LIST 22 - - TROISIEME DIZAINE - MARRIAGES
These two sub-lists record the 'marriages' of 2,298 of the "Troisieme
Dizaine" , separated into females and males. For the purposes of this list
'marriage' refers to both those with the blessing of the Church and those in
anticipation of it.
The information presented for each entry includes:
family name of bride/groomChristian name of bride/groom
year of birthparents' names
parents' civil status at the time of bride/groom's birth parents' marital status at the time of bride/groom's birth date of marriage place of marriage age at marriage name of spouse civil status of the spouse at the time of marriage age of spouseage difference between bride and groom
marriage number number of children resulting from the union. The list is in alphabetical order, firstly on surname secondly on Christian name
then chronologically on date of marriage if there was more than one marriage for the same person.
By the time many of the "Troisieme Dizaine" were marrying the colony had
greatly expanded and so had the church establishment and many more churches
are represented in this list. Also the number marrying in denominations
other than the Anglicans expanded, thus there are many Catholic, Presbyterean
and Wesleyan marriages recorded, although the earliest established churches
still predominated: St Phillips, St Johns, St Matthews in New South Wales
and St Davids & St Johns in Van Diemens Land, the exception being St James
in Sydney, established in 1824 which had almost as many ceremonies as St
Phillips.
The 'Age at Marriage' figure was calculated by subtracting the date of birth
from the date of marriage. In those cases where there was a defacto marriage
the figure was calculated by subtracting the date of birth of the parent
from the date of birth of the first child of the union minus one.
The 'Age Difference between Bride and Groom' figure was calculated
by subtracting the date of birth of the bride from the date of birth of the
groom. In most cases this is a positive number and a surprisingly large
positive number by modern standards. To be able to derive this figure, the
year of birth of both bride and groom needed to be known.
Only 'marriages' after the first are numbered. In modern times, divorce is
the scourge that results in multiple marriages, whereas for the "Troisieme
Dizaine" it was the death of a spouse that lead to multiple marriages.The information about the 'Number of Children' from each union comes
principally from 'The Pioneer Register' project which in turn derives from
the descendants of these unions who would have obtained the information from death certificates. Where there was more than one marriage, the number of
children has been totalled for all marriages. If anything the figures presented
here would have to be the absolute minimum of children for each union
because no doubt many births have been overlooked or never recorded.
Undoubtedly those unions with only one or two children may not have left
descendants and their issue may have been missed altogether. On the other
hand those unions with the most children would have of necessity had the most
descendants and information on them is more likely to have survived. FEMALES
This sub-list records the marriage details of 1,257 "Troisieme Dizaine" women.
Multiple marriages were entered into by 221 women, thus the list presents
in total 1,480 unions of "Troisieme Dizaine" women.
Date of Marriage
The earliest of the "Troisieme Dizaine" to marry was Elizabeth Hearson on
the 1st January 1816, followed by Sarah Pedley in the same year. Both these
girls were childhood arrivals and as a consequence were somewhat older than
their colonial born sisters. The first of the colonial born to marry was Susannah
Wybrow on the 13th July 1824 at the age of twelve years and three months,
followed by Eleanor O'Connor the same year at the age of ten years but there
must be some confusion of identity here.
The last of the "Troisieme Dizaine" to marry was Margaret Murphy on the 14th January 1887 at the age of 73 but this was her second marriage. Elizabeth Hibbert married for the first time in 1882 but she had been living with her partner
for many years before marriage. Elizabeth Bedwell was probably the truly last
of her generation to form a union when she married the Henry Pearse in 1867
aged 46.
No marriage date has been recorded for 63 (5%) of the unions, either because
no marriage ever took place or the record has been lost or not found at this
time. Two marriages are reputed to have taken place in England for which no date
has been found.
Place of Marriage
The table below lists the number of first marriages which took place at each
of the early churches. Notice how the number of churches has doubled from 30
in Volume 2 to 60 in Volume 3.
