1841 CensusPiece: HO107/149/2 Place: Pydar -Cornwall Enumeration District: 9
Civil Parish:St. Agnes Ecclesiastical Parish: -
Folio:67 Page: 12
Address:Goonvrea
Surname First name(s) Sex Age Occupation Where Born ROWE John M 45 Tin Miner Cornwall
ROWE Joanna F 45 Cornwall
ROWE John M 25 Tin Miner Cornwall
ROWE William M 20 Tin Miner Cornwall
ROWE James M 15 Tin Miner Cornwall
ROWE Alice F 15 Cornwall
ROWE Abel M 14 Tin Miner Cornwall
ROWE Joanna F 13 Cornwall
ROWE Nanny F 11 Cornwall
ROWE Francis M 8 Cornwall
ROWE Samuel M 5 Cornwall
SIMONS Alice F 85 Cornwall [Joanna's mother]
She immigrated to South Australia on the Samuel Boddington with her mother and siblings in 1848
Barque Samuel Boddington, 523 tons, Captain John M. Hurst, from London 27th September / Plymouth 8th October 1848, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 12th January 1849
The London Times Sept 6, 1848 ad FOR ADELAIDE direct, calling at Plymouth to embark passengers, under charter to her Majesty's Emigration Commissioners to sail 21st of September, and has only room for a few tons of goods, last shipping day 18th of September, the fine, first- class, fast-sailing ship SAMUEL BODDINGTON, A 1, 670 tons register; lying in the West India Dock. This splendid ship has a full poop, with very superior accommodations for passengers, and carries an experienced surgeon. For freight or passage apply to Wm. Folgate and Co., 4, Clement's-lane; or to Lachlans and Mac Leod, 62 Cornhill.
people listed in the record are as follows:
·ROWE Mrs. Johanna (49?) (b.1789)[Johanna (nee Symons)was a 60 year old widow
·ROWE Alice (24)
·ROWE Abel (22)
·ROWE Joanna (20)
·ROWE Nancy (17)
·ROWE Francis (14)
ROWE Samuel(12)
http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/samuelboddington1849.htm
SAMUEL BODDINGTON 1849 from London 27 - 09 - 1848 via Plymouth 8/10/1848 with Captain M. Hurst, arrived Port Adelaide on 12-01-1849 One of the passengers wrote "that the 'Samuel Boddington', whilst having a pilot on board, heeled on her anchor below the bar. The watercasks were all started aft, and all the passengers ordered forward to lighten the vessel astern, and by those means she was got off. The captain said the event would have involved an expense of £1000." (this was reported in the October 10,1849 issue of the South Australian REGISTER)
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/fh/passengerlists/1849SamuelBoddington.htm
Nanny Married Thomas Mcgrath (son of James Mcgrath and Mary Schully of County Clare Ireland)on 29 Apr 1850, Adelaide, South Australia.
The McGrath children were born in the Shire of Huntly which ceased to exist in 1994 & became part of the City of Greater Bendigo Council. Thomas and Nanny's last son Albert was born 2 months after Thomas's death. Two weeks after that, the Sandhurst Philanthropic Club and the Northcote Band gave a benefit concert to aid the bereft family. We know this from a poster announcing the benefit concert for the family which was miraculously retrieved when the Huntly Council Chambers were renovated in 1988. Attached to the poster was a small newspaper cutting and pencilled beside it were the words "He is still down there". The newspaper article, obviously, a death notice or tribute to Thomas, contained this very moving piece of poetry from Thomas Gray:
Let not ambition mock their useful toil,
Their homely joys and destiny obscure;
Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
The short and simple annuals of the poor.
Mrs. Nanny McGrath - Obituary
LONGREACH
(From Our Local Correspondent)
A correspondent at Stonehenge writes me as follows:— "There passed away at her residence at Stonehenge, on the 16th instant, and old and respected resident in the person of Mrs. Nanny McGrath, aged ninety-nine years and seven months. The old lady enjoyed the best of health until she was confined to her bed a few weeks ago. She then knew well that she was about to go to her last long rest. She was possessed of all her faculties and conversed with her children and friends to the end. She passed away very peacefully. The funeral, which was a very impressive one, took place at 5 p.m. on the 16th instant. It was largely attended by relatives and residents of the town and district desirous of paying respect to a good mother and one of the oldest and best pioneers of Australia. Mrs. McGrath was laid to rest by the side of her two sons, Phillip and Samuel, who died some years ago. The deceased was born at St. Agnes, Cornwall, England, on the 11th April, 1823[sic- 1831]. She came to Australia with her parents, landing at Adelaide in 1844[sic- 1849]. There she was married in 1848[sic- 1850]. She went to the Bendigo gold diggings shortly after with her husband, who died in 1869, having met with the tragic fate of being entombed in what was then known as Brett's claim, Huntley, Bendigo, from which his body was never recovered. With eight children, and not in good health, however, her trials and troubles had only just started. It was no easy matter in those days for a woman placed in such a lamentable position to rear and educate a large family. In 1889 Mrs. McGrath left Cobar, and, travelling overland, joined her sons at Avon Downs, in the Northern Territory. She worked with her sons, who followed mining and tanksinking at Normanton, the Soldier's Cap gold diggings, Cloncurry, Hughenden, Winton, and Warbreecan Station. In 1896 her sons Phillip, Thomas, Samuel and Albert purchased the Stonehenge Hotel, Stonehenge, where Mrs. McGrath resided up till her death. The deceased had nine children— one girl and eight boys, five of whom predeceased her by some years. Two sons, Thomas and Albert McGrath (the baby, aged fifty-three years), reside at Stonehenge, the latter being the licensee of the Stonehenge Hotel. The deceased was the mother of five generations — a record which few in Queensland possess. She belonged to a family of long livers. One of her sisters died in Western Australia at the age of ninety years, and a brother, James Roe[sic - Francis Rowe], the youngest of the family, died in Auckland, New Zealand, lately, at the age of ninety-four years[sic - 88], five years after celebrating his diamond wedding. He was in the famous Eureka Stockade. The deceased was a very interesting person to converse with on the early days of Australia. She was possessed of an excellent memory. In her time Bendigo and Cobar were built of calico. Adelaide was very small. In those days people in South Australia mostly lived in dugouts. Up till within a few months of her death Mrs. McGrath was very active and industrious. Her eyesight was excellent. She could read and sew without the aid of glasses. Some of her needlework, which is in the possession of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. A. McGrath, is magnificent.
The Morning Bulletin, Friday 1 December 1922(Rockhampton, Queensland)
Transcriber's note: born Rowe, in St Austell[sic - St Agnes]
Contributed by Bob Bolitho
http://www.cornwall-opc.org/Resc/obits/mc grath_nanny.htm
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