# Benjamin Saville

Benjamin Saville (17 NOV 1814 – 30 JAN 1896); child of John Savell and Rebecca Peacock; born in Hatfield Heath, Essex, England; married Mary Cook and Amelia Baker; parent of 5 children; died in Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia.

**Lifespan:** 17 NOV 1814 – 30 JAN 1896

## Also known as
- Benjamin Savell

## Parents
- [John Savell](/p/john-savell-83044.md) (father)
- [Rebecca Peacock](/p/rebecca-peacock-83045.md) (mother)

## Spouses
- [Mary Cook](/p/mary-cook-82923.md) — m. 1845
- [Amelia Baker](/p/amelia-baker-82922.md) — m. 1860

## Children
- [Lydia Amelia Saville](/p/lydia-amelia-saville-82997.md)
- [Edwin Charles Saville](/p/edwin-charles-saville-82999.md)
- [Lucy Eliza Saville](/p/lucy-eliza-saville-82894.md)
- [Frederick Saville](/p/frederick-saville-83003.md)
- [Clara Adelaide Saville](/p/clara-adelaide-saville-83004.md)

## Timeline
- 17 NOV 1814 — **Born** at Hatfield Heath, Essex, England — Born 17 November 1814 and baptised at Hatfield Heath in Essex on 23 July 1815, the son of John Savell and Rebecca Peacock. The English family spelled the name SAVELL and baptised in a non-conformist congregation, which is why no Anglican parish register search found him: FreeREG's Essex coverage is Church of England only. His convict indent gives his native place as 'Essex' with no parish, and his conditional-pardon register agrees; the parish comes from the baptism, not from any Australian record. His father was buried on 8 March 1815, when Benjamin was four months old. He was 19 on arrival in March 1833 and 34 in 1848, both implying 1813-14, which is the usual overstatement. No place id: the tree has no Hatfield Heath row.
- 23 JUL 1815 — **Baptised** — Baptised at Hatfield Heath, Essex, aged eight months, in a non-conformist congregation — which is why no Anglican parish register search ever found him. His father had been buried four months earlier. The English family spelled the name SAVELL; SAVILLE is the spelling he used in New South Wales. No place id: the tree has no Hatfield Heath row.
- 23 JUL 1832 — **Trial and sentence** — Tried at Chelmsford — the Essex Assizes — for house breaking, and sentenced to transportation for life. He was 19, single, could read but not write, was Protestant, and gave his trade as farm labourer. No place id: the tree has no Chelmsford row.
- MAR 1833 — **Convict assignment** at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia — Assigned on arrival as a farm labourer to A. C. Innes — Major Archibald Clunes Innes — at Port Macquarie.
- 11 MAR 1833 — **Immigrated** at Sydney, New South Wales, Australia — Arrived at Sydney Cove on 11 March 1833 as a convict per the ship Andromeda, on her second voyage, which had sailed 13 November 1832. Sentenced at Chelmsford, the Essex Assizes, to transportation for life for house breaking; he was 19, single, a farm labourer who could read but not write, and his indent gives his native place only as the county of Essex.
- 1843 — **Ticket of leave** at Port Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia — Granted a ticket of leave for the district of Port Macquarie, gazetted 12 May 1843.
- 1 JUN 1848 — **Conditional pardon** — Conditional pardon granted 1 June 1848, register reference 48/1119, on condition that he not return to the country in which he was convicted during the remainder of his sentence. Notified in the New South Wales Government Gazette of 8 September 1848 and repeated in the Maitland Mercury five days later; the indent carries the same date in a later annotation beneath his entry.
- 1896 — **Buried** at Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia — Buried in Lansdowne General Cemetery, plot 'Ang', with his first wife Mary and his second wife Amelia under a single memorial. The plaque reads 'FIRST SETTLER OF LANSDOWNE'.
- 30 JAN 1896 — **Died** at Lansdowne, New South Wales, Australia — Died at Lansdowne on the Manning River, where he had lived for some forty years, and was buried in Lansdowne General Cemetery (plot 'Ang') under a plaque calling him 'First settler of Lansdowne'. His death was registered in the TAREE district, 4208/1896, and the index records both his parents as UNKNOWN. Taree is the registration district, not necessarily the place of death, and it covers Lansdowne; WikiTree's narrative says he died at Taree while its own data field says Lansdowne. Lansdowne is recorded here as the more likely of the two — reversible if a death certificate ever says otherwise.

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