This is the information provided by Jillian Taylor, a descendant of Jasper and Margaret (Atkins) Newberry.
Perhaps most importantly the new information provides knowledge of additional children for Jasper and Margaret of which we had not previously been aware.
Perhaps most importantly the new information provides knowledge of additional children for Jasper and Margaret of which we had not previously been aware.
THE NEWBERRY’S AND THEIR
RELATIVES LEAVE WALES AND ENGLAND AND HEAD FOR AUSTRALIA ON THE GOVERNMENT AP
PROGRAM
AP = ASSISTED PASSAGE (FREE) http://www.theshipslist.com/ships/australia/regulations1858.shtml
SHIP: TANTIVY
Left from Liverpool on 25th February 1857 and arrived in
Port Adelaide on 4 June 1857.
On board was JOHN POLE , 15 years
old (Birth date – c1842), a farm labourer from Somerset , UK.
A comment on the ships passenger list was “
travelling with?”
SHIP: SCHAH JEHAN
Left Plymouth in 1860 and into Port Adelaide on the 1st
December 1860.
On board were a young couple Noah Newberry , 34 years , a shepherd labourer
of Abergavenny, Monmouth and his wife Sarah (Harries) Newberry, 23 years old.
Sarah gave birth to a daughter on the ship over to Australia.
Noah came from the same town as Jasper Newberry which WAS in Wales but borders were
adjusted and it became part of Somerset, England during the 1800’s.
Probably related as all Newberry’s were
originally closely connected back in the day.
SHIP: SIR JOHN LAWRENCE
Left Plymouth, London (shipping
agents – Elders, Stirling & Co) on the 2 August 1862 and sailed into South
Australia on 30th October 1862.
On board were EDWARD and WILLIAM PUDDY and WILLIAM POLE.
Edward Puddy , 17, was a prentice Groom and William Puddy , 18 was a
Carpenter of Somerset.
William Pole, 22, from Caltolt,
Somerset.
SHIP: NORTHUMBERLAND
Left Portsmouth, UK on 26th
September in 1863 and arrived Adelaide, South Australia 9th January
1864.
On board was Anna Puddy , 18 year old single woman and a servant from Somerset.
Anne
Poole was also listed on the same ship.
(The spelling of Pole MAY have been Poole )
- look into this.
SHIP: SIR JOHN LAWRENCE
Left Plymouth, London (shipping agents – Elders, Smith & Co) on the
5th September 1863 and
arrived in Adelaide on the 14 December 1863.
On board were JASPER NEWBERRY and SARAH
POLE both 21. Also on board was EMILY
POOLE, 18 years old (possibly Pole). Jasper Newberry was listed as a Labourer
Builder.
Jasper was listed as living at Monmouth and Sara and Emily were listed
as from Somerset.
As it is common family history that Jasper came out to South Australia
with 2 cousins by the name of Puddy and
Pole, I think it is quite reasonable
that Sarah (and maybe Emily) were actually those cousins that came on the same
ship as Jasper .
There were other Poles and Puddys in the colony when Jasper sailed in
on the SIR JOHN LAWRENCE. Some of these cousins had arrived only 14 months
before Jasper and MAY have waited for him in Adelaide. See previous notes above: John Pole (arrived
1857) and Edward & William Puddy and William Pole ( all arrived
together in October 1862).
There is a William Edward George Pole buried
at the Wirrabarra Cemetery but can’t be sure this is him. He MAY be a
descendant of John Pole. Need to confirm
birth and death dates.
Sarah Pole married George Wood. I have not
confirmed if she is a relative yet.
JOHN
POLE
[Prelogue: There are records of a John Pole
and Ida Rothburg Blundell in South Australia and from 1861 onwards they had 10
children. These births are registered in
Adelaide. I have NOT proved the link between the John Pole from Somerset, who
arrived in SA at age 15 in 1857, and this John and Ida Pole but I would be
interested to show that a marriage between a John Pole and Anne Atkins in 1887
was the second marriage of our John Pole…..or
that Ann Atkins actually married John Pole jnr!!! And the Newberry family story
passed down verbally that 3 cousins married the 3 Atkins girls is not
absolutely correct.]
