Elizabeth Morris was another West Country girl, baptised at Bisley, Gloucestershire on 31 January 1777. She spent her brief childhood in Bristol and, when only ten, was tried but acquitted of a felony. Two years later she was not so lucky and convicted with two men, John Clements and John Rossiter of grand larceny. When still only twelve years old she was sentenced to seven years transportation in Bristol on 5 April 1790. Elizabeth arrived in New South Wales with the Third Fleet on the Mary Ann, an old French ship of 298 tons, with 149 other women on 6 July 1791.

So Elizabeth, now forty, seems to have found another good man and she married Thomas Thompkins at St. John's 6 August 1815. In a reversal of the situation of her first marriage she was almost twice the age of her groom. The bride's eldest daughter, now Mrs. Hannah Beckett, was a witness. Elizabeth’s first child with Thomas, Henry Thomas, was born at Toongabbie year later but this happy event was overshadowed when her eldest son, the sixteen year-old William Cody Kentwell, was killed by natives at Wilberforce around the same time. The second child of Elizabeth and Thomas, Sarah T, was born two years later in October 1817. D'Arcy Wentworth, one of the Macarthur clique, forced Elizabeth off at least some of William's land in 1815. She received a bull and two cows as part payment for the land. But in May 1820 when her son John Kentwell applied for a land grant he said he was living with his widowed mother at Toongabbie. His grant of 100 acres, of which fourteen were cultivated, adjoined the western boundary of the land of Thomas Ashford. He owned 2 horses and eight cows. He had married Elizabeth James in 1824 and their daughter Elizabeth Jane was born the next year.

Charlotte had spent the last eleven years in the Orphanage and the previous five years as an apprentice to the schoolmaster at Parramatta, John Eyre. Eyre had been one of a group of seven from the London Missionary Society who had been forced to leave Tahiti in 1810. In reward for her diligent service the Orphan School gave Charlotte ‘a good young cow’ as a wedding present. A year earlier Thomas had been granted lot 256 of 60 acres in the South Colah Parish located about 400 metres south of Round Corner on the eastern side of the Old Northern RD and bounded in the north by Franlee Rd. Two large camphor laurel trees still stand.

The Blacks

Mary Williams, the sixth daughter of Thomas and Charlotte (nee Kentwell) and grand-daughter of the founding mothers Ann Davis and Elizabeth Morris, married the young Irish immigrant Henry George Black in St Judes Church of England Church at Dural in the parish of Castle Hill on 19 February 1856.

Henry was born in Wexford in Ireland in 1831; he arrived in Sydney as a child in October 1838 with his father, John, his mother, Jessie Dodds Moffitt, and two brothers George Purves and John Moffitt. The family was accompanied by Jessie's sisters Barbara and Christina, Barbara's husband George Burns and their infant son George.

The Black family in Wexford

John & Jessie Black and their three children all came from the townland of Coolintagart, a farming district of 218 acres lying about four miles south-west of Inch, between the villages of Limerick or Killinierin and Hollyfort. The area is in the parish of Kilcavan and the barony of Gorey. Borleigh House is a large estate about two miles west of Inch. The two storey mansion type residence was probably built about two hundred years before by the Esmondes, who were the local landed gentry.

The village of Inch lies on the River Inch. The best description of the village seems to be that in "Cassell's Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland. 1896", where it states:

The name INCH is Gaelic in origin. From "Scotland-Place Names" by Fiona Johnstone:

The Esmonde family in Wexford.

The Esmonde family is 'of very ancient establishment' in Wexford. John Esmond was bishop of Ferns (the diocese covering northern Wexford) in the middle of the 14^th century. Another source claims that the family was of Norman descent and arrived from England in 1169. They displaced the gaelic population and established vast estates around Johnstown and the manor of Limerick. Laurence Esmonde converted to Protestantism about 1600 and was knighted by Sir Henry Sidney. He became Sheriff of Waterford in 1607 an MP for Wicklow town (1613-15), Major-General of all Irish Forces and was created Baron Esmonde of Limerick. In 1644 he 'deserted the King's cause espousing that of Parliament. He surrendered Duncannon Castle to Cromwell but after a counterattack he was forced to capitulate. He died in May 1645 and bequeathed his lands to his son Thomas but the peerage became extinct.

