If you've ever wandered the lawns at Vaucluse House or walked up Chapel Road to the little stone chapel behind the iron palisade, you've been standing in the middle of the Wentworth family story. It starts with an Irish surgeon who was tried for highway robbery at the Old Bailey and a Staffordshire girl transported for stealing clothes. It runs through their son William Charles Wentworth, explorer, barrister, newspaperman and the man who chaired the committee that drafted New South Wales's constitution. And it ends, more or less, in a vault cut into a sandstone outcrop above Parsley Bay, where William was laid to rest in 1873 in front of a crowd that took up half of Sydney. This page covers the house, the mausoleum, and the family, with a full family tree of who married whom.
D'Arcy Wentworth – The Surgeon with a Past
The Australian Wentworths start with D'Arcy Wentworth, born near Portadown in County Armagh, Ireland. Wikipedia gives his birthday as 14 February 1762, while the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) puts a question mark after the year. He was the son of an innkeeper, but the family was very proud of its roots. The ADB says the Irish Wentworths could trace their line back twenty generations to Wentworth Woodhouse in Yorkshire, and they claimed kinship with the great Earl Fitzwilliam. That connection mattered. D'Arcy could lean on Fitzwilliam's influence, and borrow his money, for the rest of his life.
He trained in medicine in Ireland, went to London hoping for a post with the East India Company and then landed in serious trouble. At the Old Bailey sessions starting on 12 December 1787 he was charged three times with highway robbery. He was found not guilty twice and acquitted for lack of evidence the third time. He was back in the dock in December 1789, and again found not guilty. At the end of that case the prosecutor told the judge that Mr Wentworth had taken a passage with the fleet to Botany Bay as an assistant surgeon and wanted to be discharged straight away.
So D'Arcy didn't come out as a convict, despite the rumours that followed him (and his son) for decades. He arrived at Port Jackson in the Second Fleet transport Neptune on 28 June 1790 and sailed on 1 August in the Surprize for Norfolk Island.
Catherine Crowley
Also on the Neptune was a young convict woman named Catherine Crowley. The ADB says she was convicted at the Staffordshire Assizes in July 1788 of stealing "wearing apparell" and sentenced to seven years' transportation. She and D'Arcy began a relationship on board, and their son William Charles was born around the time they reached Norfolk Island. Wikipedia says he was born at sea on the Surprize, standing off the island in a violent storm, on 13 August 1790. The ADB says Catherine arrived at Norfolk Island "with the infant William" on 7 August. Those two dates can't both be right.
Wikipedia says a daughter, Martha, died at four months old, and two more sons followed: Dorset in 1793 and Matthew in 1795. The family returned to Sydney in 1796 and settled at Parramatta, where Catherine died in January 1800. After her death D'Arcy renamed the boys. Dorset became D'Arcy and Matthew became John.
Making His Fortune
D'Arcy did very well in the colony. He was superintendent of convicts on Norfolk Island, then an assistant surgeon, and in time principal surgeon. Under Governor Macquarie he ran the Sydney police as chief police magistrate and was treasurer of the Police Fund. With Alexander Riley and Garnham Blaxcell he built the "Rum Hospital" in Macquarie Street in exchange for a rum import monopoly. He was one of the founders of the Bank of New South Wales in 1817. The ADB says that when he died he was "probably the wealthiest man in the colony", leaving at least 22,000 acres.
His private life was colourful. After Catherine died, Maria Ainslie, an emancipist widow, kept house for him and mothered his three boys. Later he lived with Ann Lawes, a free woman who'd come out as a nanny with the Gore family. The two of them had eight children. D'Arcy died at Homebush on 7 July 1827 (per Wikipedia) and was buried at St John's Cemetery, Parramatta. His tomb reads "an honest man, the noblest work of God".
William Charles Wentworth – Explorer, Barrister, Newspaperman, Politician
William was sent to school in England with his brother D'Arcy in 1803, according to the ADB. He came back to Sydney in 1810 without much direction, and was soon riding his father's grey gelding, Gig, to victory in the Hyde Park races. In October 1811 Macquarie made him acting provost-marshal and he was granted 1750 acres on the Nepean.
Over the Blue Mountains – 1813
In May 1813 William set off with Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson, four servants, four horses and five dogs to find a way over the Blue Mountains. After twenty-one days, not quite sure they'd crossed the range, he wrote in his journal: "we have at all events proved that they are traversable, and that, too, by cattle". He got another 1000 acres for his trouble.
