The Descendants of William Pursey

Events

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Birth	3 January 1836	Walton, Somerset, England
Census	6 June 1841	Walton, Somerset, England	FPurs 1841	Event Note Name: Francis Pursey Age: 40 Estimated birth year: abt 1801 Household: View other family members Gender: Male Where born: Somerset, England Civil parish: Walton Hundred: Whitley County/Island: Somerset Country: England Street address: Occupation: View image Source information: HO107/964/23 Registration district: Wells Sub-registration district: Glastonbury ED, institution, or vessel: 15 Folio: 23 Page: 11 (click to see others on page) Line number: 15 GSU Number: 474606	1
Burial	1926	Coraki, New South Wales, Australia
Death	30 May 1926	Coraki, New South Wales, Australia

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father	Pursey, Francis Frampton [I1349]
Mother	Gallop, Nancy Ann [I1350]
Sister	Pursey, Elizabeth [I1353]
Sister	Pursey, Sarah [I1351]
Brother	Pursey, Francis [I1357]
Brother	Pursey, George Gallop [I1354]
Sister	Pursey, Hannah [I1355]
	Pursey, Joseph [I1352]
Brother	Pursey, Theodore [I1358]
Sister	Pursey, Mary Ann [I1356]

Father	Pursey, Francis Frampton [I1349]
Stepmother	Cullen, Sarah [I4352]

Families

Family of Pursey, Joseph and Lang, Annie [F4682]

Married

Wife

Lang, Annie [I1403]

Event	Date	Place	Description	Notes	Sources
Marriage	12 May 1869	Coraki, New South Wales, Australia

Narrative

Married by Rev John Thom, Friend of John Dunmore Lang

Children

Media

Joseph and Annie Pursey

Narrative

#Source: Bill Pursey - From Rootsweb.com
# Event: Emigration Fact 2 1856 Travelled to Aus on Phoebe Dunbar
# Event: Emigration Fact 3 1856 Landed at Moreton Bay
# Fact 6: 1869 No Mention of Parents
# Event: Emigration Fact 5 1856 Helidon Mines with Theodore for 1 year
# Event: Emigration Fact 5 1857 Bathurst gold fields
# Event: Emigration Fact 5 1857 Ipswich for few months
# Event: Emigration Fact 5 1857 Sydney
# Event: Emigration Fact 5 1869 Wedding Cert states Store Keeper
# Emigration: 1856 Migrated to Australia
# Event: Relocated 1865 Richmond area set up store at Bungawalbin
# Burial: Buried at Coraki with Wife
# Event: Emigration Fact 4 1858 New Zealand, Massacre Bay
# Note:

The Late Joseph Pursey.
Extract from Richmond River Herald 30/5/1926

The death of Mr Joseph Pursey of "Frampton Park", Bungawalbyn, removed one who had been intimately associated with the pioneering life of the State for a period extending back 70 years. .....Born in Somersetshire (England) on January 23rd, 1936.
When 20 years of age, the young immigrant arrived at Moreton Bay in thePhoebe Dunbar, in May 1856 after a voyage of 56 days.
He spent one year at Helidon (Qld), then some months at Ipswick, then to Sydney.
He went to the Bathurst gold fields and from there to New Zealand wherehe was at Massacre Bay for a while. New Zealand did not appeal to him and wending his way back to Sydney, and his next work was as an overseeron roadwork between the Moonbi Range and Armidale. After spending sometime on New England he was further employed as an overseer on roadworkbetween Tenterfield and Lawrence on the Clarence River.
Mr Pursey next selected land next the late Mr Stpehen Newby at Bungawalbyn and also opened a general store there.
Business life didi not appeal to him so disposing of the business and selection, he again selected on the opposite side of the river. This property he named "Frampton Park" and settled down to develop. He went in for dairying and eventually built up for himself a fine estate.
He was a Councillor of Woodbrun Shire for several terms.
He left a wife (whom he married in 1869), four daughters, Mesdames T.J.Morgan (Ballina), O.H. McPherson (Sawn Bay), Nurse Pursey, Miss J. Pursey and five sons, Messrs A.F., F.G., A.G., P.A., and F.L.Pursey, all inthis district. A daughter, Mrs W. Boorman, and a son Alfred, killed inthe Great War, predeceased their father, while one brother, Mr Theodore Percy, resides at Coraki.
Buried on Methodist portion of Coraki Cemetery.