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Berryman: Missing Persons

Berryman, Ian 1979 ed., A Colony Detailed: The First Census of Western Australia 1832, Creative Research, Perth: 'Missing Persons', 175-179.

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Armstrong, Adam: fourth of the five sons of Adam Armstrong (1208). Barnard, Charles: listed on the Muster Roll as an infant (aged 2), son of John Barnard (427).

Barrett-Lennard see Lennard

Beecham, Mary Ann and Elizabeth: wife and daughter of William Beecham (561); their ages were given on the Muster Roll as 34 and 1 respectively.

Best, Sarah: daughter of George Best (63), age given on his schedule (CSR 6/13) as 1.

Bourne, —: infant child of Charles Bourne (932); no name was recorded on the passenger list of the Minstrel.

Broughton, —: unnamed daughter of Joseph Broughton, who is recorded on the census with his wife and other four children (977-982). The passenger list of the Hooghly gives Broughton as having two daughters (names not listed) aged 17 and 13, but only the younger daughter is recorded on the census. Burgess, Mary: wife of Henry Burgess (588), she is recorded in the colony several years later (Swan River Guardian 20 October 1836).

Carroll, Ann: wife of William Carroll (582), she was not recorded on the census but was presumably in the colony because she gave birth to a son in June 1833.

Carter, Thomas: a passenger in the Edward Lombe, he was present in the colony in July 1832 but was not recorded on the census. He was a partner with Charles Leroux in the Half Way House on the Guildford to York road.

Cheveril, Charlotte: recorded on F.H. Byrne’s schedule (CSR 7/182) as an infant daughter of Jesse Cheveril (602).

Cook, family of: see notes on William Tanner.

Cooper, Elizabeth: wife of Joseph Cooper (943), she is recorded after July 1832.

Darby, George Scott: son of George Darby (1059), age given as 7 on Darby’s schedule (CSR 5/177).

Davis, Frederick: recorded on the Muster Roll as a son, aged 7, of John Okey Davis (1288).

Devenish, William Baldwin: eldest son of William Devenish (115), he is not recorded on the census but is not known to have been absent from the colony.

Dodds, Robert James: listed as an infant, aged 6 months, on James Dodds’s

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schedule (CSR 7/76); Dodds and his other children are listed on the census (121-126).

Dring, David and family: came out in the Egyptian (second voyage). Dring filed a schedule (CSR 20/172), giving the names of himself, his wife Emily, aged 31, and his daughter Emily, aged 2.

Drummond, Jane: daughter of James Drummond, the colonial botanist, she was aged 17 in 1829. She was present in the colony in July 1832 but overlooked by the census-taker; she married Michael Clarkson in November 1833. Dutton, John: infant son of John Alexander Dutton (792). On the Muster Roll Dutton is recorded as having three children: John, aged 3, Frederick, 18 months, and Julia, 2 months, while on the census only the two younger children were recorded. The fate of John Dutton has not been definitely established. He was lost early in March 1830, when Dutton and his family were living at Preston Point, near Fremantle; there were rumours that he had been taken by the natives, and the local government offered a reward for his safe return. His loss was noted by Anne Whatley in her diary (WAA 326A) and by Jane Roberts in her book Two Years at Sea (London, 1834). Mrs Whatley, a fellow passenger of the Dutton family, had heard that the natives were suspected of carrying the child away, while Miss Roberts recorded that he had merely strayed into the bush and become lost. Suspicions of the natives led to several hostile confrontations between the natives and a party of settlers who had gone in search of the child; according to Mrs Whatley, a settler fired at some natives and in retaliation the natives speared several bullocks and set fire to the bush near Perth. The two women offer contradictory accounts of the child’s fate. When in Van Diemen’s Land several months later, Jane Roberts recorded in her book:

We had not been long in Van Diemen’s Land before several ships arrived. One (from the Swan River) brought the joyful intelligence that the child was found.

The natives, it appeared, had taken him as a matter of curiosity to show their women a white child; they had been very kind to him, and he was restored to his parents perfectly well.

