Urias Allender

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 5th January 2025

1815 - Marriage. District Hobart Uriah Allenger aged 50 years old & Elizabeth Herley aged 22 years old Married by Banns 1816 - Birth of daughter; Sarah Alender 14 Sept 1816 1818 - Birth of son: James Allender 22 Dec 1818 - DIED; 29 Dec 1825. Aged; 7 years old 1822 - Birth of son; Henry Allender 22 Feb 1822 1824 - Birth of son; George Allender 13 May 1824 1828 - Baptism of son; Edward Alender. Born 20 Aug 1824 ? 1830 - Birth of son: William Allender 28 Jan 1830 1832 - Birth of daughter; Catherine Allender 16 Apr 1832 Father's trade; Boatman. Residence; Clarence Plains 1835 - DEATH of Harriett Allender aged 11 months, Ferryman's child. Kangaroo Point 1836 - Birth of son Uriah; 26 Aug 1836. Father's trade; Boatman, Ferry. Residence; Kangaroo Point

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iain Frazier on 8th December 2024

Family connections for Urias (Allender) are: ALLENDER Urias/h (Allender) was born about 1745/65 & became a boatman/waterman/ferryman/lighterman. He served in the Royal Navy for 30years including Captain of the Foretop of Lord (Rodney)s ship THE FORMIDABLE at a victory on 12 4 1782; & was wounded at Boulogne. He was tried for receiving stolen goods at Kent Assizes on 4 8 1802 & sentenced to 14 years. He petitioned, on 15 3 1803 ie while sailing on convict ship, to serve again with Admiral (Nelson) without success & arrived at Port Phillip (Victoria) on 4 10 1803 after a voyage of 8months on HMS CALCUTTA (an expedition that settled in Tasmania); he worked as seaman on the ship. He arrived at Port Phillip (Victoria) on 4 10 1803 after a voyage of 7+months on OCEAN (supply ship with HMS CALCUTTA) (an expedition that settled in Tasmania); he would hve camped at what is now Sorrento/Sullivans Bay. He volunteered to assist as one of 6rowers on a voyage in an open boat from 6 11 1803, from Port Phillip to Port Jackson to advise the Governor of unsuitability of Port Phillip, arriving in November 1803 on OCEAN which had overtaken the much bothered boat & provided passage. He is stated at his marriage & the birth of his second child as having arrived on 24 11 1803 on HMS GLATTON (maybe the ship which carried him to Tasmania). On 18 12 1805 he was granted Conditional Emancipation for his efforts on the rowing journey. He married as Elizabeth (Herley her second marriage) on 25 9 1815 at St Davids CofE Hobart. In 1816 he had a grant of 30acres at Kangaroo Point Derwent River Hobart & became a waterman-the first in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). In 1817 his ferry boat was subject to stealing attempt by escaping bushranger Michael (Howe). In August 1816 he refused to ferry a Mr (Stocker) publican across the Derwent late at night, for which he was reprimanded. He was recorded in 1819 as a productive farmer. His ferry boat was involved in an accident on 24/30 9 1819 resulting in death of passenger Benjamin (Briscoe). He seems to have been the operator of the Hobart to Kissing Point ferry on 24/30 9 1819 which capsized nr Kangaroo Point causing fatalities. His ferry licence was confirmed on 11 1 1823. On 30 1 1834 he was fined for assaulting and beating Constable (Anderson) at Kangaroo Point. In September 1834 he unsuccessfully brought a case against a William (Morgan) & ordered to pay costs. He made his Will in January 1841 benefitting his wife & his second son after her death. In 1842 he was recorded as a productive farmer with 3children. He died on 18 4 1842 gradual decay of nature age about77/97. His Will was contested in 1856.] Some details taken from this Website] Elizabeth (Marsden/Early) was born on 28 1 1794 & baptised on 19 4 1802 on Norfolk Island. She is recorded as off stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. She, recorded as Elizabeth (Marsden-Herley), produced 2children with an unknown. She was to benefit from her husbands Will after 1842. She produced at least 5children in her lifetime. Details of Elizabeth (Marsden/Early)s family are given in entry for George (Dowling ROYAL ADMIRAL 1800)on this Website. Uriah (Allender) & Elizabeth (Herley) produced at least 3children:] 1.Henry (Allender) was born-no information of his birthdate, not even in Smees records. He was recorded with his father in 1842. He was living with Judge (Montagu) in 1842. He had angered his father & was to benefit minimally from the Will of his father after 1842, although he seems to have contested this fact in 1856. 2.Sarah (Allender) was born on 14 9 1816 & baptised on 21 1 1817 at St Davids CofE Hobart. She was recorded with her father in 1842. She married ??? (Foulder).] 3.James (Allender) was born on 22 12 1818 & baptised on 26 1 1819 at St Davids CofE Hobart. He was recorded with his father in 1842. He was to benefit, by his fathers Will of 1842, after his mothers death. He was purported to be living, but not at Kangaroo Point, in 1856. .. [Urias (Allender) had a brother who was present at Kangaroo Point in 1841.] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Maureen Withey on 1st April 2023

