Jeffery

Lamberhurst and Brenchley, Kent, England

• Christine's 5th Great Grandparents: Thomass Jeofrey and Rachel Baldwin
• 4th Great Grandparents: Edward Jeffery and Lydia Hickmott
• 3rd Great Grandparents: William Jeffery and Mary Ann Martin
• Great Great Grandparents: go to Harriet Jeffery and Thomas Honour Stone.

Thomass Jeofrey & Rachel Baldwin

Thomass Jeofrey and Rachel Baldwin married 16th May 1758 at Lamberhurst, Kent. (IGI) Recorded in the Phillimore Parish Records Volume 111, page 135 as Thomas Jeffery and Rachel Baldwin. 

Known children (with baptism dates)

1. Phoebe Jeffery, 26th December 1758, Lamberhurst.  May have married Samuel Fairman in 1795.
2. John Jeffery, 19th October 1760, Lamberhurst.  May have married Alice Crundwell. Died 1844 Brenchley.
3. Thomas Jeffery, 4th September 1763, Lamberhurst. May have married Martha.
4. Edward Jeffery, 29th December 1765, Lamberhurst.  My 4th Great Grandfather.
5. Ann  Jeffery, 11th October 1769, Lamberhurst.  Ann was buried the same month in Lamberhurst cemetery.
6. Rachel Jefferies, 24th March 1771 Brenchley.  Rachel was buried 10th April at Brenchley.
7. Sarah Jeffery, 16th August 1772, Brenchley.
8. James Jeffery, 25th August 1782, Brenchley.

I do not yet know when Thomas died.

Rachel died, and was buried 23rd February 1824, a widow, aged 89.  This gives her a birth year of about 1735.

Edward Jeffery & Lydia Hickmott

Edward Jeffery was baptized 29th December 1765 at Lamberhurst, the son of Thomas Jeffery and Rachel Baldwin.

Lydia Hickmott was baptized 9th May 773 at Lamberhurst, the daughter of James Hickmott and Mary, and the youngest of six known children.

Edward and Lydia married at the Brenchley Parish Church on 17th November 1790.

Children (with baptism dates)

1. James - 22nd August 1791 at Brenchley.  Married Frances Chantler, then Ann Chandler, with about eleven children over the two marriages.
2. Phoebe -  25th May 1793 at Brenchley.  Married Thomas Walker.  Buried 4th December 1824.
3. Mary -  19th April 1795 at Brenchley.  Nothing further known.
4. Rachel - 5th March 1797 at Brenchley.  May have married Charles Patchen.
5. Edward - 24th March 1799 at Brenchley.  Married Hannah Ware.
6. Alice Jeffery -  21st June 1801 at Brenchley.  Alice married John Dartnall 1st November 1821.  They had at least five children.  Alice died in 1889.  In 1881 she was living with one of her married daughters in Brenchley.
7. John - 3rd April 1803 at Brenchley.  Wife Elizabeth.
8. Thomas - 10th November 1805 at Brenchley.  Married Harriet Clifton 1829.
9. William - 5th June 1808 at Brenchley - my 3rd great Grandfather.

Lydia died about six months after William was baptized, being buried at Brenchley 2nd November 1808.  

I do not know if Edward remarried.  He would have been about 43 years old when widowed.  The older girls probably helped to raise the younger children.  The eldest, James, would have been at least 17 years old when Lydia died.  The family seems to have remained a tight knit group, as 33 years later they all still lived side by side in Sandhole.  

In 1838, the family would have had to say goodbye to William's family as they emigrated from England to start a new life in Australia.   Other members of the family may have followed, or gone before.

1841 finds Edward living in Sandhole, Brenchley, recorded as 75 year old agricultural labourer.

Living in the same household is his married daughter Alice Dartnall, her husband John and four of their children.  Living next door is Alice's brother, John, his wife Elizabeth and six children.  The next house has Harriet Jeffery with two children.  Harriet is the wife of Thomas who is not home census night.  Then, there is yet another Jeffery household - James, with his second wife Ann and seven children.

