[Index]
Sarah WILLS (1796 - 1876)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
William Lachlan Macquarie REDFERN (1819 - 1904)
Joseph Foveaux REDFERN (1823 - 1830)
Sarah Elizabeth ALEXANDER (1835 - 1905)
 Sarah WILLS (1796 - 1876)

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William REDFERN (1774 - 1833)

James ALEXANDER (1797 - 1877)
 Edward Spencer WILLS (1778 - 1811) Edward WILLS ( - 1814)



Elizabeth (WILLS) (1738 - 1822)



Sarah HARDING (1776 - 1823) Thomas HARDING



Sarah (HARDING)



Sarah WILLS William REDFERN James ALEXANDER
Sarah WILLS Sarah WILLS
Pic P1. copied from Plante Family tree - ancestry

Pic S1. copied from Australian Dictionary of Biography

Pic S2. from 'A Currency Lad"

Pic 1. copied from Plante Family tree - ancestry

Pic 2. from 'A Currency Lad"

b. 23 Apr 1796 at England
m. (1) 04 Mar 1811 William REDFERN (1774 - 1833) at Sydney, NSW, Australia
m. (2) 24 Jun 1834 James ALEXANDER (1797 - 1877) at Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
d. Dec 1876 at St Giles, London, England aged 80
Near Relatives of Sarah WILLS (1796 - 1876)
Relationship Person Born Birth Place Died Death Place Age
Grandfather Edward WILLS 09 Jan 1814 London, Middlesex, England
Grandmother Elizabeth (WILLS) abt 1738 1822 84
Grandfather Thomas HARDING
Grandmother Sarah (HARDING)

Father Edward Spencer WILLS 13 Aug 1778 London, Middlesex, England 14 May 1811 Sydney, NSW, Australia 32
Step Father George HOWE abt 1769 St Kitts, West Indies 11 May 1821 NSW, Australia 52
Mother Sarah HARDING Aug 1776 London, Middlesex, England 08 Jul 1823 Sydney, NSW, Australia 46

Self Sarah WILLS 23 Apr 1796 England Dec 1876 St Giles, London, England 80

Husband William REDFERN 1774 Canada 17 Jul 1833 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 59
Husband James ALEXANDER 1797 Lanarkshire, Scotland 29 Jul 1877 80

Son William Lachlan Macquarie REDFERN 1819 Australia 1904 Westminster, London, England 85
Son Joseph Foveaux REDFERN 1823 1830 Sydney, NSW, Australia 7
Daughter Sarah Elizabeth ALEXANDER 1835 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1905 Paddington, London, England 70

Brother Thomas WILLS 05 Aug 1800 Sydney, NSW, Australia 29 Jul 1872 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 71
Sister Eliza WILLS 10 Sep 1802 Sydney, NSW, Australia 30 Sep 1858 St Leonards, North Sydney, NSW, Australia 56
Brother Edward Spencer WILLS 16 Feb 1805 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1830 London, Middlesex, England 25
Sister Elizabeth Selina WILLS 30 Nov 1807 Sydney, NSW, Australia 18 Jan 1811 Sydney, NSW, Australia 3
Brother Horatio Spencer Howe WILLS 05 Oct 1811 Sydney, NSW, Australia 17 Oct 1861 'Cullin-la-ringo', Springsure, Queensland, Australia 50
Step Brother Robert HOWE 30 Jun 1795 London, Middlesex, England 29 Jan 1829 Sydney, NSW, Australia 33
Step Brother Thomas Terry HOWE 02 Apr 1803 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Step Sister Mary Ann Risdon HOWE 01 May 1805 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1832 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 27
Step Brother George Terry HOWE 18 Dec 1806 Sydney, NSW, Australia 06 Apr 1863 Chippendale, NSW, Australia 56
Step Sister Ann HOWE 06 Feb 1809 Sydney, NSW, Australia 10 May 1811 2
Step Sister Sarah Risdon HOWE 27 Sep 1810 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1879 Redfern, Sydney, NSW, Australia 69
Half Sister Jane HOWE 09 Nov 1816 Sydney, NSW, Australia 23 Nov 1880 Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia 64

Daughter in Law Jane Bastable WALKER 1823 Margate, Kent, England 1883 Fulham, London, England 60
Son in Law Philip John VANDERBYL 1828 Cape of Good Hope 1892 64

