| [Index] |
| George Edward Nicholas WESTON (1796 - 1856) |
| Captain - farmer |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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George WESTON (1830 - 1830) Julia Maria WESTON (1832 - 1868) Edward Henry WESTON (1833 - 1913) Frederick WESTON (1836 - 1886) Blanche Eliza WESTON (1839 - 1923) Isabella WESTON (1841 - 1878) Francis Jenkins WESTON (1844 - 1902) Augusta Alice WESTON (1849 - 1926) |
George Edward Nicholas WESTON (1796 - 1856) + Blanche JOHNSTON (1806 - 1904) |
Henry Perkins WESTON (1748 - 1826) | ||
| Jeanne Marie Bergier de MONT ( - 1804) | ||||
| b. 31 Oct 1796 at West Horsley, Sussex, England |
| m. 21 May 1829 Blanche JOHNSTON (1806 - 1904) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 25 Nov 1856 at Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia aged 60 |
| Parents: |
| Henry Perkins WESTON (1748 - 1826) |
| Jeanne Marie Bergier de MONT ( - 1804) |
| Events in George Edward Nicholas WESTON (1796 - 1856)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 31 Oct 1796 | George Edward Nicholas WESTON was born | West Horsley, Sussex, England | 6 | ||
| 1804 | 8 | Death of mother Jeanne Marie Bergier de MONT | |||
| 1826 | 30 | Death of father Henry Perkins WESTON (aged 78) | |||
| 21 May 1829 | 32 | Married Blanche JOHNSTON (aged 22) | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 36 | |
| 1830 | 34 | Birth of son George WESTON | India | ||
| 1830 | 34 | Death of son George WESTON | India | ||
| 14 Oct 1832 | 35 | Birth of daughter Julia Maria WESTON | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 6 | |
| 30 Aug 1833 | 36 | Birth of son Edward Henry WESTON | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | 6 | |
| 06 Jul 1836 | 39 | Birth of son Frederick WESTON | Horsley Park, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 13 Apr 1839 | 42 | Birth of daughter Blanche Eliza WESTON | Horsley Park, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1841 | 45 | Birth of daughter Isabella WESTON | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | 6 | |
| 1844 | 48 | Birth of son Francis Jenkins WESTON | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1849 | 53 | Birth of daughter Augusta Alice WESTON | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | 6 | |
| 25 Nov 1856 | 60 | George Edward Nicholas WESTON died | Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia | 'Horsley' | 6 |
| Personal Notes: |
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Received grant of land 1831 in what is now Weston Creek, ACT
From Wikipedia entry Captain George Edward Nicholas Weston was a former officer of the East India Company who arrived in Australia in 1825 and was granted land in the Weston Creek area in 1831, previously held by James Martin, who had built a house, grazed sheep and cattle and cleared and planted 20 acres (81,000 m2). Technicalities hindered Martin's claim, and officials eventually preferred the wealthy, well-connected claim of Weston. Weston lived at Horsley, near Liverpool and was virtually an absent landlord, as the only interest he took in his property on the Molonglo River, was to take out a mortgage in February 1833, and sell it in August 1834 to Francis Mowatt The district of Weston Creek in the Australian Capital Territory is named after him. In 1831 he was granted 10 square kilometres of land in the Canberra district at a place described as Yarrow-lumla Plains. From familypedia.wikia.com It has been said that "Captain Edward Weston" was Superintendent of the Hyde Park Barracks, in relation to today's suburb of Weston in the A.C.T. named for a land grant in the area of today's Canberra. This is not true. References and newspapers of the day to the man who was Superintendant of the Hyde Park Barracks show his name to have been John Weston, a different man to Captain Edward Weston (George Edward Nicholas Weston). The newspaper references include a birth announcement for a son born to "Mrs Weston, wife of Mr John Weston, Superintendant of Hyde Park Barrackes" on 16 Aug 1830, a time when Edward Weston (George Edward Nicholas Weston) was in India. In relation to the land grant in the area of today's Canberra, George Edward Nicholas Weston did own a land grant there on the Yarrow-lumba (Yarralumba) plains. Weston Creek on this grant was named after him, and consequently the suburb of Weston in the A.C.T. He obtained this grant on 18 Oct 1831. It was been said that George Edward Nicholas Weston was a Major. This is not true. In May 1829 when George Edward Nicholas Weston married Blanche Johnston in Sydney he held the rank of Lieutenant (records re his marriage) in the Honourable East India Company's Forces. When he returned from India in Jul 1831 after nearly 2 years there from about Sep 1829 to about Apr 1831 he had obtained the rank of Captain (records re the "Caroline" on which he and his family returned). He never obtained the rank of Major. It has been said that George Edward Nicholas Weston served as a judge in India. This is not true. On 23 Jan 1818 there was a Lieut. Weston, of the Native Infantry of the East India Company's Forces, who was made a Deputy Judge Advocate General, initially at Calcutta. On 19 Mar 1823 he was also to act as secretary and Persian interpretor to Colonel Adams during the absence of a Captain Beckett. Then on 1 Oct 1828, now a Captain (and now of the Saugor division), he was absent from his duties and replaced during his time of absence by a Capt. J.T. Croft. It is clear that this Captain Weston is not George Edward Nicholas Weston as he was still a Lietenant in October 1828. It becomes even clearer that these are 2 different men when Capt. Weston, Deputy Judge Advocate General to the Saugor Division, fathers a daughter born in India on 8 Aug 1829 (when George Edward Nicholas Weston was still at sea travelling to India with his new bride), and he is identified as Capt. H.J.S. Weston. Further references can also be found in