The family history of the Chins and Haddocks in Australia: Chin-Haddock family Ch.2: John Butt Chin & Ann Haddock

John Butt Chin Junior, his wife Ann Haddock, and their 3 children, John Chin , Plumleigh Chin and Sarah Ann Chin, arrived in the Colony between 1836 and 1838. In 1839, their fourth child, Benjamin Chin, was born. The obituary of eldest son John stated that he was “born in August 1828 and arrived in Melbourne when only eight years old”, which seems to indicate the family initially settled in Melbourne, however, the birth of youngest son Benjamin appears to have been in Sydney as he was Christened in St Andrews Church Sydney in September 1839.

John Butt Chin

Ann's second brother, Joseph Haddock and his family had previously arrived on the "Warrior" as fare paying passengers in 1833. He was a bookbinder/stationer who later became a schoolteacher. It was probably letters from Joseph to his family that prompted John Chin to emigrate.

JOHN BUTT CHIN AND ANN HADDOCK IN LONDON

John Butt Chin Jnr was born/baptised 14 July 1804 in Gainsford Street, St John, Southwark, to Rev. John Butt Chin and Land Plumleigh, the daughter of Anthony and Elisabeth Plumleigh.

Dr Williams Library of Independent Baptisms (Surrey Extracts) states:

“14 July 1804, John Butt son of John Chin and his wife Land daughter of Anthony and Elizabeth Plumleigh, was born in Gainsford Street, St John Southwark.

Signed John Chin of 3 Union Pl, New Kent Road.

Witnesses W Hawes, E Maddox”.

He had four sisters: Martha Leah, Mary, Sarah Niel, and Eliza Land. Tragically, six other children died in infancy or at birth.

Southwark

Southwark is London’s most historic borough, first being settled by the Romans. It was famously the home of Charles Dickens who first came to Southwark at age 12 when his father was imprisoned in the Marshalsea Prison as a debtor. Borough High Street which also features in the story of the Chin-Haddock families, was also the inspiration for Dicken’s writings, in particular Little Dorrit, in which Dorritt lived with her father who was imprisoned in the Marshalsea. The Borough is one of the oldest parts of London and became known for its inns, brothels, bawdy behavior and as a haven for law breakers. The area known as the Elephant and Castle was a maze of terraced streets and had shops lining every approach to the junction. Southwark became the centre of manufacturing and industry during the 18th and 19th centuries. Glass making was a major industry; the leather tanning trade, specializing in hat manufacturing, a dangerous and polluting industry; it also became a major force in the brewing trade. Southwark was also home to many of the most important prisons in the country from medieval times, including The Clink, first opened in 1161 and used until burnt down in the riots of 1780; the Marshalsea, second in importance only to the Tower of London, first destroyed in riots in 1381 and 1450 and rebuilt, closing down in 1842; the third important prison, the King's Bench was opened in the 14 th century and closed in 1880.

The area south of the area known as The Borough, was essentially rural. Up until the late 18th and early 19th centuries this area was still part of the county of Surrey and was a landscape of meadows, farms, market gardens and small villages. With the development that followed the building of new bridges over the Thames and the expansion of manufacturing activity, areas such as the villages of Newington and Walworth began to become an extension of the urban great metropolis of London. Walworth was famous for its fruit orchards and market gardens. The new developments of Walworth and Newington became the home for the Chins and the Haddocks when they left Southwark, although the younger Haddocks continued to run their business interests in the Borough High Street area.

(ref: Southwark Council- History of Southwark- www.southwark.gov.uk )

John Butt Chin married Ann Haddock, the daughter of John and Mary Haddock, on 11th May 1826 in St Peter’s Church Walworth, in the presence of John Chin, Sarah Chin, Mary Haddock and Mary Chin (Ancestry.com).
John Haddock (died 31 March 1822) was a banker who lived in Newington Place, London, Surrey, his wife Mary Haddock nee Paine nee Bywater died 1 September 1822.

After their marriage John and Ann Chin lived at 11 Manor Place Walworth.

Manor Place Walworth, Surrey

The Chins and Haddocks had several marital links.

John Chin's sister Martha Leah Chin married Ann Haddock's brother, Henry John Haddock, a stationer, living at 103 High Street, Southwark. Henry was widowed in 1839, and remarried to Martha’s youngest sister Eliza Land Chin between 1841 and 1844. Ann and Henry Haddock’s brother-in-law Thomas Simpson was also a warehouseman in High Street Southwark.

John’s sister Mary Chin married Edward James Oliver, named as a trustee of Rev. John Chin's Will, as was Henry John Haddock. Mary Oliver wrote her father Rev. John Chin’s Memoirs (see Chapter 3).

His sister Sarah Niel Chin married Robert Salmon Mulley.

At the time of their father’s Will, Rev. John Chin was living at Union Place, New Kent Road, Surrey. The Will was dated December 1837, but daughter Martha had died in August. She had had a child in June 1837 so may have died as a result of a difficult childbirth.

John Chin Jnr was described as a warehouseman living at 11 Manor Place, Walworth Road, Newington, at the time of the birth of his children, John in 1828 and Plumleigh in 1829. When his daughter Sarah Ann was born, her birthplace is given as 12 Deptford Bridge, Deptford, Kent.

In the 1837 Will of his father Rev. John Butt Chin, John Butt Chin Jnr was named as executor and trustee and was described as "John Butt Chin, Gentleman, Harper Street New Kent Road, Surrey." He was removed as Trustee/ executor in a codicil dated 4th July 1839- probably because he had left England for the Colony of Sydney. The departure of his only surviving son and heir to the other side of the world forever must have been a terrible blow to Rev. Chin and his wife. One wonders at the reason for the decision, and whether there was animosity between father and son.

The Chins, Olivers and Haddocks came from the neighbouring London suburbs of Walworth, Southwark, Bermondsey and Newington on the southern side of the Thames River near London Bridge.

