Hi Janice I can't help with William Henrys marriage (perhaps in Australia?) But for John Downing London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 about John Downing Towell Name: John Downing Towell Spouse Name: Isabella Bethia Blyth Record Type: Marriage *by licence* Marriage Date: 09 Nov 1833 Parish: St Mary, Newington County: Surrey Borough: Southwark Witnesses Richard ROBERTS & Emma Marina WATSON And her subsequent remarriage in 1848 London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 about Isabella Bethia Tawell Name: Isabella Bethia Tawell Spouse Name: John Fairbank Spouse Age: Full Age Record Type: Marriage Marriage Date: 28 Oct 1848 Parish: St Mary County: Middlesex Borough: Islington Father Name: Charles Blyth Spouse Father Name: John Fairbank (could she have been in Australia in 1841?) And the possible marriage for John senior London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 about John Tawell Name: John Tawell Spouse Name: Mary Freeman Record Type: Marriage Marriage Date: 09 Nov 1808 Parish: St James, Piccadilly, Westminster County: Middlesex Borough: Westminster In the same location as you cite your John D TAWELL in 1841 there is the following family (TAWELL on the page) Is this a connected family or is the John D TAWELL a red herring? (also on the same page is an older possible John TAWELL and Mary, or is it TOWERS as transcribed?) 1841 England Census about William Lawell Name: William Lawell Age: 27 Estimated Birth Year: abt 1814 Gender: Male Where born: Essex, England Civil parish: Earls Colne Hundred: Lexden (Witham Division) County/Island: Essex Country: England Registration district: Halstead Sub-registration district: Halstead Neighbors: View others on page Piece: 335 Book: 5 Folio: 32 Page Number: 18 Household Members: Name Age William Lawell 27 Sarah Lawell 27 Thomas Lawell 4 William Lawell 3 Emma Lawell 2 John Lawell 10 MO HO107; Piece 335; Book: 5; Civil Parish: Earls Colne; County: Essex; Enumeration District: 14; Folio: 32; Page: 18; Line: 19; GSU roll: 241373. The John TAWELL above appears to be :- England & Wales, FreeBMD Birth Index, 1837-1915 about John Frederic Tawell Name: John Frederic Tawell Date of Registration: Jul-Aug-Sep 1840 Registration district: Halstead Inferred County: Essex Volume: 12 Page: 103 His possible marriage England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 about John Frederick Tawell Name: John Frederick Tawell Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1868 Registration district: Lexden Inferred County: Essex Volume Number: 4a Page Number: 529 England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 about Elizabeth Goodey Name: Elizabeth Goodey Date of Registration: Oct-Nov-Dec 1868 Registration district: Lexden Inferred County: Essex Volume Number: 4a Page Number: 529 And probate Probate Calendars 1891 TAWELL John Frederick 5th August Adminsitartion of the Personal Estate of John Frederick Tawell late of Aldham in the County of Essex Farmer who died 9 May 1891 at Aldham was granted at the Principal Registry to Elizabeth Tawell of Aldham Widow the Relict Personal Estate £713 14s 6d Is it coincidence that there is a William D TAWELL b1838 Earls Colne in 1861 And the following marriage England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index: 1837-1915 about William Downing Tawell Name: William Downing Tawell Date of Registration: Jan-Feb-Mar 1862 Registration district: Clerkenwell Inferred County: London Volume Number: 1b Page Number: 648 Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) Good afternoon Listers, I am hoping SKS can help me regarding the marriages of the two sons of John Tawell, the man who was hung in Aylesbury for the murder of his Mistress Sarah Hart aka Lawrence. I believe both marriages would have taken place in London, who before the Free BMD records on the Website. "...John Tawell (1784-1845) was a British murderer. In 1845, he became the first person to be arrested as the result of telecommunications technology. Transported to Australia in 1815 for the crime of forgery, Tawell obtained a ticket of leave, and started as a chemist in Sydney. He also in 1823 arranged for and paid for his wife Mary and two sons John and William to join him in Sydney Town. John running his Chemist and Drug store flourished, and after fifteen years left it a rich man. John returning to England, he married a Quaker lady Widow Sarah Calford as his second wife in 1841, after his wife Mary died in England in 1838. John Snr.and Sarah TAWELL (Calford) had one son Henry Augustus TAWELL born in 1843 in Berkhampstead. Both John Snr and his new wife Sarah appear on the 1841 Census living in Berkhamstead. John TAWELL confessed to the murder of his mistress, Sarah Hart, by prussic acid, his motive being a dread of their relations becoming known. Mary had two illegitimate children by him. He was hung in Aylesbury in 1845...." It appears the two children of Mary Hart, where separated and may have been adopted. Before the TAWELLS returned to England from Colonial Sydney, John sent his eldest son John Downing TAWELL to LONDON to study to become a Surgeon, this may have been around 1825, (also the second name DOWNING may be a clue to other family connections). John Snr's younger son William Henry TAWELL returned to England with his parents around 1829-30, John the Surgeon may have been with them. In newspaper reports in the Sydney Press, it appears that both Dr. John Downing TAWELL with his WIFE and also his brother William Henry TAWELL with his WIFE, visited