BIRD FAMILY IN AUSTRALIA John Jephunneh Bird 20, Jesse Theodore Curtis Bird 17, and Robert Bird 15, arrived on the Beejapore at Keppel Bay near Rockhampton on 17 July 1863. Their parents were: Robert Courtice Bird b. 1815, baptised Cheriton Fitzpaine, Devon on 14 April 1816 - married on 26 October 1839 at Coleridge Sarah Simmons b 1816 Wembworthy, Dev0 May 1887 Robert died in 1906 in Michigan USA - six children: Jephunneh Theosophilus Symonds, Jesse Theodore Curtis, Robert Curtis, Camilla, Rosa and Ella. The three boys immigrated to Australia, Kate and Roas stayed in England and Ella married in England and went to America. J.T.S. BIRD - b. 10 May 1842 at Buckland Brewer, Devon - died 7 May 1932 Brisbane - mayborough (his place of residence was Nashville) on 3 April 1868 Kezia Seymour (b. London late 1848) daughter of Charles Crosse Seymour and Lucy Appleton - JTS began working on Rockhampton Morning Bulletin the day after his arrival in Queensland - also spent some time on central Queensland goldfields -discovered Ridgelands goldfield near Rockhampton in 1866 - returneing Bulletin in 1870 as mechanical printer - foreman from 1875 - wrote sporting articles from 1876 under name of Veno - became mining reporter - became Rockhamptons historian - his articles on early history of Rockhampton published in Morning Bulletin were collected and published in book form in 1904 as The Early History of Rockhampton (by J.T.S. Bird) - 1909 appoieditor of Capricornian - wrote article for Rockhampton papers until few months before his death. Jesse Theodore Courtice (Curtis) Bird - born 5 January 1845 at Buckland Brewer near Brideford, Devon - died 18 September 1915 in Sydney - married at Cooktown on 28 August 1876 Eliza Anne SEYMOUR (?Lizzie?) of Rockhampton, born 15 May 1853 in Sanvy Gate, Leicester, Leire UK, daughter of Charles Crosse Seymour and Lucy Appleton - Elizas sister, Kezia, married Jesse Theodores brother, John Bird (Jephunneh Theosophilus Symons) of Rockhampton - Jesse was educated in Devon - could parse and quote from Bible. Eliza migrated from England with her sister, Lucy, to Rockhampton on Landsborough arriving on 24 October 1973 as nominated pa- her sister, Kezia, was already in Rockhampton and married to J.T.S. Bird. Theodore Curtis Bird (as he was generally known) went to Palmer - friend of John Hamilton (politician) - best man at Birds wedding - at marriage Theodore was a storekeeper and licensed retail spirit merchant at Byerstown - at Byerstown 1877 and Kingsborough 1880 - Eliza met J.T.C. (?Theckhampton in 1876 when he came to Rockhampton to see J.T.S. Bird - Theo was a gold buyer with an ?Uncle Harvey? on the Palmer - lived in hessian and antbed floor house - went to Watsonville in 1882 - owned Royal Hotel -five children: Lucy Alice - b. 22 July 1877 Cooktown - married Watsonville 5 May 1898 James (?Jim?) CRAIG of Abbott Street, Cairns, b. 30 March 1872 surveyor? - played in amateur theatricals -Lucy died 4 March 1963 Sydney. Ethel Rose - b. 8 January 1879 Cooktown - died 8 August 1940 Sydney - nurse Cairns Hospital before marriage on 29 August 1900 at Cairns to Alexander William (?Alick?) Thynne b. 1 November 1871 Brisbane (son of Andrew Joseph Thynne) - Alick was Solicitor Cairns and Nambour, editor Nambour - Mary Williamina (?Wilma?) Thynne b. 31 May 1901 in Cairns was eldest of 5 children - daughter Dorothy Jean (?Dottie?) - Wilma married Neil Dundonald Cochrane, grazier of Dundonald, Ilfracombe. Florence Camilla (?Florrie?) - b. 23 June 1880 McLeods Creek, Hodgkinson Goldfield - died 8 September 1959 Sydney - married Herberton 15 October 1899 John Jerome (?Jaoung, musician and concert bandmaster, b. 1875 Oamaru, New Zealand - ?Florrie? was born in a tent en route to a town -delayed by Aborigines and floods - Florrie was an accomplished pianist - Jack played with Nellie Melba. Harvey Seymour - b. 12 January 1883 Watsonville - died 19 October 1954 Sydney - married 31 January 1911 Janet Katherine Dwyer - 3 children - s Edith Violet - b. 15 August 1884 Watsonville - died 30 July 1961 Sydney - nurse - served in Middle East in World War I - married 1928 Henry Westbrook Davis - lived Griffith, Sydney. Harold Vincent - b. 27 May 1890 Watsonville - died 7 June 1975 Sydney - joined NSW public service as accountant - converted to Roman Catholic faith in 1913 - studied with Redemptder - ordained priest on 4 October 1927. Robert Courtice (Curtis) Bird - b. March Quarter 1847 Devonshire - died 1881-3 Australia - said to have been interested in Lucy Seymour but she married a Mr Devine and went to California - said to have ?gone up-country, caught dengue fever, got very depressed and died very suddenly? - occupation at marriage on 10 DecemberSusannah Charlotte Baker of Central McDonald River NSW, in Sydney was waiter - later book keeper and fruit dealer - 3 children: Florence b 1879 d 1880, Florence Augusta b 9 October 1880, Robert Curtis b 28 February 1882 Ulmarra, Grafton NSW - Susannah married in 1884 George Warrington, boatman of Manly - 4 children: Kenneth, Edwin, Clarice and Ella Warrington. (Rese by Mrs Dottie Kemp, 67 Sisley Street, St Lucia. Q. 4067. PH (07) 8707035, and her relatives. She is a grand-daughter of Ethel Rose Bird, b. Rockhampton 8 Jan 1879, daughter of J.T.C. Bird and Eliza Anne nee Seymour.)? ? 1770: Cook - Journal, reprint 1970 Reed - ?From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched pe earth; but in reality they are far more happier than we Europeans ... They live in a tranquility which is not disturbed by the Inequality of Conditions?. No use for clothes.

