Volunteer-built single shared tree. Sourcing varies profile by profile, so treat as secondary at best; consulted here through the WikiTree API (action=getRelatives), data dated 2026-08-16.
He passed away in hospital in 1909. The story in the family is that his family was not allowed in the hospital and his mother could only wave to him from his hospital window. That was the last his mother saw of her son Donald.
WikiTree gives the death as 5 Oct 1909 in Regina; the tree's 10 May 1909 comes from the Saskatchewan Vital Statistics index and is retained. Birthplace on WikiTree: Windmill Hill, Rothwell, Northamptonshire.
James (Jim) was born on his parents' homestead on March 14, 1884. A Mrs. McArthur was the midwife. ... He was recommended for patent on October 4, 1906. ... He passed away at the age of ninety on December 28, 1974 and was buried in the Fleming Cemetery.
Husband of Lottie Lauretta (Clarke) Mills — married 24 Mar 1909 in Fleming, Moosomin No. 121, Saskatchewan, Canada at age 25 ... married Lottie Lauretta Clarke on March 25, 1909 in Fleming by Rev. Leishman the Presbyterian minister of the town ... celebrated their 65th wedding on March 24, 1974
The biography text says 25 March; the relationship field and the 65th-anniversary date both give 24 March, which is used. Lottie's vitals (27 Oct 1884 – 24 Aug 1977) from WikiTree Clarke-21013.
He courted Marion Smith-Fielding. ... They married on November 8, 1922 in the McIndoe home. They then moved into the family home where Ralph's younger brother Wilbur still lived.
His wife Marion suffered medical problems during her second pregnancy swelling badly and died the following day June 21, 1926 of eclampsia caused by kidney complications.
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Winwood-227 · Person Henry Winwood · Data Updated 2026-08-16Secondary
Henry Winwood (1855-1932) married Mary Jane Peters 1903-06-06 in Queensland, and Louisa Peters 1909-12-23 in Queensland. Sarah Jane Watson is not listed among his spouses there.
Supports clearing the family startDate, which carried the same misfiled 1903 value as the MARR event. The union itself is well attested by the eight children and is left in place, undated.
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Wacker-77 · Person Wilhelm Mathaus Wacker · Data Updated 2026-08-16Secondary
Emilie Marie Auguste Henschke, b. 1837-04-08 Brandenburg, Prussia; d. 1875-05-10 Point Pass, South Australia. Spouse Johann Gottfried Wittwer, married 1860-08-02, Hoffnungsthal, South Australia, Australia.
Supports the corrected startDate on the family row (the same value the MARR event carries).
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Ruciak-2 · Person Franziska Ruciak · Data Updated 2026-08-16Secondary
In 1871 Jane, age 34, was recorded as married in Lanark, Ontario, Canada. Robert Dumn Married M 44 Scotland / Jane Dumn Married F 34 Ont / Elizabeth Dumn F 12 Ont / Mariah Dumn F 10 Ont / Peter Dumn M 6 Ont / William Dumn M 4 Ont
Quoting the profile's transcript of the 1871 Census of Canada (FamilySearch M47V-8NL, page 21, line 2). The surname is indexed as 'Dumn', a common misreading of Dunn. NOT ESTABLISHED: no marriage date or place was found.
Cyrus' father registered the deed to the front half of Lot 16 BF (100 acres) to Cyrus on March 31, 1881. Cyrus married June 14, 1882. The Scobie family had a building bee to construct a barn and small log shanty as a starter home for the young couple ... Cyrus was a Methodist and Annie an Anglican so they compromised and joined the Presbyterian congregation ... Five of their sons enlisted
Relaying Agnes Groome, 'Seeking Their Places in the New World' (1992). NOT ESTABLISHED: the marriage place. The book was quoted second-hand via WikiTree, not examined.
