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Anne BOLTON (1811 - 1887)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Emily Diana STURT (1840 - 1923) George William Milner Mordaunt STURT (1842 - 1921) Frances Emmeline STURT (1844 - 1907) Richard STURT (1846 - 1914) Evelyn Shirley STURT (1848 - 1926) Annie S STURT (1850 - 1889)	Anne BOLTON (1811 - 1887) + George Mordaunt William Milner STURT (1803 - 1881)

b. abt 1811 at Ireland

m. 27 Feb 1840 George Mordaunt William Milner STURT (1803 - 1881) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

d. 14 May 1887 at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia aged 76

Cause of Death:

pleurisy

Near Relatives of Anne BOLTON (1811 - 1887)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	George William Milner Morduant STURT	07 Oct 1777	Dorset, England	25 Aug 1830	Cape Town, South Africa	52
Mother in Law	Maria Louisa Van ISSEL		Switzerland
Self	Anne BOLTON	abt 1811	Ireland	14 May 1887	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	76
Husband	George Mordaunt William Milner STURT	08 Jul 1803	Isle of Man, UK	05 Dec 1881	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	78
Daughter	Emily Diana STURT	18 Dec 1840	Bombowlee, New South Wales, Australia	18 Jul 1923	Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	82
Son	George William Milner Mordaunt STURT	abt 02 Jun 1842	Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia	31 Dec 1921	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	79
Daughter	Frances Emmeline STURT	28 Jan 1844	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	01 Jul 1907	Newtown, New South Wales, Australia	63
Son	Richard STURT	15 Apr 1846	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	27 Mar 1914	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	67
Son	Evelyn Shirley STURT	17 Jul 1848	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	20 Feb 1926	Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia	77
Daughter	Annie S STURT	14 Jul 1850	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	11 Sep 1889	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	39
Son in Law	James OSMOND	15 Jan 1837	Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England	03 Mar 1911	Adaminaby, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	74
Son in Law	John MONTGOMERY	1837	USA	1911	Walgett, New South Wales, Australia	74
Daughter in Law	Louisa LEFEVRE	1847	Piermont, New South Wales, Australia	23 Nov 1916	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	69
Daughter in Law	Jane LOWRY	1847	Gloucestershire, England	19 Feb 1926	Auburn, New South Wales, Australia	79
Son in Law	William BOWDEN	1851	England	1894	Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia	43
Grandson	George James OSMOND	12 Dec 1864	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	10 Jul 1955	Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia	90
Granddaughter	Frances Ann Queenie OSMOND	23 Jun 1866	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	07 Jun 1961	Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia	94
Grandson	William John OSMOND	10 Aug 1867	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	16 Feb 1937	Marrickville, Sydney, Australia	69
Grandson	Herbert "Bert" OSMOND	20 Jul 1869	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	12 Mar 1949	Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia	79
Grandson	Arthur Alfred Thomas OSMOND	28 Mar 1871	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	08 Nov 1954	Cooma, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia	83
Granddaughter	Milderd Mary Jane OSMOND	17 May 1873	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	24 Jun 1877	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	4
Grandson	Frederick Albert OSMOND	13 Jan 1875	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	14 Jan 1950	Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand	75
Grandson	Walter Thomas Hector OSMOND	05 Nov 1876	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	22 Apr 1950	Nowra, New South Wales, Australia	73
Grandson	Eustace Robert Evelyn OSMOND	13 Sep 1878	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	18 Nov 1940	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia	62
Grandson	Theodore Reginald Sharp OSMOND	28 Dec 1881	Blowering, New South Wales, Australia	02 May 1962	Auckland, Durham, England	80
Grandson	Alfred George Augustus STURT	16 Apr 1869	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	12 Feb 1949	Katoomba, New South Wales, Australia	79
Grandson	Arthur Lydiard Elsey STURT	30 Oct 1871	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	01 Nov 1969	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	98
Granddaughter	Frances Fanny Louisa STURT	02 Aug 1873	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	05 Mar 1969	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia	95
Granddaughter	Susan Emily Anne STURT	08 Oct 1875	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	1965		90
Grandson	George William Milner STURT	26 Aug 1877	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	15 Sep 1937	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	60
Granddaughter	Florence Diana Eugenie STURT	20 Jan 1880	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	1977		97
Granddaughter	Daisy Agnes Maud STURT	01 Mar 1883	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	02 Apr 1965	Taree, New South Wales, Australia	82
Granddaughter	Lottie Susannah Jane STURT	20 Apr 1885	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	03 Nov 1967	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia	82

