The Vickery Family

Graeme Vickery is from Woolongong 80kms south of Syndey, Australia.  His forebears emigrated to Australia from Seavington St Mary in 1849.  He has sent us the PDF document below.  He visited Seavington in June 2013 following up his family’s history in Seavington and it was a pleasure to meet him.

 

On 14 July 2014 he wrote

“I visited  eldest daughter, Jennifer over the weekend in Orange / Bathurst area, about 4 1/2 hours west of Sydney. She is nearly finished her physiotherapy course and it seems such a coincidence that her studies brought her back to the area that her forebears settled in.
 
Well,  not to miss an opportunity to do more ancestry work I busied myself about chatting to the locals in and around the areas, some small enough to be villages in your speak, or towns in their own right. Robert & Phoebe Vickery settled in Forbes, but as I have found, followed the gold rush to Bathurst and also must have spent time in other places such as Millthorpe, Blayney and Carcour.
 
Attached is some information which shows that their family consisted of about 12 Children at one time, being mindful that they departed Somerset with 5 children. The infant mortality rate at that time was very high, and it would appear that a number of children were buried in Carcoar Cemetery. Giles is mispelt “Ciles”,  which I will have to have corrected.”

 

He  found records as below of his family in the Blayney Shire Family History and Local History Group publication: Blayney Shire Pioneer Register, c/o Blayney Libruary Inc, 48 Adelaide Street, Blayney, NSW 2799.  Text reads:

VICKERY Robert, bn 1813 Som, Eng. bpt Seavington Som, Eng. (s/o Isaac and Hannah Vickery). 

M. Phoebe Stuckey 28.11.1835 Seavington St Michaels, Som, Eng.  Issue bpt. 1837 Louise Som, Eng. Lucy bpt 1837 Som. Eng. Jane bpt 1842, Som, Eng.  Elizabeth bpt 1842, Som. Eng. Mary bpt 1842 So. Eng. Giles 12/3/1846 Som. Eng.  Isaac bn 1848 Som. Eng.  Charlotte bn Carcoar 1850. Jacod bn 1852 Carcoar.  James bn 1843 Carcoar.  Elizabeth bn 1854 Carcoar.  Mary bn 1857 Bathhurst.  Robert 1858 Bathhurst.  Phoebe bn 1860 Bathhurst.

 

23.12.2015

I’ve haven’t been very active Family History wise this year.
 
Would you believe I have received an email from Raymond Vickery, to say he is still kicking and that he has moved to his daughters place in Jersey where she is looking after him.
 
With the help of Bev Bonning and information provided by Raymond’s daughter Stacey Sarre we have concluded that Raymond and I are cousins. It has taken some work but, as I thought upon meeting Raymond, the likeness was too much of a coincidence for us not to be related.
 
Bev Bonning has also put me in touch with a lady named Helen Gibson, who is a descendant of Robert & Phoebe vickery. As I am in Giles Vickery’s line, she is in Charlotte’s, another of their children. So the search continues.
 
If you want another subscription for the Seavington web museum down the track, please let me know. I attended my eldest daughters Graduation of her Physiotherapy degree in Orange on Dec 15th, 2015..photo attached. Comparing photo’s of Jennifer, myself and Raymond, I would have to say there are some similar features
 
On returning I called into Bathurst where the Vickery Family had settled for a time. On visiting the Family History Group there, I found that the Vickery Family is mentioned in the Pioneer Register..extracts  attached. Possibly you could add this to the Vickery Family History page in your website.
 
Is there any photo’s of any Vickerys that you are aware of ? Helen Gibson says she has one of Charlotte which she is going to send me.

 

 

 

Testament of Iaasc Vickery 1816

Graeme and Raymond Vickery's family Tree

Raymond Vickery's family tree

 
 
 
 
 
 
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