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The FIELD Family Newsletter

40th Edition, November 2009, Edited by Dorothy Cefarin
Reprinted here with permission

Congratulations

To Jennifer Anne Doyle and Simon Cole on their marriage which took place in 2009 in the Hunter Valley.

The couple spent several days of their honeymoon in Thailand. We wish them every happiness for the future.

Jennifer and Simon are the parents of Jarvis and Jed Cole who have been mentioned previously in this newsletter.

Jennifer Anne is the daughter of Dale and Darrell Doyle of Cronulla and the grand-daughter of Lorna Ross and the late Robert Ross of Condobolin.

Sarah Mitchell

Only child of Elizabeth Mitchell and James Wilson.
Born: 19/5/1792 bapt. 10/6/1792 at Parramatta
Died: 9/8/1876 aged 85 years and buried Mt. York cemetery. Hartley Vale.
Married: 24/6/1807 James Morris at St. Johns, Parramatta by Rev. Henry Fulton. Witnesses: Wm. Morris, Margaret Ranshaw.
Born: 1763 Warwickshire.
Died: 10/5/1854 aged 91 years
Buried: Mt. York.

John Cobley’s Sydney Cove 1791/1792

Saturday 19th May, 1792

Fine pleasant weather, a hoar frost in the night (Atkins). Sarah Mitchell gave birth to a daughter and Sarah Fielder a son.

Sunday 10th June, 1792

Heavy rain for 4 hours, the remainder of the day fine.(Atkins)

The daughter of James Wilson and Sarah Mitchell was christened Sarah Mitchell at Parramatta.

Mutch Index. Mitchell Library.
Mitchell, Sarah and James Morris married 24th June, 1807 by Rev. Henry Fulton at St. Johns Parramatta
Witnesses: Wm. Morris, Margaret Ranshaw.

Pioneer Register:

James Morris, c.1763 Warwickshire (son of James and Jane nee Turner) Arrived:14/12/1801 “Minorca” – convict.
Died: 10/5/1854 buried Mt. York Cemetery, Hartley vale, aged 91 years.

Nepean Family History Society. –

By Arthur Chapman.

James Morris 1798, 31st March:
(alias Riley) Convicted at Warwickshire of (a) stealing from Messrs. Woolley and Co., and sentenced to prison for one year, and (b) stealing buttons, etc. from Mr. Laugher and sentenced to transportation for 7 years.

1801 departed from Spithead on 6th June, and arrived in Sydney 14th December on the ship “Minorca”.

1804, 11th August: Granted 160 acres at Mulgrave Place.
C1830: moved to Hartley.

Lands Title Department – 24th February, 1812

Transfer dated 2nd October, 1811 from Mary Collets to James Morris of the District of Castlereagh in N.S.W. in consideration of the sum of 35 pounds Stg. She said the Collets hath conveyed to James Morris all that 20 acres of land situated on the Nepean River to be held by the said Morris for ever, being a part of seventy acres originally granted by Gov. king to the said Collits (Executed in the presence of Paul Lutherborrow and William Edwards).

Note: Lands Title Department – 24th February,1812.

As there was another James Morris living at Castlereagh, this may not be this James Morris.

11th may, 1832 – The Australian (Mitchell)

Address The following address was presented to Captain Wright, 39th late Police Magistrate at Penrith, on 24th ultimo on the occasion of his retirement from that office.

“Address to Capt. Thos. F. Wright, 39th Regiment from the inhabitants of Evan on the occasion of his relinquishing the duties of Police magistrate at Evan:-

Gentlemen, the undersigned free inhabitants of Evan and its environment regret to learn, that your duty as a soldier requires a relinquishment of you civil appointment.

It is, mutually, a subject of congratulations a public officer, to be appraised of the PUBLIC opinion on the discharge of his official duties.

We feel, pleasure therefore, in hearing testimony to the Justice and Impartiality which have on all occasions characterized your proceedings.

