Charles Jones (abt. 1814 - 1878)

Born about 1814 in England, United Kingdom

Husband of Elizabeth (Reynolds) Hornery — married about Sep 1846 in Never Married

Husband of Sarah (Riley) Wilkinson — married 1 May 1876 in Church of England, Scone, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 12 Mar 1878 at about age 64 in Scone, Colony of New South Wales

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Biography

For information and speculation on Charles's ancestry and origins prior to what is shown here, please refer to the Research Notes below and the linked Personal Category therein.

Charles Jones had a common law marriage with Elizabeth Reynolds, daughter of Edward Reynolds Hipwell and Sarah Maria Singleton, from around 1846. ^{[1] [2]} Elizabeth was born on 26 December 1820 in Wilberforce, Colony of New South Wales, died on 7 December 1875 in Brushy Hill, Scone, Colony of New South Wales at age 54, and was buried on 9 December 1875 in the Anglican section of Scone Cemetery.

Charles and Elizabeth had seven children together.

After Elizabeth's death, Charles married Sarah Riley. ^[3]

Charles and Sarah had one child together.

Charles died on 12 March 1878 in Brushy Hill, near Scone, Colony of New South Wales about age 64, ^{[4] [5]} The cause of his death was prostate cancer. He was buried on 14 March 1878 in "Bellvue" [later renamed Gundy], Scone, Colony of New South Wales.

Introduction

Please note: As this Charles Jones also had a son by the same name the following conventions are adopted to minimise confusion:

• The Charles Jones who died in 1878 will be called 'Charles Jones'; or simply 'Charles'; and
• His eldest son, Charles Jones who died in 1922, will be referred to as 'Charles Jones Jr' or 'Charles Jr', despite there being no evidence that such a suffix was ever adopted at the time.

The Colony in 1825

Before discussing Charles, it is useful to understand a little of the colony around the time he appears to have arrived. It is perhaps easy to forget how it looked and how little was known of the interior of Australia in 1825, let alone the entire continent.

As at 1825:

• There are still less than 40,000 people of European origin in the colony;
• It has only been 12 years since the first European crossing of the Blue Mountains on the expedition by Blaxland, Wentworth and Lawson;
• Just five years ago Benjamin Singleton and his companions were the first Europeans to travel overland from Windsor to the Hunter Valley;
• In the past year Hume and Hovell journey to and first explore the Port Phillip district;
• This year the separate colony of Van Diemen's Land is proclaimed and, apart from that island, the whole of what is now Australia and New Zealand is controlled by the Governor (at that time, Major General Sir Thomas Makdougall Brisbane) in Sydney;
• Trial by jury is introduced (ending the military's judicial power over the whole population) and the New South Wales Legislative Council is established to advise the Governor;
• Another year will pass before the first military detachment is sent to what is now Western Australia and the whole western third of the continent is then formally annexed as British territory;
• It will be three years before Charles Sturt leads his expedition into western NSW along the Macquarie River and discovers the Darling River; and
• Seven years from now the 'Map of the discoveries in Australia' by John Arrowsmith will show that exploration in north-west NSW is limited to the journeys undertaken by Thomas Mitchell and that in his first journey in 1831 the furthest extent of white settlement towards the inland and north at that time is at Wallamoul Station near Tamworth.

Charles' & Elizabeth's Families & Relationships

While we know little of Charles before his first two children with Elizabeth are baptised in 1852, we do know a good deal of Elizabeth's background and family ancestry. Elizabeth Reynolds was born on Boxing Day 1820 at Wilberforce, just north of Windsor along with her twin sister Catherine Reynolds.

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.

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 four 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 four 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 five years later, in 1832, at which time Elizabeth and Catherine would have been only 12.

Elizabeth with John (1835 - 1846)

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. 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. However, within the next year or so they parted-company although all subsequently appear in the Hunter Valley.

Charles with Elizabeth (1846 - 1875)

The first evidence of Charles and Elizabeth being together is when their first children are baptised on 3 November 1852. The rite is carried-out by Rev. James S. White at the Presbyterian Church at Whittingham, around 5 kilometres south of Singleton and a similar distance east of Mt Thorley.

Charles' and Elizabeth's eldest, Mary Ann, is recorded as having been born at 'Barwin' in May 1847. 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 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'. On balance, Wollombi is probably incorrect.

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.

Charles with Sarah (1876 - 1878)

Around 6 months after Elizabeth passed-away in 1875, Charles married Sarah Riley in May 1876. Sarah was almost 40 years younger than Charles as she was about 22 and he at least 60.

Sarah was also a sister of the wife of his eldest son Charles Jr., Elizabeth Riley, who married back in 1871. In fact, the Riley and Jones families must have been quite close as just a few years later another of the sons of Charles Jones, James Jones, would marry another of the Riley girls, Ruth Riley.

After Charles' death in 1878, The widowed Sarah went on to marry Joe Wilkinson in 1880.

Life Facts

• Charles and Elizabeth (Elizabeth (Reynolds) Hornery (1820 - 1875)) came together in around 1846/47 with Elizabeth's youngest by John Honary being born in July 1845 while their first child together, Mary Ann was born in May 1847.
• When Elizabeth's husband advertises in regard to her leaving him (refer Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser (Windsor, NSW : 1844 - 1846) Thursday 2 April 1846 p 3, and Hawkesbury Courier and Agricultural and General Advertiser (Windsor, NSW : 1844 - 1846) Thursday 23 April 1846 p 4) it seems that he, and presumably the whole family, had been living somewhere along what is now the Putty Road between Windsor and Singleton.
• Mary Ann and Charles Jr. were baptised together in November 1852 so the whole family was at least visiting Whittingham in the Hunter Valley at that time.
• The birthplaces of the further children reflect a potentially itinerant existence:

1. George baptised in Mudgee in April 1854; and
2. James being born at 'Barwon River' in 1855
3. Ruben and Elizabeth both being born at "Burrowa" in 1859 and "Boorooma" in 1862 respectively (this is perhaps most likely Old Boorooma Station on the Barwon River current address is 43503 Kamilaroi Hwy, Walgett NSW 2832 as Elizabeth's birth is informed about 5 weeks after her birth in Wee Waa).

• We can see that in November 1857 Charles was granted two portions of land (Portions 1 and 2 in the Parish of Macqueen) totalling 96 acres.
• By 1866 Charles, Elizabth and the family had certainly settled around Scone with the Birth Certificate of their last child together, Albert, showing Charles' occupation as Farmer and Albert's place of birth as being Brushy Hill Farm.
• Their settlement is confirmed in the 1870's by:

1. their eldest son Charles Jr. marrying in Scone in 1871;
2. their third child George dying there at age 21 in 1874;
3. Elizabeth dying there in 1875; and
4. Charles remarrying (Sarah (Riley) Wilkinson (abt. 1854 - 1919)) on 1 May 1876.

• On the marriage certificate to Sarah Riley, he states that his father's name is James.
• On Charles' death in July 1878, only 2 years after his marriage to Sarah, his death certificate records him as being 'age 64 years' so he seems to have been born around 1814.
• His death certificate also indicates that he arrived '53 years' earlier, so around 1825 although there are no arrivals in the colonies under this name in that year.
• James White held a licence for Boorooma which was apparently the first run to be taken up on the Barwon River. This was one of 3 holdings that the James White inherited at the death of his father in 1844 when he was just 16 years of age. The Whites are well known in the Hunter.
• Brushy Hill (formerly known as Bellevue) where Charles lived out his life from around 1870, is about 15 kilometres along the road to Gundy, north-east of Scone. The land granted to Charles in 1857 is still in evidence on maps of the parish up until at least the 1970's. By that time it had been resumed for the construction of Glenbawn Dam but very little is covered by the lake or Dam wall; in fact, most of the land immediately down-stream of the Dam wall, bounded by the Hunter River to the southeast and Glewnbawn Road to the west is where their farm once stood. On current NSW Government maps the area is almost exactly that covered by DP 723296 and DP 777467. The search continues for Colonial Secretary documents associated with the original land grant to Charles.

Research Notes

Given the extensive research undertaken to determine Charles's origins and ancestry, all of the notes previously in this profile have been moved to a relative Personal Category: Category: Jones-36835 Charles Jones (abt. 1814 - 1878)

All users proposing to make any changes are asked to carefully review the information provided there before making any changes and, if relevant primary sources or DNA matches are found, ensure that all such information is highlighted both here and there.

Please note that while some secondary sources and websites indicate that Charles was from Chertsey, England, there is no reliable evidence of that being correct. Thus, his place and year of birth are both currently marked as being uncertain.

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
3. ↑ NSW BDM marriage reg. no. 4130/1876, of JONES, CHARLES, and RILEY, SARAH, registered at at SCONE
4. ↑ NSW BDM death registration of JONES, CHARLES, reg. no. 9481/1878, showing AGE 64 YEARS, and DIED SCONE, registered at SCONE
5. ↑ ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION. (1878, December 24). New South Wales Government Gazette (Sydney, NSW : 1832 - 1900), p. 5135. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article223757888

• Advertising (1896, August 27). The Maitland Daily Mercury (NSW : 1894 - 1939), p. 1. Retrieved May 14, 2022, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article123772368

Acknowledgements

WikiTree profile Jones-7311 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.