John Wigley

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 12th October 2021

1828 - New South Wales, Australia Census John Wigley. Age; 52. F. S. Ship; Indian - 1810 - 14 years. Protestant. Shoemaker. Parramatta Elizabeth Wigley. Age; 38. F. S. Ship; Mary Ann - 1816 - 7 years. Protestant Timothy Wigley. Age; 9. Born Colony. Protestant John Jnr. Wigley. Age; 6. Born Colony. Protestant Susannah Wigley. Age; 4. Born Colony. Protestant

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Dave Johnson on 18th April 2020

The Derby Mercury reported, in March 1809, that shoemaker John Wigley of Belper, aged 43, had been convicted of forging one pound banknotes, while his associate, William Varley, aged 21, was, at the same time, convicted of having such banknotes in his possession. At the Derby Assizes of that month both men were sentenced to be transported to Australia for 14 years. Perhaps they were lucky ?! I notice, a little further on in the same newspaper account, that at the Oxford Assizes, Henry Russell was convicted of passing forged banknotes and was thus sentenced to death. British Convict Transportation Registers show that John Wigley sailed to Australia in July 1810, aboard ‘The Indian‘, along with about 200 others. The ship arrived at New South Wales on December 16th 1810, when John’s convict records show a birth date of November 11th, 1770 (making him, of course, 39 at the time of his conviction). The wife left behind by John was Elizabeth (nee Kiddy) whom he had married at St. Alkmund’s Church, Duffield, on September 14th 1795. The couple had five children, ….. John (baptised 1796), George (1797), Jedediah (1799), Elizabeth (1801), and Robert (1804). Following John's 'departure' the family was now potentially destitute. The parish officers at Belper refused any relief for them as they were not legally entitled to be settled in the town, and a removal order was issued to locate Elizabeth and her children at Heage (why Heage ?) Colonial Secretary Papers (researched by D. Wong) show that John was moved to Newcastle, New South Wales, November 21st, 1816, on the Lady Nelson And then, three years later, on November 22nd, 1819, while he was a servant to Mr. Larken of Parramatta he made a petition for mitigation of his sentence. In late 1820 John was granted permission to marry Elizabeth Jones at St John’s Church, Parramatta. She had been sentenced to seven years transportation in 1815, and had arrived at New South Wales aboard the Mary Anne in January 1816. At the time of her marriage she appears to have been an assigned servant to John Palmer. On the 1828 Census for Parramatta, John and his family appear. John is still employed as a shoemaker, aged 52 (making his birth year 1776). Elizabeth is aged 38, and there are three children … Timothy aged 9, John aged 8, and Susannah aged 4. Baptismal records for the same colony show that Timothy, born in 1819, was perhaps the son of William and Elizabeth Orme, but was later 'adopted' by the Wigleys when his natural mother died. I believe that John returned to England some time between 1830 to 1841. He appears on the census for the latter year, living less that ten miles from his sons Jedediah and Robert. On the Nottingham census for that year he is at Pelican Street in Radford, still a shoemaker, aged 70, with his daughter Susan, aged 16. He continued to live in the city until his death at New Street off Parliament Street, on March 29th 1849, aged 78. Three years later, on the 1851 census, Susannah is recorded, alone, at Cottage Garden in Lenton,Nottingham, as a 'housekeeper'. On December 6th 1853, at Christ Church, Derby, she married Alexander Morley Stretton, a successful and prosperous farmer of 400 acres at Bunny Grange in Nottinghamshire. Born in 1825, he was the illegitimate son of George Stretton, printer, publisher and owner of the Nottingham Journal, and tracking Alexander is difficult as he occasionally used the surname of his mother, Sarah Morley. (It seems that his father George was still married when he fathered his two illegitimate sons; when George's wife Mary (nee Burbage) died in November 1825, George was then free to marry Sarah Morley, which he did, at St. Leodegarius Church, Basford, on July 26th 1826). In the late 1850's Alexander and Susannah Stretton left Bunny for Lambeth, London, where four of their five children were born … the last of the four being Ada Sarah in April 1861, the month of the census. However they don't seem to appear on that census and in 1861 or 1862 they cross the Atlantic to Canada, to live eventually in Toronto. Where they remain. Alexander died there on July 6th 1917, aged 92. I wonder whether Bob and Jerry Wigley were aware that their father had remarried and that they had several half-siblings ? And did they know that, just as the Market Inn was being built, that their father was living just a few miles from them ? What became of Jerry's mother Elizabeth and his other brothers and sister ? And what became of Elizabeth (Jones) and the other half-siblings ? Did they also come to England ? Did George Stretton know that his son was married to the daughter of a convicted forger, an ex-con ? If so, what did he feel about this ? Is the boot-maker John Wigley, living at 4 Duck Lane in London in 1881, the son, born in Australia, to John and Elizabeth ?

