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James John Cadell
arrived in Australia from the coal mining district of Grange Boness,
Scotland on 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.
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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
Catherine died of typhus fever in April
1862 aged 40. Following her death
James 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
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