We sincerely trust that the public approbation shown towards your predecessor, together with the present token of esteem for yourself, will be sufficient to assure His Excellency the Governor with what safety the duties of the Police may be reposed in the military Commandant of the district.

Deed us, Sir, to wish you a happy and propitious career – and to conclude with our warm and cordial acknowledgement, and an honest Farewell:

………….James Morris, George Nash, Edward Field, Elizabeth Field, John lees, John Purtell, Charles Purtell, J. S. Stanton, John Rope, John Randell, Thomas Frost, etc.

James Morris

6/5/ 1854 Burial of James Morris. Register of Presbyterian burials.
Buried 6/5/1854 aged 91 years. Minister: Colin Stewart.

Sarah Morris

Death 8/8/1876 of Sarah Morris. Widow, female, 88 years. D.C. Lithgow Valley.
Born; On the sea, 87 years in N.S.W. Father: James Wilson an officer on sailing vessel. Mother, unknown.
Married: James Morris, Parramatta. Issue: 6 males, 4 females living, 2 or 3 males and 2 females deceased. Informant: Edward X Morris – Son – Lithgow. Old age. One week. Buried 10/8/1876 Mt. York.
Undertaker: Andrew Pitt. Minister: Rev. Robt. H. Mayne, C. of E.
Witnesses: Thomas Mills, Edward Field.

Issue of James and Sarah Morris

Elizabeth Morris eldest child of James and Sarah Morris.
Born: 11/4/1808 bapt. 11/8/1811 at St. Matthews, Windsor.
Died: 13/12/1901 at Coonamble aged 93 years.
Married:1/11/1824 John Blackman (BC) at Christ Church. Castlereagh.
Parents: James and Elizabeth (nee Harley).
Born: 1794 at Woolwich, Kent, U.K.
Died: 21/11/1860 aged 66 years and buried Mt. Clarence (foot of Brown’s Gap).

Phoebe Morris second child of James and Sarah Morris.
Born 9/5/1810 bapt. 11/8/1811 at St. Matthews, Windsor.
Died: 20/11/1850 at Castlereagh.
Married: 19/2/1828 Charles Augustus Purcell at Castlereagh Church.
Born: 1806
Died: 18/6/1851
Son of John and Harriet Purcell (nee Newman)
See further on, the line of Phoebe and the Purcell story.

Edward Morris 13th Child of James and Sarah Morris.
Born: 29/11/1835 bapt. 17/1/1836 at Castlereagh by Rev. H. Fulton. 20/687
Died: 25/9/ 1906 at Hartley aged 73 years and buried Mt. York cemetery.
Married:2/8/1858 to Catherine Lamb at Hartley, C. of E.
Witnesses: G. Peacock and Elizabeth Peacock.
Born: 2/6/1840 at Sydney, daughter of John lamb and Charlotte Carr.
Died: 23/9/1903 and buried Mt. York Cemetery.

Biographical data

At time of baptism James and Sarah Morris were shown as living at Mt. York, settlers.

Death certificate re Morris family history.
25/9/1903 Catherine Morris wife of Edward Morris. Buried Mt. York Cemetery. James 44, Benjamin 42, Martha 40, Edwin 36, Charlotte 31, George 29, Thomas 23, 2 females deceased.

Lithgow Mercury-Friday 28th Sept., 1906

On Tuesday night an old resident in the person of Edward Morris passed away peacefully at the residence of his son, Mr. John B. Morris of Hartley Vale. He had been suffering for some time past with slight attacks of sickness, but his end came rather unexpectedly after being only about a week confined to his bed. He was 73 years of age, and was all his life a familiar figure in the district.

His wife predeceased him three years ago. He leaves a family of grown sons and one daughter, amongst whom he has spent the latter days of his life. His funeral took place today (Thursday) and was largely attended, everyone turned out to pay their last tribute of affection to an old respected friend. The obsequies at Mt. York were performed by the Rev. T. J. Heffernan, of Mt. Victoria, who as a mark of sympathy to the departed and his relatives, journeyed from Sydney (where he had been spending a short holiday) by passenger train today to officiate at the graveside.

