Tuesday 18 June 2013

John Thomas COWIE 1888 - 1967

 John's birth was not registered and his birth date has been estimated as 28 September 1888 at Croydon Bush, 10km west of Gore SLD. Interestingly, Clinton School records list his date of birth as 21 Sep 1889. His father John Robertson COWIE arrived in New Zealand with his family in 1877 at the age of 13 years on the Marlborough from Clyde, SCT. His mother, Mary Ann, nee BATES, was the second daughter of Nathaniel BATES and Ann PAULEY, nee WILLIAMS.
NZSG School Records (APWs)
Name COWIE John T School Clinton Register Number 195 Admission Date 20 Jan 1896 Parent / Guardian John COWIE Birth date 21 Sep 1889 Last School Last Day 18 Dec 1896 Destination Clydevale.
   
John spent his childhood years at Berwick, Goodwood and his youth in South Otago around Kaitangata. He then moved to Central Otago with his family, where he met Ada GAUDIN who had worked at Cadbury’s at Dunedin for a time when she first left school. Ada and John married on the 25 June 1913, folio 3948, at Luggate and began married life in what was known as the ‘haunted house’, nearby at Rocky Point with Ada’s parents, George and Annie Gaudin.
Granddaughter Kate Anderson recalls Alf told us grandad worked on a shove loading roads 6 days a week in the IDA Valley  and would walk home over Thompsons pass on sat night, walk back Sunday night. He left his horse at the Ida Valley to rest one day a week. Grandad told the kids he always had two shovel fulls in the air and one on the ground, he was so fast.(sounds like a grandad story) He later drove a Ellis Chalmer Planer for the Vincent County.

Being the middle child in a family of six, I used to love staying at Grannie and Grandad's as a child in the early 1960's. They used to take me to Cromwell to visit Aunty Bell and they would buy me a length of dress material to take home. I loved to help Grannie with the baking and recall Grandad  telling me the cake we were making would flop because I was left handed and the was using the hand beaters backwards! Grandad loved playing patience and I treasure an old pack of cards he gave me all those years ago. He  always had a supply of cigars that he enjoyed in the evening and would sit and list to Bills’ records, especially Mary Ann Regrets sung by Burl Ives, with tears streaming down his cheeks.

I saved up my money to buy my sweetheart some flowers
For Saturday's date and I restlessly counted the hours.
Then today in the mail I received this short little note
And I broke down inside at the message that her mother wrote.

Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again;
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.
They know that she loves me, but poor boys don't fit in their plan.
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann.

The weeks have gone by not a word have I heard since then;
In the papers I read of the faraway places she's been.
I can't eat, I can't sleep for over and over again
My mind reads that letter and I cry for my Mary Ann.

Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again;
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.
They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their plan.
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary Ann.

My Mary Ann died, they said she just wasted away;
If I could have seen her I know she'd be living today.
For we loved each other and if they'd have left us alone,
Today she'd be wearing my ring, not a blanket of stone.

Mary Ann regrets she's unable to see you again;
We're leaving for Europe next week, she'll be busy till then.
They know that she loves me but poor boys don't fit in their plan.
Good-bye true love, good-bye my sweet Mary-Ann

John died on 3 Aug 1967 at Dunedin Hospital and was buried with his wife Ada at Cromwell Cemetery.

Except from Our Cowies from Scotland to Otago complied by Marie Heilbrunn 2013

Monday 17 June 2013

Theodore Charles TRAUTWEIN 1869 - 1955
  
Theodore Charles, also known as TC, was born 20 Dec 1869 in Camperdown, Victoria and married Kathleen KANE on 7 Sept 1895 in Sydney. They had two sons who died in infancy, then a daughter, Kathleen Augusta Waverley TRAUTWEIN 1906 - 1996 and a son Theo William Nugent TRAUTWEIN 1912 - 1961, known as Bill.

Theodore was registered in the 1903 Electoral Roll and the Royal Hotel, Auburn Road, Auburn and also in the 1904 NSW Post Office Directory. In the 1903 Electoral Roll his brother William lived at 16 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern, with his mother, Annie. William's occupation was Railway Porter. William, Annie and Sydney are listed at the same address in the 1904 NSW Post Office Directory. The 1913 NSW Telephone Exchanges - list of Subscribers, lists Theodore C at "Trautwein's Hotel" King and Pitt Streets, telephone number 3140 City.

