Richard Tuckwell

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Win & Steve Sinden & http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
On 24 April 1782, Richard was appointed an ensign in the Buckinghamshire Regiment of Militia, also known as the 2nd Regiment of Militia, which was commanded by Colonel Earl Temple. The regiment was made up of several companies and Richard Tuckwell was appointed to the Company commanded by Major Henry Tompkins. The Buckinghamshire Militia was located, when Richard joined it, near Portsmouth at the South Sea Camp.
On 20 May 1789, Sir George Yonge, Under-Secretary to the War Office, outlined in a letter to the Treasury, a plan to relieve the garrison of royal marine light infantry, which had accompanied Governor Arthur Phillip to Botany Bay in 1788, and replace it with a corps of foot. The following warrant for raising the New South Wales Corps was duly issued:
WARRANT FOR RAISING NEW SOUTH WALES CORPS
George R.
Whereas we have thought proper to direct that a corps of foot shall be forthwith raised, which is intended to be stationed in New South Wales, to consist of four companies, with three serjeants, three corporals, two drummers, and sixty-seven private men in each, with the usual commanding officers. These are to authorise you, by beat of drum or otherwise, to raise so many men in any country or part of our Kingdom of Great Britain as shall be wanted to complete the said corps to the above-mentioned numbers.
Given, &c., 5th June 1789, in twenty-ninth year of our reign.
By his Majesty's command,
Geo. Yonge
To our trusty and well-beloved Francis Grose, Esq. Major-
Commandant of a corps of foot to be herewith raised.
Richard is shown in the 'Muster Roll of His Majesty's New South Wales Corps of Foot' for 203 days from 5th June to 24 Dec 1789 inclusive as having been recruited as a sergeant in the Corps on 20 June 1789 by Captain Nicholas Nepean. The muster was certified correct on 26 January 1790, at Chatham Barracks, where Major Grose and his Company, but not the rest of the Corps were then located. This same Muster Roll lists Richard as embarking on 26 January 1789, for where is not stated.
In the 'Account of Subsistence' of the New South Wales Corps from 5th June to 24th Dec 1789 and of 'Levy Money for Recruits' raised during the same Period, Sergeant Richard Tuckwell is shown for the 188 days from 20 Jun to 24 Dec 1789, as being paid £9-8-0. Richard was thus paid one shilling per day, the normal rate for sergeants in the Corps, and thus had an annual salary of £16-5-0.
On 27 November 1790 a marriage licence was granted by the office of the Bishop of Winchester for Richard, who was listed as a bachelor and "of the New South Wales Rangers, quarter-master and sergeant, and of H.M.S Gorgon", to marry Elizabeth Wareham, a spinster of Alverstoke. On 28 November 1790, in the Church of England of St Mary, Portsea, a suburb of Portsmouth, Richard duly married Elizabeth. The marriage register reads:
Richard Tuckwell residing on board his majesty's Ship the Gorgon in an extraparochial place adjoining to this parish, Bachelor and Elizabeth Wareham of the Parish of Alvestoke in the County of Southampton, Spinster ~ were Married in this Church by Licence
this 28th Day of November in the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and ninety
By me, Joseph Morce, Curate
This marriage was solemnized between Us
{Richard Tuckwell}
{Elizth Wareham
In the presence
{Richd Gudge}
{Thomas Gudge}
Richard travelled to the colony aboard the ship 'Pitt'. Aside from Richard, the Pitt also bore Elizabeth Buckner Budden) and her husband Reuben Buckner. Elizabeth was free, but Reuben Buckner was a convict. He had been convicted at the Quarter Sessions for the County of Sussex, held at Lewes on 5 May 1791, and sentenced to be transported beyond the seas for a period of seven years.
At the time of the Pitt's sailing, Elizabeth Buckner was about sixteen years of age; Richard Tuckwell was about thirty.
The 'Pitt' had been built in the Thames in 1780. She was a ship of 775 tons and when Richard Tuckwell embarked on her on 17 July 1791, her master was Edward Manning and her surgeon a man by the name of Jameson.
The Pitt sailed from Yarmouth Roads on 17 July 1791. The Pitt's passage was protracted, she did not reach Port Jackson until 14 February 1792, 212 days out from Yarmouth Roads. Since Richard was at sea, he would not have been unaware that his wife had a daughter Elizabeth christened on 14 October 1791 at the Church of England of Holy Trinity, Gosport, just west of Portsmouth.
The journal of George Thompson, who sailed in the Royal Admiral, May 1792 records that of the 450 that came from England in the Pitt only twenty nine were alive six weeks since at a general muster.
Reuben Buckner does not appear in the Return of those Convicts who have died or run from the 'Pitt', but this Return lists only those who either escaped or died whilst attempting to escape. No mention of Reuben Buckner in New South Wales appears on musters or other documents and one can assume, because of the high death toll amongst convicts on the Pitt that Reuben Buckner died, probably soon after landing in 1792.
Richard was granted, by Lieutenant Governor Francis Grose, 25 acres in the District of Concord on 24 December 1793. The annual quit rent was 1 shilling and was to commence five years after the date of the grant. The name of Richard's property was Grantham Farm. It was bounded on the east and west by roads, to the north was Richard Hudson's Langstaff Farm and to the south William Day's Whilkes Farm. The grant of Grantham Farm was later cancelled for unspecified reasons and an "equivalent" given by Governor King. This cancellation must have occurred after 28 September 1800 the day King officially assumed the governorship of the Colony and probably did no more than recognise the fact that Richard Tuckwell had by September 1800 moved to the .
