Richard Rishworth b. 1799

  • Artist (Painter)
His father was partner in a Bank which failed in 1825; the family lost its fortune. At 57 years old, he wed the 19 year old Harriet Ann Durant on September 2, 1856 at Ballarat, his second marriage. He and Harriet Ann had six children. Richard Rishworth, listed in the Ballarat Directory in 1857 as artist and decorator,lived at Bakery Hill, Ballarat East, Victoria. Also Secy. for Vic. G.M. Co., Swamp, Ballarat.
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Citations

  • (1857), 'Ballarat Directory’, Ballarat, Vic.

  • United Kingdom, Yorkshire, Leeds, West Yorkshire Archive Service, Yorkshire Parish Records, Wakefield, All Saints Register of Baptisms, 21 October, 1799, Ref.: WDP3/1/9, image of original accessed on and downloaded from Ancestry.com, West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812 [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011).

  • United Kingdom, London, London Metropolitan Archives, Church of England Parish Registers, 1754-1921, Saint James, Paddington, Register of Marriages, P87/JS, Item 018, image of original accessed on and downloaded from Ancestry.com, London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).

  • Venn, J. A., comp., Alumni Cantabrigienses, (London, England: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954), data accessed on Ancestry.com, Cambridge University Alumni, 1261-1900 [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 1999), same source also accessed on http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/Documents/acad/search.html.

  • United Kingdom, The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Public Record Office (PRO), Census Returns of England and Wales, 1851, George St., Chelsea, HO107/1472 Fol:501, ED: 19, p.2, image of original accessed on Ancestry.com, 1851 England Census [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005).

  • United Kingdom, The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Public Record Office (PRO), Census Returns of England and Wales, 1841, St. George the Martyr, Surrey, HO107/1084/5 Fol: 9, ED: 9, p.9, image of original accessed on Ancestry.com, 1841 England Census [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010).

  • Australia, Victoria, Victoria Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths, 2 September, 1856, Ballarat Township, accessed on and copy of image of original purchased from https://online.justice.vic.gov.au/bdm/index-search.

  • Australia, Victoria, Public Record Office Victoria, North Melbourne, Ser: VPRS 14, Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kingdom, Microfiche VPRS 14, Ser. Title: Register of Assisted Immigrants from the United Kindom, VPRS 3502, Success, Geelong, Point Henry and Victoria Australia, Arr.: 31 May, 1852, image of original accessed on and downloaded from Ancestry.com, Victoria, Australia, Assisted and Unassisted Passenger Lists, 1839–1923 [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2009).

  • Australia, Victoria, Victoria Registry of Births, Marriages and Deaths, Reg.: 10175, data accessed on Ancestry.com. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line], (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010).

  • The Star (Ballarat, Victoria), Tuesday, 23 Sept.,1862, p. 3

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Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870

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