Curran Wright History

Category: Herbert

  • Patrick Curran

    Patrick Curran (2nd April,1865 – 10th November, 1954) is my paternal great grandfather, being the father of my grandfather, Herbert Curran. 

    Patrick was born in Ballagh, near Mullingar, Ireland. His parents were Michael Curran (1836-1881) and Annie Doyle (birth year unknown, died about 1881). Patrick went to school at Curraghmore.

    Patrick immigrated to Australia about the age of 18, in 1883 after his father (Michael) was stabbed to death in Rathconnell, Ireland in 1881.

    Patrick lived and worked at:

    • Netley Station, Broken Hill as a gardener
    • Menindee, NSW
      • Met his wife, Isabella Herbert of Wallaroo, South Australia. They married in Menindee on 5th April, 1896. They lived at Netley Station.
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    • 1901, Victoria Hotel, Tolarno, as a licensee with his wife, Isabella. May have been working at Netley Station at the same time.
    • Mullingar Station, Pooncarie – Granted a lease of 14,700 acres with Darling River frontage on 7 December, 1910. He called this property, Mullingar.
    • Travellers Lake, Anabranch. Granted a lease of 13, 878 acres on 16 March, 1936.
    • After 1945 (second world war), Mildura, Victoria. 
    • 1954: Patrick died at the age of 89.

    Source: Gordon Curran, in The Family History of Michael Curran 1836-1997.

  • James

    James Family

    • My Great, Great Grandparents (paternal side):  Margaret James (1828-1903) & John Frederick Herbert (1825-1887)
    • My Great, Great, Great Grandparents: John James (unknown) & Elizabeth (unknown)

  • Herbert Family Summary

    • My Great Grandparents (paternal side): Isabella Herbert & Patrick Curran
      • Parents of Herbert Curran (my paternal grandfather)
    • My Great, Great Grandparents:  John Frederick Herbert (1825-1887) & Margaret James (1828-1903)
    • My Great, Great, Great Grandparents: John Herbert (1799-1865) & Margaret Unknown Surname (1797-unknown)

  • South Australia

    Mt Gambier

    • 1867 Henry and Margaret Cramer (nee McNamara)

    Port Pirie

    • 1877-1880 Henry and Margaret Cramer (nee McNamara)

    Wallaroo

    • Herbert family

    Sedan

    • 1881 Henry and Margaret Cramer (nee McNamara)

     

  • Wallaroo

    Wallaroo in South Australia was the home of the Herbert family. Isabella Herbert was the mother of my paternal grandfather, Herbert Curran. 

    First Nations’ Origins in Wallaroo
    (Wadlu Waru)

    The Narangga people were the first people of the Wallaroo region. Their traditional lands extended throughout the Yorke Peninsula in South Australia. In the north, the Kumara clan, the south, the Dilpa, the west, the Wari, and in the east, the Windarra clan. Further information on the Narungga people can be found here. Their numbers were decimated through colonisation and disease. 

    Wallaroo derives from an Indigenous word, ‘Wadlu Waru’ meaning wallabies urine. White colonists originally adapted it to ‘Walla Waroo’ but it was too long to stamp on wool bales so they shortened it to Wallaroo (Family Search Wiki)