These notes have been picked up from: http://users.netconnect.com.au/~godfrey/rottenbury.htm. I don't know who created them but they seem to come from Australia. Jonathan Brind
Includes the Galsworthy Family
I George Rottenbury b. abt 1776 Fremington, Devonshire, England
mar 5-6-1808 Fremington
Dinnah Wely b. abt
1781
Children:
1) George Rottenbury b. 13-8-1819 Devonshire d. 11-8-1910
(George's dc shows his mother as Dinah Everly however I
have found it as Wely in the LDS.
Other Rottenbury
researchers believe "Wely" is correct.)
mar. 1837 Bairntobe, Devonshire, England.
Marriane Galsworthy b. abt 1815
Devonshire d. 2-12-1897 Queanbeyan NSW (as Rattenberry)
Children:
Caroline b. 1842 Frimmington, Devonshire. d.
25-4-1914 Lightning Ridge NSW
mar.
Richard Robert Troy (See II below or http://users.netconnect.com.au/~godfrey/troy.htm
Page)
Mary b. 1845 Eng mar. George HE Buckpitt 1867 (8
children) (BDM's has Mary Rottenbary b.1846 Duntroon)
Diana (Dinah) Rottenbary b. 1850 mar. Richard O
Fenton 1875 Queanbeyan (2 children?)
George Henry
Rottenberry b. 1853 mar. Eliza Jane Kaye 18-10-1879 (5
children)
William Rottenbury b. 1-10-1856 mar. Elizabeth
Jane Vallance (7 children)
2) John Rottenbury b. abt 1821 Devonshire (other children not found yet)
George Rottenbury was born in England 13-8-1819. He was brought out (to Australia)as an Assisted Migrant by Robert Campbell to work as a stonemason on Campbell's property, "Duntroon", on the Canberry Plains near Queanbeyan, NSW. This is now the Australian Defence Academy in the nations capital Canberra. His wife Marriane and their 2 daughters came with him. They arrived in Sydney 12-2-1849 on the "Walter Morrice".
Robert Campbell also gave the land and made other contributions towards the building of the St John's Church of England, the first church in the district in what has now become the Canberra suburb of Reid. The first school was built next to the church. Other family members have also been notable contributors to the Church over the years.
While George was not there for the building of the original church, he may have worked on the new tower designed by Edmund Blackett and built between 1866 and 1870, and the later spire completed in 1878. His daughter Caroline married Richard Robert Troy (son of a convict) there in 1859. George and Marianne Rattenbury and their son George Henry Rottenbury and his wife Eliza Jane Kaye are buried in the historic grounds of the little church. The kids probably went to the school as it’s only 3kms to "Duntroon". For those visiting Canberra, a visit to St John's Church and the first school in the district is well worth a visit.
I have been given a copy of the England 1841 Census which shows George Rottenbury snr, agricultural labourer aged 65, wife Dinah 60, son John 20 blacksmiths apprentice, and Judith Symons 65, Independent, all living in the one house at Bickington. I am assuming that Judith is a sister to either George or Dinah.
II Caroline Rottenbury b. abt 1843
Devonshire d. 25-4-1914 Lightning Ridge
mar. 17-8-1859 St John's,
Canberra,pictured below
Richard Robert Troy b. 1824 Richmond, Tas. (died
unknown)
Written on the margin of the marriage record is:
"The consent of George Rottenbury father, was given to the marriage of Caroline
Rottenbury with Richard Troy, the said Caroline Rottenbury being under the age
of twenty one"Pierce Galliard Smith
Minister
Children:
Margaret b. 1859 Queanbeyan mar. James
Laird 1984 Sydney
George R b. 1861
Queanbeyan mar. Betsy M Crisp 1905 Murrumburrah
James H b. 1863 Forbes d.
1864
Charles William b. 1865 Wellington d. 1945
Parramatta
Robert J b. 1868 Dubbo d. 1927
Henry James b. 1870 Dubbo d. 1942 Coonamble
Mary Ann b. 1872 Dubbo mar. Walter Bowsher 1892
Walgett
Elizabeth b. 1874 Walgett mar. Thomas A
Cullen 1898 Goodooga
Sarah A b. 1877 Walgett mar.
CJ Prentice (see Prentice Page)
Caroline Maud b.
1879 Walgett mar. Clancy
Diana b. 1882 (On mother's
dc, can't find record of birth, marriage or death)
Humphrey Galsworthy mar. Grace Norman 22-1-1816 at Frithelstock, Devonshire Batch no M 050591)
Mrs Cynthia Blundell 330 Balston St Lavington 2641 (William Rattenbury's
line)
Lois Keating 20 Guava St Red Cliffs 3498
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