George (my GG grandfather) was born on 15 Sep 1827 and baptised 26 Oct 1827 in St Peter's Wolverhampton. He was convicted of larceny at age 19 on 11 Mar 1848 and sentenced to seven years' transportation. He received his Ticket of Leave less that a week after the convict ship 'Adelaide' docked in Sydney, on Christmas Eve 1849. He took up the carrying/carting trade in NSW and eventually settled in Wagga in the south of the colony, where he operated a 75-odd acre farm, married and raised a family of seven. He died on 25 Mar 1902 of apoplexy.
William was baptised on 26 Sep 1825 in St Peter's Wolverhampton. He was apprenticed to a hinge maker, with whom he is living when then 1841 census was taken. By the time he immigrated in 1858 his occupation was as an iron moulder. He bought a farm in Swampy Plain, near to his brother's property in Wagga. There he and his wife Eliza had four children, in addition to their daughter Ann, who had travelled from England with them. He died in 1879 of dropsy.
George and William's parents were John Wild and Ann Windle, who were married on 26 Feb 1816 in St. Peter's Wolverhampton. Ann died in 1839, and John is found in Ward Street, Wolverhampton, in 1841, a labourer, aged 45, living with his son George and (assumed) daughter Ann, aged 8. I don't know anything about John after this point, nor can I find a baptism for Ann.
John and Ann's other children are:
Harriet (1819-1904) married Henry Westwood, moved to Birmingham
John (1821-1841). At death of Walsall Street. This is a tentative death record at the moment...
Sarah (1824-1824)
Joseph (1830-1832)
There was also a Mathias Wild who died in 1840 at the age of 5 who I believe is also John & Ann's. This is because Ann's father's name was Mathias Windle.
A Samuel Windle was born to Ann Windle, seamstress, and baptised only two months before John & Ann were married, so it is probable that John was the father of him.
