Charles Tompson
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Charles Tompson (1784 - 1871)

Charles Tompson
Born in Birmingham, Warwickshire, Englandmap
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Husband of — married 1806 (to 19 Mar 1822) in New South Wales, Australiamap
Husband of — married 25 Sep 1822 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Died at about age 87 in Surry Hills, Sydney, New South Wales, Australiamap
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Biography

Charles Tompson was a convict after the Third Fleet.

Convict: Charles Tompson, one of 338 convicts transported on the ship 'Coromandel' , November 1803. Sentence details: Convicted at Warwick Assizes for a term of 7 years. Vessel: Coromandel and Experiment. Date of Departure: November 1803. Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

Charles, child of Charles & Martha Louisa, was baptised on 12 May 1784 in Birmingham, St Philip, Warwickshire, England.[1]

Charles Tompson, a labourer, was sentenced to 7 years transportation at Warwick, England, on 23 March 1802, for "grand larceny" (the theft of two library books).

He was received on the Captivity hulk at Portsmouth on 22 September 1802, his age recorded as 18, then sent on board the Coromandel on 20 October 1803.[2]

He arrived in Sydney in May 1804 aboard the Coromandel.

He worked as a clerk in the Sydney Commissariat Office under John Palmer.

Marriage 1: On 8 June 1806 he married Elizabeth Boggis at Sydney. Elizabeth was the daughter of William Boggis (First Fleet Convict) and Elizabeth Smith (2nd Fleet Convict).

He became a free man when his term expired in March 1809.[3] He was eligible for a 50-acre grant of land, which he took up on the Nepean River and called Birmingham.

In 1809, after his pardon, he advertised his shop the “House of Charles Tompson” in Bell Row.

In 1811 he held a spirit licence.

In 1814 he was described as a merchant. He had a shop at the corner of Pitt and Hunter Streets. By 1820 he was operating a butchery with a partner, Charles Armytage.

His 50 acre grant of land at Evans was cancelled in 1816 - his name was on a list of persons in the Colonial Secretary's records whose land grants have been cancelled on account of "recent seditious conduct".[4]

He purchased 700 acres in 1819 called “Clydesdale” on the South Creek, (on Richmond Road, near Marsden Park, on way to Windsor). He enlarged the holding by purchasing additional land at South Creek, to an area of 865 acres.

He also bought 800 acres on the Coal River in Van Diemen’s Land, and was granted 600 acres at Camden, Alfred’s Retreat, in 1824.

Marriage 2: Following his wife's death in 1822 Charles married Jane Armytage on 25 September 1822 at St John’s Parramatta by the Rev. Samuel Marsden.[5] Jane Armytage was the widow of Tompson's partner Charles Armytage. The marriage announcement was in the The Sydney Gazette: "Married.-On the 25th ult. by special licence, at St. John's Church, Parramatta, by the Rev. Samuel Marsden, Mr. Charles Tompson, of Hunter-street, to Mrs. Jane Armytage, of Pitt-street, in this Town."

In December1822 Tompson announced his “intention, very shortly, to reside wholly in the Interior”, and he closed his shop and moved to Clydesdale.

In 1824 he was at Clydesdale with his wife and nine children. It is probable that the present homestead was built by Thompson during the early 1820s.

In the 1828 census he was the master of 17 assigned convicts, including a cook, a shoemaker, a stableman, two shepherds, two labourers, a herdsman, a ploughman, and a carpenter. He also employed a teacher, and an overseer. He had 14 horses, 300 cattle and 795 sheep and an additional 65 cattle and 250 sheep owned by his son, Charles Jr.[6]

He was still living at Clydesdale in the 1840s and he donated two acres of land for St Phillip's Church of England which was built by local residents in 1845.

However the depression of the 1840s was also a period of financial trouble for Tompson which saw him lose Clydesdale in 1850. He and Jane and their three unmarried daughters moved to Sydney and lived in modest houses in Church Street, Surry Hills, both called "Clydesville".

Death: Charles Tompson died on 10 January 1871 at his home “Clydesville” at Surry Hills, Sydney; his age was given as 87 and his occupation as gentleman.

Death notice in the Evening News: "On the 10th January, at Clydesville, Surry Hills, Charles Tompson, senior, late of Clydesville(sic), near Windsor, aged 87 years."[7]

He was buried on 11 January in the family vault in Sydney’s Devonshire Street Cemetery (later transferred to the Church of England section of Rookwood Cemetery, Section 4, No. 1380)

His son Charles Tompson Jnr was known as the first Native-born Poet, and another son Frederick Anslow Tompson was known as the Father of Wagga Wagga NSW.

Burial

Charles Tompson BIRTH : 1784, England DEATH : 10 Jan 1871 (aged 86–87), Surry Hills, City of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia BURIAL : Rookwood General Cemetery. Rookwood, Cumberland Council, New South Wales, Australia PLOT : Zone B Anglican Section 4 Grave 1380 MEMORIAL ID : 189590597 https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/189590597/charles-tompson

Sources

  1. ↑ Baptism: "Birmingham, England, Church of England Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812"
    Reference Number: DRO 25/3; Archive Roll: M135
    Ancestry Sharing Link - Ancestry Record 4961 #2329575 (accessed 25 March 2022)
    Charles Thompson baptism on 12 May 1784, child of Charles & Martha Louisa, in Birmingham, St Philip, Warwickshire, England.
  2. ↑ UK, Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849 for Charles Thompson, Captivity Register 1801-1836 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1989/images/31791_221377-00348?pId=78919
  3. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Certificates of Freedom, 1810-1814, 1827-1867 (NRS 12208) Register of Certificates of Freedom 4 Feb 1810 - 26 Aug 1814
  4. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Copies of Letters Sent Within The Colony, 1814-1827
  5. ↑ New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Marriages, 1790-1966 for Charles Tompson Vol 01, Baptisms, 1790-1825; Marriages, 1789-1823; Burials, 1790-1825 https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/60735/images/44132_1831101454_0699-00361?pId=28517
  6. ↑ 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy) for Charles Tompson (NRS 1273) 1828 Census: Householders´ Returns Bathurst https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/1224/images/CSAUS1828A_081762-0358?pId=10223
  7. ↑ Family Notices (1871, January 11). Evening News (Sydney, NSW : 1869 - 1931), p. 2. Retrieved December 12, 2021, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article129969100

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When Charles Tompson was born on 12 May 1784, in Birmingham, Warwickshire, England, his father, Charles Thompson, was 38 and his mother, Martha Louisa Webster, was 28. He married Elizabeth Boggis on 8 June 1806, in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 10 January 1871, in Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia, at the age of 86, and was buried in Rookwood, New South Wales, Australia.[1]
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