Richmond NSW Family Burial Plot - Part 1
My maternal 2nd Great Grandfather, Sebastian Hodge was born in Barnstaple, Devon England on March 7, 1829.  His trade was carpentry and he emigrated to Australia as an assisted immigrant on the ship “Rose of Sharon” arriving in Sydney on April 13, 1855.  He eventually settled in Bathurst, NSW continuing his carpentry trade.  Sebastian married Emma Eliza (nee Mills) on Nov 4, 1857 at The Manse at Bathurst. Â
Emma was the youngest daughter of John Mills & Mary (nee Manning) and was born in Richmond NSW on 16 April 1837. Â
Around 1862 Sebastian set up an Undertaking and Carpentry business in Bathurst.  He became quite the entrepreneur setting up a timber merchants store and acquiring quite a portfolio of properties including the building of a set of town houses in Keppel Street that still stand today…
