John has a creek named after him near the Hawkesbury river, named Wright Creek.
1813 John indentured to the Government stores as a Cooper (barrel maker).
1820 25 June - John writes first letter to Governor McQuarie. John son of
Joseph Wright who came on the transport "Scarborough" in 1788. Having served
7 years in the employ of the Government and being 20 years of age applied for a
grant of land at Windsor and was granted 60 acres on the 17 May 1821. The
letter was sponsored by William Cox and John Crofs (Chaplian). Original grant
No. 27, Wilberforce Reach, Hawkesbury River.
1822 1 September - John writes for a second grant sponsored by Rev. William
Cowper and John Piper J.P. Land granted. Reference for John - "I believe to
be a very discerning young man" - signed John Piper J.P. "The petitioner, I
believe, an industrious and sober youth" - signed Rev William Cowper.
1827 1 October - John married Sarah Huggins at St. James Church, Pitt Town.
Witnesses - Sarah Jones and Jno.D. Woods.
1828 5 October first daughter Sarah born Pitt Town.
24 October Baptised.
Census - John (25) a cooper of Pitt Town - wife Sarah (17) who came free on the
"Northampton" in 1815 and 3 weeks old daughter Sarah.
1829 8 December - John aged about 27 years married with one child, wrote to
Governor Darling saying the original grant was not suitable for cultivation
and that to support his family he had to continue as a cooper and that during
the 7 years he went to sea, south with the Whaling and Sealing boats. He
disposed of his ground an now rents several acres of arable ground and has
seven horned cattle. In September 1828 purchased two allotments in Pitt town.
Having a weather board house on each for which he paid ten cattle and the rest
in money, also a block of land given by the late Dr. Mileman on which he built
a house at Pitt Town near Windsor. Reference by William Cox.
1831 28 May - John jnr born Pitt Town.
1833 31 January - John jnr baptised at St. James Pitt Town.
7 November - Jane born and baptised 25 December.
1836 26 June - Thomas born Middlehope. Baptised St James Morpeth 15 May 1841.1843 29 May - Ellen born - Baptised St James Morpeth 25 December 1845.
1846 20 October - William born Maitland. John a farmer.
1849 10 March - George born Morpeth. Baptised St James Morpeth 18 October
1849.
1850 11 April - George dies. Headstone at St James Cemetery Morpeth.
1852 30 January - Robert born Phoenix Park, Morpeth. Baptised St James
Morpeth 4 April 1852.
John a farmer 1849 - 1852 - 1855.
1856 12 August Black Creek Parish of Allandale - John purchased original grant
of 91 acres from Governor Dennison and sold to John O'Neil of Fishing Creek,
Maitland for 225 pounds in December 1859.
1859 December John sold 5 acres at Phoenix Park, to James Bird for 100 pounds -
bearing east to the punt road near Thomas Wright's.
1882 9 September - John admitted to Liverpool State Hospital. John a Cooper
born in the colony, 80 years of ages was admitted by the manager.
16 September - John dies - buried Liverpool Cemetery.
1896 15 October - Sarah, 87 years of ages dies at High Street, Morpeth at the
residence of her son-in-law (John Newton).
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Daughter of Mary (Dinah) and ? Huggins - a builder - Born Liverpool, England.
Came free as a settler on the "Northampton" in 1815. Sarah married John
Wright at Pitt Town on the 1 October 1827.
Died at High Street, Morpeth at the residence of her son-in-law (John Newton)
In 1784 Joseph Wright, at 17 years of age, was tried by the London Jury before
Mr. Recorder at the Justice Hall in the Old Bailey at the Session which
began on Wednesday, 26 May 1784.
Crime and Sentence - Joseph Wright was indicted for feloniously stealing on the
6 May, 218 pounds weight of lead, value 40s, belonging to William
Rothwell, fixed to a certain building there situate against the statute.
1. Judgement recorded at the end of the same sessions.
2. Guilty - 7 years transportation.
Sailed with the first fleet on 13 May 1787.
Arrived 26 January 1788 on the "Scarborough". Reported to be holding some of
the tougher convicts.
Joseph was imprisoned on the hulk ship "Censor" on the Thames before being
transported.
1790 13 December - Married at St. Phillips Church by Richard Johnson
(Chaplain). Witness to marriage were Pte.00 Edward Field N.S.W Corps and
Martha Proud (convict). Eleanor signed her name Ellen Gott.
1792 11 February - Joseph jnr born. Joseph jnr eventually settled on a land
grant in Tasmania.
8 April - Baptised St. Phillips Sydney. Baptism was registered of Joseph son
of Joseph and Eleanor White (misspelt for White).
1794 3 November - Joseph was granted 30 acres at Mulgrave, Pitt Town Bottoms.
Block No 12 one the 1st farms at Hawkesbury. Rent is per acre beginning after
10 years.
