NameCrokerDescriptionIsabella Reddall was born 1812 Shropshire, England to the Rev Thomas and Isabella Reddall (nee Bannister).
The Reddall’s settled at Campbelltown and lived at ‘Glen Alpine’.
Isabella's brother John Reddall, married Martha Wentworth, daughter of D'Arcy Wentworth who owned the Peterborough Estate (Shellharbour).
In 1835, Isabella married James O'Brien Croker at St Peter's Church, Campbelltown.
The following year she was promised a grant by Governor Gipps, of 1280 acres in the Illawarra, known as 'Croom'. She was intitled to the grant on the grounds she was the daughter of a reverend.
Isabella and James had;
Thomas Reddall b.1842 Campbelltown (died 1862, result of being killed by a bullock, Albury)
Isabella Agnes b.1843 Campbelltown (married James Bray, died 1919, Tamworth)
Richard William b.1846 Tasmania (died 1911, QLD)
Clara Julia b.1851 Tasmania (married Edmund Aubrey Templas De Vere Pery, died 1901, Kempsey)
Amelia Elizabeth b.1855 Tasmania (died 1860, Tasmania)
Mary Caroline b.1857 Campbelltown (died 1879, Campbelltown)
Isabella Croker died in 1861 at New Norfolk, Tasmania.
Ebenezer Russell purchased her Croom estate in 1852.
Ebenezer Russell's Croom Farm, c.2003.