Benjamin Warby

  General Notes:

When Benjamin died in 1869 he was buried at "Taminick" Station. His remains were later removed to the Wangaratta Cemetery and allegedly re-interred in the same grave as his wife Sarah Jane - no mention of this is on the headstone. From information received in Wangaratta, there were suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Benjamin, and that there were persistant rumours that he had been murdered.
Calvin Warby notes:
It is likely that Benjamin Warby born in 1825 is descended from John Warby who was sent to Australia in the late 1700's as a convict. He became a famous constable in the Campbelltown area. The Warby Range, the Warby Swamp Gum tree and the Warby-Ovens national Park were named after him. My ancestor, James Warby (1785) and his son, James Warby (1822) emigrated to Australia in 1839.

Yvonne Smith notes:
My partners grandmother was Molly McInerney daughter of John McInerney and Martha Blanche McKay. Martha Blanche was the daughter of Isabina Warby. Isabina married William James McKay. Of all the McKay daughters I was unable to find any notices announcing Martha's marriage which I could only put down to the fact that the McKays and Warbys were Church of England and that she married John McInerney who happened to be Catholic.
I fell into researching my partner's family after his mother's death and discovered a most interesting family on all fronts. Most of my research has been through using Trove nla and the digitised newspapers and of course the added generosity of people like yourself sharing information over the internet. Seeing the photo of Taminick Homestead on your site filled me with excitement that it would still exist and so the Warby and Taminick quest led us to the homestead in
2015 where the current owners were kind enough to show us around. This opportunity has served a completely unexpected purpose as for the past 9 months I have visited an aged care with my computer and on seeing my screensaver of Taminick, have raised many photo showing and Warby/Taminick story telling sessions!
I've attached one of the many articles that I have found on Ben Warby, Cardinal Wiseman and the 1857 Jockey Club Cup. It was this article and image along with another article describing a road trip Ben had with the famed equine artist Fred Woodhouse that have prompted me to try and locate the (maybe) Woodhouse paintings of Warby's horses and the Cup but I believe that whilst the current owners may not wish to part with them, they may perhaps like to know more of the detail relating to these that now made available by technology and at best share an image of them, of which I'm sure the Racing Museum of Victoria in Melbourne could be most interested.
Hopefully they are somewhere waiting to be rediscovered, hopefully the cup hasn't been melted down or the paintings destroyed in a fire or tossed out as old rubbish. All I can do is try and search for Warby relatives and ask the question and of course I will forward any further information if I am lucky enough to uncover it.

  Research Notes:

Yvonne Smith notes:
I have been researching my partners family, one of his GGGG Grandfather's being Benjamin Warby Jnr and I have found your website to be of great help. I was wondering if you would have any knowledge of the existence of a painting of Ben Warby's horse Cardinal Wiseman who won the 1857 Jockey club cup. Newspaper articles stated that it was in the possession of Mrs James (Annie Nicholas Sharp) of Black Rock in 1945 who obviously had inherited it from her mother Elizabeth Mary Ann Sharp (nee Warby and the sister of my partners GGG Grandmother Isabina). Also to make it more juicy, Frederick Woodhouse was most likely the painter, again thanks to digitisation of our newspapers. As Cardinal Wiseman was retired after winning the Jockey Club Cup which was the forerunner of the Melbourne Cup, his racetrack feats have largely disappeared. It would be wonderful if this very significant piece of early racing history was uncovered, we would dearly loved to see an image of it. Perhaps the Art Gallery and Racing museum would be greatly interested as well. ⁴⁴²

  Noted events in his life were:

• source. ⁴⁴² & Dannielle Smith @ genes who writes:
Benjamin was the only surviving child of nine. The other eight were stillborn. Benjamin and Sarah Warby had a station called Taminick, near the Warby Ranges, which had been bought for him by his father, in 1846. The Warbys were great racing men with their horse Cardinal Wiseman.Ben was a pioneer of the Wangaratta district for almost a quarter of a century. He was best known as a horse breeder, and for having introduced some of the best bloostock into the colony. The pride of his stud was "Cardinal Wiseman", a brilliant galloper, but according to some reports "an ugly headed brute". The big black Victorian stallion salvaged some of the tatte red reputation of Victorian breeders, (mauled by the performance of the Sydney horse Veno), when it won, in the fastest time ever recorded for two miles in the colony, the Jockey Club Cup in Melbourne on 7th October 1857. The Jockey Club Cup is reputed to have been the race which developed into the Melbourne Cup.
Yvonne Smith later added:
I have now tracked down the Jockey Club Cup of 1857 that was won by Benjamin Warby Jnr's horse Cardinal Wiseman. The Cup was passed down to his eldest daughter Elizabeth Sharp then to her daughter Annie Nicholas Sharp (Mrs Albert Victor James). It is now owned by a private collector and will be loaned to the VRC where it will be on display at Flemington Racecourse in time for the Melbourne Cup. A wonderful relic of Australian colonial racing history. My partner is a descendant of Isabina McKay (3^rd Warby daughter).

• connection. The connection between Bridget Haylock and Les is as follows:
Bridget Haylock (1963)
Her father was Robert Haylock (1927) who married Janice Edgar (1933)
Her father was Hector Edgar (1903) who married Margaret Cooper (1903)
Her father was Charles Cooper (1862) who married Sarah Sharp (1868)
Her father was Robert Sharp (1868) who married Elizabeth Warby (1847)
Her father was Benjamin Warby (1825)
His father was Benjamin Warby (1805)
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 Les Collins (my ex husband) who married Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Baptism, 2 Oct 1825, St Peters C of E, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia.

Benjamin married Sarah Jane Brien, daughter of Daniel Brien and Mary Ann Parker (Alias Wilcox), on 31 Mar 1846 in St Bartholomews C of E, Prospect, NSW Australia. (Sarah Jane Brien was born on 1 Dec 1825 in South Creek, Bathurst, NSW Australia, died on 21 Jul 1868 in "Taminick", near Wangaratta, Victoria Australia and was buried in Jul 1868 in Wangaratta, Victoria Australia.)