Gill Family

[majm]

Re Susannah CHAPMAN and NSW BDM sighting with parents William and Susannah.

St Peters, Campbelltown 15 May 1842 baptism .... this is likely an Anglican ceremony

Her date of birth recorded there as 26 February 1842, so perhaps not our OP's lass. 

https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XTX9-89N

Cheers,  JM

[~MERLIN~]

Further information to JM's post above:

Susannah CHAPMAN bap. 1842
Father: William
Mother: Susannah
Ref Number: V18421222 26A   
Parish: Campbelltown, St Peter's (Co. Airds), Church of England

[majm]

Re Susannah’s birth and the family’s belief of 17 March 1842, Woodville.

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/short-guide-4/volumes-1-123-1/volumes-1-123


I think it likely that NSW BDM's Volume 54 from lines 1094 to 1179 inclusive would cover 86 Wesleyan baptisms from 1839-1844. (So on average about 15 per year for all of NSW).  It may be that there’s no NSW BDM holdings for Wesleyan baptisms from the Woodville district for that timeframe, and  perhaps that’s indicating that a clergy’s register has not been located for that rural circuit or that there was no clergy available to be actively looking after the Pastoral care of the local Wesleyans at that time. However, that suggestion is simply speculation on my part, and I am often way off track.   I have checked my own family's private papers, as there's a number of my ancestors who were Wesleyans in NSW in that era.   

 I cannot see any other likely NSW BDM Early Church Record’s volume.  A good search of NSWSRO’s reel 5019, from 1094 to the end of the reel may be helpful. (it covers 1839 to 1844, but the Wesleyans are at the end of the reel)

Perhaps the new NSW BDM search options will allow for a search using line no. and year only.  "Search by number only" No/Yes (selecting the YES option) but it seems to me that it only allows for one line no. and year per each search, regardless of if an ECR or a civil registration.   

Cheers,  JM

[Aussie1947]

Hi,

I could search that Section of Reel 5019 but not for a couple of weeks.

Gerry

[Neil Todd]

According to Mr Google the Church registers on microfilm for West Maitland, Morpeth and Maitland are on Microfilm at the NLA Mitchell Library?

Neil

[trevorlisa16]

Maybe the the following information I've obtained may assist some:

Susannah Gill -
Birth 9 DEC 1842 • Dunmore Estate, Woodville River, NSW, Australia
Australia Birth Index, 1788-1922, Reg No. 14111
Death 11 SEP 1926 • Woodville, New South Wales, Australia

Married: William Foster - 21 Jan 1859 Wesleyan Chapel, West Maitland, New South Wales, Australia
Australia Marriage Index, 1788-1949, Reg No. 2196

Susannah Gill's parents:
Father: William Gill -
Birth 28 APR 1797 Kent, England (Inscription inside family bible of William & Susannah Foster states Kent, England.)
Death 21 JAN 1869 • Dunmore, Morpeth, NSW, Australia
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985, Reg No. 4672
Married to Susannah Elizabeth in 1816, Chatham, Kent, England

Mother: Susannah Elizabeth (nee Creed)
Birth 25 OCT 1801 • Chatham, Kent, England
Death 9 JAN 1887 • Goulburn Grove, Largs, N.S.W. Australia
Australia Death Index, 1787-1985, Reg No. 10384

William & Susannah Elizabeth appear to have had 15 children: Harriet, Jane, William, Mary, Andrew, Louise, Naomi, Miriam, Susan, Peter, Sarah, (Susannah B:1842), Albert "James", Martha, Eliza. (All born in England except from Sarah onward. Two appear to have died under 3yo.)

Regards