Individual Notes

Note for: Laura Tindal, ABT 1819 - 1873 Index

Individual Note:

Laura, died unwed.

Individual Notes

Note for: Isabella Tindal, 1822 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   28 JUN 1822
     Place:   Honiton on Otter, Devon. eng

Individual Notes

Note for: Charles Grant Tindal, 31 JUL 1823 - 16 JAN 1914 Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 OCT 1823
     Place:   Honniton on Otter, Devon, Eng

Individual Note:

From Burke's History of the Colonial Gentry, Volume II, Pages 478-480

CHARLES GRANT TINDAL, of Bonshaw, Inverell, and Ramornie, New South Wales, now residing at Fir Grove, Winchfield, Hants, b. 31st July 1823; m. 14th August, 1856, ANNE AMORY, daughter of JOHN TRAVERS, of London. Mr. C. G. Tindal sailed in the barque "Hamlet" from England, on 4th September, 1843, and landed at Sydney, 17th December 1843. He established in 1866, the industry of preserving meat on Appert's principle, and also the manufacture of Liebig's extract of meat, both of which industries have been carried on at Ramornie since that time, by the Australian Meat Company, on a very large scale.

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AUSTRALIAN DICTIONARY OF BIOGRAPHY

VOLUME 6 1851 - 1890

State Library of New South Wales, Sydney.

T1NDAL, CHARLES GRANT (1823 - 1910)

Cattle-breeder and canned meat manufacturer, was born on 31 July 1823 at Littleton Cottage, Honiton, Devonshire, England, eldest son of Lieutenant Charles Tindal (1786-1859), R.N. and later governor of the West End branch of the Bank of England, and his wife Anne Sarah (1794-1879), nee Grant. Educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham, he spent two years farming in Norfolk which he considered a waste of time 'tho' it was useful in other ways'. In 1843 he brought out rams for his father's naval colleague William Ogilvie, arriving in Sydney on 17 December in the 'Hamlet' Unable to get work as a station superintendent he accepted Ogilvie's invitation to Merton on the Hunter River. In the next five years he accompanied the brothers W. K. and E. D. S. Ogilvie and others on various expeditions in northern New South Wales. Despite 'differences in temperament' he worked with E D.S. Ogilvie at Yulgilbar until late 1849.

By September 1850 when his brother Frederick Colquhoun (1829-1855) joined him, Tindal had leased Koreelah station near the headwaters of the Clarence. They worked hard and prospered. In September 1852 he bought Ramornie at Copmanhurst which was the headquarters of his Australian enterprises. Early in 1855 he sailed for England and on 14 august 1856 at St Mary's Church, Turville, Buckinghamsbire, he married Anne Amory Travers (1832-1901). After sight-seeing and business trips in Europe and England, they returned to New South Wales in January 1857 and work was started on a stone homestead at Ramornie that was occupied in December 1858.

Tindal had brought with him four thoroughbred stallions including Pitsford who sired, Ramornie, winner of the 1863 Australian Jockey Club Derby and a great influence on Australian racing stock in the l860s. In 185 8-61 he owned Sir Hercules, who established a male line that survived until the twentieth century. In June 1858 Tindal claimed 'I have now the best English and the best Colonial bred horse in the country'. From the early 1 850s Tindal was also a celebrated breeder of Suffolk Punch draughthorses; he found that they 'stood the heat much better than the Shires, (and) they did well to cross with their light horses, so as to get saleable "gunners" or artillery horses for India". In the 1850s he ran mainly Shorthorn cattle but later set up Devon and Hereford studs.

In 1862 Tindal and his family returned to England, settling in the late l860s at Fir Grove, Eversley, Hampshire. He made two long visits to his Australian properties in 1879 -1881 and 1886 - 1889, and kept a very close scrutiny on his colonial ventures. In 1865 he launched the Australian Meat Co. in London with a capital of One Hundred Thousand Pounds. Early in 1866 plant and tin-plate were shipped to Ramornie; meat extract production, which was based on Justus Von Liebig's process, and canning began in September. Within a few years Ramornie brand canned meats had become well established on the English market. With some 35, beasts slaughtered annually, the cannery ensured a regular market to the local cattlemen and one of the largest suppliers was Tindal himself. Preserved meat, tallow, artificial manure, hides and pelts were also produced.

