Robert Alexander

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D Wong on 20th September 2014

Robert was the seventh of eight children born to John Alexander, an agricultural labourer and his wife, Mary Ann, he was baptised on 17 May 1807 at St Mary's in Michelmersh. Robert, (life) along with Joseph Collins )(7 years) used force to rob a Mr George Scammel of silver coins totalling 19 shillings. Robert was 5’6” tall, ruddy complexion, brown hair and grey eyes, tattoos on his right arm, a heart with the initials E.H. inside and the year 1828 and a woman underneath, on the underside of his left arm was tattooed another woman, he also had a scar on the front of his chin and another across the middle fingers of his right hand. 1829: Robert was assigned to William Turney Morris, a free settler who arrived in the colony in July 1828 aboard 'Ship of Australia'. 1836: TOL Bungonia bench. 28/2/1837: TOL St Vincent 30/3/1841 TOL: "ln lieu 37/411 dated 28 February 1837, deposed to be lost". 14/4/1837: at the Church of England Chapel at Sutton Forest, Robert Alexander married Mary Theresa McCarthy, the witnesses to this marriage were Joseph Collins, Robert's partner in crime, and his wife Ellen Eliza Collins. They had 7 children Mary Theresa McCarthy: born on 7 September 1812, in Ireland, had lived in a convent in Cork and trained as a nursing sister. Mary came to Australia as a free settler aboard the 'Duchess of Northumberland' which sailed from Cork in Ireland. At the time of their marriage, Robert was living at Bateman's Bay, as was Mary, after their marriage they lived at Morris's new property 'Gundary' near Moruya. 1/5/1843: CP 25/1/1864: Robert Alexander died at Genoa from cancer aged 56 years, he was buried in the Eden Cemetery on 27 January 1864. Mary, in her later years lived at the Catholic Settlement at Kiah, where she died on 31 August 1879 from bronchitis. The full story of Robert Alexander can be found at :http://www.towambavalleyhistory.bravepages.com/alexanderfamily.htm