The family tree of Ernest George Barlow and Alice Eleanor Sutherland Barlow traced from its origins in Australia.

ADAM BARLOW was born to Thomas and Elizabeth Barlow (nee Donison) in County Durham, England in 1804. He subsequently died in New South Wales on the 21st January 1870 at Lake Bathurst.   He was buried in the Catholic Cemetery at Ryan's Vale now part of the property known as "Springfield" on the Braidwood Road near Goulburn. He had several convictions at a very young age with his final conviction being at the age of seventeen for larceny. The hearing was in the Northumberland (Newcastle-upon-Tyne) Quarter Sessions on July 11, 1821.  His sentence was to be served as a convict in Australia for seven years. At the time of his conviction he was employed as a 'smith.  Adam Barlow was of pale complexion and pock marked, he was five feet, one and three quarter inches tall, he had brown hair and grey eyes.

Having left London on 7th November 1821 on the "Shipley" (4), he arrived in Sydney some 124 days later, 11th March 1822. There were 150 males on board at the time of departure  with one person dying en route. The master of the "Shipley" was Lew W. Moncrief and the surgeon was George S. Rutherford. Contradicting his age of seventeen a Newcastle Court report dated Saturday July 14, 1821 stated that:- "On Wednesday last, at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace of this town, Mary Ann Smith and Elizabeth Boucher alias Smith, for stealing wearing apparel, and ADAM BARLOW, aged fourteen years, all notorious offenders were sentenced to be transported for seven years". Documentation collected in June 1997 from the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society, Bolbeck Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne revealed the following:- TRANSPORTATIONS FROM NEWCASTLE QUARTER SESSIONS OCTOBER 1818 - JANUARY 1831 From accession No. 540/7 Tyne and Wear Archives Department. Blandford Square Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Extracted by Fred Furness.  Name: Adam Barlow crime: Petit larceny trans for: Seven Years Date: 11th July, 1821 Also at the Northumberland and Durham Family History Society another document was obtained which states as follows:-

p.9. "BARLOW Adam (labourer). Petit larceny. 3 months hard labour.  See also CARR William and  SCOTT William. Prosecutor ALLAN John. 12 Jany 1820. p   66."  p.10. "BARLOW Adam cont. Indictment for larceny.  2nd May 1821. p.134. (labourer) Petit larceny. 7 years transportation.  Prosecutors CROWTHER Susannah & MORRIS Stephen Robinson. 11th July 1821. p.140". "CARR William. Petit larceny. Not guilty - discharged. See also SCOTT  William and BARLOW Adam. Prosecutor ALLAN John. 12th Jany 1820  p.66". "SCOTT William. Petit larceny. Not guilty - discharged.  See also BARLOW  Adam and CARR William. Prosecutor ALLAN John 12 Jany 1820. p. 66". Further enquiries were made in relation to Adam Barlow's conviction and the Tyne and Wear Archives in a letter dated 29th July 1997 addressed to Ross Barlow states that: "The quarter sessions order book TWAS ref QS/NC/1/9 includes entries for Adam Barlow as indexed by Fred Furness". The transcripts are as follows:- 540/9 p.140  QS / NC /1 /9 "Adam Barlow -  Labourer having been indicted and convicted of  Petit  Larceny by him committed.   It is ordered that  he the said Adam  Barlow be and he is hereby transported to such part or parts beyond the seas of His Majesty in council shall direct for the space or term of seven years and the Gaoler or keeper of His Majesty's Gaol in and for the said  Town and County is hereby directed to receive the said offender into his custody in the said Gaol and to deliver him to such a Person or Persons as he shall by legal authority be directed and in the meantime to keep him safely in the said Gaol, and it is ordered that the Treasurer of the said Town or County do pay unto Susannah  Crowther, widow and Stephen Robinson Morris the sum of three pounds twelve shillings and four pence for their Loss of Time, Trouble and Expenses in carrying on the said prosecution."

