Isaac Reid (bef. 1814 - 1873)

Born before 1814 in Killevy, Newry, County Armagh, Ireland

Husband of Mary Ann (Revill) Reid — married 1840 in Ireland

Descendants

Died 6 Sep 1873 after age 59 in Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Isaac Reid was born in Ireland.

Isaac Reid was born in Killevy, Newry, County Armagh, Ireland in or before 1814, the son of Thomas Reid and Catherine Stannard.

Marriage. By 1840, Isaac had married Mary Ann Revill.

Emigration to Colony of New South Wales. On 12th November 1840, Isaac arrived in Sydney on board the Argyleshire, accompanied by his wife and their eight-week-old son. The barque had left Liverpool on 16th July, and left the Cape of Good Hope on the 27th of September with merchandise, and 300 bounty emigrants. He and his family were brought out to the Colony by A. B. Smith, Esquire. ^{[1] [2][3]}

Isaac's immigrant record says he was 26 years old on 29th February 1840. A farm labourer, of 'Killevey', Co. Armagh, Ireland, he was the son of Thomas Reid, a Farmer, and Catherine Stannard, of Killevey.

His wife, Mary Reid, Dairy Woman, of the same place, was aged 25 years on 24th June 1840, and was the daughter of Robert Revill, a Farmer, and his wife Margaret (maiden name appears to be Bosh). Both were Protestants, in very good health and could read. Isaac could write as well.

Their son, born at sea, was eight weeks old on arrival. ^[4]

• Robert Scott Reid (1840- )

Children born in the Colony of New South Wales.

• James Reid (1841- 1920)
• Matilda Reid (1844- )
• Thomas Reid (1848- )
• Mary Elizabeth Reid (1852-1920)

Accident. Unfortunately, 1873 proved to be Isaac's final year.

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, Saturday 5 April 1873 - Page 427

COUNTRY NEWS FROM COUNTRY PAPERS

Mr. Isaac Reid, an old and much esteemed squatter on the Macquarie, met with a bad accident on the 21st ultimo, whilst drafting horses, the one he was riding having fallen under him. ^[5]

Charged with Cattle Stealing.

Evening News (Sydney, NSW) Friday 18 July 1873 - Page 2

At the Tambaroora Police Court, on Wednesday, 9th July, Isaac Reid, settler, of Macquarie River, was charged by Inspector Sanderson with having stolen cattle from Mr. Suttor's paddock, the property of Mr. Redfern, carcass butcher, Hill End. The evidence disclosed that Mr. Redfern, is the owner of cattle stations in various parts of the colony, and also carries on a large butchery in Hill End ; that he depastures a number of fat cattle in Mr. Suttor's paddock, which is not far from the defendant's residence ; bringing them in and killing them for his customers in numbers as required ; and some of the cattle had very mysteriously disappeared ; and that, suspecting that the defendant had appropriated them, he, Redfern, procured a search warrant, which Sergeant Ford and Constable Curl executed on Tuesday last, when they found a hide, identified as that of a beast which Mr. Redfern had missed from Suttor's paddock, concealed in defendant's garden. The defendant was thereupon immediately arrested and brought in and lodged in the lockup, and was brought before Mr. J. W. Lees, P.M., on Wednesday, and after the evidence of Sergeant Ford and Constable Curl had been taken, was remanded for the attendance of Mr. Redfern, until Saturday, 12th July. Inspector Sanderson successfully opposed an application for bail. The defendant is reputed to be a wealthy squatter, and on account of his age (over 60 years) and the respectability of his family, much sympathy is felt for both him and them. ^[6]

Death. Isaac died in Bathurst Gaol, from a heart attack on 6th September 1873, before sentence was passed.^[7]

Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas) Saturday 20 September 1873 - Page 5

TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE

(AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS TELEGRAMS.)

NEW SOUTH WALES

[Sydney] Sep. 6.

Isaac Reid, convicted at the Bathurst sessions yesterday, on a charge of cattle stealing, and remanded for sentence, was found dead in his cell this morning. The medical evidence proved that the cause of death was heart disease. ^[8]

Burial. Buried Hill End Cemetery, Tamaroora, New South Wales, where, in 1877, he was joined by his widow, Mary Ann. ^[9]

Sources

• MyHeritage tree of a direct descendant. Reynolds Family Tree viewed by Christine 27 May 2022 [the home person is DNA-matched to Christine's mother]

1. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896 State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Entitlement certificates of persons on bounty ships; Series: 5314; Reel: 1309. Vessel: Argyleshire (accessed Ancestry.com 28 May 2022)
2. ↑ 1840, The Colonist (Sydney, NSW : 1835 - 1840), 14 November, p. 2. , viewed 28 May 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-page4248346
3. ↑ "Australia, New South Wales, Index to Bounty Immigrants, 1828-1842", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FL2W-H38 : 13 June 2019), Isaac Reid, 1840.
4. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896. State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood New South Wales, Australia; Persons on bounty ships (Agent's Immigrant Lists); Series: 5316; Reel: 2134; Item: [4/4787]. Vessel: Argyleshire (accessed Ancestry.com 28 May 2022)
5. ↑ Accident 1873 'COUNTRY NEWS FROM COUNTRY PAPERS.', The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser (NSW : 1871 - 1912), 5 April, p. 427. , viewed 27 May 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article162655807
6. ↑ Court 1873 'At the Tambaroora Police Court', Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), 18 July, p. 2. , viewed 27 May 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article107169616
7. ↑ Death Index New South Wales Government. Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. Death Index. (Accessed: 27 May 2022) Deaths search: 1873 Death Registration for Isaac REID (Father: Isaac) Died Bathurst, Bathurst 3233/1873
8. ↑ 1873 'Colonial News.', Weekly Examiner (Launceston, Tas. : 1872 - 1878), 20 September, p. 5. , viewed 27 May 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article233104861
9. ↑ Burial, Headstone Find A Grave Isaac Reid Hill End General Cemetery

See also:

• 1873 'Apprehensions.', New South Wales Police Gazette and Weekly Record of Crime (Sydney : 1860 - 1930), 30 July, p. 224. , viewed 27 May 2022, http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article251603142

• GENUKI Killevy County Armagh, Ireland