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Over the past couple of years, I have continued RODWELL research
by travelling to Percydale (Victoria) & Hobart (Tasmania) in Australia,
as well as Salisbury Wiltshire (England). Detailed updates should be
available by clicking on the following website links ...

1. http://rodwellresearch.wordpress.com
2. http://www.familytreecircles.com/rodwell-from-salisbury-wiltshire-england-australia-17766.html
3. http://journals.worldnomads.com/warrenr/story/70758/United-Kingdom/RODWELL-from-Salisbury-Wiltshire-England
4. http://www.alivenotdead.com/WarrenRodwell/RODWELL-from-Salisbury-Wiltshire-England-profile-1197619.html

Various pictures should be viewable at ...
http://warrenrodwell.shutterfly.com/ancestry

Hi Dave,

Thanks for this brilliant piece of information. It would seem possible that James Rodwell could have lived beyond this short period of incarceration. However, whatever became of him afterwards still remains a mystery.

Cheers
Warren

Hi Kris, 

Can we bring this request back to life again, please? 

What's had me wondering about Martha ELTON (B:1786) and Thomas RODWELL (B:1778),
is why they did not have any children until 1817. That would have made Martha 31 and
Thomas 39; unusually late for those days.

I've come across a Sarum Marriage Licence Bond issued:

Date:    4 Dec 1799
Groom: William PONTIN
Parish: Chilton (Solely) Berkshire England; farmer

Bride:   Martha ELTON
Parish: Ham Wiltshire England
Bride's Condition: sp

Bondsman 1: GOATLEY Robert, scrivener, Speen, Berks
Jurisdiction: The Bishop of Salisbury in Wiltshire and  Berkshire

I understand that the issuing of a licence does not necessarily
mean that a marriage took place, but this could be the same
Martha ELTON that later married Thomas RODWELLl. Of
course, our Martha would have been aged 13 in 1799.

There's a William PONTIN ; 33 Ag. Lab; WIL included on the
North Wiltshire Online Project 1841  Book 14 Folio 10 Pg 12
http://www.pope-genealogy.me.uk/41186.html

This could be the son of the groom William PONTIN in the
Sarum Record of 1799. The son could have been born in
1807 or 1808. There does not appear  to be any Martha
PONTIN listed in the 1841 census. That would have then
made Martha ELTON 21 if she was the mother.

Any comments?

Cheers
Warren

A detailed outline of the RODWELL PEDIGREE for descendants
of THOMAS RODWELL baptized 25 Dec 1778 St Edmunds
Salisbury Wiltshire England
 
Father:  SAMUEL RODWELL  St Martins Salisbury
Mother:  Mary (nee WARD)
Married: 21 May 1771 St Edmunds

Husband: THOMAS RODWELL B:1778 Salisbury Wiltshire
Married:   Martha Elton B:1786 (Parents:Thomas & Sarah Elton)
             *Shown as widowed almswoman 1861 England Census

Thomas Rodwell (B:1778) Children:
1817 George Rodwell   M: Eliza Wheatland ex Hampshire
1819 DAVID RODWELL Transported to Tasmania 1838
1821 Caroline Rodwell D: March 1842 Salisbury Wiltshire
1823 Richard Rodwell  1840 M: Eliza Perren ex Hampshire
1826 Edward Rodwell  1847 M: Mary Barnes ; St Edmunds
1827 James Rodwell    2 July 1844 Wiltshire County Prison
1830 Martha Rodwell   1861 Salisbury;no husband present

DAVID RODWELL B:1819 son of shoemaker Thomas Rodwell, 
arrived Hobart Tasmania Australia Aug 1838 per convict ship
Lord William Bentinck (2).

*Dark complexion 
*Oval visage *Medium nose
*Round head *High forehead
*Tatto on right arm of woman
*Height (no shoes) 5' 3.5" 161.3 cms   
*Brown hair & eyebrows *Green eyes 
*Scars on ball of left thumb & on right cheek

1838 David Rodwell arrived Australia (D:1888)
1845 Free Certificate Gained; Hobart TAS No.150
1846 M: Rosina Hammond (B:1824 Chelmsford Essex D:1853)

ROSINA RODWELL (HAMMOND) wife of David Rodwell (B:1819)

*Transported for stealing a loaf of bread & a petticoat
*Trade recorded on convict papers ; housemaid & cooking
*Departed London 8 Sep 1844 on the ship Tasmania (1) age 19
*Arrived Hobart Tasmania Australia 20 Dec 1844 Sentence 7 years
*M: David Rodwell 1 Dec 1846 St Georges Church of England Hobart
*Recommended for conditonal pardon on 23 Jan 1849 - approved 5 Feb 1850

Personal Description of Rosina Hammond: Light hair & eyebrows, medium wide mouth,
scar under left eye, fair complexion, oval visage & head, round chin, medium high fore
head, small nose, height 5'1", religion Protestant, read or write: some. brothers and
sisters of Rosina Hammond (B:1824): Cornelius, Alex, Esther, Martha, Diana Hammond;
Chelmsford Essex England

David Rodwell (B:1819) Children:
1848 DAVID CORNELIUS RODWELL Tasmania
1850 George Edward Rodwell  D1866 Victoria
1852 Walter Thomas Rodwell  D1875 Victoria


DAVID CORNELIUS RODWELL (B:1848) grandson of Thomas Rodwell,
could be of particular interest to descendants & researchers.

