Wildey Family Photographs

This one is for you Dad, the best I could find...

Catherine Wason Munro

Annie Angel Thomas

Alexander Edward Wildey - Printer

Alexander Edward Wildey - Christchurch

Alexander Edward Wildey, wife
Annie Angel Thomas & four children

Kathleen Lydia Lyon (my grandmother

Esther Lyon - mother to Kathleen Lydia Lyon

Robin Wildey

Kathleen Lydia Lyon with children David, Robin, twins Coonie & David and Joan

1917 William Otto, David & Connie and
Robin Wildey with mother Kathleen Lydia Lyon

David John Wildey with children Connie, David and Otto

Kathleen Lydia Lyon

David John Wildey, my grandfather "DJ"

My Wildey family can only be traced to Benjamin Wildey born in Bloomsbury, London in 1822. He was a carpenter. His was convicted several times for larceny & in 1847 was transported to Van Diemans land for 10 years. He married in 1851 and was granted a Ticket of Leave in 1856. In 1861 he left Tasmania and arrived in Otago, New Zealand on "the Dart" in 1862 where he met and married Catherine Waon Munro in 1863. They had nine children. Their eldest son was my great, great grandfather.