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George Plunkett
Nimmitabel c1858

Genealogy

Photos contributed by Doreen Pennell <pennell-at-xtra.co.nz>

Edward John Plunkett	James George Plunkett
William Henry Plunkett	Caroline Helena Plunkett

Thomas Scott Plunkett	Martha Plunkett nee Yeomans	Martha Plunkett nee Yeomans
Mary Evaline Plunkett	George Edward Plunkett	William Thomas Plunkett
Susie Plunkett	Ruby Plunkett	Charles Henry Plunkett
John J Plunkett

Thomas Scott Plunkett (born 1858) with his wife Martha nee Yeomans and family -  circa 1904.

Burial entry for Thomas Plunkett - 1854

George Plunkett aged 16 arrived in 1823 NSW with his parents Thomas & Susannah. Thomas was in the army and became the Overseer of the Asylum (convict) in Parramatta.

George became a schoolmaster of the Castle Hill school. Later when the Government became involved in schooling he left it to his co-teacher and went down to Cooma.

I have been unable to establish his exact location but as he was a schoolmaster at Castle Hill it is possible he became a tutor to a well-to-do family. I could find nothing on a school in this area during this period. 

My ggg Thomas Scott Plunkett was born 9 July 1858  in Nimitabel (spelling on cert)

With his father George giving his occupation as school master and residence as Glen Bog.

Georges younger brother Edward also came to Cooma. He had  married  Susanna Thompson in 1841 in Forbes .They were resident in Nimmitabel in 1857 when their daughter Pheobe son William 1859 and John 1861 were born. An elder daughter Susanna married David Scott in  Jan 1858 Glen Bog Nimmitabel .Another daughter Mary Jane  married Cyrus Huxley Oct 1857 Christ's Church Cooma. 

Both families were in Forbes by 1862c

Both George and Edward died in Forbes with George being in the Forbes Cemetery and Edward thought to lie in the older cemetery just outside the town.

Thomas Scott Plunkett went over to the Kalgoolie mines in W.A., and later established “Plunkett Homes”