John Power

John Power was born in 1799 in County Waterford, Ireland, the son of John Power and an as yet unknown mother.

John was the founder of the Power Family here is Australia. He arrived in Sydney on the 12th February 1821 as a convict aboard the ship Prince of Orange.

He married Irish free settler Mary Ann Donovan at St Patrick's Catholic Church in Parramatta NSW on the 10th September 1837.

John and Mary moved from Pennant Hills in Sydney to the Monaro district of NSW around 1840 where John worked for many years as a supervisor to a squatter named Ryan at his properties Yarra Run and Creewah Run. Both were around 16,000 acre properties.

In 1859 John obtained some land at Wyndham near the Mataganah Creek. They called their property Willow Glen and both John and Mary are buried there.

John and Mary had 15 children - William (1837-1838), Thomas (1838-1891), Mary (1839-1927), Jane (1840-1930), Honorah (1842-1923), Elizabeth (1843-1883), John (1844-1898), Edward (1845-1921), James (1846-1912), Henry (1847-1926), George (1849-1935), Ellen (1849-1926), Bridget (1852-1941), Charles (1854-1924) and Patrick (1855-1905).