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Ann BIRD (1802 - 1842)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Robertus Mansfield HOWE (1822 - 1824) Annie Wesley HOWE (1824 - ) Alfred Australia HOWE (1825 - 1837) Mary McLeay HOWE (1827 - 1827)	Ann BIRD (1802 - 1842) + Robert HOWE (1795 - 1829) William Augustus WATT ( - 1837) Thomas Armitage SALMON (1802 - 1879)	John MORRIS (1764 - 1836)
		Sarah BIRD (1763 - 1816)

b. 1802 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

m. (1) 1821 Robert HOWE (1795 - 1829) at St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW

m. (2) 1836 William Augustus WATT ( - 1837) at Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia

m. (3) 1840 Thomas Armitage SALMON (1802 - 1879)

d. 1842 at Sydney, NSW, Australia aged 40

Near Relatives of Ann BIRD (1802 - 1842)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	George HOWE	abt 1769	St Kitts, West Indies	11 May 1821	NSW, Australia	52
Mother in Law	Mary MCLEAY	1771	Scotland	1800	At sea	29
Father	John MORRIS	1764	Hereford, Hersfordshire, England	1836	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	72
Mother	Sarah BIRD	1763	Nutfield, Surrey, England	1816	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	53
Self	Ann BIRD	1802	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1842	Sydney, NSW, Australia	40
Husband	Robert HOWE	30 Jun 1795	London, Middlesex, England	29 Jan 1829	Sydney, NSW, Australia	33
Husband	William Augustus WATT			1837	Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia
Husband	Thomas Armitage SALMON	1802	Leeds, Yorkshire, England	1879	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	77
Step Son	Robert Charles HOWE	27 Feb 1820	St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW	14 Jul 1875	Rylstone, NSW, Australia	55
Son	Robertus Mansfield HOWE	12 Nov 1822	Sydney, NSW, Australia	26 Feb 1824	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1
Daughter	Annie Wesley HOWE	1824	Sydney, NSW, Australia
Son	Alfred Australia HOWE	1825		17 Jan 1837	Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia	12
Daughter	Mary McLeay HOWE	21 Apr 1827		20 May 1827		0
Sister	Sarah BIRD	1801		1871	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	70
Son in Law	John Randall MORRIS
Granddaughter	Frances E MORRIS	1844
Grandson	John R MORRIS	1846
Niece	Sarah Eclipse HOWE	1824	At sea	1905	Callan Park, New South Wales, Australia	81
Nephew	George Risden HOWE	1825		01 Jul 1889	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia	64
Niece	Mary Ann Cowell HOWE	17 Jun 1827	Sydney, NSW, Australia	20 Feb 1905	NSW, Australia	77
Niece	Marion HOWE	1829
Niece	Ann Risden HOWE	1832
Niece	Eliza Frances HOWE	1834		13 Oct 1914		80
Niece	Elizabeth Jane HOWE	1836		15 Dec 1916		80
Niece	Emily HOWE	1840		1880	Sydney, NSW, Australia	40
Nephew	William Lachlan Macquarie REDFERN	1819	Australia	1904	Westminster, London, England	85
Nephew	Joseph Foveaux REDFERN	1823		1830	Sydney, NSW, Australia	7
Niece	Sarah Elizabeth ALEXANDER	1835	Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland	1905	Paddington, London, England	70
Niece	Alice WILLS	06 May 1823	Camden, NSW, Australia	14 Apr 1824	NSW, Australia	0
Nephew	William Henry WILLS	01 Dec 1827		abt 1828		1
Niece	Catherine Spencer WILLS	24 Nov 1831	Ci, Sydney, NSW	27 Aug 1884	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	52
Niece	Amelia WILLS	1854	Kensington, London, Middlesex, England
Nephew	Arthur WILLS	18 Feb 1857	Hammersmith, Middlesex, England	14 Oct 1932	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	75
Nephew	Harry Spencer WILLS	13 Sep 1858	Brighton, Sussex, England	1914	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	56
Nephew	Frederick WILLS	19 Jul 1860	St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Nephew	Charles Ernest WILLS	15 Nov 1861	St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Niece	Margaret Campbell ANTILL	27 Jun 1820	Sydney, NSW, Australia	22 Jul 1849	Camden, Oaks, Picton, Stonequarry, NSW	29
Nephew	John Macquarie ANTILL	30 May 1822	Liverpool, NSW, Australia	1900	Picton, NSW, Australia	78
Nephew	Henry Colden ANTILL	07 Apr 1826	Camden, NSW, Australia	1913	Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia	87
Niece	Alice Sophia ANTILL	1827	Liverpool, NSW, Australia	1920	London, Middlesex, England	93
Nephew	William Redfern ANTILL	1828	Campbelltown, NSW, Australia	1905	Picton, NSW, Australia	77
Nephew	Thomas Wills ANTILL	1829	Campbelltown, NSW, Australia	18 May 1865	Nelson, New Zealand	36