Map of Southwark, Walworth, Bermondsey area of South London

ARRIVAL IN AUSTRALIA

The Chins were living in Melbourne where there are several references to them in the records. According to the Port Phillip Herald, Fri 6 May 1842, ‘Mr Chin’ was granted a Publican’s License to the ‘Crooked Billet’. Whether this refers to our John Chin is debatable, because shortly after, on 1 August 1842 John Butt Chin was declared bankrupt by the Courts. In the "1842 Insolvency List" by John Noble Wilson, he was described as "Tipstaff to the Supreme Court", which was an officer of the Court. (Port Phillip Insolvencies- home.vicnet.net.au)

In May 1843, notice was given "that the plans of distribution of proceeds of the Insolvent, John Butt Chin was ready for inspection of the Creditors of his Estate."

· John Butt Chin, Vic, Melbourne, 6 August 1842, Bankruptcy (Ref NSAG NSW 1842 p.1238) - The bankruptcy references state: "In the insolvent estate of John Butt Chin of Melbourne 6 August 1842 Whereas the Estate of the abovenamed insolvent was placed under sequestration in my hands, by order of His Honour the resident Judge for the District of St Phillip I hereby appoint a meeting of the Creditors of John Butt Chin".

· 23 August 1842: In the Insolvent Estate of John Butt Chin of Melbourne. Whereas the Estate of the above-named insolvent was placed under Sequestration on my hands,….. I hereby appoint a Meeting of the Creditors of the said John Butt Chin… (NSW Government Gazette)

· John Butt Chin, Vic, Melbourne, 21 September 1842, (ref NSAG NSW 1842 p.1329)

· John Butt Chin, Vic, Melbourne, 20 May 1843 (ref NSAG NSW 1843 p.702) - Notice given that plans for the distribution of proceeds of J. B. Chin lay in the Commissioner's Office

· John Butt Chin, Vic, Melbourne, 17 June 1843, (ref NSAG NSW 1843 p.843_ - This relates to a notice given that John Butt Chin intends "to apply for the allowance of his Certificate"

The Melbourne Times, Sat 13 August 1842 p.3, announced that ‘Mr Chin has resigned as Crier and Tipstaff of the Supreme Court Melbourne’.

On 31 January 1843, Mr JB Chin was in the list of unclaimed letters held at the Post Office.

Shipping Intelligence- 26 October 1843- Arrived Melbourne

Imports: Per James, from London, arrived at Port Phillip:- case seeds, Captain Bunbury, 1 case sugar…, Cooper and Co. 1 case of wearing apparel, J. B. Chin,… (The Australian, 26 Oct 1843 p2)

Was this his inheritance from his father’s estate?

John and Ann then went to live in Hobart Town, between 1843 and 1848, their address being Bathurst Road, Hobart Town. The Tasmanian Archive records show them, together with three children, leaving Port Phillip on 16 October 1843 and arriving in Hobart on the 27 October 1843 on board the “Adelaide” travelling as cabin passengers. (Colonial Times Hobart Tues 31 Oct 1843 p.2)
John must have made several journeys away from Hobart as shipping records list him as a steerage passenger on board the “Flying Squirrel” returning from Port Phillip to Hobart on the 3 April 1844 (The Courier, Hobart, 3 May 1844, p.2) (this may also have been his eldest son John Chin Junior who was aged 16, as only three children accompanied their parents in Oct 1843 to Hobart), and on board the “Arequipa”, cabin class, bound for Sydney on 28 July 1846. (The Courier, Hobart, 18 July 1846, p.2). “Mr Chin” returned on the brig Louisa, leaving Sydney August 12 and arriving in Hobart on 25 August. (The Australian 13 August 1846; The Colonial Times 28 August 1846). On the 9 November 1846, “Mr Chin” arrived in Launceston on the brig Siren from Port Phillip. (Launceston Examiner, 11 November 1846 Shipping Intelligence)

HOBART

(My thanks to May Chin for sharing her research on John Butt Chin's life in Hobart, with me)

Ann Chin gave birth to another son on 26 November 1845. However, the baby, named Alfred, died after just 11 weeks and was buried on 12 February 1846 in the Parish of The Holy Trinity.

Death Record of Alfred Chin

In Hobart, John Chin became a teacher, as revealed in his wife's Will of 1845.
On 27 September 1845, possibly after the birth and death of her fifth child which may have endangered her own life, Ann made her last Will and Testament stating she was of “Bathurst Street Hobart Town, wife of John Butt Chin, Schoolmaster. One of her Beneficiaries/Executors is Thomas James Crouch who appears in an advertisement with John Chin for the Total Abstinence Society (Colonial Times, Hobart 3 April 1846).
John and Ann held Day Schools at the Temperance Hall in Bathurst Street (see Jarman's 1858 map below to see location of Temperance Hall in Bathurst Street and Trinity Church in Warwick Street. The original Trinity Church in Bathurst Street is now known as the Penitentiary Chapel.)

Jarman's 1858 map of Hobart Town

By 27 January 1846, John Chin is the secretary of the Total Abstinence Society. He placed an advert in The Observer, Hobart, on that date:

Total Abstinence Society Library. Subscribers and others who have books belonging to this institution are respectfully requested to return the same, that the Librarian may be enabled to make up the Library. Notice is also given that no Books will be issued from this date until Monday the 2^nd of March, at which time it will be again opened with some New and interesting Works.

J.B. Chin, Secretary. Temperence Hall, Jan. 26.

A further notice in The Observer, 27 January 1846:

Van Diemen’s Land “Temperance Herald”. Subscribers and Friends are respectfully informed that the Seventh Number is now published, and also that there are a few Numbers from the commencement on hand, which may be had by early application to J. B. Chin, Agent, Temperance Hall, To whom also any neglect in the delivery is requested to be made, Jan 26, 1846.

The Observer, Hobart, 3 April 1846

Hobart Town Total Abstinence Society.

A Quarterly meeting of the full Members of this Society will be held this Evening, in the Temperance Hall, Bathurst Street. The Chair to be taken at seven precisely, and on Tuesday Evening, the 7^th proximo, A PUBLIC TEA MEETING will be held in the same place, at 6 precisely. After which, B. Dutebreau, Esq, will deliver a Lecture “On the necessity of Total Abstinence proved by the fatal consequences of strong drink and fermented liquors: wherein a view will be taken of the minute parts of our bodies that are first affected and finally destroyed by those enemies of the human race”.