15 June - First son Robert is born baptised 6 July at St. Matthews Windsor.
1796 The Medical Journal of Australia, 12 April 1975. page 475, has a story on
Australia's first General Practitioner, John Malloy, who is called on to give
evidence in a murder case in July 1796, at the settlement on the banks of the
Hawkesbury. John Fenlow had shot his servant - John Lane, using a bullet
thought to be an old 1oz lead weight. According to the writer "this raised
another interesting point. Fenlow's neighbour Joseph Wright came to the colony
for removing 218 lbs of lead from a roof - against a statute. Old habits die
hard: was he still in the unofficial scrap metal business".
1797 Mary born - Baptised 1 June 1812 at St. Matthews Windsor.
1800 John born
1802 12 November - Sarah Born - Baptised 1 June 1812 at St. Matthews Windsor.
1805 25 December - Samuel Born - Baptised 1 June 1812 at St. Matthews Windsor
1806 16 February - Sydney Gazette - Joseph fined 20 pounds for giving work to
an absconding prisoner.
12 August - Joseph has purchased 15 acres on the Hawkesbury River from Boston -
6 acres of wheat - 2 acres barley - 3/4 acre of pasture - 6 acres of fallowed
land - 2 boars - 5 sows - 1 bushel of maise in hand, Joseph, Ellen and 6
children not victulled by the government. Letter
1809 12 March - Thomas born - Baptised 1st June 1812 at St. Matthews Windsor
June - Big Flood on the Hawkesbury - Robert and John are supported by
government stores.
1810 22 December Petition of Joseph Wright, asking for permission to have a man
off the stores to help him, stating he "came into the colony in the ship
"Scarborough:, January in the year 1788, holds a farm situate in Nelsons
District on the Hawkesbury River, have fifteen acres under cultivation have got
a wife and five children to support. Robert discharged 6th January from
Government stores, Joseph and Robert now employed.
1811 30 August, Joseph 44 years dies - buried Sydney. St. Phillips.
1812 31 March - Ellen married Daniel Buckridge - a farmer of Pitt Town at St.
Matthews
1813 John is indentured to the government stores as a cooper (barrel maker).
1843 26 April - Ellen Buckridge dies and is buried 28 April at Parish of Pitt
Town by Chas. C. Kemp. She was 80.
All of Joseph's sons were apprentices - Joseph (jun) a wheelwright, Robert a
blacksmith, John a cooper, Samuel a blacksmith and sawyer. Thomas a
shoemaker.
John, Samuel and Thomas came to the Hunter River with the cedar cutters between
1836 and 1840. They later took up farming.
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Eleanor Gott born 26th October 1765. Baptized 17th Novermber 1765 at St.
Peters, Liverpool, Lancashire. Daughter of John Gott - Shoemaker.
1789 - Ellen Gott was tried and convicted at the Liverpool Assises on 3rd
August 1789. Sentenced to 3 years transportation. Sailed in the 2nd Fleet
aboard the hellship "Neptune" in December 1789. Arrived 28 June 1790.
Letter from Rev. Richard Johnsons to a friend about "THE NEPTUNE"
THE NEPTUNE - HELLSHIP
A letter to a friend from the Rev. Richard Johnsons
The "Neptune" was still more wretched and intolerabe, and therefore never
attempted it. Some of these unhappy people died after the ships came into
the harbour, before they could be taken on shore --- part of these had been
thrown into the harbour, and their dead bodies cast upon the shore, and were
seen laying naked upon the rocks. Took an accasion to represent this to his
Excellency, in consequence of which immediate orders were sent on board
that those who died on board should be carried to the opposite north shore and
be buried.
The landing of these people was truly affecting and shocking, great numbers
were not able to walk, nor to move hand or foot, such were slung over the
ships side in the same manners as they would sling a cask, a box, or anything
of that nature. Upon their being brought up to the open air some fainted,
some died upon deck, and others in the boat before they reached the shore.
When come on shore many were not able to walk, to stand, or to stir
themselves in the least, hence some were led by others. Some creeped upon
their hands and knees, and some were carried upon the backs of others....
The misery I saw amongst them is unexpressible, many were not able to turn, or
even to stir themselves, and in this situation were covered over almost
with their own nastiness, their heads, bodies, clothes, blanket all full of
filth and lice. Scurvy was not the only nor the worst disease that prevailed
amongst them (one man I visited this morning, I think, I may say safely had
10,000 lice upon his body and bed). Some were exercised with violent fevers,
and others with a no less violent purging and flux. The complaints they had to
make were no less affecting to the ear than their outward conditions was to
the eye.
The usage they met with on board, according to their own story, was shocking,
sometimes for days, nay for a considerable time together, they have been
to the middle in water chained together, hand and leg, even the sick not
exempted - nay, many died with the chains still upong them. Promises,
entreaties, were all in vain, and it was not till a very few days before they
made harbour that they were released out of irons.
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Winfield was a farmer, and he and Pearl had been residents of the Roseland community for a half a century. He was a member of the A.O.U.W. lodge, a democrat, he was well known over the county, and was elected by his party as County Clerk for two terms. He also served in various township offices. For a number of years, they lived on the Ware Section, 1-1/2 miles North of Scammon, Kansas.
Winfield died at his home 1-1/2 miles North of Roseland, near Weir City, Kansas. Winfield and Pearl are buried in Hosey Hill Cemetery, west of Weir City, Kansas.
