Richardson, Lewis (b. 22 Feb 1840, d. 10 Jul 1925)

Note: These Notes have been condensed from a comprehensive Family Tree and History compiled by Blair Crowe. Searching of records in Sydney has resulted in further information being added.



Lewis Richardson arrived at Moreton Bay on the 'Ascendant' on 19 June 1858 and was listed as aged 18 years, labourer, from Essex, Church of England, able to read and write. Brought up in a rural environment he was keen to settle on the land and
considered the Dawson area in Queensland. However because of the murder of the Frazer family at Hornet Bank Station by aborigines, he changed his mind and took work at Ipswich where he felled trees and cleared land for a Mr. Harris, earning 30
pounds per year.



Early records of Jondaryan Woolshed show that Lewis was employed there in 1863 as a bullock driver, later as a ploughman, then later as a contract carrier at that Station. He was also one of the first Cobb and Co drivers in the Jondaryan area.
The last recorded date of his activities at Jondaryan is 27 December 1867.



Lewis Richardson married Elizabeth Jounquay at Jondaryan Head Station on 17 February 1865. Leaving Jondaryan in the late 1860s, Lewis and Elizabeth slowly travelled west, apparently accompanying expansion of the railway system to Charleville.
When he settled there in about 1890 he opened a shop but this business was closed when Elizabeth died in 1894 when giving birth to her 17th child. Writings suggest it was her 18th child; even 22 pregnancies are mentioned.



Another activity in which Lewis became engaged was grazing. He held Gowrie Station for some time but was beaten by drought. He also established a vineyard, probably the first in South West Queensland, and made wine. Salting fish from the
Warrego River was another activity and he also built a bake oven. Lewis was well known for his 6 a.m. swims in the Warrego River, summer and winter, but on reaching 80 years of age he substituted cold showers.



Lewis Richardson was a very colourful figure who had a very colourful lifetime. He has been described as a Labourer, Carrier, Coach Driver, Hawker, Station Owner, Viticulturist and Storekeeper. After his wife died in 1894 Lewis married Alice
Lipsey, or May Alice Lipsey as recorded on his Death Certificate, but record has been found of a Louis Richardson marrying Mary Livesey on 24 December 1896. No more enlightening information has been found concerning this second wife.



Lewis's third marriage was to Mary [Marie according to Sydney records]Magdaline McConnell when he was 84 years of age. Searches show that occured on 16 May 1924. A Marie Magdaline Richardson died in Queensland on 18 September 1929 but her
parents are recorded as Frederick Wilhelm Hansen and Marie Hedwick Langemann. Nothing more conclusive has been found concerning her.



Children to Lewis and Elizabeth [after searching records in Sydney for clarification of writings] were -



Henry - born at Jimbour 24 January 1866, died 1 February 1866



Lewis - born at Mackvale 17 April 1867, worked on North Comongin and Bulbana, married 1889 Elizabeth Ann Plummer who was born 8 December 1868. They had 11 children.



James Henry - born at Dalby 30 July 1868, married 1896 Martha Angus [born 1872 at Orange NSW]. They had 6 children.



Jane Onion - born at Blythdale 26 November 1870, married 1890 George Watton. They had 8 children.



Charles Mille - born at Mille Station, Charleville 2 July 1872, married Sarah Ann Angus [born 1878 at Orange NSW, sister of Martha Angus], died 15 June 1940. They had 7 children.







Daniel Elijah - born at Charleville 18 August 1874, married 1897 Margaret Cavanagh, died 14 March 1934. Family details of this marriage are recorded more fully as two daughters bring the Richardsons onto the Green Family Tree.



Unnamed 1876.



Walter - born at Wallumbilla 5 August 1877. Never married.



Alfred - born at Blackall 18 June 1879, married 30 December 1906 Mary Jane Galway [Annie Irene?] They had 9 children.



Elizabeth Ellen - born at Dalby 8 February 1881, married 14 February 1901 William James McConnell. They had 9 children.



Susan Pricillia - born at Augathella 1 August 1882, died at Hodgson 25 January 1885.



Mary Ann - born at Hodgson 20 September 1883, married 22 December 1910 Albert Edward Donemann born 14 May 1884 [Donovan?]. They had 10 children.



