Wow! For someone who had never heard of the Inche family until 2 days ago I have certainly been educated in how to do research. I am assuming the marriage of Charles and Sophia was 1832 and a slip of the fingers. It would also have taken place in Kensington, London, as this is where the children were born.
Charles has had one son (George Sydney) who came to Australia obviously, plus a brother also a doctor on convict ships. It is possible that the brother also had a son named George Sydney so I will have to check on that. It is also possible that more siblings, possibly a daughter, have come to Australia. More investigation needed. Things are moving so fast I am having trouble keeping up, I really need to do a bit of housework and cook a few meals between posts.
None of the sons born in Banana were doctors but one of them at least was extremely well educated in another field. I think the family is finding out more than they ever wanted to know about their rather disreputable ancestor. I find it hard to equate George Inch with the description given of a highly educated English gentlemen but then again maybe this is what heavy drinking does.
Seems like material for a very interesting family history book, no need to invent the drama.
John Cramp did indeed own the block of land in Drayton where his daughter was living with George Inch. It was eventually advertised for lease in the Darling Downs Gazette for lack of payment of rates in 1895 and it was this advertisement that started the whole story.
To add a bit more drama to the story Mrs. Cramp and Walter Bennett Jnr. were drowned in Newcastle Harbour on the wreck of the Cawarra. They had been travelling to Brisbane or Rockhampton to join their husband and mother/daughter Marianne Cramp/Bennett/Inch. The little boy was 6 years old and seemingly the only true Bennett son in the whole saga. He was strapped to the body of his grandmother as the ship went down.
Annie
