Annie Tom

  General Notes:

Stephen Crawshaw notes:
Nephew Jim Tom reminisces:
Grandfather's daughters all married young. Emma and Selina married two brothers, Edward and Thomas Webb. Mary married John Smith of Gamboola; Helen, George Tempest; Annie, Gustavus Glasson. They were dear women, great home lovers, fond of children and were very hospitable. Selina and Annie were very pretty, and the latter was full of fun and mischief, a real Australian girl. Once when ordered to return thanks at her boarding school, she did in the following manner \emdash 'All we had was very rough. very hard and very tough, but thank the Lord, we had enough.'
Godolphin.net.au says:
At the little cemetery at Byng, stands a headstone with the words Sacred to the Memory of Annie… The beloved wife of Gustavus Richard Glasson. Who after patiently enduring great suffering for several years Fell asleep in Jesus 10th Dec 1872 The suffering was due to a stomach tumor and the treatment entailed a painful weekly horse and buggy ride to a Doctor in Blayney and back, a round trip of about 50km on rough roads. The inscription can only suggest the anxiety she must have felt for the future of her three young children and her husband of just a few short years.
The month after Annie died, her bereaved husband wrote:
LEFT BEHIND
I am all alone in my quiet room And the hours are flying fast My soul, with a listless aching sigh Goes back to the misty past. It dwells on the days when hope was young, When my heart beat fresh and free; When it throbbed for a fond and trusting one, Heaven's choicest gift to me. She was all holy and innocent, Her fringed eyes lustrous hue Shone out from the depths of a loving heart, All gentle and kind and true. E'en now when the azure skies are bright And the night orbs glisten fair, My longing eyes look up to them And I see her spirit there. I see her still, as she used to sit By the brooklet's pebbly brink. When our hearts were one and our souls were one In many a golden link. Oh the flowers smiled as they bathed their cheeks In the depths of the crystal stream; The flowers are pale and to me is left But the shadow of a dream. She has gone for aye \emdash her ringing laugh Is hushed in silence deep; She sleepeth in the shadowy land While I remain to weep. And now when the stars come out at night To gaze on the sleeping sea; I close my eyes and I dream of her, Alas, will she dream of me? Will she dream of me? The saintly sweep Of her raiment pure and white Is beyond the confines of this clay That chains me to earth and night. But this threadbare garment will soon wear out And this spirit will clave the air Ane we'll mingle and live our loves again, In a vortex of glory there.

  Noted events in her life were:

• connection. Stephen Crawshaw's links with Robert are as follows:

Stephen Crawshaw (c1940)
His father is Milton Crawshaw (1912)
His father was Conrad Kraushaar / Crawshaw (1885) who married Fanny Lister (1883)
Her father was Thomas Lister (1840)who married Emily Tom (1856)
Her father was John Tom (1820)
His father was William Tom (1791) & he also had Annie Tom (1840) who married Gustavus Glasson (1839)
His father was Richard Glasson (1813)
His father was John Glasson (1777) & he also had William Glasson (1811) who married Susan Russell (1811)
Her father was James Russell (1781) who married Susanna Reed (1789)
Her father was Joseph Reed (1752)
His father was Richard Reed (1720)
His father was Joseph Reed (1672)
His father was John Reed the Younger (1632) & he also had Nicholas Reed (1679)
He had William Reed(1729)
He had Nicholas Reed (1755)
He had Nicholas Reed (1788)
He had Nicholas Reed (1818)
He had James Reed (1850) who married Elizabeth Boskano (1852)
Her father was Thomas Boskano who married Susannah Polkinghorne (1817)
Her father was William Polkinghorne (1785)
His father was William Polkinghorne (1759)
His father was Stephen Polkinghorne (1723)
His father was Stephen Polkinghorne (1689)
His father was Alexander Polkinghorne (1664) & he also had William Polkinghorne (1687)
He had Jane Polkinghorne (1716) who married William Jory (1710)
They had William Jory (1734)
He had Edward Jory (1763) who married Jane Landeryou (1763)
Her father was Peter Landeryou (1738)
His father was John Landeryou (1706) & he also had Blanch Landeryou (1741)
She had Robert Landeryou (1768)
He had John Landeryou (1803)
He had Sarah Landeryou (1826) who married Thomas Bray (1821)
They had Arthur Augustus Bray (1869)
He had Albert Alan Bray (1896)
He had Robert Alfred Bray (1920)
He had Robert Arthur (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) 1950)

Annie married Gustavus Richard Glasson, son of Richard Glasson and Emma Hamline [Mi(t)chell(e)], on 19 Jun 1862 in Springfield, near Bathurst, NSW Australia. (Gustavus Richard Glasson was born in 1839 in NSW Australia and died on 12 Jul 1894 in Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia.)