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Note: Maureen Crawley advised Jul-2010 "Where did the family live is unknown but it is presumed that the inner Sydney suburbs of Chippendale, where Gilpin worked as a labourer. He died on 28 July 1859 at Clupping St, Chippendale. He had been suffering from consumption for 1 year and was attended by Dr Milford. His death certificate stated his father was Joseph Webster, a clothing manufacturer, and his mother was Ann Gilpin. The informant was Hannah Webster, his wife."
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Note: How did the family survive after Gilpin's death is unknown, Etta was 21 yrs old, Simeon 18 yrs and Mary only 16 yrs old.
Mary would be the first to leave home when she married Henry Augustine Jenkins on 11 June 1860. Etta married George Walker in 1861 in Sydney, George had also arrived aboard the 'Canton' in 1848. Their family moved to Emu Plains.
Simeon didn't marry and would eventually move to the Emu Plains area, but the exact date is unknown.
Whether Hannah lived with Simeon or her daughter Etta, she was living in the Emu Plains area when she remarried in 1861 to Samuel McCree.
Nothing has been found out about Samuel except that he was a widower, and his occupation was a merchant.
Maureen Crawley and her Mother-in-Law Helen Crawley nee Jenkins have researched a wonderful compilation of the Jenkins family, including Gilpin and Hannah's roots in England, and parts of which are re-produced below: Websters of West Yorkshire England Info Maureen Crawley Oct 2008
Tracing the Webster line has been a challenge, I believe I have found the correct family who migrated to Australia and arrived on 12 June 1848 aboard the 'Canton'.
The Australian patriarch was Gilpin Webster baptised on 22 September 1816 at Gildersome, West Yorkshire. Gilpin was born at nearby Pudsey, the sixth child to Ann (nee Gilpin) and Joseph Webster, a cloth merchant.
By the 1841 Census Gilpin & Hannah were living in Wesley Row, Pudsey in the Parish of Calverley, with their children Etta born 12 May 1838 at Pudsey and Fountayne born 28 Jan 1840. Gilpin was listed as a cloth merchant. A son Simeon was born 25 September 1841, and a daughter Mary was born 14 June 1843 both at Pudsey.
British 1841 Census Pudsey, Calverley Parish, West Yorkshire England2 (between Leeds and Bradford). All that part of the township of Pudsey commonly called the Town Top commencing at Widow Webster's and comprising the buildings belonging to William Farrer together with all the houses at Lidget Hill in Wesley Row, in Robin Lane from Samuel Baker's to William Elsworth's and to include the South side of Lowtown as far as Joseph Walker's Joiner's and the North side as far as William Wilson's both included.
Address NameAgeOccupation Wesley Row Gilpin WEBSTER 24 woolen cloth m. Wesley Row Hannah WEBSTER 25 Wesley Row Etta WEBSTER 03 Wesley Row Fountain WEBSTER 01 Possibly because of being one of the youngest, Gilpin and family sort a new life in Australia as the family set sail from England and arrived in Sydney New South Wales, on 12 June 1848 aboard the 'Canton'. The family unit included of Gilpin, Hannah, Etta, Simeon and Mary. What became of Fountain is unknown.
Also aboard the 'Canton' were the Walker family from Northumberland England. Etta Webster would marry George Walker twelve years after their arrival, so it is presumed that the families kept in contact.
Where did the family live is unknown but it is presumed that the inner Sydney suburbs of Chippendale, where Gilpin worked as a labourer. He died on 28 July 1859 at Clupping St, Chippendale. He had been suffering from consumption for 1 year and was attended by Dr Milford. His death certificate stated his father was Joseph Webster, a clothing manufacturer, and his mother was Ann Gilpin. The informant was Hannah Webster, his wife.
Gilpin Webster was buried on 31 July 1859 at the 'Sands Burial Grounds' the first cemetery in Sydney. The Sands was also known as Devonshire Street, and with the construction of the Sydney Central Railway Station in 1901 those interred in Devonshire Street were relocated to various cemeteries around Sydney.
Gilpin was re-interred at Section CD-W Plot 23 in the Church of England, Bunnerong Cemetery, now called Botany Cemetery.
How did the family survive after Gilpin's death is unknown, Etta was 21 yrs old, Simeon 18 yrs and Mary only 16 yrs old. Mary would be the first to leave home when she married Henry Augustine Jenkins on 11 June 1860. Etta married George Walker in 1861 in Sydney. George had also arrived aboard the 'Canton' in 1848. Their family moved to Emu Plains.
Simeon didn't marry and would eventually move to the Emu Plains area, but the exact date is unknown. Whether Hannah lived with Simeon or her daughter Etta, she was living in the Emu Plains area when she remarried in 1861 to Samuel McCree.
Nothing has been found out about Samuel except that he was a widower, and his occupation was a merchant.
Tragedy struck the family with George jnr only living five months, dying on 22 June 1864; he is buried at St Paul's Methodist section at Emu Plains. Another son George William was born the following year.
Hannah (nee Glover) Webster McCree, drowned on 11 July 1866 at Emu Plains and is buried at St Paul's Church of England section, Emu Plains near her grandson. Her death was not reported in the Sydney papers, and there were no local papers for the Emu Plains to Penrith area in 1866. Her second husband Samuel McCree would die in 1877 at Penrith; no headstone has been found for Samuel.
The Walker family at Emu Plains, had became the Webster family base after the death of Gilpin for Hannah and also provided assistance to Mary Webster Jenkins when her husband Henry Augustine Jenkins died after falling of a horse on 27 July 1867 at Darlington, an inner Sydney Suburb. His death left Mary aged 24 yrs old widow with four young children, with Hannah Caroline Jenkins being born in 1867.
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