Corporal Thomas Tollis
(c.1777...1821.)
- Back To . . .The
New South Wales Corps. ( Rum Corps. ) "Renamed 102nd
Regiment
- 73rd Highland Regiment 1st
Battalion
- 48th Foot .The
Northamptonshire Regiment
- Bodyguard of Light Horse
Born :
circa 1777
Where Born :
Maidstone, Kent
Occupation : Labourer, Mason / Soldier
Date Arrived : 02.
June .1797
Ship Arrived on : " Ganges "
Rank on Discharge : Corporal
Date of Enlistment : 12 January 1796 aged 19 ,
enlisted in the 20th Light Dragoons
Where Enlisted : Kent
Transferred to : 102nd Regiment
Date Transferred: 11. August 1796
Transferred to : 73rd Regiment
Date Transferred: 1810
Transferred to : 46th Regiment
Transferred to 48th : 1817
Date of Discharge :30 . April . 1820 (inability to
serve )
Where Discharged : Sydney
Died :25 July 1821
Where Died /
Buried : Sydney
Regimental Hospital / Sydney
Parents Names :
1st Spouse's Name
: Elizabeth Atkinson (Aka)
Atkins
Atkinson, Betty aka Atkins
Born .
1759,
Where Born :
Maidstone, Kent
Occupation :
Convict: Sentenced
Lancaster
1797 , 7 Years age 38
Date Arrived : July 1798
Ship Arrived on : "Britannia I"
Died : 18 October 1809 age 50
Old Sydney Burial Grounds C/D
Where Died /
Buried :
18 October 1809
Parents Names :
Date Married : they did not
marry
Spouse's Parents :
2nd Spouse's Name
: Ann waters
Born :
1785
Where Born :
Occupation :
Date Arrived : 18
June .1807
Ship Arrived on : "Sydney Cove
"
Died : 13 April 1821
Where Died /
Buried : Sandhill's
Cemetery Sydney
Parents Names :
Date Married : 26
May 1812
Where Married :
Spouse's Parents :
- Atkinson, Betty aka Atkins
Atkinson, Betty
Atkinson, Elizabeth
- Descendants:
Some information supplied by
kath hansen kathhansen@xtra.co.nz
- Area Settled :
- Children : of
Thomas & Elizabeth
- 1 . - Elizabeth Atkinson Tollis 20.08.1799 who
married Thomas Hansen Jnr, son of Capt. Thomas Hansen.
Thomas Tollis (b.1808....d.)
- Children : of
Thomas & Ann
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- 1 . Ann Tollis (b.1814....d.)
- 2 . Samuel Tollis(b.1816.....d.)
- 3 . Nathaniel William Tollis (b.1818....d.)
- 4 . Eliza Tollis (b.1821.....d.)
- 5 .
- 6 .
History
& Achievements :
- The history of Thomas Tollis and
his descendants has been written by Enid Bohlsen -
"In the King's Service". It is well researched
and written. I had been also been researching this chap
for some time. Both his" wives" were convicts. Thomas'
wife Eliza and baby daughter died a few months before him
and after Thomas died his some of his children were
placed in the Orphan School and others placed in the care
of another soldier's wife, Elizabeth Fowler and Ann
placed with Daniel Cooper. Thomas's
wife who died shortly before him was Ann, not Eliza. The
reason why Samuel Marsden insisted on Thomas
Hansen marrying was that he had a rule about no
single men were to live with the missionaries.
Very soon after the group arrived in 1814, Thomas
was unfairly accused of seducing a Maori woman with
the promise of a nail & had to face Marsden's wrath.
However, the woman herself cleared Thomas of any
suspicion & that was that, except that Marsden sent
Thomas back to NSW to find a wife as he obviously
had intentions of staying near his sister in the
community Sergeants Charles
Whalan (also one of the Gov. bodyguards) was the executor
of his will and went to some trouble to see that the
children were looked after. I understand that Whalan's
son/s discovered the Jenolin Caves. Corporal
Tollis his wife and baby Eliza were reinterned at the
Botany Pioneer Cemetery. Near the centre there is a group
a three headstones, one being the Tollis family and
another being John Cadman's. Thomas'
first child and dau of Elizabeth (Betty) Atkinson, also
Elizabeth was married by Samuel Marsden to Thomas Hansen
(his ship's Captain's son) and they became the first
European non missionary family to settle in New
Zealand (1816). The story goes that Marsden was not happy
about young Thomas Hansen's liaison with the Maori
maidens and thought marriage would settle him down.
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- Reference R.S.T & R.M
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-Inventory of
Burials 1792-1820 City of Sydney
Historical Program
- Researched
Cathy Dunn
C/D
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- References
- Family Members, Military records ,Pay rolls, Pay Musters, Cemetery Records, Church
Records & General Muster Records, Mitchell Library ,Sydney Australia
- The information is intended for
short Historical value only,
- E- mail address
- © Copyright B & M Chapman
(QLD) Australia