Ross Beattie’s CROSS and JACKSON Genealogy Page

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Ross Beattie’s CROSS and JACKSON Genealogy Page

with details of the Broxbornebury including extract from letters or journal of Macquarie .

BROXBOURNEBURY, SURREY I

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