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William WARBY (1801 - 1885)
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Sarah Eliza WARBY (1833 - )
William WARBY (1801 - 1885)

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Jemima MIDDLETON (1803 - 1839)
John WARBY (1767 - 1851)











Sarah BENTLEY (1780 - 1869)












b. Jul 1801 at Prospect, New South Wales, Australia
m. 1821 Jemima MIDDLETON (1803 - 1839)
d. 1885 at Victoria, Australia aged 84
Near Relatives of William WARBY (1801 - 1885)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Father in Law William Henry MIDDLETON 19 Oct 1774 Cripplegate, London, England 20 Jan 1828 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 53
Mother in Law Sarah GUNNER 1775 1836 61

Father John WARBY 18 Feb 1767 Hertfordshire, England 12 May 1851 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 84
Mother Sarah BENTLEY abt 1780 19 Oct 1869 89

Self William WARBY Jul 1801 Prospect, New South Wales, Australia 1885 Victoria, Australia 84

Wife Jemima MIDDLETON 05 Feb 1803 London, Middlesex, England 1839 36

Daughter Sarah Eliza WARBY 02 Feb 1833

Brother Robert WARBY 10 Apr 1814 Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia 05 Dec 1853 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 39
Brother James WARBY 07 Feb 1817 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 12 May 1849 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 32

Nephew Edward Pringle WARBY 1846 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 1856 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 10
Nephew Robert Daniel WARBY 1848 Gunning, New South Wales, Australia 1924 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 76
Nephew Thomas WARBY 1851 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 1921 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 70
Niece Elizabeth Henrietta WARBY 27 Mar 1853 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 03 Aug 1941 Cowra, New South Wales, Australia 88
Nephew James Edward WARBY 07 May 1839 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 11 May 1910 Moss Vale, New South Wales, Australia 71
Niece Harriet Anne WARBY 1841 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 1856 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 15
Niece Adelaide WARBY 1843 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 1856 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 13
Nephew John Joseph WARBY 1846 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 04 May 1924 Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia 78
Niece Mary Jane WARBY 1849 Williams River, New South Wales, Australia 19 Aug 1934 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia 85
Niece Eliza Middleton MCALISTER 30 May 1826 Appin, New South Wales, Australia 26 Dec 1873 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 47
Niece Elizabeth MCALISTER 10 May 1830 Darbalara, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jul 1889 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 59
Nephew John James MCALISTER 21 Jun 1832 Murrumbidgee River, New South Wales, Australia 18 Sep 1882 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 50
Niece Mary Henrietta Middleton MCALISTER 1835 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 06 Oct 1889 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 54
Nephew William Henry MCALISTER 20 May 1838 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 1840 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 2
Niece Charlotte MCALISTER 10 Sep 1840 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 06 Oct 1890 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 50
Nephew Robert MCALISTER 10 Sep 1842 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 07 Aug 1925 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 82
Nephew James MCALISTER 19 Nov 1844 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 24 Oct 1890 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 45
Niece Jemima MCALISTER 02 Sep 1846 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 14 Jun 1907 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 60
Nephew Thomas George MCALISTER 24 Jan 1849 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 1930 Cootamundra, New South Wales, Australia 81
Niece Sarah MCALISTER 19 Sep 1850 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 16 Sep 1915 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 64
Niece Rebecca MCALISTER 27 Jun 1852 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 23 Sep 1927 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 75
Nephew George MCALISTER 12 Nov 1854 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 26 Jan 1928 Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia 73

Sister in Law Caroline MIDDLETON 31 Dec 1810 London, Middlesex, England 25 Apr 1863 Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 52
Sister in Law Elizabeth Henrietta FOWLER 1827 09 Nov 1895 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 68
Sister in Law Mary Ann BROOKER 24 Mar 1821 Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 09 Jan 1863 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 41
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)
12 May 1851 49 Death of father John WARBY (aged 84) Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
19 Oct 1869 68 Death of mother Sarah BENTLEY (aged 89)
1885 84 William WARBY died Victoria, Australia 73
Personal Notes:
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
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