? DREW (170?-18??). It is possible that this was George Drew, married to Nancy, four of whose children were baptized on 16 April 1812 at Stoke Damerel. The dates do not match exactly with Frederick's declaration to the Admiralty. The children were: Jane, born 20 October 1801, Frederic, born 12 November 1803, Horatio, born 27 February 1806 and Emma, born 30 March 1811.
It also seems that George had a sister, Susan Drew, aged 60 in 1861, who married James Stevens, a labourer, at Stoke Damerel on 16 November 1825, and had a daughter, Susan Stevens, a dressmaker, who was looking after George in 1871.
1. GEORGE DREW (1790?-1871), see below.
2. FREDERICK DREW (1803-18??), born in Devonport on 26 December 1803. William Richard O'Byrne's A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) says of him:
DREW. (Lieutenant, 1836.)
Frederick Drew, born 26 Dec. 1803, at Devonport, is younger brother of Commander Geo. Drew, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, in 1812, as a Volunteer, on board the Royal George 100, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, attached to the fleet in the Mediterranean. He afterwards served under the same officer, and Capts. Theobald Jones and Sir Thos. John Cochrane, in the Centaur 74, Tonnant 80, Malta 84, Windsor Castle 74, Cherokee brig, and Forte 44, on the Cape, Home, and West India stations. Passing his examination in Feb. 1823, he became successively Mate - of the Northumberland, Spartiate, Cambridge, and Gloucester 74's, commanded in the river Medway by Capts. Thos. Jas, Maling and Joshua Sydney Horton - of the Hyperion 42, Capt. Wm. Jas. Mingaye, employed on the Coast Blockade - and, on the South American station, of the Dublin 50, Capt. Lord Jas. Townshend, Rattlesnake 28, Capt. Chas. Graham, Clio 18, Capt. John Jas. Onslow, and Warspite 76, flag-ship of Rear-Admiral Thos. Baker. After 13 years' servitude as Mate, Mr. Drew was at length promoted, from the Confiance steamer, Lieut.-Commander John Middleton Waugh, to an Additional-Lieutenancy, 6 July, 1836, in the Dublin 50, bearing the flag of Sir Graham Eden Hamond, also in South America; where he subsequently joined, 3 March and 3 July, 1837, the Imogene, and Cleopatra 26, Capts. Henry Wm. Bruce and Hon. Geo. Grey. In the latter vessel we eventually find him escorting the Marquess of Clanricarde as Ambassador to St. Petersburgh. He afterwards commanded the Mutine, Sheldrake, and Lapwing brigs, on the Halifax and South American stations; and, since 31 Oct. 1842, has been in the Coast Guard. Agents - Pettet and Newton.
In 1841, Frederick and his brother George were living together in Devonport. His name ceases to appear in the Navy List after 1850.
GEORGE DREW (1790?-1871) was born at Devonport. He married Caroline Fulford Good at Crediton on 13 September 1819. The witnesses were James Berryman and Mary Good.
William Richard O'Byrne's A Naval Biographical Dictionary (1849) says of him:
DREW. (Commander, 1843. F-P., 32; H-P., 12.)
George Drew is elder brother of Lieut. Fred. Drew, R.N.
This officer entered the Navy, 30. July, 1803, as Ordinary, on board the Hecate, Lieut.-Commander Parsons; and from the following November, until Sept. 1810, served under the late Lord Torrington, as Midshipman of the Texel 64, Malabar 50, and Belliqueux 64. In the latter ship he assisted at the reduction of the Cape of Good Hope in Jan. 1806, and was present at the capture and destruction, 27 Nov. following, of a Dutch frigate, seven brigs of war, and about 20 armed and other merchant-vessels, in Batavia Roads. On leaving the Belliqueux, Mr. Drew became successively Master's Mate and Acting-Lieutenant of the Russel 74, flag-ship of Vice-Admiral Wm. O'Brien Drury, the Caroline 36, Capt. Christopher Cole, and the Procris 18; in one of which two last-mentioned vessels he served at the reduction of Java, in Aug. 1811. He invalided home towards the close of the same year; and, being officially promoted, 8 May, 1812, was afterwards appointed - 30 Jan. 1813, and 18 Oct. 1814, to the Royal Sovereign 100, and Centaur 74, both commanded by Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, with whom he served on the Mediterranean and Cape of Good Hope stations, until May, 1816 - 1 April, 1822, to the Ordinary at Sheerness - 5 March, 1825, to the Coast Blockade, in which he officiated for six years as Supernumerary-Lieutenant of the Hyperion, Ramillies, and Talavera, Capts. Wm. Jas. Mingaye and Hugh Pigot - 15 April, 1831, to the Coast Guard - and 24 Feb. 1838, to the command of the Harpy Revenue-cruizer. He was promoted from the latter vessel to the rank he now holds 11 Jan. 1843; but has not since been officially afloat.
