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Joseph Abbott and Margaret Anne Bennett were married on 29 November 1866 at the bride’s father’s residence in Samuel Street, Surry Hills.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166666176 Marriages], ”Sydney Mail”, 15 December 1866, page 4.</ref> The couple had three daughters and six sons.<ref name=ancestry>Family records, Ancestry.com.</ref> Wesleyan Methodist. Initially lived at Glebe.

Joseph Abbott and Margaret Anne Bennett were married on 29 November 1866 at the bride’s father’s residence in Samuel Street, Surry Hills.<ref>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/166666176 Marriages], ”Sydney Mail”, 15 December 1866, page 4.</ref> The couple had three daughters and six sons.<ref name=ancestry>Family records, Ancestry.com.</ref> Wesleyan Methodist. Initially lived at Glebe.

Stud sheep sales 1875.<ref name=stud>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106886936 History of the Sydney Stud Sheep Fair], ”The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal”, 28 March 1913, page 6.</ref>

Stud sheep sales 1875.<ref name=stud>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/106886936 History of the Sydney Stud Sheep Fair], ”The Sydney Wool and Stock Journal”, 28 March 1913, page 6.</ref>

Abbott was made a partner in the business and was manager of the wool and produce department.<ref name=mort>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71220755 New South Wales Wool Industry: No. V. Goldsborough, Mort, and Co., Ltd.], ”Australian Town and Country Journal” (Sydney), 12 October 1895, page 24.</ref>

Abbott was made a partner in the business and was manager of the wool and produce department.<ref name=mort>[https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/71220755 New South Wales Wool Industry: No. V. Goldsborough, Mort, and Co., Ltd.], ”Australian Town and Country Journal” (Sydney), 12 October 1895, page 24.</ref>

Australian politician

Joseph Abbott
In office 2 February 1888 – 19 January 1889
In office 17 June 1891 – 25 June 1894
In office 17 July 1894 – 5 July 1895
Born	August 1843
Died	15 June 1903(1903-06-15) (aged 59)
Spouse	Margaret Anne Bennett
Parents	Henry Kingsmill Abbott (father) Martha Anne (née Lavarey or Lefroy) (mother)

Joseph Abbott (August 1843 – 15 June 1903) was a wool-broker and politician in New South Wales.

Joseph Abbott was born in August 1843 at Parramatta, New South Wales, the youngest son of Henry Kingsmill Abbott and Martha Anne (née Lavarey or Lefroy).^[1] Joseph was born to a widowed mother, his father had been murdered in December 1842 at Parramatta Gaol where he was the chief turnkey.^[2][A]

Young Joseph was educated at the Church of England Denominational School at Parramatta, but despite his abilities and a particular aptitude for figures, his widowed mother could not afford to keep him at school. After leaving school, intending to become a newspaper reporter, he took shorthand lessons in Sydney and in order to develop public speaking skills he joined young men’s improvement and debating societies.^[1]

In 1863 Abbott travelled to Queensland on a mining venture, but soon afterwards returned to Sydney.^[1]

In 1863 Abbott was introduced to Thomas Mort by friends in the debating society and he was offered a position as a clerk in the produce department of Mort & Company.^[1][3]

Abbott was an auctioneer of wool, chief auctioneer and a partner and managing director of Mort & Co. Ltd.^[4]

Joseph Abbott and Margaret Anne Bennett were married on 29 November 1866 at the bride’s father’s residence in Samuel Street, Surry Hills.^[5] The couple had three daughters and six sons.^[6] Wesleyan Methodist. Initially lived at Glebe.

Stud sheep sales commenced 1875. Annual auction sales of stud sheep.^[7]

Abbott was made a partner in the business and was manager of the wool and produce department.^[8]

In about 1880 the family moved to Croydon.

In about July 1883 Mort and Company became a limited liability company under the title Mort and Company, Ltd., without a change to the management structure of the company.^[9] … Abbott became a director of the company.^[10][8]

In 1888 the two companies of Mort and Company, Ltd. of Sydney and R. Goldsborough and Company, Ltd. in Melbourne amalgamated under the title of Goldsborough, Mort and Company, Ltd.^[8] After the amalgamation Abbott took a position on the advisory board and handed over the selling at the stud sheep fair to George Maiden, who had been the Sydney manager of the Goldsborough company.^[7]

Abbott was elected to the seat of Newtown in the New South Wales Legislative Assembly in a by-election in February 1888. Abbott held the seat and won the election in July when the seat was reformed as the Electoral district of Newtown-Camperdown.

Abbott retired from politics in July 1895.^[1]

Abbott suffered from ill health in the last six years of his life “and he was more than once considered to be at death’s door”.^[11]

Joseph Abbott died on 15 June 1903 at his ‘Ivanhoe’ residence in Croydon Road, Croydon, New South Wales. He had suffered from a protracted illness since about 1897 and had been unconscious for the twenty-four hours prior to his death.^[11]

On his death Joseph Abbott was survived by his widow, six sons and three daughters.^[12] All his sons were educated at Newington College.^[1] George Henry Abbott (1867–1942), became a medical practitioner, lectured in clinical surgery at the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in 1911–27, was a founding fellow of the Royal Australian College of Surgeons, and a councillor and later president of the New South Wales branch of the British Medical Association. He was also a keen numismatist, sometime president of the Royal Australian Historical Society and fellow of the University of Sydney Senate. Joseph Sydney Abbott (1869–1957), followed in his father’s steps, and was for many years a partner in the firm of Wright & Abbott, wool scourers, brokers and commission agents. Arthur Edgar Abbott (1876–1960), studied law and was admitted to the Bar in 1900.^[13] He initially became a partner in Lambton, Milford & Abbott but in 1909 he retired from that firm^[14] and became a partner in Garland, Seaborne and Abbott.^[15] From 1947 until 1949 he was president of The Incorporated Law Institute of New South Wales.^[16]

A.^ Henry Kingsmill Abbott was born in 1806 at Borris-in-Ossory in Queen’s County, Ireland, the son of Thomas Abbott and Eleanor (née Kingsmill). Abbott and Martha Ann (née Lefroy) were married in about 1825 in Ireland. The family emigrated to Australia, arriving at Sydney on 10 January 1842 aboard the Duke of Roxburgh. “William Lynch was indicted for the wilful murder of Henry Kingsmill Abbott, at Parramatta, on the 4th of December, 1942. The prisoner was one of three men who, on the evening of Sunday, the 4th of December, 1842 (then being confined in Parramatta gaol) surprised the turnkey of the outer gate, shot him, and effected their escape. The deceased expired three days afterwards, from the effect of the wound.” Abbott died on 7 December 1842.^[17][18][19] Martha Kay died on 16 July 1888 at the home of her son, John Abbott, in Surry Hills, aged 79.^[20]