William Dean

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iain Frazier on 14th November 2024

Family connections for William (Dean) are: DEAN William (Dean/e) was born on 9 11 1776 & became a house servant. He was employed at Cavendish Square London when he was tried for stealing money & watch from his employer at Old Bailey, sentenced to death reprieved to Life, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & hulks at London & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 7 1799 after a voyage of 8months on HILSBOROUGH; the ship was riddled with typhoid & bad management; he was 6' & 22stone & became known affectionately as 'Lumpy Dean'. He married Elizabeth (Hollingsworth), a convict assigned to him, on 25 12 1806 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He was Free by Servitude by 1807. He is recorded about 1811 with Ticket of Leave & a self-employed tanner. In 1817 he was granted 100acres & 50acres at Western Rd near Eastern Creek & later 50acres more; he grew grain at Rooty Hill which he milled into flour at Parramatta & exported to India. In 1820 he was living at Western Rd 10miles from Parramatta where he also had the Bush Inn (later known as Corporation Inn & Red Lion); he earned his nickname 'Lumpy' Dean-his home was 'Hollingsworth House'. He was recorded in 1827 as publican at Eastern Creek. He was recorded in 1828 with Conditional Pardon at Melville on 220acres with his family. He was known for being generous toward education of the poor. He was living at Western Rd & much respected when he died on 7 11 1847 age70/8. [Noted a charge of stealing watch etc, on 6 9 1797, of John (Farrant) & Edward (Bright) - trial at Old Bailey on 20 9 1797 - sentence of 7years - is also recorded against this name] [Some details taken from this Website] Elizabeth (Hollingsworth) was born about 1781. She was tried for stealing banknotes from her employer probably at Old Bailey in February 1803, sentenced to 7years, held at London Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 7 5 1804 after a voyage of 6months on EXPERIMENT; she was sent to Parramatta female factory before being assigned to William (Dean). She was Free by Servitude by 1812. She was recorded in 1828 as Free by Servitude at Melville with her family. She died on 1 2 1839 age58. [Some details taken from this Website] William (Dean) & Elizabeth (Hollingworth) produced 9children: mostly girls 1.William (Dean) was born on 8 9 1805 & baptised on 3 11 1805 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. 2.John (Dean) was born on 21 7 1807 & baptised on 28 10 1810 age3 w/Sarah at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He married Sarah Ann (Snowden her second marriage) on 14 8 1826 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He was recorded at Parramatta in 1828 as a farmer & in 1830 as a farmer publican. He died on 9 6 1894 age86. ..Sarah Ann (Snowden) was born on 13 8 1809 & baptised on 28/9 10 1810 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She had a first relationship at age16 with William (Monks) & produced 1child. She died in 1860 age about50 mother of at least 5children. ..Details of Sarah Ann (Snowden)s family are given in entry for Andrew (Snowden PITT 1792) on this Website. ..John (Dean) & Sarah (Snowden) produced at least 4children: ..1.Sarah Ann (Dean) was born on 20 7 1827 at Parramatta & baptised on 5 6 1828 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. ..2.Ann (Dean) was born on 18 9 1828 at Parramatta & baptised on 27 9 1828 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. ..3.Elizabeth (Dean) was born on 17 11 1829 at Parramatta & baptised on 29 8 1830 w/William at St Johns CofE Parramatta. ..4.William (Dean) was born on 17 5 1830sic at Parramatta & baptised on 29 8 1830 w/Elizabeth at St Johns CofE Parramatta. .. 4.Sarah (Dean) was born on 1 3 1810 & baptised on 28 10 1810 w/John at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 18 10 1874 age64. 3.Thomas (Dean) was born on 8 1 1812 & baptised on 10 1 1813 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 16 1 1891 age79+. 5.Mary (Dean) was born on 29 2 1813 & baptised on 24 7 1814 age16m at St Johns CofE Parramatta. 6.Elizabeth (Dean) was born on 10 5 1816 at Parramatta & baptised on 7 1 1827 age10 w/Ann, Martha at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 26 3 1896 age79. 7.Ann/e (Dean) was born on 27 10 1819. She died on 28 9 1905 age75. 8.Ann (Dean) was born on 20 5 1822 at Eastern Creek & baptised on 7 1 1827 age4 w/Elizabeth, Martha at St Johns CofE Parramatta. 9.Martha (Dean) was born on 21 7 1823 at Eastern Creek & baptised on 7 1 1827 age3 w/Elizabeth, Ann at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died in 1870 age about46. Reference: 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.

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Maureen Withey on 8th May 2024

AN OLD COLONIST.-The funeral of the late Mr. William Dean, of the Western Road, took place yesterday. Mr. Dean, better known by the name of, from his extreme corpulency, "Lumpy Dean," was a very old colonist, having arrived here in the year 1799. He, until within a very few years past, kept a public house on the Western Road, and in which line he was as well known and equally respected as the late John Ireland on the Sydney one. His anecdotes of the primeval days of the colony were both instructive and entertaining, and his details of the then considered great exploratory expeditions, when settlers went ten miles into the bush from their location in order to find cattle runs, were rich in the extreme. His conduct and manners during nearly half a century's sojourn in the colony procured him that esteem and respect which a numerous attendance at the last obsequies yesterday witnessed. Mr. Dean was 78 years of age. Sydney Morning Herald, 11 Nov 1847.

