Unknown Mowle

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• Inheritance: 1840; 'THE BREECHES BIBLE. Presentation to The King's School. In view of the fact that a copy of the Breeches Bible has been received in Melbourne, it is of interest to note that a Breeches Bible, together with the Elkon-Basilike of Charles I and the Commonplace Book by the celebrated Locke has been recently presented to The King's School, Parramatta by the Misses Mowle of Spencer Lodge, Woollahra. The Breeches Bible which is in a good state of preservation, is bound up with the Book of Common Prayer, and was brought to Australia in 1840 by the Misses Mowle's maternal grandfather, the Rev. William West Simpson, who for some years was headmaster of the school. The books are housed in the school library.' [The Sydney Morning Herald Previous issue Tuesday 16 January 1934]

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• Career: Stewart Marjoribanks Mowle was born on 17 March 1822 in Kingsdown, Deal. In 1836 he was a Seaman. He emigrated before 19 May 1836 from England.8 He arrived at Sydney on 19 May 1836 in the William Lockerby in the guardianship of his youngest uncle, Edward Boxer Mowle, who had already established himself in New South Wales as a merchant. After continuing his education for some years at Sydney College he proceeded to Yarralumla sheep station, Limestone plains, for pastoral experience. He afterwards leased, for ten years, a property of 2,560 acres on the Molonglo River, upon which now stands a large part of the capital city Canberra. He was a Justice of the Peace and Police Magistrate at Queanbeyan from 1848 to 1849. Sheep farming did not fulfil his expectations and, in 1852, he obtained the appointments of Sub-Collector of Customs and Water Police Magistrate at Twofold Bay. Subsequently, he exchanged into the office of the Legislative Council and, in 1883, was commissioned Usher of the Black Rod, a position he held until his retirement from the Civil Service in 1905.

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Birth:
Birth, death and career details from the Mowll family tree http://www.mowll.org/familytree/b648.htm#P648

Stewart married Sophia Margaret Simpson 3 Jun 1865, St. Luke's Church, Dapto, NSW, Australia. Sophia (daughter of William West Simpson and Jane Leake) was christened 1 Jan 1835, South Hackney St John of Jerusalem; died 25 May 1917, Spencer Lodge, Queen St.., Woollahra, Australia. [Group Sheet]

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'Mrs. Sophia Margaret Mowle, widow of Mr. Stewart M. Mowle, whose death was announced on Saturday at the age of 82 years, was the sixth daughter of the late Rev. William West Simpson, M.A. She arrived in the colony with her family in 1840, at the age of 6 years, the voyage being made in the ship Earl Gray, and occupied many weary months. She lived for about two years at The King's School, Parramatta, where her father was acting as headmaster during the absence in England of the Rev. Dr. Forrest. Subsequently, in 1843, the family moved to Wiseman's Ferry, where Mr. Simpson was rector of the parish for about 10 years. Upon Mr. Simpson finding the work beyond him the family was transferred in the old King William IV. to Dapto. Here the late Mrs. Mowle was associated with the work of her father's parish. She was married in 1865, and in the early 'Seventies found opportunity for philanthropic labours amongst the sick and poor at Randwick, where she re- sided. Doctors were few and far between, and trained nurses almost unknown. Up to the day before her death she was engaged on garments for the Children's Hospital. She was in full possession of every faculty, and read and sewed without glasses, and she took an active interest in everything around her. She leaves behind her one son, two daughters, and a large circle of friends.'
[The Sydney Morning Herald Monday 28 May 1917]

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• Career: http://prospectheritagetrust.org.au/anglican/page8.html Rev. William West Simpson M A 1795-1869 Rev. Simpson, along with Rev. Bobart, provided services at St Bartholomew?s from when the Church opened on 14 April, 1841, until Rev Troughton became the Incumbent in December 1841. Before coming to Australia he was Ordained in 1840 in England and had been head of a large school in Hackney He had written a learned work on the Constitutiones Societatis Jesus, anno 1550. Rev Simpson was the Headmaster at the Kings School, Parramatta from 1841 until 1843. During this period he encountered financial difficulties when a serious epidemic struck the school and caused a scare. In 1843 he was the incumbent at Cornelia near Sackville, then he was at the Hawkesbury between 1844 and 1846, and finally at Dapto between 1852 and 1869, where he died at the parsonage in 1869 Ref William Gunther 'A short history of the Kings School The 1863 Australian Almanac, page 117, lists Rev. Simpson as being at Dapto in the Diocese of Sydney. http://books.google.com/books?id=yRAOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=toc#PPA116,M1
• Career: Schoolteacher [from children's baptism records] and by 1848 headmaster of The King's School, Parramatta. [The Sydney Morning Herald Previous issue Tuesday 16 January 1934]
• Address: Well Street [from children's baptism records]
• Emigration: 1840; ' THE BREECHES BIBLE. Presentation to The King's School. In view of the fact that a copy of the Breeches Bible has been received in Melbourne, it is of interest to note that a Breeches Bible, together with the Elkon-Basilike of Charles I and the Commonplace Book by the celebrated Locke has been recently pre- sented to The King's School, Parramatta by the Misses Mowle of Spencer Lodge, Woollahra. The Breeches Bible which is in a good state of preservation, is bound up with the Book of Common Prayer, and was brought to Australia in 1840 by the Misses Mowle's maternal grandfather, the Rev. William West Simpson, who for some years was headmaster of the school. The books are housed in the school library.' [The Sydney Morning Herald Previous issue Tuesday 16 January 1934]

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Died:
'On the 21st instant, at the parsonage, Dapto, Illawarra, the Rev. WILLIAM WEST SIMPSON, M.A., in the 75th year of his age.'
[The Sydney Morning Herald Wednesday 23 June 1869]

William married Jane Leake 9 Mar 1824, Hackney St John, London. Jane was born 1795 or 1796; died 28 Jul 1864, The Parsonage, Dapto. [Group Sheet]

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Died:
'On the 28th instant, at the Parsonage at Dapto, in the 68th year of her age, Jane, the wife of the Rev. William West Simpson.'
[The Sydney Morning Herald, Saturday 30 July 1864]

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• Land Tax: 1793, Cross Over, near Brook Street, Holborn, St Andrew, Camden.; David Simpson, paid 18. to William Marsh. William Marsh and Lord Brookes own this area.
• Land Tax: 1796, Childs Place, off Fleet Street, Farringdon Without, City of London; http://sharing.ancestry.com.au/4677905?h=93d969&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url
• Occupations: 1811, 4 Childs Place, Fleet Street; David Simpson, Officer to the Sheriff of Middlesex http://sharing.ancestry.com.au/4670000?h=acc6f7&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url

David married Elizabeth Ward 21 Mar 1793, St Andrew's, Holborn, Middlesex. Elizabeth (daughter of James Ward and Joanna) was born 1770 or 1771. [Group Sheet]

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From 1841 census of her son George Philip Simpson.

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