Looking for any details of convict Henry Warry who was assigned to Mr M Riley at Bloomfield in the county of Argyle. in 1826. I have had this info for many years - even wrote to Goulburn Historical Soc., thinking Argyle was there. Then to my absolute amazement I have found that Bloomfield estate included the farm near Bowral where I spent the first sixteen years of my life!! I had no idea that convicts had even been in the area, much less working on the family farm. Now, I am looking for any reference at all to Warry. IS there a list of convicts assigned to Riley??, any other convict records of the district?? Warry was sentenced to 2 years at Moreton Bay, by the bench at Goulburn Plains in 1829 for "concealing information against bushrangers. Goulburn Historical Soc was interested as this was the earliest ref they had for bushrangers in the district. In 1833 a Henry "Warre" is in Sydney gaol for larceny . Is this my Henry?? My main query is to his whereabouts in the years from 1833 to 1856. Was he in gaol all of that time? Did he return to the Bowral area? Warry later finished up as "overseer" Kangaroo valley station. Can find no record of marriage to Mary Jane McCarthy supposedly 1 Jan 1856 -conveniently first day of compulsory registration! and suspect she was a "common law" wife. They had a big family. He died in 1880 and he is buried in Bulli cemetery. Marie

The county of Argyle originally included the entire area from Sutton Forest Parish to Goulburn, Bungonia, and Lake Bathurst and on South to Braidwood and Krawarree which was the end of the known world it seems. Sutton Forest Parish was given Braidwood district in 1834. In 1834 the parishes of Goulburn, Bungonia and Lake Bathurst were given to John Vincent. He baptised my great grandfathers elder brother William at Lake Bathurst parish in 1834. This location was listed as Braidwood on his death certificate. His parents Jim and Marie Ann Pender nee Stewart/d were married in 1833 at Braidwood district and went to work/live at Inverary Station which is 20 km north of Lake Bathurst. The inverary road went from Marulen through Bungonia to Lake Bathurst. The road to Braidwood orignally came off that road at Bungonia area and moved south along the Durran Durra Creek to Braidwood. Jimmy or Johnny Christmas was speared on that road by the Durran Durra. He is still buried there in an unmarked grave along the Durran Durra. Bungonia and Lake Bathurst were the areas for the quality Black Marble mined in the are between them. Bungonia was probably the largest centre outside of Sydney in the 1830s. I think Lake Bathurst had some nine hotels then also. When the marble ran out and the gold took over they moved South and elsewhere and many away entirely after the gold finished. Braidwood was surveyed as a town in 1839 and the first lots sold in 1840. Braidwood Wilson was given his land grant from which the town was excised in 1822 and hence the town takes this as the date of its foundation but there was no town area occupied until 1840. The County of Argyle was huge and areas were very general. So Sutton Forest/Bowral to Braidwood and south to Krawarree was some County and some Parish or actually later parishes. Wade ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Donaldson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2003 9:44 PM Subject: Fw: Henry Warry > > > > > Looking for any details of convict Henry Warry who was assigned to Mr M Riley at Bloomfield in the county of Argyle. in 1826. > > I have had this info for many years - even wrote to Goulburn Historical Soc., thinking Argyle was there. Then to my absolute amazement I have found that Bloomfield estate included the farm near Bowral where I spent the first sixteen years of my life!! I had no idea that convicts had even been in the area, much less working on the family farm. Now, I am looking for any reference at all to Warry. IS there a list of convicts assigned to Riley??, any other convict records of the district?? > > Warry was sentenced to 2 years at Moreton Bay, by the bench at Goulburn Plains in 1829 for "concealing information against bushrangers. Goulburn Historical Soc was interested as this was the earliest ref they had for bushrangers in the district. In 1833 a Henry "Warre" is in Sydney gaol for larceny . Is this my Henry?? My main query is to his whereabouts in the years from 1833 to 1856. Was he in gaol all of that time? Did he return to the Bowral area? > > Warry later finished up as "overseer" Kangaroo valley station. Can find no record of marriage to Mary Jane McCarthy supposedly 1 Jan 1856 -conveniently first day of compulsory registration! and suspect she was a "common law" wife. They had a big family. He died in 1880 and he is buried in Bulli cemetery. > Marie > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >