SNARE FAMILY
Robert SNARE and Martha BARKER were married
in Larling, Norfolk, England, in 1856.
Robert was the son of George and Eliza
SNARE of Gasthorpe, Norfolk.
Martha was the daughter of John and Susan
BARKER of Larling.
In 1857 Robert and Martha sailed into
Launceston on board the Southern Eagle, as part of a group sponsored to
Tasmania by the Launceston Immigrant Society.
Also on board were Martha's parents and siblings, Mary Ann, Elizabeth
and Jacob.
Robert and Martha settled in the Forth
district of Tasmania and had a family of 13 children.
Robert SNARE died at Forth in August 1901.
Martha Snare died at Ulverstone in October
1934.
Their children were:
George SNARE (1858-1951)
Married Jane (Jean) Blackstock
(A number of online family trees list
George’s name as George McKelvie Snare – this is incorrect. George McKelvie Snare was his son – my
grandfather)
Marion Isabel SNARE
(1861-1947)
Married John
Hays
Ellinor Elizabeth
SNARE (1862)
Married Alec
Catto
Mary Ann Eliza SNARE
(1864-1929)
Married Thomas
William Lindsay
Sarah Maria SNARE
(1866)
Married Patrick
Catto
John Frederick Edward
SNARE (1868-1942)
Married
Charlotte Ward
Robert Arthur SNARE
(1869-1935)
Married Mary
Robertson (died 1903) and Harriet Robertson
Emma Jane SNARE
(1871-1954)
Never married
Charles Benjamin
SNARE (1873-1938)
Married Fanny
Elizabeth Lewis
Thomas Herbert SNARE
(1874-1950)
Married
Charlotte Jane Moore
Alice Gertrude SNARE
(1876-1964)
Married George
John Knight
Henry Ernest SNARE
(1879-1950)
Married Harriet
Littler
Ida Martha SNARE
(1880-1945)
Married Edgar
Thomas George Elliott
Robert’s SNARE’s ancestors in England lived in Wetherden and
Elmswell in Suffolk, as well as Gasthorpe and Riddlesworth in Norfolk.
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