Addison

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NameAddisonDescriptionThe 1,650 acres of land granted in 1821 to D’Arcy Wentworth, situated at Peterborough, included the site of the Private Village of Peterborough later to be known as Shellharbour Village.

D’Arcy Wentworth came to Australia on the Neptune 28th June 1790 as Assistant Surgeon in the convict fleet. He had been accused of highway robbery in England but came to Sydney a free man. Governor Macquarie appointed him Principal Surgeon in 1811 and also Principal Superintendent of Police. (The Sydney Gazette 1803-1842). D’Arcy was also a founding member of the Bank of NSW.

By his Will dated July 5, 1827, D’Arcy Wentworth left his Illawarra Estate which by extra grants acquired, a total of 13,050 acres, in trust to his five children, Martha (Reddall), Sophia (Towns), MaryAnn (Addison/Hollings), Catherine (Bassett/Darley) and his son Robert.

Captains Towns, Addison and Darley had married the D’Arcy Wentworth daughters, and the streets in the village were named after D’Arcy Wentworth’s family including Towns, Wentworth, Mary, Addison, Sophia and Darley streets.

Shell Harbor (early spelling) took its name from the abundance of shells (Aboriginal middens) found on the foreshores. Captain Towns & Addison, sons-in-law of D’Arcy Wentworth, established a shell-lime industry at the harbour. Large quantities of shells were burnt into lime and shipped to Sydney.

Mary Anne Wentworth was the second youngest of four daughters of D'Arcy Wentworth (1762-1827) and Mary Ann Lawes, probably born at Wentworth's Homebush estate sometime between 1820 and 1823.

She was one of eleven Wentworth siblings, the eldest of whom, her half-brother William Charles Wentworth (1790-1872), was more than 30 years her senior.

Mary Anne married Captain Stephen Addison (c1795-1854), a Hobart merchant, at St James' Church, Sydney in December 1840. They had five children -

Hugh D'Arcy b.1842 Hobart (died 1874, Tasmania)
John Elliott b.1845 Shellharbour (married Emily Welsh, died 1931, Hobart)
Stephen McComish b.1848 Shellharbour (died 1872 Hobart)
Elizabeth Sophia b.1850 (died 1851)
Mary Agnes b.1852 Hobart (married John Wesley Singleton 1872, divorced 1885)

Captain Stephen Addison managed the Peterborough Estate in the 1840's and made his home of the shore of Lake Illawarra (near today's Skiway Park at Oak Flats). Their home was called 'Lake House'.

Stephen Addison died in Hobart in July 1854.

In June 1855, at the Holy Trinity Church in Hobart, Mary Anne married Charles Hollings (1813-1886), a gentleman in the service of the East India Company on leave in Tasmania. Charles was 40, and Mary Anne, 31.

Charles returned to India later the same year, and remained there until 1861.

11 October 1856, Mary Anne and children (Mrs Hollings, 3 boys, 1 girls and servant) sailed from Hobart to Port Jackson aboard 'Emma', arriving seven days later on the 18th. They once again settled in the Illawarra.

Three months later on 30 January 1857, Mary Anne gave birth to an illegitimate female child, that was registered at Wollongong.

30 April 1859, Mary Anne gave birth a second illegitimate female child, this time registered at Concord. The surname of the children was listed as Wentworth on the birth register, and Mary A was listed as the mother.

Charles divorced Mary Anne in London in February 1865, on the grounds of adultery.

Mary Anne and her children, John, Stephen and Mary, were living at Saint Helier on the island of Jersey when she died, 10 January 1870.

Mary Ann was buried in the Almorah general cemetery at St Helier, and her name was added to the Addison family tombstone in Hobart's Cornelian Bay Cemetery.

4 December 1871, Mary Anne's children, John, Stephen and Mary returned to Australia, arriving at Port Phillip Bay, aboard 'Lady Jocelyn'.

Information - Caroline Simpson Library and Research Collection, Sydney Living Museums.

External LinkBirth Addison 1842Birth Addison 1845Birth Addison 1848News from the Interior 1848Governor at Lake House 1848To Let For Three Years 1848Death Stephen Addison 1854Visitor to Royal Marine Hotel Wollongong 1856Peterborough Estate Leases 1857Peterborough Estate 1857Kiama Punt 1858Trespass Notice 1858Hollings VS Hollings 1865Death Stephen McOmish Addison 1872Marriage Singleton-Addison 1872Remarkable Divorce Case - Villeneuve Smith / Mrs Hollings 1873Supreme Court Victoria Smith Vs Smith and Armstrong 1873The Smith Divorce Case 1873The Late Divorce Case 1873Death Hugh D'Arcy Addison 1874Death Captain John Elliott Addison 1931Captain JE Addison 1931Mary Anne Addison (nee Wentworth) - Museums of History NSW

Peterborough Estate Map showing location of Lake House, c.1851.

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CollectionFamiliesFamilyReddallDarley - BassettPersonFenwick, ThomasWentworth, D'ArcyAddison, Stephen CaptainTowns, RobertPlaceLake HouseVillage of PeterboroughPeterborough Estate

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