Ralph Turnbull, Jnr, Free Settler "Coromandel" 1802

alternate birth years - 1791 or 1792

“Ralph Turnbull was ten years of age when he arrived in Australia. He married Grace, the eldest daughter of First Fleeters Owen Cavanough and Margaret Darnell, in 1813. In the 1828 census Ralph was listed as farming seventy acres at Portland Head, all cleared with forty acres cultivated, and two horses and one hundred head of cattle. Although he and Grace appear to have prospered, his subsequent life certainly had its up and downs. He was left to look after his five children after his wife Grace died in February 1828, and his second marriage to Mary Ann Riley in 1829 had its problems. An advertisement in The Sydney Morning Herald in September 1831 cautions the public against Giving credit to my wife Mary Ann Turnbull and states that She having left my house on the 15 instant, without any cause whatsoever, and which she has repeatedly done. He finally settled on a hundred acre grant on the Colo River near the junction of Wheeny Creek which he named Andale. This land had been promised him in 1821 but the deeds were not finally issued until 1836. Ralph died in 1840 and is buried at Sackville Reach. His widow remarried, this time to James Ferris, and eventually settled on the Clarence River.”

To see Ralph Turnbull's will go here:-

http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/grthom/web/rtwill.html

• Reference: WikiTree Genealogy - SmartCopy: Oct 15 2017, 14:49:40 UTC

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A group of Presbyterian families from Scotland and Northern England emigrated to Australia aboard the ship 'Coromandel' which departed Deptford on 12 Feb 1802 and arrived at Sydney Cove on 13 Jun. They had decided to accept the English government's offer of land grants for free settlers to Australia.

Included in this group was the family of John Turnbull, a tailor, his wife Ann Warr, children Ralph 10, Mary 5, James 4, Jessica 2.

First Marriage Grace (nee Cavanough) (1794-1828) in 1813

Second Marriage to Mary Ann (nee Reilly) (1811-?) in 1829* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Oct 12 2022, 23:59:28 UTC