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Dear Rosalie, I have looked up the Redcoats,and I may have given you the wrong information.  There is certainly a Howarth who stayed in Sydney, but his name wasn't John, his wife wasn't Eliza, and he was married in 1848.  This is one of the problems with Ancestry.  People who are searching for ancestors, sometimes make assumptions, based on dodgy info., then post it on their Genealogy pages. Everything I find out, in my own research, is documented.  The family who has posted John Howarth's stuff, has certainly put the info I said to you.  Now there my be a second Howarth, who doesn't appear on the Redcoat Settler''s page, or the Redcoat person may have been given the wrong infformation, but it seems strange that the info is different. You might like to get in touch with the family and ask them. I have the same trouble with John Wilson, because on Ancestry, there are descendants who are adamant that he is a John Wilson who arrived in Adelaide in 1844, and I have done extensive research on both, and know that he is not.   Such is life!Cheers, Fay

Rosalie, you'll never believe it, but I looked up John and Eliza on Ancestry and found them, on someone's tree, and John belonged to the same regiment, the 11th Foot, as another of my G-Grandfathers, William Sivewright, and came to Australia (Tasmania)at the same time. He was born in Ireland only 3 years before John Wilson.  Below is the link I found, and the extra information on ancestry includes his regiment etc:
John Howarth
Spence/Sparrow/Kendall/Peterson/Howarth/Carey/Watman Family Tree
 Birth:  1820 - Wexford, Ireland
Marriage:  1851 - Sydney, NSW (New South Wales), Australia
Parents:  John Shephard Howarth, Mary Pascoe
Spouse:  Eliza Walsh

Dear Rosalie, how interesting!  John and Rachel themselves were married in the Wesley Church, also in 1851.  They were my greatgrandparents.  Rachel came with her parents on the "Palmyra" in 1838 -there is a book about the journey, because 45 people died of Scarlet Fever, and an enquiry was held. Her parents were Edward and Mary Inmon, and her sisters were Maria and  Mary Anne. They went into the employ of Mr Manning, I think at Camden. I have yet to establish what voyage John Wilson came to Australia on, but he was born in Tullamore, Ireland in 1823, and came here in about 1840. After marrying Rachel, they went to Sofala, where he was a goldminer, then a farmer near Bathurst.After 1864, he became a Bush Missionary in Sydney, then Town Missionary in Maitland.In 1870, he became the schoolteacher at Hexham, and remained a schoolteacher, near Goulburn, then Albion Park.He died in Sydney in 1902.don't know isf this helps, but my email is: (*). if you would like to write to me.Fay Long

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Hi Maxine,
John Curry, his wife Maragaret and ten of their 12 (or 13?) children came to Kiama from County Tyrone, Ireland in 1850 on the ship Oriental.  He worked first as a cedar-getter, then selected land at Foxground (now Curry's Mountain.)  The land reminded them of where they had come from.  Several other families, some related to them, came out to the same area, including the Cullens.  Information about the Currys and the Cullens is in the 2010 version of the "Pioneers and Settlers in the Police District of Kiama NSW prior to 1920", and on the Gerringong Pioneers Register, I think it is called, on the net.  A detailed paragraph about the Irish settlers in Kiama, and those from Tyrone, is in the book"Farewell my Children" by Richard e. Reid.  John Curry was my G.Grandfather.
Fay