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FIDDEN, Charles W. {I03978} (b. 1864, d. ?)

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Text: 6510/1863 FIDDEN JAMES J JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7310/1864 FIDDEN CHARLES W JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7330/1866 FIDDEN MINNIE G JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 3008/1868 FIDDEN MINNIE R JAMES MARY NEWTOWN

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Page: 1882/2423

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1831/0 (V1831166 15)

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1877/1701

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Text: 1701/1877 FIDDEN FRANCIS WILLIAM WILLIAM ALICE V SYDNEY Buy Now 3339/1871 FIDDEN WILLIAM P JAMES J MARY NEWTOWN Buy Now 3963/1873 WOTTON JOHN ARTHUR JOHN ELIZABETH MARY NEWTOWN Buy Now 3985/1873 FIDDEN WILLIE CURTIS JAMES JOSEPH MARY NEWTOWN Buy Now 956/1879 FIDDEN FREDERICK HORACE JAMES JOSEPH MARY SYDNEY Buy Now

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1885/2017

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 1801
Place: Per "Earl Cornwallis"

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Text: 6510/1863 FIDDEN JAMES J JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7310/1864 FIDDEN CHARLES W JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7330/1866 FIDDEN MINNIE G JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 3008/1868 FIDDEN MINNIE R JAMES MARY NEWTOWN

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1838/0 (V183818 23A)

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Text: 9257/1913 FIDDEN JAMES JAMES SARAH A GOULBURN

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1846/0 (V1846255 59)

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Text: 283/1904 FIDDEN JOSEPH JAMES SARAH SYDNEY

Note: Early in the history of the European settlement in Sydney, the area around the Lane Cove River became an important source of timber. Wharves were built along the river, including one by an ex-convict, Joseph Fidden, in the area now known Fiddens Wharf Reserve. A small vineyard was established in the early 1800s in what is now Fullers Park.
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Early Settlers

The first Europeans to inhabit this area were convict timber cutters and their overseers, who set up camp around 1805, on the banks of the Lane Cove River, near the foot of the present Fiddens Wharf Road. There they constructed sawpits, huts, a well (filled in in 1914) and a wharf. The timber was dragged by hand, along tracks known variously as the Government Road (now Beaumont Road) and Wharf Road, across the flats now known as the Redbank Oval, and down to the wharf. At its height, the population of the camp consisted of three overseers, eleven sawyers, four fellers, seven shingle-splitters, eight carriage-drivers, four stockmen, one boatman, two smiths, one wheelwright, five labourers and two watchmen. The site was disbanded about 1819. The hardships these convicts suffered are symbolically represented today in the convict steps following the original convict track down to the wharf, though these steps were not actually built during the convict period, being a 1930s depression initiative.

On 5 April 1821, Governor Lachlan Macquarie issued five crown grants of land, of decreasing size, in the area that now comprises Killara, including 40 acres to Joseph Fidden. Grantees were not to resell within five years and in that time, 20 acres of each grant were to be cultivated, but these conditions were never enforced. Over the next two decades, the land was exploited for timber, mostly blackbutt and ironbark, stringy bark and blue gum, the last two species considered by Macquarie as ?the best and fittest for Buildings and Floorings?. In 1834 a sixth and by far the largest grant, of 160 acres, was made to Jane Macgillivray (nee Bradley) as a marriage portion. This was one of the very few grants made to women. About 1856 this grant, known as Springdale, was still occupied by Mrs Jane Macgillivray, a schoolmistress from Parramatta and mother of six, who built a weatherboard cottage there and in it conducted a girls? school - the first in the Killara area. This was in the eastern part of Marian Street, later renamed Locksley Avenue.

