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Australian Pioneer Families

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Richard Richards, John Richardson, James Richardson,
James Ritchie, Charles Robinson, William James Robson,
John Thomas Roe, Andrew Ross, Hugh Ross,

Richards

Richard Richards born 1813 or 1816 at Upper Brithdir, Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales wed 27 Sep 1834 to Elizabeth Morgans b.1813- Bedwelty Monmouthshire or Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales, daughter of Dr Morgans
Richard Richards and Elizabeth Morgans lived at Llanelli, Glamorganshire, Wales when their daughter Lydia was born, and then at Upper Brithdir, Gelligaer, Glamorgan, Wales. barque Amazon, 767 tons [sic?], Captain Frederick Coots [sic?], from London / Plymouth 26th November 1851, arrived at Port Adelaide, South Australia 20th February 1852. The Sydney Shipping Gazette (SSG) reports . . February 19 -- Amazon, barque, Cook, from Plymouth 26th November. passengers-- Mr. & Mrs Joyner and three children, and Dr. Edward Gregory, Surgeon-Superintendent, with 286 emigrants. The Amazon arrived on Thursday from Plymouth, which port she left on 26th November last, and we regret to learn there have been the great number of seventeen deaths on board during the voyage, sixteen of them have been children, which have been taken off by the measles and hooping cough [sic] and which we understand is still prevalent on board. —5th ship from England to S.A. with government passengers for 1852; five births & nineteen deaths on the passage; note spelling and name variations and age discrepancies
Passengers - Richard Richards 37 Farm Servant ref 1350/2 of Glamorgan, Wales, Elizabeth Richards 37, Sarah Richards 17 and Anne Richards 15 with parents, Lydia Richards 12 Edward Richards 10, Richard Richards 7 and Mary Richards 1 died at sea

Richard Richards arrived in Adelaide, Australia on 20 Feb 1852 on the Amazon with Elizabeth Morgans and 5 children, Mary died at Sea, and two children, William and Margaret were born in Victoria

9 children

1. Sarah Richards 1835
2. Anne Richards 1837 - 1913 #13884 aged 77
3. Lydia Richards 1839 - 1889
4. Edward Richards 1846 - 1911 #13650 aged 65
5. Richard Richards 1844
6. Mary 1851 died at Sea 7. Mary Anne Richards 1853
8. William Richards 1856 #9949R
9. Margaret Richards 1857 lived 17 months died at Clunes

1. Sarah Richards 1835 wed 1852 to Evan Lloyd and lived at Fryers Creek

3 children

1. Elizabeth Maria Lloyd 1855 #2412
2. Lydia Lloyd 1857 #12011
3. Sarah Anne Lloyd died 1858 #4915 aged 11 months

3. Anne Richards 1837 - 1913 #13884 aged 77, died Long Gully, Victoria, wed 1855 to John Hunt

9 children

1. Sarah Ann Hunt 1856 #9878 at Yandoit
2. John Hunt 1858 #8544 at Kangaroo Flat
3. Richard Hunt 1859 #21081 at Pennyweight
4. Elizabeth Hunt 1861 #15362 at Maldon
5. Twin William Hunt 1863 #15375 at Maldon
6. Twin Mary Hunt 1863 #15376 at Maldon
7. Sarah Ann Hunt 1867 #16102 at Maldon
8. Edward Hunt 1870 #5105 - 1928 aged 58, born at Sandhurst died at Wonthaggi
9. Alice Hunt 1872 #12034 at Tarnagulla

3. Lydia Richards 1834 - 1889 wed 17 May 1858 to Thomas Eynon and died at Tallygaroopna, Victoria, Australia, 11 children.

4. Edward Richards from Glamorgan, 1846 - 1911 #13650 aged 65, wed 1874 #4644 to Elizabeth Hetherington 1844 #13733 baptised at St James CofE Melbourne, and lived at Sandhurst

4 children

1. Edward Albert Richards 1878 #5038
2. Geo Wm Richards 1880 #25036
3. Celia Mary Margaret Richards 1883 #5250
4. James Bloomfield Richards 1888 #15552

5. Richard Richards 1844, wed 1870 #3210 to Elizabeth Powell both born at Glamorgan, and lived at Sandhurst

3 children

1. Elizabeth Ann Richards 1870 #19119
2. Samuel Richards 1872 #11684
3. Edward William Richards 1874 #5036

7. Mary Anne Richards 1849 wed 1 Dec 1888 to William Henry Jessup 1857 #5307, no known children

Richardson

James Richardson came from Berwickshire Scotland, and arrived at the Wanyarra Goldfields, Inglewood in 1868. He is father of Thomas.
Thomas Richardson wed c1889 to Mary Smith of Inglewood

