John Field

John Field
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1810 – 1887

Born26 July 1810 in Udimore, Sussex, EnglandDied10 June 1887 in St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, aged 76

Farmer - of Oxley Island on the Manning River from 1857, and still described as a farmer at his death in 1887, by then living at Mount Street, St Leonards.Methodist - recorded as such on arrival in 1838, a local preacher on the Manning River, and buried in the Wesleyan ground at Chatswood in 1887.

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Parents

JF John Field father MB Mary Bromley mother

Spouses

SW Sarah Jane Watson 1814–1842 m. c. 1831 MA Margaret Ann Albury 1831–1913 m. 28 February 1848

Children with Sarah Jane Watson

SF Sarah Jane Field b. 1831 JF John W. Field b. 1835

Harriett Maria Field 1838–1908 MF Mary Elizabeth Field 1840–1923

Children with Margaret Ann Albury

JF James Robert Field 1855–1928 DF Dinah Emma Field 1857–1927 AF Ann Matilda Field 1859–1941 SF Sivyer Henry Field 1870–1919 MF Mercy Esther Field d. 1865

Places 9 locations

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1810s
Born 26 July 1810

Udimore, Sussex, England

Born at Udimore, Sussex, England; son of John Field, farm labourer, and Mary.

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Baptised 29 July 1810

Udimore, Sussex, England

Baptised at Udimore, Sussex, by John Myers, perpetual curate - the same parish, and the same register, in which Richard Crossingham sr was baptised in April 1813.

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1830s
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Birth of daughter Sarah Jane Field c. 1831
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Birth of son John W. Field c. 1835
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Religion 1838–1887

Methodist - recorded as such on arrival in 1838, a local preacher on the Manning River, and buried in the Wesleyan ground at Chatswood in 1887.

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Birth of daughter Harriett Maria Field c. 1838
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Immigrated 11 December 1838

Arrived at Sydney Cove on the bounty ship 'James Pattison' with his wife Sarah and three children - a boy of three and a half, Sarah Jane, and the infant Harriet. John was listed as a farm labourer of Udimore, Sussex; Sarah as a native of Brede, Sussex.

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1840s
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Residence 1840–1842

Narellan, New South Wales, Australia

In the parish of Narellan, in the Camden district - the Cowpastures. His daughter Mary Elizabeth was born here on 3 September 1840 and his wife Sarah died here, at Kenwick, on 9 September 1842.

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Birth of daughter Mary Elizabeth Field 3 September 1840

Narellan, New South Wales, Australia
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Death of wife Sarah Jane Watson 9 September 1842

Narellan, New South Wales, Australiaaged 28
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Married to Margaret Ann Albury 28 February 1848

Penrith, New South Wales, Australia

Married at Penrith by banns in the Church of England: John Field, widower, signed; Margaret Ann Albury, spinster, made her mark, with her father's consent. The witnesses were John and Mary Ann Albury of Mulgoa.

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1850s
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Birth of son James Robert Field 31 March 1855

Bolwarra, New South Wales, Australia
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Residence 1856

Bolwarra, New South Wales, Australia

At Bolwarra on the Hunter River, between the Camden district and the Manning. His daughter Harriett Maria married Richard Crossingham here on 26 January 1856 and their first child was born here the same year.

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Residence 1857–1881

Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia

Farmed 29 acres on Oxley Island, purchased 1857 - the family's link to Oxley Island, where his Crossingham grandchildren were born.

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Occupation 1857–1887

Farmer - of Oxley Island on the Manning River from 1857, and still described as a farmer at his death in 1887, by then living at Mount Street, St Leonards.

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Birth of daughter Dinah Emma Field 1857

Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
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Birth of daughter Ann Matilda Field 2 August 1859

Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia
1860s
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Death of daughter Mercy Esther Field 25 August 1865

Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia
1870s
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Birth of son Sivyer Henry Field 1870

Oxley Island, New South Wales, Australia
1880s
77
Residence 1887

St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Mount Street, St Leonards, on the North Shore of Sydney - his last address, after the Manning River.

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Died 10 June 1887

St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

Died at St Leonards / North Shore, Sydney; buried Chatswood South Methodist cemetery.

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Buried 12 June 1887

Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia

Buried in the Wesleyan burial ground at Chatswood - the Chatswood South Methodist cemetery, now the Chatswood Pioneers Memorial Reserve. The grave is unmarked.

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