3.

Isabella Jean MCLEAN, daughter of John MCLEAN and Isabel Jane CRIGHTON, was born on 16 Nov 1894 in Prosper St. Balmain Sth., Sydney. Birth Cert. Isabella was Presbyterian. She married Frederick Poole HALL on 9 Sep 1922 in Gladesville Presbyterian Church, Sydney. Samuel Brown /Reid/Rev.Charman/C 13360. Isabella died on 28 Nov 1987 in Sydney. Death certificate gives cause of death as congestive cardiac failure, auricular fibrillation and generalised atherosclerosis. Isabella was buried on 2 Dec 1987 in Field of Mars Cemetery, Ryde.

"Bell" or "Bella" was born to John and "Jean" McLean in 1894 in Balmain, the eldest of 3 sisters Isabel, Clementina and Elsie. She married James Thorburn in Balmain in 1915. Her first daughter Betty McLean Thorburn was born in 1916, and the marriage ended in divorce in 1917. In April 1917 James Thorburn sued for restitution of his conjugal rights and Isabel was directed to return to the family home in 21 days. This did not happen and a divorce was granted in December 1917.

She remarried to Fred Hall in 1922, age 27, and 2 daughters were born to that marriage, Jean in 1925 and Shirley in 1928. Her husband Fred died at home in 1944 a year after her Father John McLean.

Bella worked at Walton's Department Store in Sydney city. Jean's husband Don always referred to her as "Mum" having lost his own mother at age 2.

From the family address, 25 Massey Street Gladesville she moved to 'Bethel' Nursing Home by 1980. She died in 1987 aged 93.She was buried in the same grave as Husband Fred at Field of Mars cemetery, Ryde.

During her life she was in constant written communication with daughter Jean who had moved to Tasmania in the 1950's. She also visited her Tasmanian family several times.⁸

James THORBURN and Isabella Jean MCLEAN had the following children:

Frederick Poole HALL, son of David Poole HALL (1858-1914) and Sophia HELLMERS (1860-1932), was born on 17 Nov 1893 in 3 Gladstone Street, North Balmain, Sydney.^{9 9} 1894/4642 Birthplace given as Rozelle in wedding declaration. Frederick was a Bricklayer, Ironworker,Secretary.¹⁰ He was C of E. He died on 26 Dec 1944 in 25 Massey St., Gladesville, Sydney. Chronic myocarditis, arteriosclerosis, copy of death register - No.27774, buried 28/12/1944, Presbyterian cemetery, Field of Mars, informant - D. Hall, brother, Marlborough St., Drummoyne, M.D. - Dr. A. Callose. Frederick was buried on 28 Dec 1944 in Presbyterian cemetery, Field of Mars.

Fred Hall was born in Balmain in 1893, the 5th of 7 children. He became a bricklayer and ironworker. In December 1904 the Hall family, Sophia, David, Fred, Irene and Olive travelled by ship to Natal, South Africa, no doubt to visit Fred's brother Dave who had moved there to find work. Brother Bert may also have been in South Africa by then.

Fred's father David Poole Hall died at the beginning of WW1. The wider Hall family were builders, stonemasons and bricklayers and he found his calling as a tradesman. Fred enlisted in the Australian Army on 23/10/16. His WW1 Army rank was No. 16981, rank - sapper, 9th Field Co. Engineers. He Left Australia in 1917, age 22, for England, to France, where he was injured in 1917, thence to hospital, then leave to England, and returned to Australia as an invalid in 1918.discharge 9/4/19, d.o.b. 15/11/93, (RTA 9.12.18).

He was demobilised in Australia in 1919.He applied to Repatriation Department because of his injuries sustained in France on 17/8/35, and this was rejected rejected 17/10/35. Fred's WW1 notebook had scratched on the cover the names of Messines, Ypres, Armantieres, Pleogsteert,Pascengale, Hemnel and Villers-Bretonnau. There were also the addresses of his South African and English cousins as well as his brothers in the AIF.

Fred was employed before and after enlistment at Tooth-s Brewery as a bricklayer.He took up the cause of ex-soldiers with a passion and was Gladesville RSL Vice-President in 1921 (see photo) and was still an office-bearer in 1938. He married Isabel McLean in 1922 at age 28, and had 2 daughters Jean and Shirley as well as ste-daughter Betty. His war wounds bothered him for the rest of his life and daughter Jean remembered tending to them as a young woman.

Residence.1.: 1893, 3 Gladstone Street, Balmain, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia.2250 Residence.2.: 1895, Cambridge Street, Balmain South, Sydney.2251

Residence.3.: 1914, 27 St. Georges Crescent, Drummoyne, N.S.W.2252 Residence.4.: 1916, Rickard Road, Bankstown, N.S.W. Lived with his mother Mrs Sophia Hall, when he enlisted in WW1.2253

He was Living Gladesville in 1932.

Residence.5.: 1944, 25 Massey Street, Gladesville, N.S.W.

