Second Generation  

2. James Raworth KENNEDY [88267] (John (Rev.)¹) was born about 1757 in West Ham Essex England and died on 13 Jul 1826 in Windsor Colony of New South Wales aged about 69.

Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: with his Sister, Elizabeth More Kennedy, 1795, Colony of New South Wales.

• Residence: Windsor Colony of New South Wales.

James married Elizabeth PEARCE [88268] [MRIN: 29408]. Elizabeth was born about 1760 in Hertfordshire England and died before 1795 in England.

Children from this marriage were:

+ 5 M    i. John KENNEDY [88263] was born about 1781 in England and died on 19 Mar 1843 in Gunning Colony of New South Wales aged about 62.

   6 F    ii. Elizabeth Charlotte KENNEDY [88295] was born about 1783 in England and died on 20 Dec 1843 in Woollongong Colony of New South Wales aged about 60.

Elizabeth married William BROUGHTON [88298] [MRIN: 29422].

   7 F    iii. Jane KENNEDY [88296] was born about 1785 in England and died on 01 Jan 1859 in Singleton Colony of New South Wales aged about 74.

Jane married John HOWE [88299] [MRIN: 29423] on 13 May 1811 in St John's Parramatta Colony of New South Wales. John was born in 1774 in Hertfordshire England and died on 19 Dec 1852 in Morpeth Colony of New South Wales at age 78.

General Notes: The Australian Dictionary of Biography at http://adbonline.anu.edu.au states:
HOWE, JOHN (1774-1852), settler, was born probably at Redbourn, Hertfordshire, England, son of John How and his wife Mary, née Roberts. Soundly educated and, by his own statement, brought up to husbandry, he worked in a grocery business in London while waiting for a passage to New South Wales, where he proposed to become a teacher. With his wife Frances, née Ward, and daughter Mary he arrived in the Coromandel I in June 1802, and received a grant of 100 acres (40 ha) at Mulgrave Place on the Hawkesbury River. Frances died three months later and was buried at Parramatta. Howe married Jane, a daughter of James Raworth Kennedy, at St John's, Parramatta, on 13 May 1811.

Although retaining his grant until 1813 Howe showed little interest in farming. He succeeded Andrew Thompson as licensed auctioneer at Windsor in 1811 and by his successful management of the sales of Thompson's property earned the lasting favour of Governor Lachlan Macquarie. With James McGrath he contracted in 1813 to complete and repair the road from Sydney to Windsor and, for Thompson's executors, to build a toll-bridge, known for many years as Howe's Bridge, over South Creek at Windsor. In 1815 the partners enlarged the Windsor wharf and a year later began another for the government. As chief constable at Windsor from 1814 to 1821 and as coroner during the next seven years Howe's record was one of honest, reliable, if unspectacular, service.

Encouraged by Macquarie, Howe left Windsor on 24 October 1819 with a party of five white men and two Aboriginals, hoping to discover a trafficable route from the Hawkesbury to the Hunter River. Part of the route had been traversed in 1817 by William Parr and in 1818 by Benjamin Singleton, both of whom set out from the Hawkesbury. It was common knowledge that convicts escaping from the Coal River settlement (Newcastle) made their way overland to the Hawkesbury, but no through road had yet been established. Howe succeeded in reaching the Hunter near Doyle's Creek on 5 November 1819, discovering much fine grazing land, but returned dissatisfied with the route. A second expedition, with thirteen white men and two natives under Howe's command, left Windsor late in February 1820 and, following the expert advice of the native guides, Howe mapped a route which is now the Bulga Road. On 15 March he reached the Hunter River near the present site of Whittingham and followed its course as far as Maitland before returning to the Hawkesbury. Macquarie rewarded him with a licence to graze his flocks on the land he had discovered at St Patrick's Plains, and with a grant of 700 acres (283 ha) later named Redbourneberry which Howe selected near the present site of Singleton. An additional 500-acre (202 ha) grant was made in 1824. Howe left Windsor in 1839 and retired to a small farm, Raworth, near Morpeth, where he remained until his death on 19 December 1852. He was buried in St James's churchyard, Morpeth. His wife Jane died at Warkworth on 1 January 1859, aged 75, survived by seven of their nine children.

John Howe's name and that of his first wife, Frances Ward, are inscribed on a tablet, commemorating its founders, in the Presbyterian Church at Ebenezer. Howe's Park in Singleton, once part of the Redbourneberry estate, and Howe's Swamp, Howe's Mountain and Howe's Valley, along the Bulga Road, perpetuate the memory of this worthy man.

Noted events in his life were:

• Immigration: on board the "Coromandel" with his Wife and Daughter Mary, Jun 1802, the Colony of New South Wales.

