John Smith was born about 1788 in England, UK. He was buried 1 on 15 Nov 1870 in Christchurch Burial Ground, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. He married 2 Mary Brian in 1814 in Church of England, Parramatta, St. John's NSW, Australia.
Name: James Sidebottom - John Smith James returned to England and was sentenced again and returned as John Smith - To be come known as Gentleman John Smith in the Maitland area. Ship: James Sidebottom - Indian - John Smith - General Hewitt Birth/Death 1787 - 13 November 1870 Married: Mary Furber (nee Brian Bryan) 11 July 1814 Place of Abode: Maitland Children James - 7 July 1815 Sophia - 31 December 1817 married John Edwards Eliza - 26 April 1820 Mary Ann - 1 November 1822 married Charles Chapman John Thomas - 19 June 1824 - married Margaret Logan Matilda - 5 June 1826 - married Paul F Morgan William Henry - 1827
James Sidebottom born abt 1787-
IGI shows James Sidebottom show two James Sidebottom's christened at Ashton Under Lyne, Greater Manchester, England. One christened 29 Oct 1786 to Samuel and Martha Sidebottom nee Morgan married at the Manchester Cathedral 26 Feb 1786 and one christened 26 Nov 1786 to Joseph and Betty Sidebottom nee Chadwick marriage 21 Oct 1784. One of these two sets of parents is probably James Sidebottom aka Gentleman Smith's family.
Came out in the General Hewitt 7 Feb 1814.
Previous name James SidebottomIn reply to your enquiries *** my being in this colony for I humbly beg leave to aquaint you with every particuar relative ** I was comitted at Manchester 11 Oct 1809 in the name of James Sidebottom and recieved sentance of transportation for seven years. I arrived in the colony in the ship Indian Captain Bartley in 1810. I remain sir, your most obedient John Smith. Newcastle, June 27th 1819.
<>An article by Maitland Historian Harry Boyle in the Maitland Mercury on 26 April 2000 recorded particulars of George Furber A George Furber was one of five foundation initiates in Maitland Lodge or Unity on 4 November 1840, the day the lodge was formed The subject of the historical article would have been thirty and so could have been the one who joined Lodge Unity at that time. His father was William Furber and arrived in the Colony in the “Neptune’ in 1795. William married at Penrith on 1 January’ 1808; George was born in 1810. William died in 1811 In January 1813 a “John Smith” was tried at Leicester and sentenced to seven years. He arrived here in 1814 on the “General Hewitt” and in the same year married at Parramatta to the widow Mary Furber In 1817 he was transported to Newcastle for stealing tobacco from his master. He was a well behaved person and was allowed to settle at Wallis Plains. George Furber was John Smith’s stepson and so would have been one of the first settlers in Maitland. By 1830 he was working land and had a convict assigned to him. He cleared the first streets in Maitland, became a landowner in Bank Street, Lawes Street and on the Paterson River. He became the Innkeeper of the George and Dragon. He was affected by the depression of 1840 and was declared insolvent. He had married Mary Muir in 1832 but she died in 1837. He married again to Honorah Curtin who went with him to Queensland and was the only white woman in the area for a long time. There Furber took over “Girkum”, a station which had been abandoned by John Eales because of the fierce nature of aboriginals who had speared shepherds and sheep. He built a store and wharf on the Mary River and opened an Inn. In 1847, he and an employee were building a fence with two aboriginals and at a given signal one aboriginal chopped Furber’s skull while the other killed his employee. Furber later rode 150 miles to lpswich for attention and when he recovered he searched for the aboriginal and shot him. Furber and his son—in—law, Joseph Wilmhurst, were decoyed into an ambush in the bush and surrounded and murdered in December 1855. He had been a pioneer of Maitland and Queensland and died at the young age of 44.
<>Acknowledgements: Maitland Historian Harry Boyle & Maitland Mercury 26 April 2000Death Cert. John Smith Gentleman, reason for death- old age. Place of marriage- Sydney, age 37 Mary Furber.
Buried 15th Nov 1870, Christchurch Burial Ground NewCastle.
Born Yorkshire England, about 60 years in NSW.Alfred Sydney 1837
The property now known as Englefield is believed to have been built by ‘Gentleman’ John Smith c. 1837 at Wallis Creek on his Wallis Plains (now Maitland) farm. The land at Wallis Creek was originally ‘granted’ to him (as ‘tenant at will’) by Governor Lachlan Macquarie in 1818, being one of the eleven early grants in the area permitting settlement to eleven ‘well-behaved’ people.
Smith was an emancipated convict who was sent to the penal settlement at Sydney, arriving in 1810 on the Indian under the name of James Sidebottom (born 1787 at Manchester), but managed to escape back to England. Then, apparently finding little opportunity there, he got himself into trouble again and was transported a second time, arriving in 1814 on the General Hewitt, under the new name of John Smith and was sent to the Newcastle penal settlement where he confessed his past to Major Morisset, the Commandant (documented in the Bigge Report of 1819-1821).
