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| William Wentworth BUCKNELL (1814 - 1891) |
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| b. 09 Jul 1814 at London, Middlesex, England |
| m. (1) 26 Dec 1841 Susannah FROSHNEY ( - 1898) at New South Wales, Australia |
| m. (2) 1857 Susan HOPKINS (1832 - 1911) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 08 Oct 1891 at Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia aged 77 |
| Parents: |
| William BUCKNELL (1777 - 1856) |
| Martha WENTWORTH (1785 - 1871) |
| Events in William Wentworth BUCKNELL (1814 - 1891)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 09 Jul 1814 | William Wentworth BUCKNELL was born | London, Middlesex, England | |||
| 1837 | 23 | Birth of son Thomas William BUCKNELL | |||
| 1841 | 27 | Birth of son Arthur BUCKNELL | |||
| 26 Dec 1841 | 27 | Married Susannah FROSHNEY | New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1856 | 42 | Death of father William BUCKNELL (aged 79) | |||
| 1857 | 43 | Married Susan HOPKINS (aged 25) | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 678/1857 | |
| 14 Jul 1858 | 44 | Birth of son William Wentworth BUCKNELL | Glebe, New South Wales, Australia | 2627/1858 | 23 |
| 1860 | 46 | Birth of son D'arcy Hubert BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 2762/1860 | |
| 1861 | 47 | Birth of son Leslie F BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 2682/1861 | |
| 1863 | 49 | Birth of daughter Annie Blanche BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 3972/1863 | |
| 09 Jun 1864 | 49 | Birth of son Horace Oswald BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1865 | 51 | Birth of son Lionel Wentworth BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 4422/1865 | |
| 1866 | 52 | Death of son Lionel Wentworth BUCKNELL (aged 1) | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 2410/1866 | |
| 1867 | 53 | Birth of son Percy W BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 4623/1867 | |
| 1868 | 54 | Death of son Percy W BUCKNELL (aged 1) | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 2441/1868 | |
| 1869 | 55 | Birth of son Lionel P Wentworth BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | 4908/1869 | |
| 1871 | 57 | Birth of son Reginald De Vere BUCKNELL | |||
| 16 Jun 1871 | 56 | Death of mother Martha WENTWORTH (aged 86) | Newtown, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1874 | 60 | Birth of daughter Haidee Louisa W BUCKNELL | St George, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| 1882 | 68 | Death of son Thomas William BUCKNELL (aged 45) | |||
| 08 Oct 1891 | 77 | William Wentworth BUCKNELL died | Rockdale, New South Wales, Australia | 13325/1891 | |
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http://www.patersonriver.com.au/people/bucknellwwent.htm
William Wentworth Bucknell was born in London in 1814, the son of William and Martha Bucknell, and he emigrated to New South Wales with his parents and family, arriving in 1826 on the Adrian. William Wentworth Bucknell was a second cousin to Australian explorer, politician, barrister and newspaper editor William Charles Wentworth.[1] In 1827 William Bucknell snr was granted 2,560 acres of land north of the present-day village of Vacy (see map). He named his grant 'Elms Hall' after the Wentworth's ancestral home in Yorkshire but he did not settle to a rural lifestyle. William Wentworth Bucknell formally leased Elms Hall from his father in 1830 at the age of 16.[2] William Wentworth Bucknell stayed on at Elms Hall when his parents moved to Sydney in the early 1830s, and he opened a store there in 1838.[3] By this time he was in a relationship with his housekeeper, Susannah Barker, and their first child, Thomas, was born in 1837.[4] In 1841 part of Elms Hall was subdivided into town lots intended for sale as the private township of 'Brecon', but the town never eventuated. Feisty mistress Masters were expected to provide appropriate supervision for their assigned convicts and this was something the NSW government took very seriously. When William Bucknell was away from Elms Hall in September 1838 he left Susannah Barker in charge of the 15 convicts who lived and worked there. Susannah had a row with Mary McDonald, who was a convict assigned to Bucknell along with Mary's convict husband James. Barker told Mary she was a convicted bitch who ought to get 50 lashes twice a week. When Mary's husband found out he confronted Susannah for abusing his wife. Susannah replied 'give me none of your impudence or I will send you to court and get you flogged'.