• Person of Note: an Explorer of the Region between Sydney and the Hunter Valley, in about 1819, in the Colony of New South Wales.

   8 F    iv. Louisa Sophia KENNEDY [88297] was born about 1788 in England and died on 12 Jan 1837 in Windsor Colony of New South Wales aged about 49.

General Notes: This Daughter was a cripple and died unmarried.

3. Elizabeth More KENNEDY [88292] (John (Rev.)¹) was born in 1764 in Leyton Essex England and died on 15 Aug 1847 in Gunning Colony of New South Wales at age 83.

Elizabeth married Andrew Hamilton HUME [88293] [MRIN: 29421] on 29 Sep 1796 in Colony of New South Wales. Andrew was born on 26 Jun 1762 in Hillsborough Ireland and died on 23 Nov 1849 in Appin Colony of New South Wales at age 87.

Children from this marriage were:

   9 M    i. Hamilton HUME [88294] was born on 18 Jun 1797 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales and died on 19 Apr 1873 in Yass Colony of New South Wales at age 75.

General Notes: The Australian History WebSite, www,australianhistory.org states:
Hamilton Hume (1797-1872) was born in Parramatta, New South Wales on 18 June 1797 and was the first Australian born explorer making many small journeys from the age of a teenager before joining with William Hovell, an English sea captain who was an exceptional navigator but had little bush skills. Hume had explored many areas around Sydney travelling as far south as the plains around Yass. He was an expert bushman who understood some Aboriginal languages. In 1824 the set out from Appin about 45km from Sydney and were bound for Western Port, the port in Bass Strait that George Bass discovered in 1798. The objective of the expedition was to find out what kind of landscape lay to the south of the Murrumbidgee River.

Together with four convict men, horses, bullocks and dogs, they carried enough supplies to last 16 weeks. It was the first Australian expedition to use bullocks and it was also the first to use an innovative odometer. Hovell had attached a device to a baby pram's wheel which, like a modern car's odometer, was designed to measure the distances travelled.

When they arrived at the banks of the Murrumbidgee River, they found that it was flooded and couldn't cross it by walking. Instead they crossed the river by fixing a tarpaulin around the bottom of one of the carts and using it as a boat to ferry across the food and equipment.

Crossing the river they entered unexplored territory fining the landscape to be mountainous and rugged. The weather became hotter and swarms of flies, mosquitoes and pests tormented them, making the expedition even more difficult. On November 8th, they caught site of the Australian Alps. Eight days later they reached a river which they named 'The Hume' but is now called the Murray River after Charles Sturt explored the full extent of the river. Near the Murray, at the place that is now Albury, the explorers carved their names on a tree on 17 November 1824. The tree is still there, with a plaque duplicating the carved words. The tree is called the Hovell Tree.

They crossed the river westward of where they were as the river was very wide and the water was clear and deep. They penetrated further into crossing several major rivers, including the Ovens and the Goulbourn. Just south of Goulbourn, they encountered mountains covered with thick bush that scratched and tore at them. This mountain range was the very southern part of the Great Dividing Range. They made their way to the top of a mountain and named it Mount Disappointment. Travelling further they approached the coast whilst during this time admired the rich pasture lands they saw. In the middle of December they arrived at a bay which Hovell thought was Western Port. But his calculations were wrong as his pram measuring device had fallen apart. Where they actually were, was Corio Bay, in the town of Geelong on the western side of Port Phillip Bay. Western Port was 100kilometers further east, towards Melbourne. They reached Corio Bay - the area of Port Phillip Bay that Geelong now fronts - on 16 December 1824, and it was at this time they reported that the Aborigines called the area Corayo, the bay being called Jillong. As supplies were running low, the expedition set off for home the next day. They arrived back a month later and advised the governor of the wonderful grazing land at Western Port.

Noted events in his life were:

• Person of Note: an Explorer in the Company of William Hovell in the Area between Sydney and Western Port on the South Coast, in 1824, in the Colony of New South Wales.

+ 10 M    ii. John Kennedy HUME [88389] was born in 1800 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales and died on 20 Jan 1840 in Gunning Colony of New South Wales at age 40.

   11 M    iii. Andrew Hamilton HUME [88390] was born on 06 Jul 1801 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales and died on 15 Oct 1808 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales at age 7.

   12 M    iv. Francis Rawdon HUME [88391] was born on 11 Nov 1803 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales and died on 17 Sep 1888 in Boorowa Colony of New South Wales at age 84.

   13 F    v. Isabella HUME [88392] was born on 13 Jun 1798 in Toongabbie Parramatta Colony of New South Wales and died on 15 Aug 1855 in Appin Colony of New South Wales at age 57.