George Alexander Scobie (age 21), son of Alexander Scobie and Margaret Scobie, married Mary Jane Gould (age 18), daughter of John Gould and Jane Gould, on 25 Dec 1876 in Horton, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
Quoting the profile's transcript of Canada, Ontario, Marriages 1869-1927 (FamilySearch FMN2-2ZX; FHL microfilm 1863650). NOT ESTABLISHED: the marriage place Horton, Renfrew is recorded in this note only — no place row was created for it, as Renfrew County places are outside my assigned set.
Alexander Scobie (age 40), son of George A Scobie and Margaret Scobie, married Jennie Mcwade (age 30), daughter of Elvis Mcwade and Ann Mcwade, on 6 Mar 1895 in Ross, Renfrew, Ontario, Canada
Quoting the profile's transcript of Canada, Ontario, Marriages 1869-1927 (FamilySearch KSC1-KXM; FHL microfilm 1870710). NOT ESTABLISHED: the groom's parents are given as George A Scobie and Margaret, which the profile itself flags as a probable clerical slip repeating his own forename. Marriage place Ross, Renfrew recorded in this note only.
Death: New South Wales Births, Deaths and Marriages registry online; F= John, M= Sophia; Reg. 13941/1911
Source line from the WikiTree profile Grenenger-14 (Wenzel Grenenger 1833-1911). A compiled tree, quality 1, but it names the exact NSW death registration number and agrees with the Australian Cemeteries Index independently. The registration itself should be read in the NSW BDM index (Chrome) to confirm. Sophia's maiden surname is not given by either source, so she is recorded with a given name only.
Benjamin Saville then married Mary Owen nee Cook a widow in 1845 at St. Andrews Church, Port Macquarie.
WikiTree profile Saville-68, read via the API 2026-09-07. RECONCILED: the NSW marriage register (2069/1845 and its duplicate 205/1845, cited alongside) enters the bride as MARY OWEN, confirming WikiTree's reading that she married Benjamin as a widow under her first husband's surname; COOK, her maiden name, is what the Lansdowne cemetery transcription and Find a Grave record. Both spellings are now name rows on her. The church and the 1845 date remain WikiTree-only — the index gives no place beyond the register code JT.
NSW BDM RECORDS: MARRIAGE 2772/1860 SAVILLE BENJAMIN BAKER AMELIA MANNING RIVER
The NSW marriage index row as quoted in the source list of WikiTree profile Saville-68. SUPERSEDED: the index itself has since been read in a browser and is cited directly on this family at quality 3, and it agrees with this quotation word for word. Kept only as the trail showing where the lead came from.
The Hawstead, Suffolk, baptismal register has an entry for Robert, son of William and Sarah, 25 Aug 1822.
Compiled profile; the register entry was not seen as an image and FreeREG has no transcribed parish in Thingoe, so it cannot be checked there. Sarah's maiden name Billaman comes only from this profile.
Elizabeth Debenham. She was born 29 November 1819, baptised in Whepstead 12 December 1819. Her father was John, and mother was registered there as Catharine "late Brownley".
Compiled profile; the Whepstead register was not seen. It gives John Debenham of Chevington, Suffolk, 1786-1876, and Catherine Brownley, said to have been born in Antrim and to have died at Chevington in February 1848 - both created here without a birthplace, since neither is evidenced by a record I read.
Elizabeth Debenham's sister also came to Kempsey. She had married Samuel Chapman in 1844 in Chevington Suffolk.
From Elizabeth's own compiled profile. This sentence is what connects the Thingoe marriage registration below to this family, and it explains the Debenhams the NSW index shows at Kempsey.
Charlotte Emma Avery was born 9 November 1833, according to her baptism record at St Phillips Church Sydney on 12 January 1834, parents John and Charlotte. Her father John Avery was described as a sawyer of Sydney in the baptism record.
Compiled profile; it gives John Abel Avery as born 12 June 1802 at High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, and died 3 January 1880 at West Kempsey, and Charlotte Emma Davis as born about 1809 in London and died 3 August 1874 on the Macleay - dates carried here at quality 1 with no birthplaces set, since I saw no record for either.
