James PUPLETT [ 002 ] (below)
Lucy PERRY [ 003 ] (following)
Lucy PERRY [ 003 ] (following)
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These are the parents of Mary Louisa
Puplett who married John Hinton Edmonds at Virginia SA in 1974.
Source file for "The Biscuit Baker And The Genteel Quaker".
Source file for "The Biscuit Baker And The Genteel Quaker".
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5/3/1811 - Daniel
Puplett of Galleywood Common in the parish of Great Baddow in the county of
Essex, Miller, son of Thomas Puplett of Purliegh in said county, Farmer, and
Elizabeth his wife deceased, and Ann Heald daughter of James Heald of
Springfield, Farmer, deceased, and Nancy his wife, took each other in marriage
in a publick Assembly of the people called Quakers in the Meeting House at
Chelmsford. [x]
2/5/1815 - A James
Puplett born (s/be bapt??) to Daniel Puplett and Ann (nee Heald) at
"Thaxted, Grt Bardfield, Essex"
[r]
31/3/1814 to 30/3/1815
– The James Puplett who was married to a Lucy and living in West Darby
Liverpool in 1851, was born in Bardfield Essex (which is ap 10km NW of
Braintree and Rayne) [p]
24/1/1817 - Born
(possibly in Essex), a son of Daniel Puplett a wood & coal merchant, and
his wife Ann (nee Heald), apparently Quakers
[xx]
(This is from my notes,
but should this be 24/1/1815, as Lucy's log from aboard ship says on 24/1/1855
"My James birthday". Was it his 40th? 1815 certainly fits better with Census and IGI)
3/8/1818 – His younger
brother Charles was born (s/be bapt??) at "Thaxted, Grt Bardfield,
Essex" [r]
12/8/1819 to 11/8/1820
– The William Puplett who married an Emma Maria and died in Nth Ad in 1894, was born [g]
1820 – A William
Puplett was bapt at Colchester Quakers, father Benjamin, mother Hannah nee
Wood [r]
(This is James’ first cousin, William and
James’ fathers being brothers)
before 1829 – The
Puplett family moved (from Bardfield?) to Maldon on the coast [gg]
3/5/1829 - Aged 12 (or
14?) was indentured for 7 years to Joseph and Thomas Huntley (then a newish
father and son business, to become Huntley & Palmer) the Quaker biscuit
bakers of Reading Berks. ₤35 paid by
father Daniel (20 down, 15 in a year), signed by James, both Huntleys, and
witness Fred P Everett [c]
(Fred Everett was a first cousin of the
Emma Everett who married James’ first cousin William Puplett [r] )
23/10/1829 - Indenture
papers signed by his father, then a timber merchant of Maldon in Essex [c]
28/2/1834- Aged 17 (or
19?), 2 years short of his time, his indenture papers were terminated "by
mutual consent" and signed by Fredk P Everett [c]
1834 to 1839 – what was he doing and where was he?
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MARRIED ------------------
30/1/1840 - James (aged
23) married Lucy Perry (20) at the Warborough Friends Meeting in Reading. (Seal dated 4/10/1838).
Among those present (signed the
certificate) was Thomas Perry (her dad), Ann Puplett (his mum – his dad absent
due to illness and that he was going blind), Charles Puplett (his brother),
Margaret Thresher Perry (her sister), Charles Wickens (her sister's fiance),
Edward Perry (her brother), John Harvey Perry (her brother), Henry White Perry
(her cousin), Martha Perry (her cousin), Elizabeth Perry (her cousin), James
Huntley Jr (his ex boss's son), and several others (check who) [d]
8/9/1840 – Lucy’s
brother Edward mar Louisa Bartlett at Reading
[w]
3/12/1840 – Lucy’s
sister Margaret mar Charles Wickens in Reading [w]
abt Dec? 1840 – The whole family seems to have gone through a period of
some kind of financial and domestic turmoil, with James at the centre of it,
and James & Lucy (and the whole family?) gave up their
biscuit business at Reading, Thomas said James “…acted so unwisely…”, owed between ₤60 and ₤70 and apparently permanently damaged
their reputations with many in the town.
