Terry Webb Tree 2017 » John TERRY (1771-1844)
Personal data John TERRY
Source 1Sources 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7- He was born on January 21, 1771 in Askrigg, Yorkshire, England.Sources 3, 7
- He was baptized on March 17, 1771 in Redmire, York, England.Source 4
- He died on July 9, 1844 in Lachlan Mill, New Norfolk, Tasmania, Australia, he was 73 years old.Source 7
- He is buried in Tasmania, Australia.
- A child of John TERRY and Grace GREEN
Household of John TERRY
He is married to Martha POWELL.
They got married on July 12, 1797 at Hornby By Bedale,York,England, he was 26 years old.
They got married on June 30, 1816 at St Dunstan and All Saints, Stepney, England, he was 45 years old.Child(ren):
- Thomas TERRY 1804-1869
- Mary Ann TERRY < 1805-1890
- Sarah TERRY 1807-1886
- Martha TERRY 1810-1886
- Jane TERRY 1813-1883
Notes about John TERRY
John Terry (21 January 1771 –; 8 July 1844) was an early settler and pioneer farmer in New Norfolk, Tasmania.
Window dedicated to John and Martha Terry – St. Matthews Anglican Church, New Norfolk.Born in Askrigg in the Yorkshire Dales, he was the eldest son of John Terry of The Mill, Redmire and Grace Green. The Terrys also had milling and other interests in Bedale, Forcett and Askrigg.
He married Martha Powell on 12 July 1797 and continued in the family milling business until, in October 1818, John and Martha, their eight daughters, three sons and two millstones sailed from Sheerness, England on the Surrey, the only "free" settlers on a convict ship to Sydney, Australia.
Possibly unhappy with the terms of the leas e and the size of the allotment at Liverpool, south west of Sydney, Terry moved his family and business to Van Diemen's Land. Arriving in Hobart Town on th e Prince Leopold on 6 December 1819, the family proceeded to build the mill on 100 acres (40 ha) at Elizabeth Town (soon to be renamed New Norfolk), where the Derwent and Lachlan Rivers met.
By the end of 1820 Terry was grinding wheat on what was now known as the 'Lachlan R iver Mill'. Further to this he took up a grant of 1,400 acres (567 ha) at nearby Macquarie Plains (later renamed Gretna). This property he called 'Askri gg', named after the village of his birth. In 1827 he purchased 'Slateford', a property at Hayes.
In about 1822, on the 'Lachlan River Mill' estate, Terry built a ;granary; circa 1830 the family built the house that was to later be named 'Tynwald'; and, after introducing hops to the estate in the 1860s, John's youngest son Ralph built an Oast house. All three buildings still stand to this day.
Terry's letters back to England provide an insight into thoughts many early migrants must have experienced, looking with wonder at a land very foreign to them. In a letter written in 1822 he described some of his first imp ressions.
'Wild duck in gr eat numbers as many as 200 or 300, rise at once. Black swans and land quails, wild pidgeons coloured like a peacock, and fish in great plenty …; Trees here cast a shell of bark, not leaves. Wood , when cut green, sinks in the water like a stone. Your shortest day is our longest, so you summer when our winter. The cuckoo cries in the night, and mostly in our winter the man in the moon is with his legs upwards'.
John Terry died at his home on 8 July 1844. The millstones that accompanied him from Yor kshire now sit outside St Matthew's Close in New Norfolk. A window dedicated to John and Martha Terry appears amongst the impressive stained glass windows of St Matthew's Anglican Church in New Norfolk. It bears a line from the letter qu oted above. The line he wrote next suggests confidence that the effort was worth it.
'I threw off my coat and rose with the sun wrought all that came to hand. I now thank God and consider myself and my family in a ver y comfortable position'.
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- Tasmania, Australia, Deeds of Land Grants, 1804-1935, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
- England, Select Marriages, 1538–1973, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
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- Ancestry Family Trees, Ancestry Family Tree
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/ Ancestry.com - New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856, Ancestry.com, Series: NRS 898; Reel or Fiche Numbers: Reels 6020-6040, 6070; Fiche 3260-3312 / Ancestry.com
- Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, Ancestry.com / Ancestry.com
Historical events
Birthday January 21, 1771
- The temperature on January 21, 1771 was about 0.0 °C. Wind direction mainly northeast. Weather type: donker. Special wheather fenomena: ijs. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1771: Source: Wikipedia
- February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
- July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
- July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
- October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
Christening day March 17, 1771
- The temperature on March 17, 1771 was about 3.0 °C. Wind direction mainly north by west. Weather type: mist donker. Special wheather fenomena: droog. Source: KNMI
- Erfstadhouder Prins Willem V (Willem Batavus) (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1751 till 1795 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Republiek der Zeven Verenigde Nederlanden)
- In the year 1771: Source: Wikipedia
- February 12 » Gustav III becomes the King of Sweden.