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Wyer-50 · Data Updated 2026-09-08Questionable
After the death of John in 1841 she re-married 22 June 1842 at St Saviour, County Argyle (the Bungonia area, near Goulburn), as Jane "Wire" with Richard Taylor a boatman who had come on the Layton 8/11/1829 at the age of 19; after being convicted of Highway Robbery in Lincoln. This must be her, because when she gave permission for her daughter Lucy Barber to marry, Lucy's mother was called Jane Taylor.
Read through the WikiTree API (action=getProfile, bio field) on 2026-09-08; wiki markup dropped, nothing else altered. Quality 1: the marriage register has not been read and the NSW index has not been searched for it. The identification argument quoted at the end is the profile's own and is a good one — Jane Barber's daughter Lucy needed her mother's consent to marry at Goulburn in December 1842, six months after this marriage, and the consenting mother is named Jane Taylor. It is also what makes the "Wire" spelling attested on a record rather than in prose, which is why that aka row is proposed in #2306. Richard Taylor is created here as a spouse only — no children are attached to this family, because the two Taylor children usually given to it belong to the disputed Parramatta household.
Thomas Weatherburn, b. 20 Jul 1881 The Tofts, Morebattle, Roxburghshire; d. 18 Aug 1941 Smithfield, Brighton, Ontario; m. Jane Mitchell 6 Dec 1901 at Muirhouselaw, Maxton (ScotlandsPeople 798/3). Emigrated to Canada 1907; corporal, 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles, no. 814155. Children include Peter Mansfield and Edith Mary.
In 1871 Fredrick Groome (age 6, Scholar) lived in Irthlingborough with his father Joseph (48, Labourer), mother Hannah Maria (38), and four siblings: Thomas (17), Hannah Maria (11, Scholar), Charles Fisher (8, Scholar), and Clara (4, Scholar). ... In 1881 Frederick Groom (age 16, Clicker (Boot)) lived at Bakehouse Lane in Irthlingborough with his mother Hannah Maria (48) and five siblings: Thomas (27, Clicker (Boot)), Annie Maria (21, Machinist), Charles Fisher (18, Currier), Clara (14, School), and Edith (8, School).
GRO birth index (mother's maiden name Pack) links Frederick to this couple.
Ruth Emmeline Jaquest was born on 24 Feb 1868 in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England to John Jaquest and Joanna (Thorne) Jaquest. Her birth was registered in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in the first quarter of the year, with mother's maiden name Thorne.
Father of Infant Mills, James Arnold Mills, Murry Adolphus Mills, Clarke Herbert Mills, Mattie May (Mills) Marshall and Tena Leticia (Mills) Brown ... Their first son died in childbirth but they later had 6 children.
WikiTree lists five named children besides the infant, though the biography says six followed; no dates are shown for the children.
They had a son Ralph Fielding on April 29, 1924 and a daughter Marion June 20, 1926. ... The baby was sent to neighbours Mr and Mrs Kay for two years while son Ralphie stayed at home in the care of a housekeeper.
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Cochrane-3095 · Person Isabella Cochrane · Data Updated 2026-08-16Secondary
Isabella Cochrane, b. 1859-01-27 Queensland, Australia; d. 1939-12-14 Queensland, Australia. Spouse: George Carseldine, b. 1847-12-20, d. 1896-07-11; married 1879-02-19, Queensland, Australia.
Identity fixed by the death date (14 DEC 1939, matching ours exactly), the husband's death date (11 JUL 1896, matching #2244) and the marriage date (19 FEB 1879, matching family 902). Cited for the birth date only; the marriage date it confirms is left unchanged.
James Lindsay b 5 Sep 1802 Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire; d 10 Feb 1890 Kars, Ontario; father William Lindsay (Lindsay-6676), mother Ann Campbell.
Compiled tree. Corroborated independently by parish, date sequence, shared emigration to Lanark/Carleton, and James naming his eldest son John CAMPBELL Lindsay after his mother's maiden name.
