Bonnie's PARTRIDGE Family
This is a very old photo of James PARTRIDGE (1816 SFK-1878 AU)
and his wife Ann TURNER (1821 NFK - 1898 AU).
This photo was taken several years before James' death in 1878. On the back of the photo, Ann had written:-
England is my nation
Summer Island is my dwelling place
and Christ is my salvation.
When I am dead and in my grave
and all my bones are rotten,
take this card and use it well,
that I be not forgotten.
She dated it 5th August 1880.
Here's to you Ann!....you are certainly not forgotten!
A few years back I was getting to the stage of being totally bored with having only ‘brick walls’ to work on in my family tree research, I decided to take on something to keep up my interest in genealogy but one that wouldn’t cause me too many hassles….little did I realize then that it was going to be one of the largest ‘Trees’ I had ever taken on!
I finally decided to work on a side line that were sponsored out to Australia by my 2nd great-grandfather William Prigg and his brother Henry . The reason for sponsoring them out here to settle was because James Partridge’e wife Anne TURNER, was William and Henry’s 1st cousin.
James Partridge was the son of John Partridge and Elizabeth Jacob of Little Livermere, Suffolk, England and he and Anne were married in Thetford in Norfolk After having four children in England, they decided that Australia would give them a better standard of living and a place where they could have their own piece of land.
James and Anne landed in Australia in 1858 and very shortly afterwards moved north and settled in a little country area on the Macleay River where they flourished and had three more children. Only one of their 7 children died young, the rest went on to raise large families in and around Kempsey, NSW.
Amongst their descendants were Frank John Partridge who was a recipient of the V.C. in WW2 and later to become famous for his truly fantastic memory by scooping the pool in a well-known radio quiz, Bob & Dolly Dyer’s Pick a Box. Another, from one of the female sides was David Gordon Kirkpatrick, better known to people from all over the world as Australia’s own SLIM DUSTY, many were sad to hear of his death quite recently.
I have had a fun time working on this line as, whist doing it, I found the friendship of Wendy Partridge from Belmore River, NSW, who worked hard with me in putting this side all together. I have only put a small amount of this line here but, if anyone is interested in any of the line, please don't hesitate to contact me by email.
PARTRIDGE Family Surnames
All the Surnames which are in my PARTRIDGE family tree.
Individuals in the PARTRIDGE Family Families
Take a peek at my PARTRIDGE GEDCOM - "Self Viewer"
If you feel inclined to do your own digging in the GEDCOM of my Partridge family, you can click on the link which follows. This will invite you to download an executable file prepared by Mudcreek Genviewer Software - the very best GEDCOM Viewer which I have found so far in my travels. I suggest that you download this for later viewing, after you have done your usual Virus Scanning. To set this up, just hit this URL My Partridge GEDCOM
The file is 650 kb and will take a couple of minutes to download, so I suggest that you explore the rest of my Home page, and come back here when you have a few minutes to spare. I am sure that you will find it an interesting experience.
Updated 26th May 2006