Table 22.1. - Church of First MarriageChurch Number Church Number
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
Anglican Presbyterian
St Phillips Sydney 107 Scots Kirk Sydney 71
St James Sydney 91 St Andrews Sydney 29
St Johns Parramatta 91 Ebenezer Kirk Portland Head 8
St Matthews Windsor 68 St Andrews Parramatta 7
St Peters Richmond 46 Scots Kirk Goulburn 2
St Peters Campbelltown 45 Scots Kirk Carcoar 1
Christ Church Castlereagh 42 Scots Kirk Pitt Town 1
St Lukes Liverpool 37 Scots Kirk Singleton 1
St Johns Wilberforce 22 Scots Kirk Windsor 1
Holy Trinity Kelso 19 Scots Kirk Wilberforce 1
St Thomas Sackville Reach 17 Scots Kirk Hawkesbury District 1
St James Pitt Town 16 St Andrews Singleton 1
All Saints Sutton Forest 15 St Stephens Bathurst 1
Christ Church Newcastle 13 St Stephens Penrith 1
St Annes Kissing Point 11
St Pauls Cobbitty 10 Scots Kirk Hobart VDL 1
St Lawrence Sydney 9 St Stephens New Town VDL 1
St Bartholomews Prospect 4
St Thomas Port Macquarie 4
St Saviours Goulburn 3 Catholic
St Marks Appin 2 St Marys Sydney 59
All Saints Parramatta 1 St Patricks Parramatta 3
St Johns Mudgee 1 St Bedes Appin 2
St Johns Mulgoa 1 St Johns Campbelltown 1
St Peters Cooks River 1 St Johns Campbelltown 1
St Johns Launceston VDL 36
St Davids Hobart VDL 31 Other Denominations
St Matthews New Norfolk VDL 16 Heber Chapel Cobbitty 5
Holy Trintiy Hobart VDL 6 Pitt St Congregational 2
St Johns New Town VDL 5
Christ Church Longford VDL 3 Independent Chapel Hobart VDL 1
St Georges Sorell VDL 2 Quaker Chapel Hobart VDL 1
St Lukes Richmond VDL 1
Trinity Church Hobart VDL 1
Most of these churches are Anglican churches but Presbyterian and Catholic churches are more numerous as well as a couple of Wesleyan and Congretational
churches. The churches of second and subsequent marriages, coming later in the history of the colony, are much more varied and more widely spread about the
expanding colony.
In 92 cases whilst the year of marriage is known the church is not. The early
colonial marriage registers have been closely scrutinized and it is likely
the descendants who supplied the information on these women may have been
engaging in a little historical "revisionism".
Fourteen women have an exact date of marriage but the church has not been located at this time.
Elizabeth Allsopp 23/12/1833
Margaret Bissett 19/12/1834
Ann Elizabeth Briscoe 17/04/1837
Esther Brown 22/09/1840
Ann Cox 21/12/1853
Catharine Heath Gray 06/03/1838
Catherine Broughton Howe 22/03/1837
Martha Ann Hutchinson 18/04/1835
Hannah Jackson 20/02/1839
Clara McGowan 13/07/1829
Mary McIntosh 21/07/1835
Esther Parker 10/11/1834
Isobel Pilmor Williamson 16/04/1846
Mary Bolton Wood 13/08/1835
Thirteen women are known to have married overseas, and in all probability
there were a lot more.
New Zealand: Eliza Briscoe
Charlotte Fisk Emmaline IrvingEngland: Sarah Isabella Abel
Frances Eagar Corbetta Lord Emma Eliza Lord Emma WardIndia: Frances Sophia Browne
Margaret Browne
Rebecca BrowneMatilda Grono
Margaret Campbell was married at the British Embassy in Florence. Age at Marriage
The following table lists the age of marriage for the "Troisieme Dizaine" women.
These figures pertain only to their first marriage, ages of subsequent
marriages would of course be greater.
