Elizabeth Williams

 

(1824 - 1906)

 

and her husband Amos Crisp

 

 

Graziers of "Jimembuen", Monaro District NSW

 

 

 

Elizabeth Williams was born in 1824 at West Bargo NSW to John Williams and Sarah Nash. She spent the following two decades with her family, initially in West Bargo then on grazing land south of Queanbeyan and finally on their cattle run "(Head of) Curry Flat" near Nimmitabel. In 1846 Elizabeth married early Monaro settler Amos Crisp (1813-1881) at "Curry Flat". 

Amos Crisp was born in London and was the son of convict Amos Crisp (Ocean 1816) and his wife Elizabeth Brown. He travelled to NSW with his mother and sister on board the Lord Melville in 1817.   Amos Crisp senior led a well-documented life in NSW, becoming involved in numerous activities of dubious legality and eventually being forced to flee the country.  

 

Amos Crisp junior acquired a squatting run at "Jimenbuen" in the Monaro district in the early 1830's, where members of the Crisp family were to reside until well into the 20th century.  "Jimenbuen" was described as covering 48 square miles in 1848. Amos acquired the neighbouring "Numbla" run in 1852 (16 square miles) and the neighbouring "Matong" run in 1857 (72 square miles). When Robertson's "Free Selection before Survey" legislation in 1861 opened the large squatterages to agriculturalists, Amos also made numerous small freehold and conditional purchases in the area.    

 

Financial difficulties forced Amos to mortgage his runs in the mid-1860's and to dispose of the "Numbla" and "Matong" runs however he died a wealthy man in 1881.  Elizabeth remained at "Jimembuen", dying there in 1906.

 

 

This is a brief summary of the chapter relating to Elizabeth Williams and Amos Crisp published in Nash: First Fleeters and Founding Families - A Three Generational Biographical History.

 

Copyright October 2004 - Carol Baxter

 

 

 

The family of Amos Crisp and Elizabeth Williams*

 

1. Amos Crisp (1847 - 1923) md Mary Josephine Eccleston in 1873.

2. Elizabeth Ann Crisp (1848 - 1910) md Charles Woodhouse in 1874.

3. John Crisp (1850 - 1920) md Sarah E.J. Rose in 1886.

4. Frances Mary Crisp (1852 - ) md Robert Crawford in 1873.

5. Sarah Maria/Marion Crisp (1854 - 1933) md Joseph O'Hare in 1877

6. Eliza Jane Crisp  (1856 - 1884) unmarried.

7. William Crisp  (1859 - 1950) md 1. Eliza Jane Wellsmore in 1888; and 2. Emma E. Jones.

8. David Crisp  (1861 - 1918) md his first-cousin-once-removed Eliza Jane Kilpatrick in 1886.  [see Mary Williams and her husbands Thomas Brown and Edward Carrigan]

9. Edward Crisp  (1863 - 1945) md Hannah Rebecca Pye Rose in 1902.

10. Charles Crisp  (1866 - 1937) md Eleanor G. Maddock in 1902.

11. George Crisp  (1870 - 1941) md his first-cousin-once-removed Ida Alpen in 1895. [see Mary Williams and her husbands Thomas Brown and Edward Carrigan]

12. Grace Susan Crisp  (1872 - 1898) unmarried.

  

* Many of these dates come from registrations of births, deaths and marriages.  In some cases the event itself will have occurred late in the previous year.   

 

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