| [Index] |
| Henry BINGHAM (1797 - 1852) |
| J.P., Commissioner of Crown Lands |
| Children | Self + Spouses | Parents | Grandparents | Greatgrandparents |
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Gertrude BINGHAM (1824 - 1824) Charles Edward BINGHAM (1824 - 1876) Isabelle E BINGHAM (1827 - 1899) Julia Henrietta BINGHAM (1832 - 1916) Gertrude Clara BINGHAM (1834 - 1914) Grace Blakeney BINGHAM (1841 - 1843) |
Henry BINGHAM (1797 - 1852) + Margaret CREINE (1801 - 1830) Penelope Mary CHECKLEY (1799 - 1891) |
Arthur Charles BINGHAM | ||
| Grace Blakeney FITZGERALD | ||||
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| b. 24 Jul 1797 at Gloucestershire, England |
| m. (1) 09 Nov 1822 Margaret CREINE (1801 - 1830) at Dublin, Ireland |
| m. (2) 08 Aug 1831 Penelope Mary CHECKLEY (1799 - 1891) at Ireland |
| d. 21 Aug 1852 at Wollongawa, New South Wales, Australia aged 55 |
| Cause of Death: |
| pneumonia |
| Parents: |
| Arthur Charles BINGHAM |
| Grace Blakeney FITZGERALD |
| Events in Henry BINGHAM (1797 - 1852)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 24 Jul 1797 | Henry BINGHAM was born | Gloucestershire, England | 73 | ||
| 09 Nov 1822 | 25 | Married Margaret CREINE (aged 21) | Dublin, Ireland | 73 | |
| 1824 | 27 | Birth of daughter Gertrude BINGHAM | Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 1824 | 27 | Death of daughter Gertrude BINGHAM | Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 04 Oct 1824 | 27 | Birth of son Charles Edward BINGHAM | Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 18 Mar 1827 | 29 | Birth of daughter Isabelle E BINGHAM | Cork, Ireland | ||
| 07 May 1830 | 32 | Death of wife Margaret CREINE (aged 29) | Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 08 Aug 1831 | 34 | Married Penelope Mary CHECKLEY (aged 32) | Ireland | 73 | |
| 27 Sep 1832 | 35 | Birth of daughter Julia Henrietta BINGHAM | Mallow, Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 16 Feb 1834 | 36 | Birth of daughter Gertrude Clara BINGHAM | Cork, Ireland | 73 | |
| 26 Feb 1837 | 39 | Immigration | Australia | per 'Lady McNaughton' | 73 |
| abt 1841 | 44 | Birth of daughter Grace Blakeney BINGHAM | |||
| 12 Jan 1843 | 45 | Death of daughter Grace Blakeney BINGHAM (aged 2) | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 21 Aug 1852 | 55 | Henry BINGHAM died | Wollongawa, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| Personal Notes: |
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The following article from Pioneers of the Tumut Valley page 29-30
Early Tumut District Home The following article by Wilfred Pareissien de Beuzeville reveals some interesting details about "Wollongawah" a home overlooking the Tumut River at Gocup, erected in 1840-41 and occupied by the first Land Commissioner at Tumut, Mr. Henry Bingham. The house was sited on a hill approximately 150 feet above the river and in such a position that a commanding view was given of the river, both up and downstream. Henry Bingham, who built "Wollongawah" was born in 1797 and came to Australia in 1837. He was a relative of Governor Bourke and was appointed Commissioner for Crown Lands at Cassilis (9th May, 1837) and to the No. 2, District, "the lands beyond the Murrumbidgee" in 1839. The house was built 1840-41, on vacant Crown land, and the Border Police Barracks was built at Cockatoo, where there was a ford across the Tumut River. The family arrived in Sydney in September, 1840, after a stomy passage around Cape Horn. My grandmother, Julia Henrietta Bingham, celebrated her Sth birthday (2119140) soon after arrival. It had been intended to build a weatherboard house, and in fact, the stud walls were already started when Mrs. Bingham arrived. However, she had a horror of snakes and insisted on having slabs split and dressed to fit between the studs, and had earth rammed to the level of the top of the floor joists before the boards were laid. Of course, all the floor timbers rotted and later the earth had to be removed. The first temporary roof was of stringy bark, whilst the shingles were being split; and then later when these began to leak they were covered over first with flat zinc sheets and rolledjoints on the main wing, corrugated galvanised iron on the other wing. When the house was first built, the kitchen was located about half way up the hill towards the stables, and it was not until after my mother came back from school (say about 1890), that it was moved to the position where I remember it, about 20 feet from the back verandah and connected by a covered way. I remember the large silver dish covers used to keep the food hot on the way to the servery adjoining the dining room. The bell used to be mounted in the kitchen area and was used to call up the convict servants and to signal to the Border Police. It could be heard in Tumut (about 2 miles) when properly rung. When the kitchen was moved the bell was hung on the front verandah plate opposite the dining room. I have drawn the plan of the house from memory and it is accurate in so far as the layout is concerned. I have judged the size of the rooms by the furniture in them, and placing of the doors and windows etc.. I remember my mother telling me that the front verandah was 60 feet long when comparing it with a similar verandah on the first house, that we had at Yass. There was no bathroom at the time I knew the house, but a large galvanised iron tub with a high back used to be carried to the various bedrooms, together with buckets for hot and cold water. For many years fresh water used to be brought daily from the river in