Interestingly, Lieutenant Governor Grose, in reporting on the land grants he had made to the Right Honourable Henry Dundas in a communication dated at Sydney on 30 April 1794, records that Richard Tuckwell was the "Quarter-master-serjeant" of the N.S.W. Corps. When Richard had moved from Sergeant to Quarter-master-sergeant is not known, but doubtless he appreciated the extra sixpence per day in pay.
Richard was listed as having settled on land on 24 Dec 1793 at Mulgrave Place on the . He had 30 hogs and 46 acres sown with wheat. All members of the household (Richard, one woman and three children) were off stores, ie, not being victuallised by government.
The 'List of Settlers from Discharged Marines, Soldiers of the New South Wales Corps and from His Majesty's Vessels serving on his Station, with the Quantity of Ground Cropped, Stock &c, 1801', showed Richard holding 100 acres, 50 of which were cleared and 24 and a half of which were sown with wheat and maize. Richard had 10 goats and 36 hogs and his household consisted of 7 persons and was off stores.
Hugh Mulhall, a convict who had come on the ship 'Britannia' and George Deadman who had come on the ship 'Hillsborough' and Griffith Griffiths, who had also arrived on the ship 'Hillsborough' were listed as being off stores because they were with 'Sgt Tuckwell' in the district. Presumably they were convicts assigned to him.
The survey of Land & Stock held by Free Settlers, and Emancipated or Expired Convicts in 1802 showed Richard as having 30 acres of purchased land at Mulgrave Place, 26 acres of which were clearede, 18 acres sown with wheat and 7 acres with maize. Richard had 4 male and 3 female goats, 6 male and 8 female hogs, and 18 bushels of wheat and 50 acres of maize in hand. Richard's entire household consisting of himself, one woman and four children and one free servant were all off stores.
The Court of Civil Jurisdiction on 14 Feb 1806 heard the case 'Marsden v Mason'. The Rev Samuel Marsden, a not infrequent litigant, was sueing Martin Mason for defamation. Marsden claimed that Mason by his public utterances 'wished to poison the public mind' against him as a Magistrate and had frequently been heard to 'traduce' [slander] both his public and private character.
Martin Mason presented to the court a list of witnesses he wished to call. On the list was the name of William Tuckwell, Richard Tuckwell and Elizabeth Buckner's son. The court decided that Mason merely wishes to protract the court of justice as the list of witnesses was long and some on it were 'H.M. Service at the out settlements'. The court ruled that Mason should confine himself to witnesses who were winthin reach of the Plaintiff, Marsden to summon.
The case was eventually awarded in favour of Marsden. William Tuckwell was never called to testify.
The muster of 1806 showed Richard as possessing 30 acres by purchase at Giles, Lower Creek. 6 acres were sown with wheat, 2 acres with barley, half an acre was devoted to an orchard/garden, 5 and a half acres were pasture and 16 were lying fallow. Richard had 7 male and 17 female sheep, 2 female hogs, 18 female and 5 male goats and was holding 2 bushels of wheat in hand. All of his household including himself, one woman, 6 children and one convict, were off stores. The convict was Patrick Quirk, who had arrived on the 'Atlas' from Ireland in Oct 1802 and had been assigned to Richard.
Samuel Marsden prepared a list of women in the colony based on the 1806 muster. The list categorised women as either married or as a 'concubine'. He listed Elizabeth Buckner as a concubine, and noted that she had 6 'natural', ie illegitimate children, three of either sex.
Richard was a signatory to a letter in the handwriting of John Macarthur, calling for the arrest of Governor Bligh. On 26 Jan 1808, Bligh was arrested. A letter was written to Governor Bligh by George Johnson and co-signed by 83 officers, including Richard Tuckwell, dated 27 Jan 1808.
The 'Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser' of 29 May 1808 carried the following advertisement:'To be Sold by Private Contract, a part of a Lease-hold Allotment of Ground, 40 feet in front and 120 feet in depth, very eligible situate at Pitt's Row, between the residence of Captain Bunker and the House of R Tuckwell; of whom particulars may be had.'
On 4 Jun 1809, 'Mr Tuckwell' appeared on a list of subscribers in the Sydney Gazette to fund the enclosing of the burial ground at Sydney. He donated one guinea. The same paper carried news of the flooding of the River. It reported that 'from the Green Hills over the South Creek as far as Tuckwell's Lagoon near the Red House was a sheet of water'. Tuckwell's Lagoon was probably near the site of his farm, hence the name. The Red House was located on Mangrove Creek.
Windsor was originally called 'Green Hills' and was originally settled in 1794 when 22 settlers took up land and a road from Sydney was constructed.
On 28 Dec 1809 Richard was granted 100 acres at St. George. It was between today's Penshurst Road and King Georges Road. At the time of the grant, the area would have been covered with very thick mainly ironbark forest. The following day he was granted a lease on 65 roods in Pitt Row, in Sydney Town by Governor William Paterson. The annual quit rent was 10 shillings per year for 21 years commencing immediately.