However, from several later references in Anne Whatley’s diary (23 April and 18 July 1830) John Dutton was never found, and he is not recorded on the census in July 1832. His parents left the colony for Sydney in January 1833 aboard the Governor Bourke; ‘Mr & Mrs Dutton & 3 children’ were recorded as passengers (CSR 26/85). The third child may have been born between July 1832 and January 1833 but if so, there is no record of its baptism in the colony’s parish register.

Dyer, Harriet (or Hannah) and Elizabeth: see notes on Francis Hegan (1281).

Flay (or Fleay), John: see notes on William Tanner.

Foley, Elizabeth: wife of Robert Foley (144), age given as 25 on Foley’s

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schedule (CSR 6/22).

Gooch, Susan: daughter of John Gooch (288), she is recorded in the colony after July 1832.

Graham, Sophia: wife of Captain William Temple Graham (1024), she was living in the colony in July 1832 but was not recorded on the census; see notes on her husband.

Gregory, Elizabeth: listed by John Gregory on his schedule (CSR 8/161) as his eldest daughter, aged 13. Gregory, his wife and other four children are listed on the census at numbers 1183 to 1188.

Gregory, Joshua and family: passengers in the Lotus, they were in the colony in July 1832 but omitted from the census. Joshua was recorded in April 1832 (CSR 21/137) and March 1833 (CSR 26/241). The family consisted of Joshua Gregory, a retired army officer, his wife Frances and five sons, two of whom—Augustus Charles and Francis Thomas—were later well-known explorers in Western Australia and Queensland.

Haddrill, William and family: see notes on William Tanner.

Hand, or Hands, John: see notes on William Tanner.

Harrison, —: unnamed daughter of Thomas Harrison (913). On the passenger list of the Hooghly Harrison is recorded as having two daughters, aged 10 and 8, but only one is recorded on the census.

Heal, Jacob Stone (? Stone, Jacob): his name is included on William Heal's schedule (CSR 8/206) without any relationship being stated; the passenger list of the Minstrel gives only ‘Mr & Miss Heal & 1 child’. William Heal and his sister were at York in July 1832 (284 and 285).

Heal, William: Charles Heal’s schedule (CSR 11/86) lists William Heal, aged 4, and William Weston Heal (or William Weston), the latter described only as ‘infant’, neither of whom is recorded on the census. Charles Heal died in April 1831 and his widow and four children were living at Guildford in July 1832 (165 to 169).

Jecks, Isaac and Hannah: Jecks, a farmer from Cambridgeshire, came out in the Calista with his wife Hannah and although not recorded on the census they are not known to have left the colony.

Kenton, Henry: recorded on the Muster Roll as a son, aged 1, of James Kenton (673).

Knott, Sarah: recorded on William Knott’s schedule (CSR 11/54) as his wife, aged 56. Knott (177) is described as ‘widower’.

Lamb, children: William Lamb (1226) and his wife Margaret came to the colony with three children, who appear to have been overlooked by the census taker, since they are not known to have left the colony. Their names and ages as recorded on the Muster Roll were as follows: Edmund 4, Cora 2 and Henry

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6 months. A fourth child, Corbin, was born on 9 June 1832 and baptised at Fremantle on 2 July 1832.

Leonard, Edward Barret: came out in the Marquis of Anglesea and is not known to have been absent from the colony in July 1832. He was the proprietor of a grant on the Upper Swan and was one of three such proprietors to be omitted from the census, the others being William Shaw and William Tanner.

Lockyer, —: several children (Christian names not known) are not accounted for; see notes on Paul Lockyer (1025).

Lyon, Robert Menli [Robert Lyon Milne]: came out in the Marquis of Anglesea as an agriculturist; he selected a grant on the Upper Swan but gave it to William Shaw (Mary Durack, To Be Heirs Forever (London, 1976)), p.58.

Minson, William: son of Robert Minson (975). William’s name was mentioned by his father in May 1831 (CSR 15/72).

