Family Group Sheet of Daniel Charles Myrick

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SUBMITTED BY: Chris Hannan
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HUSBAND: Daniel Charles MYRICK
date and place of birth: 9 Jan 1819, Cairo, New York, USA
date and place of marriage: 1 Mar 1843, Mandurah, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
other marriages: 
military service: 
date and place of death: 18 Mar 1894, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA
father: John MYRICK
mother: Mary Ann REYNOLDS
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WIFE: Anne Priscilla EACOTT
date and place of birth: 3 Feb 1827, Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, ENGLAND
other marriages: 
date and place of marriage: 1 Mar 1843, Mandurah, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
date and place of death: 1 Jan 1917, Scott, Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA
father: Thomas EACOTT
mother: Elizabeth ?
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CHILD 1: Ira MYRICK
date and place of birth: 24 May 1845, Pinjarra, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Gulia V REYNOLDS
date and place of marriage:  USA
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 1904, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, USA
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CHILD 2: Lois Ann MYRICK
date and place of birth: Apr 1847, Dandalup, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Thomas PAXTON
date and place of marriage: ? 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: USA
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CHILD 3: Thomas MYRICK
date and place of birth: 6 Jul 1848, Mandurah, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Clarrisa DANN (born 24 Feb 1842, Pennsylvania)
date and place of marriage: ? Probably Pennsylvania 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 12 May 1908, Fitzgerald, Georgia, USA
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CHILD 4: Asie MYRICK
date and place of birth: 23 May 1850, Mandurah, Western Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: ? TARBOX
date and place of marriage: 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: USA 
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CHILD 5: Elizabeth MYRICK
date and place of birth: 12 May 1853, Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
married:  Lewis LEE (born 9 Feb 1849, New York, USA, died 26 May, New York State)
date and place of marriage: Abt 1871, ?  USA
other marriages: 
date and place of death: Feb 1908, USA
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CHILD 6: Emma MYRICK 
date and place of birth: 25 Apr 1855, Adelaide, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Edward ADARE
date and place of marriage: Abt 1887 USA 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 1910, Brandt, New York, USA
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CHILD 7: Allan MYRICK
date and place of birth: 20 Jun 1857, Currency Creek, South Australia, AUST 
married: Mary Olive HEMMENWAY (Born 28 Jan 1860, Died 25 Aug 1922)
date and place of marriage: Abt 1877  (Probably Pennsylvania) USA 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 28 Jan 1922, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA
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CHILD 8: John MYRICK
date and place of birth:  1859
married: ?  
date and place of marriage: Abt 1881, (Probably Pennsylvania) USA
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 9 Sep 1887, USA (Probably Penns or NY) 
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CHILD 9: Maryann MYRICK (Known as Mary)
date and place of birth: 12 Dec 1860, Currency Creek, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Melborne WARREN (Born abt 1854 New York, USA)
date and place of marriage: 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 
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CHILD 10: Mary Jane MYRICK (Known as Jennet)
date and place of birth: Abt 1861
married: John THOMAS (Born Apr 1857)
date and place of marriage: Abt 1881 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: USA
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CHILD 11: Daniel Charles MYRICK Jr
date and place of birth: 7 Aug 1864, Currency Creek, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Arta T FISHER
date and place of marriage: 27 May 1884, USA (Probably Pennsylvania) 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 17 Jan 1949, USA
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CHILD 12: Matilda MYRICK
date and place of birth: 3 Sep 1866, Goolwa, South Australia, AUSTRALIA
married: Frank THOMAS (Born 27 Dec 1961, Delaware, New York, USA, Died 17 Feb 
     1939, Walton, New York, USA)
date and place of marriage: 
other marriages: 
date and place of death: 9 Jun 1940, Deposit, Delaware County, New York, USA
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SOURCES: 
Sutton Veny, Wiltshire, Eng Parish Record - Christening Anne Priscilla EACOTT
Marriage Cert. for Daniel C MYRICK & Anne Priscilla 
Birth Certificates (West. Aust) for Ira, Thomas & Asie.  
Church Record for Lois Ann (Christ Church, Mandurah, West Aust)
Birth Index Records for South Australia list Elizabeth, Emma, Allan, Mary Ann, 
Daniel Charles Jr, and Matilda.
No record of birth exists in any Australian state for John or Mary Jane - all 
variations of spelling have been checked, however, Parish records for Bourton, 
Shropshire, England show a John MERRICK christened 27 Mar 1859, Father Daniel 
MERRICK, Mother: Ann and
Maria MERRICK christened 2 Jun 1861.  Father: Daniel MERRICK and Mother: Ann.  
The dates are consistent.  The question is:  Did Daniel and Ann go back to 
England before and after Maryann's birth?  If so, why to Shropshire?
The 1880 Census for the US has Anna (Anne), John, Jennet (Mary Jane), Charles 
(Daniel Charles Jr), Matilda and grandson Willie MYRICK living at Scott, Wayne, 
Pennsylvania, Lois & Thomas PAXTON and three children residing at Wabaunsee, 
Wabaunsee, Kansas, Thomas & Clara MYRICK with three children were residing at 
Sanford, Broome, New York, Asa (Asie) MYRICK (widowed) living in Westfall, Pike, 
Pennsylvania and his daughter Katie residing at the home of Samuel TARBOX 
(aged 36) in Liberty, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania, Asie's wife had been a TARBOX; 
Samuel was probably her brother. Mary and Melborne WARREN living in Scott, Wayne, 
Pennsylvania. Allen & Mary MYRICK and two children were living at Union, Tioga, 
Pennsylvania.
Other information was provided by Gordon MYERS and Jerry HINST (descendants of 
Daniel and Anne MYRICK). 