Thomas was the only child of Laurence's first marriage to the beautiful Eleanor whom he met whilst campaigning in Connaught. She was a Catholic but Thomas was raised a Protestant until Eleanor took the child back to her family. Thomas was knighted, and later made baronet in 1628 for his services in the Army of Charles I, thus father and son fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. Thomas' family settled in Ballynstra and a descendant, Sir Thomas Esmonde, was living there in 1800 (he died in 1805).

The formerly extensive Esmond estates were gradually bought up by the Quinn family: they were probably the owners when John Moffitt was employed there as a farm steward. Henry Quinn was the landowner of the Coolintaggart townland. There is a Quinn family grave on the property. John Black's father was also John and his mother Mary. According to Mormon records his paternal grand-father was a George Black. As Black is not an ‘Irish name’ they may well have come from Scotland and may also have land stewards at Borleigh.

The Public Record Office in the Four Courts, Dublin holds the Register Book of the Parish of Inch. It starts in 1726 and, as usual, was badly kept. On 9 December, l827, James Quinn was admitted to the Sunday School as a scholar. In the Griffiths Valuation of Ireland, 1853, it is recorded that William C Quinn was the lessor of a lot of land at Borleagh Townland and that Henry Quinn was the occupier of Borleagh demesne and William C Quinn was the lessor. The house stands in the centre of the property. There are large entrance gates and a long drive between 200 year old trees leading up to the house, and there is an abandoned farm residence half way along the drive. There are extensive farm buildings around Borleagh House. The present owner is Mr.C.Gambrill, an American, who resides there for six months of the year. He purchased the property in 1962 from Richard Greene, the actor, of "Robin Hood" fame, who had bought it from the Quinn's two years before. Greene married a rich South American woman and raised horses on the estate, and Gambrill, who also has a home on Bermuda is probably doing the same. He has owned the place for ten years, and the 390 acres is up for sale for £800,000.

The Moffitts

John Black's wife was Jessie Dodds Moffitt. The Moffitt name appears as early as l824 in the Parish Register at Killerin in Wexford. The three eldest Moffitt girls were all born at Kelso in the border region of Scotland between 1813 and 1822. Jessie's parents were John and Christina Purves and the family had lived in the farming area of Kelso-Melrose region of Scotland since at least 1770. It seems likely that both families were brought from Scotland to supervise the work on Anglo-Irish estates after the rebellion of 1798. The family must have emigrated to Ireland between 1822 and 1824 when John Moffitt took up the appointment of Land Steward at Borleagh House.

Christina Purves bore five more children after the family arrived in Ireland.

The first entry in the Parish Register relating to the Moffitts is the baptism of the second of these children:

The IGI includes the baptism in the Parish of Inch by Gorey of another child.

The Sunday School at Inch was opened on 14 October, 1827. The roll for that year included Jessie Moffitt, Barbara Moffitt and Margaret Moffitt. In No. 1 Class, we have

Another entry of 6 January, l828 records that a girl Moffatt was admitted to the Sunday School, 60 boys and 58 girls being present. For the half-year ending in June 1828 the attendance of the females included

There is another entry but no year is given. -

The Parish Register also contains the names of the children in Classes I-V, apparently the roll of the Parish School, as distinct from that of the Sunday School. There was no child named Black or Moffitt in any class. This may lead to the conclusion that John Black's and John Moffitt's children attended a school in the Kilnahue village. The Moffitt girls apparently came to the Sunday School when their parents drove there to attend Church on Sundays

Both John and Jessie could read and write and married in Coolintagart in January 1831. It seems that this marriage took place on the Borleigh estate. Their first three sons Henry George, John Moffit and George Purves were born there between 1832 and 1836. In 1838 the Black's decided to emigrate. Jessie's sisters - Barbara and Christina, but not Margaret (who was only 14 at that time), decided to accompany her to Australia.

After the family group left other relatives remained. The tithe aplotment book for the barony of Gorey contains six families of Black. Later when the Griffith valuation of Wexford was conducted in 1853 three families of Black's were recorded in the parishes of Inch and Kilcavan. The Rev. Gibson Black was the rector at Inch and rented land in the townland of Bolabradda. James Black rented a house and land from Ellen Gilbert in the townland of Cronecribbin in the parish of Inch and Edward Black rented a house and land from Francis Hatton in the townland of Ballylacy in the adjacent parish of Kilcavan. Both men also rented land adjacent to the houses of the other from the same landlord. As the first child born to the Black's in Australia was named James Edward is probable that two of these men were brothers or cousins of John Black.

