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William CRITTAL

William CRITTAL

Male 1804 - 1875  (70 years)    Has 19 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name William CRITTAL  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5
    Relationshipwith Rodney VOJVODICH
    Birth 18 Nov 1804  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Baptism 18 Nov 1804  Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Immigration: Arr. 12 Oct 1829  Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Per "Caroline" as indentured servant to Alfred Hawes Stone 
    AKA Criddle 
    Occupation Servant/Farmer 
    Burial 1875  Cemetery, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 12 May 1875  Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Siblings 4 siblings 
    Siblings 2 brothers and 2 sisters 
    Patriarch & Matriarch
    Robert CROTHOLE,   b. UNKNOWN   d. DECEASED  (8 x Great Grandfather) 
    Sarah BRATTON,   b. UNKNOWN   d. DECEASED  (Mother) 
    Person ID I1072  MyBradyTree | RJS
    Last Modified 29 Nov 2024 

    Father Ancestors William CRITTAL,   b. 15 Dec 1777, Sundridge, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 22 Nov 1815, Ightham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 37 years) 
    Mother Sarah BRATTON,   b. UNKNOWN   d. DECEASED 
    Marriage 26 Dec 1803  Stansted, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F677  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ancestors Elizabeth THOMAS,   b. 26 Nov 1822, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 Jan 1909, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 86 years) 
    Marriage 19 Jun 1842  Newcastle, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Deepdale
    Children 
    +1. Anne CRIDDLE,   b. 2 May 1841, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 13 Dec 1897, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 56 years)
    â–» John PASHEN  m. 14 Nov 1857;   Thomas HARRISON  m. 19 Apr 1877
    +2. William CRIDDLE,   b. Between 1843 and Jun 1844, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Nov 1912, Guildford, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years)
    â–» Mary Anne BUFTON  m. 19 Dec 1864;   Martha Ann REYNOLDS  m. 25 Jul 1904
    +3. Thomas CRIDDLE,   b. Abt 1845, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 21 May 1914, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 69 years)
    â–» Mary CONNOLLY  m. 24 May 1869
    +4. Susan CRIDDLE,   b. 8 Aug 1848, Greenough Flats, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 25 Dec 1909, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 61 years)
    â–» David BRAND  m. 15 Sep 1869
    +5. Henry CRIDDLE,   b. Aug 1850, Toodyay, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1 Aug 1903, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age ~ 52 years)
    â–» Frances Maxton DORAN  m. 13 Dec 1877
     6. Mary CRIDDLE,   b. 1 Aug 1852, Irwin River, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 12 Nov 1873, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 21 years)
    +7. John CRIDDLE,   b. 20 Feb 1855, Irwin River, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 14 May 1934, Midland Junction, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 79 years)
    â–» Esther Jane PELL  m. 28 Aug 1878
    +8. James CRIDDLE,   b. 19 Aug 1857, Bootenal, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 11 Mar 1927, Nabawa, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years)
    â–» Emma PELL  m. 21 Dec 1881
    +9. Sarah CRIDDLE,   b. 18 Jun 1859, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Between 1937 and 1939, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 77 years)
    â–» Robert Francis HOPE  m. 21 Jan 1881
    +10. Eliza CRIDDLE,   b. 11 Apr 1861, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. DECEASED
    â–» Edward Joseph O'CONNOR  m. 6 Nov 1889
    +11. Emily CRIDDLE,   b. 21 Dec 1862, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 23 Sep 1905, Dongara, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 42 years)
    â–» William DOWNES  m. 15 Nov 1882
    +12. George CRIDDLE,   b. 10 Oct 1864, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1940, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 75 years)
    â–» Ada DOWNES  m. 28 Sep 1897
     13. Charles CRIDDLE,   b. 22 Dec 1867   d. 25 Apr 1886, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 18 years)
    +14. Phoebe Elizabeth CRIDDLE,   b. 15 Jan 1870, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1954, Perth, Western Australia, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 83 years)
    â–» George Henry CARTER  m. 23 Mar 1893
    Family ID F339  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Nov 2024 

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    Link to Google MapsBirth - 18 Nov 1804 - Ightham, Kent, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBaptism - 18 Nov 1804 - Ightham, Kent, England Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsImmigration: Arr. - Per "Caroline" as indentured servant to Alfred Hawes Stone - 12 Oct 1829 - Western Australia, Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsMarriage - 19 Jun 1842 - Newcastle, Western Australia, Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - 1875 - Cemetery, Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 12 May 1875 - Greenough, Western Australia, Australia Link to Google Earth
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    Ships
    Caroline
    Caroline
    12 October 1829

  • Notes 
    • "The Hentys" by Marnie
      Bassett spells out the tale in fine detail ...