Thomas was to write “…Lucy is in very low spirits… her lot was very
rough…James has been a fool to himself and others…” (even though he was said by
many to have made the best biscuits in town) and that “…their trade is lost as
neither Hobbs (Wm Hobbs, a Grocer of Castle St and a town constable) or
Huntleys (big wholesale biscuit makers) have been benefitted at all by his
leaving…” [b]
abt
June 1841 – Lucy’s sister Margt and her husb Charles Wickens, taking her father
with them, left Reading and went to live in B’ham (why B’ham??), renting
premises in Edgbaston and setting up another biscuit business, getting into
“good connection among the wealthy families”, although the “general Trade of
Birmingham is now & has for a long time been excessive bad &
discouraging, tends to preclude the Gentry from spending”.
Lucy’s health (she was pregnant) had very
poor for some time, and she went with them for a while. [b]
July
1841 – James (unemployed) left Reading for nearby Newbury to wind up the
affairs of a Mrs Botham (presumably a relative), and Lucy left B’ham and joined
him there. [b]
late
July 1841 – L+J stayed until after the sale of Mrs Bothams effects, but while
there Lucy miscarried with a still born 6 month boy, and Margt later wrote
“…she always would have it that the babe would not live…”, and an indication of
the family’s emotional condition Margt also later wrote “…It was a great trial
to all of us and as for myself as I said at the time I should as soon a thought
of myself as her doing so. I used to call occasionally and about 2 weeks before
Father and I called and had not the slightest idea of anything of the kind at
first I would not believe it I am happy to say the little [baby?] is dead…”
In a “very poor and weak state”, Lucy went
to London and stayed with her brother John, and a Samuel Barter (who had an
interest in the Finsbury Sawmills in London’s east end where John was the
accountant) for a week, then went down to Chelmsford and on to Felstead (10km W
of Braintree) to stay with friends the Whiteheads. [b]
abt
Oct? 1841 – James and Lucy go to Rayne in Essex to try to resurrect their lives
with James’s parents and friends (pres the Whiteheads) helped them, a “…little
country shop about 3 miles from W Whiteheads, bakers as well as Grocers… [and
Rayne is] …a nice & pleasantly situated village 1½ miles from Braintree,
and of considerable size, contains a number of very good houses of wealthy
farmers & Gentry and James lives in a good house having Shop,
Parlour-Kitchen & Bakehouse & Washhouse with 4 good rooms upstairs, a
good yard, a large tumbledown sort of Barn, a stable, 2 pig styes, good pump of
excellent water but no garden except a small strip in front…” [b]
10/10/1841
– Lucy writes to her father, sends a detailed drawing of the place (forgets the
chimneys) and a pressed rose (from her new garden?), says her health is good
(after her illness at Newbury) [b]
early/mid 1840s –
Puplett James, Baker & Shopkeeper of Rayne
[u]
Easter
(27/3) 1842 – Lucy’s brother John arrived to spend a few days with Lucy &
James at Rayne, wrote of it “…Lucy
always wished to live in the country and from her description the part they
live in is very beautiful, plenty of wild flowers and birds singing… could lay
in bed and hear the cuckoo… has her families of pigs, ducks and kittens to rear
(of course she could not be without a kitten to nurse)… I have not heard there
is any chance of an increase of ‘Little Pupletts’ …” [b]
17/7/1842
– On a Sunday James & Lucy went to dinner at Jame’s parents place in
Chelmsford, where Lucy’s father was visiting, took him back with them to Rayne
in the evening for a five week stay, Thomas “…glad to once more get among the corn
fields & other rural scenes… pleased with their… pretty trade as Country
Grocers, bake 40 or more 4 lb loaves 3 or 4 times a week… [and while] James is
much mended, not so much alive & striving as I would like to see him,
doesn’t go about his work in a business like manner, yet has many good points…
[seems to be] in good standing with his Millers & his Grocer… Lucy very
industrious, keeps no female servant, helps James with the bread, sets in for
him & neighbours that bring their dough to be baked, they live very close
and frugal, and seem happy…” [b]
abt
June/July? 1843 - After her father
returned to B’ham, Margt “…was confined in the fifth month… put to bed with a
still born boy, she suffered very much and for a long while after, was