Life in Australia

The party of nine left Cork on 22 May 1838 and after collecting more migrants in Plymouth set sail for Sydney. The extended family arrived on the Coramandel on 2 October 1838 as assisted immigrants sponsored by John Marshall. The Cormandel brought a total of 301 immigrants to Australia - sixty nine were farmers and twenty five were tradesmen. There were seventy-four family groups and included 106 children. The farmers came from both Ireland and the English counties of Wiltshire and Sussex. The group arrived safely but Christina developed tuberculosis on board and died less than three weeks after their arrival.

When John and Jessie landed in Sydney Henry George Black was six, John was four and George two. The baby was very ill for five months but eventually recovered and lived until he was 80. Less than a month after he arrived John Black was offered a position of steward, or manager, of the Castle Hill farm owned by a Sydney store owner Strickland. He undertook to stay for at least year and as can be seen from the above letter very satisfied.

A little over a year later John reported to his father on his situation. John Senr. sent it to the newspapers with this accompanying letter.

This letter reveals that John and Jessie had been farming independently probably in Coolatagert but in difficult times were unable to continue. They were forced to move into Gorey and find work as a day labourer. The letter itself records the journey and the families first six months in their new home. The British weekly John Bull republished the letter on Dec 23 1839 on page 6.

It seems likely that they stayed at Strickland’s Castle Hill farm for about three years for two children - Mary Ann and James Edward were born there in 1842 and 1844 respectively. The family then moved to Dural where Edwin Joseph (1844), Joseph Ebenezer (1846) and Christina (1848) were born. (The last two children - William Thomas (1851) and Frederick Robert (1853) were born at Box Hill near Windsor.) As an experienced farm manager his services were probably keenly sought. He may have initially worked on several properties before earning enough to buy a place of his own. In March 1854 he was able to pay John Williams of Baulkham Hills £1200 for 1089 acres along the Great North Rd at Dural. Most of the land was part of an original grant of 1500 acres at Glenorie made to George Acres in 1811 and known as Springhill. Eighty nine acres came from the Hathaway grant.

By this time Dural was already a quite well established area. The main north road from Castle Hill through Dural to Wiseman’s Ferry and the Hunter Valley had been opened in 1828 and the new Church of St Albans was finished around 1847. John called his property Woodlawn and it remained in his family for the next 130 years. The original wooden house on the site that he built stood there until 1958.

No sooner had the family become established with their own property, and the two eldest sons married, than Jessie died in February 1856. She was buried in St. John's Churchyard at Parramatta and, perhaps later, a substantial sandstone memorial was erected in her memory. In 1857 John Black married Elizabeth Sarah Fuller (nee Moore), where her first husband, Edward, had died in 1853. John had four more children with his second wife over the next eight years — Elizabeth Sarah born in April 1858 at Castle Hill, Phyllis Elizabeth born at Dural in July 1860, John born in June 1863 and Eleanor born in November 1865.

In March 1866 John Black had taken James Pye, an orange grower and the Mayor of Parramatta on a visit to Pennant Hills to discuss the cause of the Orange Blight disease. About midday the return journey began from Bellamy's farm down Castle Hill Road when they came upon some men working on the road near Suttor's Farm. Black's horse took fright, shied, and the gig rolled over throwing him out on his head. Dr. Sutter was called but John had died on the spot near the Cross Road at Baulkam Hills from head injuries. (The Castle Hill Rd referred to is now called Old Northern Rd. and the accident occurred near the present junction of Old Northern Road and Windsor Road.) He was sixty years old and a 'highly respected citizen' of the district. An inquest was held at Schofield's Horse and Jockey Inn, Baulkam Hills. He was buried in the then new cemetery at St. Simon's Castle Hill. He lies next to his youngest daughter Phyllis who died as a child aged seven in 1868 and beside his daughter-in-law Dinah.

John had made a will in 1862 and appointed his three eldest living sons - Henry, George and James as executors. John had already sub-divided his 1000 acres to provide land to Henry and George when they married and although James was still single it seems that he too had received land. At the time of John's death we can assume that Edwin and Joseph ran the property for the widow Elizabeth Sarah and she and Mary Ann cared for the seven young children who ranged in age from eighteen years to four months.

