Mary HAWKEY

Notes:

Mary's husband Francis died

Mary married Francis PAYNTER about 20 Aug 1712 in Colan, Cornwall, England. Francis (son of Francis PAYNTER and Margaret PAWLETT) was born before 21 Sep 1675 in St Buryan, Cornwall, England; died in Mar 1762 in Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England; was buried on 21 Mar 1762 in St Buryan, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt 21 Apr 1715, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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Francis became Registrar of Court of Peculiar, St Buryan in 1744.

He inherited Boskenna but wasted much of the family fortune. It is said that he threatened John Wesley with a whip when he was preaching at StBuryanin 1766.
"Boskenna and the Paynters" page 21-22.
"The Wesleys in Cornwall" page 15 and 146.
'Methodism in St Buryan" introduction and page 3 below:-
Extract from John Wesley's diary, Saturday September 6th, 1766:
"At eight I preached at Mousehole, a large village south-west from Newlyn. Thence I went to Buryan church, and, as soon as the service wasended,preached near the churchyard to a numerous congregation. Just after I saw a gentleman before me, shaking his whip and vehemently striving tosaysomething. But he was abundantly too warm to say anything intelligibly; so, after walking a while to and fro, he wisely took a horse and rodeaway."

Francis married Mary GULLY about 1739. Mary (daughter of Samuel GULLY and Mary BATTIN) was born about 1719 in Tresillian, Newlyn East, Cornwall, England; died in Jan 1782 in Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England; was buried on 10 Jan 1782 in St Buryan, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt 10 Mar 1717, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 2 May 1718, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

Family/Spouse: Samuel THOMAS. Samuel was born in Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt 23 Mar 1720, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 26 Mar 1721, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 29 Apr 1722, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

Margaret married Benjamin PENDER about 12 Aug 1740 in St Levan, Cornwall, England. Benjamin (son of Peter PENDER and Wife of Peter PENDER) was born before 14 Aug 1715 in St Gluvias, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt 6 Apr 1745

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• Baptism: Abt 17 Jun 1746, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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She and her brother John Paulet were buried in 3 days of each other. Mary was 7 and John was aged 3.

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• Baptism: Abt 12 Aug 1747, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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In Visitations of County of Cornwall, James is described as "of Boskenna".

References in Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874 as being mentioned in:
"A true outline & sketch of the life of Samuel Eyles Pierce" (1825) p 59-98
"Memoirs of the Rev Thomas Wills" (1804) p 47-50, 60, 281

Boskenna is one of the principal country houses in the vicinity of Penzance.

James inherited Boskenna on the death of his genial but dissolute father in 1775.
He also inherited Boskennal Farm and Bosliven from his grandfather, who had left it to James and not his own son Francis, hoping that theestatewould survive.
This fact is mentioned in Francis' own will "my said children are provided for by their grandfather's marriage settlement".

"In and Around Penzance"
The ministry of the Octagon Tabernacle of the Congregational Church in Penzance was continued by the Rev. Owen Morris, who married MissHarrietpaynter of Boskenna in 1798. Harriet came from a strongly Calvanistic background. Her brother and his wife, James and Betty paynter, weredeeplyinvolved in the Calvinistic movement.
At Boskenna, where the Paynters lived, a hall was made available for religious services to be held whenevr they could get a "shining light" tostayin the house. Boskenna was one of the earliest nonconformist private chapels."

James married Elizabeth WETHERED in 1787. Elizabeth (daughter of James WETHERED and Sarah UNKNOWN) died on 26 Oct 1828 in Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England; was buried on 28 Oct 1828 in St Buryan, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Residence: 1746, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Baptism: Abt 1 Dec 1748, St Buryan, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1792, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1795, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1798, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 1800, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Francis was a lawyer at St Columb and distinguished for his wit and humour. He wrote a poem ridiculing the Dean of St Buryan which prevented him from obtaining a valuable stewardship.

"Bennets of Tresillian" by R. G. Kerswell:
There was a long-running dispute in the 1810's & 1820's between the two brothers of the Bennet family and their Receiver's Accounts ie of FrancisPaynter, and following his death, of his son Francis Camborne Paynter, made more complicated by the fact that F.C married one of their sister's Elizabeth Bennet. Neither of the Paynters and their firm are thought of in a very good light.

"Parochial History of the County of Cornwall", 1876.
Boskenna is the property, and was for some time, the residence of the Paynter family. There is a tradition of its having been purchased of one whose family had long possessed it, but who had ultimately become the huntsman of a pack of hounds kept originally as his own.
Mr Francis Paynter of Boskenna, was distinguished for his wit and humour. He was either the sole or joint author of a poem ridiculing the then dean of Buryan, called "The Consultation". He practised as a lawyer at St Columb, and married Miss Pender of Penzance, by whom he had several sons.The exercise of wit is seldom associated with pecuniary gain; and Mr Paynter has been heard to declare that "The Consultation" prevented his obtaining available stewardship from the family of which the dean was a member.
Boskenna is now held of the Paynters by Charles Dacres Bevan, the judge of the district county court, who has considerably improved and beautified it.

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major

Will, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”

To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt Austell]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.

John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and enclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.

Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.

All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.

*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

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Extracts from his will:
Last will and testament of Francis Paynter of Trekenning.
"See that my body be interred in the Churchyard of St Columb Major as near as conveniently to the remains of my late beloved wife and that myfuneralmay be private and conducted with as little expense as possible.
Also whereas I have already made a liberal provision for my son Francis Camborne Paynter with which he has declared himself fully satisfied, Ionlygive him now in addition thereto the further sum of Twenty Guineas as an unequal mark of my affection and regard, also to his wife Elizabeth,FiveGuineas, and Two Guineas to be laid out in some little article of remembrance for their child Edward, my grandson.
And whereas I have laid out and expended to the use of my son Charles Henry Paynter the full sum of Two Thousand Pounds over and above the annualsumof Two Hundred and Fifty Pounds allowed yearly for his own personal expenses, I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to myother children, increase his fortune to a further extent. I therefore bequeath to him the sum of Two Hundred Pounds to be paid to him by my Executorwithin six months after my decease but without interest, and I give to Fanny his wife Five Guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.
Also to my sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, I give, devise and bequeath all my Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Bounds inWheal Vor in the Parish of Breage and near Helston. Also all those Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Bounds in or near Redruth. And alsoallthose Tin Bounds and parts and shares of Tin Boundsin the description of Polgooth Bounds in or near St Austell or wheresoever the same or anyother Tin Bounds to which I am entitled are situate in the County of Cornwall.
It is my intention that the same shall on my decease ascend to and become the property of my said sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas FrancisPaynterto hold to them their heirs, executors, administrators and assigns according to the custom of the Stannaries of Cornwall as tenants incommon and notas joint tenants.
Also I give and bequeath to my son John Pender Paynter all that my messuage or dwelling house wherein I reside at Trekenning in the Parish of StColumb Major which I purchased of John Oliver Wellyams, Esq. deceased. To hold to him the said John Pender Paynter to his heirs and assigns for evertogether with all and singular the Fields and Inclosures which I now occupy. Also all those Crofts and Inclosures part of the said Tenement ofTrekenning which is now in the occupation of George Lovering of the Town of Saint Columb Majjor, victualler..
Also I give, devise and bequeath to my son John Pender Paynter the moiety of all those Inclosures called Castalot, otherwise the Creggoes and thewayDown which I purchased from Sir John St Aubyn, Baronet, for the remainder of a certain term of Five Hundred Years together also with alltheleasehold Interest for lives which I now have of and in the moiety of the same and I give and bequeath to John Pender Paynter all that Meadowfacingthe front of my house at Trekenning and commonly called the Mill Meadow, together with the remainder of my farm in the Garden Meadow both ofwhich Ihold of Richard Rouse, Esq., by virtue of two leases, the first for the remainder of a term of Ninety Nine Years determinable on lives andthe cashfor a Rack lease.
Also I give to my son Thomas Francis Paynter his executors, administrators and assigns all that moiety of the same. Also I give and bequeathtoThomas Francis Paynter all the remainder of my interest of and in the Dwelling House and Garden in Higher Trekenning now occupied by WilliamClemew at the yearly rent of Three Pounds Thirteen Shillings and Sixpence.
Also I give to my said son Thomas Francis Paynter one annuity or yearly Rentcharge of Fifty Pounds charged by the Rev John Pomeroy Gilbert ontheTithes of the Parish of St Wennin and issuing out of the same Tithes during the life time of him the said John Pomeroy Gilbert.
Also I give to my son Thomas Francis Paynter a certain Policy of Insurance under the Hands and Seals of three of the directors of the society ofWestminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship together with all benefit and advantage whatsoever arising out of the same and inadditionI give him the sum of Two Hundred Pounds to be paid out of my effects by my within one year after my decease.
Lastly all my other goods, chattels, rights, credits and effects not herein before given, devised or bequeathed, I give, devise and bequeath to myson John Pender Paynter whom I nominate as my sole Executor.", Will

Francis married Margaret PENDER on 7 Jun 1784 in Madron, Cornwall, England. Margaret (daughter of John PENDER and Jenny HARVEY) was born about 1761 in Penzance, Cornwall, England; died on 15 Apr 1818 in Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; was buried on 22 Apr 1818 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt 2 Jan 1750, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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He and his sister Mary Paulet were buried in 3 days of each other. Mary was 7 and John was aged 3.

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• Baptism: 19 Jan 1753

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Lieutenant in Royal Navy, died young.

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• Baptism: 24 Aug 1755

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• Baptism: 22 Aug 1755, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 9 Nov 1757, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

Charles married Judith TYETH on 15 May 1784 in St Mary Magdalene, Launceston, Cornwall, England. Judith was born about 1761; died in 1849 in Penzance, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 24 Aug 1759

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• Baptism: 7 Sep 1761, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 14 Aug 1764

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Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874:
Harriet has an entry that refers to a mention of her in the "Evangelical Magazine" vi, 289-92 (1828)

"In and Around Penzance"
The ministry of the Octagon Tabernacle of the Congregational Church in Penzance was continued by the Rev. Owen Morris, who married MissHarrietpaynter of Boskenna in 1798. Harriet came from a strongly Calvanistic background. Her brother and his wife, James and Betty paynter, weredeeplyinvolved in the Calvinistic movement.
At Boskenna, where the Paynters lived, a hall was made available for religious services to be held whenevr they could get a "shining light" tostayin the house. Boskenna was one of the earliest nonconformist private chapels."

Harriet married Owen MORRIS on 7 Jan 1802 in Madron, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: Abt May 1741, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 30 Mar 1743, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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Mary is mentioned in her grandfather's will (Francis Paynter) with one hundred pounds to be paid to her after her grandfather's death.

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• Baptism: Abt 2 Apr 1745, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 19 May 1747, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 23 Jul 1748, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: Abt 22 Dec 1750, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 14 Jun 1754, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 19 Jun 1756, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 22 Feb 1761, St Gluvias, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 12 Dec 1784, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 12 Dec 1788, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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• Baptism: 11 Mar 1791, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

Notes:

John inherited Boskenna when his father James died in 1800. He remained unmarried. He lived, together with his mother at the home from 1800onwards.He was a magistrate and much respected, very learned and engrossed in his books.

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis:
Reference to Gentleman's Magazine, xxvii, 206 (1847) - see below.
Author of "On the Employment of Gas Water as Manure" in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society of England, i, 45-46 (1840).

Obituary in "Gentleman"s Magazine" 1847:
Died Jan 2 at his seat, Boskenna, near Penzance, in his 56th year, John Paynter, Esq., an active magistrate for Cornwall.
He was educated at Oxford. For many years after quitting the University he prosecuted his studies in retirement. This may have increased thenaturalshyness and reserve of his character - a disposition which often deprives the world of superior talent. But a strong sense of duty impelledhim tobreak through this restraint, and for the last twenty years engaged him in the bustle of active life, and in the promotion of the publicwelfare,until his physical powers sank beneath the generous exertion.
He had been for many years an indefatigable magistrate - fulfilling the duties of his office with the highest credit to himself and great benefittothe community.
In politics he was a consistent Whig, and on several important occasions zealously promoted the cause which he conscientiously espoused - butwithsuch good feeling that he never lost the respect of those from whom he differed.
He was indeed so much and so generally valued for his thorough knowledge of Cornish interests, and his devotion to public business - which seemedtobe his ruling passion - that we have frequently heard men of all parties concur in regarding him as one who would worthily represent hisnativeCounty in Parliament. On this subject it is now sufficient to say, that whatever measure promised substantial advantages to Cornwall, was suretoobtain his energetic support.
In his own district, he was President of the Natural History and Antiquarian Society, which rising Institution was much indebted to hisfosteringcare. He was frequently also the Chairman at the meetings of agricultural and horticultural societies, and delighted and instructed theirmemberswith those rich stores of information relating to their pursuits which he had diligently collected during a long residence on the Continent.
He was a considerate landlord and always accessible to the poor of his parish. He was not only their liberal benefactor in distress, but the kindandChristian reconciler to whom they were always ready to submit the arrangement of their disputes - whilst the more opulent often gladyavailedthemselves of his judicious arbitration in questions of property.
His health, it seems, had been declining for some time, but even his most intimate friends were not apprehensive of any immediate danger.
On New Years Day, according to a good old usage of his family, he entertained at his house about thirty of his poorer Neighbours, who, whilsttheyrepaid his bounty with grateful wishes of good health, long life and every blessing, little thought how soon they should be deprived of theirkindfriend and patron.
When these guests had left, the servants who went to apprise their master found him insensible and almost lifeless, sitting in his study nearthegrate, in which the fire had gone out. He was partially revived with their care, before a messenger, who had been dispatched to Penzance,returnedwith his cousin, Mr Francis Paynter, and two medical men. They found him still below stairs, but in a very exhausted state, and aconsiderable timeelapsed before he was able to reach his bedroom with their assistance. Afterwards he expressed his feeling that he was feelingbetter and warmlyacknowledged the kindness of those around him - but in a few hours he sank into a slumber from which he never awoke.
Mr Paynter was unmarried. He has left a brother, Thomas Paynter, Esq., sometime Recorder of Penzance, and now one of the Police MagistratesatKensington near London. He married Anne, daughter of W. Moody, Esq., of Kingsdon, Somersetshire, and has issue.

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John inherited Boskenna when his father James died in 1800. He remained unmarried. He lived, together with his mother at the home from 1800 onwards.He was a magistrate and much respected, very learned and engrossed in his books.

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis:
Reference to Gentleman's Magazine, xxvii, 206 (1847) - see below.
Author of "On the Employment of Gas Water as Manure" in Journal of Royal Agricultural Society of England, i, 45-46 (1840).

Obituary in "Gentleman"s Magazine" 1847:
Died Jan 2 at his seat, Boskenna, near Penzance, in his 56th year, John Paynter, Esq., an active magistrate for Cornwall.
He was educated at Oxford. For many years after quitting the University he prosecuted his studies in retirement. This may have increased the naturalshyness and reserve of his character - a disposition which often deprives the world of superior talent. But a strong sense of duty impelled him tobreak through this restraint, and for the last twenty years engaged him in the bustle of active life, and in the promotion of the public welfare,until his physical powers sank beneath the generous exertion.
He had been for many years an indefatigable magistrate - fulfilling the duties of his office with the highest credit to himself and great benefit tothe community.
In politics he was a consistent Whig, and on several important occasions zealously promoted the cause which he conscientiously espoused - but withsuch good feeling that he never lost the respect of those from whom he differed.
He was indeed so much and so generally valued for his thorough knowledge of Cornish interests, and his devotion to public business - which seemed tobe his ruling passion - that we have frequently heard men of all parties concur in regarding him as one who would worthily represent his nativeCounty in Parliament. On this subject it is now sufficient to say, that whatever measure promised substantial advantages to Cornwall, was sure toobtain his energetic support.
In his own district, he was President of the Natural History and Antiquarian Society, which rising Institution was much indebted to his fosteringcare. He was frequently also the Chairman at the meetings of agricultural and horticultural societies, and delighted and instructed their memberswith those rich stores of information relating to their pursuits which he had diligently collected during a long residence on the Continent.
He was a considerate landlord and always accessible to the poor of his parish. He was not only their liberal benefactor in distress, but the kindand Christian reconciler to whom they were always ready to submit the arrangement of their disputes - whilst the more opulent often glady availedthemselves of his judicious arbitration in questions of property.
His health, it seems, had been declining for some time, but even his most intimate friends were not apprehensive of any immediate danger.
On New Years Day, according to a good old usage of his family, he entertained at his house about thirty of his poorer Neighbours, who, whilst theyrepaid his bounty with grateful wishes of good health, long life and every blessing, little thought how soon they should be deprived of their kindfriend and patron.
When these guests had left, the servants who went to apprise their master found him insensible and almost lifeless, sitting in his study near thegrate, in which the fire had gone out. He was partially revived with their care, before a messenger, who had been dispatched to Penzance, returnedwith his cousin, Mr Francis Paynter, and two medical men. They found him still below stairs, but in a very exhausted state, and a considerable timeelapsed before he was able to reach his bedroom with their assistance. Afterwards he expressed his feeling that he was feeling better and warmlyacknowledged the kindness of those around him - but in a few hours he sank into a slumber from which he never awoke.
Mr Paynter was unmarried. He has left a brother, Thomas Paynter, Esq., sometime Recorder of Penzance, and now one of the Police Magistrates atKensington near London. He married Anne, daughter of W. Moody, Esq., of Kingsdon, Somersetshire, and has issue.

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• Baptism: 25 Dec 1794, St Buryan, Cornwall, England

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Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874:
Educated at Tiverton School; of Trinity College Cambridge, B.A. 1816; M.A. 1824. Barrister-at-Law 1823; Revising Barrister for Suffolk andNorfolk1833; Recorder of Falmouth, Helston and Penzance 18-- to 1841; Magistrate of Hammersmith and Wandsworth Police Court 17 Feb. to 15 Jan.1856;Magistrate of Westminster Police Court 1856, resigned 5 March 1863.
References in:
Diary of H.C. Robinson (1869).
Gentleman's Magazine, xiv (1863).
Law Times, xxxviii (1863).

Alumni Cantabrigiensis:
"Admitted pensioner (age 17) at Trinity, July 4, 1811. 2nd son of James and Elizabeth, daughter of James Wethered. Born July 24, 1794 atBoskennaHouse, Cornwall. School - Blundell's, Tiverton, Devon. Matriculated Lent, 1812; scholar, 1815; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1824. Admitted at Lincoln'sInn,April 23, 1817. Called to the Bar, Nov 23, 1824. Revising barrister for Norfolk and Suffolk, 1833. Recorder of falmouth, Helston andPenzance,1838-41. Police Magistrate at Kensington and Wandsworth, 1841-55; at Westminster, 1855-63. One of the founders of Redhill ReformationSchool.Married Oct 21, 1828, Anne, only daughter of Aaron Moody of Kingsdon, Somerset, and had issue. Author of "The practice of elections,instructionsfor sheriffs and other returning officers". Died April 20, 1863, at 53 Thurloe Square, London. Grandfather of Camborne H. Paynter.

He wrote a book called "The Practice at Elections" in 1835, being plain instructions for the guidance of Sherriffs and other returning officersandtheir poll clerks. It was anonymously published at first in 1835 and then reprinted under his own name in 1837, 1847 and 1852. He also printedforprivate circulation a pamphlet entitled "Considerations on the Office and Duties a Metropolitan Police Magistrate".

Thomas inherited Boskenna when his brother John died, unmarried, in 1847, however he and Ann did not live in Cornwall.

He leased Lamorna quarry to Captain Owens and the stone quarried there was taken to London for building.

Thomas married Anne MOODY on 21 Oct 1828. Anne (daughter of Aaron MOODY and Wife of Aaron MOODY) was born in Kingsdon, Somerset, England; died on 19 May 1876 in 13 Upper Phillimore Gardens, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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• Baptism: 29 Mar 1785, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Union Square, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Francis had a large county practice and the business was still being conducted in St Columb Major in 1881 under the name of Paynter & Whitford.

"Bennets of Tresillian" by R. G. Kerswell:
There was a long-running dispute in the 1810s & 1820s between the two brothers of the Bennet family and their Receiver's Accounts ie of Francis Paynter, and following his death, of his son Francis Camborne Paynter, made more complicated by the fact that F.C. married one of their sister’s, Elizabeth. Bennet. Neither of the Paynters and their firm are thought of in a very good light.
Elizabeth and Francis brought up her two young nephews, Richard and John Bennet when their mother Loveday died in 1821.

Will of father Francis Paynter, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”
To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt AUSTELL]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.
John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and inclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.
Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.
All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.
*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

Legal document between Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny, 16 April 1838:
Charles Henry Paynter late of the parish of St Columb Minor, now of the Island of Jersey, clerk, and Fanny his wife, heretofore Fanny Peter, spinster. Refers to a “certain Indenture bearing the date eighteenth day of September 1818 made between John Peter of the first part, the said Charles Henry Paynter of the second part, the said Fanny Paynter (then Fanny Peter, spinster) of the third part and William Peter* and Robert Bateman Paul** of the fourth part, being the Settlement made previously to and in contemplation of the Marriage then intended and shortly afterwards had and solemnised between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny Paynter his now wife.
It was amongst things in the said Indenture that a certain sum of Two thousand pounds Capital Bank Stock therein stated to be then standing in the name of the said William Peter should be forthwith transferred in the Book or Books kept for that purpose at the Bank of England into the names of the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul their executors administrators and assigns and that the said sum of Two thousand pounds Bank Stock” etc.
Not more than half of the Trust Estate or Monies “for the placing out or advancement in the world or otherwise for the preferment or benefit of any Child or Children of the said intended Marriage when and in such manner as the said John Peter, Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife should see fit.”
“And whereas of a certain Indenture bearing date on or about the eleventh day of May 1837 made between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife of the first part and the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul of the second part and Francis Camborne Paynter*** Gentleman and William Merifield Gentleman of the third part” this deed replaces William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul with Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield as Trustees.
Mentions “John Peter died in or about the year 1830.”
“And whereas the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife being desirous of raising the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for the advancement in the world of John Bateman Paynter their eldest son.”
Charles and Fanny “sold and disposed of the sum of seventy five pounds Capital Bank Stock … which has produced the sum of one hundred and fifty four pounds sterling.
“Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield shall fortieth pay John Bateman Paynter their son the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for and towards his advancement in life.”

Receipt dated 25 April 1838 is pinned to deed. The Deed is in the Cornwall Record Office, part of the Whitford papers (legal firm long associated with the Paynter family in St Columb Major).

* Fanny’s uncle?
** Fanny’s cousin
*** Charles’ brother

Francis married Elizabeth BENNET on 2 Nov 1815 in Newlyn East, Cornwall, England. Elizabeth (daughter of John BENNET and Elizabeth WALLIS) was born on 25 Sep 1792 in Tresillian, Newlyn East, Cornwall, England; died on 5 Nov 1842 in Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1 Aug 1786, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Jul 1787, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Dec 1788, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Witness: 19 Sep 1818, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Fair St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major

Will of father Francis Paynter, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”
To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt AUSTELL]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.
John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and inclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.
Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.
All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.
*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

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*New [OCCU]
O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary:
Commander 1816.
John Pender Paynter, born 1 November 1788, is a cousin of Lieut. Charles Paynter, R.N. His brother, Edward William Paynter, a Midshipman R.N., diedin 1810 aboard the "Implacable" 74, Captain George Cockburn.
"This Officer entered the Navy, 12 February 1804, as a First-Class Volunteer, on board the "San Josef" 110, Captains John Tremayne Rodd and TristramRobert Ricketts, bearing the flag of Sir Charles Cotton, under whom he attained the rating of Midshipman in August of the same year.
In January 1806, up to which period he had been employed in the blockade of Brest, he rejoined Captain Rodd on board the "Indefatigable" 44, inwhichship, participating, in April 1809, in Lord Cochrane's attack upon the French Fleet in Aix Roads, he was, on the 12th of that month, forupwards of10 hours under fire of the enemies' batteries, and for 50 minutes engaged in close action with the "Vill de Varsouie" 80, which ship had run onshore during the preceding evening.
He continued in the "Indefatigable" until February 1810, and on 1 August, in that year, after having again been employed on board the "SanJosef",was made Lieutenant into the "Euryalus" 36.
He took part in several battery actions on the coast of Calbria, and besides contributing to the capture on 16 May 1813 of "La Fortune" nationalxebec, of 10 guns, 4 swivels and 95 men, together with upwards of 20 sail of merchantmen, lying in the harbour of Cavalarie, he assisted in thefollowing winter in simultaneously driving on shore, in Calvi Bay, the "Balleine" French store ship of 22 guns and 120 men, and compelling a gaberreof 30 guns and 150 men, laden with stores, and a national schooner of the largest class, to seek refuge under the land batteries.
In 1814, Mr Paynter, having accompanied a fleet of transports to North America, was further present at the capture, up the Patuxent River, of FortWashington, and the capitulation of Alexandria.
Becoming Flag-Lieutenant, on 25 March 1815, to Lord Exmouth in the "Boyne" 98, he beheld, in the course of that year, the surrender of Naples, andafterwards visited the Barbary States for the purpose of endeavouring to procure the release of Christian slaves.
At Algiers, being sent on shore to demand the release from custody of the English Consul, Colonel Macdonald, he was himself seized by the Dey, andlodged in the Black Hole.
The menacing aspect subsequently assumed by the British Fleet procured his enlargement; and on his return to England he was advanced to the rankofCommander on 7 November 1816. He has since been on half pay."

Commissioned Sea Officers of Royal Navy 1660-1815:
John Paynter was made a lieutenant on 1 August 1810.

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874:
R.N., Flag Lieutenant to Lord Exmouth at Algiers 1816. 3rd son of Francis Paynter, Solicitor, St Columb.
John was made a Midshipman
John was promoted to Lieutenant
John was promoted to Commander, Royal Navy

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth CURTIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Jan 1790, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 20 Aug 1815, Trekenning, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 24 Mar 1820, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 25 May 1821, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 29 Sep 1822, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 29 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 10 Mar 1825, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 28 Jun 1827, Crantock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 17 Dec 1828, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 22 Apr 1831, Newquay, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 30 May 1833, Church Town, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 3 Jun 1834, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 Feb 1836, Falmouth, Cornwall, England
• Residence: Aug 1838, St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands

Notes:

ROYAL CORNWALL GAZETTE, 2 August 1817
TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS The Prince of Wales, REGENT Of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain & Ireland. We, the undersigned NOBLEMEN, GENTLEMEN. CLERGY, FREEHOLDERS, and other INHABITANTS of the COUNTY of CORNWALL, feel it to be our Duty to repeat to your ROYAL HIGHNESS the assurances of our loyal and unalterable Attachment; and to express our Indignation at, and Abhorrence of, the late treasonable Attack upon the Sacred Person of your Royal Highness. As faithful Subjects, strongly attached to our PRINCE ; as Englishmen, proud in the possession of a glorious CONSTITUTION: we are as eager to shield the one from Insult and Violence, as we are to protect the other from Innovation or Subversion. At the present momentous Crisis of Public Affairs, we feel ourselves imperiously railed upon by what we owe to our Country, and our Prince, to enter a solemn Protest against the whole Tenor and Substance of an address purporting to be an Address of the “Gentry, Clergy, Freeholders, and other Inhabitants of the County of Cornwall," which appears by the Public Prints to have been resolved upon at a Meeting held at Bodmin, on the eleventh day of March last, by the Individuals then and there assembled. We are anxious to repel from ourselves the charge of Discontent and Insubordination, to which the spirit of its language must necessarily expose us; and to condemn as groundless and absurd, and to disavow with warmth, that wild and feverish sentiment which declares the temporary and short Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, to be "a part of a Systematic Conspiracy to overthrow the existing Laws and Constitution, and to establish in their stead, and on their ruins, a despotic and military Government." We have witnessed with sorrow, and contemplated with alarm, a spirit of Disaffection and Treason, pervading many parts of the British Empire, owing its birth to the temporary difficulties and distresses which have oppressed the Agriculture, Manufactures, and Commerce of the Kingdom, and its growth and dissemination, to the artful efforts of designing Traitors, deluded Patriots, and mistaken Reformers. We regard the unanimous Testimony of the Committees of the Lords and Commons as to the existence of these traitorous Conspiracies, as affording to us more than an adequate Proof of their reality, which has been but too well con- firmed by the rash attempts of the Conspirators themselves. Relying, as we do, on the Wisdom and Integrity of the Parliament of this happily united Kingdom, we can neither question the policy, or doubt the necessity, of those measures, which in full and solemn Council, it has thought expedient to adopt ; and which, by a temporary suspension of a part, is intended to ensure the permanent Security of the whole of that fundamental System of Laws, which has so long blessed this happy Land with prosperity, its Government with stability, and its Individuals with a full measure of rational liberty.
Names and Residence.
Francis Paynter, St Columb Major
John P. Paynter, R.N., St Columb Major
Charles H. Paynter, St Columb Major
William Mounsteven, Surgeon, St Columb Major


Will of father Francis Paynter, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”
To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt AUSTELL]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.
John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and inclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.
Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.
All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.
*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

Bishop Carey’s Replies to Queries about Diocese of Exeter, 1821, Volume I, Cornwall. I have paraphrased the questions.
ST COLUMB MINOR.
1. Number of families in the Parish? - 271.
2. Are there any Papists or Dissenters? What kind or denomination? THERE ARE NO PAPISTS, THE ONLY DISSENTERS ARE METHODISTS. What teachers of each are resident in the parish, or occasionally visiting it? Are they licensed? What places do they meet? THEY HAVE ONE RESIDENT PREACHER AND FOURTEEN OTHERS ATTEND IN ROTATION. THERE ARE FOUR PLACES OF PUBLIC MEETING, ALL LICENSED.
3. Do you reside in your Benefice, and in the proper house of residence? If not, for what reason? I DO NOT, THERE BEING NO PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
4. If you do not reside, do you have a Curate resident? I DO NOT HAVE A CURATE.
5. If you have more than one Benefice, what is it? By whom is it served? I HAVE THE PERPETUAL CURACY OF ST CRANTOCK, SERVED BY MYSELF.
6. Do you perform Divine Service at any church besides your own? I PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE AT BOTH CHURCHES.
7. Is Divine Service performed in your church twice every Sunday, with a sermon in the morning? DIVINE SERVICE IS PERFORMED ONCE ONLY EVERY SUNDAY, AT 11 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND 3 O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALTERNATELY. I SERVE TWO CHURCHES.
8. What provision is there for religious instruction for the youth, publicly or privately? NONE.
9. How often and what times do you catechise the youth of your parish? FROM TRINITY SUNDAY UNTIL MICHAELMAS AS OFTEN AS DIVINE SERVICE IS PERFORMED IN THE AFTERNOON.
10. How often is the sacrament of communion administered? What number attend? DURING THE YEAR I HAVE ADMINISTERED COMMUNION SIX TIMES, TO GENERALLY 25 TO 30 COMMUNICANTS.
11. Are there any benefactions for the use of the church or the poor? Under what management? Are they properly applied? Are they abused or used fraudulently? THERE IS A BENEFACTION OF 18/6 FOR A SERMON TO BE PREACHED ON ST JOHN BAPTIST’S DAY, WHEN THE SUM OF 2 POUNDS IS ANNUALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE POOR BY TRUSTEES APPOINTED UNDER THE WILL OF THE DONOR. THERE ARE NO ABUSES IN THE DISTRIBUTION.
12. Are there any alms houses, hospitals or charitable endowments? Are they properly managed? Have you a parochial library? NONE.
13. Is you residence in good repair? THERE IS NO HOUSE OF RESIDENCE. Are your church and chapel in good repair? THE CHURCH AND CHANCEL ARE IN GOOD REPAIR. Is your church-yard well kept? YES, BUT IS MUCH TOO SMALL FOR THE POPULATION. Have you all things for Divine Service? I HAVE ALL THINGS I NEED.
14. Have you a terrier of the glebe lands, houses, etc.? I HAVE.
15. Have you any chapel within your parish? NO.
16. Have you met with any difficulties in the discharge of your duty? NO.
MY LETTERS OF PRIEST’S ORDERS ARE DATED EXETER 20 AUGUST 1815. THE DATE OF MY LICENCE IS 12 MARCH 1817. CHARLES H. PAYNTER.
CRANTOCK.
1. Number of families in the Parish? - 73.
2. Are there any Papists or Dissenters? What kind or denomination? What teachers of each are resident in the parish, or occasionally visiting it? Are they licensed? What places do they meet? THE METHODISTS HAVE TWO PUBLIC MEETINGS, NEITHER OF WHICH IS LICENSED. THEY HAVE NO RESIDENT TEACHER.
3. Do you reside in your Benefice, and in the proper house of residence? If not, for what reason? I DO NOT, THERE BEING NO PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
4. If you do not reside, do you have a Curate resident? I DO NOT HAVE A CURATE.
5. If you have more than one Benefice, what is it? By whom is it served? I HAVE THE PERPETUAL CURACY OF ST CRANTOCK, SERVED BY MYSELF.
6. Do you perform Divine Service at any church besides your own? I PERFORM DIVINE SERVICE AT BOTH CHURCHES.
7. Is Divine Service performed in your church twice every Sunday, with a sermon in the morning? If not, state the reason. What are the hours? DIVINE SERVICE IS PERFORMED ONCE ONLY EVERY SUNDAY, AT 11 O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING AND 3 O’CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ALTERNATELY. I SERVE TWO CHURCHES.
8. What provision is there for religious instruction for the youth, publicly or privately? THERE IS A SUNDAY SCHOOL KEPT BY THE PARISH CLERK.
9. How often and what times do you catechise the youth of your parish? FROM TRINITY SUNDAY UNTIL MICHAELMAS AS OFTEN AS DIVINE SERVICE IS PERFORMED IN THE AFTERNOON.
10. How often is the sacrament of communion administered? What number attend? THE USUAL NUMBER IS FOUR, BUT WITHIN THE LAST YEAR I HAVE ADMINISTERED COMMUNION SIX TIMES. THE NUMBER IS VERY SMALL, SELDOM EXCEEDING TWELVE.
11. Are there any benefactions for the use of the church or the poor? Under what management? Are they properly applied? Are they abused or used fraudulently? THERE IS A BENEFACTION OF 10/6 TO THE CURATE FOR A SERMON TO BE PREACHED ON 27 DECEMBER, ON WHICH DAY THE SUM OF 1 POUND IS DISTRIBUTED TO THE POOR BY TRUSTEES APPOINTED UNDER THE WILL OF THE DONOR. THERE ARE NO ABUSES IN THE DISTRIBUTION.
12. Are there any alms houses, hospitals or charitable endowments? Are they properly managed? Have you a parochial library? NONE.
13. Is you residence in good repair? THERE IS NO HOUSE OF RESIDENCE. Are your church and chapel in good repair? .Is your church-yard well kept? THE CHURCH, CHANCEL AND CHURCHYARD ARE IN GOOD REPAIR, EXCEPTING THE VESTRY ROOM, WHICH IS REPAIRED BY THE IMPROPRIATOR, TO WHOSE AGENT I HAVE REPEATEDLY, BUT IN VAIN, APPLIED Have you all things for Divine Service? I HAVE ALL THINGS I NEED.
14. Have you a terrier of the glebe lands, houses, etc.? I HAVE.
15. Have you any chapel within your parish? NO.
16. Have you met with any difficulties in the discharge of your duty? NO.
MY LETTERS OF PRIEST’S ORDERS ARE DATED EXETER 20 AUGUST 1815. THE DATE OF MY LICENCE IS 12 MARCH 1817. CHARLES H. PAYNTER.


