kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
kendall_family_nsw - Person Sheet
NameThomas Kendall 
26
26Birth13 Dec 1778, North Thoresby, Lincolnshire, United Kingdom
Death6 Aug 1832, Shoalhaven River, New South Wales, Australia
BurialLost at sea27
OccupationMissionary/Farmer28
FatherEdward Kendall (~1712-~1806)
MotherSusanna Surflit (~1736-~1810)
Spouses
Birth21 Mar 1784, Kirmington, Lincolnshire, England29
Death22 Apr 1866, Kiama, New South Wales, Australia30
Burialaft 22 Apr 1866, Kiama Private Cemetry, New South Wales, Australia8
FatherJoseph Quickfall
MotherJane (Quickfall)
ChildrenSuzannah (<1804-1881)
Elizabeth Jane (<1805-1870)
Thomas Surfleet (1807-1883)
Basil O (1809-1852)
Joseph (1811-1865)
John (1813-1813)
Samuel (1816-1827)
John (1818-1895)
Lawrence (1819-1881)
Edward (1822-1902)
Notes for Thomas Kendall
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
http://www.teara.govt. New Zealand/en/biographies/1k9/kendall-thomas
Arrived in the colony in 1813 with his wife and family on the ship Earl Spencer.
KENDALL, THOMAS, the first missionary in New Zealand, appointed the first resident magistrate in that colony by the Governor of New South Wales, November 9, 1814.
Page 125
The Rev. Mr. Marsden, accompanied by Messrs. KENDALL, Hall, and King, their wives, and several mechanics, with some sheep and cattle, embarked for New Zealand, from New South Wales, in a brig manned by convicts, and were well received by the natives of the Bay of Islands, from whom they purchased 200 acres of land (for 12 axes) on which to form a mission station.
November, 1814. Kidnapping and outrages carried on by Europeans on the New Zealanders. It was attempted to be suppressed by the New South Wales Government appointing Mr. Thomas KENDALL and three chiefs (Kuatara, Hongi, and Koro Koro) magistrates for the Bay of Islands territory 1814.
Page 176
In the November 1828 Census was listed as living at Illawarra.
Arrived on the "Elizabeth" in 1827
According to Steven Howard (steven_howard@compuserve.com) the Rev Thomas Kendall was a missionary in New Zealand from 1814 to 1825. From there he travelled to Chile and thence to Australia in 1827 where he settled at Ulladulla in New South Wales. Steven Howard has recorded Thomas Kendall as dying on 6 August 1832. He is recorded as being lost at sea off Jervis Bay, New South Wales, .8
A further source “Biography - A Legacy of Guilt” by Judith Binney (933.101 K33B) is listed by Malcolm Irving [27 Kriewaldt Cct, Higgins, ACT, 2615. (02) 6254-0643] for the death on 6 August 1832 and from the same reference, that he was lost at sea.