Robert Knopwood’s Diary. The Rev. Robert Knopwood sailed from England, on the Calcutta in 1803, and landed in Port Phillip with the prisoners. He later became the first chaplain appointed in Van Diemen’s Land, and was also appointed a Magistrate. He kept a diary, from 1805 -1808, which can be downloaded by following the link: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/13550/ Entry for Tuesday, 21 Jan, 1806 The General Order Jan 21 1806 His Excellency the Governor in Chief has been please, at the recommendation of the Lieut Govnr to grant a Conditional Emancipation, bearing date the 18 day of Dec 1805 to each of the five following persons VIZ. John Ronaldson Urias Allender Christopher Forsha David Wakefield Wm Thomas In consideration of their good conduct, and for volunteering their services by going in a six oared Cutter from Port Phillip to Port Jackson to announce the arrival of H.M. Ship Calcutta from England with an Establishment to form a Settlement at that place under the direction of the Lt. Govnr. N.B. Mr Wm. Collins had the command of the Cutter and when he was out some distance from Pt Phillip he coasted it and ran into every place for shelter he could, when the Boat was out and met with a strong breeze he turned too and got very drunk leaving the Boat to the care of the Prisoners and about 80 or 100 Mile from Pt Jackson he got on board the Ocean Transport which saild from Pt Phillip for that place.

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Maureen Withey on 16th February 2023

To be transported for 14 years- .... and Urias Allander, for receiving stolen goods; Mirror of the Times, 7 Aug 1802.

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Maureen Withey on 4th March 2020