exceedingly weak and poorly…”
Margt convalesced with friends in Reading,
then to London to see John, went on
by Eastern Railway to Chelmsford where she found Lucy waiting for her at the
station to take her to Rayne in her pony & cart, “…no little joy between
the two sisters meeting after more than two years absence…” (not seen since
Reading bust-up !), stayed about a week, enjoyed being in the country, “…so
different from our land of smoke and dust etc altho’ where we live in
Birmingham we must not complain as to that…”
- Margt agreed with her dad that James & Lucy had a “…nice little
snug concern at Rayne… doing well, bake a large quantity of bread besides doing
considerable in the grocery… Lucy bustles about, sets in the bread, and they
are quite respected in the village…”
[b]
30/5/1844
– Thomas in Bham writes (to his son Alf in SA, after a visit to Lucy) that
“…James has since their residence at Rayne shown every wish to render himself
pleasing and agreeable to the whole family…they have their pony and cart and
Lucy seems to enjoy to have it out and drive over to Sister Mary (whose
sister??) and sometimes the two ladies go to Chelmsford and Maldon etc …”
- He also wrote the “…Charles &
Margaret often wish they were out with Alf in Australia, the time may come when
they do, but not while (Charles) Mother lives… (who apparently wanted them to
return to Reading) …and they never liked Bham anyway”. [b]
17/10/1844 - TP's
"first grandchild to live" (Edward's) [b]
29/4/1845 - Charlotte
Eliz Wickens born [q]
18/6/1845
– Alfred talks of returning home, appears to be down in spirits, poor second
harvest, low price of wheat [b]
before
Dec 1845 – Things go bad for James & Lucy again, James out of work, Lucy
struggling [b]
3/12/1845
– Margt & Charles have their 5th wed anniv, Lucy with them in
B’ham, Thomas wrote that Margt “…could not part with Lucy until it was over, we
all dined together with our next door neighbours very pleasantly and
comfortably probably never to meet thus again, the last time was at Lucy’s
wedding we were all present but thyself and on Edward’s wedding John Harvey was
absent…” [b]
3/12/1845 - Lucy's dad
Thomas gave her a "Memorandum Book" at B'ham (appears TP made some
entries in 1845 and she made some in 1846 and 1847 on the seasonal leafing of
oak trees. There is also an exquisitely delicate fern frond in a concealed
pocket at the back) [q]
early
Dec 1845 – TP has a (recurring) violent attack of Asthma, Doctor ordered him to
bed, afraid of the consequences, advise two Sons & Lucy, had not seen them
for more than two years, they came without delay, all reached there on the 15th, but by then he was much better, Edw &
John stopped 3 days, “…much talk at times…”, Lucy stays on “…having left home
with a determination to stay two weeks…”
early/mid
Dec 1845 – Thomas writes that Lucy’s visit “pleasant to one & all… sorry to
say her health and constitution seems to me broken… evidently had a greater
proportion of hard work and care at Rayne than aught to have fallen to her lot…
her spirits have carried her beyond her strength… hopes James can get some
employ for his pen & Lucy would bring in her part by her ingenuity…” [b]
early 1840s? to 1846 –
James’s brother Charles worked in a law office in Epping (in London) [b]
Jan to Mar 1846 – James’s
brother Charles died of consumption at his father’s home in Chelmsford [b]
[v]
mid
Jan 1846 – Thomas writes “…Lucy & James obliged to leave Rayne, for the
last year of being there James got into the sad practice of going of an evening
to Braintree and perhaps not returning home till 12 or 1 o’clk, leaving Lucy
alone, when next morning he was not fit for work leaving Lucy to struggle on as
she could… her health & strength gave way, nor would she say a word of it
to us… informed of it by a young woman who was living near and was a friend of
Lucys… many of the Puplett family seem willing to excuse James and heap the
blame on Lucy which is unfair…”
James
& Lucy left Rayne about the middle of January at a time her brother John
wanted help in the arrangement of his household affairs in (100 New North St
[ae] ) Finsbury, Lucy went there for nearly six weeks, afterwards went to
Edward (her brother) & Louisa’s (in the Swindon area) to pay a long
promised visit, then two days with old friend Mrs White at Reading, returned to
London, and took a job as housekeeper to Jacob Barter (a recent widower) and
his children for a few months.
