Eliza More Kennedy, 17601847 (aged 87 years)

Name
Eliza More /Kennedy/
Given names
Eliza More
Surname
Kennedy
Name
Eliza More /Hume/
Type of name
married name
Name
Eliza Mor /Hume/
Type of name
married name
Given names
Eliza Mor
Surname
Hume
Birth
Text:

It was said that Eliza was named after the well known authoress and philanthropist, Hannah More.

Immigration
Text:

Eliza's father had remarried late in life and Eliza was not able to agree with her new stepmother. She decided to leave home, and eventually accompanied her widowed brother James and his three motherless girls to the colony. Eliza arrived in the colony aboard the ship 'Royal Sovereign' with her brother James Raworth. Upon arrival, Elizabeth obtained a matronship or an orphanage at Parramatta and held this until a few years later when she married Andrew Hamilton Hume.

Religious marriage
Text:

1796 page 4 No 16
Andrew Hume of the parish of Parramatta and Elizabeth More Kennedy were married by permission of his Excellency Governor Hunter this twenty ninth day of Sep in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six by me Samuel Marsden
Andrew and Elizabeth both signed the register
In the presence of W. Cummings and M.A. Cummings (who both also signed the register)

Petition to Governor
about 1810 (aged 50 years)
Citation details: Memorials To The Governor, 1810-1826
Text:

"...May it please Your Excellency
Your Petitioner Mrs. Elizabeth Mor Hume takes the liberty of mentioning to Your Excellency she came to this Country in the year 1795 with her brother and family as a free settler who were recommended by the present Lord Barham K. Wilberforce and Ambrose Sale Esquires.
Upon the establishment of the Orphan School petitioner was appointed senior mistress which appointment she filled near two years with [illegible] but from some unpleasant Domestic circumstances and her [illegible] of family Your Petitioner was obliged to quit, since which time she has experienced many and various difficulties and distresses having lost her all twice by fire, and once by the overflowing of the Hawkesbury, which Col. Johnston knew in consideration of which, and some service which Mr. Hume rendered Govt when he had charge of the stock was pleased to give petitioners family a cow from the Government stock which she has in her possession and has been chief support of her family during the late scarcity of provision...
Mrs. Paterson was patroness of the Orphan School in your petitioners time and always professed a [illegible] to... "

Death
Burial
Note: [iron railings]

[iron railings]
John Kennedy Hume, murdered at Gunning 20.1.1840 aged 39 'whilst rendering assistance to his neighbours to capture a party of bushrangers headed by the notorious Whitten. He left a widow and nine young children to bewail his loss.' Memorial erected by his brothers Hamilton Hume and F. R. Hume

[also memorials to]

Elizabeth Moore Hassall
died at Frankfield 9.7.1853
aged 19

Jane Mitchell Hume
died at Collingwood 23.12.1847
aged 6

Agnes Catherine Hume
ied at Frankfield 19.1.1848
aged 4 months
eldest, fifth and sixth daughters
of F. R. Hume of Castlestead, Burrowa,
also
Mary Hume Barbour,
widow of Charles Henry Barbour
of Gundowring, Victoria, and daughter of John Kennedy
Hume of Collingwood, Gunning,
born 8.2.1826 died 6.11.1911,
and
Charles Henry Barbour
born Glenrock, Marulan, N.S.W. 1820
died in Victoria 1882
and
Elizabeth Moore Hume
died at Collingwood 15.8.1847
aged 87, daughter of John Kennedy of Teston, Kent,
England, and wife of Andrew Hamilton Hume of Humewood,
Apin.

Family with parents
father
17381819
Birth: 1738 40
Death: October 24, 1819
mother
Marriage Marriage
elder brother
17541826
Birth: about 1754 16
Death: July 19, 1826Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia
7 years
herself
17601847
Birth: 1760 22 Nettlestead, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Death: August 15, 1847Gunning, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Family with Andrew Hamilton Hume
husband
17621849
Birth: June 24, 1762Hillsborough, Down, Ireland
Death: September 23, 1849Marulan, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
herself
17601847
Birth: 1760 22 Nettlestead, Kent, England, United Kingdom
Death: August 15, 1847Gunning, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
Religious marriage Religious marriageSeptember 29, 1796Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
9 months
son
Hume, Hamilton (1797-1873)
17971873
Birth: June 19, 1797 34 37 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: April 19, 1873Yass, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
18 months
daughter
17981855
Birth: December 13, 1798 36 38 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: August 5, 1855Marulan, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
2 years
son
18001840
Birth: about 1800 37 40 Toongabbie, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: January 20, 1840Gunning, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
4 years
son
18031888
Birth: November 13, 1803 41 43 Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: 1888Burrowa, Southern Tablelands, New South Wales, Australia
4 years
son
18071808
Birth: 1807 44 47 New South Wales, Australia
Death: October 1808Parramatta, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth
Text:

It was said that Eliza was named after the well known authoress and philanthropist, Hannah More.

Immigration
Text:

Eliza's father had remarried late in life and Eliza was not able to agree with her new stepmother. She decided to leave home, and eventually accompanied her widowed brother James and his three motherless girls to the colony. Eliza arrived in the colony aboard the ship 'Royal Sovereign' with her brother James Raworth. Upon arrival, Elizabeth obtained a matronship or an orphanage at Parramatta and held this until a few years later when she married Andrew Hamilton Hume.

Religious marriage
Text:

1796 page 4 No 16
Andrew Hume of the parish of Parramatta and Elizabeth More Kennedy were married by permission of his Excellency Governor Hunter this twenty ninth day of Sep in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety six by me Samuel Marsden
Andrew and Elizabeth both signed the register
In the presence of W. Cummings and M.A. Cummings (who both also signed the register)

Petition to Governor
Citation details: Memorials To The Governor, 1810-1826
Text:

"...May it please Your Excellency
Your Petitioner Mrs. Elizabeth Mor Hume takes the liberty of mentioning to Your Excellency she came to this Country in the year 1795 with her brother and family as a free settler who were recommended by the present Lord Barham K. Wilberforce and Ambrose Sale Esquires.
Upon the establishment of the Orphan School petitioner was appointed senior mistress which appointment she filled near two years with [illegible] but from some unpleasant Domestic circumstances and her [illegible] of family Your Petitioner was obliged to quit, since which time she has experienced many and various difficulties and distresses having lost her all twice by fire, and once by the overflowing of the Hawkesbury, which Col. Johnston knew in consideration of which, and some service which Mr. Hume rendered Govt when he had charge of the stock was pleased to give petitioners family a cow from the Government stock which she has in her possession and has been chief support of her family during the late scarcity of provision...
Mrs. Paterson was patroness of the Orphan School in your petitioners time and always professed a [illegible] to... "

Death
Burial

[iron railings]
John Kennedy Hume, murdered at Gunning 20.1.1840 aged 39 'whilst rendering assistance to his neighbours to capture a party of bushrangers headed by the notorious Whitten. He left a widow and nine young children to bewail his loss.' Memorial erected by his brothers Hamilton Hume and F. R. Hume

[also memorials to]

Elizabeth Moore Hassall
died at Frankfield 9.7.1853
aged 19

Jane Mitchell Hume
died at Collingwood 23.12.1847
aged 6

Agnes Catherine Hume
ied at Frankfield 19.1.1848
aged 4 months
eldest, fifth and sixth daughters
of F. R. Hume of Castlestead, Burrowa,
also
Mary Hume Barbour,
widow of Charles Henry Barbour
of Gundowring, Victoria, and daughter of John Kennedy
Hume of Collingwood, Gunning,
born 8.2.1826 died 6.11.1911,
and
Charles Henry Barbour
born Glenrock, Marulan, N.S.W. 1820
died in Victoria 1882
and
Elizabeth Moore Hume
died at Collingwood 15.8.1847
aged 87, daughter of John Kennedy of Teston, Kent,
England, and wife of Andrew Hamilton Hume of Humewood,
Apin.