Peter Wiffin

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Helen Steller on 18th December 2021

Peter Vivian was born 7 Oct 1805 and baptised 25 Dec 1805 at Isleworth Middlesex, son of Peter and Martha Vivian. Peter Vivian married Martha Mason on 10 Feb 1794 at Fulham Middlesex.

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D Wong on 7th November 2019

Old Bailey: PETER WIFFIN. Theft: stealing from master. 1st February 1836 Verdict Guilty > unknown Sentence Transportation Related Material PETER WIFFIN, alias Vivion, was indicted for stealing, on the 26th of January, six yards of silk, value 18s., the goods of John Tucker, his master. JOHN TUCKER. I am a silk-printer, and live at Went Ham Abbey, in Essex, about five miles from town. I employed the prisoner for about eighteen or twenty months—he received upwards of two guineas a week—at Christmas I took stock, and found a deficiency of from 130 to 150 pieces of handkerchiefs—I took some steps to discover the property—six pieces were produced to me—they are part of my property, in an unfinished the state, having only imperfectly gone through the process of manufacture, the work is entered in a book which is delivered to the workman, and by that he is paid—here is the book kept by the prisoner—it is in the writing of my clerk—there is an entry of the marks of the several pieces delivered out—I find some of the marks in this book correspond with the articles produced—No. 7 was given to the prisoner on the 26th of January, and that a Mr. Nathan's was given to the prisoner on the 26th of January, and that at Mr. Nathan's hands. JOHN DAVID WADMAN. I am clerk to Mr. Tucker, This is the book on which I pay the prisoner for his work—I have an entry in the book, that corresponds in the mark with the piece produced—the article is not printed—the prisoner is a printer, and he has not printed it, which he should have done. EDWARD NATHAN. I am a pawnbroker, These seven handkerchiefs, or six yards of silk, were pledged with me on the 26th of January, by the prisoner, for 9s.—he gave his name J. Jones, lodger, Alfred-street—we thought it was finished silk. JOHN TUCKER re-examined. Q. Did you give the prisoner authority to take these off the premises to pint? A. No, never to take them of the premises—he is finished with every thing there to do them—he was paid for this us if he had done them, but we did not know but that he had left them hanging up to dry. GUILTY. Aged 29.— Transported for Seven Years. Peter Wiffin, alias Vivian was listed as 26 years old on arrival - as per his Indent on Ancestry. Old Bailey lists him as 29 - so born 1806ish Native Place: Middlesex. Occupation: Calico printer. Peter was literate, protestant, married with 1 male child, 5'5½" tall, dark ruddy and freckled complexion, dark brown hair, brown eyes, mole right side of neck, small wart on lower lip, several moles under both arms. 1841: TOL District: Port Phillip. 14/6/1843: COF 28/2/1845: The Melbourne Weekly Courier, Victoria: The undermentioned Certificates of Freedom are lying at this Office for delivery: __ Peter Wiffin, alias Vivian, Bengal Merchant (2). 17/8/1848: Married Mary Ann Wallis in Adelaide, SA. Children: Martha Mary Ann VIVIAN Birth: 11 JUN 1850, Tungkillo Mines, South Australia Jane Rachel VIVIAN Birth: 18 MAR 1853, North Adelaide, South Australia James Alma VIVIAN Birth: SEP 1855, North Adelaide, South Australia Kezia Ann VIVIAN Birth: 1858 John Peter VIVIAN Birth: 1859 Sylvia Ann VIVIAN Birth: 26 OCT 1861, Mt Beavour, South Australia Mary Ann VIVIAN Birth: 1864 Edwin Wallace VIVIAN Birth: 13 MAR 1867, Tungkillo, South Australia 18/9/1890 The Express and Telegraph, Adelaide: DEATHS. VIVIAN. - On the 8th September, near Mount Pleasant, after a long suffering, James Peter Vivian, aged 86 years, leaving a wife, 3 sons, 4 daughters, 30 grandchildren, and 2 greatgrandchildren to mourn his death. He has trod the weary pathway, Leading to his home on high Here the loving ones remain Hope to meet him by-and-bye. -Inserted bv his loving daughter. Martha Burgess. Mary Ann Vivian died 8/4/1916.

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Cynthia Cheney on 7th November 2019

I am of the view that Peter Wiffin alias Vivian became James Peter Vivian who moved to SA and married Mary Ann Wallis on 17 August 1848 and started the Vivian family there.