Roger Percy - migration COMPLETED (I think)

[Wiggy]

Born 1816 Devon, UK - died 1898 Melbourne Victoria.      Migrated about 1856/7 but , though we can find his family, we can't find Roger.  Does anyone have any information about his migration please - date, ship, to - from.   Very experienced people have been looking but you never know - someone out there may have the answer.   
(Wife Louisa, children Bessie, Kate, Blanche, Clifton -  migrated on 'James Baines' in 1857 with brother James Frederick Hynes, and his family.)

[deb usa]

Hi

Not sure if this has anything to do with your Roger as I see that his dad's name was Jonathan ..per IGI submitted entry.

from National Archives;
Information relating to document ref. no. 1078/IRW/P/600
Roger Percy of Lamerton, Devon. [Devon Record Office, Estate Duty Office Wills] Date: 1838.

I am still looking for a Passenger list for him

deb

[Wiggy]

Hi Deb,

It is possible - we have Roger with a father John so . . ..  But both John(athon) and Roger seem to be pretty prevalent in Lamerton and Devon so I can't be sure.

Good luck, and thanks for looking.

[hepburn]

Could he have gone before his family?

[Wiggy]

Could have but if so, not long before - 'cos there was a child born in England in 1955.  We've looked in the lists before the family arrived and can't see anyone - unless he came under another name - and why would he?  I did find a 'John' coming a year earlier but can't  tie him in.  Also looked in ships coming not too long after, in case he followed them closely - can't see anyone there either.  Have looked under all permutations of Percy too!   It is a big mystery!

Any more suggestions gratefully received and thanks for looking!

WiggyHobbes

[lornadoone]

Hi I found a William and Anne Percy from Lamerton , Devon along with their family, including a Roger aged 26 yrs, they emigrated on the ''Thomas Arbuthnott'' 9th June 1855 landed at Port Adelaide

[lornadoone]

This ties in with them in the 1851Census. On the Ships List, it lists single men and women separately apart from their parents

[janan]

Hi
Welcome to Rootschat

I can only see 2 Roger Percys in Devon in 1841 - one born 1816 with a Mary age 30 and children Jane, Mary, James and Ann living in St Giles on the Heath (in Cornwall but seems to have been counted as Devon for the census); the other born c1829 appears with a William and Ann and seems to be the one Lornadoone found on the Thomas Arbuthnott.

Where did you get your Roger's birth year from? And when and where did he marry Louisa? Where were children born?

Jan

[Wiggy]

Thanks for all the looking.  I don't think we've nailed him yet though!       I think the Roger you found on the 'Thomas Arbuthnot' is too young for our Roger.   

I have Roger's birth date from two distant relatives who have been doing family history for many years.  He married a Margaret (Male) in 1836 and had two children with her - William and Elizabeth.  She died in 1846 and Roger married Louisa Pope, nee Hine (Hyne), in 1850, (UK marriage indexes) in Devon.

There were several children of this marriage - Bessie, Kate, Blanche (our Great Grand mother), Clifton and Frederick, - all born in Devon - and Clifford, Clement, Charles, Cyrus, and Bella born in Victoria.
Roger died in 1898 and is buried in Melbourne General Cemetery, with two sons.

Roger's sister Harriet,  married Francis Male and immigrated  (before Roger's family) to South Australia and I think his son by his first marriage, William, went there too - but I have forgotten the details of that.