Grandson William REDFERN 1844 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland
Granddaughter Jessie Louisa REDFERN 1847 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1907 Tonbridge, Kent, England 60
Granddaughter Mary Josephine REDFERN 1849 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1914 Tonbridge Wells, Kent, England 65
Granddaughter Georgina Sarah REDFERN 1850 Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1936 Tonbridge Wells, Kent, England 86
Grandson James A REDFERN 1853 Scotland
Grandson Arthur George REDFERN 1856 Scotland 1903 Tonbridge Wells, Kent, England 47
Grandson James Alexander VANDERBYL abt 1855
Granddaughter Isabella Sara VANDERBYL 1858 Kensington, London, Middlesex, England 1949 Winchester, Hampshire, England 91
Grandson William Alexander VANDERBYL 1860 Kensington, London, Middlesex, England 1944 Bredwardine, Hertfordshire, England 84
Granddaughter Mary Florence VANDERBYL 1861 Bayswater, London, England 1949 Westminster, London, England 88
Granddaughter Charlotte (twin) VANDERBYL 1864 Steyning, Sussex, England 1864 Steyning, Sussex, England 0
Granddaughter Margaret (twin) VANDERBYL 1864 Steyning, Sussex, England 1864 Steyning, Sussex, England 0
Grandson Philip Breda VANDERBYL 1867 Kensington, London, Middlesex, England 1930 Cairo, Egypt 63
Grandson Charles F VANDERBYL 1874

Niece Alice WILLS 06 May 1823 Camden, NSW, Australia 14 Apr 1824 NSW, Australia 0
Nephew William Henry WILLS 01 Dec 1827 abt 1828 1
Niece Catherine Spencer WILLS 24 Nov 1831 Ci, Sydney, NSW 27 Aug 1884 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 52
Niece Amelia WILLS 1854 Kensington, London, Middlesex, England
Nephew Arthur WILLS 18 Feb 1857 Hammersmith, Middlesex, England 14 Oct 1932 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 75
Nephew Harry Spencer WILLS 13 Sep 1858 Brighton, Sussex, England 1914 Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 56
Nephew Frederick WILLS 19 Jul 1860 St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Nephew Charles Ernest WILLS 15 Nov 1861 St John's Wood, Middlesex, London, England
Niece Margaret Campbell ANTILL 27 Jun 1820 Sydney, NSW, Australia 22 Jul 1849 Camden, Oaks, Picton, Stonequarry, NSW 29
Nephew John Macquarie ANTILL 30 May 1822 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1900 Picton, NSW, Australia 78
Nephew Henry Colden ANTILL 07 Apr 1826 Camden, NSW, Australia 1913 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 87
Niece Alice Sophia ANTILL 1827 Liverpool, NSW, Australia 1920 London, Middlesex, England 93
Nephew William Redfern ANTILL 1828 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 1905 Picton, NSW, Australia 77
Nephew Thomas Wills ANTILL 1829 Campbelltown, NSW, Australia 18 May 1865 Nelson, New Zealand 36
Nephew Edward Spencer ANTILL 20 Jul 1832 Picton, NSW, Australia 1917 Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia 85
Nephew James Alexander ANTILL 1834 Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia 1920 Rockdale, Sydney, NSW, Australia 86
Niece Selina Elizabeth ANTILL 1837 Cobbitty, Narellan, NSW, Australia 1924 Chatswood, NSW, Australia 87
Nephew Loftus Cliff ANTILL 06 Dec 1839 Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia 1840 Stonequarry, Picton, NSW, Australia 1
Nephew Thomas Wentworth WILLS 1836 Molongolo Plains, NSW, Australia 02 May 1880 Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia 44
Niece Emily Spencer WILLS 25 Dec 1842 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 06 Dec 1925 "Molongolo", Kew, Victoria, Australia 82
Nephew Cedric Spencer WILLS 01 Dec 1844 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 23 Jan 1914 Springsure, Queensland, Australia 69
Nephew Horace Spencer WILLS 16 Jun 1847 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 08 Oct 1928 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 81
Nephew Egbert Spencer WILLS 11 Nov 1849 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 11 Sep 1931 Kew, Victoria, Australia 81
Niece Elizabeth Spencer WILLS 07 Jan 1852 'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia 21 Nov 1930 Prahran, Victoria, Australia 78
Niece Eugenie (Duckey) Spencer WILLS 28 Jan 1854 Lexington, Victoria, Australia 08 Jul 1937 Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 83
Niece Minna Spencer WILLS 01 Mar 1856 "Bellevue", Geelong, Victoria, Australia 14 Feb 1943 Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 86
Niece Hortense Sarah Spencer WILLS 16 Aug 1861 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 02 Jul 1907 Maidenhead, Berkshire, England 45
Nephew Robert Charles HOWE 27 Feb 1820 St Phillips Church of England, Sydney, NSW 14 Jul 1875 Rylstone, NSW, Australia 55
Nephew Robertus Mansfield HOWE 12 Nov 1822 Sydney, NSW, Australia 26 Feb 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia 1
Niece Annie Wesley HOWE 1824 Sydney, NSW, Australia
Nephew Alfred Australia HOWE 1825 17 Jan 1837 Port Macquarie, NSW, Australia 12
Niece Mary McLeay HOWE 21 Apr 1827 20 May 1827 0
Niece Sarah Eclipse HOWE 1824 At sea 1905 Callan Park, New South Wales, Australia 81
Nephew George Risden HOWE 1825 01 Jul 1889 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia 64
Niece Mary Ann Cowell HOWE 17 Jun 1827 Sydney, NSW, Australia 20 Feb 1905 NSW, Australia 77
Niece Marion HOWE 1829
Nephew John Kiwi HOWE 1830 1860 Kawhia, Auckland, New Zealand 30
Niece Ann Risden HOWE 1832
Niece Eliza Frances HOWE 1834 13 Oct 1914 80
Niece Elizabeth Jane HOWE 1836 15 Dec 1916 80
Niece Emily HOWE 1840 1880 Sydney, NSW, Australia 40
Niece Maria Elizabeth LEE 09 Nov 1891
Nephew John Arthur HARRISON 1897
Niece Adela Ann HARRISON 11 Sep 1834 23 Jul 1910 Victoria, Australia 75
Nephew Henry Colden Antill HARRISON 16 Oct 1836 Cj, NSW, Australia 02 Sep 1929 Kew, Victoria, Australia 92
Nephew George Alfred HARRISON 1838
Niece Kate HARRISON 1840 1914 Minto, NSW, Australia 74
Niece Alice HARRISON 1842
Nephew Ernest HARRISON 1845
Nephew Horace Washington HARRISON 1848 Avon, Victoria, Australia 09 Feb 1869 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia 21

