Name, date and place of birth and death from "ROSS Family" tree dated 1993 by Vyver Main (nee Whyte) b. 1919.
Day of death changed from “24th” to “25th” as per information supplied by Raymond Ferguson b. 1933.

A contributor writes in a genealogy website message on 1 January 2019 to Brian of nzolivers wife (Carol), that Sophia Beck’s husband, Charles Gerrard, has a record of domestic violence towards her, as well as Emma Gerrard his daughter. The contributor goes on to say that it seems they were separated in the 1850s, and as a mum on her own, she travelled to New Zealand from Sydney. The contributor wonders if there was a sibling or parent living in New Zealand at the time?

Newspaper article from the Sydney Morning Herald Mon 16 Apr 1855 Central Police Court, found in June 2019 on the National Library of Australia’s Trove website
CENTRAL POLICE COURT.
SATURDAY.
BEFORE Mr. Allen, Mr. M'Lerie, and Mr. Hill.
Charles Gerrard was brought forward charged with having, while drunk, assaulted his own daughter, about eight years of age, by biting. Mrs. Gerrard deposed that defendant (her husband) had been drinking to great excess, and she believed was out of his mind; in a drunken fit yesterday he bit the child now in Court, and she feared for her own safety. Ordered to give sureties to keep the peace; otherwise to be imprisoned for fourteen days.

Newspaper article from ‘The Empire’ Sydney of Monday 21 May 1855, found in June 2019 on the National Library of Australia’s Trove website
Central Police Court - Saturday
(Before the Police Magistrate.)
Charles Gerrard was charged with assaulting his wife on the 17th instant. Sophia Gerrard stated, that the prisoner was an habitual drunkard; and had for some time continued a course of ill-treatment towards her; he had been four times brought before tho Court within three months, one for biting his daughter in the leg, for which offence he was imprisoned for fourteen days; on Thursday last he bit his wife severely in the shoulder, and knocked her down. In reply to the charge, the prisoner said that he did not bite his wife from any ill feeling; he was sent to prison for one month, with hard labour, and was required at the end of that period to enter into recognizances to keep the peace for three months.