Norcop, Samuel and Sarah: the passenger list of the Hooghly contains the name of Samuel Norcop, a mason aged 26, who had a wife, one son aged 5 and two daughters aged 6 and 2. The son died in March 1830, and Mrs Norcop and the younger daughter died in May and June 1830. Samuel is not recorded again, and may have died or left the colony, while Sarah Norcop is recorded as a servant in Fremantle in January 1836 and may be identical with Sarah ‘Nor-cutt’ who married John Spencer in May 1837.

Northest, Jane and Charles: wife and infant son of Edmund Northest (1163); ages given on the Muster Roll were 28 and 1 respectively. Charles is recorded after July 1832 but Edmund is described as a widower on the census .

Padbury, Thomas and Walter: Thomas Padbury was a farmer from Oxfordshire who came out with his son Walter in the Protector and is said to have died in about August 1830. Walter, then aged about 10, was placed in the care of some fellow-passengers and from about mid-1831 he was employed by Messrs Carter and Leroux at their establishment on the York road (CSR 27/51); Carter was also not recorded on the census. Walter Padbury was later a well-known figure in Western Australia and died in 1907 at the age of 86.

Pearce, James: this name is on the passenger list of the Protector, immediately after the names of James and Ann Pearce (951 and 952) but is not to be found on the census.

Purkis, Sarah and John: infant son and daughter of John Purkis (215). Sarah’s age is given as 2 on the Muster Roll, while John Fremantle Purkis was born in the colony on 7 November 1829 and baptised on 20 December 1829. Neither child is otherwise recorded in, the colony.

Samson, Lionel: elder brother of William Samson (875) and probably absent at Cape Town in July 1832.

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Shaw, William and family: Captain William Shaw, his wife Eliza and their six children came out in the Egyptian and took over R.M. Lyon’s grant on the Upper Swan. Two of the Shaws’ sons were drowned in December 1830. Both the Shaws and their neighbour, William Tanner, were omitted from the census.

Tanner, William and family: Tanner, his wife Hester and their infant son William left England in the Margaret and at Cape Town transferred to the Drummore, in which they reached the colony in February 1831. Tanner and his neighbour, William Shaw, were both omitted from the census. In July 1832 Tanner’s household was probably a large one; a number of those who came out as his indentured servants are missing from the census and may have been with him in July 1832. Among them were John Flay, John Hand, Elizabeth Dyer, William Haddrill, his wife and two children, and Jeremiah Cook, his wife and seven of their ten children.

Truslove, Eliza: listed on John Butler’s schedule (CSR 4/94) as a daughter, aged 1, of Butler’s farm labourer John Truslove (1018).

Weavell, John: in July 1832 he was living at Preston Point, near Fremantle, but was not recorded on the census. He arrived from Van Diemen’s Land aboard the Eagle in April 1831 and applied for permission to reside in the colony, stating that he was a merchant, aged 40, and had brought property worth £3000 with him (CSR 14/107). In June 1832 he applied for an issue of Government stores, saying that he had ten people in his establishment (CSR 22/142). He married Sophia Logan in September 1832 (see notes on W.T. Graham (1024)).

Webb, Edward: listed on C.D. Ridley’s schedule (CSR 6/31) as a son, aged 16, of Edward Webb, a farm labourer. Edward Webb died in December 1831 and his widow married Joseph Berks in May 1832; she is recorded on the census (526) with her other two children.

Wells, —: The manuscript newspaper Western Australian Gazette & General Advertiser in its issue for 4 April 1830 carried the following notice:

BIRTHS—Sunday 4 April, the lady of Richard Wells, esq., of a son. There is, however, no further record of this child and presumably it did not survive, Richard Wells, his wife and two daughters, were living at ‘Henley Park’ in July 1832 (numbers 1-4 on the census).

Willis, —: the passenger list of the Protector gives James and Mary (or Elizabeth) Willis as arriving with one child (name and age not stated). Woodward, —: two daughters of Sarah Woodward (1013). The passenger list of the Hooghly records that James Woodward came out with a wife, two sons and five daughters (Christian names not given). James died in March 1830 and his widow, two sons and three daughters are recorded on the census.

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