Table 22.2. - Age at First MarriageAge Number Age Number Age Number
----------- ----------- -----------
11 1 23 31 35 8
12 5 24 32 36 2
13 21 25 28 37 4
14 66 26 19 38 3
15 119 27 19 40 1
16 159 28 15 41 1
17 164 29 6 42 1
18 139 30 7 43 2
19 102 31 4 44 1
20 99 32 4 46 1
21 68 33 1 69 1
22 57 34 6
As can be seen from the above table, the "Troisieme Dizaine" girls were married
young, seventeen being the most common age to marry and by twenty-one, of
the girls who would marry, the vast majority were married. It has to be
remembered that to become a 'wife & mother' was the expected role in society
for women at this time and no doubt many were anxious to get on with it!
Both Harriet Paul and Elizabeth Robinson were described as 'minors' when
they married without giving their exact age but it can be assumed that they were both under 16.
Unfortunately in 55 cases the age of marriage cannot be determined,
either because the year of birth of the bride is unknown (15) or because
the marriage date is unknown (40).
It is said that "the past is a different country, they do things differently there" and no truer example can be found than to look at society's attitude to
matters sexual as they appertain to when a young woman is considered eligible
for 'marriage', that age was considerably younger in the early nineteenth century than it is today. The particular circumstances of the infant colony, in that there was a vast over preponderance of men, needs to be taken into
consideration when considering these matters as well. Young girls were obviously eagerly sought as partners at ages that even by the standards of
libertine Georgian England would be considered as young. Then again, it
must be remembered New South Wales was a 'colony of criminals' so bad behaviour
of all types was only to be expected.It is highly unlikely that Mary Ann Thuston married at the age of 11. Mary Ann
Callaghan, Rebecca Hall, Sarah Ann Hopkins, Jane Mayo and Susannah Wybrow
all married at the age of 12 and these figures can be verified by exact dates of birth. 21 girls married at the age of 13.
Elizabeth Hibberts married for the first time at the age of 69 but she had
six children before that date & Eliza Bedwell for the first time at the age of
46.
Mary Murphy married for the second time at the age of 73.
Groom
In six cases a 'bride' had a child to an unknown 'groom'. The informants
of Matilda Grono know that she married for a third time in 1841 in Bombay
India but the groom's name is not recorded.
Civil Status of the Groom at the Time of Marriage
Whom the "Troisieme Dizaine" women married proved to be one of the most
interesting aspects of this analysis. This information once again comes principally from the 'Pioneer Register' project.
The table below lists the civil status of grooms at first marriage and
the numbers and percentages of each category. Eighteen percent married
men of convict background, 10% of whom were still serving their terms. Only
one third married their colonial born counterparts. Almost one fifth
married free arrivals. Six marriages took place overseas to men who never
emigrated. Regrettably the status of 398 (32%) of the grooms is unknown at
this time.
Table 22.3. - Civil Status of Groom at First MarriageCivil Status Number Percentage
----------------------------------------------BC - colonial born 420 33
CF - came free 212 17
GS - convict 121 10
FS - free by servitude 78 6
TL - ticket of leave 22 2
NE - overseas 6 0
-- - unknown 398 32
Once again, as in the case of the First Generation in Volume 1, only 33% of
colonial born "Troisieme Dizaine" women married colonial born men, although
this was an improvement on the 18% of the former case. It must have been very galling to the colonial lads that the lasses even preferred serving convicts
over themselves.
Eleanor Eades, who was colonial born of a colonial born father and free mother,
and the grand daughter of a free arriving soldier and his wife, nevertheless
married a convict !!
Age of Groom
The great ages of some of the grooms would come as a surprise to modern minds.
Tables will be presented when discussing the male colonial born grooms to show their general spread of the ages. Of interest at this time is that James Pye
was 79 years old when her married Elizabeth Hibbert (although she was 69) but
John Wells was 66 when he married the 17 year old Elizabeth Carter and
Richard Norris was 63 when he married the 14 year old Mary Makepeace.
At the other extreme John Campbell was reputed to be only 14 years old when he married 17 year old Mary Ann McGuiggan.
Age Difference between Bride and Groom
To be able to derive this figure, the year of birth of both the bride and
groom needed to be known. Unfortunately in 474 cases (38%), one or the other
or both of these dates is unknown. The table below lists the age difference
distributions of the remaining 62% of 'marriages'.
