Birth: Nov 4 1804 - London England
Husband: John George Dodd
Marriage 05 May 1823 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia St Phillips
Death: Apr 29 1860 - Goangra NSW Australia - Isabella died of general debility , she was buried by her husband John in a lone gave on the banks of the Namoi River. Headstone erected by her daughter Caroline Keys..
Parents: Joseph Bevitt, Mary Bevitt (born Gager)
Arrival in Australia 24 Feb 1817 • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia "Lord Melville" (12yrs old - with mother)
Siblings: Sarah Bowles (born Bevitt), Mary Ann Goddard (born Bevitt), Joseph Bevitt
Children:Mary Ann Pye (born Dodd), Sarah Margaret Dodd, John Dodd, Elizabeth Margaret Noy (born Dodd), Emma Jasper (born Dodd), Caroline Keyes (born Dodd), Jeremiah Dodd, William Dodd, David Dodd, Jane Dodd, Joseph Dodd
Burial 30 Apr 1860 • Goangra, New South Wales, Australia Goangra also known as Come-By Chance.
Rootes web Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.
Text: Dodd, Isabella, 21, came free, Ld Melville, 1813, Protestant, householder O'Connell Street Dodd, John, 22, government servant 1820, life, carpenter Dodd, Mary Ann, 5 born in the colony Dodd, Sarah 3 born in the colony Dodd, Elizabeth 4 months, born in the colony
3. ISABELLA 2 BEVITT (MARY 1 GAGER) was born 1804 in England, and Baptized 4/11/1804 at St. Martins in the Field, Westminster. She died April 29, 1860 in Gouangera (Goangra), N.S.W. Australia. She married JOHN DODD May 05, 1823 in St. Philip's Church, Sydney, N.S.W. Australia, son of ? DODD. He was born Abt. 1798 in Northumberland, England, and died July 09, 1880 in Windsor, N.S.W. Australia.
Isabella (free) arrived in Port Jackson on the 24th February, 1817, at the age of approximately 10 years with her convict mother Mary (Gager) Bevitt and her sisters Mary Ann and Sarah, and her brother Joseph, on board the transport "Lord Melville". Her father, Joseph Bevitt appears to have died prior to 1817.
The 1822 Muster shows Isabella, known as Bella, living with her mother Mary at Yorke St. Sydney. She was employed by William Walker Esq., a merchant of Sydney, who had arrived free. She married John Dodd ( Baring, 1819, Life) on the 5th May, 1823 at St. Philips C of E in Sydney, after obtaining permission in April to marry him. The 1828 census describes her as a householder, aged 21, living at 6 O'Connell St, Sydney. She had quite a family going with Mary Ann 5, Sarah 3 and Elizabeth only 4 months old. Her husband John, was still in government servitude and working as a carpenter. Isabella and John moved about often, and their 13 children in total were born in Sydney, Windsor, Bourke, Richmond, Rylstone, etc.
Isabella died from "general debility" on the 29th of April, 1860, her age on her gravestone given as 59 yrs. She was buried by her husband John in a "lone grave" on the banks of the Namoi River between Come by Chance and Goangera, her death being registered at Wee Waa. There is a headstone to mark her last resting place, erected by her daughter Mrs Henry (Caroline) Keys. "To Perpetuate the Memory of One Kind Mother".
John and Isabella's third child Elizabeth (B30/8/1828), married Hugh Lord McKay on the 27th of January, 1855
More About ISABELLA BEVITT: Burial: April 30, 1860, Nr. Namoi River, Goangra, N.S.W. Australia Christening: November 04, 1804, St. Martins in the Fields, London
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