The QUESTED family are indelibly linked to the (UK) Kent County - BAILEY, GILLAM, HIGGINS, HOGBEN, RANSLEY and other families by events and to the Tasmanian ALOMES, GILLAM, ROWLANDS, TAYLOR and other families by marriage and / or descent.
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These pages document the known details of one Tasmanian QUESTED family and the subsequent lives of various family members and groups.
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Trissia Waddingham is probably the pre-eminent Quested family researcher, having researched and documented the various branches of the family at an early time; which have been rigorously verified by the historical records that have been accessed to date.
The story of the Quested family is not the work of one person, but includes the research of a number of people. Researchers who have contributed to the information presented here include :
- Trissia Margaret Waddingham (nee Hawkins) (NSW)
- Jenny Dean
- Robert Evans jnr (USA)
- and many other cousins too numerous to list
Introduction
The following works were consulted while compiling the information for this discussion of the Quested family. Note that the moderators of Tasmanian Royalty cannot provide you with any of the following material, nor can we provide contact details for other Quested family researchers.
Published Sources
DOUCH, John: SMUGGLING - The Wicked Trade; Crabwell Publications, Buckland Press, Dover and London, 1980.
TEINGMOUTH & HARPER: THE SMUGGLERS - Picturesque Chapters in the History of Contraband Voll II; Cecil Palmer, London 1923 (Online)
GILHAM, Lynne: Aldington Smugglers (Online blog)
Privately Published Sources
WADDINGHAM, Trissia M. - THE QUESTED FAMILY - NSW 1897
Conventions Used
Possible Surname Origin
There is doubt about the origin of the name, but according to a legend which prevails amongst one family of Questeds still in Kent, the progenitor was a son of a Spanish landowner named "Questelo," who, many years ago settled in England and married the daughter of a Kentish farmer. He is said to have changed his name to Quested and to have farmed at Cheriton, near Folkestone. It has been established that a long line of Questeds farmed that location up to the end of the 1930’s, the last owner of the Cheriton farm being Egerton Quested, who became well known as a breeder of Romney Marsh sheep. 1
Some known descendant family surnames -
TASMANIA - PRIEST, ADAMS, HACK, FRASER, WOODS, PRICE, FORBES, ALOMES, WIGGINS, JONES, COCHRANE, GRACE, CLEMENTS, MCDONALD, FRENCH, WAGNER, PYKE, RAINBOW, NEILSON, HART, BROWN, FEATHERSTONE, WELLS, BOUCHER, BISSETT, WESTBURY, JACOBSON, PRAIRIE, PHIPPS, PALMER, BYERS, SCOTT, BENNETT, STEVENSON, TURNER, FINEARTY, SPENCE, McSHANE, VINCENT, ROBERTS, KENNA, WEBB, BRAZENDALE, FIELD, PENNICOTT, BURROWS, YOUNG, ROGERS, KLINE, DUGGAN, ROWLANDS, MONTGOMERY, LYALL, DUDGEON, OAKLEY, MCGRATH, HALL, NASH, BORON, LANCASTER, KELLY, ALEXANDER, MARRIOT, DIREEN, GRIMWOOD, CRISP, BUCHANAN, UNDERWOOD, MARSHALL, TORPY, MOORE, FAZACKERLY, AULICK, TEHLA, McVILLY, JENKINS, HAWKES, BARRY, KUROWSKI, STRINGER, DOWELL, POWELL, SHAKESPEARE, GEEVES, BEVERIDGE, WATERHOUSE, HUTCHINSON, SPAULDING, REES, GILLAM, BESWICK, DAVEY, HILL, STAPLES, NATION, BRADFORD, PETERS, CATO, ; (and others - to be added)
VICTORIA - FLEMING, HICKLING, DAVEY-MILNE, MORGAN; (and others - to be added)
NEW SOUTH WALES - QUESTED, SCLATER, TRIMBOLE, BYRNE, DONOVAN, WESSBERG, NORTON, HUDSON, GLADWIN, DICK, PETRIE, HAWKINS; (and others - to be added)
NEW ZEALAND - HICKLING; (and others - to be added)
UNITED STATES - TAYLOR, ROBERTS, EVANS; (and others - to be added)
Further Resources
Quested Family of South Africa
- 1Quested's in South Africa : Arrival in Natal
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