William Nipperess

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Phil Hands on 3rd May 2017

Tried and convicted at the Wiltshire Assizes on 7th March 1829, for stealing sheep, sentenced to transportation for life. Left England on 14th October 1829. Ship;- the 'Katherine Stewart Forbes' sailed with 200 male convicts on board of which 1 died during the voyage. arrived on 18th February 1830. William's 3 eldest children arrived in NSW in 1840 , to be with their father, his wife, Martha, died in 1829 along with their young infant son, Joseph. On 27th July 1841, at Parramatta, William married Irish girl Bridget Hall, who had arrived as a child's maid on the 13th February 1841 on the 'Jane Guifford', They had 5 children between 1842-1852. William and his second family moved from Parramatta to Howlong on the Victorian border about 1848, where it is known that William was a hotel keeper for a time, By the end of the 1860's, the family had moved over into Victoria to a place called Guntawang. William's death on 2nd June1882 at Walbundarie is shrouded in suspicion. The verdict was suicide by his own hand with a pea knife. He was a very oldmman, and ill in bed. A nephew from the Hall family was watching over him so the evidence goes, sometime during the night the boy dozed off to sleep. He awoke to find that William had cut his throat. The old man indicated that he had been a cripple long enough before expiring. Evidence tendered that his jugular vein was cut. The verdict of suicide does not hold up under close examination of the evidence given.

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D Wong on 19th September 2016

22/9/1828 Salisbury and Winchester Journal Wiltshire, England Salisbury William Nipperas, charged with stealing piece of ash timber, the property of Thomas Evans; also with having killed one ewe sheep, the property of John Berryman, at Purton. Committed to the House of Correction Devizes. William's parents were Robert Nipperess and Sarah Angel. The three living children of William arrived in Australia in 1840, they were: Elizabeth, born 1 March 1823. Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire England. Died 29 July 1899 at Beechworth, Victoria. Thomas, born 16 January 1825. Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire England. Died 17 May 1902, Maclean, New South Wales. Henry born 14 December 1826. Rodbourne Cheney, Wiltshire England. Died 5 February 1906, Rylstone. 27/7/1841: Married Bridget Hall at Parramatta - they had 5 children - John Joseph was born on the 3 May 1842 at Parramatta, New South Wales. Sarah Eleanor was born on the 25 November 1844, New South Wales. She married Charles Chandler . Sarah died on the 25 April 1915 at Fitzory Victoria. Mary Ann was born on the 26 February 1847 at Parramatta, New South Wales. She married Patrick Quirck on the 1 March 1870 in Beechworth, Victoria. Mary Ann died on the 14 April 1926 at Malvern, New South Wales. Martha was born in 1849. She married David Shannon in 1867 at Beechworth, Victoria. Martha died on the 14 July 1881 in Victoria. William was born in 1852. Bridget died on the 6 May 1869 in Victoria. William died on the 2 June 1882 at Walbundrie, New South Wales.

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Margaret Evans on 19th September 2016

William's wife and last born died following William's arrest presumably from starvation. The remaining children remained in England until late 1830s.

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Denis Pember on 12th October 2015

William was married in England. He had married Martha Ford, December 6 1821. They had 5 children up to 1829. In 1829, Martha died aged only 34. It is possible that this was in child birth because the youngest child Joseph was also born, and died in 1829! William was convicted, (crime unknown) and sentenced to life, sometime around teh same period. He was transported on the "Katherine Stewart Forbes". It would appear that the young children must have accompanied him because at least three of them lived, married, and raised families in Australia.