Thomas wrote she seemed to be “… very
comfortable… [and that]…Jacob has for some time been working for Alfred Rosling
in his Saw Mill, and I believe is again looking towards taking another wife
after a while…”
He adds “…as to James, on his leaving
Rayne, he went to supply his Brother Charles’ place in a Lawyers Office at
Epping, Charles being ill at the time, and went to Chelmsford to his father’s…
Charles’ complaint proved to be a rapid consumption, he soon was much worse and
died rather suddenly… Charles Puplett was very clever in the office at Epping,
much esteemed as a Law Writer, but James not being capable to fill his Brother’s
place, left in a few weeks, came up to London, then went to Edward to try for a
job on the Line, after two or three weeks returned to London, where he now is
not known…” [b]
12/2/1846
– Lucy’s goes to her brother John and Priscilla Browett’s wedding in Stoke
Newington (the B’ham family couldn’t attend as Thomas was “…afraid to venture
out on account of the cold weather…”), and after the ceremony they were all
invited to nearby “Woodbury”, a large property of William and Margaret [Sence
?] as a “… mark of kind respect and rememberence of [their] dear departed
Mother…”
– The marriage took place at Stoke
Newington, after which the party went to Woodbury about a mile from the Meeting
house, received by W & M [Sence ?], also by some friends of distant relationship
both of TPs wife and TPs family [b]
early
1846 - Charles & Margaret, still disliking Birmingham, want to return to
Reading, which is “…also the desire of GE White & Mrs White…”, go to look
for premises (inc a Bakehouse), and on their return home the B’ham business was
advertised for sale [b]
6/4/1846 - A Bible was
given to Lucy by her dad. (This comes
from four handwritten pages among EHE originals "Copied from Mother's
Bible, given to her by her father Thomas Perry 6th of 4th Month 1846")
(Another notation says “Ethel has the old Bible”) [f]
8/6/1846 - Thomas Perry
writes that Jame’s dad Daniel “… is quite blind and has been for some time, he
seems to have never got the better of that sad illness he had about the time
[Alfred] left England [for SA - June 1839]
[b]
/6/1846 – With news
that her dad is very ill again, Lucy (herself not in good health) goes to him,
stays 2 weeks, hasn't seen him for 2 years [b]
16/1/1847 – Lucy’s
father Thomas Perry died (pres at John’s place) in Finsbury [ae]
16/1/1847 - "My
father died in 70th year, buried at Bunhill Fields" [n]
21/1/1847 – Thomas was
buried in The Bunhill Fields Friends Burial Ground [ae]
16/2/1847 – Lucy’s 1845
Diary gift from her father "Who departed this life surrounded by his
family the 16th Feb 1847 in his 79th year and was burried
in Bunnel Row Fields Ground London on 21st 1847” (entered in the flyleaf, demonstrating the
uncertainty of memory in family history?) [q]
Jan to Mar 1847 - A
Thomas Perry died in Shoreditch Regn Dist
[v]
5/8/1847 - Lucy
"visited Westminster Hall to see paintings etc" [q]
15/12/1847 - Lucy given
an 1848 Diary by James (printed in Ipswich, contains views of Suffolk, inc
Woodbridge) [n]
(In the flyleaf is “Lucy Puplett with J
Puplett’s dear love, Decr 15 1847” in one hand, and under that in another hand
is “Miss Puplett Kooringa Burra Burra”)
1848 - Living in
Cornmarket St in Oxford [b]
24/1/1848 - "My
dear little niece born, named Lucy Wickens" [n]
29/1/1848 - Lucy
visited (who?) at Reading [n]
18/3/1848 – Lucy notes
“Princess born” [n]
19/3/1848 – Lucy notes
"Full moon total eclipse not visible in Oxford very wet and
cloudy" [n]
21/4/1848 – Good
Friday, Lucy went to Shrivenham (to see Edward & Louisa, who were living
there) for 7 days [n]
(There are a few “domestic” entries in
this diary, done in pencil and in a bolder hand than Lucy’s thinnish manner –
“Song book, Net elastic, Necktie” (March), “Turkey sat on 13 eggs” (Sept), some
haberdashery (Nov).