[5] James McDonald immediately went to the Paterson police office and reported the matter. As a result, Bucknell returned from Sydney to find himself charged with 'Keeping an Improper female on his Establishment, to the great annoyance of his Assigned Servants'. The local magistrate decided Bucknell was unfit to have charge of assigned servants. Faced with losing all his convict workers, William Bucknell returned to Sydney to plead with Governor Gipps that he really was a respectable character. Gipps partially agreed and removed only the McDonalds from Bucknell's service. Incredibly, less than a month later, Barker was at it again. She asked the local constable to take a convict into custody for disobeying her orders and brought two more of Bucknell's convicts before the magistrate on charges of stealing. The magistrate was outraged. He refused to hear the charges and reported to the Governor that Bucknell held the government in utter contempt and was totally unfit as a master of convicts. Governor Gipps ordered the removal of the three convicts who were the subject of Barker's complaints, so Bucknell lost another three workers.[6] Marriage and missionaries In 1841 William Bucknell married Susannah Barker. Their second son, Arthur, was born the same year. In 1852 American Mormon missionaries (of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints) began operating in the lower Hunter Valley and by 1853 there was a branch of the Church at Williams River. William and Susannah Bucknell were baptised into the Mormon faith during 1853, and their two sons were baptised as Mormons in 1854. In 1856 William, Susannah and their two sons were booked to sail for America on the Jenny Ford to make the Mormon pilgrimage to Salt Lake City. William had by this time formed an extra-marital liaison with a female servant and, following the Mormon practice of polygamy, was determined to take her to America. However, when Susannah turned up at a Church meeting with a black eye, William was excommunicated from the Mormon Church. Second wife and family Susannah and the two sons sailed as planned, while William stayed behind and married Susan Hopkins in Sydney in July 1857 (probably his former mistress). The ceremony was performed by a leading Presbyterian minister, William having declared himself a bachelor. William and Susan had eleven children, of whom eight survived. Susannah and her two sons returned to Australia to find William firmly established in his new relationship and apparently unwilling to recognise his former family, although he gave them financial support. William and Susan and their growing family divided their time between his country estates and their residence, 'Avondale', in the Sydney suburb of Arncliffe. 'Susannah Bucknell lived in obscurity at Wallarobba in the Hunter Valley', north of her previous residence at Elms Hall.[7] In 1853 Elms Hall was sold to John Silk, ending the Bucknell family's association with the estate.[8] Deaths Thomas was killed in a lumber-camp accident in 1874 and Arthur became a well known farmer at Big Creek and Hilldale (north of Elms Hall) where he donated half an acre of land for the building of a union church. Susannah Bucknell died in 1898 and in buried at St. Paul's Church of England cemetery in Paterson. William Wentworth Bucknell died at Arncliffe in 1891. Notes 1. Bourke, P. Newtown Project website: William and Martha Bucknell. 2. Catalogue entry—State Library NSW (on-line). 3. Sydney Herald 27 July 1838 p.1 (on-line). 4. Index to NSW Births, Deaths and Marriages, birth V18371689 24A/1837 (on-line). 5. Johnstone to PSC, 10 October and 8 November 1838, CS In-letters, 38/11272 and 38/12086 in 4/2387.1, SRNSW. 6. Foster, SG. "Convict Assignment in New South Wales in the 1830s", in The Push from the Bush: A Bulletin of Social History, no. 15, 1983, pp.35-80. 7. Newton, Majorie. Seduced Away: Early Mormon Documents in Australia. 8. Waddingham, Trissia. "Elms Hall, Vacy", in Museum News, vol. 8, no. 2, May 2001, Paterson Historical Society. References Newton, Majorie. Seduced Away: Early Mormon Documents in Australia. Newton, Majorie. "The Gathering of the Australian Saints", in The Push: A Journal of Early Australia Social History, no. 27, 1989, pp.1-16. |