He was made Chief Constable in Newcastle under Commandants Wallis and Morisset circa 1817 to1823, and in 1818 he was allowed to take up land at Wallis Creek, being formally emancipated in 1819. In 1823 Smith opened the first licensed inn in the Hunter Valley, the Ship Inn in Newcastle, and established the first store in it. He formed an agreement with the Waterloo Company in Sydney for the provision of flour to his store and bought the sloop Elizabeth to trade between Newcastle & Sydney.
During this time he continued to expand his farm at Wallis Creek (and other parts of the Hunter) through grants and acquisition, and employed an overseer to run it, supplying wheat to the Commissariat in Newcastle in return for convict labour. In the 1828 Census, Smith was listed twice: in Newcastle as an innkeeper, and in Maitland as a farmer at Hazelwood of Wallis Plains (together with his wife and their seven children) with a total acreage of 775 (of which 160 was under cultivation), 7 horses, 520 head of cattle and 300 sheep.
Smith continued to expand his business in both locations and other parts of the state. On the 18th August 1837, Governor Sir Richard Bourke ratified Smith’s previous grants at Wallis Creek for around 148 acres (refer original indenture with the house signed by both Smith and his wife Mary) and it was around this time that Smith placed an order for stone window sills consistent with those in the original house now known as Englefield, built on that grant.
It has not yet been established whether Smith used this house as his Maitland residence, but its size and elegance for the period, its location on his farm within walking distance of both his mill (Smith’s Flour Mill, rebuilt as a steam mill in 1844) and his mill workers’ accommodation (Smiths Row, later leased by Caroline Chisholm), suggest that it may have been.
While many failed during the 1840s recession, Smith thrived on the available opportunities "by cashing up" and it was at this time (1st March 1843) that he and Mary sold the property to Henry Adams, innkeeper for one hundred pounds sterling (refer original indenture with the house), who then transferred his license for the Black Horse Inn from 46 Newcastle Street (across the road) to the property on 17th June 1845. It appears that around this time the house underwent extensions and alterations (as above) consistent with its conversion to an inn, which it remained until 1878 when Adam’s sons re-converted it to a private residence and sold it (using the name Englefield for the first time).
http://www.nationaltrust.com.au/EngleField.html
Mary Brian [Parents] was born 1 on 7 Apr 1792 in Sydney NSW, Australia. She married 2 John Smith in 1814 in Church of England, Parramatta, St. John's NSW, Australia.
Other marriages:Furber, William
Biography of Mary Brian
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Mary Brian (or Bryan) was born 7 April 1792 at Sydney Cove (making her one of the first few hundred Australians of European heritage), the eldest daughter of Anthony Brian </familyhistory/getperson.php?personID=I0055&tree=DavoTree> and Elizabeth Dean </familyhistory/getperson.php?personID=I0056&tree=DavoTree>, both of whom had arrived in the Colony as convicts in the Second Fleet. On 4 January 1808, at age 15, she married another Second Fleeter, William Furber </familyhistory/getperson.php?personID=I0053&tree=DavoTree>. William was a pioneer of the Kissing Point area and a successful farmer, and they had a son, George </getperson.php?personID=I0051&tree=DavoTree> on 18 December 1810.
William died in July 1811, aged 45, and in 1814 Mary went on to marry John Smith, who had arrived in the colony the same year as a convict on the General Hewitt. In 1817 Smith was found guilty of stealing tobacco from his master and was transported to Newcastle. The family settled in the Wallis Plains area near Maitland where John was a farmer.
John died on 13 November 1870 in Newcastle, and Mary died about 1868, aged about 76.
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They had the following children:
M i Alfred Sydney Smith
Charles Henry Gransden [Parents] was born 1 on 3 Aug 1912 in Milton, Kent, England. He died 2 in 1942 in Malling, Maidstone, England. He married 3 Alice Smith on 5 Oct 1935 in SITTINGBOURNE PC.
Occupation- coal merchant
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Alice Smith [Parents] was born 1 on 12 Jun 1916 in Milton, Kent, England. She died 2 in 1979 in Fairford, Glos. She married 3 Charles Henry Gransden on 5 Oct 1935 in SITTINGBOURNE PC.
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Alice Smith [Parents] was born 1 on 12 Jun 1916 in Milton, Kent, England. She died 2 in 1979 in Fairford, Glos. She married Living.
Other marriages:Gransden, Charles Henry
William James Smith was born 1 about 1882. He married 2 Florence Electrao Bonnett on 17 Jan 1914 in SITTINGBOURNE PC, England.
Occupation: GROCERS ASSISTANT, PUBLICAN (THE PEACE AND PLENTY)
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Florence Electrao Bonnett was born 1 about 1888. She married 2 William James Smith on 17 Jan 1914 in SITTINGBOURNE PC, England.
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Gordon R. I. Long was born 1 about 1895. He married Living.
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