TC owned many hotels in Sydney, including the Coogee Bay Hotel. He was able to buy his first hotel with earnings from racehorses. He became a Member of Parliament but did not pay tax for many years as he was friends with the tax commissioner, but was later charged and jailed, bringing shame on the family. Source Sydney Frappell 1998.

In the early hours of 19 January, 1903, Theodore Trautwein, the licensee of the Royal Hotel at Auburn was awakened by a loud noise. The sound had appeared to come from the bar area of the hotel, and taking a revolver with him, Trautwein went to investigate. In the bar he saw and heard a person lying on the floor, apparently in great pain. As other residents of the hotel appeared, a candle was lit and it was found that the injured person was a local constable, Samuel LONG. A doctor was called and it was found that the constable had suffered a severe gunshot wound to his head. He died a short time later, unable to identify his attacker. A lengthy investigation eventually revealed that the Constable had been shot whilst trying to apprehend two offenders, Grand and Jones, whom he had caught after they had broken into the hotel. After the shooting, the offenders had escaped by horse and sulky. Both offenders were hanged on 7 July, 1903. The Constable was born in 1865 and joined the New South Wales Police Force on 6 July, 1894. At the time of his death, he was stationed at Auburn.

Political Party Activity - Independent. Community Activity-Commissioned as a Justice of the Peace in 1915.
Qualifications, occupations and interests: Publican and hotel broker. Managing director of hotel at Katoomba, purchased and sold other hotels; became a shareholder in Victoria Park Racing Club; racehorse owner and punter, involved in lengthy legal proceedings over liability for tax on income from betting; bankrupted and convicted in 1940 of making false representations; and in 1942 of contempt of court. Discharged as a bankrupt in 1950.
Member of the NSW Legislative Council 23 Apr 1934 16 Apr 1940 5yr(s) 11mth(s) 25day(s)  A Member of the indirectly elected Council 1934 - 1978. Date of Election 7 November 1933. Seat declared vacant on 16 April 1940 under Section 19 of of the Constitution Act.
Personal: Son of Theodore Trautwein and Annie McCarthy. Married Katherine Gertrude Elizabeth KANE in 1895 at Sydney. Funeral at Randwick cemetery from St Mary's Roman Catholic Roman Catholic cathedral. Source www.pariliament.nsw.gov.au
Thomas BATES Circa 1770 - 1836

In January of the year 1788 as the First Fleet sailed into Port Jackson, Australia, a young man walked the streets on London looking for work. With a population of almost a million people, London was now the largest city in the world and was home to beggars, traders and royalty. The urban sprawl was made of up of communities along the Thames within reach of the open fields of Middlesex and Essex.

As the weeks went by Thomas’ boots began to wear out, and on 6 April upon seeing some boots on a counter in the lane he was walking through, he snatched a pair and ran off, but was pursued and indicted. A month later on 7 May 1788 Thomas was charged with stealing two (odd) men’s leather boots to the value of 10 shillings, the property of Edward Bell. His defence was that he had seen a boy go in and take the boots, he ran after him and picked them up when the boy dropped them. Thomas BATES, aged 15 years, was tried by a Middlesex Jury at the Old Bailey, the London Central Criminal Court before Mr Recorder, found guilty and sentenced to transportation to Port Jackson for seven years.

Thomas remained a year in Newgate Goal, next to the court until May 1789 when he was sent with a large group of London convicts to the Dunkirk hulk at Plymouth on the Devon Coast, about 310 kms south west of London. The Dunkirk was an old Fourth- rate ship built in Woolwich, London in 1754 and converted to a guard ship and moored at Plymouth in 1782. As the prison population grew during the 18th century the British government started to send convicts from Newgate and the county prisons to overseas penal colonies, firstly North America until the Revolutionary War stopped the British sending their convicts across the Atlantic. In 1786 the colony of New South Wales was proclaimed by King George III. In January 1787 the government decided to transport convicts to New South Wales and on 18 January 1788 the First Fleet arrived to set up a prison colony.