Commander Drew is at present employed as Superintendent of Convicts at Van Diemen's Land.
In 1829 he was based at Newgate Blockade Station, at Margate. (The Coast Guard replaced the Coast Blockade in 1831.) In 1841, he was in Hobart Street, East Stonehouse, Devonport, aged 45. His wife, and Caroline, Howard, Carwell, Henrietta and Ellen were with him, and Frederick Drew, aged 35, possibly his brother.
On 11 January 1843 he was commissioned as commander.
This was a prelude to his posting abroad.
He arrived in September 1844 as Superintendent of the Probation Station at Impression Bay.
Impression Bay was also a station for invalid prisoners, some of whom had served their terms and were "far more troublesome to deal with than effective men."
On 3 February 1855 he was appointed Harbour Master at Launceston, Tasmania, living at Government Cottage. He retired with a pension of £70 p.a., and returned to England, leaving Launceston on 14 January 1859 on the Star of Tasmania. By Order in Council of 1 August 1860, he was one of numerous commanders retired with the rank of captain as part of the government's attempts to reform the structure of the Navy. In 1861, he was living with his wife at 24 Magdalen Street, Exeter. Kate Drew died at Plymouth on 30 December 1867. By 1871 George was aged 81, and living at 5 Athenaeum Street, Plymouth, with his 42-year-old niece, Susan R Stevens. He died in Plymouth on 22 December 1871, aged 82. His will, proved at Exeter on 9 February 1872. His estate was valued at under £450.
The couple had issue:
1. CAROLINE JANE DREW (1826-1896), aged 15 in 1841. She married Robert Warren Gibbs Crooke, BA, at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, on 22 May 1845. In 1846, they were at the Saltwater Probation Station, the first established in Tasmania and close to the Impression Bay Station. Robert died at Moonee Ponds, Melbourne on 27 August 1888, and in 1891, Caroline was at Patterson Street, St Kilda, Melbourne. She died in 1896 "aged 76". The couple had a son:
1.1 WILLIAM GEORGE CROOKE (1846-1920), born at Saltwater River on 13 October 1846. He never married, and died at Hobart on 27 August 1920.
2. GEORGE SAMUEL DREW (1821-??) was born on 2 May 1821 and baptized on 3 June. He was a pupil at Christ's Hospital from 4 September 1829 (Travers's Gift) to 21 June 1836, admitted from the parish of St John, Margate. His parents (George and Caroline Fulford Drew) then had four children, and George earned £120 per annum. George Samuel left Christ's Hospital (RMS) to serve James Shambler, commander of His Majesty's Steam Vessel Lightning, on a seven year apprenticeship.
3. WILLIAM LEWORTHY GOODE DREW (1826-1898) was born on 14 October 1826in Broadstairs(?) and baptized on 25 December 1826 at East Preston, Sussex. (On his gravestone he is said to have been born in Kent.) He was a pupil at Christ's Hospital from 22 February 1834 (Travers's Gift) to 4 January 1842 (RMS), leaving to serve Robert Jackson, commander of the Lady FitzHerbert, 386 tons, bound for Port Philip and Port Adelaide, South Australia (on the usual seven year apprenticeship). William was admitted to Christ's Hospital from Exmouth, Devon, and his father in 1834 reported six children and an income of £150 per annum.
He served in the Royal Navy for 19 years. On 13 January 1855 he married Gertrude Jane Hely at Willoughby, NSW.
In later life he was in Brisbane. He was appointed Under Secretary to the Treasury in Queensland in 1862, Auditor General in 1879 and Chairman of the Public Service Board in 1889, holding this position until his death. He was awarded the CMG on 21 May 1890 in the Birthday Honours List. He died at Toowong, Qld, on 14 July 1898, and was buried there. His tombstone was erected by friends. He is recorded in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
William and Gertrude Drew had issue:
