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Wilson/Bennett from a journal in progress
My G.G. Grandfather was Richard Matthew Wilson, born near London in 1840. His parents were George Wilson B:1805 and Rebecca Mckintosh B:1805. He married my G.G.Grandmother in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia in 1864.
She was Marian or Mary Ann Bennett Born London 1845. When they married he was 25years and she 19yrs. As yet I cannot be sure of how they came to be in Tasmania (were either of them sent as convicts?) Did they travel with families or travel alone? But I do know that they moved to Melbourne, lived in Richmond and Port Melbourne and had eleven children, Maud-Mary, William, George Henry, Clara Rebecca, John Richard, Florence Edith, Louisa Maria, Archibald, Annie, Herbert and Jane. Richard died in 1905 at the age of 65yrs. By then they were living in East Malvern. Mary Ann lived as a widow for 11yrs and in 1916 when she was 71 yrs she married Josiah Roberts from Heathcote whose wife had died the previous year. He moved in with her at Malvern and she died the next year 1918 at 72 years.
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