James Blackman

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. http://www.easystreetretreat.com.au/australianroyalty where it is noted:
The Blackman family emigrated on the ship 'Canada' in 1801. They were sponsored and highly recommended by the Colonial Office.
James' 100 acre Richmond grant adjoined fellow immigrants Dight and William Bowman. He was appointed a Richmond constable in 1806. He was awarded a liquor licence in 1809. In July 1812 he made a donation to the Richmond school building fund, but he was already in financial difficulties. He was forced to in 1813 solicit Cox for appointment as overseer of government stock, a job at which he also failed and had to resign. There was a spell in a debtor's prison. Part of the farm had been sold and was now 60 acres. In 1868 he opened a Richmond store, but was finally reduced to accepting Cox's proffered job as sexton, gravedigger and musterer of prisoners on Sundays at the church.
More land was sold, Cox incorporating it into his own family holdings. He at last found his niche as chief constable at Bathurst, where his sons James and John had been granted land.
He and his wife Elizabeth lived out his retirement with his son William at Mudgee.

• 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)

James married Elizabeth Harley on 3 Dec 1785 in London City, Middlesex England. (Elizabeth Harley was born in 1765 in Woolwich, London (SE), Kent England and died on 2 Jul 1842 in Mudgee, NSW Australia.)