Individual Notes
Note for: Marrianne Collinson, ABT 1768 - 1826
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Individual Note: Original Source - CLOSE, EDWARD CHARLES Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010219b.htm:
CLOSE, EDWARD CHARLES (1790-1866), settler and churchman, was born on 12 March 1790 at Rangamati, Bengal, the only child of Edward Close, merchant, and Marrianne, daughter of Michael Collinson. Educated in England, he entered the army in 1808, serving throughout the Peninsular war as a lieutenant in the 48th Regiment. On 3 August 1817 he arrived in New South Wales with a detachment of his regiment in the Matilda and after several years in Sydney was transferred to Newcastle. As acting engineer he was responsible in 1821-22 for putting down mooring chains and removing dangerous shoals from Newcastle Harbour. He built a fort near the signal station and erected an iron beacon in which a large coal fire was lit each night at sunset. This light on Beacon Hill functioned until 1857, when it was replaced by the Nobby's Head light-house.
On 27 September 1821 at St John's, Parramatta, Close married Sophia Susannah, only daughter of John Palmer and his wife Susan. Late next year he resigned from the army to settle on his 2560-acre (1036 ha) grant, Illulaung, the place of green hills, which adjoined the government reserve for the township of Morpeth, at the head of navigation of the Hunter River.
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Source - LDS IGI:
[MJC note: Submitted by a member, so may not be accurate. I beleive Charles Streyncham Collinson is her brother, not her father.]
Marianne CollinsonPedigree
Female
Event(s):
Birth: About 1768 The Chantry, Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Christening:
Death: 1826
Burial:
Parents:
Father: Charles Streyncham Collinson
Messages:
Record submitted after 1991 by a member of the LDS Church.
Individual Notes
Note for: Edward Charles Close, 12 MAR 1790 - 1866
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Individual Note: Original Source - Australian Dictionary of Biograohy Online Edition; CLOSE, EDWARD CHARLES Biography http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010219b.htm::
CLOSE, EDWARD CHARLES (1790-1866), settler and churchman, was born on 12 March 1790 at Rangamati, Bengal, the only child of Edward Close, merchant, and Marrianne, daughter of Michael Collinson. Educated in England, he entered the army in 1808, serving throughout the Peninsular war as a lieutenant in the 48th Regiment. On 3 August 1817 he arrived in New South Wales with a detachment of his regiment in the Matilda and after several years in Sydney was transferred to Newcastle. As acting engineer he was responsible in 1821-22 for putting down mooring chains and removing dangerous shoals from Newcastle Harbour. He built a fort near the signal station and erected an iron beacon in which a large coal fire was lit each night at sunset. This light on Beacon Hill functioned until 1857, when it was replaced by the Nobby's Head light-house.
On 27 September 1821 at St John's, Parramatta, Close married Sophia Susannah, only daughter of John Palmer and his wife Susan. Late next year he resigned from the army to settle on his 2560-acre (1036 ha) grant, Illulaung, the place of green hills, which adjoined the government reserve for the township of Morpeth, at the head of navigation of the Hunter River.
Appointed to the magistracy in 1825 Close was one of the magistrates who had to report on the shooting of four Aboriginals by mounted police under the command of Lieutenant Nathaniel Lowe. Three of the natives had been killed while escaping from captivity, and the fourth was taken from the police office at Maitland and shot. Governor (Sir) Ralph Darling, an opponent of martial action against the Aboriginals, sent the acting attorney-general, William Henry Moore, to investigate the magistrates' report more fully. Close regarded this as an accusation of improper conduct, and was so unco-operative and resentful that Moore's investigation proved fruitless. Lowe was tried in Sydney in 1827 for 'deliberate murder upon a man in custody and without the means of acting offensively' but the credibility of the crown witnesses was impugned and he was acquitted.
