Edward Riley, 17841825 (aged 41 years)

Name
Edward /Riley/
Given names
Edward
Surname
Riley
Birth
Immigration
1801 (aged 16 years)
Citation details: p. 83
Text:

Edward went to Calcutta in 1801, obtaining employment as an assistant to private merchant and auctioneer Thomas Rowarth & Co at Hurripaul (Haripal) and the China Bazaar, Calcutta.

Marriage
Text:

There in 1805 he married Anne Moran, who bore him three sons and a daughter.

Citation details: p. 83
Text:

On the 17th Oct 1805 twenty-one year old Edward married fifteen year old Ann Moran, daughter of Edward Moran, in Calcutta.

Marriage
Text:

Name Edward Riley
Spouse's Name Ann Wilkinson
Event Date 16 Aug 1813
Event Place Calcutta, Bengal, India

Text:

His second wife bore him three sons and three daughters

Text:

Three years after his wife's death, Edward married another minor, Ann Wilkinson, the orphaned daughter of James Wilkinson, a conductor of ordnance trading in the Bengal establishments stationed at Calcutta in the service of the London United Company of Merchants, and his wife, Ann.

Immigration
Citation details: Sydney gazette Sat 2 Mar 1816 p. 2
Text:

SHIP NEWS.-On Thursday arrived from
India, via Hobart Town, the brig Guide, Captain
Higgins, with an India cargo. Edward Riley,
Esq. and his Lady, were passengers in her to Ho-
bart Town, where they remain

Citation details: Sydney Gazette Sat 25 May 1816 p. 2
Text:

SHIP NEWS —Arrived on Wednesday from
Hobart Town, the Lynx, Captain Read : She
sailed the 3d of May, and left there His Majesty's
armed brig Kangaroo, and the ship Frederick,
Capt. Williams, recently from Calcutta, in which
Mr. Murdoch Campbell had arrived passenger.
The passengers from Hobart Town by the Lynx
are, Edward Riley, Esq. and Lady; and Mrs.
Humphrey.

Text:

Edward and Ann left India on the brig Guide to settle in New South Wales, arriving in Sydney in May 1816 on the Lynx, after first spending a couple of months in Hobart Town where Edward's sister, Elizabeth Fenn Kemp (née Riley) lived with her husband, Anthony Fenn Kemp, and family.

Death
Citation details: Sydney Gazette Thu 24 Feb 1825 p. 3
Text:

DEATH.
At his residence, Wooloomooloo, on Monday last, EDWARD RILEY, Esq, a Justice of the Peace for the Territory of New South Wales, and the senior Partner in the Firm RILEY and WALKER. This gentleman has long been an inhabitant of this Colony, in which he was not only an active Magistrate, but also one of the most honourable and indefatigable Merchants. For these last two or three months, Mr. Riley laboured under severe indisposition, attended with hypochondriac symptoms, that induced mental derangement, in one of which the unfortunate gentleman destroyed himself, by means of a pistol about 10 minutes prior to eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon; the ball is said to have entered beneath the chin, and found its way through the back part of the head, causing instant death. An inquest was convened the same day on the melancholy occasion and a verdict returned of Insanity.
Mrs. Riley, an amiable and afflicted widow is left with a large family, to deplore the sudden deprivation of a fond husband, and an excellent father.
The deceased was interred on Tuesday in the churchyard of Parramatta.

Burial
Citation details: Vol 01, Baptisms, 1790-1825; Marriages, 1789-1823; Burials, 1790-1825
Text:

Edward Riley aged 39 of the parish of Sydney shot himself
was buried 22 Feb 1825

Citation details: p. 150
Text:

To the memory
of
EDWARD RILEY Esquire
Late of Sydney
Who departed this Life
at Woolloomooloo
on the 21st February 1825
Aged 41 years
and
His Wife ANN
who departed this
Life on the 13th of May in the Year of
our Lord 1830. Aged 34 Years
Also
of his eldest Son EDWARD who
departed this Life on the 24th of June
in the Year of Our Lord 1840
Aged 34 years

