Australian Royalty

"By the Earl Spencer His Majesty's 73d Regiment...
By the above ship also have arrived the following passengers; viz. Mr. and Mrs. Young, Mr. John Dixon, Mr. I.N. Nicholas, Mr. D. Miller, and four servants; Mr. and Mrs. Pear and family, Mr. and Mrs. Kendall and family; Mr. and Mrs. Belvin, and son; and Mr and Mrs. Hovel, and family."

Kendall, Thomas, came free, Elizabeth, 1827, protestant, handholder, Illawarra
Kendall, Jane, 45, came free, Elizabeth, 1827
Kendall, Thomas, 22, came free, Rosanna, 1827
Kendall, Basil, 21, came free, L. Blackwood, 1828
Kendall, Joseph, 19, came free, Elizabeth, 1828
Kendall, John, 17, came free, Elizabeth
Kendall, Laurence, 11, came free, Elizabeth 1828
Kendall, Edward, 6, came free, Elizabeth, 1828

Name: Thomas S Kendall
Spouse Name: Caroline Rutter
Marriage Date: 1830
Marriage Place: New South Wales
Registration Place: Sydney, New South Wales
Registration Year: 1830
Volume Number: V A

OBITUARY.
The departure from our midst of the late Thomas Surfleet Kendall J.P., whose death and burial were briefly noticed in our last issue, will be severely felt by Kiama Society, but especially so by the members of his own family, and his intimate acquaintances. Seeing that the family is one of the oldest and closely connected with the early history of New Zealand, of this colony, and also of this district, it will not, in a notice of this kind, be out of place to advert to some incidents connected with the family's advent to, and experience in, those colonies. The late Mr. Kendall was born in Bryanstone-street, Marylebone, London, on June 14th, 1807, and consequently at the time of his death was in his 77th year. He was the eldest son of the Rev. Thomas and Jane Kendall, who with Thomas, the subject of this notice, and other children, sailed to this colony in the year 1813, under the auspices of the Church of England Missionary Society, in the ship Earl Spencer, making the passage in six months (which in those days was considered a very good one.) They landed in Sydney early in the following year, and shortly afterwards sailed to New Zealand in the mission brig Active, Captain Hanson, accompanied by the following reverend gentlemen and their families : S. Marsden, W. Hall, J. King, and W. Hanson. The Kendall family resided in New Zealand eleven years, principally in the Bay of Islands, at the expiration of which time they returned to England by the whaler Mary, Captain Renwick, arriving there via Cape Horn after a six months passage. During a two years' residence in the old country, or rather towards the latter end of that
time, the health of Mr. T. S. Kendall began to fail, and, accidentally falling in with Captain Herd—an old friend of his father's—who was about to sail to New Zealand with a number of other gentlemen with the object of forming a settlement in that colony, he —the late of T. S. Kendall—accepted an offer to accompany the party in the capacity of interpreter, he having previously become proficient in the Maori language, and again sailed for New Zealand accordingly, Mr. Kendall served the company as interpreter for about two years, and during that period was the means of saving two vessels and their crews from destruction by the natives; and an incident occurred during the same period which, had it
not been for Mr. Kendall's sagacity and prompt action, would have resulted in
the whole of the party being killed. Mr. Kendall—the subject of this notice
—left New Zealand for Sydney, arriving there in 1827, and after a residence
of some six months with Mr. John Cowell, of Parramatta, he was surprised
while at breakfast one morning by the unexpected arrival of his father from
Valparaiso, South America. In November of the same year, Mr. Kendall, senior, purchased a quantity of land in Kiama—now known as the Barroul Estate—from Mr. Wright, and Thomas Surfleet, the eldest son, was sent down to manage it, the family following shortly afterwards. It will thus be seen that the late T. S. Kendall, whose remains were interred in the private cemetery on the same estate on Sunday last, was nearly 21 years old on coming to the district, and had been a resident of the same for nearly fifty-six years. Three years after coming to the district—that is to say on 11th January, 1830—he was married by the Rev. Dr.
Lang, then the Presbyterian chaplain, to the present Mrs., or rather widow
Kendall, of Barroul. They reared a family of six daughters and three sons on the strictest moral principles. Of the daughters two are dead, namely, Mrs. R. Marks and Mrs. J. H. Zillman, both being married ladies; one is the relict of the late and much-lamented John Black ; one the wife of T. J. Fuller, Esq., of Fullerton ; the
remaining two are single and reside with their mother and Mrs. Black at Barroul. Of the boys it is only necessary to say that they are all married, well off, and occupy honourable positions in society. Of the deceased it may safely be said that he was an unobtrusive, upright, liberal Christian man, a consistent member of the Wesleyan Church, and never made an enemy. He was for many years on the Commission of the Peace, and his conduct on the Bench was always characterised by strict integrity and unwavering impartiality. The immediate cause of death was paralysis, a serious attack of which threatened to be fatal some months ago ; and though at last the end was so sudden that none of his family had a parting word, yet it may be truly said that he had for some time been living in daily expectation of the final summons.