Close was removed from the magistracy for his attitude in this affair, but Darling raised no objection to his appointment in 1829 to the Legislative Council, an office which he accepted reluctantly and found increasingly onerous. He complained of the expenditure of time and money involved in attending sessions of the council, and of the frequent delays and postponements which occurred. His resignation was accepted in 1838. Meanwhile part of Illulaung was subdivided and an important trading centre developed along the Morpeth waterfront. In 1836 Close built a school which his own children attended and in which Protestant services were conducted regularly. He was treasurer of the Maitland church funds, trustee of the savings bank, first president of the Maitland Hospital, and warden of the district council in 1843-52.
Edward Charles Close junior laid the foundation stone of St James's Church of England, Morpeth, on 2 January 1837. The site was given and the total cost of the construction met by Edward Close in fulfilment of a vow, made during the Peninsular war, that if his life were spared he would build a church as a thank-offering. St James's was consecrated on 31 December 1840 by Bishop William Grant Broughton and enlarged in 1864 by the substantial benefaction of Mrs Close's cousin, John Campbell. The difficulty of obtaining a suitable home for the first bishop of Newcastle, William Tyrrell, was overcome when Close offered Closebourne, his recently built home at Morpeth, to the church. The house was purchased in 1848, became the headquarters of the diocese of Newcastle, and until 1911 was the residence of its bishops. Close built Morpeth House, where his wife died on 26 June 1856, aged 53. He continued to participate in local affairs for some years, chiefly as clergyman's warden at Morpeth, an office which he held for twenty-four years. He died on 7 May 1866 and was buried beside his wife in St James's churchyard.
His surviving sons, Edward Charles, M.L.A. for Morpeth in 1859 and 1862, Robert Campbell and George Thomas Palmer, and his only daughter, Marrianne Collinson, who married George Campbell of Duntroon, provided an endowment for the clergy of St James's, and the citizens of the district presented the large east window of the church, as memorials to Edward Close. A life-size portrait, presented by friends in recognition of his services, hangs in the committee room of Maitland Hospital.
Sound common sense and honesty of purpose won for Close the respect of his fellows, outweighing his disabilities as a public speaker and his assumption, on occasion, of unwarranted authority. He conducted his estate in the English manorial tradition, providing educational and medical facilities for his employees and tenants, as well as bonfires and bell-ringings on ceremonial occasions. His continuing and practical support of the church earned him the lasting regard of its clergy, so that his name is indissolubly linked with the foundation of the Church of England in the Hunter valley.
Select Bibliography
Historical Records of Australia, series 1, vols 12-14, 19; A. P. Elkin, Morpeth and I (Syd, 1937); J. H. Collinson Close, ‘Edward Charles Close, Pioneer of Morpeth, and "Father of the Hunter"’, Journal and Proceedings (Royal Australian Historical Society), vol 13, part 4, 1927, pp 224-44; Australian, 3 Jan, 1 Mar 1827; Sydney Gazette, 21 May 1827. More on the resources
Author: Nancy Gray
Print Publication Details: Nancy Gray, 'Close, Edward Charles (1790 - 1866)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, pp 231-232.
Individual Notes
Note for: Marrianne Collinson Close, 30 JUN 1827 - 2 MAY 1903
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Individual Note: Original Source - see father:
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Source - Dictionary of Australian Artists Online http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/1392:
Marrianne Collinson Campbell[approved]
painter, decorative artist and amateur architect, was born at Morpeth in the Hunter Valley, New South Wales, on 30 June 1827, only surviving daughter of Edward Charles Close and Sarah Susannah, née Palmer. She began painting at least from 1842, when competent watercolour flowers in the meticulous style of Regency book illustrations are known. Her 1843 set of four large watercolours, The Flowers of the [English] Seasons (p.c.), is of an extremely professional standard for a sixteen-year-old colonial girl. This enthusiasm for English flora appears to have been due to a consciousness of her botanical heritage; her paternal grandmother was a grand-daughter of Peter Collinson (1694-1768), the eminent English collector and populariser of new flower species from North America and elsewhere. The influence of painting lessons from Conrad Martens during the 1840s is evident in her early landscape drawings and watercolours.
Marrianne Close was a grand-niece of Sophia Campbell whose fourth son, George Palmer Campbell (1818-81), she married in the family church, St James's Church of England, Morpeth, on 24 August 1854. About fifty silhouette portraits by Marrianne (1847, p.c.) include all the Australian Palmer and Campbell clans, as well as her own family; she must have known George most of her life. After the marriage the Campbells lived mainly at Duntroon, a property on the Limestone Plains (now Canberra, ACT) George inherited from his father. Marrianne designed numerous additions to Duntroon in the early 1860s, including cottages for the workers, the gardener and the manager of the estate, stables, fencing and a 'bees' house'. She also sketched a plan for the entire rebuilding of the homestead but only half was built. It survives attached to the cottage built by her father-in-law in the early 1830s as part of the Royal Military College, Duntroon, but most of her outbuildings have been demolished. She also designed Duntroon's gardens, including a maze (now recreated) modelled on that at Hampton Court Palace, which she had visited on one of her English trips.
Watercolours of English flowers, landscapes and architectural designs continued to be produced after her marriage, along with embroideries, knitting and lace-work; but Marrianne had inherited what was virtually a feudal system at Duntroon. A devout Anglican, she felt a primary obligation towards the religious, social and intellectual life and physical well being of the Duntroon tenants. She became better known in the district for her medical dispensary than for her paintings. Between 1855 and 1871 she also produced six children: John Edward Robert, Sophia Susanna, Frederick Arthur, Edward Charles Close, Sarah Marrianne Emily and Robert George.
From the mid 1880s - after the deaths of her husband, youngest son and elder daughter and while her surviving sons were in England - Campbell lived at Duntroon and at Elizabeth Bay, Sydney, with her younger daughter, another Marrianne, until the latter married in 1891. From 1883 until the end of her life, she painted a large number of delicate watercolours and a few oils of native flowers, landscapes and still-lifes. She continued to design minor improvements to Duntroon.
The National Library holds several flower paintings, including a waratah painted in oil on board, plus a few watercolour views. Most of her surviving work, however, including a large album of watercolours done on a trip to England, Scotland, Ireland and Europe in 1877-78, two volumes of meticulously executed botanical paintings from Australia and New Zealand and a household book containing architectural drawings, medical remedies and newspaper cuttings, remain in family possession. Marrianne Campbell died on 2 May 1903 and was buried in the family plot in St John's churchyard, Canberra.
Joan Kerr.
Individual Notes
Note for: John Collinson, 20 NOV 1811 - AFT MAR 1861
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Occupation: Date: 1841
Place: Carpenter
Occupation: Date: 1861
Place: Builder
Residence: Date: 1841
Place: James Street, Stepney, Middlesex, UK
Residence: Date: 1861
Place: 3 Southmolton Lane, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, UK
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Original Source - 1841 England Census:
One of only 2 John Collinson of this age range in southern England.
Name Estimated Birth Year Birthplace RESIDENCE
John Collinson abt 1811 NOT_born_in_Middlesex St Marylebone, Middlesex Carpenter
Sarah Collinson abt 1816 Middlesex, England St Marylebone, Middles
Mary Collinson abt 1840 Middlesex, England St Marylebone, Middlesex
Also living in the same household (listed after the above):
Catherine Davis 25
Thomas Davis 30
Caroline Lister 30
Caroline Lister 3
Mary Lister 6 Mo
Thomas Lister 50
Timothy Oneal 60
Edward Webb 4
Elizabeth Webb 20
John Webb 11 Mo
Joseph Webb 9
The men are mostly carpenters, there is also a Boot Maker and a Tailor
Living: James Street, Stepney, Middlesex
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Source - 1851 England Census:
John Collinson Ann abt 1812 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Head St George Hanover Square, Middlesex Carpenter / 2 men
Ann Collinson abt 1789 Bernard Castle, Durham, England Mother St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
John Collinson abt 1832 London, England Son St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Charles Collinson John abt 1847 London, England Son St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Ellen Collinson John abt 1848 London, England Daughter St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Frederick Harris abt 1805 Rolvenden, Sussex, England Apprentice St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Ellen Tunbridge abt 1835 Abertham, Essex, England Servant St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Living: 3 South M Lane, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, UK
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Source - 1861 England Census:
Joe Collinson identifies as John b. 20 Nov 1811 Liverpool , son of John Collinson #3578 1781 Lartngton and the mother here Ann Jackson. John married Sarah Husband dau. of John Husband and died 20 Sep 1878 in Teddingto
Name Parent or spouse names Birth Year Birthplace Relation RESIDENCE
John Collinson abt 1814 Liverpool, Lancashire, England Head St George Hanover Square, Middlesex Builder
Ann Collinson abt 1791 Barnard Castle, Durham, England Mother St George Hanover Square, Middlesex Fundholder
Charles Collinson abt 1845 London, Middlesex, England Son St George Hanover Square, Middlesex Joiner
Ellen Collinson abt 1848 London, Middlesex, England Daughter St George Hanover Square, Middlesex
Living: 3 Southmolton Lane, St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, UK
Individual Notes
Note for: John Lauder, ABT 1828 - AFT MAY 1851
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Occupation: Date: 1862
Place: Moulder
Individual Notes
Note for: James Beadle Shield, ABT 1835 - AFT MAR 1861
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Individual Note: For notes, see wife Mary Tarn.
