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George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1820 - 1886)
millwright, blacksmith, wheelwright, postmaster, coachbuilder
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Thomas KINLYSIDE (1849 - 1909)
Sarah Jane KINLYSIDE (1853 - 1878)
George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1877 - )
 George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1820 - 1886)

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Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES ( - 1859)

Priscilla WILLIAMS (1854 - 1941)
 Thomas KINLYSIDE (1795 - 1862) John KINLYSIDE



Grace GUTHRIE



Elizabeth LOCKIE (1799 - 1870)











b. abt 1820 at Scotland
m. (1) 1849 Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES ( - 1859) at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
m. (2) 17 May 1876 Priscilla WILLIAMS (1854 - 1941) at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
d. 14 Oct 1886 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 66
Cause of Death:
fell from dray
Near Relatives of George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1820 - 1886)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather John KINLYSIDE
Grandmother Grace GUTHRIE

Father in Law Philip WILLIAMS abt 1822 Herefordshire, England 14 Mar 1907 Majura, New South Wales, Australia 85
Mother in Law Ann POPE abt 1819 Bristol, Gloucestershire, England 24 May 1893 Majura, New South Wales, Australia 74

Father Thomas KINLYSIDE abt 1795 Roxborough, Melrose, Scotland 27 Jan 1862 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 67
Mother Elizabeth LOCKIE abt 1799 Scotland 23 Dec 1870 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 71

Self George Kendall KINLYSIDE abt 1820 Scotland 14 Oct 1886 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 66

Wife Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES 1859 San Francisco, California, USA
Wife Priscilla WILLIAMS 1854 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia 1941 Mudgee, New South Wales, Australia 87

Son Thomas KINLYSIDE 1849 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1909 60
Daughter Sarah Jane KINLYSIDE abt 1853 California, USA 1878 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 25
Son George Kendall KINLYSIDE 1877 Yass, New South Wales, Australia

Brother John KINLYSIDE 1817 Scotland 11 Jun 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 44
Sister Janet KINLYSIDE abt 1823 Scotland 21 Feb 1899 Cobar, New South Wales, Australia 76
Sister Grace KINLYSIDE 1824 Scotland 19 Jul 1881 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 57
Sister Alice Alison KINLYSIDE 1826 Scotland 05 Apr 1913 Canberra, ACT, Australia 87
Brother James KINLYSIDE abt 1831 Scotland 11 Mar 1905 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 74
Sister Mary KINLYSIDE 1832 Scotland 07 Sep 1913 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 81
Brother Alexander KINLYSIDE 1835 Scotland 20 Aug 1865 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 30
Brother Thomas KINLYSIDE 1837 Scotland 24 May 1881 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 44

Son in Law Thomas MURTY 1848 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 1933 Auburn, New South Wales, Australia 85
Daughter in Law Ada Myra HOLLINGSWORTH 1889 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 1951 62

Grandson George Lockie MURTY 1876 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1964 88
Granddaughter Elsie May BUCKMASTER 12 May 1902 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 04 Sep 1985 Canberra, ACT, Australia 83
Grandson Keith Kendall KINLYSIDE 1910 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 1914 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 4
Granddaughter Iris KINLYSIDE 1912 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 1979 67
Grandson Colin KINLYSIDE 1914 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 1986 72
Granddaughter Joyce Yvonne KINLYSIDE 1920 Ginninderra, ACT, Australia 16 Apr 1984 Canberra, ACT, Australia 64

Nephew Thomas Michael Philip KINLYSIDE 1857 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia 14 Oct 1915 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 58
Niece Mary E KINLYSIDE 1859 Glebe, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew John Alexander Henry KINLYSIDE 1861 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Elizabeth MCDONALD 12 Jun 1843 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 22 Jun 1885 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 42
Niece Flora MCDONALD 1844 Uriarra, New South Wales, Australia 20 May 1921 Petersham, New South Wales, Australia 77
Niece May MCDONALD 1847 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Grace MCDONALD 1848 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Margaret MCDONALD 1852 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1927 Maclean, New South Wales, Australia 75
Nephew Alexander MCDONALD 1853 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Feb 1908 Orange, New South Wales, Australia 55
Niece Allison MCDONALD 1854 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Archibald MCDONALD 1855 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1902 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 47
Niece Catherine MCDONALD 1858 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 20 Nov 1894 Burra, New South Wales, Australia 36
Nephew Thomas Andrew MCDONALD 1859 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1931 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 72
Niece Mary MCDONALD 1861 Canberra, ACT, Australia
Nephew John William Ferguson Reid MCDONALD 1862 Canberra, ACT, Australia 20 Nov 1942 Bankstown, New South Wales, Australia 80
Niece Georgina Georgiana MCDONALD 1866 Canberra, ACT, Australia 10 Mar 1916 Canberra, ACT, Australia 50
Niece Elizabeth Janet AUSTEN 1847 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 06 Oct 1926 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 79
Niece Alice Mary Elizabeth Morris AUSTEN 1854 Ashfield, New South Wales, Australia 03 Jun 1927 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 73
Niece Jennet McDonald Harriett AUSTEN 1857 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Mary AUSTEN 1859 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1880 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 21
Niece Eliza AUSTEN 1867 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Elizabeth Grace Fanny WILLIS 1851 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 13 Apr 1934 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 83
Nephew Stewart Leslie MCINTOSH 1879 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1949 Wyong, New South Wales, Australia 70
Niece Priscilla Isabella MCINTOSH 1880 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1885 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 5
Nephew Evelyn John MCINTOSH 1882 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1952 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia 70
Nephew Malcolm Robertson MCINTOSH 1884 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1887 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 3
Nephew James Alexander MCINTOSH 1886 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1965 Burwood, New South Wales, Australia 79
Nephew Hector Gordon MCINTOSH 1889 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 1957 Yass, New South Wales, Australia 68
Nephew Edmond WILLIAMS
Nephew Lyndon WILLIAMS
Niece Myra WILLIAMS
Nephew Neal WILLIAMS
Niece Phyllis WILLIAMS
Nephew Ernest P B WILLIAMS 1885 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew Herbert S N WILLIAMS 1887 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Myrtle L J WILLIAMS 1889 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Nephew David L C WILLIAMS 1891 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Annie WILLIAMS 1893 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Niece Ruby WILLIAMS 1895 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia

Sister in Law Ann Pope WILLIAMS 1859 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia 30 Jan 1931 Homebush, New South Wales, Australia 72
Brother in Law Samuel WILLIAMS 1861 Weetangera, New South Wales, Australia
Sister in Law Ann PHILLIPS
Brother in Law Alexander (Sandy) MCDONALD 1822 Inverness-shire, Scotland 16 Nov 1890 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 68
Brother in Law Ambrose AUSTEN 1821 Rolvenden, Kent, England 09 Oct 1908 Duntroon, ACT, Australia 87
Brother in Law Thomas Charles WILLIS abt 1827 1853 Newtown, New South Wales, Australia 26
Brother in Law Thomas BRYANT abt 1825 Bedfordshire, England 29 May 1876 Canberra, ACT, Australia 51
Brother in Law James William COOK abt 1835 England 15 May 1898 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 63
Brother in Law George Shakespeare JOHNS abt 1831 Malta 09 Dec 1907 Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 76
Events in George Kendall KINLYSIDE (1820 - 1886)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
abt 1820 George Kendall KINLYSIDE was born Scotland 6
26 Sep 1839 19 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per 'Hero' 6
1849 29 Birth of son Thomas KINLYSIDE Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 6
1849 29 Married Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES Sydney, New South Wales, Australia V1849375 79/1949 6
abt 1853 33 Birth of daughter Sarah Jane KINLYSIDE California, USA
1859 39 Death of wife Sara Jane 'Jenny' JONES San Francisco, California, USA 80
27 Jan 1862 42 Death of father Thomas KINLYSIDE (aged 67) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 5652/1862 6
23 Dec 1870 50 Death of mother Elizabeth LOCKIE (aged 71) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 5511/1871 6
17 May 1876 56 Married Priscilla WILLIAMS (aged 22) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia Williams' residence 6
1877 57 Birth of son George Kendall KINLYSIDE Yass, New South Wales, Australia 23290/1877 6
1878 58 Death of daughter Sarah Jane KINLYSIDE (aged 25) Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 9174/1878 6
14 Oct 1886 66 George Kendall KINLYSIDE died Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia 13512/1886 6
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 = 169 (Marriage)
- Reference = 169 (Birth)
- Reference = 169 (Name, Notes)
- Reference = 169 (Death)
- Reference = 169 (Marriage)
80. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Hall Museum, Title: Hall School Museum and Heritage Centre, Locn: https://museum.hall.act.au/
- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/4095/george-kendall-kinlyside-senior.html (Name, Notes)
- Notes: Born: 1819; Died: 1886

Related Places
St Ninians Presbyterian Church
[The following is extracted from Heritage (Decision about Registration for St Ninian's Church...

George Kinlyside was born in Scotland in 1819 to Thomas Kinlyside and Elizabeth [Lockie] and came to Australia in 1839 with his parents and eight siblings as Assisted Immigrants. Aged twenty when the family emigrated, George had been apprenticed as a blacksmith and wheelwright. Immigration records characterised him as follows: 'Calling – millwright, aged 20 years, religion – Presbyterian, reads and writes'.

The family settled first at Ashfield, where his father established a blacksmiths and wheelwright business. No doubt he and his elder brother John were a great help to their father.

While living at Ashfield George married English migrant Sara Jane ('Jenny') Jones on 12 January 1849, at St Andrews church Ashfield. They had a son, Thomas, born later in 1849, after which, according to Samuel Shumack, they left for El Dorado, California, to join the search for gold. Another child, Sara Jane jnr, was born in the USA, four years after Thomas, in 1853. Tragically, George's wife died there in about 1859, and George returned to Australia a widower with his two children, then aged six and ten.

This return would have been especially welcomed by his father, Thomas, who had just left Ashfield, and brought the whole family to the Canberra Plains to make a new start in business. As it happened, Thomas died in 1862, and it fell to George to take over the business at The Triangle. His older brother John had died in a horse riding accident in 1861. It was about this time that the new family farm property was hit by a very fierce storm:

'Report of a terrific wind and rain storm lifting up and carrying across a paddock to a distance of about 40 yards a winnowing machine belonging to Mr George Kinlyside and smashing it to atoms. Mr Kinlyside narrowly escaped being crushed by a falling tree near his residence'
[The Golden Age, 20 Nov 1862).

On his return from the USA George became heavily involved with the Presbyterian church. He became a friend and supporter of Andrew Wotherspoon, school master at St John's Schoolhouse, who was involved in an infamous conflict with George Campbell of Duntroon, whose family owned the land and the schoolhouse, and Rector Pierce Galliard Smith. In the course of the conflict the Presbyterians were barred from their customary use of the schoolhouse for their monthly church services, and the locks on the schoolhouse were changed to force Wotherspoon out. In the face of this loss of access, the Presbyterians from the district gathered at George's home, and resolved at the meeting which he chaired, to erect their own church, on land at 'Upper Canberra' (today, the suburb of Lyneham) generously given for the purpose by Pemberton Campbell Palmer. The church site and the family home and farm were both on the Queanbeyan–Yass road, about a mile apart.

The building, a wooden structure of 36 feet by 18 feet, built to plans drawn by Kinlyside, was opened by the celebration of divine service by the reverend William Ferguson Reid on the first Sunday of 1863 [Gillespie:1992: 60]

This original timber building, the first Presbyterian place of worship in the district, was built by George and his brothers – James, Alexander and Thomas. This building was replaced within ten years by a new stone church – eventually to be named St Ninians church - built in 1872. A memorial plaque set in a window ledge says: 'In memory of the Kinlyside family who built the first Presbyterian Church in the area in 1865'. Though open and welcoming to other protestant people, the church was the spiritual home for the numerous families of Scottish Presbyterians amongst the free selectors in the district, the Kinlysides prominent amongst them, and George a recognised leader. Other families included Cameron, Mathieson, Gillespie, McKeanhie, and McIntosh.

His father Thomas Kinlyside having passed away in 1862 it is likely that George carried on the family business at The Triangle, but there is some evidence that by the end of the sixties he had moved first to Gundaroo, and then on the Nanima, his children Thomas and Sara moving with him. Baillier's Official PO Directory of NSW for 1967 identifies George as 'wheelwright Gundaroo'. According to Kimber, he married again when he was living at Nanima - 'a thriving settlement with a high convict population'. It was also on a goldfield.

George's second wife was Priscilla Williams, daughter of Phillip and Anne Williams of Weetangera. The marriage took place at the Williams' residence on 17 May 1876. George was fifty-six and Priscilla was twenty-two. Their only child, George Kendall Kinlyside, was born at Nanima in 1877. This proved to be an eventful time for George Snr. His daughter Sara married Thomas Murty in 1875, and their only child George Lockie Murty was born that year. Tragically Sara, after losing her mother when she was six, committed suicide by swallowing strychnine in 1878.

Life for George, Priscilla and their young son George Kendall took a welcome turn when in 1884 George was appointed postmaster at the Canberra post office. Postmaster and store-keeper Ebenezer Booth retired from the position in January, before leaving for England, and George took over, on an annual salary of fourteen pounds. His financial guarantors as postmaster were well-known Ginninderra identities, George Harcourt and Robert Kilby.

George's time as postmaster fell short of three years, as he died on 14 October 1886, at the age of sixty-six. Priscilla, who had probably been carrying out the duties anyway, reported his death to the Department, and was appointed in his place, a position that she then held for twenty-seven years until she resigned in 1913. It is believed that when his father died the nine year old George Kendall was a pupil at Springbank school at Acton, a couple of miles away.

At the time of his death George held 45 acres of land, and was an elder in the Presbyterian church. He is remembered as a leader of that church, being literally the designer and builder of the first church building. He is also remembered as a skilled artisan, his occupations including wheelwright, blacksmith, coach-builder, miner, carpenter, and in his final years, postmaster. He is commemorated in the naming of Kinleyside [sic] Crescent Weetangera as a 'Pioneer farmer of Canberra region; blacksmith; Postmaster at Ainslie Post Office, 1884-86'.

Of his three children (by two marriages) the first two died by their own hand. The eldest, Thomas, was fifty-nine, and left behind five children, from two marriages. The third and youngest, George Kendall Kinlyside, emulated his father as a fine craftsman and leading citizen.

References
Kimber, P., 1989. The Kinlyside Family in Canberra. Private family publication
Kinlyside family members, 2013. George Kendall Kinlyside : Jack of all trades - master of all. Private family publication.
Gardiner, L. 1958. Witness in stone. Verity Hewitt, Canberra.
Gillespie, L. L. 1992. Ginninderra: Forerunner to Canberra. The Wizard (Canberra local history series): Campbell
Shumack, S. (ed. J. E. and S. Shumack). 1967. An Autobiography, or, Tales and Legends of Canberra Pioneers. Canberra
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