Rosemarie Gant

Exodus childrens activities

Exodus childrens activities

(These links all open in a new window) Have a go at making this pop up galleon "We can have free passage": activities from an Australia Digital Classroom "Migration to Australia in the 1800s" more digital classroom activites from the State Library of New South Wales...

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Corby Family

Corby Family

The Chrishall Archive Group receives correspondence from time to time from the descendants of people who emigrated from Chrishall and last year David Corby in Australia emailed with information about his family history. His great-grandfather, William Corby was born in...

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Exodus – the Ships

Exodus – the Ships

These are the ships that we know took Chrishall people on their way to their new life in Australia. A 'Bark' or 'Barque' was a ship with at least three masts. ConstantThe Constant was a 535 tonne Bark built in Durham in 1843, initially as a convict ship. She made four...

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The Woods Family

The Woods family information is a little scattered but I hope by recording what we have here we might be able to pull it together. There is no doubt about their religion however. The first report I have is from an article written by Margaret Richardson and published...

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The Button Family

On Thursday 21st May 1857, Betsey Button and her family boarded The Talbot, a ship that would take them from England to Victoria Australia where they were to make a new life. They arrived in Victoria on Tuesday 25th August 1857[1] with 366 other immigrants to the...

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Mary Ann Wright, Primitive Methodist

The following article appeared in the Spectator and Methodist Chronicle on Wednesday 5 September 1917. "A Methodist Nonagenarian Readers of the "Spectator" will be interested in this photograph of a nonagenarian - a Methodist - Mrs Mary Ann Wright, who was born in the...

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James and Sarah Kemp

James and Sarah Kemp

(Written by Kathy and Mal Kemp of Australia) James Kemp and Sarah Wisbey married on the 20th November, 1847 in Chrishall, England. On 9th January 1851 James (aged 23) and Sarah with their one year old son William, left Plymouth on the ship Wanderer, arriving in South...

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Exodus Interactive map

Click on the blue place markers below to find out who lived there. NB: These are general markers to give you a visual impression and are not related to specific addresses. Do zoom in to these maps as several places are quite close and therefore their blue markers are...

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Exodus

Exodus

Welcome to Exodus! - an online exhibition of articles and activities exploring the Chrishall villagers who left the village for Australia in the mid to late 1800s. CAG (Chrishall Archive Group) are very grateful to ALL the people who have contributed to these articles...

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