Table 22.4. - Age Difference at First MarriageAge Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No
----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
-16 1 -10 1 0 23 10 42 20 15 33 1
-11 1 -9 2 1 38 11 30 21 7 36 1
-8 0 2 44 12 30 22 8 42 1
-7 2 3 45 13 31 23 8 49 2
-6 3 4 55 14 21 24 2
-5 2 5 50 15 21 25 2
-4 1 6 53 16 19 26 2
-3 13 7 49 17 14 27 3
-2 7 8 40 18 16 28 3
-1 15 9 49 19 8 29 0
--- --- --- --- --- ---
2 46 446 232 50 5
In modern times a figure of five years difference between spouses would be considered 'acceptable', stretching at most to say ten years. Things were
very different however for our "Troisieme Dizaine" women; for example
Elizabeth Carter & Mary Ann Makepeace were both 49 years younger than their
husbands and Elizabeth Turnbull was 42 years younger than hers.
Looked at in terms of decades; 57% married a man one decade or less older,
30% married a man two decades or less older, 6% married a man three decades
or less older and 1% married a man four decades or less older, a situation
very unusual in any modern Western culture.
But not all brides were younger than their grooms. There were 48 cases (6%)
in which the bride was older; Eliza Bedwell was 16 years older, Mary Morre
11 years older and Isabella Fisk 10 years older than their grooms.
Interestingly, for those women with second and subsequent marriages,
the age difference profile changes markedly. Now 29% married men who were
younger than themselves, for example Sarah Piper for her third marriage married a man 20 years younger than herself. Perhaps being widowed and inheriting
their late husbands' assets, it was now they who were in a position to
attract younger men, in many cases more than ten years younger.
Number of Marriages
Almost a fifth (17%) of the women were married two or more times. Second 'marriages' were entered into by 183 women, 32 had three 'marriages', Hannah Clarke, Mary Harpur and Agnes Neale had four 'marriages' and Elizabeth Jane Pithers five!
Number of Children
The issue from all these 'marriages' is known for 903 of the "Troisieme
Dizaine" women. For those women with more than one partner, the number of
children has been totalled for all marriages.
The total number of children from these 'marriages' is 6,468 and average of
7.2 ! Remember too that these figures represent the absolute minimum.
The table below lists the number of issue of each union and the number of women
who had this issue. The striking thing about this list is just how many children
the average "Troisieme Dizaine" woman bore, which in turn stands as a
testament to the good health and general robustness of these women as a
generation. Over 32% had ten or more children and less than 4% had no issue
at all. Again it should be emphasized that these figures would have to be
considered the absolute minimum number of children whom the "Troisieme Dizaine"
women bore.
Table 22.5. - Number of ChildrenIssue Number Issue Number
---------------- ----------------
0 35 10 67
1 91 11 73
2 53 12 56
3 54 13 49
4 58 14 19
5 61 15 11
6 67 16 8
7 70 17 1
8 72 18 2
9 70 19 2
21 2
Note the infertility rate of 3.9%.
Sarah Bell (Drake) and Ann Galvin (Maxworthy) both had 21 children, Sarah
Evans (Dunn) and Mary Humphreys (Spears) both had 19 children, Elizabeth James (Brien) and Mary Alcorn (Chapman) both had 18 and Esther Cavanough (Huxley)
17.
It should be pointed out that nine "Troisieme Dizaine" women in the 1828
Census were recorded as married but who could not be further identified and
whose marriages could not be located.
Catherine 1812 James Goodsir BC ----
Mary 1811 William Jarvis TL 1801 10
Mary Ann 1811 George Keys BC 1808 3
Catherine 1812 James Kirwan GS 1806 6
Eliza 1812 William Linning FS 1803 9
Mary 1812 Luke Morlan -- 1804 8
Mary 1813 Peter O'Meara BC 1805 8
Ellen 1811 George Pearce FS 1797 14
Elizabeth 1804 William Wilks TL 1798 6
MALES
This sub-list records the marriage details of 1,041 "Troisieme Dizaine" men.
Multiple marriages were entered into by 58 men, thus the list presents in total
1,099 unions. Notice that this is 381 less than for the women.