The Royal Museums at Greenwich hold the following record: Date 1803-03-15. Urias Allender to Nelson, HM Ship Calcutta, Spithead, 15 March 1803, having been tried and shortly to be sent to New South Wales, asking to serve with Nelson, was wounded at Boulogne. -------------------------------------------------- Urias Allender was a convict on the Calcutta, but he had served in the Navy for many years, and he worked as a seaman on the ship. He was one of 6 convicts who volunteered to crew, under the direction of Mr William Collins, an open rowing boat to take dispatches to the Governor, to inform him of the unsuitablity of the destination for a settlement. -------------------------------------------------- SHIP NEWS. On Thursday arrived the Patterson, Capt. Ahern, from Providence, bound to China, and the Ocean, Capt. Mertho, from England, but last from Port Philip in Bass Straits, whither she conveyed a cargo of stores and provisions for the Establishment of an intended Settlement under the Command of His Honor Lieut Governor DAVID COLLINS, who had arrived in His Majesty's ship Calcutta, Capt. D. WOODRIFFE, having on board a Military Establishment, with 2 free Settlers, 209 Male Convicts, 15 Women and children; 8 Convicts died on the passage. The Calcutta and Ocean sailed from England the 24th of last April, touched at Teneriffe, Rio Janeiro, and the Cape of Good Hope: The Ocean arrived at Port Phillip the 7th, and the Calcutta the 8th ult. The Lieut. Governor having communicated to His EXCELLENCY the same unfavorable circumstances respecting Port Phillip not being calculated for an extensive Settlement, as was reported by the Surveyor General, Mr. Grimes, who with other assistance surveyed it in January last, but whose report had not reached England before the Calcutta sailed : Lieut. Governor Collins has therefore suspended his proceedings until he receives directions from His Excellency the Governor in Chief, which he has requested by Mr. Collins, a Passenger, under the sanction of Government, who very handsomely volunteered his services to bring the Lieut. Governor's Letters in an open six oar'd boat, which there is every reason to believe he would have accomplished with great credit to himself altho he encountered much bad weather and heavy gales in the Straits and on the Coast, but being so fortunate as to fall in with the Ocean off Point Upright, Capt. Mertho, who appears to have had no intention of touching here, very humanely took Mr. Collins and his people on board, and brought them to this Port. Sydney Gazette, 27 Nov 1803. ------------------------------------------------- Excerpt from “The Expedition under Lieutenant- governor Collins in 1803-4” By James Backhouse Walker, Read 14th October, 1889. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/18132/1/walker-expedition-collins-1889.pdf In this dilemma he found a friend in need in one of the settlers, Mr. William Collins, formerly a master in the navy, who had come out in the Ocean on a seal-fishing speculation. This William Collins volunteered to go to Port Jackson in an open six-oared boat to carry despatches to Governor King and to bring back his reply. *Six convicts volunteered as a crew, the boat was victualled for a month, and on the 6th November Mr. Collins started on his plucky trip. The surf was so bad at the Rip that he could not get out of the entrance for four days. A week later the Ocean was ready for sea, and sailed out of Port Phillip on her way to China. She was, however, destined to play a further part in the history of Tasmanian colonisation. When within 60 miles of Port Jackson Captain Mertho came upon William Collins in his cutter. The boat had been nine days at sea, and had had a very rough time of it. The captain took the people on board and carried them to Sydney, arriving on the 24th November, and the despatches were delivered to Governor King. *For this service the six men received conditional pardons. _________________________________________________ Tasmanian Record:https://stors.tas.gov.au/CON22-1-1p1 Ship Calcutta 1804, Ocean to VDL. Urias Allender, Hants Jail delivery, 4 Aug 1802, sentence – 14 years. ------------------------------------------------- URIAS ALLENDER, a Ferryman, was charged with refusing to bring over the Derwent River, Mr. Stocker of the Derwent Hotel, late last Night, who was bearer of Government Despatches from Port Dalrymple for His Honor the Lieutenant Governor. The Prisoner acknowledged to the offence, for which he was reprimanded, and cautioned for his future conduct. Hobart Town Gazette, 3 Aug 1816. --------------------------------------------- On Thursday, Urias Allender of Kangaroo point, and John Newland, of Hobart Town, were licenced as Ferrymen by a Bench of Magistrates to ply between the above mentioned places, and entered into the usual securities for the due performance of the regulations established by the Magistrates - Printed rates of which may be had at the Office of the Printer. Hobart Town Gazette, 14 Dec 1816. ---------------------------------------- From the Hobart Town Gazette of September 25, we copy the following:— " Yesterday, about one o'clock in the afternoon, a most melancholy accident occurred on the Derwent. A ferry-boat, the property of U. Allender, was returning from Hobart Town to Kangaroo Point, with the two boatmen, George Hatton and John Ambridge, and a passenger named Benjamin Briscoe, a settler at Clarence Plains: owing to the boisterous and stormy weather which prevailed the whole of the day, when near the point the boat became unmanageable, and suddenly went down; when the whole were unfortunately drowned. The sad disaster was seen by persons in another boat; but from the instantaneous manner in which it took place, they could render them no assistance. We have the distressing task