Talk:Charles Boyton (1825-1861)

Charles Boyton arrived in Australia aged 28 aboard the Genghis Khan in 1854 with wife Maria (25) and children Emily (Inf) James (5), Sarah (3) and William (8). (From NSW Records, Assisted Immigrants). They disembarked in Morton Bay, Brisbane in Queensland. Nothing is known of their time there, but the family later moved to Campbelltown in NSW where Charles' brother William and his family had settled in 1851 on arrival in Australia. Charles and Maria had 2 children registered in Campbelltown, Eliza (1857) and Alfred (1859) so we know that they did not spend more than a few years in Queensland.

It is understood that the Boyton families moved to Nangus to take up land under selection. Whether the entire family group moved at the same time is uncertain. While Charles death in 1861 is registered in Gundagai, William and his wife Emma had birth of children registered in Campbelltown later than this.

It may be that some of the family had gone ahead to take up the land and build homes before wives and children arrived.