Joseph Warby

  General Notes:

At some time in his youth, Joseph lost his leg in an accident, and had to have it amputated. This restricted his activities only slightly in that he was still able to bring up and provide for a large family and run several properties and holdings.Two conveyances are believed to relate to "Mossberry". In 1841 fifty-five acres were sold by John Warby to Joseph Warby for ten shillings ($1) and in 1846 thirty-five acres were conveyed to Joseph "in consideration of the natural love and affection which the said John Warby beareth unto his said son Joseph Warby ....It is believed that part of "Mossberry" homestead dates from the early 1840's with additions being made later to accommodate a growing family. The National Trust classified "Mossberry" in 1981 and described it as "a fine early town house in the Georgian style ... an important house having historical connections with a prominent local pioneer family". "Mossberry" was built from rendered stone. At the rear is a large one-and-a-half-storey painted stone building. This is thought to be the earlier section of the building and it is connected to the main house by a lattice breezeway. Three very tall chimneys dominate the hipped galvanised roof. Across the front of the house is a flagged verandah with octagonal timber posts and a decorative scalloped timber valance. The double hung sash-type windows have shutters.In 1866 a group of Campbelltown labourers complained that their Road Trust was not using its funds to provide work. Unemployed agricultural labourers had hoped to get casual work, but the Trustees were not making decisions because of internal squabbles. John Hurley alleged that William Fowler delayed cash payments, paying the men in orders on his store so that they owed him their wages. Hurley also alleged Fowler had favoured his relative, Joseph Warby with road contracts. The Government reacted on the 19th February 1866 by dismissing the Trustees and appointing Thomas Chippendall, Thomas Byrnes, John Vardy, John Grant and Joseph Warby as new Trustees.,

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Joseph married Elizabeth Fowler, daughter of Henry Fowler and Mary Ann Potterton, on 25 Oct 1838 in St Davids Presbyterian Church, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia which is in the Parish of St Peters. (Elizabeth Fowler was born on 18 Jul 1819 in Henfield, West Sussex England, christened on 30 Dec 1821, died on 1 Jan 1900 in Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried in Warby Family Vault, St Peters, Campbelltown, NSW Australia.)