28/8/1848 – John and Priscilla
have a son (Thomas Alfred) in London
[n]
27/9/1848 - James and
Lucy still in Oxford, not doing well, "still, no-one is" [b]
9/10/1848 – From a
newspaper (prob SA Adv?) clipping referring back to Alfred Perry’s early days
in the colony, and is about a letter he wrote (this date) to “his sister Mrs T
Puplett (misprint, s/b "J"?) of Cornmarket St Oxford…” [d]
mid
Oct 1848 – With John now ready to emigrate, Edw arranged a (last ever family)
meeting in Reading, all except his wife Louisa there [b]
23/10/1848 – They all
see Lucy’s brother John and new wife Priscilla off at Deptford, emigrating on
the “Marion” for SA to join Alfred “at Onkaparinga”. (Priscilla was pregnant at
the time with their first, the baby was born on board a few weeks before their
arrival at Pt Ad 10/2/1849, but died and was buried at sea) [b] [ab]
abt
Dec 1848 – Charles and Margaret sell up in Reading and stay with Edw at Didcot
[b]
1/1/1849
- The three couples are all together at
the Puplett’s in Oxford, James & Lucy, Charles & Margaret, Louisa &
Edw (prob for last time?) [b]
5/1/1849 – (A Friday)
Their dau Elizabeth Kate was born at Oxford, James writes ‘Oh she is a stunner’ [b] [f]
abt
Jan 1849 – Charley and James made application to Com Emigration but informed
that lists were full and no more names would be entered for 4 or 6 month…” [b]
7/1/1849
- Edward (living in Didcot) writes to Alfred that “…Margaret is with Lucy at
Oxford… nothing has at present opened for them, James Puplett’s situation at
Oxford very precarious, believe they will shortly join you in the far South … I
will be only one left … perhaps join you too…”
[b]
end
of Feb 1849 - James Puplett accepted an offer made him by one of the Whiteheads
to manage a branch shop at Liverpool, this made a vacancy at Oxford which
Charles took up (while they waited?), but he “…will leave about the 14 or 16 of
month as term is over and he has accepted an offer from Huntley and Palmer at
Reading…” [b]
abt
Dec 1849 – Lucy “… took a shop and opened it with an assortment of stationary
and baby linen, also in conjunction with a lady acquaintance she has opened a
day school and at this 1st opening mustered 10 scholars. James still
holds his situation…” [b]
30/3/1851 - Living in
West Derby Liverpool, James Puplett (36) Grocer, born Bardfield Essex, and wife
Lucy Puplett (30), Milliner, born Reading Berks, and dau Kate Puplett (2) born
Oxford [p]
30/3/1851 - Living in
Didcot Berks was Edward Perry, his wife Louisa, and son J Edward, also sister
Margaret Wickens and her dau Lucy [p]
(Lucy was born Reading
31/3/1847 to 30/3/1848 [b] )
17/1/1852 - Mary Louisa
born at West Derby L'pool [f]
(There is a drawing of West Derby in the
front of "The Registers of West Derby" Lancs parish regs Soc at
SAGHS. On 18/1/1855 Lucys log says
"my Polly's birthday 3 years old")
1853 – William Puplett
married Emma Maria Everett in London
[aa]
(Emma was born St Margts London 1822 to William
Everett and Maria “Boby”. William Everett was bn Ipswich 1788 (of parents from
Norfolk) and died in Adelaide May 1856. Maria died in Chelmsford in 1835. Wm
and Emma Puplett (and pres her widower dad, who went into partnership with Wm
on arrival) came to SA on the “Arabian” in the 1850s)
10/5/1853 – Lucy’s
brother John Harvey Perry died at Mt Barker SA (sight certif) [g]
Jan to Mar 1854 - A
Daniel Puplett died at Chelmsford (undoubtably James’s father) [v]
28/10/1854 - A card
with a religious poem in envelope given to their dau Kate by a George Lovejoy
of Reading [d]
2/11/1854
– Edw in Oxford writes to Alf in SA, appears to be an account of the collection
of monies for two families @ ₤120-₤130 [Wickens’s and Puplett’s ?] passage out,
“…James has gone this week to London to see about passage…” [b]
3/12/1854 – The date in
a Bible flyleaf - “Kate Puplett with Ellen Pollard’s love Dec 3 1854”, and in
another hand below this (above a pasted in religious text) “For Lucy from
Mother”
(Lucy’s mother had been dead many years,
so was this a previous gift to Lucy, passed on to her dau Kate, who would have
been 5!, and re-inscribed??) [d]
13/12/1854 - Left
London for SA with 2 daus and the Wickens with 3 children, on the "Duke of
Wellington". Lucy kept a full log
