[Index]
Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Henry Edmund PALMER (1858 - 1924)
Constance Edith PALMER (1859 - 1936)
Ella Maud PALMER (1861 - 1892)
Walter Harcourt PALMER (1862 - 1915)
Eva Catherine PALMER (1864 - )
Permerton Wilfred Close PALMER (1866 - 1914)
Lina Linda Beatrice PALMER (1868 - 1950)
Howard Frederick Leslie PALMER (1871 - 1952)
Roger Wingham Morton PALMER (1874 - 1950)
Laurence Alfred Weaver PALMER (1876 - 1953)
Marion Agnes PALMER (1880 - )
 Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)

+

Octavia Caroline STOLL ( - 1905)
 George Thomas PALMER (1784 - 1854) John PALMER (1760 - 1833) John PALMER (1727 - 1808)
Sarah TAYLOR (1735 - 1796)
Susan STILWELL (1762 - 1832) Daniel STILWELL
Adriana WALTON
Catherine Irena PEMBERTON (1787 - 1855) William PEMBERTON



Catherine SOUTHCOTE



Pemberton Campbell PALMER
Pemberton Campbell PALMER
Pemberton Campbell PALMER Pemberton Campbell PALMER
Pic P1. Pemberton Campbell Palmer and Octavia Caroline Palmer and family in front of their Jerrabomberra home.

Pic 1. Pemberton Campbell Palmer and Octavia Caroline Palmer and family in front of their Jerrabomberra home.

b. 1827 at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
m. 1855 Octavia Caroline STOLL ( - 1905) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
d. 15 Aug 1885 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 58
Near Relatives of Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather John PALMER 17 Jun 1760 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England 27 Sep 1833 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 73
Grandmother Susan STILWELL 06 Aug 1762 Staten Island, Richmond, New York, USA 22 Nov 1832 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 70
Grandfather William PEMBERTON
Grandmother Catherine SOUTHCOTE

Father George Thomas PALMER 26 Apr 1784 Brompton, Kent, England 26 Oct 1854 Bath, Somerset, England 70
Mother Catherine Irena PEMBERTON 1787 04 Oct 1855 Bath, Somerset, England 68

Self Pemberton Campbell PALMER 1827 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 15 Aug 1885 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 58

Wife Octavia Caroline STOLL 05 Jun 1905

Son Henry Edmund PALMER 1858 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1924 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 66
Daughter Constance Edith PALMER 1859 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1936 Inverell, New South Wales, Australia 77
Daughter Ella Maud PALMER 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1892 31
Son Walter Harcourt PALMER 1862 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1915 53
Daughter Eva Catherine PALMER 1864 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Son Permerton Wilfred Close PALMER 1866 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 10 Oct 1914 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 48
Daughter Lina Linda Beatrice PALMER 1868 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1950 Penrith, New South Wales, Australia 82
Son Howard Frederick Leslie PALMER 1871 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1952 Bulli, New South Wales, Australia 81
Son Roger Wingham Morton PALMER 1874 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1950 76
Son Laurence Alfred Weaver PALMER 1876 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1953 Eden, New South Wales, Australia 77
Daughter Marion Agnes PALMER 1880 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Brother George Thomas PALMER 06 Mar 1809 Somerset, England 14 Feb 1889 Argyle, New South Wales, Australia 79
Brother William Pemberton PALMER 11 Oct 1810 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 19 May 1864 Warialda, New South Wales, Australia 53
Brother John Macquarie PALMER 1814 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia
Sister Catherine Irena PALMER 1816 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia 28 Apr 1863 Bayswater, London, Middlesex, England 47
Sister Ingram Rider PALMER 1818 1824 6
Brother Henry Edmund Mitchell PALMER 1821 India
Brother Rodber Wylde PALMER 1823 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 1887 Albury, New South Wales, Australia 64
Sister Susan Adrianna 'Addie' PALMER 1825 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 25 Nov 1902 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 77

Daughter in Law Sarah Evelyn ROBBERDS 1853 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1945 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 92
Son in Law William Cox REYNOLDS 1894 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia
Son in Law Thomas NICHOLSON
Son in Law Graham STEWART
Daughter in Law Antionette Edgar GLENNING
Daughter in Law Elizabeth COSTELLO
Son in Law Harold IVEY New Zealand
Daughter in Law Edith ROBINSON
Son in Law William Henry MCKENZIE
Daughter in Law May Rolla WATSON 1939 Marrickville, Sydney, Australia
Daughter in Law Sarah Kappel HYDE-GUEST
Daughter in Law Violet Annette NEWTON
Son in Law Henry Russell WISE

