British Colonial Era
England
Thomas Carver (Deacon). We might expect a man of the church to have a family who are raised to respect Word of God, the Gospels and the values of their Church. Sequential Values should prevail to the third and forth generation (Bible). So where in this line of good and righteous men was Revd. Thomas ?
John Carver (Revd.), son of Revd. Thomas Carver.
Benjamin and John Carver, sons of Revd. John Carver and both a cause for concern to their father and he disinherited both men.l
John Sunderland was born in 1758 in Haworth in West Riding, Yorkshire, England the child of John Sunderland and Rebecca Brook. In 1777 at the age of 19 he joined the British army,though his enlistment details are unknown. At the age of 40 in 1798 he fell in love and married a young girl called Mary Burton who at 26 years of age was some 14 years younger than him. Mary was the daughter of Elizabeth and William Burton, a farm labourer from Kent.
Ireland
Richard Pearson (1794 - 1878), born April 20 1794, in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland and lived at Scribly (205 acres) and Lismonaghan (155 acres) in the barony of Raphoe, civil parish of Leck and poor law Union of Letterkenny. Richard was the son of a farmer John Pearson and Mary Burke, both native of Letterkenny and was a shepherd and farmer when he married Mary McElhinney about 1820 in Letterkenny. (Alternates: birth date on 20 March 1802 (to be confirmed) in Letterkenny, County Donegal, Ireland.)
Mary McEllinney was born early 1795, in Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland (alternatively January 1802) the daughter of Robert McElhinney (Michelhenny) and Mary Culbert, (Mary Cuthbert), both native of Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland. (1802-1869 . Alternate Birth: January 1794 -- Letterkenny, Donegal, Ireland.).
New South Wales
Benjamin Carver
(10) History of New South Wales - Founding a Colony by Roderick Flannigan
(9) The Paracensus of Australia 1788-1828 - James Hugh Donohoe ISBN 1875769269 (also on CD)
(12) Dibbs, Sarah
NSW (BDM) (V1792220 3A/1792 and V1792150 4/1792) Marriages show the marriage of Ben and Sarah
Convict Shipping Index - Royal Admiral 1792; Dibbs, Sarah - Soldier's wife - CF (came free) married Benjamin Carver convict
(13) Royal Admiral - Passenger List: records William Ezzy (aka. Izzy, Issey) also convicted at Middlesex Assizes and sentenced to 7 years. Ezzy was accompanied by his wife Jane, who came free and two children, James W. and Louisa. They settled in Windsor. (Historians of the Royal Admiral - Also aboard the Royal Admiral were Convicts: George Pashley, and William Peacock)
(14) 1802 NSW Convict Muster / Kings List 1801
(15) 1806 NSW Convict Muster
(16) 1814 NSW Convict Muster
(17) 1815 NSW Convict Muster
(18) State Libary of NSW / Dixson Card Index
(19) Hawkesbury Family History Group
(20) Australian Royalty Reference also on web at Australian Royalty .
(21) Paper on ancestry.com.au “Mary Ann Parker and Daniel Brien” by - William J Cuthill; “Then we come to the most important happening in his history, the purchase of his first farm, its first owner was Samuel Harding who was given a Crown Grant of 30 acres, being allotment 163 in the Parish of Prospect on 1st August, 1799. He sold the bottom 10 acres to Joseph Kerans for sixteen pounds on 1st June, 1804; Kerans (Kearnes) sold it to Benjamin Carver on 12th January, 1806, and Carver sold it to Hugh Doherty on 29th October, 1806. And Daniel Brien bought the ten acres from Doherty on 23rd February, 1807 for Thirty five pounds. None of the documents mention a hut or a house on this farm, but he might have had a house of some kind there.”
Notes
English language variations name
Carver include - Carver, Carvere, Carvar, Calver, Carever, Carber, Carvel and Karver + others.
Benjamin - aka: Benjaman, Ben, Benj., Benjamen, Benjamin, Benjamon, Benjemen, Benjemina