The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register and The Oriental Herald, which use both the other man's initials of H.J.S., J.S.H., or J.H.S., and his job title, to this man's transfer from the Calcutta to the Saugor Division and later to the Meerut Division, his marriage, births of other children, and his continuation of service in India after George Edward Nicholas Weston is living in Australia. Applying references of Lieut. Weston without initials, and then Capt. Weston without initials, to the wrong man (in this case George Edward Nicholas Weston) without first checking if these references belong to another is inappropriate, but unfortunately a common genealogical mistake. Captain J.S.H. Weston, the Deputy Judge Advocate General, was his elder brother John Samuel Henry Weston (1791-1850). It is said that George Edward Nicholas Weston arrived in Sydney on the "Vesper" from Mauritius via Hobart on 14 Mar 1829 or this claim can be condensed to his arrival in Sydney in 1829. This is not true. The man who arrived on the "Vesper" was variously described as "Major Weston of the Bengal Army" or "Captain Weston and lady". This is not George Edward Nicholas Weston who at that time was a Lieutenant and unmarried. There is no known record of when George Edward Nicholas Weston, on furlough from the East India Company's Forces, arrived in New South Wales. His most likely reason for having taken a furlough from his military duties was the death of his brother William Francis Weston (1793-1826) on 26 April 1828 at Dapto near Wollongong. After receiving word of his brother's death (a letter would have taken at least 3 months to reach him) he would have had to request a furlough to come to New South Wales to assist his sister-in-law (leaving behind his Indian mistress and his 2 daughters, 1 of whom may have still been in the womb) and then obtain passage to Sydney (again at least 3 months). The earliest that he could have arrived in New South Wales under these circumstances is near the end of 1826. (However, as furloughs were usually for 2 years, allowing only 18 months in New South Wales after taking off sailing time at both ends, he could well have arrived 12 months later than this.) That Lieutenant George Edward Nicholas Weston was already in New South Wales on 14 Mar 1829 when the "Vesper" arrived is evidenced by his marriage just 2 months later on 19 May 1829 in Sydney. He then almost immediately sailed back to India to resume his military service. It is said (in an obituary of his wife) that George Edward Nicholas Weston "introduced the first pack of hounds to Australia (in Aug 1837). The hounds were kept at a place on the Western-road, still known as the Dog Kennels.". The part about introducing the first pack of hounds to Australia is not true. "Hunting to hounds began in Australia in 1811" with, in 1811, the first pack of hounds belonging to the Sydney Hunt. In 1834 the Sydney Hunt had its kennels in George Street, Sydney. Newspapers of the day reveal that the Sydney Hunt hunted kangaroo, wallaby, native dogs (dingo), and deer. On 20 Jun 1834 Francis Mowatt (1803-1891), Weston's neighbour at Yarralumla, advertised to purchase breeding pairs of fox hounds and beagles in The Sydney Monitor (25 Jun 1834, p3). Mowatt is known to have used the fox hounds to hunt kangaroo and dingo at Yarralumla from 1834 to 1837, and is believed to have imported some of these dogs. The fox hounds that George Edward Nicholas Weston imported arrived in Sydney on 3 Aug 1837. These hounds, together with hounds obtained from the Sydney Hunt, were to form the nucleus of a pack for the about to be formed Cumberland Hunt. Weston may have imported some hounds in Aug 1837, but it was om behalf Cumberland Hunt to whom they belonged. The kennels of the Cumberland Hunt were located "on the Western-road, still known as the Dog Kennels". Weston, reported as the instigator for the formation of the Cumberland Hunt, was given management and control of the kennel. It is said that George Edward Nicholas Weston lived in a large Indian tent during the time that his house at Horsley Park was being built in 1832, that he had "brought a number of servants with" him from India, and that he was "tended by many Indian servants" whilst living in the tent The first part, about living in a tent whilst the house was being built, is correct, and is verified in an article written shortly after the death of his wife Blanche in 1904 (see entry for Blanche Johnston (1806-1904)). The part about bringing a large number of servants from India with them, and then being attended by them whilst they lived in the tent, is incorrect. When "Capt. Weston, Mrs Weston and 2 children" (his 2 half-indian illegitimate daughters, Emma & Mary) arrived in Sydney on 31 Jul 1831 aboard the "Caroline" they had with them "1 servant". Subsequent research (refer to the entry of Alexander Davidson (c1792-1856)) reveals this to be a male native servant from India. That there was only 1 Indian servant is also verified in the article written shortly after the death of his wife Blanche in 1904 (see entry for Blanche Johnston (1806-1904)). This article refers to the time after the house was completed and only mentions the 1 Indian servant. Specifically referred to is a punkah (a large Indian fan) attached to the ceiling of the house that was kept constantly moving by a "black boy", with "black" referring to the colour of his skin (but not aboriginal as the same article refers to aboriginals as "blackfellows"), and "boy" being the patronising way of refering to a adult male native servant. |
| Source References: |
| 6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001 |
| - Reference = 333 (Birth) |
| - Reference = 333 (Death) |
| 36. Type: Book, Abbr: Edward Wills Family, Title: Ancestors Treasure Hunt, The Edward Wills Family and Descendants in Australia 1797-1976, Auth: R V Pockley, Publ: Wentworth Books, Date: 1976 |
| - Reference = 80 (Name, Notes) |
| - Reference = 80 (Marriage) |