![]() ![]() By December 1801 Baby John would have been 1 year old and Catherine would have weaned him. Catherine employed Jane Williams upon Jane’s arrival aboard the Nile on 14 December 1801 4 This was quiet a reversal to the usual custom of an Protestant English Lady having a catholic Irish convict assigned to her because Catherine was Irish Catholic and Jane was English Protestant 5. ![]() As a free settler, Catherine was entitled to do this. When Catherine decided to return to Ireland she chose to employ a convict as housekeeper for her husband John and Governess for her baby son John. This was a term to describe how the first generation of Australian born children in the colony of NSW were so much taller than children born in Britain. He would also have been given the nickname of “Cornstalk”. ![]() This referred to the first generation of children born in the colony of NSW to distinguish them from the free settlers who were born in the British Isles 2 ![]() There are no children recorded prior to this date in the Historical records of New South Wales in the relevant section of the report 1Īs a child growing up in the Hawkesbury, John would have been called a “Currency lad”. John was born to Catherine and John Prendergast in the Hawkesbury sometime after 25 September 1800. ![]()
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