Arrived New South Wales 1813 as member of Church Missionary Society, appointed to work among the Maoris and study their language; settled at Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1814 being appointed Justice of the Peace in November; opened school for Maori children, 1816; became involved in musket trade until his departure for Valparaiso, 1825 to work as chaplain and schoolmaster; visited England 1820-21 with two Maori chiefs.3
1814 Nov 8 Re permission to proceed to New Zealand and retain land in the Colony (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.361).3
1814 Nov 9 Natives not to be carried off from New Zealand without permission of chiefs (Reel 6044; 4/1730 pp.327-9).3
1814 Nov 9 General order re removing natives from New Zealand (Reel 6038; SZ759 p.1).3
1814 Nov 12 Appointed Justice of the Peace at Bay of Islands (Reel 6036; SZ759 p.3).3
1814 Nov 18 Re instructions to prevent distillation of spirits in New Zealand (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.373).3
1815 Sept 6 Re runaways at Bay of Islands (Reel 6004; 4/3494 pp.165-6).3
1815 Sept 9 Captain H M Hovelll stating that Thomas Stardy, prisoner, had been placed on “Brothers” and John Mulse, prisoner, on “Trial’ (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.170).3
1815 Oct 23 Re escape of five prisoners (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.83-5).3
1815 Nov 29 To Hovell, master of “Trial” re Kendall’s assertion that runaways on board “Trial” (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.272).3
1816 Nov 11 Re embarkation of Whikakadda (Reel 6046; 4/1736 p.167).3
1821 Jan 4 Wife of sailed to New Zealand per “Active”, 12 Apr 1817 (Reel 6007; 4/3503 p.10).3
1824 Feb 21 Seeking confirmation of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace; also wished to ascertain whether he would be paid for the apprehension of runaway convicts (Reel 6059; 4/1774 p.20).3
1824 Jun 5 Re duties as Justice of the Peace, Bay of Island, New Zealand (Reel 6019; 4/3522 p.66).3
Kendall, Thomas. Mr and Mrs. Arrived from Englandand. Sydney Gazette Oct 16, 1813
Kendall, Thomas. Subscription to, New South Wales, Philanthropic Society. Sydney Gazette Jan 22, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. Leaving the colony. Sydney Gazette Feb 26, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. Sent by Rev S Marsden to establish a friendly intercourse with the natives of N.Z. Sydney Gazette Aug 27, 1814
Kendall, Thomas and family. Leaving the colony. Sydney Gazette Oct 29, 1814
Kendall, Thomas (missionary). Appointed a Justice of the Peace, Bay of Islands. Sydney Gazette Nov 12, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. N.Z. mission established. Sydney Gazette March 25, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Account of Mr Marden’s visit to New Zealand. Sydney Gazette Apr 29 & May 6, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Letter for. Sydney Gazette Aug 12, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Account of N.Z. mission. Sydney Gazette Aug 19, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Grant. Sydney Gazette Jan 24, 1818
Kendall, Thomas. New Zealand mission. Sydney Gazette Jan 9, 1819
Kendall, Thomas. Sailed from New Zealand for England . Sydney Gazette June 3, 1820
Kendall, Thomas. Land Grant. Sydney Gazette May 5, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Arrived from England by the Cpeke. Sydney Gazette May 19 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Account of visit of Maori chiefs to England , & Mr Kendall’s plan for re-establishing a school in New Zealand. Sydney Gazette June 2, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Letter of appreciation to Capt. McPherson. Sydney Gazette June 2, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Correction of statement re his family in Gazette of 2nd June. Sydney Gazette June 9, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Leaving for New Zealand. Sydney Gazette June 16, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Sailed for New Zealand. Sydney Gazette July 7, 1821
Kendall, Thomas. at Bay of Islands. Sydney Gazzette Jan 16, 1823
Kendall, Thomas. Sent over to New Zealand by the Church Missionary Society. Sydney Gazette Dec 11 182? p.4
Kendall, Thomas. Has returned from New Zealand. Sydney Gazette April 14, 1825 p.2
Biography
Thomas Walter Kendall was born in 1778 in Lincolnshire, England to Edward Kendall and Susannah Surflit. He was one of New Zealand’s first Christian missionaries and was based at the Church Missionary Society station in the Bay of Islands from 1814 until 1821. He pioneered the transcription of the Māori language, and also investigated how Māori understood the universe. In doing so, however, he attracted hostility from others in the Australasian mission world.
On a trip to London in 1805, the 26-year-old Lincolnshire grocer and draper from Lincolnshire had a profound religious experience. Soon afterwards he sold his business, moved his family south, and became an ardent member of the congregation of Bentinck Chapel, in Marylebone. In 1808 Kendall asked the Church Missionary Society to send him to New Zealand, but it was not until 1813 that he was chosen to be the schoolmaster at the planned mission settlement. He finally set sail, with his family, on 31 May 1813 on board the Earl Spencer arriving at Port Jackson, Australia on 10 October.