of the trip out, which includes a ref to children, Polly (only one not sick, who
had her birthday 18/1), Kate (who turned 6 on 5/1), plus James (birthday
24/1) [d]
19/4/1855 - Arrivals at
Pt Adelaide, "J Puplett, wife, 2 children", "C Wickham - wife
& 3 children" [d] [s]
(In her log, Lucy at one point referred to
"our 3 eldest girls”, presume this is of both families, being 5 kids in
total)
17/8/1858 - Everett
& Puplett cargo (of “Groceries”) from cutter “Gem” at Pt Elliott [y]
(There are more of these in this period)
4/9/1858 – William
Puplett signed petition (for city election) as “Citizen of Adelaide” [y]
6/2/1859 - A Laura
Maria Puplett born in "Adelaide Dist", to William Puplett and Emma
Maria nee Everett [g]
before March 1859 – The
Puplett family went to Burra to live
[y]
18/3/1859 – James
Puplett signed a motion at a meeting re churchwardens for St Marys CofE school
Kooringa [y]
(If the “Miss Puplett, Kooringa Burra
Burra” in Lucy’s diary of 1848 is Kate, she would have been about 10 in this
period, Mary Louisa abt 7)
19/4/1859 – W Puplett
answ to corr, apparently re Pt Elliott (living in area?) [y]
14/3/1860 – James Puplett signed a State election
petition for Dist of Burra & Clare
[y]
(Repeat 17/3, also a “D Sabine”)
2/5/1860 – Under
“Public Notices”, James Puplett, late Storekeeper of Aberdeen… assigned his
stock to… creditors… dated Kooringa 21/4/1860
[y]
(There is a series of these in a short
period)
(Aberdeen was in the middle of Burra, a
subdivision of Kooringa, est in 1849, an attempt by the owners of the failed
Bon Accord Mine to make some money from their holding. The plan was a simple
grid, but in 1862 the main road to the north was cut through the northern
portion of the town in a wide arc. By and large the attempted sale of Aberdeen
failed and by 1873 there were 10 houses, 2 hotels and 2 shops, and all but one
of these were located along the main road.)
18/9/1860 – Puplett
& Co cargo from Melb on “Havilah” (Pt Ad?)
[y]
(There are many others
of these in this period)
1860s - Puplett James,
baker, Yankallila, (with) wife Lucy nee Perry & 2 daughters. [j]
1860s - Edmonds John H,
1 acre, house & brewery, also “wife Mary nee Puplett & several
children” [j]
(A lot of this sounds like very general
recollection, as Mary Puplett didn’t marry John Edmonds till 1874, and may
never have lived there as a family with children)
1860s - (page 68, re
new schools) "In the 1860s two more schools began operating in Yankallila
.. Christ Church Day School .. began in a cottage occupied by Mrs Puplett, the
first headmistress, who gave up her front room for the schoolroom .." (page 41, re breweries) ".. two ..
Duttons and Pascoes .." [k]
14/1/1861 – Lucy’s
sister Margaret Wickens died at Coromandel Vly SA [g]
13/4/1861 – An accident
on a new building in Rundle St for “Mr Puplett” [y]
4/5/1861 – (a Sat)
Advert by Wm Puplett announcing today’s opening of “The Grasshopper Tea
Warehouse” at 67 Rundle St [y]
16/7/1861 – James
Puplett signed an electoral petition for Dist of Burra & Clare [y]
13/7/1861 - Everett
& Puplett cargo from London [y]
24/1/1862 – James
Puplett elected foreman of inquest jury re SIDS death of 5wk old baby at
Kooringa [y]
30/5/1863 – James
Puplett, Grocer Kooringa, signed a (large) petition supporting a local
magistrate [z]
22/11/1863 – (SA
Register) “DREW/PUPLETT – On the 22nd November at Clare, by the Rev Mr Hill, Mr
Thomas Drew of Kooringa, to Miss Elizabeth Kate Puplett.” [z]
30/11/1863 – (SA Register) “A Stupid Hoax. - We regret
to find that some senseless persons have sent us advertisements of two
marriages said to have taken place — one at Kooringa, between Mr. J. Dawson aud
Miss Sarah June Cox; and the other at Clare, between Mr. Thomas Drew and Miss
Elizabeth Kate Puplett. This, we suppose, was intended as a foolish joke ; but
perhaps the persons perpetrating it are not aware that it is an offence
punishable by law. We shall transmit the copies of advertisements to the
gentlemen most aggrieved by the silly hoax, and if they can discover the writer
we shall take care to have them punished.”
[z]
14/3/1869 - Dau Mary
(aged 17) bapt at the Anglican Church at Yankallila. At that time James was described as a biscuit baker of Adelaide [d]
(What took her to Yankallila?
