was sentenced to seven years transportation for grand larceny (theft of several parcels of muslins from a milliner’s shop) at Coventry, Warwickshire on 23 March 1783. He spent time on the Ceres or Censor and Justinia Hulks before embarking on the transport Scarborough. At Sydney on 20 October 1791 Edward married Mary Cavenor/Cavenagh off the Lady Juliana. Both were sent to Norfolk Island, where Edward settled on 12 acres of land at Queenborough. Within a year he was selling grain to stores and in 1805 he was victualled as a constable. In 1808 with Mary and three of his children, they left the Island for the Derwent by the City of Edinburgh. He obtained land at Clarence Plains and Methven and later became a district constable. Edward was aged 77 when he was buried at Clarence Plains on 28 November 1829
Honouring his WW1 descendants
19301 Arthur Frederick Kimberley
Sapper Australian Light Horse 1 to 5 Divisional Signal Companies and Signallers General Reinforcements, Special Draft (Egypt), also November 1917, February, April, August 1918 and Special Reinforcements. 1 to 4 Signal Troops – March 1917 to February 1918 Reinforcements. 1 Signal Squadron Engineers – December 1917 to February 1918 Reinforcements. 1 Field Squadron Engineers – December 1917 and January 1918 Reinforcements.
Born 20 May 1879, Don Tasmania to Frederick and Jessie (Bonney) Kimberley Occupation Saddle Maker
Enlisted 9 June 1917, aged 34 Next-of-kin wife Mrs Ada Kimberley, 39 Hotham Street East Melbourne, Victoria
Embarked Sydney NSW 3 September 1917, aboard HMAT Kyarra A55
Attached to Australian Base Signal Depot Cable section and the Australian Signal Squadron Service in the Middle East
Returned to Melbourne November 1919 per Port Sydney Discharged February 1920
WWI Sergeant Citizen Military Forces Served at Leichhardt Ordnance Depot from February 1942 until June 1947
7037 Charles Alfred Kimberley
Private 12th Infantry Battalion – 13 to 23 Reinforcements (January-December 1916)
Born 12 September 1893 Ulverstone Tasmania to Eustace Albert and Caroline (Flannery) Kimberley
Enlisted 3 October 1916 aged 23
Next-of-kin father Mr AE Kimberley, Devonport Tasmania
Embarked Melbourne 22 December aboard HMAT Persic A34
Service at the Western Front
Killed in action France 8 January 1918
Death was subject of a Red Cross inquiry
Ration Farm
Buried in Ration Farm
(La Plus Douve) Annexe, Wallonie Belgium,
Plot III, Row B, Grave No 17
Don Congregational Church Tasmania – Charles Alfred Kimberley remembered on his sister’s headstone
The Advocate 30 January 1918
Rev G Rowe had the sad task yesterday of informing Mr Albert E Kimberley, of Don Road, Devonport, of the death of his son, Private Charles Alfred Kimberley, who was killed in action on January 12
The Advocate 16 January 1920
Memoriam- Kimberley – In Memory of Charles Kimberley, of Devonport, who was killed on active service at Messines on January 9, 1918. He did his duty.
Inserted by CW McCall and DW Weller, Devonport