Anne (Stace) Elliot - Pacey, Free Settler "Woodbridge" 1838

Ann STACE - was born on 29th October 1827 in Kent. At the age of 1 month, Ann was baptised on 2nd December 1827 at Poynings Holy Trinity Church in Sussex (SFHG). On 15th September 1838, Ann arrived in Sydney on board the Woodbridge with her family.

Throughout her life, Ann married three (3) times and gave birth to a total of sixteen (16) children. In addition to step children, she raised an amazing 23 children. Something which is inconceivable in modern terms. Ann was only fourteen (14) years old when she first married. Not only was she 14 years old, but she was already three (3) months pregnant on her wedding day.

M1 - On 31st January 1842, Ann Stace married William Thomas Aspey Elliott in Morpeth. William was also born in England and was eighteen (18) years Ann’s senior. On their wedding day, William was almost twice her age at 32 years old. As mentioned above, Ann was already three (3) months pregnant with their first child.

Ann and William had two (2) boys and four (4) girls and raised their family around Morpeth, Dungog and Hinton areas. These children included Mary Anne, Caroline, Eliza Ellen, William Thomas Aspey, Louisa, and James Adolphus Frederic Elliot.

By the time Ann was 24 years old, she had six (6) children and was widowed on 25th February 1851.

Quickly after the death of William in 1851, William Pacey came onto the scene. William Pacey was a convict who originally married Margaret Flood, another convict, in Newcastle. They had seven(7) children together with the eldest being William Alfred Pacey. In 1846, shortly after the birth of her last child, Margaret passed away. M2 – Ann Elliott (Stace) married William Pacey on 22nd September 1851 in Hinton. William was also born in England and was seventeen (17) years Ann’s senior.

Ann and William had three (3) boys and two (2) girls and raised their family around Thalaba Parish in the Dungog District. These children included John, Harriet, Francis Elizabeth, Charles and Robert Henry Pacey.

By the time Ann was 32 years old, she had 11 children, 7 step-children and was widowed a second time on 11th April 1860.

M3 - After the death of William in 1860, Ann married William Alfred Pacey on 25th July 1862 in Morpeth. William Alfred Pacey was the eldest son of his fathers first marriage and married his step-mother. When you talk about skeletons in the closet, you cant get much bigger than this one.

William was nine (9) years Ann’s junior and was only 16 when his father married Ann Elliot (Stace). Two(2) years after the death of his father, William married his step-mother. As could be expected, this marriage rocked the Elliott, Pacey and Stace families and a divide was created where siblings and family members never talked to each other again. The whole situation was never discussed and subsequent generations were oblivious to the history of their forebears.

Ann and William had two (2) boys and three (3) girls and raised their family around Dungog and Stroud. These children included George Joseph, Margaret, Sarah A Woodbridge, Clara and William Alfred Pacey.

On 27th April 1903, after an amazing of life, death and marriage, Ann passed away at the age of 75 in Nambucca Heads, where she was also buried. Three (3) years later, at the age of 69, William also passed away in the same location and was buried with Ann.

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