52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks: Margaret TAYLOR (nee JONES) 1808-1875 - Courting
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Ahnentafel Number 39
Context for discovery:
This biography was written as part of the "52 ancestors in 52 weeks" exercise devised by Amy Johnson Crow. You can join in too here. The theme for this month is "extending the branches" and for this week is "courting".
Margaret was my 3rd great-grandmother. Her life story is one of sometimes courting disaster, courting to seek affection or favour or to deceive, not to mention being in court.
Much of what follows has appeared in previous posts on this blog but has been collated together in an attempt to obtain a more complete picture.
Birth Date/Place:
circa 1808 Caernarvonshire, Wales (from her convict indent and death certificate)
Baptism Date/Place:
Major World Events/Disasters/Wars etc
1815 - Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo
1833 - convict transportation to Australia peaks
1834 - England outlaws slavery
1838 - Myall Creek Massacre
1844 - the age of telegraph
1845 - Irish Potato famine
1851 - gold rushes in NSW and Victoria begin
1854 - Crimean War and first steam railway line opens in Melbounre
1868 - convict transportation ends to Australia
Schooling
not able to identify
Occupation Dates/Places:
Margaret is identified on her convict indent as a dairy/housemaid.
Criminal record:
Margaret Jones was found guilty of larceny in 1828 and transported for her crime.
“Late on Thursday se’nnight a young man of respectable station was found in Dale-street, in a state of intoxication, by two women, who took him into Lace-street, where they were joined by two men, their companions; the party then knocked the young man down, bruised him very much on the face, and robbed him of his watch, ring, breast-pin, and £12 in money. William Wakefield, William Rainford, Ann Tierney and Margaret Jones have been arrested on suspicion of having committed the robbery.” (Liverpool Mercury, Friday, September 26, 1828, p.6 Issue 905)
Another article in The Liverpool Mercury, dated 24 October 1828, [1] reported that Margaret Jones, Ann Tierney and William Wakefield were sentenced to be transported for seven years for an extensive robbery of the property of Christopher Buckle at the Quarter Sessions on Monday.
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| Lancaster Castle by srietzke on Flickr (link is external). Some rights reserved. Creative Commons Licence (link is external). The prison where Margaret Taylor (nee Jones) and Ann Tierney are most likely to have been housed before their departure on The Sovereign. |
Margaret and her associate Ann aka Mary Ann Tierney were both sentenced to seven years transportation for larceny. [2] William Wakefield was also sentenced to seven years transportation but no record can be found of him on convict indents or similar sources.
This is a transcription of the information recorded on the Indent:
Name: Jones, Margaret
Age: 20
Education: rw
Religion: Protestant
Single or Married: Single
Family: Nil
Native Place: Carnarvonshire
Trade or Calling: Dairy & Housemaid
Offense: Pick Pocket
Where Tried: Liverpool 20 October 1828
Sentence: 7 years
Former Conviction: none
Physical Description:
Height:5 feet 2 1/2 inches
Complexion: ruddy
Hair Colour: brown
Eye Colour: Hazel
Other distinguishing features: horizontal scar over left eye. MJ (the J is written back to front by the recorder) on upper part of R arm. Ring mark on right middle fingers.
How disposed of and remarks: Mrs Cox of Richmond.
Immigration/Migration Dates/Places:
Margaret and Ann had to wait six months before The Sovereign left the Downs on 23 April 1829. There were 119 convict women on board as well as 22 children. Most of the passengers arrived safely in Sydney on 3rd August 1829 - a journey of 102 days. It was captained by William McKellar and the surgeon was Dr George Fairfowl. The Sovereign was built at Hull in 1814 and weighed 398 tons. [5]
The journey from Liverpool to the convict ship at The Downs was not without drama as outlined by Dr Fairfowl in his medical journal. [6] Mary Williams aged 33 was brought on board with a gash in her leg and the incident which led to the injury was described as follows:
It appears that she and seven others were brought up from Liverpool chained together on the top of a stagecoach which was overturned in the night and the whole precipitated into the road.
You can read more about the journey here and read the biography of one of the civilian passengers Samuel Augustus Perry, deputy-surveyor-general and a fellow Welshman here.