Pearl was found dead in her bed the morning of 13 April 1946, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. James (Frances) Masterson, in Roseland, Kansas. Pearl had been in poor health for five years and bedfast three weeks prior to her death.
Jack F. Wickersham, 77, of Carona, died at 8:32 p.m. yesterday at Maude Norton Memorial Hospital. Mr. Wickersham had become suddenly ill at his home in Carona and was taken to the hospital. He was born Feb. 6, 1910, in Columbus, the son of Winfield and Pearl George Wickersham. He was a resident of Cherokee County his entire life. Mr. Wickersham married Evelyn Richards Nov. 16, 1933, in Columbus. She survives. Mr. Wickersham had been employed by the bridge deparment of the Cherokee County Highway department for 20 years. Prior to that he had farmed land west of West Mineral and was employed for P&M Coal Mining Company for approximately 20 years. He attended the Church of God of Prophecy of Turck. Survivors include two daughters. June McCabe, Topeka. and Colleen McCabe, Independence, Kan.; two brothers, George Wickersham, Meriden. Kan and Ed Wickersham, Oroville, Calif.; one sister, Marjorie Humble, Cherokee route one; and five grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Naylor Chapel in Weir. The Rev. Shirley Halpain and the Rev. Randy Arnold wi1l officiate. Burial will be in Hosey Hill Cemetery, Weir. Casket -bearers will be Sam Johnson, Sam Douthit, and four grandsons, Mark McCabe. Frank McCabe, Mike McCabe and Robert McCabe. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Naylor Funeral Home in Weir.
Obituary Columbus Daily Advocate, Tuesday, April 9, 1991:
Mrs. Evelyn Wickersham, 76, of Columbus, died at 2:00 p.m. Monday, April 8, 101, at Stormont Vail Hospital in Topeka where she had been a patient for three weeks. She was born May 9, 1914, in Weir to Oscar and Goldie Witty Richards. She married Jack Wickersham Nov. 16, 1933, in Columbus. He preceded her in death Jan. 18, 1988. Membership was held in the Church of God of Prophecy in Turck. Survivors include two daughters, June McCabe of Topeka and Colleen McCabe of Independence; two brothers, Gilbert Richards and Bob Richards, both of Columbus; three. sisters, Madge McElroy of Vernon, Texas, Mary Bowin of Columbus and Iris Johnson of Turck; and five grandchildren. She was; preceded in death by her parents, one brother and one sister. Funeral services will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Bath Naylor Funeral Home, Weir. The Rev. Randy Arnold and the Rev. Shirley Halpain will officiate. Burial will be in Hosey Hill Cemetery. Casket bearers will be Mark, Robert, Frank P., Mike, Bill and Frank McCabe. A visitation will be held from 7:00 to 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Francis Pearl Prenk was killed September 21, 1980, when her car collided with a pickup truck at a country road intersection 2 miles South and 2 miles West of the US 69 and K57 North junction. She was pronounced dead at the accident scene.
A graduate of Mineral High School, Frances Pearl was a licensed mental health technician at the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center 13 years before her retirement in 1978. She lived in Parsons, before moving to Girard, Kansas, in 1978. Funeral Mass was at St. Michael's Catholic Church, and interment was in Hosey Hill Cemetery.
Francis Pearl Prenk was killed September 21, 1980, when her car collided with a pickup truck at a country road intersection 2 miles South and 2 miles West of the US 69 and K57 North junction. She was pronounced dead at the accident scene.
A graduate of Mineral High School, Frances Pearl was a licensed mental health technician at the Parsons State Hospital and Training Center 13 years before her retirement in 1978. She lived in Parsons, before moving to Girard, Kansas, in 1978. Funeral Mass was at St. Michael's Catholic Church, and interment was in Hosey Hill Cemetery.
George and Patricia resided in Topeka, Kansas, and have one son and one daughter.
Obituary:
George Winfield Wickersham, 73, of Meriden, Kan., died Thursday, Dec. 20, 1990, at his home. Mr. Wickersham was born on July 22, 1917, at Branson, Mo., to Scott Winfield and Pearl Katherine George Wickersham. He was reared and lived in Southeast Kansas before moving toTopeka in the summer of 1955. He moved to Meriden in 1960. lie married Hattie May Simmons on May 21, 1941, at Columbus. Mr. Wickersham was a retired pipefitter and steamfitter, and also a retired farmer. lie was a member of the Local No. 165, Pipefitters and Steamfitters. Survivors include his wife of the home; one son, Lloyd W. Wickersham of Meriden; one daughter, Sally J. Wickersham of Meriden; one brother, Ed Wickersham of Oroville, Calif.; one sister, Marjorie Humble of Cherokee; and two grandchildren. He was preceded in death by a grandson, Bret W. Wickersham on Aug. 13, 1982; his parents; two brothers, Lloyd Wickersham and Jack Wickersham; and a sister, Frances Prenk. Funeral services were at 2:00 p.m. Sunday at the Parker-Price Mortuary in Topeka. Burial was in the Meriden Cemetery.