Fred died in 1944 in the family home, 25 Massey Street Gladesville.^{1,2,9,10,11,12,13,14}

Last name

Hall

Service number

16981

Rank

Sapper

Birth year

1895

Marital status

Single

Occupation

Bricklayer

Religion

Church of England

Age at Embarkation

22

Embarkation year

1917

Embarkation date

10 Feb 1917

Embarkation regiment/unit

Field Companies Engineers

Unit information

January, 1917, Reinforcements

Departure port

Sydney, New South Wales

Ship name

Rms Osterley

Enlistment date

23 Oct 1916

City

Sydney

State

New South Wales

Country

Australia

Next of kin's first name(s)

Sophia

Next of kin's last name

Hall

Next of kin title

Mrs

Relationship

Mother

Next of kin address

Rickard-road

Next of kin city

Bankstown

Frederick Poole HALL and Isabella Jean MCLEAN had the following children:

6.

John MCLEAN, son of John MCLEAN and Clementina HOWAT, was born on 22 Sep 1867 in Lothian Rd., Dalkeith, Edinburgh, Scotland. GROS 683/00 0225. John was an Apprentice Iron moulder.Iron moulder manager of iron foundry.²⁰ He was Wesleyan (marriage cert.). He married Isabel Jane CRIGHTON on 25 Dec 1893 in Pashley St., Balmain, Cumberland. Balmain North. NSW Federation Index. Reg. no.1894/2180. John died on 13 May 1943 in Ryde.^{21 22} Died 1942 acc. to Source : Mary Poole bible, 4.45 p.m - 76 years. John was buried in Presbyterian section Field of Mars.

John McLean was born in 1867 in Dalkeith, Scotland, to John McLean and Clementina Howat, the 4th of 10 children, father an Iron moulder.

The family (all excepting Janet, now married to James Haldane) emigrated to Australia as assisted immigrants on the ship "Chimborazo" on 5/7/1885 from Plymouth. John was an apprentice at the age of 13, according to the 1881 census of Scotland, Dalkeith, Midlothian.

In Sydney he became Manager of the iron foundry of Gordon Marr & Sons. He was a well-known Rechabite as was Gordon Marr. The Independent Order of Rechabites was founded in England in 1835 as a fraternal society and Friendly Society promoting total abstinence from alcohol.

John McLean married Isabel Crighton in 1893 whilst living in Balmain.

The 1901 census lists the family at 4 Hancock St., Rozelle. NSW PO Directory 1904 has - McLean Jno., 4 Hancock-st., Balmain and the 1906 Electoral rolls has them at 4 Hancock St., Rozelle.

He built 8 Massey St. Gladesville, "Dalkeith", and was living there in 1936. He died in 1943 and was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Field of Mars cemetery. In the same plot was his wife , daughter Isabella Jean and her husband Fred Hall.

John McLean's will and probate appointed Thomas Howitt McLean and John Gordon McLean as executors.The Estate was sworn at 6836 pounds 15 shillings and 1 penny net^{20,22,23,24,25,26,27}.

7.

Isabel Jane CRIGHTON,²⁸ daughter of Alexander Meadowcroft CRIGHTON and Sarah Isabella CHAMBERS, was born in 1870 in Sydney. Reg. no. 2290. Isabel was a Tailoress. She died on 18 Aug 1936 in Sydney.²² Parkinson's disease, M, "Dalkeith", 8 Massey St. Gladesville, Buried 19.8.36, Presbyterian section Field of Mars Presbyterian , cemetery. Service at home by Rev. Pendleton Stewart., Died 8.15 a.m - Source : Mary Poole bible, and Hall bible. Isabel was buried on 19 Aug 1936 in Presbyterian section Field of Mars.²⁹ Buried 19.8.36, Presbyterian section Field of Mars Presbyterian , cemetery. Service at home by Rev. Pendleton Stewart., Died8.15 a.m - Source : Mary Poole bible.

Isabel Jane Crighton was born in 1870, the 3rd. of 7 children to Alexander Crighton and Sarah Chambers in Sydney. She married John McLean in 1893 in Balmain and together they had 3 daughters. Their residence "Dalkeith", 8 Massey St., Gladesville, became the Manse of the Presbyterian Church.

Her name:

She was known as "Janet"

Also seems to be known as "Jean". Her name was stated as Isobel Jean Crighton in her newspaper death notice.

She gives her name as Jane McLean in Isabella's birth certificate. And listed as Jane Isabel, domestic duties in the 1906 Electoral roll.

Her name was given as Isabel Joan? in Isabel Hall's wedding declaration.In her marriage certificate she gives her name as Isabella.

She was a tailoress. During her life she developed Parkinson's disease.

She died in 1936 and was buried in the Presbyterian section of the Field of Mars cemetery. After her death the casket stayed in her residence,"Dalkeith", Massey St., Gladesville for days, according to Shirley Hall, her grand-daughter.

She had an Aunt, Frances Smith, who gave her a book "The Royal path of life", owned by Shirley Cordwell. Cannot as yet work out what relation Frances Smith was^{1,21,26,30,31}.

John MCLEAN and Isabel Jane CRIGHTON had the following children:

10.

