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Match: 'Cable' ANDNOT (Modem*) ANDNOT x-loop/LIST-L
Source: GENANZ-L(a)rootsweb.com
From: "Mary Millar" <elthamlax(a)techinfo.com.au>
Subject: Re: NSW - Searching... Looking for.... Henry Kable
Dear Gary,
under heading KABLE from Grolier Encyclopaedia
Henry, 1763-1846, merchant and shipowner, was born in Suffolk,
and at the age of 20 years in 1783 was convicted of
housebreaking
and sentenced to transportation for 14 years. (At that time
his
name was rendered Cable, and sometimes Cabell, but later it
was
always spelt Kable). he left for Aust with the First Fleet in
1787, as one of the convicts on board the Alexander. A story
that he carried Gov. Phillip ashore at Sydney Cove does not
appear to have any foundation in fact.
Before leaving England, Kable had been associating with
Susannah
Holmes, aged 22, who was also convicted of housebreaking and
given the same sentence. The fact that the two young people
had
an infant caused them to win much sympathy, so that a
collection
of 20 pounds was subscribed and expended in goods, which the
Rev.
Richard Johnson (first Aust. clergyman) was to give them in
Sydney. The package, however, was pillaged during the voyage,
with the result that Sydney's first Civil Court, after
investigating the matter, ordered the master of the Alexander
to
pay Kable 15 pounds compensation. Richard Johnson married
Kable
and Susannah Holmes on 10th Feb. 1788 only a fortnight after
settlement was begun at Port Jackson; this was one of the
first
three marriages (all of which took place on the one day) to be
celebrated in Aust.
In the following years Kable served as a jailer and later as
chief constable, but he was dismissed from the latter post for
misbehaviour. By 1806 he had become the owner of at least
four
whaling vessels, and later he shared in the enterprises of
Simeon
Lord (q.v.), another ex convict who had become prosperous.
The
firm of Lord, Kable and Underwood became, in fact, on the
leading
business concerns of Sydney, and its principals were so
assured
that in 1807 they sent to the Gov. (Bligh) a letter
questioning
an order of his about the transhipment of cargoes in terms
"highly derogatory of His Excellency's high rank and
authority".
For this offence each of the three men were sentenced to a
month's jail and fined 100 pound.
Kable was engaged in business in Sydney until about 1811,
after
which he removed to Windsor and there conducted a store and a
brewery. In 1813 a newspaper remarked of him, after
referring
to English sympathy for the former young couple and their
child,
"The father of the little one, so befriended by the humane
jailer
and the chaplain in 1787, afterwards rose to be a man of
wealth
and position in NSW.
Susannah kable died on 8.11.1825, aged 63, and Henry kable
died
on 16.3.1846 aged 84; both were buried in St. Matthew's
churchyard, Windsor. They left 11 children. The eldest son
Henry ( who in 1787 was the infant who aroused sympathy in
England), was an officer of a brig at the age of 21 and
subsequently himself owned ships. Another son, John usually
known as Young Kable, became renowned in the 1820's as a
prizefighter, and as an Australian native he was the idol of
other "currency lads". According to the Sydney Gazette, one
fight that took place in Feb. 1824, between Kable and an
English
pugilist named Clark (and which Kable won) was "an exhibition
of
brutality and moral vice".
.............
There are a couple more minor references. If you want these
please let me know.
Regards,
Mary of Melbourne
Researching, FOSTER, Coventry >Aust -
PRITCHARD,Coventry>Aust
GEOFFREY,Bloomsbury, Middlesex>Aust - ORCHARD, Warminster,
Wiltshire>Aust
STUART,Aberdeen, >Aust - EDWARDS,England>Aust
GREATZ,NSW>Aust - PFITZNER, Prussia>Aust
WILLIAMS,CUNNINGHAM, HUMPHREYS,MULVAHILL >Aust ,
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Rosemary Miller
Johnstown, PA