Marsden, Samuel (1793-1793)

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Adm. sizar (age 25) at MAGDALENE, June 24, 1790. S. of Thomas, of Rawdon, near Leeds [B. July 28, 1764.] School, Kingston-on-Hull. Matric. Michs. 1790. Adopted by the Elland Society, which sent him to Cambridge. A friend of Charles Simeon. Ord. deacon (Bristol) Mar. 17, 1793; priest (Litt. dim. from Canterbury), 1793, ‘designed for the service of the Church in the settlement of Botany Bay’ (Lambeth Act Bk.). Second chaplain (C.M.S.) in New South Wales. Lived at Parramatta where (and at Sydney and Hawkesbury) he had charge of the religious instruction of convicts. Returned to England to report, and to solicit further financial assistance. Obtained an audience of King George III, who presented him with five of his own Spanish sheep, which became the progenitors of extensive fine-woolled flocks in Australia. Made seven voyages from New South Wales to New Zealand between 1814 and 1837, doing excellent work there. Married, 1793, Ellen Tristan, and had issue. Author of pamphlets. Died May 12, 1838, at Windsor, N.S.W.; buried at Parramatta. M.I. there. Grandfather of Samuel E. (Cant. Act Book; D.N.B.; Cambridge Review, Dec. 2, 1927.)

Holy Trinity, Hull's marriage register shows that Samuel married Elizabeth Fristan on 21 Apr 1793. According to the churchwarden of St John's Parramatta, Mark Pearce, in an email of 30/9/2009, both are buried in St John Parramatta cemetery, the oldest existing cemetery in Australia, the parish being founded in 1802.

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