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Jane Susan MEADE (1809 - 1857)

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Ann CAVANAGH (1826 - 1864) Hannah (Honor) CAVANAGH (1828 - 1865) Patrick CAVANAGH (1830 - 1914)	Jane Susan MEADE (1809 - 1857) + Thomas CAVANAGH (1803 - 1871)	John MEADE
		Suasn (MEADE)

b. abt 1809 at Co Galway, Ireland

m. 1826 Thomas CAVANAGH (1803 - 1871) at Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland

d. 08 Oct 1857 at Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia aged 48

Cause of Death:

drowned (suicide?)

Near Relatives of Jane Susan MEADE (1809 - 1857)
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Father in Law	James CAVANAGH
Mother in Law	Honor (CAVANAGH)
Father	John MEADE
Mother	Suasn (MEADE)
Self	Jane Susan MEADE	abt 1809	Co Galway, Ireland	08 Oct 1857	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	48
Husband	Thomas CAVANAGH	abt 1803	Co Galway, Ireland	20 Dec 1871	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	68
Daughter	Ann CAVANAGH	Nov 1826	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland	May 1864		37
Daughter	Hannah (Honor) CAVANAGH	Mar 1828	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland	Aug 1865	Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia	37
Son	Patrick CAVANAGH	Jan 1830	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland	10 May 1914	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	84
Son in Law	George Harris BUNN	29 Jul 1831	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	01 Aug 1860	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	29
Son in Law	Patrick Thomas FLANNAGAN	abt 1834		Oct 1865	At sea	31
Daughter in Law	Mary LOGUE	Mar 1841	At sea	11 Sep 1921	Canberra, ACT, Australia	80
Grandson	Clarence BUNN	1853	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	1865	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	12
Granddaughter	Elizabeth BUNN	1857	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	1857	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	0
Granddaughter	Georgiana Maria BUNN	May 1861	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	Feb 1906	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia	44
Grandson	Thomas CAVANAGH	1859	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1945	Morrisset, New South Wales, Australia	86
Grandson	James Henry CAVANAGH	1862	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1946	Mayfield, New South Wales, Australia	84
Granddaughter	Jane CAVANAGH	1864	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1946	Canberra, ACT, Australia	82
Grandson	John CAVANAGH	1866	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1935	Queensland, Australia	69
Grandson	Brian Bernard CAVANAGH	1869	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1913	China	44
Grandson	Patrick Allen CAVANAGH	abt 1872	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	abt 1965	Queensland, Australia	93
Grandson	Clarence Bede CAVANAGH	Feb 1874	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	Feb 1933	Canberra, ACT, Australia	59
Grandson	Michael Joseph CAVANAGH	25 Sep 1875	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1937	North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia	62
Grandson	Owen Owen CAVANAGH	1877	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1958	Tamworth, New South Wales, Australia	81
Grandson	Ernest (Aaron) William CAVANAGH	1880	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1969	Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia	89
Granddaughter	Mary Margaret CAVANAGH	1881	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	1907	Temora, New South Wales, Australia	26

Events in Jane Susan MEADE (1809 - 1857)'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1809		Jane Susan MEADE was born	Co Galway, Ireland		6
1826	17	Married Thomas CAVANAGH (aged 23)	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland		80
Nov 1826	17	Birth of daughter Ann CAVANAGH	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland		80
Mar 1828	19	Birth of daughter Hannah (Honor) CAVANAGH	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland		80
Jan 1830	21	Birth of son Patrick CAVANAGH	Tynagh, Co Galway, Ireland		6
13 Sep 1849	40	Immigration	Australia	per Panama	6
08 Oct 1857	48	Jane Susan MEADE died	Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia	4266/1857	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 = 46 (Name, Notes)

- Reference = 219 (Birth)

- Reference = 219 (Death)

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/2236/thomas-cavanagh.html (Marriage)