Once the timber was exhausted, the original grants were resold and divided time and time again. For example, the 100 acres granted to John Griffiths, on the western side of the highway, was eventually purchased in 1839 by John Lewis Spencer, a solicitor, who planted much of the land as an orchard. After his death in 1856, the land was again resold many times; the fences fell down, cattle strayed there, the fruit trees died and the stone cottage Spencer had built was burnt in a bush fire.
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Colonial Secretary Index, 1788-1825

LAMB, Dennis. Per "Hayeston", 1816

1816 May 10
Arrived safe per "Hayeston" from Madras (Reel 6018; 4/3521 p.67)

1822 Sep 23-Oct 21
In reports of prisoners tried at Court of Criminal Jurisdiction (Reel 6023; X820 p.63)

1825 Jan
Servant of Joseph Fidden of Lane Cove; attestation as to his character for a ticket of leave (Reel 6027; 4/1716.2 pp.105-8)
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First Family Member Details Surname: FIDDEN
Given Name(s): Joseph

Occupation(s): labourer

Birth Details
Birth Country: England
Birth Date: 1763

Death Details
Death Town: Sydney
Death State/Territory: NSW
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1856

Immigration Details
Air/Port Landed: Sydney
Ship/Plane: Earl of Cornwallis
Year Arrived: 1801
Surname: CLARK(E)
Given Name(s): Mary

Occupation(s): Housewife

Birth Details
Birth Town: London?

Birth Country: England
Birth Date: 1783

Death Details
Death Town: Sydney
Death State/Territory: NSW
Death Country: Australia
Death Date: 1860

Immigration Details
Air/Port Landed: Sydney
Ship/Plane: Alexander I
Year Arrived: 1806

Family Stories

Life in Australia:

For further Fidden line 2 descendants (of James Fidden) see Kylie Ann Harrington's entries.

In 1806 Joseph was renting 30 acres of land from Mr. Marsden, together with James Newton, probably in Parramatta. They grew maize and wheat, and had an orchard and two pigs.

Joseph and Mary Fidden married in Parramatta and probably lived around that area for several years up till 1813; the births of their first three children are recorded in Parramatta. Joseph and Mary were possibly living in the Lane Cove area by about 1816, as information given at her death indicates that their fourth child Maria was born there. On 5 April 1821 Joseph was granted 40 acres on the banks of the Lane Cove River, where there was considerable timber felling. In 1823-4-5 his occupation was given in the Musters as 'shingle splitter'. He was still at Lane Cove in 1825, when he is recorded as providing an attestation in support of his servant's application for a ticket of leave. He sold his grant of land quite soon, but continued to live on the banks of the Lane Cove River, in a hut which he built on government land near the timber wharf, which became known as Fiddens Wharf. The wharf is no longer standing, but Fidden's Wharf Road and Fidden's Wharf Reserve remain on the southern boundary of Killara. In 1828 his address was Hunters Hill, a name for a wide area around the banks of the river. As well as timber-getting he worked also as the boatman who ferried large loads of timber every day from Lane Cove to Sydney and was reknowned for his impressive strength. He left the river in the 1850s to live in Kent Street, a few blocks from where his daughter Sarah lived. He died in 1856, at possibly around 93 years, though there is some confusion about his age. Mary Fidden died in 1860 aged around 77 years.

Joseph is mentioned in a number of books about the Lane Cove River area, including Focus on Ku-ring-gai, by Ku-ring-gai Historical Society; he has been written about by Ken Meldrum, a descendant through his daughter Maria, in articles in Descent and the The Historian.

Joseph and Mary's daughter Sarah married at fifteen to Charles PINKSTONE, also listed on this site. Second daughter Mary Ann apparently died in childhood. Son James Fidden married Sarah HOLFORD, the granddaughter of Fane EDGE, who was the Provost Marshall on Norfolk Island in 1800-2. Daughter Maria married first to William BURGESS (aka Garnet) and second to Thomas SPARKES. Joseph and Mary's children produced 30 grandchildren, most of whom also had very large families.

Life Before Australia:

Joseph Fidden was convicted at Kent Assizes in July 1799 for burglary with force of arms of the house of the blacksmith John Fagg in the village of Bridge in Kent, and stealing 6 lbs of paint, a tin pot, an earthenware pot and 2 loaves of bread, value three shillings and ten pence. He was sentenced to be hanged by the neck until dead. The sentence was commuted immediately to seven years' transportation. He was probably itinerant. There were no Fiddens in Kent; Fidden was a name that belonged to areas in the north of England and in Scotland. The name had a number of spelling variations but it is not possible to identify just when and where he was born or who his parents were.

