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John CRANE (born 1765) was 49 yrs of age when he was
tried at the Old Bailey with "having forged bank notes in
his possession". He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years
transportation. He arrived in Australia on the ship 'Earl Spencer'
in 1813. The 'Earl Spencer, a sailing ship of 672 tons, left
England on 2 June 1813 with 200 males on board. After a journey
of 129 days it arrived in NSW on 9 October 1813 with 196 males on
board.
Shipping lists state that JOHN
CRANE was 5' 3" tall, of pale complexion with black hair and
hazel eyes. He was described as a ladies shoe maker. Shortly
after he arrived, he was assigned to work for a Mr Shepherd.
Records show that John was granted conditional pardon in February
1816 and absolute pardon on 3 November 1826 - exactly 14 years
after his sentence at Middlesex.
His wife, Susanna CRANE (nee BROOM),
followed him to the Colony and arrived on 19 January 1816 on the
ship 'Mary Ann' with her daughter Mary Ann and sons, Christopher
and Charles. Their other son, John, arrived on the Malabar in
1821.
John CRANE was granted 10 acres at
Botany in 1831 and the following year became the Licensee of the
Crispin Arms Inn in Sydney. Granted land at 62 Cumberland Street,
Sydney in 1839, he constructed a two storey brick house valued at
700 pounds and also erected a valuable stone tenement at the rear
of the military windmill. It was at his residence in Cumberland
Street that he died at the age of 84.
John CRANE's son, Christopher
CRANE (born 1799 in England)
married Sarah McAVOY in 1821 in Sydney. Sarah was born in the
Colony of convict parents. Her parents Hugh McAVOY and Mary
PALMER arrived in Australia on the convict ship "Glatton"
in 1803. Although I can find no record of their marriage they had
three children, Sarah, Mary and Patrick.
Christopher's son John
Christopher CRANE (born
1824 in Sydney), also married a convict's daughter. Matilda
Rebecca JONES was the daughter of Stephen JONES transported on
the "Mariner" in 1816. John and Matilda moved to
Toowoomba, Queensland, around the 1850s and stayed there to raise
their family. It is from this family that I am descended.
Thomas CRANE married Anna Catherine OLDENBURGH in 1878
at Gowrie Creek, Toowoomba.
My Crane
Family Links with History:
| Reverend John Dunmore Lang |
John Christopher CRANE and Matilda Rebecca JONES were
married by the Reverend John Dunmore Lang on 13 November
1843 at the Scots Church, Sydney. |
| Talgai, , Queensland, Australia
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Anna Catherine OLDENBURGH's birth certificate states she was
born at Talgai on 19 August 1856 (un named). Her birth
was reported by E O Douglas JP, part proprietor of the
Run of Talgai. Her father Klaus Jacob OLDENBURGH's
occupation was recorded as Shepherd. Anna was christened at Talgai by the
Reverend Benjamin Glennie on 7 December 1856 and her name
was added to her birth certificate after registration of
the birth (on 13 October 1856) at Warwick, Queensland.
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| Reverend Benjamin Glennie |
Anna Catherine OLDENBURGH
was christened by the Reverend Glennie, one of the
Darling Downs' most respected pioneers, who was known as
the "Apostle of the Downs". |
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The Reverend John Dunmore Lang
Reverend Lang recruited settlers to
the new Colony, Australia, and arranged transport on the "Fortitude"
after which Fortitude Valley, a suburb of Brisbane, Queensland
was named.
He was born at Greenock, Scotland
25 August 1799 and died in Sydney 8 August 1878, aged 78 years.
His wife Wilhelmina was born 24 September 1812.
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Talgai
Talgai, near Allora, was
selected in 1840 by George Clark. He soon established a most
successful merino stud.
In 1886, William Naish and his two
sons contracted to complete the fencing of Talgai's paddocks, but
the torrential rains that ended the disastrous Australia-wide
drought of the 1880s interrupted their work. When they returned,
they found an unusual human cranium which had been washed out by
floodwaters. The now famous "Talgai Skull" was
displayed on a mantelpiece in the homestead for the next forty
years, but its great scientific importance was not realised until
it came to the notice of Professor Sir Edgeworth David in 1914.
Professor N W G Macintosh of Sydney University relocated the
place where the skull was originally discovered. He carbon-dated
the shell and bone fragments found in the excavations, and as a
result it is now believed that the first man came to Australia
between 20,000 and 30,000 years ago.
"Talgai" is also
remembered as the location of one of Queensland's first, although
shortlived, goldmines.
(Parts of the above was taken
from a book on Toowoomba many years ago and unfortunately I know
neither the name of the book or the author. If the author would
like to contact me I will give credit where credit is due).
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The Reverend Benjamin Glennie
"The Apostle of the Downs"
- a short history
The Reverend Benjamin Glennie,
who became known as "The Apostle of the Downs", was one
of the Downs' most respected pioneers. He was born at Dulwich,
England, in 1812, and studied theology at Christ College,
Cambridge. Soon after his migration to Australia in 1848, he was
ordained by the Bishop of Newcastle, who appointed him to the
Moreton Bay parish, then the northern extremity of this vast
diacese. Within a year, Deacon Glennie had opened the Downs'
first Anglican Church at the crossroads village of Drayton.
Although there were disputes with
Aborigines in those days, the Reverend Glennie was never attcked
when passing through tribal territories. This great churchman
spent nearly thirty years of devoted service to the pioneer
families scattered through the Downs. During his ministry at
Warwick he established new churches and the first schools in the
infant settlements.
Reverend Glennie finally retired to
Brisbane where he died in 1900 at the age of eighty-eight. He is
remembered by the Glennie Memorial School for Girls at Toowoomba
(which took in the first pupils in 1908) and Glennie Heights
overlooking Warwick where his sandstone residence is located.
The land on which the Glennie
Memorial School stands had been bought by Glennie with the
proceeds of the sale of vegetables he had grown.
(Parts of the above was taken
from a book on Toowoomba many years ago and unfortunately I know
neither the name of the book or the author. If the author would
like to contact me I will give credit where credit is due).
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