Events in Anne BOLTON (1811 - 1887)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1811		Anne BOLTON was born	Ireland
27 Feb 1840	29	Married George Mordaunt William Milner STURT (aged 36)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
18 Dec 1840	29	Birth of daughter Emily Diana STURT	Bombowlee, New South Wales, Australia		73
abt 02 Jun 1842	31	Birth of son George William Milner Mordaunt STURT	Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia		73
28 Jan 1844	33	Birth of daughter Frances Emmeline STURT	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		73
15 Apr 1846	35	Birth of son Richard STURT	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
17 Jul 1848	37	Birth of son Evelyn Shirley STURT	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		73
14 Jul 1850	39	Birth of daughter Annie S STURT	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		73
05 Dec 1881	70	Death of husband George Mordaunt William Milner STURT (aged 78)	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia		73
14 May 1887	76	Anne BOLTON died	Tumut, New South Wales, Australia

Personal Notes:

ANN STURT nee Bolton by Pat Sherriff Ann Sturt's headstone in the Pioneer Cemetery at Tumut states: Native of lreland. Years of research has failed to discover where in Ireland Ann came from, her parents' names and the date of her arrival in New South Wales. There were several Ann Boltons in the colony in the 1830's but none correspond to our Ann Bolton. Ann Bolton was born in about 1810 in lreland. ln February 1840, she married George William Mordaunt Milner Sturt at St Phillip's Church, Sydney. George Sturt, born on the lsle of Man in 1803, was the son of George William Milner Sturt and a Swiss born girl, Maria Louisa Van lssel. George's parents had married in Cape Town in South Africa, had returned to England for several years and went back to South Africa in 1818, where they spent the rest of their lives in Simon's Town, on the southern tip of the Cape. George junior was appointed Wharfmaster in 1824 and also worked in the Customs Department. Twenty-one year old George purchased the property his father had leased and remained in Simon's Town until his father died in 1830. Cape Town was a regular port of call for ships sailing east to lndia and Australia. The English Sturt family were regular passengers between England and lndia and New South Wales and often stayed a few days with the South African Sturt family while their ship was provisioned. George's cousins, Charles Sturt, the explorer and Evelyn Sturt, while on their Cape stopover would certainly have informed their cousin George of the opportunities waiting for settlers in New South Wales. At some time between 1838 and 1839, George Sturt emigrated to the colony. lt has been suggested that Ann Bolton was a passenger aboard his ship. There is no record of her being brought out by a government agency as were most young lrish females at this time. George was described as 'a mariner' at their marriage and Ann was merely 'a spinster'. George's cousin, Charles, had explored the Murray, Darling and Murrumbidgee Rivers in 1838 and his cousin Evelyn, Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Murrumbidgee District, was based at Yass in 1837. Therefore, there were two opportunities for George and Ann Sturt to learn about good farming land in this southern section of the state. More than likely they were helped by Cousin Evelyn to take up land in the Tumut Valley. George Sturt had farmed his Simon's Town property and so was no stranger to life on the land. Consequently this'ex-mariner' (as his headstone described him) and his new wife settled on Tumut Plains. They left Sydney not long after their wedding and made what was then a journey of considerable length and time. Between 1840 and 1850 Ann had six children in the rather isolated area on the Plains. Like most women in that period, the birth was attended by one or more of the other settler's wives who took on the role of midwife. Births usually occurred in families every 18 months to two years - sometimes shorter periods. Emily was born in 1840; George William in 1842, Frances Emmeline in 1844, Richard in 1846, Evelyn Shirley (a son) in 1848 and Ann in 1850. At this time Tumut was in the Parish of Yass under the care of the Reverend Charles Ferdinand Brigstocke who periodically journeyed from one settlement to another of his large parish to marry and baptise his parishioners. When Emily Sturt was baptised he performed the ceremony for ten other children on the same day. Again when Ann Sturt was baptised, another ten children