At the end of November 1789 Thomas was embarked on the 809 ton Second Fleet ship Neptune convict transport under Master Donald Triall and departed England on 19 January 1790 with the Surprize and Scarborough. These three ships were contracted from the slave trading firm , Camden, Clavert and King who undertook to transport clothe and feed the convicts for a flat fee of £17 7s.6d per head, whether they landed alive or not. They made only one stop on the way, at the cape of Good Hope, South Africa. The three vessels arrived at Sydney cove in the last week of June 1790, three weeks after Lady Juliana with 222 female convicts on board and one week after the storeship Justinian. The passage was relatively fast in comparison to the First Fleet, but the mortality rate was very high (26%). Of the 1,026 convicts embarked on the  Second Fleet 267 died during the voyage.The convicts on the Neptune were deliberately starved, kept in irons, were often refused access to the deck and had scurvy from poor food and lack of Vitamin C. On arrival the chaplain of the Colony, Reverend Richard Johnson described the terrible scene:

The landing of these people was truly affecting and shocking; great numbers were not able to walk, nor to move hand or foot. Upon their being brought up to the open air some fainted, some died on the deck, and others in the boat before they reached the shore. When come on shore many were not able to walk, to stand, or stir themselves in the least, hence some were led by others. Some creeped upon their hands and knees, and some were carried upon the backs of others.

On arrival half naked convicts were lying without bedding and too ill to move. All were covered in lice and those unable to walk were slung over the sides of the ship. At least 486 Second Fleet convicts, 47%, arrived sick and the remainder were described as lean and emaciated. The ill were treated in the makeshift hospital and the well were put to work in Sydney and Parramatta constructing roads, bridges and public buildings, farming to produce food, milling timber and manufacturing bricks. Thomas could have worked at any of these trades, honing his skills to become a soldier, carter, then a boat builder.

Thomas birthplace was recorded later in 1808 on his transfer from the 102nd Regiment as Harwich Suffolk. Harwich is an old maritime and shipbuilding area 70 miles (112km) north east of London, but is located in Essex, not Suffolk. Thomas was free by servitude in 1795, having completed two years in the hulks in England and then five years penal servitude in Sydney. Thomas obviously had a strong constitution to have survived the horrors of his transportation and long hours serving out the balance of his seven year sentence. The five years between 1785 and 1800 are unaccounted for, but he obviously made his living and had time to socialize and get to know his future bride, a soldier’s daughter named, Ann GRIFFIN.

By 1800 Sydney was becoming established and had 3,000 inhabitants. The first St Philips, a wattle and daub T shaped church that seated 500, was built in 1793 by the Chaplain of the Colony, Reverend Richard Johnson. It burnt down in 1798 and a new church was then built off York Street now Lang Park. The foundation of the sandstone church was laid in 1800 but was not completed until 1810.

Ann GRIFFIN, a soldiers daughter, married Thomas BATES on 12 May 1800 at St Philips Church of England, Sydney in a service conducted by the Reverend Richard Johnson. The witnesses were Harry PARSONS and Phebe WALTON. All parties signed the register with an X (meaning they could not read or write), with the exception of Harry PARSONS, a first fleet marine soldier from the Sirius. Harry transferred to the NSW Corps in 1792 and married seven year convict, Mary SWAIN in 1796.  Phebe was also a seven year convict sentenced in Gloucester in 1794, aged 22 years, and was transported on the Indispensible in 1796.

A few months after his marriage on 23 Aug 1800, encouraged by his friend Harry Parsons and his soldier father in law Michael, Thomas enlisted as a private in the NSW Corps, later renamed as the 102nd Regiment. Rarely more than 500 strong, they formed the garrison of the penal colony of New South Wales for almost twenty years. Their uniform was similar to that of the Marines, but with a yellow facing on the coat and different shoulder belt plate and buttons. A shako was worn on the head. It was a tall cylindrical military hat, made of stiff material, with a short visor and a plume at the front.

Thomas and Ann probably lived in the soldiers’ quarters in Back Row (Kent Street) when they first married. On 5 May 1805 the Sydney Gazette reported that Thomas Bates, a soldier in the NSW Corps received a severe wound to the neck from a falling branch when felling a tree near Cockle Bay, later renamed Darling Harbour. We do not know if this was his future grant he was clearing at the time or when the family home was constructed at Cockle Bay. Thomas and Ann raised their large family of eight children, five girls and three boys at their home in Bates Lane, off Sussex Street, Cockle Bay.