p.66          12-1-1820 Adam Barlow, William Carr, William Scott - Labourers. An  Indictment  having been  found against them for petit larceny to which they severally plead not Guilty and upon  their trial the said Adam Barlow being found guilty and the said William Carr and William Scott being found not guilty of the said offence. It is ordered that the said Adam Barlow be confined to hard labour in  the house of correction in the said Town  and County for  the space of  three calendar months and then being discharged.  And that the said William Carr and William Scott be and they are  severally discharged.  And it is also ordered that the Treasurers  of the said Town and County do pay unto John Allen the sum of four pounds three shillings and ten pence for his loss of time, trouble and expense in carrying out  the said Prosecution". One can see from this information that Adam Barlow began breaking the law at a very young age and did so on a number of occasions - enough to find himself deported to Australia. In Australia at the age of 21 (?1828) he appeared in the census with the following information:-  NAME: Adam Barlow    AGE :21   VESSEL: "Shipley" (4)   YEAR:1821 (departure) OCCUPATION: Shepherd   EMPLOYER: G.L.Cooper, Currawong, Goulburn Plains Iron gang 10. On 23rd June 1834 Adam Barlow, Bachelor of Goulburn Plains, free by servitude (having served a seven year sentence) married  Catherine  Riley (1813-1853),  spinster of Goulburn  Plains by  banns.  With consent of the Governor, the marriage took place at All Saints Anglican Church, Sutton Forest.  The witnesses were John and Margaret Beckett, both of  Sutton Forest  and the officiating  minister was  the Chaplain the  Rev. John  Vincent.

Catherine, an Irish convict and Catholic, found priests in rural New South Wales were far and few and so they chose to marry in an Anglican church.   When they moved to the Braidwood district they found a Catholic  church. Records  in  a register held at St Bede's Catholic Church in Braidwood show that Adam converted to Catholicism at the age of 52  in  Araluen  on  10th  November 1856.    According to the  register of  deaths also  kept there,   Catherine died on September  30, 1853 at  Jembaicumbene, near  Braidwood NSW.    One could presume that  Catherine died at childbirth because her death came some five days after the birth of her last child, James b. September 25, 1853 and died the following year.   This union saw the birth of 8 children, four boys and four girls:-

 

