Henry Berry

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Mike Harvey on 31st May 2012

Arrived in 7.2.1836 on ship Susan II.Occupation Baker.Literate. Birth Certificate sighted.Shows child born as Bastard. Also known as "Berry" Indent shows BERRY/Thompson/Perry John/William/Henry...Susan (2)...7th February, 1836...Sydney Certificate of Freedom issued 27.09.1842 No. 42/1694 His death certificate states father as Joseph. Not sure where the informant got that from. It has never been recorded anywhere else that I have searched. ************************************************************************** * NSWPI PIONEERS SERIES - DEATHS * * SET # 5 - 1 RECORDS * * COMBINE: 1 AND 2 AND 4 * ************************************************************************** RECORD #1 OF 1 SURNAME PERRY GIVEN NAME(S) HENRY INDEX YEAR 1882 FATHER JOSEPH MOTHER DIED WALHALLOW PLACE OF REGISTRATION GUNNEDAH REGISTRATION YEAR 1882 REGISTRATION NUMBER 8635 On 2nd April, 1835, Henry Berry alias John William Thompson alias Perry,aged 17 years, was sentenced in Nottingham Quarter Sessions, to 7 years transportation to Australia. He was a Baker`s boy from Leicester. He could read and write and he was a Protestant. His crime was robbing his master of money. .................................................. He must have prospered in the 13 years after his arrival as a convict and just 7 years after being granted his freedom as the following advertisment shows. Maitland Mercury 27th June 1849 Notice. THE undersigned having Purchased the CATTLE branded with compass B, running on the "Gunerai Station," Gwydir River, cautions the public not to remove the same, or in any way interfere with them. HENRY BERRY, Black Creek. June 25th,1849 From "The Upper Mooki" by H R Carter MBE First published 1974 ISBN 0 9598088 2 5 "Henry Berry (or Perry) was born at Leicester, England, on 2nd April,1817. He married Jane Pyne, a native of County Clare, Ireland, at Maitland in 1848. In the following year, their son John was born. In 1850 Henry and his family passed over the Liverpool Plains on their way to Bingara. However, he became overseer and later superintendent or manager at "Mooki" for Richard Reynolds. His name is recorded in the P.M.G. Department's records of 1867, requesting improved postal facilities for the Upper Mooki. They lived in a cottage near the present "Willieawarina" homestead. In the Quirindi Advocate of the 5th February, 1943, "Old Ned" wrote:- "I well remember Henry Perry or Berry as he was called. He was a little man and very deaf . The blacks called him "Bail hearum". Henry and Jane Perry had nine children, five sons and four daughters. The eldest son John and the youngest, Joseph, selected land with their father near Mooki between 1871 and 1873. Jane Perry died on the 13th August, 1864, at the age of 32 at the birth of her 10th child, who did not survive. She was buried at Mooki on the edge of a small ridge not far from the Mooki River where her husband was later buried beside her. Their graves are still to be seen. "Sundowner" wrote in the Quirindi Advocate (21st May, 1926) what can only be interpreted as a tribute to Doctors of the time and to mothers like Jane Perry:- " The nearest Doctor was Murrurundi, 30-40 miles by the shortest route,(Dr. Gordon) then Tamworth (Dr. Dowe). When called upon Dr. Gordon (who always had good horses) would come, rain or shine, and on 13th August, 1864, he swam the Mooki (then in high flood) to attend to apatient, but too late I regret to say.... The mothers had to do all their sewing by hand, and I have seen my dear Mother sewing making our clothes late into the night, with her only light the home-made tallow candle, and in many cases the slush lamps.Usual cooking utensils were the camp oven for baking bread or damper inthe ashes, the three legged iron pot for boiling meat, the frying pan and saucepan, with tin pannikins for cups. Of course plenty had crockeryware,but the above was mostly in use, and the furniture as a rule all station made. Houses were roofed with bark, and the floor was the mother earth, while the bedding was grass or other material gathered from the bush" . Between 1875 and 1882 the name Berry was dropped, and all further references are to Perry." "Sundowner" was the nom de plume of John Perry, eldest son of HenryBerry/Perry. Surname First Alias CFNo Date Vessel Year SRRefFilmRemarks BERRY Henry THOMPSON, John William; PERRY 42/1694 27 Sep 1842 Susan 1836 4/43771012 Surname First THOMPSON John William Alias BERRY or PERRY, Henry CFNo 42/169427 Date Sep 1842 Vessel Susan Year 1836 SRRef Film Remarks 4/43771012