this page helps to summarise the Yaxley families and their friends who emigrated en masse from Norfolk, England in the mid-19th century to form a farming community at Norfolk Creek, just west of Devonport in Tasmania.
they are included on my website as one of them married an AYTON and they came from the same region in England as my AYTON ancestors, furthermore, descendants of the BEAN family who emigrated from Suffolk married one of my direct line AYTON ancestors.
it is fascinating to see how a large number of families primarily from the Norfolk and Suffolk counties of England were offered assisted immigration to settle in the Launceston region where they became a close knit community and many of the children and descendents inter-married.
certainly, the AYTON's who came had additional incentive given their father Edward AYTON (1810-1875), who had been convicted and transported in 1837 appeared to be making a reasonable life for himself in Tasmania once he had gained his freedom.
THIS PAGE IS INCOMPLETE - work in progress.
Thomas YAXLEY
m. Elizabeth BAXTER ( Elizabeth ’s maiden name was shown when her daughter Sarah was baptized in November 1823 by the Wesleyans in their New Walsingham Parish, Norfolk ).
William YAXLEY (c1816-1887)
in 1832: “John Ayton 48, Edward Ayton 23, Thomas Ayton 24, and William Yaxley 17 for assisting in the escape of William Ayton from Robert Daw and Leslie Everitt, constables of. One calendar month’s imprisonment.”
m. Mary HOOKS (c1818-1898)
emigrated to Australia in 1857 on the Southern Eagle with wife and 5 children and brother, sister and their families, and settled in Norfolk Creek near Devonport
Matthew YAXLEY (c1844-1907) d. Forth, Tas.
m. Susan REVELL see below
John YAXLEY (c1848-1873) d. Port Sorell, Tas.
Susannah YAXLEY (c1849-1924) d. Devonport West
Mary YAXLEY (c1852-1933) d. Ulverstone
Thomas YAXLEY (c1855-1866) d. Port Sorell, buried Don cemetery
Sarah YAXLEY (1823-1909)
emigrated to Australia in 1857 on the Southern Eagle with husband and 2 children and brothers and their families, and settled in Norfolk Creek near Devonport
m. John PARKER (c1822-1903)
George PARKER (c1848-1918)
Thomas Yaxley PARKER (c1851-1934)
m. Alice Amelia KIMBERLEY in 1880
John PARKER (c1855-)
Elizabeth YAXLEY (1832-1923)
emigrated to Australia in 1857 on the Southern Eagle with husband and 2 children and brothers and their families, and settled in Norfolk Creek near Devonport
m. John VERTIGAN (1832-1923) of Fakenham, son of George Vertigan and Sarah WALKER
see marriage cert. of James VERTIGAN (presumably John's brother) and Emily MITCHELL in 1854
Mary VERTIGAN/YAXLEY (1850-1933) b. as YAXLEY
m. George BARKER (c1843-) of Larling, in 1867, see below
John VERTIGAN (c1853-1921)
m. Sophia MILLS (c1852-1910) in 1874
Thomas YAXLEY (1833-1923) bapt. new Walsingham; Wesleyan; farm labourer;
emigrated to Australia in 1857 on the Southern Eagle with wife and 3 children and brother, sister and their families, and settled in Norfolk Creek near Devonport
