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Please reload often to keep updated, new additions all the time.  PEPPER Genealogical Stuff     Well planted roots in  Melbourne since 1853.    Are you a PEPPER or do you know a PEPPER, if so I would like to hear from you.   Other family names are:- BAXTER,   HANCOCK, HECKFORD,  HEARNS,  NOSSITER, PEPPER,  ROLASON,  REED, THOMPSON, WALSH, WAYTE.  Join a Genealogy Web Ring HERE.

 PEPPER is the main name I am researching and I'm calling for your help. If  you are a Pepper or  descended from a Pepper or know a Pepper I would like to   hear from you please.

 Other family names are:-  HANCOCK,  HECKFORD,  HEARNS,  PEPPER,   NOSSITER,  ROLASON,  REED, THOMPSON, WALSH, WAYTE.

             How it all started in Australia George Pepper born Middlesex,  England c1801,  married Frances Hodgkins, St Mary Magdeline  Church Richmond Surrey, 19th September 1822.  Frances baptised  Wolverhampton Staffordshire 14 July 1803,  parents Joseph and Ann  Hodgkins. Pepper family were Baptists.  They  had thirteen  children. George's parents William and Ann Pepper nothing more known.
George and Frances arrived Sydney by ship, Euphrates 5th August  1855.  George a bricklayer by trade later moved to Parkes where Frances died 1876.  George then moved to Sydney where he died in 1880, aged 79 - buried St Peters.  The children who  came with them were Samuel Robert Pepper,  Elizabeth Ann Pepper,   Harriet Pepper,  and John Edwin Pepper all born  Hammersmith.
 George Pepper (Jnr) First born was already in Australia: 1832 to 1904 a builder by trade - also born Brentford Middlesex ENGLAND.  A search of the shipping records  showed George (Jnr) sailed Sept 1852 arriving,  Feb 1853 unaccompanied, at age 22, on the "South  Sea" - Port of embarkation Liverpool, unassisted passage, destination   Melbourne (City  Search Centre, Fiche No 030). He was here when the rest of the family arrived in Sydney some two years later.
 George  married Mary Ann Reed - a domestic servant residing at 24 Peel St, West  Melbourne - birthplace Navern, West Meath, Ireland in 1870. Mary Ann  died 1899 aged 54. George died 1904 Prahran Vic. They had six children:-  George James Pepper  b1871;  Frances Mary Baxter b1873;  Rose Pepper; Henry John Pepper b1877;  Ernest Charles Pepper b1879; Arthur William Pepper b1882 .

             Peppers, or anybody, can you help? 

This is part of an ongoing project to  explore the roots of the Pepper family. If you have any information at all or  comments to make, perhaps a connection or know anything about the  Peppers, a source I could follow, would you please EMAIL me.

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