CHRISTOPHER WOODWARD MAWBEY (aka MAWBY)

In May 1844, Christopher Woodward Mawbey, labourer and orphan, was among 10 members of a Mawbey family nominated for assisted emigration to Australia.
Financial backing for this was provided by the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union at the parish of Loughton in Buckinghamshire, England.
At that time, according to a digital record of this assisted emigration approval held by the UK National Archives at Kew, England, the spelling of the family name was MAWBEY, not MAWBY as it later became in Australia.
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Online genealogy forums reveal further information about this C W Mawbey, b.c. 1828, his ancestors and his descendants:
- Baptised on 16 November 1829 at Loughton, Buckinghamshire, England.
- Arrived in Melbourne on the Abberton on 22 September 1844 with his uncle Thomas and family having left Britain from Cork, Ireland
- Aged 16 when he arrived (b.c. 1828)
- Married Elizabeth Ann Hodge on 1 March 1853 in Melbourne, Australia.
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DESCENDANTS
Another Christopher Woodward Mawby was born in Melbourne 1893 and died at Daylesford in 1976.
[Sources: message boards of Genealogy.com, RootsWeb's WorldConnect and Mundia]
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ANCESTORS
- Ancestors were Richard Mawbey and Susanna Woodward who married c. 1770.
- They parented Joseph bap 12 November 1770; Katherine bap 22 September 1775, d. 1777; and Christopher Woodward (1), bap 14 February 1779.
- All of these christenings occurred in the parish of Loughton, Buckinghamshire.
[Source: FamilySearch]
- Christopher Woodward (1) married Catherine Travel on 17 November 1800 at Loughton.
- Among their children were Joseph Mawbey who married Cherlotte Reeve, Christopher Woodward Mawby (2), Richard baptised 27 February 1807 and Catharine.
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A Christopher Woodward Mawbey married in 1837 at Newport Pagnell, Buckingshire.

THOMAS MAWBEY & FAMILY

Thomas Mawbey and his family, including his orphaned nephew, Christopher Woodward Mawbey, were given assisted passage to Melbourne in 1844 by the Newport Pagnell Poor Law Union of the parish of Loughton, Buckinghamshire.
Thomas, a carpenter, brought with him his two sons, Joseph, a labourer and George, plus his wife Mary and five daughters Betsy, Susannah, Charlotte, 'Margham' (Margaret?) and Sarah.
[Source: UK National Archives, Kew, online digital record MH 12/489/145]
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This family appears to be the second Mawbeys to arrive in Melbourne, just a couple of years after one of the area's pioneers, Henry Mawbey of Surrey, England.
Henry was later joined by his older brother William who had arrived in NSW as a convict and served a seven year sentence there.

ERASMUS MAWBEY TREWINNARD

The Argus, Melbourne, 26 January 1865
Constable ERASMUS MAWBEY TREWINNARD appointed inspector of slaughterhouses, and cattle intended for slaughter, for police district of Kyneton.
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This was also announced in the Victorian Police Gazette of the same date.
In the 20 October 1864 issue, it had been announced he had been appointed  as a constable, number 2012.
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He appears to have been born in 1844 in Surrey, England and was living there at the time of the 1851 and 1861 censuses.
At the time of the latter, he was living in Bermondsey, London.
He appears to have married Mary Hill in 1895 and died on 2 February 1897 with probate granted in Melbourne, Victoria on 26 March that year.
His wife died in 1903 at Cormella, Victoria.
[Sources: FamilySearch, Find My Past, Ancestry]
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His name suggests he was the son of a female Mawbey who married a Trewinnard.
'Trewinnard' is a Cornish name and a woman bearing it in the medieval era was one of the few  British female pirates.
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I have not been able to find any record of how and when he arrived in Australia.

GEORGE PATON MAWBEY

The Argus, Melbourne, 3 July 1849
List of electors for district of Port Phillip ... GEORGE PATON MAWBEY .