This page lists members of two families whose origins we are researching. Entries in italics are inferred or uncertain, or have been supplied by other researchers and not personally verified by us. The list does not include children known to have died in infancy. Please contact Chris Warren if you feel that the family listed here is connected with your own research.
Our ancestors included a George Ashiel Bright, who lived in Devonport and later in Liverpool, where he called himself George Thomas Dawe (see the Dawe surname page). According to George's 1864 marriage certificate, his father James was a retired military officers' drill master, then in Melbourne, Australia. We have traced James Bright's origins to Sheffield in Yorkshire and to his maternal grandfather George Ashall (often spelt Ashel in early records). Our picture of the Bright and Ashall families is still incomplete, but we have identified the following people who are related to this line.
Some of the names below are linked to a more detailed record in the on-line family tree (people marked with an asterisk do not have a full record). When you click on a link, the linked record will be displayed in a separate window. There you can see the family relationships as we understand them, together with notes on what we have found in parish registers, census returns and other records.
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George Ashall*
Baptised 1732/3 (Mar 4) Rotherham, Yorkshire Married 1763 (Apr 4) Sheffield, Yorkshire (children listed in table 1 below) Buried Attercliffe, Yorkshire (date uncertain) | Ruth Hoole Baptised 1742/3 (Feb 27) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Buried 1815 (Dec 21) Attercliffe, Yorkshire |
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Ruth Ashall
Baptised 1764 (Nov 5) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Married 1790 (May 6) Rotherham, Yorkshire (children listed in table 2 below) Buried 1798 (Feb 27) Attercliffe, Yorkshire | Edward Bright Born about 1761 Sheffield, Yorkshire Buried 1837 (Dec 5) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| George Ashall*
Baptised 1767 (Sep 10) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Married 1794 (Feb 10) Sheffield, Yorkshire (children listed in table 3 below) Buried 1836 (Nov 8) Sheffield, Yorkshire | Mary Wilde Baptised 1760 (Jun 19) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Buried 1819 (Oct 17) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Nancy Ashall
Baptised 1769 (Jun 22) Attercliffe, Yorkshire | |
| William Ashall*
Baptised 1771 (Dec 26) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Married 1798 (Mar 26) Chelmsford, Essex (at least one child born in Chelmsford, Essex) Died 1857 (4th Qtr) Sheffield, Yorkshire | Mary Branch Baptised 1774 (May 8) Stebbing, Essex Died 1864 (May 14) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| John Ashall
Baptised 1779 (Sep 3) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Served in the British Army from 1801 to 1816 | |
| Benjamin Ashall
Baptised 1783 (Feb 20) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Buried 1818 (Jan 16) Attercliffe, Yorkshire | |
| Elizabeth Ashall
Baptised 1787 (Nov 19) Attercliffe, Yorkshire Married 1813 (Jun 16) Sheffield, Yorkshire | William Davison |
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Elizabeth Bright*
Baptised 1790 (Aug 15) Sheffield, Yorkshire Married 1815 (Mar 27) Sheffield, Yorkshire Buried 1851 (Apr 6) Sheffield, Yorkshire | Michael Joseph Buried 1841 (Feb 14) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Sarah Bright
