| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 26 August 1859 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 22 February 1889 | St Josephs, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 16 June 1942 | Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 26 January 1890 | Bowen Hill, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 24 October 1926 | ||
| Death | 28 February 1942 | Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 16 October 1903 | Launceston, Tasmania, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 24 October 1926 | ||
| Death | 4 December 1987 | Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage Status | Divorced | ||
| Birth | 21 March 1931 | Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1953 | (New South Wales), (Australia)G | |
| Death | 20 January 1991 | Forbes, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marriage Status | Divorced | ||
| Birth | 9 April 1935 | Croydon, Victoria, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1953 | (New South Wales), (Australia)G | |
| Death | 20 October 2014 | Wangaratta, Victoria, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 6 December 1956 | Welwyn, Hertfordshire, EnglandG | |
| Death | 17 April 2006 | Beaudesert, Queensland, AustraliaG |

| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 16 February 1823 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Marriage | 18 March 1842 | Derbyshire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | 19 February 1848 | In 1847 Suzannah Astill and her husband Joseph Cantrill along with their three children and Suzannah’s younger sister Mary Ann left England for Australia on board the “Hyderabad” William Cantrill the son of William and Suzannah wrote of the voyage: I immigrated to Australia with my parents and brother and sister who were born on the voyage when I was five years of age. We boarded the Hydrabad of the East India Company, a vessel of 815 tons under the command of Captain Castle. She carried 270 emigrants and after a six-month voyage, during which we were becalmed for four days, we arrived at Sydney on the 19th February 1848. There was no wharf so we came ashore in a small boat. My mother’s brothers Elias and William Astill who had emigrated a few years before us were in the Western District, so we set out to join them. There were no railways in Australia then so we considered ourselves fortunate in securing the services of a teamster with a three-horse dray to transport us and our personal belongings to the west which was then opening up for settlement. Our first days journey took us to Parramatta where we stayed a few days then continued our long journey along the rough bush road, which crossed the Blue Mountains, winding in and out among the hills, through thickly timbered country in places until we reached Bathurst which was then a small town. We continued on the dray to Guyong where Elias with a dray drawn by four bullocks met us. In this stately fashion we were brought to Blackman’s Swamp, as the site of Orange was then called. Our first home on Australian soil was a slab hut roofed with bark, measuring ten feet by twelve feet situated in the gully on the eastern side of the present Orange Showground. The year we landed was a particularly dry one, the country being in the throes of drought. I often heard my father say that he never wore a coat in the winter of 1848. After a year or so in the country my father considered himself competent enough to carry on farming under Australian conditions, so he rented a piece of land from Mr. Lord on the Ophir road two miles from where Orange now stands. This is now the Blechington Estate. My father cleared this land and ploughed it with an Iron plough the first or one of the first Iron Ploughs in the district. We were living on this land when gold was discovered at Ophir in 1851 and my father fell victim of Gold fever when he heard stories of fabulous wealth being won at Ophir. He and my Uncle William worked all night making a cradle and on the next morning packed it with a few belongings onto a packhorse and set out for the diggings. After about six months or so of more or less mostly less good fortune they returned to the farm. The first threshing machine to be used in the district was built by William Astill, a particularly capable man. Although he never had been taught a trade he was able to turn his hand to anything from making a pair of boots to building any class of machinery. He purchased the old Bullock Works from Mr. Templars Mill and he used horses from the mill to drive his threshing machine. | Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Death | 31 October 1904 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Burial | November 1904 | Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 4 April 1817 | Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG | |
| Marriage | 18 March 1842 | Derbyshire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | 19 February 1848 | In 1847 Suzannah Astill and her husband Joseph Cantrill along with their three children and Suzannah’s younger sister Mary Ann left England for Australia on board the “Hyderabad” William Cantrill the son of William and Suzannah wrote of the voyage: I immigrated to Australia with my parents and brother and sister who were born on the voyage when I was five years of age. We boarded the Hydrabad of the East India Company, a vessel of 815 tons under the command of Captain Castle. She carried 270 emigrants and after a six-month voyage, during which we were becalmed for four days, we arrived at Sydney on the 19th February 1848. There was no wharf so we came ashore in a small boat. My mother’s brothers Elias and William Astill who had emigrated a few years before us were in the Western District, so we set out to join them. There were no railways in Australia then so we considered ourselves fortunate in securing the services of a teamster with a three-horse dray to transport us and our personal belongings to the west which was then opening up for settlement. Our first days journey took us to Parramatta where we stayed a few days then continued our long journey along the rough bush road, which crossed the Blue Mountains, winding in and out among the hills, through thickly timbered country in places until we reached Bathurst which was then a small town. We continued on the dray to Guyong where Elias with a dray drawn by four bullocks met us. In this stately fashion we were brought to Blackman’s Swamp, as the site of Orange was then called. Our first home on Australian soil was a slab hut roofed with bark, measuring ten feet by twelve feet situated in the gully on the eastern side of the present Orange Showground. The year we landed was a particularly dry one, the country being in the throes of drought. I often heard my father say that he never wore a coat in the winter of 1848. After a year or so in the country my father considered himself competent enough to carry on farming under Australian conditions, so he rented a piece of land from Mr. Lord on the Ophir road two miles from where Orange now stands. This is now the Blechington Estate. My father cleared this land and ploughed it with an Iron plough the first or one of the first Iron Ploughs in the district. We were living on this land when gold was discovered at Ophir in 1851 and my father fell victim of Gold fever when he heard stories of fabulous wealth being won at Ophir. He and my Uncle William worked all night making a cradle and on the next morning packed it with a few belongings onto a packhorse and set out for the diggings. After about six months or so of more or less mostly less good fortune they returned to the farm. The first threshing machine to be used in the district was built by William Astill, a particularly capable man. Although he never had been taught a trade he was able to turn his hand to anything from making a pair of boots to building any class of machinery. He purchased the old Bullock Works from Mr. Templars Mill and he used horses from the mill to drive his threshing machine. | Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Occupation | 1 April 1850 | Labourer | |
