Refer page 56 to 57 of 'Along the Windsor Richmond Road Book 3' - The Early Days of the Ezzy Family - A Story of an Early Pioneer Family, Researched and written by present-day members of the Family, themselves, which can be read online at Taylor & Ashdown Family Genealogy - Thomas Cheshire (1751c - 1824)

Refer page 57 to 58 of 'Along the Windsor Richmond Road Book 3' - The Early Days of the Ezzy Family - A Story of an Early Pioneer Family, Researched and written by present-day members of the Family, themselves, which can be read online at Taylor & Ashdown Family Genealogy - Thomas Markwell (1771c - 1841)

Refer Fred Clarke's Rootsweb database [email not current in Jul 2006] for details of parents, etc. and which advises : Maria was the first child of Thomas and Anne Cheshire, born 1st August, 1792. As Thomas Markwell and the Cheshires lived in close proximity to each other, it is presumed that it is there that Thomas met Maria and subsequently married her in 1807. They travelled from the Hawkesbury to Sydney for the ceremony and, being pregnant, it must have been very arduous for Maria. The Rev. Henry Fulton performed the ceremony. The Rev. Fulton was himself transported to the colony as an Irish political rebel and eventually became the colony Chaplain having replaced the Rev. Samuel Marsden. He later built the first church and school in the Hawkesbury area.

Fred Clarke's < a href="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:618580&id=I0075">Rootsweb database[email not current in Jul 2006] for details of extensive details on Thomas' conviction, parents, siblings etc. and which advises : ... When Thomas was 37 years old, he married Maria who was 15 years and about 7 months pregnant.They were married by the Rev. Henry Fulton at St. Peter's Church, Sydney. Neither could write and therefore made their mark. After 3 years of marriage and the birth of the first two children, Maria left Thomas with the children. This could have been caused by the hardships of the day and her very young age. It is not known how long Maria was away but it was 14 years before the next child was born. Maria died in 1830 leaving Thomas with 4 children under the age of 7 years, the youngest being one month old. The children of Thomas and Maria Markwell married into respected families; Sophia to Henry Hewitt, a man of note being a successful farmer, publican and councillor; Elizabeth to George Pitt Wood, a descendent of an old and respected English family; Ellen Maria to William Farlow from a well known pioneering family; Thomas George to Ann Eather Williams, a well respected and successful Hawkesbury farmer and one of the first to take stock over the range to the Liverpool Plains (also with George Cheshire); John to Frances Skuthorpe from a family well known for its horsemen and Mary Ann to Thomas Marsden, related to the Rev. Samuel Marsden.

• Married: 5 OCT 1807 in St. Peters' Richmond NSW Australia ²
• Married: 5 OCT 1807 in St.Phillip's Sydney NSW Australia ¹

1. Sophia MARKWELL b: 11 DEC 1807 in Windsor NSW Australia
2. Elizabeth MARKWELL b: 1809 in of North Richmond NSW Australia
3. Ellen Maria MARKWELL b: 27 DEC 1824 in of NSW Australia
4. George Thomas (or Thomas George) MARKWELL b: 27 SEP 1826 in of Richmond NSW Australia
5. John MARKWELL b: 20 MAY 1828 in Richmond NSW Australia
6. Mary Ann MARKWELL b: 16 JUN 1830 in NSW Australia

1. Author: Grace Douglass & Laurel Legge
   Title: Along the Windsor Richmond Road
   Publication: 1985 (ISBN 0 9589831 0 0 and ISBN 0 9589831 3 5)
   Note:
   Extracts from this book can be read online via my pages at Taylor & Ashdown Family Genealogy
2. Author: Rootsweb World Connect (see notes)
   Note:
   Also Rootsweb Archives and BETA Archives Search Engine
3. Author: Rick Cowey of 25 Lindsay Square, Pimlico, London SW1V3SB
   Note:
   Rick's mother, dau of Samuel George Pitt Lamrock, son of Samuel, son of Robert, son of James, son of John Lamrock..
   [email address on fileJuly 2006]. Refer Rick's
   coweyreidy database on GeneaNet.