Patrick Worland (aged 18) and Frederick Worland (also 18) (possibly the same man) are both recorded in registers for the Calliance that departed Southampton, England on 6 October 1855 and arrived in Victoria on 31 December 1855 under Captain Thomas Heddle. The ship carried 315 immigrants (62 male adults, 198 female adults and 55 children under 14. The single female adults included the 17 year old nursemaid Emma Newman who was also from Foxton, Cambridgeshire. Emma was 'engaged' (for employment) to her brother Thomas Newman, according to the Calliance register.
According to this WikiTree page (accessed 13 March 2023), Frederick Worland was the son of William Worland and Mary (nee) Barnes, and the brother of John Worland (who arrived in Victoria with his (also 19 year old) wife Susan in 1854), Charles Worland, Rebecca Worland (later Impey), Frances Worland, and Eliza Worland.
Frederick Worland may have had a relationship with an Eleanor Matthews before leaving England. A boy by the name of Frederick Matthews was born to Frederick Worland and Eleanor Matthews in September 1856. Eleanor died in about 1863 at the aged of 24. Her son Frederick died in Sussex, England on 2 June 1935.
Confusingly, there are two registry entries that are almost certainly both for Frederick:
Frederick's brother John Worland was already in Nunawading, Victoria and had children born there in 1855 and 1857 before moving to Ballarat (1860) then to Dean.
Note, the Frederick Worland below should not be confused with the (possibly unrelated) Frederick Worland who arrived in 1854 with his wife Elizabeth and lived in the Geelong/Inverleigh and Barrabool Hills areas of Victoria.
As noted above, Emma Newman was also on the Calliance and was, according to the register, to be employed by her brother Thomas. Frederick and Emma married in early 1856. Frederick's brother, wife Susan and perhaps their youngest daughter Mary Jane (aged 1) likely attended the wedding. Frederick and Emma had the following children. The birth locations of the children indicate the family moved to Ballarat by 1864, likely with his brother John.
Frederick Worland's name appears in the newspapers from 1872 after the death of seven of John and Susan's children in Dean in a short space from December 1871 to January 1872. The following article appeared in the Border Watch (Mount Gambier) on 24 January 1872:
'There appears,' says the Ballarat Evening Post, 'to be a horrible fatality hanging over the family of Mr. Worland, of Dean. It will be fresh in the memory of our readers that seven of that unfortunate man's family have died within a few weeks past, and that he himself is still suffering from diphtheria — the fell complaint which has desolated his roof-tree. We have now to record the death of still another member of this doomed family. On Sunday week a brother of Mr. Worland, of Dean, Frederick Worland, aged 35, working at Biddle and Brown's mill in Bullarook, went to see and console his brother. After staying several hours in the company of his suffering relative, he complained of being unwell, and went to his home in the forest. He stayed there, unable to work, until Thursday last, when, he came into Ballarat for medical advice and yesterday he died. Whether he caught the diphtheria from his brother during his visit or not, it appears certain that his death was principally caused by the terror occasioned by his visit to Dean, as before that he had been a stout robust young man'.
Frederick Worland, aged 35, died in January 1872 (Vic BDM Ref 117). Note that the BDM reference for three of John's children was 388, 389, and 390, so it appears that Frederick pre-deceased those children.
After the death of her husband Frederick, Emma Worland (nee Newman) then married Frederick James Wright Shrubsole in 1872 (Vic BDM Ref 2749). Frederick and Emma Shrubsole had the following children:
Note that an Elizabeth Shrubsole, possibly Frederick's sister, gave birth to a child named Mary Maud Perian Shrubsole at Bungaree in 1878 (Vic BDM Ref 13872, father not named).
A girl named Margaret Catherine Shrubsole was born to an Emma Newman and Joseph McGie at Ballarat in 1898 (when Emma would have been in her mid to late 60s). Margaret Shrubsole died in 1945 (Vic BDM Ref 21850). Note that Emma's daughter, Emily Amelia Worland (born 1860 married Henry McGie in 1883. Is there a connection?
A man by the name of William Shrubsole escaped from Ballarat Asylum on 1 July 1902 but was subsequently arrested in August the same year. It is not known if this man is related to anyone above but the name is not so common in Victoria.
Page created 13 April 2013, updated 13 March 2023. Copyright © Andrew Warland. (andrewwarland(at)gmail.com)