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How very interesting...

Your contact will have been Arthur Carden, who gave me very interesting information that clearly he had got from you about the Impey family.  He descends from one of my great-grandfather's sisters and is a mine of information on the Knight family.

What a fascinating story.  Clearly the young Charles Hastings, married with children, had to make his own way and Australia was the place.  I had a great-great aunt on my mother's side whose husband went out to South Africa at about the same time.  We have albums of Durban and other towns in South Africa from the 1850s and 1860s which shows them to be little more than a few shacks and a main street. 

I'm sorry that his children were orphaned so young.  Who looked after them?

I would be fascinated to know what happened to Charles Hastings' siblings.  Names and dates need to be complemented by the human stories. 

I am indeed delighted to have made contact with an Australian cousin! 

With best wishes

How very interesting!

It's reassuring that the Treeve family were not shipwrecked at the time of Amelia's marriage - presumably some time in the mid-1840s.

The story of Marian's daughter Barbara Impey (Searle) is told in "About the Impeys" a book by Mrs E.A. Impey, published in 1963.

Apparently this old lady, Barbara Impey, died in Sydney, Australia in 1926 without any known relations.  She was found to have some £1000 hidden away in cash in the house but was otherwise destitute.  Advertisements were put in the papers to discover relations, but with no result.  According to a lady who befriended her, she said that she had been born in Jersey, and that her father was a clergyman.  She said that her mother had never liked her and that, when her mother married, she was afraid of her stepfather.  When she was about 25, her mother had sent her to Australia with £1000, telling her not to come back and not to spend the £1000 until she couldn't work any more.  She seems to have kept it all her life!  She had earned money by doing washing for the family of the lady who told her story, and had otherwise sold magazines door to door.  She could read and write, but was otherwise very simple and innocent - and suffered from deafness.   

In the 1871 census, she was known as Barbara Impey Searle, but in Australia she was known just as Barbara Impey.,

Marian Treeve had several children by Searle, but they could not be traced. Barbara's £1000 is still lodged with the Australian authorities!

With best wishes for your continuing researches