Nephew	Edward Spencer ANTILL	20 Jul 1832	Picton, NSW, Australia	1917	Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia	85
Nephew	James Alexander ANTILL	1834	Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia	1920	Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia	86
Niece	Selina Elizabeth ANTILL	1837	Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia	1924	Chatswood, NSW, Australia	87
Nephew	Loftus Cliff ANTILL	06 Dec 1839	Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia	1840	Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia	1
Nephew	John Kiwi HOWE	1830		1860	Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand	30
Niece	Maria Elizabeth LEE			09 Nov 1891
Nephew	Thomas Wentworth WILLS	1836	Molongolo Plains, NSW, Australia	02 May 1880	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	44
Niece	Emily Spencer WILLS	25 Dec 1842	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	06 Dec 1925	"Molongolo", Kew, Victoria, Australia	82
Nephew	Cedric Spencer WILLS	01 Dec 1844	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	23 Jan 1914	Springsure, Queensland, Australia	69
Nephew	Horace Spencer WILLS	16 Jun 1847	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	08 Oct 1928	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	81
Nephew	Egbert Spencer WILLS	11 Nov 1849	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	11 Sep 1931	Kew, Victoria, Australia	81
Niece	Elizabeth Spencer WILLS	07 Jan 1852	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	21 Nov 1930	Prahran, Victoria, Australia	78
Niece	Eugenie (Duckey) Spencer WILLS	28 Jan 1854	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	08 Jul 1937	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	83
Niece	Minna Spencer WILLS	01 Mar 1856	"Bellevue", Geelong, Victoria, Australia	14 Feb 1943	Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	86
Niece	Hortense Sarah Spencer WILLS	16 Aug 1861	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	02 Jul 1907	Maidenhead, Berkshire, England	45
Niece	Adela Ann HARRISON	11 Sep 1834		23 Jul 1910	Victoria, Australia	75
Nephew	Henry Colden Antill HARRISON	16 Oct 1836	Cj, NSW, Australia	02 Sep 1929	Kew, Victoria, Australia	92
Nephew	George Alfred HARRISON	1838
Niece	Kate HARRISON	1840		1914	Minto, NSW, Australia	74
Niece	Alice HARRISON	1842
Nephew	Ernest HARRISON	1845		1937		92
Nephew	Horace Washington HARRISON	1848	Avon, Victoria, Australia	09 Feb 1869	Ballarat, Victoria, Australia	21
Nephew	John Arthur HARRISON	1851		1897		46
Niece	Selina HOWE	1833	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1903	Russell, Northland, New Zealand	70
Sister in Law	Sarah WILLS	23 Apr 1796	England	Dec 1876	St Giles, London, England	80
Brother in Law	Thomas WILLS	05 Aug 1800	Sydney, NSW, Australia	29 Jul 1872	Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	71
Sister in Law	Eliza WILLS	10 Sep 1802	Sydney, NSW, Australia	30 Sep 1858	St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia	56
Brother in Law	Thomas Terry HOWE	02 Apr 1803	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1860	At Sea going to Launceston, Tasmania	57
Brother in Law	Edward Spencer WILLS	16 Feb 1805	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1830	London, Middlesex, England	25
Sister in Law	Mary Ann Risdon HOWE	01 May 1805	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1832	Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand	27
Brother in Law	George Terry HOWE	18 Dec 1806	Sydney, NSW, Australia	06 Apr 1863	Chippendale, NSW, Australia	56
Sister in Law	Elizabeth Selina WILLS	30 Nov 1807	Sydney, NSW, Australia	18 Jan 1811	Sydney, NSW, Australia	3
Sister in Law	Ann HOWE	06 Feb 1809	Sydney, NSW, Australia	10 May 1811	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	2
Sister in Law	Sarah Risdon HOWE	27 Sep 1810	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1879	Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia	69
Brother in Law	Horatio Spencer Howe WILLS	05 Oct 1811	Sydney, NSW, Australia	17 Oct 1861	'Cullin-la-ringo', Springsure, Queensland, Australia	50
Sister in Law	Jane HOWE	09 Nov 1816	Sydney, NSW, Australia	23 Nov 1880	Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia	64
Brother in Law	William HASTINGS PIERCE HOWE	1801	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	1853	Russell, Northland, New Zealand	52
Sister in Law	Elizabeth WINTERS	1821		1901		80
Sister in Law	Ann WINTERS	1823		1902		79

