Matthew James Everingham - I6626 - Individual Information - Lynne and Grayemes Genealogy at Kinpendium

Matthew James Everingham (I6626)

Name:
Matthew James Everingham

Gender: Male

Birth: C1769
Death: 25 December 1817

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Matthew's marriage has two reg. #'s V1791125 3A/1791 Everingham, Matthew J to Rhymes, Elizabeth and V179115 147A/1791 Everingham, Matthew to Rymes, Elizabeth. He drowned in the Hawkesbury River on Christmas Day of 1817. His death is reg. # V18173920 2B/1817 Everingham, Matthew - Age 48.

Born c 1769, Matthew James Everingham was tried by the London Jury before Mr Rose at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey at the Summer Sessions which began on Wednesday, 7th July 1784. He was indicted, “for that he being a profligate person, on the 17th of June did falsely pretend to Owen Owens servant to Samuel Shepherd, Esq; in the Middle Temple, that he was sent to Mr Shepherd, from Mr Clermonts for Burn’s Justice or Compton’s Practice meaning certain books, by which he obtained the same books, value 10s. the property of the said Samuel Shepherd, whereas he was not sent with that message”. He was originally given the outdated term of 7 years transportation to America, even though by 1784, the War of American Independence had ended and convicts were no longer being sent there.

Matthew had probably been living and working in the Temple area of London, for a year or so before his trial. After the trial he was returned to Newgate prison where he stayed until September 1784, when he was transferred to another prison, most likely one of the hulks in the Thames. He spent roughly 3 years on the hulks from the age of 15 to 18 years, before he was taken in wagons to Portsmouth.

The First Fleet, numbering 11 vessels, set sail on Sunday 13th May 1787. Matthew James Everingham was one of the 208 male convicts who boarded the “Scarborough”, a 420 ton privately owned merchant ship for its journey to the new penal settlement of Botany Bay. They arrived in Port Jackson on 26th January 1788.

Matthew James Everingham married Elizabeth Rhymes on 13.3.1791, at Rose Hill ‎‎(registered in St John’s C of E)‎‎.

He drowned on 25th December 1817 at Maun’s Point, Lower Portland and is buried at Wilberforce.

Matthew & Elizabeth’s children were ;

1. Mary Everingham b. 23.12.1791 The Ponds ‎‎(at Rydalmere)‎‎. She died 24th Jauary 1792 at The Ponds and is most likely buried in St John’s cemetery at Parramatta.

2. Sarah Elizabeth Everingham b.9.6.1793 The Ponds, m. 17.12.1810 to Richard Woodbury. She died 29.3.1874 at Mangrove and is buried at Laughtondale ‎‎(Wisemans Ferry)‎‎ Cemetery.

3. Matthew James Everingham 2nd b. 23.5.1795 The Ponds, m1.17.2.1817 to Ann Chaseling, m2. 1865 to Isabella Cotton ‎‎(nee Haradine – previously Christy & Bowen)‎‎. He died 22.11.1884 at Sackville and is buried at Knight’s Retreat at Sackville .

4. William Everingham b.8.8.1797 The Ponds, m1. 22.8.1820 to Jane Chaseling, m2. 13.5.1850 to Frances Napthali ‎‎(nee Dunne. After William’s death, she married Roger Cane in 1862)‎‎. He died 6.9.1859 at Pitt Town Bottoms and is buried at St Thomas’ Sackville.

5. George Everingham b.9.12.1799 The Ponds, m. 17.8.1821 to Keturah Stubbs. He died 15.4.1881 at Moleville ‎‎(nr Grafton)‎‎ and is buried at Ulmarra Cemetery.

6. Ann Everingham b.7.11.1802 Hawkesbury, m.6.7.1818 to John Chaseling, ‎‎( John Chaseling m2. to Sarah Mary Woods nee Stubbs)‎‎. She died 19.3.1849 and is buried at Knight’s Retreat at Sackville.

7. Elizabeth Everingham b.10.6.1805 Sackville, m1. 24.6.1822 to Charles Butler, m2. 4.5.1827 to John Harman, m3. 29.8.1837 to Joseph Ladd, m4. to George Bowd. She died 18.9.1879 at Sackville Reach, buried Weslyan ‎‎(St Thomas’ Sackville ?)‎‎

8. James Everingham b.25.11.1807 Lower Portland Head, m1. 2.3.1833 to Cologne Goddard, m2. 27.10.1859 to Lavinia Maria Musgrove. He died 25.7.1895 at Leichhardt and is buried at Rookwood Cemetery.

9. Maria Everingham b.6.8.1811 Lower Portland Head, m.1.1.1827 to James Cotton. ‎‎( James Cotton m2. to Isabella Christy nee Haradine)‎‎. She died 24.2.1835 at Sackville Reach and is probably buried at St Thomas’ Sackville.

10. John Everingham b.21.5.1815 Lower Portland Head. Although he never married it is thought that he had a child to Mildred Saunders. He died 29.5.1875 at Windsor.

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Courtesy of "robbiemac" - Forgotten Valley List
In the June 3 1804 edition of the Sydney Gazette it was reported:
We are concerned to state that a few of the Natives have again manifested an inclination to hostility, and already proceeded to acts of abominable outrage.
Report at the present juncture confines their ravages and barbarity to Portland Head, where Mr Matthew Everingham, settler, his wife and a servant, are said to have been speared; as is also Mr John Howe, settler, near the above spot.
The house and out-houses of the former were plundered and afterwards set on fire, but the spear wounds received are not accompanied with any mortal appearance. Several other settlers in this neighbourhood have suffered very considerably in being robbed of their clothing, stock and grain.
On Thursday evening, shortly after the accounts arrived, His Excellency dispatched a file of Troopers to the Magistrature at Hawkesbury, with instructions promptly to adopt such measures as the exigency of the case required.
The settlers and constables of that settlement went to the succour of the other settlers at Portland Head; as no provocation appears to have been given the Natives in that quarter, and as the Natives in the other districts are still on the domesticated footing they have been for last two years, it is hoped the exertions that are making to keep them in that state, will have the desired effect, without proceeding to further extremities.

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	Events of close relatives
Birth	C1769
Marriage	13.3.1791 Elizabeth Rhymes - Rose Hill, NSW
Occupation	First Fleeter
Death	25 December 1817
Last Change	8 May 2008 - 08:28:12 Last changed by: Lynne