Dear Friends,
Well, what a fascinating history I have found on our Gabrielle
DeMestre POND. For your interest, despite being born in Kensington,
London in 1903 & dying on 2000 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia,
Gabrielle was a direct descendant of a very early Australian Convict
as follows:-
- Mary HYDE (alias Sarah BLUNN) was convicted at the Warwickshire
Assizes in 1796. She duly was transported to Sydney for a term of 7
years and set up house with Captain John BLACK. They had 2 children
before John was lost at sea aboard "The Fly" sometime after it left
Calcutta in 1802. Mary then married one Simeon LORD - a famous
Convict businessman.
- Their daughter Mary Ann BLACK b. 1801 in Sydney married a most
interesting man named Jean Charles Prosper DeMESTRE (known in
Australia as Prosper). His supposed father Andre had been a French
soldier who had his head blown off by a cannon ball in Martinique on
14 March 1794. Prosper was the natural son of Heleine Thomase COTEREL
being born on 15 Aug 1789 at Lorient, France with no father listed.
- Prosper and Mary Ann had 10 children, the youngest being Annette
Marland DeMESTRE b. 1841 in Sydney , d. 1936 Battle, Sussex, UK. She
married George Penkivel SLADE in 1865 at Balmain, Sydney
- Their son George Penkivel SLADE m. 19 July 1898 to Edith Mary BEALE
in Birmingham, UK
and they are the parents of Gabrielle DeMestre TODD; LENANTON; POND
b. 1903 Kensington, London, UK
Google any of those early forebears and you'll be reading for hours.
David in Ballarat
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