Lydia, their first child was born on 9 May 1806 and baptised at St Philips on 25 Dec 1806. The next year Thomas was transferred to York Town, near Port Dalrymple, Van Diemen’s Land, now known as Tasmania. York Town was first settled in 1804 and was originally chosen for its good water supply, but the hard clay soil proved unsuitable for agriculture. Thomas and Ann’s second daughter Maria (pronounced Mariah) was born there on 14 Dec 1808. After their return to Sydney in 1810 Maria was baptised at St Philips on 1 April.

In his absence on 17 July 1809 Thomas was granted lease number 219 by William Paterson of 13½ rods (1.37 hectares) at Back Row, now Kent Street, on the foreshore of Cockle Bay. The rent was 5 shillings a year for 14 years, securing his right to live there. Edward GOLDSBOROUGH, another soldier in the 102nd Regiment, was also given the next lease of 21½ rods (2.18 hectares) under the same terms.Ryan, R.J Land Grants 1788 – 1809, Sydney 1981

Sussex Street was cut from the rock bordering Cockle Bay and was named by Governor Macquarie in 1810. He also renamed other streets in the area that had military names. Sergeant Majors Row became George Street, Barracks Row became York Street, Soldiers (Middle) Row became Clarence Street and (Soldiers) Back Row became Kent Street. Although old names stick as in 1825 Thomas Bates, boat builder of Back Street was on the list of persons liable to serve as a juror in Sydney.

Thomas and Ann’s third child and first son, William was born on 2 Sep 1812 and was baptised on the 27th day of the same month at St Philips. Two years later on 26 Sep 1814 he was followed by a second son they named James who was not baptised until 26 Feb 1815. Their fifth child Ann, named after her mother, was born on 2 May 1817 and was baptised on the 25th  day of the same month at St Philips. Nathaniel, their third son was born on 24 Nov 1819 and was baptised on 2 Jan 1820 at St Philips.

About this time Thomas was discharged from the army and in the 1822 Muster HO 10/36 he was recorded as being employed as a carter. The former seven year convict now free by servitude living in Sydney with his six children all born in the colony. Lydia aged 16, Maria aged 13, William aged 11, James aged 9, Ann aged 5 and 3 year old Nathaniel. Ann was listed separately under her maiden name of GRIFFIN, came free on the Britannia, wife of T Bates of Sydney.

The Governors of NSW were empowered to grant land to emancipists (ex-convicts), some military and free settlers. Thomas applied for his land grant to Governor Macquarie in a memorial dated 3 July 1820 and was granted 80 acres in Gordon on the North Shore in 1823. He promptly sold the land to the merchant Thomas HYNDES, his son in law George Green’s uncle.

The memorial states:

To His Excellency Governor Macquarie
 Memorial of Thomas Bates, late a Private in the 102nd – 73rd & 46th Regiments ~ Respectfully represents:    That your Memorialist came to this Colony in the Ship Neptune in the year 1790. That your Memorialist has served in the said Regiments upwards of seventeen years; and in consequence of having a wife and six children he obtained his discharge.
That your Memorialist, in order to provide more comfortably for his numerous family, humbly prays Land may be granted to him, with such other
indulgences, as your Excellency may deem him deserving of.
Signed, Thos Bates
I believe the petitioner to be a sober, honest & industrious man. William Cowper   JP
Mr Bates has always been a well connected man. John Piper JP
Sydney 3rd July 1820

Martha, Thomas and Ann’s seventh child and fourth daughter was born on 22 May 1823 and baptised the next month on 15 Jun 1823 at St Philips. She was recorded as Matthew aged two and a half years on the 1825 Muster HO 10/19, but all other details for the rest of the family are correct. This Muster is the first time that Thomas’ occupation was recorded as Boat Builder, but it is unknown if he had his own business or worked for someone else.

Originally ship building was banned in the colony to prevent the escape of convicts and to prevent any infringement on the trading monopoly of the East India Company. New boats were soon required and the existing ones needed constant repairs. The Australian timbers proved difficult to work, but blackbutt, spotted gum and mahogany timbers were soon appreciated in ship construction for their toughness.

Eldest daughter Lydia married shoemaker John STEWART at St Phillips on 1 Mar 1825 and their first child, Thomas and Ann’s first grandchild, Mary Ann arrived on 7 Feb 1826. Sarah, Thomas and Ann’s last child, was born on 9 April 1826 and baptised 30 April at St Philips.

