William Warby

  Noted events in his life were:

• connection. Luigi & Dawn Villani (nee Fawcett) are linked to Les in the following way:

Dawn Fawcett married Luigi (Lou) Villani
Her father was Walter Fawcett who married Lillian Payton
Her father was Charles Payton (1892)
His father was Thomas Payton (c1864)
His father was William Payton (1821) who married Sarah Warby (1833)
Her father was William Warby (1801)
His father was John Warby (c1767) & he also had Elizabeth Warby (1802) who married James Layton (c1804)
They had Eleanor Layton (1821) who married James Keighran (1808) who also had John Joseph Keighran (1845)
He had Joseph Keighran (1879)
He had Leslie William Keighran (1904)
He had Mary Keigrhan (1927) who married Mervyn Collins (1924)
They had Les Collins (1950) who married me - Robyn Bray (nee Davies) (1950)

• Occupation. squatter on Murrumbdgee River, NSW Australia. In 1833 William applied in his father's name, for a section of land bounded in the north by the Murrumbidgee River.

• fact. Because he was held in high esteem by his neighbours, no one suspected that his success was due to anything but endeavour on his part and luck. However, his destiny changed when a warrant for his arrest on the suspicion of cattle stealing. In February 1836 William was chared in the Supreme Court with receiving cattle form Robert Beaver knowing them to have been stolen from Henry O'Brien. William was transported to Tasmania on the Siren which left Sydney on 30th July 1836 and arriving in Hobart on 11 August, for receiving stolen cattle and several members of the family followed, probably only for a short time, to ascertain conditions in that colony.
He received his ticket of leave on 18th November 1842 and his free pardon on 14 Spetember 1843

• Property. In Aug 1821 William received a grant of 60 acres at Airds and he promised to deliver 30 bushels of wheat into His Majesty's Magazines at Liverpool th efollowing January. Twelve months after receiving his grant, William had cleared thirty acres and was growing seventeen acres of wheat, one acre of barley and one acres of potatoes. He owned eight horned cattle, fifteen hogs and had fifty bushels of maize in hand.
On 12 Sept 1830 William appled for an allotment of town land in Campbelltown, Sydney on which he planned to build a cottager for the accommodation of his wife and family. By this time he owned four hundred head of horned cattle, four breeding mares, two saddle horese, fie hundred shee adn two tems of bullocks which were constantly employed.

In September 1833 William applied to purchase two sections of land. The first was for himself and became know as Darbalara comprising long river frontages of flat rich land with a fork formed by the junction of th eTumut an dMurrumbidgee Rivers. The second section was on behalf of his father and was described as being on the east side of William's station, bounded on the norht by the murrumbidgee Riber about two miles below itss junction with the Tumut River. These properties sloped back to the ranges and were covered with grass and light timber.

• Medical. died of bronchial pneumonia

William married Jemima Middleton, daughter of William Middleton and Unknown, on 18 Jan 1821 in St Lukes C of E, Liverpool, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Jemima Middleton was born in 1803, died in Jan 1839 in Sydney, NSW Australia and was buried on 7 Jan 1839 in St Lawrence Church of England, George St, Sydney, NSW Australia ?.)