It is known that John Pole was married to
Anne Atkins in 1887 and that their decendants still live in Wirrabarra. In fact
Neville Bonneys’ (author and botanist )grandson, 10 yo , told me that he goes
to school with some Poles at Wirrabarra while visiting us with Neville in 2012.
NOTE: get
a copy of the Pole family history “Yet still they live”, !
They married at Wongyana at Glenorchy, near
Wirrabara years after Jasper Newbery and Edward Puddy married Anne’s sisters at
Booleroo station in 1872.
When Jasper and Edward married the Atkins
girls in 1872, they married at the residence of John Pole. John Pole was a shepherd
at Booleroo and his home must have been pleasant as a setting for marriage. I
am thinking that at the time John Pole was living at Booleroo station in the
role of shepherd as were his cousins Jasper Newberry and Edward Puddy, he was
already married.
MAYBE he was married to Ida and his 10
children were living with him at Booleroo Station and THAT is why his house was
worthy of holding the weddings of his cousins!
It is rumoured that to this day, there is a
rift in the Pole family.
I am guessing second marriage would do that….but
this is pure speculation.
“John Pole (his father listed as Richard
Pole) , 25? years old, married Ann Atkins on 23rd December 1887” (website
http://roslyn-ross.blogspot.com.au/2011/01/and-mystery-deepens-as-mysteries-can.html and http://roslyn-ross.blogspot.com.au/2011_04_01_archive.html ) John pole was 15 when he arrived on the
ship in 1857. This puts his birth date at 1842…making him 45 when he married
Ann Atkins who must have been a lot younger and of child bearing age.
Something doesn’t add up here??
Commonly discussed knowledge in the Newberry
family was that :-
“We know that the 3 cousins who came out to
Australia all married 3 Atkins sisters” , so this should be “our “ John Pole.
However, he couldn’t have been 25 as this would put his birth date at c1862 not
1842!
John Pole, from Somerset, was 15 when he arrived in the colony
in 1857, therefore he would have been 45 years old not 25 if this is the same
guy who eventually marries Ann Atkins. Of course, there is the extra confusion
that it was a son, John Pole jnr that married Ann Atkins in 1887, not the
original 15 yo John Pole who arrived ahead of his cousins in 1857. More
research needed.
I tend to think that his age was incorrectly
reported as his wife’s age was also unknown.
John Pole’s wife, Ann Atkins, was reported
to be 20 or 30 years of age at the time of her marriage!
[Who reported this?] Ann Atkins was the daughter of Edward Atkins
and sister to Emily and Margaret who married Edward Puddy and Jasper Newberry
15 years earlier.
John Pole of Wirrabarra, was killed in a shooting
accident in 1917 and reported in a newspaper article. His wife Ann remarried a
Henry Hatch but died of a broken neck shortly after.
There is a book entitled “Yet still they
Live” that came out to celebrate 150 years of Wirrabarra history. It has a lot
of Pole family history and some Newberry family history.
[William de la Pole is recorded as living in
Somerset , England as early as the year 1400.]
There are currently 2 shearers, listed
online, by the name of :
Pole, A.J. & Sons. Private Bag,
Wirrabarra 5481.
Pole, J.F. & J.C. Box 10 Pt Germain 5495
And
Newberry, D.E., Lucidon Station via Keith 5267
EDWARD PUDDY
Edward Puddy (father Robert Puddy), aged 26, married Emily Atkins (born
1850-52) on the 4th May 1872 at the residence of John Pole,
shepherd, at Booleroo Station.
Emily died in 1934. http://headstones2.weebly.com/wirrabara.html
There is a large extended Puddy family
living in the Port Pirie/Port Augusta region as I have found them on Facebook.
JASPER NEWBERRY (our Great
Grandfather)
I have found an entry from the 1861 Census as follows:
Jasper Newberry
Age: 19
years old
Born: about
1842 in Wiltshire, England.
County: Monmouthshire
Country: Wales
ED, institution: 12
Household Schedule: 239
Jasper’s father was WILLIAM NEWBERRY (born 1818, Wiltshire ,
England) and his mother, SARAH
NEWBERRY
Jasper Newberry has 2 sisters and a brother back in England.
William Newberry
Sarah Ann
Ellen, born in 1841, and died in Kensington, London at age 62.