Events in Ann BIRD (1802 - 1842)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
1802		Ann BIRD was born	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Burial info	55
1816	14	Death of mother Sarah BIRD (aged 53)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Note 1	52
1821	19	Married Robert HOWE (aged 26)	St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW	Note 2	52, 55
12 Nov 1822	20	Birth of son Robertus Mansfield HOWE	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Reg No V18221566 162A/1822	52, 55
1824	22	Birth of daughter Annie Wesley HOWE	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Reg No V18241567 162/1824	52, 55
26 Feb 1824	22	Death of son Robertus Mansfield HOWE (aged 1)	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Reg No V18241007 8/1824	52, 55
1825	23	Birth of son Alfred Australia HOWE		Note 3	52, 55
21 Apr 1827	25	Birth of daughter Mary McLeay HOWE		Reg No V1827154 11/1827	52, 55
20 May 1827	25	Death of daughter Mary McLeay HOWE			55
29 Jan 1829	27	Death of husband Robert HOWE (aged 33)	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 4	52
1836	34	Married William Augustus WATT	Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia	Find a Grave - notes
1836	34	Death of father John MORRIS (aged 72)	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	Ancestry trees
1837	35	Death of husband William Augustus WATT	Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia	Burial info
17 Jan 1837	35	Death of son Alfred Australia HOWE (aged 12)	Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia	Note 5	52, 55
1840	38	Married Thomas Armitage SALMON (aged 38)		Burial info
1842	40	Ann BIRD died	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 6	55, 60
1842	40	Burial	Devonshire st Cemetery, Sydney	Note 7	90

Note 1: Burial info Sarah Bird in the Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985 Name Sarah Bird Death Date 1842 Death Place Sydney, New South Wales Registration Date 1842 Registration Place Sydney, Australia Volume Number V184291 26b

Note 2: Reg No V1821184 8/1821 OR V18212846 3B/1821 - St Phillips Church of England, Sydney

Note 3: Reg No V18161022 148/1816 - this seems to be the wrong year, far too early - more likely 1826

Note 4: Reg No V18298310 2C Australian Dictionary of Biography - on 29 January 1829 he was drowned while fishing near Pinchgut

