Josiah PENBERTHY, ,Tin Dresser,of Tavistock ,Cornwall, England b. 1827 Breage, Cornwall, England d. 20 Jan 1897 Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia

1827 - 1897 (70 years)

Name	Josiah PENBERTHY
Suffix	,Tin Dresser,of Tavistock ,Cornwall, England
Born	1827	Breage, Cornwall, England
Christened	16 Apr 1827	Breage, Cornwall, England
Gender	Male
Died	20 Jan 1897	Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia
	Ref:The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954) Saturday 23 January 1897 p 10 Article
Buried	Elsmore General Cemetery, NSW.Australia
Person ID	I1763	Kirkpatrick Family
Last Modified	24 Mar 2018

Father	Josiah PENBERTHY, ,Tin Dresser,of Uny Lelant, Cornwall, England, b. 1801, Uny Lelant, Cornwall, England , d. Yes, date unknown
Mother	Sarah HARRIS, ,daughter of Charles Harris,of St. Agnes, Cornwall, b. 21 Dec 1799, Falmouth, Cornwall, England , d. Yes, date unknown
Married	25 Sep 1825	Breage, Cornwall, England
	In 1861 Josiah and Sarah were residing in Tavistock ,Devon.
Family ID	F504	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Sarah FOOT, b. 1829, Horrabridge, Devon, England , d. 15 Nov 1910, Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia (Age 81 years)

Married 1852 Plymouth, Devon, England

In addition to the six children listed, there was another child , the twin of Edwin, who did not survive ,dying as an infant.
Josiah and Sarah came to Australia,as unassisted passengers,arriving in Melbourne,Victoria on 6th May, 1874 on board the "Northumberland" with all their surviving children. The family travelled to Elsmore in Northern NSW where Josiah took up work in the tin mines and and became the manager of the first Elsmore Tin Mining Company.
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Children

	1. Josiah Henry"Harry" PENBERTHY, b. 1856, Tavistock, Cornwall, England , d. 22 May 1910, The Pines Hospital, Randwick, New South Wales, Australia (Age 54 years)
	2. Frederick William PENBERTHY, b. 1857, Horrabridge, Devon, England , d. 11 Nov 1932, a private hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (Age 75 years)
	3. Alfred James PENBERTHY, ,J. P. ,of Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia, b. 7 Jul 1859, Horrabridge, Devon, England , d. 15 May 1918, Elsmore, New South Wales, Australia (Age 58 years)
	4. Maud Mary PENBERTHY, b. 15 Dec 1861, North Bovey, Devon, England , d. 6 May 1938, Maleny, Queensland, Australia (Age 76 years)
	5. Isaac Foot PENBERTHY, b. 1865, North Bovey, Devon, England , d. 14 Jun 1935, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia (Age 70 years)
	6. Edwin"Uncle Eddy" PENBERTHY, b. 1870, Horrabridge, Devon, England , d. 1936, Inverell, New South Wales, Australia (Age 66 years)

Last Modified 5 Apr 2013

Family ID F501 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Notes

(Research):Josiah was the manager of the first Elsmore Tin Mining Company. Elsmore (also known as Ellmore and originally Glenmore) Station of about 50,000 acres (200 km2) was settled by John Campbell in 1838. The first official licensees of this run were Campbell & Muir in 1839. In 1843 the owners were Brown & Alcorn. The recorded stock numbers in 1850 were: 66 horses, 1,300 cattle and no sheep. Alexander Campbell of Inverell Station owned Elsmore in 1852. About 1870, Joseph Wills, a shepherd, is believed to have been the first to find tin in the New England district. These heavy black grains that he found near Elsmore aroused his curiosity. Shortly after selling these to a traveller from Sydney a rush began to search the tin fields around here, Inverell and other nearby areas. The Elsmore mine was the first commercial tin mine in Australia and has produced tin from various alluvial deposits intermittently since 1871. The adjacent Sheep Station Hill has seen only minor scale hard rock and alluvial mining.