Ann Asher, Free Settler "Maitland" 1838

GEDCOM Note

<p>Ann BOWDEN was born on 5 Apr 1826 in Benenden, Kent, England. She was christened 1 on 28 May 1826 in Benenden, Kent, England. She died 2 on 25 Aug 1914 in Moap Street Waratah NSW. The cause of her death was Senile Decay. She was buried 3 on 26 Aug 1914 in Congregational Cemetery Sandgate, Newcastle NSW. Ann emigrated on 24 Jun 1838 from Gravesend in Kent (near London). She arrived in Australia on 6 Nov 1838 in Sydney on the ship Maitland. She resided 4 on 6 Feb 1839 in George Street South, Sydney NSW Australia. She resided in 1842 in Bourke Street, Surry Hills, Sydney NSW. She resided in 1842 in Dora Creek, Newport, near Lake Macquarie NSW. [Parents - William BOWDEN & Elizabeth GODFREY]</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>No.12450 Registered at Waratah, NSW</p></p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Ann BOWDEN losther mother when she was 12 years of age, as her mother died upon the family's arrival in Sydney in 1838.</p><p><p>Her older sister Rebecca, married Thomas ADAM two years later at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Sydney on 28 Aug 1840, so it is most likely that Ann at 14 years of age continued to raise her younger four siblings, which included a three year old infant as well as preparing meals for the older family members in Sydney and later at their farm at Dora Creek.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Ann, aged 22 years married Samuel ASHER with the consent of the Governor of NSW on 6 Feb 1845. Their first child George Leyon ASHER's christening is registered two months later on 24 Apr 1845.</p><p><p>Tradegy would again strike Ann when her husband Samuel died tragically on 27 Jul 1855 when he fell from his dray and dislocated his spine, whilst taking a dray of goods to the racecourse. He lived for 12 hours though paralysed. This left Ann with six young children to raise. Catherine the youngest, having being born only four months earlier. Three years later she married her second husband Edward PERRY on 30 Mar 1858 and had a a further five children :</p><p><p>Thomas (1859), Edward Bowden PERRY (1860) married Annie JOLLY, Harriet E PERRY (1862) married John C JORDAN, Caroline M PERRY (1864) married William FARLEY, Reuben G PERRY (1866) married Annie GILLESPIE.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>On 28 July 1877 Ann was a witness at the birth of her grandson Samuel Webster Asher. Tradegy again would arise when on 23 Jun 1884, at the age of 58 years, Ann became a Widow once more when her second husbandEdward PERRY committed suicide by cutting his throat.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Ann is buried as Ann PERRY in the Congregational Section of Sandgate Cemetery NSW. Her death is registered as : No.12450 Registered in Waratah NSW.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>For further reading see :</p></p><p><p>'The Benenden Bowdens'</p></p><p><p>The first half century of a pioneering family, the Bowden's, who arrived in Australia within the first fifty years after settlement by the British.</p><p><p>Author Colin KING</p></p><p><p>Published 1988 - 192 pages.</p></p><p>ISBN 9592639 1 8</p>