The will left his house, the twenty acres surrounding it, the two orchards and all his household goods and furniture together with a plough and harrows to his youngest son Frederick (then thirteen). The girls received small bequests. Mary Ann (then twenty-seven) got two horses, two cows, £50 and 'the bedstead bed and bedding she has been in the habit of using'. Christina (then eighteen) got one horse, one cow and £50. Elizabeth (then eight) and Phyllis (then six) both got £10. All the remaining horses were divided equally between Edwin (then twenty-two), Joseph (then twenty), William (then fifteen) and Frederick. (Edwin and Joseph also received ploughs). The four younger sons were to share the proceeds from the two orchards bequeathed to Frederick until he reached the age of twenty one. William inherited the land and orchard known as Sanderson's farm at Dural together with 30 acres adjoining that farm. However until William reached twenty one all the younger sons would share the proceeds of the orchard.

The will ended with his 'express will and desire that all my children shall pay due respect to my dear wife Elizabeth Sarah.'

Henry George Black and Mary Williams

John Black's new property at Glenorie was some 7 km north of the farm of Thomas Williams II and, in the still small community, the children of the farmers met in social and commercial circumstances. In this environment the 24 year-old Henry met Mary Williams. When she was nineteen they were married in Dural at St Jude’s Church on 19 February 1856. His brother George, together with his new brother-in-law, George Hunt, and Geo Mawbey witnessed his marriage. George Hunt was the husband of Mary's sister Elizabeth. Three days after the marriage Henry's mother died.

Seven months after his marriage Henry's father 'gave' him 162 acres of land in North Colah, and a further parcel of 48 acres on the western side of the Old Northern Road to Wiseman's Ferry. He was required to pay his father 10 shillings for the land.

Henry and Mary Black took up farming on their new land which they called Rose Hill which was situated near the present Pinus and Cattai Roads Glenorie, surrounded by the properties of their many relatives. Their first child John was born ten months after the wedding. Over the next fourteen years they had eight more children.

In May 1864 their youngest child tragically drowned in the well on the Glenorie property. Henry George Black appears on the 1869-70

Electoral Roll for Central Cumberland, his residence then being at Dural and his qualification being freehold land at Dural. When only forty years old Henry died of the same disease that killed his aunt Christina shortly after her arrival in Sydney thirty-four years earlier. The notice of his funeral in the Sydney Morning Herald of 3 May, 1872 reads:

Henry was buried at St Paul’s Cemetery at Castle Hill. At that time his eldest child, Henry II was only twelve and we must assume that Mary relied on her family for support until her boys could take over the farm. Mary inherited all her husband’s estate and faced a difficult task raising eight small children, fortunately they lived in a neighbourhood thickly populated with relatives.

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Henry II appears to have converted the farm to an orchard. In 1888 he sold some land in Parramatta he had inherited to William Gilligan for £90. He used the money to develop his selection that was about a mile from the family home.

Jesse ('Aunty Jess') never married. However around 1880, when she was twenty two, she gave birth to a girl called Polly who was raised as her sister. Her brother Henry acted as the child’s guardian. From reference to her domestic skills we know that she remained at home until at least 1903.

Best plate of six scones- Jessie Black's did not pass unnoticed though not in placings.

Later in life Jesse moved to Sydney and became a matron of children’s homes and died in 1934. Polly married John Bryant and lived at Marrickville. Jesse’s sister Charlotte married a neighbour, Bill Best, in August 1882. She was twenty two and he thirteen years older. Bill was another orchardist and he and Charlotte had three sons and two daughters. Bill Best died of lung disease in 1895 and Charlotte also died in middle age in 1907.

Henry II was active in the local community and in 1888 became engaged to Miss Dietz the young school teacher at Glenorie. At that time only seven families lived within three miles of the school and she was the first teacher at the new school. The fifteen children attending were all from either the Black or Stubbs families. Tragically less than a year later, when he was only twenty-nine, he was tragically killed when a tree on which he was working fell on him.

When Henry II died his brothers Archibald and Walter had already acquired land by selection and later as part of their father’s estate. Both were married in the year following Henry’s death. Walter married his cousin May Jane Williams, Archibald’s marriage to Clara Breakwell is discussed later. May was a daughter of William Williams, Walter’s mother’s youngest brother.

Walter began as a farmer and orchardist at Castle Hill with a grant from his father’s estate.

The couple had four children before 1898 who all died in infancy; but in July 1900 a healthy fifth child, William Ephraim was born. (In 1921 William married Elsie Rachel Harris.)

