Benjamin Josiah Cramp [7015] ¹

   FamilySearch ID: 9N54-5LD.

  Death Notes:

WILL OF BENJAMIN CRAMP

Will Number 802 76

The Last Will and Testament of Benjamin Cramp of Crookwell, Goulburn.

Executors ; Martha Jane Squire Cramp, Charles Cramp, nephew, of the ''Valley'' near Binda, son of Alfred and Louisa Cramp, nee Payne.

To my wife all my estate for her life and after her death, I direct my trustees to divide the same equally between my eight children, share and share alike.

Children Martha Jane Squire married William Montague Shepherd
Lucy Eva married Alexander Brownlow
Louisa Ann married John Ingolby Webster
Alice Lila married Hugh Seery
Henry Royden married Ellen Margaret McMillan
Elizabeth Hannah married George Henry Seery
Ada Mabel married Albert Michael Seery
Eliza Sarah

Testator died at Crookwell 29th May , 1919.
Estate sworn at 1134 pounds, 11-9 .

  Burial Notes:

St Barnabas Cofe

  Noted events in his life were:

• Registration: Birth, 1840, New South Wales, Australia. ⁵ V18401918 30A/1840
CRAMP, BENJAMIN
JURY
MARIAN

• Court: Charged with a robbery at "Yarranoo", Bigga, New South Wales, 1864 Sep 7, Goulburn, Argyle County, New South Wales. ⁶ At Goulburn Police Court he was reamanded on bail of £100 and two suerities of £50.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1864 Sep 9, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. Page 4 of 8

STICKING UP AT YARRANOO.-After a protracted investigation, at the Goulburn Police Court, on a charge of sticking up a hut occupied by Mr, Bean, at Yarranoo, on the 29th August, Benjamin Cramp was, on Tuesday, committed to take his trial at the Circuit Court on the 24h of October. Considering the evidence for the defence, however, the police magistrate said he would allow bail-the prisoner is the sum of £100, and two sureties of £50 each.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1864 Sep 10, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. Page 5 of 10

Benjamin Cramp has been committed to take his trial as one of the two ruffians who recently robbed and ill-used a woman at the Yaranoo station near Goulburn.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1864 Sep 21, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. Page 5 of 16

r. F. Giles' station Yarranoo, at Binda, was stuck up on Monday evening last, by two armed men, with veiled faces. There was no one in the house at the time but the overseer's wife and child. The cowardly ruffians knocked the woman down, and stole her ring from her finger. They then took a quantity of flour, Salt beef, and clothing. A man named Cramp has been apprehended as being implicated in this out- rage.
Benjamin Cramp has been committed to take his trial as one of the two ruffians who recently robbed and ill-used a woman at the Yaranoo station near Goulburn.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1864 Oct 28, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. Page 5 of 8

TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGES.
[from our correspondents.]
GOULBURN.
Thursday evening.
…
Benjamin Cramp, for robbery with arms, is now being tried.
Weather, wet.

• Newspaper: Advertising, 1865 Feb 22, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ⁷ Advertising. (1865, February 22). The Goulburn Herald and Chronicle (NSW : 1864 - 1881), p. 3. Retrieved April 2, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article100827209>

Five Pounds Reward
WILL be given to anyone giving information
as may lead to the conviction of the party or
parties who left an anonymous letter under my
verandah on the night of the 15th instant, contain-
ing an infamous slander.
BENJAMIN CRAMP,
3600 Crookwell.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1865 Mar 1, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales. Page 2 of 8

Benjamin Cramp, 30th August, by senior-constable Benton, for robbery with arms, committed for trial.

• Occupation: Farmer, 1872, Binda, Georgiana County, New South Wales. ⁸

• Newspaper: Yass Licensing Court, 1886 Jun 26, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ⁹ Yass Licensing Court. (1886, June 26). Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), p. 3. Retrieved April 2, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98461645>

Yass Licensing Court.
AT the Yass Licensing Court on Wednes-
day, the following renewals for licenses were
granted :--Joseph Dowling, Dalton Inn,
Dalton; Benjamin Cramp, Narrawa Inn,
Narrawa; John H. Hately, Frankfield Inn,
Gunning; Fanny Lawless, Telegraph. Inn,
Gunning; Alfred Withers, Grabben Gullen
Hotel, Grabben Gullen; P. H. O'Brien,
Gullen Hotel, Gullen.

• Newspaper: CROOKWELL, 1887 Jun 28, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ¹⁰ CROOKWELL. (1887, June 28). Goulburn Evening Penny Post (NSW : 1881 - 1940), p. 4. Retrieved April 2, 2013, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article98471178>

Mr. Cox said an application for a slaughtering
license had been received from Benjamin Cramp
of Binda, but as there was no report from the
inspector of slaughter houses, the application
would have to stand over.

• Registration: Death, 1917, Crookwell District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹¹ 6815/1917
CRAMP, BENJAMIN
JURY
MARY
CROOKWELL

• Probate, After 1917 May 29, New South Wales, Australia. ¹²

• Newspaper: PASSING OF THE PIONEERS, 1917 Jun 8, Sydney District, New South Wales, Australia. ¹³ PASSING OF THE PIONEERS. (1917, June 8). The Farmer and Settler (Sydney, NSW : 1906 - 1957), p. 4. Retrieved July 14, 2014, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article116631386>

CRAMP.'97 The death occurred of 'Mr. Ben-
jamin Cramp, a native of Peelwood in the Crook-
well (N.S.W) district, at the age of seventy-seven
years.

• Newspaper: The Sydney Morning Herald, 1918 Oct 1, Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales, Australia. Page 1 of 12

N SUPREME COURT OF NEW SOUTH
WALES.-Probate Jurisdiction.-No. 80276.-In the Will of BENJAMIN CRAMP late of Crookwell but formerly of Narrawa in the State of New South Wales Gentleman deceased.- Notice is hereby given that the First Accounts in the above Estate have this day been filed in my office, Elizabeth-street, Sydney, and all persons having any claim on the said Estate, or being otherwise interested therein are hereby re- quired to come in before me at my said office on or before the 11th (eleventh) day of November at 11 o'clock In the forenoon and Inspect the same, and if they shall think fit object thereto otherwise, if the said Account be not objected to, the same will be examined by me and passed according to law. And notice is also hereby given that on the allowance of the said Accounts by the Court, Commission will be applied for on behalf of the said Executors. Dated this thirtieth day of September in the year one thousand nine hundred and eighteen. R. C. MON- DAY (L.S.) Registrar. P. J. MEYER Proctor Mon- tague-street, Goulburn, By his Agent, EVAN MAC- DONALD 8 Spring-street Sydney.

Benjamin married Martha Jane Squire Bray [7016] [LCB4-45M] [MRIN: 2124], daughter of John Bray [10177] [LXSJ-CG3] and Mary Ann McRoberts [3267] [LZZ9-BQH], on 1863 Oct 2 in Binda, Georgiana County, New South Wales. (Martha Jane Squire Bray [7016] [LCB4-45M] was born on 1842 Dec 13 in Sydney, Cumberland County, New South Wales, christened on 1843 Mar 17 in St. Philip, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia,¹⁴ died on 1926 Feb 19 in Gundaroo, Murray County, New South Wales, Australia ¹⁵ and was buried in Narrawa, King County, New South Wales, Australia ¹⁶.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• Registration: Marriage, 1863, Goulburn District, New South Wales. ¹⁷ 1916/1863
CRAMP, BENJAMIN
BRAY
MARTHA JANE SQUIRE
GOULBURN

  Marriage Notes:

At St James Church, Binda.