The mission was founded at Rangihoua, in the northern Bay of Islands, in December 1814, under the patronage of the chiefs Hongi Hika and Ruatara. It comprised three missionary families. The following year Kendall had the first book in Māori published in Sydney, and in 1816 he opened his missionary school. Education was an important way of introducing Māori children to Biblical scripture and European ways.
In a series of letters written between 1822 and 1824, mostly to the CMS, Kendall attempted to describe Māori cosmological thought. One of Kendall’s conduits into understanding the Māori way of life was Tungaroa, the daughter of the tohunga of Rangihoua, with whom he had an affair. On learning of this, Samuel Marsden, his Sydney-based CMS superior, dismissed Kendall from his post. Although Kendall went on to hold another clerical post in Chile, he claimed in 1822 that the ‘apparent sublimity’ of Māori ideas had ‘almost completely turned [him] from a Christian to a Heathen’. He resolved this contradiction in his own mind by maintaining that Māori beliefs must somehow have been derived from scriptural knowledge.
In 1825, Kendall accepted a position as clergyman at the British consulate at Valparaiso, Chile, but the job did not last and he went to New South Wales in Australia[1], which he had sailed to in 1813, with his wife and 5 children, on the way to New Zealand. This time he obtained a land grant, in 1827, of 1,280 acres (5.2 km2), including large stands of cedar at Narrawallee Creek, Ulladulla, and property at Kiama, both on the South Coast of New South Wales. Two records indicate that he visited the Ulladulla area in 1828 where Millard's Creek enters what is now the harbour and there was a camp of Aboriginals on the north side[2].
Reverend Thomas Kendall also continued work as a clergyman throughout Illawara, the northern part of the South Coast[3].
He died in 1832 by drowning when the cutter "Brisbane", which he had purchased to transport the cedar and other produce from his farm, sank with all hands off the mouth of the Shoalhaven River[4], while transporting wood and cheese to market in Sydney.
Sources
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall
2. ↑ R.H. Cambage: Captain Cook’s Pigeon House and Early South Coast Exploration, 1920; and W.A.Bayley (Shoalhaven,p.34)
3. ↑ http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1733&context=ihsbulletin
4. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
• Biography: The Legacy of Guilt: a life of Thomas Kendall by Judith Binney.
• NSW Land Grant: A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850. Aboriginal Education Unit. The University of Wollongong, 1990. Michael Organ. http://www.ulladulla.info/tag/kendall-family has "late 1828".
Genealogy Links
• Thomas Kendall 1778–1832 from the Australian Royalty website at: https://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I45426&ged=purnellmccord.ged
Biography Links
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Teara
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Wkipedia
• Thomas Kendall Biography on NZ History
Photo/Painting Links
• Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika Panting
References
• a b Rogers, Lawrence M., (1973) Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, Pegasus Press, p. 35, f/n 7 & 39
• "New Zealander". Early shipping in New Zealand waters. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
• Raeside, J. D. (1 September 2010). "Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
• Moon, Paul (2012). Savage Country. Penguin Auckland. pp. 165–167.
• http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=1T34
• [Preview Kendall Book]
• Missionary Register, 1815.
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Contents
[hide]
• 1 Biography
• 2 Sources
• 2.1 DNA descendants
• 2.2 Genealogy Links
• 2.3 Biography Links
• 2.4 Photo/Painting Links
• 2.5 References
Biography
Thomas Walter Kendall was born in 1778 in Lincolnshire, England to Edward Kendall and Susannah Surflit. He was one of New Zealand’s first Christian missionaries and was based at the Church Missionary Society station in the Bay of Islands from 1814 until 1821. He pioneered the transcription of the Māori language, and also investigated how Māori understood the universe. In doing so, however, he attracted hostility from others in the Australasian mission world.
On a trip to London in 1805, the 26-year-old Lincolnshire grocer and draper from Lincolnshire had a profound religious experience. Soon afterwards he sold his business, moved his family south, and became an ardent member of the congregation of Bentinck Chapel, in Marylebone. In 1808 Kendall asked the Church Missionary Society to send him to New Zealand, but it was not until 1813 that he was chosen to be the schoolmaster at the planned mission settlement. He finally set sail, with his family, on 31 May 1813 on board the Earl Spencer arriving at Port Jackson, Australia on 10 October.
