Samuel Terry, 1777–1838 (aged 61 years)
- Name
- Samuel /Terry/
- Given names
- Samuel
- Surname
- Terry
| Birth | about 1777
Source: Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980 Citation details: p. 364 Text: age given as 51 in 1828 |
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| Immigration | June 12, 1801 (aged 24 years)
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 Text: Samuel was a labourer at Manchester, England, when on 22 Jan 1800 at the Salford Quarter Sessions, Lancashire, he was convicted of the theft of 400 pairs of stockings and sentenced to transportation for seven years. In June he was transferred to the unsalubrious hulk 'Fortunee' at Langstone Harbour, and thence to the transport 'Earl Cornwallis' in which he arrived at Sydney in June 1801.
Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Citation details: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 279 (139) Text: Samuel Terry, one of 296 convicts transported on the ship Earl Cornwallis, August 1800. Sentence details: Convicted at Lancaster Quarter Sessions for a term of 7 years on 22 January 1800. Vessel: Earl Cornwallis. Date of Departure: August 1800. Place of Arrival: New South Wales.
Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Citation details: p. 338 Text: The ship Earl Cornwallis arrived in NSW 12 Jun 1801 Citation details: Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 28 January 1800 p. 4 Text: On Wednesday, the Quarter Sessions for this town began at the New Bayley Court House, and the following prisoners have taken their trials - Samuel Terry for stealing a truss, containing a quantity of stockings; and James Diggle for stealing two pieces of gingham, to be transported for seven years each. |
| Occupation | Stonemason, shopkeeper, private soldier, farmer between 1801 and 1809 (aged 32 years)
Source: Pracy, David. Rosetta Terry nee Rosey Pracey (1770-1858) [paper submitted to] the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Biography of an Ancestor Competition. [published online]. Jan 2007. Text: Samuel worked under Samuel Marsden's direction in a stonemason's gang on the Parramatta female factory and gaol, and helped to cut stones for the church; he was both flogged for neglect of duty and rewarded for his industry. By 1804 he was living in a 'commodious house' and the 'Sydney Gazette' for January 15 reported: 'Last Sunday night a depredation was effected at Parramatta in the house of Samuel Terry; from whence a quantity of wearing apparel, some money, and various other property was taken. It had every appearance of a friendly visit, as an inner bolt was cut away, supposed to have been done in the course of the preceeding day with a view of facilitating the evening's progress'. In 1804-5 he was a private in the Parramatta militia. By 1806 he had completed his esentence and had set up his own stonemasonry business. In 1809 a neighbour William Wall, sued him for defamation and described him as 'Vile, Rich and oppulent'. |
| Not married | Mary Pritchard — View this family about 1808 (aged 31 years)
Source: Purnell, Marion (editor) Text: It is supposed that Mary Pritchard formed a brief common law relationship with Samuel Terry some time after her relationship with Ferdinand Meurant and prior to her cohabiting with John Maskey, some time around the years 1804-08. The only evidence I can locate for this supposition is that Mary Pritchard's daughter - Corah Maskey - who was born in 1809, was described "Corah Terry' when she married Edward Beecroft/Bearcroft in 1823. Some researchers go so far as to interpret Corah's identification as "Corah Terry" at her marriage as evidence that she was Terry's rather than Maskey's daughter. |
| Marriage | Rosetta Pracey — View this family March 27, 1810 (aged 33 years) Address: St Philips
Source: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 Text: Samuel was an innkeeper at bachelor and Rosetta 'Madden' described herself as a widow. |
