Mary Nash

(1838 - 1900)

and her husband George Newman

Labourer and Shepherd of Northern New South Wales

Mary Nash was the daughter of George Nash and Mary Lees and was the third generation in the female line to be given the name Mary.  She was born in 1838 at her parents' farm in Londonderry Parish, north-east of Castlereagh NSW and joined her family in their relocation to the Windsor district in the late 1840's and then to Hartley in the mid-1850's.   Mary was residing at Mt York near Hartley when she had an illegitimate child born in 1859.

In 1861 Mary married George Newman at Hartley.  George was born in Sydney in 1841 and was baptised a year later as "George James Newman".  He was the son of convict John Newman (who was transported as "John Newman Houldman" per Princess Royal 1823)  and orphan Elizabeth Turner, who was born in Sydney c1804-6.       

In the forty years after their marriage, the Newman family travelled the countryside, with George working primarily as a labourer although occasionally as a shepherd and bushman.  Birth and death certificates for George and Mary's children record that the family was residing in Hartley until early 1863, in Parramatta in April 1863, in South Creek [St Mary's] near Penrith in January 1865, in Blackheath in April 1865, at Bells Line in January 1866, near Wellington in October 1866, near Dubbo in March 1868, at Manilla in 1871, near Warialda in August 1874, and near Narrabri from 1877 to 1880.  Later records indicate that they were residing at Bomera near Coonabarabran in 1896, and in Warren where Mary died in 1900.  

George continued his travels after Mary's death and eventually settled at Goodiwindi on the Queensland border where he died in 1927.  

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

Copyright 2004 - Carol Baxter

Mary Nash had the following child:

1.  Mary Nash (1859 - )

The family of George James Newman and Mary Nash

1. Elizabeth Louisa Newman  (1861 - 1863) 

2. William Newman  (1863 - 1940) md Mary Charlotte McConaughty in 1888. 

3. Harriet Newman  (1865 - 1866) 

4. Elizabeth Newman  (1866 - c1868) 

5. John Newman  (1868 - 1868) 

6. George Newman  (c1870 - ) 

7. Francis Herbert Newman  (1871 - ) 

8. Sarah Neurinda Newman (1874 - 1930) md George Bowen in 1896.  

9. Thomas Henry Newman  (1877 - 1949) md Isabella Davis in 1899. 

10. Henry Newman  (1879 - 1879) 

11. James Arthur Newman  (1880 - 1915) md Mabel Catherine Martyn in 1910.  

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