[Index]
Hannah PESTELL (1849 - 1933)
Children Self + Spouses Parents Grandparents Greatgrandparents
Edward Thomas SOPER ( - 1959)
Charles Henry SOPER (1888 - 1965)
John J N SOPER (1889 - )
William P SOPER (1893 - 1929)
Hannah PESTELL (1849 - 1933)

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Noble SOPER (1843 - 1923)
Joseph PESTELL (1810 - 1891)











Catherine (Kitty) Ann WRIGHT (1818 - 1893)












b. 31 Aug 1849 at St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England
m. 11 Nov 1886 Noble SOPER (1843 - 1923) at Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia
d. 1933 at Nowra, New South Wales, Australia aged 84
Parents:
Joseph PESTELL (1810 - 1891)
Catherine (Kitty) Ann WRIGHT (1818 - 1893)
Siblings (7):
Robert PESTELL ( - 1924)
Sally PESTELL (1836 - )
John PESTELL (1839 - 1914)
Thomas PESTELL (1846 - 1847)
Thomas PESTELL (1850 - 1852)
Thomas PESTELL (1853 - )
George PESTELL (1856 - 1859)
Children (4):
Edward Thomas SOPER ( - 1959)
Charles Henry SOPER (1888 - 1965)
John J N SOPER (1889 - )
William P SOPER (1893 - 1929)
Events in Hannah PESTELL (1849 - 1933)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
31 Aug 1849 Hannah PESTELL was born St Neots, Huntingdonshire, England FreeBMD Sep 1849 14 249 18
1851 2 Census Diddington, Huntingdonshire, England
13 Apr 1855 5 Immigration Sydney, New South Wales, Australia per 'Rose of Sharon' 18
11 Nov 1886 37 Married Noble SOPER (aged 43) Shoalhaven, New South Wales, Australia 7367/1886
1888 39 Birth of son Charles Henry SOPER Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 35469/1888
1889 40 Birth of son John J N SOPER Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 34083/1889
08 Oct 1891 42 Death of father Joseph PESTELL (aged 81) Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 11286/1891
1893 44 Birth of son William P SOPER Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 27075/1893
18 Nov 1893 44 Death of mother Catherine (Kitty) Ann WRIGHT (aged 75) Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 11139/1893
1923 74 Death of husband Noble SOPER (aged 80) Nowra, New South Wales, Australia 18348/1923
1929 80 Death of son William P SOPER (aged 36) Berry, New South Wales, Australia 23412/1929
1933 84 Hannah PESTELL died Nowra, New South Wales, Australia
Source References:
18. Type: E-mail Message, Abbr: e-mails general pool, Title: e-mails general pool
- Reference = Mark Pestel 16 Apr 2013 (Birth)
- Notes: Hannah (also known as Anna) Pestell Shire of Broughton, Diddington, Huntingdonshire,UK Baptised: 23/09/1849. Born 31/08/1849 (Hannah married Noble SOPHER 11 Nov, 1886) Noble SOPHER was the son of Thomas SOPER who arrived in AUS from Devon, UK, 17th August, 1820. He worked for Captain Richard BROOKS at Kangaroo Valley. Thomas wife was Martha NOBLE who travelled from County Fermanah, Ireland on the SS Pearl arr Sydney, 15/08/1841. She was niece of Dr Kenneth McKENZIE who had settled ne the property of Tom FUNNELL at “Bundanon” (upper reaches of the Shoalhaven River). They had five children Charles, Noble, William, and Margaret and Jane. In February 1852, a flood washed the house away. “The three boys all poor swimmers were tied to a table, turned upside down with a mattress tied to it, their father hoping that this makeshift raft would save his sons. Hearing nothing of their fate, Thomas and Martha, with their two daughters left for Sydney, where their passage had been booked for London. Thomas visited the Wollstonecraft/Berry store, where there was much talk of lads tied to a table being picked up none the worse for their experience. The family immediately returned to Greenwell Point where they were reunited with their lost sons.” In 1852 they settled at Cambewarra, at a property named “Cedar Grove”. The descendants of Thomas/Martha SOPHER are the SOPER, HILL, ABERNETHY (Home Lands/Garden Hill Brown’s Mountain; School Creek Budgong + another, MONAHAN, MULLINS, ARMSTRONG & MILNE families. Thomas and Martha were noted to be buried under a large white Magnolia tree at “Cedar Grove”

This public tree has about 60,100 people. Every person in the tree is related by birth or marriage to at least one other person in the tree - no strays. The people in the tree come mainly from four projects.
  1. My family tree. The original project begun about 1998. ID numbers less than about 6,000
  2. Canberra and Queanbeyan Pioneers. The next 30,000 begun about 2004. Sourced almost entirely from HAGSOC's excellent 'Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan'. The project began when I decided to add siblings, spouses and parents for a relation with an entry in the Register. 12 years work.
  3. Wagga Pioneers. I moved to Wagga and thought I would extend the Queanbeyan project by adding people from Wagga Wagga & District Family History Society's 'Pioneers of Wagga Wagga and District'. About 10,300 people added over about a year.
  4. Tumut Valley Pioneers. During the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, I decided to extend the above projects by adding pioneers of the Tumut Valley. Initial sources were Snowden's 'Pioneers of the Tumut Valley' and 'Relict of ... Lives of Pioneering Women of Tumut and District'. Excellent references published by Tumut Family History Group. I've also added material from newspapers of the time - especially, death records, obituaries and weddings from 'Tumut and Adelong Times'. This project is in its early stage and might take a few years. I plan to extend to the upper Monaro (Adaminaby, Kiandra, Cooma, Jindabyne).
I upload new information to this website about every 3 months. My motivation for these projects is to provide public information for people seeking to trace ancestors and what became of them. Much of the information I provide can be difficult to find.
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