Penniedarling

 I am Aussie from First and Second Fleets.

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 Three J's today.

John Cross - My 4 X Great Grandfather.

Born - 23.3.1756 - East Knoyle, Wiltshire. England - Died 24.12.1824 - Windsor, Hawkesbury City, N.S.W.  aged - 68.

Convict - Stole a 'Wether' which is an old Male Sheep that has been castrated.

Arrived in Sydney on the 'Alexander' on 26.1.1788.

Married Mary Ann Davison - Born 30.4.1767 - Kirkcaldy Fifeshire, Scotland - Died 13.12.1827 - Hawkesbury River, NSW - aged - 60 - having 8 Children.

Arrived in Australia - 1790.

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John Cobcroft - My 4 X Great Grandfather.

Born - 9.8.1756 - Southwark, London - Died - 4.6.1853 - Wilberforce, NSW - aged 96.

Convict - Highway Robbery, arriving on the 'Scarborough' June 1790 on the Second Fleet.

Married Sarah Smith - 24.12.1842 - aged 70 - John aged 86 -  Having 10 Children.

Sarah Smith - Born  30.11.1772 - Holborn, Middlesex. UK. - Died 31.5.1857 - Wilberforce, NSW - aged 84.

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John Tremayne Rodd - My 3 X Great Grandfather.

Born 13.4.1777 - Evesham, Worcestershire. UK - Died - 13.8.1844 - Wollombi, NSW. - aged - 67.

Married Bridget Hart Burnell - 2.6.1804 - Stepney, Middesex. UK. - Died - 1818 Devonshire, UK- aged 34 years - 4 Children.

John came free to Van Diemen's Land per "Tiger", 1821; arrived Sydney 1822; Assistant Surveyor,

So called 'Landed Gentry' -  John sailed to Australia with his three sons but his daughter stayed behind.

 

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 This is where my parents were living when I was born, home of my maternal Grandparents and it is the home we lived in over and over again while my dad was being moved all around the State with the Army.  So many wonderful memories from this beautiful old home and it is wonderful to see that it is still being well looked after.

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 I am related to two English Families who came to Australia very early on... on my maternal side was John Cobcroft my 4x Great Grandfather who came from Southwark, London and who was involved in Highway Robbery, he arrived on the Second Fleet, June 1790.  After only 4 years of his 7 year sentence he was granted land at Wilberforce (so he must have really been a good boy don't you think?)
Above is the Barn he built on his land which is still standing!

My Paternal English Family came from Evesham, Worcestershire, UK.  John Tremayne Rodd, my 3x Great Grandfather wouldn't go into the church as his father expected him to do so he was banished from the family and after his wife died he and his three little boys sailed to Australia arriving in April 1822.  Here is the home my 2xGreat Grandfather built on Rodd Point, which is no longer standing.

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'Xmas' back in 1948!
Back - Rip, Pam, Poppa aka Harrie and Rosie.   Front - Mr & Mrs Kelly, Pennie, Tim, Mama aka Eileen and Kisser Kelly.

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This is my beautiful Pop!  well he was really Poppa to me, a really lovely warm loving man.

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A very beautiful and handsome man was my grandfather Harrie.

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Beautiful fence around the property and veranda of 'Glenroy'  the home my Cobcroft family lived in, the home my beautiful Grandfather Harrie was born in.

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 My Great Grandparents Richard William Cobcroft and Gertrude Bushell.   I met Gertrude, when I was born the first thing my mother did on returning home was to take me into my Great Grandmothers room and place me in her arms!  I don't remember it of course but this is the story I was told.  Gertrude died almost 4 weeks after was born.

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 Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Saturday 12 September 1896.



  Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Saturday 19 September 1896.

 Windsor and Richmond Gazette, Saturday 29 October 1898

I remember Olive, she was a very friendly bubbly sort of person who was always interested in people, asking a lot of questions.  Olive died when I was 10, I wish I'd known her more.

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 Sarah Cobcroft nee Smith was my 4 times Great Grandmother, she arrived in Australia as a free settler,  along with John Cobcroft, a convict, 226 years ago.

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My Aunt Pam with me as Flower Girl at her Wedding, she wants to be my Bridesmaid at David and my Wedding in a couple of years time she says, she's never been a Bridesmaid and reckons at 90 years of age she can do it!  :-)

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My Great Aunt Olive Benson nee Cobcroft, my Grandfather Harrie's oldest sister.

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Mama, my wonderful Grandmother Eileen Daphne Cobcroft nee Long at her Bishop cousins property in Eurobodalla in 1913, a long time before she became my Grandmother.

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We found this out last year, when trying to transfer one of our cars from David's name to mine, the Motor Registry wanted to see our Marriage Certificate!  We told them we were married in England but are both Australian born and Australian Citizens and they then asked us if we had registered our marriage at Births Deaths and Marriages...  No we hadn't even thought of it... they then told us that our British Marriage Certificate isn't legal for this sort of procedure!  Wow!   but they still took our word for it and the cars were transferred.

I then spoke to my friend Brenda who knows about these sorts of things and she agreed with the Motor Registry!  Wow!

I then rang Births Deaths and Marriages and was assured that both these sources were correct and that we had better register our marriage as soon as possible!  Holey Moley!

Now this has given our children a lot to laugh about, their fuddy duddy mature parents not married?  That's a little bit weird when they've seen our Wedding photos plus Nerys and Tim got married at the Guildford Registry Office in Surrey, 20 years ago, the same place David and I were married.

Both Nerys and Tim and Tomos and Emma are fine because they got married in either England or Australia and then had another Ceremony with a Marriage Celebrant in either Australia or England.

So...  what do David and I do... we thought play it by ear and have a big party and get married one day, thinking in a couple of years when we will celebrate our 50th Anniversary of being married in Britain.

Now I've just discovered that my 4th Great Grandparents... John and Sarah Cobcroft who arrived here in 1790 unmarried... didn't marry until they'd had 10 children and been together for 50 years!  WOW!

Soooo...  Roll on 2018... do you think we can stay together that long???

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 This is the Floor Plan of my Grandparents home, 'Nar Vale' at Strathfield. I was born just around the corner and my parents lived in a flat, which is no longer here but went from the Master Bedroom's ensuite to the Living Room.  Living in this lovely old home when I entered it was two of my Great Grandmothers, my Grandparents Mama and Poppa, Poppa's sister Carol and brother George.  Rosie and Ripley of course and Rosie's Sister Pam and brother Tony.   It was a full and very happy home.
I found this floor plan on the Internet along with many photos when it was for sale last year.  It sold for $2,600,00.00 (Two million six hundred thousand)

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That's my beautiful Mama on the left in the hat, with my Great Aunt Carol and my cousins Sue on the left Lion and Andrew on the right lion at 'Glenroy' in Windsor.   Some lovely memories  :-)

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 Found this in John Luxford's Book about my mothers side of the family, the Cobcroft's.  I know its old English but I do not want to be known as a 'relict' of anyone okay!
Nor do I want to be known as a 'thing which has survived'   :-)

This is my 4 times Great Grandmother, Sarah Cobcroft nee Smith.
John's Cobcroft book is just amazing, it's 670 pages of small print and it's only Volume One!  with a possible two more to come.
Sarah had 83 Grandchildren!  Makes our almost 8, look piddling in comparison doesn't it  :-)

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Lots of distant relatives of mine here... can you see me?

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