HOSFORD

My wife's great grandfather, Thomas HOSFORD, was born in Co. Cork, Ireland in 1815 to Jonathan HOSFORD and Sophia CREED.

He married an Anna Maria HALL (1827-1899) in 1852 at Castlemartyr, Co. Cork, Ireland. They travelled to Sydney, NSW, Australia, arriving in December 1852, only 2 weeks before their 1st child, Jonathan Joseph Bandon HOSFORD (my wife's grandfather) was born in 1853. Thomas worked for the gaol system, initially at Cockatoo Island, Sydney, NSW & then becoming Governor at Goulburn Gaol in NSW, where he unfortunately died in 1869, aged 54 years of age. There was a rumour that he died from injuries received during a gaol riot, but newspaper articles indicate he died from lung congestion after attending a friend’s funeral in the rain. He was buried in Goulburn but his grave cannot be located.

Their seven children (the 1^st four born at Cockatoo Island, Sydney, NSW and the other three at Goulburn, NSW) were:

• Jonathan Joseph Bandon HOSFORD (1853-1923;
• William Francis Henry HOSFORD (1855-1880);
• Anne Hall HOSFORD (1858-1899);
• Thomas Dupie HOSFORD (1860-1862);
• Benjamin HOSFORD (1863-1892);
• Joseph HOSFORD (1866-1928);
• Mary Thomasine HOSFORD (1869-1876).

Jonathan Joseph Bandon HOSFORD married Sarah Elizabeth BRANSCOMBE in Mudgee, NSW, Australia in 1879. He was a Trades Overseer in the NSW prison system, serving at Mudgee, Bathurst & Parramatta. See BRANSCOMBE for details of the family.

Sarah Elizabeth (Branscombe) HOSFORD

They had 10 children: Anne Marie Charlotte (1882-1978), Thomas William (1883-1971), Jonathan Herbert (1885-1964), Joseph Ernest (1887-1965) & George (1889-1971) born at Mudgee, NSW, then Frank Branscombe (1890-1963), Rowland (1891-1966), Wilfred Septimus (1893-1968), Gladys Victoria Lillian May (1898-1976) & Dorothy Winifred Branscombe (1899-1970) (my wife's mother), born at Bathurst, NSW.

RELATED SURNAMES : Branscombe, Creed, Hall

RELATED PLACES : Bathurst, Castlemartyr, Cockatoo Island, Cork, Goulburn, Mudgee, Parramatta

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