aka Bloodsworth
First bricklayer of Sydney Settlement.
DEATH,
On Wednesday last died, generally lamented, Mr. James Bloodworth, for many years Superintendant of Builders in the Employ of Government. He came to the Colony among its first Inhabitants in the year 1788, and obtained the Appointment, from his emplary conduct, shortly after his arrival ; the first house in this part of the Southern hemisphere was by him erected, as most of the Public Buildings since have been under his direction. To lament his loss he has left a Widow and five Children, the youngest an infant now only one week old ; and the complaint which terminated in his dissolution was supposed to proceed from a severe cold contracted about two months since. The attention and concern which prevailed at the internment of the deceased were sufficient testimonies of the respect with which he filled, and the integrity with which he uninterruptedly discharged the duties of a Public Trust during so long a period. His EXCELLENCY was pleased to order that the Funeral should be provided for at the Public Expence, and to shew other marks of attention to so old a Servant of the Crown. Four in the afternoon of Friday being as the wish of the widow appointed for the Funeral, the Relics of the deceased were at that hour removed from his house in South-street, and conveyed to the place of interment, attended by a great number of friends, among whom were most of the Sydney Loyal Association, in which he had been appointed Serjeant. Opposite to his old residence a Procession was formed, which moved in the following order :--- 12 of the Loyal Association, arms reversed, Serjeant of the Association, Drum muffled & Fife
THE BIER
Two Sons, chief Mourners followed by an Infant Daughter, Fourteen Female Mourners, Twenty-four Male ditto, A number of respectable Inhabitants in Rank. The Non-commissioned Officers of the New South Wales Corps, And a crowd of spectators. When near the Burial Ground the Association were obliged to file off, for the accommodation of the friends of the deceased, and the populace, who were become very numerous ; and when the remains were deposited approached the grave and performed Military Honours.
Source: The Sydney Gazette and NSW Advertiser 25 Mar 1804■ SYDNEY, Wednesday. — Sydney historians believe they have tracked down the mystery occupier of the burial vault discovered by workmen excavating next to St. Andrew's Cathedral. They think the arched brick tomb was probably built for Mr James Bloodsworth, a former convict who was largely responsible for the design and construction of Australia's earliest buildings the most notable of which was Sydney's first Government House.
Source: The Canberra Times 4 Apr 1974.
Married as Bloodworth
occuption shoemaker
Convicted at Middlesex. Arrived on the Fame in 1817.