Historical records matching Edward Blanch, Snr, Free Settler "Maitland" 1838
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About Edward Blanch, Snr, Free Settler "Maitland" 1838
Married in Ewhurst, Sussex 1 Oct 1807
Edwin's wife, Maria Ashdown died in 1837, in Kent.
Edward Blanch was a Baptist.
After his wife died Edward (then 50) decided to emigrate to Australia. His children were 15, 12, 10 and 8 years of age.
Governor of New South Wales, Sir Richard Bourke, introduced the Bounty System of Emigration in 1836. The essential feature of this was that the colonists who were to employ the emigrants on their arrival would choose the emigrants in England and bring them to the Colony. Emigrants received from the colonial government a Bounty, which in 1838 and 1839 was:
Man and Wife, without family 36 Pounds
Each unmarried male 18
Each unmarried female 18
Children from 7 to 14 years 10
Children from 1 to 7 years 5
It is easy to imagine the hope with which this call for emigrants, particularly for farm workers, was received among the poor in England. With the deprivations of the depression of the 1820s and early 1830s and a vivid memory. Edward Blanch was one of some fifty emigrants from the Rolvenden area on board. Edward Blanch being over the age for assisted emigrants paid Twenty pounds for his passage. This was an amount equivalent to almost a years income. Where he got the money is unknown but it could well have represented the savings of his family for several years.
Two days before his elder children arrived in Australia, Edward Blanch left Gravesend on the 'Maitland' on June 24, 1838. It carried 205 adults and 110 children. The ship stopped at the Cape of Good Hope (where it was quarantined) and arrived in Sydney on Nov. 5, 1838. (134 days) Travelling with him were his youngest children Elizabeth (18), Philadelphia (16), Samuel (12), Mary (10) and Anne (8). The two young children took ill on the journey and were still when the Maitland arrived in Australia. Edward arrived in Australia at Port Jackson from England on November 5, 1838. However, the ship was quarantined at Manly on arrival after a suspected typhus outbreak on ship. By the end of December they were allowed to leave the ship.
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Also on the ship were many Austin and Moon relatives. 34 people died at sea, 29 of them children. Typhus began on Aug 29. Sydney Morning Herald "consisting of about 40 cases of the wrost description." Also cases of scarlet fever. "Every soul on board is reported to have been affected during the voyage." "Has been more unfortunate than any emigrant ship before her." They were placed in a wooden shanties, and a cluster of tents pitched among the scrup and sandhills." because the buildings were already full. Ship arrived "in a very dirty state" Sydney Daily Mirror "The Maitland with her dirt and overcrowding and laci of discipline was one of the worst seagoing slums in the migrant traffic. 200 cases of sickness occured during the voyage and 35 passengers including 29 children had been fed to the sharks before she sighted Sydney Heads." The committee of inquiry concluded they were "transported to the colony like cattle."
Some six months later on 18 June 1839, the Cornwall sailed from Gravesend carrying 148 adults and 60 children. After a lengthy but unremarkable voyage arrived at Port Jackson on 26 October 1839. About forty of the passengers on the Cornwall were from the Rolvenden area. Members of the Blanch family on board were John and George with their wives and families, and also Stephen and Edward.
It would seem that the family quickly settled in the Raymond Terrace area.
Later on Edward Blanch worked for William Caswell on the Balickerra property. In 1860, at about 74 years old, Edward died on this property.died Jan 1, 1860. The latter is a historical site with information on the net: Caswell also had a larger farm of 1920 acres at nearby Balickera. For fourteen years the Caswells, William, Susan and nine surviving children, lived at Tanilba House. It has been well cared for and is protected by a permanent preservation order. Sited on the shoreline of Port Stephens, surrounded by koala habitat, Tanilba House, together with its small gaol, elaborate stone gazebo and one hundred and seventy year-old olive tree, is open to the public. Those lucky enough to visit the house may catch a glimpse of the resident ghost. First sighted around 1900, the ghost, a young woman with long brown hair and floor-length dress, is believed to be that of Elizabeth Gray, a governess who lived there in the 1830s. She has been seen gazing through the French windows, at the doorway to the front parlour, and sitting on the end of a bed.
His eldest sons with wives and children. Two of his daugher in laws had children aboard ship--Thomas (David) and James (Harriet). Most seemed to live in Raymond Terrace. Son Edward married Catherine Hawkins from Ireland in Parramatta (poss convict)
Thomas had 17 children and Edward had 15.
Occupation: Farmer, Laborer
Buried Jan 9, 1860 Raymond Terrace, NSW
Religion: Baptist
Info about children: (8 sons in a row and then a daughter!!)
One daughter, Elizabeth (the eldest) married in 1837 and remained in England.
James came with wife Mary and 2 children (12 more b. Australia)
Edward m. in Parramatta Catherine Hawkins b. 1820 in Ireland (d. 1907 Wichkam)
George came with wife and one son
Isaac with wife Sarah and one son
Stephen married in Syndey
Philadelphia married and died in Newcastle
Samuel m in 1852 in Adelaide and died in SA in 1919
Mary Blanch Warby died in 1915 in Daggert Utah. She baptised and sealed the family in the Mormon records. From their family website:
James Warby Jr. and Mary Blanch Warby joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1853 in the Hunter River/Williams River area north of Sydney. Grandfather Warby was walking home from his work and met two Mormon missionaries on the street. They invited him to a meeting later that evening and he came with his wife and children. They soon believed what the missionaries were teaching about Mormonism and they were baptized. Even though three of their small children died a few weeks after joining the church, they remained faithful and one year later, emigrated to California with two remaining children, one which was born 10 days before sailing on the ship Julia Ann. In the summer of 1854, they came to San Bernadino, California and three years later, crossed the desert and became one of the original founders of Beaver in Southern Utah. There the family grew and flourished. James and Mary eventually had 18 children.
- Religion: Buried in Cemetery at Raymond Terrace, NSW
- Emigration: 1838 - Ship - 'Maitland'
- Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Elizabeth Amos (born Blanch) by SmartCopy: May 26 2015, 9:19:55 UTC
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Edward Blanch, Snr, Free Settler "Maitland" 1838's Timeline
| 1785 |
March 27, 1785
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Rolvenden, Kent, England
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| 1787 |
May 27, 1787
Age 2
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Rolvenden, Kent, England, United Kingdom
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April 19, 1808
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Rolvenden Kent England
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December 4, 1809
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Rolvenden, Kent, England
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August 11, 1811
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Rolvenden, Kent, England
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April 12, 1813
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Rolvenden Kent England
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| 1815 |
December 31, 1815
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Rolvenden, Kent, England, United Kingdom
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| 1817 |
January 17, 1817
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Rolvenden, Kent, England
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