Captain John Horsley

  Research Notes:

Reg Roughan notes:
John Horsely (1834) married Jane Jackson (1784) who also married Robert Cross (1776) above statement is incorrect, as the following will show: John Horsley (d. 1834), once a Captain in the RRHG, was married in England during 1804, to Maria Champion Crespigny. The couple had no known children. John did not marry again.Jane Jackson married Robert Cross in Yorkshire in 1806 and the couple had four children in England: William Cross, b. 1807; Jane Ellen Cross, b. 1809; Ralph Jackson Cross, b. 1810 Robert Cross, b. 1813. 1814 Jane followed her husband to NSW, he in the Surrey, she in the Broxbornebury. Jane was accompanied by her three eldest children. Perhaps the youngest, Robert Jr., did not survive infancy. also did not marry again, but she formed an alliance with John Horsley in NSW, first as his housekeeper, later as his common law wife. They had eight children together between 1816 and 1831: Fanny, John, Mary M (sic)*, Caroline, Charles W (sic)*, Eliz. V (sic)*, George and Charlotte. (* Middle initials recorded in NSW Census of 1928.) family story has it that Robert and Jane did not re-establish relations in NSW, other than Robert taking responsibility for their three children.

There was evidently resistance in the Horsley home to declaring the unconventional state of the parental situation. While two Baptisms were recorded within 6 months of the individuals' births (those of John Jr. and Charlotte), three others awaited John's death before they were undertaken together, 14 months later. \cf0

  Noted events in his life were:

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• connection. ^551,672

John had a relationship with Jane Jackson, daughter of Ralph Jackson and Jane Fallowfield, in 1815 in Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia.¹⁹ (Jane Jackson was born on 24 May 1787 in Humbleton, Yorkshire England, christened on 26 Jun 1786 in Humbleton, Yorkshire England, died on 30 Jun 1841 and was buried in Liverpool Memorial Park, Sydney, NSW Australia.)