William Rayner, Free Settler “Resource” 1837

Mudgee Guardian and North-Western Representative NSW Mon 6 Dec 1937; Part Article:

THE RAYNER FAMILY UNIQUE GATHERING

Thursday, November 11, was the day chosen to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Rayner family in Australia.

About the beginning of the year 1837 James and Eliza Rayner, with their three children, William, Lucy and Robert, sailed from England on board the "Resource," and after a voyage lasting about six months, they landed at Sydney on 24th June, 1837...

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BDM NSW

Marriage V1854 197 41B; Rayner, William, to Brennan, Ann. Registration NJ is Church of England Gulgong, Mudgee.

They had seven children. They had a daughter Sarah who gave evidence in court on what she saw of the lightning.

Children born to William and Ann at Mudgee: 1856 Sarah A; 1857 Male (William James?); 1860 Richard H; 1861 John E; 1863 Thomas R; 1866 Albert P.

Death by Lightning at Mudgee (Empire, Sat 6 Feb 1869); summarised:

William Rayner: His house was hit by lightning in 1869 at Sawpit Flat, near Bocoble, and it killed his wife Ann.

(Death Ann Rayner 1869, daughter of Richard B and Bridget).

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William Rayner married again at Mudgee in 1870, to Sarah Pincham. They had several children, perhaps: 1872 Ann; 1874 Rosanna; 1877 Lucy R; 1877 Emma E; 1879 David.

Some perhaps overlap/confused with:

In 1881, William's son William James Rayner married Sarah Wilson, and they had children in Mudgee; perhaps 1881 Sydney Edgar (died 1945); 1882 Esbry; 1884 Hector Powell (Hector R died 1885); 1887 Pearl (died Rhodes, 1975); ?1906 Richard L (died 1994).

Death 1892/8627 Mudgee; Rayner, William, son of James and Eliza.

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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Monday 1 August 1892

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH WALES

Probate Jurisdiction

In the Estate of WILLIAM RAYNER, late of Sawpit Flat, at the Head of the Meroo, Farmer, deceased.

APPLICATION-will be made after fourteen days from the publication hereof that Administration (with the Will annexed) of the Estate of the abovenamed deceased may be granted to SARAH RAYNER the widow of the said deceased.