See also

Family of William Nicholas RICHARDS and Maria HOUGHTON

Husband: William Nicholas RICHARDS

  • Name:

  • William Nicholas RICHARDS2,3,4,5

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Father:

  • Goddard RICHARDS (1764-1833)

  • Mother:

  • Anne HOUGHTON (1781-1865)

  • Birth:

  • 2 Jul 1814

  • Serampore, India1,2,3,4,5

  • Residence:

  • 1851 (age 36-37)

  • St Helier, Jersey, Channel Islands5

  •  

  • Relation to Head of House: Head

  • Death:

  • 4 Mar 1900 (age 85)

  • Australia1,2,3,4

  • Burial:

  • 6 Mar 1900

  • Sydney, New South Wales, Australia2,4

Wife: Maria HOUGHTON

Child 1: Arthur William Loftus RICHARDS

  • Name:

  • Arthur William Loftus RICHARDS8,9,10

  • Sex:

  • Male

  • Spouse:

  • Katherine HOGAN (1870-1906)

  • Birth:

  • 18 Sep 1855

  • Camden, NSW1,8,10

  • Baptism:

  • 24 Oct 1855 (age 0)

  • St Johns, Camden, New South Wales, Australia10

  • Death:

  • 19 Jul 1921 (age 65)

  • Woollahra, NSW, Australia1,9

Note on Husband: William Nicholas RICHARDS - shared note

BA TCD 1839 MRCS Oxford 14 May 1838 Went to Australia in 1852 because marriage to his mother's niece was disapproved of! Incorp 2 May 1839 (Oxford University) Wadham College. Aged 24 MA 1878 Calendar of Royal College of Surgeons 1870 of Liverpool, NSW Arrived in NSW on the Moa in 1852. First registered in 1853. Moved around, ending up as Medical Officer at the Brewarrina. In 1887 lost his membership of the RCSE because of allowing an unregistered man to impersonate him. Remained on the NSW medical regioster because of a technicality. In 1891 Living in Illanwanee, Camden, Sydney

 

The above story about his marriage to Maria Houghton came from his Australian descendants. They didn't know that he was already married to Elizabeth Jane Stokes.

Note on Wife: Maria HOUGHTON - shared note

Year of birth is a guesstimate Relationship to Henry George Houghton partly from family record that she was her husband's first cousin and partly from IGI film no 1553776

Sources

1.

Information from Charles Edmondson. NAME At Monksgrange, Co Wexford ADDR EMAIL PHON.

2.

Ancestry.com, Sydney, Australia, Cemetery Headstone Transcriptions, 1867-2002, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2016;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

3.

Ancestry.com, Australia, Newspaper Vital Notices, 1841-2001, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2015;). Fairfax Media; Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia. Ancestry.com.

4.

Sydney, Australia, Anglican Parish Registers, 1818-2011, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2017;). Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney; Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; Baptism, Burial, Confirmation, Marriage and composite registers in the Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney Archives. Ancestry.com.

5.

Ancestry.com, 1851 Channel Islands Census, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2005;). Class: HO107; Piece: 2527; Folio: 232; Page: 6; GSU roll: 105976-105977. Ancestry.com.

6.

Ancestry.com, Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2012;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

7.

Ancestry.com, Geneanet Community Trees Index, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Lehi, UT, USA; Date: 2022;). Ancestry.com.

8.

Ancestry.com, Australia, Birth Index, 1788-1922, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

9.

Ancestry.com, Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010;). Ancestry.com, http://www.Ancestry.com.

10.

Ancestry.com, Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2014;). Ancestry.com.