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Jane WALLACE (1780 - )

Children	Self + Spouses	Parents	Grandparents	Greatgrandparents
Catherine (WYER) MCGUIRE (1815 - 1893) Elizabeth (MCGUIRE) WYRE (1817 - 1907) Ann MCGUIRE (1819 - )	Jane WALLACE (1780 - ) + Michael (WYER) MCGUIRE (1781 - 1823)

b. abt 1780 at Ireland

m. 11 Apr 1815 Michael (WYER) MCGUIRE (1781 - 1823) at Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia

Near Relatives of Jane WALLACE (1780 - )
Relationship	Person	Born	Birth Place	Died	Death Place	Age
Self	Jane WALLACE	abt 1780	Ireland
Husband	Michael (WYER) MCGUIRE	abt 1781	Meath, Ireland	17 Mar 1823	Sydney, NSW, Australia	42
Daughter	Catherine (WYER) MCGUIRE	abt 1815	Sydney, NSW, Australia	1893	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia	78
Daughter	Elizabeth (MCGUIRE) WYRE	1817	Sydney, NSW, Australia	28 Dec 1907	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	90
Daughter	Ann MCGUIRE	abt 1819	Sydney, NSW, Australia
Son in Law	William ROOPE			1881	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia
Son in Law	Horatio Spencer Howe WILLS	05 Oct 1811	Sydney, NSW, Australia	17 Oct 1861	'Cullin-la-ringo', Springsure, Queensland, Australia	50
Grandson	Thomas Wentworth WILLS	1836	Molongolo Plains, NSW, Australia	02 May 1880	Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia	44
Granddaughter	Emily Spencer WILLS	25 Dec 1842	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	06 Dec 1925	"Molongolo", Kew, Victoria, Australia	82
Grandson	Cedric Spencer WILLS	01 Dec 1844	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	23 Jan 1914	Springsure, Queensland, Australia	69
Grandson	Horace Spencer WILLS	16 Jun 1847	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	08 Oct 1928	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	81
Grandson	Egbert Spencer WILLS	11 Nov 1849	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	11 Sep 1931	Kew, Victoria, Australia	81
Granddaughter	Elizabeth Spencer WILLS	07 Jan 1852	'Lexington', Ararat, Victoria, Australia	21 Nov 1930	Prahran, Victoria, Australia	78
Granddaughter	Eugenie (Duckey) Spencer WILLS	28 Jan 1854	Lexington, Victoria, Australia	08 Jul 1937	Kew, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	83
Granddaughter	Minna Spencer WILLS	01 Mar 1856	"Bellevue", Geelong, Victoria, Australia	14 Feb 1943	Toorak, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia	86
Granddaughter	Hortense Sarah Spencer WILLS	16 Aug 1861	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	02 Jul 1907	Maidenhead, Berkshire, England	45

Events in Jane WALLACE (1780 - )'s life
Date	Age	Event	Place	Notes	Src
abt 1780		Jane WALLACE was born	Ireland		54
Jun 1813	33	Conviction	Dublin, Ireland	Note 1
08 Dec 1813	33	Emigration	Falmouth, England	Note 2
07 Feb 1814	34	Other Event	Rio de Janero	Note 3
03 May 1814	34	Immigration	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 4
abt 1815	35	Birth of daughter Catherine (WYER) MCGUIRE	Sydney, NSW, Australia	see notes - The Currency Lad	54
11 Apr 1815	35	Married Michael (WYER) MCGUIRE (aged 34)	Parramatta, Sydney, NSW, Australia	The Currency Lad	54
1817	37	Birth of daughter Elizabeth (MCGUIRE) WYRE	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 5	54
abt 1819	39	Birth of daughter Ann MCGUIRE	Sydney, NSW, Australia	see notes - The Currency Lad	54
17 Mar 1823	43	Death of husband Michael (WYER) MCGUIRE (aged 42)	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 6	54
14 Aug 1823	43	Other Event	Sydney, NSW, Australia	Note 7
1893	113	Death of daughter Catherine (WYER) MCGUIRE (aged 78)	Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia	Note 8	18, 60
28 Dec 1907	127	Death of daughter Elizabeth (MCGUIRE) WYRE (aged 90)	Geelong, Victoria, Australia	Note 9	54, 55

Note 1: Jane Wallace, a servant aged 24 years was convicted in Dublin in June 1813 and sentenced to seven years transportation. - see notes

Note 2: The "Catherine" (and Three Bees) had sailed from Falmouth on 8 December 1813.

Note 3: Three Bees (and Catherine) left Rio

Note 4: She arrived in Sydney on the "Catherine" on 3 May 1814.

Note 5: see death notes see notes - The Currency Lad Terry Wills correspondence - Elizabeth Wills was born 3/10/1817 in Sydney and died 28/12/1907 in Geelong Victoria and was buried at Kew Vic. It was interesting how I found her birth date in Aunt Ducky (Eugenie) birthday book in her own handwriting – I looked for that date for 20 years and only when I came into possesion of the birthday book did I get the right answer. She had two sisters Catherine (named after her Mother’s convict ship) was born in Sydney and Died near Springsure She was Mrs Roope, her husband went to look after Cullin la Ringo after the massacre and Anne who was lost to sight after Catherine and Elizabeth were put into the Parramatta orphange after their father drowned in Cockle Bay.

Note 6: On 17 March 1823 Micheal Wyre and two others were drowned after the upset of their boat in Cockle Bay (Now called Darling Harbour). At the inquest it was recorded that there were three men (all drowned) and a little girl (who survived) in the boat which had accidentally upset, but there is no record of the name of the child.