John MCLEAN, son of James MCLEAN and Janet LIVINGSTON, was born on 31 Aug 1840 in Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland. GROS 479/00 010*. John was baptised on 13 Sep 1840 in Falkirk Stirling Scotland.³⁴ GROS 479/00 010*. John was an Iron moulder.²⁰ He was Presbyterian. He married Clementina HOWAT on 12 Jun 1862 in Dalkeith. GROS 683/ 00 0024. John died on 2 Apr 1899 in 31 Weston St., Balmain South.³⁵ Heart disease 1899/4647. John was buried in Presbyterian cemetery, Waverley.^{36 37} 1899/4647.

John McLean was born in 1840 in Falkirk to James McLean and Janet Livingston. He married Clementina Howat in 1862 in Dalkeith and together they had 10 children born in Dalkeith before they emigrated to Australia in 1885. The first house built by the mcLeans was "Dalkeith", in Gladesville, Sydney.

On the 1851 census, age 10, he was listed as an apprentice moulder. This was not an unusual age to be working. "A century earlier the boys often started much younger. In 1842 the Children

Employment Commission (East Scotland) included a number of local boys in its report and here is an example:

John Sutherland, 14 years old, moulder at Carron Iron Works:

“Father brought me to the foundry when I was eight years of age; was first at the dressing, am now at the moulding and bound to the company for 12 years; am turned over to father for 5 years. I do not dislike the work; we have enough of it, both brother and I start together at 5, and sometimes 6, in the morning and lay by at 5 and 6 at night, whiles later. Get porridge

brought in the morning at 8 oclock; am not long eating it, as work will not admit; dines at 1, on tatoes and herring, or kail; does not rest long, perhaps 20 minutes or so.” [Reads badly and very deficient; says he goes to night school at times.]"

Falkirk was an iron moulding town and the saying "Iron made Falkirk and Falkirk made iron" is told in an article in the Falkirk Herald in 2018. "It all started, of course, with the arrival of Carron Iron Works in 1759 but, as Brian Watters reminded us at the official opening last Saturday, the company made more than cast iron." "It produced a succession of men who learned not only the skills of patternmaking and moulding but how to source raw materials, find and train skilled workers, locate markets and service them at a profit. "

On the 1881 census (4/4/1881) the family (not yet including Clementina Jnr.) were living in Thorburns Buildings, Buccleuch St., Dalkeith. Dalkeith was a small town about 10km from Edinburgh.

The family (all excepting Janet, now married to James Haldane) emigrated as assisted immigrants on the ship -"Chimborazo"- 5/7/ 1885 from Plymouth.

Film 2143 Assisted Immigrants Sydney 1838-1896

SS -Chimborazo-

Family:

Immigration Board's Records - Film 2496

General Assisted Families

Amount paid to Agent-General for passage

John McLean £4

Clementina £2

others £1

Relations in Colony : Daughter & s Katoomba

Name Age Calling Native Place Religion Read or write

General assisted singlemen

N0. 5872

McLean

James 22 labourer

John 17 ditto

General assisted singlewomen

No. 5873

McLean Marion 21 domestic £2

Annie 15 ditto £2

Hannah 12 scholar £1

McLean

John 40 Labourer Stirling Presby Yes

Clementina 40 Ayr ditto ditto

Catherine 10 school Midlothian ditto ditto

Thomas 7 ditto ditto ditto ditto

Swinton 5 ditto ditto No

Clementina 3 ditto ditto ditto

Single women

Marion 21 domestic Edinburgh Presby Yes

Annie 15 - ditto ditto ditto

Hannah 12 - ditto ditto ditto

Single men

James 22 - Midlothian Presby Yes

John 17 - ditto ditto ditto

Departure Plymouth 19.5.85

Arrival Sydney 5.7.85

47 days

1 birth

7 deaths

John McLean is buried at Waverley cemetery with wife and daughter Clementina H(owat?)^{20,27,35,38,39,40,41,42}

11.

Clementina HOWAT, daughter of Thomas HOWAT and Ann HOGG, was born in 1841 in Catrine, Scotland.^{37 38} Although headstone says -Catherine-. Clementina was a Domestic servant. She died in 1909 in Balmain south. 1909/563. Clementina was buried on 17 Jan 1909 in Waverley, Sydney.^{36 37}

Clementina was born to Thomas Howat and Ann Hogg in Catrine in 1841. The family was listed at Sorn in 1851 census, but were in West Dalkeith, after the death of her mother by the 1861 census. John McLean was listed in the same house in 1861. After marriage to him in 1862 the census of 1871 lists the family in Lothian Road, Dalkeith with 5 children aged from 8 to 1. By the 1881 census they were living in Buccleuch Street Edinburgh with 9 children from 18 to 1, 4 of whom were working working. Clementina emigrated with her family to Australia in 1885, after producing 10 children.

In the 1901 census they were listed at 31 Weston Rd., Balmain, with another 1 male, 1 female in the house.

She died in 1909 and was buried in Waverley cemetery^{24,38,43,44,45}.

John MCLEAN and Clementina HOWAT had the following children:

17.

