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tenterfieldjulie
25-11-12, 12:41
Name: David Ware FFMF
Date and place of birth: 9 Feb 1820 Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire
Names of parents: George Ware and Elizabeth Thompson
Date and place of baptism: No childhood baptism – Member of Baptist Church
Marriage: at St. Sepulchre, Newgate, London to Sarah Alice Climpson on 7th June 1840 (David signed, Sarah her mark)
Occupation(s): Agricultural labourer at marriage and in 1841 Census;
1885 NSW Land & Stock Return: Clifden Bois, Grafton – 1089 acres, 10 horses, 140 cattle, 2 pigs
Addresses where they lived:
1841 Census – Great Moor, Chesham Bois, Buckinghamshire –
David Ware age 21 ag labourer, born Yes; Sarah age 21, born yes; Sarah age 5 months
Shipping ?,
First few years in NSW at Kangon, Clarence River, NSW and then from 1854 for about 40 years at Moleville, Grafton, NSW
Date, place and cause of death: 9 January 1896 Clifden Bois, Grafton NSW Reg No 1962 – 75 yrs 11 mths
Date and place of burial: January 1896 Grafton, NSW
Details of will / administration of their estate: Unknown
Memorial inscription : In Grafton Cemetery -
Our Dear Father, David Ware, Died Jan 1896, at Clifden Bois
Born Chesham Bois, Feb 7th 1820, 75 years and 11 months,
Our Dear Mother, Sarah Ware, who died at Clifden Bois, August 11th 1897,
Born Chesham, England July 19th 1819, aged 77 years and 1 month
Inscripton verse:
Come ye unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Deliver.....amen to, you, I have passed away, to regions far.... (Very hard to transcribe)
Your children have erected this stone as a token of their love.
(Also in grave, Emma Bettridge, Annie Ware, daughters of the above)
Children: Born Buckinghamshire: Sarah 1841, Elizabeth 1842-1842, George 1843 Waterside, Sophia 1844-1845, Emma 1846; Born NSW: Kangon, Clarence River: Annie 1849, William 1852, Moleville: Eliza 1854, Charles David 1860-1873.