Taree area NSW - Family Tree

We took Mum on a day trip to see where her (and mine) ancestors use to live. At Forster, we were only about 40 mins away, so it was a good opportunity to do some Family History. 

Ezra Perrett and his wife Rebecca (Gordon) came by boat from the Hunter region to Croki on Jones Island. Croaki is a little village on the Manning River.
 It is predominately a dairy area, and fishing port.

Every time we travel the East Coast, we stop in the Taree area. We have stayed in many of the Caravan Parks. Initially, all I knew about the Perretts was that they lived in Croki on Jones Island, but I had no idea where. I found a newspaper article about the selling of the Perrett house, and it ai there was a Norfolk Pine tree that was planted at the front of the house when they first moved to Croki. There are a number of Nolfolk Pines there. The article also went on to say that the tree had been hit by lightning and had grown 7 (or 8 - can't remember without looking it up) branches - one for each child. On our next trip I found the tree. The house was gone, but one of the sheds was still there. The tree has now gone, but I know where the house was. 
This photo was just inside the front gate.

Ezra & Rebecca Perrett had Sarah Annie Chase Perrett. She is my great grandmother, and my mothers grandmother. She would have lived in this house until she married William McCartney from nearby Cundletown. 

This is my mum outside the property.

One of the original Croki houses.

Croki Village - surveyed 29 May 1898. 

The Perretts arrived here in the 1830's.

This is just around the corner from the Perrett House. Mum was tired and stayed in the car.

We are parked near the pool at the end of the wharf.

This is the old butter factory, across the river on Manning Island. 

Some of the Perrett children worked here. They would catch a ferry from the wharf to the factory.

The graves of Ezra and Rebecca are on Manning Island, up the hill from the Butter Factory.
The graves on Manning Island overlook their property on Jones Island.

Mum was too tired to travel to Manning Island, so we didn't do the 'graves part'.

These trees would have been here when the Perrett children lived here. 

They are around the swimming enclosure.

The swimming enclosure.

Croki Wharf

We drove to nearby Cundletown and saw the house that is now built on the old hotel that the McCartney family ran. It burnt down, but the cellar still remains. 

We also saw the old butchers shop, which was also owned by McCartneys. 

We drove through Taree to Glenthorne, where this monument states the land was given by the Robinson Family (married into the Perretts) and the church, which is now removed, was paid for by the Trotter Family (also married into the Perrett Family)

 This is the old school house, next to the church, which has now been renovated as a private home.

 

One of the old farm buildings in Glenthorne.

Some interesting letter boxes at Glenthorne.

We then headed back to Forster.