James MCLEAN, son of John MCLEAN and Elizabeth CAMPBELL, was born on 7 Aug 1812 in Falkirk Stirling Scotland. IGI. James was baptised on 16 Aug 1812 in Falkirk Stirling Scotland. IGI. James was a Shoemaker (journeyman).⁶⁰ He married Janet LIVINGSTON on 1 Jan 1838 in Falkirk, Stirling, Scotland. GROS 479/00 012*, Extract of entries in Old Parish Register, Parish of Falkirk, County of Stirling. Register of proclamations of banns and marriages. Dated 1.1.1838. Extract 27.9.04. James died on 14 Jul 1891 in Cuckburn St. Falkirk.⁶⁰ senile decay. James married Janet TURNBULL.

James McLean was born in Falkirk in 1812 to John McLean and Elizabeth Campbell. He married Janet Livingston in 1838 in Falkirk and they produced 4 children, all born in Falkirk. The 1841 census shows James, Janet, Catherine and John living at Back Raw, Falkirk.

By the 1851 census the family have moved to Vicars Lane, Dalkeith. :James McLean, 38, Head, shoemaker; Janet, wife, 35; Catherine, daughter, 12, at home; John, son, 10, apprentice moulder;and Janet, daughter, 2. All born Falkirk, Stirlingshire. There is no sign of son James, age 8 in the 1851 census.

It seems that James re-married to Janet Turnbull between 1851 and 1861. The 1861 census shows James back in Falkirk at Roberts Wynd with wife Janet who was born in London. Also in the house were daughter Janet, 12 daughter Elizabeth age 9, daughter Ann age 4 months.

In the 1871 census the address is 82 High Street Falkirk with wife Janet and daughter Ann aged 10.

By the 1881 census James is in Falkirk at 64 High Street living with daughter Ann, servant, age 20, and a 4 month old illegitimate grand-daughter Janet Hendry. Interestingly the next-door family was a McGilchrist family, father a shoemaker. James McLean's grand-daughter married a McGilchrist but no firm connection can be made so far.

James died in 1891, aged 78 in Falkirk, closely followed by Janet in Dalkeith^38,61.

Janet TURNBULL,⁶⁰ daughter of John TURNBULL ( - ) and Harriet UNKNOWN ( - ), was born in 1815 in London, England.^{60 43 45} calculated from deat cert. Janet died on 23 Dec 1879 in 64 High St., Dalkeith.^{60 60} stomach cancer.

The 1861 census finds them, less John who was living with the Howat's in Catrine, at Roberts Wynd, Falkirk. James McLean, Head, 48, shoemaker; Janet McLean, 45, wife; Janet McLean, daughter, 12; Elizabeth McLean, daughter, 9; and Ann McLean,

daughter, 4 months. All are born at Falkirk, except wife Janet, listed as born in London(no record on IGI)

By 1871 census at High St. Falkirk, with James, 58, shoemaker; wife Janet Turnbull, 55, born London;and Ann daughter, 10, scholar.

Perhaps the first Mrs. McLean, Janet died and John remarried to Janet Turnbull between the 1851 and 1861 censuses. This would explain the age discrepancy between Catherine, born 1838, and Janet, born 1849. However no GROS record of death 1855-61.

And OPR deaths prior to 1855 not yet on website. IGI has a record of birth of a Janet Turnbull in 1815, but no marriages 1851-61, and no deaths for Janet McLean in that period.Also no Statutory marriages 1855-61.Nor OPR marriages 1851-55.However

there is a Stat. Reg. death for Janet McLean/Turnbull in 1879. This indicates a marrige to James McLean and she died at their residence.

The 1881 census lists James at 64 High St. Falkirk, widowed, 68, shoemaker; Ann McLean, Daughter, unmarried, 20, general servant; and Janet Hendry, illegitimate granddaughter, 4 months, of Falkirk.

James not mentioned 1891 census

Death reg. has a James Lyon, son-in-law, as informant.

Death reg. confirms James's 2 marriages^{34,43,45,60,62,63}.

Janet TURNBULL and James MCLEAN had the following children:

19.

Thomas HOWAT was born in 1799 in Catrine, Ayrshire, Scotland. 613/00 014/00 010 from 1851 census. Thomas was a Master Shoemaker, Leather cutter.⁶⁴ He married Ann HOGG on 26 Nov 1827 in Sorn, Ayr, Scotland. IGI,GROS 613/00 0004. Extract from OPR, Parish of Sorn, County of Ayr. Register of proclamations of banns and marriages dated 26.11.1827. Extracted 27.9.04.

Thomas Howat was born in Catrine,Ayrshire, Scotland in 1799. He married Ann Hogg, born 1801 in Sorn, Ayrshire, Scotland. They produced 6 children in Scotland.

Thomas was listed under boot and shoemakers, Mill Square in Pigot's Ayrshire Directory 1837 - 'Catrine in Sorn, and Mauchline.' And at the 1841 census the family were living at Mill Square, Sorn with baby Clementine.

By the 1851 census Ann must have died as at the 1851 census at 29 Mill Square, Sorn, we find Thomas,widower, age 52, Master shoemaker, born Catrine, Ayrshire. In the house was daughter Marion, unmarried, 26, powerloom cotton weaver; Archibald, son, unmarried, 18, under power loom tenter; George, son, 15, cotton spreader; and Clementina, daughter, scholar. All born Catrine.

