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John Williams Junior
Tandy's Flat 1865

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John Williams was born in 1831 at West Bargo NSW to farmers John Williams and Sarah Nash.  He relocated with his family to grazing land south of Queanbeyan in the 1830's and later to the Monaro district where his family resided initally at "(Head of) Curry Flat" and later at "Groses Plain".  

In 1858 John married Irish Presbyterian Esther Kilpatrick (1837-1911), the daughter of James Kilpatrick and his wife Sarah Donaldson from Tamlaght O'Crilly in County Derry.  The Kilpatrick family emigrated to NSW in 1840 on board the Formosa and had settled in West Bargo by 1849 on land situated immediately to the north of the grants belonging to John Williams snr and Robert Guy.  

John Williams worked as a grazier both at "Groses Plain" and on two nearby cattle runs he acquired. In 1865 he "selected" 320 acres of land at Tandy's Flat near "Groses Plain" where he settled for some years.  He later selected land near Nimmitabel which he named "Brecknock" after his father's home-county in Wales.  John died in a dray accident in 1879.  Esther married Frank Moon in 1882 however the marriage only lasted for a year. Esther died in 1911 at Goulburn.

The family of John Williams and Esther Kilpatrick*

1. Sarah Williams (1859 - 1901) married William Charles Blyton in 1881.

2. Ann Williams (1861 - 1928) married Phillip Morgan in 1884.

3. Margaret Williams (1862 - 1906) married Henry Foster Thomson in 1884.

4. James Renwick Williams (1864 - 1882) drowned.

5. George Whitefield Williams (1866 - 1935) changed name to Frederick Holmes Mansfield.

6. Esther Williams (1868 - 1904) married Edward Randolph Blyton in 1892.

7. John Brown Williams   (1870 - )

8. Edward Robert Williams (1872 - 1945) married Emma Coombs in 1897.

9. Henry Inglis Williams (1875 - 1955) md Lucy Ann Pike in 1905.

10. Isaac Emmet Williams (1877 - 1943) md Mary Ellen Tompson in 1911.

This is a brief summary of the chapter relating to these members of the Williams Family in Carol Baxters's 'The First Fleet Nash Family: A Biographical History'. This chapter will comprise many pages of detailed biographical information in the future publication. Go to Carol Baxters page for more information on John Williams and Esther Kilpatrick