While gathering information to be indexed into www.ryersonindex.org I found the following deaths relating to the Hawkesbury List area in the Sydney Morning Herald. Wednesday 14 February 1844 - At Mangrove Creek, on the 17th January, aged 45 years, Mary Anne, wife of Griffith Parry, leaving seven children and a large circle of friends to deplore their loss. This one is not specific to the list area but is interesting for the content in the notice Saturday 17 February 1844 - At his residence, Parramatta, on the 15th instant, aged seventy-four, Francis Oakes, Esq., one of the oldest colonists, having arrived about forty-four years ago. He was one of the original body of missionaries sent out per the ship Duff, in the year 1797, for the Society Islands, by the London Missionary Society. Being driven thence, with several of his colleagues, by the persecutions of the natives, he settled at Parramatta about the commencement of the present century, and for many years held successively various confidential situations under the colonial government. It is an interesting historical fact that Mr. Oakes married the first female born in New South Wales of British parents, his lady being also either the first or the second Anglo-Australian that ever was married. Their progeny of children and grand-children is very numerous. Patricia

Thankyou Patricia for the note on Mary Anne Parry (nee Musty). My G G Grandmother, she was buried on their property and I am surprised the SMH was informed. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Patricia" <adsl4805@tsn.cc> To: "HHHV" <aus-nsw-hills-hawkesbury-hunter-valley@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, December 14, 2009 7:23 PM Subject: [HHHV] Deaths February 1844 > While gathering information to be indexed into www.ryersonindex.org I > found the following deaths relating to the Hawkesbury List area in the > Sydney Morning Herald. > > Wednesday 14 February 1844 - At Mangrove Creek, on the 17th January, aged > 45 years, Mary Anne, wife of Griffith Parry, leaving seven children and a > large circle of friends to deplore their loss. > > > > This one is not specific to the list area but is interesting for the > content in the notice > > Saturday 17 February 1844 - At his residence, Parramatta, on the 15th > instant, aged seventy-four, Francis Oakes, Esq., one of the oldest > colonists, having arrived about forty-four years ago. He was one of the > original body of missionaries sent out per the ship Duff, in the year > 1797, for the Society Islands, by the London Missionary Society. Being > driven thence, with several of his colleagues, by the persecutions of the > natives, he settled at Parramatta about the commencement of the present > century, and for many years held successively various confidential > situations under the colonial government. It is an interesting historical > fact that Mr. Oakes married the first female born in New South Wales of > British parents, his lady being also either the first or the second > Anglo-Australian that ever was married. Their progeny of children and > grand-children is very numerous. > > Patricia > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-HILLS-HAWKESBURY-HUNTER-VALLEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the > message >