Sister in Law Celia REIBEY 1802 Camden, NSW, Australia 28 Sep 1823 NSW, Australia 21
Sister in Law Marie Anne BARRY 21 Sep 1801 London, Middlesex, England 19 May 1870 68
Sister in Law Mary Ann MELLARD 1830 Peckham, Camberwell, London, Surrey, England
Brother in Law Henry Colden ANTILL 01 May 1779 New York, NY, USA 14 Aug 1852 'Jarvisfield', Picton, NSW, Australia 73
Sister in Law Elizabeth (MCGUIRE) WYRE 1817 Sydney, NSW, Australia 28 Dec 1907 Geelong, Victoria, Australia 90
Sister in Law Elizabeth LEE 17 Jun 1802 Sydney, NSW, Australia 17 Aug 1878 Sydney, NSW, Australia 76
Sister in Law Ann BIRD 1803 1842 Sydney, NSW, Australia 39
Brother in Law John COWELL 1786
Sister in Law Sarah BIRD 1801 1871 70
Sister in Law Tawariki Te KIWI
Brother in Law Frederick LEE
Brother in Law Edward LEE 1807 27 Jun 1842 Lithuania 35
Brother in Law Capt. John HARRISON 1800 Cumberland, England 21 Jul 1869 Williamstown, Victoria, Australia 69
Events in Sarah WILLS (1796 - 1876)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
23 Apr 1796 Sarah WILLS was born England 54, 55
23 Dec 1797 1 Other Event Thames River 'Hillsborough' got under way 55
26 Jul 1798 2 Immigration "Hillsborough" to Sydney Heads Note 1 55
04 Mar 1811 14 Married William REDFERN (aged 37) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 2 55
14 May 1811 15 Death of father Edward Spencer WILLS (aged 32) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 3 52, 54, 55, 60
1819 23 Birth of son William Lachlan Macquarie REDFERN Australia
11 May 1821 25 Death of step father George HOWE (aged 52) NSW, Australia Note 4 52, 55
1823 27 Birth of son Joseph Foveaux REDFERN
08 Jul 1823 27 Death of mother Sarah HARDING (aged 46) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 5 52, 54, 55, 60
1830 34 Death of son Joseph Foveaux REDFERN (aged 7) Sydney, NSW, Australia Note 6 60
17 Jul 1833 37 Death of husband William REDFERN (aged 59) Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland 55
24 Jun 1834 38 Married James ALEXANDER (aged 37) Barony, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland Note 7 55
1835 39 Birth of daughter Sarah Elizabeth ALEXANDER Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland 1841/51..... census info
1841 45 Census West Regent St, Lanarkshire, Scotland Note 8 67
1851 55 Census Paddington, London, England Note 9 67
1861 65 Census Paddington, London, England Note 10 67
1871 75 Census 4 Porchester Tce, Kensington, London, England Note 11 67
Dec 1876 80 Sarah WILLS died St Giles, London, England Note 12
Note 1: Edward did not set foot on land until 29th July - was it the same for Sarah, a free woman accompaning her husband?
Note 2: 4 March, 1811 at St Phillips Church of England, Sarah Wills, spinster, was married by the Rev William Cowper, in the presence of Edward Wills and Henry Colden Antill, to William Redfern, Gentleman of this parish, batchelor.
Note 3: Reg No V18112697 2A/1811 - Edward Wills, age 32