      The Henty family chartered the CAROLINE to send out their advance party to the Swan River Colony and had to arrive before the end of 1829 with money and goods in tow (investments in the new colony) to qualify for offers of grants of free land ... part of the goods, apart from sheep & provisions, was servants.

      Of the 65 passengers on board (cabin and steerage) many were servants, not only to the Hentys but to the other gentlemen on board ...Camfield, Talbot, Trimmer, Everard and Alfred Stone 28, solicitor and "a good shot, whose mustachoes were black".

      Camfield's servants were Frederick & Frances Friend and child Mary Ann, and William Smith and wife and son William.

      The Henty servants were George Hills and his wife, son and daughter, while other labourers and servants were listed as Mr & Mrs Chipper, Mr & Mrs Gee and 5 children, Mrs & Mrs Rewell and daughter, Mr & Mrs Bushby and 2 sons, Mr & Mrs Sandford and 4 sons and 6 single men by the names of Price,
      Patterson, Dyer, Barnden, Haybittle and Goble.

      No other names jump off the pages at me but Erickson says William Criddle arrived on the Caroline and was A.H. Stone's servant and Phoebe was his youngest child, born in 1870.

      The HENTY servants were nearly all old employees of the family in Sussex UK and "signed on to serve Thomas Henty, gentleman, or his agents, as dutiful servants for five years in return for a free passage, twenty pounds a year, fuel, and board.

      The Henty's had a rough time of it in the colony and moved on to Tasmania and settled in Launceston where their father and the rest of the migration caught up with them. One son, Charles, set up a shipping business and took goods around to Fremantle, as well as setting up business in South Australia
      and their Victorian claim to fame of settling the Portland area.

      It states in a book that the name may have been taken from Crit Hall in the small town of eneden. Willam Criddle was born 1804 in Kent (not sure where)his surname was spelt Crittal,and his hometown was tunbridge wells, he came to Western Australia as indentured servant to a solicitor Mr Alfred Hawes Stone, William was released from his indenture in 1830 to make his own way in the colony. After working for a few years in the Perth area, WIlliam went to Toodyay, or Newcastle as it was then known, he met future wife, Elizabeth Thomas, who was born in Bristol U k. They were married at "DEEPDALE" the home of Elizabeth in 1840,he was 36 years and she was 18 years they had fourteen(14) children.
      William was a stonemason and a builder. The Perth gasette of 1842 mentions that the Police Barracksat Toodyay was built by Willaim Criddle he eventually moved the Greenough flats on his own land and engaged in farming, there is much more to this story but cannot write it all on this message.I am not sure where you live, I shall check your email address later, but if you are interested and you don't know already Greenough is about twenty five kilometres south of Geraldton, it is now a tourist area and has a renovated hamlet, and there are various old buildings and ruins in the area (we go there often researching) many of these buildings at Greenough and Dongara were built by William. He died at Greenough 12 may 1875 (i shall ask my wife where he is buried) his wife Elizabeth died in Dongara in 1909 and is buried in Dongara cemetery. One last point the first child of William and Elizabeth was Anne Criddle she married a John Patience (they were my wife Pamela's g/grandparents)John Patience was number two (2) convict on arrival,from England,that is another story.

  • Reference  Darryl Brady. "William CRITTAL". Brady Family Tree in Western Australia. https://www.bradyfamilytree.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I1072&tree=BRADY2008 (accessed December 6, 2024).

  • Sources 
    1. [S2] Sister Mary Albertus Bain, O.P., A Life Of Its Own.

    2. [S68] Rica Erickson, Bicentennial Dictionary of Western Australia pre-1829-1888 Vol III A-C, Bickley, Absolon, b1843 Page 213.

    3. [S795] sue.griffiths-at-education.wa.edu.au, Susan Patricia Griffiths (nee Grimm), Some Information Submitted by Susan Patricia Griffiths (nee Grimm).

    4. [S680] Geraldton Family History Society Incorporated, Pre-1901 Pioneer Family Register.

    5. [S933] Irwin District Historical Society, Person Code: IRPE0010.