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NOTES: Daniel Charles MYRICK came to Australia as a ship's carpenter aboard 
an American Whaler, and left the seafaring life to become a farmer in Western 
Australia.  Perhaps the opportunity to own land appealed to him, however, 
farming in the new Colony was very tough.   He farmed at Pinjarra between 
1845 and 1848, and then in 1852 "he took his family to the Eastern Colonies 
per the 'MEROPE'".  They actually went to the farming area, of Currency Creek 
and Goolwa in the District of Encounter Bay, south of Adelaide in South Australia.

Many families from the area left to go to the gold diggings in Victoria around 
this time, including the family of James Tuckey and his wife Mary Ann with their 
two sons and two daughters.

James Tuckey as a lad of 14 years had come to Australia aboard the "ROCKINGHAM" 
with his father John and sister Charlotte.  James Tuckey and Dan's wife Anne had 
grown up together, and it is believed that James Tuckey's family and Dan Myrick's 
family left together on the 7th October 1852, however, while the Tuckey family 
stayed in Victoria for 10 years, and then returned to Western Australia, the 
Myrick family went to South Australia and then eventually to America where Daniel 
re-established family ties.

Several photographs of Anne as an older lady made their way back to Australia, 
however, the movements and eventual whereabouts of the family remained a mystery 
until May of 1998.

After checking the Ancestral File at the Family History Library, I was able to 
make contact with descendants of Daniel and Anne, living in Georgia, USA.

In 1995 it was discovered that one photograph of Anne (as an older lady - looks 
to be in her 50's or early 60's), had been taken by A.D. Harding, Photographer 
of 42 Main Street, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania. Further research revealed that 
the family settled in that area.

Headstone for Daniel and distribution of estate papers, both give Daniel's death 
date as 18 March 1894, however his death certificate gives the date as March 15, 
1893.  His headstone says that he was aged 77 years and 2 months when he died.  
If that is correct, and one can never be sure, this would mean that he was born 
in 1816/17, and was around 27 when he married Anne.

South Australian Pioneer records show Daniel as a Farmer, Shipowner and Miller, 
and as residing in Currency Creek and Goolwa.

A letter written by Arta T. Fisher (Myrick), the wife of Daniel Charles MYRICK 
Jr to her grand-daughter, Jerry HINSTin May 1956  states that Daniel MYRICK Sr 
died in March 1893 and is buried near Brandt, Susquehanna Co., in the Episcopal 
church yard.
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