Jasper a builder’s labourer, came out to SA (1863) and worked his way
up to Wilmington as a builder. He is thought to have worked on the Pitchie
Richie Railway and then is reported to be in the Booleroo Station region by
1872 where he met & married Margaret Atkins, the daughter of shepherd,
Edward Atkins.
They moved to Wongyana at Glenorchy, near Wirrabara. (See “Glenorchy by
Alma Newberry Thompson)
JASPER NEWBERRY, 30, married
MARGARET ATKINS (born 1847) at age
25, at John Poles’ residence at Booleroo Station on the 24 December 1872.
Margaret was born in the Clare Valley, S.A.
Her father was Edward Atkins and she was the sister of Ann Atkins who eventually married John Pole on 23 December , 1887, 15 years later.Their sister Emily Atkins had
already married Edward Puddy in 1872 at age about 20 only 7 months earlier.
EDWARD ATKINS, father of the
3 Atkins girls worked at Booleroo Station. He was employed as a Blacksmith and
Shepherd.
His first wife was Hannah.( Roslyn Ross Blog)
He is thought to possibly be the convict HENRY EDWIN ATKINS deported for sheep-stealing.
It is thought he was transported to Sydney
and on release, came across country to South Australia as there is no record of
Edward Atkins arriving in South Australia by ship. There are records of a Henry
Edwin Atkins transported to the colony and all trace of him disappeared after
he was made a free man in NSW.
He died in 1891 at the home of his
son-in-law, Jasper Newberry, at Whyte Park , Wirrabarra.
JASPER
AND MARGARET NEWBERRY HAD SEVERAL CHILDREN.
Mary Jane Newberry Died
1875
Ellen Newberry Died
1878
Elizabeth Newberry Born: 5th November 1880 ;
WILLIAM
NEWBERRY (OUR GRANDFATHER ) Born: 14th July 1887 (William
Newberry is mentioned later in life as part of the family history of Ann Evans
online)
Edith Newberry Born: 5th October 1889
(Married Arthur James Baldock)
Jasper Newberry Died 1918-1925
http://headstones2.weebly.com/chelteham-n-s.html Chelteham : J Newberry (who is this?)
Jasper’s
only son, William (14/7/1887-5/3/1951) married Edith May Martin (
8/2/1897-2/4/1943)
William was named after his grandfather back
in England.
Edith was the 5th child of
Charles and Jane Martin (see Martin Family history Book)
Edith was born at Wirrabarra and lived there
for about 30 years.
She married William Edward Newberry at Whyte
Park, Wirrabara and spent some time as a mail contractor at Wirrabarra. (See
Alma’s Glenorchy Story). They moved their family to Port Pirie in about 1930.
They had 7 children; Phillis May, Alma ,
Frederick , Rex, Vera, Ivan and Maxwell.
GLENORCKY Over the Creek
by Alma Newberry
What I’ve been told and what I still remember
of Glenorcky:
I have spoken many times in the past to the
late Doll and Bill (William came out 1862 with Edward and William Puddy) Pole.
They are the oldest living relations who would know anything about
Grandfather (Jasper)Newberry and Grandmother (Margaret )Newberry. To this day I am the oldest of the Newberry
Family as far as I know. I remember very
well Phyllis, myself and Fred (he was a baby) and also a baby brother Rex (he
passed away when only 6 months old).
Grandfather’s (Jasper’s) house was a lovely old home very
comfortable with a long verandah right across the front. It was built with pine slabs treated and lined
with hessian and painted. (Jasper was a builders labourer back in Wales and so
knew how to build a decent home) I can still hear the snakes in summer moving
in the hessian bags.
Grandfather came out from Wales as a teenager (he
was 21 ) with three of his cousins, all around the same age. I don’t know the third one’s name as he
didn’t stay as he had a girlfriend back home and he promised her he would go
back.(there were several cousins that came out from Wales from John Pole(1857)
to Edward Puddy (married Emily Atkins) and William Puddy (his brother) .There
was also William (Bill) Pole. William Puddy must have been the one who went
back home.
So Grandfather (Jasper) and the Puddy (Edward)
boy built their homes at Glenorcky and the Pole boy built his home at Bangor, 2
½ miles away (There was a John Pole at
Booleroo Station!in the 1870’s so probably moved down to Bangor well after the
other two when he married their sister-in-law ann Atkins). The three homes were
built the same. They all had nearly
every fruit tree you could think of.
