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George Thomas PALMER (1784 - 1854)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
George Thomas PALMER (1809 - 1889)
William Pemberton PALMER (1810 - 1864)
John Macquarie PALMER (1814 - )
Catherine Irena PALMER (1816 - 1863)
Ingram Rider PALMER (1818 - 1824)
Henry Edmund Mitchell PALMER (1821 - )
Rodber Wylde PALMER (1823 - 1887)
Susan Adrianna PALMER (1825 - 1902)
Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)
George Thomas PALMER (1784 - 1854)

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Catherine Irena PEMBERTON (1787 - 1855)
John PALMER (1760 - 1833) John PALMER (1727 - 1808)



Sarah TAYLOR (1735 - 1796)



Susan STILWELL (1762 - 1832) Daniel STILWELL



Adriana WALTON




b. 26 Apr 1784 at Brompton, Kent, England
m. 1808 Catherine Irena PEMBERTON (1787 - 1855) at Malta
d. 26 Oct 1854 at Bath, Somerset, England aged 70
Parents:
John PALMER (1760 - 1833)
Susan STILWELL (1762 - 1832)
Siblings (6):
John Westwick PALMER (1786 - 1787)
Henry Westwick PALMER (1787 - 1788)
John PALMER (1797 - 1839)
Edmund PALMER (1800 - 1800)
Edwin Campbell PALMER (1801 - 1802)
Sophia Susannah PALMER (1803 - 1856)
Children (9):
George Thomas PALMER (1809 - 1889)
William Pemberton PALMER (1810 - 1864)
John Macquarie PALMER (1814 - )
Catherine Irena PALMER (1816 - 1863)
Ingram Rider PALMER (1818 - 1824)
Henry Edmund Mitchell PALMER (1821 - )
Rodber Wylde PALMER (1823 - 1887)
Susan Adrianna PALMER (1825 - 1902)
Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)
Grandchildren (40):
George Thomas Rowes PALMER (1840 - 1840), Edwin PALMER (1841 - 1894), Minna Close PALMER (1843 - 1928), George Charles Frederick PALMER (1845 - 1869), Charles Rodber PALMER (1848 - 1916), Henry William Ernest PALMER (1852 - 1877), Edith Milba PALMER (1855 - 1936), Herbert Norman PALMER (1857 - 1931), Hubert Everard PALMER (1862 - 1934), William Ingram Pemberton PALMER (1832 - ), Rosezeatte Ann Catherine Wilhelmin PALMER (1833 - ), Walter CAMPBELL (1838 - ), Agnes CAMPBELL (1841 - ), Susan CAMPBELL (1843 - ), Christian CAMPBELL (1845 - ), Frederick CAMPBELL (1846 - 1928), Sophia CAMPBELL (1848 - ), Robert CAMPBELL (1850 - ), Reginald Herbert PALMER (1852 - 1931), Catherine Sarah PALMER (1853 - ), Sophia Susanna PALMER (1858 - 1934), Edward Charles Close PALMER (1860 - 1932), Lydia Irena Alberta PALMER (1862 - 1922), Iabella Adrianna Charlot PALMER (1865 - 1866), George Augustus Rodber PALMER (1866 - 1946), Amy Gertrude Campbell Weston PALMER (1869 - ), Emily Victoria Louise PALMER (1872 - ), Henry William Ernest PALMER (1852 - 1877), Marion J M (May) DAVIS (1862 - ), Henry Edmund PALMER (1858 - 1924), Constance Edith PALMER (1859 - 1936), Ella Maud PALMER (1861 - 1892), Walter Harcourt PALMER (1862 - 1915), Eva Catherine PALMER (1864 - ), Permerton Wilfred Close PALMER (1866 - 1914), Lina Linda Beatrice PALMER (1868 - 1950), Howard Frederick Leslie PALMER (1871 - 1952), Roger Wingham Morton PALMER (1874 - 1950), Laurence Alfred Weaver PALMER (1876 - 1953), Marion Agnes PALMER (1880 - )
Events in George Thomas PALMER (1784 - 1854)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
26 Apr 1784 George Thomas PALMER was born Brompton, Kent, England 6
1800 16 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per "Porpoise" 6
1806 22 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per "Albion" 6
1808 24 Married Catherine Irena PEMBERTON (aged 21) Malta 6
06 Mar 1809 24 Birth of son George Thomas PALMER Somerset, England 6
11 Oct 1810 26 Birth of son William Pemberton PALMER Sydney, New South Wales, Australia V1810181 5/1810 6
1814 30 Birth of son John Macquarie PALMER Windsor, New South Wales, Australia V18143459 1A/1814 6
1816 32 Birth of daughter Catherine Irena PALMER Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
1818 34 Birth of daughter Ingram Rider PALMER 6
1821 37 Birth of son Henry Edmund Mitchell PALMER 6
1823 39 Birth of son Rodber Wylde PALMER Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia V18236358 1B/1823 6
1824 40 Death of daughter Ingram Rider PALMER (aged 6) 6
1825 41 Birth of daughter Susan Adrianna PALMER Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia V18257203 1B/1825 6
1827 43 Birth of son Pemberton Campbell PALMER Sydney, New South Wales, Australia V182730 11/1827 6
22 Nov 1832 48 Death of mother Susan STILWELL (aged 70) Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 6
27 Sep 1833 49 Death of father John PALMER (aged 73) Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 6
26 Oct 1854 70 George Thomas PALMER died Bath, Somerset, England 6
Death of son Henry Edmund Mitchell PALMER India 6
Personal Notes:
http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A020275b.htm