1838 David Cornelius Rodwell born 11 Aug Clarence Plains Hobart TAS
1852 Family arrived Victoria Australia most likely Castlemaine goldfields
1870 M:23 May to Mary Anne Curnick (B:1853 Melksham Wiltshire England)
1871 First child of twelve born to David & Mary Rodwell ; see below
1913 David Cornelius Rodwell died Percydale Victoria Aust
1929 Mary Anne Rodwell (nee Curnick) died Avoca Vic

David C Rodwell (B:1848) Children:
- 1871 David James Rodwell - Married: Mary Rayner
- 1873 George Rodwell - Married: Elizabeth Wyhoon
- 1875 Ernest Albert Rodwell - Maried: Elizabeth Allan
- 1878 Edward Thomas Rodwell -  M: Emma Allan
- 1880 Rosina Annie Rodwell - Married: Charles Wyles
- 1883 Samuel Richard Rodwell -  M: Elizabeth Meredith
- 1885 Charles Walter Rodwell - Son: Percy Rodwell   
- 1887 Lilian Marion Rodwell - Married: Hugh Cheyne
- 1890 Willliam Frederick Rodwell 
- 1892 Henry Owen Rodwell - Married: Mabel Pitcher
- 1895 Violet Elizabeth Rodwell - M: Victor Lee / Ellis
- 1898 Elizabeth Daisy Rodwell - M: Tom Anderson

David C Rodwell (B:1848) Grandchildren:
David J 1871 = Herbert Rodwell
George 1873 = Stanley Rodwell, Kathleen, Percy Rodwell, Harold Rodwell, William Rodwell, Frederick Rodwell
Ernest  1875 = Elizabeth Rodwell, Edward Rodwell, Jack Rodwell, Nellie Rodwell, Dorothy Rodwell
Edward 1878 = Ernest Rodwell, Victor Rodwell, Kenneth Rodwell
Rosina  1880 = Charles Wyles, Ivan Wyles
Samuel 1883  = Dorothy Rodwell, Stephen David Cornelius Rodwell (1908), Violet Rodwell
Charles 1885 = Percy Rodwell
Lilian   B1887 = Leslie Cheyne, Bruce Cheyne
William 1890  =
Henry B1892 = Henry Rodwell, Roy Rodwell, William Rodwell, Lilian Rodwell, Albert Rodwell
Violet B1895 = Frank, Isobel, Jim, Clarice, Rose, Ray, Victor, Alf, Len (Surnames: Lee & Ellis)
Daisy B1898 = Alice, David Anderson, Jean, Joyce, Thomas Anderson, Dorothy, Esme, Alma

SAMUEL RICHARD RODWELL(B:1883) great grandson of THOMAS RODWELL (B:1778)

*Born 30 Apr 1883 Percydale near Avoca Victoria Australia
*Coalminer (D:1937) Buried Rylstone General Cemetery NSW
*Married Elizabeth Meredith (B:1 May 1889 Burwood NSW) D:1964

Samuel R Rodwell (B:1883) Children:
1905 Dorothy Ann Rodwell ; B: Jumbunna Victoria; D:1991 ; Married Stanley Carter
1908 Stephen David Cornelius Rodwell ; B: Jumbunna; D:1985 ; M: Violet Florence Bennett
1911 Violet Isabel Rodwell ; B: Rylstone NSW; D: 1979; M: Ernest Dean (Occupation: coalminer)

Stephen D C Rodwell (B:1908) Children:
1929 David Richard Rodwell M:Sydney NSW; Ellen Agnes Scott ;parents
of Denise Ann Cappello, Wayne Richard Rodwell, Warren Richard Rodwell
1930 Harold (infant)
1931 Valda M: George Lester
1932 Arthur (infant)
1933 Stephen Rodwell

RODWELL 1880 PICTURE :

Hi Kris,

Well done. We are having such a good run with this pair (Thomas Rodwell & Martha Elton). At this point, I won't search any further back with the ELTON name as I've got enough research to do with just the RODWELL name.

So far as I'm concerned, this lookup request is completed. 

Cheers
Warren

CROSS-REFERENCE :
Thomas ELTON - Idmiston - marriage thread ...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,326523.0.html