They all had cellars where they kept their meat and other things as
there was no electricity in those days. Those
were the days we had plenty of fruit, eggs, butter, milk, cream and home-made
bread until the bakers came around to the homesteads.
Grandmother (Margaret Atkins) Newberry was a
midwife. She used to attend the women
around our way when they had their babies as hospitals were many miles
away. In those days when the midwife was
sent for she would arrive by horse and buggy.
Our Father (William) in those early years
worked at Wirrabara Forest sawing down pines.
Then as I can remember he had a new house built down over the creek very
close to the road. Phyllis and I were very
happy to be able to see the horse-drawn buggies going past and perhaps a car
also now and then.
Our Father next drove the mail coach from
Glenorcky to Bangor,
Murrytown and then to Wirrabara Post Office.
Two or three times a week he drove the coach with two horses delivering
the mail. Later he had a motor coach.
He used to go shearing sheep certain times of
the year and travel long distances by horse-back or buggy. As Phyllis and myself were getting older we
were company for our Mother as our Father used to be gone until the shearing
was finished as it was probably too far to come home. Our Father used to employ somebody to drive
the mail while he was away shearing.
There was good money in that sort of work. His relations went shearing too. They were all good shearers.
Our Mother (Edith Martin) must have been very lonely –
she used to have a horse and I remember it being called Doll. She used to have a buggy of her own and she
would drive us to our Grandparents (Jasper and Margaret lived at Whyte Park –
Edwin Atkins was reported in the newspaper as dying there at the home of his
son-in-law) ) at White (Whyte Park) Park.???confusion as to which grandparent
Alma is referring to! Grandfather (Martin)
was a foreman at the Pines. Our Mother used
to love gardening and had a lovely garden.
There was no potting soil in those days and our Mother only ever used
dirt from the paddocks. She also made
her own trellises for her climbing plants.
Vera was born later. She was still young when we left. Phyllis and I walked 2 ½ miles to
school. We went with others who lived
around close to us. Some were
relations. I had a little pony my father
bought. I used to ride to school but
Phyllis did not. She was too
nervous. I also went messages for my Mother
when she was on her own. I remember he
was a nice little pony and then when Fred started school I had to walk and help
look after him. We were all very happy
living there in the country but we were all getting older. Vera used to be company for our Mother
although she was very young.
Quite a few of our relations lived around
us. We always had a Happy Xmas. Our Father sang and played the piano (William
was a musician!) in those days. We used
to drive into Murrytown about the nearest place to our house. Father Xmas was there. We used to drive in the mail coach which was
faster than the horses and buggy. We
always had lots of goodies, lollies etc. which we never got much of in ordinary
times.
We had a cellar where lots of food was kept but
when it was very hot our Father used to put all the drinks etc. in a bran bag
and tie the bag onto a root of a tree in the creek. Every time we wanted a cold drink we used to
walk down to the creek and get some cool drinks out of the bag. There was never any beer etc. as our Father
and Mother never drank. The drinks were
always very cold in the creek as we did not have any ice chests to keep them
in. We had to put up with hardships but
it was never noticed as everybody had to do the same.In the years gone by I
often went back. I used to stay with my
grandparents (Jasper and Margaret Newberry) who lived at White Park.
Grandfather (Martin) was the foreman there at
the Forest – that was Grandfather and Grandmother Martin, Charles and
Jane. Grandfather Martin was born at “Hill River”
near Clare. He was the 9th
child of James and Jane Martin. His
father died when he was 8 years old and his mother remarried a year later. Grandfather Martin is then believed to have
lived with an Uncle in the Locheil district.
He went to Wirrabara
Forest where he met and
married Grandmother Martin. During his
early years he was a teamster carting wool and wheat from the northern stations
to Port Augusta through the PichiRichi Pass.
When he was first married he was often away from home for 6 months at a
time. Later he became employed by Woods
and Forest Department in Wirrabara
Forest. He cut cases from pine logs with a pit saw to
make the fruit cases before the saw mill started in about 1900. He was transferred to White Park
outstation as foreman in 1910 where he worked until he retired at 65 years of
age. Grandmother Martin was 82 years old
when she died and Grandfather Martin was 90 years old. They are both buried at Wirrabara.
Gradually our relations who lived around us
shifted to Wirrabara and some to Pirie.