Sydney on a number occasions, between the years 1832 and the early 1840s. It also appears that John Snr., also returned to the Colony on a number of occasions, maybe to sell off some of his vast property holdings. In March on 1836, while on a visit to Sydney, he attempted to give dramatic proof of his high principles when he poured £500 worth of rum and gin into Sydney Cove to impress the visiting Quaker Missionary, James Blackhouse. John Snr. had received an Absolute Pardon from the Governor, which was what allowed him to return to England with his family, he was a very rich man, and left many properties and investments in the Colony in the hands of his Agent. When the family left for England, John TAWELL as reputed he was worth over £14,000. The only way a convict could return to England was with an Absolute Pardon adn they were very rate indeed. Even though all had served their sentences of 7, 14, 21 years, they were not encourage to leave the shores of the place they had called home for so long. A convict given the sentence of transportation for Life, meant Life. They recieved what was referred to as a Conditional Pardon after serving at least 8 years of their sentence. Also, all convicts when they received their Certificates of Freedom or Condition Pardons, where given substanicial Land Grants, as where their Colonial born children. A great incentive to stay put. My husband's convict ggg grandfather and his two sons, received large land grants in Castlereagh Street, right in the middle of what is today to CBD of Sydney. Both Dr. John Downing TAWELL and his brother William Henry TAWELL, both died young in England. It was lucky for them that they both died before their father committed his ghastly crime of murder most foul. John Jnr. died on a lung complaint in the June Quarter of 1843 in Islington. I am trying to find out the name of John Downing TAWELL'S wife and what was her maiden name. I found John Downing TAWELL aged 30 on the 1841 Census, of Independent means, living in Earls Colen, living with him was Richard Russell 5 and Sarah Drake 20, however no Mrs. TAWELL. I am not quite sure of the actual year of William Henry TAWELL'S death, it could have been 1839 or 1842, these deaths are under the name TOWELL (this was they way the name was pronounced). However, it is the marriages of the brothers in London that I would love to be able to locate, so their wives names can be found and added to this very intriguing story. In the Sydney newspapers, they would refer to the wives as Mrs. TAWELL, not even giving an initial to help to identify them. Also, where would John Downing TAWELL have studied to be a Surgeon. Would it have been at a London hospital or at a University or College? Cheers Janice Belrose, Sydney Down Under

Good morning Listers, I cannot thank Nivard and Maureen enough. Thank you so much for such wonderful information. I never expected that so much information could be found. Also, please accept my apologies for so many typos, I hit the send button before I had proof read my post. Cheers, Janice Belrose - Sydney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: "Janice Doughty" <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au>; <LONDON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [LON] TAWELL FAMILY marriages. > Hi Janice > > I can't help with William Henrys marriage (perhaps in Australia?) > > But for John Downing > > London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 > about John Downing Towell > Name: John Downing Towell > Spouse Name: Isabella Bethia Blyth > Record Type: Marriage *by licence* > Marriage Date: 09 Nov 1833 > Parish: St Mary, Newington > County: Surrey > Borough: Southwark > Witnesses Richard ROBERTS & Emma Marina WATSON > >

Hi Nivard, I think all the Tawell families in Earls Colne in Essex, would be related. I went looking for John Fairbank and Isabella Bethia Fairbank (Tawell nee Blyth) on the 1851 Census, and could not find them. However, I did find them on the 1861 Census. So at a guess, they may have been Down Under at the time, as her first husband would have had investments and properties in New South Wales. I then entered Isabella Bethia Fairbank into Google and I found a lady by that name buried on 14th Sept 1865 in the Abney Park Cemetery. There a lots of Fairbanks buried there, however John is not with her. On the Free BDM she is registered as Isabel in the deaths. I was also hoping to find that Isabella and Dr. John Downing TAWELL may have had children, as they were married for 10 years before his death in 1843. It does not look like they had any children. Dr John and Isabella were embarked on the "Chares Kerr" on 27th February 1838 in Sydney returning to London. Isabella is not with John on the 1841 Census, though I could not see her being Down Under in 1841 by herself either, though she could have been. ambe staying with family friends. I also could not find them in 1851, however I found them in 1861 living Camberwell, Surrey. John is 43 born in Yorkshire and Isabella is 49 born in London. I opened the hand written page 51, to see if John was still a Chemist, however I cannot find them on that page nor the ones either side. Regards, Janice ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nivard Ovington" <ovington1@sky.com> To: "Janice Doughty" <adoughty01@optusnet.com.au>; <LONDON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [LON] TAWELL FAMILY marriages. > Hi Janice > > I can't help with William Henrys marriage (perhaps in Australia?) > > But for John Downing