Individual Notes
Note for: Mary Tarn, ABT 1840 - AFT MAR 1861
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Individual Note: Currently this Mary Tarn is not connected into my tree but other Tarn members are, so I expect to establish a connection some day. - MJC aug 2008
She is clearly shown as being born in Holwick in the 1861 and 1871 Censi, but I can't find the family in early censi.
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Source - FreeBMD Births:
Almost certainly the first entry:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Births Mar 1840
Tarn Mary Teesdale 24283
Births Mar 1842
Tarn Mary Teesdale 24322
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Source - 1841 England Census:
Cannot find her yet.
I've looked at every image for Holwick (at that time an enumeration district within Romald Kirk [sic]), there is certainly no Tarn family. There is a Mary Raine, 8 mo.
If she is elsewhere, almost certainly, her surname has been mispelt when transcribing ... Torn, Tain, ....
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Source - 1851 England Census:
I've looked at every image for Holwick. There is no Tarn family living there.
Name Parent or spouse names Birth Year Birthplace Relation Residence
Mary Bell Larn [Mary Tarn] Christopher,Jane abt 1840 Middleton, Durham, England Daughter Middleton, Durham
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Future husband James B Shield:
is 16 Lead Miner and son of
Joseph Shield 73? Lead Miner
Sarah 50
Also:
William 26 Lead Miner
Josesph 26 or 24 Lead Miner
Henry 22 Lead Miner
Ralph 14 Errand Boy
Margaret 6 Grand dau
Living: New House, Holwick, Yorkshire
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Original Source - FreeBMD Marriages:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Dec 1858
DORE Thomas Teesdale 10a252
Dove Thomas Teesdale 10a252
Harker Maria Teesdale 10a252
Shield James Beadle Teesdale 10a252<-- Confirmed by 1861 Censu
Tarn Mary Teesdale 10a252<--
Note: in the 1851 census, there is a Beadle family living in Holwick, probably related.
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Source - 1861 England Census:
Name Birth Year Birthplace Relation RESIDENCE
James B Shield abt 1835 Holwick, Yorkshire, England Head Holwick, Yorkshire Lead Miner
John Shield abt 1860 Holwick, Yorkshire, England Son Holwick, Yorkshire
Mary Shield James B abt 1840 Middleton, Durham, England Wife Holwick, Yorkshire
Living: Holwick
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Source - 1871 England Census:
Household Members:
Name Age
Alfred Shield 2
James B Shield 36 Lead Miner and Farmer of 19 Acr
James B Shield 5
John Shield 11
Joseph Shield 9
Mary Shield 31
Mary Shield 7
Thomas Shield 7 months
All born Holwick, Yorkshire
Living: Allen Hill, Holwick
Individual Notes
Note for: John Smellie, ABT 1822 - AFT MAR 1871
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Individual Note: Probable, but not certain, grandfather of John Smellie who married my great aunt Elizabeth Collinson and emigrated to Canada.