Early life in the colony
Margaret seems to have been assigned to to two people in Richmond. Firstly a Mrs Cox of Richmond who I think was in fact the wife of William Cox, the famous explorer and grazier. Cox's biography states that:
His large estate at Clarendon near Windsor had all the appearance of a self-contained village. Over fifty convict servants acted as smiths, tanners, harness makers, wool sorters, weavers, butchers, tailors and herdsmen. [8]
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| Overgrown ruins of Clarendon House, a single storey timber and brick homestead, built by William Cox, c. 1804-1806. From negative in Mitchell Library Frank Walker Collection ON 150, Item 846. Copyright expired. Permission to reproduce image from RAHS. |
Margaret would have witnessed the flooding of the Hawkesbury in April 1830. It swept away
"families, dwellings, everything in its course...." [9]
including bridges, further increasing Margaret's isolation in a strange new country.
There is also a record for Margaret being assigned to a Mrs Scott. (FindMyPast, New South Wales And Tasmania: Settlers And Convicts 1787-1859, PRO, H010/29)
The next occasion on which Margaret is found in official records is when she is sentenced to the 3rd class factory for one month due to drunkenness on 27th August 1831. [10]
Marriage Dates/Places:
Samuel Taylor, recently freed from servitude, [11] made his way to the Female Factory looking for a wife. [12] [13] Margaret must have thought it a good match for the two applied to be married. [14] The application was swiftly approved and they were married on 3rd April 1832 at the Heber Chapel, Cobbity near Narellan. [15]
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| Trove, Female penitentiary or factory, Parramata [i.e. Parramatta], N.S. Wales [picture] / [Augustus Earle], c. 1826 |
Samuel TAYLOR and Margaret JONES eventually settled at Taemas south of Yass which is in Ngunnawal country. You can read (and hear) about the Ngunnawal Language Project here.
Children’s Birth Dates/Places:
Margaret had eight live children, six boys and two girls. There was another little girl but she died as an infant.
Samuel born 1833 baptised in Goulburn
Susanna born 1835 baptised St Philips, Sydney and died in 1836
Margaret born 1837 and baptised at St Philips, Sydney
Henry born 1839 in Bong Bong, Berrima and baptised at Yass
The 1841 Census was taken on 2 March and is indexed and held on microfilm by the State Records of NSW (referred to as AONSW in Vine Hall's book) and the National Library of Australia (NLA). You can search the index on State Records site here or you can look at the digitized version on Ancestry.
I am lucky that Samuel lived on the Murrumbidgee as not all places have names of individuals listed e.g. Lachlan and Liverpool districts.
I can view an entry on an index to Abstracts: Berrima to Sydney here which gives the following information:
TAYLOR, Samuel
Return No. 46
Residence: Tharmus, District Murrumbidgee
No. of persons: 6
No of free persons: 6
Location: X947, p. 89
Another Index entry here shows slightly different information.
TAYLOR, Samuel
Return No. 22
Residence: Murrumbidgee
No. of persons: 7
Location: X951, p. 131
Reel 2223
The conflicting index information really makes me want to look at the microfilms at the Records Office of NSW!
I can view Form C or the Abstract of Samuel Taylor's record here. It is on Page 5 of the Murrumbidgee Abstract - entry number 45.
The name of the establishment (as per the column header) is shown as Tharmus. I believe this is an interpretation of the name of the property called Taemas. Samuel must have had a thick Kentish accent!
At the time there were two males living there aged between 21 and 45 and four females (one aged between 2 and 7, one aged between 7 and 14, one aged between 14 and 21 and one aged between 21 and 45 years of age).
One male and three of the females were born in the colony. One of the males was described as a stockman and one female as a domestic servant. I am going to estimate that the makeup of the household was as follows:
Samuel Taylor would have been aged about 44.
Samuel's son, Samuel, was born in 1833 so would have been aged about 8 so I think the other male was a stockman.
Margaret Taylor (nee Jones) - Samuel's wife would have been aged about 32.
Margaret their daughter who was born in 1837, would have been about 4 years old.
I am guessing that the other two females were a domestic servant and perhaps another child of Margaret's that I didn't know ....or a child of the domestic servant.