Jane Scobie was born in Scotland on August 16, 1824 ... She was the daughter of James Scobie and Rebecca Wright. She came to Canada with her parents. She married William Smith in Lanark on March 20, 1849 ... They occupied Lots 25 and 26 of concession 2 adjoining the land reserved for the town of Listowel
Corrects a GEDCOM place mis-resolution: 'Perth, Ontario' was geocoded to Perth, Perthshire, SCOTLAND. She lived and died in Perth COUNTY, Ontario. The profile relays Agnes Groome, 'Seeking Their Places in the New World' (1992), and cites Ontario District Marriage Registers 1801-1858, Bathurst, Lanark, Canada West, FHL microfilm 1,030,051 for the 1849 marriage. NOT ESTABLISHED: the Groome book was quoted second-hand via WikiTree, not examined; her forename appears as Jane, not Sarah Jane, in every record found.
"Sarah Elizabeth Pettapiece, b. 28 January 1866 Ottawa, Carleton, Canada West; d. 25 September 1961 Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Father: Thomas Edgar Pettpiece. Mother: Margaret Brownlee."
Same parents as this tree's Sarah Elizabeth Pettapiece (53150). Supplies a death date and place. It also gives a more precise birth date of 28 Jan 1866, which is NOT proposed here pending a record.
"Richard Petepiece, b. 1808 Ballisadare Parish, Cloonacura, County Sligo, Ireland; d. 1890 North Gower, Carleton, Ontario, Canada."
Identified with this tree's Richard Pettapiece by his son Thomas Edgar (b. 29 Dec 1832, d. 12 May 1895) and that son's wife Margaret Brownlee (b. 15 Jun 1840, d. 12 Aug 1923) - both exact matches to persons 53146 and 53147. Supplies the previously blank death. Corroborated by the 1861 census, North Gower p.50 lines 43-44, Richard Pettipiece 52 and Rebecca 55, both born Ireland.
"Thomas F. Petepiece, b. 1765 Ballisadare Parish, Cloonacura, County Sligo, Ireland; d. 1831 Cloonacurra, Ballinacarrow, County Sligo, Ireland."
Compiled tree, lead only. Names Thomas F. as father of Thomas (b.1789), Arthur (b.1798, d.1875 Kars), William (b.1799, d.1878 Carleton Co.) and Richard (b.1808) - the last matching this tree's Richard Pettapiece (53168). NOT ESTABLISHED: WikiTree further makes Thomas F. a son of Henry David Petitpierre (1720-1784), suggesting a Huguenot Petitpierre origin. That profile is unsourced and its linked spouse row is visibly corrupted, so that generation is NOT proposed.
🌳WikiTreePerson Marie Elisabeth (Helbig) HeppnerSecondary
Skjold passenger list: Marie Elisabeth Helbig, aged 22, maid of the J. Georg Hoeppner family of Prittag, Silesia; WikiTree profile 'Marie (Helbig) Heppner' gives born 3 Jul 1819 in Prittag, Gruenberg, Liegnitz, Silesia, Prussia, died 21 Dec 1893.
Two independent strands agree on 1819: the 1841 ship-list age (22) and the WikiTree profile birth date. Retrieved through search-engine result summaries; wikitree.com refuses direct programmatic fetch, so please open the page to confirm the wording.
Caroline Johanna (Materne) Christian, abt 1853 - 26 Mar 1924, Greenock, South Australia, Australia.
WikiTree public tree gives an exact death date (26 Mar 1924, Greenock, SA) and a slightly different birth year (abt 1853 vs the tree's 1852) - close enough to be the same person, matching husband surname Christian.
John Lindsay b 6 Dec 1800 Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire; d 3 Jun 1893 Pakenham Twp, Lanark, Ontario; son of William Lindsay and Ann Campbell; m Elizabeth Leitch.
