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George Howell (1777 - 1839)

George Howell
Born in Gnosall, Staffordshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1804 in Parammata, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Died at age 61 in Richmond, Colony of New South Walesmap
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George Howell was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

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George Howell was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

George HOWELL was born on 8 March 1777 in Gnosall, Staffordshire, England, died on 22 February 1839 in Richmond, Colony of New South Wales [1] at age 61, and was buried in St. Peter's Church of England Cemetery, Richmond, Colony of New South Wales. Another name for George was George OWLE.

George had a common law marriage to Hannah ASHBURY, daughter of William ASHBURY and Sarah STRETTON, in 1804.

Hannah was born in 1772 in Longdon-by-Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, was christened on 30 August 1772 in Longdon-by-Lichfield, Staffordshire, England, died on 3 October 1851 in Yallamundi; near Richmond, Colony of New South Wales at age 79, and was buried on 3 October 1851 in St. Peter's Church of England Cemetery, Richmond, Colony of New South Wales. Another name for Hannah was Hannah HILL.

Convict details ~ 13 August 1800 ~ George was tried at the Stafford Assizes, Staffordshire, England, he was sentenced to life, originally sentenced to death, for stealing one bay gelding worth 40 shillings of the goods and chattels of James Bradshaw of Knightley.

Convict details ~ 12 February 1802 ~ George was transported from Spithead, Hampshire, England aboard the "Perseus". [2]

Convict details ~ 14 August 1802 ~ George was transported to Port Jackson, Colony of N.S.W. aboard the "Perseus". [3]

Convict details ~ 4 June 1806 ~ Conditional Pardon was granted, Colony of New South Wales.

Name

Name: George /Howell (Owle) on all documents relating to the offence, his name is listed as Owle not Howell [4]
The suffix on all documents relating to the offence his name is listed as Owle not Howell is non-traditional and may be too long for the WikiTree suffix.


GENERAL MUSTER OF NSW - 1814. George appears as a free man, off-stores. He is listed as a Wheelwright & located in Parramatta.

In 1828 Governor Brisbane gave him a grant near the present site of the Grace Bros store (now Westfield). The new mill cost 3,000 pounds and was the best in the Colony. (Parramatta) [5]

After arriving in Sydney in 1802, George became overseer of Government wheelwrights in Parramatta, NSW, a position he held for at least six years. George's services to Government and his good conduct earned him a Conditional Pardon in 1806. He became a miller and built several mills at Parramatta and Richmond, NSW. George was sponsored by powerful men such as Samuel Marsden and John Macarthur when securing a land grant of 300 acres at Bilpin in 1825. He had already attracted Governor Brisbane's personal commendation for his milling enterprises. At his death, George held considerable areas of farming and pastoral land in the Bilpin district, together with livestock and flour mills. George died at Richmond on 26th July 1839 and was buried there in St. Peter's graveyard. [6]

Another early mill owner in the district was George Howell and his sons. Howell arrived as a convict on the ship "Perseus" in 1802. By 1806 he leased land in Parramatta next to the mill from the government and constructed a second mill further upstream on the Parramatta River. Prior to 1824, George purchased 29 acres from John Arkell, near Yarramundi, opposite the Grose River confluence and constructed a flour mill which cost £600 to build. By 1828, Howell was living in Richmond permanently, leaving elder son George in charge of the operations in Parramatta. Samuel Boughton describes the site at Yarramundi in his "Reminiscences of Richmond": A substantial House was built by was demolished in the early 1890's by Harry Farlow. Access to the mill was a bridge built by Howell, over the lagoon. "The mill ... was a most substantial structure with great corner posts securely put in the ground. The base was formed with slabs of great thickness, and the whole space between each wall of slabs filled in with bed boulders taken from the bed of the river ... On the first floor, the principal part of the machinery was situated, being ponderous and substantial, and when wheat and corn (maize) was received for grinding, the flour and meal were delivered after going through the mill. And the most important and interesting of all was the great mill wheel, which must have been nearly twenty feet in diameter, slowly and steadily revolving; also the floodgate and bywash. This mill was reported to have been demolished by the massive flood in June 1867. [7]

In 1828 George Howell senior built a mill, his fifth in the colony, between George Street and the Parramatta River. Directly opposite Marsden's estate, Newlands, which was leased by John Raine, the wind and water mill was 100 feet high, dominating the Parramatta landscape for decades, the causeway of the mill dam providing an informal river crossing. It was managed by his son, George Howell junior, in partnership with John Hamilton until his son's death in 1838 when his milling interests passed to his widow, Elizabeth. At the end of 1838 she was listed as the operator of a wind mill in George Street, a water mill along the river and windmill at Ross and Marsden (now Villiers) Streets. Howell's mill operated successfully under her management until the late 1840's. [8] [9]


Notes

Note NI4702Son of Unknown Howell and Mary Owle

George Howell was sentenced at Staffordshire 1881800 for stealing a bay gelding horse. The sentence was death. His sentence was commuted to life and he was transported from Spithead aboard the Persue on 12 Feb 1802. He arrived in Sydney on 4 Aug 1802

Birthplace: Bradley, St Mary All Saints, Stafford, Staffordshire, England (United Kingdom) Place of Burial: Hawkesbury City, New South Wales Australia, Row: 12, Site:50

Immediate Family: Husband of Hannah (Asbury) Hill - Howell, Convict "Experiment" 1804 Father of George Howell; Mary Ann Farlow; Thomas Howell; Brother Howell; Walter Howell; Peter Howell; Vincent Howell; Sarah McManus and Susannah Gavin Brother of Thomas Owl

Sources

  1. NSW Registry of Births, Deaths & Marriages, 1788-1991
    Death: Name, Reg. Number/Year, Father's Name, Mother's Name, District
    978/1839 V1839978 23A - HOWELL GEORGE - AGE 79.
  2. Source: #S-1349583842 Note: http://search.Ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ho10lists&h=22785&ti=5544&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: Residence place: Australia Arrival date: Aug 1802 Arrival place: New South Wales APID: 1,1183::22785
  3. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 310. State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 12188; Item:[4/4004]; Microfiche: 630. Home Office: Convict Prison Hulks: Registers & Letter Books; Class: HO9; Piece:8. State Records Authority of NSW; Kingswood, NSW; Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel No:774; Roll No.1250
  4. Source: #S-1349583842 Note: http://search.Ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=ho10lists&h=22785&ti=5544&indiv=try&gss=pt Note: Data: Text: Residence date: Residence place: Australia Arrival date: Aug 1802 Arrival place: New South Wales APID: 1,1183::22785
  5. From Doc 25 "The Howell Family" Nepean Herald (?) 25 June 1868.
  6. From "Australian Biographical and Genealogical Record 1788 1841 Vol 1"
  7. From "Hawkesbury 1794-1994 - The first 200 years of the second colonisation" - Jan Barkley, Michele Nichols, Pub 1994, Hawkesbury City Council
  8. "Parramatta - A Past Revealed" Chapter 6, page 124
  9. Sources Memorial of G Howell Jr, 1st November 1828, AONSW 2/8014.1; Mills and manufacturers returns 1838 AONSW 4/7267: Tatrai, op. cit., pp 60-75




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