Sydney Gazette 18 May 1811, p2
At his house, in George-street, on Tuesday night the 14th instant, Mr. Edward Wills, after a painful illness of nearly three months duration, in his 33d year. The generosity of his disposition ,was evinced in all his actions, his integrity was undoubted; and he lived universally respected, as his death must be sincerely regretted by his most distant acquaintance; while his amiable family and those who were happy in his friendship will be devoted by the melancholy event, to a length of inconsolable affliction.
Note 4: Reg No V18215068 2B/1821 - George Howe - age 51
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Johnson, Keith A. Comp. Gravestone inscriptions, N.S.W. Volume 1. Sydney burial ground : Elizabeth and Devonshire Streets "The Sandhills' (Monuments relocated at Bunnerong) / compiled by Keith A. Johnson and Malcolm R. Sainty. n.p., the compilers, 1973
Text: Mr Edward WILLS died 14th May 1811 aged 32 years
Also George HOWE
a Creole of St. Kitt's
born 1769
died 11th May 1821 aged 52 years
He introduced into Australia the art of Printing
instigating the 'Sydney Gazette' and was the first Government Printer
(fourth oldest stone at Bunnerong).
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OBITUARY of George Howe in Sydney Gazette
SYDNEY GAZETTE.
IT HATH at length fallen to the task of surviving friendship to announce, in a Column of the SYDNEY GAZETTE, the Death of its Printer, Mr. GEORGE HOWE ; which lamented event took place in the forenoon of Friday last, the 11th instant, at his house in George-street ; and in the sorrowing testimony of affectionate relatives, and sympathising acquaintances, we have traced the sincere regard and respect due to departed worth, and to the memory of an upright, liberal, and benevolent Member of Society. That such are the faithful attributes of the Character to which this humble tribute applies, will, we trust, be universally acknowledged ; and particularly in those circles where his philanthropy and urbanity were displayed; and which, retiring from public notice, ministered, unwitnessed and in private, the consolatory balm to indigence and affliction»

Mr. HOWE was a native of St. Kitt's, in the West Indies, where his Father and Brother conducted for many years the Government Press, which is still continued by his Family in that Island. As a Printer, Mr. HOWE is said to have attained distinguished preeminence in England, and was for a long time employed on some of the most respectable Journals in London. As the original Printer of this Gazette, he had to struggle, in the outset, with many difficulties incidental to such an undertaking, in a remote Colony ; but by perseverance, attention, and the liberal encouragement of the present Government, he at length surmounted them. Mr. HOWE was in his 52nd year.
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http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/howe-george-1600
Australian Dictionary of Biography
George Howe (1769-1821), printer, editor, publisher and poet, was born on the island of St Kitts in the West Indies, the son of Thomas Howe, government printer at Basseterre on St Christopher's Island. George and his brother were both apprenticed to the printing trade. His later work indicates that his education was thorough along the classical lines of the eighteenth century, and that he was well read in European literature.

