John Teale

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iain Frazier on 25th August 2025

Family connections for John (Teale) are: TEALE John (Teale) was born on 15 2 1789. He was tried at Lancaster Assizes, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 4 1815 after a voyage of 6months on INDEFATIGIBLE; he was assigned to Henry (Kable future father in law) at Windsor. In 1813 he was living as landholder farmer at Pitt Town. He married secondly Dian/na (Kable her second marriage) on 7/27 4 1818 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He was recorded in 1823 as a farmer. He is recorded in 1828 as living with his family on 90acres at Cornwallis. From 1832 he was steward at race track Killaroy; he also had benefactory interests as mentioned on this Website. On 28 1 1836 he bought 1acre in George St Windsor on which over time he built house flourmill & bakery shop. He died on 6 10 1851 age62 at Windsor of delirium tremens (alcohol). [Some Details taken from this Website] Diana (Kable) was born in 1788 & baptised on 5 12 1788 with Henry junior at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She married firstly William (Gaudry) gent on 9 9 1809 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced a 4children. She died in 1854 age about66 mother of perhaps 10children at Windsor. Details of Diana (Kable)s family are given in entry for Henry (Kable FRIENDSHIP 1788) on this Website. John (Teale) & Diana (Kable) produced at least 6children: 1.John Henry (Teale) was born in 1820. He died on 27 11 1891 age about71. 2.Caroline E (Teale) was born in 1821. She died on 25 8 1854 age about33. 3.Dinah Blanche (Teale) was born on 20 7 1823 at Pitt Town & baptised on 24 8 1823 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 29 7 1854 age31+. 4.Joseph (Teale) was born in 1824. He died on 16 5 1901 age about76. 4a.a Mary Ann (Tealy) is recorded as born in 1825. She died on 8 11 1828 age about3, killed by a large wheel falling on her head at George St Sydney & was buried at St James CofE Sydney. 5.John (Teale) was born about 1827. 6.Henry William (Teale) was born in 1829. He died on 12 9 1912 age about83. 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. Family History Group of Bathurst Inc.'Bathurst Pioneers-Register of Pioneer Families Of Bathurst NSW And District <1900'

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Phil Hands on 10th October 2017

John Teale was tried and convicted at Lancaster Assizes for a term of life. Left England poss end October, early November 1814. Ship: the 'Indefatigable' sailed with 200 male convicts on board of which 2 died during the voyage. Arrived on 26th April 1815. On John's arrival he was assigned to Henry Kable in Windsor. By this time Kable was an important and wealthy businessman, who had interests both in Sydney and the Hawkesbury. It is not known if John worked on the farm, in the house, at the inn owned by Kable or perhaps, in his brewery. On 7th April 1818 John married Henry Kable's widowed daughter Dianna, whose husband William Gaudry had died in 1816, leaving her with 3 small children, John and Dianna had 4 children between 1819-1829. By 1823 John, Dianna and their children were now living at Pitt Town where John was a landholder and farmer. The 1828 Census shows that they had moved to the Cornwallis with a 90 acre farm, of which 60 acres were cleared and cultivated with 10 horses and 39 cattle. They had four children, Caroline aged 6, Blanche aged 4, Joseph aged 2, and John 8 months. They also had living with them a man named John Howard, listed as a servant, aged 64 and Free by Servitude who had arrived in the colony on the "Indefatigable" with John. He was possibly an old man who might have been kind to John on the board the convict ship as they travelled to the colony and John was now looking after him. In 1828 Dianna's son, William, now aged 18, was working on the Cornwallis also, as a labourer to William J Fitz of Windsor. Also working on the same farm was Edgar Kable, a cousin to William, aged 20 and Overseer to Mr Fitz. William Fitz was working as the Sheriff's Officer in Windsor, with his father, Mr Robert Fitz, who was Clerk to the Bench. John Teale had many people who had been convicts on the "Indefatigable" with him, now living in the Hawkesbury. John Tindell, aged 50, and Samuel Neale were farmers at Richmond, only a few miles away. Thomas Curl and Charles Tandy were living at Pitt Town. At North Richmond, we find Robert Hill and Robert Marchmont, now a shoe maker. Richard Page, aged 44, and a farmer at Portland Head has Joseph Cuff, aged 60 , a labourer, living with him. This relationship was probably similar to that of John Teale and John Howard. Richard was probably providing a place for old Joseph to live. The only place for an infirm person to live was at an asylum unless family or a friend could take care of them. Also at Portland Head was Thomas Yarwood, a farmer. Joseph Scott was living in Windsor and Michael Ward was at Wilberforce. The Land Titles Office shows that John Teale bought from the Crown 1 acre and 2 roods on the main street of Windsor, George Street, on 28 January 1836, but the Sydney Gazette in 1831 states "that a flour mill of 6 horse power has recently been erected and is in full sail at Windsor". So John must have approached the Government and requested the land, but in line with most red tape it took some five years to actually receive the Certificate of Title. The mill was on George Street, very near to Dight Street today, or where the old library is, and John's land went right through to Macquarie Street. There was no Dight Street in 1836. John had the three storey mill and residence erected. There was also a bakery shop, but this may have been constructed some time after the mill. For the first four years the mill was horse driven, then it was converted to steam power. Alfred Smith, the Old Richmondite, says that Teale did a "great trade". John tendered and won the Government contracts for 1833 to supply the forage to the Colonial service in Windsor and the Blue Mountains and was contracted to feed Survey parties in Windsor. By 1834 John had expanded his mill, having purpose built equipment made in Sydney for "grinding corn". In 1846 John advertised a shop and bakery next door to the Mill, to let. During his time in Windsor John had become a successful businessman. He became a steward at the old race track at Killarney, between Oakville and McGraths Hill as early as 1832. John was also listed as making a donation to the Hawkesbury Benevolent Society in the Annual Report of 1846. John died on 6th October 1851 at Widsor age 62. Sydney Morning Herald, 6th October 1851, p 3 An inquest was this day held, before Joshua Dowe, Esq., the Coroner for the district, on the body of John Teale, who died on the morning of this day. From the evidence of the son of the deceased, it appeared that he had been in the habit of drinking to excess for the last ten or twelve years, and had latterly been indulging to a great extent. He was seized with an attack of delirium tremens on the 24th instant; but as he had had similar attacks frequently before, his family did not think it necessary to call in medical aid until an hour or two before he died. The jury brought in a verdict, that deceased, John Teale, died of delirium tremens, produced by the excessive use of ardent spirits. Dianna died in 1854 also at windsor age 66.