The mission was founded at Rangihoua, in the northern Bay of Islands, in December 1814, under the patronage of the chiefs Hongi Hika and Ruatara. It comprised three missionary families. The following year Kendall had the first book in Māori published in Sydney, and in 1816 he opened his missionary school. Education was an important way of introducing Māori children to Biblical scripture and European ways.
In a series of letters written between 1822 and 1824, mostly to the CMS, Kendall attempted to describe Māori cosmological thought. One of Kendall’s conduits into understanding the Māori way of life was Tungaroa, the daughter of the tohunga of Rangihoua, with whom he had an affair. On learning of this, Samuel Marsden, his Sydney-based CMS superior, dismissed Kendall from his post. Although Kendall went on to hold another clerical post in Chile, he claimed in 1822 that the ‘apparent sublimity’ of Māori ideas had ‘almost completely turned [him] from a Christian to a Heathen’. He resolved this contradiction in his own mind by maintaining that Māori beliefs must somehow have been derived from scriptural knowledge.
In 1825, Kendall accepted a position as clergyman at the British consulate at Valparaiso, Chile, but the job did not last and he went to New South Wales in Australia[1], which he had sailed to in 1813, with his wife and 5 children, on the way to New Zealand. This time he obtained a land grant, in 1827, of 1,280 acres (5.2 km2), including large stands of cedar at Narrawallee Creek, Ulladulla, and property at Kiama, both on the South Coast of New South Wales. Two records indicate that he visited the Ulladulla area in 1828 where Millard's Creek enters what is now the harbour and there was a camp of Aboriginals on the north side[2].
Reverend Thomas Kendall also continued work as a clergyman throughout Illawara, the northern part of the South Coast[3].
He died in 1832 by drowning when the cutter "Brisbane", which he had purchased to transport the cedar and other produce from his farm, sank with all hands off the mouth of the Shoalhaven River[4], while transporting wood and cheese to market in Sydney.
Sources
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall
2. ↑ R.H. Cambage: Captain Cook’s Pigeon House and Early South Coast Exploration, 1920; and W.A.Bayley (Shoalhaven,p.34)
3. ↑ http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1733&context=ihsbulletin
4. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
• Biography: The Legacy of Guilt: a life of Thomas Kendall by Judith Binney.
• NSW Land Grant: A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850. Aboriginal Education Unit. The University of Wollongong, 1990. Michael Organ. http://www.ulladulla.info/tag/kendall-family has "late 1828".
DNA descendants
As of 17 Aug 2020, there are 24 DNA descendants related to Campbell Braddock on Ancestry.com via ThruLines. Below are the children and their DNA descendants.
• Susannah (Kendall) Bowden (1804 - 1881) 1 DNA descendant Match
• Elizabeth Jane (Kendall) Florence (1805 - 1870) 22 DNA descendant Matches
• Joseph Kendall (1811 - 1865) 1 DNA descendant Match
• Lawrence Kendall (1819 - 1881) 1 DNA descendant Match
Below are the children who didn't match with other descendants possible due to no living descendants or descendants who haven't taken a DNA Test.
1. Thomas Kendall
2. Edward Kendall
3. Basil Kendall
4. Samuel Kendall [unmarried] [no children]
5. John Kendall
Genealogy Links
• Thomas Kendall 1778–1832 from the Australian Royalty website at: https://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I45426&ged=purnellmccord.ged
Biography Links
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Teara
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Wkipedia
• Thomas Kendall Biography on NZ History
Photo/Painting Links
• Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika Panting
References
• a b Rogers, Lawrence M., (1973) Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, Pegasus Press, p. 35, f/n 7 & 39
• "New Zealander". Early shipping in New Zealand waters. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
• Raeside, J. D. (1 September 2010). "Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
• Moon, Paul (2012). Savage Country. Penguin Auckland. pp. 165–167.