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Denis Pember on 15th December 2016

The Old Bailey Trial of William Dean: (www.oldbaileyonline.org) t17970220-41 20th September 1797 WILLIAM DEAN was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 6th of September , a silver watch, value 40s. four muslin neck handkerchiefs, value 2s. two linen shirts, value 5s. a cotton pocket handkerchief, value 6d. a pair of worsted stockings. value 4d. a pair of corderoy breeches, value 10s. a toilinet waistcoat, value 8s. and a man's hat, value 5s. the property of John Farrant ; a pair of men's leather shoes, value 12d. the property of Edward Bright , in the dwelling-house of John Maddocks . EDWARD BRIGHT sworn. - I live at Hendon; I am a gardener : The prisoner lodges at Hendon , in the same room with John Farrant , in the house of John Maddocks ; I lost a pair of buckles and a pair of shoes last Wednesday was a week, in the morning, I had seen them on Tuesday night, in the kitchen; I saw them the same day that I lost them, on William Dean 's feet.( Robert Cooper , a constable of union-Hall, produced a pair of shoes and buckles, which were deposed to by Bright). JOHN FARRANT sworn. - The prisoner lodged in the same room with me, he is a gardener; I accidentally met with him in Kent-street, with the shoes and buckles upon his feet, about four hours after Bright missed his property. Q. Do you know whose they were? - A. I do not know any further than when Bright came in, he said, they were his; he was with me in pursuit of the prisoner. Q. What time in the morning did the prisoner go out? - A. I cannot say, I was asleep; I awoke about half after five o'clock. Court. (To Bright). Q. How came you to go to Kent-street? - A. We went in pursuit of him. Q. Did you ever hear of his being there before? - A. Yes. The prisoner did not say any thing in his defence. GUILTY of stealing, value 10d. (Aged 37). Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Justice ROOKE.

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Denis Pember on 15th December 2016

William and Elizabeth had 8 children, born between 1805 and 1823. Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 119… [Ref D0620] Dean, Elizabeth, 51, FS, Experiment, 1803 7 years. [Ref D0612] Dean, William, 52, CP, Hillsborough, 1799, Life, Bush Inn, Melville. 220 acres, 100 cleared, 42 cultivated, 8 horses, 100 cattle. [Ref D0613] Dean, William (jnr), 23, born in colony. [Ref D0614] Dean, Thomas, 17, born in colony. [Ref D0615] Dean, Sarah (jnr), 19, born in colony. [Ref D0616] Dean, Mary, 15, born in colony. [Ref D0617] Dean, Elizabeth, 13, born in colony. [Ref D0618] Dean, Ann, 9, born in colony. [Ref D0619] Dean, Martha, 5, born in colony.

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Bruce pike on 28th March 2016

I hold the lumpy dean chair having purchased it from the auction of lord mcalpines au collection also a scotch glass which is oversize but 1 of a few

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D Wong on 9th June 2014

The Legend of ‘Lumpy’ Dean’ He was a huge man (over 6’ tall and weighing 22 stone) with a huge sense of humour and the ability to laugh at himself but it was no laughing matter for youthful William Dean when he was sentenced to death at the Old Bailey. He was 16 and employed as a servant at a house in Cavendish Square, London, when he found a £20 note in his master’s jacket and put it in his own pocket. Instead of hanging he was transported to New South Wales which turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to him. After spending several years on the hated floating hulks in London he arrived at Port Jackson aboard the hell-ship Hillsborough in 1799, aged 23. Twelve years later he received a ticket-of-leave and was self-employed as a tanner. Elizabeth Hollingsworth, transported for stealing two £1 notes from her employer, was assigned to him. The couple formed a relationship and married at St John’s Church of England, Parramatta on Christmas Day 1806. They already had one child, the first of eight with another on the way. In 1817 William Dean received two grants from Governor Macquarie. One was of a 100 acres, south of the Western Road and west of Eastern Creek. The other was of 50 acres, north of the Western Road and west of Eastern Creek. He was later given a further 50 acres in the area. Deane, who, on land near the Presbyterian Church at Rooty Hill, grew grain, which he had milled into flour at Parramatta. This flour was exported to India, and it is from this fact that Rooty Hill is said to have derived its name. The word “Roti” was the name written on the bags of flour, and is an Indian word meaning “bread” or “flour’. In 1820 he was living on the Western Road near the turnpike almost 10 miles from Parramatta. By this time his enormous bulk earned him the nickname of ‘Lumpy’ Dean but in spite of his size he was energetic and enterprising and had built a home for his wife and seven children with extensions for an inn. He also grew wheat and raised cattle. The role of Mine Host of The Bush Inn suited him admirably and customers were drawn by his jovial personality. He later changed the name to The Corporation Inn a facetious reference to his girth. The inn was a seven hour journey by coach from Sydney and travellers often stayed over to enjoy the warmth and hospitality. When the Western Road was extended, traffic increased and so did the family fortune. The 1828 census shows William Dean as the owner of 220 acres with 100 cattle and eight horses. ‘Lumpy’ Dean was 78 when he died, a wealthy man and a generous advocate for the education of the poor. Hundreds turned up for his funeral. In spite of his bulk it is said he could still dance the Sailor’s Hornpipe as good as anyone half his age. The family home, Hollingsworth House on the Western Road, built by convicts in 1817 was occupied by the Learmonth family, descendants of William and Elizabeth Dean, when it was acquired by the Department of Main Roads and demolished in 1960 for the construction of the Great Western Highway. A few items associated with ‘Lumpy’ Dean remain today, in particular a giant cedar chair especially made to accommodate his larger-than-life size and personality. Today William ‘Lumpy Dean is remembered in the suburb of Dean Park.