T.J. Crouch, secretary, Committee April 1847.

Tickets for the Tea- One Shilling each, to be had of Messrs Walker, Crouch, Chin and Roundtree.

Colonial Times, Hobart, 12 June 1846:

Tasmanian Primitive Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.

The Brethren of the above Order are hereby summoned to attend a Committee of the whole Lodge, at their Room, on Monday Evening next, the 15^th instant, at & o’clock precisely, for the purpose of taking into consideration the Rules which have lately been received from the A.S.G. Lodge, Sydney. By order of the N.G., J.B. Chin Secretary, June 11 1846

SYDNEY

On their arrival in Sydney sometime around 1847, they lived in Liverpool Road, where Ann died shortly afterwards in July 1848. Ann made her will in 1845, which was the year she gave birth to a fifth child who died at 11 weeks later. This may have left her in a weakened state of health which led to her early demise- see Will transcript below.

Ann's death certificate states:

Ann Chin; abode: Cook’s River; age 48; died: 8 July 1848; buried: 12 July 1848; ceremony performed: Parish of Ashfield, Co. of Cumberland; by whom: F. Wilkinson, Church of England.

The Sydney Morning Herald, Tues 11 July 1848 p3, had the death notice:

On the 8^th instant, at Adelaide Park Free School, Liverpool Road, in her 49^th year, Ann, the beloved wife of Mr J.B. Chin, deeply regretted by all who knew her.

She is buried in St John’s Anglican Parish Church Cemetery at Ashfield , Sydney, number 33 in the Burial Register. (Notably another grave holds Alexander Wood, d. 1852, grandfather of Hannah Halliday who married Sarah Ann Chin’s son Thomas C. Butler- Register No. 100-

ref: www.stjohnashfield.org.au )

St. John's Anglican Church, Ashfield, Sydney

map of Liverpool Road, Ashfield

The fact that Ann died at Adelaide Park Free School is of interest. The area of Burwood was newly developed. The Municipality of Burwood, Local History webpage has the following:

(http://www.burwood.nsw.gov.au/our_burwood/history/local_history.html)
"In about 1833, the owners of a number of grants commenced to subdivide and sell their lands and thus commenced the growth of the suburb of Burwood.
The earliest commercial activity in the area was the Enfield lumber trade. Thomas Hyndes, a young Londoner who arrived in Sydney in 1803, received an early grant in Enfield which was not recognised by Governor Macquarie. Hyndes returned to Enfield in 1823. By this time he had become a prosperous timber merchant with a mill and a house in Sussex Street and properties on the North Shore and in the Illawarra district. In 1842, he set up his country home on the Puchbowl Road, naming it Adelaide Park after his daughter. By the mid 1840's, wood cutters, gardeners, innkeppers, storekeepers and blacksmiths were forming the nucleus of a village along the Parramatta Road, and Hyndes was something of a village squire. Hyndes built a substantial stone schoolhouse which opened in 1847 as the Adelaide Park Free School. This was used as a church before the opening of St. Thomas' in 1848. Hyndes is said to have commissioned a prominent Sydney architect, John Frederick Hilly to design a typical Englsih village church, such as he had known as a boy. The portrait of Thomas Hyndes and his wife are preserved in St Thomas' Church porch."

Whether John had gained employment as a teacher at the school is not known, but Ann's death there in 1848 would suggest so. Following Ann's death, John moved closer to Sydney.

Map of Burwood Farm subdivision in 1833 showing Cook's River and Liverpool Road

A GOVERNMENT GAZETTE REFERENCE:

“Ann Chin, NSW, Liverpool Road – 11 August 1848, Will/Admin” and the Probate Office holds data (no. 1928, Piece 1 of Hobart and Sydney, 1848, p.2254 Admin).

The Sydney Morning Herald of Friday 11 August 1848 reported :

In the Supreme Court of New South Wales Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

In the Will of Ann Chin formerly of Bathurst Street Hobart Town but lately of Liverpool Road in the district of Sydney in the colony of New South Wales deceased

NOTICE is hereby given that John Butt Chin of Sydney in the colony of New South Wales, gentleman, one of the executors named in and appointed by the last Will and Testament of the abovenamed Ann Chin, deceased, intends at the expiration of fourteen days from the publication of this notice to apply to this Honourable Court in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction for probate of the last will and testament of the deceased.

Dated this eleventh day of August AD 1848

Allen and Son, Proctors for the said John Butt Chin

Elizabeth Street, Sydney”

