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Joseph Baskerville, Gold miner and prospector of Sydney, Menangle, Hill End and Tambaroora

  • born 1816, Peterstow, Herefordshire
  • died 1906, Hill End, NSW
  • parents James and Ann Baskerville, nee Preece
  • Married 1833, at Clehonger, Herefordshire, to Ellen or Eleanor Davies
  • Children
    • Anne 1840 - 1841
    • Ann 1841 - 1930
    • Jane 1842 - 1929
    • Mary 1844 -
    • James 1846 - 1914
    • Joseph 1848 - 1933
    • Edward 1850 -
    • Eliza 1853 - 1886
    • George 1854 - 1942

    Joseph and Ellen emigrated in 1841, arriving in Sydney aboard the Moffat. They lived at first in the Menangle area of the south-western Cumberland Plain. Ellen died during childbirth having the youngest, George, at Lower George Street, Sydney, about 1854. Joseph and his children then moved to the gold mining district of Hill End/Tambraroora in Central Western NSW.

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    Based upon information supplied by descendant Loretta Byron (February 2006).