Note 5: Reg No V18372948 21 OR V1837254 448 drowned The Mercury 26 Feb 1935 Article - Sharks as Man-Eaters In 1837 a boy of 12, Alfred Australia Howe was taken by a shark in the Macleay River, N.S.W. Richmond River Herald ..13 Dec 1940 Items of Interest According to a Sydney authority the first direct shark attack to he traced in N.S. Wales was that on a boy of 12, Alfred Australia Howe, who was taken in the Macleay River on January 17, 1837. Howe was the son of a Govern ment printer in Sydney, and, a few years before, he had been rescued from a capsize in Sydney Harbor in which his father lost his life. Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser 31 Jan 1837 DEATH. At the McLeay River, on Wednesday evening, the 17th January, Master Alfred Australia Howe, aged 12 years, second son of the late Robert Howe, Esq., of Sydney. This unfortunate youth whilst washing his feet in shallow water, on the banks of the stream, in charge of a man servant, was suddenly seized by a large shark, near fifty miles from the harbour, and dragged into the current. The man rushed in and grasping the boy at the hazard of his own life, pulled him out of the monster's month and swam to land, just as the fish pursued them furiously to the shore. The effusion of blood was instantly stopped, but symptoms of mortification exhibiting themselves, the Surgeon in attendance peremptorily ordered a removal to Port Macquarie, for amputation of the limb, but death terminated his sufferings by locked jaw, in a litter on the road. Eight years ago this unfortunate boy was miraculously saved from a watery grave, at the time his equally unfortunate father was drowned by the upsetting of a boat off Pinchgut. The good qualities and high promise of the youth are justly appreciated by all who knew him ; and time itself can never efface from his unhappy relatives, the dreadful catastrophe which has deprived a mother of her fondest hope, and two sisters of their dearest brother. He will be removed to Sydney for interment in the vault of his family, so that the bodies of the father and son may mingle in dust together.

Note 6: Sydney Morning Herald 18 Nov 1842 DEATH. On Thursday morning, after a painful illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude and resignation to the divine will, Mrs. Anne Salmon, wife of Mr. T. A. Salmon, Butcher, of George-street, and widow of the late Robert Howe, Esq., proprietor of the Sydney Gazette, aged 40 years.

Note 7: Ann Bird Salmon Birth 1802 City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 Nov 1842 (aged 39–40) City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial Devonshire Street Cemetery Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia See Notes

Personal Notes:

Find A Grave Sisters Ann & Sarah BIRD married half-brothers Robert & George Terry HOWE respectively. Ann & Sarah's parents were John Morris 1764–1833 & Sarah Bird 1770–1816 Full inscription : Sarah HOWE died 5th July 1871 aged 74 years (Coffin plates noted): Robert HOWE Govt. Printer, born London 30th June 1795 and drowned off Port Macquarie 29th January 1829 aged 34 years. also Anne died 17th Nov 1842 aged 40 (Wife of T.A. SALMON) and Widow of the above Robert HOWE also Robertus HOWE son of the above Robert & Anne HOWE also Sarah MORRIS mother of the above Sarah and and Ann HOWE. also George Terry HOWE died 6th April 1863 compositor of Campbell Street husband of Sarah HOWE [ Annotations to the above : Sarah HOWE died 5th July 1871 aged 74 years .... is the sister of Robert's wife Ann, & also the wife of Robert's half-brother George Terry Sarah MORRIS mother of the above Sarah and and Ann HOWE .... sisters Sarah and Ann Bird, daughters of Sarah Bird & John Morris, married half-brothers Robert & George Terry Howe. Sarah & Ann are recorded as having surname Bird not Morris. ] Australian Dictoonary of Biography Ann Howe (1802 - 1842) Ann Howe (c.1802-1842), newspaper proprietor, was born in Sydney, daughter of Sarah Bird, a successful convict entrepreneur and publican, and John Morris, also a former convict. On 17 December 1821 at St Phillip's Church of England Ann Bird married Robert, the London-born son of George Howe. Robert had that year inherited his father's printing and publishing business and ownership of the Sydney Gazette, the colony's semi-official newspaper. He was also granted his father's appointment as government printer and the associated lucrative government contracts. Ann and Robert Howe were part of the emerging colonial middle-class society of early Sydney. Worth £10,000, George Howe's estate represented a sizable inheritance, although it was partly tied up in a protracted legal battle with the children of his marriage to Sarah Wills, widow of the wealthy merchant Edward Wills. Reflecting their growing wealth and respectability, the Howes had a purpose-built shop and printing office and a spacious and elegant residence, reputedly designed by Francis Greenway. Following a dissolute youth, Robert was a now devout Methodist. Ann agreed to raise his child Robert Charles (1820-1875) by the convict Elizabeth Lees. Ann bore four children to Robert in a turbulent marriage: at one time she was cut out of his will and then reinstated. After his death by drowning in 1829 she took an active and public role in running the Sydney Gazette. She later described how the executors of the Howe estate—the merchant Richard Jones and Rev. Ralph Mansfield, Robert's former business partner and editor of the Sydney Gazette—ran the business down to such an extent that they were about to sell it for a meagre price to the owners of the newly established Sydney Herald. With Jones's reluctant support, Ann stepped in and took over management of the newspaper. As proprietor, she aligned the Sydney Gazette with the reformist, liberal administration of Governor Bourke. In doing so, she antagonized a powerful group of wealthy merchants and landowners, the 'exclusives', who argued that political and civil rights in the penal colony should be restricted to those not tainted by convict ancestry. Ann appointed as editor a ticket-of-leave convict William Augustus Watt, who wrote stinging articles exposing the slave-owning mentality and practices of many of the colony's wealthy landowners. In particular, he drew attention to the activities of a group in the Hunter Valley including James Mudie, a bitter opponent of Bourke's. Brought before the Sydney bench on trumped-up charges, Watt was removed by the governor to Port Macquarie, where the Howe estate had a land grant on the Macleay River. In 1836 Ann petitioned Bourke for permission to marry Watt. Mudie attempted to prevent the marriage by producing evidence that Watt was a notoriously bad character who had both a wife abandoned in Scotland and a child from a liaison with a convict woman in the Female Factory. Bourke ruled that the charges were malicious and the couple married on 9 February 1836 at St Thomas's Church of England, Port Macquarie. That year Jones used his position as executor and guarantor of outstanding loans to trigger a foreclosure and transfer ownership of the newspaper from Ann to Robert Howe's eldest son (Robert Charles). Watt drowned at Port Macquarie in 1837. On 9 April 1840 at St Philip's Church of England, Sydney, Ann(e) married Thomas Armitage Salmon, a butcher and a widower. The couple lived in George Street, Sydney. Ann Salmon died on 17 November 1842 and was buried after a service in St Philip's. Using her newspaper to support Bourke's reforms and the 'emancipist' cause, she had played a prominent role during a turbulent period in the colony's development from a penal settlement.

Source References:

52. Type: Australia Birth Marriage Death Index 1787 - 1985 Record

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55. Type: Book, Abbr: Edward Wills Family and Descendants, Title: Ancestor Treasure Hunt; The Edward Wills Family and Descendants in Australia 1797 - 1976, Auth: R.V. Pockley, Publ: Wentworth Books - Sydney, Date: 1976

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60. Type: Newspaper, Title: Trove, http://trove.nla.gov.au

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- Notes: Sydney Morning Herald 18 Nov 1842 DEATH. On Thursday morning, after a painful illness, which she bore with exemplary fortitude and resignation to the divine will, Mrs. Anne Salmon, wife of Mr. T. A. Salmon, Butcher, of George-street, and widow of the late Robert Howe, Esq., proprietor of the Sydney Gazette, aged 40 years.

90. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Find A Grave, Title: Findagrave.com

- Reference = (Burial)

- Notes: Ann Bird Salmon Birth 1802 City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death 17 Nov 1842 (aged 39–40) City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Burial Devonshire Street Cemetery Sydney, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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