5 Children

1. Frances Sarah Richardson 8 June 1890 - 13 Mar 1978 aged 87, wed 16 Jan 1911 to Albert Walter Arnold 18 Aug 1884 - 3 Dec 1960, 7th child of Sarah Cundall and William John Arnold
      3 sons - Wesley, Alfred and Colin
2. Janet (Jessie) Richardson 9 Oct 1891 - 1 June 1964 wed Thomas Arnold
      4 chn - Thomas, Ivor, Daisy and Donald
Two sisters wed two brothers
3. Thomas Richardson 1894 wed Arlie Smith -
      1. June
      2. Max wed, sons Scott, Alan and Matthew
4. Mary Richardson 2 Oct 1897 wed (1) Joseph Watkins died of war injuries,
      Josephine.
Wed (2) Heffer - Jack, Shirley and Marie
5. Andrew Richardson 1900 wed Una Gilespie - no children

Richardson

The Larpent was the first ship chartered under a J. D Lang immigration scheme which arrived in Geelong in 1849. J.D.Lang purchased land in Australia then returned to England and sold the land in ten and twenty acre farms with a passage to Australia to these The Larpent passengers. Ian Wynd died before he finished writing a book on J D Lang's Immigration Scheme - 3 ships to Vic, 3 to Qld, and some passengers on a ship to NSW. There is a book called The Larpent- The Tale of a Ship and a Distict by Kathryn Purnell. It was published by the Larpent School in 1989. I believe the Colac Family History group have a copy. It tells about the Ship, its journey and the people on board who later settled the area near Colac which they called Larpent.

John Richardson c1825 - ?, born in Tunbridge, UK, came to Australia about 1849 on the Larpent, probably with his parents
John Richardson wed 1849 #23425 to Annie Sarah Matthews and they lived at Geelong, Victoria

5 children

1. Horace Frank Richardson 1854 #6865
2. Clara Helen Richardson 1857 #2398
3. Austen Godfrey Richardson 1860 #8510 - 1933 #16597, was born at Belmain? Victoria
4. Louis Frederick Richardson 1871 #2669
5. Howard Sidney Richardson 1874 #2603

1. Horace Frank Richardson 1854 #6865 wed 1881 #139 to Edith Harriet Sommers 1860 #14381 daughter of Ann Matilda Merrell and William Sommers born at Geelong

7 children

1. Stanley John Richardson 1882 #16460
2. Elsie Dora Richardson 1884 #17192 lived 7 years
3. Alan William Richardson 1886 #3177
4. Francis Dudley Richardson 1889 #21963 lived 2 years
5. Norman Willis Richardson 1892 #4419 lived 1 year
6. Edith Annie Lyne Richardson 1893 #32014
7. Frank Evan Richardson 1895 #12551

3. Austen Godfrey Richardson 1860 #8510 - 1933 #16597, wed 1890 #2344 to Laura Amelia White 1869 #10542 - 1955 daughter of Jane Roberts and Andrew White born at Mt Duneed

5 children

1. Clive Richardson 1891 #23382
2. Roy Richardson 1895 #12430
3. Lyell Richardson 1896 #20100
4. Ivan Richardson 1903 #18185
5. Noel Richardson 27 Dec 1905 #3261 - 1972, married 1932 to Gladys Ella Motton

Ritchie

John Ritchie came c1854 with Martha Gemmell to Melbourne then went to Smeaton, later Marong

10 children

1. James Ritchie 1855 #3679
2. John Stevenson Ritchie 1857 #4678
3. Wm Ritchie 1859 #19425
4. Thomas Ritchie 1861 #20662
5. Matthew Ritchie 1864 #15970
6. Michael Ritchie 1866 #2884
7. Martha Ritchie 1868 #9932
8. Margaret Ritchie 1871 #3156
9. Elizabeth Ritchie 1873 #10512
10. Esther Baker Ritchie 1873 #10513

James Ritchie born 1855 in Melbourne, wed 1880 #3390 to Esther Sutherland Baker, lived at Boort then Fernihurst