Mary Clarke was convicted in the Middlesex Court in July 1805 for stealing a number of small items of clothing from rooms in the Whitechapel area of London. She appeared on three similar charges in those sessions. The value of the goods she was accused of stealing amounted to about 18 shillings worth, but evidence was presented relating only to about 5 shillings worth. She was convicted and sentenced to seven years' transportation. She and Joseph married the year after she arrived in Sydney. It is possible that she was married before she came to Australia, and that her maiden name was Webb, according to information given on her death certificate. But her birth and parents are also not possible to trace with any certainty.

Family Contacts
Surname: PINKSTONE
Given Name(s): Joy Florence
Email: joyflore@ihug.co.nz
Phone: 64 9 3765683
Address: 107 Williamson Ave GREY LYNN AUCKLAND 1002 NEW ZEALAND

Descendants

Children
FIDDEN, Sarah 1 FIDDEN, James 2 FIDDEN, Mary Ann 3

FIDDEN, Maria 4

Grandchildren

PINKSTONE, Charles 1 PINKSTONE, Charlotte 1 PINKSTONE, Frances 1

PINKSTONE, Frederick 1 PINKSTONE, James 1 PINKSTONE, Joseph 1

PINKSTONE, Mary Ann 1 PINKSTONE, Samuel 1 PINKSTONE, Sarah 1

PINKSTONE, Thomas 1 PINKSTONE, William James 1 FIDDEN, Ada 2

FIDDEN, Emily E. 2 FIDDEN, Emma Rebecca 2 FIDDEN, James Joseph 2

FIDDEN, Joseph 2 FIDDEN, Mary Ann 2 FIDDEN, Sarah Elizabeth 2

FIDDEN, Thomas 2 FIDDEN, William 2 FIDDEN, William J. 2

NO ISSUE, 3 BURGESS AKA GARNET, Elias James 4 BURGESS AKA GARNET, Maria 4

BURGESS AKA GARNET, Mary Ann 4 BURGESS AKA GARNET, Sarah 4 SPARKES, Isabella Charlotte 4

SPARKES, John P. 4 SPARKES, Richard 4 SPARKES, Thomas 4

NB: Superscript behind each descendant name represents the lineage number of that descendant.
This family information was last updated by JOY FLORENCE PINKSTONE on the 10 October, 2001.

Source: (Death)
Author: New South Wales, Birth, Death and Marriage Registrar
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Text: 157/1856 FIDDEN JOSEPH AGE 99 YEARS DIED SYDNEY SYDNEY

Event: Type: Arrived
Date: 12 JUN 1801
Place: "Earl Cornwallis"

Note: Worked for 52 years with RCA Australia. Introduced talking movies to Australian theaters. Retired as managing director.

His mother's side of the family arrived as prisoners on the first fleet.

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1903/24306

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Thelma Fidden

Source: (Death)
Title: Ryerson Index of Newspaper Obits and Deaths NSW
Publication: Name: Sydney Morning Herald index;Source Medium: Book

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Text: FIDDEN,Kenneth Francis Evans 26JUL1982 79 Death late of Kirribilli 28JUL1982 SMH

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1833/0 (V1833235 17)

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

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Text: 6510/1863 FIDDEN JAMES J JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7310/1864 FIDDEN CHARLES W JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7330/1866 FIDDEN MINNIE G JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 3008/1868 FIDDEN MINNIE R JAMES MARY NEWTOWN

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Text: 6510/1863 FIDDEN JAMES J JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7310/1864 FIDDEN CHARLES W JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 7330/1866 FIDDEN MINNIE G JAMES J MARY CAMDEN Buy Now 3008/1868 FIDDEN MINNIE R JAMES MARY NEWTOWN

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

Page: 1905/22910

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Name: Sydney, NSW, Australia

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