Lindsay

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NameLindsayDescriptionJohn Lindsay was born at Fintona, County Tyrone in 1792, the son of William and Mary (nee Simpson).

John left Ireland in 1852, bound for Australia, with his wife Lillian (nee Coughrane/Cochrane) and seven of their children, Mary b.1830, David b.1831, William b.1835, John b.1836, Andrew b.1839, Lilly b,1843 and James b.1845. Typhus fever broke out on board the ship 'Kate', and Lillian died on the voyage.

John's eldest daughter Elizabeth b.1828 (eighth child) arrived on board the same ship with her husband, William Foster and their son Robert.

John’s brother-in-law (Lillian’s brother), William Coughran was already living in Wollongong. Lillian’s other brother Andrew and his family, were also aboard the ‘Kate’ on the way to Australia.

John and Lillian’s son William Lindsay, married Eliza Coughran at Shellharbour in 1857.

John and the children were placed in quarantine for a time before heading to the Illawarra where John’s brother, George, had settled some years earlier.

John Lindsay took up a clearing lease at Shellharbour on a farm called 'Green Hills'. This farm later became part of the James farm 'St Ives'.

John died in 1870 as a result of a fall from a horse and was buried in the old sand cemetery at Shellharbour. A neighbour, Joseph Durrell at the inquest into John’s death said ‘he had known the deceased for about fourteen years and testified to the temperate habits of the deceased and to his good neighbourly qualities’.

John’s son, David, continued to farm at 'Green Hills'. David’s son, Benjamin Lindsay who later became Chairman of the Lands Board, planted a fig tree near the entrance to their farm. The tree still stands today just off the Princes Highway at Dunmore.

In the 1930s, Benjamin wrote a number of articles on his memories of Shellharbour, which were published in the Sydney Morning Herald and Illawarra Mercury.

‘As previously hinted, the time came when wheat growing was abandoned in the Illawarra and dairying took its place. All of those boys who grew up on their parent’s dairy farms can attest to the drudgery of milking a herd of cows morning and evening. There was no respite, for the cows must be milked twice a day, or serious will be the result. The day usually started at 3am for me, and after milking and other incidental work had been performed, there was the three-mile walk to school. There was no such thing as a milk supply to Sydney then. The separator was unknown, and milk had to be set in dishes, the cream subsequently skimmed off and then churned in a large barrel churn, into butter, which was then salted, kegged and shipped off to Sydney agents by a small coastal boat. For about eleven years, I had my full share of this work, and then the city lured me to another career…’

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Family

Cochrane (William Branch)

Coughran (Andrew Branch)

Photograph

St Ives Farm Fig Tree

Place

St Ives

St Ives Fig Tree, planted by Benjamin Lindsay.

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CollectionFamiliesLocalityCroomPlaceSt Ives and Fig Trees

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