Forster, Elizabeth (b. 22 Sep 1785, d. ?)

Note: Baptised at Chiswick Vicarage 19 October 1785.

Given Name: Elizabeth

Change: Date: 11 Jun 2000

Note: Baptised at Chiswick Vicarage 29 March 1789.

Given Name: Edward

Change: Date: 11 Jun 2000

Note: Baptised at Chiswick Vicarage 23 October 1791.

Given Name: Richard Wyndham

Change: Date: 11 Jun 2000

Given Name: James Leonard

Change: Date: 4 Aug 2005

Given Name: Evan Vincent

Change: Date: 4 Aug 2005

Given Name: Veronica

Change: Date: 11 Sep 1998

Note: See Notes for Julia Boddington.

Given Name: Malcolm

Change: Date: 3 Jul 2019
Time: 12:00

Given Name: Patrick

Change: Date: 27 Aug 2017
Time: 16:14

Given Name: Elizabeth S.

Change: Date: 8 Mar 2007

Given Name: John Edward

Change: Date: 13 Oct 1998

Given Name: George E.

Change: Date: 6 Oct 2004

Given Name: Emma M.

Change: Date: 15 Jun 2001

Given Name: Leslie G.

Change: Date: 20 May 2008

Given Name: Francis

Change: Date: 13 Oct 1998

Note: Mary Boulton was born on 29 March 1824 at West Bromwich, England. She married Joseph King on 27 November 1843 in unnamed Parish, Darling Downs Qld [Drayton]. Witnesses were Thomas Alford [brother-in-law] and James Rogers [Station Overseer who
accompanied squatter Arthur Hodgson onto the Downs in September 1840, only a month before Joseph King had arrived].



Mary's sister Elizabeth had moved from Paterson NSW to the Darling Downs in mid 1842 so it is apparent that Mary had followed soon after. Her parents did not witness her marriage as they were still living at Paterson NSW at that time.



No children were born to this union.



In later years Mary and Joseph returned to England where they both died.

Given Name: Mary

Change: Date: 3 Jan 2004

Note: Joseph King married Mary Boulton at Drayton Qld on 27 November 1843.



The following is an extract from writings by Maurice French -

"Joseph King accompanied his employer, Edward Clerk, to Van Dieman's Land as an indentured servant or valet in 1835. A year later Clerk moved to NSW in search of better land and joined John Rankin in partnership at Scone.



"King, a capable bushman, explored further north to the Gwyder and Macintyre Rivers claiming Frenchaye station for his employers in 1838, on which he became superintendent......King also had charge of the same owners' Clerkness station west of
Guyra on the Gwyder River.....



"King.....had cast his eyes north towards Cunningham country as early as April 1840, about the same time Leslie was on the Downs. So by October 1840 King and Sibley.....had taken up Haldon run some 12 miles along Haldon Creek, between runs
occupied by the Leslies and Arthur Hodgson....."

Haldon Creek is now named King Creek.



In other writings Joseph King is favourably mentioned as "a capable bushman, an explorer, a jolly fellow". In 1843 he was acclaimed as one of the rescuers in a bloody conflict with aborigines that was known as The Battle of One Tree Hill.



Joseph King is credited with having owned a number of runs in the Darling Downs/Dawson areas.



He and Mary retired in England, where they both died.

Given Name: Joseph

Change: Date: 25 Apr 2011

Note: Henrietta Boulton was born on 27 November 1825 at West Bromwich, England. She married Hugh Evans Shanklin on 26 April 1846 in Houghton Parish, Hunter River District NSW. Witnesses were George Boulton [her father, still living at Paterson at
that time] and Percy I. Smith.



At some time Henrietta and her husband moved to the Darling Downs. Writings record that the latter conducted a store at Warwick. In Thomas Alford's Journal of his trek from Toowoomba to the Bingara goldfields [ 16 September 1852 to 12 November
1852] he wrote that on 19 September 1852 he "came into Warwick and staid with Shanklins".

In other writings, about Toowoomba, Henrietta is commended for her 'pretty little villa residence, The Grange, literally embossed in verdure as it is....' and she 'appears to have been particularly fortunate in that her potatoes seem to have
entirely escaped the ravages of the grub.....'. There is also a portion of a town map of Toowoomba showing Henrietta Shanklin's farm, an area situated between North Street and Jellicoe Street and covering over four present day town blocks.



The Shanklins are reported as regular church-attenders.Records of birth of their children are Henrietta F. 1847, Hugh E. 1849 [died in Queensland 1927], Robert G. 1851, Emily 1853, Clarissa K. 1855. All were born in Queensland.



Henrietta Shanklin died at Toowoomba on 5 August 1915.

Given Name: Henrietta

Change: Date: 24 Apr 2011

Given Name: Hugh Evans

Change: Date: 23 Jun 1999

Note: Clarissa Hopkins Boulton was born on 3 September 1827 at West Bromwich, England. On 28 October 1847 she married Charles William Bradfield Pitts at Drayton Qld. Witnesses were Thomas and Elizabeth Alford. Clarissa's parents were still living at
Paterson NSW at that time.



Children born to this couple were -



Maria Clarissa born 7 April 1849, Louisa Elizabeth born 27 May 1852, Mary born 1853 and Charlotte born 1857. All were born in Queensland.



Maria and Louisa married two brothers - Thomas Macdonald Paterson and Andrew Paterson.

Given Name: Clarissa Hopkins

Change: Date: 19 Jun 2011

Note: Charles Pitts was one of the early squatters on the Darling Downs having taken up a run on Canal Creek with partner Bonifant in 1843. When he died in 1881 his Death Certificate showed he had been in Queensland for 40 years.



His parents were Captain [British Army] John Bradfield Pitts and Maria Phillips. Pittsworth on the Downs is said to have been named after "Captain Pitts".



During searches of records it has been found that in 1856 when Thomas Alford was declared bankrupt Charles W.B.Pitts was a major Creditor for a debt of 420 pounds 7 shillings.

Given Name: Chas William Bradfield

Change: Date: 5 Apr 2011