In 1790 Howe went to London and worked on The Times and other newspapers. He married and his son Robert was born in 1795. In March 1799, together with a companion, Thomas Jones, and under the name of 'George Happy alias Happy George', he was tried at the Warwick Assizes for shoplifting at Alcester; he was sentenced to death but this was commuted to transportation for life. Robert Howe later referred to Alexander McLeay as 'the benefactor of myself and my poor mother', and it was probably McLeay who enabled Howe's family to embark with him in the Royal Admiral. He arrived at Sydney in November 1800, but his wife died on the voyage. Howe himself recovered from a serious illness in 1801 and attributed his survival to D'Arcy Wentworth.

Almost immediately Howe became government printer, and the range of his printing far exceeded the broadsheets and orders of his predecessor, George Hughes. In 1802 he issued the first book printed in Australia, New South Wales General Standing Orders, comprising Government and General Orders issued between 1791 and 1802. On 5 March 1803 he began the publication of the first newspaper, the Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser. Robert helped in the printing office when the paper began and 'had the honour, even in those infant days, of gaining the smile and eliciting the astonishment of the King's Representative when he saw us perched on a stool'. According to Robert the old printing press was worth only £2 and they had to manage with a mere 20 lbs. (9 kg) of type; but Howe was an 'ingenious man' and managed in spite of the inadequate press, a chronic shortage of ink and paper, and the refusal or inability of many of his subscribers to pay their debts. He was conditionally pardoned in 1803, and fully emancipated in 1806.

Howe formed an irregular alliance with Elizabeth Easton and between 1803 and 1810 she bore him five children, one of whom, George Terry Howe, later became the first newspaper editor in Launceston. To add to his income he opened a stationery shop and became a private tutor. He offered to teach reading, writing and mensuration and 'the Grammar of the English tongue upon the principles of Drs Lowth, Johnson, Priestly and other celebrated writers who have united their efforts in improving the Grammatical structure of their own beautiful and comprehensive language, which every Englishman ought to be acquainted with, but few attain that have not had the advantage of a classical education'.

Howe's shop and his tutoring enabled him to survive between 30 August 1807 and 15 May 1808, when because of the quarrel between Governor William Bligh and his enemies the Gazette ceased publication. The reason given was lack of paper, but Robert Howe later revealed that the government stores had large stocks of paper. After Bligh's arrest Howe had to threaten to publish the names of his debtors unless they paid him within a fortnight.

In 1810 Howe's printing office was almost destroyed by lightning, but the newly-arrived Governor Lachlan Macquarie renewed his appointment as government printer, and next year granted him a salary of £60. Howe's economic position improved still further when in 1812 he married Sarah, the widow of Edward Wills, who had inherited a profitable store from her husband. Of her five existing children, Sarah married Dr William Redfern in 1811 and Eliza married Major Henry Antill in 1818; a son, Horatio Spencer Wills, became editor of the Gazette and published the first paper edited by a native-born Australian, The Currency Lad, which first appeared in August 1832.

After his marriage Howe became more active in commerce. In 1813 he joined Mrs Mary Reibey in a speculation in sandalwood. In 1817 he became one of the fourteen foundation subscribers to the Bank of New South Wales. In 1813 he published the first natural history and art book printed in the colony, Birds of New South Wales with their Natural History, a collection of eighteen coloured plates of Australian birds with short descriptions of their habits and environment. The artist was John Lewin. In 1819 First Fruits of Australian Poetry, containing two poems by Barron Field, the first book of poetry published in Australia, came from his press. Howe was preparing to publish the first periodical magazine when he died on 11 May 1821. He left property worth £4000.

