John Williams

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Ruth Bieri on 24th September 2017

Children of John and Ann Williams nee Hayward/Haywood James born 22.2.1818 married 28.9.1840 to Eliza Nichols. James' sister, Ann and her husband Charles Frederick Clifford were witnesses to the marriage. They could all sign their names. James died 14.12.1872 at Bega. The Sands Directory of 1871 showed him as living in Marrickville NSW John Williams jnr born 14.12.1819 and baptized at St Philip's Church of England. John married 5.12.1844 to Ann (Mary) Hincks. They both signed their names. She was from County Tipperary and herself the daughter of a convict, James Hincks of Templemore, County Tipperary, tried as an accomplice to murder and transported for 14 years on the 'Asia'. His family were allowed to follow him on the 'Thames' in 1826. In 1845 John was enrolled to vote in the Legislative Council of NSW. He had purchased freehold property, 48 Crown Street Woolloomooloo. John Williams jnr died September 1908. Ann Williams jnr born 25.11.1821, baptized 14.10.1821 at St Philips Church of England. She married 20.6.1840 Charles Frederick Clifford at St James Church of England and one of the witnesses to her marriage was her bother, James. They could all sign their names. The entry of Charles Frederick Clifford into the colony could not be found (after having checked all convicts) and it is presumed that he travelled by steerage for which there are no records. Charles died 6.3.1864 at Chippendale by a possible overdose of laudanum. See Coroner's Report of 8.3.1864. The Sands Directory of 1858-9 lists Charles Clifford as a Cane Worker of 11 Waterloo Street. Ann Clifford died 24.11.1901 at Kogarah NSW and is buried at Rookwood Cemetery, Church of England Section A, No. 551 in the same grave as her son, Alfred, who died in 1869. Elizabeth Williams born 6.7.1823, baptized at St Philips Church of England, Sydney. Married 1.5.1847 to Richard Atkinson who was born 18.2.1821 in England and he died 31.5.1889. His occupation was ship's engineer. Elizabeth Atkinson died 29.6.1873.

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Robin Sharkey on 2nd May 2016