• http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=1T34
• [Preview Kendall Book]
• Missionary Register, 1815.
http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
http://www.teara.govt. New Zealand/en/biographies/1k9/kendall-thomas
Arrived in the colony in 1813 with his wife and family on the ship Earl Spencer.
KENDALL, THOMAS, the first missionary in New Zealand, appointed the first resident magistrate in that colony by the Governor of New South Wales, November 9, 1814.
Page 125
The Rev. Mr. Marsden, accompanied by Messrs. KENDALL, Hall, and King, their wives, and several mechanics, with some sheep and cattle, embarked for New Zealand, from New South Wales, in a brig manned by convicts, and were well received by the natives of the Bay of Islands, from whom they purchased 200 acres of land (for 12 axes) on which to form a mission station.
November, 1814. Kidnapping and outrages carried on by Europeans on the New Zealanders. It was attempted to be suppressed by the New South Wales Government appointing Mr. Thomas KENDALL and three chiefs (Kuatara, Hongi, and Koro Koro) magistrates for the Bay of Islands territory 1814.
Page 176
In the November 1828 Census was listed as living at Illawarra.
Arrived on the "Elizabeth" in 1827
According to Steven Howard (steven_howard@compuserve.com) the Rev Thomas Kendall was a missionary in New Zealand from 1814 to 1825. From there he travelled to Chile and thence to Australia in 1827 where he settled at Ulladulla in New South Wales. Steven Howard has recorded Thomas Kendall as dying on 6 August 1832. He is recorded as being lost at sea off Jervis Bay, New South Wales, .8
A further source “Biography - A Legacy of Guilt” by Judith Binney (933.101 K33B) is listed by Malcolm Irving [27 Kriewaldt Cct, Higgins, ACT, 2615. (02) 6254-0643] for the death on 6 August 1832 and from the same reference, that he was lost at sea.
Arrived New South Wales 1813 as member of Church Missionary Society, appointed to work among the Maoris and study their language; settled at Bay of Islands, New Zealand, 1814 being appointed Justice of the Peace in November; opened school for Maori children, 1816; became involved in musket trade until his departure for Valparaiso, 1825 to work as chaplain and schoolmaster; visited England 1820-21 with two Maori chiefs.3
1814 Nov 8 Re permission to proceed to New Zealand and retain land in the Colony (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.361).3
1814 Nov 9 Natives not to be carried off from New Zealand without permission of chiefs (Reel 6044; 4/1730 pp.327-9).3
1814 Nov 9 General order re removing natives from New Zealand (Reel 6038; SZ759 p.1).3
1814 Nov 12 Appointed Justice of the Peace at Bay of Islands (Reel 6036; SZ759 p.3).3
1814 Nov 18 Re instructions to prevent distillation of spirits in New Zealand (Reel 6004; 4/3493 p.373).3
1815 Sept 6 Re runaways at Bay of Islands (Reel 6004; 4/3494 pp.165-6).3
1815 Sept 9 Captain H M Hovelll stating that Thomas Stardy, prisoner, had been placed on “Brothers” and John Mulse, prisoner, on “Trial’ (Reel 6045; 4/1733 p.170).3
1815 Oct 23 Re escape of five prisoners (Reel 6045; 4/1733 pp.83-5).3
1815 Nov 29 To Hovell, master of “Trial” re Kendall’s assertion that runaways on board “Trial” (Reel 6004; 4/3494 p.272).3
1816 Nov 11 Re embarkation of Whikakadda (Reel 6046; 4/1736 p.167).3
1821 Jan 4 Wife of sailed to New Zealand per “Active”, 12 Apr 1817 (Reel 6007; 4/3503 p.10).3
1824 Feb 21 Seeking confirmation of his appointment as a Justice of the Peace; also wished to ascertain whether he would be paid for the apprehension of runaway convicts (Reel 6059; 4/1774 p.20).3
1824 Jun 5 Re duties as Justice of the Peace, Bay of Island, New Zealand (Reel 6019; 4/3522 p.66).3
Kendall, Thomas. Mr and Mrs. Arrived from Englandand. Sydney Gazette Oct 16, 1813
Kendall, Thomas. Subscription to, New South Wales, Philanthropic Society. Sydney Gazette Jan 22, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. Leaving the colony. Sydney Gazette Feb 26, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. Sent by Rev S Marsden to establish a friendly intercourse with the natives of N.Z. Sydney Gazette Aug 27, 1814