| Occupation | Innkeeper, farmer, trader between 1810 and 1820 (aged 43 years)Terry moved to Sydney, became an innkeeper, and in February 1810, when liquor licences were curtailed, his was one of the 20 that were granted. He prospered not only though his inn and store, but soon by speculation in city and pastoral properties. He bought up property including the land now occupied by Martin Place and the old General Post Office, which Rosetta later sold to the government. By the time of his death in 1838 he was receiving more than ten thousand pounds a year from the rentals of his Sydney properties alone. By 1815, he had established a farm, Mount Pleasant, on the Nepean River and also had Illawarra properties; in 1817 Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who granted him city allotments, described him as a 'wealthy trader'. Terry was also an important supplier of flour and fresh meat to the government. Between 1817 and 1820 he held more than a fifth of the total value of mortgages registered in the colony, a higher proportion than that of the Bank of New South Wales. Commissioner John Thomas Bigge reported that in 1820 he had 1450 cattle, 3800 sheep, and 19,000 acres (7689 ha), almost exactly half of the land held by former convicts. He was also one of the largest shareholders in the bank, but when he stood for election as director in 1818, 1819 and 1820, he was unsuccessful; when elected in 1822 he was refused his seat on the pretext that, as an expiree, he was not 'unconditionally free'. |
| Death | Nathaniel Lucas May 1818 (aged 41 years) |
| Occupation | Horse breeder, builder, farmer, flour miller, brewer, philanthropist between 1820 and 1826 (aged 49 years)In the 1820s Samuel consolidated his wealth; he established a bloodstock stud on Illawarra land granted him by Macquarie, built the vast Terry's buildings opposite his residence in Pitt Street, established a country seat, Box Hill, and developed his farming properties at Liverpool, on the Nepean, and later at Yass and Bathurst, as well as flour mills and breweries. He was also a leading philanthropist, contributing to the Benevolent Society, Auxiliary Bible Society, Sydney Public Grammar School, and later to Sydney College, on whose committees he actively served. He supported the Wesleyans and became a trustee for them in 1822. In the late 1820s he was firmly established as a public figure. He is now nicknamed the 'Botany Bay Rothschild'. |
| Occupation | William Bursill 1822 (aged 45 years) |
| Will | 1825 (aged 48 years)
Source: Pracy, David. Rosetta Terry nee Rosey Pracey (1770-1858) [paper submitted to] the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Biography of an Ancestor Competition. [published online]. Jan 2007. Text: In 1825 Samuel made an elaborate will. He gave Rosetta his Box Hill property along with 'the household furniture, plate, linen and china that I shall have in use in the house in which I shall usually reside at the time of my decease'. Samuel had set up his son Edward with considerable property of his own and originally most of Samuel's money was to go to Edward also. Edward's marriage in 1834 to a well connected Sydney girl, Elizabeth Mann was a failure. A blame game developed whereby his ex wife and her supporters described him as drunken, dissipated and brutal. The result was that in several codicils Samuel tied up Edward's property in trust and divided the other properties, money and assets among all the children. Edward died childless and intestate a few months after his father in an influenza epidemic. Ironically, therefore, the Terry name was perpetuated by the boy, John who may not have been Terry's son. |
| Census | November 1828 (aged 51 years)
Source: Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980 Citation details: p. 364 Text: Terry, Samuel, 51, free by servitude, Earl Cornwallis, 1801, Protestant, merchant, 4 Pitt Street Sydney Terry, Rosetta, 51, came free, Hillsborough, 1799, Protestant Terry, John, 22, born in the colony Terry, Edward, 19, born in the colony Terry, Martha, 17, born in the colony |
| Death | February 22, 1838 (aged 61 years) Cause of death: Three years after a paralytic seizure Note: Samuel had what was thought to be the grandest funeral seen in the colony. He left a personal estate of £250,000, an income of over £10,000 a year from Sydney rentals, and landed property that defies assessment. His family sold to the government the land now occupied by Martin Place and the General Post Office.