Ruth Emmeline Jaquest was born on 24 Feb 1868 in Finedon, Northamptonshire, England to John Jaquest and Joanna (Thorne) Jaquest. Her birth was registered in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire in the first quarter of the year, with mother's maiden name Thorne. ... 24 Feb 1868 - 29 Nov 1956, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Wenzel Grenenger | 1833 | Butsbach, Frankfurt, Germany | 1911-11-12 | Burwood, New South Wales, Australia
WikiTree profile Grenenger-14, birth and death fields in the profile's own order. The sibling profile Grenenger-3 (James Ernest Grenenger, b. 30 Oct 1838) gives the same town more fully as 'Butzbach, Friedberg, Grand Duchy of Hesse, German Confederation'. Compiled, quality 1, and no record has yet been read that states Wenzel's birthplace: no birthplace has been set on the person row on the strength of it. The NSW naturalisation index 1834-1903 is the record that would settle it.
Harriet Rebecca Barber (sometimes spelled Harriot) was born 17 Sep 1860 in Wollongong.
Compiled profile, quality 1: the day and month come only from here. The year and place were already in the tree from the 1947 obituary ('Mrs. Nelson was born at Wollongong in 1860'), and both agree with age 90 on her Nambucca Heads monument.
There is a baptism record on ancestry.com that lists a baptism for Harriet Field, daughter of John and Sarah Field on 5th August 1838 and the very next entry, made on the same day, is for George Noakes. Kezia Noakes was Richard Crossingham's grandmother and it is possible that George is related to her and that maybe Harriet's family knew Richard's family.
WikiTree profile Field-5859, read via the API 2026-09-07. A research note, not a record: it reports a Sussex baptism of 5 August 1838 for Harriet Field, daughter of John and Sarah, which I could not verify (Udimore and Beckley are NOT transcribed in FreeREG, and Ancestry is browser-only). If correct it would put her birth in mid-1838, not 1836 - see the conflict noted on her birth date. It also suggests the two families were neighbours in Sussex, Richard Crossingham's grandmother being Kezia (Noakes).
Recorded as a LEAD, not adopted: her birth place is deliberately left empty on the record. The claim that she was Irish is the only explanation offered for a surname that does not exist in FreeREG's Suffolk registers at all - a county-wide search for Brownley returns zero records, against eleven Debenham records for 1810-1830 as a control - but no Irish record has been produced, and 'Antrim, Northern Ireland' is an anachronism for a woman born in the 1790s.
George Baker | Birth Date: 1811-00-00 | Death Date: 1889-06-27 | Birth Location: East Coker, Somerset, England | Death Location: Queensland, Australia
WikiTree profile Baker-6947, fields as returned by the API 2026-09-07. Created here with NO dates and NO places: everything beyond the given name George is compiled and untested, and asserting a Queensland death would invite a wrong match. The two leads worth chasing are the ship Kate's assisted-immigrant list of 18 November 1854 (NRS 5316/4_4791), which would give his native parish and age, and a Queensland death index row for 1889, which names both parents and would push this line back another generation.
🌳WikiTreeProfile Id Wyer-50 · Data Updated 2026-09-08Questionable
1822 general muster lists her as Jane Wylde, who came free on the Experiment. ... 1822 population book of Liverpool lists her as Jane Wyld. It says she came free to Australia on the Experiment, (Master: "Weathers"), and had 1 male child with her. In the next entry John Barber is listed as a convict (Wellington, master Beetham) with the note "Husband to Wyld". ... The separate Land and Stock list shows a Jane Wire in Liverpool, which may be her, and says her land grant was 50.04.103 and she had 14 horned cattle.
Read through the WikiTree API (action=getProfile, bio field) on 2026-09-08; the wiki bold markers around the names have been dropped, nothing else is altered, and the ellipses stand for omitted bullet points. Cited for the spellings Wylde, Wyld and Wire, each of which is added as an aka name row. The profile also reports her remarriage and death, which are in genuine conflict: it says she married Richard Taylor on 22 June 1842 at St Saviour, County Argyle, as Jane "Wire", and died at Bungonia on 30 June 1853 (registration 1928/V39B, buried 2 July 1853, age 60) — while the SAME author's earlier webpage says she "died 1/12/1851 aged 49 years Philip St Parramatta" and was buried 2 December 1851. The profile itself flags the trap: there was another contemporary Jane Taylor in the Goulburn area. This record's 30 JUN 1853 is therefore left exactly as it stands, unplaced, until a registration is read.
