WISBEY Carlton Ada
c1910 – late 1930’s
Carlton & Ada Wisbey with Evan & daughter Carole Hobley standing at rear.
Carlton Wisbey was born on 1st January 1869 at North Richmond, New South Wales to William Wisbey of Mudgee NSW. He farmed in NSW before becoming a Police Officer for twenty years. He resigned from the force and moved to Western Australia in 1902, taking up land, first at Mount Hardey, and then near Balkulling, now called Wisbey’s Well.
Carlton and Ada with William and Emily Wisbey circa 1911
After selling up and returning to NSW for a visit, he took up 1200 acres (485ha) of virgin land at Nampup. He cleared land and built a small stone cottage 1.5 kms south of the town and lived there with his wife, Ada Charlton, whom he had married in 1896.
They had three children. William Joseph George was tragically crushed to death when he was 17 ½ years old, when his horse bolted with a wagon load of bagged wheat near Nyabing. Mary Ada married Victor George Batt, a farmer, in 1935 and had six children. Emilie married George Hobley, a farmer, in 1920 and had four children.
Victor & Mary Batt Wedding
6 February 1935
Carlton was very active in community affairs and was honorary secretary of the Nyabing Progress Association for 20 years, being one of the founding members. In 1912, he was granted a Commission of Peace (Justice of the Peace) for the Katanning District by the Scadden [2] [3] Cabinet.
Kent Road Board 16 March 1923
L-R: D R Moore, C Altham, H Kingswood, G Hobley, G S Patterson, C Wiseby, F H Denning
Sitting: A J Blundy
He continued to run mixed farming operations in Nyabing until probably the late 1930’s, when he and his wife Ada retired to Albany. They took up a block of land and lived in a small cottage in Spencer Park. They would have the Batt grandchildren for two weeks every year during the school holidays. They would come down from Nyabing on the steam train. He would get the Batt boys to dig up his half acre of potatoes at harvest time. They also used to help him grind up the maize to make porridge. He used to harness up the horse to the cart to take them into town.
Carlton passed away in 1952 and Ada in 1960 and both are buried in the central Albany Cemetery.
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