John Pike

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iain Frazier on 22nd April 2024

Possible family connections for John (Pike) may be: Some amendments added Sep 2025. PIKE John (Pike) arrivied in NSW as a convict on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7months on PERSEUS. He was born about 1770/8 in Faringdon Berkshire, son of Richard (Pike) & Mary (Wicks), baptised at Faringdon parish church on 27 5 1777, lived at St Helens parish Wallingford Oxfordshire & became an ostler & haymaker for Henry (Richards) owner of Crown and Thistle Inn Abingdon Berkshire. He apparantly had a first (1of3) marriage & produced a family. He was living at Turnagain Lane Abingdon Reading Berkshire when he was tried for stealing kitchen utencils etc of Henry & Frederick (Richards) at Abingdon Reading Berwiclshire Summer Assizes on 31 7 1797, sentenced to 7years & held perhaps at Birmingham & on hulk LA FORTUNEE in Langston Harbour Portsmouth. He was recorded in 1806 as Free by Servitude employed by J (O'Hara/Harn). He was assigned to ??? (Collet) at Toongabbee. He was wounded in the leg by convicts in the Castle Hill Rebellion in 1804. He may or may not have had a second (2of3) relationship with Sarah (Hughes).>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Sarah (Hughes) was born about 1762. She was convicted at Lancaster Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 4 1796 after a voyage of 6months on INDISPENSABLE. She married firstly (1of4) Arthur Daniel (Wellings) emancipist on 5 9 1796 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She had a second (2of4) relationship with John (Piper his third (3of5) relationship). She was taken to Norfolk Island on BODDINGTONS & left the Island with her child on 23 6 1804. She had a third (3of4) relationship with Peter (Cummings). She had a fourth relationship with John (Pike). She may have produced 5children in her lifetime. [Some details taken from this Website] If this is correct, then the child with Sarah (Hughes) was born between the second & third children with Jane (Ferriday). Sarah (Hughes & John (Pike) produced 1child: 1.Mary Elizabeth (Pike) was born on 25 12 1810 & baptised on 13 10 1811 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. >>>John (Pike/Pyke) married thirdly Jane (Fer/riday) on 26 12 1807 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He was Free by Servitude by 1810 He was recorded in 1814 as landholder off stores on 270acres grant. On 10 6 1825 he was convicted of selling spirits without licence & fined. He was recorded in 1826 as farmer at Prospect & in 1827 as settler. In 1828 he was recorded with 850acres, maybe at Prospect. He was recorded in 1829 as farmer. He died on 23 12 1860 age90 (the newspaper recorded age107) father of perhaps 13children-from gangrene in his broken arm obtained in accident involving upset of a cart driven by his daughter in law & was buried at St Bartholomews Prospect: his farm passed eventually to his great grandson James (Manning). Jane (Fer/riday/Farralty) was born about 1783. She was tried for stealing with force & arms silver teapot etc of Mrs (Yonge) & Mrs Francis (Holmes) at Shropshire Assizes Northampton on 22 3 1806, sentenced to death reprieved to Life & arrived in NSW on 18 6 1897 after a voyage of 5.5months on SYDNEY COVE. She left her marriage in 1838. She died on 17 8 1851 age68 from injuries sustained in a a cab & cart accident in George St Sydney. She was Free by Servitude by 1821. [Some details taken from this Website] John (Pike/Pyke) & Jane (Feriday) produced 12children: boys then girls 1.John (Pike) was born on 19 7 1808 & baptised on 24 6 1810 age23m w/Richard at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 19 6 1879 age70. 2.Richard (Pike) was born on 3 4 1810 & baptised on 24 6 1810 w/John at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 7 10 1812 age2 & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramata. 3.Jane (Pike) was born on 30 11 1811 & baptised on 15 12 1811 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 3 8 1853 age41. 4.Thomas (Pike) was born on 9 1 1814 & baptised on 10 4 1814 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died in 1893 age about about79. 5.Richard (Pike) was born on 19 9 1815 & baptised on 6 10 1816 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 30 6 1858 age42. 6.William (Pike) was born on 30 10 1817 & baptised on 9 11 1817 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 12 10 1891 age74+. 7.George (Pike) was born on 19 6 1819 & baptised on 28 11 1819 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 18 1 1822 age9. {Noted he is recorded again in Smees records as born in 1821 & died on 20 1 1822 age2m] 8.Mary (Pike) was born 17 7 1821 at Toongabbie/Parramatta & baptised on 27 1 1822 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She married William George (Agland) on 30 3 1841 at Parramatta & produced 10children. She died on 18 1 1922 age99 (or 14 5 1908 age86 at Lucknow & was buried at Orange). ..William George (Agland) was born on 21 10 1819 at Parramatta & was educated in law. He undertook pastoral pursuits & was a noted horse breeder. He died on 10 12 1908 age89 at Lucknow & was buried at Orange. ..Details of William George (Agland)s family are given in entry for John (Agland GUILDFORD 1812) on this Website. .. 9.Robert (Pike) was born on 29 10 1823 at Parramatta & baptised on 9 11 1823 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He died on 4 1 188256. 10.Elizabeth (Pike) was born on 19 9 1825 at Prospect & baptised on 10 3 1826 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. 11.Susannah (Pike) was born on 19 3 1827 at Prospect & baptised on 1 4 1827 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. 12.Sarah (Pike) was born on 13 11 1829 at Prospect & baptised on 29 11 1829 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 3 6 1872 age42. [Noted a William (Pike) is recorded as born in 1826, died on24 8 1826 age2w & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney-no parents given] [ & a William (Pike), child of a dealer, is recorded as born on 3 12 1828, died on 17 12 1828 age14d at Phillip St Sydney & was buried at St James CofE Sydney-no parents given] References: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony. 'Orange & District Pioneer Register Vols1-2 1820-1860 & 1860-1888' Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Ian Pike on 20th August 2021

John Pike was born in Faringdon, in Berkshire, about 1777. He was baptised at the Faringdon Parish Church on 27 May 1777. His parents were Richard Pike and Mary Wicks.