Their religion was Church of England.
The house was made of wood, finished and inhabited.
I suspect my ancestor's home may have looked a bit like this.
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| Sketches in New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania and Norfolk Island, ca. 1841-1847] / by John Skinner Prout Out of copyright - Creator died before 1955 Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales |
There would have been no sewerage or running water in the home. Water would have been carried in to the house in buckets I imagine. There would have been no electricity. Winter would have been "bitter cold" as my grandmother used to say. And central heating could not have been imagined. I can understand why Samuel would have taken a wee dram to keep himself warm.
Page 8 of the Abstract gives the totals for the area called the Murrumbidgee. They are as follows:
Males - 1258 (782 free and 476 bond)
Females - 281 (272 free and 9 bond )
Hmmm....there's something to think about there for a start.
Of the 167 dwellings, all were wood and only 7 were unfinished.
The majority of people were employed looking after sheep or in agriculture. The next highest occupational group was domestic servants.
867 people identified as Church of England and 482 as Roman Catholic. The next highest group was Church of Scotland. Three people were identified as Mahomedans or Pagan and 4 as Jews.
At the bottom of the abstract is a signature which I read as Henry Bingham. He would have checked the returns and sent the abstract to the Colonial Secretary. For a more detailed description of how the census was enacted and collected read here.
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| Commissioner Henry Bingham [with white horse, 1840s] / [oil painting attributed to Thomas Balcombe] [Unframed]Out of copyright - Artist died before 1955 - Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales. |
There are some fascinating articles to be found on Trove about Henry Bingham. I attach some here which will give you an idea of what it was like working as the Commissioner in the area at the time.
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| 1840 'MURRUMBIDGEE.', The Sydney Herald (NSW : 1831 - 1842), 28 November, p. 2. , viewed 07 Aug 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article12866754 |
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| 1844 'ABORIGINES.', The Colonial Observer (Sydney, NSW : 1841 -1844), 28 November, p. 6. , viewed 07 Aug 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article226466821 |
William born 1841 at Gundaroo and baptised at Yass
Susannah born 1843 at Gundaroo and baptised at Yass
John Thomas born 1845
Rowland Owen born 1849
George Robert born 1851 – the last three also were born at Gundaroo
So basically Margaret was bearing children from the age of about 24 to about 42. When her eldest daughter Margaret married there would have been eight children living at home. Can you just imagine it? I have to say that I am enormously impressed that the Taylors made the effort of taking the children to Sydney to get christened.
In a newspaper article from 1858, Margaret is censured for falling of her horse in a state of intoxication, despite her advanced years. She broke three ribs and dislocated her shoulder which would have made life rather difficult without the comforts of today's automated household appliances and probably at least four children still at home. [21]
Margaret and Samuel were not alone in their vice. Errol Lea-Scarlett's account of the district is as follows:
The Queanbeyan court, at all events, abated one widespread social evil at Gundaroo, and that was drunkenness, a fault created largely by the isolation and loneliness of convicts assigned to remote properties, coupled with the total absence of social contacts for the poorer classes. [22]
1871 Margaret's husband Samuel died.
Military Service Dates/Places:
Not applicable
Organizations/Associations Dates/Places:
I have not identified any yet
Death Date/Place:
6th June 1875 - Margaret Jones died of chronic brain affection and paralysis. She was 68 years old, although we can’t really be sure as we have no record of her birth in Caernarvonshire. She died in Yass, New South Wales, Australia. Dr Campbell said she had been ill for 4 or 5 years.
Burial Date/Place:
She was buried at the Church of England Cemetery Yass next to her husband who had died four years earlier.
Probate:
Transcription of Margaret's Probate
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction. In the goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased. Petition for Administration Filed 9th July 1875.
To their Honours the Chief Justice and ??? Judges of the Honorable the Supreme Court
The Humble Petition of Henry Taylor of Yass aforesaid Farmer and Grazier
Sheweth
That the said Margaret Taylor died on the sixth day of June last intestate leaving your Petitioners and seven other children her next of kin her surviving.
That the said deceased had whilst living and at the time of her death goods and chattels credits and effects within the Colony of New South Wales
Your Petitioners therefore humbly pray that your Honours will be pleased to grant to your Petitioners Letters of Administration of the Estate and effects of said deceased.
