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Richard William LARGE (1844 - 1882)
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Richard William LARGE (1882 - 1967)
 Richard William LARGE (1844 - 1882)

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Isabella Rhoda RATLIFF (1858 - 1924)
 William James LARGE (1806 - 1881) William LARGE



Martha (LARGE)



Mary Ann (Marianne) Caroline WRIXON (1819 - 1888) Arthur J Beecher WRIXON



Elizabeth BENSON or BENTLEY



b. 1844 at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
m. 1881 Isabella Rhoda RATLIFF (1858 - 1924) at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
d. 16 Jul 1882 at Tumut, New South Wales, Australia aged 38
Parents:
William James LARGE (1806 - 1881)
Mary Ann (Marianne) Caroline WRIXON (1819 - 1888)
Siblings (11):
Maria Elizabeth LARGE (1837 - 1899)
William LARGE (1839 - 1856)
John Seward LARGE (1842 - 1923)
Marion LARGE (1842 - 1919)
Godfrey Bace LARGE (1843 - 1862)
Henrietta Sophia Jane LARGE (1846 - 1915)
Cecilia LARGE (1848 - 1932)
Thomas George LARGE (1850 - 1927)
Maria Leonard LARGE (1852 - 1914)
Matilda Wrixon LARGE (1854 - 1933)
Alice LARGE (1858 - 1924)
Children (1):
Richard William LARGE (1882 - 1967)
Grandchildren (2):
Peggy LARGE (1917 - )
Events in Richard William LARGE (1844 - 1882)'s life
Date Age Event Place Notes Src
1844 Richard William LARGE was born Tumut, New South Wales, Australia V18441983 30A/1844
1881 37 Married Isabella Rhoda RATLIFF (aged 23) Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 6034/1881
21 Oct 1881 37 Death of father William James LARGE (aged 75) Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 10924/1881 2
May 1882 38 Birth of son Richard William LARGE Tumut, New South Wales, Australia
16 Jul 1882 38 Richard William LARGE died Tumut, New South Wales, Australia 12241/1882
Personal Notes:
Richard 1844 was the first of the Large children born in NSW, probably at Tumut. In 1869 he and his brother John were travelling with sheep in the vicinity of Tumbarumba when their cook decamped early one morning with Richard's horse, then rode to the Post Office and obtained a registered letter by passing himself off as John Large and forging his signature. He then hot-footed it to Daly's public house - and cashed a cheque for 16 pounds which was enclosed in the letter J Richard missed the horse and gave chase, nearly catching the miscreant who abandoned the horse and ran into the bush. Captured by the police, the cook said he had planted the money and letters but had forgotten where he put them! He contended John had previously allowed him to sign his name to save the bother of going personally to the post office. This was right, so horse-stealing was the only charge that could be brought!
In 1881 at Tumut Richard married Isabella Rhoda RATLIFF, the 23-year-old daughter of Charles Hodges Ratliff and Julia Bingham, daughter of Dr Large's old mate the Gold Commissioner! Both Charles and Julia had been witnesses at the marriage of Henrietta Large to James Elworthy.
Richard and Isabella's marriage was tragically brief but they had one son Richard William born at Tumut in May 1882, just two months before his father's death from brain congestion on 16 July. Richard Snr was buried at Tumut Pioneers Cemetery where he shares a grave with his father and older brother.
Source References:
2. Type: Book, Abbr: Devon to Downunder, Title: Devon to Downunder, Auth: Bettie Elworthy, Publ: Bookbound, Date: 1997
- Reference = 75 (Name, Notes)
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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