Deed. 16 April 1838:
Charles Henry Paynter late of the parish of St Columb Minor, now of the Island of Jersey, clerk, and Fanny his wife, heretofore Fanny Peter, spinster. Refers to a “certain Indenture bearing the date eighteenth day of September 1818 made between John Peter of the first part, the said Charles Henry Paynter of the second part, the said Fanny Paynter (then Fanny Peter, spinster) of the third part and William Peter* and Robert Bateman Paul** of the fourth part, being the Settlement made previously to and in contemplation of the Marriage then intended and shortly afterwards had and solemnised between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny Paynter his now wife.
It was amongst things in the said Indenture that a certain sum of Two thousand pounds Capital Bank Stock therein stated to be then standing in the name of the said William Peter should be forthwith transferred in the Book or Books kept for that purpose at the Bank of England into the names of the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul their executors administrators and assigns and that the said sum of Two thousand pounds Bank Stock” etc.
Not more than half of the Trust Estate or Monies “for the placing out or advancement in the world or otherwise for the preferment or benefit of any Child or Children of the said intended Marriage when and in such manner as the said John Peter, Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife should see fit.”
“And whereas of a certain Indenture bearing date on or about the eleventh day of May 1837 made between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife of the first part and the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul of the second part and Francis Camborne Paynter*** Gentleman and William Merifield Gentleman of the third part” this deed replaces William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul with Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield as Trustees.
Mentions “John Peter died in or about the year 1830.”
“And whereas the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife being desirous of raising the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for the advancement in the world of John Bateman Paynter their eldest son.”
Charles and Fanny “sold and disposed of the sum of seventy five pounds Capital Bank Stock … which has produced the sum of one hundred and fifty four pounds sterling.
“Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield shall fortieth pay John Bateman Paynter their son the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for and towards his advancement in life.”
Receipt dated 25 April 1838 is pinned to deed. The Deed is in the Cornwall Record Office, part of the Whitford papers (legal firm long associated with the Paynter family in St Columb Major).
* Fanny’s uncle?
** Fanny’s cousin
*** Charles’ brother

Charles married Fanny PETER on 19 Sep 1818 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. Fanny (daughter of John PETER and Elizabeth BATEMAN) was born about 1793 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; died on 13 May 1888 in 4 Alexandra Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall, England; was buried on 16 May 1888 in Madron, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Jul 1793, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

O'Byrne's Naval Biographical Dictionary:
Brother of John Pender Paynter, Commander in the Royal Navy.
He died on board the "Implacable" 74 in 1810, serving as a midshipman.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 20 Jun 1796, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 28 Feb 1825, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 Jan 1827, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Residence: 30 Mar 1829, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 13 Apr 1831, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Residence: 12 Apr 1833, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 May 1833, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 16 Sep 1835, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 18 Nov 1837, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 5 Jan 1838, Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Yuroke, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 30 Aug 1852, Kerr St, Collingwood, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 12 Apr 1853, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 27 Nov 1857, Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Will of father Francis Paynter, 9 July 1819.
Francis’ will requests that he be buried “as near as conveniently may be to the remains of my late beloved wife.” Margaret had died only the year before. He asked that his funeral “be private and conducted with as little expense as common decency will admit of.”
Francis states that he has already made liberal provision for his son Francis Camborne Paynter, with which “he has declared himself fully satisfied.” He was to be given a further sum of twenty guineas as a mark of his father’s “affection and regard.” Also to his wife Elizabeth, five guineas, and two guineas for his grandson Edward* “to be laid out in some article of remembrance.”
Francis states that he has spent two thousand pounds on his son Charles Henry Paynter, plus an annual sum of two hundred and fifty pounds for his personal expenses. Francis says that “I cannot consistently with the justice and duty which I owe to my other children, increase his fortune to a further extent.” However, Charles is to be given two hundred pounds by his executor within six months of his decease, but without interest. His wife Fanny is to be given “five guineas as a mark of my regard and affection.”
To his sons John Pender Paynter and Thomas Francis Paynter, he leaves all his shares in Whele Vor [normally spelt Wheal, meaning Mine] in the parish of Breage and near Helston, and also one near Redruth, and another at Polgooth near St Austle [(normally spelt AUSTELL]. After his death they would become tenants in common, not joint tenants of these shares.
John Pender Paynter was bequeathed the house where Francis lived, called Trekenning in the parish of St Columb Major. This also included all the fields and inclosures and crofts. John is also left enclosures called Castalot or Creggoes, and the meadow that faces the front of the house Trekenning called the Mill Meadow. Also the remainder of his farm in the Garden Meadow.
Thomas Francis Paynter was left Dunkans Meadow, now divided into two fields and the inclosure called Bolithos Field, now divided into three fields in the parish of Saint Columb. Thomas was also left the dwelling house and garden in Higher Trekenning which was rented out for three pounds thirteen shillings and six pence annually. Thomas was also given an annuity of 50 pounds which was rent paid annually by the Reverend Pomeroy Gilbert on the tithes of the Parish of St Wennin. Thomas was also given the benefits of an insurance policy from the Westminster Office for Insurance of Lives and Survivorship. Lastly he was to be paid by the executor two hundred pounds within one year of he father’s death.
All the goods, chattels etc. were bequeathed to John Pender Paynter.
*Edward died in June 1821 at age 4.

Immigration 1841.
Thomas and Mary (who was pregnant at the time) sailed on the "Samuel Boddington", which left London on September 1, 1841 for Cork, then sailed from Cork on September 21st. (Perilous Voyages to the New Land - Michael Cannon) The 670 ton ship arrived in Melbourne on January 13, 1842. There were 274 immigrants on board (115 of these from Cork). The ship sailed from the Cape to Melbourne in 38 days. (Biddle Books).

Joseph Wilson's "Voyage to Australia Log Book" in Latrobe Library:
"Wednesday September 1, 1841 - drove to London Bridge Wharf and went on board a steamer for Gravesend, then on the ship's boat which in a few minutes conveyed us to the "Samuel Boddington" and almost immediately we got under weigh."
[All passengers were seasick as they sailed from London to Lands End - approx. 5 days. They arrived in Cork on the 12th September and sailed fromCork on 21st. Irish emigrants had boarded and then the weather was too windy to sail earlier. A school was formed on the ship on 28th October. There were disputes about the rations, quality of beef and soup, and bad fish. One of the sailors was found in bed with one of the young women written about in Perilous Voyages to a New Land].
Thursday 23rd December - much talk about Christmas and Port Phillip.
Friday 24th December - 1/2 lb flour (extra) and 2oz plums for each adult served out for Christmas. A few bottles of wine and spirits being sold (by permission of the Captain). This evening some of the passengers got intoxicated, and quarrelling and fighting followed and the issue of any more was prohibited either for today or tomorrow.
Saturday 25th December, Christmas Day - had plum pudding according to custom but the scarcity of plums called forth many jokes on the occasion. Fine evening. Very cold.
Wednesday 29th December - Mrs Paynter, steerage passenger, confined about 4am with a son.
Saturday 1st January, 1842 - our young men welcomed the New Year at striking 8 bells by rough music, tin pots and singing songs.
Monday 10th January - instead of being ashore 2 or 3 days ago (as expected) we are tacking and turning to no purpose.
Friday 14th January - Cape Otway in sight at 2am. A fine view of the coast at 7am. At length at about 2pm we entered the Harbour of Port Phillip.Soon after a pilot came on board to conduct us up to the Bay where a Surgeon boarded us and on being informed we were all well, gave us permission to enter and anchor in the Bay where we brought up and finished our voyage."

The Samuel Boddington was sponsored by J. B, Were who important immigrants to Melbourne. The Were brothers brought out nearly 2,000 people by free passage in 10 ships from Britain and Ireland. During the summer months of 1841 and 1842, an epidemic of typhoid fever and dysentery broke out in Melbourne. With no sewers an sanitation the town quickly became polluted. (A Portrait of J B Were and his family - Clive Were). The Paynters were on board with the sponsored immigrants but they paid their own way.

Thomas and family were the first of my ancestors to come to Australia. At the time of their arrival in 1842, Melbourne was a settlement of about four and a half thousand people.
"Most of the town's buildings were still of wood, and wattle and daub but amongst them were a number of brick or stone houses, government buildings and commercial structures; a few had two or three storeys. Some of the buildings were in clusters, others were scattered about in ones or twos. The streets were marked out, although many were so rough as to be dangerous in the dry season and impassable in the wet. The people of Melbourne could choose to attend a church service of one of five denominations represented, and carry on their lives in the factories, stores, shops, insurance companies and banks. As well as entertaining at home, Melburnians attended picnics, race meetings, cricket matches, taverns and the theatre, or met at temperance, benefit society and lodge meetings. They could boat on the Yarra, listen to the military band on Flagstaff Hill or read a selection of local and overseas newspapers."
(A Place To Lay My Head - Keith Pescod).

Thomas married Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN on 9 Sep 1823 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. Mary (daughter of William MOUNSTEVEN and Fanny Hicks SMITH) was born on 11 Oct 1804 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England; died on 11 Oct 1885 in Rosevale, Allansford, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 13 Oct 1885 in Warrnambool Cemetery, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Jun 1785, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 Dec 1787, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England
• Census: 1851, 1 South Parade, Madron, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Sep 1789, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 1841, Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, 24 Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Francis became an attorney in 1812 and a Judge of the Hundred Court of Penwith. Also Registrar of the Peculiar of St Buryan in 1846; RegistrarofCounty Court, Penzance until his decease; Steward for his relative John Paynter of Boskenna; Registrar of County Court at Redruth in 1847. HebuiltClarence House where he died in 1863.

Francis married Catherine Augusta COLEMAN on 15 Apr 1839 in Martock, Somerset, England. Catherine (daughter of Thomas Bernard COLEMAN and Wife of Thomas Bernard COLEMAN) was born about 1812 in Church Stretton, Shropshire, England; died on 11 Sep 1880. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Jan 1791, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, 18 Morrab Place, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 18 Morrab Place, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874:
Paynter, Commander Charles R.N. (son of Charles paynter). b. Penzance Jan. 1791. d. 18 Morrab Place, Penzance, 18 March 1873.
O'Byrne's Naval Biog. Dict.
"Instinct and Mind" by Philaletheia (pseud. of Charles Paynter). Published in 1868 by Plymouth Herald Office. 22 pages.
Charles was promoted to Lieutenant
Reserve Half-pay Lieutenant

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O'BYRNE"S NAVAL BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY:
Lieutenant 1814.
Charles Paynter, born in January 1791, is second son of the late Charles Paynter, Esquire, of Penzance, himself the son of Francis Paynter,Esquire,of Boskenna, near that place. An heiress of the house of Paynter, Margaret Paynter of Trelissick, become the wife of John Hearle, Esquire,and wasthe mother of three daughters, co-heiresses, who allied themselves to families of eminence, one espousing Commissioner Wallis, thecircumnavigator,another Henry Hawkins Tremayne of Heligan, and the third Col. Fras. Rodd of Trebartha. Lieutenant Paynter is cousin of CommanderJohn Pender PaynterRN [brother of Charles Henry & Thomas Francis], and a distant relation of Captain William Pender Roberts RN.
He entered the Navy on 12 July 1803, as First-Class Volunteer on board the "San Josef" 110, Captains John Tremayne Rodd and Tristam RobertRicketts,bearing the flag in the Channel of Sir Charles Cotton.
On leaving that ship, of which he had been nominated Midshipman in October 1803, he was again, in January 1806, placed under the orders ofCaptainRodd on board the "Indefatigable" 44. Uniting on the 15 July 1806, with the boats of a squadron under Sir Samuel Hood, he assisted atthecutting-out, in the face of a desperate and well-concerted resistance, at the entrance of the River Gironde, of the French corvette "LeCesar",mounting 16 guns, with a complement of 86 men, who, with a loss to themselves of 14 killed and wounded, occasioned one to the British of 9killedand 39 wounded.
In April 1809 the "Indefatigable" formed part of the force employed in Lord Cochrane's operations against the French Fleet in Aix Roads, where onthe12 April, she was for upwards of 10 hours exposed to the fire of the enemy's batteries, and was for 50 minutes engaged in close action with "LaVillede Varsouie" of 80 guns, which ship during the previous night had run ashore. The only injury sustained by the "Indefatigable" on the occasionwasthe loss of her main topmast.
On 13 January 1810, having been placed in charge of a schooner captured on the coast of Spain, Mr Paynter had the misfortune to be wrecked onthePenmarck rocks and taken prisoner. The hardships he at first experienced were such as to throw him on a bed of sickness. In the course oftime,however, he recovered; but it was not until December 1813 that he was restored to liberty.
He then, having effected his escape, made the best of his way to Holland, whence he embarked for England.
On his arrival in February 1814, he was ordered on board the "Prince" 98, flagship of Sir Richard Bickerton, at Portsmouth, where in the courseofthe following month he passed his examination.
He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 27 June in the same year; and was lastly, from the ensuing November until paid off in September1815,employed with Captain Rodd on board the "Warrior" 74.
During the passage home of that ship from the West Indies, in the summer of the latter year, she was caught in a violent hurricane, wastotallydismasted, received 11 feet of water in her hold, and all but foundered., Occupation

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Sep 1799, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Henry died unmarried.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Sep 1799, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Chapel St, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Sep 1799, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Reginald inherited Boskenna, but he never lived there, even though he was the eldest son, as he only lived 12 years after the death of hisfatherThomas, and his mother Ann was still in possession of the estate.

Reginald married Mary Davies HAWEIS on 8 Dec 1858 in Hove, Brighton, Sussex, England. Mary (daughter of John Oliver Willyams HAWEIS and Mary DAVIES) was born in Sussex, England; died on 15 May 1905; was buried in May 1875. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Bibliotheca Cornubiensis 1874 :
Camborne was an Ensign in the 26th Cameronians and the 2nd son of Thomas Paynter who died 1863.
He was born 11 Feb 1836 and killed at Newcastle-on-Tyne, 6 October 1854 whilst assisting at the great fire.
Gentleman's Magazine xlii, 641 (1854)
Annual Register xcvi
Chronicle p170-74, 343 (1854)
Illustrated London News xxv, 364-65, 368-70 (1854)

Royal Cornwall Gazette:
20 October 1854
At Gateshead on 7th inst., killed on duty, by a terrific explosion while engaged with a party of his Regiment in endeavoring to arrest progress ofacalamitous fire, Camborne Hastings Paynter, aged 18, Ensign in the 26th Cameroons, and son of Thomas Paynter of Boskenna in this County.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Sep 1816, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 2 Dec 1817

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Jan 1820, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Eyry, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 5 Jun 1858, Modbury, Devon, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Gerrans, Cornwall, England
• Residence: 9 Jun 1877, Skipton Montague, Somerset, England
• Census: 1881, Private house, Bratton Seymour (St Maurice), Somerset, England

Margaret married Charles LEMON on 8 Jul 1856 in St Columb Major, Cornwall, England. Charles (son of James LEMON and Mary UNKNOWN) was born about 1824 in St Germoe, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 27 Mar 1821, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Eyry, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Union Square, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 1 Market Place, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Market Place, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Market St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Feb 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Manchester St, St Pancras, Marylebone, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 11 Jun 1844, 2 Bedford Row, Middlesex, England
• Residence: Jan 1846, 13 South Square, Grays Inn, London, England
• Immigration: 21 Nov 1846, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 29 Sep 1847, Little Bourke St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1849, Little Collins St west, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 17 Jul 1850, Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, Little Collins St west, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Jul 1852, Red Hill, Chewton, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1855, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Market Square, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1857, Hunter St, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1862, Lyttleton St, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

JOURNAL OF JOSEPH CLOWES written on board “Achilles” and in Port Phillip,
July 1846 – 1848. Copy of journal in State Library of Victoria. MS 10759.

Barque Achilles, 388 tons. Master [Captain] Burrell. Cargo Sundries*.
Sailed from London 26 July 1846 [incorrect, diary recorded 20 July].
Arrived Port Phillip 21 November 1846.
Passengers:
Mr & Mrs Dwyer
Mr & Miss Clowes**
Mr Paynter?1
* Cargo included supplies ordered by various settlers in Port Phillip, including 16 hogsheads ale, 800 bags salt, 4 sheets lead, 45 packages, 300 planks, 600 battens, 100 iron pots, 50 camp ovens.
** Miss Clowes refers to Louisa Tubbs, who was the bride-to-be of Joseph’s brother Thomas. He was chaperoning her from England to Port Phillip.

References to people and places in the diary:
Joseph Clowes’ brothers, Thomas (Tom), Robert (Bob) and Henry had arrived in Port Phillip in 1840, and had taken up two pastoral runs - Woodside and Holcombe. They were adjoining runs, both situated west of Mount Macedon and south of Kyneton. Woodside was on the Coliban River and consisted of 33,6000 acres, capable of grazing 4,000 sheep; Holcombe was on the Loddon River, and larger with 46,000 acres, capable of supporting 7,000 sheep.
Alfred Joyce had arrived in 1843, and was the brother of George Joyce, who had sailed on the same ship as Joseph’s brothers in 1840. Alfred and George also had a pastoral run in the same district as the Clowes brothers.?
Selected entries from Joseph Clowes’ diary:
20th July
Went on board the “Achilles” – Captain Burrell. About 11 o’clock AM. We set sail for Port Phillip. We passed Sheerness and the Isle of Sheppey about 3 PM, having but a light breeze, we sailed only about 7 miles an hour.
25th October
Mr Dwyer abused me and called me a d----d sweep for not understanding him, that I was in the way – very uncomfortable.
November 1st
Mrs Dwyer began her temper.
November 20th
Made Cape Otway in evening.
November 21st
Made Port Phillip Heads about 12 o’clock AM. Came on shore at 4 o’clock and up to Melbourne.
Francis Paynter was not mentioned in Joseph’s diary for the whole voyage, which seems unusual when there were only five passengers on board, and Joseph did mention Mr and Mrs Dwyer and Louisa Tubbs. However, ‘Paynter’ is named many times after they arrive in Port Phillip.
November 26th
Tom and Louisa were married at the Baptist Chapel. Afterward came home and dined. Then Alfred Joyce and Paynter and I started for Mount Macedon, slept at Wright’s, then went through the next day.
November 27th
Got up to Woodside about 6 o’clock. Bob and Henry out after the sheep, but I knew them as soon as I saw them. Had a jovial night. Jenkins, Miles, Paynter, A. Joyce and ourselves did not get to bed till morning.
December 25th
Christmas day – Robert, Henry and Paynter went to Holcombe with the sheep. Tom, Fred and I bathed in the afternoon. Had Plum Pudding and Gin and Water.
December 29th
Robert, Henry and Paynter came from Holcombe. Plum pudding and second Xmas day.
1847
January 8th
Drafting Tom’s sheep, Paynter and Fred came up just as we had dined.
March 29th
Came home with Paynter and Robert’s horse, which had been ill.
March 30th
Paynter brought Robert from Woodside.
April 9th
Robert and Paynter came to Woodside and next morning Robert went to Melbourne and Paynter to Bush Inn. I killed my first sheep alone. [Bush Inn was at Gisborne]
April 10th
Henry came over. Paynter came from Bush Inn.
April 11th
Very wet. Paynter and Henry to Holcombe.
April 12th
Very wet. I had swelled face and toothache.
April 16th
Tooth very bad at night. Tom lanced it for me after supper and then it was alright.
April 18th
Rainy day. Paynter came over in afternoon to see for Robert.
April 19th
Robert went to Holcombe. Two blacks came here the first since we came.
December 13th
Went to Melbourne by myself to Robert’s Wedding.
December 14th
Robert married. We all went to St Kilda then to Paynters, Francis there etc. etc.
December 17th
Home to Woodside.
December 23th
Henry, Mr Paynter and Mr Barber came up from Melbourne.
December 25th
Christmas Day. Shooting, Bathing, etc., pleasant day.
December 26th
Paynter and I to Holcombe to see Rostrom’s Bullock Driver who was stabbed coming home.
December 27th
Barber and Paynter left.
This is the last mention of Paynter in Joseph’s diary. Francis applied to become a solicitor in September 1847, and he immediately started his practice, appearing in court defending the accused often. In all the records of his court appearances as recounted in newspapers, he always appeared for the defendant.
Joseph Clowes had been a Chemist in England, but he worked for his brothers Thomas, Robert and Henry when he first arrived in Port Phillip, as described in his diary above. However, he soon returned to his profession and was appointed the Resident Apothecary at the Melbourne Hospital in 1848. He was then in a hardware business with his brother Robert for a few years, before moving to Castlemaine in October 1856 to again work as a Chemist and Druggist. This meant he would have remained friends with Francis, because he had moved to Castlemaine in 1853, setting up in business there as a Solicitor. In 1866, Joseph took up the position of Resident Clerk at the Melbourne General Cemetery, which he held until his death in 1901.

Melbourne Daily News, 6 September 1849:
Exclusion of an Attorney from the Police Court.— Yesterday morning, upon the case Bransgrove v. Sutton being called on at the Police Court, in which the complainant sought to bind the defendant over to keep the peace, Mr Paynter rose and stated that he appeared on behalf of the complainant. Mr Condell said that he understood a decision had been arrived at by the magistrates on the previous day, by which Mr Paynter had been precluded from practising in that court for a period of six mouths, and they must therefore decline to hear him. The Clerk of the Court here addressed their Worship in so low a tone that we were unable distinctly to hear what he stated, but we believe the purport of his communication was, that the decision of the magistrates on the previous day being merely that of the District Bench, it could have reference only to district cases, and that the present was a town case. Mr Hull, who acted with Mr Condell, said that this was placing them in a most anomalous position, both he and Mr. Condell were district as well as town magistrates, yet, by the decision of the day before, it appeared that they could hear Mr. Paynter in town cases but not in those for the district. Mr. Paynter said that he had received no intimation whatever that he had been prohibited from practicing in that court in any cases; it was true he had received a note from Mr. Cadden but that was not of an official character, and he was not therefore bound to take any notice of it. He was prepared, at any moment, to answer any charge which might be preferred against him, either for impropriety of conduct to wards the magistrates or his clients. Every man had a right to be arraigned when any charge was preferred against him ; as it was he was perfectly ignorant in what he had offended, and unless he were apprised of this, how, he would ask, was he at the termination of the six months for which he was informed by the public prints he had been suspended, to guard against the com-
mission of a similar act to that which had caused his suspension in the present case. Mr. Hull again enquired of Mr. Paynter if he were quite sure that he had received no official intimation of his suspension, to which Mr. Paynter again replied that he had not; he had merely, as he had previously stated, received a communication of an unofficial character from Mr. Cadden, intimating his suspension for six months, but not intimating the slightest reason for this proceeding. Mr. Cadden was de sired to produce a copy of the letter which he had addressed to Mr. Paynter, and on this being handed to the magistrates, they stated that they could not place the same construction upon it that Mr. Paynter had; it was to all intents and purposes an official communication, and to their minds sufficiently pointed out the cause of suspension, which was distinctly stated to be Mr. Paynter's conduct in the summary ejectment case, Robinson v. Sutton, heard before Messrs. Payne and Riddell. After some further discussion the magistrates remarked that at all events, in cases of summary jurisdiction, Mr. Paynter could have no right to appear for the complainant, and they could therefore see no objection to the case which had been called on, being proceeded with, without Mr. Paynter's interference. Mr. John Stephen who appeared on the opposite side, said that he had no desire to throw any obstacles in the complainant's way, and if therefore he wished for a postponement, to enable the magistrates to arrive at some final determination in the matter, he should interpose no objection. It was ultimately arranged by the magistrates, that they would abide the Mayor's ruling in the matter, and the case was con sequently postponed until Monday next as was also the cross cases Sutton v. Bransgrove, and Sutton v Boyes, in which Mr. Paynter had also been retained.


Goulburn Herald and County of Argyle Advertiser (NSW : 1848 - 1859), Saturday 21 September 1850, page 4
OBTAINING GOODS UNDER FALSE PRETENCE. George Darling Hill, was indicted for obtaining a saddle, the property of Patrick Bellow, at Deniliquin, on the 28th February, by means of an order drawn by the said George Darling Hill on F. E. Paynter, of Melbourne, purporting to be of the value of £5, but which in truth and in fact was of no value at all. The prisoner came to the colony as an EXILE. The Crown Prosecutor in stating the case said the prisoner was charged with obtaining goods under a false pretence, the false pretence being the presentation of an order drawn by himself on Mr. Paynter, an attorney, residing in Melbourne, well knowing at the time of drawing the order that he (prisoner) had no funds in the hands of the person on whom it was drawn. The present was not the only instance in which the prisoner had succeeded in procuring goods by this fraudulent means: he had drawn orders by which he had managed to obtain goods to the amount of some hundreds of pounds. In order effectually to carry on his plans he was in the habit of producing what purported to be a receipt, signed by Mr. Paynter, for a considerable sum of money which he held belonging to the prisoner. The forged document ran as follows-Little Collins-street, Feb. 4, 1850. This is to certify, that I, F. E. Paynter, have received the sum of £873 14s. 3d,, from England, in pursuance of the will of the late Mary Cawalgar, of Chester. F. E. PAYNTER,
The prisoner having prepared this paper he used to shew it to persons for the purpose of proving that he had authority to draw on Mr. Paynter. The prisoner had selected that gentleman not only because he lived in a distant part of the colony, but because he had had dealings with him professionally. To Mr. Paynter he had represented himself as a Pentonvillan. When the prisoner was in Goulburn Jail he was desirous of procuring the professional services of Mr. Walsh; and he (the Crown Prosecutor) considered it his duty to lay before the jury the deeply planned scheme of the prisoner to commit a fraud on that gentleman. A person named Laffin, also committed by the Moulamein Bench, was in jail at the same time as prisoner, and on his being enlarged was entrusted by Hill to take a letter to Moulamein to be there posted. This letter purported to be written by Mr. Graham the Post-master of that town, and was addressed to Mr. Hamilton Walsh of Goulburn: it requested that gentleman to defend " his friend, George Darling Hill," and that he (Graham) would be answerable for the expenses. In a postscript he requested Mr. Walsh to tell Hill that his (Hill's) business was flourishing. This letter was enclosed by Laffin in another addressed to constable Halliday at Moulamein, in which the writer stated that George Darling Hill had entered actions against Carne and Brougham. and that every one said he was a youth of great promise. [Owing to the noise in Court our reporter was unable to hear the whole contents of this letter, but there was some allusion made in it to what the writer stated was the opinion of the GOULBURN HERALD on the literary productions of the prisoner; we suppose it is scarcely necessary to state that that part of the letter is like the rest a fabrication of the writer's.] He (the Crown Prosecutor) considered it right to state that this letter never came into the hands of Mr. Walsh: it was intercepted and placed in the hands of the law officers of the Crown. After a few more observations the learned gentleman called Mr. Patrick Bellew, who deposed that he resided on the Edwards River, about 60 miles from Moulamein. The prisoner, whom he had known for about eighteen months, was lately in the employ of Messrs. Phillips and Greaves,. settlers, resident in the same neighbourhood. On the 28th of last February witness sold a saddle to prisoner, in payment for which prisoner drew an order in witness' presence for £5, on Mr. Paynter, solicitor, of Melbourne. Prisoner had stated to witness that he had funds in Mr. Paynter's hands to the amount of £800. Witness subsequently came in possession of two other orders drawn by prisoner in favor of Mr. Carne: one was for £20, the other for £26 9s. Prisoner told wit ness they were all right, and that he would get cash for them as soon as they (witness and prisoner) went to Melbourne. Witness rode into Melbourne with' prisoner, and on the road, near the Rocky Water hole, prisoner gave witness a document, purporting to be an acknowledgment by Mr. Paynter that he was in possession of funds belonging to prisoner to the amount of £873 14s. 3d. [the document referred to by the Crown Prosecutor]. The order was presented to Mr. Paynter's cousin at Melbourne, when witness was informed that there were no funds belonging to prisoner in Mr. Paynter's hands, nor had there ever been any. Witness endeavoured to see prisoner on the following morning but found he had left Melbourne on his return to Moulamein. Prisoner was subsequently apprehended and committed to take his trial by Messrs. Carne and Brougham. Witness saw the saddle which he sold prisoner in his (prisoner's) possession at the lock-up at Moulamein, but had understood that permission had been given to him by the Chief Constable to dispose of it on his way down to Goulburn Jail. The witness was cross-examined by the prisoner but the questions were confined to points immaterial to the issue. Mr. J. E. Paynter [sic] deposed that he was a solicitor practising his profession in Melbourne. Recollected having seen prisoner on two occasions; the first was in the beginning of 1848: at that time prisoner re quested him to write about some property in England, which he had assigned to his brother before his conviction under the new rules (those which impose an imprisonment in Pentonville previous to deportation to this country). Witness at first consented, but upon reflection took no steps in the matter. Prisoner stated that his brother's name was Phillip Darling Hill, and that he resided in Shropshire. Witness saw prisoner again at the end of 1848. Recollected seeing several orders drawn on him (witness) by one George Darling Hill: first began to receive them in February of the present year most of the orders were presented during witness' absence from Melbourne, they amounted in all to about £5 or £600. The letter produced, was received at witness' office in February, but did not see it until the following month. Prisoner has not nor ever had any funds in witness' hands, nor had wit ness given him any permission to draw on him. (One of the paragraphs of the letter alluded to, dated 27th February, was to the following effect:-"Pardon me if I have done wrong; I have made an excellent purchase and have been compelled to draw on you, but hope to be in town in time to put you in funds.") Mr. John Graham, Post-master, at Moulamein, deposed : that the letters produced (the one ad dressed to Mr. Walsh, and the other to Thomas Halliday) were in the handwriting of the prisoner. The letter addressed to Mr. Walsh, and purporting to be written by Thomas Graham, was not written by witness ; when it arrived at the Post Office at Moulamoin, it was enclosed in that addressed to Halliday; it arrived on the 18th July, and if posted again would have arrived in Goulburn about the 24th of the same month. [The prisoner was to have been tried at the last Circuit Court] The witness also identified the hand-writing of the letter to Mr. Paynter, as being that of the prisoner. Mr. Foster, the jailer, was then put into the box, he proved that Laffin was discharged from jail on the 20th June, but could not say when the last Circuit Court was held. Mr. McAlister was then called and stated that the court was opened on the 5th August. The prisoner said in defence that Mr. Paynter had paid several orders of his, and could have proved had his witnesses been in attendance, that he had corresponded with that gentleman for a considerable time. The Jury without leaving the box returned a verdict of guilty. OBTAINING GOODS UNDER A FALSE PRETENCE. George Darling Hill, was again arraigned on an information which charged him with obtaining four pairs of blankets and one yard of drugget, the goods and chattels of Joseph William Carne, by means of a fictitious order drawn by the said G. D. Hill, on Mr. Paynter, of Melbourne, for the sum of £8 6s. 0d. Mr. Carne proved the sale of the goods to the prisoner. In defence, the prisoner endeavoured to make it appear that there had been no delivery of them, but the evidence of the prosecuting witness was perfectly conclusive on that point. The prisoner said very little in his defence. He was found guilty, and sentenced to be worked on the roads or other public works of the colony for a period of five years. [So much for the reformed Pentonvillan.]


