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In 1858 William Masters (1831/2, Wittersham, Kent - 1898) and Caroline Coley (1836, Frittenden - 1877) came to Australia from Kent, England on sailing ship 'The Castilian'. Caroline Coley already had a relative, at Denham Court, near Ingleburn who had arrived in the Colony of New South Wales many years before. Photo is the grave of William Masters with his second wife Lydia Kate Wilson at Rookwood cemetery in Sydney. Caroline the first wife who had died many years earlier, is buried nearby in an unmarked grave.
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                                                                MASTERS BRANCH - 01                                     typed by Nigel Masters TREE162 - PAGE M-01
                         WILLIAM MASTERS OF WITTERSHAM M(1). CAROLINE COLEY OF FRITTERDEN, KENT
                                                       M(2). LYDIA KATE WILSON IN 1881
                         1ST FAMILY OF JACOB COLEY/COOLEY & DESCENDENTS (JOHN COLEY OF FRITTERDEN, KENT)
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                                                         |                                                                       ++ CARL FREDRIK BENSON, BORN SWEDEN
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                WILLIAM MASTERS      ANN  ??????    JOHN COLEY        MARY POTTING, or more likely MARY POTTER                    GOAT ISLAND, SYDNEY. HE MARRIED
                (Wittersham, Kent)        |              |LIVED Fritterden, Kent|                                                 MARY ANN MASTERS OF SURRY HILLS
                        |                 |              |(near Sussex border)  |                                                 CARL'S PARENTS ...
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                                 |                                  |                                                              M: EMILY CHARLOTTE JOHNSON
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         WILLIAM MASTERS, B. 1831/2, Kent                 CAROLINE COLEY 1836-4.4.1877 D. ROSE ST, NEWTOWN                         CONVENTION WHERE THE SON OF BEN
         D. 23.4.1898, Elizabeth St, Redfern              Bur. Rookwood 5.4.1877, aged 41.                                         TAKES THE SURNAME BENSON, NOT
         Bur.. Wesleyan Cem., Rookwood                    B. Kent (From Wittersham)                                                ANDERSON
         In 1885 L'Burke St, Surry Hills                            |
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                         Migrated| to Australia arr. 13.6.1858 from | Wittersham,
                            Kent | on 'CASTILIAN' (with son John).  |The ship departed
                                 | Liverpool, England on 20.3.1858  |
                                 |        (M. 16.2.1854, Kent)      |
                                 |WILLIAM M(2) LYDIA KATE WILSON in |1880)
                                 |Lydia b. about 1846, bur. Rookwood| 30.11.1914, age 68yrs.
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                                 | Caroline & Lydia shown below     |
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    |m1                                |m1                    |m1                          |m1                   |m1                    |m1               |m2
   JOHN W. MASTERS     . MARY ANN MASTERS           JAMES EBENEZER MASTERS           EMOLINE COLEY     GEORGE ERNEST MASTERS       CAROLINE SARAH   HENRY WILLIAM
   B. ENGLAND          . B. 1859, PENNANT HILLS     b. 28.11.1861, Newtoqn           MASTERS           b. 1.11.1868, NEWTOWN       MASTERS (Cary)   MASTERS
   DIED AT SEA ON      . M. CARL FREDRIK BENSON ++  d. 1922&                         B. 1864           d. 5.10.1943, LIVERPOOL     b. 1873          B. 1881
   VOYAGE TO AUSTRALIA . B. 1857, SWEDEN            m(1). ANNIE GRAY (m. 25.2.1886)  M. CHARLES        m. ANNIE OLIVIA TAYLOR      d.               D. 23.12.1959,
   1856-1858           . (M. 5.8.1885, AT THE       b. 1869 Geelong, Vic             ALBERT HOLLIDAY   b. 15.7.1861, BRAIDWOOD     m. ?????          CANTERBURY
                       .  RESIDENCE OF MR. MASTERS  m(2). MABEL PAULINA BOORMAN      B. 1861&          d. 12.7.1953, CHATSWOOD     l'Condobolin     M(1). JEANIE
                       .  SURRY HILLS, SYDNEY -      11.1.1879-1919                  D. 26.6.1952      (M. 28.4.1897,              Cary died in     LAWSON STEVENSON
                       .  WESLEYAN CHURCH RITES -    m. in 1907, at Maclean, NSW     (M. 1885)         CONGREGATIONAL CH,          Tram Sheds at    (M. 1904)
                       .  WITNESSES                 m(3)  ROSANN (ROSE) MATILDA      L'ARNCLIFFE, NSW   BALMAIN NORTH,             Central Railway  M(2). ETHEL
                       .   (1) CHARLES ALBERT        BRAUER                                |            ANNIE was prev. m. to      She died when    ESTELLE REDDIE
                       .        HOLLIDAY            b. 1888, Tenterfield, NSW              |            AUGUSTUS LAWSON            Norma Joyce      (M. 1953)
                       .   (2) MARY E. DAY          d. 1959&                               |                     |                 Elder was a      Henry's ashes
                       .               |                      |                            |                     |                 little girl,     at Rookwood -
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