Henry's death notice & other bits

[Jay O'Val]

I have a few days off work so I went to Windsor Library yesterday - they have such lovely resources including an index to the early newspapers of the area. In the Hawkesbury Courier, on the 19th March 1846 is Henry's death notice. It's on page 2 if anyone is interested. The library holds the microfilm, and probably the State Library does too. No doubt those of you who have been researching for ages have already found this, but I suspect most of the people on here haven't.

"Died
On Monday last, rather suddenly, aged 84 years, Mr Henry Kable, one of the first settlers in the colony, who has seen his children and grandchildren grow up about him in comfort and respectability. His remains were followed to the grave yesterday afternoon by a great many friends and neighbours." Settler! A bit of whitewashing.

The only other piece indexed under the name Kable was this, on the 30th April 1846, page 1:

"The Bathurst races took place on Wednsday, the 22nd inst. ... Hack race of £5, with entrance added. Mr Kable's Michael Kegney came in first".

I also managed to confirm that Mary Jones, George's mother-in-law, is indeed buried at St Matthews in Windsor as her certificate says, but she has no monument and her location isn't recorded. She's in there somewhere. St Matthews has published their records. They're in the catalogue as 'Windsor St Matthews Anglican ... burial register & cemetery records compiled 2008'. She isn't listed in the other publications the library has about the cemetery because she doesn't have a headstone and the others were only recording and mapping headstones.

[Zillah Estelle (Kable) Campbell -- John "the Boxer".]

On the subject of Mary Jones I know a lady who is related to that branch and knows a lot about the Jones family from Turee. I will try to find out if she has any details re Mary that we may have missed so far.

[Zillah Estelle (Kable) Campbell -- John "the Boxer".]

Yes--- a number of people would have the book "Damned Rascals" but also with over 100 people here a lot of them probably would not have bought the book likewise. Jay has placed various points of interest here for those who are on this site to get info generally from it. Neil has made some valuable additions as also have a number of others.It is so handy for all sorts of queries and added tales that each person may have come across in his/her time. I think the most interesting tale some of us are following at present is the solving of the life and death details of Charles Dickenson Kable.( see specific forum posts regarding that. ) We are also looking at whether there is a link between him and the death of his brother William Nathaniel Kable. We all realise many years have gone by when people before this generation have already tried to solve that one!! Will it ever happen?

[Paul Kable]

With reference to Henry's newspaper death notice. If people have not seen the early NSW newspapers I think we have reproduced all early reports, notices and advertisements from 1803 to his death notice in 1846 in Damned Rascals? with transcipts where required.

[Neil Henderson]

For the record. Mary Jones died 13 Nov 1820 at Windsor but did not live at "Turee", John remarried on 8 Jan 1822 to Ann Palfry (nee Bartlett), moved to Kelso and then bought the station "Turee" near Coolah in 1835. On 21 Oct 1837 John was stabbed by a convict (Edward Tufts) and died 27 Oct 1837 (a very rich man). John (who arrived in Sydney a free man in 1801 with wife Mary and daughters Mary Ann and Susannah) amongst other things, was appointed in 1818 to supervise the building of the present St Matthews Anglican Church at Windsor after Governor Macquarie ordered the demolition of the first attempt to build the Church.

[Zillah Estelle (Kable) Campbell -- John "the Boxer".]

There is a story behind this eh? After all The Jones family came from Turee if I remember rightly.But then she could have been with any other part of her family at the time of her death.--- wish we could get a window into what happened --