3.1 GEORGINA GERTRUDE DREW (1856-1946)
3.2 GEORGE DREW (1857-??)
3.3 FREDERICK WILLIAM DREW (1859-1927)
3.4 HOWARD DUTTON DREW (1860-1860)
3.5 KATE MARY DREW (1862-1945)
3.6 ELLEN GRACE DREW (1864-1877)
3.7 MARY FANNY DREW (1865-1877)
3.8 LUCY ELIZABETH S DREW (1866-1866)
3.9 GEORGINA L B JACKSON (1868-??)
3.10 FREDERICK A G DREW (1869-1904)
3.11 ALICE BLANCHE DREW (1871-1949)
3.12 HERBERT DREW (1872-1875)
3.13 CONWAY HOVENDEN L DREW (1874-1942)
4. LEWIS FREDERIC DREW (1828-1899), see below.
5. HOWARD ELWALL DREW (1830-1883), baptized at Margate on 22 August 1832 and aged 10 in 1841. In 1849, he was awarded a Divinity Fellowship at Christ's College, Hobart (later to become the University of Tasmania) to train for the ministry. He was ordained priest at St David's Cathedral, Hobart, on 29 September 1856. On 1 December 1857 he married Eliza Helena Hobbs, fourth daughter of James Hobbs of HM Customs, Melbourne, at St David's Cathedral.
In 1858 he was appointed to Stanley (formerly called Horton), on the north-west Tasmanian coast, and was still there in 1876. The Hobart Town Gazette records him at St Paul's Parsonage on Pearse and Cripps Street, Stanley. Eliza died in childbirth on 29 January 1871 at Stanley, Tasmania, aged 32 years, and is buried in the Stanley Old Pioneer Cemetery, at Circular Head. Howard died at Launceston on 10 November 1883. Howard and Eliza had nine children born at Horton (now Stanley):
5.1 HOWARD GEORGE JAMES DREW (1859-1950), born on 22 October 1859 at Horton, Tasmania. He married Mary Sarah Parsons on 21 December 1880 at Launceston, Tasmania. The Tasmanian Electoral Rolls record that they resided at Westbury in 1914, "Watford", George Town, where he was an orchardist in 1919, Evandale in 1928, George Town in 1936 and at "Timaru", St. Leonards, Launceston, the home of his daughter, Nina, Mrs. J Ferguson, where he died on 18 August 1950.
His Obituary, in the Launceston Examiner of 22 August 1950, states that he was well known throughout Tasmania as a pharmaceutical chemist, conducting a business at Westbury from 1883 to 1916 and afterwards he relieved chemists at the State's leading hospitals. He was a lieutenant-instructor of the Volunteer Defence Corps at Westbury during the Boer War, and a keen rifle shot and horseman.
Howard and Mary Drew had three daughters and two sons:
5.1.1 HELENA MARY DREW (1881-1951), born on 30 August 1881 at Launceston, who died, unmarried, on 18 March 1951 at Launceston.
5.1.2 NINA DREW (1884-1963), (Mrs J. Ferguson), born on 14 November 1884 at Westbury, who died on 26 August 1963 at Launceston.
5.1.3 STANLEY HOWARD DREW (1888-1900), born on 28 August 1888 at Westbury. He died at Launceston on 13 July 1900.
5.1.4 ELWALL WOODWARD DREW (1889-1964), born on 4 November 1889 at Westbury, Tasmania. In the 1911 English Census he was an Ordinary Seaman, Military Branch (Royal Marines), Royal Navy, aged 21 years, single, aboard HMS Pyramus. Elwall Woodward Drew served in the Great War, 1914-18, and there is a Roll of Honour Memorial Plaque in St Andrews Anglican Church at Westbury, Tasmania, containing his name. In the 1922 Tasmanian Census he was living alone at 175 St John Street, Launceston, a vulcaniser. He died on 10 January 1964 in South Australia, apparently unmarried.
5.1.5 LILY ELFREDA DREW (1893-19??), born on 21 July 1893 at Westbury. She was Mrs J.H. Stephenson of 143 Elphin Road Launceston in 1951.
5.2 CHARLES AUGUSTUS DREW (1861-1925), born on 5 January 1861 at Horton. He married Ellen Elizabeth Traill in Melbourne. In 1905 Charles and Ellen were living at Mentone Parade, Mentone, Melbourne and he was an estate agent. In 1909 they were at Shepparton, Victoria, in 1915 at Geelong and in 1924 at 5 Lennox Street, Yarraville, Melbourne when he was a miller and they were living with Charles Laurence, an optical worker, May Traill and Una Jessie Drew, their family. Charles Augustus Drew died aged 64 years, at Footscray, Melbourne, 1925.
