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[willsy]

Death in the paper for Robert

North Wales Chronicle 01 June 1847
...death by fever

Bury and Norwich Post 16 June 1847
died 20 May of Typhus, lots more here

there are more reports, he was quite a man

Dublin Evening Mail 25 July 1845
wife Maria died

Robert Potter son in Australia as you mentioned

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=47348102

[jaybelnz]

Wow Willsy, that's fantastic. He was indeed quite a man!  I have found researching my paternal Mathews Ancestors and their connected families incredibly interesting.  As have been my maternal Scottish families, solid agricultural labourers and coal miners!  Huge contrast in their lives!

I've read a good bit about Canon Robert Potter, and the more I read, the more convinced I was that he was connected to John Potter. And you have also given me a wife for him!

Thank you so much!

Cheers
Jeanne 😄

[willsy]

All yours, off to bed!

[sue21757]

The brother that was already in Australia when Robert Potter came out was.
John Potter B-1826 D-1881 Ballarat Vic.
Parents Robert Potter and Maria Trench.

http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&db=ausdeathindex&rank=1&new=1&MSAV=1&gss=angs-d&gsfn=john&gsln=potter&msydy=1826&cpxt=1&catBucket=rstp&uidh=944&cp=2&pcat=BMD_DEATH&fh=12&h=1092679&recoff=4+5&ml_rpos=13
Cheer Sue

[jaybelnz]

Thank you Sue. Fantastic!  That's the John Potter that was married to Sarah Annie Mathews, Yep, so great work!  I have headstones on findagrave for them and their family,  and also one for the Canon Rbt Potter., all in Melbourne.  Initially I thought the Canon Potter was His father, he was a Rbt. too, the incumbent at Louisburgh, County Mayo) but it's come together now, that they were brothers, and of course now I have the name of their mother,Maria, so that's also fantastic!

Magic moments are happening on here for me! Great work lads and lassies!!

Jeanne 😄

[willsy]

Have you got Sarah's, only just found this

Name:    Sarah Ann Potter
Birth Year:    abt 1824
Age:    75
Death Place:    St Kilda, Victoria
Father's name:    Hy Maxwell Potter
Registration Year:    1899
Registration Place:    Victoria
Registration Number:    11357

[jaybelnz]

Um... Well I thought I did! ☺️ 
Your birth year looks pretty good, the Victoria Melbourne looks pretty good, the Hy Maxwell would refer to her father, Henry Maxwell Mathews, and the Potter to her husbands father, Robert Potter.

Your find here has different dates than those on the headstone.

John Potter d 1874 aged 54 and Sarah Annie Potter d 23 Feb 1875 aged .. I think it said 61, but I know it showed early quite early deaths for them both  It also has names of children.  So.. A bit of a puzzle.  I've had this headstone in my mind for quite some time now, until I could find more info that might tell me whether they were mine or not!  Now looks like the time!!

But those names you have just posted make more sense, as they have what appears to be both father's names!  The headstone I have has chn's names, but I don't know about any chn the Potters may have had!

 If I shift off typing this message to check the link to Findagrave now, I'll get booted off, lose this message, and have to log in again- for some reason this silly ipad is locking me out, when I try to go back to here for instance!  Not just on here, but other passworded sites as well, and I'm not presently unable able to flick between 2 different sites.  Just started doing that a couple of days ago, so I don't know why, or how to sort it!  Maybe it will fix itself, I have no idea!

Anyway,I'll go and check my PC see if I can find it in there and get a link.  Can't reduce the size of a photo on the iPad, and it's too big for here, so a link would be best.  But I'm inclined to be favouring your find now Willsy!  All grist for the mill huh?  And I just let my dinner burn while I was doing this message!   

I Shall return!  You are a star!

Modified to add link to the gravestone

http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Potter&GSfn=John+&GSbyrel=all&GSdy=1874&GSdyrel=in&GScntry=15&GSob=c&GRid=133687575&df=p&


John died aged 41 Sarah Aged 45

Thanks again
Jeanne 😄

[willsy]

How's this for a result!

Australia, Death Index, 1787-1985
Name:    Jno Potter
Birth Year:    abt 1826
Age:    55
Death Place:    Ballarat, Victoria
Father's name:    Robt
Mother's name:    Maria Trench
Registration Year:    1881
Registration Place:    Victoria
Registration Number:    6486

And I think this is Sarah Anne's death notice in the paper

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01f5q/

and their grave with a Mary May Grace Lucinda Potter d 1919

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01f5r/

and he is here Venerable John Potter, M.A., Vicar of Christ Church Pro-Cathedral and Archdeacon of Ballaarat

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/19250033?selectedversion=NBD6183145

****Sorry just realised I doubled up with the death Sue21757, got it in to my head the other night it was a brother!

[willsy]

Australian birth and death and you will easily find her on the electoral rolls

Name:    Mary Grace Lucin Potter
Father's name:    John Potter
Mother's name:    Sarah Annie Mathews
Birth Place:    Geelong, Victoria
Registration Year:    1853
Registration Place:    Victoria
Registration Number:    449

Name:    Mary Grace Lucinda Potter
Birth Year:    abt 1853
Age:    66
Death Place:    St Kilda, Victoria
Father's name:    Potter
Mother's name:    Sarah Annie Mathews
Registration Year:    1919
Registration Place:    Victoria
Registration Number:    19103

and children are
Robert Maxwell Louis 1855 Victoria
Frances 1857 Balarat, Victoria
Herbert John 1858 Ballarat East, Victoria
Arthur Charles 1860 Ballarat East, Victoria
Ellen Laura 1862 Ballarat East, Victoria

Didn't realise there was an inscription on the grave, I was just checking the dates and scrolled right down, doh!

In Loved Remembrance "So he giveth his beloved sleep"

John - First Incumbent of Christ Church and Archdeacon of Ballaarat, Who rested from his labour aged 54 Years. A Faitheful dispenser of the Word of God and of his Holy Sacraments Wife Sarah - Aged 75 " I waited quietly? for the Lord" part of the marker missing Mary - Only Daughter of above - Died at St. Kilda - aged 66 Years AT REST

That will keep you occupied!