Northey Family Tree

The photo is of John Pearce Northey and his wife Eliza Temby during their time in America.

My Northey ancestors came to Australia from Cornwall in the 1870s. They came to Australia looking for a new life as mining in Cornwall was suffering a huge downturn. Many Cornish people came to Australia during those times, and it was a surprise to me to discover how much of my ancestry was Cornish. My research into this family was greatly helped by joining [email protected] the Rootsweb mailing list. I would like to thank the many subscribers on this list who have helped me enormously in tracing this line of my family tree. I have now traced the family back to the early 1800s in Cornwall.

My Northey ancestors went to America for several years, returned to England and then went to Australia. A family story tells of John Pearce Northey, his wife Eliza Temby Northey and their children being met at the wharf in Australia by a male relative who shouted 'Welcome to God's own country! You'll like it better here!'. Certainly, they liked it enough to stay. They settled in New South Wales around the Brewarrina area. My branch of the family migrated to Western Australia in the late 1890s. Now we have many cousins in the New South Wales area and possibly further afield (maybe even New Zealand) who do not realise that we are related. I hope that this webpage will help to reunite members of this branch of my family tree.

If you find a link in my Northey family tree to your family, please contact me.
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DIRECT ANCESTORS Richard Northey b 1806 Kenwyn, Cornwall, Engine driver m. Mary Pearce b. 1810 Kenwyn, Cornwall CHILDREN Charles Northey b 1828 chr. Aug 13, 1828, Kenwyn, Cornwall. Copper miner on 1841 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me    Richard Northey b 1830 chr. ?. Copper miner on 1841 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me Francis Northey b 1832 chr. ?. Copper miner on 1841 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me Mary Ann Northey b 1834 chr. Oct 6, 1835 Kenwyn. On 1841 census married a Mr Jorey and is listed as a widow on the 1871 census. click here for her descendants Thomas Northey b 1836 chr. Oct 6, 1835, Chacewood. On 1841 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me Nancy Northey b 27 May 1837 chr Jan 30, 1850 Coxhill. On 1841 census if you have any details of her descendants please email me DIRECT ANCESTOR John Pearce Northey b 1839 chr Feb 5, 1846, Creegbraws, Kenwyn. On 1841 census click here for his descendants Abraham Pearce Northey b 1845 chr. Sep 30, 1855 Creegbraws, Kenwyn. On 1871 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me Martin Northey b 1842 chr Sep 30, 1855, Creegbraws, Kenwyn - on 1871 census as Martha if you have any details of his descendants please email me  Elizabeth Jane Northey b 1850 chr Sep 30, 1855 Kenwyn - on 1871 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF MARY ANN NORTHEY AND ? JOREY, CORNWALL Mary Ann Northey b 1834 chr. Oct 6, 1835 Kenwyn. On 1841 census married a Mr Jorey and is listed as a carpenters widow living with her parents in Kenwyn on the 1871 census of Cornwall. Click here to return to previous generation Richard Jorey born 1855 Kenwyn, listed as Engine boy on 1871 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me      Thomas N. Jorey born 1859 Kenwyn, listed as a scholar on 1871 census if you have any details of his descendants please email me    click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF JOHN PEARCE NORTHEY AND ELIZA TEMBY WHO EMIGRATED FROM CORNWALL TO NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA AROUND 1878 DIRECT ANCESTOR John Pearce Northey b 1839 chr Feb 5, 1846, Creegbraws, Kenwyn. married April 19, 1863, Chacewater, Cornwall Eliza Temby chr Feb 17, 1835 Redruth, Cornwall click here to return to previous generation   Richard Northey b 1865 Cornwall(?) married 1899 Lithgow, New South Wales Margret Taylor if you have any details of his descendants please email me    DIRECT ANCESTOR John Pierce Northey jnr b 1869 married 13th Dec 1894 Brewarrina NSW Ellen O'Neill click here for his descendants Abraham Northey b 1872 USA(?) married 1895 Brewarrina NSW Margaret McGregor click here for his descendants Howard Northey b 1877 USA(?) married 1904, Lithgow NSW Constance Beynon if you have any details of his descendants please email me   Mary and Albert E Northey, twins b 1879 Bathurst, died same day   Edith Northey b 1881 New South Wales married 1901 Barringum NSW Sydney Callan click here for her descendants click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF JOHN PIERCE NORTHEY JNR & ELLEN O'NEILL, AUSTRALIA DIRECT ANCESTOR John Pierce Northey jnr b born 20th June 1869 or 1870 Pennsylvania, USA died 20th March, 1915 in Sydney NSW married 13th Dec 1894 Brewarrina NSW Ellen O'Neill John Pierce Northey b. 1895 Braxton, NSW   DIRECT ANCESTOR Ester Florida Northey born 21 Feb, 1897 Perth, Western Australia married April 30, 1921 Perth RC Cathedral Wilfred George Mulligan born June 14, 1897, Broken Hill, New South Wales Alexander Joseph Northey b. 1901 Perth   Olive Mary Northey b. 1903 Perth   Ellen Maud Northey b. 1908 Perth   Winifred Margaret Northey b. 1910 Perth   click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM NORTHEY AND MARGARET MCGREGOR, AUSTRALIA Abraham Northey b 1872 USA(?) married 1895 Brewarrina NSW Margaret McGregor click here to return to previous generation Allan Northey born 1895 Branxton, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me    Vera Northey born 1896 Bathurst, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me Ellen Northey born 1899 Lithgow, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me  Edith Northey born 1909 Lithgow, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me  click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list KNOWN DESCENDANTS OF EDITH NORTHEY AND SYDNEY CALLAN, NSW, AUSTRALIA Edith Northey b 1881 New South Wales married 1901 Barringum NSW Sydney Callan click here to return to previous generation Mary Callan born 1901 Bathurst, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me    Ida K. Callan born 1903 Bathurst, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me  John L. Callan born 1905 St Peters, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me Sydney R. Callan born 1907 Ashfield, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me Howard Callan born 1909, Burwood, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me  Arthur J. Callan born 1911, Burwood, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me Horace N. Callan born 1912, Burwood, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me  Victor K. Callan born 1917, Burwood, NSW if you have any details of his descendants please email me  Marie Callan born 1918, Burwood, NSW if you have any details of her descendants please email me   click here to return to top of page  Click here to return to surnames list