Tindals income from the'company ranged 'from Ten Pound to Twenty Thousand Pounds a year', and in 1879 he bought out the other shareholders. Next year the first consignment of frozen meat from Australia to London marked the beginning of the company's gradual decline. As the meatworks had prospered so Tindal had increased his holdings in land and stock. In 1885 he purchased the amalgamated stations of Bonshaw and Goomam on both sides of the New South Wales/Queensland border near Texas. Later he bought the adjoining property, Tiygamon, and, at the end of the century, Albany Downs in the Maranoa District, Queensland. In 1893 to evade being taxed as a non-resident he took his eldest son Charles Frederick (1857-1938); in 1910 to avoid death duties he made over the properties to him.

Troubled by failing eyesight, Tindal died of senile Decay at Fir Grove on 16 January 1914 and was buried in the Eversley churchyard. He was survived by two sons and five daughters; his English estate was sworn for probate at Two Hundred and Twenty Four Thousand, Nine Hundred and Sixty Five Pounds. Hard on himself, his
family and his employees, he had great physical strength and a strong loyalty to the Crown and to old servants; above all, he remained devoted to the Australian Meat Co., even in its days of decline. It was sold to the Kensington Meat Preserving Co. in 1915.

Information taken from =
E J Brady, Australia unlimited (Melbourne 1918)
D M Barrie, The Australian Bloodhorse (Sydney 1956)
L T Daley, Men and a River (Melbourne 1966)
K T Farrer, The Beginning of the Australian Canning Industry (held by author)
J F Sevens, Histories of pioneers in the Clarence, Hunter and Richmond districts (ML, Clarence River Historical Society)
Tindal Letter-book (Mitchell Library Sydney)
Tindal Papers (University of New England Archives, Tamworth New South Wales)

Individual Notes

Note for: Edward Robert Tindal, 1825 - 7 JUN 1855 Index

Christening:
     Date:   9 MAY 1825
     Place:   Honiton on Otter, Devon. eng

Individual Note:

Edward died unwed.

Individual Notes

Note for: Adelaide Tindal, ABT 1830 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 FEB 1833
     Place:   St. Mary, St. Marylebone, london. Eng

Individual Notes

Note for: Frederick Colquhoun Tindal, ABT 1833 - 22 JUN 1855 Index

Christening:
     Date:   25 FEB 1833
     Place:   St. Mary, Marylebone, London. Eng

Individual Note:

Frederick, drowned in the Clarence River.

Individual Notes

Note for: Mary Tindal, ABT 1834 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   28 SEP 1834
     Place:   Edgbaston, Warwick, Eng

Individual Notes

Note for: Arthur de Veuille Tindal, ABT 1837 - 7 AUG 1854 Index

Christening:
     Date:   1 JUN 1837
     Place:   St. Thomas, Birmingham, Eng

Individual Note:

Arthur, lost when the ship Isabella a vessel between Grafton and Sydney disappeared with no trace.

Individual Notes

Note for: Francis Herringham Tindal, ABT 1840 - 1857 Index

Christening:
     Date:   10 AUG 1840
     Place:   St. Thomas, Birmingham, Eng

Individual Notes

Note for: Robert Duncan King, 1816 - UNKNOWN Index

Christening:
     Date:   3 FEB 1816
     Place:   St. Mary's. Chelmsford, Essex, Eng

Individual Note:
     From St Mary's Chelmsford Essex Baptismal Records
King, Robert Duncan - baptised 3 February 1816, son of John Duncan King, a Lieutenant in the 7th Fuziliers and Sally his wife, of Chelmsford.

Individual Notes

Note for: Thomas Frost Gepp, 16 APR 1767 - 15 APR 1832 Index

Christening:
     Date:   20 MAY 1767
     Place:   St. Mary's, Chelmsford, Essex

Burial:
     Date:   21 APR 1832
     Place:   St. Mary's, Chelmsford, Essex

Individual Note:
     Married at St Mary's Chelmsford, Essex by Licence
Educated at Felsted School, Essex
Attorney at Law
Clerk to the Commissioners of Sewers, Burnham and Bradwell levels
Clerk to the Commissioners of Land Tax for Essex
Deputy Treasurer of the Western Division of Essex
Distributor of Stamps
Under Sheriff for Essex
Capt. 2nd Batt. Essex Local Militia
Major Commandant of Corps of Loyal Chelmsford Volunteers