Leaving from Darling Harbour Sydney NSW, Australia

Photographer unknown,

Throwing streamers from the SS Monowai, 24^th June 1958, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia[T328]

Occasional dents in the metal of the corrugated clad walls of the two-storied shipping shed reveal errors of judgement. The sun begins to cast shadows highlighting the dents and scrapes. An open sliding door dwarfs the people who are spilling out onto the dock.

Others stand in their Sunday best in the warmth of the afternoon sun. Some wear hats their heads tilted up as they watch the ship pull away. Amongst the crowd, a lady holds a baby, perhaps a crew member’s wife saying goodbye. Two hold each other close oblivious of the noise aware more of each other than those departing.

The metal flight of stairs that passengers had used from the pier to get on board has been pulled away and become stairs to nowhere. Unseen the crew are busy, the ships lines are pulled in, the horn blasts, the vessel shudders as it slowly begins to pull away from the pier and pick up steam. The noise of the engines, the smell of the billowing smoke and diesel fumes begins to replace the noise of the receding crowd.

The only link that remains is the tangle of multi-coloured paper streamers, that connect the well-wishers below with the departing ship.   Judy leans on the guard rail of the upper open deck, she looks down to the people below as the streamers become tort and snap.

Photographer unknown,

Heading out of Sydney Harbour on the SS Monowai, 24^th June 1958, Darling Harbour, Sydney, NSW, Australia

The journey has begun.

This post is part of Sepia Saturday 505 : 1 February 2020

The Death of William Carbis Snr

Article 4 - Convict Ancestors & Relations

William Carbis Senior/The Older

Christened 23 Mar 1761 St. Buryan, Cornwall, England.

Married 29 Sep 1783, Paul, Cornwall, England.

Convicted and Transported to Australia.

Died in New South Wales, Australia, location & date unknown [see below for more detail]

Artist Marsha Webster, untitled graveyard, 2012, scanned a pencil drawing, personal Collection

In 1825 William Carbis (jnr) was a Government Servant on his father's, William Carbis [Snr], estate in Wilberforce, New South Wales.[i]  In 1828 William Carbis “C.P.”[conditional pardon] owns land in Mangrove Creek, Porthead Land, New South Wales, his son by the same name is working for him [note William Carbis Junior did not get his C.P. until 1839[ii]].[iii]  In the same year, 1828, William Carbis [Snr] also requested 3 Government Servants for Farm Service.[iv]   

Beyond 1828 we have not been able to find about him in the records, or when he died.  According to Jean Staunton who has been in correspondence with the Central Coast Family History Society who advised: “that if a minister didn't perform the burial it wasn't recorded as it could be a chance [for the convict] to escape under[create] a new identity.”  So maybe there was no minister to perform the burial when William Snr died and consequently no record was made of his death.

Nothing has been located in the official New South Wales records, in TROVE, or in the known cemeteries of the region.

Theme - Convict Ancestors & Relations - May 2017

Article 1 - The Crime, the Arrest, the Sentencing

Article 2 - The Family That William Carbis Left Behind

Article 3 - Untangling the Carbis evidence between 1816 & 1828

Wiki Tree Link for William Carbis

Any ideas where to look next?  

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[i] Convict Muster Record in 1825  for William Corbis, ‘New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849’, Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania, Microfilm Publication HO10, Piece 19 Year 1825. The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.  Accessed 18 September 2016

[ii] Ancestry, Register record for Conditional Pardon #37 for William Carbis the younger,   ‘New South Wales, Australia, Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870’ State Records Authority of New South Wales; Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia; Card Index to Letters Received, Colonial Secretary; Reel Number: 797; Roll Number: 1250, Year 1839. Accessed 22 September 2016

[iii] Ancestry, "1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy)," database and images, Ancestry.com (www.ancestry.com : accessed 24 Jun 2016); Entry in 1828 Alphabetical listing C-D for # 340 for William Carbiss or Carbett  (p.14, Line 7, image 29 & 30 of 459); Original data: Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 21-28); The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England; Ancestry, Recommended Home for Ticket of Leave entry for William Carbis, ‘New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia, Convict Pardons and Tickets of Leave, 1834-1859’ Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania, Class HO 10; Piece: 52 Year 1839,  Accessed 22 September 2016; Ancestry,  1828 Census Record for William Carbiss #335, ‘1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy)’ New South Wales Government. 1828 Census: Householders’ returns [Population and Statistics, Musters and Census Records, Census, Colonial Secretary], Surnames A-C, State Records Authority of New South Wales. Kingswood, New South Wales, Australia. Accessed 18 September 2016

[iv] SRNSW, Copies of letters sent within the Colony [Colonial Secretary] 1814-1827, NRS 962: Convicts, 4/3666, Reel 1042, p.338