Date of Marriage
The earliest of the "Troisieme Dizaine" men to marry was Benjamin Goddard on
4th April 1822 who of course was a childhood arrival. The first of the colonial
born to marry was James Huxley on the 30th December 1828 at the age of 17.William Crowley was the last of the "Troisieme Dizaine" to marry in 1888 but
he was marrying for the second time. Last to marry for the first time was James
Bartley in 1883 at the age of 68.
In 78 (8%) cases the date of marriage is unknown, either because no marriage
ever took place or the record has been lost or not found at this time. Four
marriages have a place recorded but no date.Place of Marriage
The table below lists the number of first marriages which took place at each
of the early colonial churches. Notice how the number of churches has more
almost trebled from 39 in Volume 2 to 98 in Volume 3.
Table 22.6. - Church of First MarriageChurch Number Church Number
------------------------------------ ------------------------------------
Anglican Presbyterian
St Johns Parramatta 74 St Andrews Sydney 33
St James Sydney 48 Scots Kirk Sydney 30
St Matthews Windsor 42 Scots Kirk Parramatta 9
St Phillips Sydney 34 St Andrews Singleton 5
St Peters Richmond 28 Scots Kirk Windsor 5
St Lukes Liverpool 20 Scots Kirk Maitland 4
St Peters Campbelltown 20 Scots Kirk Pitt Town 3
St Johns Wilberforce 17 Scots Kirk Hawkesbury 3
All Saints Sutton Forest 16 Ebenezer Kirk Portland Head 2
Christ Church Castlereagh 16 Scots Kirk Wilberforce 2
St Lawrence Sydney 16 Scots Kirk Portland Head 2
Christ Church Newcastle 7 St Stephens Bathurst 2
Holy Trinity Kelso 7 Scots Kirk Nelsons Plains 1
St Annes Kissing Point 7 Scots Kirk Hinton 1
St James Pitt Town 6 Scots Kirk Whittingham 1
St Pauls Cobbitty 6 St Andrews Port Macquarie 1
St Saviours Goulburn 6 St Andrews Wisemans Ferry 1
St Johns Wollombi 5 St Stephens Camperdown 1
St Thomas Sackville Reach 5 St Stephens Penrith 1
St Johns Mudgee 5
St Bartholomews Prospect 3 Scots Kirk Launceston VDL 2
St Peters Cooks River 3 St Stephens New Town VDL 1
St Thomas Port Macquarie 3
St Pauls Pennant Hills 2
St Peters East Maitland 2 Catholic
St Pauls Carcoar 2 St Marys Sydney 27
All Saints Petersham 1 St Johns Campbelltown 7
Holy Trinity Sydney 1 St Patricks Parramatta 6
St James Morpeth 1 St Marys Balmain 3
St Johns Camden 1 St Bedes Appin 2
St Johns Canberra 1 St Clements Yass 2
St Johns Canbury 1 St Michaels Bathurst 2
St Johns Moreton Bay 1 St Bernards Hartley 1
St Judes Dural 1 St Francis Campbelltown 1
St Marks Appin 1 St Johns West Maitland 1
St Matthews The Oaks 1 St Mary Magdalene Sth Crk 1
St Pauls Castle Hill 1 St Michaels Wollongong 1
St Peters Camden 1 St Francis Xaviours Wollongong 1
St Simons Rouse Hill 1
St Thomas North Sydney 1
Trinity Garrison Church Sydney 1 Wesleyan
Wesleyan Chapel Sydney 3
St Davids Hobart 48 Wesleyan Chapel Windsor 2
St Johns Launceston 18 Wesleyan Chapel Lwr Portland Head
1
St Matthews New Norfolk 7 Wesleyan Chapel Richmond 1
St Georges Sorell 6
Christ Church Longford 5
Holy Trinity Hobart 4 Congregational
St Georges Hobart 3 Pitt St Congregational 1
St Johns New Town 2
St Georges Battery Point 1
St Johns Hobart 1
St Johns New Norfolk 1
St Johns Richmond 1
St Lukes Campbelltown 1
St Matthews Clarence Plns 1
St James Melbourne PPD 3
Trinity Church Adelaide SA 1
Most of these churches are Anglican churches but Presbyterian and Catholic churches are more numerous as well as a couple of Wesleyan churches and
a Congretational church. The churches of second and subsequent marriages,
coming later in the history of the colony, are much more varied and more widely spread about the expanding colony.
