A distant shore
What a pleasure it was to read the article on
Australian migration in the June 2002 issue of
the Berkshire Family Historian as I found a
reference to my great great grandfather Thomas
Boulton. The author, Martyn Killion, mentioned
that Thomas Boulton had sponsored a William
Boulton who may have been a brother or other
relative. Thomas Boulton was born at Binfield in
1811, one of eight children of Abraham Boulton
who was born in 1773 at Binfield and his wife
Charolette Stocker who was born at Willesden,
London in 1775. Thomas married Eliza Finbow in
Warfield in 1839 and had twelve children, ten
born in Binfield, and a further two born when
they settled in the Dapto area of New South Wales.
They lost their year old daughter Eliza on the
passage to their new home. Thomas and Eliza and
children Rosehannah, Abraham, William, Mary Ann,
Joseph, James, Thomas, Sarah, Henry and Eliza
departed England on the 19 October 1856. The
voyage took 95 days and they landed at Sydney
Cove on the 22 January 1857. They were bounty
immigrants, the total cost of the bounty being £13.4s.9d
per person. Thomas’s occupation was given as
stonemason and labourer, his daughters Rosehannah
and Mary Ann were house servants, and sons
Abraham and William were labourers.
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