WILL AND TESTAMENT- ANN CHIN Dated 27 September 1845- transcript

This is the last Will and Testament of me Ann Chin wife of John Butt Chin of Bathurst Street Hobart Town Schoolmaster being of sound mind memory and understanding do by virtue of a power to me in that be half given before my intermarriage with my said Husband in and by a certain Indenture bearing Sale in or about the month of May one thousand eight hundred and twenty six whereby the sum of eight hundred pounds was placed in the Bank of England in the names of John Pain, John Chin, Thomas Bridge Simpson, and Henry John Haddock being set apart for my sole and ……use and benefit make and publish this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say I do hereby give and bequeath unto my Dear Husband the sum of two hundred pounds should he survive me and the remainder of the said sum I give and bequeath unto my said Husband and Thomas James Crouch of Hobart Town Esquire or the survivor of them (Upon the Trusts following that is to say that they my said Trustees or Trustee do and shall as soon as conveniently may be after my death lay out and invest the said …..in such manner as they may think proper and which said interest or sum accruing thereon or thereupon shall by them or him applied equally amongst my children for or towards their support maintenance and education until the eldest or other child of such child shall attain the age of twenty one years Then upon the eldest or other of such child attain the aforesaid age of twenty one years I direct my said Trustees or Trustee to divide the aforesaid principal sum equally between my said children share and share alike and to ….unto such child so coming of age as aforesaid the share due to him or her and the remaining ….or portions to be laid out or invested and the interest thereon to be applied and paid as aforesaid until the next child shall attain the aforesaid age of twenty one years and so on until each of my said children shall attain the aforesaid age of twenty one years Provided always that if any of my said children shall die under the aforesaid age of twenty one years then I direct and desire that the sum or portion which he or she would be entitled to on attaining the aforesaid age of twenty one years shall be equally divided between the survivors or survivor share and share alike and I do hereby declare that the receipt or receipts of my said Trustees or Trustee shall be good and valid discharges for the sum to be mentioned therein (And I do hereby authorize and empower my said Trustees or the survivor of them to appoint such person or persons as they or he shall think proper to receive the money out of the Bank of England aforesaid Provided also and I do further will and declare that none of the several Trustees or Trustee hereby appointed now any Trustee or Trustees to be hereafter appointed by virtue of this provision shall be charged or chargeable with or for any sums of money other than what they shall respectively actually receive by virtue of the Trusts hereby in their …..notwishstanding or any of them shall …..any receipt of the sake of conformity and that one of them shall not be answerable or accountable for the other of them or for the …receipts …..or default… of the other of them but each only for his, her of their own acts receipts neglects and defaults and also that it shall be lawful for them with and out of the money …shall come to their respective hands by virtue of the Trusts aforesaid to retain and reimbursement himself herself or themselves respectively ….. costs charges or expenses as they or any of them shall or may respectively sustain expend or be …… unto in or about the execution of the Trusts in …..refused or in any ……..thereto and I revoke all former and other wills by me at any time heretofore made and declare this only to be my last Will and Testament and thereby appoint my said Husband John Butt Chin and James Thomas Crouch Executors of this my Will In witness whereof I the said Ann Chin have hereunto set my hand and seal this Twenty-seventh day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty five ___Ann Chin______signed sealed published and declared by the said Testatrix Ann Chin as and for her Last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in her presence at her request and in the presence of each other have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses_____George Washington Walker Liverpool at Hobart Town_________Robert Andrew Mather Liverpool St Hobart Town_______Samuel Benson Mather Liverpool St Hobart Town________2^nd September 1848 This day upon Petition Probate of the Last Will and Testament of Ann Chin died was granted to John Butt Chin Exor named in the Will he having been first …..will and ….to administer the same Testatrix died 5 July 1848 Goods under $.2.0. Protate signed by (….Kenson Judge and dated same day__________.

2254 SEE 1928, 5 June 1851 This day upon Petition administration de bonis non of the Goods Chattels …of Ann Chin deceased was granted to John Chin and Plumleigh Chin Goods sworn under $300.

John died the year following his wife’s death, in Pyrmont, Sydney on 28 July 1849. An application for probate in the Government Gazette, by the Executors of his Will, described John Butt Chin, late of Pyrmont in the Colony of NSW, gentleman, deceased. The death certificate of his son Plumleigh, described his father’s occupation as “warehouseman”. Warehousemen were wholesale distributors.

The Primitive Church Magazine, Volume 3, page 68, gave the following short obituary:

1 February 1850 Deaths: Died at Sidney, Australia, July 25, 1849, in his forty-fourth year, Mr John Butt Chin, only son of the late Rev. John Chin of Lion-street, Walworth. He survived his beloved wife but twelve months, having left four children to deplore their loss. His eldest son writes, “Their end was peaceful and happy," and is supported by the conviction that "through faith, and patience, they now inherit the promises”.

LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF JOHN BUTT CHIN- part transcript

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This is the last Will and Testament of me John Butt Chin of the City of Sydney in the colony of New South Wales Schoolmaster whereas my two elder children John Chin and Plumleigh Chin are able to provide for themselves and the income of any property will I apprehend only suffice to maintain and educate my two younger children Sarah Ann Chin and Benjamin Chin and I am desirous therefore that it should in the discretion of my trustees herein named

2….. or chiefly applied for that purpose until the youngest of my children for the time being shall attain the age of twenty one years on the happening of which most I wish the capital of my property or other monies arising these from and all accumulations of unapplied income (if any) to be equally divided between my four children as herein after mentioned now I do hereby give devise and bequeath all and singular my ….. lands tenements hereditaments and real estate whatever and wheresoever of or to which I am now or at the time of my death shall or may be seized or entitled either at law or inequily for any derisable estate or interest or of which I have power to dispose or appoint by this my will and also all my money securities for money goods chattels and all other my personal estate and effects whatsoever and wheresoever unto and to the use of my trustees George Wigram Allen of the City of Sydney aforesaid Solicitor and Samuel Wothington Mansfield of the same place Gentleman, their heirs, executors and ….. And afeigns respectively according to the ….nature of qualities there of respectively But upon and for the ….intents and purpose following A(that is to say) as to all the said real estate upon trust trial they the said George Wigram Allen and Samuel Worthington Mansfield…

New South Wales GOVERNMENT GAZETTE 1840-1849 notices:

Fri 12 October 1849 p1485 (No.111)

In the Supreme Court of NSW

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

In the Will of John Butt Chin, late of Pyrmont in the Colony of NSW, gentleman, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that George Wigram Allen of the Glebe, near Sydney, Solicitor, and Samuel Worthington Mansfield, of the same place, gentleman, the executor appointed in and by the last Will and Testament of the above named John Butt Chin- intend at the expiration of 14 days from the publication of this notice, to apply to this Honourable Court in its Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction, that probate of the said Will may be granted to them as such executors as aforesaid-

Dated this 12^th day of October A.D. 1849

George Allen

Proctor for the said G.W. Allan and S. W. Mansfield.

Tues Aug 8, 1848 P978 (No. 85)

In the Supreme Court of NSW

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

In the Will of Ann Chin late of Bathurst Street Hobart Town, widow (?), deceased.

Notice is hereby given that John Butt Chin of Sydney in Colony of NSW, gentleman, intends… to apply to this Honourable Court, in its Ecclesiastic Jurisdiction for probate of the last will and testament of the above named, deceased Dated this 8^th August A.D. 1848

Allen and Son

Proctor for the said John Butt Chin

Fri August 11, 1848 P995 (No.86)

In the Supreme Court

Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction

In the Will of Ann Chin, formerly of Bathurst Street Hobart Town but lately of the Liverpool Road in the District of Sydney in the Colony of NSW, deceased.

