Waller emigration to Tasmania

[tracey clarke]

I am researching the Waller families who lived in County Cavan Ireland in the 1800's.
I am interested in Rebecca Waller who married Louis Honroth in Hobart on the 26th July  1858.
She appears to be the only one from her family to go over and I was wondering why that would be. Would it be prospects over there at that time  or could she have been a convict?.
Interestingly on her marriage record it mentions William Waller as a witness. So maybe she went as there were relatives living in Tasmania.  As yet I have not found  William as a sibling for her.
Interested in people's thoughts.
Thank you

[tracey clarke]

Have found William Waller as a brother who was married to Rebecca Waller in Drung Cavan 1854. These could be the witnesses on the marriage record. Still curious as to why they went over.

[Christine53]

Mrs Rebecca Waller 27 thorough servant
William Waller 17 , described as husband of the above, ploughman
Rebecca Waller sister of William dairymaid
all from Cavan

arrived on the Caroline Middleton 29 Sep 1854
https://linctas.ent.sirsidynix.net.au/client/en_AU/names/search/results?qu=waller&qu=rebecca

You will need to select record from the results to view the original.

[Christine53]

Death notice for William Waller in 1900 :

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/185236825?searchTerm=%22rebecca%20waller%22

[Christine53]

And for his wife Rebecca in 1913 ( note the age has been transcribed incorrectly and should be 88 , not 58 )

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/10282678?searchTerm=%22rebecca%20waller%22

[Christine53]

If you search for "Caroline Middleton" on https://trove.nla.gov.au/ you can find numerous reports of arrivals , goods carried and numbers of immigrants , all looking for work. There is a report here -
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/8777507?searchTerm=%22caroline%20middleton%22 -
describing concerns about the upkeep of all the immigrants and finding work for them all.

[matthewj64]

William's will names some siblings and other relatives
https://stors.tas.gov.au/AD960-1-25-5626

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[Jamjar]

Headstone photos for William and wife:

St Johns New Town, Hobart

William WALLER
Died 17 April 1900
Aged 63 years

William: https://thegardensfamily.com/cemeteries/Hobart/StJohn/images/waller_01013610.jpg

Rebecca WALLER
Wife of William WALLER
Died 23 April 1913
Aged 88 years

Rebecca: https://thegardensfamily.com/cemeteries/Hobart/StJohn/images/waller_01013610.jpg

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

Death of HONROTH son, William A, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article8959075

Death of HASLAM née HONROTH daughter Marianne Dorothea, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article25500524
Death: VIC 3491/1938
Marriage, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article114118389

Death of mother HONROTH Rebecca, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9687621

Death of father HONROTH Louis - his name was Louis John Adolph Honroth - 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9914863

Cornelian Bay Cemetery - Wesley J 31
HONROTH William Adolphus
Age: 17
Record no.: 1B 1889
Service type: Burial
Service date: 22-Jan-1878
Last residence: STREET

HONROTH Rebecca
Age: 76
Record no.: 1B 14081
Service type: Burial
Service date: 9-Aug-1904

HONROTH Louis
Age: 83
Record no.: 1B 15536
Service type: Burial
Service date: 4-Feb-1907
Last residence: HOBART

Death: NSW 7393/1942 of daughter BOLTON née HONROTH Rebecca Matilda
Funeral notice, 3rd column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17822707
Marriage: Rebecca Honroth marrying in 1907 in Sydney to a Walter BOLTON, 2nd column:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article165389798

Death of HONROTH daughter, Isabella Louisa, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17692593
Death: NSW 16030/1940

Funeral of HONROTH son, Louis Henry, 3rd column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article17939202
Death: NSW 5402/1945

Death VIC 23270/1945 HONROTH SON, Robert James - incorrect mother listed - 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article205650740
Marriage, 3rd column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article9339135
Death of wife VIC 7560/1920, 1st column: http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article1706146
Marriage of their son VIC 5251/1925 HONROTH Charles Robert Weller
Death of wife of Charles: SA 90A/4977 1970 HONROTH Gladys Adelaide

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