| Death | 9 February 1899 | Canobolas, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 8 February 1843 | Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | 19 February 1848 | In 1847 Suzannah Astill and her husband Joseph Cantrill along with their three children and Suzannah’s younger sister Mary Ann left England for Australia on board the “Hyderabad” William Cantrill the son of William and Suzannah wrote of the voyage: I immigrated to Australia with my parents and brother and sister who were born on the voyage when I was five years of age. We boarded the Hydrabad of the East India Company, a vessel of 815 tons under the command of Captain Castle. She carried 270 emigrants and after a six-month voyage, during which we were becalmed for four days, we arrived at Sydney on the 19th February 1848. There was no wharf so we came ashore in a small boat. My mother’s brothers Elias and William Astill who had emigrated a few years before us were in the Western District, so we set out to join them. There were no railways in Australia then so we considered ourselves fortunate in securing the services of a teamster with a three-horse dray to transport us and our personal belongings to the west which was then opening up for settlement. Our first days journey took us to Parramatta where we stayed a few days then continued our long journey along the rough bush road, which crossed the Blue Mountains, winding in and out among the hills, through thickly timbered country in places until we reached Bathurst which was then a small town. We continued on the dray to Guyong where Elias with a dray drawn by four bullocks met us. In this stately fashion we were brought to Blackman’s Swamp, as the site of Orange was then called. Our first home on Australian soil was a slab hut roofed with bark, measuring ten feet by twelve feet situated in the gully on the eastern side of the present Orange Showground. The year we landed was a particularly dry one, the country being in the throes of drought. I often heard my father say that he never wore a coat in the winter of 1848. After a year or so in the country my father considered himself competent enough to carry on farming under Australian conditions, so he rented a piece of land from Mr. Lord on the Ophir road two miles from where Orange now stands. This is now the Blechington Estate. My father cleared this land and ploughed it with an Iron plough the first or one of the first Iron Ploughs in the district. We were living on this land when gold was discovered at Ophir in 1851 and my father fell victim of Gold fever when he heard stories of fabulous wealth being won at Ophir. He and my Uncle William worked all night making a cradle and on the next morning packed it with a few belongings onto a packhorse and set out for the diggings. After about six months or so of more or less mostly less good fortune they returned to the farm. The first threshing machine to be used in the district was built by William Astill, a particularly capable man. Although he never had been taught a trade he was able to turn his hand to anything from making a pair of boots to building any class of machinery. He purchased the old Bullock Works from Mr. Templars Mill and he used horses from the mill to drive his threshing machine. | Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Marriage | 1866 | New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 18 August 1928 | (Orange), (New South Wales), (Australia)G | |
| Burial | 19 August 1928 | Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 7 December 1846 | Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | 19 February 1848 | In 1847 Suzannah Astill and her husband Joseph Cantrill along with their three children and Suzannah’s younger sister Mary Ann left England for Australia on board the “Hyderabad” William Cantrill the son of William and Suzannah wrote of the voyage: I immigrated to Australia with my parents and brother and sister who were born on the voyage when I was five years of age. We boarded the Hydrabad of the East India Company, a vessel of 815 tons under the command of Captain Castle. She carried 270 emigrants and after a six-month voyage, during which we were becalmed for four days, we arrived at Sydney on the 19th February 1848. There was no wharf so we came ashore in a small boat. My mother’s brothers Elias and William Astill who had emigrated a few years before us were in the Western District, so we set out to join them. There were no railways in Australia then so we considered ourselves fortunate in securing the services of a teamster with a three-horse dray to transport us and our personal belongings to the west which was then opening up for settlement. Our first days journey took us to Parramatta where we stayed a few days then continued our long journey along the rough bush road, which crossed the Blue Mountains, winding in and out among the hills, through thickly timbered country in places until we reached Bathurst which was then a small town. We continued on the dray to Guyong where Elias with a dray drawn by four bullocks met us. In this stately fashion we were brought to Blackman’s Swamp, as the site of Orange was then called. Our first home on Australian soil was a slab hut roofed with bark, measuring ten feet by twelve feet situated in the gully on the eastern side of the present Orange Showground. The year we landed was a particularly dry one, the country being in the throes of drought. I often heard my father say that he never wore a coat in the winter of 1848. After a year or so in the country my father considered himself competent enough to carry on farming under Australian conditions, so he rented a piece of land from Mr. Lord on the Ophir road two miles from where Orange now stands. This is now the Blechington Estate. My father cleared this land and ploughed it with an Iron plough the first or one of the first Iron Ploughs in the district. We were living on this land when gold was discovered at Ophir in 1851 and my father fell victim of Gold fever when he heard stories of fabulous wealth being won at Ophir. He and my Uncle William worked all night making a cradle and on the next morning packed it with a few belongings onto a packhorse and set out for the diggings. After about six months or so of more or less mostly less good fortune they returned to the farm. The first threshing machine to be used in the district was built by William Astill, a particularly capable man. Although he never had been taught a trade he was able to turn his hand to anything from making a pair of boots to building any class of machinery. He purchased the old Bullock Works from Mr. Templars Mill and he used horses from the mill to drive his threshing machine. | Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Marriage | 9 August 1870 | Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 17 November 1919 | Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | January 1848 | At SeaG | |