Notice is hereby given that John Butt Chin of Sydney, gentleman, one of the Executor named in and appointed by the last will and testament of the above named Ann Chin, deceased, intends … to apply to this Honourable Court .. for probate of the last will and testament of said deceased Dated this 11^th day of August 1848

Allen and Son

Proctor for the said John Butt Chin

Tues August 23, 1842 P1238 (No. 57)

In the Insolvent Estate of John Butt Chin of Melbourne.

Whereas the Estate of the above named insolvent was placed under Sequestration in my hands, by order of His Honour the resident Judge for the District of St. Phillip- I hereby appoint a meeting of the Creditors of John Butt Chin 6 Aug 1842 to beholden at my Office at Melbourne on Sat 13 August instant at 2 o’clock and another Meeting to be holden at the same place for the like purpose on Sat 20 August at 2 o’clock for electing a Trustee or Trustees. Dated at Melbourne 6^th day of August 1842

William Vernor

Chief Commissioner

Tuesday May 23, 1843 P702 (No. 43)

In the Insolvent Estates of G. Jones, J. McNall, J. Baskerville and John Butt Chin

Notice is hereby given that the plans of distribution of proceeds of the above named Insolvents, lie in my Office in Melbourne for the inspection of the Creditors of the said estate and that any Creditors or other person interested therein, objecting to the confirmation thereof, must lodge a caveat, stating the grounds of such objection, at my said office within 14 days from the date hereof. Dated 20 May 1843

William Vernor

Chief Commissioner

Tuesday June 27, 1843 P843

In the Insolvent Estate of John Butt Chin

Notice to Creditors

Take notice that on Thurs 17 August next, or as soon after as may suit the convenience of the Court, the above named Insolvent intends to apply to the Honourable the Supreme Court of the District of Port Phillip for the allowance of his Certificate, in pursuance of the provisions of the Act of the Government and Council of NSW passed the fifth year of the Reign of Her Majesty Queen Victoria, No. 17- Melbourne 17 June 1843

John Butt Chin

ISSUE of JOHN BUTT CHIN AND ANN HADDOCK:

John and Ann's orphaned children were aged 10, 14, 20 and 21 at the time of his death.

My grateful thanks to family researchers May Chin (researcher of the Chins of Kiama) and Beryl Curtis (descendant of Joseph Haddock) for sharing their extensive research with me.

1. Sarah Ann CHIN, born 3 December 1835 at the home of John Butt Chin, warehouseman, at No. 12 Deptford Bridge Deptford, county of Kent (Christened at Baptist Church Deptford, Kent). She married Francis George Butler (son of Walter Butler and Margaret Dunn) on 25 April 1853, and died on 30 August 1906 in Maitland Rd, Wickham, Newcastle. Two years after being orphaned, Sarah Ann was re-baptised at the age of 14/15 years, in the Church of England on 8 January 1850 in the Parish of St Andrew, Sydney. She was described as a 'servant', and living in Gloucester Terrace, The Rocks, Sydney. Notably her baptism record says she was born in December 1836 not 1835.

Dr William’s Library Registry of Surrey Baptism Extracts for 3 December 1835:

“Sarah Ann daughter of John Butt Chin Warehouseman of Newington and his wife Ann daughter of John Haddock Banker of Newington Place Surrey was born at 12 Deptford Bridge, Deptford, Kent –

Witnesses Henry Benwell Surgeon of Greenwich (Kent) Susannah Bailey of Deptford Kent”.

Sarah Ann Butler nee Chin

Issue of Francis George Butler and Sarah Ann Chin:

1. George John Walter Butler
b.10 Feb 1854 Glebe Sydney
d.22 Feb 1854 Glebe Sydney

2. Frederick T. Butler
b.17 April 1855 Newtown, Sydney
d.1856 Sydney

3. Benjamin Henry Butler
b.4 April 1857 Chippendale Sydney
d.22 Jan 1886 Islington Newcastle
m. Mary Jane Cole- 3 Sept 1881 Musselbrook NSW

4. Ann Jane Butler
b.1859 Botany, Sydney
d. 12 May 1939 Nundah QLD
m.1. John Gibson- 27 Sep 1878 Islington Newcastle (NSW Reg. 4181/1879)
m.2. Joseph Smith- 1896 at Hamilton Newcastle (NSW Reg. 1176/1896)
m.3 John Andrew Farrell- 9 May 1906 at Brisbane (QLD Reg. B004595)
m.4. Fred Darben- 20 March 1928 at Brisbane (QLD Reg. B003117)

5.Samuel Joseph Butler
b.1863 Chippendale, Sydney NSW
d. 1899 Sydney Hospital, Sydney
m. Emma Elizabeth Meadham-1883 in Cobar NSW

6. Matilda Margaret Butler
b.9 August 1866 in Redfern Sydney, NSW
d. unknown
m. Joseph Clark- 26 March 1887 in Newcastle NSW

7. Thomas Charles Butler
b. 31 Jan 1869 in Glebe Sydney NSW
d. 4 Oct 1930 in Wickham Newcastle, NSW
Burial: Sandgate Cemetery- Division SE Section E No 53 kerb & concreted
m. Hannah Halliday- 26 Mar 1891 in Hamilton Newcastle, NSW

8. William Plumleigh Butler
b. 1876 in Glebe Sydney, NSW
d. 18 Sept 1935 in Brisbane QLD
m. Elizabeth Jane Balks- 1897 in Wallsend NSW

9. Sarah Portia Butler
b. 23 Oct 1878 in Newcastle NSW
d. 31 Mar 1895 in Wickham Newcastle NSW

Refer to Butler Family History blog for Sarah Ann’s story :

http://butlerfamilyhistoryaus.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/walter-butler-ch-26-walter-and-margaret-dunn-issue.html

2. John CHIN (eldest son), born 29 August 1828 at the house of John Butt Chin at No. 11 Manor Place Newington in the county of Surrey (Christened Baptist Church Walworth Road), married Emma Crooks 23 June 1851 Newtown Sydney, and moved to Kiama; died 8 September 1891.

Dr Williams Library records:

“ 28 August 1828 John son of John Butt Chin Warehouseman of 11 Manor Place Walworth Road Newington and his wife Ann daughter of John Haddock Banker of Newington Place Surrey.