Robert Howe was dissipated as a young man and in 1819 fathered an illegitimate son. Next year, however, he experienced a spiritual awakening and, in his own words, was 'wonderfully and mercifully visited by God and snatched from infamy in this world and Hell in the next'. He joined the group of Methodists who were working in Sydney and their influence, particularly that of Rev. Ralph Mansfield, was apparent when he published The Australian Magazine; or, Compendium of Religious, Literary, and Miscellaneous Intelligence, the first periodical to appear in Australia. The first number appeared in May 1821 and the publication continued until September 1822. In the meantime, in 1821 Robert Howe had married the colonial-born Ann Bird, who finally agreed to rear Robert's natural son as her own. She bore him four more children, Robert Mansfield, Alfred Australia, Ann Wesley and Mary McLeay, whose names commemorated the strongest influences in Howe's life.

Although his education had not been thorough, Robert Howe continued to edit the Gazette which he had helped his father to publish, but the tone of the paper changed completely. Morality and religion became its main themes. Howe considered that to be 'Printer to Immanuel' was more important than being government printer. A plan to establish another press devoted exclusively to the aims of the Wesleyan mission did not eventuate; but the Gazette reflected Howe's conviction that religion was the only possible means of progress in Australia and the only way to rescue the colony from the 'depths of awful depravity to Righteousness in the Son of God'. This outlook, together with the Gazette's traditional policy of supporting the government, made it impossible for Howe to join the struggle for the freedom of the press between 1826 and 1829. Added to this was the fact that Alexander McLeay, his old benefactor, had become colonial secretary. Despite criticism, the Gazette prospered and for a short time in 1827 became the first daily newspaper in the colony. Robert Howe also continued his father's tradition as a publisher. In addition to religious tracts, in 1826 he published Wild Notes from the Lyre of a Native Minstrel, the first book of poems written by a colonial-born poet, Charles Tompson, whose work had already appeared in the Gazette.

Howe's own personal life was never really happy. On the night of 15 June 1822 he was attacked while returning from a meeting at the Methodist chapel. He could not avoid a number of libel actions arising from the strong denunciation of those who opposed his policy, and in 1827 Redfern publicly horse-whipped him. He wrote that he was 'debilitated through excessive fatigue, mental anxiety and unprecedented and unexpected domestic disquietude and grief to which I have for years submitted'. In 1827 he made a will in which he left most of his estate to his natural son and £100 a year to his wife. Next year he revoked this and left his wife an 'equal division' of his effects which amounted to over £10,000. Contemplating retirement, he installed Mansfield as co-editor of the Gazette; but on 29 January 1829 he was drowned while fishing near Pinchgut and his widow became the proprietor of the paper.

George and Robert Howe had performed important work. To have a newspaper as early as 1803 was of inestimable benefit to both government and settlers. A series of the New South Wales Pocket Almanack, issued in conjunction with the Gazette from 1806, supplemented the dissemination of news and knowledge throughout the colony. The Gazette kept the settlers in touch with home. News from England and excerpts from English literature kept loyalty to England alive. From the beginning George Howe encouraged education and published material calculated to aid both teachers and pupils. He also fostered literature and before 1810 printed more than forty poems, many of which he wrote himself. During Macquarie's administration he printed a further seventy poems including the patriotic odes of Michael Robinson. He has, therefore, a strong claim to the title of 'Father of Australian Literature'. The main difference between George and Robert was that, whereas George Howe advocated reason and common sense, Robert fostered religion.
Note 5: Reg NO V182335818 28 - age 44 - Sarah HOWE

Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser 10 July 1823
DEATHS-
On Tuesday last, at 96 George-street, after a long and extremely painful illness, Mrs. SARAH HOWE, Relict of the late Mr. GEORGE HOWE, Government Printer, in the 45th year of her age.
Note 6: The Sydney Monitor 10 April 1830
DEATH.-Yesterday, at the residence of Mrs REDFERN in Pitt-street, JOSEPH FOVEAUX, aged 7 years, the second son of W. REDFERN, Esq.
Note 7: Lots of ancestry trees - no proof
Note 8: ALEXANDER
James (35) - 1806, Lanarkshire - com Merchant
Sarah (45) - 1796
Sarah (6) dau- 1835, Lanarkshire
Note 9: ALEXANDER
James (45) - b Glasgow, Australian merchant
Sarah (34) - b London
Sarah Eliza (16) - b Glasgow
+ 4/5 servants
Note 10: ALEXANDER
James (56) - 1805, Scotland - Australian Merchant
Sarah (64) - c 1797, London

+ 4 servants
Note 11: ALEXANDER
James (65) - c1806, Scotland - Merchant Australian
Sarah (72) - c1799, Middlesex, London

4 servants Jessie CUMMING, (54), Jane FRANKLIN (46),
Jane BAKER (36)
Alice HARDY (22)
Note 12: date and place from Plante Family tree - ancestry
Personal Notes:
Notes from the Plante Family Tree - ancestry
The 800 acre grant William called ''Campbellfield'' known as Minto.
The "Sarah Redfern School" at Minto was named in honour of Sarah.