All grant during the Rum Rebellion were declared invalid on 29 Jan 1810. Richard applied to Lachlan Macquarie for a regrating of his land on the same day:
'May it please Your Excellency
The petition of Richard Tuckwell most humbly sheweth
That Your Petitioner had His Grant of One Hundred Acres of Land given him by His Honour Lieut Governor Paterson, as well as a Lease of the allotment of Ground in Pitt-Row, Greater Sydney, Petitioners present residence. That Petitioner has every reason to believe the goodness and condescension of His Honour Lieut Governor Paterson in doing so arose solely from the consideration of Petitioners having been so long (ear eighteen years) resident in the Country, having a large family (six children) to provide [for] and ever supporting a fair character.
That Petitioner understanding that said Grant and Lease are illegal, have, in Obedience to Your Excellencys commands, delivered the Deeds of both Grant and Lease in to the Secretary.
That Petitioner follows the occupation of a Butcher, in which, and by honest Indsutry he is endeavouring to bring up his family in Virtuous pursuits.
Petitioner therefore under the Cheering hope and persuasion that Your Excellency is Benevolently disposed to Encourage the honest and Industrious of large family, most humbly presumes to solicit Your Excellencys condescension to a renewal of said Grant and Lease and Your Petitioner - will as in duly bound.
Ever pray
Richd Tuckwell
Sydney 29 January 1810'
On 16 Mar 1811 (and repeated on 23 Mar and 30 Mar 1811) the Sydney Gazette carried the following:'All persons having any just Claim or Demand on Richard Tuckwell, of Pitt street, are requested to present the same immediately for liquidation; and all those indebted to the said Richard Tuckwell are in like manner requested to settle their Accounts, as he intends to shortly leave the Colony. And whereas Elizabeth Tuckwell, the wife of Richard Tuckwell, has absconded from her Husband, Family and Home, without just provocation or cause whatever, he hereby requests that no Person whatsoever will give her Credit on his Account, as he will not be aNew South Waleserable for any debts she may contract after the date hereof.'
The Gazette of 23 March 1811 announced:
'To be Sold by Private Auction, that desirable Situation, the property and present Residence of Mr Richard Tuckwell, No. 106 Pitt-street, Greater Sydney, who is about to quit the Colony, comprising a good House, detached kitchen, yard, garden, well and other conveniences, well adapted for Business, and too well known to require further elongation, held under Lease near 8 years of which are unexpired. For particulars apply to the Proprietor on the Premises.'
The numbering system in Pitt Street has changed. In 1811, 106 Pitt Street lay on the wast side of Pitt Street between Liverpool and Bathurst Streets, on a site later occupied by the Ebenezer Chapel of the Australian Methodists.
Richard never sold his leasehold. He was at 106 Pitt Street in 1813.
Governor Macquarie heeded Richard's request for a renewal of his grant and lease. A grant of 100 acres at Botany Bay, ante-dated, like many other grants to 1 Jan 1810, the day that Governor Macquarie assumed the Governorship of the colony, was given to Richard on 18 Oct 1811.
The annual quit rent was 2 shillings and was to commence on 1 Jan 1815. To the south of Richard's grant lay the property of Dr Robert Townson, MD (Gottingen), LLD and to the west the farms of John Burgin and Richard Podmore (both in the New South Wales Corps before being granted land). The grant to Richard was conditioned upon Richard not selling it within 5 years. Richard was also required to cultivate 15 acres and reserve the use of a public road as well as 'all timber as may be deemed fir for Naval purposes.'
Richard's lease of 65 roods in Pitt Street was also ante-dated to 1 Jan 1810. The lease was expected to run for 21 years and the annual quit-rent of 17 shillings and sixpence was to commence immediately. Richard's leasehold was bounded on the north by Captain Bunker's lease, to the east by Roberts leasehold and on the west by Pitt Street. The lease was conditioned upon the building of a 'dwelling house' 36 feet in length and 14 feet in width. The Government reserved the right of 'Improving the Street' with such part of the land as it may require.
On 7 Aug 1813, Richard's name appeared on a list, published by Governor Macquarie of 86 people who had licences for the 'sale of wines and spiritous liquors by retail' for the present year.
Richard also advertised on 12 Jun 1813 in the Sydney Gazette for a 'baker who understands his Business' for immediate employment.
The parish register of St Philips Sydney records that Richard was interred on Sunday 26 Mar 1820. A day before, on 25 March 1820, Richard's will was probated. The nett value of his estate was £1000-0-0. His remains were laid to rest in the Church of England Portion of the Devonshire Street Cemetery.
Richard is also recorded as having died 21 March 1820 aged 69 years on his gravestone. (Also interred at the same site was Martha Mary Weavers who died 13 Jan 1829 aged 5 years.)
Their remains were exhumed in 1901 to make way for Central Railway Station. Their remains are now at Pioneer Memorial Park, part of Botany Cemetery.
& source: Carol who states:
Reuben Buckner was sentenced to 7 years transportation and along with his wife, Elizabeth (who was a free passenger), came to Sydney Cove on board the ship 'Pitt'. The 'Pitt' arrived in Sydney Cove in 1792 without Reuben who is listed in convict records as 'dead'. It seems he died on the voyage or abscounded without trace, we don't really know.

