Thomas (ROYALL) Roil was born in 1788 in Alton, HAMPS, ENG.
1,2,3 He and
Sarah Sewry were married on 21 October 1813 in Alton, Hants, ENG.
2 He died on 22 May 1867, at age ~79, in Collingwood, Nelson, NZ.
1,3 Thomas (ROYALL) Roil was a farmer.
3 Class: steerage
word file available "ROIL"
note spelling of surname in early records varies: ROYAL, RYALE, RIAL, RYAL, etc
see word file for details of many ROIL families in Alton from Censuses etc. JCU
listed as arriving Nelson on the Slains Castle 26 jan 1845.
Thomas married Sarah in England in 1813 - he was 26 and she was 25.
They had 9 (known) children from 1815 to 1833.
On the 29th October 1841 Thomas and Sarah and 5 of the 'children' boarded the BOLTON and emigrated to New Zealand, arriving in Nelson on 15th March 1842.
The ship's passenger list has Thomas and Sarah aged 45 and 40 - however many people in those days lowered their ages to emigrate if they were over 40
Their oldest child, James, was aged 26 when they left - he did not emigrate, neither did George, Thomas or Lucy ...(Lucy had only been married 10 months when her parents left)
They had one other (known) child, Ann, in Nelson, but research continuing as there is a 14 years age gap between her and William
Thomas died in 1867, 6 years before Sarah PECK. He had person sources.
4 He immigrated to ENG to NZ on the Bolton arriving NZ 15/3/1842 on 29 October 1841.
5 He was an Agricultural Labourer in 1842.
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