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Descendants of Kable Progenitor-357023

Fifth Generation


5. Convict merchant whaler Kable Henry-5794 (Henry , James , James Keable , Progenitor ) was born in 1763/1766 in Circa in Norfolk. He died in 1846 in NSW.

His own wikipedia entry. His own ADB entry online. Ship King George built in Sydney for Henry Kable, James Underwood, Simeon Lord and David Dickenson Mann and launched on 30 April 1805. Cumpston's ship Register, p. 8. See p. 153 of Hardy on Hawkesbury settlers. He employs Capt Samuel Rodman Chace sealing to Bass Strait. Used ships controlled by Robert Campbell. They link in London to T. W. & J. Plummer and Co. assoc with Lord and Co. See his own ADB entry. Lord's ADB entry says Lord and Kable are trading together by 1805 with James Underwood, in London the link being Plummer, Barham and Co. See Gillen, Founders, p. 62. See Abbott and Nairn, pp. 288ff. Hainsworth, Traders, p. 41. See Flynn, Second Fleet, p. 485, re Edward Powell, the firm is working the Bass Strait seal grounds by 1806. See Gillen, Founders, entry. Hainsworth, Builders, p. 78, pp. 84ff. See Eastwood essay, p. 14, in 1800 a non-officer group the emancipists Kable and Underwood with Simeon Lord launched the Diana in the newly-booming seal industry, then they had three more ships, and between March 1803 and June 1804 their ships carried 28,282 sealskins, 180 gallons of elephant oil and 220 gallons of seal oil, employing over 60 men in their business; here Eastwood cites M. Roe, NSW under Governor King, Ch. 2, p. 19. Both he and Susannah were originally sentenced to transportation to America. Extra notes and information supplied by Zillah Campbell (nee Kable) of NSW in October 2007. On some Kable descendants see website: http://members.optushome.com.au/ggaudry/ - See website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~squeak/Kable./ Australian http by Daniel Burt.

Henry married Holmes Susannah-38276 daughter of Holmes Joshua-120434 and Brook Eunice-122846 on 10 Feb 1788 in Sydney Cove, New South Wales. Susannah was born in 1763 in Thurlingham Norfolk. She died on 8 Nov 1825.

See noted in A Atkinson, European in Aust Vol. Her husband's ADB entry. She had eleven children. See website: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~squeak/Kable./ Australian http by Daniel Burt.

Henry and Susannah had the following children:

  6 M i Kable Henry Jnr-38277 was born in 1786 in Norwich Castle Jail. He died in 1852 in Picton NSW.
+ 7 F ii Kable Diana-34469 was born in 1788. She died in 1854.
  8 F iii Kable Susannah-38367 was born in 1796. She died in 1885.

http://www.hassall.org/
        Susannah married Dr Surgeon Mileham James-38368 son of Mileham Progenitor-48439 and MNotknown Miss-31636 on 2 Jun 1819 in St Matthew's,Windsor. James was born in 1763/1764 in Circa in France. He died in 1824.

He it seems had invested with William Wilson and by 1810 when Wilson bankrupted he lost most of his investment. His own ADB entry. He arrived on ship Ganges in 1797. Returned to Sydney by 1802. By his first liason with Elizabeth Price he had a dr Lucy born 1799 who married Samuel Otto Hassall. Eliz Price died July 1818.
  9 M iv Kable Edgar James-34468 was born in 1808. He died in 1849 in Windsor NSW.

He like his brother is a boxer. Hardy on Hawkesbury settlers, p. 155.
        Edgar married Chaseling Charlotte-34393 daughter of Chaseling Progenitor-179609 and CNotknown Miss-179610 in 1838. Charlotte was born in 1811. She died in 1873.

Hardy on Hawkesbury settlers, p. 155.
  10 M v Kable James-355456 was born in 1793. He died in 1809 in At sea, Malacca.
+ 11 M vi Kable farmer George Esto-355457 was born in 1797. He died in 1853.
+ 12 F vii Kable Eunice-355458 was born in 1799. She died in 1867.
+ 13 M viii Publican Kable William Nathaniel-355459 was born in 1801. He died in 1837.
+ 14 M ix Kable John Henry-355460 was born in 1802. He died in 1859.
  15 M x Kable Charles Dickenson-355461 was born in 1804 in Sydney. He died in 1849 in Ante Moreton Bay Queensland.
  16 M xi Died young Kable Enoch-367967 was born in 1791. He died in 1793.

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