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StreetRadley PlaceSuburbCherrybrookDetailsJohn Radley (1804-1882) an early settler in the district.
John Radley was a weaver and farm labourer of Yorkshire when he was tried for stealing one sheep worth 20 shillings, one ram worth 21 shillings, one ewe worth 20 shillings and one lamb worth 20 shillings; he was sentenced to a life term and arrived in the Colony in 1834.
In March, 1849, at the Independent Church in Ross Street, Parramatta, John Radley was married, by the Baptist Minister J. J. Glassop, to Ethelia Bowden (1824-1891). Ethelia was the daughter of John and Judith Bowden of Cornwall; she had worked as a dairymaid and emigrated on an assisted passage when she was 24 years old, arriving in November, 1848. She, like John Radley, was a member of the Parramatta Baptist Church when they were married, although she had been a Wesleyan at home in Cornwall.
Soon after their marriage, John and Ethelia moved to a property on the corner of Jenner Road and New Line Road, West Pennant Hills, which was a large portion of the 1834 grant to John Pye, subsequently purchased by Samuel and Mary Jenner. In 1854 John Radley and Samuel Jenner made an agreement for the former to lease this land, for a 25 year term, at 1/- per annum rent; however, this lease was apparently never registered and the legal position of the land was confused when John died in 1882.
In 1878 John Radley purchased from James Wilkinson an adjoining piece of land to the north-west, lying across New Line Road and the present David Road. This land he bequeathed to his two daughters Jane and Asenath to be effective upon the death of his wife; however, whilst Ethelia was still living she passed the land on o these daughters. Asenath and her husband Alfred Ferguson sold their share of it to Jane and her husband Joseph Roughley.
John Radley worked as a farmer, and began orchards and as well cut sawed timber in the district with his friend James Allen. The original timber was gradually being cleared to make way for the orchards and felling, sawing and carting the timber to the Parramatta mill made a worthwhile addition to the income of the local farmers.
Source Patrick, Trevor, G. 1994, 'Street names of Pennant Hills and Surrounding Suburbs of Beecroft, Cheltenham, Cherrybrook, Thornleigh, Westleigh, and West Pennant Hills', Silicon Quill, Hornsby, p.86.; 'Early Wesleyans of Pennant Hills', Helen Barker & Ralph Hawkins, (1983) pp. 76-79Map[1]
John Radley was a weaver and farm labourer of Yorkshire when he was tried for stealing one sheep worth 20 shillings, one ram worth 21 shillings, one ewe worth 20 shillings and one lamb worth 20 shillings; he was sentenced to a life term and arrived in the Colony in 1834.
In March, 1849, at the Independent Church in Ross Street, Parramatta, John Radley was married, by the Baptist Minister J. J. Glassop, to Ethelia Bowden (1824-1891). Ethelia was the daughter of John and Judith Bowden of Cornwall; she had worked as a dairymaid and emigrated on an assisted passage when she was 24 years old, arriving in November, 1848. She, like John Radley, was a member of the Parramatta Baptist Church when they were married, although she had been a Wesleyan at home in Cornwall.
Soon after their marriage, John and Ethelia moved to a property on the corner of Jenner Road and New Line Road, West Pennant Hills, which was a large portion of the 1834 grant to John Pye, subsequently purchased by Samuel and Mary Jenner. In 1854 John Radley and Samuel Jenner made an agreement for the former to lease this land, for a 25 year term, at 1/- per annum rent; however, this lease was apparently never registered and the legal position of the land was confused when John died in 1882.
In 1878 John Radley purchased from James Wilkinson an adjoining piece of land to the north-west, lying across New Line Road and the present David Road. This land he bequeathed to his two daughters Jane and Asenath to be effective upon the death of his wife; however, whilst Ethelia was still living she passed the land on o these daughters. Asenath and her husband Alfred Ferguson sold their share of it to Jane and her husband Joseph Roughley.
John Radley worked as a farmer, and began orchards and as well cut sawed timber in the district with his friend James Allen. The original timber was gradually being cleared to make way for the orchards and felling, sawing and carting the timber to the Parramatta mill made a worthwhile addition to the income of the local farmers.
Source Patrick, Trevor, G. 1994, 'Street names of Pennant Hills and Surrounding Suburbs of Beecroft, Cheltenham, Cherrybrook, Thornleigh, Westleigh, and West Pennant Hills', Silicon Quill, Hornsby, p.86.; 'Early Wesleyans of Pennant Hills', Helen Barker & Ralph Hawkins, (1983) pp. 76-79Map[1]
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