872, Daniel 1877, Margaret 1877.)