John WATTS
1802 - 1877 (75 years)-
Name John WATTS [1, 2, 3, 4] Born 29 Apr 1802 Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, England 
[2, 3, 5] Gender Male Baptism 29 Apr 1802 Frampton on Severn, Gloucestershire, England [1] Residence 5 Apr 1835 Gloucestershire, England [2] Occupation 1848 On arrival Sydney NSW "Farm Bailiff" Immigration 20 Dec 1848 Sydney NSW [6] "Waverley" - John and Ann Watts and their children migrated to Sydney on the 'Waverl ey' arriving 20 December 1848.
Occupation 1850 Burwood CofE School, Sydney NSW [7] Schoolteacher Died 30 Jun 1877 Concord NSW Buried 2 Jul 1877 Ashfield NSW - Address: St John's Anglican Church Cemetery
Witness to burial was James Middleton!!
Person ID I65 Life in the Pastlane Last Modified 5 Jul 2020
Father James WATTS, d. Bef 1848, England Relationship natural Mother Ann WOOD, d. Bef 1848, England Relationship natural Family ID F25 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Ann MARTIN, b. 1801, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England , d. 1864, Sydney NSW (Age 63 years) Married 26 Nov 1821 St Martins, Birmingham, England Children 1. James Martin WATTS, b. 1829, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England , d. 27 Nov 1867, Sydney NSW (Age 38 years) [natural]2. Ellen Elizabeth WATTS, b. 1826, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England , d. 19 Mar 1857, Burwood NSW (Age 31 years) [natural]3. Ada WATTS, b. 1828 [natural] 4. Henry WATTS, b. 1834, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England [natural]5. Martha A WATTS, b. 1838, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England , d. 1858, Burwood NSW (Age 20 years) [natural]6. Catherine Mary WATTS, b. 1843, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England , d. 1859, Burwood NSW (Age 16 years) [natural]7. John WATTS JNR, b. 1824, Wednesbury, Staffordshire, England [natural]Last Modified 5 Jul 2020 Family ID F10 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - In 1850 John Watts was the schoolteacher at the Church of England school at Burwood, Sydney.
He received a salary of P40 pa. He was teaching 32 boys and 15 girls, total 47 scholars.
(Source: 1850 Returns of Colony NSW)
From 1843 the picture becomes much more clear. Rowley and a number of
other citizens won the support of Judge Burton. who prevailed on Governor Gipps
to grant half an acre of land on trust to the Church of England for a school, and
the Lord Bishop of Australia advanced £40 from Diocesan funds towards the cost
of a building. Judge Burton raised the rest of the funds by private subscription, and
a brick schoolhouse to accommodate 80 pupils was built by John Lucas in Burwood
Road opposite Morton Street. The opening of this Burwood Subscription School
—later known as the Parochial School—was quite a gala occasion, and was very
fully reported in The Herald of 31st May, 1843. The main speaker was Judge
Burton, and there was a tree planting ceremony by Lady Gipps—but for the sixty
pupils in the gathering better things were in store.
"At the close of this part of the ceremony a liberal distribution
of plum cakes and other edibles amongst the young folk took place,
to which were added a no less bountiful scattering of toys suited to
the taste of the sexes respectively, and for which, we believe, they
are indebted to the kind liberality of the generous patron."
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The school's original trustees were John Rowley, James Edrop and Thomas
Bray, and the first teachers were George Davis and his wife. Other esidents to
take an active interest in the early years were G. R. Nichols, M. M. Cohen, R.
Driver and James Powell. The school drew its pupils from quite a wide area
including Burwood, Concord and Mortlake, and was the district's main elementary
school until public schools were established many years later.
The earliest church services in the district seem to have been conducted by
Father Hallanan of Parramatta in Luke Daly's cottage on Parramatta Road, largely
for the benefit of the Canadian Exiles stationed at Longbottom Farm after the
-Canadian Rebellion of 1838. A little later St. Mary's Catholic Church—at first a
small wooden building—opened near the site of the present Church in 1846. It
was also used as an elementary school.
During these years Burwood had no Church of England, as it was included in
the parish of St. John's, Ashfield. Indeed the only Protestant church was begun by
a group calling themselves "The Burwood Christian Instruction Society" which
used to meet for worship in the mid-fifties at the home of Daniel Alderton, a
storekeeper on Parramatta Road. In 1857 they built a small wooden church further
along the road between Park and Grantham Streets. It'was open to preachers of all
evangelical denominations, and the trustees included two Baptists, a Presbyterian,
a Wesleyan and a Congregationalist.
Despite opening of the Sydney-Parramatta railway in 1855 Burwood remained
a roadside village at least till 1860. Its hinterland was still sparsely occupied by
small farms and gentlemen's country residences, but the stores and inns, the
parochial school and the little wooden churches were all at Longbottom or nearby
on the highway.
https://www.holyinnocentscroydon.org.au/files/pdf/Harvest_of_the_Years_Part1.pdf
- In 1850 John Watts was the schoolteacher at the Church of England school at Burwood, Sydney.
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