Fifth Generation
 |
Hans Jacob Fiellerup Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Occupation: Factor (Agent) for a trading company Born: 28 May 1778 at Copenhagen, Denmark Died: 13 May 1835 at Tranquebar, India Married: 13 Apr 1807 at Tranquebar, India to Catherine Elisabeth Braun |
 |
Catherine Elisabeth Braun Peter's Great Great Great Grandmother Born: 20 Sep 1787 at Tranquebar, India Died: 21 Mar 1847 at Chandapore, India Married: 13 Apr 1807 at Tranquebar, India to Hans Jacob Fiellerup
Photo donated by C.W. Kallenbach |
|
Catherine's father came from Holstein, which was then part of Denmark and is now a German state. He became commander of the small Danish force at Tranquebar in India. at the age of 20, she married 28 year old Hans Jacob Fiellerup (above), a Dane who had been living at Tranquebar since 1800. Han's South American Journal tells more about this amazing woman. |
|
 |
Marshall Waller (Waller) Clifton, Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Born: 1 Nov 1787 at Alverstoke, Hampshire, England Died: 10 Apr 1861 at "Upton House", Australind, W.A. Buried: Australind, W.A. Married: 2 Jul 1811 at Putney, Co. Surrey, England to Elinor Bell |
|
Waller was elected to the Royal Society of Scientists in 1828 as “a Gentleman well acquainted with various branches of Natural Science …highly deserving of that honour and likely to prove a valuable and useful member”. Of the natural sciences, Waller’s main interest was in horticulture. He was Secretary to the Commissioners of Victualing in the Royal Navy and was afterwards appointed Commissioner for the West Australian Company at Australind in Western Australia. Waller arrived in Australia on 18 Mar 1841. He was appointed Magistrate of the territory on 26 Mar 1841. |
|
 |
Elinor Bell Peter's Great Great Great Grandmother Born: 3 Oct 1792 at Wandsworth, London, England Died: 19 Feb 1866 at "Moorland", Picton, W.A. Buried: Australind, W.A. Married: 2 Jul 1811 at Putney, Co. Surrey, England to Marshall Waller (Waller) Clifton
Picture taken from a newspaper cutting. |
|
Elinor Elinor was raised a Quaker and followed that faith all her life, despite her husbands roots being firmly embedded in the Church of England. Elinor dressed simply in grey, with the distinctive Quaker bonnet and plain kerchief, with no personal adornment and used “thee” and “thou” in her speech. |
|
|
|
Augusta Buchanan Peter's Great Great Great Grandmother Born: 28 Jan 1801 Died: 15 Feb 1883 Married: 1819 to Robert Dow Ker |
|
|
Robert Dow Ker Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Occupation: Manager of a shipping and shipbuilding company Born: 2 Dec 1793 Died: 15 Sep 1882 at Bristol, England Buried: Arnosvale, Bristol, England Married: 1819 to Augusta Buchanan |
|
Robert was the second son of Alan Ker, head of the large and thriving firm of Alan Ker & Company that was situated at Greenock, on the River Clyde. The company owned a line of ships involved in trade with Canada and America and owned extensive lands near Miramichi in New Brunswick, from where they imported timber. The company expanded from shipping to shipbuilding and when Alan died in 1882 he was a very wealthy man. His sons John and Robert took over the management of the Company. |
|
 |
John Campbell Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Occupations: Sailor (ships captain) and Danish Consul in London Born: 1766 Died: 22 Feb 1826 at Chatham Place, Hackney, London Married: 21 Oct 1796 at Copenhagen, Denmark to Elisabeth Sophie Berg |
|
John Campbell was a sailor, although it is not known where he came from, or who his parents were. One very unreliable tree states that his father was David Campbell and his mother a Miss Cameron, however this has not been proved. When he married Elisabeth Berg in Copenhagen he was described as 'ship’s capitaine.' In 1816 he was acting Danish consul in London, after Consul-General Hornemann had gone bankrupt and been discharged. In February 1821 John applied for his own position as Royal Consul in London. He held this appointment until his death in 1826. His reports to ‘Kommercekollegiets Handels-og Konsulalsfag’ were written in faultless Danish. |
|
 |
Elisabeth Sophie Berg Peter's Great Great Great Grandmother Born: 1778 Died: 15 Jun 1853 Married: 21 Oct 1796 at Copenhagen, Denmark to John Campbell |
|
Roger Guerin Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Occupation: Soldier: Born: 1806 or possibly 1803? at County Clare, Ireland Died: 3 June 1878 at "Pidgeon Grove", Wonnerup, W.A. Buried: Busselton, W.A. Married: 2 Jan 1830 to Eleanor Dorinda Berckelman
Digital image taken from an exceptionally poor quality original |