Issue of Charles and Phoebe (nee Morris) Purcell

They had 10 children

Sarah Purcell Eldest child of Charles and Phoebe Purcell
Born: 30/11/1828 bapt. 8/12/1828 by Rev. Henry Fulton, Parish of Castlereagh
Died: 27/12/1922 at Penrith.
Married: 12/8/1850 at Windsor to James Evan.

Biographical data

Marriages– Presbyterian – Vol.80 Entry 350.

I James Evan do hereby declare that I am a Member or hold communion with the Presbyterian Church of Scotland. James Evans.

I Mathew Adam of Windsor, Minister of the Scots Church do hereby certify that James Evans, bachelor of Nepean near Penrith and Sarah Purcell, spinster, of Nepean were joined together in Wedlock by me on the 12th day of August, 1850 at Windsor in the presence of William Field and Margaret Field of Nepean and John Higgins of Emu Plains.
James Evans
Sarah Purcell

Witnesses: William X Field of Nepean
Margaret X Field of Nepean
John Higgins of Emu Plains

John Purcell 2nd child of Charles and Phoebe Purcell.
Born: 16/1/1830 bapt. 19/1/1830 by Rev. Henry Fulton. Parish of Castlereagh
No.14/302
Died: 11/8/1893 at Castlereagh.

Phoebe Purcell 3rd child of Charles and Phoebe Purcell
Born: 9/10/1831 bapt. 6/11/1831 by Rev. Henry Fulton. No.15/379
Died: Buried 30/9/1832 aged 11 months at parish of Castlereagh. Rev. H. Fulton

Eliza Purcell 4th child of Charles and Phoebe Purcell
Born 9/7/1833 bapt. 11/8/1833 by Rev. Fulton Castlereagh. No.17/407

Susannah Elizabeth Purcell 5th child of
Charles and Phoebe Purcell
Born: 28/3/1835 bapt. 11/10/1835 by Rev. Fulton at Castlereagh. No.19/452

Cemetery Inscription Penrith District

By Mr. Jones.

John Purcell a native of Killarney in the County of Kerry, Ireland was a Lieutenant in the 73rd regiment when he arrived in the Colony with his family in the transport ship “Ann” in 1810. He was a Commandant of Newcastle also a Magistrate and Justice of the Peace in that district by Governor Macquarie when sent there with a Detachment of the 73rd to relieve the 102nd at Coal River. The family subsequently settled at Bird’s Eye Corner at Castlereagh.

John Purcell died in 1851 three months before the accidental death of his son Charles who had been born in Gibraltar in 1806, his father being stationed there with the 6th Infantry.

Charles Purcell married Phoebe, a daughter of James Morris in February,1828 at Castlereagh. Harriet, the wife of John Purcell died in 1867 as recorded on her headstone in St. Stephens C. of E. cemetery at Penrith. Dozens of their family are buried in McCarthy’s cemetery Cranebrook.

St. Stephens Cemetery - Penrith

Charles Purcell died 18/6/1851, farmer of Penrith buried 23/6/1851 Minister; Benjamin Lucas Watson.
Phoebe Purcell died 20/11/1850
John Purcell (father) gentleman, Nepean died 3/3/1851 aged 78 years buried 5/3/1851 Minister: Benjamin Lucas Watson.

Thank you to Colin Field for the next item on Alfred Field and Ivy Edith Field.