Family with parents
father
mother
Marriage MarriageOctober 14, 1777Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom
15 months
elder brother
17781833
Birth: about 1778 35
Death: November 17, 1833London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
5 years
elder sister
2 years
himself
17841825
Birth: January 30, 1784 41 London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death: February 21, 1825Woolloomooloo, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
3 years
younger sister
17 months
younger brother
6 years
younger sister
Family with Ann Moran
himself
17841825
Birth: January 30, 1784 41 London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death: February 21, 1825Woolloomooloo, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
Marriage MarriageOctober 17, 1805Calcutta, Bengal, India
9 months
son
18061840
Birth: July 20, 1806 22 India
Death: 1840New South Wales, Australia
13 months
daughter
18071807
Birth: August 10, 1807 23
Burial: August 16, 1807Bengal, India
17 months
son
18081888
Birth: about 1808 23
Death: June 6, 1888New South Wales, Australia
20 months
son
18091810
Birth: August 19, 1809 25
Death: August 1810India
Family with Ann Wilkinson
himself
17841825
Birth: January 30, 1784 41 London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Death: February 21, 1825Woolloomooloo, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
wife
17951830
Birth: 1795
Death: May 12, 1830Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Marriage MarriageAugust 16, 1813Calcutta, Bengal, India
3 years
daughter
18161881
Birth: about 1816 31 21
Death: May 10, 1881London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
2 years
son
1817
Birth: 1817 32 22
Death:
5 years
son
Riley, John James (1821-1882)
18211882
Birth: September 11, 1821 37 26 Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: August 20, 1882Penrith, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
16 months
son
1822
Birth: about 1822 37 27 New South Wales, Australia
Death:
2 years
daughter
18241901
Birth: April 21, 1824 40 29 Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Death: December 2, 1901London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Birth
Immigration
Citation details: p. 83
Text:

Edward went to Calcutta in 1801, obtaining employment as an assistant to private merchant and auctioneer Thomas Rowarth & Co at Hurripaul (Haripal) and the China Bazaar, Calcutta.

Marriage
Text:

There in 1805 he married Anne Moran, who bore him three sons and a daughter.

Citation details: p. 83
Text:

On the 17th Oct 1805 twenty-one year old Edward married fifteen year old Ann Moran, daughter of Edward Moran, in Calcutta.

Marriage
Text:

Name Edward Riley
Spouse's Name Ann Wilkinson
Event Date 16 Aug 1813
Event Place Calcutta, Bengal, India

Text:

His second wife bore him three sons and three daughters

Text:

Three years after his wife's death, Edward married another minor, Ann Wilkinson, the orphaned daughter of James Wilkinson, a conductor of ordnance trading in the Bengal establishments stationed at Calcutta in the service of the London United Company of Merchants, and his wife, Ann.

Immigration
Citation details: Sydney gazette Sat 2 Mar 1816 p. 2
Text:

SHIP NEWS.-On Thursday arrived from
India, via Hobart Town, the brig Guide, Captain
Higgins, with an India cargo. Edward Riley,
Esq. and his Lady, were passengers in her to Ho-
bart Town, where they remain

Citation details: Sydney Gazette Sat 25 May 1816 p. 2
Text:

SHIP NEWS —Arrived on Wednesday from
Hobart Town, the Lynx, Captain Read : She
sailed the 3d of May, and left there His Majesty's
armed brig Kangaroo, and the ship Frederick,
Capt. Williams, recently from Calcutta, in which
Mr. Murdoch Campbell had arrived passenger.
The passengers from Hobart Town by the Lynx
are, Edward Riley, Esq. and Lady; and Mrs.
Humphrey.

Text:

Edward and Ann left India on the brig Guide to settle in New South Wales, arriving in Sydney in May 1816 on the Lynx, after first spending a couple of months in Hobart Town where Edward's sister, Elizabeth Fenn Kemp (née Riley) lived with her husband, Anthony Fenn Kemp, and family.

Death
Citation details: Sydney Gazette Thu 24 Feb 1825 p. 3
Text:

DEATH.
At his residence, Wooloomooloo, on Monday last, EDWARD RILEY, Esq, a Justice of the Peace for the Territory of New South Wales, and the senior Partner in the Firm RILEY and WALKER. This gentleman has long been an inhabitant of this Colony, in which he was not only an active Magistrate, but also one of the most honourable and indefatigable Merchants. For these last two or three months, Mr. Riley laboured under severe indisposition, attended with hypochondriac symptoms, that induced mental derangement, in one of which the unfortunate gentleman destroyed himself, by means of a pistol about 10 minutes prior to eleven o'clock on Monday forenoon; the ball is said to have entered beneath the chin, and found its way through the back part of the head, causing instant death. An inquest was convened the same day on the melancholy occasion and a verdict returned of Insanity.
Mrs. Riley, an amiable and afflicted widow is left with a large family, to deplore the sudden deprivation of a fond husband, and an excellent father.
The deceased was interred on Tuesday in the churchyard of Parramatta.

Burial
Citation details: Vol 01, Baptisms, 1790-1825; Marriages, 1789-1823; Burials, 1790-1825
Text:

Edward Riley aged 39 of the parish of Sydney shot himself
was buried 22 Feb 1825

Citation details: p. 150
Text:

To the memory
of
EDWARD RILEY Esquire
Late of Sydney
Who departed this Life
at Woolloomooloo
on the 21st February 1825
Aged 41 years
and
His Wife ANN
who departed this
Life on the 13th of May in the Year of
our Lord 1830. Aged 34 Years
Also
of his eldest Son EDWARD who
departed this Life on the 24th of June
in the Year of Our Lord 1840
Aged 34 years