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Maureen Withey on 27th July 2019

1828 NSW Census at Parramatta John Wigley, age 52, shoemaker, protestant(Indian, 1810, 14 yrs)and his family, wife Elizabeth, age 38, ( Mary Ann, 1816, 7 yrs), children, all born in the colony, Timothy, 9, John, 6, and Susannah, 4, and 2 convict servants, Jane Mashins, 15 (Louisa 1827, 7 yrs) and Joseph Burnett, 28, (Malabar, 1819 life).

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D Wong on 31st May 2017

John Wigley was transported for 'Forging Banknotes'. Colonial Secretary Papers: WIGLEY, John. Per "Indian", 1810 1816 Nov 21: On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6005; 4/3495 p.293) 1819 Nov 22: Shoemaker; servant of Mr Larken at Parramatta. Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3202; 4/1860 p.92) 1820 Sep 4,19: Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.247) 1823 Apr 5: On return of allotments in the town of Parramatta (Fiche 3265; 4/7576 p.7) 1823 c.Jul: Shoemaker. His wife Elizabeth Jones an assigned servant of John Palmer in 1819-20 (Reel 6056; 4/1765 p.182) 1824 Jul 3: On return of proceedings of the Bench of Magistrates, Parramatta; listed as Whigley (Reel 6023; 4/6671 p.39) 1820: Married Elizabeth Jones (Mary Anne 1816) at St Johns, Parramatta. - 2 children registered on the BDM: Susannan 1824 and John 1822. March 1823: COF 4/3/1830: Was in Parramatta. C1830: John seems to have died - not registered on the BDM. 27/5/1830 Sydney Gazette: In the Supreme Court ) of New South Wales) Plaintiffs Phillip Joseph Cohen and Laurence Joseph Spyer, and Joseph Wigley, Defendant. To Joseph Wigley, his Creditors and Debtors. PURSUANT to an Order of this Honourable Court, bearing date the Twenty-first Day of May Instant, you, the said Joseph Wigley, are hereby required to attend and be personally present at the said Court, in Castlereagh-street, Sydney, on Saturday, the Fifty Day of June, at Ten o'clock in the Forenoon, for examination and enquiry as to your alleged insolvency, and that in the mean time you, the said Defendant, be restrained from disposing of you Estate and Effects, and that Phillip Joseph Cohen and Isaac Kirkbride are nominated and appointed provisional Trustees, with full power and authority to discover, collect, receive, and hold all and every the Estates and Effects of the said John Wigley, subject to the Order of a Judge or this Court respectively, until further Proceedings be had herein. Dated this 24th Day of May, 1830. EDWARD JOSEPH KEITH, Attorney for Plaintiff. There is also a story on John's son, Jedediah at : Colonial Secretary Papers: WIGLEY, John. Per "Indian", 1810 1816 Nov 21: On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6005; 4/3495 p.293) 1819 Nov 22: Shoemaker; servant of Mr Larken at Parramatta. Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3202; 4/1860 p.92) 1820 Sep 4,19: Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.247) 1823 Apr 5: On return of allotments in the town of Parramatta (Fiche 3265; 4/7576 p.7) 1823 c.Jul: Shoemaker. His wife Elizabeth Jones an assigned servant of John Palmer in 1819-20 (Reel 6056; 4/1765 p.182) 1824 Jul 3: On return of proceedings of the Bench of Magistrates, Parramatta; listed as Whigley (Reel 6023; 4/6671 p.39) 1820: Married Elizabeth Jones (Mary Anne 1816) at St Johns, Parramatta. - 2 children registered on the BDM: Susannan 1824 and John 1822. March 1823: COF 4/3/1830: Was in Parramatta. C1830: John seems to have died - not registered on the BDM. 