Granddaughter Eveline Ruth Pemberton PALMER 1886 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson William Pemberton PALMER 1888 Riverstone, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Doris Pemberton PALMER 1890 Riverstone, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Hugh Pemberton PALMER 1891 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Frank Pemberton PALMER 1893 Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Keith Pemberton REYNOLDS 1887 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Neil Standish REYNOLDS 1889 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Dorothy Ann REYNOLDS 1891 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Winifred Constance H REYNOLDS 1893 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson George Pemberton STEWART 1887 Balmain, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Ella STEWART 1889
Granddaughter Alison Bea STEWART 1890
Grandson Maxwell Graham STEWART 1891
Granddaughter Maud Antionette Evelyn Harcourt PALMER 1890
Grandson Roger Edben Harcourt PALMER 1893
Granddaughter Olga Tasma Harcourt PALMER 1899
Granddaughter Constance Harcourt PALMER 1912
Grandson Walter Harcourt PALMER 1914
Grandson Maxwell James Wilfred PALMER 1895 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Edith Close PALMER 1897 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Harry Gordon PALMER 1900 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Gwendoline Maud PALMER 1907 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Douglas Campbell PALMER 1908 Gundagai, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Philip G MCKENZIE 1906 Picton, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson William A MCKENZIE 1917 Marrickville, Sydney, Australia
Grandson Hedley Roger W PALMER 1902 Paddington, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Clive Hammond PALMER 1903 Waverley, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Leslie Pemberton PALMER 1904 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Constance Joyce PALMER 1905 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Mary E PALMER 1909 St Marys, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter May PALMER 1911 St Marys, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson John P PALMER 1914 Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia
Grandson Stewart Pemberton PALMER 1917
Grandson Patrick PALMER 1918
Granddaughter Helen Yule Kappel Hyde PALMER 1919
Grandson Harold Roger Kappel Hyde PALMER 1920
Granddaughter Valerie Wingham Maud PALMER 1922
Grandson John Kappel Hyde PALMER 1923
Granddaughter Beatrice Annette PALMER 1906
Grandson Desmond James Newton PALMER 1907 Bombala, Monaro, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Miriam Newton PALMER 1912 Eden, New South Wales, Australia
Granddaughter Elizabeth WISE 1909
Granddaughter Barbara WISE 1911
Grandson Theo WISE 1913

Uncle John Westwick PALMER 1786 Brompton, Kent, England 1787 1
Uncle Henry Westwick PALMER 1787 Brompton, Kent, England 1788 Brompton, Kent, England 1
Uncle John PALMER 1797 Brompton, Kent, England 1839 42
Uncle Edmund PALMER 1800 Cape of Good Hope, South Africa 1800 0
Uncle Edwin Campbell PALMER 1801 Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia 1802 1
Aunt Sophia Susannah PALMER 1803 Woolloomooloo, New South Wales, Australia 1856 53
Uncle Edward Charles Collinson CLOSE 12 Mar 1790 Rangamati, Bengal, India 1866 76

Cousin Edward Charles CLOSE
Cousin Marrianne Collinson CLOSE 1827 Morpeth, New South Wales, Australia 02 May 1903 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 76
Cousin Robert Campbell CLOSE 1831 New South Wales, Australia
Cousin George Thomas Palmer CLOSE 1834 New South Wales, Australia

