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Edward Benjamin Sullivan
Birth: unknown
Death: 1939
Note: 75y7m; h/Harriett Annie; father
Burial:
Kurri Kurri General Cemetery
Kurri Kurri
New South Wales, Australia
Plot: Mth,
Created by: T.V.F.T.H.
Record added: Feb 23, 2010
Find A Grave Memorial# 48650624
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JOHN CORNELIUS SULLIVAN was the third child for Timothy and Mary Ann. He was born on the 6th of January 1852 and he married BETSY OLIVER BLACKWELL on the 27th of April 1872 in Newcastle, NSW. John was 20 years old and Betsy was only 16. Betsy was born on the 7th of November 1855 in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales, UK to Francis and Agnes Jane Blackwell (nee Oliver). They migrated to Australia when Betsy was just a child and for the first few years her father did some prospecting on the goldfields around Sofala, NSW before they finally settled down in Newcastle. John and Betsy had 7 children together.
'B7 Betsy Oliver b. 1872 d. 1875
'B7 Mary Jane b. 1874 d. 1935
'B7 John Cornelius b. 1876 d. 1941
'B7 Edward Charles b. 1879 d. 1939
'B7 Frederick William b. 1881 d. 1940
'B7 Thomas Edgar b. 1883 d. 1954
'B7 Francis Ernest b. 1885 d. 1952
John and Betsy resided in Newcastle where John worked in the Coal Mines. It seems that they moved to Bulli, NSW around 1885, just before Francis Ernest was born. John once again worked in the coal mines but at the age of 35 he was killed in the Bulli Colliery Gas Explosion on the 23rd of May 1887. This left Betsy a widow when she was only 32 years of age. She had already suffered heartache when her first born child died at the age of 3 and now whe was to struggle on and raise 6 children aged between 2 and 13 years old by herself. On top of that, her father was killed in a train accident a couple of months after her husband passed on.
Betsy went on to marry Henry Glasson in 1889 at Paddington, NSW. Henry was a widowed farmer originally from America but was living in Richmond River (near Byron Bay, NSW). It is thought that he moved to Bulli instead of taking his new family to Richmond River. There are no birth records in the NSW to show that Henry and Betsy had any children together.
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=================== From RootsWeb site - dsheppard # ID: I186 # Name: Thomas TRILL # Sex: M Marriage 1 ANN * Note: According to the East Sussex County Record Office no marriage of a Thomas And Ann Trill was recorded at Beckley 1800 to 1816 and there were no other children of the couple baptized at Beckley 1812 -1824. Information from: Robert Grime 5 Gurney Road Guildford 2161 ===================
=================== From RootsWeb site - dsheppard # ID: I186 # Name: Thomas TRILL # Sex: M Marriage 1 ANN * Note: According to the East Sussex County Record Office no marriage of a Thomas And Ann Trill was recorded at Beckley 1800 to 1816 and there were no other children of the couple baptized at Beckley 1812 -1824. Information from: Robert Grime 5 Gurney Road Guildford 2161 ===================
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William Peverel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Peverell (c. 1040 - c. 1115, Latinised to William Piperellus), was a Norman knight. Although he is not one of the fifteen proven Companions of William the Conqueror, he probably fought at the Battle of Hastings, and is listed in the Battle Abbey Roll of dubious origin.
Origins[edit]
William Peverell the Elder was allegedly the illegitimate son of William the Conqueror[dubious - discuss] by a Saxon princess named Maud Ingelrica (daughter of the noble Ingelric) although this cannot be supported by historical records.[1] Maud Ingelrica was later married to Ranulph Peverell, from whom William took his surname. Beryl Platts suggested that the Peverel family in Normandy derive in fact from Flanders.[2] Maud and Ranulph's known legitimate son, Ranulph Peverel, was almost as well favoured by the king as was his uterine brother William Peverel and was granted 64 manors in Nottingham, although these were forfeited by his family to King Henry II for their support of King Stephen against the Empress Matilda. The baronial family of Peverel descends from Ranulph Peverel, not from William Peverel.
Etymology[edit]
There exist two possible etymological explanations of the surname Peverell. J.R. Planché sources it from the Latin puerulus, the diminutive form of puer (a boy), thus "a small boy", or from the Latin noun piper, meaning "pepper".
