Joseph Wade was born in 1843, the son of Thomas Wade and Elizabeth Carter who arrived in Sydney in 1848 then moved to Lue, Mudgee and Gulgong.
Joseph was one of their first three children who were born and raised around Pinchbeck, Lincolnshire. They were:
Joseph Wade, a farmer at Tallawang married Mary Ann Sorby in 1871 in Mudgee. Their children included:
- Elizabeth Carter - 1872
- Margaret - 1874 (died 26 June 1874 aged 16 days).
- Joseph - 1876
- Charles Cartaway - 1879
- Mary Jane - born 1882 at Slapdash Creek, died 7 January 1884 of DIPHTHERIA.
- Emily Jane - 1885
- William John Thomas - 1888
- Samuel Alfred - 1891
Mary Ann Wade nee Sorby left her husband, apparently due to domestic violence.
Joseph WADE died at Parramatta in 1927 and was interred at Rookwood Anglican
Cemetery, Sydney on January 24 1927.
Mary Ann Wade died in the Casino District, NSW in 1930.