Arrival 11 Dec 1838 - Sydney Cove, New South Wales, Australia: on the ship "James Pattison" with wife Sarah and 3 children. Name: John Field, farm labourer, Age: 28 in 26 July 1838, Native of Udermore, Sussex, parents John farm labourer and Mary. Very good health, Methodist, can read and write, complained about very bad bread on the ship. Their 3 children were a boy 3 1/2, Sarah Jane 7 yrs on 7 May 1838, Harriet 7 months.
WikiTree profile Field-3651, read via the API 2026-09-07. The passage is WikiTree's transcription of Ancestry's 'New South Wales, Australia, Assisted Immigrant Passenger Lists, 1828-1896' (tree source 1188), image IMAUS1787_081222-0246 - which I could not open (Ancestry is browser-only). The same profile gives his death as NSW BDM 5412/1887 and his 1887 probate as 'Farmer, formerly of the Manning River but now of Mount Street North Shore Sydney ... One farm on Oxley Island purchased 1857 (29 acres no189 in book51)'. Compiled tree: leads, not proof.
Arrival 11 Dec 1838: Sarah Field Age: 23 last birthday 27 December 1837, Vessel Name: James Pattison. Her native place: Bueds [? probably Brede], Sussex, very delicate health, Methodist, can read and write. 3 children: a boy 3 1/2, Sarah Jane 7 yrs on 7 May 1838, Harriet 7 months on 10 Dec 1838. Parents names William Watson, labourer & Jane.
WikiTree profile Watson-26239, read via the API 2026-09-07; again WikiTree's transcription of the Ancestry assisted-immigrant list, not read directly. This is the ONLY evidence for the maiden surname Watson - the NSW death index row for Harriett gives her mother simply as SARAH. Her death is given there as NSW BDM 999/1842 V1842999 26B, age 27, 'Sarah Field, Abode Kenwick, 27 yrs, labourer's wife', buried Narellan 12 September 1842.
There were an enormous number of deaths, particularly amongst the children. There was a severe diarrhoea and the food and medical attention available was terribly inadequate. Amongst the dead was John Nelson, the youngest of the four children in the Nelson family who was one year eight months old according to the shipping records.
Compiled profile citing the ship's records and a passenger's diary held by the National Library of Australia (MS 3169). He is the 'one boy who had died' counted on both parents' death certificates, and the reason the 1947 obituary calls William John 'the fifth child of a family of seven' while the parents in fact had eight.
SARAH ANN NELSON, b. 1860, Macleay River NSW 8130/1860; died on 1 Dec 1933 in Waverley NSW Aust aged 73, and was buried in Waverley General Cemetery; m. HENRY THORNTON, 19 Dec 1881 in West Kempsey NSW.
Compiled profile; the death and burial were not independently checked here. Her father's 1898 obituary names 'Mrs. Henry Thornton' among his three surviving daughters.
DAVID HENRY NELSON, b. 1861, Macleay River NSW 8768/1861. died on 25 Jul 1951 in Mildura NSW Aust aged 90, and was buried in Northern Suburbs Seventh Day Adventist Cemetery m. PRISCILLA J. "Dolly" BARBER, 13 Jan 1886 in Kemsey. She was the sister of Harriet Rebecca Barber, who married William John Nelson, David's older brother.
Compiled profile; no death place set here because 'Mildura NSW' is self-contradictory (Mildura is in Victoria) and the burial is given as Sydney. The double marriage of two Nelson brothers to two Barber sisters is corroborated by the Australian Cemeteries Index, which names 'David Henry' and 'Priscilla Jean' as the parents of Olive May Barden and Harold Robert Nelson at Kempsey.