Green Family

John Jude married into the Green Family of Cambridgeshire, England.

St Mary's Church Prittlewell, Essex
The Green family extend from Prittlewell, Essex, England. Prittlewell takes its name from a well situated at an ancient priory, known as the Prittlewell Brook, in the Parish of Southend-on-Sea (11,31). Allington Green was baptised at St Mary's Church, Prittlewell in 1743.

Allington Green settled in the ancient village of Dullingham, Cambridgeshire after marrying Sarah Collin (1748-1796), on the 5th January 1769 in St Mary's Church Dullingham (20).

The church was described in 1870 as "an ancient building of stone, with a tower; stripped of superstitions decorations in 1643". The meaning of Dullingham is "homestead of the family or followers of a man called Dulla". The village stands in the middle of the Parish.
St Mary the Virgin Church, Dullingham, Cambs.

Sarah was a descendant of the local Wake family who lived in Dullingham in the 1600's. In Bishop's Transcripts the name Wake is listed as Wakelyn (11).

Since the Middle Ages, Dullingham has been devoted mainly to agriculture, mainly in northern open fields cultivated on a triennial rotation, or by cleared woodlands in the south. By 1828 the larger farms were being cultivated on a four-course rotation, including wheat, barley, clover, and turnips (30).

Thomas Green (1770-1854) was the first born child of Sarah and Allington Green (29). He was born in Harston, a village south of Cambridge, known for its excellent water derived from eight artesian wells It has been said that Harston 'is one long street’ always bustling with travellers from Cambridge to London (11).

Thomas married Mary Willows (1771-1827) in Harston 1794 (20). Two daughters were born to the couple; Elizabeth in 1796 and Mary born in 1804.

1851 English Census for Thomas Green
The eldest daughter, Elizabeth, married John Jude (1795-1865) in Newton-by-Cambridge on 25th November 1818. Elizabeth and John had two daughters, Betsey (1819-1819), Jane (1820-1910) and a son, Page (1823-1868).

Elizabeth's sister, Mary, married twice, first to Thomas Day at age 19, to whom she had a daughter, Elizabeth, in 1826 before marrying James Sutton in Harston on 7th March 1829. Mary and James had two girls, Ann (1832-1886), Eliza born 1834, John (1837-1924) and William (1839-1901).

Elizabeth Green
On the 24th January 1823 Elizabeth's husband John, along with others, was convicted for stealing eleven ducks from a Harston farmer. He was sentenced to seven years transportation to the colonies. Elizabeth was left with their young daughter and a new son. 

John Jude did not return to England and his wife, Elizabeth, and only daughter, Jane, did not come to Australia.

Elizabeth is listed as a widow on the 1851 Census and living with her widowed father, Thomas, on parish relief. Thomas died three years later (28). By 1871 Elizabeth is living with her daughter, Jane, who married Issac A Littlechild (1811-1892) in 1843 (19).
1851 Census showing Elizabeth and her father on parish releif
Elizabeth passed away on Christmas Eve 1880, aged of 84 (27). Separated by countries, she outlived her husband and her son.

Probate for Elizabeth Jude 1880
Elizabeth's son Page Jude
Page Jude grew up in England with his mother and sister. He eventually followed his father to Australia. When his father died in 1865 he left him the properties of Armatree, New Armatree and Willancorah. Page had already acquired Illumurgalia West and Illumurgalia East from Andrew Brown in 1864 (12).

Page married Lucy Thompson (1841-1922) in Hartley NSW in 1858, she bore him three daughters and one son, John William Page Jude (1862-1936). Sadly all three daughters died from diphtheria while still young. 

Within a year of the death of the third daughter, Page died from "exposure and cold which bought congestion of the lungs and not otherwise" (15). The stained glass windows behind the altar at St Paul's Church, Emu Plains were erected in his memory (16). A bushfire in 1929 destroyed the rectory which contained several church registers and presumably other historical information (18).

The stained glass windows behind the alter in St Paul's Anglican Church, Emu Plains
"To the Glory of God who died October 18 1868 & in memory of Page Jude erected by his wife & son"
Mary Green
In 1823, at the age of 19 Mary married Thomas Day in Harston, Cambridgeshire (20). Their daughter, Elizabeth, was born in 1826. 

Mary married a second time to James Sutton (1804-1851) in Harston 1829 (20).

In the 1841 Census Mary is working as an agricultural labourer, her husband, James, not listed. Living with her were her children 15 year old Elizabeth, 9 year old Ann, 7 year old Eliza, 4 year old John and 2 year old William (19). 

James died sometime before 1851 as Mary is a widow on parish relief with her two son's living with her (19). 
1851 Census showing Mary and her two sons on parish relief

Mary's son John Sutton

At the age of 19 John (1837-1924) left Liverpool, England aboard the ship 'Matoaka', arriving in NSW on 22nd January 1857 (21). John's immigration records states:
"Uncle John Jude, farmer, Emu Plains. Father dead; mother living at Haslingfield".
Haslingfield is a village and civil parish in south Cambridgeshire England about 6 miles south west of Cambridge between Harston, Barton and Barrington (11).