Inthe Ayrshire directory 1851-2 Thomas was listed as a shoemaker in Mill Square, Catrine.

By the 1861 census the family was living at Alisons Court, West Dalkeith. Fourteen people at that address. Listed as Thomas, widower, age 62, shoemaker; Marion Howat, daughter, unmarried, 34, Housekeeper; George, son, unmarried, 26, iron moulder; and Clementina, daughter, unmarried, 20, Housekeeper. All born Catrine. Also living in house was John McLean, unmarried, 20, iron moulder, of Falkirk, Stirlingshire. He obviously was to marry Clementina in the next year.

There are various Howats and Hoggs buried in Sorn churchyard, none however has yet been linked to this family.^{38,43,64,65,66}

21.

Charles McLean CREIGHTON OR CRIGHTON,⁶⁸ son of William CREIGHTON OR CRIGHTON and Mary MCLEAN, was born in 1798 in Glasgow, Scotland.⁴⁶ Info. from headstone. Charles was an Engineer, Brassfounder. He married Rachel MEADOWCROFT on 9 May 1831 in Manchester, England.⁶⁹ A/c to death cert. Charles died on 28 Nov 1871 in 233 Clarence St Sydney.² 1424/1871. Charles was buried on 30 Nov 1871 in Rookwood cemetery. Old Presbyterian section.⁴⁶ Date from death cert.

Charles McLean Crighton was born in Glasgow, Scotland to William Creighton or Crighton and Mary McLean in about 1798. He married in Manchester in 1831, and emigrated to Australia in about 1835. He was an engineer and brassfounder and operated a business in Sydney city for many years. He had 11 children before he died in 1871. He was buried at Rookwood cemetery with his wife and son-in-law.

It seems that this family can be spelled Creighton, Crighton or Crichton depending on the source. It is therefore difficult to know exactly who was who.

His name, Charles McLean is established according to Death registration 2578 of son Alexander, Birth Reg. of son Charles, his own Death certificate, and his own headstone.

His Death certificate gives his age as 72. There is no trace of his birth on GROS.

According to his death Certificate, informed by his wife, he arrived in NSW about 1834. An index of passengers and crew in and out of Sydney 1830-1841 has a Mr. Charles Crichton arrival on the ship "Betsy" on 30.5.1833, from Leith (Edinburgh), occupation ironfounder.In 1839 four other Crichton and Creighton males arrived.

Electoral rolls have Charles Maclean Creighton in a dwelling house in Kent St.in 1845-6.And 1848-9, 1849-50, 1850-51 (spelt Crighton).In 1851-52 address now George St. as well as Kent St. Cox and Co.'s Sydney Post Office Driectory 1857 has a Charles Creighton, brass finisher at 201 Kent. St.. And as Charles Crighton, brassfounder, that address. They also have a Charles Creighton, oil and colourman, and painter, glazier and paper-hanger at 81 George St. It seems possible that Charles Creighton operated 2 businesses, one at Kent Street, later at Clarence, as a brass moulder; another at George Street as a painter. Son Alexander W became a painter, so would have learned the trade at home. There is also the possibility that another Charles (senior) existed, and operated a painting business, and Alexander learned the trade from his uncle. In fact, a Charles Creighton, painter, born around 1827, died in Sydney, Pitt Street in 1872, and was an old resident of North

George Street. Charles McLean Crighton, engineer, Clarence St. Sydney was declared bankrupt on 12/4/1843, according to the NSW index to insolvency and also confirmed by an "application" at that date reported in a local newspaper. However a CM Crighton of Kent and Clarence Sts. was advertising his brass castings in the Literary Gazette on 12.12.1844.

Sands Commercial Directory 1858-59 has a Creighton, Charles as a brassfounder at 237 Clarence St. By 1861 at 231 Clarence St. In 1863 Trades Directory at 231 Clarence st., an Edward Crichton, brassfounder. By 1867 Charles Crighton brassfounder at 233 Clarence St. At 231 Clarence in 1869 as Crighton. Listed at 283 Clarence in 1871. For a street plan of Clarence St. in 1895 see accompanying image. According to researcher Wendy Thorp "The line of Clarence Street, or at least a shorter version of it (the thoroughfare was extended north after the removal of Wynyard Barracks in the 1840s), had been formed by the first years of the nineteenth century. It was described as "Soldiers Middle Row" on the town plan of 1807. It was formally named "Clarence Street" by Governor Macquarie on October 6; 1810 and was proclaimed on December 31, 1834." And "Clarence Street then and now was most closely associated with small businesses, warehousing and importing firms which found this area advantageously placed in relation to the central commercial precinct of the city. Until the middle years of the nineteenth century the majority of this occupation utilised the street frontages leaving the interior of the block to encompass yards and sheds".

A compilation of early family names from the Sydney Assessment Rolls, indicating relevant addresses has been made including Creighton, et al.

The photo of the rear of 233, 235 Clarence St. shows the basic condition of housing in the area.

Charles died in 1871 and his wife Rachel was listed at 233 Clarence in 1873 and died at that address. They were buried at Rookwood cemetery in the same grave as their daughter Hannah and her husband John Brown. The members of his Lodge, the Loyal United Brothers Lodge placed a funeral notice in the SMH, as did sons Alexander and Charles. In the SMH Death notice he was described as "an old and respected resident of the city. Aged 73 years".