- May 16 » The Battle of Alamance, a pre-American Revolutionary War battle between local militia and a group of rebels called The "Regulators", occurs in present-day Alamance County, North Carolina.
- July 14 » Foundation of the Mission San Antonio de Padua in modern California by the Franciscan friar Junípero Serra.
- July 17 » Bloody Falls massacre: Chipewyan chief Matonabbee, traveling as the guide to Samuel Hearne on his Arctic overland journey, massacres a group of unsuspecting Inuit.
- October 17 » Premiere in Milan of the opera Ascanio in Alba, composed by Mozart at age 15.
Day of marriage July 12, 1797
- The temperature on July 12, 1797 was about 19.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south east. Weather type: omtrent helder. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1797: Source: Wikipedia
- February 4 » The Riobamba earthquake strikes Ecuador, causing up to 40,000 casualties.
- February 18 » French Revolutionary Wars: Sir Ralph Abercromby and a fleet of 18 British warships invade Trinidad.
- February 21 » A force of 1,400 French soldiers invaded Britain at Fishguard in support of the Society of United Irishmen. They were defeated by 500 British reservists.
- May 12 » War of the First Coalition: Napoleon I of France conquers Venice.
- July 25 » Horatio Nelson loses more than 300 men and his right arm during the failed conquest attempt of Tenerife (Spain).
- September 4 » Coup of 18 Fructidor in France.
Day of death July 9, 1844
- The temperature on July 9, 1844 was about 18.0 °C. Wind direction mainly south-southwest. Weather type: half bewolkt regen. Source: KNMI
- This page is only available in Dutch.De Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden werd in 1794-1795 door de Fransen veroverd onder leiding van bevelhebber Charles Pichegru (geholpen door de Nederlander Herman Willem Daendels); de verovering werd vergemakkelijkt door het dichtvriezen van de Waterlinie; Willem V moest op 18 januari 1795 uitwijken naar Engeland (en van daaruit in 1801 naar Duitsland); de patriotten namen de macht over van de aristocratische regenten en proclameerden de Bataafsche Republiek; op 16 mei 1795 werd het Haags Verdrag gesloten, waarmee ons land een vazalstaat werd van Frankrijk; in 3.1796 kwam er een Nationale Vergadering; in 1798 pleegde Daendels een staatsgreep, die de unitarissen aan de macht bracht; er kwam een nieuwe grondwet, die een Vertegenwoordigend Lichaam (met een Eerste en Tweede Kamer) instelde en als regering een Directoire; in 1799 sloeg Daendels bij Castricum een Brits-Russische invasie af; in 1801 kwam er een nieuwe grondwet; bij de Vrede van Amiens (1802) kreeg ons land van Engeland zijn koloniën terug (behalve Ceylon); na de grondwetswijziging van 1805 kwam er een raadpensionaris als eenhoofdig gezag, namelijk Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (van 31 oktober 1761 tot 25 maart 1825).
- In the year 1844: Source: Wikipedia
- The Netherlands had about 3.1 million citizens.
- May 1 » Hong Kong Police Force, the world's second modern police force and Asia's first, is established.
- June 6 » The Glaciarium, the world's first mechanically frozen ice rink, opens.
- June 15 » Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.
- July 3 » The last pair of great auks is killed.
- September 28 » Oscar I of Sweden–Norway is crowned king of Sweden.
- October 22 » Millerites, followers of Baptist preacher William Miller anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
Same birth/death day
- 1763 » Augustin Robespierre, younger brother of French Revolutionary leader Maximilien Robespierre († 1794)
- 1775 » Manuel Garcia, Spanish opera singer and composer († 1832)
- 1784 » Peter De Wint, English painter († 1849)
- 1788 » William Henry Smyth, Royal Navy officer, hydrographer, astronomer and numismatist
- 1796 » Princess Marie of Hesse-Kassel, consort of George, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz († 1880)
- 1797 » Joseph Méry, French author and journalist († 1866)
- 1828 » Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789)
- 1850 » Báb, Persian religious leader, founded Bábism (b. 1819)
- 1850 » Zachary Taylor, American general and politician, 12th President of the United States (b. 1784)
- 1852 » Thomas McKean Thompson McKennan, American lawyer and politician, 2nd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1794)
- 1856 » Amedeo Avogadro, Italian chemist and academic (b. 1776)
- 1856 » James Strang, American religious leader and politician (b. 1813)
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