John married Margaret Stewart (1851-1919) at the residence of Mr Brennon in the Murrygon District, Coonabarabran NSW on 14 October 1875, records state that he was a fencer and she was a servant (22). 

John was employed as a labourer on Denmy Plains, Gulargambone, working for the Ferguson family between the years of 1876 and 1888, where most of their children were born, after which the family moved to Youlbong Tooraweenah (24). In later years Youlbong was divided into another section called Old Mundah (13).
After John Sutton and Margaret Stewart married at Merrygoen on 10th October 1875 they came to live in the Gulargambone district. They had five sons: Wiliam born at Denmy in 1876 (who died four months later and is buried on Denmy- known then as Denmy Plains), James born 1880 and Archibauld born in 1882 both at Denmy Plains, William born 1886 at Youlbung and Richard born 1889 Tooraweenah. Margaret died on 3rd June 1919 of influenza during the epidemic of 1919-1920 aged 68. 
- Book Pioneers & Personalities Gulargambone Cemetery 1881-1995.

Family history records the following:
"John arrived in Australia at the age of 19 and went to live in Five Dock, Sydney, with his cousin, Page Jude, and they called him "Jude's Jack". John married Margaret Stewart at Goolma near Mudgee and had five boys, Jim, Jack, Bill, Richard and Archie. They moved to Gulargambone and worked on a property for John Ferguson at 'Denmy' and then for Peter Ferguson at 'Rosedale'" (25).
John was aged 87 when he passed away 1923 (26).

Margaret Stewart passed away at the age of 68, her death in the Daily Liberal and the Land newspapers read:-
"Mrs Margaret Sutton, 68, a resident of Gular, died in the Gilgandra District Hospital on Tuesday last. She had lived in the district since 1875 and left a family of five sons. (55) (56)"
Margaret Stewart 1851-1919
Margaret was the eldest of nine children born to convict, James Stewart (1821-1868) and house servant, Harriet Dennis (1822-1868). James, her father, was an errand boy born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. At the age of 15 he was sentenced to seven years transportation on the Calcutta for theft:-
 "..stealing two webs of table linen, belonging to J Johnston, High-street. Both guilty; Stewart to be transported for seven years; Parker to be imprisoned for twelve months. Though very young (Parker being a mere child) these culprits manifested all the symptoms of long habitude in crime; uttering imprecations against the Barrister as they were removing from the dock (57)."
James Stewart, Margaret's father, linen thieves 1837

Harriet, Margaret's mother, was the daughter of farm labourer Henry Dennis and his wife, Hannah Ware. Born in Brasted, Kent, England she immigrated in 1849 to Australia aboard the James Gibb with her older brother, Dennis Jnr. Records state both parents were deceased and their religion as Church of England, they were able to both read and write. Harriet's immigration records states that she "complains of being shamefully abused by Miss Potter their Matron" (21). Harriet's younger brother, William, later immigrated to Australia with his family aboard the Lady Ann, stating "that in the colony he had a sister Harriet Dennis at Redfern" (21). Harriet and James married in 1850 Bathurst NSW.

Merrygoen
The district was at first known by the Aboriginal name Murry Gon Gon, becoming shortened to Murrygon and eventually transformed to Merrygoen (23).

William Sutton (1886-1965)
William was one of five sons born to John Sutton and Margaret Stewart. He came into the world on 8th January 1886 when the family lived at Youlbong Tooraweenah. William married Sarah Furness in 1909.

Family history records the following:-
"When Sarah Furness (1888-1979) was about 14 she went part time to school and part time at Munro's Hotel looking after their children for five shillings a week. Eventually the hotel burnt down and Skuthorpe's was the only hotel in Gulargambone. Sarah then worked at Skuthorpe's as a housemaid for a while but they had brought their own staff with them and she had to leave. About this time she had known William for two or three years as he used to go to the back room of the hotel and play billiards. He used to also go to "Granny Salvador's" to buy bread. When Sarah was about 17 William asked her if she would like to go to the hall but she knew that he didn’t dance so she declined. A few nights later he asked her to go to the pictures and she accepted. Charlie Chaplain was showing and it was one shilling a ticket.

At this time William was fencing and working a pick and shovel for the Main Roads Dept. They went together for about three years, one day William said to her, "How about getting spliced?" and Sarah said, "Oh, I suppose so". They were married on the 14th April 1909 in the Presbyterian Church at Gular. Sarah was nearly 21 and William was 23.

They had ten children, William, the eldest, died four or five days after birth. Sarah said a big spider fell on her from the ceiling and gave her such a bad fright that the baby was born by breach birth two days later. Other children were Norman, Jack, Doreen, Richard, Nancy, Connie, Grace, Ray and Bill. Bill was the last baby who died of meningitis when he was 20 months old. They stayed in Gular until 1938 (25)."
Family of John & Margaret Sutton c1895
Surton family-William, mother Margaret, John, Archibald, James, father John, Richard c1895

 



 

English connection to the Sutton and Furness families
The English connection to the Sutton and Furness families




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