Birth of Peter and Mary Logan twins, of Abraham Logan a tenant of East Renton and wife Janet nee Johnston. Peter known as Patrick Logan.

Flinders in Norfolk came to Moreton Bay July 17

July 17, 1799 Matthew Flinders anchored at what is today Redcliffe, one and a half miles from shore - he proceeded from the west shore, across the middle of the bay to anchor in the vicinity of St Helena Island. At this point he was within sight of where the river enters the bay, but the mouth of the river was hidden by sandy reefs and obscured. July 19, 1799 Flinders explored Garden Island (later named) in Moreton Bay and Collins account says that ?beyond this island the bay was contracted into a river, of considerable width indeed, but...so shoaled, or ... so difficult of access that Flinders gave up any attempt to follow it up?. Flinders then returned to Pumice Stone to repair the boa

Flinders sailed on the Norfolk from Port Jackson July 8, 1799 returned on August 20. Purpose of investigating Glass House and Hervey Bays - he entered Moreton Bay and discovered the Brisbane river, but concluded that ?the entrance was too full of shoals to leave a hope of penetrating by it far into the interior, or that it could be of importance to navigation?

Patrick Logan gazetted ensign in 57th Foot Regiment. (Charles Bateson, Patrick Logan, tyrant of Brisbane Town, Ure Smith 1966) On 24 August 1811 Logan joined 57th Regiment at Portalegre, part of Anglo- Portuguese Army of the South. On 25 March 1813 Logan promoted to Lieutenant, Peninsula War, ended in defeat of Napoleon (p20) On 16 June 1814 Logans regiment sailed from France, 3 August 1814 arrived Quebec. (p22) In August 1815 returned to England, 2 years in France in Occupation Army. On 25 November 1918 57th Regiment arrived Cork, Ireland, August 1820 to Galway.

Oxley obsessed. with conception of interior as composed of one vast inland sea - in 1823 when he discovered the Brisbane river, he regarded it merely an outlet of such a sea

On 1 December 1823 Oxley sailed up Pine River almost as far as todays Petrie noting stands of hoop pine which he called cypress; he called it Deception River (i.e. not the main river) later renamed Pine River. ON 2 December entered Brisbane River, again noted large stands of hoop pine from 100 to 140 feet high which he hoped might be suitable for naval topmasts. Also open grazing country away from rich flats and useful stands of good timber. On 12 Sep 1824 brig Amity anchored off Osbourne Point, Redcliffe to start convict settlement, Oxley having recommended this area for temporary settlement prior to permanent base in Brisbane River area. Lieutenant Henry Miller was 1st convict commandant. Relocated to Brisbane site about May 1825. Eight commandants in 17 years. (Part 2 p1-2) Cunningham and Oxley collected hoop pine spars from Pine River in Sept.1824. Subsequent shipments of timber were made to Sydney. Convict cedar- cutters were employed in gangs along the banks of the Brisbane, Logan and Tweed rivers (Smith 1988, 520; Jones 1978b 24). [Smith, Lawrence S ed Track and Times, a history of the Pine Rivers District; Jones cant find in Biblio] [try Michael Jones 1988 Redcliffe history] In 1824 a party of convicts proceeded up the Pine River to Yebri Creek to cut bloodwood. When aborigines objected, one of their number was shot dead, so inducing them to avenge this loss by spearing two convicts away from their base at Redcliffe

The first white men to inhabit Caboolture Shire were three timber getters, Richard Parsons, Thomas Pamphlet and John Finegan, left Sydney March 1823, blown off course in gale, believed they were south of Sydney, walked north, decided to settle with local A

The first white men to inhabit Caboolture Shire were three timber getters, Richard Parsons, Thomas Pamphlet and John Finegan, left Sydney March 1823, blown off course in gale, believed they were south of Sydney, walked north, decided to settle with local A

Oxley discovered Brisbane river on 2/12/1823

Logan purchased his company. ON 5 September 1823 Logan married Letitia Anne OBeirne. (p25) Company to NSW, 22 April 1825 arrived Syd

1823 voyage by Oxley. November 29, Oxley at Pumice Stone Passage - found Pamphlett and Finigan who told Oxley there was a big river at the south of the bay - December 2, they entered its mouth and pulled up 70 miles from the ship. ?The appearance of the country, the slowness of the current and depth of water induced me to conclude that the river will be found navigable for vessels of burden to a much greater distance, probably not less than 50 miles?

Oxley entered Moreton Bay on 29 November 1823 - suggested Red Cliff point for settlement

?Turning south (from Port Curtis), Oxley met with three white men living with the blacks in Moreton Bay district, and, led by them, discovered and sailed up part of the Brisbane river?

Oxley thought rivers source to be an interior lake - Oxley commented that it was the largest river in NSW and promised to be of utmost importance to the colony ?from the very fertile country it passes through, affording the means of water communication with the sea, to a vast extent of the country...? (WOOD, G.A. GOVERNOR MACQUARIE RAHS JOURNAL vol 16 pt 6 (1931) p. 412/413) 1823. 1823, Lieutenant John Oxley journeys from Sydney to survey Port Curtis for convict penal establishment. October 23, 1823, left Sydney. November 5, 1823 at Port Curtis. December 13, 1823 returned Sydney. On return voyage in H.M. cutter MERMAID, Oxley discovered the Brisbane river with assistance of two white men whom he found with the blacks, PAMPHLETT and FINNEG

Evidence suggests that Hoddie accompanied Oxley on his second expedition to Moreton Bay in 1824 - but evidence is strongly presumptive -Hoddles name appears on some survey charts

On 3 February 1824 Governor dispatch to London and John Oxley report in it, intend to establish Penal settlement M

27, 28 August instructions to John Oxley and Lieut. Henry Miller, first commandant, to establish M

Amity arrived off Moreton Bay 10 September, next day Oxley selected Red Cliff Point for settlement (p44) On 10 October Oxley returned to Syd