Kendall, Thomas and family. Leaving the colony. Sydney Gazette Oct 29, 1814
Kendall, Thomas (missionary). Appointed a Justice of the Peace, Bay of Islands. Sydney Gazette Nov 12, 1814
Kendall, Thomas. N.Z. mission established. Sydney Gazette March 25, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Account of Mr Marden’s visit to New Zealand. Sydney Gazette Apr 29 & May 6, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Letter for. Sydney Gazette Aug 12, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Account of N.Z. mission. Sydney Gazette Aug 19, 1815
Kendall, Thomas. Grant. Sydney Gazette Jan 24, 1818
Kendall, Thomas. New Zealand mission. Sydney Gazette Jan 9, 1819
Kendall, Thomas. Sailed from New Zealand for England . Sydney Gazette June 3, 1820
Kendall, Thomas. Land Grant. Sydney Gazette May 5, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Arrived from England by the Cpeke. Sydney Gazette May 19 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Account of visit of Maori chiefs to England , & Mr Kendall’s plan for re-establishing a school in New Zealand. Sydney Gazette June 2, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Letter of appreciation to Capt. McPherson. Sydney Gazette June 2, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Correction of statement re his family in Gazette of 2nd June. Sydney Gazette June 9, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Leaving for New Zealand. Sydney Gazette June 16, 1821
Kendall, Rev Thomas. Sailed for New Zealand. Sydney Gazette July 7, 1821
Kendall, Thomas. at Bay of Islands. Sydney Gazzette Jan 16, 1823
Kendall, Thomas. Sent over to New Zealand by the Church Missionary Society. Sydney Gazette Dec 11 182? p.4
Kendall, Thomas. Has returned from New Zealand. Sydney Gazette April 14, 1825 p.2
Biography
Thomas Walter Kendall was born in 1778 in Lincolnshire, England to Edward Kendall and Susannah Surflit. He was one of New Zealand’s first Christian missionaries and was based at the Church Missionary Society station in the Bay of Islands from 1814 until 1821. He pioneered the transcription of the Māori language, and also investigated how Māori understood the universe. In doing so, however, he attracted hostility from others in the Australasian mission world.
On a trip to London in 1805, the 26-year-old Lincolnshire grocer and draper from Lincolnshire had a profound religious experience. Soon afterwards he sold his business, moved his family south, and became an ardent member of the congregation of Bentinck Chapel, in Marylebone. In 1808 Kendall asked the Church Missionary Society to send him to New Zealand, but it was not until 1813 that he was chosen to be the schoolmaster at the planned mission settlement. He finally set sail, with his family, on 31 May 1813 on board the Earl Spencer arriving at Port Jackson, Australia on 10 October.
The mission was founded at Rangihoua, in the northern Bay of Islands, in December 1814, under the patronage of the chiefs Hongi Hika and Ruatara. It comprised three missionary families. The following year Kendall had the first book in Māori published in Sydney, and in 1816 he opened his missionary school. Education was an important way of introducing Māori children to Biblical scripture and European ways.
In a series of letters written between 1822 and 1824, mostly to the CMS, Kendall attempted to describe Māori cosmological thought. One of Kendall’s conduits into understanding the Māori way of life was Tungaroa, the daughter of the tohunga of Rangihoua, with whom he had an affair. On learning of this, Samuel Marsden, his Sydney-based CMS superior, dismissed Kendall from his post. Although Kendall went on to hold another clerical post in Chile, he claimed in 1822 that the ‘apparent sublimity’ of Māori ideas had ‘almost completely turned [him] from a Christian to a Heathen’. He resolved this contradiction in his own mind by maintaining that Māori beliefs must somehow have been derived from scriptural knowledge.
