This story about Timothy Sullivan is pivotal in this family history. Timothy was born in Ireland, went to sea at 15, married and raised a family in St Ives Cornwall, and migrated to South Australia in 1859. This story is about Timothy and his immediate family. The stories of bot his forbears and descendants can be found in "Our Family History".
This story covers what has been discovered to date about his birth, life, and what sort of person he was.
This article is about John Phillipps, son of John Phillipps and wife Maria (nee Rundle), who was born in Cornwall , married Maria Anna Grose Wearne, and migrated to South Australia with his young family in 1854. The John Phillipps family is closely connected to the Timothy Sullivan family, as both John and Timothy's wives were sisters, and two of Timothy's sons maried two of John's daughters, their cousins
The article is largely based on a personal letter from John Phillipps written in Ballarat to his son Arthur Edwin Phillipps towards the end of John's life.
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This article is about Ellen Grose Wearne who married Timothy Sullivan in St Ives Cornwall in 1840, and subsequently migrated to South Australia with the family in 1859.
Much of this article deals with Ellen's life after Timothy's death in 1887. For details of her life as Timothy's wife please go to the article on Timothy Sullivan.
This article is about Mary Ann Phillipps, sister of John Phillipps, who emigrated as a single woman aged 44 to join her brother in Victoria in 1870, and died near Numurkah in 1911.
