William Marks, 18241904 (aged 80 years)

Name
William /Marks/
Surname
Marks
Given names
William
Family with parents
father
17971872
Birth: 1797 Ballyronan, Londonderry
Death: 26 November 1872Jamberoo, NSW
mother
himself
18241904
Birth: 1824 27 24 County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 31 December 1904Courtney Hill, Bankstown
3 years
younger brother
18261885
Birth: 24 November 1826 29 26 Coagh (Croagle?), County Tyrone
Death: 3 March 1885Glenrock, Darling Point
3 years
younger brother
18301904
Birth: 5 February 1830 33 30
Death: 22 July 1904Burwood, Sydney
younger sister
3 years
younger brother
3 years
younger brother
18351907
Birth: 30 January 1835 38 35
Death: 12 January 1907Arlington, Edgecliff
younger sister
sister
sister
Family with Isabella Mackay Gray
himself
18241904
Birth: 1824 27 24 County Tyrone, Ireland
Death: 31 December 1904Courtney Hill, Bankstown
wife
Marriage Marriage12 July 1853
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The Marks? eldest son William born in 1824, (d. 31/12/1904 ) was a weak child and in case he did not survive the voyage was left behind by his emigrating parents, to be brought up by his maternal grandparents, Richard and Margaret Charles (Richard had been a sergeant-major in the 15th Enniskillin Dragoons, seeing action at both Waterloo and in the Peninsular War). After the deaths of both his grandparents, William rejoined his parents in Kiama at the age of 19, arriving with his uncle Samuel Charles on the Glen Tanner on 23 August 1843. Samuel Charles was known as 'Captain' Charles.

William farmed on the New South Wales/Queensland border at Tirzah [?property name?], and raised a large family.

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Re: [MarksJamberoo] What's it worth today

Hi Mary et al

This is great, I have been wondering where the property was, had made
some enquiries of the local Milton Historical Society but had no joy.
I wonder if the house he built is still there.

William MARKS kept a journal/diary, the original is now held at the
Mitchell Library thanks to the descendants that donated it. The
building of the house is mentioned and he calls it Albiaton. Suspect
the paper usage of Albialon is a misprint. I spent 4 hours one day
reading/deciphering it. Would love to get a complete copy to
transcribe for others, but I suspect I haven't enough of this
lifetime left to fit that in as well as all the other things (like
the journals mum has of Reuben UTHER's from 1851, 1855 and 1864)

I felt William MARKS was a tortured soul struggling with his
religious convictions and his day to day life. He didn't keep the
journal daily, but the first entry appears to be in 1839 on the Glenn
Tanner - he headed up the page and never entered anything. He
continues to enter from time to time up into the 1870s and keep
apologizing for not keeping it up to date. All the birth's of his
children are mentioned. I must re read the part when Mrs Mary Jane
Marks dies to see if he says anything.

He uses some code which took me ages to work out, so he talks about A
marrying M which he didn't approve of as A was so much older. He has
this whole period of time where he is dating someone but it doesn't
work out - before he goes north to Moreton Bay, in from memory 1846,
to preach then comes back to Kiama and ultimately meets and marries
Isabella Eliza Mackay Gray.

On 21 May 2005 at 2:29, Mary Dean wrote:

> The Kiama Independent, 22 January 1861
> FOR SALE
> ABIALBON PARK, ULLADULLA - Area, 2560 acres, either in one block or in
> lots; situate within 5 miles of the harbor and two from the township
> of Milton. Considerable improvements have been effected on the
> estate, in clearing, fencing, and buildings. Endless quantities of
> bark and timber for tanning and building purposes are easily
> obtainable; rivulets in all directions over the estate, and a large
> block of good agricultural land covered with luxuriant herbage,
> combine with position, extent, proximity to one of the finest harbors
> on the coast, with regular steam communication, to render this a most
> desirable investment. W. MARKS

BFN
OOROO
Michelle

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Kiama Independent, Thursday, July 20, 1871
PROSPECTUS
Of a work about to be published
IN SHILLING MONTHLY PARTS,
ENTITLED
BIBLICAL HIEROGLYPHICS DECIPHERED
AND PROVED TO BE DIVINE.
This work proposes to accomplish the following objects:-

  1. To give original and satisfactory solutions from Scriptural and
    modern
    sources of passages hitherto regarded as impenetrably mysterious,
    scientifically inaccurate, irrational, or deficient in evidence of a
    Divine
    origin.
  2. To furnish clear and substantial proofs of Divine omniscience and
    superintendence in all parts of the Bible.
  3. To develop the typical, allegorical, and prophetical nature of the
    whole
    book, and of its seperate compositions.
  4. To manifest the Divine unity of the Adamic, Patriarchal, Mosaic,
    Prophetic, and Nazarene teachings.
  5. To demonstrate that the Bible is the best school book, the best
    business
    directory, the best constitution for Church and State, the best
    private,
    social, and national guide.
  6. To exhibit the Divine photography in the Biblical pictures of the
    past,
    the present, and the future.
  7. To show the beauty, accuracy, and propriety of nazarene,
    Apostolic, and
    antecedent expositions of facts, actions, narratives, and events
    mentioned
    in the Scriptures.
  8. To show the defects of some commentators, the necessity and
    advantages of
    independent, fearless, impartial, and thorough investigation.
  9. To awaken and prepare Australia for the great catastrophe so
    closely
    approaching; to excite observation of and reflection on the signs of
    the
    age; to interpret accurately the tendencies and results of the
    literary,
    scientific, political, moral, and immoral agencies of our day, and to
    strengthen the traditional and Biblical hope of the good time coming.
  10. To exhibit and use Bible keys of elucidation which most
    expositors have
    allowed to rust, but which, when properly used, unlock apartments
    rainbowed
    with the hues of Heaven, and garnished with gold and gems.


--
To Sunday school and other teachers, and to Christian apologists,
this work
will supply a most important desideratum. To the infidel it will
present
considerations to which he has been unaccustomed, arguements defying
his
ingenuity to shake, reasons to satisfy the demands of his intellect,
and
evidence that, if he remain sceptical, himself and not the Christian
is the
credulous victim of his own delusions. To Jews and Christians this
volume
whould be equally acceptable, proving both to be right in certain
aspects of
their creed, and furnishing independent evidence that the Author of
man's
existance is the Author of their books. Paley's irrefragible
reasoning on
the undersigned coincidences of the New Testament, is here applied to
the
Old Testament, with fresh illustrations from the former.
The author believes that this volume will tend to remove much of that
repulsiveness with which ignorance has shrouded the most attractive
book,
which Deity has penned or suggested in His works. Having no human
dictator,
recognising no human creed, being neither a partizan nor a sect
maker, the
author expects this work to be appreciated by those only who are so
enamoured of truth as to prize it beyond the miser's god, the
merchant's
wares, or the churches' benediction or anathema. Honourable and
authenticated criticism will meet with due respect, but anonymous
fools will
be answered according to their folly. The author appeals to his
published
anticipations of Russian aggression; the downfall of church
establishments;
the existence, spread, and continuance of current calamities;
disturbances
in Ireland; English protection to the Papacy; the humiliation of
Napoleon;
the elevation of the Jews to power; the alliance between Russia and
Prussia;
the destruction of Paris; divisions in Papaldom; the afflictions of
the
Pontificate; the exposure of Baxter's balderdash, &c., as proof that
his
interpretations of the Bible are not mere conjectures, and that it is
God's
beacon light to the world.
Subscribers' names will be received at the Independent Office, and by
the
author,
WILLIAM MARKS
Kiama