Did the whole family go there, or just Mary?
Brother Alfred was long settled in the Mpht Vale area. Was it something
to do with James’s cousin Wm?)
c 1870 – Photo of
building in Kg Wm St with “W Puplett & Co” on it [d]
(Shows Victoria Tower
on GPO partly built, fndtn stone laid Nov 1867, clock started Dec 1875)
25/12/1870 - . A letter
from Lucy in South Australia (to a relative in Eng) "contained an account
of a family gathering at Alfred's house at Christmas 187O and it showed plainly
that she and Alfred (the survivors) were 'resident' in South Australia at that
time.". [ae]
1870s - Lucy ran a
small private school in Virginia "whose pupils were mainly girls with a
few young boys under the juridstiction of Mrs Puplett" and "Mrs
Puplett ran a private school around 1870s with about 12 pupils" and
"a pug and straw building (now vacant block opposite Kapiris shed, between
single house and railway sheds on Gawler Rd), on Mr Jarmans property" [m]
1872 - (page 68, new
schools) "In 1872 when a newly built schoolroom was opened, Mrs Puplett
was headmistress. Her husband the baker
had his oven in the school yard and the smell of the freshly baked bread would
rise and torment the children at their desks" [k]
(If this is Lucy and James it would have to
be early in the year, as by Sept their dau Kate was marrying in Virginia. But
did she go there first and they followed??)
25/9/1872 - Dau Eliz
Kate (23) married William Ridgeway (26, eldest son of Charles Rideway of
Smithfield) at the Wheatsheaf Hotel Virginia (dist Pt Gaw) (sight certif!!) [f][g]
“MARRIAGE. RIDGWAY-PUPLETT.- On the 25th Sep tember, at the residence of
the bridegroom, Virginia, by the Rev. W. Scott, Incumbent of St. John's,
Salisbury, William, eldest son of Mr. Charles Ridgway, of Smithfieid, to
Elizabeth Kate, eldest daughter of Mr. James Puplett, of Yankalilla.” [y]
1873 (to at least 1877)
- W Puplett, Wh Grocer, Gilbert Pl [e]
1873 - William Puplett,
Baker, Yankallila [e]
(Is this a Directory misprint - a belated
entry re 1872 and meant to be James, who was in Virginia by Sept 1872 - or is
this really his cousin William Puplett? – maybe a branch shop?)
1/3/1873 – A musical
entertainment given in Mechs Inst at Yankalilla … performes included … Miss
Puplett [y]
28/6/1873 - Gr dau
Ethel Mary Ridgeway born, bapt at Virginia
[d]
28/1/1874 - Dau Mary
married John Edmonds (a bookkeeper of Minburra) in St Augustines CofE at
Virginia, James described as a Baker of Virginia [a]
7/11/1874 - Gr dau Flo
Edmonds born, bapt at Virginia [d]
March 1874 – Edward
Perry, aged 61, died in Reading [ae]
16/7/1877 - First
student (age 6) transferred to the new Virginia Primary ex "Puplett
Private School" [m]
25/7/1880 - Gr dau Lucy
Ida Ridgeway born, bapt at Virginia
[d]
1881 - J. Puplett,
teacher, Virginia (meant to be "Mrs J"?) [e]
4/7/1881 - Last student
transferred to Virginia Primary and Lucy's private school closed down. (Total
trsfd 8 boys 1 girl age 5-11) [m]
1882 to 1887 - James a
Store Assistant of Virginia [e]
1883 – Did William
Puplett have financial problems (see SA Gazettes) [z]
1887 - Mrs J Puplett,
Virginia, schoolmistress [e]
4/6/1887 - James died
aged 70, and was buried at the Old Carclew Primitive Methodist church cemetery
at Angle Vale. "James Puplett of
Virginia, buried 5/6/1887 aged 72. Grave L, SE corner" [f] [t]
(sight certif !!)