Two years later in the 1828 Census Thomas, aged 53, occupation boat builder, and his wife Ann, aged 42, were still living at Sussex Street with six of their eight children and a lodger born in the colony, Mary Kelly aged 16 years. The Census was taken in Nov 1828 and revealed that the white population of Australia was 37,000. Of these, 21,000 were free and 16,000 were convicts, 23.8% of the population were born in the Colony although Indigenous Australians were not counted.

 BUT Thomas’ status was given as CF, meaning Came Free. I have checked the original records and there is no mistake. One has to remember that the colony of NSW was now almost forty years old and convict origins would have carried a certain stigma.  Thomas had land cleared and cultivated at Sussex Street, with three horses and seven cattle. It is not hard to imagine that their children had an idyllic childhood on the shores of Cockle Bay, with boats to sail, horses to ride and cows to chase!

Thomas must have been fond of his horses. When one was lost or strayed in 1829  he offered a reward of £1 on page one the Sydney Gazette on Thursday 30 Apr. Thomas gave his address as Cockle Bay. . On 1 Aug 1823 Thomas BATES of Kent Street was on a list of persons who received an assigned convict. He was John PODMORE per Malabar 1819, but nothing else is known of him as he was not listed in the 1828 Census of NSW.

Thomas died 17 December 1836 and was buried in the Old Devonshire Street Cemetery. His tombstone read in part:

Sacred to the memory of Mr Thomas Bates,
late of the 102nd Regt. of Foot, aged 64 years.
He was a faithful man and feared God above many.

The cemetery was cleared to make way for the new Central Railway station in 1901 and relatives with family buried there were asked to apply for an exhumation permit to have the remains transferred to a dedicated Pioneer Park at Botany. This was done by Thomas and Ann’s granddaughter, Mrs Lydia WEST of 10 Nickson Street, Surry Hills, Sydney.

Extract from 'The Bates of Sussex Street'
The RIGBY Family from County Durham, England


Thomas RIGBY, a Pitman (Miner) married Eliza Elizabeth CURSON in the Wingate Grange Church Easington Durham on the 7 April 1851, just after the 1851 Census.

The 1861 England Census shows Thomas and Elizabeth RIGBY living at 347 Davisons Row, Wingate, between Durham and Hartlepool. Thomas' occupation is listed as Green Grocer. Three daughters were living there with them, Mary Jane Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1851), Alice Rigby, aged 5, (Born C.1856) and Elizabeth Rigby, aged 1, (Born C.1860), all born Wingate.

Thomas and Elizabeth Rigby are not listed in the 1871 census, but we find that their elder daughter, Mary Jane, 20, has married Andrew THOMPSON, a coal miner, born 1845 in Alnwick, Northumberland and they are living at 73 Seghiorn St, Wingate Colliery, with Mary Jane's three sisters, Elizabeth Rigby, aged 10, (Born C.1861) Isabell Rigby, aged 8, (Born C.1863) and HANNAH, aged 3, (born C.1868). HANNAH RIGBY is not found on the 1881 Census, but a HANAH THOMPSON is, at Stranton, Durham; she may have taken her older sister Mary Jane's married name.

There is death entry for Thomas RIGBY for 1870, and a burial for his wife, Elizabeth in May 1870 at Wingate. Burials, Easington District - Record Number: 10275.2,Location: Wingate Grange, Church: Holy Trinity,Religion: Anglican, 3 May 1870 Eliza Elizabeth Rigby, age: 41

On Isabella’s birth certificate 16th of August 1862 Thomas’ occupation was given as Green Grocer, but Annie says he was a miner on her marriage certificate to George Gaudin in 1889, then he was an Artist when she died in 1916! The family passed down the story that Annie was an orphan and was adopted by the Rigby circus family. When she decided to come to New Zealand she was outfitted with three sets of new clothes by her adoptive parents.

Our elusive Annie Rigby's birth certificate has now been found by the grand daughter of Mary Jane. Her birth was registered under Hannah RICKABY, born 26 October 1867 at Wingate, Easington, Durham to Thomas RICKABY, Greengrocer and Elizabeth CURSON. The birth was registered by Elizabeth on the 6th of December 1867. The baptism is on durhamrecordsonline:
Baptisms, Easington District - Record Number: 87267.0 Location: Wingate Grange Church: Holy Trinity, Religion: Anglican 1 Dec 1867 Hannah Rickarby, daughter of Thomas Rickarby & Eliza.

Ann RIGBY, a general servant, emigrated to Port Chalmers, New Zealand on the in Bombay in1884 and married George GAUDIN, a widower in 1889 and they lived up the Wilkin River at Makarora,Otago. Six children were born over the next ten years and Annie died at the early age of 48 in Dunedin in 1916 and was buried at Andersons Bay Cemetery.
Ann WILLIAMS 1842 - 1899


Ann WILLIAMS, a half caste Ngai Tahu, appears as No.1094 in the 1848 Kaumatua (Blue book), the official record of Ngai Tahu alive in that year. Her father was possibly a Welshman, a whaler, James WILLIAMS. Her Maori mother was unkown, died young and was possibly Annie KAHU. She lived with her parents for approximately two years, then with the PAULIN/PAULEY family. She was then adopted by Tiki karaweko, the first wife of Chief Paororo.

  She married George PAULEY, a half caste aged 24 years, on 6th of May 1861 in Riverton. In 1862, Ann and George Pauley's first child, Joseph was born, and in September 1863, a daughter, Sarah. In 1864 Ann arrived at Nathaniel BATES house at Flax Point, Riverton and announced she was expecting his child. Ann stayed on at his home and together they had another 12 children which Ann and Harriet raised together. When Nathaniel drowned in the Aparima River in 1887, both Harriet and Ann gave evidence at the inquest into his death that they all lived happily together at Raymonds Gap.

 Ann died 12th of October 1899 of tuberculosis and was buried at Riverton Cemetery beside her daughter, Elizabeth and her husband Morgan HAYES.

Her headstone Inscription at Riverton Cemetery:
In Loving Memory Of Ann Williams
Died at Scots Gap (sic)
On Oct 11th 1899 Aged 55 Years R.I.P.

Source: Nathaniel Bates of Riverton, his Families and Decendants by Linda Scott, Finlay Bayne and photos by Michael O'Connor.
Ethel TRAUTWEIN, nee RAMAGE 1896 - 1950

Ethel Christina RAMAGE was born at Dryfield, Black Mountain near Guyra NSW, on the 27th of October 1896, the eldest of nine children of  of James Thomas RAMAGE and Lillie Maud SPINKS. James grandparents, James Senior and Christina, nee KILPATRICK emigrated from Lanarkshire, Scotland on the St Helena in 1854 and worked ON stations in the New England area of NSW.

Ethel met Sydney TRAUTWEIN, a local school teacher at Conifer, near her home at Green Valley, Tingha, when she was about fifteen years old and they married at Redfern, Sydney in 1914 when Ethel was seventeen.Their son, Theodore Charles Trautwein, known as Theo, was born in Sydney in 1915 and daughter, Hilda Augusta was born at Tingha in 1921. Theo was a merchant seaman and was killed in 1947 at Penrith, in a collision with an Air Force motor vehicle. Hilda met Werner HEILBRUNN at Jillilby where he was farming. They went to the pictures in Wyong by horse and buggy on their first date.
     
Sydney was teacher in charge at Jilliby school from 1933 until he retired in 1949. Ethel taught sewing at the schools that Sydney taught at Kanwal and Jilliby, near Wyong from 1916 to 1949 and died from heart problems at Tingha in 1950. She was buried at Botany Cemetery with her son Theo. Her husband, Sydney, who died in 1963, was buried alongside Ethel and Theo.
Theodore Trautwein 1837 - 1902

Theodore was born in Lauterbach, Hesse, a small historic village in the centre of Germany. His father was William TRAUTWEIN and mother Augusta SARTONES. Theodore arrived on the  ship "Victoria" in Melbourne on 26 November 1854 from Hamburg, his occpation given was "Kaufmann", at the age of eighteen years to join the gold rush in Victoria. Theodore married Annie McCARTER (an Irish girl who was ten years younger) in Colac VIC 31 March 1864, and together they had nine children.

Sophia's was birth was registered in Camperdown VIC in 1865 and William in Colac VIC in 1868. When Theodore Charles Jnr was birth was registrerd in 1869 at Colac Victoria Theodore's occupation was given as Publican. Annie Blanche's was birth was registered in Camperdown and Florence in Colac.