In 1825, Kendall accepted a position as clergyman at the British consulate at Valparaiso, Chile, but the job did not last and he went to New South Wales in Australia[1], which he had sailed to in 1813, with his wife and 5 children, on the way to New Zealand. This time he obtained a land grant, in 1827, of 1,280 acres (5.2 km2), including large stands of cedar at Narrawallee Creek, Ulladulla, and property at Kiama, both on the South Coast of New South Wales. Two records indicate that he visited the Ulladulla area in 1828 where Millard's Creek enters what is now the harbour and there was a camp of Aboriginals on the north side[2].
Reverend Thomas Kendall also continued work as a clergyman throughout Illawara, the northern part of the South Coast[3].
He died in 1832 by drowning when the cutter "Brisbane", which he had purchased to transport the cedar and other produce from his farm, sank with all hands off the mouth of the Shoalhaven River[4], while transporting wood and cheese to market in Sydney.
Sources
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall
2. ↑ R.H. Cambage: Captain Cook’s Pigeon House and Early South Coast Exploration, 1920; and W.A.Bayley (Shoalhaven,p.34)
3. ↑ http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1733&context=ihsbulletin
4. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
• Biography: The Legacy of Guilt: a life of Thomas Kendall by Judith Binney.
• NSW Land Grant: A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850. Aboriginal Education Unit. The University of Wollongong, 1990. Michael Organ. http://www.ulladulla.info/tag/kendall-family has "late 1828".
Genealogy Links
• Thomas Kendall 1778–1832 from the Australian Royalty website at: https://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I45426&ged=purnellmccord.ged
Biography Links
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Teara
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Wkipedia
• Thomas Kendall Biography on NZ History
Photo/Painting Links
• Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika Panting
References
• a b Rogers, Lawrence M., (1973) Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, Pegasus Press, p. 35, f/n 7 & 39
• "New Zealander". Early shipping in New Zealand waters. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
• Raeside, J. D. (1 September 2010). "Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
• Moon, Paul (2012). Savage Country. Penguin Auckland. pp. 165–167.
• http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=1T34
• [Preview Kendall Book]
• Missionary Register, 1815.
=========================================================================================================================
Contents
[hide]
• 1 Biography
• 2 Sources
• 2.1 DNA descendants
• 2.2 Genealogy Links
• 2.3 Biography Links
• 2.4 Photo/Painting Links
• 2.5 References
Biography
Thomas Walter Kendall was born in 1778 in Lincolnshire, England to Edward Kendall and Susannah Surflit. He was one of New Zealand’s first Christian missionaries and was based at the Church Missionary Society station in the Bay of Islands from 1814 until 1821. He pioneered the transcription of the Māori language, and also investigated how Māori understood the universe. In doing so, however, he attracted hostility from others in the Australasian mission world.
On a trip to London in 1805, the 26-year-old Lincolnshire grocer and draper from Lincolnshire had a profound religious experience. Soon afterwards he sold his business, moved his family south, and became an ardent member of the congregation of Bentinck Chapel, in Marylebone. In 1808 Kendall asked the Church Missionary Society to send him to New Zealand, but it was not until 1813 that he was chosen to be the schoolmaster at the planned mission settlement. He finally set sail, with his family, on 31 May 1813 on board the Earl Spencer arriving at Port Jackson, Australia on 10 October.
The mission was founded at Rangihoua, in the northern Bay of Islands, in December 1814, under the patronage of the chiefs Hongi Hika and Ruatara. It comprised three missionary families. The following year Kendall had the first book in Māori published in Sydney, and in 1816 he opened his missionary school. Education was an important way of introducing Māori children to Biblical scripture and European ways.