were baptised, this was on the 20 October 1850, some three months after her birth. All Ann's children survived to adulthood which was a credit to her rearing them. These were the times that infant deaths occurred regularly in isolated settlements. Strange to say, not one lrish name appears amongst her childrens' names. They bore the English Sturt traditional names, with the exception of Richard who was named after his father's partner, Richard Cooper, a paroled convict from the village of Eldersfield in Gloucester, England. ln 1853 George Sturt and Richard Cooper jointly purchased Lot 118 of 84 acres for two hundred and fifty three pounds and four shillings. This was on the east bank of the Tumut River and must have been excellent land for that high price. They named their property, Elderfield, after Cooper's native village. Cooper had asked his wife and family to join him in Tumut, but she refused to leave England. When Cooper died at the end of 1854, his will bequeathed the proceeds from the sale of his personal property and crops to his wife and children and the Sturt family were to benefit by the greater portion. Cooper's share of Elderfield passed to George Sturt, Ann was to receive all Cooper's cattle; the Sturt children were to receive stock and farm animals and Cooper's godson, Richard, received a sum of money to be spent on his schooling. Cooper's trustees granted and released the property and goods to George William Sturt, Anne Sturt, his wife and the two sons, George William and Richard. Ann Sturt was now'a woman of property'. George, when he died in 1881, bequeathed Elderfield to her for the remainder of her life. ln 1863 George and Ann also purchased from John Whitty, the second Sturt property, Richlands - Lot 116 on the Tumut River separated from Elderfield by John Whitty's property, Lot 117. George and Ann lived on Tumut Plains until their deaths. They were quite prominent in the social, charitable and public functions of the Plains, though George's name only is mentioned in records, as was the custom in those times (women's roles were never publicised). When George died in December 1881 , most of his family were still in the district. Ann Sturt lived for another five and a half years and died at Tumut Plains 14th May 1887 of pleurisy. She made a Will, not all that common for a farmer's wife in this time and quite an achievement for a former migrant from lreland. Two of George and Ann's sons had no children. George William never married and Evelyn Shirley Sturt married late in life. He left the Tumut area. Richard and the Sturt daughters produced many descendants who lay claim to connections with other old Tumut families. Emily Sturt married James Osmond and eventually settled in Adaminaby. Frances married John Montgomery, who was born in America, served as a Mail Contractor in the Tumut area and took his wife and family north to the Walgett district. Richard married Louise Lefevre and their sons continued to carry the Sturt name in the Tumut district. Evelyn married and lived in the Bowral and western Sydney area. He and his wife, Jane Lewry had no children. Ann, the youngest child married William Bowden of Blowering. The Sturt connections extend into other Tumut family lines, through the Clouts, the Emerys, the lbbotsons, the Bartholomews, the Nuttalls, the Withers, the Oddys, the McRaes, all claiming the lrish Ann Bolton as their grandmother or great grandmother. As the family lines extended, descendants spread across the state and country, perhaps some quite unaware of their Sturt and Bolton heritage. We still know nothing of Ann Sturt's lrish origins and perhaps it is doubtful if we ever will.

Source References:

73. Type: Book, Abbr: Pioneers of Tumut Valley, Title: Pioneers of the Tumult Valley , The History of Early Settlement, Auth: H.E. Snowden, Publ: Tumut & District Historical Society Incorporated, Date: 2004

- Reference = 43 (Name, Notes)

76. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find a Grave, Title: Find A Grave, Locn: https://www.findagrave.com/

- Reference = https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/206553178/ann-sturt (Name, Notes)

77. Type: Book, Abbr: Tumut Pioneer Cemetery, Title: Tumut Pioneer Cemetery, Auth: Gay Stuckey and Pam Archer, Publ: Tumut Family History Group, Date: 1989

- Reference = page 55 # 353. (Name, Notes)

- Notes: STURT George W., died Tumut Plains 5 Dec 1881 aged 78. Native of England. Erected by his widow; also STURT Ann, died Tumut Plains 13 May 1887 aged 76 years. Native of Ireland.

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