The family left Victoria in approx 1877 and travelled overland by horse and dray to Sydney. Augusta was born in Hay NSW in 1878 and baby John was born and died in Cobar NSW 16 Aug1881. Theodore's occupation at that time was sawyer. Hilda was born in 1883 in St.Leonards and when their last child, Sydney was born at Marsden Street, Parramatta on 26 November 1885, Theodore was 48 years old and Annie was 38. Theodore's occupation was given as Gardener of Eastern Creek, west of Sydney.  His orchard was named “Persimmon Grove“ Grange Farm.

Theodore died, aged 67, in Windsor Hospital on the 8th of May 1902 of Cardiac disease and was buried 9 May 1902, Minister was SG Fielding. He has a large, well kept grave at St Matthews, Windsor, NSW, on the opposite corner of the church where the tomb of Michael Griffin, his daughter Lydia (sister of Ann Bates, nee Griffin) and her two convict husbands, John Benn and John McDonald lies.

Annie remarried on 16 Jun 1904 in Sydney to Thomas Richard MOZZALL, a builder, and died in 1940 at Kingsford NSW. Annie was buried on the 20 April, 1940 in the Church of England Cemetery, Waverley, with her daughters Hilda and Florence.
Sydney TRAUTWEIN 1886 - 1963 

Sydney was born in on 26 Nov 1886 at Marsden Street, Parramatta. His parents were Theodore TRAUTWEIN, an orchardist, born in Germany and Annie McCARTER, born Londonderry, Ireland. Theodore and Annie met and married in 1864 at Camperdown in Victoria. Five children were born there the family left Victoria about 1877 and travelled overland by horse/bullock and dray to Sydney. Augusta was born in Hay NSW in 1878 and baby John was born and died in Cobar NSW 16 Aug 1881. Theodore's occupation at that time was sawyer. Hilda was born in 1883 in St Leonards and when Sydney was born at Marsden Street, Parramatta on 26 November 1885, Theodore was 48 years old and Annie was 38. Sydney was the last of nine children.

  The family lived on an orchard named Persimmon Grove Grange Farm at Riverstone and when Sydney's father died in 1902 and he then moved to Great Buckingham St, Redfern with his mother. On the 1903 Electoral Roll Sydney's brother, William lived at 16 Great Buckingham Street, Redfern, with his mother, Annie. William's occupation was railway porter. Annie, William and Sydney are listed at the same address in the 1904 NSW Post Office Directory. Syd trained as a primary school teacher in Sydney and met 16 year old Ethel Ramage while teaching at a small country school at Conifer, Tingha, near Inverell. They married on 16 Apr 1914 at Redfern, Sydney. Their son Theo was born in 1915 in Sydney and daughter Hilda in 1921 in Tingha. Syd always dressed well and in a photo of Conifer School, taken in 1925 he is wearing a dark jacket, white trousers and shoes and a bow tie.  

His Teacher Record Card from State Records lists Syd’s teaching record:

1908    Watermark                  Salary 138 pounds

1909    Carara and Wandoba  Salary 138 pounds

1911    Conifer                        Salary 192 pounds

1929    Kanwal                         Salary 358 pounds

1933    Jilliby                          Last day of Service 31st Dec 1949

Sydney taught at Kanwal School, Central Coast from 17 Jan 1929 until the end of 1932. During this time he wrote lots of letters to the Department of Education requesting repairs to the toilet block and trees to be planted for shade.  He was teacher in charge at Jilliby School from 1933 until he retired in 1949. Ethel taught the girls sewing and the boys handicrafts. While he was at the school the buildings and grounds were well looked after. Garden beds of petunias, with ivy, bouganvilleas and geraniums covering the walls made a magnificent show. Sydney was presented with a gold watch inscribed "Presented to S. Trautwein as a mark of esteem from the residents of Jilliby 14.12.49." Syd and Ethel’s son Theo was tragically killed in motor vehicle accident at Emu Plains, west of Sydney, on 24 May 1947. Theo’s wife and daughter were also involved but survived.

