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With only limited space available for this story I shall concentrate on John, his children and grandchildren. John Brooker, son of Mary Wade and Jonathan Brooker, was born at Windsor 24th June, 1809, and was taken as a child of four or five to live…

Edward was born 20th Aug, 1803. This event, according to his mother, took place in a tent on a bank of the Tank Stream in Sydney. The child was baptised at St Phillips Church on Christmas Day, 1804.

His father, Teague Harrigan, was then a free man…

Mary Wade’s second son, William, was born on Norfolk Island in 1796. As he is listed in the Victuall Book of that year as – “Wade convict’s child,” there is no clear identity of his father. Mary, on her return from Norfolk, shared…

Mary Wade’s eldest child, Sarah Wade, was born at the Mount Pitt Settlement, Norfolk Island, on 22nd September, 1793 Mary, at the time of Sarah’s birth, being not quite sixteen years of age. Nothing more is known of Sarah until her marriage to…

I know nothing of what Mary looked like, but that ten-year old girl was a survivor. Both physically and mentally she must have been strong to live through all the horrors she surmounted. With a death sentence on her head, and separated from her…

When Mary Wade was born in London in the late seventeen seventies none would have envisaged that this babe would become the founding mother of a large family group which, today counts Mary’s living descendants in thousands. This child was sentenced…

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From Emerald and Toowoomba in Queensland, to Melbourne and Ballarat in Victoria, from Moruya and Kangaloon, Dubbo and Lismore. Indeed, they came from everywhere! Over four hundred descendants of pioneer Mary Wade thronged into Campbelltown on Easter…

Most people who read this introduction to the story of Mary Wade will have one main interest in common.  They will be descendants of Mary Wade, or at least be a close relative of someone who is.

They will most likely have heard their own family…

In 1986, the original Mary Wade History Association, after years of research, published a most important book for the descendants of Mary Wade. This book, 'Mary Wade to Us: A Family History 1778 - 1986' contains a wealth of information about Mary…