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Notes

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Note for:   John Kell Tate,   13 Jan 1818 - 25 Apr 1876

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He worked as an overseer on John Oxley's farm "Kirkham" at Camden

John (Tate) and his father-in-law, George Wood Snr appear to have
played an important part in the establishment of the Anglican Church of
the Resurrection in Jamberoo. It stands on Tate's Hill, on land donated
by George Wood Snr, who also contributed 50 pounds. The building of the
church to a Norman design by E.T.Blackett was not without incident.
During its construction and again after its consecration in 1867, the
church was subjected to vandalism of the stone crosses on its gable
ends.Advertisements over the name of John Tate offering a reward for
information leading to the culprits, on behalf of the Building
Committee, appeared in the "Independent" on 17th May 1866.
Nearly ten years after its completion, four stained glass windows were
installed in the church, two of them at the expense of John's and
Edward's wives, Sarah (Wood) Tate, and Jane (Wood) Tate.John's wife,
Sarah, had undertaken to place one in memory of her three children who
died young, but sadly she died before it was installed.( The headstones
of these children can still be seen in the old Church of England
Cemetery.)Jane Ellen Tate contributed the other in memory of her father,
George Wood Snr who died in 1871. " etc........

George Tate jnr was a blacksmith and Edward Tate a wheelwright, with Fowler Bros., Campbelltown.
John Tate was a storekeeper. All three came to Jamberoo in 1841. George and Edward at the side of an old track that led past where the Catholic Church now stands, John opened a store on the adjacent hill.

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