In the 1890s Walter exhibited his produce at the Castle Hill Show. In this decade the prosperity of the area contributed to a land boom around Glenorie with many city people moving into the area. However things did not go well for Walter and Mary. The intensive orcharding had now exhausted the land and he was now virtually bankrupt and to add tragedy upon misfortune their four children had all died as infants. So in 1900 Walter and Mary, with a number of their relatives, moved north to open up the new area of Mangrove Mountain, inland from Gosford. Mary was again pregnant and stayed in Dural where she gave birth to a healthy boy in July of that year. The family was re-united at Mangrove Mountain in 1904.

His injuries from a riding accident were reported in the Argus. The group of pioneers included his cousins William and Ambrose Best. Walter had 80 acres of full bearing orchard at Waratah, on Mangrove Creek, which flowed into the Hawkesbury River. This Mary Black died in 1941 and her husband four years later. Their son died in Kulnara in July 1971.

Charlotte Christina Black was twenty two when she married William Alfred Best in July 1847. He was a member of another of district’s pioneers. They lived in Baulkham Hills until 1892 then they built a new house called St. Elmo at a cost of £1500. Two of their sons went to Mangrove Moutain. He died in September 1895 and she in November 1909 aged 48. They were both buried in Dural Cemetery.

Harriett Black married the school-teacher at Glenorie Charles Barrett at Rose Hill on Christmas Eve 1895. The family continued to involve themselves in community development.

Mary Ann(Connie) Black married John Bryant in Burwood in 1900 and her sister Edith Emmaline, the youngest of the family married James Wood in November of the next year. Bushfires were a regular event but particularly on New Year’s Day 1902.

Mary was not immune from the accidents which continued to befall the family and she was lucky not befall the same fate as her father-in-law when her buggy came to grief on William’s Hill in 1893.

Mary Black died on 3 Sep. 1907 at "Rockleigh' in Livingstone Rd. Marrickville aged seventy. She was buried with her husband, and their son Thomas. Another son Henry George II, is buried in the same plot but with a separate headstone. The grave is at the opposite end the Church of England Cemetery Castle Hill from Mary’s father-in-law John Black. On Mary’s death her daughters Jesse and Charlotte inherited his house and land in Church St. Parramatta. As Charlotte died two months after her mother the inheritance was not finalised until 1910. Jesse and Charlotte’s sons sold the property and this may have been the impetus for Jesse, then fifty-three, to leave the area.

The Other Children of John and Jessie Black

John Moffit Black was the first of John and Jessie Dobbs' children to marry. The marriage took place in October 1854, seven months after the family had bought the farm at Dural. The bride was Mary Ann Brien, another currency lass whose father was a constable at Seven Hills. John Moffitt and Mary continued to live on Woodlawn in Castle Hill and he established a business as a carrier and started a family tradition. Just before Christmas five years later John and his brother James were among a party in horses and carts going to the gold fields which camped outside the Weatherboard Inn at Blackheath to shelter from an approaching storm. John and another man were struck by lightning and killed. The bolt also killed another man and thirteen horses but James was unhurt. The tragedy left Mary at home with a month old baby and two other children aged 4 and 2. In 1861 she married Thomas Greenwood and had four more children and continued to live at Woodlawn. She died 30 June 1931 and was buried at St John's Parramatta as Mary Ann Black. John Moffit’s son Henry George III continued to live on part of his grandfather’s land until he moved to Beecroft in 1908. He operated a produce Commission Agency at Belmore Karkets.

With his son Roy he formed a company, H Black & Sons, which was well known at the old Belmore Markets before World War II. This family is still lives in Glenorie.

George Purves Black, who was an infant when the family arrived in Australia, moved to Wiseman's Ferry as a young man. He had been given 400 acres of his father’s property (between Munro’s and Harrison’s Lanes) and owned them until he died.

In 1864 he and his wife Mary Ann (nee Foody) managed a hotel which incorporated the post office and telegraph, and ran the ferry. They married in 1861 they had five (perhaps seven) sons and four daughters between 1862 and 1879. George gave up the postmaster post in 1874 and later bought land at Pennant Hills. While ferrying a load of horses the craft overturned an George was thrown into the water. He died in hospital of pneumonia on 16 January 1880. His widow continued the business after the accident and bought another 55 acres at Pennant Hills for £660. She became the publican of the Travellers Rest Inn at Wollombi on the Hawkesbury River Inn at Wiseman's Ferry until her retirement in 1893. Mary, known locally as ‘Aunt Mary Black’, was a courageous lady who rode her horse from Wiseman’s Ferry to Dural. Once she called in on the family at Dural en-route to the bank in Parramatta with 300 sovereigns secreted in her bonnet. In a time of bushrangers she carried a revolver and knew how to use it. She sold her land at Pennant Hills in 1917 for £1800 and died at Wiseman's Ferry in 1922 aged 82.