4/7/1887 – James
Puplett, 73, of Virginia, died at Virginia (dist Ad), rel A. Perry [g]
(This date has to be a transcription
error. Relative most likely Lucy’s brother Alfred)
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Lucy PERRY [ 003 ]
======================
26/9/1819 - Born at
Seven Bridges in the parish of St Giles in Reading Berks, to Thomas Perry, an
Iron Founder, and his wife Elizabeth nee Harvey. [ac]
Lucy was the youngest of their 5 children
that survived infancy – Alfred then 9, Edward 7, John Harvey 5, and Margaret
Thresher 2. [ae]
21/12/1819 - Her birth
certificate signed at the Reading & Warborough Monthly Meeting (of
Quakers), witnessed by John Hooper (Accoucheur) and Elizabeth Gaston (Nurse),
and signed by Nichs Albright (Clerk) and Thos Paine (?) [ac]
31/3/1820 to 30/3/1821
– The Lucy Puplett who was married to a James Puplett and living in West Derby
Liverpool in 1851, was born in Reading Berks
[p]
1820s – After getting
into difficulties with his iron foundry in Reading Lucy’s parents went into the
biscuit baking trade in Market Place in Reading, gaining quite a reputation for
quality and service, and “…sold
a large quantity in the comparitively little town of Reading.” [b] [ae]
11/2/1838 - "This
day 10 years my dear Mother taken from us, and buried at Reading in her 54th
year" [q]
21/6/1839 – Her brother
Alfred left for Sth Aust on the "Dumfries" (also on board a Thomas
Perry, possibly a cousin?, arr Pt Ad 13/10/1839) [ab]
(One source says that
Alfred “owned a biscuit factory in Reading, which he sold to finance his trip
to Sth Aust” but more likely the family simply helped him) [w]
abt 1839 – Thomas
“retired from the bakery business in Reading”
[ae]
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MARRIED ------------------------
30/1/1840 - Lucy (aged
20) married James Puplett at the Warborough Friends Meeting in Reading [a]
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SPOUSE DIED ----------------------
4/6/1877 - James died
at Virginia SA [f]
1888 - Mrs J Puplett,
schoolmistress, Virginia [e]
1889 - Living at 115
Jeffcott St, Nth Adelaide [e]
23/1/1889 - Dau Mary's
husband John Edmonds died at Murray St North Adelaide [xx]
14/4/1889 - Brother
Alfred died at Morphett Vale [g]
1890 - Mrs L Puplett,
115 Jeffcott St, Nth Adelaide [e]
1891 - Went to live in
WA, prob with her dau Elizabeth Ridgeway
[ad]
11/8/1894 – William
Puplett (1st cousin of James) aged 74, died at Nth Ad (dist Ad) [n]
4/5/1899 - Dau Mary
died at Unley [g]
26/8/1899 - Aged 80,
died of a heart attack at Albany WA, at the home of her dau Elizabeth
(E.B.Ridgeway) in Osnaburg St. Duration
of illness 1 month. Had been in WA for
8½ years. Issue living only showing
Elizabeth (50). Fathers name Thomas
Perry, Iron Founder. Lucy born Reading
Berks, married in Reading to James Puplett.
35 yrs in SA [ad]
28/8/1899 - Buried in
Albany cemetery [ad]
4/9/1899 - At her
daughters residence Albany WA, Mrs Lucy Puplett, aged 89 (?), formerly of
Virginia SA [h]
13/12/1913 – Emma Maria
Puplett, 91, widow of William Puplett (1st cousin to James), died at
Nth Ad (Dist Ad) [g]
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SOURCES ...
[a] Marriage certif (EHE originals)
[b] Perry family letters (EHE and SA Lib)
[c] Indenture papers (EHE originals)
[d] Sundry documents (EHE originals)
[e] SA Directories (SA Lib)
[f] 4 pages "Copied from Mother's Bible ...
"
[g] BDM Index (SAGHS)
[h] Personal Notices (SAGHS)
[j] "Early Settlers of Yankalilla Dist" -
SAGHS
[k] "To Find The Way" - SAGHS
[m] Munno Para Council Lib
[n] Lucy's 1848 Diary Date Book - EHE originals
[p] 1851 Census
[q] Lucy's little red memo book 1845
[r] IGI
[s] Arrivals data - Ad Lib
[t] Carclew Burial Reg Gawler River - SAGHS?
[u] Ex old Directory of Rayne Essex online
[v] St Caths Indexes
[w] Perry Family data (by Ray Perry WA) - SAGHS
[x] Quaker Marriage certif
[y] SA Adv – Aust Newspapers Online
[z] SA Gazettes
[aa] Everett website
[ab] SA Shipping data online
[ac] Birth certif (file originals)
[ad] WA Death certif
[ae] Peter Perry data pack
[gg] Good guess based on known data
[xx] Ex file notes & prior generation's data
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