William Nash and Elizabeth Annesley

William Nash

(1834 - 1899)

and his wife Elizabeth Annesley

Shoemaker of Hartley and Forbes NSW

William Nash was the son of George Nash and Mary Lees and was born in 1834 at his parents' farm in the Parish of Londonderry, north-east of Castlereagh NSW. His family left their farm in the late 1840's, settling for a period in the Windsor district. William acted as a witness to the marriage of his brother George in 1854 at Richmond. Shortly afterwards he settled with his family in Hartley where he married Elizabeth Annesley in 1856.

Elizabeth Annesley (c1835-1876) was the daughter of convict James Annesley (per Dorothy 1820) and currency-lass Elizabeth Quinn. Her mother was the daughter of soldier Joseph Quinn and convict Elizabeth Boardman who had both arrived per Earl Cornwallis in 1801. James and Elizabeth Annesley lived with their family at North Richmond during the 1830's where their daughter Elizabeth was born. They settled in the Hartley district in the early 1840's.

William and Elizabeth Nash continued to reside in the Hartley district after their marriage, settling initially at his father's inn at Mt Clarence and later at Little Hartley. William worked as a shoemaker for the following three decades and also served as sexton for his local church, St John's Church of England.

In 1876 Elizabeth died from childbirth complications leaving William with a young family to raise. He remained in the Hartley district for a further decade or so, and had relocated to Forbes by the time of his death in 1899.

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.

The family of William Nash and Elizabeth Annesley*

1. George Nash (1857 - 1951) md Ada Alice Palmer in 1888.

2. Elizabeth Ann Nash (1859 – 1937) md Edward Henry Redman in 1879.

3. Mary Jane Nash (1861 – 1915) md Edward Goode Power in 1880.

4. William Henry Nash (1864 - 1865)

5. Ada Maria Nash (1866 – post-1951) md John Ross in 1884.

6. Eliza Eleanor Nash (1869 – pre-1951)

7. James Samuel Nash (1871 - 1953) md Elizabeth Catherine Easter.

8. John Nash (1873 – pre-1951)

9. Edward Nash (1876 - 1876)

* 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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