PALMER, GEORGE THOMAS (1784-1854), landholder, was born on 26 April 1784 at Brompton, Kent, England, the son of John Palmer, commissary of New South Wales, and his American wife Susan, née Stilwell. He joined the army in November 1800 and is reputed to have seen action against Napoleon. On 26 March 1805 he married Catherine Irene Pemberton (1787-1855) at Malta. In 1806 he came to New South Wales with her in the Albion, as a lieutenant in the 61st Regiment but with permission to settle as a free immigrant.

Between 7 May 1810 and 7 November 1811 he acted as provost-marshal while William Gore was absent in England. When Governor Lachlan Macquarie dismissed John Jamieson from the position of superintendent of government stock, he appointed Palmer in his place from 1 May 1813 at an increased salary which he thought more commensurate to responsibility for government property valued at £40,000, and recommended Palmer at this time as 'a Young Man of good Education, high Honor & Integrity, active diligent & intelligent'. However, Palmer resigned the position within a year, set up his home at Pemberton Grange near Parramatta, and acquired extensive lands and stock, including 700 acres (283 ha) at Bringelly granted in August 1812. By 1828 he held Ginninderra Station in County Murray, where nearly 4000 (1619 ha) of its 13,200 acres (5342 ha) had been cleared and he ran almost 2000 head of cattle and 6000 sheep. He was a shareholder in the Australian Agricultural Co.

He was notably active in colonial public life. He was a magistrate for many years and, though one of those who preferred dismissal in August 1822 by Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane to association on the bench with Henry Grattan Douglass, was reinstated in November 1825. He was a member of the managing committee of the Female Factory in the late 1820s. In July 1829 he signed the address of landed proprietors and merchants in support of Governor (Sir) Ralph Darling and in August 1836 served on the committee in opposition to the establishment of National schools. In 1829 his name was included in the list of those who might be nominated to the Legislative Council should there be a vacancy in that body. Later he returned to England and he died on 26 October 1854 at Bath, where he was buried. His wife and nine children survived him.
Select Bibliography

Historical Records of New South Wales, vol 7; Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vols 7-8, 14-15, 18; Sydney Morning Herald, 22, 27 Jan 1855; manuscript catalogue under George Thomas Palmer (State Library of New South Wales). More on the resources

Author: Margaret Steven

Print Publication Details: Margaret Steven, 'Palmer, George Thomas (1784 - 1854)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 2, Melbourne University Press, 1967, pp 308-309.
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 = 249 (Birth)
- Reference = 248 (Death)
- Reference = 248 (Marriage)
- Reference = 248 (Immigration)
- Reference = 248 (Immigration)
- Reference = 249 (Name, Notes)

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