A rogue and a soldier- who were the Ingertons of Australia?

Early Arrivals:

The first recorded arrival of Ingertons into Australia was the arrival of John Ingerton, 50 year old farmer from Ireland and his wife Eliza.

They sailed on the ship Champion of the Scot from Liverpool to Melbourne arriving in March 1857.

Nothing is known of their origins and there are no further mention of them in Australian records.

Where did they come from and where did they go?????

...and who are the following?

Ingerton John born 1842 Sailed from Melbourne to London 1869

Ingerton (male) born 1853 Sailed from Adelaide to Melbourne 1878-9

Ingerton J born 1861 Sailed from Sydney to Melbourne 1891

DC Ingerton paid in Perth WA in February 1895 as a policeman

To NZ via Australia:

I believe that the following Australian arrivals and departures relate to Thomas John Ingerton (1867 - 1924) who emigrated from Leeds to Wellington New Zealand- these records would suggest he arrived in New Zealand via Australia.

Ingerton Tom born 1866 Sailed from London to Sydney 1888

Ingerton Thomas A boiler maker gives evidence at an inquest in Launceston Tasmania 1892

Ingerton (male) born 1869 Sailed from Launceston to Melbourne 1892 (Is this Thomas?)

Ingerton (male) born 1865 Sailed from Sydney to Melbourne 1894

Ingerton (male) no birth year. Sailed to Wellington from Hobart? 1896

The one inconsistency is that Thomas John Ingerton, boiler maker, was resident in Leeds in 1891 according to the UK Census - did he sail from UK to Sydney (1888), back home to Leeds (1891), then back to Launceston before 1892?

A Rogue and Vagabond:

In 1867, there were a series of articles about an incident involving a John Ingerton in Melbourne.

Who is this John Ingerton?

The Age 14 May 1867

This is not a photo of John,

but it shows Dundreary Whiskers........

The story was embellished slightly the next day.....

The Herald 15 May 1867

There were no further newspaper articles reporting on John Ingerton apart from this one incident. Did he change his ways or leave the colony or ??????

Is he the John Ingerton (although the age is way out...) who sailed from Melbourne to London two years later in 1869??

The Soldier:

Joseph Ingerton was the youngest son of John Ingerton (1835-1908) and Elizabeth Slaven ((1844-1919). Joseph was born in Leeds in 1886. His brother Thomas John Ingerton had emigrated to New Zealand by 1896.

Joseph married Margaret Mary Driscoll in Leeds in January 1910. Their daughter Mary Rosalie was born in Leeds in July 1910 and just over a year later the young family sailed to Freemantle, Western Australia on the ship Zealandia arriving in December 1911 and settling in Perth.

Joseph is listed as a gardener on the shipping records and as a labourer on subsequent census records (1915, 1916).

A second daughter Edna is born in 1917.

Joseph enlisted in the First World War and was wounded twice in France in 1917 and 1918.

His wife died in 1924 leaving Jospeh to care for his young daughters.

His daughter Edna was involved in a motor accident in 1937.

Tragically, Edna drowned in the river a year later.

Two years later, in 1940 Rosalie married in Victoria and stayed in that state until her death in 2009.

Joseph moved from Perth to Kalgoolie and then back to the Margaret River area of SW Western Australia.

His life took a turn for the worse and there were numerous mentions of him in the local press for being imprisoned for drunk and disorderly behaviour.

In 1953 he seems to have been sleeping rough in a riverside camp in south west, Western Australia.

He died in March 1972 at the age of 76.

A sad and lonely end for a brave soldier who had been a hopeful immigrant 50 years previously.

I have found no evidence of Ingertons living in Australia today who are descendants of any of these Ingerton migrants (apart from a family from the NZ Ingerton clan).... have I missed any other Ingerton immigrants or families??

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