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missionaries, with all trees and bread fruit pertaining thereto. On the extreme right are Mr
and Mrs Henry, who remained at their post when the other missionaries left for Sydney, and,
it is said, were killed and eaten''.

Others in the painting were William Wilson and Captain Wilson standing one on each side
of young Thomas Hassall. In spite of Oakes' assertion, the other missionaries were not killed and
eaten. Many of them remained on Tahiti for many years, while others came to New South Wales
and some returned to England.

Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall had four sons and five daughters: Thomas Hassall who was
born on 29 May 1794 and died on 29 March 1868 and who married Ann Marsden, eldest daughter
of Reverend Samuel Marsden; Samuel Otoo Hassall who was born in 1796 and died in 1830 and
who married Lucy Mileham; Jonathan Hassall who was born in 1798 and who married Mary Rouse;
Mary Cover Hassall who was born in 1799 and died in 1825 and who married Reverend Walter
Lawry; James Hassall who was born in 1802 and died in 1862 and who married Catherine Payne
Lloyd; Eliza Cordelia Hassall who was born in 1804 and who married Reverend William Walker;
Susanna Marsden Hassall who was born on 28 July 1806 and died on 15 August 1890 and who
married on 6 February 1827, William Shelley; Ann Hassall who was born on 14 October 1808 and
who married Robert Mackay Campbell; and Elizabeth Hassall who was born in 1810 and died in
1812.

Three of Rowland and Elizabeth Hassall's children were married in a triple wedding
ceremony at St. John's, Parramatta on 22 November 1819: Samuel Otoo Hassall married Lucy
Mileham; Jonathan Hassall married Mary Rouse; and Mary Cover Hassall married Reverend Walter
Lawry
''The newlyweds heard four addresses that day - two from the minister, Mr Cross,
and two from old Rowland. The patriarch of the Hassall clan composed some verses to the
tune, ''Adoration'', which the happy Mary, so much in love with her 'good, pious Lawry',
copied and sent to her brother Thomas''.109

All the sons engaged in rural pursuits although Thomas' main activity was that of minister
of the Church of England.

Elizabeth Hassall died on 11 February 1834 at her son James' property, Mataval, and she
was buried in the same grave as her husband in St John's Cemetary, Parramatta. It is a sandstone
altar (2ft x 3ft x 6ft) on a sandstone plinth (31/2ins x 4ft x 6ft 1in).
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109 Ramsden, Eric, ''Triple Wedding, The Hassall Family in 1819'', Sydney Morning Herald, 7 July 1934.

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