John Hoare (1778-1862)

John Hoare, who was transported to Australia over his involvement in “The Great Mutiny”, came originally from County Wexford on the south-east coast of Ireland. As his death notice in 1862 states he was 84 years old, he was probably born in about 1778.

Although the first of these naval mutinies was reasonably peaceful affair, Hoare was convicted for his involvement in the second known as “The Great Mutiny”. At the time, Hoare was on board the aptly-named HMS Defiance (the crew of which mutinied three times in total, 1795, 1797 and 1798), and according to the records was a member of the United Irishmen, who were lobbying for Irish independence.

Sentenced to seven years transportation, he came to Australia on board the “Canada”. With 101 prisoners on board, the “Canada” left Spit Head, Isle of Wight, England on June 21, 1801, and traveling via Rio de Janeiro, arrived in Sydney on December 14, 1801.

According to the historian, Patrick O’Farrell, there was a great deal of excitement about the arrival in Australia of these rebel convicts.

The 1798-1803 rebels were a colonial cynosure: their fellow Irish hero-worshiped them; the authorities feared them and exaggerated their numbers and influence”. He tempers this, though, by arguing “in a strictly nationalist sense, political rebels among the Irish convicts seem relatively few; about 1.5 percent, that is, less than 600 in the entire history of transportation, of whom nearly 500 arrived in the very early years of the colony, up to 1806″. “The most prominent rebels were often men of some previous substance, educated, high principled and quite often Protestants”. He also says, “These rebels took their land grants, conformed and prospered. They adopted a low public profile in response to their seditious reputations and devoted themselves to work, and those good lives.

He was, however, imprisoned on Norfolk Island under the harsh regime of Captain Foveaux between November 1802 and June 15, 1804.

At that point, he was returned to NSW where he was placed on the Government Farm at Castle Hill which, just a few months earlier, had been the site of an unsuccessful uprising by mostly Irish convicts. His seven years of imprisonment coming to an end on September 8, 1805.

At some point around this time, he began working as a labourer for John Llewellyn (who had come to Australia in the NSW Corps) on his Hawkesbury River property.

Ann Hoare and Elizabeth LoveA few yeas later at St Phillip’s Church he married Elizabeth, the daughter of John and Martha Love on July 10, 1809 (V1809 881 3A) and they had a large family. The accompanying photograph is of Elizabeth with her daughter Ann.

Born in Hampshire, England, Elizabeth Emelia Love came to Australia on the Third Fleet as an infant with her parents, John and Martha Love. She spent her early years at Sydney Cove (in the area around The Rocks) before, presumably, moving with her parents to the Field Of Mars where, presumably, she met John Hoare. Throughout this period, her father was a member of the NSW Corps, before falling on hard times.

Love and Hoare land at ElderslieIn their first few years of marriage John and Elizabeth lived at the Field of Mars before moving to the Campbelltown Districts of Airds and Appin where they began to farm with the assistance of convict labour.

The birth records of their children indicate John and Elizabeth continued to live in the area for quite some time. By 1828, he had increased his land holdings to 90 acres which was cleared and fully cultivated and he had eight cattle.

I am unaware, at this stage, how they came to spend their later years of their lives and to be buried at Dapto. A possible reason is that a few of their children married people in Wollongong, and so they may have spent their latter years closer to their younger children.

Grave of John and Elizabeth HoreJohn died in 1862 (6420/1862), while Elizabeth died in 1878 (448/1878), although the NSW BDM spells her name Hore. They are buried together and the inscription on the headstone reads…

Sacred to the memory of Mr John Hore, a native of County Wexford Ireland, who departed this life, 25th April 1862, also of Elizabeth Hore, native of Hampshire England, died March 3rd 1878 aged 96 years.

Children


 * Ann Hoare was born on 9 May 1810 at Airds, NSW. She married William Rixon on 23rd January 1826 in St Peter’s Campbelltown. She also married Owen Dunlaghan on 11th June 1848 and William Henry Phibbs on 24th Jan 1852. She died on 8th September 1895. Ann Hoare and William Rixon.