Witness Samuel Henry Sterry Surgeon of Grange Road Bermondsey and Mary Oliver (nee Chin - John’s sister) of Newington Causeway”.

John married Emma Crooks who was the daughter of John Crooks and Elizabeth Hyman and was born on 25 February 1835 in Mountsorrel, Leicestershire, England.

John and Emma had 15 children and several of them were old pioneers of Kiama, NSW.

1.Portia – born 17 April 1852 in Kiama – died 16 February 1939 – married Frank Robinson in Kiama in 1870.

2.Lydia – born 21 September 1854 in Newtown - died about 1948 in Berry – married Robert Ross Moore in Kiama in 1877

3.Emily – born 7 October 1856 in Kiama – died 31 May 1938 in Kiama – married William Henry Cambrell in Newtown on 7 September 1874. There is a note in the “Illawarra Pioneers pre 1900” that Emily cared for her mother in later years and at the time of her own death Emily was one of the oldest surviving natives of Kiama. She is buried in the Wesley Section of Kiama Cemetery.

4.Mary Ann – born 21 June 1858 in Kiama – died 6 October 1933 in Kiama – married Charles Thomas Reynolds in Kiama in 1880.

5.John Charles – born 21 July 1860 in Kiama – married Harriet Brasher in Wollongong in 1882 (she died 31 October 1942). A note in the “Illawarra Pioneers pre 1920” states that John was a lay preacher in Kiama and also a lay preacher in the soldiers’ camp in WW1. He contracted meningitis and subsequently died on 24 July 1916. His obituary was noted in the “Kiama Independent”. John and Harriet had a daughter Hilda born on 31 March 1898 in Kiama. She married Herwin Edward Hilston Evans in Kiama in 1915 and died on 13 November 1979 in Sutherland. She is buried in the Woronora Crematorium, her religion being “Methodist”.

6.Sarah Ann – born 11 August 1864 in Kiama – died 28 May 1933 – married Frederick William Wilson in Kiama in 1882.

7.Betsey Crooks – born 23 September 1866 in Kiama – died 11 June 1953 – married John F. Tuckerman in Newtown in 1891.

8.Amy Jane – born 29 November 1868 in Gerringong – died 4 May 1902 in Redfern – married Robert Stevenson in Kiama in 1885. Amy was a “Methodist” and is buried in the Rookwood Cemetery.

9.Cecilia – born 16 October 1870 in Kiama – died 20 September 1923 – married Benjamin H. Ranyard in Kiama in 1891.

10.William – born 29 September 1872 in Kiama – died 8 August 1955 – married Ellen E. Ranyard in Kiama in 1890.

11.Alfred Ernest – born 10 January 1875 in Kiama – married Elsie May Button in West Maitland on 21 October 1903. After their marriage Alfred and Elsie lived in Ryde. Alfred’s religion was that of “Methodist” and he was buried in Ryde. They had three children – Clarence Mervyn born 3 August 1905, Eileen Elizabeth May born 30 September 1909 and Noni Alva born 27 December 1910 (she died 12 July 1923).

12.Frank Robert B. – born 22 October 1876 in Kiama – died 26 July 1964 – married Frances J. Barns in Marrickville in 1902.

13.George Reuben T. – born 22 January 1879 in Kiama – died 13 April 1944 – married Beatrice H. M. Brown in St Peters in 1905

14.Harman Edward – born 14 March 1881 in Kiama – died 21 March 1943 – married Elizabeth C. Walton in Marrickville in 1903

John’s occupation was that of a blacksmith.

Kiama Independent and Shoalhaven Advertiser

Thurs 12 July 1866 p3.

(Coincidently, the Tobin in the other advertisement is the blogger's 2x G. Grandfather)

John was also a Wesleyan Preacher and is buried in the Wesleyan Section of Kiama Cemetery having died in Kiama on 8 September 1891. There is a death obituary in the ‘Kiama Independent’ which reads -

“Another name must be added to the long list of those who, known and esteemed as old residents of the district, have recently departed this life, namely that of the late Mr John Chin, who died of epithelioma at his residence, Minnamurra Street on Tuesday last 8 September 1891, aged 63 years. He was born in August 1828 at Manor Place, Walworth Road, Surrey, England and arrived at Melbourne, in the sister colony, when only 8 years old. Subsequently he removed to Sydney, and in 1851 was married to the eldest daughter of the late John Crooks, whose obituary appeared in the Independent only a few months ago. Five years after his marriage, the deceased (Mr Chin) removed with his family to Kiama, and commenced business as a shoeing and blacksmith in Manning Street in close proximity to the bridge, at the junction with Noorinan Street, generally known as “Chin'’ bridge. He was a devoted member of the Wesleyan Church, and for four and a half years filled the important office of Secretary to the Kiama Sabbath School, and his service in this position was recognised by his fellow teachers who presented him with a well bound and popular theological dictionary. This was an appropriate gift, as his gratuitous services as a local preacher was shortly after accepted by the Church, and he retained that high and responsible position to the last. He leaves a large family of mourners, viz, a widow and fifteen children, nine daughters and six sons the youngest being about 11 years of age, and in the second generation there are no less than thirty three grandchildren. The funeral, which took place on Thursday, the 10^th instant, was attended by a large number of mourners and friends and the services for the burial of the dead prescribed by the Wesleyan Church, was conducted in the Church by the Rev W E Bourne of Kiama and at the grave by Rev J Bryant of Jamberoo.

3. Plumleigh CHIN, born 29 November 1829 at the house of John Butt Chin at No. 11 Manor Place, Newington, Co. of Surrey (Christened Baptist Church, Walworth Road),

married 1. Georgiana August Haddock 17 September 1850 at Newtown, daughter of Joseph Haddock's (ie. Ann Haddock’s brother)

m.2. Mary Ann Crooks 1876 Kiama (sister of Emma Crooks, the wife of Plumleigh’s brother John Chin)

Dr Williams Library Registry of Surrey Extracts of baptisms –

“29 November 1829 Plumleigh son of John Butt Chin Warehouseman of 11 Manor Place Walworth Road Newington and his wife Ann daughter of John Haddock Banker of Newington Place Surrey – witnesses Samuel Henry Sherry, Surgeon of Grange Road Bermondsey, Mary Haddock of High Street Borough (Southwark).