2. After Reuben's death, it seems that Elizabeth began a relationship with Richard Tuckwell (NSW Corps) which continued after the ship landed in Sydney Cove. They had seven children together but never married. Richard Tuckwell had left behind a wife and child in England. Richard's wife in England was another Elizabeth - Elizabeth Wareham whom Richard Tuckwell had married in 1790.

• connection. The relationship between Carol McCaul & Les is as follows:

Carolyn Wooby (1951) married Kenneth McCaul
Her father was Eric Wooby (1929)
His father was Eric Wooby (1905) who married Gladys Payne (1907)
Her father was William Payne (1860) who married Ada Murrell (1862)
Her father was William Murrell (c1825) who married Elizabeth Devlyn (1826)
Her father was Bryan Devlin (c1805) who married Frances Tuckwell (1805)
Her father was Richard Tuckwell (1759) & he also had William Tuckwell (1795)
He had Mary Tuckwell (1824) who married Thomas Best (1822)
They had Emily Best (1849) who married William Black (1859)
His father was John Black (1833) who married Mary Brien (1834)
Her father was Timothy Brien (1813)
His father was Daniel Brien (1769) & he also had Sarah Jane Brien (1825) who married Benjamin Warby (1825)
His father was also Benjamin Warby (1805)
His father was John Warby (c1767) & he also had Elizabeth Warby (1802) who married James Layton (1804)
They had Eleanor Layton (1821) who married James Keighran (1808)
They had John Joseph Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph William Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie William Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keighran (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1925)
They had Les Collins (1950) who married me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Richard had a relationship with Elizabeth Budden, daughter of John Budden and Hannah. (Elizabeth Budden was born circa 1771 in England UK, christened on 20 Mar 1771 in Wareham, Dorset England and died circa 1850 in NSW Australia.)

  Noted events in their marriage were:

• fact. The relationship between Richard T. & Elizabeth B. ended somewhere about 1807-8. Elizabeth Buckner married an Irish convict, Patrick Kirk, although have been unable to find proof of this marriage. They went on to have three children.

Richard next married Elizabeth Wareham on 27 Nov 1790 in Portsea, near Portsmouth, Hampshire England. (Elizabeth Wareham was born circa 1765 in Alverstoke Gosport, Hampshire England.)

Richard next married Elizabeth Sidebotham in 1808-1810. (Elizabeth Sidebotham was born circa 1780.)