James John Cadell - Raymond Terrace

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JAMES JOHN CADELL

Raymond Terrace

James John Cadell arrived from the coal mining district of Grange Boness, Scotland on board the Portland in 1839. He was living in Kent Street, Sydney at the time of his marriage to Catherine Cadell on 21 July 1841 and by 1845 had purchased land from James King at Raymond Terrace. Here he built 'Cadell Cottage', a sandstone house with a nine foot verandah running the full width of the house. A full description and photograph of Cadell Cottage can be found on page 34 in Cecily Mitchell's Hunter's River.

In September 1848 he had the unpleasant duty of informing the parents of two year old Mary Carney that their daughter would not survive. Mary, just a year older than Dr. Cadell's eldest daughter Isabella, had been run over by the wheel of her parent's bullock dray as they were entering the yard of their Miller's Forest property. The wheel of the dray knocked Mary over and passed over her chest. The distraught parents rushed her to Dr. Cadell at Raymond Terrace but there was nothing he could do as internal organs had been ruptured and he advised them to take her home immediately.

Dr. Cadell's daughter Isabella who was born in October 1847, had a more fortunate life, later marrying John Windeyer of Kinross, the Commissioner for Crown Lands. Isabella had ten brothers and sisters - Catherine, James, John, William, Mary Buchan, Christian, Agnes Alison, Harriett Ann, Henry, Charles and Martha Lillee

Following Catherine's death Dr. Cadell married Elizabeth Cahill and had four more children: Julia, Francis Augustus, Lewis, and Alfred Boyd Cadell.

James John Cadell died at Raymond Terrace in 1884

For more information see

1. Australian Pioneer Medical Index

2. Raymond Terrace & District Historical Society