And Your Petitioners will ever pray etc.
Dated at Yass aforesaid this 8th day of July A.D. 1875
EA Iceton Proctor for the Petitioners
John J Hargrave
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction 1586 In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased.
Affidavit of Publication and search for Caveat
On this ninth day of July one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Theodore Powell of Sydney in the colony aforesaid being duly sworn math oath and saith as follows:
1. A true copy of the Paper writing hereunto annexed marked "A" was inserted and published inNew South Wales Government Gazette on the twenty-fifth day of June last.
2. I have this day searched i the proper office of this Honourable Court and find no caveat entered herein
Sworn by the deponent on the day first above mentioned at Sydney before me ??Burns A Commissioner for Affidavits.
"A"
Notice is hereby hat at the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof application will made to this Honorable Court for Letters of Administration of the goods, chattels credits and effects of the abovenamed Margaret Taylor deceased to be granted to Henry Taylor of the Murrumbidgee River near Yass aforesaid a Son and one of the next of kin of the said deceased. Dated this 21st day of June 1875 E.A. Icelou??? for the said Applicant Proctor Yass By McCarthy and Robertson his agents Pitt Street North Sydney
This is the paper writing marked "A" referred to in the annexed affidavit Theodore Powell sworn the ninth of July AD 1875 before me CJ Burns A Commissioner for Affidavits.
New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Friday 25 June 1875 (No.145), page 1859 courtesy of Trove The National Library of Australia
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| New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), Friday 25 June 1875 (No.145), page 1859 courtesy of Trove The National Library of Australia |
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
Affidavit of Administrator Henry Taylor
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
On this twenty-first day of June one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five Henry Taylor of the Murrumbidgee River near Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Farmer and Grazier being duly sworn maketh oath and saith as follows:
1. I am a Son and one of the next of kin of the aforenamed Margaret Taylor deceased.
2. The said Margaret Taylor was the widow of the late Samuel Taylor deceased and she died at Yass aforesaid on the sixth day of June instant intestate I verily believe leaving her surviving on this Deponent Henry Taylor Margaret Mitchell the wife of William Mitchell Samuel Taylor William Taylor Susan Humphries the wife of Alfred Humphries John Thomas Taylor Rowland Owen Taylor and George Robert Taylor her children and only next of kin and the only persons entitled in distribution to her personal estate and effect.
3. The said Margaret Taylor had whilst living and at the time of her death goods chattels credits and effects within the Colony of New South Wales
4. I will well and truly administer ??? goods chattels credits and effects and pay all the just debts funeral and testamentary expenses of the deceased so far as the said goods chattels credits and effects will hereunto extend and the law find me I will make a true and perfect ...
...inventory of all the said goods chattels credits and effects and render a true and just account thereof and of my administration of the same and exhibit the same into the Registry of the Supreme Court of New South Wales at the times assigned me by the said Court.
I believe the said goods chattels credits and effects are under the value of one hundred pounds.
Sworn by the Deponent on the day first above written at Yass before me the contents having been first read over and explained to him and he appearing to me to understand the same. Henry Taylor his mark. ????a Commissioner for Affidavits
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical jurisdiction
In the goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
Affidavit of Surety William Taylor
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical jurisdiction
In the goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
On this twenty-first day of June in the Year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five William Taylor of the Murrumbidgee River near Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Farmer being duly sworn maketh oath and saith as follows:
1. I am a farmer residing on the Murrumbidgee River near Yass aforesaid
2. I am possessed of property to the amount of One hundred pounds over and above all my just debts. I am not Bail or Surety for any Defendant in any action for any other person as administrator
3. My property aforesaid consists of real and personal estate near Yass aforesaid.
Sworn by the Deponent on the day first above mentioned at Yass Before Me
William Taylor
S E ??? Commissioner for Affidavits
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
Affidavit of Surety
John Thomas Taylor
EA Iceton Yass ?/ McCarthy & Robertson
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
On this twenty-sixth day of June in the Year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five John Thomas Taylor of the Murrumbidgee River near Yass in the Colony New South Wales Farmer being duly sworn maketh oath and saith as follows:
1. I am a Farmer residing on the Murrumbidgee River near Yass aforesaid
2. I am possessed of property to the amount of One hundred pounds over and above all my just debts I am not Bail or Surety for any Defendant in any action nor for any other person as Administrator
