BROXBOURNEBURY, SURREY I
Posted by nellibell49 on March 19, 2008
Ship: BROXBORNEBURY
Name of convict: Ann Lord and daughter Ruth
Type: ship Class A1 C1 D2
Tonnage: 720 (1814); 751 (1840-43)
Guns: 4
Dimension: 20’ draught
Materials: sheathed with copper over boards
Registered: London
Home Port: London
Master: Thos Pitcher Junior
Surgeon: Colin McLachlan
Where built ?: Gravesend / River Thames, 1812
Sailed: 22nd February 1814 from England
Arrived: 28th July 1814 – taking 156 days
What else did it carry: merchandise
What did it carry on return voyage: coal
Leaving on Tuesday 22nd February 1814 the Broxbornebury sailed in
company with the Surrey.
On board were 120 female convicts (some with children); twenty-eight
free families, several well-to-do passengers and a crew of
seventy.Thirty five of these female convicts had been travelling since
12th November 1812 aboard The Emu which was hijacked in the middle of
the Indian Ocean.
The Surrey, with 200 male convicts, marine guards and crew on board
separated from the Broxbornebury early in the voyage, calling at Rio on
12 April with “gaol fever” or typhus aboard. Departing Rio on 21 April
with the typhus became even more virulent It resulted in a death toll of
51 convicts, guards and crew including the Captain of the ship, the
First Mate, the Second Mate, the boatswain, the ship's surgeon, six
seamen and four soldiers.
The Surrey was off Shoalhaven in late July when the Broxbornebury
rejoined her. Without anyone to navigate the ship, the Captain Pitcher
transferred a volunteer on board the fever ridden ship, to navigate it
into Port Jackson. Once inside the Sydney Heads on 27 July 1814, after a
voyage of 156 days, the ship was quarantined on the northern shore of
the harbour and the many remaining sick treated in tents erected as a
temporary hospital the beginning of the North Head Quarantine Station.
Only 2 of the female passengers on the Broxonbury died in transit. The
stories of the female convicts from the Broxbornebury are many and
varied and well recorded in many sources especially by
Portia Robinson in The Women of Botany Bay, Sydney 1877 and
Elizabeth Hook in Journey to a New Life: The Story of the ships Emu in
1812 and Broxbornebury in 1814, Including Crew, Female Convicts and Free
Passengers on Board. Minto 2000
Ann and Ruth continued to have eventful lives in NSW, however Ann, age
81, was burnt to death when her dress caught fire while she dozed in
front of daughter Elizabeth's fire
michelle said
Ann is my great X 4 grandmother.
nellibell49 said
Good to hear from you Michelle. We are struggling to pull together these threads and would be really pleased with any information you would be able to provide. My own Great x ? Grandfather travelled out on the Three Bees in the same convoy as Patrick Mcanlly on Surrey 1 and Judith Kilfroy/McDermott/McNally on Broxbournebury with her 3 children. Yrs Lynne
michelle said
well, I’m starting to put the pieces of this puzzle together….I have been trying to get my hands on the book by Elizabeth hook, without success.
what I DO know is:
She married Edward Jones in Parramatta and had several more children with him. Edward was an irish rebel sent aboard the techillerry in 1810. In the 1825 muster he is listed as a blacksmith at parramatta.
She later married John Knight who came on board the Hinondostan, voyage date July 1821 and worked in the iron gang 5 at baulkham hills, building the great north rd in 1828.
Ruth (who came on board with her) married Joseph Gray who came on board the speke 1 and arrived in 1821.His charge was theft with violence and highway robbery.(he was a pickpocket)
He is listed as ‘working’ in the engineer dept at parramattain 1828 and they married in the same year.
In 1830, when their son john was born, Joseph is now liste as a shoemaker in parramatta.
joseph and ruth are burried at st john cemetery parramatta which i visited last week- it is a family plot, but strangely, their 1st son john, is burried seperately at all saints cemetery parramatta in paupers graves, along with his wife margaret dunn/ gray who died in 1863 of phthisis and their baby girl alice jessie gray who died in 1861 at only 5wks.
will add more info as i find it….
Jeff Pike said
Hi Michelle
Contact details for Elizabeth Hook are: E Hook, 1/15A Phyllis Street, Minto NSW 2566, Australia
I went and saw Elizabeth and bought a copy of the book from her
Regards Jeff Pike
betty bolster said
Ruth and Ann Lord are part of my family tree. I’m married to Ken and he has a lady Sussannah Lallamont who also came to Australia on the same three ships.