John Blackman [426]

   FamilySearch ID: KGY7-6VQ.

  Death Notes:

At "Nugal Station", Castlereagh Road.

  Burial Notes:

At Rosedale Private Cemetery, Plot 124.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: "free" per Canada, 1801 Dec 14, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales.

• Land grant: 50 acres, 1818, Kelso, Roxburgh County, New South Wales. ³

• Occupation, 1823, Orange, Wellington County, New South Wales. Chief Constable

• Property: slab hut, 1837, Mudgee, Wellington County, New South Wales. ⁴ John built a slab hut, the first building in what was to be surveyed as the township of Mudgee. This hut was his dwelling and a general store.

• Court, 1837 Oct 16-1837 Oct 17, Supreme Court of New South Wales, Cumberland County, Sydney, New South Wales. ⁵ Donnison v. Faunce [www.law.mq.edu.au]
Supreme Court of New South Wales
Dowling A.C.J., 16 and 17 October 1837
Source: Sydney Gazette, 19 October 1837
Before the Acting Chief Justice, and the following Special Jury, - Messrs. T. Gore (foreman), J. Blackman , H. Hume, John Lord, E. Haslingden, C. Fairs, Henry Fisher, J. Verge, E. Holt, J. Tooth, J. Giles, and J. L. Scarvill, Esquires.

I have presumed that this is John as the others J Blackmans were counstables and hence should not have been eligable.

• Land: granted by the NSW Government, 1840 Jun 30, Richmond, Cumberland County, New South Wales. ⁶

• Property: Rosedale Farm, 1850-1858, Bowenfels, Cook County, New South Wales. ⁷ Establised this property.

• Property: The Australia Arms Inn, 1850-1858, Bowenfels, Cook County, New South Wales. ⁷ Now known as "Fernhill".

• Property: Nugal Station on Castlereagh Road, From 1850, Coonamble, Leichhardt County, New South Wales. ⁷

John married Elizabeth Morris [23496] [MRIN: 17042], daughter of James Morris [7240] [97CY-GZG] and Sarah Mitchell [7241] [L8KH-DX4], on 1824 Nov 1 in Castlereagh, Cumberland County, New South Wales.¹ (Elizabeth Morris [23496] was born on 1808 Apr 11 in Nepean River, Cumberland County, New South Wales and died on 1901 Dec 13 in Coonamble, Leichhardt County, New South Wales, Australia ⁸.). The cause of her death was Senile decay.

  Marriage Notes:

At Christ Chruch, Castlereaigh.