8 children

1. Martha Ritchie 1881
2. Thomas Ritchie 1882 #9171
3. Barbra Annie Ritchie 1884 #2323
4. Henry Gordon Ritchie 1885 #9718 lived 9 months
5. Robina Ritchie 1887 #2832
6. James Norman Ritchie 1888 #11108
7. Wilhelmina Esther Ritchie 1890 #3196
8. Alick Ritchie 1893 #31380

6. Martha Ritchie 1881 - 1976 #2309 aged 95, wed 1910 to John Howard Radnell, 3 children

Robson

William James Robson wed 1890 #4309 to Margaret Addison 1867 #4703

4 children

1. Elsie Isabel Robson 1891 #1147
2. John Leslie Robson 1893 #10387
3. Margt Dorothy Robson 1895 #9988
4. Ernest William Robson 1900 #27068

Robinson

Charles Blick Robinson 1827 - 1906, aged 79, son of Sarah Holy and Robert Robinson, came c1861 with Sarah Emma Hill, who died 1906,

6 children

1. Sarah Elizabeth Robinson 3 May 1862 wed Henry Treloar Nicholls
2. Catherine Robinson 31 March 1864
3. Robert Henry Robinson 16 Jun 1866
4. Charles Hill Robinson 28 Jun 1868 - 7 May 1913
5. Daniel Holy Robinson 8 Jan 1871
6. Isaac George Robinson 1873

Roe

John Thomas Roe wed c1877 to June-Dec 1877 to Harriet Cundall born Pleasant Creek (Inglewood) 1858

6 children

1. John Albert Cundall Roe 1878 - 1878 born Inglewood
2. Frederick Roe 1879 - 1896 aged 17 born Inglewood
3. Elizabeth Evelyn Roe 1881 born Inglewood wed 1898 #2358 to William John Reeve, no known issue
4. Thomas Edward Roe 1887 - 1887 aged 8 months at Eaglehawk
5. Ruby Gladys Roe 1891 born Eaglehawk
6. Norman Stanley Roe 1893 born Eaglehawk

Ross

Andrew Ross came c1854 with Mary Rose and had their first Australian-born child at Forest Creek, then they moved so each child's birth was registered at a different place.

10 children

1. Sarah Isabell Ross 1855 #11514 at Forest Creek
2. Andrew Aeneas Ross 1857 #17206 at Maryborough
3. Colina Ann Ross 1859 #21279 - 1950 #21093 aged 91, born at Loddon, wed Symons
4. Angus Alexander Ross 1861 #16494 - 1923 #16881 aged 60, wed 1892 to Annie Lee
5. Donald Ross 1864 #10654 - 1948 #7044 aged 84, at Laanecoorie
6. Mary Flora Ross 1865 #21893 - 1928 #10350 aged 62 at Laanecoorie
7. Jessie Ross 1868 #5413 - 1946 #3766 aged 78 at Newbridge
8. George Thompson Ross 1869 #21928 - 1875 #1636 at Dunolly lived 5 years
9. Charles Aeneas Ross 1873 #2190 - 1875 #1637 at Eddington lived 2 years
10. William Alexander Ross 1875 #2036 at Laanecoorie

3. Andrew Aeneas Ross 1857 #17206 - 1937 #18021 aged 79, born at Maryborough and died at Dunolly, wed c1898 to Emily Grisold

6 children

1. Florence Mary Irene Ross 24 Aug 1899 #26249 wed 1922 to Arthur Richard Graham.
2. Charles Aeneas Ross 1903 #17644
3. Fannie Ross 1905 #10184
4. Amy Emily Ross 1908 #2978 - 1914 lived 6 years
5. David Herman Ross 1910 #19009
6. Hurbert William Ross 1914 #3146

4. Angus Alexander Ross 1861 #16494 - 1923 #16881 aged 60, born at Newbridge, wed 1892 to Annie Lee 1862 - 1919,

1 child

1. Roy Reginald Ross 1904 at St Kilda

Ross

Hugh Gilbert Ross, born in Scotland, wed 1878 to Elizabeth Dove Murray born in Glasgow.

2 children

1. Edith Alice Ross 1880 wed 1903 to Thomas Alexander Miles, only child Gilbert Thomas Miles 1904 born at Kyneton.
2. Archibald Murray Ross 1882 wed 1912 ref 11238 to Mathilda Theos 1886, only child Hilda wed Reg Griffiths, son of William Henry Griffiths 1874 married 1900 at Junee to Margaret Isabel Wilesmith 1879

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