In 36 cases whilst the year of marriage is known the church is not. The early
colonial marriage registers have been closely scrutinized and it is likely
the descendants who supplied the information on these men may have been
engaging in a little family "gentrification".
Thirteen men have an exact date of marriage but the church has not been located
at this time.
Charles Allen 24/01/1843
James Henry Blackman 18/02/1840
John Bush 12/05/1857
John Hobart Cox 24/02/1846
Thomas James Downer 05/08/1839
James Eyles 28/09/1840
Edward Goodwin 31/12/1856
James Metcalfe 17/11/1851
Charles Pearce 22/02/1841
Joseph Roberts 18/04/1835
James Robert Settree 27/09/1829
George Sternbeck 02/09/1839
Joseph Puckeridge 21/02/1842
Twenty one men are known to have married overseas, and in all probability
there were a lot more:
New Zealand: Nathaniel Bates
Phillip King Robert Edward Lord Francis Rowland Oakes Henry Snowden James WybrowEngland: James Alexander Cooper
John KingJohn George Lang
John Levey Edwin Clarke Sutter Edward Underwood Joseph Edward Underwood Thomas UnderwoodIreland: William Dorrington Lett
Scotland: Robert Innes Allan
Lachlan MacquaireIndia: William Macquarie Molle
John George Land Jersey Channel Islands: Maurice Charles O'ConnellJames Arndell Youl was married at the British Legation in Brussels.
Age at Marriage
The following table lists the age of marriage for the "Troisieme Dizaine" men.
These figures pertain only to their first marriage, ages of subsequent marriages
would of course be greater.
Table 22.7. - Age at First MarriageAge Number Age Number Age Number
----------- ----------- -----------
15 2 28 37 41 4
16 2 29 25 42 6
17 9 30 32 43 1
18 17 31 25 44 2
19 30 32 25 45 2
20 93 33 17 46 3
21 90 34 19 47 3
22 96 35 20 50 1
23 91 36 17 51 2
24 78 37 13 54 1
25 78 38 4 59 1
26 58 39 8 60 1
27 58 40 10 61 1
68 1
Unfortunately in 50 cases the age at marriage cannot be determined,
either because the year of birth of the groom is unknown (12) or because
the marriage date is unknown (38).
William Chaffey and William Free were the youngest 'men' to marry at the age
of 15. Michael Aherne and Williams Rose married at 16.
James Bartley was the oldest at first marriage at the age of 68,Henry Greentree married for the first time at 61.
Some interesting differences emerge between the men and women in this table.
Firstly for the "Troisieme Dizaine" men the most common age to marry was
twenty-two, a full five years later than for the girls. Secondly the men kept
on marrying to a greater age, apart from one women the last women to marry
for the first time did so in their forties, whereas five men married in their
fifties, and three in their sixties.
Wife
In seven cases a 'groom' had a child to an unknown 'wife'. In fact Thomas
Kinsela had four children to an unknown 'wife'. A further eighteen men have
'brides' whose surnames are unknown which is very surprising in the cases
of James Beattie and Richard Gilbert because exact dates of marriage
have been supplied by informants.Civil Status of the Wife at the Time of Marriage
The great and indeed surprising difference between the women and men of the "Troisieme Dizaine" is in their attitude to convicts as expressed in their
marital preferences with the former warmly embracing and the latter positively
abhorring the convicts.
As can be seen in the table below only 2% of men married a serving or
former convict woman, whilst the figure for the women was 18% almost nine times as large - why would this have been so ? The table below lists the status of 'brides' at first marriage and the numbers
and percentages of each category. The men overwhelmingly married their
own kind - 49% marrying colonial born girls. Three marriages took place
overseas to women who never emigrated. William Free & Edward Tomlins both
married native women and Nathanial Bates & James Wybrown married maori women.
