ALFRED DOOREY FAMILY HISTORY –TIMELINE information provided to R Binnington from Stuart Nicol (Charles (Robert) Doorey was Stuart Nicol’s mothers father) Charles (Robert) Doorey was the son of Alfred Doorey’s second marriage to Harriet Shellard. As far as I know, no-one has been able to trace any of the Doorey family prior to 1834. The information available is quite complex and I have been organising it onto a timeline so it makes some type of sense. There are many branches of the family who have been involved in family research but none have had any success pre 1834. The timeline will give you an overall summary of people and events and I have also included additional notes, which may help. AGE YEAR DETAILS 0 1834 Alfred Doorey born 19 November 1834 in Bromley,

Kent, England. [Source: Lillian May Baulch – notes] 13 1847 Alfred Doorey indicted for embezzling and confined for12 months.

.”The Times” Saturday 31 July 1847 Yesterday, Alfred Doorey, a boy aged 13 years, was charged with stealing 42 guineas, the monies of his master, Mr Charles Daley, bookseller,14 Greville St, Hatton Garden. The lad had been in Mr Daley’s service only one month. On Saturday last, the prosecutor gave the lad a check for 92 guineas on the London and Westminster Bank in Holborn, and directed him to procure 50 guineas in notes and 42 guineas in gold. The prisoner,instead of obeying his master’s directions, obtained a 50 guinea note and 42 sovereigns. The note he enclosed in an envelope, and forwarded it by post to his master, who received it in the same afternoon. The prisoner appropriated the sovereigns to his own use, and no more was heard of him until Thursday morning, when a respectable inhabitant of Linchombe called the attention of Collett, a police constable, 283K, to a lad who, it was represented had been exhibiting a large sum of money, and who had slept in a coffee house in Emmett Street, Poplar, the preceding night. Collett took the lad into custody, and found in a bag he delivered to him, 31 sovereigns and 8 shillings in silver. The police constable also took from the prisoner a new suit of clothes and various other articles recently purchased by him. The lad was called upon to give an account of himself, and he related that his father was formerly a farmer at Newbury, in Berkshire, and died in January last leaving the farm to the management of his mother, who also died in May last, and was buried in the same grave. Previous to his mother’s decease she made over the farm and the whole of the property thereon to his uncle, on condition of supporting him (the prisoner),and apprenticing him to some respectable trade. His uncle, instead of complying with his mother’s dying request, sold the farm and all that was upon it, and put up at a lodgings at a public house in Newbury, where he remained for a few days, and then abandoned him, leaving upon his pillow a bag containing 43 guineas in gold. He sought for his uncle, and was unable to find him, and not being able to find any employment at Newbury, he started for Reading and came by the road to London. The boy was brought before the magistrate on Thursday evening, and he related the same story. Mr Ballantine directed that he should be detained and requested that Inspector Coward of the K Division, to write to the authorities at Newbury on the subject, which was done. The boy hadn’t been long in the custody of Roche, the gaoler of the court, when he confessed

that the story about Newbury and the death of his parents was pure invention, and that his name was not William Watson, but Alfred Dorey, and that his father William Dorey, was a barge builder, living at 5 Crownyard, Kent Street, Southwark; that on Saturday last he was sent to obtain cash for a check for 92 guineas by his master, Mr Daley of Greville Street. On leaving the banking house he was accosted in Holburn by a boy who persuaded him to send the 50 guineas note to his master and decamp with the sovereigns and spend them. They started for Gravesend where his companion took a few sovereigns from him and left him. He said he had never seen him since. Roche immediately communicated with Mr Daley who appeared yesterday and identified the lad. He said the prisoner had been for some time in the service of a neighbour and maintained a good character before employing him. The prisoner, who sobbed loudly, said he had no defence to make. Mr Ballantine, in committing the prisoner for trial, said he was sorry to find a boy so young exhibiting so much duplicity and cunning. He gave direction to the police constable to restore the 34 sovereigns to Mr Daley who might want to use them in his trade, but the prosecutor must abide by any orders the judge might think proper to make on the trial.

“Old Bailey Session Papers” Microfilm No FM4/5859 Tenth Session 1846 – 47 OLD COURT: Saturday 21st 1847 Hearing 1850: ALFRED DOOREY was indicted for embezzling 42 pounds which he had received on account of Charles Daley, his master, to which he pleaded guilty. Aged 13 – Recommended to mercy by the prosecutor – confined 12 months.

18 1853 24 December: Alfred Doorey married Elizabeth John Kirkpatrick (b 20 Nov 1836) at St Andrews Presbyterian Church, Geelong, Victoria. Alfred’s Parents are listed as William Doorey and Helen Osborn and Elizabeth John’s as William Kirkpatrick and Helen Davis.

19 1854 12 November: Alfred Osborn Kirkpatrick born in NSW …known as AOK(below) to distinguish him from his father.

21 1856 10 March: Adolphus William born in Sydney. 23 1858 15 March: Lilley Lavinia born Sydney. 25 1859 8 December: Edwin born Sydney. 27 1861 3 December: Walter born Penrith. 28 1863 25 December: Herbert born Penrith. 30 1865 Herbert died aged 18 months.

16 August:Herberta born Penrith. 32 1867 Alfred Dorey (Doorey) listed as a shopkeeper, Penrith.

[P.O. Directory NSW 1867 Queensland Archives] 4 October: Harley Howard born Penrith.

35 1870 9 April: Mant Dufferin born Penrith. 37 1872 11 March: Stanley Hope born Penrith. 39 1874 22 January: Blanche Severn born Stanthorpe, Qld 40 1876 AOK married Amelia Smith. Their baby Blanche died in 1876, not to be

confused with Blanche Severn, his Sister.

43 1878 17 April: Alfred Doorey fathered a daughter, Edith Shellard Doorey, born in Toowoomba, to Harriet Shellard, spinster. Alfred and his wife and children were living at South Brisbane at the time. 18 November: Elizabeth John Kirkpatrick died at South Brisbane.

44 1879 16 September: Alfred Doorey married Harriet Shellard in Toowoomba Parish Church.

45 1880 10 July: Charles Robert Doorey born Thornton,Laidley, Queensland. 46 1880 23 November: Blanche Severn (b 1874) died aged 6 46 1881 18 June: Alfred Doorey died on Mount Mistake, Queensland.