As mentioned earlier, this is another intermarriage, bringing the Haddock and Chin families together as Plumleigh Chin married Georgiana Augusta Haddock the daughter of Ann’s brother Joseph (ancestor of family researcher Beryl Curtis) who had arrived in Australia in 1833. Plumleigh and Georgiana’s marriage took place on the 17 September 1850, in the Parish of Camperdown, following the calling of Banns. They had twelve children.

Issue:

1.Emma J - born 1851

2.William John - baptised at Camperdown on 12 March 1853. William died in infancy as Georgiana and Plumleigh had another son of the same name

3.Plumleigh (born 1854)

4.James Thomas - baptised at Camperdown on 3 April 1855

5.Frederick - born about 1856 at Windsor (His birth entry is listed as “male - no. 8107/1856”) and died at Penrith in 1860

6.William John - born 1858 - married Alicia Catherine Ashton in 1880. William died about 21 October 1914. They had seven children.

7.Louisa - born 1859 at Richmond – married Charles H Beavis at Kiama in 1887

8.George Charles – baptised 6 April 1861 at Penrith

9.Walter Ford - baptised at Dubbo on 23 September 1863. He married Eliza Susannah Leaney at Milton in 1887 and they had six children. One of their sons, Frederick is mentioned in “Meet the Pioneers - Early Families of Milton/Ulladulla by Joanne Ewin” - Fred Chin, typical of the fiercely patriotic, adventure-loving young soldiers of WW1 “Yours for the Empire!” he wrote across the postcard photo of himself in uniform which he sent to his parents. Fred was the letter carrier in Milton before he went to the war. Walter Ford worked for Ahrens, the blacksmith opposite the Milton Church of England Church and died in 1942.

10.Ann A A - born at Mudgee in 1866, died in 1897.

11.Eliza A - born 1879 married Samuel J Caiels in 1890 in Sydney.

12.Septimus Reid - baptised 27 January 1873 at Wangaratta, Victoria. He died in Kiama on 21 September 1892.

Wife Georgiana died on the 12 December 1875 and the Australia Computer Generated Index lists her burial as 14 December 1875 at the Church of England Church Wagga Wagga. Interestingly the NSW Births Deaths and Marriages index shows a “Chin Ah, Georgina, parents Thomas H and Ann as a death in Wagga in 1875” and the death transcription shows “Georgina Chin – father Thomas Haddock schoolmaster – mother Ann Coates”. Her death certificate states that she died of Phthisis (TB) and was a servant at the time of her death.

After Georgiana’s death, Plumleigh married Mary Ann Crooks (sister to Plumleigh’s sister-in-law, Emma Crooks, wife of John Chin). The marriage took place in Kiama in 1877 and she, like her sister Emma, had been born in Mountsorrel in Leicestershire – approx. 1840.

Plumleigh then had a further four children to Mary, all born in Kiama –

1.Florence Mabel – born 17 November 1878

2.Alice Grace – born 1879 – died before 1883

3.Daisy Ethel – born 19 April 1881 – married Percy F King in Kiama in 1902

4.Alice E. – born 30 December 1883

Plumleigh Chin died in Kiama on 23 May 1905 and is buried in the Wesley Section of the Kiama Cemetery. An obituary for him appeared in the “Kiama Independent” on 26 May 1905:

On Tuesday afternoon last, while engaged in repairing a building for Mr S Wilcockson, Mr Plumleigh Chin, who for many years carried on a blacksmithing business in Kiama, suddenly expired while in the act of driving a nail. During the morning Mr Chin seemed hale and hearty, and was in good spirits, though at lunch time complained of a pain in the vicinity of his heart. Nothing serious was entertained of the circumstance, and he resumed his work. As he fell back Mr J Deakes, who was standing close by, caught him, but death came almost instantly. Mr Chin was 75 years of age. The funeral took place on Wednesday, the service at the graveside being conducted by Rev C Jones, Methodist Minister, of whose Church the deceased belonged”.

4. Benjamin CHIN, born NSW, Christened on 3 September 1839 at St Andrew’s Church Sydney, married 14 Sept 1861 Lucy Butler, daughter of Ann Dunn (viz. Margaret Dunn’s sister- Margaret was mother of Francis Butler husband of Sarah Ann Chin) and Samuel Butler (no relation), d.16 August 1899 Sydney.

(NSW Register of BDM- V18291513)

Lucy Butler’s parentage is of particular interest:

Samuel Butler was the son of John Gare Butler, pioneer missionary, appointed superintendent designate of the Church Missionary Society’s mission at the Bay of Islands, New Zealand in 1819- at Kerikeri. He arrived with his wife and son Samuel in 1819. The “Kemp House”, built as a residence for Butler is New Zealand’s oldest existing European building, and Kerikeri New Zealand’s oldest town with a continuing history of European settlement.

John Gare Butler was born in March 1781 in England. Nothing is known of his family background. In 1798 he married Hannah Hitchman. For many years they resided in Paddington, London, where Butler was clerk to a large London carrying company. He was honorary secretary of the Grand Junction and Canal Bible Association from its inception in 1816, the president being the Rev. Basil Woodd, a fervent evangelical pastor of Paddington. Butler, in anticipation of a career as a missionary of the Church Missionary Society, was prepared by the Rev. John Bishop. He was ordained by the Bishop of Gloucester in 1818. On 15 December 1818 Butler sailed from England with his wife and two children for New Zealand, arriving at Port Jackson on 26 June 1819. His son, Samuel, was then 18 years of age, and his daughter, Hannah, two. Rev Samuel Marsden accompanied the Butlers and James Kemp, a lay missionary and his wife, to New Zealand in a chartered vessel, General Gates, which arrived at the Bay of Islands 12 August 1819.

On 3 May 1820 Butler recorded the first ploughing of land in New Zealand at Kideekidee.

