Sarah Williams

(1822 - 1844)

and her husband Joseph Connors

Stockman of Monaro District NSW

Sarah Williams was born in 1822 in the Castlereagh District NSW to John Williams and Sarah Nash.  Her formative years were spent with her family at their residences in West Bargo, then in the Queanbeyan district and later near Nimmitabel.

In 1843 Sarah married Irish convict Joseph Connors who had been sentenced to 14 years transportation for the political crime of "whiteboyism" and sailed to NSW on board the transport Eliza in 1832.  Joseph was assigned to Thomas Roberts shortly after his arrival and was working for Roberts in the Monaro district by 1837, presumably as a stockman.  He remained in Roberts' employ after receiving his ticket of leave in 1840 and was working on a run near Nimmitabel bordering that of the Williams family. By 1844 he had transferred to the employ of father-in-law John Williams.          

Sarah died, apparently as a result of childbirth, in 1844.  Joseph Connors married Hannah Connolly in 1847 and had a large family.  He evidently worked as a stockman on numerous cattle runs over the following few decades before dying in 1890 at "Moonbar".

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

Copyright 2004 - Carol Baxter

The family of Joseph Connors and Sarah Williams

1. Joseph John Connors  (1844 - 1875) md his cousin Caroline Brown in 1865. [see Mary Williams and her husbands Thomas Brown and Edward Carrigan]

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