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Locality
Early Generations (3)
1. Joseph Eaton and Rebecca Brien (c1782…1863)
1.1 John Eaton (c1809…1889) m. Sarah Liddell (1815…1888)
1.2 William Eaton (1812…1874) m1. Eliza Scott, m2. Jane Falls (1866…1910)
1.3 Joseph Eaton (1814…) m. Faithful Buchanan (…)
1.3.1 Rebecca Jane Eaton (c1852…1937) m1. James Rollinson (c1844…1884); m2. Richard Chapman Burt (c1845…1937-)
1.3.1 William Coleman Eaton (1855…1933) m. Elizabeth Morrow (1863…1949)
1.4 Ann Jane Eaton (1822…1888) m. Henry Brien (1837…1921)
1.5 Elizabeth Eaton (1825…1894) m. Thomas Fleming (1816…1898)
1.6 Robert Coleman Eaton (1827…1898) m. Sarah Beatty (1832…1904)
2 William Fawcett (1841c…1902) m. Elizabeth Mary Wilcox (1861c…1913+)
2.1 Francis John Fawcett (1888…19xx) m. Dorothy Eaton (1873…1935)
Possibly Related Eaton Lineages
Timothy Eaton m. Margaret Beattie (Toronto CAN)
Related Families from the same areas
Other (probably unrelated) Eaton Lineages
These Eatons were a Scots-Irish family, with roots probably amongst the reivers of the West Border Marches of the Scottish Lowlands, and likely to have initially arrived in Ireland with the Jacobean Plantation of Ulster (1609) or shortly thereafter. The earliest individuals identified lived in the Tyrone / Fermanagh region of northern Ireland, with later emigration to New South Wales in Australia. Related families emigrated to Canada and the United States.
Joseph Eaton, farmer of Carran townland near Trillick Co Tyrone IRL, married Rebecca Brien, sister of Robert Brien, on 25 November 1802. Rebecca had been born in 1782 in Ireland. The eleven progeny of Joseph and Rebecca Eaton included:
Rebecca Eaton nee Brien, aged 81 years, died 9 March 1863 and was buried at Bullock Flat.
John Eaton
graduated as a Doctor of Medicine from Trinity College, Dublin IRL, on 16 July
1835, and apparently worked as a ship’s surgeon before settling in the
Fish River district of New South Wales in 1854. John married Sarah Liddell
in 1861; there was no issue to this marriage.
The renowned Dr John Eaton, an active farmer, died in 1889 at Oberon NSW.
In Ireland William Eaton met and married Eliza Scott, their union producing at least one child:
John Edgar was the son of WILLIAM EDGAR and Gargadis-born MARY BRIEN.
William, a widower, arrived in NSW in 1861 and married Jane Falls, daughter of JAMES and JANE FALLS, in 1866. Their progeny included:
William died at Oberon on 15 May 1874. Several descendants live in the Lithgow - Wallerawang district of NSW.
Joseph Eaton married Faithful Buchanan (“Faithy”) on 18 December 1848 in Ireland. Known children were:
Joseph and Faithy remained in Ireland; Rebecca emigrated to New Zealand about 1872, William emigrated to NSW in 1878.
Rebecca Jane Eaton, born circa 1852 in County Tyrone to JOSEPH EATON and his wife FAITHFUL BUCHANAN, emigrated to New Zealand where she married for the first time on 2 October 1875, to James Rollinson in Hamilton, Waikato. James was described as a bachelor saw-mill owner aged 30 years, and Rebecca a spinster of "full age" [i.e. over 21 years]. Rebecca bore James Rollinson at least two daughters, one of whom was:
Rebecca's second marriage,
in Auckland, was to Richard Chapman Burt on 24 April 1884. Richard,
a 39 year old sawyer, had been widowed on 26 February 1882; he hailed from Cornwall,
the son of carpenter JOHN BURT and MARIA CHAPMAN, and was currently residing
in Auckland. Rebecca was aged 30 years and had been widowed on 28 January 1884;
she was noted as a native of Tyrone, the daughter of farmer JOSEPH EATON and
FAITHFUL BUCHANAN, and a resident of Auckland.
Rebecca bore Richard Burt at least five children including three sons and two
daughters.
Rebecca Jane Burt, formerly Rollinson, née Eaton, died on 9 July
1937 at 8 Cricket Avenue, Kingsland NZ, she was 85 years old. She was survived
by two daughters aged 56 and 55 years from her first marriage, and three sons
aged 52, 46 and 42 years and two daughters aged 50 and 48 years from her second
marriage.
William Coleman Eaton, born in 1855 to JOSEPH EATON and his wife FAITHFUL BUCHANAN, emigrated to NSW in 1878. A [?road] contractor, William married Elizabeth Morrow on 25 November 1885 in Oberon. Elizabeth, born near Picton NSW in 1863, was a daughter of GEORGE MORROW and MARGARET SPENCE.
The children of William and Elizabeth Eaton, several of whom died in infancy, were:
William Coleman Eaton died
15 October 1933; Elizabeth Eaton nee Morrow died 18 November 1949.
George Morrow, Elizabeth’s father, was a son of GEORGE MORROW, born c1789
at Dungannon TYR (whose parents were James Morrow and Elizabeth (?or Rebecca)
Robinson) and his third wife ELIZABETH BEATTIE. The elder George had married
his first wife, NANCY, circa 1818; they had one known child. George re-married
circa 1822, his second wife being MARY BEATTIE (born about 1803), who bore him
two known children. George Morrow married again circa 1828, this time to Elizabeth
Beattie, from Mullinagore TYR, daughter of ANDREW and JANE BEATTIE (both deceased
by October 1843). According to her death certificate, Elizabeth had been “about
39 years” old when she married George, to whom she bore three children,
the youngest being George (1831 TYR … 1924 NSW).
Note that there is no definite
blood relationship yet known to have existed between Mary and Elizabeth Beattie,
wives of George Morrow, or between those two ladies and the Beatties mention
elsewhere in this text. For
further details of the Morrow family, refer to the Morrow
file.
Ann Jane Eaton, born 30 June 1822 to JOSEPH EATON and his wife REBECCA BRIEN, emigrated to Victoria in March 1858 aboard the Shooting Star, migrating to New South Wales soon afterwards. Ann, with her younger brother Robert and his family, was following her sister Elizabeth who had emigrated as Elizabeth Fleming aboard the Garland in 1851, accompanied by husband Thomas. In 1859 Ann married Henry Brien, son born in 1833 to JOHN BRIEN and his wife MARGARET nee BRIEN (who had emigrated aboard the Clyde in 1836; Margaret was a niece of Rebecca Brien wife of Joseph Eaton). Ann and Henry were to raise three children:
Ann Jane Brien nee Eaton died 8 July 1888. Henry Brien died 4 September 1921.
Elizabeth Eaton married bachelor miller Thomas Fleming at Trillick in the parish of Kilskeery on 23 February 1849. Thomas, aged 28, was born c1816/18 Cordromedy near Trillick TYR, the son of JAMES FLEMING and ISABELLA LINDSAY his wife. For further details of Elizabeth and Thomas, who had seven children, refer to the Fleming file.
Sarah Betty,
25, spinster of Canine, daughter of JOHN
McGREGOR BEATTY and his wife DOROTHEA, married Robert Coleman Eaton,
30, bachelor farmer of Carron at Kilskeery on 27 October 1857. Robert was the
son of JOSEPH EATON and his wife REBECCA BRIEN. Robert and Sarah Eaton emigrated
to Australia, arriving in Port Phillip in February 1858 aboard the Shooting
Star, apparently proceeding later that year to New South Wales by unknown
coastal steamer.
| Surname | Given Name | Age | Month | Year | Ship | Fiche | Page |
| Eaton | Rebecca | 58 | Feb | 1858 | Shooting Star | 141 | 004 |
| Eaton | Robert | 25 | Feb | 1858 | Shooting Star | 141 | 004 |
| Eaton | Ann | 23 | Feb | 1858 | Shooting Star | 141 | 004 |
| Eaton | Sarah | 23 |
Feb
|
1858 | Shooting Star | 141 | 004 |
| Eaton | Eliza | 9 | Feb | 1858 | Shooting Star | 141 | 004 |
Robert and Sarah's seven children were:
Robert, on 8 October 1862, paid £3 deposit for the immigration of his sister-in-law Lucinda Beatty. The deposit was refunded on 15 October 1863 following an application by Robert. Details are given in footnotes to a following section on Lucinda Beatty.
Robert died 3 January 1898 and was buried in the CoE section of Oberon General Cemetery. Sarah died 30 March 1904 at "Apple Grove", Fish River Creek near Oberon NSW and was buried next day, beside her husband.
Farmer William Fawcett, born at Newtown Butler, Co. Fermanagh, Ireland circa 1837 to farmer WILLIAM FAWCETT and his wife MARY ANN LIDDLE, emigrated about 1855 to New South Wales. A farmer aged 38, he married Elizabeth Mary Wilcox on 12 February 1880 at St Philip's Church, Sydney (1880/170) [not Oberon as stated on his death certificate], the ceremony officiated by William J Killick of Paddington, and witnessed by John Matthews and Mary Jane Matthews. Elizabeth, a spinster aged 19 of Oberon, had been born at Fish River Creek near Oberon to farmer WILLIAM WILCOX (who consented to Elizabeth's marriage) and ELIZA MAY AGNES THORNTON. William and Elizabeth were the parents of:
William Fawcett, son of WILLIAM and MARY A, died at Fish River Creek near Oberon on 10 December 1902. William was buried in the Methodist section of Oberon General Cemetery by undertaker George Spicer and minister J Tarn, witnessed by E J Sloggett and T F Kern. William's brother John Fawcett of Fish River Creek provided details for the death certificate, stating that William's offspring were Thomas L (22), William A T (20), Jane L (19), Mary A (15), Francis J (14), George S (10), Albert N (9), Harnett A (7) and Hector M (1), all living, and one male and two females deceased.
Dorothy Eaton,
born 4 February 1873, youngest child of Irish-born immigrants ROBERT
COLEMAN EATON, and SARAH
BEATTY, married Francis John Fawcett ("Jack") on
16 July 1913 at St Stephen's Presbyterian church, Bathurst NSW, before the Revd.
J H Robertson and witnesses E J Sloggett and E Sloggett. Dorothy was noted as
a spinster engaged in home duties at Titania (4km east of Oberon NSW) where
she had been born; her parents were both deceased; her father had been a farmer;
she Dorothy was 38, Jack was 25.
Jack Fawcett, born at Titania in 1888 and still residing thereat, was the son
of farmer WILLIAM FAWCETT (deceased) and ELIZABETH MARY WILCOX.
Jack and Dorothy were the parents of (at least):
Dorothy Fawcett nee
Eaton died 8 July 1935.
Perhaps distantly related
to the Kilskeery - Oberon families were Timothy Eaton and Margaret
Beattie, an Ulster couple who settled in Toronto CAN.
Margaret Crowle [mecrowle@sasktel.net,
10 September 2003], eMailed:
Minnie Beattie was a sister to Margaret Beattie, wife of Timothy Eaton. She married my grandfather Benjamin Thomson in 1888 and died of tuberculosis in 1889, buried in Douglas Manitoba. I am interested in finding out her date of birth. I understand that Timothy wanted Ben to go into the department store business with him but Ben decided that there was more future with the CPR. After their marriage they moved to Douglas Manitoba where he was a CPR agent.
Barbara Fitzsenry [b.fitzsenry@comcast.net,
2 July 2003], VP/Web Editor/Web Master of The Eaton Families Association, eMailed
the Eaton URL http://www.eatongenealogy.com.
The following details are taken from an article in Familia – Ulster
Genealogical Review, volume 2 number 3, 1987, pp134-135.
Timothy Eaton was born c1835 on a farm at Killyfleugh Road, Ballymena ANT IRL, the youngest of four sons and five daughters of farmer JOHN EATON and his wife MARGARET CRAIG of Clogher, Ballymena; John died before Timothy’s birth. John worked 33 acres owned by Sir Robert Adair; his family had originated from the Adair estates in Kinhilt, Wigtownshire in the south-west Scottish lowlands many years before, as mentioned in the 1669 Hearthmoney Roll for Co Antrim.
Timothy’s three older brothers were Robert Eaton (born c1817, emigrated to Canada in 1841, aged 24), John Eaton (remained in Ireland where he looked after his mother and ran the family farm) and James Eaton (emigrated to join Robert in Canada). Three sisters followed to Canada.
Related Families from the same areas:
Tyrone and Fermanagh
NSW: Beattie, Bailey, Edgar, Fleming, Graham.
Other
(probably unrelated) Eaton Lineages:
None known.
since early 2001