Regrettably the status of 368 (35%) of the brides is unknown at this time.
Table 22.8. - Civil Status of Wife at First MarriageCivil Status Number Percentage
----------------------------------------------BC - colonial born 509 49
CF - came free 134 13
GS - convict 19 2
FS - free by servitude 3 0
TL - ticket of leave 1 0
NE - overseas 3 0
NC - native of colony 2 0
NZ - native of New Zealand 2 0
-- - unknown 368 35
Age of Wife
The extremely young ages of the brides (at least as far as modern sensibilities
are concerned) has already been discussed above in the female section. Tables have already been presented when discussing the female colonial born
brides to show their general spread of ages. It is worth noting in particular
that it is highly unlikely that John Williams married the 12 year old Ann Stonehouse Turnbull in 1837. Seven other men are listed as marrying 13 year old
girls.
At the other end of the scale, James Bartley married 62 year old Mary Lee in
1883 and Daniel Hansel married 54 year old Ann Freebody (23 years older than
himself) in 1850.
Age Difference between Bride and Groom
To be able to derive this figure, the year of birth of both the bride and
groom needed to be known. Unfortunately in 311 cases (30%), one or the other
or both of these dates is unknown. The table below lists the age difference
distributions of the remaining 70% of first 'marriages'.
Table 22.9. - Age Difference at First MarriageAge Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No Age Dif. No
----------- ----------- ----------- ----------- -----------
-23 1 -10 0 0 29 10 23 20 4
-21 1 -9 1 1 43 11 12 21 1
-16 1 -8 4 2 49 12 13 22 1
-13 1 -7 3 3 58 13 9 23 1
-6 2 4 53 14 9 29 2
-5 1 5 62 15 7 33 1
-4 6 6 50 16 2
-3 9 7 37 17 3
-2 10 8 42 18 5
-1 22 9 35 19 3
--- --- --- --- ---
4 58 458 86 10
The greatest positive differences were 33 years for William Crowe and 29 years
for both Thomas Anelzark & Donald Sutherland.
Looked at in terms of decades; 63% married a woman one decade or less younger,
12% married a woman two decades or less younger, 1% married a woman three
decades or less younger. Again the difference from the females is striking,
the colonial born males tended to marry woman much closer to their own age,
the females were two times more likely to marry a man two decades older and
two times more likely to marry a man three decades older.
But not all grooms were older than their brides. There were 62 cases (8%)
in which the bride was older. The greatest negative age difference was 23
years for Daniel Hansell followed by 21 years for William Maloney.
Only eight of the post primary marriages were to older women. Robert Wise
was 43 years older than 19 year old Elizabeth Barrett when he married her in
1879.
Number of Marriages
Second 'marriages' were entered into by 41 men and 16 had three 'marriages'.
Joseph Fernance had four 'marriages'.
Number of Children
The issue from all these 'marriages' is known for 816 of the "Troisieme
Dizaine" men. For those men with more than one partner, the number of
children has been totalled for all marriages.
The total number of children from these 'marriages' is 6,034 an average of
7.4 ! Remember too that these figures represent the absolute minimum.
The table below lists the number of issue of each union and the number of
men who had this issue. The striking thing about this list is just how many children the average "Troisieme Dizaine" man fathered, which by modern standards
seems incredible.
Table 22.10. - Number of ChildrenIssue Number Issue Number Issue Number
---------------- ---------------- ----------------
0 30 10 78 21 1
1 80 11 81 22 1
2 42 12 48 23 1
3 41 13 35 27 2
4 50 14 21
5 50 15 16
6 56 16 7
7 51 17 2
8 63 18 3
9 56 20 2
Note the infertility rate of 3.7%.
Nathaniel Bates fathered 27 children with three wives and Robert Wise did the
same with two wives. William Bell fathered 21 children with just one wife.
Regardless of what other accomplishments this "Troisieme Dizaine" may have achieved, and there are many, populating this antipodean colony with loyal
subjects of George III and his heirs would have to be rated amongst their most
significant and long lasting.
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