George Williams
(1838 - 1906)
and his wife Jessie Crawford
Graziers
of Glenbog, Monaro District NSW
George Williams
was the son of John Williams and Sarah
Nash and was born in 1838 at his parents' squattage south of
Queanbeyan NSW. Shortly afterwards his family relocated to the
Monaro district, settling initially near Nimmitabel and later at
"Groses Plain", south-west of Jindabyne.
In 1862 George
married Scottish Presbyterian Janet (Jessie) Crawford. Jessie
was born c1842 and was the daughter of David Crawford and his
wife Jean/Jane Fyfe of County Fife, Scotland. Her family
emigrated to NSW in 1848 on board the Bermondsey and had
settled in the Monaro district within 18 months of their arrival.
In 1863 George
and his two younger brothers acquired the lease to the cattle run
known as "Bald Hills or the Gullies" near "Groses
Plain", and the Williams family settled there within the
following two years. However George apparently spent little
time at "The Gullies", and his name was taken off the
lease some years later.
George appears
to have been a canny businessman, purchasing a large number of
selections from family members and banks. He held land at
Dog Kennel, Bobundarah (near Dalgety) in the 1870's and at
Glenbog (near Nimmitabel) from the mid-1880's onwards although
few of these blocks of land actually appeared on early maps under
George's name.
George died in 1906 at Glenbog while Jessie died in 1927.
This is a brief summary of the chapter relating to George Williams and Jessie Crawford published in Nash: First Fleeters and Founding Families - A Three Generational Biographical History.
The
family of George Williams and Janet Crawford*
1. David Williams
(1863 - 1945) md Mary Massie in 1894.
2. Jean/Jane
Williams (1865 - 1948) md Patrick O'Neill in 1900.
3. Sarah Williams
(1867 - 1944) unmarried.
4. George Day
Williams (1869 - 1945) md Alice Mary Ward in 1893.
5. Robert John
Williams (1871 - 1955) md his first-cousin-once-removed
Sarah Williams Hayden. [see Ann
Williams and Martin Hyland]
6. William Patrick
Williams (1873 - 1879) died in childhood.
7. Edward James
Williams (1876 - 1950) md Minnie Faddy in 1911.
8. Charles Oakley
Williams (1880 - 1950) unmarried.
9. Henry Stanley
Williams (1885 - 1939) md Elsie E.M. Clode in 1913.
* 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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