There is a photograph of Edward POWELL jnr 1798 - 1887, eldest son of Edward POWELL & Elizabeth FISH on page 28 of
'Settlers & Convicts of the BELLONA 1793 --- a biographical dictionary' compiled by Megan Martin (1992) and further reading.

Edward POWELL's father, Edward (senior) was a free settler from Lancashire, who owned 140 acres of land in 1806, and had set himself up as innkeeper of the Halfway House on the Parramatta Road. When Edward (Senior) died in 1814, young Edward took over the business, and then after his marriage to Mary, the inn came to be owned by her father, Edward ROBINSON. Mary ROBINSON died 14/8/1867 (Ref 1867/7645)

Australian Dictionary of Biography Vol.2 (1788-1850) Editor Douglas PIKE
POWELL, Edward (1762-1814), famer and inkeeper, came from Lancaster England, where he had been a farmer and fisherman. He visited New South Wales as a seaman in the 'Lady Juliana' in the Second Fleet, and then returned as one of the colonly's first group of free settlers. The party, which included Thomas ROSE and was assisted by the British government after it had received urgent requests from Governorn Phillip for free men, skilled labourers and farmers, sailed on the 'Bellona' and reached Port Jackson on 16 Jan 1793. Eight days later Powell married Elizabeth Fish, a fellow pasenger, who later bore him two sons and four daughters. On 7 February Powell received the title to an 80-acre grant at Liberty Plains. Later, perhaps in the search for better soil, he moved to the Hawkesbury where by 1799 he had been apponted a constable. Hitherto an innocuous figure, in October 1799 he achieved notoriety when he was found guilty of being involved with four others in the murder of two Aboriginals, but the majority of the court thought that the case 'under all its peculiar circumstances' should be remitted to the British government before any sentence was imposed. In Jan 1802 Lord Hobart recommended that they be given conditional pardons. Meanwhile, although dismissed from the position of constable, Powell had been advancing his farming interests. By 1806 he owned 140 acres of which 32 were in cultivation, and a small quantity of livestock including two horses and two cows. Shortly before the Rum Rebellion, in which he supported Governor Bligh, he appears to have returned to the Liberty Plains district and become an inkeeper as well as a farmer. His Halfway House on the Parramatta Road between Sydney and Parramatta was a landmark. In 1811 he was appointed poundkeeper for the area in which he gradually acquired additional property. He died on 19 Oct 1814, leaving his estate to his wife who administered it until her death in 1818. Control then passed into the hands of his son Edward, who at first let the inn and 500 acres and then sold it to his brother-in-law, James Underwood. Another daughter of Edward Powell senior married Richard Siddins.
References : HRA (1) 1-3; J.F.Campbell 'Liberty Plains of the first free settlers 1793' JRAHS, 22 (1936); Newspaper index under E.Powell (ML).

• Married: 17 JAN 1820 in St Phillip's Church of England, Sydney ^{5 6}
• Note:

  Certified Copy of Marriage Certificate Held for No. 2474 Vol. 3A:
  V18202474 3A/1820 POWELL EDWARD ROBINSON MARY CA
  V182064 8/1820 POWELL EDWARD ROBINSON MARY CA
  CA Church of England Sydney, St Phillip's

1. Emma POWELL b: 24 AUG 1819 in Parramatta, Sydney NSW Australia
2. Edward POWELL b: 23 SEP 1821 in Richmond NSW Australia
3. James Richard POWELL b: 2 OCT 1823 in Richmond NSW Australia
4. Richard Henry POWELL b: 16 DEC 1825 in Richmond NSW Australia
5. George Richard POWELL b: 7 JAN 1832 in Richmond NSW Australia
6. Sydney Richard POWELL b: 17 OCT 1833 in Richmond NSW Australia
7. Henry Richard POWELL b: 25 NOV 1835 in Richmond NSW Australia
8. Arthur Richard POWELL b: 20 OCT 1837 in Richmond NSW Australia
9. Thomas Alexander POWELL b: 23 JUL 1841 in Richmond NSW Australia
10. Joseph Robert POWELL b: 1844 in Richmond NSW Australia

1. Author: Les de Belin
2. Author: Hawkesbury Pioneer Register
   Note:
   2nd edition Windsor, NSW:
   Hawkesbury Family History Group, 1994 p161
3. Author: Katie POWELL (email on file) of 13 Teak Street, Casino NSW 2470
   Note:
   Katie's husband Sean shares my ROBINSON and HARRISON ancestry. Sean is the son of
   Robert Arthur POWELL, son of Edward Cowper (Jim) POWELL born 1888 to Edward Richard POWELL (1857), son of Richard Henry POWELL (1825), son of Edward POWELL Jnr
   (1798) and Mary ROBINSON (1800)
4. Author: Kirsty Ahearn
   Note:
   Kirsty Ahearn is the grandaughter of Kathleen M. ROBSON & Cameron Bede FORD and shares my ROBINSON and HARRISON ancestry
5. Title: Marriage Certificate
6. Title: NSW Registry of Births Deaths & Marriages
   Note:
   NSW Birth Death & Marriage Regn 1820/2474/3A