|
Roger was said to have run away from home at the age of 12 and served under Wellington at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 as a bugle (or drummer) boy. However, if his age, as given on his death certificate, is correct, he would have been only nine years old. He was wounded in the head and knee. A metal plate was placed in his head and the knee patched up. He suffered no ill effects from the head wound, though his knee injury caused a limp, which he carried for the rest of his life. In Aug/Sep 1823 he was recorded on the muster roll for the 21st Regiment, Royal North British Fusiliers as a 'recruit joined from Limerick 23 September – in hospital sick. Formerly labourer from Askeaton, (Ireland)'. On 9 November 1824, he embarked with reinforcements for the regiment serving at St. Vincent. For the next two years, he appears on the muster rolls at St. Vincent and Granada. By December 1826, Roger was back in England, listed at Kew, Reading and Windsor. At the end of 1827 he was promoted ‘To Cpl. 6 Coy from Pte. 8 Coy’.In June 1828 he was at Portsmouth, awaiting transport to Ireland. For the next two years he was Fermoy in Cork, Mullingar in County Westmeath and on detachment to Phillipstown. In September that year Roger was at Kilkenny, promoted from ‘Cpl. 6 Coy to Serj. 3 Coy’, then on detachment at Wexford for the next eight months. He rejoined his regiment on 29 May 1831.By the beginning of January 1832 the regiment was back in England at Weedon and Northampton, then to Chatham Barracks in July. On 17 November 1832 he embarked with a detachment of his regiment and a shipload of convicts bound for Van Diemen’s Land. The voyage took five months and they arrived in Hobart on 23 April 1833. After a brief period of nearly four months, a detachment of the 21st Regiment was ordered to Western Australia to replace the 63rd (this regiment was leaving the colony). Sergeant Guerin, together with his family, were among those who left Van Diemen’s Land on 10 August on board the brig “Jane”. On 28 September 1833, Sergeant Guerin (with twelve soldiers) was at Garden Island waiting to be embarked for Augusta to protect the small party of settlers who had been trying to establish themselves there since 1830. By 1838, Roger and his family had moved to Wonnerup, where he had a small allotment. By this time the Sergeant, according to the muster roll, was still on detachment at the Vasse. However, in the following year he was described as being on furlough, then ‘on discharge receiving no pay’. He remained on the muster roll of the regiment until he was finally discharged on 31July 1845. |
|
 |
Eleanor Dorinda Berckelman Peter's Great Great Great Grandmother Born: 1809 at County Clare, ireland (possibly) Died: 16 Jan 1878 at "Pidgeon Grove", Wonnerup, W.A. Buried: Busselton, W.A. Married: 2 Jan 1830 to Roger Guerin |
|
Eleanor left England on 17 November 1832 with her husband, who was one of the soldiers escorting convicts to Van Diemen's Land. The voyage out was an arduous one and it was five months before they reached their destination. Only four months after arriving in Van Diemen's Land, a detachment of her husband's regiment was ordered to Western Australia. They left Van Diemen's land on 10 August and arrived at Garden Island in W.A. on 28 September 1833. From here Sergeant Guerin was dispatched with twelve soldiers to protect the settlers at Augusta who had been trying to establish themselves since 1830, just twelve months after the foundation of the Colony of Western Australia |
|
 |
John Martin Peter's Great Great Great Grandfather Occupation: Soldier (Major of the 99th Regt) Born: Circa 1778 "of" Ballingale, County Wexford, Ireland Died: 1860 at Ryde, Isle Of Wight Married: 1808 at Canada to Sophia Louisa Grant |
|
John Martin was described as “being of Ballingale, County Wexford” in Ireland, by which it is assumed it was his birthplace. He became a major in the 99th Regiment and married Sophia Louisa Grant in 1808 in Canada where he was possibly serving with his regiment. Some time in the 1830’s, Major Martin was retired and went to live at Boulogne in France There were a large number of English families established there at the time and many, like the Major's, were retired and had discovered that their pensions went a lot further in France than they did in England. This enabled them to continue to live reasonably comfortable lives. Sophia died young and was survived by eight of her children. Major Martin died aged 82, at Ryde on the Isle of Wight. His youngest son also died at Ryde some years later, so there is a possibility that his father had gone to live there with him. |
|
