Lupton Wrathall of Victoria (1828 -1902) and Martha Margaret Clarke/Jackson

In Feb. 2008, Edith Blaser, who can be reached at blaske(at)bigpond(dot)com, provided information concerning Lupton Wrathall's first wife, Martha Margaret Clarke/Jackson, and Martha's daughter Hannah Eliza Wrathall.
I am researching my family genealogy, which has over the years been linked with the Wrathall surname. I have found that my great grandmother Martha Jackson was .... married to .... Lupton Wrathall. I am not clear on some issues, as I believe he subsequently re-married. ..... However, they did have at least one child: my grandmother, Hannah Eliza Wrathall.

Martha Margaret Clarke/Jackson, born 1836, was the daughter of Eliza Clarke/Jackson and Henry Jackson/Clarke. Seems that Eliza would have been a Clarke and HER spouse Henry a JACKSON. The listing in the B.D.M: Hannah ELIZA Wrathall was born in 1861.

I have it by word of mouth (which usually is pretty accurate with our clan) that for whatever reason, Margaret (as she is referred to) and Lupton went separate ways. How this was managed in those days I do not know. Only the facts that they did marry, the issue of the union being our Hannah Eliza. I have had the data that Lupton wandered elsewhere and remarried. Margaret also remarried to a man by the name of Quin. Grandmother was raised from relatively early days in this union, and carried ... the name Hannah Eliza Wrathall/Quin.

I have no idea how the union of Lupton & Martha Margaret was dissolved. I rather think that divorce WAS available in some circumstances even back then. However, there must have been some legality to all of this for them to then re-marry.

Can you tell me, is it correct that Lupton was the son of Stephen Wrathall?? If this is so, then I find it just so odd. I named our son Stephen [and] he is the ONLY one in any side of our genealogy who carries that name. I was at that time most insistent that he have Stephen as his Christian name, and the spelling be in that manner!

I am forwarding you an email that I have just received from a cousin who is steeped in family research. She is also a descendant of the Wrathall//Clarke/Jackson line. You may find some of this forward interesting in regard to Lupton & Margaret. [From Edith's cousin Helen]:
..... This is a reference to the epitaph published in the Tribune Newspaper (Burnie, Tasmania) after grandmothersŐ [Hannah Eliza Wrathall/Quin] death in 1933. She was thought highly of and it was very nice to peruse. ...... I have re-read all the papers in said folder and found a letter from [a descendant of] James FIDLER. In it, [the descendant] raised the possibility of Martha Margaret Jackson / Clark and her 2 baptisms. Also the recorded marriage of Lupton Wrathall (23), farmer, to Martha Margaret Clarke (16), spinster, at St Peters, Hamilton [reg: 37-1852-118]; witnesses: Mary Halyer(?) Jackson and George Shoulder.

The 2 baptisms:
1. Weslyan Church, Hobart, Mar 6, 1836 (b. Feb 16, 1836) Martha - parents: Henry & Margaret CLARKE (his occ: shoe maker) - abode Hobart
Minister: Jos. Orton
2.St Davids, Buckingham, Hobart, Mar 13, 1836 (b. Feb 16, 1836) Martha Margaret JACKSON - parents: Henry & Eliza JACKSON (his occ: shoe maker) - abode: Hobart
Minister: Wm Bedford

The archivist at Hobart searched for a marriage for Henry Jackson & Eliza Clarke, but none could be found. My guess is that they were both convicts and probably left spouses in UK. [The archivist] did a search for both convicts and we are pretty sure that we have found them. You will also have noticed that .... Martha Margaret's age at the time of her marriage fits with the birth in 1836.
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