Note 7: On 14 August 1823 Jane Dwyer [sic] applied to have her three daughters, Catherine aged eight, Elizabeth aged five and Ann aged four, admitted to the Female Orphan School "her husband being recently drowned and herself close to confinment". The admission records of the Female Orphan School show Catherine McQuire [sic] aged eight years and Elizabeth McGuire [sic] aged six years being admitted on 14 August 1823. They were both discharged as pupils on 23 June 1828 after almost five years and were then apprenticed to the school. As to the youngest daughter, Ann, she is shown in the 1828 census as an "orphan and servant of Thomas Wilson of Parramatta". There is no further record of Jane after she had the two girls admitted. No child is registered as having been born to her in 1823 and she simply disappears from the story.

Note 8: 1893 C4073 Catherine Roope Michael Wyre Jane - ** born N.S. Wales aged about 80 years The Capricorn (Rockhampton) 4 Nov 1893 Probates ; Catherine Roope, of Rockhampton, widow, to William K. Livermore, of Rockhampton, gentleman, personalty £405 Ms. 3d.

Note 9: REg No 1907/12345 - Elizth Wills - age 98 - born c 1809 - died Geelong, Victoria - father WYER Michl the Advertiser (Adelaide) 1 Jan 1908 THE OLDEST AUSTRALIAN COLONIST. DIES AGED 90. Mrs. Elizabeth Wills, who died at Geelong on Saturday last at the age of 90, was the oldest Australian colonist. She arrived with her father at Sydney in 1819, and in 1833 when but 16 years of age she was married to Mr. Horatio Spencer Wills, who settled in the Tumut district, New South Wales, in 1837. Mrs. Wills came to Geelong in 1852. She left seven children, 36 grandchildren, and 17 great-grandchildren. The Argus (Melbourne) 30 Dec 1907 DEATHS WILLS.— On the 28th December, 1907, at "The Grove," Newtown, Geelong, at the residence of her son-in-law, H. Blomfield Brown, Elizabeth, widow of the late Horatio Spencer Wills, late of Point Henry, Geelong, and Cullen-la-ringo, Queensland, in her 91st year. Albury Banner and Wodonga Express NSW 3 Jan 1908 Death of an Old Colonist. A STIRRING CAREER. One of the oldest Australian colonists and a pioneer of Victoria, in the person of Mrs. Elizabeth Wills, passed peacefully away at Geelong on Saturday last, in her 91st year. Coming to Sydney in 1819 or 1820 with her parents — her father being a sergeant in the military forces — she was educated at Parramatta, and when but a girl of sixteen married to Mr. Horatio Spencer Wills. In 1837 Mr. and Mrs. Wills settled on land in the Tumut district, in New South Wales. Some three years later, owing to uncertainty of tenure, they left this holding, and travelled by bullock-team to Melbourne, and thence to Lexington, in the Ararat district. Mr. Wills selected land there, and gave the name of Ararat to the mount, because, like the dove, they .'rested there.' From 1840, some twelve years were passed at Lexington, and Mrs. Wills, amongst other incidents of those stirring times, came to regard the visits of ' bush rangers as quite ordinary occurrences. In 1852 Mr. Wills purchased Belle Vue Farm, at Point Henry, Geelong. and also acquired Cullinlaringo Station, in the Leichhardt - district, in Queensland, where, on 17th October, 1861, he paid for his pioneership with his life, being attacked and killed by the blacks. Mrs. Wills and her family continued their residence at Point Henry. Her eldest son, T. W. Wills, well known as Tommy Wills, was a prominent Australian cricketer for many years, and was the organiser and captain of the first aboriginal cricket team that played in Australia, whilst her sons Horace and Egbert were familiar figures in the Geelong football field. Mrs. Wills remained constant to the Geelong district as a place of residence, with the exception of some eight years, which she spent at Hawthorn. She was of a kindly and charitable nature, though just and discriminating in her gifts. Besides many private kindnesses and benevolences, she gave substantial aid, both in buildings and in money, to the Old Colonists' Association, whilst various funds of the Church of England, of which she was a member1, received - material assistance from her. The last years, of her life were quietly and happily passed at the 'Grove,' Geelong, the home of her son-in-law, Mr. H.. Blomfield Brown. Of her family of four sons and five daughters, three of the former and four of the latter survive her, whilst it may be also mentioned that the three generations of her family include 36 grandchildren and 17 great grandchildren.

Personal Notes:

Extract from The Currency Lad by T. S. Wills Cooke Jane Wallace, a servant aged 24 years was convicted in Dublin in June 1813 and sentenced to seven years transportation. She arrived in Sydney on the "Catherine" on 3 May 1814. The "Catherine had sailed from Falmouth on 8 December 1813. She married Michael Wyre at St John's Church, Parramatta on 11 April 1815. On 14 August 1823 Jane Dwyer [sic] applied to have her three daughters, Catherine aged eight, Elizabeth aged five and Ann aged four, admitted to the Female Orphan School "her husband being recently drowned and herself close to confinment". The admission records of the Female Orphan School show Catherine McQuire [sic] aged eight years and Elizabeth McGuire [sic] aged six years being admitted on 14 August 1823. They were both discharged as pupils on 23 June 1828 after almost five years and were then apprenticed to the school. There is no further record of Jane after she had the two girls admitted. No child is registered as having been born to her in 1823 and she simply disappears from the story. As to the youngest daughter, Ann, she is shown in the 1828 census as an "orphan and servant of Thomas Wilson of Parramatta".

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