Edward died, and was buried at Brenchley cemetery, 3rd June 1849, his age recorded as 87. 

William Jeffery & Mary Ann Martin

William Jeffery was born* 6th April 1808 at Brenchley, and baptized 5th June -  the youngest child of nine, to Edward Jeffery and Lydia Hickmott.  William's mother died around six months later, so little William would not have had a mother unless his father remarried. 

Mary Ann Martin was born* 10th August 1810 at Goudhurst, Kent, the daughter of William Martin and Elizabeth Mailliard.

* dates of birth from shipping information (Kevin)

William and Mary married 1st September 1828 at Lamberhurst. 

Children born in Kent, England, baptized at Brenchley.

1. Harriott  -  12th April 1829.  Harriott is my great great grandmother. 
2. Mary Ann was born 21st September 1831 and baptized 16th October.  Mary married Peter Murray in 1847, Australia; and died 8th April 1911 at Condobolin, NSW.
3. Sophia - 23rd March 1834.   Little Sophia died when she was 4 years old, and was buried in the Brenchley cemetery 29th April 1838.
4. Jane -   27th March 1836.  It is supposed that Jane died, as it is thought that she did not emigrate with the family.  However, her burial is not found in Brenchley.

1838 Emigration - William and Mary Ann and the two surviving girls emigrated from England.  The barque Lady Nugent sailed from Gravesend, with 134 adults and 104 children on board arriving at Sydney, Australia, on 27th November 1838.  The journey lasted 124 days, with the usual seasickness in the early days.  Diarrhoea was also common.  There were four births and two deaths on the voyage.  The surgeon reported that all passengers landed in excellent health.

Children born New South Wales, Australia.

1. Edward - registered 1839 surname as Jeffrey.  Edward married Mary Manning. He died at Yubergundry, NSW in 1869, aged 30.
2. Jane Sophia - born 25th August 1842 at Richmond.  Jane married twice, firstly to James Connor, then to William McCutcheon.  She died 15th June 1879, at Heifer Station, and was buried the next day in the Orange Cemetery.
3. Charles Henry - born 10th May 1845 at Hartley.  Charles married Ellen Gough.  He died 1878.
4. Martha Charlotte - born 21 March 1847 at Gulgoa Station, Condobolin.  Martha married Thomas Conley, and died 29th October 1933, being buried in the Nyngan Cemetery.
5. Caroline Alice - born 20th July 1850, baptized into the Roman Catholic Church on the first of August that same year.  Cousin John has forwarded a copy of the baptism particulars to us, and the surname is recorded as JEFFERS.   [It is likely that the other two records the same year, surname and parents in the NSW registration index are her two siblings being rebaptized - Charles and Mary (perhaps Martha might not have been the ideal name for the second baptism, the Roman Catholics preferred a Saints name for girls)]   Caroline married Richard Sutcliffe in 1869, they had 9 children.  Caroline died 1939.

25th June 1848, Charles and Martha were baptized.  The family were living at Lachlan River and William's occupation was a Squatter. 

William died between 1850 and 1857.  A little confusion reigns as to the death date, as the later date is recorded on the probate as date of death, yet a registration or burial record cannot be found.

[Since there are the baptisms with the surname JEFFERS, there is a possible death for William in 1850, as William Jeffers.  However, the age is way out at 53 years old.  I have not investigated this death - and being pre civil registration, it may not help]

Mary married John Murray on 8th September 1863, at the St Michael and St John  Catholic Church at Bathurst.  John, a farmer from Ploughmans Creek, was a 48 year old widower, originally from County Mayo in Ireland.  John's parents were recorded as Edward Murray and Ellen Welsh.  Mary's age was given as 50, her parents recorded as William (surname not recorded) and Eliza Mellion.  Mary's residence was also Ploughmans Creek.  The ceremony was performed by Thomas S. Leonard, the witnesses James and Mary Kelly.

Mary died at Orange, from ovarian cancer, on the 29th April 1876, aged 65.  Mary was buried at the Orange cemetery a few days later, on the 1st of May.  Her funeral service was conducted by the Roman Catholic Minister T. J. Walsh.