Here are some of the ancestors who feature in the family stories.

Stories about the Cardens of Barnane.

ALL The Notable Cardens of the Line.
(and there were many)

Rev.Walter Bates 
1843-1879 Minister of the New Jerusalem Church. (Swedenborg Society)

William Ernest Bates 1876-1949
South Africa.

Walter George Bates 1873-1964 South Africa.

  Rev. Charles Fairweather 1847-   1929. Derbyshire UK.

Carl Leonard Bauer 1808-1884 arrived Kangaroo Island South Australia October 1837 on the Sailing Ship Solway.


John Dibble 1835-1887

William Dick 1851-1929

Owen Cavanough - The First Person ashore at Sydney Cove,

Who was a Sailor from the Flagship  Sirius
(More about Owen Cavanough on  Page15)

His wife Margaret Darnell - Prisoner on "Prince of Wales"

Margaret was sometimes known as Margaret Darling or Margaret Dowling.
Owen Cavanough arrived in Sydney Cove with Captain Phillip in 1788.
He married Margaret Darnell, a 7 year prisoner who arrived in the same fleet on board the Prince of Wales, in 1791,
and had several children and we are descended from their eldest child Grace Cavanough.

(More on Margaret Darnell Page 16)


Maria Carden ABBOT & John Thomas MACDONALD
Pioneers of Port Phillip Colony. 

Maria Carden Abbot was the Grand-Niece of Sir. Henry Carden of Templemore Tipperary Ireland.  She sailed from Tipperary, Ireland on the Sailing Ship 'Branken Moor' arriving in the Port Phillip Colony on 3 December 1841.  She and John MacDonald were married at St. Francis Catholic Church Melbourne 31 July 1842.

More on Maria Carden Abbot Page 14


Thomas BATES - do we believe all we hear and all we are told.  One of our family stories is that we go back to Thomas Bates who was one of the main characters in the Gunpowder Plot of 1606. (I am still working on this particular story so when I have all the answers I will certainly let you know.) IF YOU HAVE ANY ANSWERS PLEASE - let me know.

John Dickins 1812-1899 First    Slaughterman in Port Phillip Colony, and his wife Catherine O'Brien nee Moloney. Pioneers.

(More about John Dickins on Page 19)

Allan Ronald Dick 1913-1993 - Ryde School of Horticulture NSW.

And his sister:
Mabel Grace Dick
1903-1992 Infant School Teacher Victoria.


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