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.