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- As mentioned Robert's younger sister Mary Gordon (1792-1835) married Lewis Henry Campbell (1790-1854) at St. Murchin's Church of Ireland in Limerick on 24 May 1815 52. They arrived in Sydney on the Dick in Sept. 1817. Mary's husband was the 48th regiment's school master responsible for educating illiterate soldiers and their children. When discharged he held the rank of Sergeant. He was born in Galway in Ireland and had enlisted on 3 Jul 1805 at Gosport in Hampshire, England, in the 23rd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. At the age of 24 years on the 20 Nov 1814 when the second battalion of the 23rd was disbanded he transferred to the 48th Northamptonshire Regiment. That Robert had a brother-in-law in the 48th likely explains his June 1816 enlistment in that British regiment.
Lewis Campbell took a discharge in Sydney on 3 Jan 1823. Initially he went to work for Robert Crawford, who worked in the Colonial Secretary's Office and had a 1000 acre land grant he named Hill End where the Sydney suburb of Doonside is located today, before on 25 Apr 1825 obtaining employment as a Police Constable at Parramatta a position from which he was dismissed on 20 Oct 1827. He died on 7 Apr 1854 and was buried at St. Batholomew's C of E at Prospect. The couple had six children. Whilst employed by Crawford wife Mary left her husband and entered into a relationship with Crawford. From this defacto relationship she had four more children born from 1826 to 1828. She died on 25 March 1832 aged 34 years and was buried at St John's Parramatta. Three months later Crawford married 1797 born Sarah Jones whose mother Ann Carty had been a Norfolk Island convict who had been was sentanced in England on three counts of shoplifting to transportation beyond the seas for 7 years and in Australia had three relationships the last being with Thomas Jones. Her daughter Sarah Jones was a half-sister to Margaret Murrell (1794-1854) who in July 1812 married Scotland born merchant Robert Campbell Junior (1789-1851) the nephew of the colony's first merchant Robert Campbell (1769-1846)
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1790 - 1854 (64 years)