5.2.1 HAROLD ELWALL DREW (1908-19??) was born in Melbourne in 1908. In 1927 and 1931, Richard Stanley Drew, born 1865, was living with the family. In 1931, Ellen Elizabeth, Harold Elwall, a postal employee, and Una Jessie, a bookbinder, were living at 91 Albert Street, Footscray, Melbourne. Harold Elwall Drew was living at Toorak Road, South Yarra, Melbourne, in 1943, with Dorothy Florence Drew, evidently his wife, and he was a postal worker. They lived at Box Hill, Melbourne in 1949, at Mentone, Melbourne in 1954, and at Narrabundah, Canberra, ACT, from 1963 to 1977 when they were at 22 Finniss Crescent, Narrabundah, ACT, 2606; Harold was a clerk and they were with Raymond John Drew, a photographer, evidently their son.
5.3 CASWELL DREW (1862-1945), born on 5 March 1862 at Horton. In 1876 he travelled to Sydney. He married Mary Rockwell on 20 November 1884 at Launceston, Tasmania.
In Wise's P.O. Directory, Caswell was living at Devonport East in 1901 and 1908. He was created a Councillor at Strahan on 15 April 1909. In the 1914 Electoral Roll he was a wharfinger at Strahan. In 1922 the family were living at Derwent Park Road, Moonah, Hobart; Annie Madge and Caroline Minnie were both teachers, and Thomas Edward Drew, a carter, was living with them. In 1937, Caswell was living alone at Charles Street, Launceston and in 1943 he was living alone at 8 Mona Street, South Hobart, Mary having died at Hobart in April 1937. Caswell Drew died on 24 August 1945 at New Town, Hobart.
Caswell and Mary Drew had four children. They all lived in Tasmania except Annie.
5.3.1 CAROLINE MINNIE DREW (1888-1961), born at Westbury in 1888.
5.3.2 WILLIAM GEORGE DREW (1889-1917), born at Horton in 1889. He died in 1917 in France. He married Dorothy Leitch (1890-1976), but they had no issue.
5.3.3 ELIZA CONSTANCE DREW (1891-1967), born in 1891 at Launceston. She married Albert William Frederick Mortyn (1862-1938).
5.3.4 ANNIE DREW (1892-1985), known as Madge, who married Norman Smail (1896-1956) of Scotland and Victoria. (See: 'Smails of Galashiels' family tree website on Ancestry.com).
5.4 KATE DREW (1863-1942), born on 30 September 1863, at Horton. She married Thomas David Lewis on 11 September 1898 at Emu Bay, Wynyard, Tasmania. Thomas died on 7 July 1899 at Emu Bay, aged 69 years.
Kate remarried, to a farmer, Isaac Brett, on 6 June 1905 at North Motton, Ulverstone. He had been born at Hockham, Norfolk, on 28 August 1836, and died on 13 November 1920 at North Motton. In 1919, they were living at Forth Road, Ulverstone. They had an adopted daughter. Kate died at Ulverstone on 21 July 1942.
5.5 RICHARD STANLEY DREW (1865-19??), born on 7 January 1865 at Horton. In the 1927 Victoria Electoral Rolls he was living at 5 Lennox Street, Yarraville, Melbourne. He was a salesman. In 1931 he was living at 91 Albert Street, Footscray, Melbourne, with members of Charles Augustus' family. Richard Stanley and Dorothy Bertha, were living at 198 Cotham Road, Kew, Melbourne in 1936 and 1939, and at 62 Strathalbyn Street, Kew, Melbourne, in 1943 and 1946. He was a traveller and no children were listed with them.
5.6 WILLIAM ALFRED EARNEST DREW (1866-??), born on 18 March 1866 at Horton. (He is confused in the records with William Henry Drew, who married Sarah Ann Killworth at Richmond, Tasmania, in 1886.) She was born in 1864.
5.7 NINA MARY DREW (1867-19??), born on 25 May 1867 at Horton. She married Frederick Augustus Mathews, eldest son of Barnard Mathews of Melbourne, on 16 March 1891 at the residence of her aunt Caroline Jane, Mrs R. Crooke of Patterson Street, St. Kilda, Melbourne. Frederick was an accountant and in 1905, 1909 and 1914, Frederick and Nina lived at 21 Mount Albert Road, Kew, Melbourne. In 1919 they were living at 11 Banole Gardens, Prahran, Melbourne with their daughter, Una Clara Helena, a telephoniste. In 1921, Nina Mary is at the same address with Una Clara Helena and Caroline Emily, a nurse. In 1931, they were living at 576 High Street, Armadale and in 1943 they were living at 267 Koornang Road, Glenhuntly, Melbourne.