Mount Alexander Mail , 28 Feb 1881.
Items of News:
We deeply regret having to record the death of Mr Francis Paynter, solicitor, at his residence in Templeton-street, on Saturday morning between thehours of four and five. This event was not unlooked for by his friends, who observed that his tenure of life was likely to be of short duration. Forthe last twelve months, since he had an attack of jaundice, he has been frequently unwell, and as health became fitful he gradually weakened.Recently he had been confined, but on Tuesday last he attended the Police Court, and it was then observed by a medical man, "Mr Paynter will not bealive in a week hence." His last hours were passed tranquilly, and about half an hour before the vital spark fled he drank a cup of tea. None of hiswife's relatives appear to have been apprised of his dangerous condition, so they were not with him, but an attendant and several friends waited byhis bedside while his life remained, and saw that he wanted for no comfort that could be procured. Mr Randall waited with him all night and Mr andMrs Sharpe were also assiduous in their attentions.
Mr Paynter was an old colonist, having arrived in 1848 [sic]. Shortly after the discovery of gold he came to Castlemaine where he remainedpermanently. In the early days money flowed in upon him rapidly and as quickly as it came he launched out in speculations, daring, yet wellconceived, but having left them to their own creative vitality, they entailed loss not profit.
He built the Victoria Hotel in Urquhart St and the Albert Hotel in Forest St, yet even these treasure-piling houses were to him losses.
Out of respect to his memory the Borough flag was hoisted half-mast over the market on Saturday. He was the Borough solicitor, had been acouncillor, and mayor, and had taken an active part in elections and in public matters.
He will be remembered as an acute, clever and sound lawyer, who conducted his cases with great skill, and bringing into the strongest light everypoint in favour of his client.
Mr Willan, who was his executor, arrived on Saturday at 7 o'clock, and it being the wish of the deceased to be buried privately, the funeral tookplace yesterday morning at 7 o'clock. A mourning coach and twelve vehicles followed his remains to the cemetery, where the funeral service was readby the Rev E. Crawford.
Mr Paynter, who was about 60 years of age, was a native of St Columb, Cornwall, where his father, also a solicitor, did a large county practice, andthe business is still conducted there under the appellation of Paynter & Whitford.

Mount Alexander Mail, 28 February 1881:
At a oommittee meeting of Pioneers and Old Residents held on Friday evening, no fewer than 31 new members were enrolled, which brings up the totalto 107. When the death of Mr Paynter, a foundation member, became known, the chairman of the association wished to notify when the funeral wouldtake place, so that the pioneers might attend it, but there was no opportunity for doing this, nor would it have been in accord with the desire ofthe deceased, if it could have been done, seeing he wished no funereal pageant to follow his remains.

Ballarat Star, 28 February 1881:
We regret to hear of the death at Castlemaine of Mr. Frank E. Paynter, solicitor, cousin to Mr. J. B. Paynter, solicitor, of this town. Mr. Paynterwas found dead in his bed on Saturday morning, at 4 a.m. His health had been failing for some time. He was one of the shrewdest attorneys inVictoria, and being a popular favourite, had an extensive practice in Castlemaine and the districts within a radius of many miles. His demise willbe sincerely regretted by many friends.

The Australasian, 5 March and also in The Australasian Sketcher, 21 March 1881:
THE sudden death of Mr. F. E. Paynter, solicitor, a week ago at Castlemaine caused a sensation in the town. It was not generally known except tointimate friends that any danger was apprehended although he had been ailing for some time. He was a very old colonist, having arrived in 1846. Hepractised at first in Melbourne, but came to Castlemaine in 1851. He was one of the earliest arrivals on this goldfield, and continued to follow hisprofession until his death. He was well known in the courts of Castlemaine and surrounding districts as an able lawyer, and amongst his friends andclients as a liberal-hearted and benevolent man.

Royal Cornwall Gazette carried this notice on April 22, 1881:
Notice of death - at Castlemaine, Australia, February 26th, Francis Edward Paynter, solicitor, only surviving son of the late Francis CambornePaynter, solicitor, of St Columb, in his 59th year.

Note
"Cousin Jack, Man For All Times" Ruth Hopkins:
Lawyer, F.E. "Little" Paynter was another to take up the diggers' cause early and was also the borough solicitor and a town councillor and Mayor.
Cornish lawyers, although not numerous, did practice in the State.
Of Francis E. "Little" Paynter, as he was known, at Castlemaine, Ray Bradfield has said in his book "Castlemaine, a Golden Harvest", that he wasdark with a cunning twinkle in his eye, which combined with his nickname of "Little" would seem to indicate the general accepted appearance of aCornishman.
Early in the piece he hung out a sign which read "I did not come here to dig for gold, but to see that every digger on this field gets justice".Paynter arrived in Australia prior to the goldrushes in 1848 and was on the Mount Alexander goldfields soon after the announcements of the golddiscoveries.
A member of the first Council in Castlemaine, he also served as Mayor and was the Castlemaine Council solicitor.
Following his death, the Borough of Castlemaine flew the flag at half mast. His obituary notes that "he was an acute, clever and sound lawyer". His father was formerly in the same occupation at St Columb, under the title of Paynter & Whitford.

Francis is mentioned in several books on Castlemaine:
"Castlemaine District Association of Pioneers and Old Residents Souvenir Jubilee Booklet, 1880-1930"
During the first year of the Association's existence two of its members died, Mr F E Paynter and Dr Hutchinson.

"Castlemaine, from Camp to City, 1835-1900" by Geoff Hocking
1852 - the first practicing solicitor arrives on the field [Mount Alexander]. Mr F E Paynter, who pitches his tent near Red Hill at Chewton, announces that he has not come to Forest Creek to crush quartz "but to crush tyranny and injustice".

"Mt. Alexander District Directory of Old Settlers and Residents, 1837-1856"
Paynter was the first solicitor to arrive on the Mt Alexander Goldfield. He sailed to Australia on the "Lancet" in 1851 [incorrect], and was situated at Mostyn St, Castlemaine by 1854. His first premise was a tent on Red Hill, Chewton. Paynter was a householder according to the List ofElectors of the electoral district of Castlemaine for 1855. He was a founding member of the Castlemaine Pioneers and Old Residents Association, which was established in 1880. In the 1860's he was listed as being a solicitor in Hargrave St, and in the 1870's was listed as a solicitor of Lyttleton St, Castlemaine.

"Castlemaine, a Golden Harvest" by Raymond Bradfield
On the corner of Lyttleton and Frederick Streets, the first lawyer set up his office in a tent. His calico sign read "I did not come here to dig for gold, but to see that every digger on this field gets justice". Mr (later Councillor) Paynter was short in stature and inclined to be stout, and was known as "Little Paynter", or again, "the Diggers' Lawyer". He commanded respect, being a noted amateur boxing champion. As can be imagined, many a fine tale was told of him. Certainly he was an able and valuable member of that first Council. He was described as "dark, with a cunning twinkle inhis eye, and a shaven chin .... A clever solicitor, a fine criminal lawyer, a friend indeed for those in trouble".

"Early Castlemaine: A Glance at the Stirring Fifties - the Municipal Council, 1851-1863" by Frank McKillop, 1908. Edited by Geoff Hocking in 1997.
My Paynter Arrives.
The month of July [1852] saw the arrival on the field of the first practising solicitor in the person of Mr F.E. Paynter, whom we will meet somewhat frequently as we travel along. For the first few months his tent was pitched near Red Hill at Chewton, and he intimated that he had not come toForest Creek to crush quartz but to crush tyranny and injustice.

"Early Castlemaine: A Glance at the Stirring Fifties - the Municipal Council" by Frank McKillop, 1908. Part 32 - 1855.
Mr Paynter was a solicitor and a clever one. "Cute" better than "great" is the word to apply to him. He was a short man with an inclination to stoutness; dark with shaven chin and a cunning twinkle in his eyes. He was a fine criminal lawyer and had a large practice, for those in trouble lost no time in waiting on "little Paynter". He holds the distinction of being the first solicitor on this field, and remained here until his death in the late seventies. In public life he was fairly clever but dilatory, still he left his mark in the history of the town. He was an inveterate bettor, and fond of every description of sport; he would walk to Melbourne to see a prize fight, and would pawn his hat to raise money to bet with; he would bet on anything; and was a good winner and loser. Whether in or out of the Council, Messrs Hitchcock and Paynter, who commanded opposing factions, exercised a powerful influence on its decisions in the first years of its existence. The "Mail" supported the Paynter party, and theMiner's Right" the Hitchcock party.

"Early Castlemaine: A Glance at the Stirring Fifties - the Municipal Council" by Frank McKillop, 1909. Part 113 - 1861.
This is a story about Mr Paynter and his involvement in a prize fight held locally.

Age, 15th June, 2002:
"King Harry of Castlemaine".
An article on the old bank building in Clunes had the following information:
A canvas city mushroomed and attracted a practising solicitor, F. E. Paynter, who, according to historian Geoff Hocking, pitched his tent at Chewton in 1852 and announced that he had not come to crush quartz "but crush tyranny and injustice".
Paynter was the founding member of the firm that, after a number of name changes, was to become H. S. W. Lawson & Co. When Lawson's merged withLovell, Longslow & Son in 1985, the firm acquired the old bank building at 157 Barker Street. It is still home to that firm, one of the longest continually practising law firms in Australia.

Information sheet at Castlemaine Historical Society:
Francis Edward Paynter.
Born St Columb, Cornwall in 1822, Francis arrived in Melbourne c 1847, being added to the list of solicitors of the Supreme Court on 29 September1847. He had arrived on the Mount Alexander goldfields by 18 June 1852 when he deposited gold for escort to Melbourne. One shipment of gold was forwarded to John Bateman Paynter at Melbourne, a law clerk to F. E. Paynter, and later a solicitor at Buninyong.
Francis became active in both business and community affairs. Elevated to the Castlemaine Municipal Council, he was Council Chairman in 1858. He was the Borough solicitor for a number of years and also a foundation member of the Pioneers and Old Residents Association.
The legal firm was conducted for some time under the name of Paynter and Willan, and also in partnership with George King as the firm Paynter, King& Co.
He married Caroline Colliver at St Peter's Melbourne in 1851. Following his death on 26 February 1881, the Borough flag flew at half mast. His estate, valued at 355 pounds, was left to his sister, Margaret Lemon, wife of Rev. Lemon of Somerset. His executor was C. P. Willan. The business atCastlemaine was sold for 150 pounds, probably to George Merrifield who moved into Paynter's office later that year.

Uhl Index has the following entry:
Paynter, John Bateman.
Gentleman.
'When in town resided at house of cousin Francis Edward Paynter in Little Collins Street."
The Uhl Index is an index to criminal trial briefs but there are no other details, other than John would have been a witness in a court case.

Francis bought land from his cousin John Bateman Paynter for 200 pounds. The land was in Baxter St, Castlemaine, Allotment 4, Section 2.
Over the years, he sold a lot of land in Castlemaine, Elphinstone, Harcourt and Muckleford. Some of the blocks of land had hotels on them - Victoria and Albert Hotels in Castlemaine and the Muckleford Hotel.

Francis sold a piece of land for ten pounds to John Roden. It was Allotment 20, Section 18 in the town of Melbourne

Francis bought land at auction in Elphinstone, Parish of Talbot. Sale Lots 22 & 28 & 68 & 77 for Sections/Allotments 2/2, 2/8 & 4/8, 4/17 (Elphinstone is about 11 km west of Castlemaine).
He was a resident in Castlemaine.

Francis bought land at auction in Castlemaine Town. Sale Lots 17 and 16 for Sections/Allotments 1/11 and 2/4. He was a resident in Castlemaine.

Francis bought land at auction in Castlemaine Town. Sale Lots 152, 153, 160, 161 and 197 for Sections/Allotments 15/8, 15/9, 15/16, 15/17 & 19/13.
He was a resident in Castlemaine.

An advertisement in the Daylesford Mercury:
Francis Edw. Paynter
Attorney, Solicitor, Conveyancer
and Proctor
Duke Street
Behind Lavezzolo's Hotel
Money to lend on freehold securities, at from £10 per cent
Several allotments of land in the Township on Sale
Further particulars enquire as above.
Returns Furnished by the Sherriff - return of money received at Her Majesty's Gaol, Melbourne, on account of prisoners convicted at the SupremeCourt, Melbourne, during the years 1850, 1851 and 1852.
When Received: 18th June 1850.
Name: John Martin.
Money: 1 pound 6s. 6p.
How Disposed of: To Mr. Painter, solicitor.
Returns Furnished by the Sherriff - return of money received at Her Majesty's Gaol, Melbourne, on account of prisoners convicted at the SupremeCourt, Melbourne, during the years 1850, 1851 and 1852.
When Received: 24 Mar 1852.
Name: Charles Smith.
Money: 1 pound.
How Disposed of: To Mr. Paynter, solicitor.
Returns Furnished by the Sherriff - return of money received at Her Majesty's Gaol, Melbourne, on account of prisoners convicted at the SupremeCourt, Melbourne, during the years 1850, 1851 and 1852.
When Received: 29 Mar 1852.
Name: Christopher Goodison.
Money: 2 pounds.
How Disposed of: To Mr. Paynter, solicitor.

Francis was elected to the Castlemaine Council
Francis was re-elected to the Castlemaine Council
Francis resigned from the Castlemaine Council "owing to the pressure of business engagements" and "the useless manner in which Council had beenconducted"
Francis was elected again to the Castlemaine Council and became Chairman
Francis retired from the Castlemaine Council. He did not seek re-election and permanently retired from municipal life. He had been very lax in hisattendance at meetings during the past year but had rendered a lot of valuable service
Francis was appointed as solicitor to the Council which he remained for several years
Francis stood for election to the Legislative Council but was defeated
Some time in the 1860's a street was named after Francis. It no longer exists as a road.
Francis deposited gold for escort to Melbourne so must have been on the goldfields by this time
Francis' wife Caroline died
Francis bought land at auction in Elphinstone, Parish of Talbot. Sale Lots 68 and 74 for Sections/Allotments 4/3 and 7/1 (Elphinstone is about 11 kmwest of Castlemaine).
He was a resident in Castlemaine.
Francis bought land at auction in Guildford, Parish of Talbot. Sale Lots 7 and 8 for Sections/Allotments 1/1 and 1/2
He was a resident in Castlemaine.
Castlemaine Rate books list F E Paynter:
1. a brick cottage and stable Section 27 Allotment 1 [corner Hunter and Barker streets, north-east corner]
2. land Section 3 Allotment 1.
3. weatherboard office Section 15 Allotment 9 [under name of Paynter, King & Co.]
4. two storied brick building unfinished [corner Lyttleton and Hargreaves streets] [under name of Paynter, King & Tomkin]
Castlemaine Rate books list F E Paynter, solicitor as the occupier, not the owner, of two properties:
1. A cottage at Section 11 Allotment 18
2. An office at Section 15 Allotment 9
Victorian Government Gazette:
Commissioners of the Supreme Court - Commissioners for Taking Affidavits:
Castlemaine:
Francis Edward Paynter
Victorian Government Gazette:
Commissioners of the Supreme Court - Commissioners for Taking Acknowledgement of Deeds:
Castlemaine:
Francis Edward Paynter

Government Gazette:
The following list of Commissioners of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria is published for general information.
Commissioners for taking Affidavits - Castlemaine - Francis Edward Paynter

"Records of the Castlemaine Pioneers" - article by Arthur t. Hodgson, written on 30 September 1881.
The paper I am about to read is compiled from the evidence taken by the "Commission appointed to Inquire into the Grievances of the Diggers andOthers in the District" depicting the state of things existing here, some six and twenty years ago.
This Commission held their first sitting at the Survey Office, Castlemaine, on December 29th, 1854, at which were present Messrs. Westgarth, Fawkner, J. Hodgson, O'Shannassy, Strachan and Wright.
One of the first witnesses examined was the late F.E. Paynter, Esq., who was asked:-
"Are there any observations you wish to offer to the Commission?"
"Yes, we have not sufficient officers in the County Court to carry out the judgements delivered there - that is to deliver the writs of 'fi fa'."
[fieri facias (fi. fa.) [Latin: you should cause to be done] A High Court writ of execution to enforce the payment of a debt when judgment has been entered against the debtor. The writ can also be used to enforce a judgment for payment of damages. The writ is addressed to the High CourtEnforcement Officer requiring him to seize the property of the debtor in order to pay the debt, interest, and costs. In the county courts execution is levied by bailiffs under a warrant of execution.
'During the last two sittings of the Court here very few, indeed, of the judgements delivered could be levied for want of sufficient force: and at the Court before last we had to pay all the mileage for serving the summonses, also the special bailiffs, out of our own pockets, for serving these very summonses."
Questioned by Mr Hitchcock - "Did you bring an action for me which was defeated?"
"Yes, because the bailiffs did not serve the summonses."

Tarrangower Times:
Those Soothing Murmers.
Mr F.E. Paynter's oratory is not certainly a dreary monotone calculated usually to soothe his hearers into peaceful slumbers, but it - or something else - had this effect on Thursday, for when Mr Robertson, C.P.S., was about to lock up the Court House on Thursday evening, a prolonged snore broke the silence that reigned around. The snorer was found to be occupying a front seat in the gallery, and was so satisfied with his quarters, that ittook Mr Tatt the road-carter, something more than persuasion to remove him from the precincts of the Court House.

*New [OCCU]
Admission File Of Attorneys to the Supreme Court at the PROV has Francis' file.
1. A document signed by Francis.
Francis Edward Paynter formerly residing at No. 13 South Square, Grays Inn, London, but now of Melbourne in the District of Port Philip in the Colony of New South Wales, gentleman, maketh oath and saith that he the deponent was on the eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four admitted an attorney of Her Majesty's Court of Queens Bench at Westminster and a solicitor of Her Majesty'sHigh Court ofChancery.
And this Deponent further saith that he has not done or committed any act or thing which would cause his name to be struck off the roll of the said Court of Queens Bench and that to the best of his knowledge and belief his name still remains on the roll of the said Court.
That the copies of the Certificates hereby annexed are the copies of the Certificates of Deponents admission in the said Courts and that Deponent is the person therein named.
That Deponent ceased to practice on or about the month of January one thousand and eight hundred and forty six.
That Deponent arrived in the Colony on or about the twenty third day of November last past in the barque "Achilles".
That Deponent has not been employed in any trade or --- since he ceased to practice.
And Deponent begs lead to refer to Mr George Barber of Melbourne, solicitor.
14 September 1847.

2. Copies of the following Certificates - similar wording except that one is for the Queens Bench and the other is for the Court of Chancery and signed by two different people.
It appearing unto the Court that Francis Edward Paynter of No. 2 Bedford Row in the County of Middlesex, gentleman, is duly qualified to act as an attorney of her Majesty's Court of Queens Bench at Westminster and he having this day taken in her Court the Oath of Allegiance and also taken and subscribed the Oath appointed to be taken by attornies by an act of Parliament made and passes in the tenth and seventh years of her Majesty QueenVictoria entitled "An Act for consolidation and amending several of the Laws relating to Attornies and Solicitors. This Court doth hereby admit him an attorney of the said Court of Queens Bench and doth order his name to be enrolled by the proper officer of the said Court pursuant to the directions of the said ---. Dated this eleventh day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand and eight hundred and forty four.

3. Affidavit of Posting Notices and inserting same in two of the Melbourne papers.
in the Supreme Court of New South Wales for the District of Port Philip.
Francis Edward Paynter formerly of No. 13 South Square, Grays Inn, London, but now of Little Bourke Street, Melbourne in the District of Port Philip, an attorney of her Majesty's Court of Licence Bench, Westminster, maketh oath and saith that on the fourteenth day of September instant he this Deponent affixed to the door of the Honourable Court and also to the door of the Deputy Registrar's Office a Notice of his, this Deponent's intention to apply to be admitted as attorney, solicitor and proctor of this Honourable Court.
And this Deponent further saith that he this Deponent has three times during the present term inserted copies of such Notice in the PortPhilipPatriot on the fifteenth, twentieth and twenty fifth of the present month and also three times in the Port Philip Gazette on the fifteenth, eighteenth and twentieth of the present month.

4. Francis was admitted to practice as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of the Colony of Victoria on 29th September 1849., Solicitor

Francis married Caroline COLLIVER on 6 Nov 1851 in St Peter's Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Caroline (daughter of John COLLIVER and Elizabeth HOCKING) was born in 1823 in Helston, Cornwall, England; died on 19 Mar 1877 in Lyttleton St, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 20 Mar 1877 in Castlemaine Cemetery, Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 7 Aug 1826, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 23 Jun 1828

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 6 Jun 1832
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Eyry, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England
• Witness: 1856
• Census: 5 Jun 1858, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Union Square, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 1 Market Place, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Market Place, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Market St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Broad St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Anna was a witness at her sister Margaret"s wedding in 1856. She was unmarried then.
Anna was a witness at her sister Margaret"s wedding in 1856. She was unmarried then.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 11 Oct 1839
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Eyry, Mawgan in Pydar, Cornwall, England
• Census: 5 Jun 1858, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Gerrans, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 1 Market Place, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Great House, Meavy, Devon, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Charles, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, All Saints Church, Plymouth, Devon, England

Mary married Richard HICKS on 11 Oct 1888 in All Saints Church, Plymouth, Devon, England. Richard died before 1901. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Notes:

Apparently John was the father - at age 46 - of a daughter born to his servant Elizabeth Curtis.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 24 Mar 1820, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 May 1821, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 17 Dec 1839, Port Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Census: 1841, Currency Creek, Encounter Bay, South Australia, Australia
• Residence: Apr 1850, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 May 1850, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Mar 1852, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 10 May 1852, Kilmore, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, 3 Lonsdale St west, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: May 1858, Ararat, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 8 Oct 1858, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1860, Bridge Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Jun 1860, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Sep 1860, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1861, Bridge Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1862, Bridge Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 24 Feb 1862, Sturt St, Ballarat, Victoria Australia
• Residence: 1875, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 20 May 1878, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1880, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 29 Jan 1881, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Feb 1881, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1885, Eyre St, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1888, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1890, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1901

Notes:

Deed 1838:
Charles Henry Paynter late of the parish of St Columb Minor, now of the Island of Jersey, clerk, and Fanny his wife, heretofore Fanny Peter, spinster. Refers to a “certain Indenture bearing the date eighteenth day of September 1818 made between John Peter of the first part, the said Charles Henry Paynter of the second part, the said Fanny Paynter (then Fanny Peter, spinster) of the third part and William Peter* and Robert Bateman Paul** of the fourth part, being the Settlement made previously to and in contemplation of the Marriage then intended and shortly afterwards had and solemnised between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny Paynter his now wife.
It was amongst things in the said Indenture that a certain sum of Two thousand pounds Capital Bank Stock therein stated to be then standing in the name of the said William Peter should be forthwith transferred in the Book or Books kept for that purpose at the Bank of England into the names of the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul their executors administrators and assigns and that the said sum of Two thousand pounds Bank Stock” etc.
Not more than half of the Trust Estate or Monies “for the placing out or advancement in the world or otherwise for the preferment or benefit of any Child or Children of the said intended Marriage when and in such manner as the said John Peter, Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife should see fit.”
“And whereas of a certain Indenture bearing date on or about the eleventh day of May 1837 made between the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife of the first part and the said William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul of the second part and Francis Camborne Paynter*** Gentleman and William Merifield Gentleman of the third part” this deed replaces William Peter and Robert Bateman Paul with Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield as Trustees.
Mentions “John Peter died in or about the year 1830.”
“And whereas the said Charles Henry Paynter and Fanny his wife being desirous of raising the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for the advancement in the world of John Bateman Paynter their eldest son.”
Charles and Fanny “sold and disposed of the sum of seventy five pounds Capital Bank Stock … which has produced the sum of one hundred and fifty four pounds sterling.
“Francis Camborne Paynter and William Merifield shall forthwith pay John Bateman Paynter their son the sum of one hundred and fifty pounds for and towards his advancement in life.”

Receipt dated 25 April 1838 is pinned to deed. The Deed is in the Cornwall Record Office, part of the Whitford papers (legal firm long associated with the Paynter family in St Columb Major).

* Fanny’s uncle?
** Fanny’s cousin
*** Charles’ brother

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Court case
Argus, 29 January 1869:
In the City Court yesterday a man, giving the name of John B. Paynter, who was said to be a solicitor, at Ballarat, was charged, upon remand fromthat place, with obtaining money by means of a valueless cheque from Henry Taylor, landlord of the Waterloo Hotel, Little Collins-street. Prisonerwas arrested, on warrant, granted upon the usual sworn information, and charged in the usual way. He had come down here in November last, performedthat disreputable feat of "going on the spree," and, while the fit lasted, passed a cheque to prosecutor for 50s., drawn upon the National Bank atBuninyong. When forwarded, the paper was returned, marked "No account," and subsequent inquiry proved that there never had been any account keptthere by prisoner, who has the appearance of a man keeping a much more regular account at a "public" than at a bank. When the case was called on,the magistrates were informed that prosecutor did not wish to press the charge, as an arrangement had been made by which the amount should beregarded as a debt, payment of which had been assured. This arrangement was permitted to take effect, and prisoner, who seemed to enjoy the thinggreatly as a good joke, left the court without having been charged.

The Age, 29 January:
John B. Paynter, a lawyer of Buninyong, was charged with passing a valueless cheque for £2 IOs upon Mrs Taylor, of the Waterloo Hotel, LittleCollins-street. The prisoner had passed the cheque while under the influence of drink, and the prosecutor having agreed to consider the money lostin tha light of a debt, declined to press the charge, and the prisoner was released. He appeared to consider the matter a good joke all through, andhis countenance was radiant with smiles.

Ballarat Star, 30 January:
In the Melbourne Police-court, on Thursday, John B. Paynter, a solicitor, at Ballarat, was charged, upon remand from that place, with obtainingmoney by
means of a valueless cheque from Henry Taylor, landlord of the Waterloo hotel, Little Collins street. Prisoner was arrested on warrant, granted uponthe
usual sworn information, and charged in the usual way. He had come down here in November last, performed that disreputable feat of "going on thespree," and while the fit lasted passed a cheque to prosecutor for 50s, drawn upon the National Bank at Buninyong. When forwarded the paper wasreturned, marked "No account," and subsequent enquiry proved that there never had been any account kept there by prisoner, who has the appearance ofa man keeping a much more regular account at a "public" than at a bank. When the case was called on the magistrates were informed that prosecutordid not wish to press the charge, as an arrangement had been made by which the amount should be regarded as a debt, payment of which had beenassured. This arrangement was permitted to take effect, and prisoner, who seemed to enjoy the thing greatly as a good joke, left the court withouthaving been charged.

John married Ellen Jane MULLEN on 31 Aug 1855 in St Peter's Church, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Ellen (daughter of Hugh MULLEN and Ellen GRAHAM) was born about 1831 in Clare, Ireland; died on 26 Aug 1871 in Buninyong, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 31 Aug 1871 in Buninyong Cemetery, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 12 Sep 1822, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Baptism: 29 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Witness: 15 Jul 1845, New St Pancras Church, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 15 Feb 1849, 14 Chester Place, Lambeth, Surrey, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England

Notes:

Frances did not come to Australia with her mother and brothers and sisters, but married in England.
Marriage Licence Allegation:
Appeared personally Frederick Clayton Strelley of the Parish of Lambeth in the County of Surrey, a bachelor of the age twenty one years andupwardsand prayed a Licence for the Solemnization of Matrimony in the Parish Church of Lambeth aforesaid between Frances Paynter of the Parish ofLambeth,a spinster of the age of twenty one years and upwards and made oath that he believeth that there is no impediment of Kindred or Alliance, oranyother lawful Cause, nor any Suit commenced in any Ecclesiastical Court, to bar or hinder the Proceeding of the said Matrimony, according totheTenor of such Licence.
And he further made oath that she, the said Frances Paynter hath had her usual Place of Abode within the said Parish of Lambeth for the spaceofFifteen Days last past.

Frances married Frederic Clayton STRELLEY on 15 Feb 1849 in St Mary’s, Lambeth, Surrey, England. Frederic (son of Benjamin STRELLEY and Hannah UNKNOWN) was born about 1822 in Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England; died before 19 May 1868 in Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England; was buried on 19 May 1868 in South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 29 Sep 1823, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Witness: 15 Feb 1849, St Mary’s, Lambeth, Surrey, England
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Creswick, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 4 Mar 1863, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

INQUEST into Death of Henry Paynter, 4 March 1863
Evidence of James Edward Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am a labourer residing at Burrumbeet and a cousin of deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went down to Lake Burrumbeet about 8 of the clock in the morning, when I saw deceased go out in a boat by himself, which he had got from Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, to visit his brother who lives at the other side of the Lake. Deceased appeared to be [in] good health when he started.
The boat is generally termed a small gig boat, capable of holding 7 persons. It appeared in good condition on starting. It was rigged with a jib, mainsail and jigspar.
After she sailed I went up to the hut of the deceased about 400 yards from the edge of the Lake, where I remained for a few minutes, and then went down to the watering place of the Lake. I saw the boat. The deceased was in it and I thought all was right. In the afternoon of the same day between two and three of the clock, I went down to that part of the Lake Burrumbeet where a boat race was to take place that day. I found that the boat deceased went out in was not there. I then came back to see if the deceased had returned and found that he had not. Shortly afterwards I met two brothers of deceased named James and Francis Paynter, who told me they had seen the boat deceased went out in, bottom upwards in Lake Burrumbeet.
In company with James and Francis Paynter I got a boat and went in to the Lake Burrumbeet and brought the boat which was bottom upwards on shore.
On the evening of the same day I found the rudder washed on shore. I found the masts and sails of the boat were gone and both gunwales were broken.There were two oars at the bottom of the boat and some loose boards. I have been searching for the body daily since the occurrence took place. I was walking round the corner of the Lake Burrumbeet this morning. I saw a dead body floating on the water back upwards about a yard from the land. I have seen the body this day and identify it to be the body of Henry Paynter.
It was blowing a very stiff breeze at the time deceased went out in the boat. He had on a shirt, trousers, shoes, sou’wester hat and a bit of flannel round his neck. When I found deceased this morning he had on trousers, waistbelt and flannel round his neck that he had on went he went out, but the shirt and boots and hat were missing.
The verdict of the Coroner: The Deceased Henry Paynter was Found Dead in Lake Burrumbeet on the 4th March 1863 and that his death was caused by drowning on the 26th February last.?1



1 VPRS 24, P0, Unit 124, Item 1863/202. Public Record Office of Victoria.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Jun 1827, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Residence: 15 Jul 1845, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
• Witness: 15 Feb 1849, St Mary’s, Lambeth, Surrey, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, North Parade, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England

Julia married William Eaton RUSHER on 15 Jul 1845 in New St Pancras Church, St Pancras, Middlesex, England. William (son of William RUSHER and Elizabeth EATON) was born in 1820 in St Peter-in-the-East, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England; died on 13 Oct 1880 in St Giles, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Jun 1827, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Truro, Cornwall, England
• Witness: 5 Oct 1843, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Fore St, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: Between April - Oct 1851, Australia
• Departure: 11 Jun 1853, London, England
• Arrival: 30 Jan 1854, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Departure: 4 Mar 1854, Southampton, Hampshire, England
• Arrival: 31 Jul 1854, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 3 Mar 1860, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Departure: Bef 8 Jan 1863, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 9 Jan 1863, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: Bef 3 Apr 1863, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 4 Apr 1863, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: 9 Feb 1865, Gravesend, London, England
• Arrival: 28 May 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 30 Jun 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 7 Jul 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 9 Jul 1865, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: Aft 4 Aug 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 27 Mar 1866, Liverpool, Lancashire, England
• Arrival: 14 Jul 1866, Keppel Bay, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: Bef 4 Sep 1866, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 5 Sep 1866, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 8 Oct 1866, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 11 Oct 1866, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: Bef Oct 1867, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: Bef Dec 1867, England
• Departure: 21 Jan 1869, London, England
• Arrival: 4 May 1869, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 28 May 1869, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 10 Jun 1869, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Priory House, Ashburton Rd, Totnes, Devon, England
• Residence: 5 Apr 1872, Totnes, Devon, England
• Departure: 23 Jul 1873, London, England
• Arrival: 23 Sep 1873, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Departure: 25 Sep 1873, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Arrival: 27 Sep 1873, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: 30 Sep 1873, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Arrival: 2 Oct 1873, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 4 Oct 1873, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 7 Oct 1873, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 25 Nov 1873, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 2 Dec 1873, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: 6 Dec 1873, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Arrival: 9 Dec 1873, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Departure: 12 Dec 1873, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Arrival: Feb 1874, London, England
• Departure: Aft Jan 1876, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Arrival: 1876-1879, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 3 Holyrood Place, St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Residence: 13 May 1888, 4 Alexandra Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 4 Alexandra Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Westend Court, Eastington, Gloucestershire, England
• Residence: 1902, Westend Court, Westend, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, England

Notes:

Morning Chronicle, 6 March 1854:
EMIGRATION.-SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY.-The Ontario, of 694 tons, Captain F. R. Wemyss, sailed this afternoon for Melbourne, with Government emigrants, having onboard 299 souls, 252 statute adults, under charge of Surgeon-Superintendent G. W. Paynter. Of this number was a party of Sappers and Miners going out for the purpose of assisting in the survey of the colony, consisting of a sergeant, a corporal, and four privates, with their wives and children. The Emigration Commissioners, always desirous of providing everything which may contribute to the comfort of the emigrants, have caused a baker's oven to be fitted up in the ship, and the people are to be supplied with soft bread twice a week. It is intended to put an oven on board every ship capable of being so fitted, and should this plan be favourably reported on, no doubt the biscuit will he discontinued as a part of the emigrants' rations, a daily issue of soft bread being substituted for it, There is also a bathroom in this ship, fitted for warm, cold, and shower baths, which must materially promote cleanliness and good health. The ship came into dock on Thursday afternoon at three o'clock; and owing to the facilities afforded by the docks (the emigrants' luggage store being on the quay alongside which the ship lays), the emigrants and their luggage were all embarked shortly afternoon on Friday, and the ship moved into the river, but did not go to sea that night, which she might otherwise have done, but that Mr. Smith, the emigration officer at this port, requires every ship to lay in the stream for one night at least, so that the emigrants may be comfortably settled into their places before sailing, and also that the sailors (who are often very intoxicated on leaving the docks) may be in a fit state to take the vessel to sea. The emigrants, who appeared in high spirits and very contented, were addressed by Mr. Smith and the Rev. E. Ferrier. end these gentlemen were loudly cheered on leaving the ship.

Victorian Doctors in the 19th Century:
1851 - MP (medical qualification issued by professional body)
Member of Royal College of Surgeons
1855 Medical Board of Victoria, RI (registered in)
1863 Medical Board of Victoria, RO (registered out)

"Doctors and Diggers on the Mount Alexander Goldfields" by Keith Macrae Bowden and
"The Pennyweight Kids" by A. R. McMillan:
PAYNTER, George William. Member Royal College of Surgeons, England, 1851. In Australia in 1851 (Lancet, 1851, 2:248). Late Surgeon in charge of the1st Madras Native Infantry. Surgeon-Superintendent in the emigrant ship "Ontario". In Moyston Street, Castlemaine in 1854, and registered in Victoria in 1855. Returned to England, registered 4.2.1865, was in Cornwall in 1875 and Yeovil in 1901 (Medical Register, 1875; 1901).

20 November 1863. Rockhampton Bulletin. Police Court.
George William Paynter, surgeon, complained of having been assaulted by John E Rutherford, chemist and druggist, of Denham-street.
Mr Dick appeared for the complainant. The defence set up by Mr. Rutherford, who was not professionally represented, was " Cause to show. ''
From the evidence of the complainant, which was corroborated by the testimony of Mr. W. C. Gardiner, and Mr. W. S. Anderson, it appeared that Dr Paynter went on Wednesday afternoon last to Mr Gardner's hotel, and seeing the defendant there, entered into a friendly discussion with him upon the subject of importing drugs and chemicals from England direct. Dr. Paynter informed the defendant that as he was about to proceed to England be would be happy to indent any goods the defendant might require in his business, and forward them to him ; at the time this conversation took place, both the complainant and defendant were sitting in Mr Gardner's private parlour, where the latter had just been settling a private account with defendant ; in reply to Dr Paynter's offer, Mr. Rutherford stated that he could get his goods quite as cheaply as Dr Paynter ; upon which the latter said " he had been nineteen years in the trade, and therefore ought to know some thing of the business. " Mr. Rutherford replied, in a sneering tone, " You send me an indent of goods' Why, I shouldn't have thought you were more than nineteen years old."
Dr Paynter then rose from his seat, and addressing the defendant said, " If you persist in stating that I am not nineteen years old, you tell a lie,"- or accord ing to one witness' evidence, " I tell you it's a lie,"- or, according to defendant's statement " you are a liar ," the defendant then struck the complainant in the face with his fist and Dr Paynter returned the blow with another, which knocked defendant's head with some violence against the window sill; a scuffle then arose between them, but Mr Gardner interposed, desiring the combatants, if they wished j to * have it out, to go into another room, where they would be all to themselves; Mr. Rutherford, however. declined to continue the contest as suggested, and upon being told by Mr Gardner that be had made a blackguard of himself by his conduct, left the hotel.
The defendant now asked the Bench to grant him a cross-summons against the complainant for using abusive language to him, and alleged that the back of his head had been cut by complainant, and that blood had flown from the wound.
Mr Anderson (who was called and examined by Mr Rutherford), proved that the wound in question had been caused solely through defendant's falling back with his head against the window sill, and not through any blow delivered by complainant; he (Mr. Anderson) considered the defendant was the aggressor. Mr Gardner was of the same opinion.
Mr. Jardine, who had previously endeavoured in vain to persuade the parties to settle the matter in an amicable manner, said he regretted that such a case should ever have been brought into Court.
Defendant was fined five shillings, and ordered to pay costs of Court and £1 Is. professional costs.

8 November 1864, Rockhampton Bulletin - Case of poisoning. Robert was both witnesses, working at his brother’s chemist and druggist shop.
THE LATE CASE OF POISONING.
THE District Coroner, on the 5th instant (Saturday last), held an inquest upon the remains of David Robinson, who died at the Rockhampton Hotel, on the 4th. The evidence adduced was as follows :
George Beer, being sworn, stated.- I am a shoemaker, residing in Rockhampton ; I have known the deceased David Robinson for the last four years ; deceased was a shoemaker, and had been in my employment for the last eight or nine mouths ; deceased was of rather intemperate habits, but bas been steady for some weeks past until the last few days; deceased was drinking during Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, but was so sober during Wednesday and Thursday that he attended the court during those days ; yesterday deceased was drinking, but was not drunk ; I saw him frequently yesterday; he was in very low spirits in consequence of losing a case at court, and talked frequently of it ; I saw him about fifteen minutes before the time at which he must have taken the poison : deceased was almost mad during his fits of in-temperance, and some months ago I heard him threaten to drown himself; I did not hear him say anything about committing suicide yesterday ; the last time that I saw him in his usual health he was at my shop, in East-street, about 6.30 p.m., on the 4th instant ; one of the men in my employment (George Bletcher) brought me word about half-an-hour afterwards that Robinson had taken poison, and was lying at Skardon's ; I went there immediately, to Skardon's, and saw the deceased lying on the verandah, moaning ; I asked him what he had done, he said he had bought a shilling's worth of strychnine, at Paynter's, and had taken it ; he bid me " Good-bye" and "God bless you;" I did not stop a minute but ran away for a doctor ; on my return I found Drs. Robertson and Thon attending upon him ; when I first saw him he was evidently in great pain, and clenched his hands tightly, and rolled about very much ; on my return he was exclaiming, " My God, my God," but would not answer any questions ; the last words I heard him say were, " Oh, my poor wife and three children ;" I never knew before that he was married ; I have before asked him was be married, but be said he was a single man ; when I saw him again after my return, he was evidently in great pain, but I did not think be was dying, nor did I think he had taken poison; even the doctors who were attending him did not think so ; they gave him emetics, which did not act ; they then applied the galvanic battery and inapisms along the spine ; he did not have more than ten minutes after that time ; I think he was not alive longer than half an hour after the news was brought to me that he had taken poison.
By the Foreman : I have heard that he had a fall from his horse some years ago, and that he had suffered from some injury of the brain ; I have heard that he suffered some family bereavements within the last six months which affected him very much; a small quantity of drink effected him very much ; I do not know what time elapsed from the period at which he had taken the poison until he was visited by a medical man.
Charles Day Skardon, being daly sworn, stated : I reside at the Rockhampton Hotel ; I have known the deceased for about twelve months, during which time I have had frequent opportunities of observing his habits; I have seen him drunk several times, and for some days together, but on the whole I do not consider him a man of intemperate habits ; I do not think he was an excitable man, but a very small quantity of drink made him drunk ; I did not see deceased all day yesterday until about seven o'clock p.m.; at this time I heard some noise in the front of the house, and when going out to
see what was the cause of it, I found deceased lying on the ground groaning and exclaiming that he was dying - that he had taken poison ; a doctor had been sent for at this time; Dr. Thon arrived, and deceased was carried into the room ; Dr. Robertson arrived shortly after ; I saw a battery applied to deceased, and something given him, which I believe was an emetic ; he was attended by these gentlemen until his death, which took place at five minutes to eight ; I did not hear him say why he had taken the poison ; deceased said he had taken strychnine, which he had purchased at Paynter's.
A. C. Robertson, being sworn, stated : I was called yesterday evening, between seven and eight p.m., to see a man who had taken poison ; I immediately wrote a prescription for two emetics, and dispatched the messenger for them; I then went to see the patient; on my arrival I found Dr. Thon had administered emetics, which had produced no effect ; I mixed two together and administered them, without producing any effect ; we applied the galvanic battery to the chest and spine ; we aIso applied mustard poultice to the chest, spine, and abdomen ; the patient expired a few minutes before eight o'clock ; deceased did not exhibit, any of the symptoms of strychnine until about ten minutes before his death, but the patient was treated as if he had taken that poison ; I cannot say positively that strychnine was the cause of death.
Robert Paynter, being duly sworn, stated : I am managing the business of my brother as chemist and druggist ; I have served my time with my brother for two years and a-half as chemist and druggist, but have not passed the Brisbane Board yet : yesterday, about twilight, a man came into the shop and purchased some strych nine ; he purchased it from my assistant, who asked the questions necessary on the sale of poisons ; I have seen the body of the deceased, and identify it as that of the person who pur chased the poison from my assistant yesterday ; I understand that ten grains was the quantity given by my assistant to the deceased ; I have seen the deceased several times before ; we do not usually sell poisons to any one who may ask for it ; I think that necessary precautions were taken in this case before giving the poison to the deceased ; I asked deceased what he wanted with strychnine ; he said, " it was to poison rats ;" I cautioned him that it was very dan gerous to use ; I thought that he was perfectly sound in his mind, and that he would not make a bad use of it ; I believe there is some law in force in the colony to regulate the sale of poisons, but I do not know what is the law of the matter; I have not got a copy of the Queensland or any otter acts touching the sale ot poisons. By the jury : I am not a qualified chemist and druggist ; I saw the money on the counter which was, I believe, paid by the de ceased ; ten grains is the quantity usually given for one shilling ; deceased did not appear excited, but answered every question in a straightforward
manner.
David Hay Dalrymple being duly sworn, stated : I am assistant to Mr. Paynter, at his druggist and chemist's shop, in Denham-street, Rockhampton; I have no qualification; about half-past six p.rn, yesterday, a man whom I know by sight came into Dr. Paynters shop, and said "I want a shilling's worth of strychnine, it is a quarter of an ounce for a shilling, isn't it ?" I said, " you can't have the strychnine, and you'll not get a quarter of an ounce for a shilling ;" he replied " It is not for me, it is for Mr. Beer the shoemaker " I asked what he wanted it for ; deceased said to kill rats ; I then weighed ten grains of strychnine, and he said it was very dear, and that he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney; when looking at the quantity he said, *' You had better give me two shillings worth ;" I said no, that is quite enough at a time ; I then put it up in a parcel, and labelled it " POISON ;" deceased said when he asked for the two shillings worth that he had four pieces of bread to spread it on, and that he thought one shilling's worth not enough ; after making up the parcel, I asked him where he was going to put the strychnine ; deceased replied under the verandah ; I gave deceased the parcel, cautioning him to take care of it ; deceased said that he would and left. I have seen the body in the dead-house, and identify it as that of the person to whom I sold the strychnine yesterday ; we do not usually sell strychnine to any one that may ask for it, but we sell it to persons whom we know.
By the Jury : Deceased said he had used it before, but I never sold any to him ; deceased seemed quite collected, and laughed when I told him I did not believe he could get it for four teen shillings an ounce in Sydney.
The jury, after this evidence had been submitted, returned a verdict- " That the deceased came to his death by taking strychnine, administered by his own hands, whilst labouring under a fit of temporary insanity. "

29 May 1865. Brisbane Courier. THE SHIP SUNDA.
The following particulars of the voyage of the ship Sunda from London and Queenstown to Moreton Bay have been handed to us for publication, and may be relied on as substantially correct :—
The Sunda, 1381 tons register, under the command of Captain Flynn, late of the Great Tasmania, left Gravesend on Thursday, the 9th of February and with a favourable breeze arrived off Queenstown on Sunday evening, making a splendid run of three days down channel. The captain and passengers who embarked at London fully expected to have got into Queenstown Harbor early on Monday, morning, but during the night a snow-storm accompanied by a strong gale from the N and N.E., set in, which obliged them to run out to sea again, and they were kept there beating about for several days and did not reach the anchorage till the afternoon of the following Thursday.
The passengers awaiting the ship at Queenstown were all embarked on Friday and Saturday, and on Monday the 20th, at 3 p.m., the tug steamer towed us out as far as Spike Island. The captain purposed sailing on the next morning but a strong headwind was blowing outside, and he deemed it more prudent to remain inside, and to await a more favorable opportunity. On Wednesday morning, the 22nd of February, we weighed anchor and were towed out to sea, and spreading our canvass before the breeze we soon lost sight of land.
We had on the whole a favorable, although rather tedious, passage to the Line, which we crossed on the 23rd of March, thirty days from Queenstown. The passage from the Line to the Cape, winch occupied thirty-one days, was very monotonous owing to very light trades, head winds, and calms. We passed the meridian of the Cape on the 23rd of April, and after a splendid run of twenty-five days, rounded Tasmania on the 18th of May and sighted Moreton Bay Light-house on Tuesday afternoon the 23rd instant, making the passage from pilot to pilot in eighty-nine days.
We had only three deaths during the voyage, two children and one adult, a girl, who was ailing when she came on board at Queenstown. We had three births, one still born, the other two living and doing well. The conduct of the passengers during the voyage was orderly and becoming, particularly the single females, who are a very superior class; they are all without exception persons of the highest moral character, and most of them first class servants. The captain and the doctor, who have had considerable experience on emigrant ships, declare that they have never seen a more useful or a more respectable body of young girls than those now arrived.
The Sunda, which has gained for herself unenviable notoriety on her last passage to Moreton Bay, will, we are satisfied, under the able management of Captain Flynn, become a great favourite with the colonists, particularly if she brings to Queensland a few more ship loads of emigrants such as the present. Captain Flynn has made nine voyages to Melbourne—his character with the colonists of Victoria stands pre-eminently high, and must always command the respect and secure the friendship of the well disposed and orderly on board his ship. The Sunda brings 512 souls, exclusive of the crew and officers, of these 111 embarked at London and 401 at Queenstown, under the vigilant eye of Father Dunn, who deserves some public recognition for the signal services he has rendered to Queensland.
There are 18 first-class passengers, 60 in the second, and 434 in intermediate and steerage, of the latter 110 are single women, under the care of a matron, and 105 single men. Most of the first cabin passengers and many of the second and intermediate are taking with them a considerable amount of capital, and will be a great acquisition to the colony. The voyage on the whole has been most fortunate and prosperous, the passengers have been well cared for, and they feel truly grateful for all the kindness that has been shown them. The utmost harmony and good feeling exist amongst all classes of the passengers, and complimentary addresses would have been presented to the captain, the doctor, and officers of the ship, only such things, unless accompanied by something more substantial than mere words, are now-a-days too common, and often only a cloak to cover irregularities and misconduct.
On Friday, May 26, the Government s s. Platypus went alongside the Sunda, as she then lay at anchor off the Pilot Station. An effort was made to tow the vessel up to anchorage in Brisbane Roads, but it failed owing to the strength of the wind, which was, in nautical parlance, "right ahead." The steamer then look on board the passengers' luggage, and next morning she received the passengers and brought them up to town. The Sunda was towed up to the anchorage yesterday by the Kate, s.s.

31 May 1865. Brisbane Courier. WATER POLICE COURT. TUESDAY, MAY 30. Before the Water Police Magistrate.
STABBING-.-William Ryan, a seaman, was charged with stabbing another seaman named Patrick Horigan, on board the ship "Sunda”, on the 16th May, while at sea.
Water Police-Inspector M'Donald stated that the prisoner had been handed over to him on the 28th instant, on the arrival of the “Sunda”, on the charge, above mentioned. The knife stated to have been used in the act was produced. Patrick Horigan stated that he was a seaman belonging to the ship “Sunda”, the prisoner was also a sailor belonging to that ship . At 9 o'clock p.m. on the I6th May, while at sea the prisoner and Horigan had a quarrel at the forecastle door, which led to their fighting; after two or three rounds the prisoner threatened to murder Horigan, and made a blow at him with his knife, which Horigan struck out of his hand; in the struggle the witness Horigan got his finger severely bitten; they were separated, and witness went into the forecastle; while he was looking at his finger by the forecastle lamp, the prisoner came behind him and struck him on the right shoulder with a knife, and cut him through his crimean shirt and singlet.
Dr. G. W. Paynter, surgeon-superintendent of the ship “Sunda”, deposed that about 10 o'clock on the night of the 16th May he examined the witness Horigan, and found that he had a slight incised wound on his right shoulder. it was about three quarters of an inch long, and was only just cut through the skin. Horigan had also a wound on his hand, which might have been caused by a bite.
James M'Donald deposed that on the 16th May, in the evening, he saw Horigan in the forecastle, examining his finger, when the prisoner came in and the two had a struggle, in which both fell on to the deck, the prisoner being uppermost he pulled the two apart, and kept the prisoner away from Horigan; witness went out of the forecastle to fight with the prisoner, and returned in a little while, when he found a knife, like the one produced, lying on deck where the struggle had taken place he gave the knife to the mate or doctor, he could not recollect which.
Joseph Wright, seaman belonging to the “Sunda”, deposed that while in the forecastle on the evening of the 16th May he saw Horigan come into the forecastle, he was followed by the prisoner, who made a blow at him with a knife, which Horigan warded off; a scuffle then ensued, and continued until M'Donald separated them. the prisoner was then asked to plead, and. after some hesitation, pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial.

30 September 1865. Rockhampton Bulletin. ROCKHAMPTON ASSIZES. LARCENY.
LARCENY.
Fong Hong, a Chinaman, was indicted that he did, on the 17th June, 1865, feloniously take and carry away, one ball of opium, the property of G. W. Paynter.
H. Dean, Chinese interpreter, having been sworn, prisoner pleaded not guilty.
A jury was empanelled, prisoner, through the interpreter, having previously challenged four of them.
Tho Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, stated that it was one of simple larceny. On the date mentioned in the indictment Mr. Gannon, a publican, saw prisoner enter Dr. Paynter's shop and carry away the opium. He followed, overlook, and gave him into custody.
George Gannon was sworn, and stated that he kept the Commercial Hotel, in town ; he knew prisoner, and had seen him on the 17th June last, on a Saturday ; he saw a Chinaman walk into Dr. Paynter's druggist shop; it was between six and seven o'clock in the evening ; witness was standing in his house, about thirteen yards from the shop ; the China man look a ball of opium from the shelf at the front of the window ; he left the shop, and went down Quay-lane; witness followed, over took him, and took the ball of opium from his hand ; a police officer came up, and witness gave the Chinaman in charge ; witness handed the opium to Dr. Paynter ; witness marked the ball, and identified the ball produced as the opium he had handed to Dr. Paynter.
By Prisoner : It was dark in the evening when he overtook the man ; he could not swear prisoner was the man who took the opium from the shop; could not swear that the ball of opium was lost out of Dr. Paynter's shop; it was possible that the opium might have come from some place other than Dr. Paynter's.
By the Crown Prosecutor : The man whom he took into custody was the man he saw leave Dr. Paynter*s shop.
By his Honor: He lost sight of prisoner for an instant while he looked through the window to see if anyone were in charge of Dr. Paynter's shop.
Andrew Haggertv, a constable in the Rockhampton Police, deposed that he took prisoner into custody, in Little Quay-street, on the 17th June ; he was given into custody by last witness ; it was pretty dark at the time, but he could see a man at twenty yards distance; he produced the ball of opium, which he had received from Dr. Paynter ; he saw Mr. Gannon mark a ball of opium in the lock-up.
David H. Dalrymple, next sworn, deposed that he was an assistant to Dr. Paynter, chemist ; he remembered the 17th of the month, a ball of opium was then in the shop, on the ledge above the window, and near the door ; there was only one ball there at the time ; he saw the ball there about six o'clock, when he lighted the lamps in the shop ; he was, for a short time, out of the shop ; he went into a room within a few feet of the shop ; he was only away for a few minutes, and the opium was not there when he returned ; he saw a ball of opium in the hands of the con stable at the lock-up ; he saw a ball of opium in the possession of Dr. Paynter; the value of the ball missed amounted to £9; it was the property of G. W. Paynter and his brother, his partner ; he could not identify the ball, but he knew that from the time the ball was missed until prisoner's apprehension that no opium had been sold.
Andrew Haggerty, re-called, stated that Dr. Paynter did not come up to the lock-up with them ; witness received the ball from Dr. Paynter.
Robert Paynter stated that he was carrying on the business of a druggist, in partnership with his brother. George William Paynter ; on the date in question he carried on business at the corner of Quay Lane ; his brother was out of the colony.
The Crown Prosecutor here applied for the amendment of the information by the insertion in it of the words "and another, his partner." The information was thereupon amended. This closed the case for the Crown.
Prisoner stated to the jury that he had bought the opium in Brisbane, from a German, and was passing Dr. Paynter's with the opium in his hand, when Mr. Gannon rushed out after him and gave him into custody. That he had been under commitment for three months; that if he thought the case was so bad a one, he would have sent for the person from whom he bought it, but he did not know where to find the person, and consequently could not call him as a witness. He was as innocent of the charge as he could be.
His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. After an absence of a few minutes, they re turned to the jury box, with a verdict of guilty.
Prisoner still declared his innocence, and his Honor said, that taking into consideration the length of time that he had been confined, he would pass upon him a lighter sentence than he would otherwise do. Prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Rockhampton gaol for three months.


The Capricornian (Rockhampton) 7 September 1912:
The death of Mr David Hay Dalrymple not only removes a well-known public man, but one who spent a few years in Rockhampton in the early days. Mr Dalrymple came to Rockhampton in 1863, and was an assistant to Dr Paynter, who had a chemist’s shop at the corner of East-lane and Denham-street, where the Bank of New South Wales now stands. Subsequently he went to Mackay where he started business as a chemist on his own account, which he continued for some years.

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Court case
Brisbane Courier, 31 May 1865:
WATER POLICE COURT.
TUESDAY, MAY 30.
Before the Water Police Magistrate.
STABBING - William Ryan, a seaman, was charged with stabbing another seaman named Patrick Horigan, on board the ship "Sunda", on the 16th May, whileat sea. Water Police-Inspector McDonald stated that the prisoner had been handed over to him on the 28th instant, on the arrival of the "Sunda", onthe charge, above mentioned. The knife stated to have been used in the act was produced. Patrick Horigan stated that he was a seaman belonging tothe ship "Sunda", the prisoner was also a sailor belonging to that ship. At 9 o'clock p.m. on the I6th May, while at sea the prisoner and Horiganhad a quarrel at the forecastle door, which led to their fighting. After two or three rounds the prisoner threatened to murder Horigan, and made ablow at him with his knife, which Horigan struck out of his hand; in the struggle the witness Horigan got his finger severely bitten, they wereseparated, and witness went into the forecastle; while he was looking at his finger by the forecastle lamp, the prisoner came behind him and struckhim on the right shoulder with a knife, and cut him through his crimean shirt and singlet.
Dr. G. W. Paynter, surgeon-superintendent of the ship 'Sunda", deposed that about 10 o'clock on the night of the 16th May he examined the witnessHorigan, and found that he had a slight incised wound on his right shoulder. it was about three quarters of an inch long, and was only just cutthrough the skin. Horigan had also a wound on his hand, which might have been caused by a bite. James McDonald deposed that on the 16th May, in theevening, he saw Horigan in the forecastle, examining his finger, when the prisoner came in and the two had a struggle, in which both fell on to thedeck, the prisoner being uppermost he pulled the two apart, and kept the prisoner away from Horigan; witness went out of the forecastle to fightwith the prisoner, and returned in a little while, when he found a knife, like the one produced, lying on deck where the struggle had taken place,he gave the knife to the mate or doctor, he could not recollect which. Joseph Wright, seaman belonging to the "Sunda", deposed that while in theforecastle on the evening of the 16th May he saw Horigan come into the forecastle he was followed by the prisoner, who made a blow at him with aknife, which Horigan warded off; a scuffle then ensued, and continued until McDonald separated them. the prisoner was then asked to plead, and.after some hesitation, pleaded not guilty, and was committed for trial.

Court case
Rockhampton Bulletin:
LARCENY.
Fong Hong, a Chinaman, was indicted that he did, on the 17th June, 1865, feloniously take and carry away, one ball of opium, the property of G. W.Paynter.
H. Dean, Chinese interpreter, having been sworn, prisoner pleaded not guilty. A jury was empanelled, prisoner, through the interpreter, havingpreviously challenged four of them. Tho Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, stated that it was one of simple larceny. On the date mentioned inthe indictment Mr. Gannon, a publican, saw prisoner enter Dr. Paynter's shop and carry away the opium. He followed, overlook, and gave him intocustody.
George Gannon was sworn, and stated that he kept the Commercial Hotel, in town; he knew prisoner, and had seen him on the 17th June last, on aSaturday ; he saw a Chinaman walk into Dr. Paynter's druggist | shop; it was between six and seven o'clock in the evening; witness was standing inhis house, about thirteen yards from the shop; the Chinaman look a ball of opium from the shelf at the front of the window; he left, the shop, andwent down Quay lane; witness followed, overtook him, and took the ball of opium from his hand; a police officer came up, and witness gave theChinaman in charge; witness handed the opium to Dr. Paynter; witness marked the ball, and identified the ball produced as the opium he had handed toDr. Paynter.
By Prisoner: It was dark on the evening when he overtook the man; he could not swear prisoner was the man who took the opium from the shop; couldnot swear that the ball of opium was lost out of Dr. Paynter's shop; it was possible that the opium might have come from some place other than Dr.Paynter's.
By the Crown Prosecutor: The man whom he took into custody was the man he saw leave Dr. Paynter*s shop.
By his Honor: He lost sight of prisoner for an instant while he looked through the window to see if anyone were in charge of Dr. Paynter's shop.
Andrew Haggertv, a constable in tho Rockhampton Police, deposed that he took prisoner into custody, in Little Quay-street, on the 17th June; he wasgiven into custody by last witness; it was pretty dark at the time, but be could see a man at twenty yards distance; he produced the ball of opium,which he had received from Dr. Paynter; he saw Mr. Gannon mark a ball of opium in the lock-up.
David H. Dalrymple, next sworn, deposed that he was an assistant to Dr. Paynter, chemist; he remembered the 17th of the month, a ball of opium wasthen in the shop, on the ledge above the window, and near the door; there was only one ball there at tho time ; he saw the ball there about sixo'clock, when he lighted the lamps in the shop ; he was, for a short time, out of the shop; he went into a room within a few feet of the shop; hewas only away for a few minutes, and the opium was not there when he returned; be saw a ball of opium in the hands of the constable at the lock-up;he saw a ball of opium in the possession of Dr. Paynter; tho value of the ball missed amounted to £9; it was the property of G. W. Paynter and hisbrother, his partner; he could not identify the ball, but he knew that from the time the ball was missed until prisoner's apprehension that no opiumhad been sold.
Andrew Haggcrty, re-called, stated that Dr. Paynter did not come up to the lock-up with them; witness received the ball from Dr. Paynter.
Robert Paynter stated that he was carrying on the business of a druggist, in partnership with his brother. George William Paynter; on the date inquestion he carried on business at the corner of Quay Lane; his brother was out of the colony.
The Crown Prosecutor here applied for the amendment of the information by the insertion in it of the words "and another, his partner." Theinformation was thereupon amended. This closed the case for the Crown.
Prisoner stated to the jury that he had bought the opium in Brisbane, from a German, and was passing Dr. Paynter's with the opium in his hand, whenMr. Gannon rushed out after him and gave him into custody. That he had been under commitment for three months; that if he thought the case was sobad a one, he would hare sent for the person from whom he bought it, but he did not know where to find the person, and consequently could not callhim as a witness. He was as innocent of the charge as he could be.
His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. After an absence of a few minutes, they returned to the jury box, with a verdict of guilty. Prisonerstill declared his innocence, and his Honor said, that taking into consideration the length of time that he had been confined, he would pass uponhim a lighter sentence than he would otherwise do. Prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Rockhampton gaol for threemonths.

Arrival
Brisbane Courier, 29 May:
THE SHIP SUNDA.
The following particulars of the voyage of the ship Sunda from London and Queenstown to Moreton Bay have been handed to us for publication, and maybe relied on as substantially correct:-
The Sunda, 1381 tons register, under the command of Captain Flynn, late of the Great Tasmania, left Gravesend on Thursday, the 9th of February andwith a favourable breeze arrived at Queenstown [Ireland] on Sunday evening, making a splendid run of three days down channel. The captain andpassengers who embarked at London fully expected to have got into Queenstown Harbor early on Monday morning, but during the night a snow-stormaccompanied by a strong gale from the N and N E, set in, which obliged them to run out to sea again, and they were kept there beating about forseveral days and did not reach the anchorage till the afternoon of the following Thursday.
The passengers awaiting the ship at Queenstown were all embarked on Friday and Saturday, and on Monday the 20th, at 3pm, the tug steamer towed usout as far as Spike Island.
The captain purposed sailing on the next morning but a strong headwind was blowing outside, and he deemed it more prudent to remain inside, and toawait a more favorable opportunity. On Wednesday morning, the 22nd of February, we weighed anchor and were towed out to sea, and spreading ourcanvas before the breeze we soon lost sight of land.
We had on the whole a favorable, although rather tedious, passage to the Line, which we crossed on the 23rd of March, thirty days from Queenstown.The passage from the Line to the Cape, winch occupied thirtv-one days, was very monotonous owing to very light trades, head-winds, and calms.
We passed the meridian of the Cape on the 23rd of April, and after a splendid run of twenty-five days, rounded Tasmania on the 18th of May andsighted Moreton Bay Lighthouse on Tuesday afternoon the 23rd instant, making the passage from pilot to pilot in eighty-nine days.
We had only three deaths during the voyage, two children and one adult, a girl, who was ailing when she carne on board at Queenstown. We had threebirths, one still born, the other two living and doing well. The conduct of the passengers during the voyage was orderly and becoming, particularlythe single females, who are a very superior class; they are all without exception persons of the highest moral character, and most of them firstclass servants. The captain and the doctor, who have had considerable experience on emigrant ships, declare that they have never seen a more usefulor a more respectable body ol young girls than those now arrived.
The Sunda, which has gained for herself unenviable notoriety on her last passage to Moreton Bay, will, we are satisfied, under the able managementof Captain Flynn, become a great favourite with the colonists, particularly if she brings to Queensland a few more ship loads of emigrants such asthe present. Captain Flynn has made nine voyages to Melbourne - his character with the colonists of Victoria stands pre-eminently high, and mustalways command the respect and secure the friendship of the well disposed and orderly on board his ship. The Sunda brings 512 souls, exclusive ofthe crew and officers, of these 111 embarked at London and 401 at Queenstown, under the vigilant eye of Father Dunn, who deserves some publicrecognition for the signal services he has rendered to Queensland.
There are 18 first-class passengers, 60 in the second, and 434 in intermediate and steerage, of the latter 110 are single women, under the care of amatron, and 105 single men.
Most of the first cabin passengers and many of the second and intermediate are taking with them a considerable amount of capital, and will be agreat acquisition to the colony. The voyage on the whole has been most fortunate and prosperous, the passengers have been well cared for, and theyfeel truly grateful for all the kindness that has been shown them. The utmost harmony and good feeling exist amongst all classes of the passengers,and complimentary addresses would have been presented to the captain, the doctor, and officers of the ship, only such things, unless accompanied bysomething more substantial than mere words, are now-a-days too common, and often only a cloak to cover irregularities and misconduct.
On Friday, May 26, the Government s s. Platypus went alongside the Sunda, as she then lay at anchor off the Pilot Station. An effort was made to towthe vessel up to anchorage in Brisbane Roads, but it failed owing to the strength of the wind, which was, in nautical parlance, "right ahead." Thesteamer then look on board the passengers' luggage, and next morning she received the passengers and brought them up to town. The Sunda was towed upto the anchorage yesterday by the Kate.

Arrival
Queenslander, 14 July 1866:
July 11. —Louisa Maria, from Maryborough. Bhe reports having sighted the immigrant ship Great Pacific, bound for Keppel Bay, and states that thatvessel has lost her main top mast.

Brisbane Courier, 16 July 1866:
Rockhampton, July 14 - The Leichhardt has arrived. She reports that the immigrant ship Great Pacific was entering Keppel Bay this morning. She hassix hundred and thirty three immigrants on board, and the report is that all are well.

Brisbane Courier, 19 July 1866:
ARRIVALS AT KEPPEL BAY. July 14.—Great Pacific, Black Ball ship, 2080 tons, Captain Bailie, from Liverpool, with 620 immigrants.

Brisbane Courier, 23 July 1866:
The Bulletin of the 17th says :
The Leichhardt, on her arrival on Saturday, having reported the immigrant ship Great Pacific, the steamer Londonderry, with Dr. McNeely, healthofficer, the Assistant Immigration Agent on board, left the wharf at 12 o'clock on Saturday night, and arrived alongside the Great Pacific athalf-past 8 o'clock on Sunday morning. She left at 1 o'clock in the afternoon, and, with the addition of Captain Baillie on board, came up to townabout midnight. There are about 275 single men, and the remainder, 455, consist of married couples and children. The single men are an undersizedboyish looking lot, while the majority of the married men are a vigorous set, and several of them have a clean and respectable appearance. Takingthem as a whole, they are an inferior shipment, and during the passage took all that lay in the power of the Surgeon-superintendent and captain tokeep them in order. The major portion of the males were to find employment on the railway; whether they will or will not, under the existing stateof affairs, is a question which, so far as present appearances is concerned, may probably be answered in the negative. One hundred of the immigrantsare for Brisbane. Dr. McNeely, on boarding the vessel, found her bill of health good, and the vessel in a clean and orderly condition. CaptainBaillie is spoken of most highly on board, his safe and seamanlike management of the vessel, and his courteous conduct to his passengers have beenrecognised by the recipients of his treatment, and they, in addresses published in our shipping columns, make acknowledgment of it. The Platypus isexpected in Keppel Bay tomorrow, and she will convey the immigrants to town. The Great Pacific will be lightered of her cargo by the Platypus, andtwo schooners chartered for the purpose in Brisbane.

Brisbane Courier, 23 July 1866:
The Great Pacific , Black Ball Line ship, sailed from Liverpool on the 27th March; on the 2nd April in latitude 44 deg. 57 min N., and longitude 8deg. 45 min. W., encountered a heavy westerly gale, during which she lost her top-gallant mast, caps and gear; from that date met with light windsto the line, and crossed in 29 deg. W.; on the 29th April sighted Tristan d'Arunha; on the 2nd May ran down easting in 48 deg. S., and experiencedheavy gales and seas; passed through Bass' Straits on the 27th June, and since that time has been detained on and off this coast by N.E. winds; sheanchored off Cape Capricorn on Wednesday last, the 11th instant. The Great Pacific brings 630 immigrants, the great majority of whom are for therailway works. Nine deaths, mostly those of children, and nine births, have occurred during the passage. All on board enjoyed excellent health onthe voyage. The immigrants are under the charge of Surgeon-superintendent G. D. [sic] Paynter, late of Rockhampton. The greater part of the vessel'scargo consists of railway plant. - Rockhampton Bulletin.

Brisbane Courier, 28 July 1866:
The Bulletin, of July 24, states:—"The hiring of the immigrants per Great Pacific, up to the present time, proceeds but slowly. Of the 227 singlemen received at the depot, only about twenty, we are informed by the superintendent, Mr. Nicol, have been hired at an average of £40 per annum. Nonehave as yet been engaged for up country work. The 103 married couples, with 122 children and infants, are still at the depot. Among the single menthere are a few troublesome fellows, eight or nine of whom have, since their arrival appeared before the Police Court for drunkenness and disorderlyconduct —and one for assaulting the police was yesterday sentenced to one month's imprisonment. With a few exceptions, however, the immigrants bythis vessel are fully equal in character to the average of arrivals by late vessels, and we believe they have been unjustly subjected to disparagingcomments. From the number of families among them, there will doubtless be some difficulty in clearing them out of the depot"

"THE MISSING PASSENGERS OF "THE GREAT PACIFIC"
Extracts from an article by Margaret Kelly.
The Shipping Intelligence list of the Morning Bulletin, 12 July 1866, announced the arrival of the 2088 ton "The Great Pacific", a ship of the BlackBall Line, which sailed from Liverpool on 27th March 1866 for Keppel Bay. There were 630 immigrants on board and a huge cargo for the railways.According to the paper most of the immigrants on board this ship came from the Stoke-on-Trent area and were to work on the Rockhampton railways. Theimmigrants were under the charge of Surgeon-Superintendent George William Paynter, late of Rockhampton. The paper also included a list of cabin andsecond cabin passengers who thanked the Captain in an advertisement. Unfortunately all official passenger lists from this voyage have been lost.
Research into "The Great Pacific" has been very difficult. There are no known photographs of this ship and her only mention is in the "History ofthe Black Ball Line". She was an auxiliary screw clipper which means that she was a fully rigged ship with a small steam engine which was only usedin conditions of little or no wind.
The ship took 107 days to arrive in Keppel Bay. Normally a ship of this size could do the trip in 80 days. This was because the ship encountered aheavy western gale in the Bay of Biscay and lost her top gallant mast, caps and gear. She passed through Bass Strait on 27 June and anchored offCape Capricorn on 11 July 1866. It was not until the following week that the passengers were taken off the ship and brought into the Port ofRockhampton. The doctor was quite proud of the fact that it was only during this stay that passengers were given half rations of water. The waterhad lasted well.
According to the Health Officer in Rockhampton there were no contagious or infectious diseases present and he was satisfied as to the sanitaryconditions and cleanliness of the ship.
The surgeon's report states that that the conduct of the 629 passengers was very bad with a few exceptions. The good surgeon stated that he couldnot give them his weekly lecture as he could not induce them to attend and anyway, he had a severe suffering of the throat. I must admit that Ithought the excuse was very poor, but maybe he was as fed up as his passengers, and who could blame them - after spending 107 days at sea and withno ports to call into. The paper referred to this arrival as an "inferior shipment" mainly because there were some unruly characters on board whomade things very lively.
There were nine births and also nine deaths, of which six were infants.
Doctor: William George Paynter, born in St Columb, Cornwall. Age 48. Doctor Paynter left the ship in Rockhampton.

Court case
Rockhampton Bulletin, 21 November 1863:
Police Court, before the Police Magistrate.
George William Paynter, surgeon, complained of having been assaulted by John E Rutherford, chemist and druggist, of Denham-street.
Mr Dick appeared for the complainant.
The defence set up by Mr. Rutherford, who was not professionally represented, was "Cause to show ''.
From the evidence of the complainant, which was corroborated by the testimony of Mr. W. C Gardner, and Mr W S Anderson, it appeared that Dr Paynterwent on Wednesday afternoon last to Mr Gardner's hotel, and seeing the defendant there, entered into a friendly discussion with him upon the subjectof importing drugs and chemicals from England direct. Dr. Paynter informed the defendant that as he was about to proceed to England be would behappy to indent any goods the defendant might require in his business, and forward them to him; at the time this conversation took place, both thecomplainant and defendant were sitting in Mr Gardner's private parlour, where the latter had just been settling a private account with defendant; inreply to Dr Paynter's offer, Mr. Rutherford stated that he could get his goods quite as cheaply as Dr Paynter; upon which the latter said "he hadbeen nineteen years in the trade, and therefore ought to know something of the business". Mr. Rutherford replied, in a sneering tone, "You send mean indent of goods. Why, I shouldn't have thought you were more than nineteen years old." Dr Paynter then rose from his seat, and addressing thedefendant said, "If you persist in stating that I am not nineteen years old, you tell a lie," - or according to one witness' evidence, " I tell youit s a lie," - or, according to defendant's statement "you are a liar," the defendant then struck the complainant in the face with his fist, and DrPaynter returned the blow with another, which knocked defendant's head with some violence against the window sill; a scuffle then arose betweenthem, but Mr Gardner interposed, desiring the combatants, if they wished to have it out, to go into another room, where they would be all tothemselves; Mr. Rutherford. however. declined to continue the contest as suggested, and upon being told by
Mr Gardner that be had made a blackguard of himself by his conduct, left the hotel.
The defendant now asked the Bench to grant him a cross-summons against the complainant for using abusive language to him, and alleged that the backof his head had been cut by complainant, and that blood had flown from the
wound.
Mr Anderson (who was called and examined by Mr Rutherford), proved that the wound in question had been caused solely through defendant s fallingback with his head against the window sill, and not through any blow delivered by complainant; he (Mr. Anderson) considered the defendant was theaggressor.
Mr Gardner was of the same opinion.
Mr Jardine, who had previously endeavoured in vain to persuade the parties to settle the matter in an amicable manner, said he regretted that such acase should ever have been brought into Court.
Defendant was fined five shillings, and ordered to pay costs of Court and £1 Is. professional costs.

Court case
Rockhampton Bulletin, 8 November 1864:
THE LATE CASE OF POISONING.
THE District Coroner, on the 5th instant (Saturday last), held an inquest upon the remains of David Robinson, who died at the Rockhampton Hotel, onthe 4th. The evidence adduced was as follows:

George Beer, being sworn, stated - I am a shoemaker, residing in Rockhampton; 1 have known the deceased David Robinson for the last four years;deceased was a shoemaker, and had been in my employment for the last eight or nine months; deceased was of rather intemperate habits, but bas beensteady for some weeks past until the last few days; deceased was drinking during Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, but was so sober during Wednesday andThursday that he attended the court during those days¡ yesterday deceased was drinking, but was not drunk; I saw him frequently yesterday; he was invery low spirits in consequence of losing a case at court, and talked frequently of it; I saw him about fifteen minutes before the time at which hemust have taken the poison: deceased was almost mad during his fits of intemperance, and some months ago I heard him threaten to drown himself; Idid not hear him say anything about committing suicide yesterday; the last time that I saw him in his usual health he was at my shop, inEast-street, about 6 80 p.m., on the 4th instant; one of the men in my employment (George Blutcher) brought me word about half-an-hour afterwardsthat Robinson had taken poison, and was lying at Skardon's; I went there immediately, to Skardon's, and saw the deceased lying on the verandah,moaning; I asked him what he had done, he said he had bought a shilling's worth of strychnine, at Paynter's, and had taken it; he bid me "Good- bye"and "God bless you"; I did not stop a minute but ran away for a doctor; on my return I found Drs. Robertson and Thon attending upon him; when Ifirst saw him he was evidently in great pain, and clenched his hands tightly, and rolled about very much; on my return he was exclaiming, "My God,my God," but would not answer any questions; the last words I heard him say were, "Oh, my poor wife and three children"; I never knew before that hewas married; I have before asked him was he married, but he said he was a single man; when I saw him again after my return, he was evidently ingreat pain, but I did not think be was dying, nor did I think he had taken poison; even the doctors who were attending him did not think so ; theygave him emetics, which did not act; they then applied the galvanic battery and inapisms [powerful stimulants] along the spine; he did not have morethan ten minutes after this time; 1 think he was not alive longer than half an hour after the news was brought to me that he had taken poison.

By the Foreman: I have heard that he had a fall from his horse some years ago, and that he had suffered from some injury of the brain; I have heardthat he suffered some family bereavements within the last six months which affected him very much; a small quantity of drink effected him very much;I do not know what time elapsed from the period at which he had taken the poison until be was visited by a medical man.
Charles Day Skardon, being duly sworn, stated: I reside at the Rockhampton Hotel; I have known the deceased for about twelve months, during whichtime I have had frequent opportunities of observing his habits; I have seen him drunk several times, and for some days together, but on the whole Ido not consider him a man of intemperate habit; I do not think he was an excitable man, but a very smail quantity of drink made him drunk; I did notsee deceased all day yesterday until about seven o'clock p.m; at this time I heard some noise in the front of the hotel, and when going out to seewhat was the cause of it, I found deceased Iying on the ground groaning and exclaiming that he was dying - that he had taken poison, a doctor hadbeen sent for at this time; Dr. Thona arrived, and deceased was carried into the room; Dr. Robertson arrived shortly after, I saw a battery appliedto deceased, and something given him, which I believe was an emetic; he was attended by these gentlemen until his death, which took place at fiveminutes to eight; I did not hear him say why he had taken the poison; deceased said he had taken strychnine, which he had purchased at Paynter's.

A. C. Robertson, being sworn, stated: I was called yesterday evening, between seven and eight p.m., to see a man who had taken poison; I immediatelywrote a prescription for two emetics, and dispatched the messenger for them; I then went to see the patient; on my arrival I found Dr. Thon hadadministered emetics, which had produced no effect; I mixed two together and administered them, without producing any effect; we applied thegalvanic battery to the chest and spine; we also applied mustard poultice to the chest, spine, and abdomen; the patient expired a few minutes beforeeight o'clock; deceased did not exhibit any of the symptoms of strychnine until about ten minutes before his death, but the patient was treated asif he had taken that poison; I cannot say positively that strychnine was the cause of death.

Robert Paynter, being duly sworn, stated: I am managing the. business of my brother as chemist and druggist; I have served my time with my brotherfor two years and a half as chemist and druggist, but have not passed the Brisbane Board yet: yesterday, about twilight, a man came into the shopand purchased some strychnine; he purchased it from my assistant, who asked the questions necessary on the sale of poisons; I have seen the body ofthe deceased, and identify it as that of the person who purchased the poison from my assistant yesterday; I understand the ten grains was thequantity given by my assistant to the deceased; I have seen the deceased several times before; we do not usually sell poisons to any one who may askfor it; I think that necessary precautions were taken in this case before giving the poison to the deceased; I asked deceased what he wanted withstrychnine; he said, "it was to poison rats"; I cautioned him that it was very dangerous to use; I thought that he was perfectly sound in his mind,and that he would not make a bad use of it; I believe there is some law in force in the colony to regulate the sale of poisons, but I do not knowwhat is the law of the matter; I have not got a copy of the Queensland or any other acts touching the sale of poisons. By the jury: I am not aqualified chemist and druggist; I saw the money on the counter which was, Ï believe, paid by the deceased; ten grains is the quantity usually givenfor one shilling; deceased did not appear excited, but answered every question in a straightforward mannner.

David Hay Dalrymple being duly sworn, stated: I am assistant to Mr. Paynter, at his druggist and chemist's shop, in Denham-street, Rockhampton; 1have no qualification; about half-past six p.m, yesterday, a man who I know by sight came into Dr. Paynter's shop, and said "I want a shilling'sworth of strychnine, it is a quarter of an ounce for a shilling, isn't it?" I said, "you can't have the strychnine, and you'll not get a quarter ofan ounce for a shilling;" he replied "It is not for me, it is for Mr. Beer the shoemaker" I asked what he wanted it for; deceased said to kill rats;I then weighed ten grains of strychnine, and he said it was very dear, and that he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney; whenlooking at the quantity he said, "You had better give me two shilling worth"; I said no, that is quite enough at a time; I then put it up in aparcel, and labelled it "POISON"; deceased said when he asked for the two shillings worth that he had four pieces of bread to spread it on, and thathe thought one shilling's worth not enough; after making up the parcel, I asked him where he was going to put the strychnine; deceased replied underthe verandah; I gave deceased the parcel, cautioning him to take care of it; deceased said he would and left. I have seen the body in thedead-house, and identify it as that of the person to whom I sold the strychnine yesterday; we do not usually sell strychnine to any one that may askfor it, but we sell it to persons whom we know.

By the Jury: Deceased said he had used it before, but I never sold any to him; deceased seemed quite collected, and laughed-when I told him I didnot believe he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney.

The jury, after this evidence had been submitted, returned a verdict - "That the deceased came to his death by taking strychnine, administered byhis own hands, whilst labouring under a fit of "temporary insanity".

George married Caroline DREW on 4 Jan 1866 in Stoke Damerel, Devon, England. Caroline (daughter of Edward DREW and Betsy DREW) was born in 1837; died on 11 Jan 1894 in Bidna, Northam, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 17 Dec 1828, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 16 Nov 1849, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1851, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1852, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1854, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1855, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, ‘Solitude’, Western Port District, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 12 Jul 1856, Yering and Warrandyte, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Apr 1863, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 30 May 1865, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 2 Jun 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 6 Jun 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 30 Jun 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 11 Jul 1865, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 15 Jul 1865, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Residence: 1866, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 12 May 1866, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1867, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 10 Jan 1870, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 12 Jan 1870, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1874, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Residence: 1876, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 29 Sep 1876, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 3 Oct 1876, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1877, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 12 Jan 1877, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 18 Jan 1877, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: 27 Mar 1877, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Residence: 1878, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 13 Oct 1885, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 16 Oct 1885, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 18 Oct 1885, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Arrival: 14 May 1886, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 17 May 1886, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Departure: 2 Nov 1886, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 4 Nov 1886, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
• Arrival: 7 Nov 1886, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 15 Nov 1887, Woodward Av, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1891, Woodward Av, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
• Residence: 1892, 'Stoneleigh', Woodward Av, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia
• Departure: 14 Sep 1899, Wallangarra, Queensland, Australia

Notes:

Robert's middle name is spelt as both EMILIUS and EMELIUS but the correct spelling is Emilius. The name comes from the Latin word aemilius which means ’kind, smiling’ or ’eager, clever, hard-working’ - as a roman surname Aemilius it was translated as ’companion’. I have not found any other family members with that middle name.
Robert had lived 3 years in Vic, 28 in NSW & 34 in Qld. according to his death certificate. Susanna's death certificate states that she lived 40years in Queensland and 41 years in New South Wales (Neither of these seems correct according to some of the dates above.)

8 November 1864, Rockhampton Bulletin - Case of poisoning. Robert was both witnesses, working at his brother’s chemist and druggist shop.
THE LATE CASE OF POISONING.
THE District Coroner, on the 5th instant (Saturday last), held an inquest upon the remains of David Robinson, who died at the Rockhampton Hotel, on the 4th. The evidence adduced was as follows :
George Beer, being sworn, stated.- I am a shoemaker, residing in Rockhampton ; I have known the deceased David Robinson for the last four years ; deceased was a shoemaker, and had been in my employment for the last eight or nine mouths ; deceased was of rather intemperate habits, but bas been steady for some weeks past until the last few days; deceased was drinking during Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, but was so sober during Wednesday and Thursday that he attended the court during those days ; yesterday deceased was drinking, but was not drunk ; I saw him frequently yesterday; he was in very low spirits in consequence of losing a case at court, and talked frequently of it ; I saw him about fifteen minutes before the time at which he must have taken the poison : deceased was almost mad during his fits of in-temperance, and some months ago I heard him threaten to drown himself; I did not hear him say anything about committing suicide yesterday ; the last time that I saw him in his usual health he was at my shop, in East-street, about 6.30 p.m., on the 4th instant ; one of the men in my employment (George Bletcher) brought me word about half-an-hour afterwards that Robinson had taken poison, and was lying at Skardon's ; I went there immediately, to Skardon's, and saw the deceased lying on the verandah, moaning ; I asked him what he had done, he said he had bought a shilling's worth of strychnine, at Paynter's, and had taken it ; he bid me " Good-bye" and "God bless you;" I did not stop a minute but ran away for a doctor ; on my return I found Drs. Robertson and Thon attending upon him ; when I first saw him he was evidently in great pain, and clenched his hands tightly, and rolled about very much ; on my return he was exclaiming, " My God, my God," but would not answer any questions ; the last words I heard him say were, " Oh, my poor wife and three children ;" I never knew before that he was married ; I have before asked him was be married, but be said he was a single man ; when I saw him again after my return, he was evidently in great pain, but I did not think be was dying, nor did I think he had taken poison; even the doctors who were attending him did not think so ; they gave him emetics, which did not act ; they then applied the galvanic battery and inapisms along the spine ; he did not have more than ten minutes after that time ; I think he was not alive longer than half an hour after the news was brought to me that he had taken poison.
By the Foreman : I have heard that he had a fall from his horse some years ago, and that he had suffered from some injury of the brain ; I have heard that he suffered some family bereavements within the last six months which affected him very much; a small quantity of drink effected him very much ; I do not know what time elapsed from the period at which he had taken the poison until he was visited by a medical man.
Charles Day Skardon, being daly sworn, stated : I reside at the Rockhampton Hotel ; I have known the deceased for about twelve months, during which time I have had frequent opportunities of observing his habits; I have seen him drunk several times, and for some days together, but on the whole I do not consider him a man of intemperate habits ; I do not think he was an excitable man, but a very small quantity of drink made him drunk ; I did not see deceased all day yesterday until about seven o'clock p.m.; at this time I heard some noise in the front of the house, and when going out to
see what was the cause of it, I found deceased lying on the ground groaning and exclaiming that he was dying - that he had taken poison ; a doctor had been sent for at this time; Dr. Thon arrived, and deceased was carried into the room ; Dr. Robertson arrived shortly after ; I saw a battery applied to deceased, and something given him, which I believe was an emetic ; he was attended by these gentlemen until his death, which took place at five minutes to eight ; I did not hear him say why he had taken the poison ; deceased said he had taken strychnine, which he had purchased at Paynter's.
A. C. Robertson, being sworn, stated : I was called yesterday evening, between seven and eight p.m., to see a man who had taken poison ; I immediately wrote a prescription for two emetics, and dispatched the messenger for them; I then went to see the patient; on my arrival I found Dr. Thon had administered emetics, which had produced no effect ; I mixed two together and administered them, without producing any effect ; we applied the galvanic battery to the chest and spine ; we aIso applied mustard poultice to the chest, spine, and abdomen ; the patient expired a few minutes before eight o'clock ; deceased did not exhibit, any of the symptoms of strychnine until about ten minutes before his death, but the patient was treated as if he had taken that poison ; I cannot say positively that strychnine was the cause of death.
Robert Paynter, being duly sworn, stated : I am managing the business of my brother as chemist and druggist ; I have served my time with my brother for two years and a-half as chemist and druggist, but have not passed the Brisbane Board yet : yesterday, about twilight, a man came into the shop and purchased some strych nine ; he purchased it from my assistant, who asked the questions necessary on the sale of poisons ; I have seen the body of the deceased, and identify it as that of the person who pur chased the poison from my assistant yesterday ; I understand that ten grains was the quantity given by my assistant to the deceased ; I have seen the deceased several times before ; we do not usually sell poisons to any one who may ask for it ; I think that necessary precautions were taken in this case before giving the poison to the deceased ; I asked deceased what he wanted with strychnine ; he said, " it was to poison rats ;" I cautioned him that it was very dan gerous to use ; I thought that he was perfectly sound in his mind, and that he would not make a bad use of it ; I believe there is some law in force in the colony to regulate the sale of poisons, but I do not know what is the law of the matter; I have not got a copy of the Queensland or any otter acts touching the sale ot poisons. By the jury : I am not a qualified chemist and druggist ; I saw the money on the counter which was, I believe, paid by the de ceased ; ten grains is the quantity usually given for one shilling ; deceased did not appear excited, but answered every question in a straightforward
manner.
David Hay Dalrymple being duly sworn, stated : I am assistant to Mr. Paynter, at his druggist and chemist's shop, in Denham-street, Rockhampton; I have no qualification; about half-past six p.rn, yesterday, a man whom I know by sight came into Dr. Paynters shop, and said "I want a shilling's worth of strychnine, it is a quarter of an ounce for a shilling, isn't it ?" I said, " you can't have the strychnine, and you'll not get a quarter of an ounce for a shilling ;" he replied " It is not for me, it is for Mr. Beer the shoemaker " I asked what he wanted it for ; deceased said to kill rats ; I then weighed ten grains of strychnine, and he said it was very dear, and that he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney; when looking at the quantity he said, *' You had better give me two shillings worth ;" I said no, that is quite enough at a time ; I then put it up in a parcel, and labelled it " POISON ;" deceased said when he asked for the two shillings worth that he had four pieces of bread to spread it on, and that he thought one shilling's worth not enough ; after making up the parcel, I asked him where he was going to put the strychnine ; deceased replied under the verandah ; I gave deceased the parcel, cautioning him to take care of it ; deceased said that he would and left. I have seen the body in the dead-house, and identify it as that of the person to whom I sold the strychnine yesterday ; we do not usually sell strychnine to any one that may ask for it, but we sell it to persons whom we know.
By the Jury : Deceased said he had used it before, but I never sold any to him ; deceased seemed quite collected, and laughed when I told him I did not believe he could get it for four teen shillings an ounce in Sydney.
The jury, after this evidence had been submitted, returned a verdict- " That the deceased came to his death by taking strychnine, administered by his own hands, whilst labouring under a fit of temporary insanity. "

30 September 1865. Rockhampton Bulletin. ROCKHAMPTON ASSIZES. LARCENY.
LARCENY.
Fong Hong, a Chinaman, was indicted that he did, on the 17th June, 1865, feloniously take and carry away, one ball of opium, the property of G. W. Paynter.
H. Dean, Chinese interpreter, having been sworn, prisoner pleaded not guilty.
A jury was empanelled, prisoner, through the interpreter, having previously challenged four of them.
Tho Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, stated that it was one of simple larceny. On the date mentioned in the indictment Mr. Gannon, a publican, saw prisoner enter Dr. Paynter's shop and carry away the opium. He followed, overlook, and gave him into custody.
George Gannon was sworn, and stated that he kept the Commercial Hotel, in town ; he knew prisoner, and had seen him on the 17th June last, on a Saturday ; he saw a Chinaman walk into Dr. Paynter's druggist shop; it was between six and seven o'clock in the evening ; witness was standing in his house, about thirteen yards from the shop ; the China man look a ball of opium from the shelf at the front of the window ; he left the shop, and went down Quay-lane; witness followed, over took him, and took the ball of opium from his hand ; a police officer came up, and witness gave the Chinaman in charge ; witness handed the opium to Dr. Paynter ; witness marked the ball, and identified the ball produced as the opium he had handed to Dr. Paynter.
By Prisoner : It was dark in the evening when he overtook the man ; he could not swear prisoner was the man who took the opium from the shop; could not swear that the ball of opium was lost out of Dr. Paynter's shop; it was possible that the opium might have come from some place other than Dr. Paynter's.
By the Crown Prosecutor : The man whom he took into custody was the man he saw leave Dr. Paynter*s shop.
By his Honor: He lost sight of prisoner for an instant while he looked through the window to see if anyone were in charge of Dr. Paynter's shop.
Andrew Haggertv, a constable in the Rockhampton Police, deposed that he took prisoner into custody, in Little Quay-street, on the 17th June ; he was given into custody by last witness ; it was pretty dark at the time, but he could see a man at twenty yards distance; he produced the ball of opium, which he had received from Dr. Paynter ; he saw Mr. Gannon mark a ball of opium in the lock-up.
David H. Dalrymple, next sworn, deposed that he was an assistant to Dr. Paynter, chemist ; he remembered the 17th of the month, a ball of opium was then in the shop, on the ledge above the window, and near the door ; there was only one ball there at the time ; he saw the ball there about six o'clock, when he lighted the lamps in the shop ; he was, for a short time, out of the shop ; he went into a room within a few feet of the shop ; he was only away for a few minutes, and the opium was not there when he returned ; he saw a ball of opium in the hands of the con stable at the lock-up ; he saw a ball of opium in the possession of Dr. Paynter; the value of the ball missed amounted to £9; it was the property of G. W. Paynter and his brother, his partner ; he could not identify the ball, but he knew that from the time the ball was missed until prisoner's apprehension that no opium had been sold.
Andrew Haggerty, re-called, stated that Dr. Paynter did not come up to the lock-up with them ; witness received the ball from Dr. Paynter.
Robert Paynter stated that he was carrying on the business of a druggist, in partnership with his brother. George William Paynter ; on the date in question he carried on business at the corner of Quay Lane ; his brother was out of the colony.
The Crown Prosecutor here applied for the amendment of the information by the insertion in it of the words "and another, his partner." The information was thereupon amended. This closed the case for the Crown.
Prisoner stated to the jury that he had bought the opium in Brisbane, from a German, and was passing Dr. Paynter's with the opium in his hand, when Mr. Gannon rushed out after him and gave him into custody. That he had been under commitment for three months; that if he thought the case was so bad a one, he would have sent for the person from whom he bought it, but he did not know where to find the person, and consequently could not call him as a witness. He was as innocent of the charge as he could be.
His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. After an absence of a few minutes, they re turned to the jury box, with a verdict of guilty.
Prisoner still declared his innocence, and his Honor said, that taking into consideration the length of time that he had been confined, he would pass upon him a lighter sentence than he would otherwise do. Prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Rockhampton gaol for three months.

9 April 1881, Brisbane Courier, page 6:
A fire, which has brought to a complete stand still the business of two respectable citizens, oc curred here on Thursday evening last. About 9 o'clock Mr. Newth, druggist, was in his premises in East-street, and feeling not very well, was in the act of preparing a draught for himself, when he fainted. As he fell he called upon his neighbour, Mr. Lauderdale, barber, for assistance. On entering the back shop the latter found Mr. Newth lying on the floor, and the oil from the lamp which he had let fall blazing on the floor. Mr. Hannigan, tailor in Mr. Stewart's, seeing the flames, rushed in and assisted in conveying Mr. Newth to Mrs. Johnstone's boarding-house, in Denham-street. The fire meanwhile had caught the shop fittings, and the flames shot up with great rapidity. An alarm was raised, and the Fire Brigade were promptly in attendance, and prevented the con flagration from spreading to the contiguous business premises. They had some difficulty in doing so, however, as they could only play upon the premises from the front. The tenement on which the flames had caught was a one-story wooden one with a frontage of about 40ft., and corrugated iron roof. It was divided by a thin wooden partition into two shops, one occupied by Mr. Newth and the other by Mr. Lauderdale, barber. On one side of it were the premises of Mr. Stewart, draper, one story, with peaked brick gable ; and on the other a two story brick building occupied by Mr. Paynter, druggist, the owner, and Mr. Munro, book-seller. The firemen could not play upon the flames from the back yard, and had it not been for a small hose from the Bulletin office, another in Mr. Paynter's, and a small curricle pump, the adjoining premises might have been set on fire by the burning of some outhouses. Fortunately the fire was kept from spreading, but the premises in which it originated, with the contente, were completely destroyed. Mr. Newth did not save his books, and it is thought will be unable to fulfil contracts he had with up-country hospitals. His stock was insured in three offices for £1700. Tho shop belonged to Mr. D'Arcy, and was insured for £400.

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Rockhampton Bulletin, 8 November 1864:
THE LATE CASE OF POISONING.
THE District Coroner, on the 5th instant (Saturday last), held an inquest upon the remains of David Robinson, who died at the Rockhampton Hotel, onthe 4th. The evidence adduced was as follows:

George Beer, being sworn, stated - I am a shoemaker, residing in Rockhampton; 1 have known the deceased David Robinson for the last four years;deceased was a shoemaker, and had been in my employment for the last eight or nine months; deceased was of rather intemperate habits, but bas beensteady for some weeks past until the last few days; deceased was drinking during Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, but was so sober during Wednesday andThursday that he attended the court during those days¡ yesterday deceased was drinking, but was not drunk; I saw him frequently yesterday; he was invery low spirits in consequence of losing a case at court, and talked frequently of it; I saw him about fifteen minutes before the time at which hemust have taken the poison: deceased was almost mad during his fits of intemperance, and some months ago I heard him threaten to drown himself; Idid not hear him say anything about committing suicide yesterday; the last time that I saw him in his usual health he was at my shop, inEast-street, about 6 80 p.m., on the 4th instant; one of the men in my employment (George Blutcher) brought me word about half-an-hour afterwardsthat Robinson had taken poison, and was lying at Skardon's; I went there immediately, to Skardon's, and saw the deceased lying on the verandah,moaning; I asked him what he had done, he said he had bought a shilling's worth of strychnine, at Paynter's, and had taken it; he bid me "Good- bye"and "God bless you"; I did not stop a minute but ran away for a doctor; on my return I found Drs. Robertson and Thon attending upon him; when Ifirst saw him he was evidently in great pain, and clenched his hands tightly, and rolled about very much; on my return he was exclaiming, "My God,my God," but would not answer any questions; the last words I heard him say were, "Oh, my poor wife and three children"; I never knew before that hewas married; I have before asked him was he married, but he said he was a single man; when I saw him again after my return, he was evidently ingreat pain, but I did not think be was dying, nor did I think he had taken poison; even the doctors who were attending him did not think so ; theygave him emetics, which did not act; they then applied the galvanic battery and inapisms [powerful stimulants] along the spine; he did not have morethan ten minutes after this time; 1 think he was not alive longer than half an hour after the news was brought to me that he had taken poison.

By the Foreman: I have heard that he had a fall from his horse some years ago, and that he had suffered from some injury of the brain; I have heardthat he suffered some family bereavements within the last six months which affected him very much; a small quantity of drink effected him very much;I do not know what time elapsed from the period at which he had taken the poison until be was visited by a medical man.
Charles Day Skardon, being duly sworn, stated: I reside at the Rockhampton Hotel; I have known the deceased for about twelve months, during whichtime I have had frequent opportunities of observing his habits; I have seen him drunk several times, and for some days together, but on the whole Ido not consider him a man of intemperate habit; I do not think he was an excitable man, but a very smail quantity of drink made him drunk; I did notsee deceased all day yesterday until about seven o'clock p.m; at this time I heard some noise in the front of the hotel, and when going out to seewhat was the cause of it, I found deceased Iying on the ground groaning and exclaiming that he was dying - that he had taken poison, a doctor hadbeen sent for at this time; Dr. Thona arrived, and deceased was carried into the room; Dr. Robertson arrived shortly after, I saw a battery appliedto deceased, and something given him, which I believe was an emetic; he was attended by these gentlemen until his death, which took place at fiveminutes to eight; I did not hear him say why he had taken the poison; deceased said he had taken strychnine, which he had purchased at Paynter's.

A. C. Robertson, being sworn, stated: I was called yesterday evening, between seven and eight p.m., to see a man who had taken poison; I immediatelywrote a prescription for two emetics, and dispatched the messenger for them; I then went to see the patient; on my arrival I found Dr. Thon hadadministered emetics, which had produced no effect; I mixed two together and administered them, without producing any effect; we applied thegalvanic battery to the chest and spine; we also applied mustard poultice to the chest, spine, and abdomen; the patient expired a few minutes beforeeight o'clock; deceased did not exhibit any of the symptoms of strychnine until about ten minutes before his death, but the patient was treated asif he had taken that poison; I cannot say positively that strychnine was the cause of death.

Robert Paynter, being duly sworn, stated: I am managing the. business of my brother as chemist and druggist; I have served my time with my brotherfor two years and a half as chemist and druggist, but have not passed the Brisbane Board yet: yesterday, about twilight, a man came into the shopand purchased some strychnine; he purchased it from my assistant, who asked the questions necessary on the sale of poisons; I have seen the body ofthe deceased, and identify it as that of the person who purchased the poison from my assistant yesterday; I understand the ten grains was thequantity given by my assistant to the deceased; I have seen the deceased several times before; we do not usually sell poisons to any one who may askfor it; I think that necessary precautions were taken in this case before giving the poison to the deceased; I asked deceased what he wanted withstrychnine; he said, "it was to poison rats"; I cautioned him that it was very dangerous to use; I thought that he was perfectly sound in his mind,and that he would not make a bad use of it; I believe there is some law in force in the colony to regulate the sale of poisons, but I do not knowwhat is the law of the matter; I have not got a copy of the Queensland or any other acts touching the sale of poisons. By the jury: I am not aqualified chemist and druggist; I saw the money on the counter which was, Ï believe, paid by the deceased; ten grains is the quantity usually givenfor one shilling; deceased did not appear excited, but answered every question in a straightforward mannner.

David Hay Dalrymple being duly sworn, stated: I am assistant to Mr. Paynter, at his druggist and chemist's shop, in Denham-street, Rockhampton; 1have no qualification; about half-past six p.m, yesterday, a man who I know by sight came into Dr. Paynter's shop, and said "I want a shilling'sworth of strychnine, it is a quarter of an ounce for a shilling, isn't it?" I said, "you can't have the strychnine, and you'll not get a quarter ofan ounce for a shilling;" he replied "It is not for me, it is for Mr. Beer the shoemaker" I asked what he wanted it for; deceased said to kill rats;I then weighed ten grains of strychnine, and he said it was very dear, and that he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney; whenlooking at the quantity he said, "You had better give me two shilling worth"; I said no, that is quite enough at a time; I then put it up in aparcel, and labelled it "POISON"; deceased said when he asked for the two shillings worth that he had four pieces of bread to spread it on, and thathe thought one shilling's worth not enough; after making up the parcel, I asked him where he was going to put the strychnine; deceased replied underthe verandah; I gave deceased the parcel, cautioning him to take care of it; deceased said he would and left. I have seen the body in thedead-house, and identify it as that of the person to whom I sold the strychnine yesterday; we do not usually sell strychnine to any one that may askfor it, but we sell it to persons whom we know.

By the Jury: Deceased said he had used it before, but I never sold any to him; deceased seemed quite collected, and laughed-when I told him I didnot believe he could get it for fourteen shillings an ounce in Sydney.

The jury, after this evidence had been submitted, returned a verdict - "That the deceased came to his death by taking strychnine, administered byhis own hands, whilst labouring under a fit of "temporary insanity"., Chemist and Druggist

Court case
Rockhampton Bulletin:
LARCENY.
Fong Hong, a Chinaman, was indicted that he did, on the 17th June, 1865, feloniously take and carry away, one ball of opium, the property of G. W.Paynter.
H. Dean, Chinese interpreter, having been sworn, prisoner pleaded not guilty. A jury was empanelled, prisoner, through the interpreter, havingpreviously challenged four of them. Tho Crown Prosecutor, in opening the case, stated that it was one of simple larceny. On the date mentioned inthe indictment Mr. Gannon, a publican, saw prisoner enter Dr. Paynter's shop and carry away the opium. He followed, overlook, and gave him intocustody.
George Gannon was sworn, and stated that he kept the Commercial Hotel, in town; he knew prisoner, and had seen him on the 17th June last, on aSaturday ; he saw a Chinaman walk into Dr. Paynter's druggist | shop; it was between six and seven o'clock in the evening; witness was standing inhis house, about thirteen yards from the shop; the Chinaman look a ball of opium from the shelf at the front of the window; he left, the shop, andwent down Quay lane; witness followed, overtook him, and took the ball of opium from his hand; a police officer came up, and witness gave theChinaman in charge; witness handed the opium to Dr. Paynter; witness marked the ball, and identified the ball produced as the opium he had handed toDr. Paynter.
By Prisoner: It was dark on the evening when he overtook the man; he could not swear prisoner was the man who took the opium from the shop; couldnot swear that the ball of opium was lost out of Dr. Paynter's shop; it was possible that the opium might have come from some place other than Dr.Paynter's.
By the Crown Prosecutor: The man whom he took into custody was the man he saw leave Dr. Paynter*s shop.
By his Honor: He lost sight of prisoner for an instant while he looked through the window to see if anyone were in charge of Dr. Paynter's shop.
Andrew Haggertv, a constable in tho Rockhampton Police, deposed that he took prisoner into custody, in Little Quay-street, on the 17th June; he wasgiven into custody by last witness; it was pretty dark at the time, but be could see a man at twenty yards distance; he produced the ball of opium,which he had received from Dr. Paynter; he saw Mr. Gannon mark a ball of opium in the lock-up.
David H. Dalrymple, next sworn, deposed that he was an assistant to Dr. Paynter, chemist; he remembered the 17th of the month, a ball of opium wasthen in the shop, on the ledge above the window, and near the door; there was only one ball there at tho time ; he saw the ball there about sixo'clock, when he lighted the lamps in the shop ; he was, for a short time, out of the shop; he went into a room within a few feet of the shop; hewas only away for a few minutes, and the opium was not there when he returned; be saw a ball of opium in the hands of the constable at the lock-up;he saw a ball of opium in the possession of Dr. Paynter; tho value of the ball missed amounted to £9; it was the property of G. W. Paynter and hisbrother, his partner; he could not identify the ball, but he knew that from the time the ball was missed until prisoner's apprehension that no opiumhad been sold.
Andrew Haggerty, re-called, stated that Dr. Paynter did not come up to the lock-up with them; witness received the ball from Dr. Paynter.
Robert Paynter stated that he was carrying on the business of a druggist, in partnership with his brother. George William Paynter; on the date inquestion he carried on business at the corner of Quay Lane; his brother was out of the colony.
The Crown Prosecutor here applied for the amendment of the information by the insertion in it of the words "and another, his partner." Theinformation was thereupon amended. This closed the case for the Crown.
Prisoner stated to the jury that he had bought the opium in Brisbane, from a German, and was passing Dr. Paynter's with the opium in his hand, whenMr. Gannon rushed out after him and gave him into custody. That he had been under commitment for three months; that if he thought the case was sobad a one, he would hare sent for the person from whom he bought it, but he did not know where to find the person, and consequently could not callhim as a witness. He was as innocent of the charge as he could be.
His Honor summed up, and the jury retired. After an absence of a few minutes, they returned to the jury box, with a verdict of guilty. Prisonerstill declared his innocence, and his Honor said, that taking into consideration the length of time that he had been confined, he would pass uponhim a lighter sentence than he would otherwise do. Prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour in Rockhampton gaol for threemonths.

*New [PROP]
Robert ran the Solitude property from March 1850 to August 1858. Solitude covers a large area including Woori Yallock, Launching Place, YarraJunction, Yellingbo, Hoddles Creek and Gladysdale. He was only 22 years of age when he took over the lease.

Pastoral Pioneers of Port Phillip:
"Solitude", W.P. No 39, 28,600 acres, 400 c., Yarra River at Woori Yallock Creek - October 1846, James Kavanagh [sic] and Canavan; July 1848, JamesWestwood; March 1850, R.E. Paynter; August 1858, Edward Orenshaw and William Chapman; etc.

Solitude Run was originally leased by James Kavenagh on 6 April 1848. The lease states that the general location of the property was 'On the Yarraand Wonyallick Creek'.
Argus 26 September 1848 - Claims to Leases of Crown Land Beyond the Settles Districts, Western Port District.
Cavanagh and Canavan.
Name of Run - Solitude.
estimated area - 28,600 acres.
Estimated grazing capabilities - 400 head of cattle.
Bounded on the NW by Stewart and Brierty, SW boundary on the N by the Yarra; on the E and S by dense scrub to Gardiner's Creek.
N.B. This run was transferred under the sanction of the Government to Mr. James Westwood, in whose name the lease will be accordingly prepared.

James Westwood requested on 4th January 1850 that the lease of his station may be transferred to Mr Robert Emilius Paynter of Melbourne. It wasapproved on 7th March 1850 and Robert Emilius Paynter was granted a license to depasture at Solitude.

Victorian Squatters by Robert Spreadborough:
"Solitude" gazetted October 4, 1848. Area 28,600 acres. (Licenced 12 months prior to NSW O.I.C. October 1847) James Kavenagh [sic] & Canavan
1848 July 14 James Westwood
1850 March 7 Robert Emilius Paynter
1858 August 27 Edward Orenshaw & William Chapman.

Just For Today: an historical manuscript of Yellingbo and District - Jan Miller and Isabell Buckland, 1987.
"The Solitude squatting run incorporated all of the present-day Yellingbo area, but little was used as the Yarra River flats provided a readypasture. The vast 28,600 acres took in all of the country from the Yarra to the present "Camelot Castle" [a house on the Warburton Highway]; itstretched to Hoddles Creek and almost Beenak; making the run able to carry a greater carrying capacity.
First licensed to James Kavenagh [sic] and a partner, Canavan, in 1848. Squatters were temporary people, taking advantage of the opportunity toinvest in stock, graze and abuse the land with no improvement, and then move on to another run or money-making venture. Creeks and rivers werenatural boundaries therefore there was even a need to fence.
With the coming of James Westwood one year later, an attempt was made to form a profitable squatting venture, the publican turned squatter actuallylived on his run from July 1848 until March 1850 but retained his interest in the 'old Scottish inn', a watering hole for many of Melbourne's earlyresidents.
It was Robert Emilius Paynter, however, who made the greatest impression on the land and our history, leaving us with landmarks that would remainuntil present day. Paynter built a station homestead near the junction of today's Warburton Highway and Lusatia Road. He stocked the land withcattle and also sheep [this is incorrect according to the stock assessments]. Hernshaw, his shepherd, lived in a little crude dwelling built closeto the junction of two creeks - the Woori Yallock and another which was to bear the name of Sheepstation. A humble lonely shepherd's hut musttherefore lay claim to being the first permanent building in Yellingbo., Property

Robert married Susanna PEARCE on 25 Mar 1873 in St Paul’s Temperance Church, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia. Susanna (daughter of James PEARCE and Sarah Ann SHEPHERD) was born about 1852 in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England; died on 10 Apr 1937 in 32 Woodward Av, Strathfield, New South Wales, Australia; was buried on 12 Apr 1937 in Rookwood Crematorium, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1831, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 May 1850, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Oct 1857, Mount Moriac, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Mar 1860, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Feb 1863, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Jun 1865, Mount Misery, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 14 Apr 1874, Langi Kal Kal Station, Langi Kal Kal, Victoria, Australia

Margaret married Henry Mounsteven PAYNTER on 20 Sep 1855 in Church of England, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Henry (son of Thomas Francis PAYNTER and Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN) was born about 1831 in Ferryside, Carmarthenshire, Wales; died on 26 Feb 1863 in Lake Burrumbeet, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 5 Mar 1863 in Learmonth Cemetery, Learmonth, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Margaret married Watson DOBIE on 14 Apr 1874 in Langi Kal Kal Station, Langi Kal Kal, Victoria, Australia. Watson was born in 1829 in Liverpool, Lancashire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 22 Apr 1831, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 15 Jul 1859, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Census: 1861

Notes:

Victorian Government Gazette:
List of Unclaimed Ship Letters for the week ending 15th July 1859.
Paynter, Mrs C.H.
Paynter, Caroline
Paynter, Wm.
I cannot find Caroline or her mother Fanny in the 1861 Census

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 May 1833, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Roseville Lodge, Bouet, St Peter Port, Guernsey, Channel Islands
• Arrival: 3 Sep 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Departure: 6 Oct 1849, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
• Immigration: 12 Oct 1849, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 May 1850, Little Collins St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1854, Upper Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Inquest
The Inquest was held on 31 January 1859, at the Burrumbeet Hotel. The Coroner held the inquest with a jury of twelve men, and their verdict was:
Her death took place on the twenty ninth instant at Burrumbeet and was caused by extreme haemorrhage during her confinement on same day - and we believe her life might have been saved by timely medical and surgical attendance.
There were three witnesses at the Inquest. One was Jane’s sister-in-law, Jane Paynter (married to James Camborne Paynter - brother of John Edward) who had been present through the labour, birth and death. The other two witnesses were Margaret Smart, the midwife who delivered the baby, and Dr John Creelman, who arrived half an hour after Jane had died. The writing is very hard to read but I have managed to transcribe it all.

Deposition of Margaret Smart of Burrumbeet:
I act as a maternity nurse, whenever I can get an engagement as such. I have known the deceased about a year, and she asked me a few months ago to attend upon her in confinement and I said I would give her a fair care, but if there was anything wrong I should have a doctor. I was called on Saturday last by Mr Paynter to come to the deceased who was taken bad in the forenoon. I found the deceased in labour and she told me that her waters had broken and labour pains continued, and in about half an hour after I came, the deceased was delivered of a male child. I freed the child from the mother and I gave the child to Mrs Fulton [or Hutton] and attended to the mother for about half an hour, but the afterbirth hadn't come away and I then asked Mr Paynter to get a Doctor and he asked me if there were was anything wrong and I said I thought there was not any danger as yet - but I would like her to be relieved.
Mr Paynter went away for the doctor and a short time after he left, the deceased said she had severe pains in her back but there was no bitterness. She then complained of being faint and told me she thought more was coming from her than should be and I said I thought that there was too much blood coming - but I could not do anything - but that the doctor would soon be here. The deceased had a drink of tea, hotter than lukewarm. She then said she was getting fainter - I supported her head in my arms and bathed her temples with vinegar and water, but she said she was dying and she never spoke more and died immediately after.

Evidence of Jane Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am Sister in law to the deceased - we were married to Brothers. The deceased was bad all Friday night, but not in regular labour. Labour pains commenced about eight or nine o'clock A.M. on last Saturday. We then desired her Husband to go for Mrs Fulton who was our nearest neighbour and then for Mrs Smart. Mrs Fulton came immediately after and Mrs Smart came in about half an hour after. Deceased got worse with pains and was delivered of a boy about half an hour after Mrs Smart’s arrival. Mrs Smart attended to the deceased and in about half an hour she began to get bad and the Doctor was sent for immediately. Deceased continued to get worse and worse and she died about half an hour after the doctor was sent - and the Doctor arrived in about half an hour after her death. Deceased asked me to see what was coming from her as she thought there was more than there ought to be. I did look, but could not say there was too much as I never saw such before, but there was a great deal of blood about her.

Evidence of John Creelman, Surgeon, of Lake Learmonth:
I am a legally qualified medical practitioner and was called to see the deceased about midday on last Saturday and I arrived at the deceased's hut about 1 o'clock P.M. and found the deceased had died as I heard about half an hour before I had arrived. On examination of the deceased I found that the placenta had not come away and the umbilical cord untied and lying on the thigh of the deceased. I found a great quantity of fluid and blood in the bed around the person of the deceased. There were not any coagula of blood at all that I could see, and I judged from appearances of the bed clothes and countenance and sheets that excessive haemorrhage had taken place and which was the cause of her death.

Jane married John Edward PAYNTER on 4 Dec 1854 in St John's Church of England, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. John (son of Thomas Francis PAYNTER and Mary Strange MOUNSTEVEN) was born about 1832 in Harcot (Harcourt), Feock, Cornwall, England; was buried after 9 Feb 1901 in Lake Terrace Cemetery, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Jun 1834, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Residence: Aug 1838, St Aubin, Jersey, Channel Islands

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 28 Feb 1825, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Baptism: 16 Jan 1827, St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Jan 1827, St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Creswick, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 27 Nov 1857, Mount Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 17 Nov 1862, Lake Burrumbeet, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 4 Mar 1863, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 22 Jun 1865, Mount Misery, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 25 Dec 1869, Preston Hill, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Feb 1883, Mortlake, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Wednesday 19 November 1862, page 2
THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON LAKE BURRUMBEET.
The following particulars of the accident on Lake Burrumbeet on Monday last, which caused the death of Mr J. W. R. Pringle, were obtained by our reporter, principally from Mr A. M'Laren, the other occupant of the boat when it capsized:-
On Monday morning, at about eight o'clock, Mr James Pringle and Mr Alfred M'Laren, (who had gone out to Burrumbeet on the previous day from Ballarat), embarked in a pair oar wager boat built of cedar, and purchased last season by the Regatta Club from Mr Prescott of Richmond, with the intention of proceeding across the lake and going up the Burrumbeet Creek. They first pulled in a southerly direction, until they got under cover of one of the high headlands, on the west side of the lake, and then altered their course and stood across the lake, direct for the mouth of the creek.The moment the boat got from under cover of the high land, a sudden squall took her, and she shipped three heavy waves, filled, and heeled over,Messrs Pringle and M'Laren being shot out on one side while the boat was filling. The boat then turned keel up, both gentlemen clinging to her. The water at the time was very rough, and the boat turned over repeatedly when strode by heavy seas. Mr Pringle was not able to swim, but Mr M'Laren, who is a good swimmer, got off his trousers and one of his boots, with the intention of swimming to the shore, which was nearly a mile distant, but at the earnest request of Mr Pringle, that he would not leave him, he abandoned his intention. Both then shouted loudly for some time in the hope of attracting attention, and M'Laren raised himself on the boat and waved his cap, but was unable to see the shore of the lake, which is very low opposite the spot where the accident occurred, the only object he could discover being Mr Dobson's hotel some three miles to the north. About two hours after her capsize, M'Laren again proposed to swim to the shore, and on this occasion Pringle did not oppose the proposition. M'Laren, however, had only got some twenty yards from the boat when he found that his limbs had become so much benumbed by exposure to the wet that he was quite unable to swim, and he therefore returned to the capsized boat, but had the greatest difficulty in reaching it He subsequently endeavored to propel the boat (which he had hold of by the stern), by striking out with his legs in the water behind, but without making any progress. Pringle in the meantime, who had at first exerted himself very strenuously in shouting for assistance, became very weak, and had to be repeatedly encouraged to hold on, the water all the time being very rough, and the boat frequently turning over. After they had continued some seven hours in the water,M'Laren noticed that Pringle was talking to himself, and that he was also endeavoring to get a ring off his finger; and about half past three o'clock M'Laren, on looking round to the part of the boat to which he had last seen Pringle clinging, suddenly missed him and never saw him again.He states that Pringle must have quietly slipped off the boat without a struggle, completely exhausted. The water about this time became rather smoother, and about five o'clock M'Laren was rescued by a boat under the command of Mr Benjamin Oxlade, and manned by Messrs James and Frank Paynter, two residents on the west shore of the lake, who had heard the shouting and noticed the wreck at about a quarter past four o'clock, and had immediately mounted their horses and galloped round to Mr Dobson's hotel for boats. On the arrival of Messrs Paynter at the Picnic Hotel at half-past four o'clock not a moment was lost by Mr Oxlade, who is in charge of the Regatta Club's boats, in pushing off to the rescue. He had however considerable difficulty in discovering the wreck which was only discernable a very short distance, and notwithstanding the presence in the boat of the two Messrs Paynter, who had seen the wreck from their residence, it was past five o'clock before Mr M'Laren was found and rescued. No trace whatever could be found of Mr Pringle, though the boat was turned over in the vain hope that he might be found clinging to the bottom. The place where M'Laren was found is about three quarters of a mile north-east of Mr Paynter's house, and about three miles south of the Picnic Hotel.He was very much exhausted and severely bruised about the body and legs by the rolling of the boat. M'Laren was at once conveyed to the landing place at the Regatta Club's boat house, and thence to the Picnic Hotel, where he was put to bed and carefully attended to by Mr Dobson, and Mr Oxlade was also unremitting in his attentions. Mr M'Laren, though very weak and fearfully shaken was on Tuesday morning so much better as to be able to give to our representative the particulars of this melancholy accident. During Monday night several of Mr Pringle's friends arrived at Burrumbeet, Messrs R, M'Laren and R. Davidson being among the first. At 4 a.m. a boat manned by Messrs R. M'Laren, Ahrens, Davidson, J. D. Morgan, and Oxlade, provided with drags, went off to the scene of thc accident. Senior Constable M'Hugh of Learmonth, and Mr Mather having meanwhile proceeded along the west side of the lake to Messrs Paynter's residence, for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position in which the capsized boat had first been observed on Monday afternoon. This having been accomplished, the spot pointed out was marked with a buoy, and the business of dragging commenced, three additional boats being also on the spot, all well manned, and provided with tackle. Among those present at an early hour, in addition to those already named, were Messrs M. M. Pope, M L. A., Thomas Cowan, Babbington, J. H Harris, Nettle, Dr Leman, Kelly, Carver, Forster, Whitcombe, Lewis, and others. Mr Thompson, of the Burrumbeet Hotel, sent his boat and crew at early hour on Tuesday morning to assist in the search, and every possible assistance was rendered by all residents in the vicinity. At the time of the accident Mr Pringle is said to have been dressed in a white flannel guernsey shirt and drab trousers. He also wore a straw hat, which Mr M'Laren states was blown away shortly after the boat upset.
Up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the body of the deceased had not been found, notwithstanding the exertions that had been made for its recovery. A large number of persons who had been out to assist in the search returned to Ballarat last night, many of whom will again proceed to the lake this morning, to continue their melancholy work. It is proposed to employ gunpowder today for the purpose of causing the body to float, and several fresh sets of grappling-irons have been prepared and sent out. When we consider the large extent of the lake, and the chances of the body having been moved by the agitated water, it is evident that a diligent and careful search will be required to find it.
The deceased was about thirty-four years of age and a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was the son of the Rev. Jas. Pringle who had charge of the Clavering Place Congregation of Presbyterians at that place some years ago. The late Mr Pringle came to the colony in the steam ship Great Britain about eight years since, and received the appointment of District Mining Surveyor for the Buninyong division from the old Local Court of Ballarat, which office he held up to the time of the melancholy accident which terminated his life. He was a member of the Cavalry Corps, Turf Club, Hunt Club, and a Vice President of the Regatta Club, and was ever ready to lend his support and patronage to all tangible amusements of a legitimate nature.
Mr. A. M'Laren was brought into Ballarat on Tuesday night. He appeared very weak and was almost speechless. His body was quite blue and he had to be attended by a medical man who deemed it advisable to order leeches to be applied. A few days' quiet will no doubt restore him to his usual good health and spirits.
James testified at the Inquest held at Burrumbeet on 23 November 1862:
James Paynter was a witness and testified that “I am a farmer residing in the Parish of Brewster. On Monday last about 4 o’clock afternoon, I was in my own house when I heard a cry proceeding from the direction of Burrumbeet lake. After hearing the same cries about four times, I went to the bank of the lake to ascertain where these cries came from. After looking out for a few minutes I observed something floating in the water which I discovered to be a mast head and the part of a boat. I immediately road [sic] to Dobson’s Hotel about four miles, and myself, brother and Benjamin Oxlade went out in a boat about 2 1/2 miles on the lake, where we discovered a boat bottom upwards and saw a man sitting on the end of the boat. Alfred McLaren (identified) is the person I saw. We took him into the boat and taking the other boat astern rowed ashore.
James Paynter.
Conclusion of the inquest:
His death was caused by being accidentally drowned while rowing on Lake Burrumbeet on the 17th day of November 1862 (Juryman Brock protesting against such boats crossing the Lake).
This accident is even more tragic considering James and Francis’ brother Henry was himself drowned in Lake Burrumbeet on 26 February 1863, only three months later.

Inquest into drawing of Henry Mounsteven Paynter, 4 March 1863
The Inquest was held by Dr John Creelman, Coroner, and a jury of twelve men on day that Henry’s body was found, which was six days after he disappeared. The only two deponents or witnesses were Henry’s brother, James Camborne Paynter, and his cousin, James Edward Paynter.
Examination of James Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am a farmer residing at Lake Burrumbeet and brother of deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went to the residence of deceased and learned that he had gone over in a boat to my place across Lake Burrumbeet.
On looking over the Lake Burrumbeet I saw the boat deceased went out in about ¼ of a mile from land.
I then went to help a neighbour named Usher to get out his boat as he was going to the boat race that day. I was occupied with Usher for about 2 hours and kept looking out towards the boat the deceased was in to see how it was going on. I could observe there was a reef in the mainsail and she seemed to be going on all right. The last time I saw the aforesaid boat she appeared to me to be nearly across the lake and on looking again I could not see her. I thought at first that she had ran in towards the land at my residence.
I then went across the Lake Burrumbeet towards my residence with Usher in his boat, and as we could not see any thing of the aforesaid boat I felt uneasy and went to my place, where I ascertained that deceased had not been there that day. When I found deceased was not there, I sailed across to the Pic Nic Hotel across the Lake but found he was not there.
Myself, Usher and my brother Francis, then sailed towards Pic Nic Point, when about ¼ of a mile from that point, we saw a boat bottom upwards. Having no oars we put back to get them. Myself and James Edward Paynter the persons aforesaid went to Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, got a boat from him and went onto the Lake Burrumbeet and fetched the boat in to land, bottom upwards. We found on examining the boat both gunwales were broken. The masts, sails and rudder were gone. The two oars were in the boat.
I have seen the body of deceased and recognise that to be the body of my brother.


INQUEST into Death of Francis Paynter, 22 June 1865
Inquiry into the Death of Francis Paynter, held near Mount Misery on 22nd day of June 1865 before Frederick Roper Portman, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony:
James Paynter on his oath saith:
"The body shown is that of my brother Francis Paynter aged 28 years. Yesterday the 21st June just before sundown I was with deceased having come up to see our sister-in-law. We brought two rifles. Deceased and myself had been down to the lagoon and shot two ducks. We then brought up the waggon, laying the two rifles in the middle - both rifles were loaded with a single ball each. We came into the hut to have a drink of tea and to put the women and children in to go home.
Deceased had gone to the waggon and put his wife and child on the waggon. He had taken off his rifle and laid it on the grass. I went to the waggon to take off my rifle. Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon. I reached over to take my rifle off and it went off shooting deceased. I saw deceased turn round. He said ok Jim? "I am shot” or “you have shot me". I looked at deceased. I helped deceased in and laid him down and sent for the doctor.
I was with deceased till he died, which took place at about 2 o'clock this morning. Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault."
Lachlan Robertson on his oath saith:
"I was present yesterday the 21st June when deceased was shot. I saw deceased go out and put his wife in the waggon. The last witness went out also. I heard the report of a gun and turning round saw deceased down. We took a horse out of the waggon and I went for the Doctor. I was with deceased when he died, which took place about half past 2 o'clock in the morning in the presence of Dr Johnston."
James Johnston on his oath saith:
"I am a legally qualified medical practitioner. yesterday the 21st I was fetched to see the deceased and arrived at half past 6 o'clock. I found deceased bleeding severely from a wound in the front of the right side of the abdomen. The wound was large and jagged with a portion of the abdomen protruding.
Dark blood flowed very freely. There was also a small wound in the back - triangular - as from a ball. It appeared as if the ball had entered before and come out behind. I applied the usual remedies. Deceased was very weak from loss of blood and died about 2 and a half o'clock this morning. Deceased was friendly with all about him and attributed the wound to accident.
I attribute deceased's death to internal haemorrhage."
The Ballarat Star, Monday June 26, 1865:
A magisterial inquiry was held before Mr F R Pohlman on Thursday, 22nd June, near Mount Misery, touching the death of Francis Paynter, who died from internal haemorrhage, the effects of a bullet, accidentally shot by his brother James Paynter, going through his body.
James Paynter deposed that the body shown him was that of his brother Francis Paynter, aged twenty-eight years.
On the previous day they had been shooting on the lagoon and shot some ducks. They had a waggon with them which they brought up to the hut where we left their wives and children. The brothers laid their loaded rifles in the waggon, each rifle having a single ball.
Deceased went to the waggon, put his wife and child in, and took out his rifle, which he laid on the grass. Witness then went to the waggon.Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon, and reached over to take witness's wife off, whereupon the rifle went off, shooting deceased, who exclaimed"I am shot" or "You have shot me".
Witness assisted deceased into the hut and sent for a doctor. Witness was present with deceased till his death, which took place about two o'clock next morning.
Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault.
Lachlan Robertson deposed that he was present when deceased was shot and saw him go out and put his wife on the waggon. The last witness went out also. Witness heard the report of the gun, and running round saw deceased on the ground.
Witness and deceased's brother took a horse out of the waggon and sent for the doctor.
Witness was with deceased when he died. Dr Johnstone tendered the medical evidence. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts of the case.

James married Jane CRAWLEY on 27 Nov 1857 in Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Jane was born about 1838 in Hertford, Hertfordshire, England; died on 30 Sep 1899 in Framlingham, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 2 Oct 1899 in Ellerslie Cemetery, Ellerslie, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 30 Mar 1829, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Newquay, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 28 Dec 1853, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 27 Nov 1857, Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia

Mary married Francis Collins FORD on 28 Dec 1853 in Free Church of Scotland Manse, Swanston St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Francis (son of Anthony FORD and Maria UNKNOWN) was born about 1826 in London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Apr 1831, St Ishmael, Carmarthenshire, Wales
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 11 Oct 1857, Mount Moriac, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Mar 1860, Duneed, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Death
Henry died at age 33 from "drowning in Lake Burrumbeet".

Henry came to an untimely end as the result of an accident. He went sailing one Thursday morning to pay a visit to his brother, James, who lived on the other side of Lake Burrumbeet. Some other sailing boats noticed the upturned boat in the afternoon. His body was later found and an inquest was held.

The Star (Ballarat) Friday, February 27, 1863:
Another sad accident, resulting in the loss of the life of one of the Bros. Paynter, occurred on Lake Burrumbeet, on Thursday morning. It seems that Mr Paynter, who is a farmer in the locality, took the sailing boat "Vivid", belonging to Mr Miller, of the Burrumbeet Hotel, for the purpose of paying a visit to his brother, who resides on the opposite side of the lake. Nothing further was heard from him until about half past three o'clock yesterday afternoon, when three boats started for the sailing match announced to come off. Mr Usher, the occupant of one of the boats, was the first to observe the “Vivid”, in which Mr Paynter had started early in the morning, turned keel upwards, and, suspecting that an accident had occurred, he and the other persons engaged in the match, made all sail for the capsized boat, but could discover no trace of Mr Paynter. This circumstance, combined with the squally state of the weather, put an end to the match, and after some difficulty the various boats were got alongside the jetty, when inquiries were made for Mr Paynter at his brother's house, and it was found that he had not been there; so that there can be no doubt that he has been drowned. The rowing matches, and other aquatic sports of course, under the melancholy circumstances, did not take place. Search will be made this day for the body of the deceased, who was much respected in the neighbourhood.

Inquest, 4 March 1863
The Inquest was held by Dr John Creelman, Coroner, and a jury of twelve men on day that Henry’s body was found, which was six days after he disappeared. The only two deponents or witnesses were Henry’s brother, James Camborne Paynter, and his cousin, James Edward Paynter.
Examination of James Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am a farmer residing at Lake Burrumbeet and brother of deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went to the residence of deceased and learned that he had gone over in a boat to my place across Lake Burrumbeet.
On looking over the Lake Burrumbeet I saw the boat deceased went out in about ¼ of a mile from land.
I then went to help a neighbour named Usher to get out his boat as he was going to the boat race that day. I was occupied with Usher for about 2 hours and kept looking out towards the boat the deceased was in to see how it was going on. I could observe there was a reef in the mainsail and she seemed to be going on all right. The last time I saw the aforesaid boat she appeared to me to be nearly across the lake and on looking again I could not see her. I thought at first that she had ran in towards the land at my residence.
I then went across the Lake Burrumbeet towards my residence with Usher in his boat, and as we could not see any thing of the aforesaid boat I felt uneasy and went to my place, where I ascertained that deceased had not been there that day. When I found deceased was not there, I sailed across to the Pic Nic Hotel across the Lake but found he was not there.
Myself, Usher and my brother Francis, then sailed towards Pic Nic Point, when about ¼ of a mile from that point, we saw a boat bottom upwards. Having no oars we put back to get them. Myself and James Edward Paynter the persons aforesaid went to Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, got a boat from him and went onto the Lake Burrumbeet and fetched the boat in to land, bottom upwards. We found on examining the boat both gunwales were broken. The masts, sails and rudder were gone. The two oars were in the boat.
I have seen the body of deceased and recognise that to be the body of my brother.

Evidence of James Edward Paynter of Burrumbeet:
I am a labourer residing at Burrumbeet and a cousin of deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went down to Lake Burrumbeet about 8 of the clock in the morning, when I saw deceased go out in a boat by himself, which he had got from Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, to visit his brother who lives at the other side of the Lake. Deceased appeared to be [in] good health when he started.
The boat is generally termed a small gig boat, capable of holding 7 persons. It appeared in good condition on starting. It was rigged with a jib, mainsail and jigspar.
After she sailed I went up to the hut of the deceased about 400 yards from the edge of the Lake, where I remained for a few minutes, and then went down to the watering place of the Lake. I saw the boat. The deceased was in it and I thought all was right. In the afternoon of the same day between two and three of the clock, I went down to that part of the Lake Burrumbeet where a boat race was to take place that day. I found that the boat deceased went out in was not there. I then came back to see if the deceased had returned and found that he had not. Shortly afterwards I met two brothers of deceased named James and Francis Paynter, who told me they had seen the boat deceased went out in, bottom upwards in Lake Burrumbeet.
In company with James and Francis Paynter I got a boat and went in to the Lake Burrumbeet and brought the boat which was bottom upwards on shore.
On the evening of the same day I found the rudder washed on shore. I found the masts and sails of the boat were gone and both gunwales were broken.There were two oars at the bottom of the boat and some loose boards. I have been searching for the body daily since the occurrence took place. I was walking round the corner of the Lake Burrumbeet this morning. I saw a dead body floating on the water back upwards about a yard from the land. I have seen the body this day and identify it to be the body of Henry Paynter.
It was blowing a very stiff breeze at the time deceased went out in the boat. He had on a shirt, trousers, shoes, sou’wester hat and a bit of flannel round his neck. When I found deceased this morning he had on trousers, waistbelt and flannel round his neck that he had on went he went out, but the shirt and boots and hat were missing.
The verdict of the Coroner: The Deceased Henry Paynter was Found Dead in Lake Burrumbeet on the 4th March 1863 and that his death was caused by drowning on the 26th February last.?1



1 VPRS 24, P0, Unit 124, Item 1863/202. Public Record Office of Victoria.

Henry married Margaret Pender PAYNTER on 20 Sep 1855 in Church of England, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia. Margaret (daughter of Charles Henry PAYNTER and Fanny PETER) was born about 1830 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England; died on 29 Jan 1881 in Bradshaw St, Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 31 Jan 1881 in Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 May 1833, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1854, Upper Yarra, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Nov 1855, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1856, Duneed, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 28 Jan 1859, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 13 Feb 1859, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Nov 1860, Lochiel, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1864, Ledcourt Station, Stawell (Pleasant Creek), Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1866, Mount Gambier, South Australia, Australia

John married Jane Adelaide PAYNTER on 4 Dec 1854 in St John's Church of England, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia. Jane (daughter of Charles Henry PAYNTER and Fanny PETER) was born about 1833 in Church Town, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England; died on 29 Jan 1859 in Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 1 Feb 1859 in Ballarat Old Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Margaret MCKENZIE on 22 Nov 1860 in Lochiel, Victoria, Australia. Margaret (daughter of Donald MCKENZIE and Christine MCKENZIE) was born about 1822 in Argyleshire, Scotland; died on 8 Jun 1867 in Stawell (Pleasant Creek), Victoria, Australia; was buried on 9 Jun 1867 in Stawell Cemetery (Pleasant Creek Cemetery), Stawell, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 16 Sep 1835, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Jan 1838, Feock, Cornwall, England
• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Mylor Downs, Mylor, Cornwall, England
• Immigration: 14 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 6 Mar 1863, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 27 Jun 1863, Lake Burrumbeet, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 26 Sep 1863, Lake Burrumbeet, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 31 Mar 1864, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 22 Jun 1865, Burrumbeet, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

The Star (Ballarat, Vic. : 1855 - 1864), Wednesday 19 November 1862, page 2
THE FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT ON LAKE BURRUMBEET.
The following particulars of the accident on Lake Burrumbeet on Monday last, which caused the death of Mr J. W. R. Pringle, were obtained by our reporter, principally from Mr A. M'Laren, the other occupant of the boat when it capsized:-
On Monday morning, at about eight o'clock, Mr James Pringle and Mr Alfred M'Laren, (who had gone out to Burrumbeet on the previous day from Ballarat), embarked in a pair oar wager boat built of cedar, and purchased last season by the Regatta Club from Mr Prescott of Richmond, with the intention of proceeding across the lake and going up the Burrumbeet Creek. They first pulled in a southerly direction, until they got under cover of one of the high headlands, on the west side of the lake, and then altered their course and stood across the lake, direct for the mouth of the creek.The moment the boat got from under cover of the high land, a sudden squall took her, and she shipped three heavy waves, filled, and heeled over,Messrs Pringle and M'Laren being shot out on one side while the boat was filling. The boat then turned keel up, both gentlemen clinging to her. The water at the time was very rough, and the boat turned over repeatedly when strode by heavy seas. Mr Pringle was not able to swim, but Mr M'Laren, who is a good swimmer, got off his trousers and one of his boots, with the intention of swimming to the shore, which was nearly a mile distant, but at the earnest request of Mr Pringle, that he would not leave him, he abandoned his intention. Both then shouted loudly for some time in the hope of attracting attention, and M'Laren raised himself on the boat and waved his cap, but was unable to see the shore of the lake, which is very low opposite the spot where the accident occurred, the only object he could discover being Mr Dobson's hotel some three miles to the north. About two hours after her capsize, M'Laren again proposed to swim to the shore, and on this occasion Pringle did not oppose the proposition. M'Laren, however, had only got some twenty yards from the boat when he found that his limbs had become so much benumbed by exposure to the wet that he was quite unable to swim, and he therefore returned to the capsized boat, but had the greatest difficulty in reaching it He subsequently endeavored to propel the boat (which he had hold of by the stern), by striking out with his legs in the water behind, but without making any progress. Pringle in the meantime, who had at first exerted himself very strenuously in shouting for assistance, became very weak, and had to be repeatedly encouraged to hold on, the water all the time being very rough, and the boat frequently turning over. After they had continued some seven hours in the water, M'Laren noticed that Pringle was talking to himself, and that he was also endeavoring to get a ring off his finger; and about half past three o'clock M'Laren, on looking round to the part of the boat to which he had last seen Pringle clinging, suddenly missed him and never saw him again.He states that Pringle must have quietly slipped off the boat without a struggle, completely exhausted. The water about this time became rather smoother, and about five o'clock M'Laren was rescued by a boat under the command of Mr Benjamin Oxlade, and manned by Messrs James and FrankPaynter, two residents on the west shore of the lake, who had heard the shouting and noticed the wreck at about a quarter past four o'clock, and had immediately mounted their horses and galloped round to Mr Dobson's hotel for boats. On the arrival of Messrs Paynter at the Picnic Hotel at half-past four o'clock not a moment was lost by Mr Oxlade, who is in charge of the Regatta Club's boats, in pushing off to the rescue. He had however considerable difficulty in discovering the wreck which was only discernable a very short distance, and notwithstanding the presence in the boat of the two Messrs Paynter, who had seen the wreck from their residence, it was past five o'clock before Mr M'Laren was found and rescued. No trace whatever could be found of Mr Pringle, though the boat was turned over in the vain hope that he might be found clinging to the bottom. The place where M'Laren was found is about three quarters of a mile north-east of Mr Paynter's house, and about three miles south of the Picnic Hotel. He was very much exhausted and severely bruised about the body and legs by the rolling of the boat. M'Laren was at once conveyed to the landing place at the Regatta Club's boat house, and thence to the Picnic Hotel, where he was put to bed and carefully attended to by Mr Dobson, and Mr Oxlade was also unremitting in his attentions. Mr M'Laren, though very weak and fearfully shaken was on Tuesday morning so much better as to be able to give to our representative the particulars of this melancholy accident. During Monday night several of Mr Pringle's friends arrived at Burrumbeet, Messrs R, M'Laren and R. Davidson being among the first. At 4 a.m. a boat manned by Messrs R. M'Laren, Ahrens, Davidson, J. D. Morgan, and Oxlade, provided with drags, went off to the scene of the accident. Senior Constable M'Hugh of Learmonth, and Mr Mather having meanwhile proceeded along the west side of the lake to Messrs Paynter's residence, for the purpose of ascertaining the exact position in which the capsized boat had first been observed on Monday afternoon. This having been accomplished, the spot pointed out was marked with a buoy, and the business of dragging commenced, three additional boats being also on the spot, all well manned, and provided with tackle. Among those present at an early hour, in addition to those already named, were Messrs M. M. Pope, M L. A., Thomas Cowan, Babbington, J. H Harris, Nettle, Dr Leman, Kelly, Carver, Forster, Whitcombe, Lewis, and others. Mr Thompson, of the Burrumbeet Hotel, sent his boat and crew at early hour on Tuesday morning to assist in the search, and every possible assistance was rendered by all residents in the vicinity. At the time of the accident Mr Pringle is said to have been dressed in a white flannel guernsey shirt and drab trousers. He also wore a straw hat, which Mr M'Laren states was blown away shortly after the boat upset.
Up to a late hour yesterday afternoon the body of the deceased had not been found, notwithstanding the exertions that had been made for its recovery. A large number of persons who had been out to assist in the search returned to Ballarat last night, many of whom will again proceed to thel ake this morning, to continue their melancholy work. It is proposed to employ gunpowder today for the purpose of causing the body to float, and several fresh sets of grappling-irons have been prepared and sent out. When we consider the large extent of the lake, and the chances of the body having been moved by the agitated water, it is evident that a diligent and careful search will be required to find it.
The deceased was about thirty-four years of age and a native of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was the son of the Rev. Jas. Pringle who had charge of the Clavering Place Congregation of Presbyterians at that place some years ago. The late Mr Pringle came to the colony in the steam ship Great Britain about eight years since, and received the appointment of District Mining Surveyor for the Buninyong division from the old Local Court of Ballarat, which office he held up to the time of the melancholy accident which terminated his life. He was a member of the Cavalry Corps, Turf Club, HuntClub, and a Vice President of the Regatta Club, and was ever ready to lend his support and patronage to all tangible amusements of a legitimate nature.
Mr. A. M'Laren was brought into Ballarat on Tuesday night. He appeared very weak and was almost speechless. His body was quite blue and he had to be attended by a medical man who deemed it advisable to order leeches to be applied. A few days' quiet will no doubt restore him to his usual good health and spirits.
Inquest held at Burrumbeet on 23 November 1862.
James Paynter was a witness and testified that “I am a farmer residing in the Parish of Brewster. On Monday last about 4 o’clock afternoon, I was in my own house when I heard a cry proceeding from the direction of Burrumbeet lake. After hearing the same cries about four times, I went to the beach of the lake to ascertain where the cries came from. After looking out for a few minutes I observed something floating in the water which I discovered to be a mast head and the part of a boat. I immediately road [sic] to Dobson’s Hotel about four miles, and myself, brother and Benjamin Oxlade went out in a boat about 2 1/2 miles on the lake, where we discovered a boat bottom upwards and saw a man sitting on the end of the boat. Alfred McLaren (identified) is the person I saw. We took him into the boat and taking the other boat astern rowed ashore.
James Paynter.
Conclusion of the inquest:
His death was caused by being accidentally drowned while rowing on Lake Burrumbeet on the 17th day of November 1862 (Juryman Brock protesting against such boats crossing the Lake).
This accident is even more tragic considering James and Francis’ brother Henry was himself drowned in Lake Burrumbeet on 26 February 1863, only three months later.

INQUEST into Death of Henry Paynter, 6 March 1863
Inquest was held by Dr John Creelman, Coroner and a jury of 12 men (the same day the body was found, 6 days after he disappeared).
The verdict was " the deceased Henry Paynter was found dead on the 4th March 1863 and that his death was caused by drowning on 26th February last.
Evidence of James Paynter:
"I am a farmer residing at Lake Burrumbeet and brother of the deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went to the residence of deceased and learned that he had gone over in a boat to my place across Lake Burrumbeet.
On looking over the Lake Burrumbeet I saw the boat deceased went out in about half a mile from land. I then went to help a neighbour named Usher to get out his boat as he was going to the boat race that day. I was occupied with Usher for about 2 hours and kept looking out towards the boat the deceased was in to see how it was going on. I could observe there was a reef in the mainsail and she seemed to be going all right.
The last time I saw the aforesaid boat she appeared to me to be nearly across the lake and on looking again I could not see her. I thought at first that she had run in towards the land at my residence. I then went across the Lake Burrumbeet towards my residence with Usher in his boat and as we could not see any thing of the aforesaid boat. I felt uneasy and went to my place, where I ascertained that deceased had not been there that day. When I found deceased was not there, I sailed across to the Picnic Hotel across the Lake but found he was not there.
myself, Usher and my brother Francis, then sailed towards Picnic Point, when about 1/4 of a mile from that point, we saw a boat bottom upwards. Having no oars we put back to get them.
Myself and the persons aforesaid went to Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, got a boat from him and went on the Lake Burrumbeet and fetched the boat in to land, bottom upwards. We found on looking that both gunwales were broken. The masts, sails and rudder were gone. The two oars were in the boat.
I have seen the body of deceased and recognise that to be the body of my brother."
Evidence of James Edward Paynter:
"I am a labourer and a cousin of the deceased. I remember the 26th day of February last. I went down to Lake Burrumbeet about 8 of the clock in the morning, when I saw deceased go out in a boat by himself, which he had got from Mr Miller of the Burrumbeet Hotel, to visit his brother who lives at the other side of the Lake. Deceased appeared to be in good health when he started.
The boat is generally termed a small gig boat, capable of holding 7 persons. It appeared in good condition on starting. It was rigged with a jig, mainsail and 7 ?
After she sailed I went up to the hut of the deceased about 400 yards from the edge of the Lake, where I remained for a few minutes, and then went down to the watering place of the Lake. I saw the boat the deceased was in and thought all was right. In the afternoon of the same day between two and three of the clock, I went down to that part of the Lake Burrumbeet where a boat race was to take place that day. I found that the boat deceased went out in was not there. I then came back to see if the deceased had returned and found that he had not. Shortly afterwards I met two brothers of deceased named James and Francis Paynter, who told me they had seen the boat deceased went out in, bottom upwards in Lake Burrumbeet.
In company with James and Francis Paynter I got a boat and went in to the Lake Burrumbeet and brought the boat upwards on shore.
On the evening of the same day I found the rudder washed on shore, I found the masts and sails of the boat were gone and both gunwales were broken.There were two oars at the bottom of the boat and some loose boards.
I have been searching for the body daily since the accident took place. I was walking round the corner of the Lake Burrumbeet this morning. I saw a dead body floating in the water back upwards about a yard from the land. I have seen the body this day and identify it to be the body of Henry Paynter.
It was blowing a very stiff breeze at the time deceased went out in the boat. He had on a shirt, trousers, shoes, sou’wester hat and a bit of flannel round his neck. When I found deceased this morning he had on trousers, waist belt and flannel round his neck that he had on went he went out, but the shirt and boots and hat were missing."

INQUEST into Death of Francis Paynter, 22 June 1865
Inquiry into the Death of Francis Paynter, held near Mount Misery on 22nd day of June 1865 before Frederick Roper Portman, one of Her Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the said Colony:
James Paynter on his oath saith:
"The body shown is that of my brother Francis Paynter aged 28 years. Yesterday the 21st June just before sundown I was with deceased having come up to see our sister-in-law. We brought two rifles. Deceased and myself had been down to the lagoon and shot two ducks. We then brought up the waggon, laying the two rifles in the middle - both rifles were loaded with a single ball each. We came up to the hut to have a drink of tea and to put the women and children in to go home.
Deceased had gone to the waggon and put his wife and child on the waggon. He had taken off his rifle and laid it on the grass. I went to the waggon to take off my rifle. Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon. I reached over to take my rifle off and it went off shooting deceased. I saw deceased turn round. He said ok Jim? "I am shot” or “you have shot me". I looked at deceased. I helped deceased in and laid him down and sent for the doctor.
I was with deceased till he died, which took place at about 2 o'clock this morning. Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault."

Lachlan Robertson on his oath saith:
"I was present yesterday the 21st June when deceased was shot. I saw deceased go out and put his wife in the waggon. The last witness went out also. I heard the report of a gun and turning round saw deceased down. We took a horse out of the waggon and I went for the Doctor. I was with deceased when he died, which took place about half past 2 o'clock in the morning in the presence of Dr Johnston."

James Johnston on his oath saith:
"I am a legally qualified medical practitioner. yesterday the 21st I was fetched to see the deceased and arrived at half past 6 o'clock. I found deceased bleeding severely from a wound in the front of the right side of the abdomen. The wound was large and jagged with a portion of the abdomen protruding.
Dark blood flowed very freely. There was also a small wound in the back - triangular - as from a ball. It appeared as if the ball had entered before and come out behind. I applied the usual remedies. Deceased was very weak from loss of blood and died about 2 and a half o'clock this morning. Deceased was friendly with all about him and attributed the wound to accident.
I attribute deceased's death to internal haemorrhage."

The Ballarat Star, Monday June 26, 1865:
A magisterial inquiry was held before Mr F R Pohlman on Thursday, 22nd June, near Mount Misery, touching the death of Francis Paynter, who died from internal haemorrhage, the effects of a bullet, accidentally shot by his brother James Paynter, going through his body.
James Paynter deposed that the body shown him was that of his brother Francis Paynter, aged twenty-eight years.
On the previous day they had been shooting on the lagoon and shot some ducks. They had a waggon with them which they brought up to the hut where we left their wives and children. The brothers laid their loaded rifles in the waggon, each rifle having a single ball.
Deceased went to the waggon, put his wife and child in, and took out his rifle, which he laid on the grass. Witness then went to the waggon. Deceased was standing at the back of the waggon, and reached over to take witness's wife off, whereupon the rifle went off, shooting deceased, who exclaimed"I am shot" or "You have shot me".
Witness assisted deceased into the hut and sent for a doctor. Witness was present with deceased till his death, which took place about two o'clock next morning.
Deceased said the accident was nobody's fault.
Lachlan Robertson deposed that he was present when deceased was shot and saw him go out and put his wife on the waggon. The last witness went out also. Witness heard the report of the gun, and running round saw deceased on the ground.
Witness and deceased's brother took a horse out of the waggon and sent for the doctor.
Witness was with deceased when he died. Dr Johnstone tendered the medical evidence. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the facts of the case.

Francis married Catherine CUNNINGHAM on 27 Jun 1863 in St Mark’s Church of England, Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia. Catherine (daughter of Thomas CUNNINGHAM and Martha Augusta READER) was born about 1842 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died on 15 Sep 1876 in Carngham, Victoria, Australia; was buried after 15 Sep 1876 in Carngham Cemetery, Carngham, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Immigration: 13 Jan 1842, Port Phillip, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Baptism: 9 Feb 1842, St James Church of England, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

According to the Baptism Register of St James Church, Charles was born on 5th January 1842, at sea on the "Samuel Boddington" after which he wasnamed.
According to the diary of Joseph Wilson written on the same voyage, Charles was born on Wednesday 29th December 1841, so there is a discepancy ofoneweek in his birth dates.
He was baptized at St James, Melbourne, on 9th February, 3 weeks after the family arrived.
No other records can be located for him so he may have died shortly after his baptism.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 6 Jun 1841, Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, 24 Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Clarence House, Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Peel, Isle of Man, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 49 Hampstead Rd, Dorking, Surrey, England
• Census: 1901, Kensington, London, England

Notes:

1901 Census index:
Francis Paynter, London, Kensington, born Penzance (no occupation)

Francis married Ellen Kathleen O'HALLORAN on 8 Jul 1874 in Bath, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Crowan, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Clarence House, Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 46 Bewick Rd, Gateshead, Durham, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Belvedere Terrace, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Belvedere Terrace, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

John married Margaret PATTINSON on 4 Aug 1875. Margaret was born in 1847 in Felling, Durham, England; died before 1891. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Kenwyn, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Notes:

Entry in "British & Irish Biographies, 1840-1940" (on fiche at SLV), 1905.

Family/Spouse: Henrietta Jekyll NEWMAN. Henrietta was born in 1850 in Yeovil, Somerset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Crowan, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, The Rectory, Kemberton, Shropshire, England
• Census: 1891
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, 279 Vauxhall Bridge Rd, St Georges Hanover Square, London, England

Notes:

Entries in "British & Irish Biographies, 1840-1940" (on fiche at SLV), 1872-1890.
I cannot find Thomas or his son in the 1891 Census. His wife is visiting his brother James in Yeovil, Somerset

Family/Spouse: Harriet Fanny BAKER. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Clarence St, Madron, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 18 Montague St, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Hendford Hill, Yeovil, Somerset, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Hendford Manor, Yeovil, Somerset, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Hendford Manor, Yeovil, Somerset, England

Family/Spouse: Maude Josephine BECKTON. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 7 Apr 1861, 24 Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Clarence House, Clarence St, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 1881, Godalming, Surrey, England

Notes:

Camborne was known as Colonel Paynter (Inniskilling Dragoons). He was the last of the male line of Paynters to live at Boskenna. He did notlivethere till later in his life. He built a large extension to the house in 1886.

Alumni Cantabrigiensis:
"Admitted pens. at Trinity, June 10, 1882. (eldest son of Reginald Hearle, of Boskenna, Cornwall and Mary Davies, daughter of Rev. JohnOliverWillyams Haweis, Rector of Slaugham, Sussex). Born Jan 25, 1864. School, Charterhouse. Did not reside. Lieutenant 21st Hussars, 1884;transferred to5th Dragoon Guards, 1884; Captain 1889-90; transferred to 6th Dragoons, 1890; Major 1899-1901; retired 1901. Served in South AfricanWar, 1901-02;Hon. Lieutenant-Colonel, Royal Monmouthshire Engineers' Militia, 1904-08. Of Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, in 1947. Major andHon.Lieutenant-Colonel, Cornwall R. E.. 1909-14. J. P. for Cornwall, 1905; High Sheriff, 1929. Died Jan 11, 1949."

1881 Census:
Age 17, boarding in Surrey [he went to Charterhouse - "Boskenna & the Paynters"]
He became High Sheriff in 1919, a member of the Cornwall County Council and a magistrate. As a young man he loved horse-breeding andsteeple-chasing,and was the first man in West Cornwall to own a car.

"What a Go!: the life of Alfred Munnings" by Jean Goodman.
This extract is from a biography of Alfred Munnings, a famous English painter of horses.
"The Knights [Harold and Laura Knight] returned to Newlyn to find their Trewarveneth house had been taken over by Geoffrey Garnier, andCOLONELPAYNTER had built them a fine new one from three old cottages knocked together. He had also built them two new studios on the beach andcharged themsuch a low rent that, at last, they could afford a car."
and on another page:
"Florence [Alfred's sister] and her brother were very friendly with a permanent resident at Cliff House, Gilbert Evans, a twenty-six-year-oldCaptainin the Monmouth Royal Engineers' Militia and one of the few non-painters included in the social life of the artists' colony.
In 1909 he had been engaged as Land Agent by a brother officer, COLONEL THOMAS [sic] PAYNTER, who owned BOSKENNA, a large country house on anestatebetween Land's End and Penzance which included most of the farms in the parish."
There is more information about these people in "Boskenna aand the Paynters" by Jim Hosking.

Entry in "British & Irish Biographies, 1840-1940" (on fiche at SLV), 1935.

Camborne married Ethel Nina Patience VENNING in 1904. Ethel was born about 1876; died on 7 Feb 1933; was buried in Feb 1933 in Boskenna, St Buryan, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Hugh was a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy

Hugh married Beatrice BARKWORTH in 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Gerrans, Cornwall, England
• Census: 1881

Notes:

1881 Census, St Columb Major, Market Place
Elizabeth W. Paynter, head, unmarried, age 66, independent, born St Columb Major
Annie Paynter, sister, unmarried, age 49, independent, born St Columb Major
Edward W. Lemon, nephew, articled clerk (solicitors), age 20, born Gerrans
2 servants.

At this time, Edward's parents were living in Bratton Seymour, Somerset, where his father was curate of the parish church.

Rochfort married Mary KENNEDY in 1882. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1888, Warrenheip St, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1890, Warrenheip St, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 30 Jul 1884, Buninyong, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 1915, St Thomas Cemetery, Enfield, New South Wales, Australia

Notes:

Cecil was a witness at the burial of his uncle Robert Emelius in NSW in 1915.

Eveline married Archibald KENNEDY on 16 Dec 1903 in Claremont, Perth, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

New South Wales electoral roll

Reginald married Maude E WOOD on 2 Feb 1907 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Jan 1850, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Ripley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Abbey St, St Werburgh, Derby, Derbyshire, England

Julia married John CHAPMAN in 1872. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Jun 1852, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Ripley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 18 Mar 1855, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 May 1857, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Ripley, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Oakerthorpe, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 31 May 1857, South Wingfield, Derbyshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 30 Mar 1851, Sutton Courtney, Berkshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Brown Candover, Hampshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 7 Apr 1861, Brown Candover, Hampshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 9 Hunter St, Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 15 Apr 1885, 24 Upper Bedford Place, Bloomsbury, London, England
• Residence: 1887, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Residence: 1895, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Residence: 1898, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Burnaby Rd, Wenbury, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
• Residence: 1903, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
• Residence: 1907, 51 Lammas Park Road, Ealing, Middlesex, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, 51 Lammas Park Road, Ealing, Middlesex, England
• Witness: 3 Apr 1918, St Bartholomew Church, London, England

Ruth married Thomas Henry Gordon WATSON on 15 Apr 1885 in St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, London, England. Thomas (son of Seth Benjamin WATSON and UNNAMED) was born in 1848 in St George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England; died on 31 Dec 1914 in Ealing, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 7 Apr 1861, North Parade, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 9 Hunter St, Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Witness: 15 Apr 1885, St George’s Church, Bloomsbury, London, England
• Witness: 4 Sep 1890, St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Mathon, Worcestershire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Sunset View, West Malvern, Herefordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1911, Star Hotel, Foregate St, Worcester, Worcestershire
• Residence: 1920-1922, 48 Belle Vue Rd, Southbourne, Dorset, England

Julia married William Henry CHARSLEY on 21 Dec 1892 in Brighton, Sussex, England. William was born about 1820; died on 2 Nov 1900 in Sunset View, West Malvern, Worcestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Jul 1859, St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, North Parade, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 9 Hunter St, Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1890 - 1891, 12 Camden St, St Pancras, Middlesex, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 12 Camden St, St Pancras, Middlesex, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 15 Jul 1859, St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 7 Apr 1861, North Parade, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 9 Hunter St, Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Highfield Rd, Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Debdale Rd, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Folly Fram, May Hill, Longhope, Gloucestershire
• Residence: 1918, 61 Medfield St, Putney, Surrey, England
• Residence: 1926-1937, 53 Abbey Rd, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1938-1939, 41 Abbey Rd, St Marylebone, Middlesex, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 5 Sep 1861, St Giles, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Littlemore County Lunatic Asylum, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Littlemore County Lunatic Asylum, Headington, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Littlemore County Lunatic Asylum, Headington, Oxfordshire, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Oct 1863, St Philip & St James, Oxford, Oxfordshire
• Census: 2 Apr 1871, 39 Pembroke St, Cowley, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 9 Hunter St, Parish of St George, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1890, 29 Alfred Place, St Giles, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 35 Alfred Place, St Giles, Bloomsbury, Middlesex, England
• Witness: 14 Nov 1892, London, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1911-1938, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Census: 1939, Polwenna, Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, England

Edward married Lucy Mary Alexandra STEPHENS on 4 Sep 1890 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. Lucy (daughter of William STEPHENS) was born on 20 Jan 1863 in Exeter, Devon, England; died on 21 Oct 1959 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England; was buried after 21 Oct 1959 in St Columb Minor, Cornwall, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Priory House, Ashburton Rd, Totnes, Devon, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 3 Holyrood Place, St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 4 Alexandra Terrace, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Witness: 11 Jan 1894, Bidna, Northam, Devon, England
• Census: 1901

Notes:

I cannot find Margaret in the 1901 Census.

Margaret married John White HERBERT on 28 Aug 1900 in Northam, Devon, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 13 Feb 1879, St Columb Major, Cornwall, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 3 Holyrood Place, St Andrew, Plymouth, Devon, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Wells House School, Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England
• Census: 1901
• Residence: 24 Nov 1906, Manor House, Kilmington, Wiltshire, England
• Residence: 23 Jan 1908, Manor House, Kilmington, Wiltshire, England

Notes:

I cannot find Charles in the 1901 Census before he married. His father was living in Eastington which in in the district of Wheatenhurst whichiswhere he got married lated in the year

Charles married Mary Josephine DA COSTA on 30 Nov 1901 in Easington, Gloucestershire, England. Mary died in 1911. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1881-1882, Bradshaw St, Ballarat East, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 8 Aug 1888, 20 Little Lyons St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Feb 1893, Echuca, Victoria, Australia

Charles married Margaret GRIFFITHS on 8 Aug 1888 in 40 Ascot St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Margaret (daughter of James GRIFITH and Margaret THOMPSON) was born in 1859 in Inglewood, Victoria, Australia; died on 13 Nov 1898 in Strzelecki, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 17 Nov 1898 in Warragul Cemetery, Warragul, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1903, Nightingale St, Ballarat West, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1905, 45 Raglan St South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1906, 45 Raglan St South, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 4 Dec 1856, Christ Church, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 4 Dec 1856, Freshwater Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 29 May 1871, Carngham, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 18 Jul 1876, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 2 Dec 1877, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 23 Nov 1880, Dowling Forest, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 28 Aug 1885, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Apr 1886, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Jul 1887, Sulky Gully, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 8 Aug 1888, 40 Ascot St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 3 Mar 1889, Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1890, 54 Errard St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1 Nov 1891, Urquhart St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Charles married Emma TELORE on 31 Jan 1877 in Sulky Gully, Residence of John Berryman, Victoria, Australia. Emma (daughter of James GRIFITH and Margaret THOMPSON) was born on 5 Oct 1855 in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia; died on 7 Jul 1935 in 33 Connell St, Hawthorn; was buried on 9 Jul 1935 in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

There are 2 birth registrations for John, one correct in 1859, and then another in 1861, when he and his mother had been dead for 2 years. Alltheinformation on both certificates is almost identical, except that the informant for the second was the deceased Jane! Registrar of B.D.M. is ataloss to explain how this occurred.

Notes:

At the age of twenty-three he was admitted to the Ararat Hospital for the Insane on 3 February 1883. The Hospital was sometimes referred to as the Asylum. There was a note on the Alphabetical List of Patients under Names and Addresses of Relatives:
James Paynter's father resides at Mortlake, no means.
I assume this means that his father James had no money to pay for his son’s hospitalisation. When James entered the Hospital, the Property Book recorded that he had 5 shillings and twopence in a purse. The money was duly handed over to the Master of Finance.
James died on 6 June 1891 at the Hospital after spending over eight years there. His death required a Magisterial Enquiry and these documents contained quite a bit of information about him. The enquiry was conducted the day after his death by a Coroner. The official cause of death was recorded as ‘Disease of the Brain and Liver, otherwise Chronic Hepatitis and Epilepsy’. He was only thirty-one years of age. The Medical Officer at the Asylum made a statement which makes heartbreaking reading.
From the records of the Asylum I find that the deceased James Paynter aged thirty-one years was admitted into this Institution on the 3rd February 1883 on the authority of the warrant now produced. He was then suffering from Epileptic Mania and in good bodily health. On the 20th day of May last he came under my care when he was in feeble health confined to his room and to bed suffering from general dropsy; since that time he has had several epileptic convulsions both during the day and at night, which together with the dropsy have gradually weakened him until he sank and died on the 6th.
An Attendant also made a statement.
The deceased patient James Paynter came in my charge on the 29th March 1891. He was then transferred from C Ward to the Hospital Ward. He was put to bed suffering from dropsy. He remained in bed until the morning of the 6th day of June. He was then seized with a succession of epileptic fits. He gradually got weaker and sank and died at about 11.35 A.M. On the 6th day of June 1891. He took his food well until he died. He never regained consciousness from the time he took the last fit.?1
I am not sure where James was buried as there was no death certificate for him.


1 Alphabetical Lists of Patients in Asylums, Ararat. VPRS 7446, P1, Unit 3 Image.
Register of Personal Property, Ararat Hospital for the Insane. VPRS 1708, P0, Unit 1.
Inquest. VPRS 24, Unit 581, Item 1891/662.
Public Record Office of Victoria.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 30 Sep 1899, Ararat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, Framlingham, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Pomborneit, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Willowgrove, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1936, Hill End, Gippsland, Victoria, Australia

Thomas married Isabella MACKENZIEThomas and Isabella were never married. She accused him of being the father of her illegitimate child in August 1891.. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 1867, Church of England, Carngham, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, Framlingham West, Victoria Australia
• Residence: 1914, Pomborneit, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1921, Willow Grove, Victoria Australia

Francis married Rose TERRINGTON in 1897 in Victoria, Australia. Rose (daughter of John TERRINGTON and Elizabeth TYLER) was born in 1878 in Framlingham, Victoria, Australia; died in 1906 in Ararat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1954, Cashmore, Victoria, Australia

Harriet married William Gibson EDWARDS in 1894 in Victoria, Australia. William died on 8 Aug 1942 in Bridgewater, Victoria, Australia; was buried after 8 Aug 1942 in Cape Bridgewater Cemetery, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 13 Aug 1901, Denicull Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1903, Denicull Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, 131 Stanley St, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1912, 9 Boundary Rd, North Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Henry married Mary Ann (Minnie) RILEY on 11 Jan 1910 in Parsonage of Congregational Church, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Mary was born in 1866 in West Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; died on 19 Sep 1953 in Carlton, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Mary married Joseph William KELLY on 24 Jul 1900 in Terang, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1903, Denicull Creek, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1909, Ararat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1927, Caulfield, Victoria, Australia

Frederick married Mary Elizabeth Kemp TELFER on 31 Jul 1900 in Wesleyan Church, Ararat, Victoria, Australia. Mary (daughter of Adam TELFER and Jane COOPER) was born in 1883 in Stawell (Pleasant Creek), Victoria, Australia; died in Aug 1986 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 25 Aug 1986 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emma married James MILLER on 22 Feb 1898 in St Joseph’s Church, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia. James was born about 1874 in Terang, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Louisa married Joseph DOODY on 8 Sep 1880 in Calivil, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Emily married Walter Alfred GRIFFITHS on 31 Jul 1890 in Calivil, Victoria, Australia. Walter died in 1949 in Regent (Preston), Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 49 Hampstead Rd, Dorking, Surrey, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, 49 Hampstead Rd, Dorking, Surrey, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 46 Bewick Rd, Gateshead, Durham, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 46 Bewick Rd, Gateshead, Durham, England

Notes:

Entries in "British & Irish Biographies, 1840-1940" (on fiche at SLV), 1918-1924.
Entries in "British & Irish Biographies, 1840-1940" (on fiche at SLV), 1918-1924.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, 46 Bewick Rd, Gateshead, Durham, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Belvedere Terrace, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1871, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 3 Apr 1881, The Rectory, Brompton Ralph, Somerset, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 3 Apr 1881, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Freelands, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Elizabeth married Olaf Francis POULSON in 1937. Olaf was born in Denmark. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Elizabeth married Stephen Paul Jewell HILL in 1947. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Unknown DAKIN. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Cecil married Hilda TURNER in 1915 in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Dartmouth, Devon, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Newton Abbot, Devon, England

Edward married Charlotte Philippa Gordon HUDSON in 1913 in Eastbourne, Sussex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 5 Apr 1891, Monks Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Burnaby Rd, Wenbury, Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, 51 Lammas Park Road, Ealing, Middlesex, England
• Census: 1939, Brighton, Sussex, England

Francis married Lucy Margaret Colman PLATTEN on 3 Apr 1918 in St Bartholomew Church, London, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 25 Mar 1893, Christ Church, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Census: 31 Mar 1901, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Residence: 1938, Oxton, Birkenhead, Lancashire, England
• Census: 1939
• Residence: 1 Jan 1975, White Gables, Sudbury Rd, Lavenham, Suffolk

Arthur married Frances Blackwood WALTERS in 1917 in Chelsea, Middlesex, England. Frances died in 1960. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Census: 2 Apr 1911, Christ Church Cottage, Hampstead, Middlesex, England
• Census: 1939, Polwenna, Porth, Newquay, Cornwall, England

Rita married William JONES in 1907 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 3 Mar 1877, St Paul's Anglican Church, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1905, Invermay, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1910, 307 Vincent St, Leederville, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Notes:

Elizabeth married William PORTER on 24 May 1900 in Bible Christian Church, Armstrong St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. William (son of William PORTER and Jane HOWARD) was born in 1877 in Cardigan, Victoria, Australia; died on 17 Apr 1944 in Perth, Western Australia, Australia; was buried in Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1903, Smythe's Rd, Cardigan, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1905, Smythe's Rd, Cardigan, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1906, Smythe's Rd, Cardigan, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, 57 Humffray St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Inverleigh, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Aft May 1915, 61 Primrose St, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1918, Mount Mitchell East, Lexton, Victoria Australia
• Residence: 1919, Mount Mitchell East, Lexton, Victoria Australia
• Residence: 10 Sep 1925, 103 Grant St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 1 Oct 1929, Registry Office, Brunswick, Victoria, Australia

Laura married Ernest Albert JACKSON on 12 Feb 1902 in Bible Christian Church, Armstrong St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Ernest (son of William JACKSON and Louisa OSLER) was born in 1878 in Granite Flat, St Arnaud, Victoria, Australia; died on 16 Aug 1922 in Dunolly, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 18 Aug 1922 in Ballarat New Cemetery, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Laura married Louis Henry LANG on 10 Sep 1925 in Baptist Manse, Dawson St, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. Louis was born about 1870 in Yandoit, Victoria, Australia; died in 1953 in Macleod, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Bef 11 Jul 1927, Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: Aft Jul 1927, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 14 Apr 1961, Collingwood, Victoria, Australia

Charles married Myrtle Isobel RAYNER on 21 Oct 1916 in All Saints New Cathedral, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia. Myrtle (daughter of Archibald RAYNER and Rachel MURDOCH) was born in 1897 in Neilborough, Victoria, Australia; died in Aug 1980 in Mount Waverley, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 7 Aug 1980 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 1912, Lynch St, Footscray, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, Linton, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1915, 61 Primrose St, Moonee Ponds, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1916-1918, Lexton, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Elaine, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1921-1931, Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1934, 36 Urquhart St, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1936-1937, 39 Shelley St, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1943, ‘Bermuda’, Eildon Rd, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1949, 23 Ormond Rd, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1954, 35 Glenhuntly Rd, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Ballarat Star, 27 August 1913, page 1
Beaufort Licensing Court granted an application by G. E. Fleay for the transfer of the license of the Railway Hotel, Linton, from W. Stuart to applicant. 

AGE, 30 January 1915, page 9
APPLICATION for TRANSFER of LICENCE.— To the Licensing Court tor the Licensing district of Beaufort, — I, GEORGE EDWIN FLEAY. the holder of a Victualler's Licence for the house and premises known as the Railway Hotel, Linton, do hereby give notice that it is my intention to Apply the Licensing Court holden at Beaufort, on Tuesday, the 23rd February, 1915, to Transfer the said Licence to SARA BUTTROSE. now residing at 115 Grey-street, St. Kilda, Melbourne. GEORGE EDWIN FLEAY. And I, the said SARA BUTTROSE, do hereby Apply for the said Transfer. SARA BUTTROSE. Dated at Melbourne this 29th day of January, 1915. JOHNSTONE and HENRY. Hotel Brokers and Agents, 54 Queen-street, Melbourne. 

Evening Echo (Ballarat), 13 October 1915, page 4
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR TRANSFER OF LICENSE. We, CAMPBELL C. F. DYER, Lexton, the holder License for the house known as the Pyrenees Hotel, situate at Lexton, in the Licensing District of Lexton, Transferrer, and GEORGE FLEAY, of 61 Primrose street, Moonee Ponds, proposed Transferree, do hereby give notice that it is our intention to apply to the Licensing Court for the said Licensing District on the 26th day of October, 1915, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at Beaufort, for a transfer of the said License from the said Campbell C. F. DYER to the said George Fleay. Given under our hand this 1st day of October, 1915. CAMPBELL C. F. DYER, Transferror. GEORGE FLEAY, Proposed Transferree. 

Grenville Standard, 6 November 1915, page 1
Mr-Geo. E. Fleay, formerly of the Railway Hotel, Linton, notifies that he has taken over the Pyrenees Hotel at Lexton. The genial George will be pleased to give the glad hand to any old Linton friends who may happen to blow into Lexton. Only the best brands of liquor kept in stock.

Evening Echo (Ballarat), 12 August 1916, page 3
Master Fleay, son of Mr George Fleay, of Lexton, was playing with a dog outside the Pyrenees Hotel, when the animal bit him through the ear and on the head. The boy was driven to Avoca, where several stitches were put in the wounds.

Talbot Leader, 30 December 1916, page 2
George Fleay, licensed victualler, Lexton, v. A. D. Donovan, for £1 1s, board and lodging. There was no appearance of the defendant. George Fleay deposed that the defendant came to his hotel and had board and lodging. He came as recruiting sergeant for the Lexton Shire. He had made re peated applications for payment, but the money was still owing.
Verdict for amount claimed, with 16s costs; in default distress.

Age, 25 March 1919, page 8
The Licensing Court yesterday approved of the following transfer of licences of country hotels:— Pyrenees Hotel, Lexton, George Fleay to Joseph J. McDonald.

Ballarat Star, 16 April 1919, page 6
ELAINE RAILWAY HOTEL.
The new proprietor of this well-known hostelry (Mr Geo. Fleay) took possession on Monday. Mr Fleay is a well-known sport, and in to-day’s issue extends a welcome to old and new friends. The new proprietor was for some time at Linton, and latterly at Lexton. Both he and Mrs Fleay know the requirements of the travelling public, and visitors will find their every need catered for in an efficient manner. Only the best of liquors will be stocked, and meals will be served at any hour desired. The new host and hostess should be worthy successors of Mr and Mrs Walsh.

Argus, 13 January 1920, page 4
LICENSING COURTS.
The following transfers of hotel licences were granted in the Licensing Court yesterday. Royal Mail, Carlton, Ernest Albert Simms to Henry George Benjamin; Great Britain Hotel, Church street, Richmond. Henry Hugh Cuthbertson to Thomas Edgar Young
Cornish Arms Hotel, Brunswick. Hugh Joseph Mulcahy to Alexander Joseph Watt. Palmerston Hotel, South Melbourne. Leah Frances Cooke to William Baker Cockburn; Railway Hotel, Elaine, George E. Fleay to Irene B. Raybould.

Horsham Times, 20 March 1923, page 6
Annual meeting of the Warracknabeal Football Club. Mr. R. Lemot and Mr. G. Fleay submitted a motion that the sum be £50. 

Horsham Times, 21 July 1933, page 8
FRUITERER INSOLVENT. George Edwin Fleay, Urquhart street, Hawthorn, formerly of Warracknabeal, fruiterer and confectioner. Causes: General trade depression and ill-health. Liabilities, £291/5/; assets £15; deficiency, £276/5/.

AGE, 15 March 1934, page 1
IN the Court of Bankruptcy, District of Victoria.— Re GEORGE EDWIN FLEAY, of 36 Urquhart-street, Hawthorn, formerly of Warracknabeal, Fruiterer and Confectioner; No. 131 of 1933.— Notice is hereby given that the abovenamed court has ap pointed Friday, the 23rd day of March. 1934, at 10.30 o'clock in the forenoon for holding the PUBLIC EXAMINATION of the above named debtor at the High Court Building, Melbourne. Dated this 12th day of March, 1934. VV. H. LOUGHREY. Official Receiver. 

AGE, 27 May 1937, page 4
DISTRICT of VICTORIA. No. 131 of 1933. -In the BANKRUPT ESTATE of GEORGE EDWIN FLEAY, of 38 Urquhart-street, Hawthorn, formerly residing at and carrying on business as a Fruiterer and Confectioner at Warracknabeal.-— A First and Final DIVI DEND is Intended to be declared in the above matter. Creditors who have not proved their debts by the tenth day of June, 1937, will be excluded from dividend. Dated this 24th day of May, 1937. 

Isabella married George Edwin FLEAY on 17 Oct 1906 in St Peter's Church of England, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia. George (son of William Henry FLEAY and Mary Anne HYATT) was born in 1883; died on 29 Oct 1936 in 39 Shelley St, St Kilda, Victoria, Australia; was buried on 30 Oct 1936 in Cheltenham New Cemetery, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: 8 Apr 1912, 15 Griffith St, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1 Nov 1912, 39 Church St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1913, 39 Church St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1914, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1915, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 20 Mar 1915, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1917, 68 Mirams St, Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1918, 72 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1919, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1921, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1922, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 21 Dec 1923, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, 341 Timor St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1924, Gisborne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1927, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1927, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1928, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1931, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1934, 63 Ryot St, Warrnambool, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1936, 25 Mason St, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1937, 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia
• Witness: 8 Sep 1937, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
• Residence: 1943, 6 Warra St, Toorak, Victoria, Australia

Notes:

Farewell
GISBORNE GAZETTE Friday 11 January 1924
MR AND MRS PAYNTER FAREWELLED
in congenial surroundings and amongst many friends, Mr and Mrs Paynter and family were accorded a complimentary send-off in the Gisborne Hall onFriday, 4th inst., prior to their departure for Warrnambool, where Mr Paynter has purchased a printing business. The gathering was a veryrepresentative one, and Cr. J. H. Beattie, in the unavoidable absence of President Bawden, presided over a most successful function. Harmony anddancing occupied the attention of the guests for the major portion of the evening, but most interest was centred in the presentation to Mr and MrsPaynter from the residents of Gisborne of a beautiful and costly case of stainless steel cutlery suitably inscribed.
Cr. Beattie, in making the presentation, said he regretted they had met to say good-bye to one of their most popular townsmen. He (the speaker) knewhow difficult it was generally to fill public positions successfully, but the gentleman they were honouring that night had filled with credit themany public offices he had held. (Applause.) on behalf of the Shire Council, he wished to acknowledge the fine interest Mr Paynter had taken intheir doings. Council meetings were not always pleasure and sunshine, but Mr Paynter had tactfully glossed over their shortcomings in his reports.In his departure Gisborne was losing one of its most respected citizens. (Applause.) They were also losing Mrs Paynter, who had always taken a keeninterest in public gatherings and whose willing help was always forthcoming to help make their local affairs a success. (Applause.) they werelosing two whose places would be hard to fill and whose absence would be keenly felt. On behalf of the residents and Council he had much pleasure inpresenting the gift to Mr and Mrs Paynter, accompanied with the appreciation and good will of the Gisborne residents. (Applause.)
Mr J. Slattery, on behalf of the Mechanics' committee, spoke of the many improvements carried out in the institute in the four or five years MrPaynter had been connected with the committee. His whole-hearted support had certainly helped the committee in a marked degree; but Mr Paynter'swhole heart was in everything he did, yet he never advertised his good work.
Mr Paynter was a busy man, yet he found time to associate himself with anything for the benefit of the place. Mr Paynter's donation of two boundvolumes of copies of the early issues of the "Gisborne Gazette" we're a valuable gift to the institute. It was a source of pleasure to see such afine gathering present to do honour to a worthy businessman, and the wish of all them all was that their guests would have every success inWarrnambool, where they were going. Mrs Paynter was a great helpmate to her husband, and her assistance in many public affairs had endeared her tothem all. (Applause.)
Mr C. Swinburne, president of the Progress Association, said he felt he could but poorly express the feelings of regret the members of theassociation had at Mr Paynter's departure. He was one of the leaders of the association, and was always prominent in its doings. He was not ashamedof the association's work, and helped it unsparingly with his pen, and also with pick and shovel when necessary. (Applause.) And Mrs Paynter - allpower to her - was always ready an willing to help the place he lived in, and he was leaving Gisborne a better place than he found it. What morecould the people require to prove that they were good citizens? Even little Jimmy tried to do his bit - (laughter) - and Miss Doris [sic] could beseen handing round refreshments at the working-bees. (Applause.) Mr Paynter had helped the Gisborne higher elementary movement in every way, andhad the gratification of seeing this great thing for the district an accomplished fact. (Applause.) They were leaving with the highest respect ofeveryone. They were Paynters who had helped to paint the town in right colours, and the memory of their good work would long remain. (Applause.)
Mr W. Whipp (who had successfully carried out the secretarial duties of the evening) spoke on behalf of the sporting institutions. Mr Paynter, hesaid, had helped every sporting society in the town. Football, cricket, and sports (of which he was the first secretary) all received valued aid andunstinted support from Mr Paynter, who did his best at all times to foster true sport amongst them. (Applause.) In Mr Paynter's departure he waslosing a personal friend and one of the best he ever had. He wished both Mr and Mrs Paynter success in their new venture. (Applause.)
Cr. Beattie said he would like to refer to the success of the Horticultural Society, which was due to Mr Paynter, who capably filled the importantposition of secretary, and whose place would be hard to fill. Mr Paynter was the originator of the friendly meetings of the Gisborne and Meltoncouncillors. This annual reunion was a credit to him, and should be encouraged. Such gatherings helped to advertise the places, besides creating acommendable good feeling amongst those participating. (Applause.)
Mr Paynter, who received a very cordial reception on rising to respond, said that, judging by the lavish praise bestowed, the speakers had evidentlyall enjoyed a good Christmas dinner, and were full of good cheer and charitableness. (Laughter.) In his dealings with public matters he had tried topromote harmony, and felt pleased he had succeeded. His work with the progress association was one of pleasure. It was composed of a fine body ofmen, who had done good work; but he claimed no praise for the little he had done. It was the committee of the Horticultural Society, which wasresponsible for its success. The other ladies had set Mrs Paynter such a good example that she felt it a duty and a pleasure to assist. With muchfeeling Mr Paynter thanked them for their valuable and handsome gift. It would always remind them of their many Gisborne friends and the happy timethey had spent amongst them. (Loud applause.)
The company then rose and sang "For They Are Jolly Good Fellows," and gave hearty cheers for Mr and Mrs Paynter and family.
Vocal items were rendered during the evening by Messrs Whipp, Pinney and Brocchi, and Miss Mary Kiely pleased with a violin solo. Mrs F. Slatteryplayed the accompaniments in a finished manner, and Mr T. Ladd supplied the music for dancing, Mr Veal played an extra. The ladies supplied daintyrefreshments, which appealed to the palate of the most fastidious.

Herbert married Elizabeth Ann RACHINGER on 8 Apr 1912 in Methodist Parsonage, 300 Church St, Richmond, Victoria, Australia. Elizabeth (daughter of James August RACHINGER and Alice HETHERINGTON) was born on 11 Jul 1891 in Broomfield, Victoria, Australia; died on 3 May 1956 in St Andrews Hospital, Melbourne East, Victoria Australia; was buried on 5 May 1956 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Irene married Roy Charlton ROBBINS in 1922 in Victoria, Australia. Roy died in 1979 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Claude married Ethel May GRANT in 1919 in Geelong, Victoria, Australia. Ethel died in Aug 1973; was buried on 23 Aug 1973 in Springvale Crematorium, Springvale, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Victor married Evelyn Dorothea BANKS [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Reginald married May Agnes NEEDHAM in 1923 in Victoria, Australia. May was born in 1895 in Tangil, Victoria, Australia; died in 1988 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Myra married John Murray HARRIS in 1936 in Victoria, Australia. John died in 1972 in Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Lindsay married Dorothy Louisa WILLIAMS in 1933 in Victoria, Australia. Dorothy died in 1993 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Vera married Reuben Charles BOURCHIER in 1927 in Victoria, Australia. Reuben died in 1979 in Trafalgar, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Violet married Leslie John FELSTEAD in 1937 in Victoria, Australia. Leslie died in 1948 in Parkville, Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Antoinette married Thomas George DELLAR in 1921 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Muriel married Frederick Chandler JOHNSON in 1932 in Victoria, Australia. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Blanche married Willian TATT in 1922. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Adam INGLIS. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Camperdown Chronicle (Vic. : 1877 - 1954), Thursday 6 May 1909: MAGISTERIAL INQUIRY.
The fatality to reported to Senior constable Arthur. He telephoned to the Coroner, who ordered that a magisterial inquiry be held. This was conducted at Pomborneit yesterday afternoon by Mr. J. D. McKellar, J.P. Joseph William Kelly, laborer, residing at Pomborneit, deposed:—The de ceased was my daughter. She was seven years of age. On Tuesday evening she was riding a pony in the yard at my residence. I heard a scream and saw the pony going towards the gate leading to the paddock. The deceased was hang ing head downwards from the saddle. Her foot was caught in the stirrup. I ran to catch the pony, but it got through the gate before I could reach it. The pony galloped about 200 yards with deceased still hanging from the saddle. The saddle then gave way and she fell to the ground. I picked her up. She was unconscious and bleeding from the nose and a wound in the back of the head. I took her into the house and sent for Dr. Lang. She died shortly afterwards. The pony was quiet. Deceased was in the habit of riding it. She had been riding it about the yard all the afternoon. Myra Grace Kelly, a little daughter of the previous witness, made a statement to the effect that deceased was riding the pony. Witness was leading it for a while. Then she gave her the reins to ride by herself. Deceased got frightened and tried to jump off. Her foot got caught in the stirrup, and the pony ran away with her hanging to the saddle. Dr. P. H. Lang deposed :—I have this day performed a post-mortem examination of the body of Daisy Mary Kelly. Deceased was apparently about seven years old. There was a scalp wound extending down to the bone over the left parieto occipetal region. The skull was fractured and depressed in this region, the fracture extending to the base. There was a fissured fracture present in the frontal region. Death was due to fracture of the skull causing haemorrhage of the brain. The finding was that death was due to fracture of the skull, the result of an accident.