Jean Edith Lindeman Bennett

Generation: 1

1. Jean Edith Lindeman Bennett was born in 1915 (daughter of David Hugh Bennett and Edith Mackenzie Lindeman).

Generation: 2

2.	David Hugh Bennett was born on 12 Jun 1881 (son of William Edmund Bennett and Jane Isabella Bell); died on 2 Mar 1951. David married Edith Mackenzie Lindeman on 10 Jun 1914. Edith was born in 1890. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

3.
Edith Mackenzie Lindeman was born in 1890.
Children:

1. Jean Edith Lindeman Bennett was born in 1915.

Living

Generation: 3

4.	William Edmund Bennett was born on 7 Aug 1845 in Sydney (son of Dr George Bennett, MD. FRCS and Julia Anne Luduvina da Silva Cameron). William married Jane Isabella Bell in 1876 in Armidale. Jane died in 1920. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Jane Isabella Bell died in 1920.

Notes:

of Walcha

Children:

Margaret Miriam Bennett was born in 1877; died in 1969.
Archibald Edmund Bennett was born in 1879; died in 1945.
2. David Hugh Bennett was born on 12 Jun 1881; died on 2 Mar 1951.

Generation: 4

Dr George Bennett, MD. FRCS was born on 31 Jan 1804 in Plymouth; died on 29 Sep 1893 in Sydney; was buried in Camperdown, NSW.

Notes:

son of William Lang Bennett, organist, and Elizabeth Debell.

As surgeon-naturalist aboard the "Sophia", Bennett visited Australia in 1829-32 and published "Wanderings in New South Wales...Journal of a Naturalist" (London 1834). He was the first person to find a specimen of a living Pearly Nautilus. He is also known for his work on the Platypus, possibly the first to capture one alive.
He returned to Australia permanently in 1836 as a medical practioner and became associated with the Zoological Society and the Australian Museum (as curator).

He had two further marriages.

George married Julia Anne Luduvina da Silva Cameron on 28 Nov 1835 in St James Church, Sydney. Julia (daughter of Lt. Colonel Charles Cameron, 3rd Regt (Buffs) and Ludovina Rosa da Silva) was born in 1818; died on 13 Jun 1846 in Sydney; was buried in Devonshire St Cemetery (C of E), later moved to La Perouse (No 112). [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Julia Anne Luduvina da Silva Cameron was born in 1818 (daughter of Lt. Colonel Charles Cameron, 3rd Regt (Buffs) and Ludovina Rosa da Silva); died on 13 Jun 1846 in Sydney; was buried in Devonshire St Cemetery (C of E), later moved to La Perouse (No 112).

Notes:

Died:
Suicide, while depressed, by ingesting prussic acid. A full account is given in the Sydney Sentinel 18 June 1846, p. 2.

Children:

George Edward Owen Bennett was born on 14 Sep 1836; died on 27 Oct 1836.
Caroline Esther Bennett was born on 25 Dec 1838 in Sydney; died on 22 Mar 1840.
Amelia Gould Bennett was born on 9 Dec 1840 in Sydney; died on 30 Nov 1870; was buried in Hanwell Cem., London.
Luduvina Eliza de Bell Bennett was born on 16 Jul 1842 in Sydney.
George Frederick Bennett was born on 5 Mar 1844 in Sydney; died on 12 Mar 1919.
4. William Edmund Bennett was born on 7 Aug 1845 in Sydney.