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Source - LDS IGI Family Group Record:
Thus is a private submission, not a parish record so the accuracy may be doubtful. Essentially the same record of marriage appears to have been contributed by three different people.
Husband
John Smellie
Birth: About 1821 Of, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Christening:
Marriage: 06 MAR 1846 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Death:
Burial:
Wife
Lillias Graham
Birth: About 1825 Of, Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Christening:
Marriage: 06 MAR 1846 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Death:
Burial:
Children
1. John Smellie
Male
Birth: 24 MAR 1850 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
2. James SmelliePedigree
Male
Birth: 06 JAN 1853 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
3. Lillias Graham Smellie
Female
Birth: 18 OCT 1854 Glasgow, Lanark, Scotland
Record submitted by a member of the LDS Church.
Individual Notes
Note for: Elizabeth Ann Collinson, ABT 1894 -
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Individual Note: Original Source - Helen Douglas nee Cansfield, Personal communication via Genes Reunited, Aug 2008:
Re: Elizabeth Collinson (1894)
Hello Michael
Sorry its taken so long to reply but I have been away. I have since done a little more research in to Elizabeth Collinson and I find out that she is not actually from Thirsk but was born in Boyne, Durham. Her parents were William Collinson 1859 and Margaret (maiden name unknown)1863.....
Does this fit with your tree or can you help ....I am really stuck and getting very frustrated (Oh the joys of this obsessive hobby) .... Hope to here from you soon.
Helen
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Source - FreeBMD Births:
I cannot find which area Boyne registers in but Brancepethand Brandon & Byshottles registers in Durham. The Castle Ward entry should be my (MJC) great aunt Elizabeth.
Births Dec 1893
Collinson Elizabeth Ann Durham 10a366
Births Mar 1894
Collinson Elizabeth Annie Tynemouth 10b265
Births Sep 1894
Collinson Elizabeth Castle W. 10b295
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Source - 1901 England Census:
Name Birth Year Birthplace Relation RESIDENCE
Margaret Collinson abt 1863 Staindrop, Durham, England Head Brandon and Byshottles, Durham Widow
Thomas Collinson abt 1885 Boyne, Durham, England Son Brandon and Byshottles, DurhamMiner ([illegible])
Letitia Collinson abt 1890 Byker, Northumberland, England Daughter Brandon and Byshottles, Durham
John Collinson abt 1892 Halbran, Northumberland, England Son Brandon and Byshottles, Durham
Elizabeth A Collinson abt 1894 Boyne, Durham, England Daughter Brandon and Byshottles, Durham
Albert Collinson abt 1897 Boyne, Durham, England Son Brandon and Byshottles, Durham
Wm Wilkinson abt 1822 Straindrop, Durham, England Boarder Brandon and Byshottles, DurhamSingle, Retired Farmer
Elizabeth Hurt abt 1881 Dronfield, Derbyshire, England Boarder Brandon and Byshottles, DurhamSingle, Paper Bag [Box?] Maker
Living: 120 Front Street, Brandon and Byshottles, Co. Durham, UK
Individual Notes
Note for: Annie Lloyd, ABT 1826 - AFT MAR 1901
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Individual Note: Original Source - 1901 England Census: see sister
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Source - FreeBMD:
Surname First name(s) District Vol Page
Marriages Sep 1861 (>99%)
Jones Rachel Lampeter 11b51
RAW James Aberystwith 11b51
Thomas Benjamin Lampeter 11b51
Williams Anne Lampeter 11b51
WILLIAMS John Lampeter 11b51
Individual Notes
Note for: Amelia Unknown, ABT 1821 - 1853
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Individual Note:
Source - FreeBMD Deaths:
Surname First name(s) Age District Vol Page
Deaths Mar 1853
Rathmell Amelia Otley 9a104
Individual Notes
Note for: Isaac Rathmell, ABT 1842 -
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Individual Note: Original Source - LDS IGI Individual Record:
ISAAC RATHMELL
Male
Event(s):
Birth:
Christening: 17 APR 1842 Stainburn, Yorkshire, England
Parents:
Father: JOSEPH RATHMELL Family
Mother: AMELIA
Messages:
Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record