Samuel Nash

 

(1833 - 1880)

 

and his wife Sarah Berry

 

 

Farmers and carriers of South Creek, Hartley and Inverell NSW

 

 

Samuel Nash was the son of George Nash and Mary Lees and was born in 1833 at their farm in the Parish of Londonderry north-east of Castlereagh NSW. He presumably relocated to the Windsor district with his family in the late 1840's however he apparently remained there when his parents settled in Hartley in the mid-1850's.  Samuel was working as a farmer and carrier at South Creek [St Mary's] near Penrith when he married Sarah Berry at Hartley in 1864.  Sarah Berry's family background has not been determined with certainty however surviving records indicate that she was born c1847 at Parramatta. She was possibly the daughter of John Berry and Jane Fletcher.

 

Samuel was probably working with his brother George Nash in the 1860's as both were recorded as farmers and carriers of the South Creek district at that time.  Electoral rolls indicate that Samuel was residing at Llandilo for a few years from 1870/1 onwards, possibly having taken over the lease to his brother George's farm when the latter relocated to Penrith in 1869/70.  

 

In 1872 or 1873 Samuel's family joined other members of the Nash family in the Inverell district.  He was recorded as a resident of Brodies Plain in 1873 presumably having settled on or near land selected by Samuel’s brother John some years earlier.  Samuel worked as a farmer there until his death in 1880.

 

In 1882 Sarah married George Warrington, son of Samuel's sister Esther [see Esther Nash and John Warrington-George Bailey].  They left Brodies Plains in the mid-1880’s, settling for nearly four decades at Stannifer where George worked as a miner.  Shortly before Sarah's death in 1926, George and Sarah retired to Inverell.  George moved to live with his daughter at Tingha in the late 1920's where he died in 1941.  

 

 

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

      

Copyright, Carol Baxter, 2004

 

 

The family of Samuel Nash and Sarah Berry*

 

 

1. George Henry  Nash  (1865 - 1903) unmarried. 

2. Maria Louisa Nash  (1867 - 1868) 

3. Sarah Jane Nash  (1868 - >1926) md Edwin Joseph Kenny in 1892. 

4. Violet Ann Nash  (1870 - 1956) md Henry Richard White in 1891. 

5. Sophie Elizabeth Nash  (1872 - >1926) md Douglas Rawle in 1897. 

6. John Samuel Nash  (1873 - 1875)  

7. James William Nash  (1875 - 1937) md Catherine Rebecca Grant in 1910. 

8. Ernest Edwin Nash  (1876 - 1931) md Elizabeth Hutton Gordon Thomson in 1906.  

9. Walter Alwin Nash  (1877 - 1970) md Ettie Moore in 1908. 

10. Esther Nash  (1879 - >1926) md J. Brown. 

11. Samuel Roland Nash  (1880 - >1926) md Elizabeth Sarah Rose Chappell in 1905. 

 

 

 

The family of George Warrington and Sarah Berry/Nash*

 

 

1. Eva Frances (1882 - ?) md Sidney Clyde Skinner in 1904.  

2. Elsie May (1884 - ?) md 1. John R. Wallace in 1907 and 2. John Whackett in 1913. 

3. Maria Louisa (1887 - ?) md George H. Robinson in 1907.  

4. Ruby M. (1892 - ?) md Sidney R. Dunn in 1912.

* 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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