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My forebear came as a free settler with a letter of introduction from Henry Goulburn.
Some think he may have come from the London Hamlets and there is a baptism there
on 23 Oct 1791 At St Matthew, Bethnal Green with parents Edward Gray and Mary Gray.
He and his wife Emma and child arrived in Sydney in1817. Also listed as John Edward Gray. Can anyone help please?

http://colsec.records.nsw.gov.au/indexes/colsec/g/F22c_gos-gy-06.htm

(above on google, amongst other bits. Baptism gives Birthdate 2nd Oct. Father a Bricklayer) (London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812 Ancestry)


New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 (Ancestry)
Name:Edward Gray
Event Date:14 Jan 1824
Arrival Year:1817
Vessel:Lord Melville
Event Description:Memorial

('from England' in above, no actual place name)

Chris :)

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/indexes-online/indexes-online
(perhaps something more on above, or held at Archives)

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Name: Charlotte Emma Gray
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 28 Jan 1821
Christening Place: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Birth Date: 17 Dec 1820
Father's Name: Edward Gray
Mother's Name: Emma
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C16766-1
System Origin: Australia-EASy
GS Film number: 1483370

Name: Emma Frances Gray
Gender: Female
Christening Date: 14 Mar 1826
Christening Place: LIVERPOOL, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
Birth Date: 08 Nov 1825
Father's Name: Edward Gray
Mother's Name: Emma
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C13543-4
System Origin: Australia-EASy
GS Film number: 993949

forgot to say "Welcome to the board" :-)

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Name: Edward Gray
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 27 Mar 1791
Christening Place: St Dunstan-in-the-West, London, England
Birth Date: 04 Mar 1791
Birthplace: Chancery Lane
Father's Name: Peter Gray
Mother's Name: Ann Gray
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C00042-3
System Origin: England-ODM
GS Film number: 396204

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Name: Edward Gray
Gender: Male
Christening Date: 23 Oct 1791
Christening Place: SAINT MATTHEW,BETHNAL GREEN,LONDON,ENGLAND
Birth Date: 02 Oct 1791
Father's Name: Edward Gray
Mother's Name: Mary
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C04698-3
System Origin: England-ODM
GS Film number: 855939, 855940

thank you both for your help. I have been to the NSW archives but have no information before he arrived in Sydney.
Do you know whether letters of introdction were easy to come by or did you have to have connections?
Yvonne

not a clue - have you had a look for Henry?

all the Goulburn's seem to come from Lancashire - Liverpool and Manchester, so perhaps that's where Edward comes from?

http://www.records.nsw.gov.au/state-archives/guides-and-finding-aids/colonial-secretarys-correspondence-guide/introduction

(more on above)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Meehan
(probably the Henry Goulburn mentioned here, with link to him)

Chris :)

Do you have a name of child that arrived with them?...

1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy) (Ancestry)
Edward Gray
Estimated birth year:abt 1789
Arrival Ship:Lord Melville
Arrival Year:1817
Residence Age:39
Residence:New South Wales, Australia
Residence Date:1828

(with Emma 36, Emma 3, Ann 14)


http://www.bdm.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/Index/IndexingOrder.cgi/search?event=births

(Maiden name of Mother from Births could help to find Marriage for Edward, hopefully!)

edits

New South Wales, Census and Population Books, 1811-1825
Edward Gray
Year:1823
Residence:Liverpool, New South Wales, Australia
Arrival Ship:Lord Melville
(also Charlotte Emma 3)


Birth
V18205344 1B/1820 GRAY CHARLOTTE E EDWARD EMMA

Marriage
V18381944 22/1838 BADGERY JAMES GRAY CHARLOTTE E CV


The Australian (Sydney, NSW : 1824 - 1848) Friday 14 September 1838

By Special License, at Sutton Forest, on Wednesday, the 5th instant, James Badgery, Esq., of the South Creek, to Charlotte Emma Gray, the eldest daughter of Mr Edward Gray, of Sutton Forest.

http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/search?adv=y
(from above, Aus. Newspapers)

(if relating)