__________________ In the 1822 Muster, John Williams was recorded as a licensed victualler in Phillip St. The parents'-in-law's pub then called the "Horse and Jockey' was across two street frontages in Phillip Stret and Macquarie Street. Listed with John are his wife Ann, his son James now aged 7, daughter Ann aged 4, and a daughter Jane aged 8. STEPDAUGHTER JANE - was actually the daughter of his wife Ann and another man, John Harm. She was born on 19 October 1814, and baptised in November at St Phillips, Sydney, when her mother was aged only 16 years. Her name is sometimes listed as Hearne. Jane is always recorded as living with her mother and John Williams as part of their family. In 1833 Jane married George Stone. Her name was recorded as Jane Haywood (her mother’s maiden name). NSWBDM 331/1833 V1833331 73A A Jane Stone died at Newtown in 1895, [if this is her she would be aged close to 80 years) with her father listed as John. A George Stone then died in 1897 at Newtown. June 1823 - the parents-in-law the Wilds, returned to Sydney from England, and John was no longer recorded as being a publican. 1825 - shoemaker, Ticket of Leave. 1828 Census - John Williams aged 40, Sentence: 14 yrs, per Indefatigable, Fby S. Shoemaker. Lived Phillip Street NSW. Children recorded: * James aged 10, * John aged 8, * Ann aged 6 and * Elizabeth aged 4 * Lodger - Jame Harme (his step-daughter) aged 14 years. * Lodger - John Durie, aged 23, shoemaker, Protestant per “Rosanna” 1827. Free. 1828 Death of Wife, Ann Ann died shortly before the 1828 Census so is not recorded in it. St James’ Church Burial records: Ann Williams, buried 1 October 1828. Gravestone Inscription, Sydney Burial Ground at Elizabeth & Devonshire streets, removed to Bunnerong: “Ann WILLIAMS died 1st October 1828 aged 30 years. also Jane WILDE, mother of the above, died 13 March 1831 aged 80 years.” Source: Johnson and Sainty” Gravestone Inscriptions NSW, Vol 1. Sydney Burial Ground ______________ BUSINESS INTERESTS -boats “Fanny” and “Ann” John Williams went into business with a young Colonial born man named John Kellick. Kellick was born in NSW in 1803 to a newly arrived convict woman who’d got pregnant on the voyage to a marine. John Kellick was a cabinetmaker, and in 1825 married another colonial born girl, Ann Pugh (her parents Ann Pugh & John Nichols, First Fleeter, were then unmarried) also born in 1803, who was the 2nd of 11 children. John Kellick lived in Phillip Street, as did John Williams (per 1826 birth of Kellick daughter Elizabeth). In 1830 he got a licence for an inn which he called the Cabinetmaker’s Arms, in Phillip Street. Unclear when John Williams and he decided to form a partnership, but together they built a boat, named “Fanny” at the Illawarra during 1831. One purpose may have been to supply Kellick’s building and cabinet making business with timber. Perhaps John Williams put up the money ….? John Williams’ eldest son, James, married on 28 Sept 1840 to one of Anne Pugh-Kellick’s many sisters, Eliza Nichols - the second youngest, born June 1819. The Kellick & Williams families became very interconnected in this way. The Sydney Gazette 14 July 1831 page 2 “ILLAWARRA. (From a correspondent.) Illawarra has many advantages compared with other districts in the colony; it is superior to many, and inferior to none. We can boast of a harbour-a dock-yard-an abundance of timber, admirably adapted to ship building-and, above all, we can glory in the thought of the completion and launch of a beautiful vessel of 27 tons burthen. But I must proceed to describe the interesting sight. “On Tuesday evening, the 5th instant, all things being ready, the shipwrights began to perform their last work. Away she went; and, whilst sliding on her "ways" into her natural element, which she did (by previous good management) in a superior style, with flying colours, she received the name of the Fanny, amidst the huzzas of the chief part of the inhabitants of the district, who were assembled to witness the ceremony. She sails for Sydney on Saturday next ; and I would call the attention of those versed in shipbuilding to inspect her minutely Every particle of the wood work, except the blocks, is the growth of lllawarra. “ THE OWNERS OF THIS LITTLE BARK [sic] ARE MESSRS KELLICK and WILLIAMS, OF SYDNEY. The Fanny has only been about six months building. She was modelled and built by that meritorious and industrious individual, Mr. John Cunningham, who also modelled, and under whose direction the Govemment schooner Isabella was built, decidedly the best vessel that the Colonial Government ever possessed of that size.- TWO OTHER VESSELS ARE NOW ON THE STOCKS HERE; THE ONE BELNGING TO THE OWNERS OF THE FANNY - BUT CONSIDERABLY LARGER —INTENDED FOR TEH NEW ZEALAND TRADE, BY THE SAME SHIPWRIGHT; the other the property of Mr. George Browne, and intended to run between this and Sydney. “I would therefore recommend those persons who have any intention to build vessels, and study their own interests, to build them here ; which will prove a considerable saving to them a saving, I am convinced, of at least a third of the nett amounts of finishing a vessel of the same size in Sydney.” DEATH OF STEP-FATHER, JAMES WILD When James Wild died in 1841, he left his Macquarie Street land to John Hardy (emancipated convict per "Surry" in 1824) who he called his nephew-at-law. Hardy's mother was a Wild. the children of John Williams, who were James Wild's step-grandchildren - contested the Macquarie Street land.

