Jacob Gogerly Snr
(Cir 1770-)
Mary Young
(Cir 1770-)

Charles James Gogerly
(1799-1887)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Charlotte Emma Fowler

Charles James Gogerly

  • Born: 29 Apr 1799, London City, Middlesex England
  • Christened: 26 May 1799, St Sepulchre, Holborn, London, Middlesex England
  • Marriage (1): Charlotte Emma Fowler in Mar 1832 in Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia
  • Died: 31 Jan 1887, Port Hacking, Sydney, NSW Australia at age 87

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. Rhonda Thomas / Robertson & Lil Gogerly's notes & http://www.wadgogerly.com/new_page_1.htm where it is noted:
In 1832, at Campbelltown NSW, Australia, he married Charlotte Fowler who was born in Henfield, Sussex, England on 26th March 1816 and was baptised on 21 April 1816. Charlotte arrived in NSW Australia, with her mother, brother and sisters on the 20th May 1832 aboard the SS "Burrell". She died in August 1907 aged 91. They had 13 Children.

Charlottes father, Henry Fowler, was a convict, sentenced at Lewes Surrey in 1824 to 7 years in Sydney NSW Australia. He was transported on the "Marquis of Hastings" in 1826.

Following Charlottes mother's arrival in Australia in 1832, Henry was assigned to his wife in August 1833. He applied and received a ticket of freedom on the 29th November 1834 and was finally given a conditional pardon in May 1840. Henry and Mary lived in Cordeaux St Campbelltown NSW until their deaths in 1852. (they died three months apart).
In 1817 Charles James Gogerly and his younger brother William Henry, were working as Alley Clerks (messenger boys working in the alley beside the London Stock Exchange).
Just before Christmas of that year, with another young man, James Whitmore, they committed "Larceny privately in a shop". They were tried in the Middlesex Court on a charge of stealing two handkerchiefs valued at seven shillings and six pence (75 cents), found guilty and sentenced on the 3rd of December 1817 to imprisonment in NSW Australia. They were transported from Sheerness, Kent, England on the ship "Lord Sidmouth" leaving on the 20th September 1818 and arriving in Sydney NSW Australia on the 11th March 1819. The journey took 172 days!!
Charles was assigned as a labourer to John Warby, William was sent to Port Stephens as a labourer with the Australian Agricultural Company.
Charles was eventually, with 118 others, recommended for conditional pardon on 1st December 1838. He received the pardon officially, two years later, on the 5th December 1840 at Dapto NSW, where he was working as a shepherd at Mullet Creek.
Charles also dabbled in journalism for a short period. He was charged in April 1843 with "Obscene Publications" with his partners, Thomas Revel Johnson, Charles William Brown and George O'Brien, in the "Sydney Spectator". Charles was the printer and publisher. He was sentenced to 12 months imprisonment in Berrima Goal. The trial is covered in detail in an article appearing on page two of the Sydney Morning Herald dated 19 April 1843.
In 1853 Charles took Charlotte and his children and retired to the then sparsely populated Port Hacking Region of NSW. The cottage in Port Hacking in which Charles and his family lived, Gogerly's Cottage, still stands today and is heritage listed. Local historian Marjorie Hutton Neve estimates it was built well before 1840, and was built by Simeon Lord for one of his timber-getting workmen. Charles occupied the cottage, which he ultimately purchased, from 1853 until his death on 31 January 1887.
Gogerly's Point, situated not far from the cottage, was named after Charles James Gogerly. Charles died in January 1887 aged 87. Neighbours and friends said that although he appeared to some unthinking persons as an eccentric old recluse, he was held in high esteem by those who knew him intimately.

• connection. The connection between & Lil Gogerly . . . (at Glaica House Tuncurry)
& myself is through Les as follows:

Lil Gogerly . . . (at Glaica House Tuncurry)

Charles Gogerly (c1799) who married Charlotte Fowler (1816)
Her father was Henry Fowler (1791) & he also had Elizabeth Fowler (1819) who married Joseph Warby (1818)
His father was John Warby (1767) & he also had Elizabeth Warby (1802) who married James Layton (1804)
They had Eleanor Layton (1821) who married James Keighran (1808)
They had John Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keighran (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1924)
They had Leslie Collins (1950) who married me Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• emigrated. Emigrated to Port Jackson Australion 11th Dec 1819 on the Lord Sidmouth as convicts after being convicted of larceny. On 19th november 1931, Charles was granted a ticket-of-leave for the Illawarra District.

• Resided. According to Lil Gogerly's notes:
Sometime before July 1933 Charles met a Miss Charlotte Fowler, newly arrived with her family from Sussex England.
Charles and Charlotte initially lived in a humble hut in the heart of Sydney Town, now thought to be in the Martin Place area. They later sold this plot for 10 pounds and moved up the hill to Kings Cross where they built a home on 40 acres.
They moved to Dapto in Oct 1836
They also lived at 331 Pitt St which at that time was half way along the western side between Market & Park Sts.

• Occupation. Due to his income from property on-selling, he was able to live as a gentleman of leisure in the young colony and to indulge in journalism as a hobby. He wrote for the "Monitor", "The Satirist and Sydney Spectator" and "The Sydney Herald" which later becaeme the Sydney Morning Herald in 1842 when it was taken over by John Fairfax and Charles Kemp. However, this later proved his undoing in the form of a convition for libel which brought him imprisonment and turned him into an exxentric recluse who sought solace in the solitude of Port Hacking.


Charles married Charlotte Emma Fowler, daughter of Henry Fowler and Mary Ann Potterton, in Mar 1832 in Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Charlotte Emma Fowler was born on 26 Mar 1816 in Henfield, West Sussex England, died on 27 Aug 1907 in Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried in Rookwood Cemetery, Lidcombe, Sydney, NSW Australia Anglican CC Row 1 Plot 21-22.)


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