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Beth Taylor on 18th August 2019

1838 - After 31 years of marriage, Jane Pike nee Ferriday left the marital home at Prospect and her spouse John Pike advertised the fact in a Public Notice placed in the Sydney newspaper in 1838 and accused Jane of taking a large quantity of wearing apparel, most probably her own belongings! The public was warned against “harbouring or concealing” Jane, and were threatened with prosecution. (Source: “Australian” newspaper 8 May 1828, p3)

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Ian Pike on 12th October 2018

On the 31st July 1797, John Pike was tried at the Summer Assizes at Abingdon, Berkshire, before the Justice of the Peace, Edward Childs Esq, charged with Grand Larceny. He stole Goods and Chattels from Henry Richards snr, including a pair of shoes, two copper stew pans, one copper saucepan, one Delph bowl, one pair of leather boots, one tin cullender, one wooden piggin, one pewter plate, one wooden porter cask, one wooden gin cask, and one wire sieve over a period of six weeks. Two waistcoats belonging to Frederick Richards were found at John's house. He also had in his possession when arrested a pool whip belonging to Henry Richards jnr. Henry Richards was the owner of the Crown and Thistle Inn on Bridge St, Abingdon at the time and had at one time had employed John Pike as an ostler and hay maker, but had discharged John Pike three weeks earlier. At the time of his arrest, John Pike was living in St Helen's Parish, in Turnagain Lane, Abingdon, which is across the road from the Crown and Thistle Inn.

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Phil Hands on 19th June 2017

John Pike's place of residence at the time he was tried and convicted at Reading Berkshire on 31st July 1797, was St. Helen's Parish, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, he was sentenced for 7 years for Stealing kitchen utensils including 2 copper stew pans, a gin cask and a Delft bowl - total value 11 shillings from Henry Richards, senior. 4 waistcoats and other items worth 1 pound 3 shillings 6 pence from Henry Richards, junior. 2 waistcoats worth 10 shillings from Frederick Richards, by October 30th, 1797, he was listed aboard the prison hulk 'La Fortunee' moored at Langstone Harbour near Portsmouth to await transportation. Left England on 12th February 1802. Ship:- the 'Perseus' sailed with 113 male convicts on board of which 1 died during the voyage. Arrived on 14th August 1802. By 1806, he was recorded as being free of servitude and employed by J. O'Hara or J. O'Harn. In he married convict Jane Ferriday ('Sydney Cove' 1807) at Sydney, they had 12 children between 1808-1829. In 1814, he was recorded as free, off stores and a land holder. He had a grant and purchase of 270 acres of land, 5 acres under wheat, six acres of maize, seven acres of barley, and one acre each of oats, peas and beans by 1822. He also had six horses, fifty cattle, twenty sheep, eight hogs, ten bushells of wheat and eighty bushels of maize in hand. June 10th, 1825, he was convicted of selling spirits by retail, without a licence, and fined $100 [from the Sydney Gazette 16th June 1825]. By 1828, he was doing well and had 840 acres of land, four horses, eighty cattle, and forty-six sheep. John died on 23rd December 1860, cause of death was accidental injury sustained by upsetting of cart eight weeks earlier. He died of gangrene of the arm. He was buried two days later at St. Bartholomew's, Prospect. John was a landholder with a farm at Prospect which evidently was not carried on by any of his sons. According to the Australian Biographical and Genealogical record 182-1899 Vol 2, Peter Winter married a young widow, Ann Manning and raised her son, James, along with their nine children. The family lived for some years on Pike's Farm which was eventually inherited by Peter's step-son James Manning. This James was a great grandson of John Pike's. Sydney Morning Herald Friday 28th December 1860 p. 4 A Centenarian.- A correspondent informs us that on Christmas Day the remains of John Pike, aged 107 years (?), were consigned to their last resting-place, in the churchyard of St. Bartholomew's, Prospect, in which parish he had lived a great number of years. It appears deceased was sent out to this colony in the year 1802 from Birmingham, and was at that time forty-nine years of age. It is understood that he left a wife and family behind him, but married again shortly after his arrival in the country. He became the assigned servant of one Collet, at Toongabbee, and was wounded in the leg by the mutinous convicts at the time of the outbreak at Castle Hill. Principally through the industry and frugality of his wife, he acquired a very extensive landed property in this parish, but after her death, through litigation and other causes, it dwindled away much faster than it had been obtained; and the old man outlived his property some years. Latterly, he has been a pensioner upon the bounty of his children. Up to the period of his death the old man was hearty and strong, and there is no knowing how much longer he would have lived had he not been upset in returning from Parramatta in a cart driven by his daughter-in-law, by which his arm was broken, when mortification ensued, which killed him. He leaves a large family of sons and daughters, grandchildren, and great- grandchildren.