The 2 maps of Sydney show the development of the areas where Charles worked and lived over just 11 years^{2,53,54,70,71,72,73,74,75,76,77,78,79,80,81,82}.

22.

Rachel MEADOWCROFT,⁸³ daughter of MEADOWCROFT, was born in 1808 in Manchester. She was a Cotton weaver. She died on 25 Oct 1874 in Sydney -233 Clarence St.² Reg. 1483. Rachel was buried on 26 Oct 1874 in Rookwood Necropolis, Presbyterian Cemetery.^{46 2} Reg. 1483.

Rachel Meadowcroft, daughter of a cotton weaver, was born in Manchester in 1808 and married Charles McLean Crighton about 1831 in Manchester. They emigrated to Australia about 1834 a/c to her death certificate. They produced 8 children. Rachel died in 1874, 3 years after Charles and they were buried in the same grave in the Presbyterian Section of Rookwood Necropolis. Son-in-law John Brown was also interred in the grave.

They were living at 233 Clarence St., Sydney in 1871 at Charles' death.

"p.8. Funerals:

The friends of Mr. Charles Crighton, coach-painter, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of his dearly beloved mother, Mrs. Rachel Crighton: to move from her late residence, 233 Clarence St., this day at a quarter past 2 o'clock, and proceed to the Necropolis. Thomas, undertaker, York Street.

The friends of Alexander and George Crighton are respectfully invited to attend the funeral of their dearly beloved mother, Mrs. Rachel Crighton: to move from her late residence, 233 Clarence St., this day at a quarter past 2 o'clock, and proceed to the Necropolis. Thomas, undertaker, York Street"

Charles McLean CREIGHTON OR CRIGHTON and Rachel MEADOWCROFT had the following children:

23.

Joseph CHAMBERS was born in 1802 in Maghera, Derry, Ireland.^{28 34} He was a weaver, soldier, policeman, labourer.^{84 85} He married Ann SHAW on 5 Oct 1829 in St Laurence's Church, Chorley, Lancashire.^{86 87} He died on 11 Feb 1860 in Sydney.^{28 48 88 89 90} 1860/250 V18608255 122B Heart disease. Joseph was buried on 12 Feb 1860 in Camperdown, Newtown.^{88 89 91 92} North wall, Number 1511. Plot No. 186, commencing from eastern corner. SAG NO. 1514.

Joseph Chambers was a Northern Irishman who joined the British army at an early age, was stationed at Jamaica with his regiment, and eventually came to Australia as a "Redcoat". He was discharged in Australia, lived at the Rocks in Sydney, and his headstone can be found at Camperdown Cemetery. He was born in 1802 at Maghera, Derry, Ireland, Married Ann Shaw in 1829 and had 8 children with her.

According to his headstone, he was a member of the 50th.Regiment of Foot, his Death Certificate indicating wrongly that he was formerly a soldier in 51st Regiment. He has been confirmed as on payroll of the 50th Regiment. (on their 1st. tour of Australia, 1833-1842), along with a George Chambers (no relationship established).

He probably arrived in Australia on the ship 'Roslin Castle', 15/9/1834, from London.

After arriving in Australia some of the 50th Regiment worked at Illawarra (May 1835-Aug 1837), according to a website on "the Illawarra Stockade". A website about another soldier who joined the 50th Regt in 1820 gives some information on their previous activities. The regiment was stationed in Jamaica in 1819. After moving there men, women and children suffered from repeated attacks of yellow fever. According to Sykes and Tulloch's research, quoted by the South African Military History Journal "In 1819 the 50th Regiment had arrived in March and the 93rd three months later, both being stationed at Up-Park Camp, just two miles north of Kingston. Towards the end of June the first signs of the pestilence appeared and then it reached an unprecedented intensity during July and August, such being the ravages that one half of each Regiment's personnel died from this disease". In 1827 the regiment left Jamaica and went home to England. By 1828 it was transferred to postings in Lancashire. This fits in with Joseph's marriage in Lancashire in 1829. In 1833 a directive was issued regarding transferring to NSW. All detachments first moved to Chatham. The main body of troops arrived mid 1834, having been convict escorts in detachments. In Australia regimental headquarters were established at Windsor. The regiment then moved to Wynyard Barracks, Sydney in about June 1837.

The following information is from Joseph's Soldiers Papers; a collection of his military records on discharge to pension. The Regimental Board (probably in Sydney) sat on 21/1/1841, the copy was received (probably in London) on 13/6/41, and the pension was approved on 25/9/41.

[No. 155, Joseph Chambers, Private

Born Maghera Parish, town of Maghera, County of Derry

Enlisted 7/2/20

Attested for 50th Regt. on 10/2/20 at Armagh, age 18 (Newry District) - bounty 3 pounds British. Received 2/6d. on attestation.

Description: 5ft.6ins.and 3/4 height, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair

Gave trade as a weaver. Approved 11/2/20 -"A fine young lad likely to grow? up well".