SMH 31 July 1926 - article on Redfern
In March, 1811, Redfern was married by Dean Cowper to Miss Sarah Wills, the daughter of Edward Spencer Wills, of Geelong and Sydney, whose older daughter. Eliza, subsequently became the wife of that Major Antill, whose friendship with Redfern has been mentioned, and whose name is even more closely associated with the history of New South Wales than that of Redfern himself. Of that marriage two sons were born, of whom the elder, William Lachlan Macquarie Redfern, born in 1810, grew to manhood and married in 1842, while the younger, Joseph Foveaux Redfern, died in 1830, in his seventh year. It is of interest to note that when Sarah Wills became Mrs. Redfern, her mother gave her as a wedding gift the deeds of thirty acres of land adjoining the seventy acres granted to Redfern himself by Maoquarie. The two grants were afterwards merged into one, and it is their combined area of 100 acres that still preserves the name of Redfern is a suburb of Sydney. Dr. Redfern died a wealthy man; apart from the Redfern acres, he owned land all over the then known part of the State - at Bathurst, at Cowra, and even at Geelong. But the place which be loved best and which is most closely associated with his name is the home he built upon the George's River, and which he named Campbell Fields.




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http://tww.id.au/family-history-wills/edward-spencer-wills-celene/pafg02.htm#42
2. Sarah Wills (Edward Spencer ) was born on 23 Apr 1796 in Middlesex,England. She was christened on 15 May 1796 in St Luke Old Str,Finsbury,Middlesex,England. She died on 10 Jan 1875 in Roke Manor,,Hampshire,England.

Baptism from LDS microfilm 0585440 Baptism and Burials of St Luke's Old Street Finsbury Middlesex 1776 - 1810

from Mutch Index
Married William Redfern 4.Mar.1811 by Rev William Cowper by Special Licenc, witness Edward Wills and Henry Colden Antill St Phillip's Sydney.
1828 census
Redfern Sarah Protestant came "Hillsborough" 1799 living at Airds
William Redfern no age settler at Airds protestant occup surgeon came ship "Minorce"
Redfern James, age 5 years resident at Airds ship arrival "Alfred" 1824 prostestant - editor's remarks - Joseph Foveaux


from Ancestor Treasure Hunt
married James Alexander 24.June.1834
inherited from her mother Sarah Wills nee Harding 30 acre farm adjoined 100 acres behind Cleveland House, Cleveland and Elizabeth Street, Sydney, estate of William Redfern
death from Terry Wills Cooke's book The Currency Lad living in London in 1837
??"Letters from Victorian Pioneers", by Thomas Francis Bride.
??"She (Sarah) administered Redfern's estates with Thomas Wills, her brother, and William Charles Wentworth. Sheep from the Redfern Estates near Bathurst formed part of the original flocks at Ledcourt (taken there by Robert Briggs in her name_ At Lexington for Horatio Spencer Wills, her brother, and at Swanwater, north of St Arnaud, for her brother-in-law, Captain John Harrison.
Redfern's son William with his stepfather, James Alexander, held Emu Plains and the Upotipotpooon runs in the Benalla District, 1844-53.

also in 1861 wrote to Cedric Wills in Germany about father's death saying his uncle Thomas Wills too ill to bear tidings in person

Ancestry.com Deaths Dec Quarter 1876 Sarah Alexander St Giles London
Middlesex. aged 82
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Source References:
54. Type: Web Page, Abbr: Ancestry Family Trees, Title: Ancestry Family Trees, Auth: Ancestry.com
- Reference = (Birth)
55. Type: Book, Abbr: Edward Wills Family and Descendants, Title: Ancestor Treasure Hunt; The Edward Wills Family and Descendants in Australia 1797 - 1976, Auth: R.V. Pockley, Publ: Wentworth Books - Sydney, Date: 1976
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Reference = (Marriage)
- Reference = (Birth)
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