casks for household use, then later 600-gallon ship's tanks were used to store rain water. When the house was being built two large cedar logs were brought up by a bullock dray from the Illawarra and cut up in pit saws for the joinery. I remember the wide cedar panelled doors, which must have been more than 3 feet wide; also the French doors and shutters along the front verandah. Although her name is not on the stone (in the small burying plot on the property) I am certain that Grace Bingham, who was drowned in the river, near where Uncle Blmg later built his house, was the first to be buried in the family graveyard. She was a young girl about 14 years of age and the youngest in the family. Henry Bingham died from pneumonia contracted whilst engaged in rescue work during the big flood at Gundagai in 1852. He had been instrumental in having a new township laid out at Tumut above flood level and had tried to do the same at Gundagai. Governor Gipps, however, had refused to sanction the exchange of allotments on the flat for others on higher ground, contending that, "What a man buys at auction he buys for better or for worse". Grace Ratliff, Henry Bingham's grand daughter was the next to be buried there. She was drowned at the millrace at Gilmore, having fallen off a foot bridge. My sister has the elaborately worked clothes she was wearing at the time and I have the little cast iron kettle which she was carrying. My grandparents lived at the mill house for some time after their marriage. Old Moon operated the Mill (flour) and, although my grandfather, Charles Ratliff, lost money on the venture, Moon bought a hotel in Tumut which he called the "Rising Moon". Apparently no one ever checked the financial arrangement, or where the profits went. Mrs. Bingham died at the age of 91 whilst living with her second daughter, Gertrude Woodhouse, at Mt. Gilead near Campbelltown, and so was buried at "Wollongawah". My grandmother, Julia Henrietta Ratliff, died in 1916 and was buried in the graveyard, as was Uncle Byng. For some obscure reason Emma Ratliff did not have uncle John buried there. She sold the old house for demolition and later the property. As previously mentioned the house was built on vacant crown land, and it was not until after Henry Bingham's death that Mrs Bingham purchased 320 acres, including the land on which the house stood. The word "Wollongawah" in the Tumut disffict was used as friendly greeting. |
| 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 = 42 (Birth) |
| - Reference = 42 (Marriage) |
| - Reference = 42 (Immigration) |
| - Reference = 42 (Marriage) |
| - Reference = 42 (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: Henry Bingham was born on 24th July 1797 in Gloucestershire, England, and was brought up in Ireland. His Father was Arthur Charles Bimgham who had married Grace Blakeney Fitzgerald on the 9th Nov 1822 in Dublin, Ireland.
Henry came to Australia on the Lady McNaughton arriving on 26th February 1837. His second WIfe came to the Colony in 1841, bringing their daughter Julia and a son and daughter from his first marriage. Henry’s first wife was Margaret Creine who was born in 1801 in Dublin, Ireland and died on the 7th May 1830 in Cork, Ireland. The children of this marriage were >Charles Edward Bingham was born on the 4th October 1824 at Cork, Ireland. He married Matilda Louisa Plant of Deptford, England, at St. Andrews, Sydney in 1854) and died in 1876 at Balmain leaving five children. He was at one period foreign correspondent for the Sydney Morning Herald, but was described as a Civil Servant on his Death Certificate, >Gertrude Bingham born 1824 at Cork, Ireland and died the same year. >Isabelle E Bingham born 18 March 1827 at County Cork, Ireland. In 18 she married John Archer Broughton at Appin N .S.W. (the son of William Broughton) born 1818 at Appin, and died 25th December 1878. Isabelle died on 12th June 1899. After the death of his first wife (Margaret Creine) in 1830, Henry Bingham married Penelope Mary Checkley on 8th August 1831. Mary was a daughter of Thomas Checkley Q.C. of Mallow. Co. Cork and Penelope Mary Hodges, daughter of George Hodges of "The Abbey", Shanagolden, Co. Limerick. Mary Bingham died in 1891. Henry and Mary had four children; >Julia Henrietta Bingham born 27th September 1832 at Mallow, Cork, Ireland. She came to the colony with her step mother in 1841. On the 26th May 1851 Julia married Charles Hodges Ratliff the son of Cleophas Ratliff of Coventry, England, and Rhoda Hodges of Hemstead Kent. Charles was born 5th August 1823 and died 22nd December 1898. Julia died on the 20th Nov 1916, >Gertrude Clara Bingham born 16th February 1834 in Cork, Ireland. She marrled Edmund Hume Woodhouse of Campbelltown 1n 1853 and died 16th October 1914, >A son who died in infancy, . > Grace Blakeney Bingham was drowned in the Tumut River at Wollongawah when a young girl. After some 10 years as Commissioner for Crown Lands Henry Bingham resigned from the Public Service and joined his son-in-law, John Archer Broughton, in grazing pursuits. Together they held a grazing licence for Run No.186 of 26,000 acres which embraced the valley of Gilmore Creek upstream from its junction with Tumut River (Sydney Morning Herald 12—10-1848). At that time J. A. Broughton held Gocup station. Henry Bingham contracted pneumonia whilst assisting in rescue work during the great flood at Gundagai and died in the home of his daughter, Isabelle Bingham at Gocup station on 21st August 1852. He was buried in what was to become the family graveyard at Wollongawah, |
| - Reference = 42 (Death) |