Ch:1- Introduction

Philip Nott and his wife Martha Jane Wright migrated from England to Brisbane, Queensland, Australia in 1873, travelling on the ‘Royal Dane’.

Why they chose Brisbane to make their home is a mystery, given that Martha’s parents and siblings all migrated to America at the same time, and settled in New York State. Martha’s father, a Wesleyan minister named the Rev. John Bee Wright was a controversial figure in London at that time, and this may have influenced their decision.

The Nott family lived in the small village of Gorran Churchtown and nearby Trevarrick Farm in Cornwall  for many generations, and the Wright family originally came from Norfolk and Suffolk- the small villages of Aldeby and nearby Topcroft (in southern Norfolk near the Suffolk border, and the broads), and Wenhaston in Suffolk near the Suffolk Coast National Nature Reserve (a very pretty area), and the area of Great Yarmouth and Moulton St Mary, and from the city of Norwich, before eventually settling in London.

This blog is about their journey, their life in the  newly developing city of Brisbane, and their ancestry.

© B A Butler

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Links to all other chapters on this blog:

Philip Nott and wife Martha Jane Wright- life and marriage in England
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch2-philip-nott-and-martha-jane-wright.html

Emigration to Australia in 1872
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch-3-emigration-to-australia.html

The Nott family settles in Brisbane, Queensland
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch4-settling-in-brisbane.html

Philip Nott- master builder in Brisbane
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch5-master-builder-in-brisbane.html

Philip Nott's community involvement
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch6-philip-nott-community-involvement_24.html

Philip Nott's political life as a Council alderman
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch7-philip-notts-political-life_24.html

Children of Philip Nott and Martha Jane Wright
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch8-issue-of-philip-and-martha-jane-nott_24.html

Philip Nott- family deaths and burials
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch9-philip-nott-family-deaths_25.html

Nott family ancestry in Cornwall England
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch10-nott-ancestry-cornwall_25.html

Martha Jane Wright's parents- Rev. John Bee Wright and Martha Rowling of Norfolk, and their ancestry
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch11-rev-john-bee-wright_25.html

Newspaper accounts of Rev. John Bee Wright, and emigration to New York State in 1871

http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch12-rev-john-bee-wright-newspaper_25.html

Deaths, burials, and obituaries of Rev. John Bee Wright and Martha Wright
http://nott-wrightfamilyhistory.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/ch13-wright-and-rowling-ancestry.html