James Pocknall

  General Notes:

James Pocknall (1812 - 1874), son of Thomas/Ann, married Sarah Rowles. They are said to have lived at Five Wents, and later Layden Hatch, although they do not appear on Census records for these places. They were assisted emigrants to Australia, leaving from Southampton on the ship 'Gilmore' , arriving in Sydney on 18/10/1855. Shipping records show that they had 5 children with them. James (labourer), Sarah & son John could read and write, Elizabeth and William could read only, and the two youngest, Mary and Isabella could neither read nor write. The NSW line descends from James and Sarah, who took up land, cleared it and became farmers in the Bathurst/Molong area of NSW. John died in Ryde at age 18. Elizabeth married John Johnson. William married Lydia Kefford. Mary died at age 17 in Bathurst. Isabella married Robert Hardwick.
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  Noted events in his life were:

• Census UK: Ag. Lab., aged 30, Mar, 1841, Five Wants, Sutton At Hone, Kent, England. ⁵ Living next to Birchwood Farm, this may have been between Coldblow, Wilmington and Hextable as there is a Birchwood Road running between them.

• Census UK: Fruit Grower, aged 39, Mar, 1851, Leaden Hatch, Sutton At Hone, Kent, England. ⁶

• Immigration: Arrived on the Vessel Gilmore, 18 Oct 1855, New South Wales, Australia. ⁷ with family, Sarah (wife), John, Elizabeth, William, Mary Ann & Isabella

• Immigration: Reg No. 3725, 1857, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. ^{1 8}

James married Sarah Rowles on 7 Feb 1837 in Saint Giles, Camberwell, London, England.¹ (Sarah Rowles was born about 1814 in Southwark, London, England ¹, christened on 1 Oct 1815 in St Saviours Southwark, London, England,¹ died on 12 Nov 1889 in Sydney, Nsw, Australia ⁹ and was buried in Nov 1889 in Rookwood Cemetery, Sydney, Nsw, Australia ¹.)