"BLOWERING STATION"
East Blowering Road,(Monaro Highway)
Blowering. Via Tumut.NSW.
Dr Benjamin CLAYTON
First of seven owners
Originally 25,600 acres
Ownership from about 1838 to 1840.
Sold to Captain John Charles Whitty.
Dr Benjamin Clayton was born in Baltinglass, near Dublin, Ireland in 1805, as a young boy of 11 years he travelled to Australia on board the convict ship "Surry" with his father Samuel CLAYTON who was travelling as a convict. They settled in Sydney.
Transport: 443 tons. Square rigged ship with an overall length of 117 ft. 6 ins., a breadth above the gunwales of 29 ft. 6 ins, and a draught, when loaded, of 18ft. The vessel was copper-sheathed, and had quarter galleries, with a Minerva bust for a figurehead. She carried a crew of thirty and was armed with fourteen cannons.
When the Surry was originally built at Harwich in 1811 she had two decks with a height between decks of 5ft. 8 ins. However, about 1818, she must have received a major refit - the Shipping Registers after 1819 record the vessel as having three decks.
The Surry had one of the longest careers as a convict transport and she was the only transport to make 11 passages to Australia. She completed her last voyage on reaching Hobart on 11 August 1842.
The Surry landed 2,177 male and female convicts in Australia and lost 51 men and one woman during her various passages, 36 of the men dying during her first and most notorious voyage in 1814 under the command of James Patterson.
Thomas Raine commanded her for the next three voyages (1816, 1819, 1823); he was succeeded by Charles Kemp for four voyages (1829, 1831, 1833, 1834); he was succeeded by George Sinclair as her Master on the ninth and tenth voyages (1836, 1840) and on the last voyage (1842) she was commanded by Henry Innott.
(Ref - http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/all/journeys/ships/list.html )
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Qualifications: MRCS 1828
Lic Midwifery Dublin
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Spouse: Frances Mathilda Broughton. 1834
Children: Nine children b.1835-1853
Voyages: "Surry" arr. NSW 1816
"Australia" arr. NSW 17 April 1830
Came out as:
Date Settled Aus: 1816
Date of Departure:
First Registered:
Off Register:
Addresses: Baltinglass, near Dublin, Ireland
Parramatta, NSW
London, England
Dublin, Ireland
Windsor, NSW
Gunning District, NSW 1836
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Notes: Emigrated from Baltinglass, near Dublin, Ireland at the age of 11 years
Completed five years' apprenticeship at Parramatta and 2 years with
William Bland (qv) as assistant (McCarthy)
To London 1826 to complete his studies
Certificate for "first ever colonial colleague"
For many years only doctor between Yass and Goulburn
References: New South Wales Calendar and General Post Office Directory 1832-1837
New South Wales Medical Board. List of the Legally Qualified Medical Practitioners of the Colony of New South Wales. Sydney : W. Baker, 1842
Hazell EG. Some Came Free, Canberra 1978.
Steele J. Early days of Windsor. Sydney : Tyrrell, 1916 (reprinted North Sydney : Library of Australian History, 1977)
McCarthy M. Medical practice in Yass and district. In: Proust AJ. A social and cultural history of medicine in New South Wales in the 19th century. Canberra, the author, 1999
(Ref - www.medicalpioneers.com )
How Benjamin arrived in the Blowering Valley as a single man or "Why" has not been fully established at this point or how he travelled here or with what equipment or assistance.
1840 - The first "Pasturage (Squatters) Licenses issued in the Tumut area were to:-
John Archer Broughton, at "Gocup"
Dr Benjamin Clayton, at "Blowering",
Thomas Howe, and
George & William Shelley, "Tumut Plains" and
George McDonald. and
Mr William Warby "Darbalara"
1834 Dr Benjamin CLAYTON & Miss Frances Mathilda BROUGHTON were married in (CI) St Peters, Church of England Campbelltown, (Co. Aird) - (Ref NSW BDM No.V1834328 18).
1835 - 1 - James E CLAYTON, was born in 1835 - (Ref NSW BDM No.V1835892 19) - In 1863 James married Miss Eliza ANDREWS, in TUMUT - (BDM No. 3000/1863) Then about 75 years later in 1910 James E died in Young, NSW - (Ref NSW BDM No.11866)
1841 - 2 - CLAYTON, FRANCES parents were BENJAMIN & FRANCES M - (Ref - NSW BDM V18411645 25A)
1843 - 3 - Emma J CLAYTON, was born in Tumut, NSW - (REf:- NSW BDM V18431599 27A)
1845 - 4 - Broughton G CLAYTON, born in Tumut, NSW parents were BENJAMIN & FRANCES M - (Ref NSW BDM V18451970 30A)
1846 - 5 - Kennedy CLAYTON, was born in Tumut, NSW - (Ref - V18461647 32A)
1848 - 6 - Bland CLAYTON, was born in Tumut, NSW - (Ref - V18481821 34A/1848) - Records show in 1936 Bland CLAYTON son of BENJAMIN & FRANCES MATILDA in died in CAMPBELLTOWN, NSW, at the age of about 90 years - (Ref NSW BDM No.3661)
1851 - 7 - Margaret J CLAYTON, parents were BENJAMIN & FRANCES M - (Ref NSW BDM V18512066 37A)
1853 - 8 - Ultima CLAYTON, parents BENJAMIN & FRANCES M was born, records of the BDM do not show a town. - (Ref NSW BDM No.V1853763 40) - In 1936 Ultima CLAYTON died in Campbelltown, NSW, at the age of about 89 years - (Ref NSW BDM No.8896)
1854 - Benjamin died at the age of 49 years on the 15th September 1854 in Balmain, NSW.
1849 Bland CLAYTON was born in Tumut, NSW - (Ref NSW BDM No.V18491621 34A) - Then 1874 he married Francis Eliza BROUGHTON in TUMUT. (Ref:-Marriages NSW BDM 3991).
This marriage also united two of the original settler families in the Tumut district.
20891/1875 Jessie Matilda CLAYTON, parents BLAND & FRANCES ELIZA in Wagga Wagga, NSW - Jessie died in 1946 in Chatswood, Sydney - (Ref NSW BDM 8731).
21848/1877 CLAYTON, FRANCES G parents BLAND & FRANCES E in WAGGA WAGGA
15622/1880 CLAYTON, EMMA HUME parents BLAND & FRANCES ELIZA in ADELONG
22115/1881 CLAYTON, WILLIAM BLAND parents BLAND & FRANCES ELIZA in WAGGA WAGGA
26304/1884 CLAYTON, ROBERTA WILHELMINA parents BLAND & FRANCES E in WAGGA WAGGA
1886 Florence K CLAYTON, parents BLAND & FRANCES E in Wagga Wagga, NSW - (Ref NSW BDM 28986). Florence died in 1886 in Wagga Wagga, NSW - (Ref NSW BDM 11910).
13991/1878 CLAYTON, SARAH E parents BLAND & FRANCES E in ADELONG
35380/1892 CLAYTON, VIOLET B parents BLAND & FRANCES E in TUMUT
Many years later his son Bland Clayton's name appeared as a part owner of Edward George Brown's Stock & Station Agency in Tumut. He had the job of preparing a valuation of the Goods & Chattels of the Blowering Station during PROBATE after Joseph Lambert's death in 1902, well after the original owners Benjamin and Francis Clayton's ownership..
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