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Mary Ann Gersback

F, #13951, b. 26 August 1859, d. 16 June 1942
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Family: Joseph William Astill (b. 8 April 1866, d. 1938)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth26 August 1859Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage22 February 1889St Josephs, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death16 June 1942Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Charles William Astill

M, #13952, b. 26 January 1890, d. 28 February 1942
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Parents

Family: Pearl Edith Ffitch (b. 16 October 1903, d. 4 December 1987)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth26 January 1890Bowen Hill, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage24 October 1926
Death28 February 1942Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Pearl Edith Ffitch

F, #13953, b. 16 October 1903, d. 4 December 1987
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Family: Charles William Astill (b. 26 January 1890, d. 28 February 1942)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth16 October 1903Launceston, Tasmania, AustraliaG
Marriage24 October 1926
Death4 December 1987Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaG

Bernard Patrick Fitch Astill

M, #13954, b. 21 March 1931, d. 20 January 1991
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Parents

Family: Dorothy May Bird (b. 9 April 1935, d. 20 October 2014)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Marriage StatusDivorced
Birth21 March 1931Canowindra, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1953(New South Wales), (Australia)G
Death20 January 1991Forbes, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Dorothy May Bird

F, #13955, b. 9 April 1935, d. 20 October 2014
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Family: Bernard Patrick Fitch Astill (b. 21 March 1931, d. 20 January 1991)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Marriage StatusDivorced
Birth9 April 1935Croydon, Victoria, AustraliaG
Marriage1953(New South Wales), (Australia)G
Death20 October 2014Wangaratta, Victoria, AustraliaG

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F, #13956
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Parents

Family: Stephen McGill (b. 6 December 1956, d. 17 April 2006)

Stephen McGill

M, #13957, b. 6 December 1956, d. 17 April 2006
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History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth6 December 1956Welwyn, Hertfordshire, EnglandG
Death17 April 2006Beaudesert, Queensland, AustraliaG

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F, #13958
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Susannah ("Hannah") Astill

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F, #13959, b. 16 February 1823, d. 31 October 1904
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Parents

Family: Josiah Cantrill (b. 4 April 1817, d. 9 February 1899)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth16 February 1823Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
Marriage18 March 1842Derbyshire, EnglandG
Immigration19 February 1848In 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
Death31 October 1904Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
BurialNovember 1904Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Josiah Cantrill

M, #13960, b. 4 April 1817, d. 9 February 1899
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Family: Susannah ("Hannah") Astill (b. 16 February 1823, d. 31 October 1904)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth4 April 1817Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG
Marriage18 March 1842Derbyshire, EnglandG
Immigration19 February 1848In 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
Occupation1 April 1850Labourer
Death9 February 1899Canobolas, New South Wales, AustraliaG

William Cantrill

M, #13961, b. 8 February 1843, d. 18 August 1928
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Parents

Family: Angelina Burridge (b. 10 March 1848, d. 29 October 1931)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth8 February 1843Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG
Immigration19 February 1848In 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
Marriage1866New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death18 August 1928(Orange), (New South Wales), (Australia)G
Burial19 August 1928Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Thomas Cantrill

M, #13962, b. 7 December 1846, d. 17 November 1919
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Parents

Family: Bridget Theresa Cullen (b. 1850, d. 1932)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth7 December 1846Smisby, Derbyshire, EnglandG
Immigration19 February 1848In 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
Marriage9 August 1870Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death17 November 1919Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Mary Jane Cantrill

F, #13963, b. January 1848, d. 21 March 1923
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Parents

Family 1: William John Pulley (b. 1842, d. 1868)

Family 2: George Caldwell (b. 1845, d. before 1945)

History

FactDateRolePlace
BirthJanuary 1848At SeaG
Immigration19 February 1848In 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
Marriage1866Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1879New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death21 March 1923Molong, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Joseph Cantrill

M, #13964, b. 1 April 1850, d. 25 July 1933
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Parents

Family: Sarah Ann Richards (b. 1858, d. 1933)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1 April 1850Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Baptism9 June 1850Carcoar, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage15 June 1878Brewarrina, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death25 July 1933Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Frances Cantrill

F, #13965, b. 1853, d. 17 June 1939
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Parents

Family 1: James Caldwell (b. 1840, d. 1906)

Family 2: William Johnson (b. 1856, d. 1936)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1853Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1871Newcastle, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1889Molong, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death17 June 1939New South Wales, AustraliaG
Burial18 June 1939Cumnock Cemetery, New South Wales, AustraliaG+

George Henry Cantrill

M, #13966, b. 16 April 1854, d. 16 June 1925
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Parents

Family: Margaret A Miller (b. 1860, d. 1942)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth16 April 1854Black Swamp, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1884Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death16 June 1925Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Burial17 June 1925Orange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Ellen Cantrill

F, #13967, b. 14 April 1856, d. 16 December 1925
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Parents

Family: John Miller (b. 1851, d. 1941)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth14 April 1856Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1878Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death16 December 1925Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

John Cantrill

M, #13968, b. 1 December 1858, d. 18 July 1901
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Parents

Family: Eleanor Shaw (b. 1857, d. 1920)

History

FactDateRolePlace
BurialOrange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Birth1 December 1858Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1879Parramatta, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death18 July 1901Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Anna Cantrill

F, #13969, b. 1 December 1858, d. 9 March 1859
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Parents

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1 December 1858Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death9 March 1859Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Susannah Cantrill

F, #13970, b. 1860, d. 18 January 1941
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Parents

Family: Robert Miller (b. 10 April 1857, d. 7 February 1945)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1860Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1880Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death18 January 1941Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Albert Edward Cantrill

M, #13971, b. 20 March 1864, d. 1949
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Parents

Family: Louisa Jane Moaer (b. 1865, d. 1959)

History

FactDateRolePlace
DeathOrange Cemetery, Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Birth20 March 1864Black Swamp, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Marriage1885Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG
Death1949Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Jane Astill

F, #13972, b. 24 April 1825, d. 17 January 1909
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Parents

Family: Samuel May (b. 1822, d. 2 December 1891)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth24 April 1825Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
Baptism24 April 1825Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
Marriage24 October 1841Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
ImmigrationEstimated 1854
Death17 January 1909Orange, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Samuel May

M, #13973, b. 1822, d. 2 December 1891
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Family: Jane Astill (b. 24 April 1825, d. 17 January 1909)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1822Stapleton, Leicestershire, EnglandG
Marriage24 October 1841Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
ImmigrationEstimated 1854
Death2 December 1891Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Charles May

M, #13974, b. 1840, d. 4 August 1917
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Parents

  • Father: Samuel May (b. 1822, d. 2 December 1891)
  • Mother: Jane Astill (b. 24 April 1825, d. 17 January 1909)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1840Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
ImmigrationEstimated 1854
Death4 August 1917Wellington, New South Wales, AustraliaG

Joseph May

M, #13975, b. 1842, d. 27 July 1897
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Parents

  • Father: Samuel May (b. 1822, d. 2 December 1891)
  • Mother: Jane Astill (b. 24 April 1825, d. 17 January 1909)

History

FactDateRolePlace
Birth1842Kirby Muxloe, Leicestershire, EnglandG
ImmigrationEstimated 1854
Death27 July 1897Dubbo, New South Wales, AustraliaG