Samuel Marks, 18321908 (aged 76 years)

Name
Samuel /Marks/
Given names
Samuel
Surname
Marks
Birth
1832 35 32
Residence
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Death of a maternal grandmother
Marriage of a brother
Marriage
Marriage of a brother
Marriage of a brother
Birth of a daughter
Death of a mother
Death of a father
Death of a brother
Cause: cirrhosis
Marriage of a daughter
Note: The Kiama Independent, Friday 4 July 1890

The Kiama Independent, Friday 4 July 1890
MARRIAGE
KING - MARKS - On the 17th May, at the residence of the bride's
parents, "Terragong," Jamberoo, by the Rev. John Burgess, Henry, fifth
son of the late Alexander King, Kiama, to Ida, eldest daughter of
Samuel Marks.

Birth of a granddaughter
Marriage of a son
Death of a brother
Death of a brother
Death of a sister
Death of a brother
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Birth of a daughter
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Death
Family with parents
father
17971872
Birth: 1797 Ballyronan, Londonderry
Death: 26 November 1872Jamberoo, NSW
mother
elder brother
18241904
Birth: 1824 27 24 County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 31 December 1904Courtney Hill, Bankstown
3 years
elder brother
18261885
Birth: 24 November 1826 29 26 Coagh (Croagle?), County Tyrone
Death: 3 March 1885Glenrock, Darling Point
3 years
elder brother
18301904
Birth: 5 February 1830 33 30
Death: 22 July 1904Burwood, Sydney
elder sister
3 years
himself
3 years
younger brother
18351907
Birth: 30 January 1835 38 35
Death: 12 January 1907Arlington, Edgecliff
younger sister
sister
sister
Family with Clara Kezie (Kezia?) Bedford Uther
himself
wife
Marriage Marriage1859
son
daughter
JaneMarks/JaneMarksMemorialWindow.jpg
18631951
Birth: 13 October 1863 31 23
Death: 23 June 1951
daughter
daughter
daughter
Note
Note
Note

"The first house on the property was a wooden one [a sketch is said to exist]. When John an d James moved to Sydney permanently in 1875, James' son" (? Brother - PK 27/7/06) "Samuel took over Terragong, eventually purchasing it from hisuncle" (? brother) "John. Samuel had first farmed Marksville at Albion Park, a portion of Terry's Meadow. He married Kezia Bedford Uther in 1859 and had five children, Ernest John, Ida (who married her first cousin Henry King, fifth son of Alexander King and Margaret Marks on 17 May 1890), Annie Uther, Clara Lillian and Maud Evelyn."

Charles represented the the Kiama district opposite Sir Henry Parkes in the NSW Legislative Assembly.

Commentary - Paul King 27/7/06

(Confirm death & possible additional political involvement possibly mis-ascribed to James Marks)

It looks like in" The Marks Connection" the Samuel Marks (b1832) who married Clara Kezia Bedford Uther (b 1840) in 1859 is listed as both the 5th son of James Moody Marks (b 1797/1798), and the son of his 6th son James Marks (b 1835) - i.e. is both older sibling and son to James Marks!. My guess, based on birthdates of Samuels' own children is that the William Marks, Samuel Marks, Robert Marks attributed as children of James Marks Jr are actually his siblings.? -see excerpt below from "The Marks Connection" This would mean he purchased Terragong from his brother, not his uncle, and means his child Ida (b 1863) could indeed have been first cousin to Henry King when they married, rather than (neice?)

If there was another Samuel who was the son of James Jnr and wife Sara Jane Moffat (b1840) , and this Samuel's child Ida was born 1863, Sara Jane Moffat would have had to give birth to this Samuel say around 1852 at the latest (at age 12), for Samuel to have then sired Ida at age 11!

Note

The Kiama Independent, 15 July 1890"

"A somewhat serious accident befel Mr. Samuel Marks on Friday evening
last, resulting in a broken arm (the right one) just above the elbow,
several bruises, and a severe shock to the system. On the evening in
question he returned by a late train from Sydney unexpeted by his
family, and the night being cold, as well as dark, he resolved to walk
home to Terragong House, and following Brown-street from Avoca to its
junction with Terralong-street, which is cut down some 12 or 14 feet
and unfenced, he because of the darkness and the absence of any
protection, failed to recognise his position, and fell from the
embankment to the road below with the results named. He lay for a
short time in a semi-conscious condition when he was discovered by a
gentleman driving a light vehicleand immediately afterwards by Mr. Hugh
Robb, who galloped off for the doctor, who was not at home: on
returning, Mr. Marks was assisted into the vehicle and taken to the
residence of his son-in-law, Doctor Terrey, who was almost immediately
in attendance; he reduced the fracture, and the patient is doing well.
"

Note

The Kiama Independent, Tuesday, 24th March 1885
ACCIDENT - On Friday afternoon last an accident, somewhat remarkable
in detail, occurred in this town. On the day in question, Mrs.
Samuel Marks, of Terragong house, accompanied by her daughter, drove
a quiet beast attached to the family buggy, into Kiama, possibly on a
shopping expedition, and having to call at the establishment of W.
Cocks & Co., the horse was made fast to one of the posts outside.
The streets were unusually quiet, and nothing within observation
occurred to disturb the equinimity of the horse, but he was observed
to be minus the winkers, (probably having rubbed them off), and in
the act of turning down the street, by one of the Masters Cocks, who
ran out and secured the horse by the mane and nose, when a faithful
Collie dog belonging to Mr. Marks which under similar circumstances
always lies or stands centry over the equipage disputed master Cock's
right to interfere with the property intrusted to his charge, and
caught him by the leg of his trousers, tearing a piece clean out.
This was observed by the horse, which broke loose from his captor and
bolted at full speed down Manning-street, and seeing that his chance
of turning the corner up Terralong-street was cut off by a number of
men, teams, &c., engaged on the tramway works, he went straight over
the steep embankment into the waters of the bay, but when he had
proceeded so far that the water reached about half way up his sides
he evidently, as if instinctively, concluded that was not the safest
way home, and then deliberately turned round and faced the steep
embankment, but when his forfeet reached the top, the hame strap must
have given way, as the forse went forward up Manning-street without
the traces, and was caught, while the buggy ran swiftly down the
incline on to the beach, where it capsized. Fortunately the only
damage done was to the harness and near hind wheel of the buggy.