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Robin Sharkey on 2nd May 2016

There were two men named John Williams transported on the ‘Indefatigable’. Both were tried in 1814 at the Old Bailey. This John Williams was tried from the Middlesex Jail Delivery on 6th July 1814, for possession of a forged bank note, and given a 14 year Sentence. He was a bootmaker. (The other John Williams was from the London Gaol Delivery, given Life, and tried earlier, on 25th May 1814. Confusingly, he was a boot closer). The trial of this 14-year-sentenced John Williams is in the record of the Old Bailey trials: Old Bailey Proceedings: 6th July 1814: "JOHN WILLIAMS , alias TOMLIN, alias JOHNSON, indicted for that he, on the 3rd of March , feloniously and without lawful excuse had in his custody and possession, a forged bank note for the payment of 1 l. with intention to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank of England . To this indictment the prisoner pleaded GUILTY. Transported for Fourteen Years . Second Middlesex jury, before Mr. Recorder." Muster of “Indefatigable” men taken on arrival in NSW: John Williams Tried Middlesex Gaol Delivery 6th July 1814. * Sentenced to 14 years transportation. Native Place: London. trade: shoemaker; Age: 39; * Height: 5/7 Complexion: Ruddy; Hair: Black; Eyes: Dark Hazel; NOTE: Williams is bracketed with one other man, James Rampling, tried 6th July and sentenced to 14 years, but only one set of personal details are written out. Are these for Rampling or Williams? It seems they are John Williams’ because he continued to be recorded as a shoemaker e.g. in 1828 Census, and Rampling was a baker by trade and h’s native place was recorded on his Certificate of Freedom as Bury St Edmonds in Suffolk, not London. 1814, October - Departed England 1815, April 25th - Arrived NSW Ages: Various ages given which would have him born in: 1776 (the 1815 muster on arrival aged 39); 39 years in 1815 or 1788 (the 1828 Census aged 40) 27 years in 1815 1815 arrival - went into service of Deputy Commissary David Allan (info per 1817 petition) 1817 Petition for ticket of Leave. : Wrote a petition on 12 December 1817 seeking a mitigation of his sentence, stating that on arrival he was taken into the service of David Allan and was still in his service. He stated that he “ .. has the means of supporting himself by following the trade of a shoemaker … “ Macquarie wrote “TL” on the side. He was granted his ticket even though he had not yet served enough of his sentence to meet Governor Macquarie’s time-serving requirements. Probably the influence of Allan, the Deputy Commissary was at work in his favour. STARTING A FAMILY Williams wanted to be out on his own account because he had got Ann Heywood pregnant. Their child was born two months after his petition: 1818, 27th February - Birth of son James Williams to Ann Heywood. 1818, 4th May - sought permission to marry Ann Heywood, free. Permission granted, to be married by William Cowper at Sydney. 1818 - 7th July MARRIED at St Phillips Church to Ann Heywood/ Haywood. Ann & John both signed their names. One witness was Ann Heywood’s step-father James Wild. 1818 - 7th July - son James Williams BAPTISED at St Phillip’s Church, Sydney. Wife, Ann Haywood Ann was born in NSW in 1798. Her mother was Jane Peck who arrived on the first “indispensable” in 1796, recorded on the Indent as “Jane PICK”. . Jane Peck had been tried at York Castle on 2nd August 1794 (per the ship’s Indent) and was aged 45 (per the ship’s indent). She was guilty of receiving stolen goods and was to be transported for 14 years. (per “Newcastle Courant” Sat 16 Aug 1794 p. 4). Ann’s Stepfather, James Wild: The same year she arrived, Jane Peck married (1796) Robert Haywood in Sydney who had arrived in “Neptune” in 1790, from an Old Bailey trial. [NSW Marriage index: 230/1796 V1796230 4, HAYWARD, ROBERT & PECK, JANE] Their only child, Ann, [who would become John Williams' wife] was born in 1798, but Robert Heywood died in 1801 when little Ann was only three years old. As Jane Pick/Heywood was in need in protection in NSW, and women were in very short supply, she probably set up house quickly with another man. In the 1806 muster she is recorded as living with James Wild. He had been tried at the same assizes she had at York Castle in August 1794, so they must have known each other. Jane remained with James Wild all her life, formally marrying in 1821 15 years after the 1806 muster recorded them together. James Wild had done well in NSW and once gaining his Certificate of Freedom in 1810, continually held a publican’s licence in Phillip St, where he lived, and from 1817 in Macquarie St. When John William's parents-in-law, the Wilds, went to England in June 1821 (for a visit?) they entrusted their son in law, John Williams, w with being in charge of Wild’s licensed public premises.