Butler recorded the first ploughing of land in New Zealand in the following words: ‘The agricultural plough was for the first time put into the land of New Zealand at Kideekidee, and I felt much pleasure in holding it after a team of six bullocks brought down by the Dromedary. I trust that this day will be remembered with gratitude, and its anniversary kept by ages yet unborn. Each heart rejoiced in this auspicious day, and said, “May God speed the plough’”. In the years that followed, Butler and his Maori helpers at Kerikeri established a small mixed farm which earned the praise of later visitors. Butler was New Zealand's first systematic cultivator of the land.

In October and November 1820, Butler accompanied Rev. Samuel Marsden in a whaleboat to the Hauraki Gulf. They crossed the isthmus, being the first Europeans to visit Manukau. Butler went with Marsden as far as Kaipara and then returned to the whaleboat at Tamaki.

After a dispute with Rev. Marsden, Marsden decided to withdraw Butler from the mission and secured Butler’s reluctant consent. Subsequently Marsden charged Butler with drunkenness while visiting a ship, the witnesses against Butler being two sea captains. Before a committee of the missionaries Butler refused to defend himself, and the committee accepted the testimony against him. When James Spencer, who had accompanied Butler to the ship, wished to testify for him, the committee declined to reopen the case.

The Butlers left the Bay of Islands in company with Marsden on 14 November 1823. Marsden maintained in Port Jackson that Butler's alleged drunkenness had unfitted him for further service as a clergyman there. The Butlers returned to England, where Butler retired from the Church Missionary Society's service.

In 1839 Butler, accompanied by his wife, his daughter Hannah Barton, and her husband, sailed from England for New Zealand in order to take up an appointment as native guardian and interpreter at the Port Nicholson (Wellington) settlement of the New Zealand Company. Part of the reason for this appointment was that Butler knew the Maori language, and had been made a justice of the peace by Macquarie many years previously. Butler had also given advice to the Company about their plans for settlement. They arrived at Port Nicholson on 20 April 1840. Butler became established at Petone, where he was a clergyman and Maori welfare agent until his death on 18 June 1841. He was buried at Gear Island, his grave being later washed away in a flood. [i]

John Gare’s son Samuel Butler died 5 Dec 1836 at Hokianga River NZ aged 34. He married Ann Dunn on 7 January 1823 at St John’s Church of England, Parramatta, by Rev. Richard Hill by special licence witnessed by cousins William Bean and Lucy Shelley. In correspondence, Rev. John Gare Butler reported his son, Samuel and another missionary, Fairburn, had returned from Hokianga with 10 pigs, further noting that young Butler and Fairburn had been away 12 days. Samuel capitalised on his trading talents, operating as a business agent at Pakenea where he lived with his wife. However, his career was short, when he drowned there in 1836.

In March 1824 Samuel’s father Rev. John Butler, then at Parramatta, petitioned the Gov. of NSW for ‘the means of comfortable subsistence, a Grant of Land, for his son Samuel’. [ii] His plea states that an unknown person sent ‘wicked, malicious and unfounded reports’ about his son to the Society in London which resulted in Samuel Butler’s services being cancelled. He further states that Samuel had come to NSW from New Zealand ‘about three months ago’ and intended to remain in NSW because of his dismissal by the Church Missionary Society. Rev. John Gare Butler was a native guardian and interpreter to the New Zealand Company who died in June 1841 in New Zealand. [iii]

Samuel and Ann Butler’s first two children were born in Sydney. The family do not appear in the 1828 Census which was taken in that year but we find that their 3^rd child was born in May 1828 in New Zealand. Therefore, it seems that his position with the London Missionary Society was reinstated before he returned to NZ. The next 3 children, including Lucy Ann (Josephine), were also born in NZ, the last in Jan 1836. Daughter Lucy Ann was born 7 November 1833 at Kokianga NZ. When Samuel drowned in December 1836, this left Ann in NZ with 6 children, the eldest aged 12. Ann must have returned fairly quickly to Sydney to her family because by July 1838 she had married William Wright at St Johns Parramatta. This 2^nd marriage produced 3 children. A death for William Wright has not been found and despite a 3^rd relationship with John Alexander which produced 5 children Ann was buried as Ann Wright late Ann Butler when she died on 13 Sept 1866 at Smithfield Prospect Creek near Liverpool. [iv]

Benjamin and Lucy Chin had 6 children:

1.Anna Ada Emily 1862-1945, m. 1880 Robert Yates;

2.Lydia Emma 1863-1931, m. 1880 Reginald McCourtney Amory;

3.Emily Victoria Susan (1867-1934, m. 1885 George T. Peaker;

4.Benjamin James 1869-1902, m. 1895 Clare Marsh;

5.Joseph Hamilton 1874-1876;

6.Josephine Mary 1877-?, m.1. 1894 Emile Graser, m.2.1919 William Martin

Benjamin Chin died in 1899 and Lucy died 15 May 1907 at Parramatta

(Lucy married firstly, on 9 Oct 1855 at Scots Church, Sydney, John Hewitt, by whom she had 2 children: Samuel John Hewitt (1856-1901) and Joseph E Hewitt b.d.1859. )

5. Alfred Chin
A fifth child born on 26 November 1845 in Hobart, died at 11 weeks of age and was buried 12 February 1846 (see burial record above). His burial record states he was named Alfred.

Contact email: butler1802 @hotmail.com (no spaces)

[i] Charles Andrew Sharp, B.A.(OXON.), M.A.(N.Z.), Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington. BUTLER, John Gare (1781-1841) , http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/1966/butler-john-gare/1

[ii] SRNSW 4/1836B, No.147, pp.673-7

[iii] The Sydney Morning Herald, 10 Sept 1841.

[iv] Perry McIntyre and Adele Cathro, Thomas Dunn : Convict and Chief Constable and his Descendants, Sydney 2000, p38

9 August 2013

Chin-Haddock family Ch.2: John Butt Chin & Ann Haddock

New South Wales GOVERNMENT GAZETTE 1840-1849 notices:

Tues Aug 8, 1848 P978 (No. 85)

Fri August 11, 1848 P995 (No.86)

Tues August 23, 1842 P1238 (No. 57)

Tuesday May 23, 1843 P702 (No. 43)

Tuesday June 27, 1843 P843