 * John Hoare was born 17 September 1813. He married Elizabeth Waite at All Saints Church, Sutton Forest on 1st January, 1839. According to researcher, Judy Roberts John Hoare Junior was advised by Hamilton Hume whose property was at Lake George, as to where some of the best farming lands were to be had along the route he had already taken, with the result that these two men set off to acquire land for themselves. John Waite, after travelling south by bullock wagon for six months with some younger women riding on horseback, formed the Bungil run in 1836 for his daughter Elizabeth and son-in law, John Hore jnr, who then swapped it in 1838 with Spalding and Cobham for the Wagra (now Wymah) run on the opposite side of the river, being the stream that had been named the Hume River and later changed to the Murray River. John Hore jnr, besides holding the Wagra licence in 1840, purchased the Talgarno lease in 1848, the Turramia lease in 1848 and the Bethanga lease in 1855. By the time he bought Cumberoona on the north bank of the Murray River opposite Talgarno in 1859 for 12,000 pounds he had a very valuable pastoral empire in the Upper Murray. About 1870 he sold Talgarno, Bethanga and Turramia and confined his attention to Cumberoona. . He died on 15th October 1895 at St Kilda. Thanks to Judy, you can also download his will


 * Elizabeth Hoare was born 18 April 1815 at Airds NSW. She married James Rixon, the son of James Rixon and Amelia Goodwin at St Peter’s, Campbelltown on 27th August 1833. She died on 13th September 1882.


 * Martha Hoare was born about 1817 at Cowpastures, NSW. She married John Robinson on 13th May 1833 at St Peters, Campbelltown, NSW. She also married Adam Lewis on 20th April 1863 at Pambula, NSW. She died at Honeysuckle near Eden, NSW on 29th July 1873.


 * Andrew Hore was born at Airds on 25 May 1820. He married Jessie Finlayson at Yass, NSW in 1845. He died on 17th April 1890 at Mugwee, Albury, NSW.


 * Sarah Hoare was born about 1821 at Minto, NSW. She married James Seymour.


 * William Hoare was born on 26 February 1824 at Minto, NSW. He married Rebecca Margaret Seymour (Margaret Gralis) at St Francis Xavier, Wollongong on 14th February 1848. He died on 28th May 1890 at Wagga.


 * Mary Hoare was born 10 July 1826 at Glenlee, Menangle, NSW. She married Michael O’Loughlan (Born Cavan, Ireland) on 7th January 1845 at St Bedes, Appin, NSW. She died on 5th March 1893 at Appin.


 * Thomas Hoare was born 29 August 1831 at Airds, NSW. He married Catherine Ann Bergin on 12th February 1853 Campbelltown, NSW. He died on 5th September 1880 at Table Top, Albury, NSW.


 * Eliza Hoare was born 1833 at Airds, NSW. She married Sampson Courtney Boyland on 12th February 1853 at Wollongong, NSW. She married Robert Redshaw on 23rd April 1866.


 * Charles Joseph Hoare was born on 4 July 1837 at Airds, NSW. He married Margaret Noonan at St Francis Xavier, Wollongong on 25th June 1855. He died at Moonee Ponds, Melbourne, Victoria on 12th March 1905.

Land Grants Love and Hoare land at Parish of Manangle

Reference


 * Information about the significance of the of Irish rebels in Australia from “The Irish In Australia” by Patrick O’Farrell, University of NSW Press 1986.


 * His presence on Norfolk Island is confirmed in the microfilm “The People of Norfolk Island and Van Diemen’s Land 1788-1820 and their families” by James Hugh Donohoe. He returned to NSW in 1804.


 * Curiously enough, John did not receive his Certificate of Emancipation until July 15, 1811.

Colonial Secretary’s Papers:

HOARE, John. Of Field of Mars

1811 Jul 30 : On list of persons to receive lands in the new Districts of Airds or Appin, & in other parts of the Colony; at Airds or Appin (Fiche 3266; 9/2652 p.10)

HOARE, John (Senior). Per “Canada”, 1801

1822 Jul 23: Of Lower Minto. Recommending William Ford, his assigned servant (Reel 6055; 4/1761 p.58)

1823 : Memorial (Fiche 3047; 4/1830 No.168). Reply, 6 Jun (Reel 6010; 4/3508 p.454)

1824 Sep 20: On account of wheat & maize in the possession of settlers in the Districts of Upper & Lower Minto (Reel 6061; 4/1780 p.286)

HOARE, John (Junior). Born in the Colony; son of John Hoare of Upper Minto

1823 : Memorial (Fiche 3047; 4/1830 No.169). Reply, 18 Jul (Reel 6010; 4/3508 p.679)

Acknowledgements


 * Thanks to Terry Hore for documenting the children of John and Elizabeth on his website.


 * Marion Starr has a terrific book about Early settlers in the Cowpastures area called, “Murder, Mayhem & Misdemeanours” which contains information about John and Elizabeth.


 * Thanks to Judy Roberts for the information about John Hore Junior, including his will.