Reddall

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NameReddallDescriptionJohn Reddall arrived in Sydney aboard ‘Morley’, in 1820 with his parents, the Reverend Thomas and Isabella Reddall, and six brothers and sisters.

In 1828, he married Martha Wentworth, the daughter of Peterborough Estate (Shellharbour) owner D’Arcy Wentworth, and half-sister to explorer and politician William Charles Wentworth. Martha was about 15 years old, and John about 21.

On D'Arcy Wentworth's death in 1821, Martha inherited 1/5 of Wentworth's Peterborough estate, at Shellharbour.

John and Martha had their first child, Cornelia, in 1829. Sadly, she died a few weeks later. At the time they lived in the Minto area.

In 1830, John and Martha moved to Shellharbour to manage the ‘Peterborough Estate’, formerly granted to D’Arcy Wentworth, Martha’s father. The lived in what was later referred to on maps, as the ‘Old Peterborough Homestead’, which was located roughly near, what is now, the corner of Shellharbour and Lake Entrance Roads, Warilla.

Several convicts, male and female, were assigned to them on the Estate.

A son, George was born in 1831. He survived only 5 months. The following year, another son, Thomas Alexander Reddall, was born at Peterborough.

In 1835, John Reddall shot and killed Thomas Taylor, a master of one of the coastal traders visiting Peterborough. Taylor demanded tobacco and rum from Reddall, and caused a disturbance in his drunken state. Reddall stated it was an accident, and was acquitted. Shortly after this event, the Reddall’s moved off the Peterborough estate, and returned to Sydney.

The following year, in 1836, the Reddall’s portion of the Peterborough Estate was leased to George Watson.

John was active in trade between Sydney and India, and by 1827 had a 400-acre grant with permission to purchase a further 6000 acres in the Colony. However, he accrued many debts over the years, and by 1840, went bankrupt.

By 1844, John was confined in the mental asylum at Tarban Creek, Gladesville. He was described as violent and delusional.

His wife Martha, died in 1847 aged 34, but it is said that even before this, John’s mother, Isabella, cared for their surviving son, Thomas Alexander. John Reddall died at the asylum in 1855, aged 48.

Thomas Alexander Reddall inherited 2741 acres of his grandfather D’Arcy Wentworth’s original estate on his mother’s death. The area was north of Shellharbour Village.

In 1857, Thomas married Charlotte Osborne, daughter of Henry Osborne of Marshall Mount. The family lived at Captain Addison’s original home on the shore of Lake Illawarra near Mount Warrigal. Stephen Addison had also married one of D’Arcy Wentworth’s daughters and managed the Peterborough Estate for his father-in-law in the early 1800’s.

Thomas and Charlotte had several children, and sadly, many died as babies

Sophie Ambrosia b.1858 (married Luigi Vanzetti, died 1902, Woollahra)
Maud A b.1860 (died 1860)
Osborne Henry b.1861 (married Marion Shaw, died 1926, Vaucluse)
William Charles b.1863 (died 1886, Albion Park)
George D'Arcy b.1865 (married Violet Roper, died 1945, Wollongong)
Sarah Annie b.1866 (married Maurice Hilliard, died 1900, Sydney)
John Ernest b.1868 (married Maude Craig, died 1944, Shellharbour)
James Stanley b.1869 (died 1870, Wollongong)
Charlotte Mabel b.1870 (died 1870, Wollongong)
Jane Helen b.1870 (died 1871, Wollongong)
Mary Henrietta b.1873 (died 1873, Sydney)
Thomas Aubrey b.1875 (married Eliza May Lawson)

Charlotte Reddall died in 1875 aged 39 years.

Thomas Alexander Reddall died 4 September, 1907 at Stanmore.

Osborne Henry went on to become a doctor, and left an estate worth 83,003 pounds on his death in 1927.

Thomas and Charlotte’s son, John Ernest Reddall, the great grandson of D’Arcy Wentworth, married local girl Sarah 'Maud' Craig.

Maude was the daughter of John Craig and Sarah Ann Baxter. Sarah Ann Baxter was the daughter of Captain William who arrived as a convict, and was one of the earliest European settlers in Shellharbour.

John and Maude settled at Stoney Range where they built their family home, and named it 'Wentworth'. Wentworth Cottage Park marks the site of their homestead today.

External LinkJohn Reddall Supreme Court 1836Law Intelligence Supreme Court Criminal Side 1836Convict John Mead 1842Marriage Reddall - Osborne 1857Reddall's Gate 1861Death William Charles Reddall 1886Messrs Reddall's Auction 1893Marriage Reddall - Craig 1899JE Reddall vs Henry Harris 1899Birth Reddall 'Wentworth' 1900Shellharbour 1905J Reddall Sheep 1905The Farmer - A Sheep Farm 1907J Reddall Sheep Farming 1908J. Reddall Foxes 1909Obituary Miss Catherine Roach, Housekeeper to TA Reddall 1910Death Dr OH Reddall 1926Early Illawarra by Frank Wilkinson 1935Obituary John Ernest Reddall 1944Mrs M Reddall 1950Late Dr Reddall Estate 1927Dr Osborne Reddall Estate 1927

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