Sophia Comley[1]

Female Abt 1875 - Yes, date unknown


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  • Name Sophia Comley 
    Born Abt 1875 
    Gender Female 
    Died Yes, date unknown 
    Notes 
    • >Death note: Died on voyage from England
    Person ID I10054  Frost Family
    Last Modified 27 Feb 2001 

    Father James Comley,   b. 10 May 1838, 3 Denmark St, St Giles, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 4 Mar 1927, Carlton Terrace, Manly, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 88 years) 
    Mother Mary( Pierce) Fuller,   b. 20 Oct 1840, Herne, Canterbury, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 May 1920, Mountjoy Terrace, Manly, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 12 Mar 1861  St. Saviours Church Paddington,Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • G.R.O. Copy certificate No. MB 327136
      Ceremony performed by J.A.J. Nickolsin
      Witnesses: Stephen Fuller and Frances Fuller
      Afer the wedding the couple lived at 3 Portsdown Mews Kilburn
      Fourteen years after their marriage James and Mary decided to emigrate to
      Australia with their six children. They sailed from London on the" Gauntlet" on
      the 18th. September 1875 and arrived in Brisbane, Queensland on the 7th.
      February 1876. They had the sad misfortune of losing their infant daughter
      Sophia during the horrendous voyage of almost five months.
      The family settled in the South Brisbane area where James, A carpenter, built
      many houses, but when the building boom burst, with the depression that struck
      around 1890, James and his son-in-law Will Jarrett were encouraged to move to
      the mid-western township of Wallumbilla, 300 miles west-north-west of Brisbane.
      They travelled by horse and dray over the old Cobb & Co. road which, at that
      time, was little more than a rough dirt track. James then turned to farming,
      but Will continued with his trade.
      Unfortunately, nature dealt a cruel blow to the hopeful new settlers in the
      form of a prolonged drought; and as the drought persisted and the crops failed,
      James and Mary decided to abandon their selection and return to Brisbane.
      However the Jarrett family remained in Wallumbilla until shortly after the
      1914-1918 war when they returned to Brisbane
    Family ID F3184  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S58] Lindsay File, Andrew Lindsay.