The Law, the Book and the Newspaper
Back in England, William entered the Middle Temple in February 1817 to prepare himself to be "the instrument of procuring a free constitution for my country". He wrote A Statistical, Historical, and Political Description of the Colony of New South Wales, arguing for trial by jury, free immigration and an elected assembly. The ADB dates it to 1819, while the Vaucluse House heritage history on Wikipedia says 1818. He was called to the Bar in February 1822.
Along the way he learned something that stung. In 1819 the MP H. G. Bennet claimed in print that D'Arcy had been sent out as a convict. William's own digging showed that wasn't true, but that his father had indeed been tried for highway robbery. The ADB says this is when he threw in his lot for good with the Australian-born, the currency lads and lasses.
He came home in 1824 with another lawyer, Dr Robert Wardell, and a printing press. On 14 October 1824 the first issue of The Australian came out, without asking anyone's permission. Governor Brisbane decided to let it run. Under Governor Darling the paper and its owners were at war with Government House, and Wentworth was in the Supreme Court defending the press against seditious libel charges in 1828 and 1829.
When Darling sailed home in 1831, Wentworth threw a party at Vaucluse. The Australian reported that more than 4,000 people turned up. A bullock was roasted whole, along with twelve sheep and 4,000 loaves, and casks of gin and beer were laid on. Bonfires were lit on the highest hill, and the party went on until morning.
Politics and the Constitution
Wentworth entered the Legislative Council in 1843 at the head of the poll for Sydney. He helped set up the first proper system of state primary schools in 1848–49 and led the push for the University of Sydney in 1849–50, sitting on its first senate. In 1853 he chaired the select committee that drafted the new constitution. It proposed an upper house drawn from a hereditary colonial peerage. Sydney's press and public speakers howled the idea down, so the peerage was dropped, but the rest of the constitution went through. Wentworth sailed to England in 1854, and in July 1855 he saw the new Constitution become law.
Sarah Cox – The Blacksmith's Daughter
Sarah Cox was born in Sydney on 1 January 1805. Her parents were Francis Cox, a blacksmith, and Frances Morton, both ex-convicts who had finished their sentences. They never married, because Cox had a family back in England. Sarah was working as an apprentice milliner when, in 1825, she sued a ship's captain named Payne for breach of promise. It was the first case of its kind in Australia, and she won. Her barrister was William Charles Wentworth.
By then the two were already together. Their first daughter, Thomasine, was named after Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane and born about six months after the court case. William and Sarah married at St Philip's Church, Sydney, on 26 October 1829. Three days earlier he had printed a love poem to her in his own paper, The Australian.
Society wasn't kind to Sarah. The heritage history of the mausoleum notes that she was shut out socially because two of her children had been born before the wedding. William's own illegitimacy, convict mother and his father's highway robbery trials were common knowledge too. And William didn't make it easy. In 1830 he fathered a son, Henry, with Jemima Eagar, the estranged wife of Edward Eagar. The ADB says, with some understatement, that his way of life became "spacious even to the point of lapses from his marriage vows".
Vaucluse House – Building on Sir Henry's Cottage
The Vaucluse estate began as land grants to Thomas Laycock (1793), Robert Cardell (1795) and Francis MacGlynn. In August 1803 the Irish convict knight Sir Henry Browne Hayes bought Laycock's and Cardell's grants and built a stone cottage. It was L-shaped, with a terrace on its east side, and the house itself actually stood on part of MacGlynn's land. He named the place Vaucluse, probably after Fontaine-de-Vaucluse in the south of France, the spring made famous by the poet Petrarch. The remains of his cottage are still at the heart of Vaucluse House today. There's some support for the old story that he ringed the place with Irish turf to keep the snakes out.
Hayes was pardoned and left in 1812. Captain John Piper rented the place for a year in 1814 and acquired it in 1822. Then William Charles Wentworth bought it from Piper. The Vaucluse House heritage history (as given on Wikipedia) puts the purchase on 27 August 1827, and the ADB's Wentworth entry also says 1827. The ADB's entry on Hayes, though, says the estate passed to Wentworth in 1829. With an extra grant of 370 acres, the estate grew to 515 acres (208 hectares).
The family moved in during 1828, and Wentworth spent the next twenty-five years building. George Cookney designed the sandstone stables in 1829. Extensions of about 1834–42 are attributed to James Hume, and a drawing room of 1844–47 to Mortimer Lewis. Wentworth went for the Gothic Revival style of Government House, with turrets and battlements facing the harbour. The heritage history suggests the old-world Gothic look was meant to hint at his ancient family line. There was a big kitchen wing and convict barracks too. In 1830 someone reported that "in this garden there grows the most delicious fruit in the colony".
