George Onslow and Eliza Davis

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Parents    George Onslow and Rachel Price          William Davis and Mary Geer

George Onslow (b 1796 Worchester, m Eliza Davis 1826 St Phillips Sydney, d 1844 Liverpool NSW)
Eliza Davis (b 1811 Paramatta, d 1879 Margaret St Petersham)
     Mary Jane (Jane) Onslow (b 1829 Liverpool, NSW, m John Rowley 1846 St Lukes, Liverpool , d 1909 Yule St, Pertersham)
         John Clarkson Rowley (n 1847 Liverpool, m Sarah Jane Smart 1874 Beechworth Vic, d 1928 Bethanga)
              Joseph Smart Rowley (b 1875 Yackandandah Vic, m Eircell Broome 1909 Albury NSW, m Avis Sirl 1922 Albury, d 1957 Bethanga)                                                                                           
     Elizabeth Onslow (b 1831 Liverpool, NSW, m Mountford Hector Rowley 1848 St Lukes, Liverpool , d 1906 Dulwich Hill)
     Simon Onslow (b 1833 Goulbourn Plains NSW, m Mary Jemimma Mortimer 1854 St Andrews Sydney, d 1901 Burwood, Sydneyl)
     George (Jnr) Onslow (b 1835 Liverpool, NSW, m Harriett Ann Macintire Shepherd 1854 St Johns, Parammatta, d 1914 Grafton NSWl)
     Joseph Onslow* (b 1837 Liverpool, NSW, m Mary Ann Wade 1855 Middle Creek near Wodonga Vic, d 1923 Ovens Benevolent Asylum, N E Vic)

*Joseph Onslow could be the person who brought the Rowleys to north east Victoria. See the discussion on John Clarkson Rowley's page
Two daughters married neighbouring Rowley brothers (Jane 1846, and Elizabeth 1848). Joseph and mart's family is interesting, They had ten children and five of them had cities in their names:
Sydney Onslow, Melbourne Onslow, Adelaide Onslow, Joshua Brisbane Onslow, Eva Perth Onslow
    But back to George. He was a comb maker, convicted of burglary in 1821 and arriving in Sydney the same year, aged 25. In 1823 he married 16 year old  Mary McAvoy and was assigned to her. Two months later he was requesting to be unassigned, she having left him. Mary died in 1825 and a few month later he married Eliza Davis and she applied for him to be assigned to her. They had five children (see above). He got his Ticket of leave in 1832, In later years he was buying land at Holdsworthy to run a market garden. He died in liverpool aged only 48.
Les Rowley

Chronology George Onslow

1796 Born Worchester
1821 (March) (Ornamental Comb maker, like his father) convicted for "burglariously breaking into, and robbing of a variety of gold seals, &c, value 20l, the house of J Pearce, of Droitwich". Teport Worchester Journal March 14 1821. He received a late reprieve from hanging to transportation  Arrived Sydney 24 November.
1822 Petition to be unassigned from Mr Hickey. Mr Hickey appeared to be doing some kind of shakedown. Text of petition with comments
1823 Married Mary McAvoy 26 March. According to marriage certificate, Mary was 16 years old.
1823 2 months later, petioning to be unassigned, as she had left him. Petition suggests improprieties on her part, and that she was sent to the factory.  Text of petition, with comments
1825 Mary died 24th Oct
1826 Married Eliza Davis 6 Feb
1826 13 Feb Eliza Petitions to have George assigned to her off stores. Text of Petition
1832 Ticket of leave 10 Sep
1835 Ticket of leave cancelled, conditional pardon having been recommended 23 Jul
1838 buying 50 Acres at Holdsworthy for 50 pounds.
1840 buying 52 Acres at Holdsworthy for 67 pounds for the purpose of a market garden .
1844 Dies Liverpool

Chronology Eliza Davis

1811 born Parramatta
1826 Marries George Onslow (four children, see above)
1844 George Onslow dies
1849  Marries James Jackson, St Lukes Liverpool (one child Emma)
1879  Dies in Petersham

Convict Indictment George Onslow , ex Vic Douglas

Acknowledgements

Lots of excellent stuff was received from Geoff Onslow and others in the early 90s.. Jude and Annette have added much in 2006. Thanks to everyone for the input
Vic Douglas for the Indictment above
Does anyone have addresses for Geoff Onslow, Margaret Walsh, Betty Robimson, Dorothy Brown, Jack Hanslow?

