The Veness Family History

In all, this was a party of seven adults and three children. Their vessel was the barque, “Florist”, under Captain Andrews, which sailed from Gravesend on the Thames Estuary with 208 government emigrants aboard. It called at Plymouth, and the last sight of England was of the rolling green hills around that city on 29 June 1839. “Florist” dropped anchor in Sydney Harbour on 26 October 1839. While his brother and cousin took employment in the Camden district as arranged for them, it is doubtful that William Veness took up his engagement at Morpeth for any length of time, if at all. Rather, it appears he stayed in Sydney, marrying Sarah Rigelsford on 3 August 1840 in St Peter’s Church of England, Petersham. In 1841 they were living in Hill Street, Surrey Hills; in the late 1840s and early 1850s they were living in Ultimo, where their children were born: Isaac, b. 9 Jun 1847, m. Mary Ann Wilday, 1870; James, b. 23 Nov 1848, m. Monica Woodward in 1873; William, b. 9 Nov 1850, d. 1851; Ann, b. 2 Apr 1854, m. William Simpson in 1875; Elizabeth, b. 2 Oct 1856, m. James Grant Dick in 1881; Charles, b. 23 June 1858, m. Amelia Woodward in 1879; Thomas, b. 31 July 1860, m. Susan Maria Warren in 1880. In addition there were two other children who seem to have died at an early age, a son and a daughter. William died in Glebe, Sydney, NSW, on 2 December 1871, while Sarah died on 25 October 1906. They are buried in Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney. Above: On these Green fields, in the year 1066, William, Duke of Normandy, defeated and killed King Harold of England in the Battle of Hastings, thus ensuring the final success of the Norman Conquest. 9 | P a g e

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