Maria Lees

  Noted events in her life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
In 1817, a few months after Charles had married Maria Lees, the couple travelled to the Bay of Islands, New Zealand with the Carlisles to a settlement at Rangihoua. Samuel Marsden had appointed Charles for a three year term as agriculturalist to grow cereal crops for feeding the Maoris and missionaries.
Unfortunately Marsden's ideology obscured the reality of the situation. Because of the infertile soil, food was scarce and the warring Maori tribes had an overwhelming desire for firearms. Guns were the only acceptable form of barter. After two and a half years, Charles' despair at the physical hardships and the Maori's contempt for the settlers, the situation came to a climax.
During a seige of the settlement by maoris, the pregnant Maria was grabbed by a native. The ensuing shock caused her second child to miscarry, a traumatic experience from which Maria never recovered.

Charles and Carlisle resigned in 1819, earning Marsden's disgust and rebuke, and the couple returned to Sydney where Maria died as a result of haemorrage. Charles' attempts by letter to re-establish his credibility with the Church Missionary Society and to obtain some recompense for his harsh treatment fell on deaf ears.

• connection. The connection between Jim Bray & Robert is as follows:
Jim Bray (c1950)
His father was James Bray (1920)
His father was Ernest Bray (1896)
His father was Edward Bray (1857)
His father was James William Bray (1822) who married Ann Blackman (1828)
Her father was Samuel Blackman (1791)
His father was James Blackman (1759) & he also had Elizabeth Blackman (1801) who married William Carlisle (1784) & he also married Marg Gordon (1792)
Her father was Thomas Gordon (c1764) & he also had Charles Gordon (1791) who married Marian Lees (1802)
Her father was John Lees (c1771) & he also had Mary Lees (1802) who married George Nash (1797)
His father was William Nash (1764) & he also had Sarah Nash (1798) who married John Williams (1787)
They had Robert Williams (1815) who married Susannah Tindall (1807)
Her father was Daniel Tindall (1758) & he also had Mary Tindall (1797) who married Stephen Burcher (1794)
They had William Burcher (1820) who married Ann Bull (1823)
Her father was John Bull (1804) & he also had Anna Bull (1825) who married John Neale (1823)
His father was John Neale (1797) & he also had Thomas Neale (1830) who married Selina Meurant (1832)
Her father was Ferdinand Meurant (1765) & he also had Albert Meurant (1815)
He had Albert Meurant (1843) who married Elvira Pike (1843)
Her father was William Pike (1817)
His father was John Pike (1778) & he also had John Pike (1808)
He had Elizabeth Pike (1834) who married Robert Power (1833)
They had Amelia Power (1875) who married William McKelvey (1867)
They had Sheila McKelvey (1911) who married George Irwin (1911)
His father was Thomas Irwin (1888)
His father was Thomas Irwin (1855) & he also had Miriam Irwin (1883) who married Austen Stewart Dawes ((1874)
He was the son of William Dawes (1847)
Who was the son of Phillip Dawes (1809)
Who was the son of Aaron Daw (1799) who also had Edward Dawes (1813)
Who had James (1843) who married Charlotte Peck and had Annie Dawes (1873) who married Arthur Bray (1869)
Who had Albert Bray (1896)
Who had Robert Albert Bray (1920)
Who had Robert Arthur Bray (1947) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

Maria married Charles Moltson Gordon, son of Thomas Gordon and Alice Smith, on 11 Nov 1816 in Castlereagh, NSW Australia. (Charles Moltson Gordon was born on 27 Feb 1791 in St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex England, christened on 27 Mar 1791 in St George Hanover Square, London, Middlesex England and died on 17 Apr 1862.)