James Duffey1
M, #5423, d. 1853
| Last Edited | 30 Mar 2018 |
| Marriage* | 22 July 1834 | St Johns, Parramatta, NSW, Australia; James Duffey T Age 27 years Norfolk 1 of the Parish of Parramatta and Mary Buckley F Age 21 years Native of the Parish of Parramatta were married in this Church by Banns with consent of this Twenty Second day of July in the year 1834 By me Samuel Marsden Senior Chaplain This Marriage was solemnized between us: The mark of James Duffey The mark of Mary Buckley In the Presence of: Hy Martinnear Catharine Buckley;Bride=Mary Buckley2 |
| Death* | 1853 | Ovens River diggings, VIC, Australia3 |
| Letter* | 4 June 1853 | Golden Gully, Bendigo Creek, VIC, Australia; Mr Abraham Buckley Engineer Mr Burnes Steam flower Mills Paramatta N. S Wales Golden gulley Bendigo Creek June 4th – 1853 Dear brother and sister this comes with Ower love to you hoping to find you And all your family in good health as This leaves us all at preasent I cant Possibly make out the reason I have Not herd from you this makes the Fourth letter I have sent to you But I suppose you did not get them Or I should have shurely have got some Of them Dear brother I intend Please god to Stop until next Spring or praps longer As long as I can make 2 or 3 ounces per Weak I will stay as I have laid in 7 Months provisions 7 sacks of flower 4 hundred of sugar soap 50 Pounds of Split peas salt vinegar Coffie mustard And maney other little things for the Winter I have only won to lookout for Beef gold and good health I herd You was about comeing to the diggins I think you had better stop where You are at least until I come Back as the diggings at present is Not very favourable but if you Should come be shure to make me Out and I will put you in the Proper way to go to work mind work It is but nice work when you get Your wages I have maid betwean 6 and 7 hundred pounds since I have Bein here but have done very little This last 6 months your mother And martha and duffie and Wife and William buckley are all at the diggings At the Ovens Mrs Turner and her husband Is there also Rations is very dear Flower 10 pounds per Bag Peas 3s Coffie 3s Cheese 3s.6d butter 5s Beef 6d pr Pound Gin Rum Brandy 1 Pound pr Bottle Port wine 15s.20d give ower kind respects To tommey your son in law his wife And family NB Remember me to Mr and Mrs Dun The publican also the carpenter at the Mill in short to all enquireing Friends No more at present from Your loving Brother and sister W. P. and Elizabeth Wall Also give ower love to William and His wife ower children all join In love to these cousins W. P Wall If you should answer this Direct W. P Wall golden Gulley Bendigo creek Melbourn And please to put a stamp on And then it will be shure to Come safe Send us what news About the Sydney diggins God by W. P. W4 |
| Letter* | 12 August 1853 | Tumut, NSW, Australia; Tumut, August 12th, 1853. My dear Mr. Wagner, I only received your letter dated 2nd May? Today and sat down to answer it immediately and in doing so I am exceedingly sorry I am obliged to say the report you have heard about your (girl) dear child is quite true. The whole family of the Buckleys that is the old Mrs. Buckley, Martha Buckley and a person named Kenedy (and her husband (Mr. Luke?) Buckley and your Anna, Mr. & Mrs. Buckley and family started together for the gold-diggings at the Ovens River and after they had been there some time the scarlet-fever broke out among them and in addition to the loss you have sustained in the loss of your child, four more of the abovementioned party fell victims to the disease that was ….. Mrs. Buckley, Martha Buckley, Mr. Duffy and one of the children. Buckley wrote me a letter when your child died, asking me to write the sad tidings to yourself and Mrs. Wagner as he said he did not know your address and in the letter Buckley wrote me there was enclosed a certificate from the medical Gentleman stating that he had been called in to attend your child through its illness and everything that could possibly be done to save its life had been done. This certificate together with Mr. Buckley’s letter to me I enclosed immediately in a letter I wrote to you detailing all the information I could gather and addressed it to “The Mission Station “Zions Hill” Moreton Bay.” And it appears to me from your letters now received that you have not received it. If that be the case you can write to the Post master Moreton Bay and get it. How is Mrs.Wagner? Has she been travelling with you? Or is she still in Moreton Bay? I hope she has had no return of the fearful illness she experienced when she was at Tumut and hope with yourself will be able to bear an affliction fathers bore with a spirit of humble faith and resignation to His Divine will. I do not rightly know where Mr. & Mrs. Buckley and the remainder of the party, are at present. They have not returned to Tumut and I think they have removed from the Ovens diggings to the Bendigo diggings. I am glad to inform you that Mrs. Body and my family have arrived safely from England, and have joined me at Tumut now about five months. Mr. Sep? Anderson and Mr. Luke? Ford with their families are enjoying good health, and unite with me in kindest wishes. And believe me, My dear Mr. Wagner, Your faithfully, T. P. Body;Mentioned=Mary Buckley3 |
Family | Mary Buckley b. c 1815, d. 3 Jun 1853 | |
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Citations
- [S1219] NSW Marriages 1788-1857.
- [S1579] St John's Parramatta Parish Registers.
- [S1743] OM74-29, Wagner Family Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Letter from T. P. Body to Rev. Wagner 1853.
- [S1736] State Library of New South Wales, online http://www2.sl.nsw.gov.au, Abraham Buckley - letter received from W. P. and Elizabeth Wall, 1853.
- [S1570] NSW Early Church Records 1788-1855, baptism Alred Duffy 566/1837 V1837566 22.
- [S1570] NSW Early Church Records 1788-1855, V18411595 25A/1841 Jane Duffey.
- [S1570] NSW Early Church Records 1788-1855, V18492069 34A/1849 James Duffey.