3. My property aforesaid consists of real and personal estate near Yass aforesaid.
Sworn by deponent on the day first above mentioned at Yass re me
John Thomas Taylor
??? a Commissioner for Affidvants
In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction
In the Goods of Margaret Taylor late of Yass in the Colony of New South Wales Widow deceased
Administration Bond
EA Iceton Proctor Yass
Know all men by these presents that we Henry Taylor of the Murrumbidgee River near Yass Famer and Grazier William Taylor of the same place in the Colony of New South Wales Farmer and Grazier and John Thomas Taylor of the same place Farmer and Grazier and each of us are held and firmly bound to our Sovereign Lady the Queen and Her Successors in the sum of Two hundred pounds of lawful British money for which payment to be well and truly made we and each of us jointly and severally bind ourselves and each of us award each of ??him executors and administrators firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals. Dated this twenty-sixth day of June in the Year One thousand eight hundred and seventy-five.
Now the condition of the above-written obligation is such that if the above bounden Henry Taylor Administrator of the Goods chattels and effects of Margaret Taylor Dececased so make or cause to be made a true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods credits and effects of the said deceased which have or shall come to the hands possession or knowledge of him the said Henry Taylor or to the hands or possession of any other persons or persons for him and the same so made do exhibit or cause to be exhibited in to the Supreme Court of New South Wales at or before the expiration of six calendar months from the date of the granting of Letters of Administration and the said chattels credits and effects and all
other the Goods chat credits and effects of the said Deceased at the time of her death or which at any time afterwards shall come to the hands or possession of such administrator or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him shall well and truly administer according to Law and further shall make or cause to be made a just and true account of his administration at or before the expiration of fifteen calendar months from the date of the granting of Letters of Administration and afterwards from time to time as shall be legally required. And all the rest and residue of the said Goods chattels credits and effects which shall be found from time remaining upon the said administration accounts (the same being first examined and allowed by aid Courts shall and do pay and dispose of in due course of administration or in such manner as the said Court shall direct. Then this obligation to be void and of non-effect or else to be and remain in full force and virtue
Signed sealed and delivered by the said Henry Taylor (the signature being by the affixing his mark in my presence and I certify that the contents of the ??? Bond were previous be the execution the explained to the said Henry Taylor and the nature and effect thereof were at the time of such execution and of this attestation to the best of my belief understood by him.
EA Iceton Soli. Yass
Henry Taylor his mark
And by the said Willliam Taylor in the presence of EA Iceton
William Taylor
And by the said Joomas Taylor EA. Iceton
John Thomas Taylor
FAN CLUB (Friends and Neighours)
Baptism sponsors/godparents
Marriage Witnesses Officiants
Accompanying passengers on shipping list
Newspaper – see above
Census – other lodgers/neighbours – as above
City directories – others living in household/on street
Land Deeds – witnesses/buyers/sellers
Maps – neighbours
annotated map of Taemas made by Alex Daw
My digital annotated map is here.
Military – unit members
Death – informant/undertaker
Obituary – survivors
Probate – as above
Cemetery – others in plot – her husband
In conclusion
Thank you for reading this far. I hope your family history week has been an interesting and rewarding one.
References
[1] Liverpool Mercury etc (Liverpool, England), Friday, October 24, 1828; Issue 909. British Library Newspapers, Part I: 1800-1900.
[2] Ancestry.com. England & Wales, Criminal Registers, 1791-1892 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Projectcontributors. Original Data:Home Office: Criminal Registers, Middlesex and Home Office: Criminal Registers, England and Wales; Records created or inherited by the Home Office, Ministry of Home Security, and related bodies, Series HO 26 and HO 27; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.Class: HO 27; Piece: 35; Page: 430
[3] Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Projectcontributors. Original data:New South Wales Government. Bound manuscript indents, 1788–1842. NRS 12188, microfiche 614–619,626–657, 660–695. State Records Authority of New South Wales, Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia.
