Robert Stone Gransden ⁶

   Cause of his death was Heamoptsysis 3 weeks.

   Ancestral File Number: 1QH7-QP6.

  General Notes:

ADM Records of the Admiralty, Naval Forces, Royal Marines, Coastguard, and related bodies
Division within ADM Records of Medical and Prisoner of War Departments
ADM 101 Admiralty and predecessors: Office of the Director General of the Medical Department of the Navy and predecessors: Medical Journals Convict Ships etc.
ADM 101/24/9 Medical journal of the Elphinstone, convict ship, for 15 December 1835 to 30 May 1836 by Colin Arrott Browning, Surgeon and Superintendent, during which time the said ship was employed in transporting prisoners from Woolwich and Sheerness to Hobart Town, Van Diemans Land.

Folio 31: Robert Gransden, aged 23, seaman; sick or hurt, syphilis; put on sick list, 13 February 1836, discharged 24 March 1836 to duty.
http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/displaycataloguedetails.asp?CATLN=7&CATID=-6059748&j=1
(Accessed 6th of October 2011)

Occupation- farmer noted on the death certificate.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Sydney GPO, Government Gazettes. 13 Sep 1841 Postal NSAG NSW 1841 p1255. List of unclaimed letters for the month of August 1841.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Sydney GPO, Government Gazettes. 2 Jun 1842, Postal. NSAG NSW 1842 p795. List of unlcaimed letters for the month of May 1842.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Sydney GPO, Government Gazettes. 6 Feb 1843, Postal. NSAG NSW 1843 p215. List of unclaimed letters for the month of Jan 1843.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Bathurst GPO, Government Gazettes. 4 Dec 1843, Postal. NSAG NSW 1843 p1608. List of unclaimed letters for the month of Nov 1843.

The difference between the Letters being reported as unclaimed in February and Robert's wedding in May shows that Robert moved to Bathurst between Feb and May 1843.

1846 listed as labourer on daughter Matilda's baptisim- residence- Bathurst.
1847 listed as Shepherd at the time of his sons Baptisim with abode being Wollar, Mudgee, NSW.
1849 Listed as Shepherd at the time of Henry's baptisim- residence- Lahy's Creek Guntawang, NSW.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Bathurst GPO, Government Gazettes. 31 Jan 1850, Postal. NSAG NSW 1850 p291. List of unclaimed letters since this list was last printed.

Gransden, Robert. NSW Bathurst GPO, Government Gazettes. 30 Apr 1850, Postal. NSAG NSW 1850 p767. List of unclaimed letters since this list was last printed. Robert Gransden noted as Bathurst c/o JB Tindale, Bathurst.

1857-64
A transaction from Robert GRANSDEN to John WOODS Book 78 No 743
Lot 3 Section 6 Burton St, Village of Longbottom, Parish of Concord, County Cumberland.
Land originally purchased by Robert Gransden from Joseph Wallis on the 17 Jan 1854. Land sold to John Woods 2 Jul 1862.
Lot 3, Section 6 Bound on the South by Burton St, one chain, on the East by allotments no. 5, three chains, on the north by allotment no. 12, once chain and on the West by allotment number two, three chains. The deeds are suggestive of both house and land.
Land sold for fifty five pounds sterling.
Robert was noted as Labourer on the Deeds as was John Woods.
NSW Land and Property Information http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/land_titles/public_registers/general_register_of_deeds

This is equivalent to 47 Burton St Concord.
Land Title Subdivision Maps 1923, May 1886 http://images.maps.nsw.gov.au/pixel.htm# (Accessed 13th Jan 2017)

Colonial Secretary's Office,.
Sydney, 7 June, 1859.
MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.
CONCORD COUNTER PETITION.
HIS Excellency the Governor General with the advice of the Executive Council, has directed the publication of the substance and prayer of a Counter Petition to His Excellency as hereinafter set forth; presented on
the 27th ultimo, and signed by three hundred and thirty-six resident householders of the Parish of Concord,'97such Counter Petition being in opposition to a Petition presented for the erection of a Municipality for Concord and gazetted on the 9 th March last.
CHARLES COWPER.

The Petitioners state that they have learned that a memorial has been presented to His Excellency purporting to contain the signatures of two hundred inhabitants'97several of whom are neither resident householders or freeholders of the Parish'97praying that the parish of Concord may be proclaimed a Municipality. They further state that, being a large majority of bona fide householders residing in the said Parish, after careful consideration of both the Act of Council relating to Municipalities) and of their own local requirements, they are in the highest degree opposed to any such proclamation. And they pray as follows:'97" That no further " steps may be taken for the proclaiming the " said Parish of Concord a Municipality."
Robert Gransden, household, Longbottom
1859 'MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 8 June, p. 1295. , viewed 20 Feb 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228717802

1868-Death Certificate notes Robert Gransden's occupation as farmer.
Cause of death Hamophylis- duration three weeks. Last saw doctor on the 19th of September.
Death notified by son- Robert Gransden.
Name of minister who buried Robert Gransden- William Lisle, Church of England, witnessed by Joseph and Amos Cole.
Undertaker- Sammueal Raymond/Daymond
At time of death son Robert was 21 and son Henry was 19, one female (Matilda) deceased.

Colonial Secretary's Office,.
Sydney, 7 June, 1859.
MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.
CONCORD COUNTER PETITION.
HIS Excellency the Governor General with the advice of the Executive Council, has directed the. publication of the substance and prayer of a Counter Petition to His Excellency as hereinafter set forth; presented on
the 27th ultimo, and signed by three hundred and thirty-six resident householders of the Parish of Concord,'97such Counter Petition being in opposition to a Petition presented for the erection of a Municipality for Concord and gazetted on the 9 th March last.
CHARLES COWPER.
The Petitioners state that they have learned that a memorial has been presented to His Excellency purporting to contain the signatures of two hundred inhabitants' several of whom are neither resident householders or freeholders of the Parish' praying that the parish of Concord may be proclaimed a Municipality. They further state that, being a large majority of bona fide householders residing in the said Parish, after careful consideration of both the Act of Council relating to Municipalities) and of their own local requirements, they are in the highest degree opposed to any such proclamation.
And they pray as follows:'" That no further " steps may be taken for the proclaiming the " said Parish of Concord a Municipality."
Robert Gransden, household, Longbottom
(Along with 300 or so other names).
1859 'MUNICIPAL INSTITUTIONS.', New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), 8 June, p. 1297. , viewed 07 Dec 2016, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article228717802


Grandson, R. shown as living at Campbells River, West Maquarie in the Walter Sampson and Co. NSW and National Directory for 1867-1868

Empire Sydney, NSW : Tuesday 20 February 1866
Robert and Edwin Gransden, or anywone knowing their whereabouts; last known at Bathurst,- their brother would like to see them or hear from them. Address- S. Gransden, Mrs Taylor's Boarding-house, Margaret St, Sydney.

Robert married Sophia Stapley, daughter of Samuel Stapley and Hannah Martin, on 8 May 1843 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia.³⁸¹ (Sophia Stapley was born on 15 Jul 1820 in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England ³⁸⁴, christened on 15 Jul 1821 in Wadhurst, East Sussex, England,¹²⁵ died on 5 Oct 1905 in March, Orange, New South Wales, Australia ³⁸⁵ and was buried on 7 Oct 1905 in March, Orange, New South Wales, Australia ³⁸⁴.). The cause of her death was Senile Decay.

  Marriage Notes:

Witness Henry Stapely of Ralph's Plains and Thomas Hore of O'Connell Plains