- Notes: Born: c. 1803; Died: 1871; Married: Jane Susan Meade Related Places Fairview After the land reforms of 1861, Thomas Cavanagh acquired land west of One Tree Hill, Parish... Mulligans Flat 'Mulligans Flat' is the name given to a district in the most northerly section of the Australian... One Tree Hill The rich early history of Australian's national capital is in part a story about surveyors... The Cavanaghs were a famous Ginninderra family. Their name, eventually, became synonymous with the Mulligans Flat area, even though they first selected land at One Tree Hill. The first Cavanagh to come to the district was Thomas. He was an Irish rebel known as a 'Whiteboy'. These men were patriots who used violent tactics to defend tenant farmer land rights. They were so-named because of the white farm-worker's smocks they wore. Thomas was convicted of insurrection in Galway in 1832 and transported to Australia on the "Eliza' for a life sentence. Thomas had been born c. 1803 at Tynagh in Galway, Ireland. His parents were James Cavanagh and Honora (nee Connor). It was in Tynagh that Thomas had married Jane Susan Meade on 3 February 1826. They had three children: Ann (1826 - 1864), Hannah (1828 - 1865) and Patrick Cavanagh (1830 - 1914). After his trial, Thomas arrived in September 1832 on the convict transport, Eliza. He was described as '5 foot 4 3/4 inches, catholic, brown/light grey hair, dark skin, much freckled'. In Ireland, Thomas had been a 'ploughman, reaper and sower' and his skills as an agricultural worker must have put him in good stead in the new country. According to the 1837 muster, he was allocated to George Thomas Palmer (senior) and worked at his Hunter Valley holdings. At some stage Thomas came to the Canberra district, presumably to work at his master's Palmerville estate. However, he is first recorded in the district at Duntroon, before leasing land in Canberra after gaining his ticket of leave in 1842, and conditional pardon (recommended by Charles Campbell) in 1847. Thomas leased land from the Campbell's at Duntroon on the Canberry (Molonglo) River in the late 1840s and 1850s. Jane managed to join him in the colony with their three children in 1849 on the Panama, seventeen years after being separated from her husband. Jane was described as a 'laundress'. A granddaughter, Jane White, was born at sea with the father listed as Charles White, deceased. Thomas' family was lucky to have survived in these circumstances. The wife and two children of another 'white boy' transported to Australia with a connection to Ginninderra, John Casey, all died while their rebel father was trying to win his freedom in New South Wales. Nevertheless, the lives of his wife and daughters in Australia were to be all too short. The two daughters , Ann (White then Langan) (1826-1864) and Hannah (Bunn then Flanagan) (1828-1865) married and moved away, but both died in their thirties. Jane Cavanagh (1809-157) drowned in 1857 under tragic circumstances. Their son Patrick married Mary Logue in 1857 and remained and farmed in the district. After the land reforms of 1861, Thomas Cavanagh selected a small farm west of One Tree Hill (on Spring Range Road) and slowly built up the holding with a house and stables. The farm was named Fairview and was sold to Samuel Southwell after Thomas's death in 1871. There is a suggestion that the house was then moved to 'Wattle Park'. Thomas and son Patrick also bought land on the east side of One Tree Hill, which Patrick and Mary farmed into the late 1890's. Thomas Cavanagh died in 1871, aged 68, and is buried with Jane and other family members in the Queanbeyan Riverside Cemetery.

- Reference = https://museum.hall.act.au/display/1939/person/2238/jane-susan-nee-meade-cavanagh.html (Name, Notes)