5.8 ANNIE DREW (1868-??), born on 5 December 1868 at Horton.
5.9 ELIZA DREW (1871-1871), born on 29 January 1871 on the same day that her mother died, and died in 1871.
6. RICHARD CASWELL (or CARWELL) DREW (1832-1860), aged 8 in 1841. His Master's Certificate of Service, No. 45664, issued at Plymouth on 12 April 1860, stated that he had been a Master's Apprentice and Second Master, serving for 13 years in the Royal Navy on the Home and Foreign Stations. He died at his father's home in Plymouth on 24 June 1860.
7. HENRIETTA DREW (1835-??), aged 5 in 1841.
8. ELLEN GEORGIANA DREW (1838-1925), aged 2 in 1841. Her brother Howard officiated at her marriage to Charles Baskerville Allison, son of Frederic Allison, of "Streanshalh" (on the Macquarie River, west of Campbell Town, Tasmania) at Trinity Church, Launceston, on 30 September 1858. The marriage was not a success, for on 6 December 1865, Charles was charged on warrant of the Hobart town bench with deserting his illegitimate child and leaving for Melbourne on the steamer Tasmania. (He surrendered himself to the Hobart magistrates on 6 June 1866.) In 1893, Charles was a schoolmaster at Darlinghurst, Sydney, NSW, while Ellen was living in Glen Huntly Road, Elsterwick, Victoria. Charles died intestate on 4 October 1893 and left an estate of under £278. Ellen died in 1925 at St Kilda, Melbourne. Ellen and Charles had issue:
8.1 GEORGE MANTON ALLISON (1859-1943), born at Campbell Town on 28 December 1859. He married Rose Crotch in 1890 in Queensland. Some time after 1893 he became a stock farmer at Forbes, NSW, living at "Westwood" in 1916, when he enlisted in the 53rd Ballation, A.I.F., serving in the Light Horse for three years. From 1930 to 1943 he was at Johnstn Street, Forbes. He died on 5 June 1943 at Forbes. Rose died there in 1947.
George and Rose had eight children: GEORGE MANTON ALLISON (b.1891), ARTHUR MALVERN ALLISON (b.1892), FREDERICK GEORGE THOMAS ALLISON (b.1893), IVAN BASKERVILLE ALLISON, ERIC JULIAN ALLISON, WILGA CHARLES ALLISON, AUDREY ROSE ALLISON (who became Mrs Dale) and ALICE UNA ANDERSON (b 1895).
8.2 VIOLET KATE DREW ALLISON (1862-1878), born at Campbell Town on 17 March 1862. She died in Victoria, aged 16.
LEWIS FREDERICK DREW (1828-18??), was born on 10 September 1828. According to his school records (presumably supplied by his father) he was born in Portsea. He was baptized at St John's, Thanet (i.e. Margate) on 9 August 1829, the son of George Drew and Caroline, née Fulford. He was a pupil at Christ's Hospital from 7 October 1836 to 16 January 1844. He was admitted under the Travers's Gift, which was originally a benefaction promoting the study of mathematics, but at the relevant dates was a route for sons of Royal Navy lieutenants to enter the Royal Mathematical School (RMS) of Christ's Hospital, when old enough. The RMS trained boys in navigation with a view to sea service. His father has applied to Christ's Hospital in September 1836 from the parish of Littleham, Devon, stating that he had a wife and seven children, earned £169 per annum in the Coast Blockade service, and that one of his children was already at Christ's Hospital. Lewis would have started at the preparatory school at Hertford before transfer at about the age of 12 to the senior school at Newgate Street in the City of London. He appears in the 1841 census there as Lewis F Drew, aged 12. School records show him as discharged in 1844 to serve a seven year apprenticeship on the barque, Cygnet, bound for Hobart Town. The Cygnet was an older vessel of 238 tons and carried two guns. One of the journeys Lewis would have undertaken left London on 24 May 1846 under Captain M'Leod, carrying 30 tons of gunpowder for the Tasmanian government. They arrived on this occasion in Hobart on 2 November.
He gained his seaman's ticket, number 381167, at Waterford on 17 November 1847 (under the spelling LOUIS FREDK).
He was 5'9", with brown hair, grey eyes and sallow complexion, with a scar on his right cheek.
He said he had been born in Crediton in 1827 and that he had first gone to sea in 1843.
Nothing more is yet certain. He does not seem to have been the Frederick Lewis Drew who was a civil guard at Portland Convict Prison in 1861.