Inside, the drawing room was meant as a place for suitors to meet the Wentworth daughters, since Sarah was so cut off socially. By 1853 it held Brazilian rosewood furniture upholstered in crimson damask. Upstairs, the big upper hall was partitioned off with cupboards to make a bedroom for the second son, Fitzwilliam. The house was never really finished in the 1840s.
Daughters' Houses on the Estate
Two of the daughters got a slice of the estate. Wentworth gave part of it to Thomasine and her husband, Thomas Fisher. They never built on it and went back to England, and the land later became the site of Carrara, now Strickland House. In 1850 Fanny's husband, John Reeve, bought 14 acres fronting Shark Bay from his father-in-law. There he built Greycliffe, a Rustic Gothic villa by John Frederick Hilly, finished in 1851. It still stands in Nielsen Park.
The Years in England
In March 1853 the family sold most of the contents of Vaucluse House at auction and headed for Europe. In December the house and 163 acres inside the fences were leased to John Hosking for three years. The family was overseas by 1854. Fanny and John Reeve sailed with Wentworth when he left Sydney that year.
Apart from a short trip home in 1861–62, when he agreed to be President of the Legislative Council during a crisis, Wentworth spent the rest of his life in England. The family's return in 1861–62 brought the cast-iron Gothic Revival verandah you see today, a fountain in the pleasure garden and a first-floor bathroom. In England he lived at Merly House near Wimborne in Dorset, and he died there on 20 March 1872. He left his wife Sarah, five of their seven daughters and two of their three sons. His probate was sworn at £96,000 in Sydney and £70,000 in London.
The Funeral – Sydney Turns Out, 6 May 1873
Wentworth had long wanted to be buried at Vaucluse. As early as 1831, after Sarah's father Francis Cox died, he planned to consecrate land there for a family vault. He told the family he wanted to lie near a rocky outcrop on the hill above Parsley Bay, a spot you could see from the front verandah that looked over the harbour and the estate.
His body was brought home. Sarah accepted the government's offer of a public funeral, and the service was held at St Andrew's Cathedral on 6 May 1873. Two thousand people crowded in, and the only women allowed were the women of the family. The whole interior, floor included, was draped in black. On the cedar coffin lay "two wreaths of immortelles and other plants mostly indigenous to Vaucluse".
The day was declared a public holiday. The procession out to Vaucluse was so long that "when the first portion had reached ... Rushcutters Bay, the last of the carriages had not left George Street". The heritage history says 60,000 to 70,000 people lined the route. The ADB calls it a "state funeral", while the heritage listing and the Vaucluse House history call it a public funeral. Either way, the government paid the honours and Sydney turned out.
At the vault, Bishop Frederic Barker consecrated the ground. Sir James Martin gave a long speech. He said there was "no Westminster Abbey in which to place the bones of our illustrious dead", but that here, "under the blue Australian sky, and by the shores of the broad and blue Pacific", they would lay Wentworth's remains.
The Wentworth Mausoleum, Chapel Road
The mausoleum is Sarah's work as much as anyone's. After William died she sent her son-in-law Thomas Fisher a sketch of the spot and instructions that the vault be cut into a big single rock but "left in its natural state outside". She said she'd go to Brussels herself to order the marble and would bring iron gates and railings back with her.
The newspapers described the finished vault as cut out of the solid rock, built of brick and cemented inside, 28 feet long, 13 feet wide and 7 feet high, with slate shelves all round. The builder was Alexander Dean. Sarah then commissioned the architects Mansfield Brothers to design a Gothic Revival chapel over the vault, to match the house. It went up slowly. In November 1873 one letter complained that the "men are working, but as Miss W said they are drunk and away oftener than at work". The stone and iron palisade fence was finished by early March 1874.
Who Lies There
- William Charles Wentworth (1790–1872), buried 6 May 1873.
- Three of his children, whose remains were brought back from Europe and reburied in the vault: William Charles (1827–1859), Sarah Eleanor (1835–1857) and Isabella Christiana (1840–1856).
- Fitzwilliam Wentworth, the second son, who died in Sydney on 8 August 1915. He was buried there after a service at St Michael's, Vaucluse, and the vault was then sealed for good.
The family had hoped for more. Their daughter Eliza wrote that "it was Papa's wish to have my grandfather, my Uncle & Willie & Bell & poor Nellie & we should all like to be there when our time comes". Sarah wanted them to "all rest together in our native place". But she died at Eastbourne in England on 14 July 1880 and was buried in Ocklynge Cemetery there. A brass plaque in the mausoleum to Sarah Eleanor seems to be behind the long-held belief that Sarah herself lies in the vault. She doesn't. On 15 December 2015 a plaque in her own memory was put up inside.
On 14 October 1927 the Church of England Property Trust took on the care of the mausoleum by deed. In 1997, with the family's approval, the Historic Houses Trust (now Museums of History NSW) leased it for 99 years. The bush and rocks on Parsley Hill that once framed it have long since given way to houses, so you can't see it from Vaucluse House any more, but the grounds are open to visitors. It was added to the State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999.
From Family Home to Museum
From the late 1870s the house was lived in by family, friends or caretakers. The unmarried daughter Eliza kept up a strong interest in the place until she died in 1898. In 1900 the contents were auctioned, and the house sat empty.
From the 1890s there was pressure to win back harbour foreshore for the public. On 6 July 1910 the government took control of 9.3 hectares of the Vaucluse estate, which became Nielsen Park. The Vaucluse House history on Wikipedia, drawn from the heritage listing, says the government's 1910 resumption of about 4 hectares secured the house. The same history also mentions some 11 hectares, house and garden included, being resumed after the house had stood empty until 1911. The ADB's Hayes entry says simply that the government bought it in 1910 as a memorial to Wentworth and to responsible government.
The Nielsen Park–Vaucluse Trust opened the house on weekends and holidays, though it was nearly empty. It also pulled down the ruins of the convict barracks and workers' cottages, and in 1917 added two towers to the eastern front to make the place look finished. Today Vaucluse House is a museum run by Museums of History NSW, with the mausoleum on Chapel Road managed as part of it.
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The Wentworth Family Tree
Here's the family laid out generation by generation, with husbands and wives where the sources name them. Where I couldn't find a marriage or a date in a source, I've said so rather than guess. Where sources give different years, I've shown both.
| Person | Dates | Spouse / partner | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generation 1 | |||
| D'Arcy Wentworth | 1762 (ADB "1762?") – 7 July 1827 | Partners (never married): Catherine Crowley (c.1772–1800); Maria Ainslie (1774–1841); Ann Lawes (1791–1849) | Surgeon, police magistrate. Buried at St John's, Parramatta. |
| Generation 2: D'Arcy's children with Catherine Crowley | |||
| William Charles Wentworth | 13 Aug 1790 (Wikipedia; the ADB implies a few days earlier) – 20 Mar 1872 | Sarah Cox (1 Jan 1805 – 14 July 1880), married 26 Oct 1829, St Philip's, Sydney | Buried in the Wentworth Mausoleum. Also fathered a son, Henry (b. 1830), with Jemima Eagar. |
| Martha Wentworth | Died at four months old (dates not found) | none | Per Wikipedia |
| D'Arcy Wentworth junior (born Dorset Crowley) | 23 June 1793 – 21 July 1861 | Elizabeth Macpherson, married 27 Apr 1826, St Cuthbert's, Edinburgh | Army captain, police magistrate, MLC 1843–45. No children. Buried at St John's, Parramatta. |
| John Wentworth (born Matthew) | 1795 – 1820 | Not found in my sources | The ADB says he died at sea as a petty officer in 1820. |
| Generation 2: D'Arcy's children with Ann Lawes (dates from Wikipedia; spouses not given in my sources) | |||
| George Wentworth | 1810 – 1851 | Unknown | |
| Martha Wentworth | 1813 – 1847 | Unknown | |
| Sophia Wentworth | 1816 – 1878 | Unknown | |
| Robert Charles Wentworth | 1818 | Unknown | Only one year given |
| Charles John Wentworth | 1819 – 1854 | Unknown | |
| Mary-Ann Wentworth | 1820 – 1870 | Unknown | |
| Katherine Wentworth | 1825 – 1898 | Unknown | |
| D'Arcy Charles Wentworth | 1828 – 1866 | Unknown | Born after his father's death |
| Generation 3: the children of William Charles and Sarah Wentworth (seven daughters and three sons) | |||
| Thomasine Wentworth | 1825 – 1913 | Thomas Fisher (marriage date not found) | Named after Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. Given land on the estate (later the Strickland House site). |
| William Charles Wentworth | 1827 – 1859 | Not found in my sources | Reburied in the mausoleum |
| Fanny Katherine Wentworth | 1829 – 1893 | John Reeve, married 1847 | Built Greycliffe, 1851 |
| Fitzwilliam Wentworth | 1833 (Wikipedia) or 1832 (SMH obituary title) – 8 Aug 1915 | Mary Jane Hill, daughter of George Hill (Mayor of Sydney 1850) | Last person buried in the mausoleum, 1915 |
| Sarah Eleanor Wentworth | 1835 – 1857 | None recorded | Reburied in the mausoleum |
| Eliza Sophia Wentworth | 1838 – 1898 | Unmarried | The last surviving unmarried daughter |
| Isabella Christiana (Christina) Wentworth | 1840 – 1856 | None recorded | Reburied in the mausoleum |
| Laura Wentworth | 1842 – 1887 | Henry William Keays-Young, married 1872 | |
| Edith Wentworth | 1845 – 1891 | Rev. Sir Charles Gordon-Cumming-Dunbar, 9th Baronet, married 1872 | |
| D'Arcy Bland Wentworth | 1848 – 1922 | Not found in my sources | |
| Henry (son with Jemima Eagar) | b. 1830 | Unknown | Born outside the marriage |
| Generation 4 onward: the line through Fitzwilliam (the only grandchildren my sources name) | |||
| William Charles Wentworth III | 1871 – 1949 | Florence Denise Griffiths, daughter of George Neville Griffiths MLA | Son of Fitzwilliam and Mary Jane |
| William Charles "Bill" Wentworth IV | 1907 – 2003 | Not covered in my sources | Liberal MP 1949–77, first Minister in charge of Aboriginal Affairs. Great-grandson of W. C. Wentworth. |
| Diana Wentworth | Dates not given | Mungo Ballardie MacCallum (1913–1999) | Listed in the same generation as Bill |
| Mungo Wentworth MacCallum | 1941 – 2020 | Not covered here | Son of Diana and Mungo |
Grandchildren through Thomasine, Fanny, Laura, Edith and D'Arcy Bland weren't listed in any source I could check, so they're not shown.
Timeline
- 1762 – D'Arcy Wentworth is born near Portadown, Ireland (14 February, per Wikipedia).
- 1787–1789 – D'Arcy is tried for highway robbery at the Old Bailey and acquitted every time.
- July 1788 – Catherine Crowley is convicted at the Staffordshire Assizes and sentenced to seven years' transportation.
- 28 June 1790 – D'Arcy and Catherine arrive at Port Jackson in the Neptune.
- August 1790 – William Charles Wentworth is born at or near Norfolk Island.
- 1793 / 1795 – Dorset (later D'Arcy junior) and Matthew (later John) are born.
- January 1800 – Catherine Crowley dies at Parramatta.
- 1803 – Sir Henry Browne Hayes buys the Laycock and Cardell grants and builds his Vaucluse cottage.
- May–June 1813 – William crosses the Blue Mountains with Blaxland and Lawson.
- 1817 – D'Arcy helps found the Bank of New South Wales, and William enters the Middle Temple.
- 1819 – William's Description of New South Wales is published (1818 in one source).
- 1822 – William is called to the Bar, and Captain John Piper acquires Vaucluse.
- 14 October 1824 – The first issue of The Australian comes out.
- 1825 – Sarah Cox wins Australia's first breach of promise case, and Thomasine is born.
- 7 July 1827 – D'Arcy dies at Homebush.
- 27 August 1827 – William buys Vaucluse from Piper (the ADB's Hayes entry says 1829).
- 1828 – The family moves into Vaucluse.
- 26 October 1829 – William marries Sarah Cox at St Philip's.
- 1831 – More than 4,000 people celebrate Governor Darling's departure at Vaucluse.
- 1843 – William tops the poll for Sydney and enters the Legislative Council.
- 1847 – Fanny marries John Reeve, and Greycliffe is finished in 1851.
- 1849–50 – William leads the founding of the University of Sydney.
- 1853 – William chairs the constitution committee, the house contents are auctioned and the house is leased to John Hosking.
- 1854 – The family leaves for England.
- July 1855 – The New South Wales Constitution becomes law.
- 1856, 1857, 1859 – Isabella, Sarah Eleanor and William junior die.
- 1861–62 – Brief return to Sydney. William is President of the Legislative Council, and the Gothic verandah is built.
- 20 March 1872 – William dies at Merly House, Dorset.
- 6 May 1873 – Public funeral at St Andrew's Cathedral and burial in the vault at Vaucluse.
- March 1874 – The mausoleum's palisade fence is finished.
- 14 July 1880 – Sarah dies at Eastbourne and is buried at Ocklynge Cemetery.
- 1898 – Eliza Sophia, the last unmarried daughter, dies.
- 1900 – The house contents are auctioned.
- 6 July 1910 – The government takes control of part of the estate, which becomes Nielsen Park, and Vaucluse House is secured.
- 8 August 1915 – Fitzwilliam dies. He's buried in the mausoleum, and the vault is sealed.
- 1917 – Two towers are added to the house's eastern front.
- 14 October 1927 – The Church of England Property Trust takes on the mausoleum.
- 1997 – The Historic Houses Trust leases the mausoleum for 99 years.
- 2 April 1999 – Vaucluse House and the mausoleum are added to the State Heritage Register.
- 15 December 2015 – A plaque to Sarah Wentworth is placed in the mausoleum.
Where the Sources Disagree
- When Wentworth bought Vaucluse. The Vaucluse House heritage history (via Wikipedia) gives 27 August 1827, and the ADB entry on Wentworth also says 1827. The ADB entry on Sir Henry Browne Hayes says the estate passed to Wentworth in 1829.
- When Piper got it. The same Vaucluse House history says Piper rented it for a year in 1814 and acquired it in 1822. It also says the estate "passed through several hands" between 1813 and 1827.
- William's birth. Wikipedia says he was born on the Surprize off Norfolk Island on 13 August 1790. The ADB says his mother reached Norfolk Island "with the infant William" on 7 August.
- William's schooling in England. The ADB says he was sent to England in 1803. The Wikipedia pages on D'Arcy junior and Vaucluse House say 1802, and the D'Arcy junior page adds that schooling began in October 1803.
- The Description. The ADB dates it to 1819, while the Vaucluse House history says 1818.
- D'Arcy junior's age at death. The ADB says he died in 1861 "aged 65". Wikipedia gives his birth as 23 June 1793, which would make him 68.
- Fitzwilliam's birth year. Wikipedia's family list says 1833. The 1915 Sydney Morning Herald obituary, as titled by Obituaries Australia, says 1832.
- "State" or "public" funeral. The ADB calls it a state funeral. The heritage history used for the Wentworth Mausoleum and Vaucluse House articles says Sarah accepted the government's offer of "the honours of a public funeral".
- How much land was taken in 1910–11. The Nielsen Park history says 9.3 hectares on 6 July 1910, with 21 hectares more in 1911. The Vaucluse House history mentions both "some 11 hectares" and a 1910 resumption of about 4 hectares. The ADB's Hayes entry just says the house was "bought in 1910".
- Is Sarah in the mausoleum? For years people believed she was. She's actually buried at Ocklynge Cemetery, Eastbourne, and the old belief probably came from the plaque to her daughter Sarah Eleanor.
My Earlier Posts
- Vaucluse House
- Blaxland, Wentworth & Lawson – Crossing the Blue Mountains
- The Sydney Mint – Macquarie Street (the old Rum Hospital D'Arcy helped build)
- Strickland House (Carrara) – 52 Vaucluse Road – Vaucluse
- Philip Gidley King – Third Governor of New South Wales
Sources
- Michael Persse, "Wentworth, William Charles (1790–1872)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 2, 1967 – https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wentworth-william-charles-2782
- J. J. Auchmuty, "Wentworth, D'Arcy (1762–1827)", Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 2, 1967 – https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/wentworth-darcy-1545
- "Hayes, Sir Henry Browne (1762–1832)", Australian Dictionary of Biography – https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hayes-sir-henry-browne-2172
- Wikipedia, "Wentworth Mausoleum" (based on the NSW State Heritage Register listing) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth_Mausoleum
- Wikipedia, "Vaucluse House" (based on the NSW State Heritage Register listing) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaucluse_House
- Wikipedia, "William Wentworth" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wentworth
- Wikipedia, "D'Arcy Wentworth" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth
- Wikipedia, "D'Arcy Wentworth Jr." – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy_Wentworth_Jr.
- Wikipedia, "Sarah Wentworth" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Wentworth
- Wikipedia, "William Charles Wentworth IV" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Charles_Wentworth_IV
- Wikipedia, "Political families of Australia" (Wentworth/Hill/Griffiths section) – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_families_of_Australia
- Wikipedia, "Nielsen Park" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen_Park
- Wikipedia, "Strickland House, Vaucluse" – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strickland_House,_Vaucluse
- Pictures: Wikimedia Commons, with individual credits under each image.