NSW Parish?

[jadewing]

Hi

I've found the birth/christening of a possible connection of my Dewing line on the AVRI (Henry A Robins F: Edward, M: Marion (Mary Anne? mn DEWING), but can any one explain the parish for me?  It is listed as "Australian Agricultural Company; Dungog; Eldon; Stroud; Uffington, Church of England" 

The registration is given as NSW but the ref # is V18463683 31 - does that make it Port Philip IE Victoria?

There are 2 others
 William H 1842 same parish ref V18421932 26
William H 1841 Houghton CofE NSW ref V18411832 26A

Tks, Jane

[deeiluka]

Hello Jane.

Here's Henry's actual entry in the NSW Births Index online....

In 1846..... HENRY A ROBINS parents   EDWARD & MARION  No district given  Reference Number: V18463683 31

So you see the number is part of the Registration.......

You can check any others at
http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/familyHistory/search.htm

Can't explain the Parish for you though.....
Good luck....

.....dee

[Raylen]

Hi Jane,

The parish belonged to the Australian Agricultural Company.
The AAC (established in London) were given a million acre grant of land in NSW, by the
government,to raise merino sheep.
I guess that made them important enough to have their own parish 

It is interesting to read about the area and how they brought out families
from England to work for them.

Try this
www.archives.anu.edu.au/nbac/html/ABLativeNo1_1985-AA&PeelRLand_MinCo.html
(types she ........ hoping it will work 

Raylen

[trish251]

Hi Jane

I had family came out with the AAA - there is a book written about them all - now out of print (called I think "Pure merinos and Others" - I have some exerts relating to my family). A number of my early folks were baptised in the same parish - my folks settled in Gloucester initially - similar part of NSW to the places mentioned. Google returns many references about the company - early years and later.

The V reference in the early NSW registration numbers indicates church records rather than civil registration - so burials, christenings/baptisms  rather than births and deaths. I'm not sure why the V but no doubt mentioned somewhere (Did the church indicate the monarch?? - I know some very early records I have from UK use the year of the monarch as a date)

Trish

Edit: My V for the monarch cannot be correct as the records back to 1788 include the V     

[jadewing]

Thanks Trish & Raylen, I'd never heard of them before!  I guess 1m sq acres would be just about big enough for a parish!    I googled AAC and discovered they are the oldest company in Australia.

Cheers, Jane

[trish251]

I must admit that I hadn't heard of the company until 4 years ago when I started researching my family history      One seems to learn much more than just about the family   

Trish

[jadewing]

I know - I'm in Perth but my understanding of Victorian (and English) geography is much better than it used to be!

[pmhermann]

Edward Robins and his wife Mary Ann Dewing took up residence in Gloucester NSW, which at that time was part of the Port Stephens shire.
Port Stephens is just to the north of Newcastle and I guess the parish extended inland to encompass Gloucester, which really was put on the map by the AACo
In 1836 when Edward settled there, there was no town established. Wasn't till the 1850s that settlement commenced.
Paul

[Neil Todd]

Hi While the land was alloted to the AAA, many settlers were able to divide small parcels and townships formed around these hubs.

Nearly all of the small townships north of the Hunter River have a tie to the AAA. I live in this area and it is facinating the history of it. My closest small township is now 210 years old, one of the oldest in Australia.

Settlements sprung up everywhere fairly quickly as the main resource was timber for building in Sydney. The river systems allowed fairly good acess via the Hunter, Paterson and Williams and farming land was made made available after the timbers were taken.

The acreage runs right up to Tamworth and many churches were attached to the Parish originally only Cof E but others came later. The Dungog, Eldon Stroud and Uffington refer to where each Cof E church was and returns were made to the main Church at Stroud.

It is extremely wet at the moment all rivers are about to flood which is a fairly normal event around here.

Cheers Neil