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| partner |
1786–1865
Birth: about 1786 Death: December 11, 1865 — Werrington, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Not married |
Not married: about 1808 — Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| wife |
1770–1858
Birth: July 29, 1770
26 — Finsbury, London, England, United Kingdom Death: September 5, 1858 |
| Marriage |
Marriage: March 27, 1810 — |
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-3 years
son |
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4 years
son |
1810–1838
Birth: April 26, 1810
33
39 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: November 28, 1838 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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18 months
daughter |
1811–1877
Birth: October 31, 1811
34
41 — Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: June 30, 1877 — Penrith, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| partner’s partner |
1765–1844
Birth: November 8, 1765 — France Death: November 4, 1844 — Seven Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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| partner |
1786–1865
Birth: about 1786 Death: December 11, 1865 — Werrington, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Not married |
Not married: about 1803 — New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-son |
1804–1851
Birth: December 17, 1804
39
18 — Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: November 1, 1851 — Auckland, Auckland, North Island, New Zealand |
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0 months
step-daughter |
1804–1810
Birth: 1804
38
18 — Prospect, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: August 10, 1810 — Prospect, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| partner’s partner |
1785–1849
Birth: about 1785 Death: July 3, 1849 — Freemans Reach, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia |
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| partner |
1786–1865
Birth: about 1786 Death: December 11, 1865 — Werrington, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
| Marriage |
Marriage: August 28, 1826 — Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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-18 years
step-daughter |
1809–1881
Birth: March 16, 1809
24
23 — Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: June 1, 1881 — Werrington, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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3 years
step-daughter |
1811–1890
Birth: August 24, 1811
26
25 — Wilberforce, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: September 12, 1890 — Maitland, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-son |
1814–1882
Birth: January 9, 1814
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28 — Wilberforce, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 3, 1882 — Werrington, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-daughter |
1816–1887
Birth: June 11, 1816
31
30 — Wilberforce, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: November 26, 1887 |
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4 years
step-daughter |
1820–1881
Birth: June 15, 1820
35
34 — Wilberforce, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 29, 1881 — Newton Boyd, Northern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-daughter |
1822–1823
Birth: September 9, 1822
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36 — South Creek, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: December 9, 1823 — Castlereagh, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-daughter |
1825–1881
Birth: January 29, 1825
40
39 — South Creek, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: April 13, 1881 — West Maitland, Hunter, New South Wales, Australia |
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2 years
step-son |
1827–1887
Birth: February 21, 1827
42
41 — South Creek, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia Death: August 10, 1887 — Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia |
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3 years
step-son |
1829–1893
Birth: October 9, 1829
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43 — Orchard Hills, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Death: June 1, 1893 — Razorback, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia |
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| wife |
1770–1858
Birth: July 29, 1770
26 — Finsbury, London, England, United Kingdom Death: September 5, 1858 |
| Marriage |
Marriage: before October 1798 — |
| partner’s partner | |
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| wife |
1770–1858
Birth: July 29, 1770
26 — Finsbury, London, England, United Kingdom Death: September 5, 1858 |
| Marriage |
Marriage: before October 1798 — |
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1 month
step-son |
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19 months
step-daughter |
| Birth | Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980 Citation details: p. 364 Text: age given as 51 in 1828 |
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| Immigration | Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 Text: Samuel was a labourer at Manchester, England, when on 22 Jan 1800 at the Salford Quarter Sessions, Lancashire, he was convicted of the theft of 400 pairs of stockings and sentenced to transportation for seven years. In June he was transferred to the unsalubrious hulk 'Fortunee' at Langstone Harbour, and thence to the transport 'Earl Cornwallis' in which he arrived at Sydney in June 1801. |
| Immigration | State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Citation details: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 279 (139) Text: Samuel Terry, one of 296 convicts transported on the ship Earl Cornwallis, August 1800. Sentence details: Convicted at Lancaster Quarter Sessions for a term of 7 years on 22 January 1800. Vessel: Earl Cornwallis. Date of Departure: August 1800. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. |
| Immigration | Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Citation details: p. 338 Text: The ship Earl Cornwallis arrived in NSW 12 Jun 1801 |
| Immigration | British Newspaper Archive [database online] Citation details: Manchester Mercury - Tuesday 28 January 1800 p. 4 Text: On Wednesday, the Quarter Sessions for this town began at the New Bayley Court House, and the following prisoners have taken their trials - Samuel Terry for stealing a truss, containing a quantity of stockings; and James Diggle for stealing two pieces of gingham, to be transported for seven years each. |
| Occupation | Pracy, David. Rosetta Terry nee Rosey Pracey (1770-1858) [paper submitted to] the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Biography of an Ancestor Competition. [published online]. Jan 2007. Text: Samuel worked under Samuel Marsden's direction in a stonemason's gang on the Parramatta female factory and gaol, and helped to cut stones for the church; he was both flogged for neglect of duty and rewarded for his industry. By 1804 he was living in a 'commodious house' and the 'Sydney Gazette' for January 15 reported: 'Last Sunday night a depredation was effected at Parramatta in the house of Samuel Terry; from whence a quantity of wearing apparel, some money, and various other property was taken. It had every appearance of a friendly visit, as an inner bolt was cut away, supposed to have been done in the course of the preceeding day with a view of facilitating the evening's progress'. In 1804-5 he was a private in the Parramatta militia. By 1806 he had completed his esentence and had set up his own stonemasonry business. In 1809 a neighbour William Wall, sued him for defamation and described him as 'Vile, Rich and oppulent'. |
| Not married | Purnell, Marion (editor) Text: It is supposed that Mary Pritchard formed a brief common law relationship with Samuel Terry some time after her relationship with Ferdinand Meurant and prior to her cohabiting with John Maskey, some time around the years 1804-08. The only evidence I can locate for this supposition is that Mary Pritchard's daughter - Corah Maskey - who was born in 1809, was described "Corah Terry' when she married Edward Beecroft/Bearcroft in 1823. Some researchers go so far as to interpret Corah's identification as "Corah Terry" at her marriage as evidence that she was Terry's rather than Maskey's daughter. |
| Marriage | Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 Text: Samuel was an innkeeper at bachelor and Rosetta 'Madden' described herself as a widow. |
| Marriage | Hardy, Bobbie. Early Hawkesbury settlers. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1985 |
| Occupation | Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 |
| Occupation | Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 |
| Will | Pracy, David. Rosetta Terry nee Rosey Pracey (1770-1858) [paper submitted to] the Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies Biography of an Ancestor Competition. [published online]. Jan 2007. Text: In 1825 Samuel made an elaborate will. He gave Rosetta his Box Hill property along with 'the household furniture, plate, linen and china that I shall have in use in the house in which I shall usually reside at the time of my decease'. Samuel had set up his son Edward with considerable property of his own and originally most of Samuel's money was to go to Edward also. Edward's marriage in 1834 to a well connected Sydney girl, Elizabeth Mann was a failure. A blame game developed whereby his ex wife and her supporters described him as drunken, dissipated and brutal. The result was that in several codicils Samuel tied up Edward's property in trust and divided the other properties, money and assets among all the children. Edward died childless and intestate a few months after his father in an influenza epidemic. Ironically, therefore, the Terry name was perpetuated by the boy, John who may not have been Terry's son. |
| Census | Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980 Citation details: p. 364 Text: Terry, Samuel, 51, free by servitude, Earl Cornwallis, 1801, Protestant, merchant, 4 Pitt Street Sydney Terry, Rosetta, 51, came free, Hillsborough, 1799, Protestant Terry, John, 22, born in the colony Terry, Edward, 19, born in the colony Terry, Martha, 17, born in the colony |
| Death | Australian Dictionary of Biography. Online edition. [database - on-line]. Canberra: Australian National University, 2006 |
| Occupation | Terry moved to Sydney, became an innkeeper, and in February 1810, when liquor licences were curtailed, his was one of the 20 that were granted. He prospered not only though his inn and store, but soon by speculation in city and pastoral properties. He bought up property including the land now occupied by Martin Place and the old General Post Office, which Rosetta later sold to the government. By the time of his death in 1838 he was receiving more than ten thousand pounds a year from the rentals of his Sydney properties alone. By 1815, he had established a farm, Mount Pleasant, on the Nepean River and also had Illawarra properties; in 1817 Governor Lachlan Macquarie, who granted him city allotments, described him as a 'wealthy trader'. Terry was also an important supplier of flour and fresh meat to the government. Between 1817 and 1820 he held more than a fifth of the total value of mortgages registered in the colony, a higher proportion than that of the Bank of New South Wales. Commissioner John Thomas Bigge reported that in 1820 he had 1450 cattle, 3800 sheep, and 19,000 acres (7689 ha), almost exactly half of the land held by former convicts. He was also one of the largest shareholders in the bank, but when he stood for election as director in 1818, 1819 and 1820, he was unsuccessful; when elected in 1822 he was refused his seat on the pretext that, as an expiree, he was not 'unconditionally free'. |
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| Occupation | In the 1820s Samuel consolidated his wealth; he established a bloodstock stud on Illawarra land granted him by Macquarie, built the vast Terry's buildings opposite his residence in Pitt Street, established a country seat, Box Hill, and developed his farming properties at Liverpool, on the Nepean, and later at Yass and Bathurst, as well as flour mills and breweries. He was also a leading philanthropist, contributing to the Benevolent Society, Auxiliary Bible Society, Sydney Public Grammar School, and later to Sydney College, on whose committees he actively served. He supported the Wesleyans and became a trustee for them in 1822. In the late 1820s he was firmly established as a public figure. He is now nicknamed the 'Botany Bay Rothschild'. |
| Death | Samuel had what was thought to be the grandest funeral seen in the colony. He left a personal estate of £250,000, an income of over £10,000 a year from Sydney rentals, and landed property that defies assessment. His family sold to the government the land now occupied by Martin Place and the General Post Office. |