Baptised 1792 (Dec 30) Sheffield, Yorkshire Married 1813 (Aug 12) Sheffield, Yorkshire | Henry Becks |
| James Bright
Baptised 1795 (Nov 1) Sheffield, Yorkshire Married (date and place unknown) (children listed in table 4 below) Married 1844 (Oct 23) Chelsea, London Died 1875 (Jan 6) Sandhurst, Bendigo, Victoria | Sarah Towers Died 1843 (Apr 26) Westminster, London Selina Jane Fisher (née Barrett or Bassett) Died 1851 (Sep 7) Adelaide, South Australia |
| William Ashall
Baptised 1800 (Jun 20) Sheffield, Yorkshire Married 1837 (Oct 13) Sheffield, Yorkshire (children listed in table 5 below) Buried 1852 (Sep 20) Sheffield, Yorkshire | Elizabeth Hilton Born about 1810 Bradwell, Derbyshire Died 1887 (2nd Qtr) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
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George Ashiel Bright (George Thomas Dawe)
Born 1832 (Feb 22) Wells, Somerset Married 1864 (Aug 11) Devonport, Devon (children listed on Dawe surname page) Married 1871 (Nov 26) Liverpool, Lancashire (children listed on Dawe surname page) Died 1920 (May 25) Liverpool, Lancashire | Mary Selina Dawe Born 1844 (Mar 24) Ashburton, Devon Mary Selina Dawe Died 1924 (Jul 7) Liverpool, Lancashire |
| Elizabeth Bright
Baptised 1834 (Mar 23) Brighton, Sussex Married 1854 (May 6) Adelaide, South Australia Married 1871 (Apr 19) Melbourne, Victoria Died 1914 (Apr 14) Melbourne, Victoria | William Cochrane Died 1856 Avenue Range, South Australia William Lauder* Born 1831 (Oct 1) Gordon, Berwickshire Died 1899 (Mar 4) Melbourne, Victoria |
| Edward Bright
Born 1836 (Jun 6) Liverpool, Lancashire Married 1863 (Jul 27) Robe, South Australia (children listed in table 6 below) Died 1924 (Sep 2) Bendigo, Victoria | Harriet Botten* Baptised 1838 (May 13) Bearsted, Kent Buried 1921 (Sep 6) Bendigo, Victoria |
| John Bright
Baptised 1838 (Nov 18) Bristol, Gloucs Married 1859 (Jun 17) Robe, South Australia (children born in Victoria, Australia) Died 1900 (Jul 8) Melbourne, Victoria | Mary Butler Baptised 1840 (Oct 13) Callan, Kilkenny Died 1910 (Feb 28) Melbourne, Victoria |
| Elizabeth Ashall
Born 1842 (4th Qtr) Sheffield, Yorkshire Died 1921 (Jun 23) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| Mary Ann(e) Ashall
Born 1847 (1st Qtr) Sheffield, Yorkshire Died 1918 (May 10) Sheffield, Yorkshire |
| (John) George Ashall Bright
Born 1864 (Dec 13) North Melbourne, Victoria Died 1920 (Jun 1) Bendigo, Victoria | |
| Edwin Bright
Born 1867 (Feb 8) Footscray, Victoria Married 1894 (Nov 14) Bendigo, Victoria Died 1917 (Sep 8) Bendigo, Victoria | Catherine Tunzi Died 1960 (Sep 27) Bendigo, Victoria |
| Susannah Elizabeth Bright
Born 1869 Maryborough, Victoria Married 1894 (Sep 26) Bendigo, Victoria Died 1936 (Oct 16) Prahran, Victoria | William Wilkinson Died 1917 (Nov 24) Bendigo, Victoria |
| Charlotte Edweline Bright
Born 1870 (Dec 5) Maryborough, Victoria Married 1906 (Sep 19) Bendigo, Victoria Died 1967 (Jan 12) Bendigo, Victoria | Charles Julius Cobb Born 1869 (Sep 28) Lambeth, London Died 1945 (Dec 26) Bendigo, Victoria |
| Mary Ann Alice Bright
Born 1874 (Dec 3) Sandhurst, Victoria Married 1897 (Jul 20) Bendigo, Victoria Married 1945 (Sep 5) Bendigo, Victoria Died 1975 (Dec 2) Caulfield, Victoria | Horatio David Collier Born 1874 (Dec 5) Sandhurst, Victoria Died 1940 (Jan 13) New South Wales William Ernest Neil Botten Died 1951 (Oct 27) Castlemaine, Victoria |
| Alfred Bright
Born 1877 (Jul 25) Sandhurst, Victoria Married 1907 (Apr 30) Bendigo, Victoria Died 1922 (May 31) Newport, Victoria | Lucy May Collins Born 1886 (Aug 19) Sandhurst, Victoria Died 1973 (Jul 2) Mooroopna, Victoria |