7/2/20 - 24/6/26 Private

25/6/26 - 8/8/26 Corporal

9/8/26 - 31/12/28 Private

7/1/29 - 31/1/41 Private

Total Service 20 years 359 days

Served West Indies 3/2/21 - 8/3/27

New South Wales 16/9/34 onwards

Remainder -at home-

Character - conduct has been -good-. Wears 2 distinguishing badges since 30/10/38

Surgeon-s report 7/1/41 Sydney:

"Joseph Chambers aged 39 years. All his ?, no trade, middle stature. Light complexion pitted with smallpox. Never had the venereal disease. Service 21 years, upwards of 6 of which he served in Jamaica, and suffered there with intermittent and remittent fevers and opthalmia. During the treatment of which he took Mercury a. salvator? "In the last 5 years this man has suffered from chronic cough and rheumatic pains over which the medical means have exerted but temporary influence. He is recommended unfit for further service in which and by which his disability has been contracted". Conduct in hospital good."

Description on discharge:

39 years, 5 ft.7,1/4ins., fair hair blue eyes, fair complexion. Trade a weaver.

Approved 25/9/41]

Joseph was awarded a military pension 25/8/1841 from 50th Regiment. According to the Inquest report of his death, it was 1 shilling per diem (per day). The regiment was transferred to India in 1841.

Despite his medical discharge from the Army he then joined the city police force as a constable for about 10 years. The Sydney police force was in disarray, having developed from a group of ex-convicts, with meagre pay and hostility from the populace. "The police for the most part are not content with wearing their staff of office, but carry with them large sticks, of every fashion and variety, very much, doubtless In their opinion, to add to their dignity and importance. The unseemly swagger with which they are often carried has a very different effect on the minds of the public. We do not think that any body of men In Sydney can furnish so unique and handsome a collection of walking sticks, canes, and shel-lalahs as our police force." The article that criticised the police went on to say that their sticks wore often used where words might have secured law and order. "Hard luck for the Sydney citizen who argued the point with a constable who carried a shelllalah!" Living in The Rocks we might assume that Joseph's duties encompassed the area. "The Rocks had a notorious reputation for trouble and violence stretching back to its colonial beginnings as a penal colony and early trading port. The "pushes" of the Rocks were particularly notable. Law and order were kept by mounted police or "troopers", in combination with ordinary police, who could be picked out in a crowd by their bell-topper hat, black coat and white duck trousers. The mounted police wore a military uniform similar to the regular 13th Light Dragoons. Police control of the Rocks during the mid-19th century was achieved with the Water Police in George Street, a single constable in Harrington Street, a station house in Cumberland Street, and, more to keep a watchful eye on Millers Point, a station at government ground cornered at Kent and Argyle Streets". In 1844 when Joseph was probably in the force the police establishment included 65 constables as reported by Tegg's Almanac. According to 'Policing The Rocks', "In 1844, the citizens of Sydney had a public meeting requesting the increase of police numbers. One of the points they raised was that from Dawes Point to Pitt Street there was 'scarcely any property that was not committed to the protection of private watchmen and the reason was there were not enough policemen'. 'They believed the numbers of ex-convicts from Van Diemens Land and Norfolk Island moving into the city made an increase in police numbers a necessity. There had also been two horrendous murders in The Rocks that year."

A policeman's lot is never a happy one and the 2 indications of Joseph Chambers' lot (if indeed it is our J.C.) are from contemporary newspapers. One mentions him in relation to arresting drunkards and another where a magistrate, and the newspaper, criticises him and the police for being over-zealous.

After discharge from the police force he worked as a labourer at Breillat's flour mill for about 5 years, according to "The Empire" newspaper. The steam-driven flour mill was on Cockle Bay in the area of Sussex St., Margaret Place, and Napoleon Street. The mill was originally built and owned by a French General and convict Francois Girard who sold it to Breillat in 1841. According to the Daily Telegraph "To serve his mill with raw materials, Girard built a wharf and a road connecting the mill on Sussex St to Margaret St. It became known as Napoleon Lane, in honour of Girard’s hero the emperor, and later Napoleon St. In 1900, after bubonic plague swept through Sydney’s waterfront, Robert Hickson was appointed to clean up the area. Building was resumed and land reclaimed along Cockle Bay to create what became known as Hickson Rd. Napoleon St was again widened but to this day meets Hickson Rd rather than Sussex St, as it did originally. All trace of Girard’s buildings have gone". Part of the area has also been archeologically excavated, providing original map details. It appears to have been subsumed by the modern development of Barangaroo. Joseph died whilst working at the mill, most probably of a heart attack, the report of the inquest saying "On Saturday morning, a man named Joseph Chambers, in the employ or Mr. T. C. Breillat, fell down dead. He was formerly a soldier, subsequently a policeman, and for the last five years he has been employed as a labourer at the flour mills of Mr.Breilliat. At 6 o'clock on the morning of Saturday he went to work in his usual good health; for an hour and a half he was occupied in guiding a rope that was hauling up bags of flour from a lower loft. At about half-past seven, without being at all injured by the rope or machinery he tell backwards, and immediately expired. The City Coroner held an inquest upon the body during the afternoon of the same day. The evidence, however, elicited no further information respecting this melancholy occurrence; the verdict then returned was " Died from the visitation of God”. In seeking to find Joseph's death place it has been impossible to find the exact location of the mill today even though historical maps can pinpoint it.

