Gother Kerr Mann

He left India for Australia in 1836, settling in Sydney, where he helped found the Volunteer Artillery Corps.

[2] He married a daughter of Frederick Augustus Hely (died 1836),[3] from whom he inherited 438 acres (177 ha) on Narara Creek and 738 acres (299 ha) on Wyong Creek, which may be the properties named Cungelbung and Buccarumbi.

[4] He operated a sawmill at Wyoming, New South Wales with James Hooke, another son-in-law of Hely, and built a cottage nearby.

[1] He supervised the construction of Fitzroy Dry Dock at Cockatoo Island and designed the wharf layout at Circular Quay.

[citation needed] Mann married Mary Johanna Hely of Wyoming, New South Wales, on 3 January 1838[9] and had 12 children.