We were about the last ones to go from Glenorcky except for the Pole
family who lived at Bangor. To this day there are still Poles living
there. Most of them lived there all
their lives. Bangor is a very pretty place. Our Father’s (Willam) Aunty and Uncle used to
have the hotel there. Puddy’s was the
name(Edward and Emily Puddy). It was
very handy for all the teamsters who used to travel through the Gorge. Those days bullocks were used instead of horses.
Phyllis, Fred and I were now getting
older. Vera was still very young only a
few years old. We had to sell our
horses and cattle that we had. I can remember
it all as though it were yesterday. We
let our house for a few years till we got settled in Pirie. Ivan and Max were both born in Pirie.
As we were leaving our old house and moving this
is the song that we sang:
Good-bye Glenorcky town
Glenorcky town good-bye
We are leaving you today
For a town that’s far away
Although today we are stony- broke
Without a single crown
If we strike a fortune
We will come back and spend it
In dear old Glenorcky.
As the oldest living relative Alma wanted to share her memories with
everyone. She was very proud of her pioneering heritage and family history.
In Pirie
Alma started another chapter of her life.
She married, had one son, Brian, divorced
and became a single mother – values and
times were different then but Alma
was determined to do it her way.
Alma then moved to Adelaide,
met and married a carpenter, Reginald George Thompson, “Tommo” or “Tom” to
everyone who knew him. Alma and Tom had
two daughters, Suzanne and Margaret, both born at the Calvary
Hospital in North
Adelaide. Alma would often talk about the social values
in her early days and how woman were treated so differently then. The Calvary Hospital
had two sections she explained – one, upstairs, for married women and the other,
downstairs, for unmarried mothers who had to work for their keep. Like a lot of men at that time too, Tom did
not attend the birth of his children and stayed away celebrating until it was
all over.
Tom and Alma moved to Jamestown and then to Crystal Brook. By now Suzanne and Margaret were at High School and Alma gave Tom an ultimatum
- move to Adelaide
with her so that the girls could continue their education or stay in Crystal
Brook – he chose to move!
Tom had a great sense of humour, loved
his beer and cigarettes. He was always
telling stories to Suzanne and Margaret - how he had snow fights in the desert
or was shot and killed by the enemy when he was in the army.
At 71 years of age Alma became a grandparent for the first time.
She was absolutely thrilled by the birth of her grandson, Tom, as she
thought she was going to be the only one in her family without
grandchildren. Her first comment was about
his “big feet” as “big feet meant he was going to be tall – the same as
predicting how big a dog will get – “look at their feet” she said! Twenty three months later she was thrilled to
be a grandparent again, this time to a granddaughter, Kim. A “pigeon pair” she commented. “I am so lucky!”
The world
that Alma grew
up in changed so much over her 90 years.
What didn’t change, though, was her strength of character - her strong
will, her superstitious beliefs and suspicious nature, her determination and
her compassion for others.
She would not allow peacock feathers in the
house or let 3 candles burn in a row.
She thought hanging your washing on the line on a Sunday and wearing
opals was bad luck. She hated being
treated like an “old person” because she was old and being called “dear.” She would not co-operate or answer questions
if she thought that the information some-one was seeking was too personal,
irrelevant or just unnecessary. It didn’t matter if they were medical staff, a
government agency or a neighbour. She often
preferred to make facial expressions instead!
Alma was very much a family person. She loved her family unconditionally and
“came to life” whenever there was a family function or gathering. She kept
memorabilia from her early years to the present - her son’s first booties, her
last cigarette, letters and post cards from the war years, photos, invitations
and cards. Alma adored her grandchildren and enjoyed
being part of their life. In later years
she became the cherished carer of Maggie and every Thursday it was the “dog’s
day out.” Maggie remained a loyal and
faithful companion and visited Alma
regularly at the Flinder’s Medical Centre and the Oaklands Nursing Home.
Alma always cared about her health and appearance. She enjoyed a cup of tea, chose her food
carefully, always boiled her drinking water, took her tablets exactly at the
same time every day, (except during daylight saving), loved new clothes, always
wore make-up and loved anything red.
Alma was very strong physically and mentally. She lived independently for nearly 91 years
of her life – an amazing feat!
Hi, my name is Ron Carey,
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