Susan Pricillia - born at Chinchilla 18 August 1885, died at Charleville 10 December 1906 [not married; died at birth of twin girls, Alice died 10 December 1906 and Maud died 13 December 1906].



Alice Maud - born at Woolleen 28 July 1887, married 11 March 1905 Duncan Alexander McConnell [ born 4 November 1883, a brother of William James McConnell]. They had 9 children.



Sarah Louisa - born at Charleville 7 December 1888, died 4 February 1889



Ethel May - born at Charleville 18 May 1890, married 16 November 1912 William Brennan. They had 1 child. Was there a second marriage to Doyle?



Unnamed 1894. Elizabeth died.



Lewis Richardson died at Charleville hospital on 10 July 1925 aged 85 years and 5 months.



The Richardson Family Tree and History contains further reading about this outstanding pioneer and his descendants.

Given Name: Lewis

Change: Date: 5 Oct 2020
Time: 13:59

Given Name: Elizabeth

Change: Date: 3 Apr 2004

Note: A comprehensive Family Tree and History for the Richardsons has been compiled by Blair Crowe, a descendant by marriage. A copy of those writings has been supplied by Kath Bowen [nee Hall] of Merrie Downs, via Toompine Qld, also a descendant by
marriage.



Henry Richardson was a Labourer/Gamekeeper/Husbandman, born 1802 at Saffron Walden, Essex, England, died 19 February 1856 at the same place. On 16 October 1823 he married Jane Onion at Saffron Walden.



Children to this marriage were -



Elijah 1831

Henry 1833

Joseph 1835

Lewis 1840

Charles 1842

Ellen 1846



Also handwritten in the Family Tree information supplied are the names John, James and Susan. Perhaps these were born during the first 8 years of marriage of Lewis and Jane.





Lewis Richardson migrated to Australia in 1858 and through subsequent issue and marriages his family became part of the Green/Sellwood Family Tree.



No research has been undertaken on other members of the family.

Given Name: Henry

Change: Date: 5 Oct 2020
Time: 13:47

Given Name: Jane

Change: Date: 21 Jun 2018
Time: 14:17

Note: Dan Jounquay is described in the Family History information supplied as -



"a ticket-of-leave man.After receiving permission to leave the Port Macquarie district in 1843 he went to Cecil Plains station on the Darling Downs shortly after it was opened up by H.S.Russell. It seems that Russell took him on as a bullocky
and he possibly helped cut the mountain track via Cunninghams Gap to Ipswich. [Searches in Sydney have found no confirmation of Daniel having been a convict].



"By 1849 he was an independant carrier, married to an 'Irish Orphan' from the 'Earl Grey', with a house and store at South Brisbane and plying between Brisbane, Ipswich and the Downs. He kept bullocks at the Gabba where the water never dried
up, so that South Brisbane became a meeting place for backblocks travellers.



"By 1865 Dan Jounquay had begun to follow the railway line that was extending west from Toowoomba. That year he married at Jondaryan."

Given Name: Daniel

Change: Date: 23 Apr 2004

Note: Family History information supplied describes Daniel Jounquay as having married "an Irish orphan from the 'Earl Grey'".



Searches have found this to have been Ellen Jane McCartney on board the 'Earl Grey', which arrived in Sydney on 6 October 1848. The ship carried 20 listed passengers and 195 female Irish orphans aged between 15 years and 20 years with a few
aged 21 and 22.



Ellen Jane McCartney was listed as aged 19 years,House Servant, from Belfast/Antrim, Roman Catholic, able to read and write.

Given Name: Ellen Jane

Change: Date: 24 Apr 2004

Note: Records show Morgan Cavanagh as a horse breaker, horse dealer, great horseman. Born in Ireland he drowned in the Condamine River while swimming racehorses. At the time of death, February 1881, Morgan was 31 years of age and had been in
Queensland for about 15 years. Perhaps therefore he had migrated to the colony in about 1865/66.

Given Name: Morgan

Change: Date: 20 Apr 2004

Note: Mary Ann's Death Certificate shows that she died as Mary Ann Quinn thereby indicating that she had remarried after the death of her husband Morgan Cavanagh. However no record has been found of such a second marriage.

Given Name: Mary Ann

Change: Date: 16 May 2004

Note: The Marriage Certificate on file is difficult to read but the following seems to be the details -



Saint Michael's Church, Highgate

27 March in the 1840s

The groom was a Brushmaker

His father was Joseph Askew, also a Brushmaker

The bride was a Spinster

Her father was William Haywood, a Shoemaker

All seemed to live at Highgate

Witnesses were William and Mary Haywood, assumably the bride's parents.

Given Name: Edward Stephen

Change: Date: 3 Apr 2004

Given Name: Mary Ann

Change: Date: 3 Apr 2004

Given Name: James

Change: Date: 4 Jan 2000

Given Name: Catherine

Change: Date: 3 Apr 2004

Given Name: Georgia

Change: Date: 29 Jan 2000

Change: Date: 3 Aug 2000

Given Name: William George

Change: Date: 11 Oct 2000

Given Name: Agnes May Dora

Change: Date: 15 Nov 2000

Given Name: Robert

Change: Date: 11 Oct 2000

Given Name: Elizabeth Bain

Change: Date: 11 Oct 2000

Note: William Ginn was born at Enniskillen, Northern Ireland on 15 May 1833. He died at Ipswich Qld on 24 January 1897 but records in Sydney do not show the names of his parents, merely 'Ginn' as his father.



It is thought that William Ginn married a Miss Graham in Sydney [date not known] before moving to Ipswich. However searches have failed to find a confirming record. It is also thought that mother Ginn and child died at childbirth and are buried
in the old cemetery at Ipswich. Again, searches have failed to find confirming records. Cemetery records should throw some light on this matter.



What has been found in NSW records in Sydney however is-



Birth - Hannah - Parents William Ginn and Ann

Reference 1851 1027/56

Birth - Emily - Parents William Ginn and Ann

Reference 1854 1610/52[or 53?]

Emily - Parents William Ginn and Ann

Reference 1854 5680/121C[or 131?]

Death - Ann E. Graham, 1854, age 18 years,

Reference 2178/41.



After a search of Ipswich cemetery records, requests for Certificates, using the above References, should throw some further light on these matters



William Ginn married Eliza Jane Costley on 5 April 1859 at the residence of George Meredith, Wesleyan Minister of Ipswich. They had 11 children details of whom and of some of their subsequent children are in handwritten Notes in Ginn/Hawson
Family Tree papers.



William and Eliza Jane's first son was Robert Ginn who married Elizabeth Bain Witham. They had two sons and three daughters, first son being William George Ginn who married Dora Mary Agnes Hawson [sometimes recorded as Agnes Mary Dora]. They
had five children one of whom was Valentine Walter Ginn [known as Walter Valentine] who married Merle Agnes Selwood.



Refer to the handwritten Notes for further information about the Descendants of William Ginn.



William Ginn made considerable contributions to the development of Queensland, particularly Ipswich, where a street appears to have been named after him - he resided at 1 Ginn Street. His first known activity was Manager of G.H.Wilson's Produce
Store, then partner in Ginn and Hooper Produce Store at Augathella. He later farmed Fairview Farm at Hampstead [near Purga, south of Ipswich] where one of his activities was to breed racehorses. He was also associated with a coal mine at
Hampstead.



In 1873 William Ginn became a member of Ipswich Show Committee. He was a Director of Queensland Woollen Manufacturing Company, Ipswich, in 1875, and a Director of Ipswich and West Moreton Permanent Building Society from 1877 until 1897.



William Ginn died at Ipswich on 24 January 1897. His Death Certificate could show the number of years he had been in Australia. Searches of shipping records could disclose evidence of his arrival.



Eliza Jane Ginn died at Ipswich on 19 August 1910. . Her parents are recorded as Charles Costley and Ellen Downey and her Death Certificate could show her age at death, place of birth and the number of years she had been in
Australia. Such information would open fruitful avenues for searching into her ancestory.

Given Name: William

Change: Date: 9 Jan 2001

Given Name: Eliza Jane

Change: Date: 19 Nov 2000