Tuesday, March 16, 2010

MAWBYs in NSW

Sometimes the spellings 'Mawbey' and 'Mawby' are used interchangeably on the NSW Births Deaths and Marriages register. Here are those just listed as 'Mawby':

HARRY & LOUISE (LOUISA) MAWBY
The registered the following births in NSW: 1882 Theodore, 1883 Emma, 1885 Maria, 1888 Lisette, 1889 Pauline.

JOSEPH & JESSIE MAWBY
They registered the following births in NSW: 1885 Charlotte, 1887 Christopher, 1888 Annie.

JOSEPH & OLIVE MAWBY
They registered the following birth in NSW: 1887 Sydney. Olive aged 24 arrived in Sydney with her three year old son Joseph on the Parthia as assisted immigrants in 1886.

ELLIS & THEODOCIA (THEDORIA) MAWBY
The registered the following births in NSW: 1897 Thomas, 1900 Dorothy.

In 1846 two unassisted arrivals from England, Mr J Mawby and Mr L Mawby, arrived in Sydney on the Walmer Castle from London and Downs. Their arrival date was 23-12-1846.

According to the State Records Insolvency Index, a Laurence Mawby, horse dealer, of Pitt Street, Sydney was sequestered (his property removed) on 19-2-1848.

An Edward Mawby, restaurant keeper of Forest Lodge and Balmain, was sequestered on 25-9-1883 with certificate issued on 22-9-1886.

Monday, March 15, 2010

MAWBY WAR SERVICE

While researching the World War I service records of the MAWBEY family, I discovered there was a larger group with the spelling variant, MAWBY.
Information about them and some of their forefathers will be presented on this page.
According to the UK National Archives website, there were three MAWBYs inolved in the BATTLE OF TRAFALGAR:
1. JOSEPH MAWBY from Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England; rank - landsman, HMS Britannia; killed in action 1805.
2. JOHN MAWBY from Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; rank - midshipman, HMS Spartiate.
3. RICHARD MAWBY from Wadford, Northamptonshire, England; rank - corporal, HMS Britannia.
[Source: Trafalgar Ancestors Database via UK National Archives]

HISTORICAL NOTE:
The Battle of Trafalgar was waged off Cape Trafalgar on the south-western coast of Spain in 1805, and was a British victory under Lord Horatio Nelson against Spanish and French fleets.

WORLD WAR I
Awaiting copyright clearance for this information.

MISCELANEOUS MAWBYS

The Maitland Mercury & Hunter River General Advertiser, Wednesday, 27 March 1850
Government Gazette. General Post-Office Sydney. 28 February 1850. List of letters now lying in this office unclaimed ... addressed to persons residing in the Hunter River and Northern Districts ... JOHN MAWBY, Canning Downs.