Henry Osborne (1803 - 1859)

Born 8 Feb 1803 in Dirnaseer, County Tyrone, Ireland

Husband of Sarah Elizabeth (Marshall) Osborne — married 1828 in County Tyrone, Ireland

Descendants

Died 26 Mar 1859 at age 56 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

HENRY OSBORNE Esq. of Buckaguinga, New South Wales

Henry Osborne was born about 1803 at County Tyrone, Ireland. He was the youngest of ten children of Archibald Osborne and Jane King.^[1]

Henry married Sarah Marshall, daughter of Reverend Benjamin Marshall of Dromore, County Down, in 1828 at County Tyrone.^[1]

Henry Osborne migrated from Ireland to New South Wales.

The young couple promptly migrated to the Colony of New South Wales, arriving in May 1829; whereupon they soon had ten sons and three daughters. Henry's brother, John, had migrated to New South Wales and on his advice sold his farm and other property for about £3000, invested this in a consignment of Irish linen and turned a 'handsome profit' in Sydney.^[1]

Henry settled upon a grant of 2,560 acres (1,036 ha) in the Illawarra, near the present town of Dapto. This property, that he named Marshall Mount in honour of his wife, entitled him to some twenty-five labourers. He went in for dairying and at the same time bred large numbers of young cattle. He soon began to acquire large holdings of land in the area between the Murrumbidgee and Murray Rivers southwards from Wagga Wagga. By the 1850s he owned very large holdings in the Illawarra, and in the Mount Keira and other coal-mines in the Maitland district.^[1]

Henry was a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council in 1851 and was elected to the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in 1856.^[1]

He passed away on 26th March 1859 at Marshall Mount.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4} Osborne, P J B. 'Osborne, Henry (1803–1859)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, published first in hardcopy 1967; accessed online 6 Feb 2020
2. ↑ NSW DEATHS - 5580/1859 - OSBORNE HENRY parents : ARCHIBALD & JANE death registered at WOLLONGONG

• A History of the Osbornes of Kangaroo Valley by John Griffith

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=tedmarr&id=I20518

• 1856 'HENRY OSBORNE', Illawarra Mercury (Wollongong, NSW : 1856 - 1950), 14 April, p. 3. , viewed 31 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136442421

• 1935 'PIONEER FAMILIES', Sydney Mail (NSW : 1912 - 1938), 20 March, p. 23. , viewed 31 Oct 2017, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article166108658