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Jeremiah CROSSLEY Born: 16 August 1811 at Yorkshire, England Died: 1 August 1884 at Wargeila, near Yass, NSW, at age 72 Mother: Sarah? xxxx Father: Hezekiah CROSSLEY Married: Sarah JAMES Date: 25 May 1840 at Parramatta, NSW Children: Martha Crossley (15 Oct 1842 - 14 Aug 1937) Ann Crossley (09 Apr 1844) Jane Crossley (28 Dec 1846 - 09 Jul 1922) James Crossley (01 Feb 1849 - 03 Nov 1911) Lucy Crossley (07 Feb 1851 - 31 Mar 1908) Esther Crossley (31 May 1853 - 11 Nov 1934) Uriah Crossley (27 Mar 1855 - 1860) William Crossley (09 May 1857 - 14 Nov 1922) Ann Maria Crossley (28 Mar 1859 - 05 Feb 1952) Hezekiah Crossley (10 Jun 1861 - 31 Mar 1945) Elizabeth Ellen Crossley (19 May 1863 - 01 Apr 1950) Emma Amelia Crossley (13 May 1867 - 1868) Ada Eliza Rosetta Crossley (15 Apr 1869 - 15 Nov 1951) | |
Thanks to Robert Mote (Canberra) for much of the information on the Mills side of the family, but particulary for his research on Jeremiah Crossley. Towards the end of his life, Jeremiah suffered from rheumatism very badly and, finally, unable to stand the pain, he shot himself early on the morning of 1 August 1884 at the age of 73 while his family were sleeping. He was buried after 1 August 1884 at Church of England cemetery, Yass, NSW; The inscription on the headstone reads - Jeremiah, born Yorkshire, England, husband of Sarah, died 1 Aug 1884 aged 73 years. On Monday 4 April 1831 Jeremiah, at the age of 20, was sentenced at the York assizes to 7 years transportation for larceny. He was tried at Pontefract where there were 10 witnesses to his armed robbery of various clothing materials worth a total value of five pounds and four shillings. He was a convict aboard The Ship John 1 which sailed from The Downs, (off the south east coast), England, on Tuesday, 7 February 1832 on its fourth voyage to Australia, third voyage to Sydney where it arrived on 8 June 1832. The Master was Samuel J Lowe and the Surgeon was James Lawrence. During the trip there was a plot by the convicts to take over the ship. Upon his arrival in Sydney he was described as 21 years of age, single, literate, protestant, 5 foot 8 3/4 inches in height, sallow and freckled of complexion, with grey eyes and sandy brown hair. Jeremiah Crossley was assigned to George Macleay to work on the property "Brownlow Hill" near Camden between July 1832 and May 1838. He and Sarah James had 15 children, two of them still born and unregistered, between 1842 and 1870. The results of a Coroner's Inquest into his death appeared in The Yass Courier, Yass, NSW, on Monday, 4 August 1884 as follows: CORONER'S INQUEST Hezekiah Crossley Deposed. About two o'clock this morning my mother woke me up, telling me to come out, that she wanted me; I came out onto the verandah and saw deceased lying dead there; I lifted deceased up, and carried him into the house, and placed him on a sofa; when I lifted the deceased up I saw the double barrel gun produced; it was lying under deceased; I was using the gun last night shooting opossums; when I brought the gun in I left it hanging on one of the beams of the roof; it was not loaded in either barrel; when I picked the gun up, after lifting deceased on the sofa, I noticed that it had been recently discharged; I am sure that no one but deceased took the gun after I hung it on the beam; I did not hear the report of a gun being fired during the night; it would be possible for a gun to be fired on the verandah of the house without me hearing it as I sleep in a room some distance from the verandah. I informed my brother of what had taken place and he reported the matter to the police; my brother's name is James Crossley; when I hung up the gun on the beam, the hammers of both barrels were cocked, and when I found it where deceased was lying, the hammer on the right-hand barrel was down and battered cap on the nipple; the gun is my property; deceased often used it. Sarah Crossley deposed: Alton Kingsley Hoets deposed: The jury found the following verdict that the deceased Jeremiah Crossley of Wargeila died on the first day of August 1884 from the effects of a gunshot wound inflicted by himself on the same day. | |
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