Mary Ann (Sanders) Teakle (1817 - 1895)

Born 29 Dec 1817 in Tormohen, Devon, England

Wife of David Teakle — married 26 Oct 1840 in Trinity Church, Adelaide, South Australia

Descendants

Died 27 Sep 1895 at age 77 in Mount Barker, South Australia, Australia

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Biography

Mary Ann Sanders was born on 29 December 1817 at Tormohen, Devon, England.

Mary migrated to South Australia in 1839 on the Recovery. ^[1]

Mary married widower David Teakle (1810-1895) at Holy Trinity Church in Adelaide on 26 October 1840. ^[2]

The couple had ten children:

• Maria (Teakle) Mudge (1841–1909)
• John Sanders Teakle (1843–1937)
• Edward Teakle (1846–1918)
• Robert Sanders Teakle (1848–1917)
• Mary Ann (Teakle) Bridgman (1850–1941)
• Thomas Teakle (1853–1908)
• Isaac Teakle (1855–1930)
• George Henry Teakle (1859–1944)
• Sarah Teakle (1861-1861)
• Sarah Hannah (Teakle) Williams (1863–1943)

Mary died two weeks after her husband, on 27 September 1895 at Mount Barker. ^[3]

In 1936, during the centenary year of the founding of the Colony of South Australia, Mount Barker opened the Pioneer Women's Memorial Avenue which was lined by trees with the names of pioneer women on plaques, including Mary. ^[4]

Research Notes

• State Library of South Australia portrait (https://collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/resource/B+19985/5I) states that "Mary Ann Teakle, c. 1818-1895 nee Warner, married David Teakle. Arrived in South Australia in October 1837 on board the ship the "Katherine Stewart Forbes". Resided in Hindmarsh, Findon, Noarlunga, Mount Barker." this voyage also had a Sarah Teakle (refer https://bound-for-south-australia.collections.slsa.sa.gov.au/1837KatherineStewartForbes.htm) - also Keziah, Hannah, Ephraim + wife

Sources

1. ↑ South .Australian Passenger Lists 1839 State Library of South Australia
2. ↑ Archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20201024203741/https://familyhistorysa.org/births-marriages-deaths/marriages.html South Australian Marriage Records Family History SA "1840-10-26 marriage of TEAKLE David and SANDERS Mary Ann at Adelaide"
3. ↑ GENERAL NEWS. (1895, October 4). The Mount Barker Courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha Advertiser (SA : 1880 - 1954), p. 2. Retrieved December 11, 2017, from http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article148208644
4. ↑ Womens Pioneer Memorial https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/settlement/display/108999-womens-pioneer-memorial

• RECOVERY from London 1839 from Diane Cummings' Bound For South Australia database at: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/BSA/1839Recovery.htm
• Barry Leadbeater's South Australian Shipping & Immigration database archived at: https://web.archive.org/web/20201024211956/https://familyhistorysa.org/shipping/passengerlists.html
• 1839 Recovery from the OLD COLONISTS OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA website archived at https://web.archive.org/web/20170819130922/http://oldcolonists.weebly.com/1839-recovery.html
• 21/05/1839 - 19/09/1839 from Passengers in History an initiative of the South Australian Maritime Museum at: http://passengersinhistory.sa.gov.au/node/945425