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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: Prince Regent 1826
Date: 1830 - 1835
Place: Paterson, Gresford, Maitland etc
Source: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
Details: In 1826 at the age of 22, Charles Boydell emigrated to New South Wales. He was accompanied by George Townshend, a fellow resident from the Welsh village of Rossett, and both took up land grants on the Allyn River at Gresford, NSW. On his estate, Camyr Allyn, Boydell ran sheep and cattle and grew wheat, corn, tobacco and grapes. In 1837 he married Elizabeth Macdonald Ritchie, daughter of Harriott Mary Dowling and grand-daughter of John and Harriott Blaxland of Newington, Sydney…… Charles Boydell kept a journal with intermittent entries between 1 March 1830 and 8 November 1834 in which he records farming and many social activities, his travels in the district and further afield to Sydney, Windsor, Liverpool, the Illawarra, and a journey to the Riley family station near Yass; an account of a battle between two aboriginal groups ; an account of a funeral ; livestock records; lists of grape varieties planted; accounts and receipts for payments and rations given to workers including carpenters, fencers and sawyers; copies of letters sent; copy of power of attorney assigned to his father in England; verse; pencil sketches…… Some of his fellow settlers and acquaintances mentioned in the diary include George Townsend, Captain Francis Allman, John Allman, John Phillips Webber, William Ogilvie, Peter Cunningham, Captain James St. John Ranclaud, Edward Cory, Alexander Park, John Wood, James and Samuel Adair, Susannah Ward, Ellen Ogilvie, Thomas Valentine Bloomfield, Edward Close, Rev. Wilkinson, Archibald Bell, Alexander McLeod, Lieut. James Nunn (husband of Barbara Adair), George Forbes, Sir Francis Forbes, Andrew Lang, John Incledon Pilcher, Nathaniel Powell, Samuel Wright, James Glennie, William Penson, Robert Pringle, James Busby, Miss White, George Blaxland, Col. Henry Dumaresq, Robert and Helenus Scott of Glendon, Rev. Rusden, Pieter Laurenz Campbell (Police Magistrate), Rev. Wilton, John Boughton, Captain Ferdinand Anley, William Dun, Walker Scott, Captain Alured Tasker Faunce, Robert Lethbridge, Leslie Duguid, John Pike, Thomas Arndell, Mrs. Frankland, William Loxdale, Captain Henry Zouch and George Mackenzie. He writes of the murder of John McIntyre; of dining at the inn of Molly Morgan at Maitland and of the execution of bushrangers. He describes the many tribulations settlers faced in the early days of the colony including bushfires, flooded rivers and the difficulties of the inadequacies of assigned servants……. Convicts mentioned include Wiliam English, Daniel O Hara, John Dearman, John Edmonds, Charles Edwards, William Jones, Benjamin Edwards, John Stapleton, Thomas Rose, William Thomason, Alexander Lobban, Philip Burton, Daniel Theobald and Patrick Fraher
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1843 21 January
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Petition for Major Johnstone to remain magistrate.
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1843 11 March
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Elector of County Durham campaigning for A.W. Scott of Glendon for representative in Legislative Council
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1843 1 April
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Promising to vote for Robert Scott to represent the County of Durham in the Legislative Council
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1843 11 November
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Mail contractor. Sued by F. Phillips. To pay 6 pounds as punt was not public
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1844 6 July
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Special meeting of Magistrates to discuss Governors letter re the removal of Chief Constable Sullivan.
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: -
Place: -
Source: Baron Charles von Hugel, New Holland Journal November 1833-October 1834, Miegunyah Press, 1994 - Dymphna Clark
Details: The estate of Charles Boydell, Camyr Allyn visited referred to
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1832 5 July
Place: Paterson River
Source: SG
Details: Walter Power, convict by the ship Norfolk, assigned servant
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1832 5 July
Place: Paterson
Source: SG
Details: James Smith, butcher and stockman, convict ship the ship Isabella 1832, assigned servant to Charles Boydell
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1832 16 August
Place: Paterson
Source: Sydney Gazette
Details: William Wood, convict by the ship Isabella 1832, brassfounder and groom, assigned servant to Charles Boydell
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1845 4 October
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: To petition Parliament to allow grain to be imported to Britain under the same terms as Canada
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1845 22 November
Place: Paterson
Source: MM
Details: Gave subscription in aid of Maitland Hospital
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1845 13 December
Place: -
Source: MM
Details: Won tender for the conveyance of mail Paterson and Gresford
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Paterson
Source: GRC
Details: John Baker, convict by the ship Surry 1834, assigned servant to Charles Boydell
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1833 4 July
Place: Hunter River
Source: SG
Details: Assigned a farm servant and a labourer in the month of April
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1833 29 August
Place: Paterson
Source: SG
Details: Assigned a convict cooper in June
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1837
Place: Paterson
Source: GRC
Details: Michael Behan, convict by the ship Waterloo 1836, assigned servant
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1834 4 October
Place: Hunter River
Source: SG
Details: Committee member for Stock Protection Association
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1834 1 November
Place: Camyr Allen, Paterson River
Source: SG
Details: Appointed Magistrate
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Surname: Boydell
First Name: Charles
Ship: -
Date: 1828
Place: Rossett, Patrick Plains
Source: 1828 Census
Details: -