As for the family's living arrangements, after leaving the Army where presumably the family lived in Married men's quarters, NSW Electoral rolls finds a Joseph Chambers in a dwelling-house in George St. in 1842-3, and a Joseph Chambers, in a dwelling, Castlereagh St. He was living at Brown Bear Lane at the death of his 15 year-old daughter Margaret Amelia in 1856. Brown Bear Lane became Little Essex Street. The Brown Bear Inn was at the corner of Little Essex and Princes Streets in The Rocks and believed to have been destroyed for the construction of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and/or the Bradfield Highway. A mural has been painted at the bottom of where Little Essex Street was, of a view up the Lane to the "Ocean Wave" Hotel. "The engraving depicts a section of lower George Street showing 'E. Chambers' 'Brown Bear', which was a notorious pub in The Rocks. The pub bequeathed its name to a laneway. This laneway later became Little Essex Street and then was consumed totally during numerous rebuildings of the area". Various relevant sketches, maps of the area are available in 2 books about the area. Most inhabitants of the street were listed as "waterman", and soap and candle manufacturers; the 1857 Cox & Co. Directory has a Joseph Chambers, labourer, still living at No. 54 Brown Bear Lane. A compilation of early family names from the Sydney Assessment Rolls, indicating relevant addresses has been made, including the Chambers family, but no definite addresses can be confirmed until Ann Chambers' death at Castlereagh street.

The death notice in the "Empire" newspaper also indicated that Joseph died suddenly, leaving a "a wife and eight children to deplore their bereavement." One daughter had died in 1856 and one was married by the time of his death. "Geelong papers please copy" indicated a Victorian relative, and his married daughter Ann lived in Geelong.

Joseph died in 1860 and was buried at Camperdown cemetery in the same grave as daughter Amelia and wife Ann who passed away in 1870. The Burial Butt for Camperdown Cemetery for Joseph describes his death as due to "Decline of Years"^{2,74,75,81,84,89,90,93,94,95,96,97,98,99,100,101,102,103,104,105,106,107,108,109,110,111}.

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Ann SHAW, daughter of SHAW, was born c. 1814 in Maghera, Derry, Ireland/Manchester, England.²⁸ Also calculated acc. to death cert. Ann died on 11 Nov 1870 in 287 Castlereagh St. Sydney, NSW.^{28 48 88 89} 1870/1211 Pleural pneumonia. Ann was buried on 12 Nov 1870 in St. Stephens Camperdown.⁹¹ headstone SAG NO. 1514.

Ann Shaw was probably born in 1814 in Maghera, Derry, Ireland. Although her death certificate, informed by her son-in-law says Manchester, England. She was married in 1829 to Joseph Chambers in Chorley, Lancashire where Joseph was a soldier. Ann was 15 years of age at marriage according to the death certificate. She and joseph had 8 children, one born in Australian waters and the rest in Sydney.

In the birth of some of her daughters, her name was given as "Maria"

According to her death certificate in 1870, 6 male children, 1 female were still alive . However this should be 6 female, 1 male still alive. Also 1 male, 3 female deceased by 1870, but only 1 female found so far.

Alexander Crighton was named in the death certificate as informant and son-in-law. Address same as death address, Castlereagh St. The Sydney morning Herald had the death at 'son-in-law's residence 287 Castlereagh Street'. Likewise the funeral from that address. Ann was buried at Camperdown cemetery in the same grave as husband Joseph and daughter Amelia.^112,113

Joseph CHAMBERS and Ann SHAW had the following children:

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John MCLEAN,⁶⁰ son of Charles MCLEAN and Christian MCFARLANE, was born in 1769 in Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland.⁶⁷ IGI tentative. John was baptised on 7 May 1769 in Govan, Glasgow, Lanarkshire.⁶⁷ He was baptised on 7 May 1769 in Govan.⁶⁷ He was a weaver, gardener. He married Elizabeth CAMPBELL on 28 Oct 1792 in Glasgow.³⁴ GROS, IGI Tentative because only marriage of these 2 names found. Also GROS - OPR644 001 0270 0131 Glasgow.

John McLean was born in 1767 in Glasgow. He married Elizabeth Campbell in 1792 in Glasgow and together they produced 9 children, all born in Falkirk. John was of the Parish of Falkirk at the marriage, according to the Banns and Marriages register. He was described as a gardener at his marriage.

The information regarding his trade comes from son James's death reg., and GROS marriage details.

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William CREIGHTON OR CRIGHTON was a Scale and weight maker. He married Mary MCLEAN on 19 May 1798 in Old or West Kilpatrick, Dunbarton, Scotland.⁶⁰ IGI, GROS 501/00 00.

On 19th May 1798 William Crighton, a scale and weight maker, married Mary McLean in Old or West Kilpatrick. Old or West Kilpatrick is a village and a Parish 10 miles from Glasgow on the river Clyde.

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Mary MCLEAN has few details recorded about her. She and William CREIGHTON OR CRIGHTON had the following children: