Australian Royalty: Genealogy of the colony of NSW

"DERBYSHIRE.
A Particular of the Convictions returned by his Majesty's Justices of the peace to the general Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Held at Derby, in and for the said County, the 15th Day of Jan 1793: ...
SAMUEL HASLAM of Chevin Ward, in the Parish of Duffield, Labourer, for using certain Engines, called Snare, on a Sunday, in the Parish of Duffield aforesaid, with an intent to kill, take, and destroy the Game."

Samuel Haslam, one of 311 convicts transported on the ship Barwell, September 1797.
Sentence details: Convicted at Derby Assizes for a term of 7 years.
Vessel: Barwell.
Date of Departure: September 1797.
Place of Arrival: New South Wales.

The ship Barwell arrived in NSW 18 May 1798

V1801501 3A/1801 HASLAM SAMUEL DAVIS MARIA CB
V1801222 147A/1801 HASLAM SAMUEL DAVIS MARIA CB
(St Johns Church of England, Parramatta)

Samuel Haslam of the parish of Parramatta and Maria Savis if ditto were married in this church by banns this fifth day of October in the year one thousand eight hundred and one by me Samuel marsden.
Samuel Haslem signed the register and Maria made her X mark
In the presence of Mary Denton who made her X mark and William Eckford

"FRIDAY, OCT 5.
P. Donovan and Samuel Haslam were brought before the Bench to account for certain expressions tending to impress on the public mind the innocency of the unhappy criminal against whom sentence of death was pronounced before the last Criminal Court, for the crime of uttering a note of hand knowing it to be forged, the offecne having been clearly substantiated upon testimony incontrovertible and respectable.
Donovan denied any intention of propagating an opinion of the unhappy man's innocence and uttered many incongruities which only could have proceeded from the extreme or ignorance. He introduced an unintelligible digression about a man and a mare, and confessed that he was totally unacquainted with any circumstance that could be construed favourably to the delinquent.
Haslam acknowledged, that as he had erroneously conceived the crime alluded to had been committed on Saturday the 25th of August, he had remarked that upon that day the culprit had been at his house during the whole of the interval specified in the indictment; but that since he had discovered his error, and could not at all speak as to the prisoner's conduct upon the 29th, when the transaction was proved to have taken place, he therefore craved pardon of his inadvertency, as it had not proceeded from want of respect.
The Bench commented on the culpability of any individual in presuming to utter such expressions, without a very shadow of foundation, as went to challenge the equity of a sentence, pronounced upon the clearest testimony; and having submitted to HIS EXCELLENCY the summary of the investigation, the parties were dismissed with a severe reprimand, and reminded at the same time, that altho' ignorance had in the present instance been permitted to shelter them, yet no hope was admissable of availing themselves of such a plea in future."

The first grants in the vicinity of today's Homebush, Lidcombe, Auburn and Strathfield area were made in 1793 to a group of free settlers, and the area was subsequently known as Liberty Plains.
Samuel Haslam, after whom Haslams Creek is named, received his first 50 acre grant in the area to the north of the Parramatta Road in January 1806 (just south of John Blaxland's Newington Estate). Haslam and his family were subsequently granted additional portions of land further east, to the south of Parramatta Road and east of Haslams Creek. Haslams Creek flowed into Homebush Bay on the Parramatta River, and was officially named Hacking Creek in the early nineteenth century. On the northern side of Parramatta Road, Haslams Creek was bounded on the west by the Newington Estate and on the east by Wentworth's Homebush Estate.
A map of the district prepared in c1859 shows that Haslams Creek divided and crossed Parramatta Road in two places at this time. The larger of these tributaries was roughly in the same location as the 1929 reinforced concrete bridge, while a smaller tributary is situated further east along Parramatta Road (in the vicinity of present-day Francis Street).
Haslam's Creek Bridge is now on the New South Wales heritage register. It has historic, aesthetic and representative significance locally. With the Haslams Creek Culvert, a short distance upstream, and the Parramatta Road alignment, the bridge represents an episode in the evolution of this major transport conduit. The steady increase in motor vehicle traffic through the 1920s on this route called for a smooth and robust crossing of Haslams Creek.
Part of Samuel's grant now forms some of Rookwood Cemetery.

HOW THE OLD NAMES CHANGED
Place names play an important part in history, but the ease with which historic names are changed or eliminated is to be deplored.
Such a name is Liberty Plains, originally given to the district which includes the present suburbs of Strathfield (formerly Redmyre) and Homebush.
Liberty Plains came on to the map 160 years ago, and later the name was applied to a more extended area and included Lidcombe, Rookwood, Auburn and Granville.
The name Liberty Plains has almost fallen into disuse and is seldom heard, although until recent years the Boy Scouts retained the name as that of a scouting district.
The original Liberty Plains district was so named by, or for, the first free settlers who arrived in New South Wales in the ship Bellona in January 1793, Liberty Plains being one of the earliest districts in the County of Cumberland.
The name began to be discarded when the railway was opened in 1855, and new residential areas were established along it.
The first New South Wales railway is generally referred to as the Sydney-Parramatta line, but the terminus was Parramatta Junction, which is now Granville, named after Lord Granville.
The name of Parramatta Junction has disappeared.
The name of the present day Lidcombe has been changed several times. First it was Haslam's Creek, named after Samuel Haslam, an early land grantee, who arrived in the ship Barwell in May 1789.
A railway station called Haslam's Creek was opened on November 1, 1859.
Records in the Railways Department state that, although the exact site is not definitely known, it is likely that it was the site of the present Lidcombe station.
In July 1861, a road was surveyed from the Parramatta River to Haslam's Creek station. This road was later extended to Bankstown, named after Sir Joseph Banks. Part of the area was formerly known as Irish Town, another name which has disappeared.
The name of Haslam's Creek station was changed to Rookwood in 1876, from Harrison Ainsworth's famous novel. In January 1914, Rookwood was changed to Lidcombe, a name derived from parts of the surname of two local identities - Lidbury and Larcombe.
At the time this change was made, the name Roodwood was substituted for the railway platform called Necropolis, which served the cemetery. Necropolis was opened before 1887, and the change in name to Rookwood was made in January 1914. An area of 250 acres at Haslam's Creek was set apart for a general cemetery on January 1 1867.

"The Memorial of Samuel Haslam
Most respectfully states
Yo Your Excellency that in consequence of Memorialist having a large [illegible] family he applied to his Honor Col. Paterson for an allotment of land who was pleased to grant him leave to occupy and possess [illegible] acres of land one sits the road leading to Parramatta bounded by Hacking's Creek about four acres of which memorialist has cropt alhto never had it measured or granted further than by permission.
Memorialist therefore begs leave to apply to Your Excellency humbly hoping youl be graciously pleased to direct that such allotment may be measured and granted agreeable to His Honor's permission and he trusts his large [illegible] family will induce your Excellency to grant him his request as it would secure to himself and family a hope of protection from future harms...""

Samuel was given a “Beer Licence” for an Inn on Parramatta Road in 1811. It served travellers between Sydney and Parramatta. The area was very isolated at the time. In very early times it was officially Hackings Creek but Samuel Haslams hospitality was well known so that the area and thus the creek became known as Haslams Creek. In 1859 a railway platform was opened along its wanderings and was named Haslam's Creek. The station is now known as Lidcombe.

"Thomas Bevington, a carpenter, between 70 and 80 years of age, was next convicted of stealing several carpenter's tools, the property of Samuel Haslam of the Parramatta Road. - Sentenced six months confinement in Parramatta gaol."

"An action of detinue was brought in the Governor's Court last Monday, on the part of James Wright, a farming man against Samuel Haslum, a settler on the Parramatta Road, for the recovery of a cow, together with a heifer and calf, her produce. The plaintiff's case stated that between 5 and 6 years ago he gave into the defendant's posession a cow for agistment and depasturage; and that in the lapse of time she had produced the above-named increase; all which he had lately demanded, but was denied, the defendant assigning as the cause of their detention a demand of six-pence a week for each head, which he resisted as an unfair demand. For the defendant it appeared in evidence, that when the cow was originally put under his care the plaintiff agreed to pay six-pence a week for her; and that the same charge was to be considered to extend to her increase; wherefore the detention had been made until the demand should be satisfied: Upon which the Court ruled that the detention was illegal; inasmuch as that the defendant had his remedy by action of debt against the plaintiff, for whatsoever sum should appear due to him for the agistment and depasturage of his cattle; which the laws of England did not allow him to detain; and a verdict was consequently returned for the plaintiff, with costs."

Haslem, Samuel, free by servitude, Barwell, 7 years, landholder, Parramatta
Haslem, James, 15, born in the colony, son of S. Haslem, Parramatta
Davis, Margret, free by servitude, Earl Cornwallis, 7 years, wife of S. Haslem, Parramatta

Haslem, John, 15, born in the colony, son of Samuel Haslem, Parramatta
Haslem, William, born in the colony, publican, Sydney
Haslem, Samuel, free by servitude, Barwell, 1798, 7 years, landholder, Sydney
Haslem, James, 13, born in the colont, son of Samuel Haslem, Sydney
Davis. Maria, free by servitude, Earl Cornwallis, 1801, 7 years, wife of Samuel Haslam, Sydney

Hazlem, Samuel, 80, free by servitude, Varwell, 1795, 7 years, Protestant, settler, Sydney Road, Concord, 50 acres, 19 acres cleared, 9 horned cattle
Hazlem, Maria, 54, free by servitude, Cornwallis, 1799, 7 years, Protestant
Hazlem, John, 14, born in the colony
Hazlem, James, 18, born in the colony, Protestant, sawyer, Sydney Road, Concord, 60 acres, 4 acres cleared, 3 horses, 11 horned cattle
Hazlem, William, 25, born in the colony, Protestant, cabinet maker, Sydney Road, Concord,60 acres, 3 acres cleared, 130 horned cattle
Hazlem, Catherine, 17, government servant, Louisa, 1817, 14 years, Protestant, wife of William

IN THE SUPREME COURT.
ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDCITION.
...To the next of kin of SAMUEL HASLAM, late of the Parramatta Road, in the colony of New South Wales, deceased, and to all Christian People.
GREETINGS: -
YOU and each of you are hereby cited and warned, that you appear personally, or by one of the Proctors of the Supreme Court, at the Court House, in King-street, Sydney, on the Fourteenth day of July next, at Ten o'Clock in the Forenoon, and shew cause why Administration of all and singular the Goods and Chattels, Rights, Credits, and Effects of the said Samuel Haslam, deceased, should not be granted to William Haslam, of Sydney, in the Colony aforesaid, Son and Heir at Law of the said deceased...