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![Richard NORTHMORE, [Emigrated / marriage?]](img/male.jpg)
Richard NORTHMORE, [Emigrated / marriage?]
1825 - 1900 (~ 75 years)
Has 14 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.
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Name Richard NORTHMORE Suffix [ONS gp] [Emigrated / marriage?] Relationship 
with Teresa Ann GOATHAM Baptised 17 Apr 1825 St. Michael’s Church, Blackawton, Devon, England 
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 22 Feb 2022)
"April the 17th No. 500., Richard Son of Richard & Melley Northmore, abode: Street[e], father a labourer, ceremony performed by S L Adams"
Gender Male Died Nov 1900 Wooloomin, New South Wales, Australia - His death was reported in The Sydney Morning Herald (23 Nov 1900, p. 7, col. 5, viewable on Trove)
"SUDDEN DEATH AT WOOLOOMIN.
TAMWORTH, Thursday.
The district coroner, Mr. E. Jones, held a magis-
terial inquiry at Wooloomin to-day touching the
death of Richard Northmore, aged about 75, who
was found dead seated on a log a short distance from
the residence of his son during the early part of the
week. Deceased had suffered from heart disease,
and a finding of death from natural causes was re-
orded."
Siblings2 brothers and 2 sisters Patriarch & Matriarch 
William NARRAMORE, d. Yes, date unknown (5 x Great Grandfather)
Melley HOLMES, b. Abt 1795, d. 1836 (Age ~ 41 years) (Mother)Notes - Richard Northmore disappears from records for England and Wales. After his mother's early death the family were split up. Richard's two youngest siblings were with their Northmore grandparent(s) in Sheepstor at the time of both the 1841 and 1851 censuses. The youngest, Walter, would subsequently join the marines, as Richard's other brother, Robert, had by 1851. Elizabeth seems to have married or be living as though married by 1851 (from an RN allotment list for Robert; I have not found Elizabeth in a census or a marriage for her). But what became or Richard?
I think he must be the Richard who was in Australia by 1855. At his death in 1900 his age was noted as 'about 75', which is right for this Richard. His first son bore his own name (which was also his father's), his second and 3rd had as first names Robert and Walter, the names of his brothers.
Had he too been in the RN? - maybe he 'ran' when it was in Australia. Or perhaps he joined the merchant service, and decided to settle in Australia, rather than take work on another voyage that would bring him back to England.
Most Richard Northmores of a similar age, or at least of an age they could have married in 1855 and lived until 1900, can be ruled out because there are records in England that clearly refer to them.
The only other who cannot be excluded is the Richard whose family I have recorded here, though neither his age nor the names used in his immediate family are as good a match. He was definitely in the merchant navy, though, and I have found no record for him in England after 1851, so it is possible it is he who settled in Australia.
(It was clearly NOT Richard the son of James NORTHMORE and Ann née SPURRELL, for whom there are clearly records in England beyond 1855).
Person ID I34043 All Last Modified 23 Sep 2022
Father Richard NORTHMORE, bap. 9 Jun 1789, St. Leonard’s Church, Sheepstor, Devon, England , d. Dec Q 1847, Newton Abbot Reg Dist, Devon, England (Age ~ 57 years) Mother Melley HOLMES, b. Abt 1795, d. 1836 (Age ~ 41 years) Married 2 Jan 1825 St. Andrew’s Church, Ipplepen, Devon, England - From DFHS index to PR entries (as on FMP, viewed 26 Sep 2012); image viewed on FMP 3 Aug 2014:
"Richard Northmore of _ Parish
and Melley Holmes both of this Parish
were married in this Church by Banns with Consent of
this Second Day of
January in the Year One thousand eight hundred and twenty five
By me Randolph Marriott Vicar
This Marriage was solemnized between us { Richard Northmore, The Mark of X Melley Holmes
In the Presence of { Edmund Adams, Robert Holmes"
Family ID F5173 Family Group Page | Family Chart
Family Amelia PALMER, d. Yes, date unknown Married 1855 Last Modified 23 Sep 2022 Family ID F3149 Family Group Page | Family Chart
- From PR entry (image on FMP, viewed 22 Feb 2022)