After his retirement Syd often worked for his brother, TC at Bellfields Hotel in Sydney and tutored local children in maths and English. After Ethel died he lived with his daughter, Hilda and her husband, Werner HEILBRUNN at MacPhersons Road, Mardi, near Wyong. Syd loved chocolate and his grandson Dennis remembers getting very ill from chocolate eggs brought home one Easter. He drove a Morris Minor and Dennis would have to find the car after a night out with his friends at the bottom pub, The Royal.   While visiting family in Sydney Syd fell ill on the 21 Nov 1963 in Awatea Private Hotel in Sydney, the and died from myocardial infarction and coronary artery disease. An inquest was dispensed with and Syd was buried on the 25 Nov 1963 at Botany Cemetery, in Lot 686, Section 5, with his wife, Ethel, and son Theodore Charles Livingstone. The informant was Lee VAUX, his former daughter in law of 5/120 O'Donnell Street, North Bondi. Sydney’s usual residence was McPhersons Road, Wyong.

 Newspaper cutting found in daughter Hilda's diary:

 In Memoriam TRAUTWEIN, Sydney.

Treasured memories of a wonderful person, our father and grandfather, called away 21.11.63.
His memory is a keepsake,
From which we will never part;
God has him in his keeping,
We have him in our hearts.Hilda, Werner, Dennis and Neil







John McDONALD 1791 - 1874

      John McDonald, convict, was transported on the 18 Jan1812, on the Guildford. His trial took place in Ayr, Scotland in 1810 and he was sentenced to  7 years. John became the owner of Mulgrave Park at Pitt Town, near Windsor, after marrying Lydia, the widow of his employer, John Benn.  In 1848-50 John and his son William had a run of 64,000 acres on the Liverpool Plain, known as the Burrandown run, with a frontage on the Barwon River. William later married Susan TYRRELL, of the Tyrrell wine family from Pokolbin.


      In the 1850's George was installed by his father on his 500 acre Glenmore at Black Creek, Pokolbin. George became the founder of the Glenmore branch of the family, and later the heir to the estate of his father, John McDonald of Mulgrave Park, Pitt Town.      Source: Mines, Wine and People, A History of Greater Cessnock, by Parkes, Comerford and Lake.


      John and Lydia's first three children, all born at Pitt Town,  John, William and Margaret were all baptised on the same day, 2 Sep 1822 at St Mathews Windsor by John Cross. John's occupation occupation was given as farmer.  Source St Matthews Windsor Baptisms Page 26

1835 NSW Govt Gazette
List of assignments of male convicts to private service from 31 Jan to 10 Feb 1835
Page 393 McDonald, John, Pitt town, 2 errand boys and 1 carter's boy.

His tomb at St Matthews, Windsor reads:
 John McDonald
 who died
 December 19th 1874
 Aged 83 years
Michael GRIFFIN 1750 - 1833


Michael Griffin was born in Galway, Ireland and was stationed in Gloucester,England in when his daughter Ann was baptised at St Nicholas Church on 4 Aug 1784. No marriage for Michael and Mary has been located in Gloucester. Their second child, Nathaniel was baptised at Dartford, Kent on 17 May 1788 after Michael was transferred there. Michael then enlisted in the NSW Corps at Chatham, Kent, on 28 September 1789 and sailed to Sydney on the Third Fleet ship Britannia in 1791. Thomas was born on the voyage out from England.

Michael's wife, Mary, died 1st of September 1794, six months after the birth of their youngest child, Lydia. Ann was then ten years old, and younger brothers, Nathaniel six, and Thomas three years old. There is no record of who looked after the children after Mary's death, but Nathaniel appears as Drummer on the 1798 pay list of Captain Johnston’s Company, NSW Corps. Thomas also enlisted as a Drummer in 1799 . Ann married emancipist, Thomas Bates, at St.Philip’s Sydney on the 12 May 1800.

Michael was  present on Musters until 1796 for the NSW Corps, then on the 73rd Regiment, Invalid Company 1812 Pay List. He appears on the November 1828 Census as Griffen, M, aged 85, CF (Came Free) Britannia 1791, Protestant, Lodger with John McDonald, Pitt Town, reference G1469.

Michael died on the 20th of February 1833 and is buried at St Mathew's Anglican Church cemetery, Windsor, NSW, with his younger daughter, Lydia and her two husbands, John BENN and John McDONALD, the same cemetery as Dennis' Gt Grandfather, Theodore Trautwein.