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John Beecher BENT (1821 - 1880)
Farmer, Mailman
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Anne Frances BENT (1850 - 1936)
John Beecher BENT (1852 - 1897)
Catherine Agnes BENT (1856 - 1940)
Rebecca Florence BENT (1859 - 1951)
James Bernard Lowe BENT (1862 - 1940)
Bernard Low BENT (1862 - 1863)
Alice Mary BENT (1866 - 1941)
 John Beecher BENT (1821 - 1880)

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Mary Ann HIGGINS (1834 - 1868)
 John BENT











Frances WRIXON











b. 21 Sep 1821 at Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
m. 1849 Mary Ann HIGGINS (1834 - 1868) at Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia
d. 19 Feb 1880 at Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia aged 58
Parents:
John BENT
Frances WRIXON
Siblings (2):
Judith BENT
Mary BENT (1811 - 1884)
Children (7):
Anne Frances BENT (1850 - 1936)
John Beecher BENT (1852 - 1897)
Catherine Agnes BENT (1856 - 1940)
Rebecca Florence BENT (1859 - 1951)
James Bernard Lowe BENT (1862 - 1940)
Bernard Low BENT (1862 - 1863)
Alice Mary BENT (1866 - 1941)
Grandchildren (11):
David Percival Herbert (Joe) PABST (1870 - 1906), Gertrude Hawthorne PABST (1872 - 1903), Darcy Herman PABST (1874 - 1898), Paul Bertram PABST (1876 - 1900), Reginald Beecher PABST (1878 - 1901), Oriel Annie PABST (1880 - 1958), Haidee Circie Coralie PABST (1883 - 1954), Charles Vincent PABST (1886 - 1942), Rickson PABST (1886 - 1886), Ellen Mary Catherine (Queenie) PABST (1888 - 1908), Annie Frances Juanita (Nita) PABST (1889 - 1951)
Events in John Beecher BENT (1821 - 1880)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
21 Sep 1821 John Beecher BENT was born Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 71
1849 28 Married Mary Ann HIGGINS (aged 15) Campbelltown, New South Wales, Australia 71
30 Oct 1850 29 Birth of daughter Anne Frances BENT Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia 71
29 Oct 1852 31 Birth of son John Beecher BENT Yanco, New South Wales, Australia 71
1856 35 Birth of daughter Catherine Agnes BENT Yanco, New South Wales, Australia 71
27 May 1859 37 Birth of daughter Rebecca Florence BENT Wagingoberemby, New South Wales, Australia 71
1862 41 Birth of son James Bernard Lowe BENT Boree Creek, New South Wales, Australia 71
27 Apr 1862 40 Birth of son Bernard Low BENT Boree Creek, New South Wales, Australia 71
abt 1863 42 Death of son Bernard Low BENT (aged 1) 71
29 Jan 1866 44 Birth of daughter Alice Mary BENT Lake Albert, New South Wales, Australia 71
20 Jan 1868 46 Death of wife Mary Ann HIGGINS (aged 33) Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia 71
19 Feb 1880 58 John Beecher BENT died Broadmeadows, Victoria, Australia 71
Personal Notes:
John Bent stood 6'6’tall. He was ‘much given to practical jokes’ and was ‘one of the best sportsmen’. Superintended at Ugoble and Yanco and delivered the mail by horseback from Wagga Wagga to Balranald in 1853. Owned a ‘stud of excellent thoroughbreds’ and entered them in the Wagga races. Bought several town lots in Wagga Wagga.
Source References:
71. Type: Book, Abbr: Wagga Pioneers, Title: Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District, Auth: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Publ: Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society Inc, Date: 2004, Locn: http://www.waggafamilyhistory.org.au/
- Reference = 16 (Death)
- Reference = 16 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 16 (Birth)
- Reference = 16 (Marriage)
This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
If you find errors - anything incorrect (dates, places, wrong parents, wrong children), and you have evidence, I would love to fix them. Or, if you have information that would extend my projects, do not hestiate to contact me on the email link below. I do not publish information on living people - which means I'm not much interested in people born after about 1920, and I usually distrust material from before about 1770 without extremely good sources.
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Geoff Bell, September 2020
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