FROM THE LITHGOW MERCURY 23/3/1970

DEATH OF MR A FIELD

A lifelong resident of this district, Mr. Alfred Field, of Woolnough Street, passed away in Lithgow District Hospital on Saturday at the age of 76 years. Mr. Field had experienced indifferent health for some time but was admitted to the hospital only on the day of his death. He was born at Hartley Vale and came to Lithgow as a young child. As a young man he took up employment at the Vale of Clwydd Colliery where he remained for the rest of his working life. Throughout his life, Mr. Field took a great interest in gardening, which was his main hobby. A bachelor, Mr. Field is survived by a brother Ernest, of Woolnough Street and three sisters, Lila (Mrs. Shepperd1, of Homebush) Elsie (Mrs. Flippins2, of Guildford) and Winifred (Mrs. Manson3, of Mort Street) to each of whom sympathy is extended. Two other brothers and two sisters predeceased him. Wood and Wood have charge of the funeral arrangements. Following a service in their Main Street chapel at 2PM tomorrow, interment will take place in Lithgow Cemetery
1 Actually Mrs William James Shepherd
2 Actually Mrs Charles Bertram Flippence
3 Actually Mrs Archibald Henry Mansell

FROM THE LITHGOW MERCURY 23/3/1970

DEATH OF MRS FIELD AFTER LONG ILLNESS

1 The above newspaper report of Ivy's death is incorrect in saying that she was born at Gilgandra. While she later lived at Gilgandra for many years her birth certificate records that she was actually born at Porcupine Gap, which was at the time a settlement that existed for a couple of years when the railway line was being built to Parkes. Her father was a cordial maker who followed the railway camps and alluvial gold rushes with his manufacturing plant and shop. When the line was being built between Molong and Parkes there was a large camp in the Bumbury Ranges, a couple of kilometres the Parkes side of Bumberry, that was called Porcupine Gap because of the porcupine grass that abounded in the area. Here there were extensive cutting to be made, and for a while it was the western terminus of the line. The population of Porcupine Gap, at its zenith, was said to be about 1,500 people, most living in tents. It developed into quite a significant little town with several pubs, brothels, shops, a police station, its own magistrate and a school. It was a very rough town and the Education Department of the time was so concerned that the school house and teachers residence were built inside the police compound. From Porcupine Gap Ivy’s family moved to Ilford, and by 1901 they were living in Gilgandra.

2 Actually 1917

Additional biographical details, not taken from the newspaper report, are:
IVY EDITH FIELD nee COSIER, daughter of CLARENCE and LAURA (nee FLETCHER), was born 7/5/1892 at PORCUPINE GAP near Bumberry, married ERNEST FIELD (PIERCE FIELD and RACHEL MOSES FIELD nee PALMER) in 1917 and died 15/3/1970 at LITHGOW aged 78
VERNON ERNEST FIELD was born 28/1/1922 at TRANGIE, married 1948 to MARGARET JUNE PEARSON and died 25/11/1962 at KRAMBACH aged 40
VELMA OLWEN FIELD was married 1957 to LAWRENCE MITCHELL CLARKE and died 1964
You can look up our entire family on Colin’s internet website “From A Distant Field”

Colin Field PO Box 8051
Rivett ACT 2611
Phone: 02-6288-9237 Mobile 04 1860 7487

http://www.pcug.org.au/~cfield/distantf/

David Rawsthorne
PO. Box 139
Lithgow.2790. NSW
Email: http://www.daviddth@iinet.net.au/

You can look up our entire family and grave sites on David’s internet Website:
http://www.davidrawsthorne.com/

Thanks again to Pan Wilcox for her great help with information to this newsletter.

Colin and David are very interested in births, deaths and marriages on any of our family.

There are many lines that have not been updated also so please check yours and forward it to them.

Please send any information to
Dorothy Cefarin
24 Eggleton Street,
Blacktown. 2148
Phone; 02-9671-2129
doff202@unwired.com.au

The 150 Anniversary of the Foundation of Condobolin will be celebrated at the end of this month. Many of our Field Family are connected with Condobolin so please look it up on
http://condobolin.nsw.au/events

WISHING YOU ALL A VERY BLESSED CHRISTMAS…
OUR SAVIOUR Jesus is the reason for the season