27/5/1830 Sydney Gazette: In the Supreme Court ) of New South Wales) Plaintiffs Phillip Joseph Cohen and Laurence Joseph Spyer, and Joseph Wigley, Defendant. To Joseph Wigley, his Creditors und Debtors. PURSUANT to an Order of this Honourable Court, bearing date the Twenty-first Day of May Instant, you, the said Joseph Wigley, are hereby required to attend and be personally present at the said Court, in Castlereagh-street, Sydney, on Saturday, the Fifty Day of June, at Tem o'clock in the Forenoon, for examination and enquiry as to your alleged insolvency, and that in the mean time you, the said Defendant, be restrained from disposing of you Estate and Effects, and that Phillip Joseph Cohen and Isaac Kirkbride are nominated and appointed provisional Trustees, with full power and authority to discover, collect, receive, and hold all and every the Extates and Effects of the siad John Wigley, sufject to the Order of a Judge or this Court respectively, until further Proceedings be had herein. Dated this 24th Day of May, 1830. EDWARD JOSEPH KEITH, Attorney for Plaintiff. There is also a story on John's son, Jedediah at : Colonial Secretary Papers: WIGLEY, John. Per "Indian", 1810 1816 Nov 21: On list of prisoners sent to Newcastle per "Lady Nelson" (Reel 6005; 4/3495 p.293) 1819 Nov 22: Shoemaker; servant of Mr Larken at Parramatta. Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3202; 4/1860 p.92) 1820 Sep 4,19: Re permission to marry at Parramatta (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.247) 1823 Apr 5: On return of allotments in the town of Parramatta (Fiche 3265; 4/7576 p.7) 1823 c.Jul: Shoemaker. His wife Elizabeth Jones an assigned servant of John Palmer in 1819-20 (Reel 6056; 4/1765 p.182) 1824 Jul 3: On return of proceedings of the Bench of Magistrates, Parramatta; listed as Whigley (Reel 6023; 4/6671 p.39) 1820: Married Elizabeth Jones (Mary Anne 1816) at St Johns, Parramatta. - 2 children registered on the BDM: Susannan 1824 and John 1822. March 1823: COF 4/3/1830: Was in Parramatta. C1830: John seems to have died - not registered on the BDM. 27/5/1830 Sydney Gazette: In the Supreme Court ) of New South Wales) Plaintiffs Phillip Joseph Cohen and Laurence Joseph Spyer, and Joseph Wigley, Defendant. To Joseph Wigley, his Creditors und Debtors. PURSUANT to an Order of this Honourable Court, bearing date the Twenty-first Day of May Instant, you, the said Joseph Wigley, are hereby required to attend and be personally present at the said Court, in Castlereagh-street, Sydney, on Saturday, the Fifty Day of June, at Tem o'clock in the Forenoon, for examination and enquiry as to your alleged insolvency, and that in the mean time you, the said Defendant, be restrained from disposing of you Estate and Effects, and that Phillip Joseph Cohen and Isaac Kirkbride are nominated and appointed provisional Trustees, with full power and authority to discover, collect, receive, and hold all and every the Estates and Effects of the said John Wigley, subject to the Order of a Judge or this Court respectively, until further Proceedings be had herein. Dated this 24th Day of May, 1830. EDWARD JOSEPH KEITH, Attorney for Plaintiff. There is also a story on John's son, Jedediah at : http://www.oldilkeston.co.uk/jedediah-wigley-and-the-market-tavern/

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Janet Pritchard on 25th June 2012

John Wigley married a Elizabeth kiddy on the 14/9/1795 Derbyshire England, she was left with 5 children, John,George,Jedediah,Elizabeth and Robert.