to add, that Benjamin Briscoe has left a wife and a large family to deplore his unhappy destiny. The body of Ambridge, and the boat, shattered to pieces, were picked up this afternoon, as far up the river as New-town." Sydney Gazette, 23 Oct 1819. -------------------------------------------------------- At a meeting of the Magistrates on Thursday the 2d instant, at the Court-house, the Deputy Judge Advocate, in the chair, licenses to ply ferry boats between Hobart Town and Kangaroo Point, were granted to Wm. French, Uriah Allender, and James McCormack. Hobvart Town Gazette, 11 Jan 1823. ------------------------------------------------ Thursday, January 30th. Urias Allender was fined 20s. and costs, for assaulting and beating Constable Anderson, at Kangaroo Point, in the execution of his duty, in breach of the Police Act. Colonial Times, 4 Feb 1834. ---------------------------------------------- William Morgan, was charged by Urias Allender with breaking his windows and exciting him to commit a breach of the peace. Both prosecutor and defendant are well-known old hands at Kangaroo Point, and the gist of the complaint was, the ungentlemanly and abusive language that the defendant had repeatedly used towards Mr. Allender, whose delicate and susceptible feelings as a Boatman in that quarter ; and of having about a month since peeped in at the complainant's window. It appeared in evidence that another person had thrown the stone, and not Morgan who did not even take a peep at Mr. Allender's window that night ; and no evidence being adduced by either the prosecutor or his witness, to prove that Morgan had even excited tbe peaceable Boatman. The defendant was discharged to the tune of 13s 6d. out of the Boatman’s pocket. Trumpeter General (Hobart) 19 Sep 1834. ----------------------------------------------- On Monday, at Kangaroo Point, Mr. Urias Allender, one of the oldest inhabitants of this island. He was 97 years of age, 30 of which he had served in the Royal Navy with gallantry and credit, having been Captain of the Foretop of Lord Rodney's ship, the Formidable, in the splendid victory of the 12th of April, 1782. He made the adventurous passage to Sydney with despatches to Governor King in a whale-boat upon the formation of this colony, for which he was thanked in public orders. He died of the gradual decay of nature.-Murray's Review. The Cornwall Chronicle, 23 Apr 1842. ---------------------------------------------------- Colonial Times, 6 Mar 1856. Parts of a newspaper account in the Colonial Times, 6 March 1856, of a case regarding the Will of Urias Allender, made in 1841. CAVEAT BOARD. Wednesday, March 5. Before F. H. Henslowe, (chairman) W. Sorell, and P. G. Fraser, Esqs., Commissioners. ALLENDER AND EVANS. … The learned counsel produced a will, or what purported to be a will of Uriah Allender, executed January, 1841, a few months before the Will's Act came in to operation, …. ...By that will Uriah Allendar bequeathed the estate to the applicant, his then wife, during her natural life, and after that to his second son, as his eldest son Henry Allender (the present applicant) had been disobedient to his mother, and therefore he bequeathed to him only the sum of one shilling. …. Henry Dawson ...I remember my father saying something about a will of Mr. Allender's, and that he was a witness. .. The applicant admitted that Mrs. Evans was the widow of the testator. …. ..Elizabeth Evans, wife of John Evans, deposed that she was the wife of Uriah Allendar in January 1841. I was present when the will was executed by my then husband. Boyle Thomas was there, my daughter, Mr. Dawson, and my husband's brother. The parchment produced is what he signed. My husband gave it me. I have had it ever since, and my daughter together. Cross-examined-Boyle Thomas drew out the will. Henry Allendar is my eldest son ; he was living with Judge- Montagu when my husband died. Re-examined-My second son is living. I had a letter from him four years ago. By Mr. Commissioner Sorell- Uriah Allender could not write. By the Attorney-General-This will was signed the same day it was written. Boyle Thomas read it over, and the paper was signed. By Mr. Sorell-There was a seal put to it. Sarah Foulder (sworn).-I am daughter of the last witness, and of Uriah Allendar. I recollect my father making his will. There were present Mr. Dawson, Mr. Thomas, Mr. Hippesley Cox, Uriah Allendar's brother. It was in the kitchen. It was in the morning. My father put his mark. Mr. Dawson and Mr. Cox signed it. I did not think who signed it. Mr. Thomas signed it. … ..The Attorney-General remarked that if the will were a genuine document, it would make no difference. It was clear there was nothing to affect the interest of the claimant, and he apprehended the Board had no option but to give effect to the heir at law's right. He was requested to say there was no wish whatever on the part of the applicant to deprive the mother of her house and garden for her, life, and if the Board could make the order subject to her life interest he would have no objection. … _________________________________________________

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Robyn on 17th May 2015

Trial Date - 4 August 1802 Married: Elizabeth Earley, 25 Sept 1815; born Norfolk Island 1794. Mother Rachel Earley, Father Pte Samuel Marsden. 1816 - first licensed waterman in VDL Grant of 30 acres from Gov Macquarie at Kangaroo Point, eastern shore of Derwent River, Hobart. 1819 Census - 1819 he had sown wheat and potatoes, had eight cattle, 30 male sheep and 100 ewes and also supplied wheat for the Commissariat. 1842 Census - showed he owned his own finished wooden home, 3 children & assigned convict servant.

married Elizabeth Early daughter of first fleet convict Rachel Early and marine Samuel Marsden