My family tree has been compiled after many years of research, carried out by myself and my parents. It contains many incomplete names and dates, as these have yet to be researched and verified.

Alice Karr 1820 ~ 1896

In London in 1830, my 1st cousin 5 times removed, 17 year old James Nealer, was sent to trial for embezzlement. He was sentenced to 7 years and transported to Van Diemen's Land - now called Tasmania. James was transported on the 'William Glen Anderson', a 389 ton barque which was built in 1827. The vessel sailed from Portsmouth on Thursday 2nd June 1831, carrying 177 male and 2 female prisoners and the journey, via the Cape of Good Hope took 152 days. The ship's Commander was Captain James Fawthrup (Fawthrope <sp>); the former Commander, Captain Smith, having died during the passage. The ship arrived at Hobart Town on Tuesday 1st November 1831.

Meanwhile, on Friday 9th November 1838, in Ireland, Alice Karr along with her father Moses Karr, her step-mother Isabella (nee Bowden) and six of her brothers and sisters, emigrated to Australia.  They sailed from Belfast, Ireland, on a ship named 'Garrow' and arrived in Australia at Sydney Cove, New South Wales on Saturday 2nd March 1839, after a voyage of 113 days.
James had been assigned to a settler named E. Abbott Esq. and after his release he married Alice by banns on Monday 18th May 1840 in the parish of St James, Melbourne, in the county of Bourke.
Alice Nealer (nee Karr) is pictured on the left.

James and Alice had eleven children altogether and their 5th child, who was also named James, is pictured on the right. He was born in 1848 and given the same name as his eldest brother who had died earlier that year when his clothes caught alight in a house fire on Saturday 3rd June 1848.

After the inquest on James' death, he was buried in "The Old Melbourne Cemetery" but his body was removed in 1922 and transferred to Fawkner Cemetery when the land was acquired for commercial purposes. The site of the old cemetery is now a huge produce market called Queen Victoria market.
A sandstone headstone reads viz.

"Sacred to the memory of James Nealer who was burned to death 3rd June 1848 Aged 6 years 11 months.
Also Esther Nealer born 20th July 1851 - died 7th June 1853."

Esther was the 6th child of James and Alice.
 

James Nealer 1848 ~ 1931

Charles Frederick William Nealer
1872 ~ 1951

The earliest known ancestor on my paternal line is Wilfrian Nealer who was born circa 1594 in  London. The Nealer families lived in the London area right up to the mid 20th century, mainly living in the Hoxton, Rotherhithe, Bermondsey and Southwark districts or surrounding areas. My paternal great grandparents, Charles Frederick William Nealer and Ann Maria Killman, both pictured on the left, later moved to Cheltenham in Gloucestershire.
Pictured right is Jane Elms, my other paternal great grandmother, who was born in Walworth, Surrey in 1859 and she died in Rotherhithe in 1931. She was the daughter of Daniel Elms and Jane Hedgcock.

Over the centuries, members of the family have settled in many parts of the United Kingdom, the Melbourne and Sydney areas of Australia and the cities of Cape Town and Pretoria  in South Africa. I have also discovered distant cousins living in New Zealand and Canada.
 

Jane Elms
1859 ~ 1931

Ann Maria Killman
1873 ~ 1957

Today, there appears to be only about 17 people in the UK who share my surname and all of them are related.
As of 18th December 2006, my family tree covers 18 generations, there are 1,199 different surnames, with 7,420 individuals listed and 2,096 marriages are recorded. The earliest recorded birth is in 1566.

Meanwhile, in the United States there is a large family with the Nealer surname but they are descended from German immigrants from the Bavaria region and whose original surname was Niller. They changed their surname to Nealer after arrival in the Port of New York on Monday 12 August 1844. After petitioning for naturalization on Saturday 6 January 1849, American citizenship was granted to them on Wednesday 8 September 1852.

Ann Florence Fuller 1858 ~ 1934

The maternal side of my family, Fuller and Dickens, originally came from the villages of Wilden and Riseley in Bedfordshire, with earlier ancestors, Ricketts and Poole, coming from the Stratford-upon-Avon and Alcester area of Warwickshire but as they married, and over time, they gradually moved to surrounding villages, towns and counties.

It was interesting to discover that my Ricketts and Poole ancestors once lived in 50 Ely Street, Stratford-upon-Avon and that this Grade II listed Tudor cottage, along with the two adjoining cottages were once owned by Richard Hathaway, a nephew of William Shakespeare. The property today is let as a holiday cottage.
see here:
  http://www.hideaways.co.uk/property.cfm/H180

Harry Dickens 1866 ~ 1940

Walter Charles Lewis Fuller
1877 ~ 1951

On the left with five puppies is my maternal great grandfather, Walter Charles Lewis Fuller, who was born on Saturday 11th August 1877. His mother, Ann Florence Fuller, shown in the photo above, was married to her 2nd cousin Philip Fuller.

The photograph on the right is of my maternal great grandmother Annie Elizabeth Panther, born Friday, 28th October 1870, with my grandmother, Elsie Elizabeth Dickens standing on the left. The baby on Annie's lap is Archibald Dickens. This photo was taken about 1909. Annie's husband, Harry Dickens, is in the photo above.

I have recently discovered distant cousins on this side of my family living in Canada, Australia and Hong Kong.

 Annie Elizabeth Panther 1870 ~ ??
 with two of her children, Elsie and baby Archibald

The following surnames are some of those which appear in my online  Family Tree Book

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