Richard Webb

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Maureen Withey on 1st July 2021

THE FRIENDS of RICHARD WEBB, Jun., are invited to attend his late FATHER'S Funeral ; to move from his late residence, Church-street, Parramatta, at half-past 4 on TUESDAY AFTERNOON. Sydney Morning Herald, 3 Oct 1881. In the same newspaper, there are similar notices from: Mrs Thomas Hughes, (her late father’s funeral); The late John Webb’s children ( their grandfather’s funeral); Mrs Thorpe, (her late father’s funeral); --------------------------------------------------- In the Supreme Court of New South Wales. ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. In the will of Richard Webb, late of Parramatta, in the Colony of New South Wales, gentleman, deceased. NOTICE is hereby given, that after the expiration of fourteen days from the publication hereof in the New South Wales Government Gazette, application will be made to the Supreme Court of New South Wales, in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, by John Booth, of Balmain, near Sydney, in the Colony of New South Wales, timber merchant, and Richard Webb, of Parramatta, in the said Colony, timber dealer, that probate of the last will and testament of the abovenamed Richard Webb, deceased, may be granted to them as the executors therein named.— Dated this 17th day of October, A.D. 1881. HENRY COX COLYER, Proctor for the said John Booth and Richard Webb, 128, Elizabeth-street, Sydney. NSW Govt Gazette, 18 Oct 1881. ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Maureen Withey on 1st July 2021

Principal Superintendent of Convicts' Office, December 28, 1835. NOTICE. THE Conditional Pardons granted to the undermentioned Persons are now lying at this Office, and will be delivered to the respective Parties on Payment of the Fees due thereon to the Public : — General Hewitt, Richard Webb. Sydney Gazette, 2 Jan 1836.

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Maureen Withey on 1st July 2021

Norfolk Chronicle Sat 27 Mar 1813 p. 2 Text:...... PRISONERS. - At these Assizes, Charles Harper (aged 26), Richard Webb (a boy of 16) and Edmund Impson (21) were indicted for a burglary at Mr John Butler’s, a shopkeeper, at Barney, in this county. They entered the shop and warehouse by taking out a window, and removing goods to the value of above 300l. It appeared on the trial that the prisoners, Harper and Impson, having planned the robbery, went to the house of one Gore (who lived in the neighbourhood) the preceding evening, and invited him to become an accomplice. Gore refused, alleging that he was pre-engaged to a cock-fight, but Richard Webb and Henry Tuck, two boys, were enlisted under these burglarious banners, and the whole party were concealed in Gore’s house during the following day. In the evening, Gore entered upon his more fashionable occupation, and in the middle of the night, the prisoners Harper, Impson, Webb and Tuck, proceeded to commit the robbery; the two boys were placed as centinels, whilst the other two prisoners removed the goods, which they conveyed to Gore’s house, and there divided the spoil, giving a share to Mr and Mrs Gore who were indicted as receivers. With the bad policy which generally attends these projects, the robbers exchanged their hats and an old coat for new hats and better clothes which they found in Mr Butler’s Warehouses, leaving their old ones upon the premises, which led to their detection. Some of the articles left being identified, and stolen goods being found concealed in Gore’s house, the party were all apprehended, and thereupon confessed their guilt. The boy Tuck was admitted as evidence for the Crown, and related the above circumstances in Court, which were confirmed by several confessions of the prisoners, and by the finding of the stolen goods in the several places where they had been concealed. Harper, Webb, and Impson, were found guilty of the burglary and condemned to be hanged; and Robert Gore, and his wife Sarah, were convicted as receivers, and sentenced to 14 years transportation. Webb was reprieved, and Harper and Impson left for execution.

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Phil Hands on 21st November 2017

Tried and convicted of burglary at the Norfolk Assizes in 1813, sentenced to death, this was later commuted to transportation for life. Left England on 26th August 1813. Ship:- the 'General Hewart' sailed with 300 male convicts on board of which 34 died during the voyage. Arrived on 17th February 1814. On arrival Richard was assigned to John Blaxland at Newington. On 15th September 1817, Richard Webb, convict, was charged with being in Parramatta without a pass. He was sentenced to be confined in a cell for 1 week, with no mitigation by Samual Marsden. On 5th September 1826 Richard married widow Johannah (Hannah) Mocklar (nee Wilkinson) (Born in the Colony). Hannah was the daughter of convict Sarah Coleman (Britania 1798). They had 9 children between 1826-1840. Richard had employed Hannah as a housekeeper and they had a child Richard Jnr. born in July 1826. Richard eventually became a landowner and Gentleman in the Parramatta area. With the money and land that Hannah brought into the marriage, Richard set up a timber yard on the banks of the Parramatta River bounded on the west by Church Street. He set up five sawpits in the upper catchment area of Darling Mills Creek, remaining there into the 1840s. He hauled timber along a direct route down to the Windsor Road and into Parramatta. By the end of the mid 1850s, he had cleared enough land to begin orcharding. In 1836 he purchased from James Thornton a parcel of land and set about clearing it of timber. In 1837 he bought the William Browne farm of 30 acres, in 1841 he acquired the Simpson farm of 40 acres and five years later, the Cadman farm of 40 acres. In 1842 Maria Aiken sold to him her 8 acres of the Aiken grant on which he planted an orchard. These holdings along with the 30 acres of Crown land he obtained in 1840 gave him a total of 160 acres all adjoining and became known as 'Webb's Farm'. As early as 1836, he was employing men to fell trees, and with the aid of a bullock team, drew them to one of the several sawpits placed around the bush for cutting into logs before being taken to his established timber yard at Parramatta. One such worker was James West, who was born in 1821 and started to work at 'Webb's Farm' in 1836. When James married Susannah Martin, they occupied one of the several houses built on Webb's Farm. Conditional Pardon received on 28th February 1834 and his Absolute Paron in 1841. Johannah died on 23rd June 1872 at Parramatta age 71. Richard died of gangrene of the feet on 2nd October 1881 at Parramatta aged 85.

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Denis Pember on 11th March 2017

Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 385.... [Ref W0756] Webb, Ricjard, 28, TL, General Hewett, 1814, L, Shopkeeper, Parramatta. [Ref W0757] Webb, Hannah, 26, BC. [Ref W0758] Webb, Richard (jnr), 2, BC.

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D Wong on 23rd January 2014

Richard was 18 years old when tried, (the record shows his was 16). He burgled the house of Mr John Butler, a shopkeeper at barney, Norfolk. Richard was 5'6" tall, fair ruddy complexion, light brown hair, blue eyes. Richards's parents were Richard and Mary (nee Frost). On arrival Richard was assigned to John Blaxland at Newington. 1822: TOL, he was living at Parramatta and employed as a sawyer. 5/9/1826: Married Johannah/Hannah Mocklar (nee Wildinson) born 27/3/1801 (Born in the Colony) and died 23/6/1872. Hannah was the daughter of convict Sarah Coleman (Britania 1798) and the widow of Matthew Mocklar. Richard had employed Hanna as a housekeeper and they had a child Richard Jnr. born in July 1826. They had 8 more children. 28/2/1834: CP 14/10/1840: Absolute Pardon. Richard had a timber year at Parramatta, he then purchased 30 acres of land at Pennant Hills for £60. He became a successful timber merchant and land developer. 2/10/1881: Richard died aged 86 from gangrene of the feet and is buried at St Johns, Parramatta. The Baulkham Hills Council name a reserve and playground in Aitken Road, West Pennant Hills after him.