| Immigration | 19 February 1848 | In 1847 Suzannah Astill and her husband Joseph Cantrill along with their three children and Suzannah’s younger sister Mary Ann left England for Australia on board the “Hyderabad” William Cantrill the son of William and Suzannah wrote of the voyage: I immigrated to Australia with my parents and brother and sister who were born on the voyage when I was five years of age. We boarded the Hydrabad of the East India Company, a vessel of 815 tons under the command of Captain Castle. She carried 270 emigrants and after a six-month voyage, during which we were becalmed for four days, we arrived at Sydney on the 19th February 1848. There was no wharf so we came ashore in a small boat. My mother’s brothers Elias and William Astill who had emigrated a few years before us were in the Western District, so we set out to join them. There were no railways in Australia then so we considered ourselves fortunate in securing the services of a teamster with a three-horse dray to transport us and our personal belongings to the west which was then opening up for settlement. Our first days journey took us to Parramatta where we stayed a few days then continued our long journey along the rough bush road, which crossed the Blue Mountains, winding in and out among the hills, through thickly timbered country in places until we reached Bathurst which was then a small town. We continued on the dray to Guyong where Elias with a dray drawn by four bullocks met us. In this stately fashion we were brought to Blackman’s Swamp, as the site of Orange was then called. Our first home on Australian soil was a slab hut roofed with bark, measuring ten feet by twelve feet situated in the gully on the eastern side of the present Orange Showground. The year we landed was a particularly dry one, the country being in the throes of drought. I often heard my father say that he never wore a coat in the winter of 1848. After a year or so in the country my father considered himself competent enough to carry on farming under Australian conditions, so he rented a piece of land from Mr. Lord on the Ophir road two miles from where Orange now stands. This is now the Blechington Estate. My father cleared this land and ploughed it with an Iron plough the first or one of the first Iron Ploughs in the district. We were living on this land when gold was discovered at Ophir in 1851 and my father fell victim of Gold fever when he heard stories of fabulous wealth being won at Ophir. He and my Uncle William worked all night making a cradle and on the next morning packed it with a few belongings onto a packhorse and set out for the diggings. After about six months or so of more or less mostly less good fortune they returned to the farm. The first threshing machine to be used in the district was built by William Astill, a particularly capable man. Although he never had been taught a trade he was able to turn his hand to anything from making a pair of boots to building any class of machinery. He purchased the old Bullock Works from Mr. Templars Mill and he used horses from the mill to drive his threshing machine. | Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Marriage | 1866 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1879 | New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 21 March 1923 | Molong, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1 April 1850 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Baptism | 9 June 1850 | Carcoar, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 15 June 1878 | Brewarrina, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 25 July 1933 | Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1853 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1871 | Newcastle, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1889 | Molong, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 17 June 1939 | New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Burial | 18 June 1939 | Cumnock Cemetery, New South Wales, AustraliaG+ |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 16 April 1854 | Black Swamp, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1884 | Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 16 June 1925 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Burial | 17 June 1925 | Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 14 April 1856 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1878 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 16 December 1925 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burial | Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | ||
| Birth | 1 December 1858 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1879 | Parramatta, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 18 July 1901 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1 December 1858 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 9 March 1859 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1860 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1880 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 18 January 1941 | Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Death | Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | ||
| Birth | 20 March 1864 | Black Swamp, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Marriage | 1885 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG | |
| Death | 1949 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 24 April 1825 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Baptism | 24 April 1825 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Marriage | 24 October 1841 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | Estimated 1854 | ||
| Death | 17 January 1909 | Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1822 | Stapleton, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Marriage | 24 October 1841 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | Estimated 1854 | ||
| Death | 2 December 1891 | Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1840 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | Estimated 1854 | ||
| Death | 4 August 1917 | Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG |
| Fact | Date | Role | Place |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth | 1842 | Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG | |
| Immigration | Estimated 1854 | ||
| Death | 27 July 1897 | Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG |