Elizabeth (Reynolds) Hornery (1820 - 1875)

Born 26 Dec 1820 in Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia

Ancestors

Wife of John Henry (Honary) Honery — married 13 Jul 1835 (to Mar 1846) in Wilberforce, New South Wales, Australia

Wife of Charles Jones — married about Sep 1846 in Never Married

Descendants

Died 7 Dec 1875 at age 54 in Brushy Hill, New South Wales,Australia

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Biography

Elizabeth Reynolds was born on Boxing Day 1820 at Wilberforce, just north of Windsor along with her twin sister Catharine/ Catherine Riley, formerly Reynolds, also known as Becket.

Elizabeth's parents were Edward Reynolds (1794-1832) and Sarah Singleton (1795-1828) who were both born in the colony within its first decade. Edward and Sarah married at Wilberforce in 1819 when they were both around 25.

The town of Wilberforce had been established in 1810 by the 5th Governor of New South Wales, Lachlan Macquarie (1762 - 1824). The town is named named after William Wilberforce (1759–1833) who was a British politician, philanthropist and a leader of the successful movement to abolish the slave trade in England from 1807. Almost certainly unknown to Elizabeth in her lifetime was that the namesake of her town of birth was her 16th cousin three times removed, and that the governor who had established it was her 17th cousin.

Elizabeth's mother Sarah was a younger sister of Benjamin Singleton who was a member of the 1820 party that found the first trafficable route from the Hawkesbury to the Hunter Valley. The town of Singleton is built on part the 200 acres granted to Benjamin on 31 March 1821 as a reward for his share in this successful expedition and the family ultimately moved to the Hunter Valley.

However, before marrying Edward, Elizabeth's mother Sarah had already given birth to 4 children with Thomas Sibrey (1788-1818). After her first husband's death, and the birth of the twins with Edward, she gave birth to a further 4 children, before dying herself in February 1828 at the age of 32. This would have left Edward with the care of all of the children then still living.

Edward himself died just under 5 years later, in 1832, at which time Elizabeth and Catherine would have been only 12.

Elizabeth with John

In 1835 Elizabeth married John Honary at Wilberforce. John was born in the Hawkesbury area in 1808 and would have been around 27 years of age with his then 15-year-old bride (her death certificate states that she was 16 years of age when she married John although she was actually 5 months shy of that age). Together, they had 5 children between 1836 and 1845. The youngest, Henry William (1845-1914) was christened at Richmond so they were apparently still together in the Hawkesbury region at that time. Around March 1846 they parted-company although all subsequently appear in the Hunter Valley.^[1][2]

At the time that Elizabeth left John in March 1846, he appears to have been, and the whole family had probably previously been, resident at ‘Gibbaguhyar’, which he describes as being ‘near Longweeny’. This seems likely to be around what is now known as Long Weeny Creek at Putty (there is also a Long Weeny Farm at 8646 Putty Road, Putty NSW 2330, which is roughly opposite the Grey Gum Cafe on the Putty Road).

Elizabeth with Charles

The first evidence of Charles and Elizabeth being together is more than 6 years later when their first children are baptised on 3 November 1852. The rites are carried-out by the Rev. James S. White at the Presbyterian Church at Whittingham, around 5 kilometres south of Singleton and a similar distance east of Mt Thorley. Rev White was ordained at St. Andrews Presbyterian Church Singleton in 1847 and active in the region until his death, also in Singleton, in 1902.

Charles' and Elizabeth's eldest, Mary Ann, is recorded as having been born at 'Barwin' in May 1847 (so, conceived in late 1846). Charles Jr's birth was shown to have been in October 1850. Interestingly, Charles Jr's Baptism Certificate does not record a place of birth but simply shows his parents' abode as 'Barwin' and his father Charles' occupation as 'Stock keeper'. Charles Jr's Death Certificate in 1922 (informed by his son Henry) shows his place of birth as Wollombi, but the Birth Certificate of Henry in 1886 shows his father's place of birth as 'Barwin River'. Either seem possible given that the family was likely based around the Barwon River until the mid-1860's, although there is also some indication of on-going contact with Elizabeth's twin sister Catharine who resided around Wollombi until well after 1850.

In 1985, Gertrude Jones (Smith) recalled that Charles Jones Jr. was, "born on the Barwon and had many brothers, otherwise nothing is known of his origins".

The place 'Barwin', 'Barwin River', 'Barwon' (as recorded in the Baptismal record for Charles Jr's younger brother George) or 'Barwan' (as on some maps of the time) probably all refer to the same part of the country. This was probably an extensive pastoral 'run' which could well have stretched from the Barwon River districts (to as far as Mungindi in the north, through Walget, Brewarrina, Nyngan to Dubbo in the the west) to Cassilis or Merriwa (in the south-east).

According to the Geographical Names Board of New South Wales, Barwon is, "Aboriginal: from barwum or bawon, meaning great, wide, awful river of muddy water. (Reed 1967)," and further notes that "Baawan" is, "a Ngiyambaa Aboriginal name for both the Barwon and Darling." The name first receives official recognition in 1847 when, in the first of his two 1847 maps of Australia's east, John Arrowsmith records the previously named 'Karaula or Darling' River as being the 'Karaula or Barwan' River. W. Allen Wood in his book "Dawn in the Valley: The Early History of the Hunter Valley" (1972) notes that, "By 1850... All that vast region (far beyond the Barwin and Condamine) was given to sheep and cattle, and the great wool and stock routes led to Maitland, the capital centre."

This all makes sense if Charles was caring for stock and Elizabeth and their children were with him.

Elizabeth's death from uterine cancer on 7 December 1875 is informed by Charles. Her married name with John is used so she had obviously never legally adopted the 'Jones' surname. Charles correctly advises the 5 children born with John and 6 of the children born to him (not including George who died the year before Elizabeth).

Elizabeth was supposedly buried at St Luke's Anglican in Scone although her headstone (shared with George) is actually in the Church of England/Anglican section of the Scone General Cemetery. Her age (54) is correctly recorded on her headstone but incorrectly reported (52) on her death certificate.

Research Notes

It is noted that back in 2016 a now inactive WikiTree member uploaded a purported picture of Elizabeth. Given that there is no explanation of where this photo came from (other than Ancestry - there's a reliable source!) with no explanation of its history or provenance, it seems highly doubtful to be her. A reverse-image search via Google finds that it is only publicly accessible on WikiTree, Ancestry, Geni and MyHeritage. None of these are primary sources.

Sources

1. ↑ Advertising (1846, April 2). Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser (Windsor, NSW : 1844 - 1846), p. 3. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66379145
2. ↑ Advertising (1846, April 23). Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser (Windsor, NSW : 1844 - 1846), p. 4. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article66379163

• NSW BDM birth record 5413/1821 V18215413 1B
• NSW BDM marriage record 1343/1835 V18351343 19 (to John Honary)
• NSW BDM death registration:

HORMERY [sic], ELIZABETH

cause of death: Cancer of Uterus (18 months)

reg. no. 9672/1875

parents EDWARD REYNOLDS, shipbuilder and ELIZABETH [sic] SYBURY

registered at SCONE

informed by: Charles Jones, Farmer, Brushy Hill

• Australian Royalty website
• Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/191004866/elizabeth-jones : accessed 14 May 2022), memorial page for Elizabeth Reynolds Jones (26 Dec 1820–13 Dec 1875), Find a Grave Memorial ID 191004866, citing Scone Anglican Cemetery, Scone, Upper Hunter Shire, New South Wales, Australia ; Maintained by Peter Jones (contributor 49245532)
• Link - https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LC55-4BQ

DNA Confirmation

• Parental relationships are confirmed by an Autosomal Comparison match between Nora Towler (formerly Hoad) GEDmatch T406107 and her third cousin once removed Peter Jones GEDmatch T057831 showing: 3 matching segments, total segments >7 cM = 55.3 cM, largest segment = 26.7 cM, and estimated MRCA = 4.0

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Jones-7310 created through the import of Jones Family - 1 Aug 2011.ged on Jul 31, 2011 by Peter Jones. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Peter and others.