James Edward Black section of Woodlawn ran from near Wyld’ Road north east to the Glenorie School and Park and out to Moore’s Rd. It was known as Knockmany Estate. He started to buy more land at Pennant Hills in 1870 and soon became a prominent citizen of Castle Hill. In 1872 he married Dinah Fuller, the daughter of his stepmother Elizabeth Sarah Moore. They had three children, Sydney (b. 1873), Lilly (b. 1874) and Daisy (b. 1878). About 1880 he built a two storied house called Mountain View (now the site of the Mowll Retirement Village). In 1881 Dinah died and he married Mary Jane Baker in 1886 this marriage produced another five children — James Garfield in 1886, Violet in 1888, Gordon in 1889, John Edward in 1890 and Daphne in 1892. Although known for his ‘sterling honesty and upright character’ he went bankrupt in 1895 through assisting in a step-brother's ventures. He soon recovered his financial position and bequeathed land to his sons who became prominent orchardists. He built a packing shed that still stands at the junction of Blacks and Highs Roads. One son, John Garfield, was very active in the equestrian and agricultural show circuit. He was also a councillor for 12 years.

Edwin Joseph Black (aka Ned, John) married Jane Kentwell, a grand-daughter of William and Elizabeth Morris and a cousin of Mary. The marriage took place at St Paul’s, Castle Hill in February 1870. Edwin (known as Ned) began married life in the family tradition of orcharding in Castle Hill with 30 acres of land at the junction of Old Castle Hill Road and Old Northern Road on the Dural side of the village. However by 1886 he had started a business as a coach operator and this enterprise flourished. His twice daily service from Castle Hill to Parramatta station was the foundation of the business In 1893 they moved to Pennant Hills. Jane died in 1912 and when seventy five years old Ned married Ethel Dunk. He died in Wentworthville in 1932 aged 88. He had five sons and three daughters; the eldest son Silvanus Montefiore (‘Charlie’) started driving his father’s coach when sixteen and continued in that role for eleven years. He was also closely associated with the Castle Hill Show and a horse judge.

Black’s stables were located on the present site of BBC Hardware at the junction of Castle Hill Road and Old Northern Road.

Joseph Ebenezer Black spent the early part of his life at Dural working his parent’s farm. Between 1866 and 1872 Joseph and younger brother William Thomas journeyed to the Central West of New South Wales. While they were there, two significant happenings from the family point of view occurred: William Thomas died, cause unknown at Wellington in 1880, and Joseph met courted and married a lovely young lady Emma Jane Bonfield. She was sixteen and the daughter of a shepherd who lived at Yeoval (near Wellington) and they married there in 1873.

This marriage started and finished tragically, the first two children died as babies and although the next two boys, Sydney and Henry survived, another girl died as an infant in 1885.Joseph and Emma decided to part before Jessie’s sixth child, William Henry came along. The date of the divorce is not known and no father was shown on the birth certificate. Emma then married Thomas Knight and William assumed that name. Joseph returned to Sydney where he followed the business lead of his brothers and established a livery stable and mail delivery business at Manly. In 1871 he married Martha Baker and in 1884 won a contract to deliver the mail from Newport to Barrenjoey. Joseph and Martha had two children. He died in 1919 and his nephews Sidney James Black and Wallace M Moore and sister Mary Ann Bayly witnessed the burial at Point Clare.

Of the other children - Christina married George Moore in 1871 and had seven children. She died in Bundanoon in 1918. Frederick Robert married Emily James in 1887 and had six children. He inherited his father’s home and surrounding orchards. He began a mail and later coach service from Dural to Glenorie in 1892. He also got the contract to supply most of the telephone poles in the district. These were cut from his land near Greenhills in Post Office Rd. His children (5 boys and 2 girls) were amongst the first enrolled at the Glenorie School. In 1912 he handed on the business to his son Ernest who was the first to use motor buses and operated from Bus Stable Corner at Galston. His daughter Amelia married Arthur Roughley. Fred sold his house and some of his land to the Porter family about 1922; he died in Glenorie in 1934.

Elizabeth Sarah married James Patterson and had five children. Phyllis died as a child. John married Sarah Ann Taylor in 1908 and had two children. The youngest child, Eleanor married James Costello in 1908 and had one child. She died in Parramatta in 1930.