Puerulus[edit]
J.R. Planché derives the name as follows:[3] "The name of Peverel ... was not derived from a fief or a locality ... the name was Peverell or Piperell, and in Domesday we find it continually spelt Piperellus (as in) Terra Ranulphi Pipperelli (i.e. "The lands of Ralph Pipperellus"). This, however, does not illustrate its derivation, and the detestable practice of Latinising proper names only tends to confuse and mislead us, as they become in turn translated or corrupted till the original is either lost or rendered hopelessly inexplicable. It may be that like Mesquin lesser, or junior, translated into Mischinus, and distorted into de Micenis, "Peverel" is the Norman form of Peuerellus, as we find it written in the Anglo-Norman Pipe and Plea Rolls. The "u" being pronounced "v" in Normandy, and Peuerellus being simply a misspelling of the Latin Puerulus, a boy or child, naturally applied to the son to distinguish him from his father. William Peverel was therefore, literally, "boy-" or "child-William". We see in the instance of the descendants of Richard d'Avranches how Mesquin, used to distinguish a younger son, became the name of a family, and so it may have been with Peverel, which, originally applied to William, was afterwards borne by so many of his relations in England."
Piper[edit]
The Norman name Peverel was commonly Latinised by mediaeval scribes as Piperellus, apparently derived from the diminutive of the Latin noun piper, meaning "pepper",[4] thus "little pepper". Derived from the Latin word pǐpĕr is the Old-Norman French word peivre in, in modern French poivre,[5] meaning "pepper". In slang the meaning then as now was "angry, irascible, aggressive, atrabilarious, angry, fulminant, furious, fractious, anxious, irritable, stormy, touchy", which produced such ancient surnames as Peiverel, Pevrel and Peivrel. In French, this may give Poivret and Poivrot). (See also Placenames)
Lands held in England[edit]
William Peverel was a favourite of William the Conqueror. He was greatly honoured after the Norman Conquest, and received as his reward over a hundred manors in central England from the king. In 1086, the Domesday Book records William as holding the substantial number of 162 manors, forming collectively the Honour of Peverel, in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire, including Nottingham Castle.[6] He also built Peveril Castle, Castleton, Derbyshire. William Peverel is amongst the people explicitly recorded in the Domesday Book as having built castles.[7]
Marriage & progeny[edit]
William married Adelina of Lancaster, who bore him a daughter Adeliza (or Adelaide) (b.1075), and a son, William Peverel the Younger, born circa 1080, following the death of whose first wife married secondly Avice de Lancaster, daughter of Roger of Poitou, Earl of Lancaster.
Place names[edit]
The Peverell name was otherwise spelled "Peverel", and it appears in both forms in modern town names across England, for example Peverell, Sampford Peverell, Hatfield Peverel, etc.
The name is also known in the Isle of Man as "Peveril", e.g. Peveril Avenue / Road / Terrace, Peel, and Peveril Hotel / Buildings / Road / Square / Street / Street Lane / Terrace, in Douglas. This association derives from Sir Walter Scott's novel "Peveril of the Peak" (1822) which features the character Fenella (Manx Gaelic female name meaning 'white shoulder, Irish "fionnghuala"), as part of the story centres around Peel Castle, Peel, Isle of Man. The names "Peveril" and "Fenella" have also been used on freight and passenger steamers of the Isle of Man Steam Packet Co. Ltd. (George Broderick, Mannheim). In addition the IOMRLy Company names a number of its locomotives after characters from the novel such as No8 Fenella, No6 Peveril (various sources including Boyd, Preston & Powell Hendry).
References[edit]
1. See, e.g., The Complete Peerage, Vol IV, App. I, pp 761-770, "Peverel Family"
2. A history of Langar Hall (http://www.baronage.co.uk/langar/langar-1.html)
3. http://patp.us/genealogy/conq/peverel.aspx
4. Cassell's Latin Dictionary
5. Larousse Dictionnaire de la Langue Francaise
6. A description of holdings in Derbyshire, from the Domesday Book (http://www.infokey.com/Domesday/Derbyshire.htm). A local history of Duston, Northampton (http://www.duston.org.uk/peverel.htm).
7. Harfield 1991, p. 391
Bibliography
Harfield, C. G. (1991), "A Hand-list of Castles Recorded in the Domesday Book", English Historical Review 106: 371-392, doi:10.1093/ehr/CVI.CCCCXIX.371, JSTOR 573107
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