Families living in Australia, including those with origins elsewhere.
George and Mary Ann Tickle (nee Hill) were both convicts when they married. The government encouraged convict marriages as they wanted to develop a free colony in Australia, rather than have it remain simply a penal settlement. in order to achieve this they sentenced many female convicts to transportation. These were mainly young, single women, …
Crime in Britain increased during the Industrial Revolution, especially in the expanding cities. Thousands, flocked in from the countryside but they could struggle to find work in the industrialised world. People stole simple things like food and clothing to survive. If they were caught (normally by the victim of the crime rather than the police) …
Peter Tickle was a provision dealer and beer seller in Manchester in the 1850s. At that time, Manchester was a thriving city at the heart of the Lancashire cotton industry. Everything changed when it was hit by a depression known as the Lancashire Cotton Famine or Cotton Panic. The Cotton Famine The raw cotton used …
This post is about a Devon family who travelled to the other side of the world in search of a better life. John Tickle (also shown as John Tickell in some records) was born around 1801 in Bridestowe, Devon, England. He married Ann Isobel Cole in 1827 and they set up home in the hamlet …
Another English county in which Tickles and Tickells were found is Devon, formerly called Devonshire. It is mostly rural, with hills, coastal cliffs, and sandy beaches. About 25% of the county is heath or moorland, providing rough grazing. There are two large areas of open moorland that are now National Parks – Dartmoor and Exmoor …
Devonshire – Clotted Cream, Cider, and Shipbuilding. Read More »
Thanks to Jennifer Rawlinson, I have now added several more Australian Tickle families. These are descended from Peter Tickle (1827 – 1891), who emigrated to Australia in 1878. Peter led a chequered life – he was married three times and had several brushes with the law. I’ll write more about him in the ‘Stories’ section …
This is the first of three Tickle families in Australia that I’m hoping to add soon. There is some uncertainty about the earliest ancestors – they appear to have married almost 12 years after at least one of their children was born! I’ll investigate further but, if you are related to this family, please get …
