Individual Notes

Note for: John Gilbert Thompson, 22 AUG 1847 - 20 SEP 1909 Index

Occupation: Draper

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Note for: Fanny Mary Giles, 20 JAN 1855 - 1 MAR 1935 Index

Christening:
     Date:   27 MAY 1855
     Place:   Sydney, NSW

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Note for: Frances Mary Soole, ABT 1828 - 1 AUG 1894 Index

Burial:
     Date:   2 AUG 1894
     Place:   Rookwood, NSW

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Note for: Arthur Mursell Smith, 12 NOV 1877 - 11 MAY 1933 Index

Birth Note: 3 Mint Place, Little Lonsdale St

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Note for: John Thomas Smith, 1845 - 23 MAY 1917 Index

Occupation: Draper

Individual Note:
Address: 16 Lyndhurst Street, Hawthorn Victoria

Gravestone in Boroondara General Cemetery, Kew reads:
In Loving Memory of
John Thomas Smith
who fell asleep on 23rd May 1917
Also
Walter Smith
youngest son of the above
30th Nov 1896
Peace Perfect Peace
Also
Margaret Ellen
Wife and mother of the above
Called home 19th April 1924
Resting
Ethel May Smith
Died 11th October 1970

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Note for: Margaret Ellen Blackader, 1845 - 19 APR 1924 Index

Emigration:
     Date:   1869
     Place:   VIC

Burial:
     Date:   21 APR 1924
     Place:   Kew, VIC

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Note for: John Archer Broughton, 11 DEC 1818 - 25 DEC 1878 Index

Birth Note: born at Adelphi Hotel, Sydney, N.S.W.

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Note for: Henry Bingham, 24 JUL 1797 - 21 AUG 1852 Index

Immigration:
     Date:   26 FEB 1837
     Place:   Sydney, NSW

Individual Note:
     Commissioner of Crown Lands, Tumut, NSW.
Assisted with rescue operations during the flood at Gundagia in 1852. Died of pneumonia shortly afterwards.

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Note for: Margaret Creine, 1801 - 7 MAY 1830 Index

Burial:
     Date:   10 MAY 1830
     Place:   Cork, Ireland

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Note for: William Broughton, NOV 1768 - 21 JUL 1821 Index

Occupation:   Colonist

Emigration:
     Date:   25 JUL 1788
     Place:   Sydney, NSW

Individual Note:
     Emigrated to colony of New South Wales with First Fleet as Assistant to Surgeon (age 19) aboard Sirius on Jan 26 1788.

born in Chatham, Kent, the son of Henry and Sarah, was baptised in 1768. He arrived at Sydney Cove as a servant to Surgeon White. In 1789, he was appointed storekeeper at Parramatta, an occupation that was to sustain him and cause him much anxiety for the rest of his life. In the small, isolated colony, where food shortages were frequent and all provisioning was directed through the storekeeper, it was a position that could easily be abused in the wrong hands. But Broughton was an honest and reliable administrator, and in 1793 he was rewarded for his services with a grant of thirty acres at Concord. He received an additional 25 acres at the Field of Mars in 1795, and 2.5 acres in the township of Parramatta in 1798.

In 1800 he was promoted to acting deputy commissary at Norfolk Island and a year later was fully appointed. By 1803 he had a grant of 30.5 acres. Suspended that same year by Captain James Wilson pending a court-martial, Broughton was reinstated in 1804 on 50 pound a year. In November 1805 he moved to Sydney as deputy commissary of stores for NSW.

Between 1792 and 1807 Broughton and Elizabeth Heathorn had 5 children. In November 1809, Elizabeth and daughter Betsy sailed for England on the General Boyd. The vessel touched at New Zealand, where only three out of the whole crew and passengers escaped massacre - one of which was Broughton's daughter. They were rescued by the crew of the City of Edinburgh and Betsy, after travelling to Lima and then to Rio de Janeiro, arrived back in Sydney in 1812.

Meanwhile, Broughton was appointed acting commissary in place of Robert Fitz, and later, in March 1810, in place of John Palmer. In 1814, on Macquarie's strong recommendation, he was promoted acting assisting commissary-general on 365 pounds per year.

In December 1810 Broughton married the widowed Elizabeth Simpson, and a further five children were born to him. He was granted 1000 acres at Appin in 1811, on which he built a farm called Lachlan Vale, with 'a large house and fine looking fields'.

Though staunchly supported by Macquarie, Broughton seemed to antagonise a number of people, but from a series of disputes he emerged with honour. He died at Ultimo on 22 July 1821, and in 1822 Macquarie promised his widow that a tomb would be erected over his grave at Liverpool.