- Notes: Born: c.1809; Died: 1857; Married: Thomas Cavanagh Related Places Fairview After the land reforms of 1861, Thomas Cavanagh acquired land west of One Tree Hill, Parish... The story of Jane Cavanagh is a mix of tragedy and triumph. She was born Jane Susan Meade in Galway, Ireland, around 1809. In February 1826 at Tynagh, she married Thomas Cavanagh. They had three children - Ann in November 1826, Honor('Hannah') in March 1828 and Patrick in January 1830. The following year was one of great tragedy for the family. Her husband, an Irish patriot, was arrested on a charge of insurrection. He had been a 'Whiteboy', i.e. a rebel fighting for the rights of the rural poor and tenant farmers. Thomas received a life sentence and was transported to Australia in 1832. Jane managed to join him in the colony with their three grown children in 1849 on the Panama, seventeen years after being separated from her husband. Thomas' family was lucky to have survived in these circumstances. The wife and two children of another Whiteboy' transported to Australia with a connection to Ginninderra, John Casey, all died while their rebel father was trying to win his freedom in New South Wales. Jane was listed as a 'laundress' and her daughters as 'housemaids' on their emigration papers. A grand-daughter, Jane White (father deceased), was born during the voyage. Thomas, Jane and family were tenant farmers for Charles Campbell on the Canberry (Molonglo) River. Nevertheless, life on the Limestone Plains must have been a struggle for the family. Just eight years after arriving in Australia Jane, tragically, drowned. It is assumed that her death was by her own hand, as the priest at Queanbeyan tried to deny her burial on consecrated ground. Samuel Shumack relates the story of her death in his Autobiography as follows. One evening in the spring of 1857 ... we heard that Mrs Cavanagh had been drowned in the Canberra River. We could see a crowd on the bank and we hurried to the scene and arrived just as her son Patrick took her body from the water. His father, Thomas Cavanagh, was in a state of collapse. My cousin, Peter Shumack, was the last person to see Mrs Cavanagh alive. He spoke to her as she passed him on the way to the river and thought it strange that she did not return his greeting. A sensation was caused when the priest would not allow her to be interred in the Roman Catholic burial ground in Queanbeyan, and after some delay Patrick and a few friends buried her there. The priest had the body removed and buried outside consecrated ground, but Patrick and his friends re-interred the body within the cemetery and mounted an armed guard at the graveside, declaring that they would shoot any person who disturbed it. Eventually, her brave family forced an agreement with the church authorities to have her corpse remain at peace in the cemetery and they also erected a headstone in her memory. Her husband Thomas Cavanagh then acquired land near One Tree Hill – Fairview- and died there in 1871, aged 68. Their son, Patrick Cavanagh, married Mary Logue of Duntroon and farmed successfully at One Tree Hill and then Eastview,, Mulligans Flat, having twelve children, several of whom continued farming at Mulligans Flat. However, Jane's two daughters had difficult lives. Ann's first husband, Charles White, died before she left Ireland, leaving Ann to give birth to daughter, Jane White, on board the Panama. Ann then married Patrick Langan in 1851, a carpenter and joiner of Queanbeyan, but died in 1864 at only 36, after having six children between 1851 and 1861, two of whom died in infancy. Hannah(Honor) married in 1853 to George Harris Bunn, the son of Anna Maria (Murray) Bunn and nephew of the Murrays of Yarralumla and Woden. They had three children, but one died in infancy. They settled at 'St Omer' via Braidwood, but George died in Braidwood in 1860, due to a fall from a horse, and daughter Georgiana was born in 1861 after his death. Hannah returned to live with her brother in Canberra until she re-married to Patrick Flanagan of Moruya in 1864. They settled in Dapto, but Patrick was declared dead - lost at sea- in 1865 and Hannah died in August 1865 from fever, at only 37. The two surviving children went to their grandmother Anna Maria Bunn at 'St Omer", Braidwood, but Clarence passed away soon after, in October 1865, from Typhoid fever. The only surviving child, Georgiana became the legal ward of her uncle J.W. Bunn and was raised by her grandmother at St Omer. Anna Maria died on 23 September, 1889 and left St Omer to her beloved grand-daughter Georgina, who was only 28 and un-married. Georgina married Patrick Kain (1865-1955) in 1891 and had six children. Their first child Anna Maria was born at St. Omer in February 1892. However, her uncle J.W. contested the will and took possession of St Omer. Georgina's other children were then born at Krawarree and Georgina died in 1906 in Braidwood at only 44.

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