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Looking for Australian Homers.

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Lilian

Lilian Report 1 Oct 2007 22:45

Hi I'm Lilian Homer

Thomas, his wife Mary and family arrived in Sydney, Australia aboard the SS “Kinnear” on the 8th December 1839. They had 6 children;

Matthew Pittman Homer b.1822
Charles Homer b.1826
Mary Ann Homer b.1831
Thomas “Matthew” Homer b.1833
Hannah Homer b.1834
John Homer b.1838

Initially worked on the estate of Elizabeth & John Macarthur in the ‘Cowpastures’ now known as Camden, NSW. Edward Macarthur, selected the Homer family and several others to come to Australia under the bounty system to work as shepherds and farm labourers on the Macarthur properties at the Cowpastures.

They worked on Camden Estate at Cowpastures until 1845 then moved to Goulburn to another Macarthur property ‘Richlands’. When their bond time was up the moved to Victoria where Thomas died at Melbourne on 24th July 1861.

I have the Matthew Pittman Homer branch - Matthew married 3 times and had 19 children in all. My husband's branch continues through his 2nd marriage to Ellen Josephine O’Connor b: 26 May 1846 - d: 26 Nov 1871, Gulgong NSW

On 7th February 1876, he was elected as one of the 9 alderman of the first Gulgong council. Matthew sold his Spring Creek property in 1889 and moved his family to Guildford, an outer western suburb of Sydney, where his eventually died on the 14th August 1910 at the age of 87.

Does any of this sound familiar to anyone?