Elizabeth  Born:           25/11/1841 Baptised:     1842  St Saviours Church, Covan Creek Married:       Jacob Henry Webb Died:           1878                 Issue:  Peter    b 1858. d. 1858 John     b. 1859 Adam   b. 1862  Charles      b. 1864 Elizabeth   b. 1866  Jacob    b. 1868 Michael    b. 1869 Thomas     b. 1872 Rachel    b. 1875 William    b. 1877 Isabella ( Bella)  b. 1878   died 1878 same year as her mother Elizabeth "Betsy" Webb                                                     nee Barlow  Adam Donison Born :         18/07/1842  Baptised:    11/09/1842  Lake George - Covan Creek Married:       -m- 6/6/1862 Dinah Taylor b.1844 d.1931 Died:          1921 - Braidwood Michael  Born:           25/04/1844  Baptised:     05/08/1844  Bungonia - Lake Bathurst Bachelor  Died:           1914 - Parkes Mary Ann  Born:          24/10/1845 Baptised:    19/11/1846  Bungonia - Lake Bathurst  Married:      Thomas Turner Died:          1870  Catherine Born:          1847 Baptised:    07/11/1847  Bungonia - Lake Bathurst Married:      John Croke Died:          Unknown Thomas Born:          1849 Baptised:    01/07/1849  Bungonia - Lake Bathurst Married:      Unknown Died:          1907 (Albury)  Isabella Born:          21/08/1851 Baptised:    29/08/1853 - Catholic Church, Araluen Married:      Samuel Cornwell Died:          1887 James Born:          25/09/1853 Baptised:    29/09/1853 - Catholic Church, Araluen Married:      Unknown  Died:           1854  The first born son of Adam and Catherine Barlow was also named Adam. His second Christian name was Donison after the maiden name of his grandmother Elizabeth Donison.  Adam Donison Barlow (1842-1921) married Dinah Taylor (1843-1931).  They are buried in the Anglican section of the Old Braidwood cemetery.  Adam Donison and his wife Dinah also had eight children, three girls and five boys:- Maria Born:           1865 Married:       Richard McDonald - 1889 Died:           1914 Matilda Born:           Unknown Married:       William Hanley Died:           1905 Thomas Born:             1870 Bachelor Died:             1930 (Goulburn) James Born:           1872 Married 1:    Susan King Married 2:    Mary Elizabeth (Molly) Howe d. 30/05/1957 Died:           07/04/1949  Issue:          Annie Josephine  d.02/10/26 aged 1 year Eliza  Born:          1875  Married:      Thomas Chinnery - 1894  Died:           1916 George Born:          1878 Married:      -m- 27/01/1904 Mary Ethel Larcombe d.1950 Died:          1951 - Braidwood Henry Born:           1880 Married:       Mary King Died:           Unknown William (Frank) Born:             1884 Married:       Emily Rogers Died:              Unknown Alfred Born:           Unknown  Married:       Lydia Pringle Died:           1915 George (1878-1951) son of Adam D. and Dinah Barlow married Mary Ethel Larcombe (1886-1950).  They had six children, two boys and four girls:-   Matilda Born:           1905 - Durran Durra Died:            1905  Lorna May Born:          1906 Married 1:    Robert (Bob) Brown Married 2:    Harold Young Died:           1986 - Braidwood Ernest George Born:          31/05/1908 Married:      -m- 23/03/1936 Alice Eleanor Sutherland McIIIIInntosh                                           (b.23/03/1913)                                          St Andrews Church, Braidwood                                            d.10/10/1999, Braidwood Died:           06/03/1949, Braidwood Gladys Dinah Born:            17/06/1910 Married:        -m-10/06/1933 William Oakes d.14/01/1969 Died:            13/04/1974 Braidwood Joyce Mary Born:          11/06/1912 Married:       -m-13/07/1935 William Thomas Hockey                                            b. 27/03/1907 d.1974  Died:             1989 -  Braidwood  Issue             Joan Mary b. 09/03/1936 -m- 27/11/66 Alan Henry  Issue          Corey Alan b. 03/02/70 (adopted)                   Natasha b. 30/06/71 (adopted)                    -m-10/09/94 Barry Welch Issue            Zachary Allan    b.27/01/96                     Dominic Robert  b.03/06/98 Graham William b. 05/11/1940       -m- 16/3/63 Zelma Backhouse Issue     Steven -m-1992  Rachel Anne Hart  Issue     Tiana Brendan                -m- Helcha Drent  Issue           Jediah                     Emmett                     Adrian                        -m-            Rachael Jane Anderson                                                    Issue        Jessica Kate                                                                    Mitchell Graham  Walter Born:             17/04/1914 Married:          -m- 05/07/1939Rita Bale b.15/04/1915. ; Died:             1981 - Braidwood Issue             Lola  b. 28/01/1944 -m- 06/01/1968 John Clark Issue           Christopher                    Kelly                    Damien                    Sally b. 21/11/1950  -m- 15/05/1970 Graeme Gourlay Issue           Peter                    Nikki The eldest son of George and Mary Barlow, Ernest George (1908 -1949) married Alice Eleanor Sutherland McIntosh (1913 - 1999).  They had five children, two girls and three boys:- Colin George Born:            25/04/1938 Married:       -m-14/06/1958  Valda Janice Sheather (((((b.25/11/1938)                                              at St.Andrews Church Braidwood Ross Ernest Born:             21/06/1939 Bachelor Beverley Alice Born:           11/02/1944 Married:       -m- 06/04/1968 Neville Sharman b.12/10/40 Issue          Paul Frederick  b.24/12/1971                   -m-26/10/1996 Amanda Bithell  b.15/09/////1971                    David Ernest     b.14/08/1974 Jill Mary Born:             27/01/1946  Died:             10/12/1946 (aged 11 months) Braidwood Kelvin Alexander Born:             17/09/1948 Bachelor Colin George Barlow married Valda Janice Sheather (b.25/11/1938). They have three children, two girls and a boy:- Jill Alison Born:             26/09/1958 Married:         -m- 02/08/1980 Richard Clarke b. 11/03/19588888&  Issue           Aaron Richard    b. 01/10/1981                     Luke Adam        b. 09/10/1983                     Thomas William  b.18/01/1989                     Patrick James    b.19/12/1990 Brett Andrew  Born:             23/04/1961 Married:         -m-.03/09/1983 Lynelle Ann McCarron                                            b.04/09/1961  Lisa Margaret  Born;             08/09/1965 Married:        -m- 06/09/1986 Ian Pearson b.15/12/1955 (UKKKKK))                                            d. 04/08/1990 Braidwood   Issue:        Christopher Andrew   b. 08/02/1987                    Matthew James        b.25/04/1989                    Sarah Elizabeth Barlow  b. 11/09/1990 Brett Andrew Barlow married Lynelle Ann McCarron and have four boys :- Adam Marshall Born:             13/09/1985 Andrew Thomas Born              10/09/1987 Campbell McCarron Born              04/06/1990 Darcy Ross  Born              13/04/1993

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