| [Index] |
| William WARBY (1801 - 1885) |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Sarah Eliza WARBY (1833 - ) |
William WARBY (1801 - 1885) + Jemima MIDDLETON (1803 - 1839) |
John WARBY | ||
| Sarah BENTLEY | ||||
| b. Jul 1801 at Prospect, New South Wales, Australia |
| m. 1821 Jemima MIDDLETON (1803 - 1839) |
| d. 1885 at Victoria, Australia aged 84 |
| Parents: |
| John WARBY |
| Sarah BENTLEY |
| Children (1): |
| Sarah Eliza WARBY (1833 - ) |
| Events in William WARBY (1801 - 1885)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| Jul 1801 | William WARBY was born | Prospect, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | ||
| 1821 | 20 | Married Jemima MIDDLETON (aged 18) | 73 | ||
| 02 Feb 1833 | 31 | Birth of daughter Sarah Eliza WARBY | 73 | ||
| 1839 | 38 | Death of wife Jemima MIDDLETON (aged 36) | |||
| 1885 | 84 | William WARBY died | Victoria, Australia | 73 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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William Warby was born at Prospect in July 1 1801 the second of fourteen children of John Warby and Sarah Warby (nee Bentley).
Both William’s parents had been sent to New South Wales as convicts. John, a farm worker from Herefordshire, arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1792. Desperately needing to increase the colony’s food supplies Governor Phillip settled John Warby on fifty acres of good land on the south east side of Prospect Hill, five miles west of Parramatta. This was one of his last acts before he sailed-away from his post in December 1792. Sarah Bentley arrived in the colony in April 1796. John and Sarah produced their first child in April 1800. John Warby soon came into demand as an explorer and guide into the southern areas of the colony for Governors King, Bligh, and Macquarie. By the age of twenty, William Warby too had a grant of land (at Liverpool) and soon he had land grants on Goulburn Plains. In 1821 he married Jemima Middleton. Later, Jemima’s sister, Caroline Middleton, and her husband Thomas McAlister, went to work for William Warby on his property (Mingay) at the Junction of the Murrumbidgee and Tumut Rivers. Charles Sturt visited Warby on the northern side of the Murrumbidgeeat 9 am, 27 November 1829 on his journey of exploration down the Murrumbidgee. Soon after Sturt’s visit William must have moved about 6 miles away to Darbalara (across the Murrumbidgee and on the right bank of the Tumut River). Thomas and Caroline McAlister, who were working on Warby’s station at the time, had a child (Elizabeth) born on 10 May 1830. The infant is reputed to be the first white child born in the Tumut River Valley. Years later she became the wife of another grand pioneer, John Wilkinson of Springfield. Three years later William and Jemima Warby also had a daughter, Sarah Eliza Warby, born at Darbalara on 2 February 1833, and baptised at St Peter’s Campbelltown on 30 September 1833. In the same September William applied to purchase Darbalara. On 8 December 1832, Dr. George Bennett, whilst on his journey to inspect the myriads of "Bugong" moths on" the Bogong Range, called at Darbalara and in his book reported that Warby was running cattle and sheep and also conducting a dairy. The cheese was sold in Sydney. The Sisters Caroline McAlister and Jemima Warby were the first Whlte women to live on the Tumut River and in fact no other white women are known to have lived there prior to 1835 when Amelia Shelley, the seventeen-year-old wife of George Shelley, came from Parramatta to his Bombowlee station. Caroline McAlister rode from Darbalara to prepare the home at Bombowlee for the young Mrs. Shelley. In 1836 William Warby was sentenced to a fourteen-year prison term in Tasmania for receiving stolen cattle. His property was sold at auction in July 1836. Jemima Warby tried desperately to have her husband released but she died three years later in 1839 aged 36. William Warby received his ticket of leave 1842 and a pardon in 1843. He died in Victoria in 1885. |
| 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 = 30 (Birth) |
| - Reference = 31 (Death) |
| - Reference = 30 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = 31 (Marriage) |