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| Robert Kennedy BROUGHTON (1820 - 1876) |
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| b. 06 Aug 1820 at New South Wales, Australia |
| m. 1845 Sarah Emma CHURCH (1820 - 1897) at New South Wales, Australia |
| d. 08 Sep 1876 at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia aged 56 |
| Cause of Death: |
| Typhoid |
| Parents: |
| William BROUGHTON (1768 - 1821) |
| Elizabeth Charlotte KENNEDY (1783 - 1843) |
| Events in Robert Kennedy BROUGHTON (1820 - 1876)'s life | |||||
| Date | Age | Event | Place | Notes | Src |
| 06 Aug 1820 | Robert Kennedy BROUGHTON was born | New South Wales, Australia | |||
| 20 Jul 1821 | Death of father William BROUGHTON (aged 52) | Appin, New South Wales, Australia | V1821567 2B/1821 | ||
| 20 Dec 1843 | 23 | Death of mother Elizabeth Charlotte KENNEDY (aged 60) | Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia | V1843658 27B/1843 | |
| 1845 | 25 | Married Sarah Emma CHURCH (aged 25) | New South Wales, Australia | Note 1 | |
| 05 Nov 1845 | 25 | Birth of daughter Sarah Ann BROUGHTON | Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 29 Jan 1847 | 26 | Birth of son Robert Kennedy BROUGHTON | Gundaroo, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 29 May 1848 | 27 | Birth of daughter Frances Eliza BROUGHTON | Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1850 | 30 | Birth of daughter Emma Church BROUGHTON | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1852 | 32 | Birth of son William Archer BROUGHTON | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1852 | 32 | Death of son William Archer BROUGHTON | 73 | ||
| Jul 1853 | 32 | Birth of daughter Emily Barbara BROUGHTON | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1855 | 35 | Birth of daughter Jane Howe BROUGHTON | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1857 | 37 | Birth of daughter Marian Church BROUGHTON | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 1859 | 39 | Birth of son John Archer BROUGHTON | Gadara, New South Wales, Australia | 73 | |
| 08 Apr 1861 | 40 | Birth of son James Henry Edward BROUGHTON | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | 13523/1861 | |
| 08 Sep 1876 | 56 | Robert Kennedy BROUGHTON died | Tumut, New South Wales, Australia | ||
| Note 1: V1845330 30B/1845, MX, Sarah E Stein |
| Personal Notes: |
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Robert Kennedy Broughton took up Gadara on the Gilmore River not far from Tumut on the Adelong Road. He was married at Appin in 1845 by the Reverend Sparling to Sarah Emma Stein who was the daughter of Captain John Forster Church and his wife Barbara Anne (Nee George) and sister of Walter Church, first manager of Australian Mutual Fire Assurance Company. Sarah was the widow of John Stein who was a whaling captain, and she spent the first seven months of her marriage to him at sea. On his next trip he was shipwrecked and survived for nine months to be killed by the natives. They also had a daughter named Eliza George. Sarah who was deaf and dumb was known for her sweet & gracious personality.
Their home was the centre of church life in that part of the district. Prior to the erection of St Jude's Church at Gilmore services were held at Gadara. At Sarah's christening she had been given a bowl and this was used at the baptism of all of the Broughton Children as well as those of their neighbours. When the church hall was built three of Robert and Sarah's children donated the communion vessels. Sarah must have had lonely times when Robert went off droving cattle,. In 1847 Robert wrote a diary of an overland trip to Adelaide starting from the Murray on 8th March and going firstly to Toomah. Some of it seems worth reading. Returning briefly to Tumut on 23 March he sees Sarah at Gadara " Briefly forgetting his troubles which were over and those which were to come" He writes of his swell stockman, Garland, Hay, Chalmers and Medlar. Going on to Gocup the other side of Tumut he had a parting glass of " old Tom" at bedtime with Archer David Melville and John Church. He later mentions stockmen Quilty, Carter, Pobey & McEvoy, so they had a big team. On 12th April they crossed the Lachlan and on the 17th he meets a shepherd and his wife & children a girl, eight and a boy eleven. She was teaching them to read & write at night. Robert saw her washing and longed for a clean shirt. On 19th April he wrote;- " Give me a kindred heart with mine to share The smiles of fortune when she favours me, And When she frowns, will ever willing be A portion of the woe she bring to bear And to the last extremity to dare Her deadliest frown or worst extremity Then in the desert lone, I still am free From solitude, will never never care For further intercourse with human kind With one such heart with mine to sympathise And for my souls sake one congenial mind With sweet content to lure me to the skies Not bear to soar and leave me all behind Whose thoughts with mine will blend and teach then how to rise. On 21 April they see the Hume (Murray) and the Murrumbidgee for the first time. Robert loved to write poetry & in his diary there were other poems written. There was no further information in the diary or any mention of how he returned to Gadara. Robert was an exemplary husband and father and was apparently a man of quiet humour, for he wrote odd poems on subjects which amused him as well as the more serious ones. Robert & Archer's family maintained a very close relationship over the years before Archer went to Deniliquin. Nineteen children in the two families being born in the years from 1844 to 1865. On 8th September 1876 Robert died so missed the visit of Hal and Elizabeth and their children during October that year, Sarah lived for another 23 years dying on 6th August 1899. |
| Source References: |
| 73. Type: Book, Abbr: Pioneers of Tumut Valley, Title: Pioneers of the Tumult Valley , The History of Early Settlement, Auth: H.E. Snowden, Publ: Tumut & District Historical Society Incorporated, Date: 2004 |
| - Reference = 33 (Name, Notes) |
| - Notes: Robert Kennedy Broughton selected at Gadara. He held a grazing licence for a considerable area extending from the Gilmore Creek across to the Adelong Creek. He was among the first to take out a grazing licence which was issued to him in l840.
Later he purchased and then added to his original freehold of 425 acres on the left bank of the Gilmore Creek at the junction of the Gadara Creek. On 21 August 1876 Robert Kennedy Broughton died at his home at Gadara from typhoid fever. He was 55 years of age. From the time they first settled at Gadara until at least 1967 generations of the Broughton family have lived on the property. |