[4] Trove. "Family Notices" The Sydney Morning Herald, December 7, 1903, p.6 accessed June 14, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article14584622 - Death of Ann JONES relict of the late Rees Jones in her 94th year at Taemas, Yass. [Note from author: Taemas was the property that Samuel Taylor claimed in 1838. Rees Jonesm, auctioneer and former Mayor of Yass in 1875, was brother to David Jones of David Jones Pty Ltd fame. David was, according to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, one of nine children and came from Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire in Wales and the son of Thomas and Nancy Jones. Baptismal records for children called Rees and Margaret of Thomas and Nancy Jones in Llandeilo have been located through Find My Past. Margaret of Thomas and Nancy Jones was born in 1806. Margaret Taylor (nee Jones) was born c. 1808.]
[5] Bateson, Charles, The Convict Ships 1787-1868, NSW: A.H. & A.W. Reed, 1974, pp.348-349
[6] Ancestry.com. UK, Royal Navy Medical Journals, 1817-1857 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.The National Archives of the UK (TNA); Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals; Reference Number: ADM 101/69/1
[7] Casey, Mary 'Local Pottery and Dairying at the DMR Site, Brickfields, Sydney, New South Wales',Australasian Historical Archaeology, 17 (1999), pp. 3-26
[8] Hickson, Edna, 'William Cox', The Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 1 (MUP), 1966 http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cox-william-1934
[9] Trove. "Floods" The Australian, April 16, 1830, p. 3, accessed June 14, 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article36867912
[10] Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 , Provo, UT, USA ancestry.com Operations Inc. 2012 . Original Data: State Archives NSW; Roll: 851
[11] "Convicts & Characters Of The Parramatta Female Factory Precinct". 2016. Parragirls.Org.Au. http://www.parragirls.org.au/convict-connections.php. Extract from Twelve Years' Wanderings in the British Colonies, from 1835-1847, J.C. Byrne accessed June 14, 2016
[12] Conner, James, The Life of Samuel Taylor and Margaret Jones, Unpublished document, March 1991 - Ticket of Leave made available at NSW Archives - Prisoner Number 109-5497 dated 27 July 1826
[13] Mudie, James, The Felonry of New South Wales: Being a Faithful Picture of the Real Romance, London, 1837, p.205 http://bit.ly/2379rgv accessed June 14, 2016.
[14] Ancestry.com. New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Convicts' Applications to Marry, 1826-1851[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2009.Original data: Registers of convicts' applications to marry. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia: State Records Authority of New South Wales. Series 12212 State Archives NSW; Series: 12212; Item: 4/4512; Page: 43
[15] NSW Marriage certificate Parish of Narellan 1832/No. 1110 Vol 16 Samuel Taylor and Margaret Jones
[16] Births in NSW BDM index
2052/1849 V18492052 155 Rowland,
2051/1845 V18452051 155 John T,
2084/1844 V18442084 28 Susannah,
1392/1843 V18431392 27A William,
64/1837 V183764 22 Margaret,
2053/1851 V18512053 155 George R
Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," database, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTCJ-DQ8 : 11 December 2014), Henry Taylor, 21 Apr 1843; citing ; FHL microfilm 993,954.Australia Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981," database,
FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTC8-2VF : 11 December 2014), Samuel Taylor, 08 Nov 1833; citing ; FHL microfilm 993,951
[17] NSW Baptism certificate Parish of Goulburn No. 779/Vol. 17 1833 Samuel Taylor. Father shown as Stockman of Yass Plains.
[18] NSW Baptism certificate Parish of Yass No. 2051/Vol. 155 1845 John Thomas Taylor. Father shown as Grazier
[19] Trove. "Prolific Yield of Maize" The Argus, June 2, 1868, p. 6 accessed June 14, 2016 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article5817891
[20] Trove. "Monster Pig" Goulburn Herald, July 1, 1863, p. 2 accessed June 14, 2016 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102852343
[21] Trove. "Dangerous Accident" Empire, March 23, 1858, p. 3 accessed June 14, 2016 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60429392
[22] Lea-Scarlett, Errol, Gundaroo, Roebuck, Canberra (ACT), 1972, p. 15
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