Charles Moltson Gordon

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
Upheavals in the shoemaking trade in London during the early 19th century, when attempts to form closed shop combinations threatened the livelihood of the smaller shoemakers, are thought to have influenced the decision of Thomas to emigrate, joining two farmer friends, Carlisle and Freeman. In 1803 they wrote to Lord Hobart for permission to go as free men to New South Wales.
With his wife Alice and a young family of four, Thomas embarked on the ship 'Experiment'. Turned back because of a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay, the Experiment had to set sail again some three weeks later from Cowes, Hampshire, without some of her original passengers, arriving at Sydney on 24 Jun 1804.
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 Mrsden 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.
After marrying Mary Jane Brown and building his horse driven mill in Ptt Street, Greater Sydney, he anticipated building a windmill on an acre of land in Paddington promised to him by Governor Brisbane. His interest in the horse mill was sold in about 11825 and new mill stones were bought in expectation that the Paddington mill would be built. By 1828, as a series of letters to the Colonial Secretary had brought no further action on the promised land, Charles was forced to Richmond, where, on Archdeacon Scott's recommendation, he worked as a school teacher.
His long-awaited acre was obtained in 1829 along with a further acre for a dwelling, and until about 1867, Gordon's Paddington mill could bee seen on the Sydney skyline overlooking what became Centennial Park. The mill was placed under the management of Samuel Beard in about 1836 and the Gordon family moved to a new residence in South Street, Double Bay.
The mill house later passed to Charles' daughter Ann and the Stewart family. The family connection is marked today Gordon and Stewart Streets in Paddington.

• 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)

Charles married Maria Lees, daughter of John Lees and Mary Carter Stevens, on 11 Nov 1816 in Castlereagh, NSW Australia. (Maria Lees was born in 1802 in Sydney, NSW Australia and died on 30 Nov 1819 in Sydney, NSW Australia.)

Charles next married Mary Jane Brown on 23 Apr 1821 in St Peters C of E, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Mary Jane Brown was born circa 30 Jan 1793 in London City, Middlesex England, died on 30 Apr 1859 and was buried in Devonshire St Cemetery, Sydney, NSW Australia.)