Individual Details
Rebecca DEARLING
(22 Sep 1819 - 23 Jun 1863)
Events
| Birth | 22 Sep 1819 | Westcott, Surrey, England, United Kingdom |  | ||
| Baptism | 17 Oct 1819 | St John the Evangelist, Wotton, Surrey, England, United Kingdom | | ||
| Marriage | 2 Dec 1837 | St Michael's, Mickleham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - William GREGORY | | ||
| Alt name | 2 Dec 1837 | Rebecca GREGORY | |||
| Living | 6 Jun 1841 | working as a female servant while her daughter Eliza was living with her sister Mary & her family while son William was with his uncle Thomas - Savill Row, London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom | |||
| Marriage | 21 Nov 1842 | witnessed by James & Harriett Dearling - New Cross Church, Peckham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - George KNIGHT | | ||
| Alt name | 21 Nov 1842 | Rebecca KNIGHT | |||
| Occupation | 1843 | nurse | |||
| Emigration (fam) | 26 Oct 1843 | on the 'Neptune' (Cpt Ferris) & arrived in Sydney 11 Feb 1844 with George's children from his 1st marriage: Joseph (16), Sarah (12), Kate (9) & George (4) plus Eliza Gregory (5) and William Gregory (3) from Rebecca's 1st marriage - George KNIGHT | | ||
| Living (fam) | Mar 1844 | Shellharbour, New South Wales, Australia - George KNIGHT | |||
| Living (fam) | 1846 | Jamberoo, New South Wales, Australia - George KNIGHT | |||
| Note (fam) | 1850 | In the 1850's the first white settlement occurred at Wandandian when the Walsh and Kerwick families took up land on the Wandandian Creek and settlement was made at Jerrawangala about 7-km further south by Andrew McKenzie, John Higgins and George Knight (probably about 1857 in George's case) - George KNIGHT | | ||
| Living (fam) | 1856 | Jerrawangala, New South Wales, Australia - George KNIGHT | |||
| Living (fam) | Dec 1859 | The Settlement which was soon to be renamed, Milton, New South Wales, Australian Colonies - George KNIGHT | |||
| Living (fam) | 1862 | Sherbrooke, New South Wales, Australia - George KNIGHT | |||
| Death | 23 Jun 1863 | of heart disease according to the magisterial enquiry held 25 Jun 1863 which heard that she "retired to bed in her usual good health but expired suddenly, almost without a groan" (Illawarra Mercury 26 Jun 1863) - Bulli, New South Wales, Australian Colonies | | ||
| Burial | 24 Jun 1863 | Methodist Section, Wollongong Cemetery, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australian Colonies | |||
| News Pub (ind) | 4 Jul 1863 | The following item appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald: "Mrs. Knight, the wife of Mr. George Knight, a carpenter in the employ of the Bulli Coal Company, died suddenly of disease of the heart last Monday week" | |
Families
| Spouse | George KNIGHT (1806 - 1881) |
| Child | John KNIGHT (1844 - 1919) |
| Child | Thomas KNIGHT (1846 - 1925) |
| Child | Alfred KNIGHT (1848 - 1903) |
| Child | Franklin KNIGHT (1849 - 1922) |
| Child | Felix KNIGHT (1851 - 1932) |
| Child | Edwin KNIGHT (1853 - 1933) |
| Child | Walter KNIGHT (1855 - 1903) |
| Child | Rhoda KNIGHT (1857 - 1892) |
| Child | Lydia KNIGHT (1859 - 1931) |
| Child | David KNIGHT (1861 - 1951) |
| Spouse | William GREGORY (1818 - 1839) |
| Child | Eliza GREGORY (1838 - 1874) |
| Child | William GREGORY (1840 - 1913) |
| Father | Thomas DEARLING (1773 - 1842) |
| Mother | Elizabeth BROOKWELL (1783 - 1841) |
| Sibling | James DEARLING (1802 - 1879) |
| Sibling | Eliza DEARLING (1805 - ) |
| Sibling | Mary DEARLING (1807 - 1807) |
| Sibling | Sarah DEARLING (1809 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth DEARLING (1812 - ) |
| Sibling | Ann DEARLING (1815 - ) |
| Sibling | Thomas DEARLING (1817 - 1892) |
| Sibling | Harriett DEARLING (1823 - 1900) |
Endnotes
1. , FamilySearch (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
2. UK Baptism Record
3. , FamilySearch (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
4. UK Baptism Record
5. UK BMD Index (either from FreeBMD or gro.gov.uk): Dec Qtr - note that Rebecca can be found under Dearing not Dearling
6. , FamilySearch (N.p.: n.p., n.d.).
7. UK Marriage Record: Vol 4 page 33
8. NSW Assisted Migration, Neptune 1844
9. Internet
10. The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 1863
11. Knight Family Bible (George)
12. The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 July 1863