In a series of letters written between 1822 and 1824, mostly to the CMS, Kendall attempted to describe Māori cosmological thought. One of Kendall’s conduits into understanding the Māori way of life was Tungaroa, the daughter of the tohunga of Rangihoua, with whom he had an affair. On learning of this, Samuel Marsden, his Sydney-based CMS superior, dismissed Kendall from his post. Although Kendall went on to hold another clerical post in Chile, he claimed in 1822 that the ‘apparent sublimity’ of Māori ideas had ‘almost completely turned [him] from a Christian to a Heathen’. He resolved this contradiction in his own mind by maintaining that Māori beliefs must somehow have been derived from scriptural knowledge.
In 1825, Kendall accepted a position as clergyman at the British consulate at Valparaiso, Chile, but the job did not last and he went to New South Wales in Australia[1], which he had sailed to in 1813, with his wife and 5 children, on the way to New Zealand. This time he obtained a land grant, in 1827, of 1,280 acres (5.2 km2), including large stands of cedar at Narrawallee Creek, Ulladulla, and property at Kiama, both on the South Coast of New South Wales. Two records indicate that he visited the Ulladulla area in 1828 where Millard's Creek enters what is now the harbour and there was a camp of Aboriginals on the north side[2].
Reverend Thomas Kendall also continued work as a clergyman throughout Illawara, the northern part of the South Coast[3].
He died in 1832 by drowning when the cutter "Brisbane", which he had purchased to transport the cedar and other produce from his farm, sank with all hands off the mouth of the Shoalhaven River[4], while transporting wood and cheese to market in Sydney.
Sources
1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Kendall
2. ↑ R.H. Cambage: Captain Cook’s Pigeon House and Early South Coast Exploration, 1920; and W.A.Bayley (Shoalhaven,p.34)
3. ↑ http://ro.uow.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1733&context=ihsbulletin
4. ↑ http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/kendall-thomas-2296
• Biography: The Legacy of Guilt: a life of Thomas Kendall by Judith Binney.
• NSW Land Grant: A Documentary History of the Illawarra and South Coast Aborigines 1770-1850. Aboriginal Education Unit. The University of Wollongong, 1990. Michael Organ. http://www.ulladulla.info/tag/kendall-family has "late 1828".
DNA descendants
As of 17 Aug 2020, there are 24 DNA descendants related to Campbell Braddock on Ancestry.com via ThruLines. Below are the children and their DNA descendants.
• Susannah (Kendall) Bowden (1804 - 1881) 1 DNA descendant Match
• Elizabeth Jane (Kendall) Florence (1805 - 1870) 22 DNA descendant Matches
• Joseph Kendall (1811 - 1865) 1 DNA descendant Match
• Lawrence Kendall (1819 - 1881) 1 DNA descendant Match
Below are the children who didn't match with other descendants possible due to no living descendants or descendants who haven't taken a DNA Test.
1. Thomas Kendall
2. Edward Kendall
3. Basil Kendall
4. Samuel Kendall [unmarried] [no children]
5. John Kendall
Genealogy Links
• Thomas Kendall 1778–1832 from the Australian Royalty website at: https://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I45426&ged=purnellmccord.ged
Biography Links
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Teara
• Thomas Kendall Biography on Wkipedia
• Thomas Kendall Biography on NZ History
Photo/Painting Links
• Thomas Kendall with Hongi Hika Panting
References
• a b Rogers, Lawrence M., (1973) Te Wiremu: A Biography of Henry Williams, Pegasus Press, p. 35, f/n 7 & 39
• "New Zealander". Early shipping in New Zealand waters. Retrieved 10 November 2013.
• Raeside, J. D. (1 September 2010). "Thierry, Charles Philippe Hippolyte de – Biography". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Retrieved 27 December 2013.
• Moon, Paul (2012). Savage Country. Penguin Auckland. pp. 165–167.
• http://www.dnzb.govt.nz/DNZB/alt_essayBody.asp?essayID=1T34
• [Preview Kendall Book]
• Missionary Register, 1815.