Hij is getrouwd met Mary Hitchen.
Zij zijn getrouwd op 5 augustus 1805 te St John's Church, Halifax, Yorkshire, England, hij was toen 19 jaar oud.
Kind(eren):
Bio notes: James Buckley was born at Shaw, Lancashire, to George and Martha Buckley and was baptised on 5 March 1786 at Shaw Chapel. Shaw and adjacent Crompton were small villages near Manchester, with a history of cottage industry textile production and later water-powered cotton mills. George Buckley was a Weaver and his son James also became a weaver / labourer, in mills that were by that time steam-powered.
James was indicted on 10 December 1816 together with James Bardsley, for stealing calico and cloth to the value of 4d. He was convicted of larceny at Lancaster Quarter Sessions on 22 January 1817 and sentenced to transportation for seven years.
He was in Manchester goal in March and then was taken to the Retribution prison hulk at Sheerness on the mouth of the Thames.
He departed England in July 1818 as one of 164 male convicts and 31 soldiers of the 84th Regiment aboard the second convict voyage of the Morley. The ship arrived in Sydney on 7 Nov 1818 with only one convict death recorded on the 112 day voyage direct to Australia, a speedy and healthy passage.
He was described on the ship's Indent as being a Weaver from Lancashire, aged 31 years, 5 ft 5¼ in tall, with a dark ruddy complexion, brown hair and hazel eyes.
On arrival, James was assigned to Mr Rouse, Parramatta. This would have been Richard Rouse, Superintendent of Public Works at Parramatta, whose house was opposite the gates of Government House, Parramatta.
Mary Buckley was no less desperate to feed her family after James had been jailed and she was convicted of larceny at the September 1817 Lancaster Quarter Sessions at Halifax. Like James, she was sentenced to transportation for 7 years. At the time she had five children aged from one to twelve.
She was sentenced 9 months after her husband but arrived in the Colony two months before him. She boarded the ship Maria on 17 March 1818 with her four youngest children (Abraham remained with his grandparents to complete his education) and arrived at Sydney on 17 September 1818.
Mary was assigned to the Female Factory at Parramatta and James managed to make arrangements that allowed him to live with Mary and the children together as a family. They had five more children born at Parramatta between 1819 and 1826.
In 1823 James was granted a block of land: number 6 on the north side of Argyle Street, Parramatta. James and Mary both received their Certificate of Freedom on the same day, 16 March 1826. He was described as 39, a weaver, 5 ft 5 in tall, dark sallow complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. She was described as 40, a servant and cotton weaver, 5 ft 2 ¼ in tall, ruddy complexion, brown hair and hazel eyes.
In the 1828 Census they were a Protestant family living at Parramatta with 7 children from George 20 to William 20 months, but Mary 14 and Elizabeth 12 are not listed – they were probably already working somewhere as servant girls? They had 1 horse & 3 cows. They later moved to the Windsor area.
One record of the 1828 Census lists his occupation as Sexton and another as Nailor. Nailor is confirmed on his death certificate and his daughter Jane’s marriage and death certificates.
James died at the age of 50, on 22 Aug 1836, in the Windsor area and was buried in St John’s Church yard, Parramatta.
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