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_John MEDHURST _____________
| (.... - 1838) m 1799
_John MEDHURST ______|
| (.... - 1887) m 1833|
| |_Elizabeth Rawlings PIGGOT _
| (.... - 1852) m 1799
|
|--George MEDHURST
| (1838 - 1888)
| _William SHAW ______________
| | (.... - 1815) m 1796
|_Catherine SHAW _____|
(1799 - 1894) m 1833|
|_Catherine NEAL ____________
(.... - 1813) m 1796
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On the 2 March 1857, George Medhurst married Ann Matilda Bridge at Wolloombi.
Ann's parents being Joseph Bridge Jnr. and Sarah Woodbury, her grand father was Matthew Everingham who arrived with the First Fleet in 1788. Ann's father lived in a defacto relationship with Mary Ann Carpenter, George's half sister.
George and Ann were married at the lovely St. John's Anglican Church, Wollombi. This church with it's massive cedar doors, beautifully polished pews and natural stone walls, is in almost exactly the same condition to-day, as when consecrated by Bishop Tyrill in 1894. There has been a slight lengthening of the nave, that is all.
The first three children of George and Ann were born in the Wollombi district. Soon after these births, the last occuring in 1861, a move was made North to Inverell. The fourth child, Walter Edward Alexander was born in Inverell in 1863.
Travelling with the young Medhurst family were the Prestons, their mode of transport was possibly by horse teams or bullock wagons. In it's early days Inverell was known as Green Swamps, even in the early 1860's when the Medhurst's arrived, there were few buildings. George made a living as a carrier and Ann was a Mid-Wife, supervising a small Private Hospital come Boarding House.
George predeceased his wife by many years, dying in Sydney on 19 December 1888, aged 50 years. Ann lived on for another thirty nine years. Three years before her death she wrote to her grandson Albert Wearne, congratulating ho the birth of his daughter Joan. In this letter she said she had fifty great-grand-children and one great-great-grandson. A descendant of the Prestons family who live close to her in Chester Street, Inverell, remembers the Anglican Priest going to her home when she was dying. He gave her the last rites and sang "Nearer My God To Thee".
Ann died 4 July 1927. The legacy which she left to her descendants was that children must be cared for to the very best of one's ability.
Zelia Thornton.
[69] C of E Cemetery, Rookwood
_John MEDHURST ______+
| (.... - 1887) m 1833
_John MEDHURST ______|
| (1832 - 1905) m 1854|
| |_Catherine SHAW _____+
| (1799 - 1894) m 1833
|
|--George Thomas MEDHURST
| (1859 - 1929)
| _Jeremiah DIPLOCK ___
| | (.... - 1885) m 1831
|_Sarah Ann DIPLOCK __|
(1836 - 1911) m 1854|
|_Sarah PEPPERILL ____
(.... - 1860) m 1831
_Hosea Ferdinard MEDHURST _+
| (1893 - 1946) m 1918
_Donald Clifford MEDHURST _|
| m 1941 |
| |_Pearl KIRK _______________
| (1890 - 1968) m 1918
|
|--Michael MEDHURST
|
| ___________________________
| |
|_Shirley SMITH ____________|
m 1941 |
|___________________________
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_Jonathon James MEDHURST _+
| (1860 - 1938) m 1888
_Herbert Barwin MEDHURST _|
| (1899 - 1970) m 1918 |
| |_Eliza CAFE ______________+
| (1873 - 1938) m 1888
|
|--Thora May MEDHURST
|
| __________________________
| |
|_Edith May SIMPSON _______|
(.... - 1970) m 1918 |
|__________________________
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_______________________
|
_William MOSTERD ____|
| m 1963 |
| |_______________________
|
|
|--Lisa Maree MOSTERD
|
| _Ronald Nicholas CAFE _+
| | m 1935
|_Valma Jean CAFE ____|
m 1963 |
|_Edna Olive HOPF ______
(1912 - 1983) m 1935
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_Donald Norman WALL _+
| (1897 - 1921) m 1920
_Desmond Ralph WALL _|
| |
| |_Rose Annie HANLEY __
| (.... - 1977) m 1920
|
|--Colin WALL
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Alma CROFT _________|
|
|_____________________
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_Donald Norman WALL _+
| (1897 - 1921) m 1920
_Ventry James WALL __|
| |
| |_Rose Annie HANLEY __
| (.... - 1977) m 1920
|
|--Kayleen Rose WALL
|
| _____________________
| |
|_Lorna CASSON _______|
|
|_____________________
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_________________________
|
_Sidney Bernard WARDROP __|
| m 1954 |
| |_________________________
|
|
|--Joanne WARDROP
|
| _Arthur Roland HALLORAN _
| | (1902 - 1983) m 1929
|_Aileen Blanche HALLORAN _|
m 1954 |
|_Effie Emily WEARNE _____+
m 1929
[1611] living - details excluded