Locality
Early Generations (3)
1 George Nelson (…1803) m. Isabella Lindsay (1779…1843)
1.1 Jane Nelson (1803…1892) m. James Falls (…1851-)
1.1.1 James Falls (1834…1939) m. Mary Ann McCaskie (c1840…1915)
2 James Fleming (1769…1844) m. Isabella Nelson nee Lindsay (1779…1843)
2.1 John Fleming (1806…1879) m. Susannah Brien (1803…1877)
2.1.1 James Fleming (1843…1925) m. Elizabeth Johnston (…)
2.2 William Fleming (1807…1892) m. Lucinda Wilson (c1813…1869)
2.2.1 Isabella Fleming (1834…1866) m. James Doust (1822…1906)
2.2.1.1 James Doust (1864…1940) m. Sarah Wilson (1865..…1928)
2.2.2 Anne Jane Fleming (1838…1891) m. William Crispin (1827…1904)
2.2.3 Mary Alicia Fleming (1844…1910) m. William Hamilton (1838…1932)
2.2.4 Emma Fleming (1850…1913) m. Robert Wilson Slater (1846…1904)
2.3 Thomas Fleming (1816/18…1898) m. Elizabeth Eaton (1825…1894)
2.3.1 William Lindsay Fleming (1861…1875)
Possibly Related Lineages
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Related Families from the same areas
Other (probably unrelated) 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.
George Nelson married Isabella Lindsay of Makenny townland TYR (two miles from Kilskeery and half a mile from Trillick; now Bleakleys?). The couple had at least one child:
Isabella remarried on 8 July 1804 to James Fleming, following George's death c1803. The widowed Jane Falls arrived in New South Wales with her four children aboard the Garland on 15 March 1851, accompanied by her step-sister's son Thomas Fleming, his wife Elizabeth Eaton and son James, and Henry Brien.
Jane Nelson, daughter born c1803 to ISABELLA LINDSAY and her first husband GEORGE NELSON, married James Falls. The couple had four known children:
Jane Falls née Nelson, remembered as a community leader, died at Oberon in 1892.
James Falls, son born c1834 in Co Tyrone to JAMES FALLS and his wife JANE NELSON, married Mary Ann McCaskie, the marriage registered at Bathurst in 1865. The couple apparently had five children:
James Falls died aged 77 years in June 1911; Mary Falls née McCaskie died aged 75 yers in May 1915. They lie buried with their son George in Oberon General Cemetery.
Following the death of her first husband George Nelson (q.v.), Isabella Nelson nee Lindsay married James Fleming, the wedding taking place on 8 July 1804 in the parish church at Kilskeery. James, born c1769 at Cordromedy between Trillick and Kilskeery, was from a family of farmers and corn millers; James' farm was some 28 acres. Isabella and James produced five children:
Isabella died 24 August 1843.
John Fleming,
eldest child of JAMES FLEMING and ISABELLA LINDSAY his wife, was born circa
1806 in Co Tyrone. At Kilskeery on 16 November 1838, John married Susannah
Brien, daughter born 24 November 1803 to farmer ROBERT BRIEN (or BRYEN)
and his wife MARY JOHNSTON of Gargadis TYR. John and Susannah were the second
of this Fleming family to emigrate to Australia, following by four years his
younger brother William. John, a carpenter and wheelwright aged 27, and Susannah,
a laundress aged 29, sailed aboard the Argyle ex Gravesend under the
command of the well-known John Gatenby on 28 November 1838, Plymouth 12 December
1838 and arriving in Sydney on 31 March 1839. John and Susannah were described
in the ship's logs as being members of the Church of England, both able to read
and write. They soon moved to join William and settling at Gingkin south of
Oberon.
The two children of John and Susannah were born at Gingkin:
After the birth of their
children, John and Susannah Fleming moved from Gingkin to purchase land adjoining
"Ferndale", the Brien property on the Fish River east of Oberon.
Susan Fleming nee Brien died 29 December 1877, aged 74; John Fleming
died 17 June 1879, aged 73.
James Fleming, to JOHN FLEMING and SUSANNAH BRIEN his wife, was born 9 October 1843. James married Elizabeth Johnston; they appear to have parented the following children (one, Lydia, is definite):
James Fleming, son of John,
died near Molong NSW on 2 September 1925.
Note: between 1867 and 1880, five births (for Alexander, David, Robert James,
Bella J and William Mason Fleming) were registered to James and Elizabeth Ann
Fleming at Kiama; and between 1870 and 1888 eight births (for Alice, Mary E,
Alexander J, Elizabeth M, James A, Ethel, Harold E and Ruby I Fleming) were
registered to James and Elizabeth Fleming at Paddington, Waverley and Sydney)
- it is assumed that none of these are related to the Oberon stock.
William Fleming, son of JAMES FLEMING and ISABELLA LINDSAY his wife, was born July 1807 in Co Tyrone. In 1833 William married Lucinda Wilson, of Derryhillagh FER. The children of William and Lucinda included:
William, Lucinda and infant
Isabella were the first of this Fleming family to emigrate to Australia, departing
Liverpool ENG on 18 October 1835 aboard the Clyde, arriving in Sydney
on 7 February 1836. James was born en passage. The family soon moved
100 miles westward and settled on the Fish River Creek near today's Oberon township;
the homestead built before 1868 on their principal property "Springfield"
was still extant in 1989. William also owned land abutting Charles Whalan's
"Glyndwr", and 800 acres on the Fish River at Yetholme between Lithgow
and Bathurst. On 1 November 1851 he purchased 80 acres on Fish River Creek near
Bullock Flats; that land was one of a number of selections made available by
a government proclamation of 25 November 1850 and sold for £1 per acre.
William sold several of his properties to his sons-in-law, and "Springfield"
in 1889; the latter was in part sub-divided into residential blocks that year.
Lucinda Fleming nee Wilson died 18 February 1869. After the sale of "Springfield",
William Fleming lived with the family of his daughter Emma Slater at 61 Norton
Street, Leichhardt (and inner-western suburb of Sydney), where he died 29 June
1892.
Isabella Fleming, daughter of WILLIAM FLEMING and LUCINDA WILSON his wife, was born 27 April 1834 in Co Tyrone. Isabella married James Doust (born 1822 at Goudhurst KNT) at "Springfield" near Oberon on the Bathurst - Hill End Wesleyan Methodist circuit in 1854. Isabella bore James the following children (all except Mary registered at Bathurst):
Isabella Doust nee
Fleming died 14 February 1866 at "Bloomfield" Dubbo NSW. Her young
children were raised at "Springfield" near Oberon with the Slaters.
James may have re-married; a James Doust married Charlotte O Clarke at Hill
End in 1872. James died in 1906, aged 84 years.
Sarah Wilson, daughter born at Oberon in 1865 to ALEXANDER WILSON and his wife MARY ARMSTRONG, married James Doust in the Macquarie district of central-western NSW on 20 April 1887. James had been born 4 January 1864 near Bathurst, the son JAMES DOUST and his wife ISABELLA. The issue of James and Sarah included:
Anne Jane Fleming,
daughter of WILLIAM FLEMING and LUCINDA WILSON his wife, was born in 1838 in
NSW. She would have been amongst the first European children born in the district.
Anne married William Crispin, born in Paris France of an English
engineer, at "Springfield" near Oberon; their marriage was registered at Bathurst in 1869.
William was married previously, to Sarah A Pappin, at Sydney, Christ Church St Lawrence's CoE in Sydney in 1851, with possibly two children resulting:
The death of Sarah A Crispin, daughter of Unknown PAPPIN and JOSEPHINE, was registered at Glebe in 1867. One wonders what circumstances lead to her daughter Sarah dying as a ward of the church.
Issue of William by Ann included:
The death of Anne J Crispen née Fleming was registered at Glebe in 1891. The death of William Crispin, son of RICHARD, was registered at Glebe in 1904.
Mary Alicia Fleming, daughter of WILLIAM FLEMING and LUCINDA WILSON his wife, was born in 1844 in NSW. Mary married William Hamilton, born in Ardbarron TYR, at "Springfield" near Oberon.
Emma Fleming, daughter of WILLIAM FLEMING and LUCINDA WILSON his wife, was born in 1850 in NSW. Emma married Irish-born Robert Wilson Slater at "Springfield" near Oberon.
Thomas Fleming,
aged 28, son of JAMES FLEMING and ISABELLA LINDSAY his wife, born at c1816/18
Cordromedy near Trillick TYR, was a bachelor miller when he married Elizabeth
Eaton at Trillick in the parish of Kilskeery on 23 February 1849. Elizabeth,
spinster aged 20 [in fact 24] from Carran, was the daughter born July 1825 to
farmer JOSEPH EATON and REBECCA BRIEN.
Elizabeth bore corn miller Thomas seven known children:
Thomas and Elizabeth emigrated
on the Garland, landing in Sydney on 15 March 1851, sixteen years after
his brother William and twelve years after eldest brother John. With them on
the Garland were his son James and his step-sister, widow Jane Falls
(daughter of GEORGE NELSON and ISABELLA LINDSAY, who married Thomas' father
James Fleming on 8 July 1804, following George's death c1803) and Jane's children
Jane Falls (22), twins George Falls and James Falls (17) and Isabella Falls
(13). Henry Brien was also aboard the Garland.
Thomas purchased several properties, including one at the confluence of Fish
River Creek and Deep Creek, adjacent to William Brien's "Ferndale".
This he sold on 13 August 1892 to David Eaton, son of Robert Coleman Eaton.
Elizabeth died 21 August 1894, aged 68 and was buried at Oberon. Thomas followed
his married daughters and their families to the Cowra district, purchasing land
at Morongla Creek where he died on died 2 August 1898; his remains were buried
at Oberon.
William Lindsay Fleming,
son of farmer THOMAS FLEMING and ELIZABETH EATON his wife, was born in 1861
near at Fish River Creek near Hartley. Aged 14, William died on 1 March 1875
at Fish River Creek from "concussion of brain", sixteen days after
an accident. He had been attended by the redoubtable Dr Eaton the day prior.
Possibly Related Families:
Perhaps distantly related to the Kilskeery - Oberon families were Timothy Eaton and Margaret Beattie, an Ulster couple who settled in Toronto CAN. 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: Talbot(t).
Other
(probably unrelated) Eaton Lineages:
None known.
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