The 3rd Great-Grandson of William Stonestreet, Henry Stonestreet, was born in 1761 to Samuel Stonestreet and his wife Lucy nee Stredwick.  Henry was christened on 26 December 1761 at Brightling, Sussex.  He married Sarah Waters, a young lass from Battle, on 11 February 1783 at Heathfield, Sussex.

Two weeks after they married, Henry and Sarah were the subject of a complaint by the Heathfield Overseer for the Poor for settling without licence and were likely to be chargeable to Heathfield fund.  Their lawful place of settlement was deemed to be Brightling.  Around 1788 they moved from Heathfield to Brightling.

Henry and Sarah had a large family - Thomas born 1783, Hannah born 1784, Henry born 1785, Moses born 1786, Lucy born 1788, Aaron born 1790, Ann born 1792, Saul born 1793, Levi born 1794, William born 1795, Levi born 1797, Levi William born 1799, Saul born 1802, Reuben born 1803 and Reubin born 1808.  They were to lose four of the children at young ages.

In 1821, at the age of 60, Henry died leaving behind his wife and children.  He was buried in the St Thomas a Becket churchyard, Brightling.  A few years later and further tragedy was to befall the family.  On Monday, 22 December 1823 Moses, William and Levi faced trial for breaking into a barn while returning home from Dallington with a wagon of wheat.  All three were sentenced to 14 years transportation.  Their mother Sarah had only past away some nine days earlier.

Almost seven months later, the three brothers boarded the Mangles 3 which departed from Portsmouth, on 13 July 1824.  The Master of the Ship was John Cogill with 190 male convicts in total and the 40th Regiment aboard.  The voyage took 106 days sailing via Teneriffe.

The ship arrived in the colony on 27 October 1824.  The Convict Indents gives that Moses was aged 37, William was aged 29 and Levi was aged 23, all from Sussex and occupation given as Reapers.  They arrived in good heath and were forwarded to Parramatta where they were assigned to James Hassall.  James was the son of Rowland Hassall a missionary preacher who arrived from Tahiti in 1798.  Rowland owned 3,000 acres of land and was appointed as the Superintendent of Government Stock.  By the time the Stonestreet's arrived, James held land at O'Connell Plains near Bathurst.

Four years later, the brothers were still in the employment of James Hassall - Levi as a Shepherd, William as a Labourer and Moses as a Hut Keeper at Bathurst.  In 1837 all three brothers were issued with Tickets of Leave which allowed them to work outside the assignment system.  Then on 13 August 1839 the brothers were issued with Certificates of Freedom.  These were documents stating that a convict's sentence had been served.

Levi married Ann West on 17 September 1835 at the Holy Trinity Church, Kelso near Bathurst.  The witnesses to the ceremony were John West and Maria West, Ann's aunt and uncle.  Ann was born 9 June 1813 in Gortinny, Londonderry, Ireland.  She had arrived in the colony in 1821 aboard the Westmoreland with her parents Thomas West and Elizabeth Jamieson.  Her father Thomas became a landholder at Bathurst.  Anne's sister Eliza West married John Grant, known as the "Father of Canowindra".

By 1852 Levi had established himself in the community and had a family of seven children - Elizabeth born 1836, Sarah Frances born 1838, Catherine Jane born 1840 died 1842, Mary Jane born 1843, Catherine Ellen born 1846, William Thomas born 1849 and Henrietta born 1852.  Levi worked hard to provided for his family and was able to purchase a number of properties in the Bathurst area.

Levi and Ann's daughter Sarah married a wealthy Irish landholder named Patrick Sullivan in 1853.  Patrick had arrived around 1847 from Midleton, Cork County, Ireland then aged 26.  In 1848 he was one of the earliest settlers in the Warren area of Central NSW when he took up a small selection on the Macquarie River called Willie.  He was able to enlarge his land holdings to an area of 11,000 acres.  This large area was valuable land fronting the Macquarie River.  Patrick also purchased property at Bathurst. 

Patrick and Sarah's first child, Augustus was born in 1855, followed by a second son, John in 1857.  Their third child Catherine was born in 1859. Catherine contracted rheumatic fever and it was thought that this was the cause of her deafness.  In 1861 another son named Patrick was born.

During the early 1860s, Patrick acquired large areas of good sheep breeding land in the Bogan/Marra Creek region south of Brewarrina. Patrick was often out seeing to his land and Sarah would find herself alone for long periods of time.  On Patrick's return from one of his trips to the west in mid-1863, he found that Sarah was pregnant.  Patrick would not accept that he was the father of the child, for reasons unknown.

It would seem that Sarah remained for some months with Patrick.  Then on Christmas Eve labour began and she made the journey by foot through the scrub from Rock Forest to her parent's home Hillside at Blayney.  This would seem some distance for a person to travel by foot.  The baby was born on Boxing Day in 1863 and registered with no other information except the name of his mother.  Sarah later named him William, after her brother.

Sarah continued living with her parents leaving behind Patrick and their four children who were then aged 8, 6, 4 and 2.  Any attempt at reconciliation with Patrick has never been determined, and the extent of her relationship with her other four children after her departure is unknown.

Sometime around 1874 Sarah became involved in a relationship with a miner named William Holley.  He was English and was thought to have migrated in the early 1870s.  William and Sarah were living together at Gratti, a small mining village near Mudgee.  In 1876, when Sarah was aged 38, a son named James was born to the couple.  Sarah's son, William was also living with them and was raised as a Holley.  William and Sarah finally married in 1900 when Sarah was aged 63.  Seven months later, Sarah died from Mitral disease.

The last trace of Moses, the elder brother of Levi, was when he received his Ticket of Leave on 3 August 1839.  Moses owned land near Meadow Flat, Portland or Sunny Corner.   It's not known if he married or had children.  Although the Battle Petty Sessions Book, Sussex states that on 22 November 1811 Betty Sweatman of Heathfield made a claim that she was with child which was likely to be born a bastard and charged Moses Stonestreet of Brightling with being the father. A warrant was granted and recognised Moses Stonestreet in £20 and Thomas Longley in £20 upon condition that Stonestreet would appear at the Sessions.

The other brother, William had married Mary Harmer on 18 October 1817 at Heathfield, Sussex.  A few years later Mary was to be faced with uncertainty as her husband was deported to a far off land.  It's not known what became of Mary, or whether she had any children to William.  William was said to have a tattoo on his arm, the name of Mary Harmer.

William's second marriage was to Catherine Ryan on 15 August 1843 at Kelso near Bathurst.  They had two children James born 1843 and Joseph born 1845 both born at Bathurst but nothing further can be found.

William purchased land totaling 160 acres which was near Levi's properties at Bathurst.  By 1854 William and Catherine were residing at Dirty Swamp where William was farming.  In 1874 Catherine died at Bathurst.  William died in 1881 at Mutton Falls.