Benjamin Warby

  General Notes:

When Benjamin died in 1869 he was buried at "Taminick" Station. His remains were later removed to the Wangaratta Cemetery and allegedly re-interred in the same grave as his wife Sarah Jane - no mention of this is on the headstone. From information received in Wangaratta, there were suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of Benjamin, and that there were persistant rumours that he had been murdered.
Calvin Warby notes:
It is likely that Benjamin Warby born in 1825 is descended from John Warby who was sent to Australia in the late 1700's as a convict. He became a famous constable in the Campbelltown area. The Warby Range, the Warby Swamp Gum tree and the Warby-Ovens national Park were named after him. My ancestor, James Warby (1785) and his son, James Warby (1822) emigrated to Australia in 1839.

Yvonne Smith notes:
My partners grandmother was Molly McInerney daughter of John McInerney and Martha Blanche McKay. Martha Blanche was the daughter of Isabina Warby. Isabina married William James McKay. Of all the McKay daughters I was unable to find any notices announcing Martha's marriage which I could only put down to the fact that the McKays and Warbys were Church of England and that she married John McInerney who happened to be Catholic.
I fell into researching my partner's family after his mother's death and discovered a most interesting family on all fronts. Most of my research has been through using Trove nla and the digitised newspapers and of course the added generosity of people like yourself sharing information over the internet. Seeing the photo of Taminick Homestead on your site filled me with excitement that it would still exist and so the Warby and Taminick quest led us to the homestead in
2015 where the current owners were kind enough to show us around. This opportunity has served a completely unexpected purpose as for the past 9 months I have visited an aged care with my computer and on seeing my screensaver of Taminick, have raised many photo showing and Warby/Taminick story telling sessions!
I've attached one of the many articles that I have found on Ben Warby, Cardinal Wiseman and the 1857 Jockey Club Cup. It was this article and image along with another article describing a road trip Ben had with the famed equine artist Fred Woodhouse that have prompted me to try and locate the (maybe) Woodhouse paintings of Warby's horses and the Cup but I believe that whilst the current owners may not wish to part with them, they may perhaps like to know more of the detail relating to these that now made available by technology and at best share an image of them, of which I'm sure the Racing Museum of Victoria in Melbourne could be most interested.
Hopefully they are somewhere waiting to be rediscovered, hopefully the cup hasn't been melted down or the paintings destroyed in a fire or tossed out as old rubbish. All I can do is try and search for Warby relatives and ask the question and of course I will forward any further information if I am lucky enough to uncover it.

  Research Notes:

Yvonne Smith notes:
I have been researching my partners family, one of his GGGG Grandfather's being Benjamin Warby Jnr and I have found your website to be of great help. I was wondering if you would have any knowledge of the existence of a painting of Ben Warby's horse Cardinal Wiseman who won the 1857 Jockey club cup. Newspaper articles stated that it was in the possession of Mrs James (Annie Nicholas Sharp) of Black Rock in 1945 who obviously had inherited it from her mother Elizabeth Mary Ann Sharp (nee Warby and the sister of my partners GGG Grandmother Isabina). Also to make it more juicy, Frederick Woodhouse was most likely the painter, again thanks to digitisation of our newspapers. As Cardinal Wiseman was retired after winning the Jockey Club Cup which was the forerunner of the Melbourne Cup, his racetrack feats have largely disappeared. It would be wonderful if this very significant piece of early racing history was uncovered, we would dearly loved to see an image of it. Perhaps the Art Gallery and Racing museum would be greatly interested as well. ⁴⁵⁶

  Noted events in his life were:

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• connection.

• Baptism, 2 Oct 1825, St Peters C of E, Campbelltown, Sydney, NSW Australia.

Benjamin married Sarah Jane Brien, daughter of Daniel Brien and Mary Ann Parker (Alias Wilcox), on 31 Mar 1846 in St Bartholomews C of E, Prospect, NSW Australia. (Sarah Jane Brien was born on 1 Dec 1825 in South Creek, Bathurst, NSW Australia, died on 21 Jul 1868 in "Taminick", near Wangaratta, Victoria Australia and was buried in Jul 1868 in Wangaratta, Victoria Australia.)