Nephew George Thomas Rowes PALMER 1840 1840 0
Nephew Edwin PALMER 1841 Canberra, ACT, Australia 1894 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 53
Niece Minna Close PALMER Jul 1843 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia 1928 Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia 85
Nephew George Charles Frederick PALMER 1845 Canberra, ACT, Australia 24 Nov 1869 Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia 24
Nephew Charles Rodber PALMER 1848 Canberra, ACT, Australia 1916 Wagga Wagga, New South Wales, Australia 68
Nephew Henry William Ernest PALMER 1852 Canberra, ACT, Australia 26 Feb 1877 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 25
Niece Edith Milba PALMER 1855 Canberra, ACT, Australia 1936 Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia 81
Nephew Herbert Norman PALMER 1857 Canberra, ACT, Australia 1931 Auburn, New South Wales, Australia 74
Nephew Hubert Everard PALMER 1862 Canberra, ACT, Australia 1934 Adelong, New South Wales, Australia 72
Nephew William Ingram Pemberton PALMER 1832 New South Wales, Australia
Niece Rosezeatte Ann Catherine Wilhelmin PALMER 1833
Nephew Walter CAMPBELL 1838 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Agnes CAMPBELL 1841 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Susan CAMPBELL 1843 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Christian CAMPBELL 1845 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Frederick CAMPBELL 1846 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 19 Aug 1928 Narrandera, New South Wales, Australia 82
Niece Sophia CAMPBELL 1848 New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Robert CAMPBELL 1850 New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Reginald Herbert PALMER 1852 New South Wales, Australia 1931 Redfern, New South Wales, Australia 79
Niece Catherine Sarah PALMER 1853 New South Wales, Australia
Niece Sophia Susanna PALMER 1858 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia 1934 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia 76
Nephew Edward Charles Close PALMER 1860 Maitland, New South Wales, Australia 1932 Five Dock, New South Wales, Australia 72
Niece Lydia Irena Alberta PALMER 1862 St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia 1922 Randwick, New South Wales, Australia 60
Niece Iabella Adrianna Charlot PALMER 1865 Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia 1866 Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia 1
Nephew George Augustus Rodber PALMER 1866 Murrurundi, New South Wales, Australia 1946 Manly, New South Wales, Australia 80
Niece Amy Gertrude Campbell Weston PALMER 1869 Coonabarabran, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Emily Victoria Louise PALMER 1872 Orange, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Marion J M (May) DAVIS 1862 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia

Sister in Law Selina Augusta ROWES 1820 Essex, England 28 Jul 1902 Woodhouselee, New South Wales, Australia 82
Sister in Law Rosezeatte Durham DURDEN 1815 Plymouth, Devon, England 08 Feb 1865 New South Wales, Australia 50
Brother in Law Charles CAMPBELL 20 Sep 1810 At sea 17 Aug 1888 Inverness, Inverness-shire, Scotland 77
Sister in Law Eva MONEY
Sister in Law Isabella Lydia MIDDLETON
Brother in Law William DAVIS 1821 Bloxham, Oxfordshire, England 13 Jul 1910 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia 89
Events in Pemberton Campbell PALMER (1827 - 1885)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1827 Pemberton Campbell PALMER was born Sydney, New South Wales, Australia V182730 11/1827 6
26 Oct 1854 27 Death of father George Thomas PALMER (aged 70) Bath, Somerset, England 6
1855 28 Married Octavia Caroline STOLL Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6
04 Oct 1855 28 Death of mother Catherine Irena PEMBERTON (aged 68) Bath, Somerset, England 6
1858 31 Birth of son Henry Edmund PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 11496/1858 6
1859 32 Birth of daughter Constance Edith PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 11824/1859 6
1861 34 Birth of daughter Ella Maud PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 12091/1861 6
1862 35 Birth of son Walter Harcourt PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 12835/1862 6
1864 37 Birth of daughter Eva Catherine PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 14056/1864 6
1866 39 Birth of son Permerton Wilfred Close PALMER Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia 12862/1866 6
1868 41 Birth of daughter Lina Linda Beatrice PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 15661/1868 6
1871 44 Birth of son Howard Frederick Leslie PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 6
1874 47 Birth of son Roger Wingham Morton PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 18110/1874 6
1876 49 Birth of son Laurence Alfred Weaver PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 19163/1876 6
1880 53 Birth of daughter Marion Agnes PALMER Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 23169/1880 6
15 Aug 1885 58 Pemberton Campbell PALMER died Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 6
Burial Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Note 1 6
Note 1: Tharwa Rd - first burrial in cemetery
Personal Notes:
Jerrabomberra
Beginnings
The meeting place of two rivers was known by the local indigenous
population as Queanbeyan. It is said this mean clear waters. In December
1820 Europeans first visited the area and on the tracks of these explorers came
the first wave of settlers. Many looking for a new start, but many to make
money from the virgin land that was ripe for development. Not only was
land good for building and stock, but water was available and plentiful.
The area surrounding the Queanbeyan district was called the Limestone
Plains and as a free settler and merchant, Robert Campbell set up a farming
property called Duntroon. With the assistance of tenant farmers, the property
boomed and the area soon became known as Canberra.
John Palmer, who was the brother-in-law of Robert Campbell established a
holding near the new settlement that was later called Queanbeyan, He called
his holding Jerrabomberra. Jerrabomberra is derived from the local
Aboriginal place name meaning ‘boy frightened by storm’. Palmer arrived
with the First Fleet as a purser of Governor Philip’s flagship Sirius and was
appointed commissary of the colony in 1791.. Palmer’s new property,
Jerrabomberra, lay about 2 miles from where the township of Queanbeyan
was developing on the opposite side of Mount Jerrabomberra. This new land
holding of Palmer’s was exchanged for a property at Portland Head on the
Hawkesbury River in 1827 – Palmer was seeking a more suitable area on
which to run his stock.
Palmer stated “…It is my desire to take land about nine miles south west of
that located to Mr Campbell at Limestone Plains in the county of Antrim”
(Antrim was a tentative name before Murray was proclaimed).
In September 1828 Palmer moved 2000 head of sheep to Jerrabomberra and in
1832 he added an additional 640 acres at a place then called Quinbeane. In
the census of 1828, it was revealed that Palmer had five convict shepherds, a
superintendent (Duncan Cameron) and a stockmaster (Barney Pills) living on
site. Palmer died in 1833 and left his estate to his eldest son George who
resided at Ginninderra. As he was busy with his own property,
Jerrabomberra was managed by a younger son, Pemberton Campbell Palmer
until his death in 1885.
Pemberton Palmer married Octavia Stoll in Sydney in 1855 and they lived at
Jerrabomberra raising a family of 11 children there.
Palmer was an active and well known member of the Queanbeyan
Community. He was an elected member of The Queanbeyan Cricket Club,
The Race Club, Church Society and yet still became bankrupt in 1866. Palmer
was a signatory to the Municipal Petition in 1884, he employed many people
on his estate and permitted horse racing to be held on his land. Palmer was
also in front of the local court on many occasions, being charged with assault,
selling illegal spirits and charging money without cause.
Pemberton Palmer died in August 1885, and was the first burial in the Tharwa
Rd cemetery on the 18 August 1885 – the site of the current Lawn Cemetery.
Pemberton Campbell Palmer and Octavia Caroline Palmer and family in
front of their Jerrabomberra home.
As Jerrabomberra was one of the earliest settlements in the district, The
Church of England Rector, The Reverend Edward Smith was housed here.
The Rector lived on site with two other single men, Dr William Foxton Hayley
and Mr Henry Bingham – a government official. These men resided in a
premises called ‘The Bachelors’ Quarters”! Because of the availability of the
rector at this location most of the districts earliest marriages were held here.
The first wedding at the Bachelors’ Quarters was that of Henry Rowley who
married Mary Ann Murphy. This marriage occurred on 12 November 1838
and was witnessed by John Sweeny. The second marriage was that of
Thomas Harvey and Ann McGarr 29 April 1839 and the third William Roberts
to Julia McMahon also on the same day. Christ Church Queanbeyan was
built and held its first service on Christmas Day, 1844 and from then on all
Church of England religious and pastoral events occurred from this site.
After the death of Palmer, the property, excluding the homestead and
surrounding paddocks were let out to tender on January 11 1886. A. M.
Dulhunty, Auctioneers Queanbeyan placed the following wording in The
Quenbeyan Age:
To let by public tender for the term of ten years the whole of the
Jerrabomberra Estate. Richly grassed and abundantly watered comprising
about 4000 acres all securely fenced plain land. This property, bordering on
the thriving town of Queanbeyan is so well known and its fattening qualities
have been so thoroughly proved that it is needless for us to comment upon it.
From Palmers very early beginnings, not long after the settlement in New
South Wales in Sydney, Jerrabomberra has grown from a pastoral property to
one where many family’s now live. There have been many large and small
landholders in the Jerrabomberra area over the years. In 1987 Jerrabomberra
Estate Ltd, with Perth Millionaire Kerry Stokes as a major shareholder, began
developing Palmer’s original land for housing. The first serviced blocks in
stage one of the residential release at Jerrabomberra were released in
February 1988 ranging in price from $28 000 to $39 000. The new suburb of
Jerrabomberra has grown from a resident population of 8 in 1828 to nearly
15 000 today.
Notes taken from Errol Lea-Scarlett’s Queanbeyan, District and People 1968
Rex Cross’ Bygone Queanbeyan Revised Edition 1985
And notes gathered from The Queanbeyan Age by Andrew
Blundell, Local Studies Librarian at the Queanbeyan City
Library.
Source References:
6. Type: Book, Abbr: Queanbeyan Register, Title: Biographical register of Canberra and Queanbeyan: from the district to the Australian Capital Territory 1820-1930, Auth: Peter Proctor, Publ: The Heraldry & Genealogical Society of Canberra, Date: 2001
- Reference = 249 (Death)
- Reference = 248 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 249 (Burial)
- Reference = 248 (Birth)
- Reference = 249 (Marriage)
Created on a Mac™ using iFamily for Mac™ on 2 May 2025