Research Notes

The trail back to England
1794 George Onslow(snr) and Rachel Price marry Claines, Worchester
1796 George Onslow chr 25 Nov, All Saints Worchester (LDS)   - Parents George and Rachel Onslow
1797-8 George Onslow convicted burglary in Droitwich 10 March 1821 Worchester City, aged 23, comb maker (Hindostan shipping Record)
1776-7 George Onslow(snr) aged 64 in 1841 census in St Thomas Birmingham (Not born in county) - Combmaker
1798  George Onslow year of birth on Ticket of leave
1797-8 Georg Onslow's birth from his headstone
1844 George Onslow dies Liverpool NSW

Jack Hanslow Comments
Name variations: Hanslow, Anslow, Henslow

Jude the Obscure (Genes Reunited)
Has a George Onslow who would be about right for George Senior, but his profession is "Clerk to a Solicitor"
Sons Matthew and Emannuel

Annette Beresford  (Genes Reunited)
Quoting "I had provisionally put Rachael down as the wife of George senior She lived in Dolby . this is also the place name on the D.certs. for Emmanuel and Jane's children who die in infancy and who are burried Allsaints Worcs".
And later, just when I had decided a combmaker was not a Solicitor's Clerk
"When Emanuel's 1st. wife Jane died Emanuel was a comb maker . The stumbling block ,as far as my f.h. is concerned ,is that when Emanuel marries for the second time ,he states that his father is a lawyer's clerk as indeed Mathew does when he marries . who is to say George senior wasn't both ? perhaps he took an indoor job in his retirement or just as likely Emanuel/Mathew elevated his status" 
Extract from a letter from Annette 31 Oct 06
I hope you find the following paper-trail of interest. I must stress that it is allcircumstantial and even the post-1837 material is as found. However this is how it came about. Shortly before the death of my grandmother Eva, she wrote on the back of a photograph of the Woodman tavern in Poole in Dorset, "this is the hotel owned by my grandfather Matthew Onslow. I am the eldest daughter of his eldest son John Frederick Onslow." The records do indeed show that Matthew and his family did live there (although there is no evidence that they owned it) and later his eldest daughter and her husband along with another sibling Isabel also lived there. By back tracking to the 1851 census we find Matthew born <1811> in Kenilworth in Warwickshire along with a Daughter named Clara born <1836> in Birmingham living near Southampton in Hampshire. There is no record of "our " Matthew in the 1841 census (the only one mentioned has been ruled out as ours). Clara Onslow B<1836> does feature on the 1841 census living in Tenbury (not far from Worcester) along with her sister Amelia. Their father is Emanuel Onslow a widower, and a policeman. The searches on the IGI list Clara and Amelia as the daughters of Jane and Emanuel and further searches give several other possible siblings. There is a marriage ref. for Emanuel Onslow to a Jane Dovey. There is a d. cert. For Jane Onslow (incl.) naming Emanuel the husband and a comb-maker. There is an address of Friar St. mentioned. Switching to Emanuel and Jane's children there are refs. for their burials on Family history on-line. Their place of abode being Doldy I think this is an area of Worcester now called Dolday although I'm not sure. There is also a ref. of a burial for Rachel Onslow abode Doldy (incl.) In 1841 Emanuel a policeman of Tenbury marries Sarah Colley--- he names his father as George a lawyers clerk and that is the last we hear of Emmanuel. Sarah remains in and around Tenbury until her death. Although she seems to remain unmarried, she has two children by a Robert Tisdale of Burford (near Tenbury) and it is one of these sons William who is the informant on her D.cert. Interestingly he gives her as the widow of Charles Onslow a policeman. Given that Emmanuel seems to vanish before the boys were born it is quite likely William had forgotten Sarah's husbands name or of course he could have been Charles Emmanuel. Exit Emmanuel enter Matthew could they be one and the same person? When Amelia marries she names her father as Matthew--- now George senior. The IGI has a marriage between George Onslow and Rachel Price and a son George born to that couple but no ref. for any other siblings. The links are the occupation of Comb- maker linking George senior and junior and Emmanuel although on M. certs. of Emmanuel and Matthew (incl.) George senior becomes a Lawyers clerk! I think the info. has to be taken in context of the times. Policemen were often "between" jobs -- until something better came up The family (if your George was anything to go by) were not exactly pillars of society and whilst declarations on official documents were not at this time to be taken as proof perfect, I do feel that these are members of the same family. I think a quote in the Manchester and Lancs Family history magazine sums it up "I think my relatives entered an early form of a witness protection scheme.
Annette followed up with an LDS entry
Emanuel Hounslow christened 12 Aug 1804 Kenilworth, Warwick, England, Parents George and Rachel Hounslow

March 2010:  received  from Helen Joy a copy of a letter from her researchers, suggesting that Matthew Onslow completed the Woodman Tavern,  Branksome late 1855 or early 1856.
(Branksome is in Dorset between Poole and Bournemouth - LR)

Email from Ron Madden in Wagga
Your George Onslow has to be the same George Onslow who was operating a quarry on the Georges River by the late 1830's.
I Don't know, but it could be (LR)
 
found Mary McEvoy in colonial secretary index ie try alternate spelling on searches tried, no joy
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