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The Brisbane Courier… Friday 11 January 1889,

ELIZA MCNALLY

In the last month, 2 descendants of ELIZA have contacted us. Louise, who is related through EMELIA BOLLARD has forwarded this baptismal certificate and has give me permission to place her musings on the site. She is happy that it might help someone else researching as we are.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS WITH THANKS.

FROM LOUISE

Bollard Family

Thomas Bollard (sometimes spelt Ballard) lived at Hardwick Yass in 1850 when he married Emma Whitehouse who also lived at Hardwick. Hardwick was one of three early historic properties established in the early 1800’s, Cooma Cottage, Douro and Hardwicke, by Henry and Cornelius O’Brien.

Henry O’Brien had Hardwick between 1837 and 1852 and during that time helped to save the Australian wool industry from bankruptcy. English demand for wool had dropped so prices plummeted, Henry developed melt down works on Hardwick designed to boil down sheep for tallow, which was sold to England and use for making gunpowder. It is believed that Hardwick is the original route that Hume and Hovell took through that area.

Emma and Thomas both appeared to be working there at the time of their marriage in 1850.

They were married in the Presbyterian Church.

Ellen…1851, John…1854, Thomas …1856, Mary…1859, William…1862, James (Joseph James)…1869, Patrick…1873, 2 other males.

Not much known about Thomas except he was born in Ireland and was about 55 in 1862 when William was born. He went to the Araluen goldfields early in their marriage. After which he worked as a manager of Middlingbank Station near Cooma. After this they moved to Molonglo Station where Thomas worked. It was during this time that the family encountered the Clarke Brothers Bushranger gang, Emma several times by herself with the children.

Their son Jack (probably John)  was speared and boomeranged at Coopers Creek, when he was about 24. He went to Northern Queensland as a stockman and the family were never able to discover what had happened to him, but presumed he had been killed by aborigines.

Emma was 30 when William Albert was born in 1862. At the time of her death on the 31^st July 1912, she was living with her son James, at 61 Buckland St Chippendale Sydney.

James indicated that her parents names were James Whitehouse and Bridget McNally, but on tracing records it seems feasible that he didn’t know their Christian names , or there was a mix-up on the form , as his name was James and his wife’s was Bridget. It appears more than likely that Emma (he spelt it Amelia) was actually Elizabeth Emelia Whitehouse born at The Sand Hills (later Surrey Hills) in Sydney and baptised on 25^th July 1833 at St Mary’s Cathedral, Sydney.

Her parents were recorded as Albert Whitehouse (printer) and Elizabeth McNally.

Emma is easily adapted from Emelia.

Family vocal history has always indicated that there was a connection with Henry Kendall, it is most likely that Emma’s mother , Elizabeth was a sister of Melinda McNally who married Basil Kendall and subsequently had a son Henry Kendall, the poet. This made Emma his first cousin.

There was no ‘Bridget’ McNally in that family and all other sisters have been accounted for, so this adds weight to the family vocal history and the evidence pointing to Emma’s parents being Albert and Elizabeth (known as Eliza). The ship she came to Australia with the Mcnally Family in 1814 was the Broxbornebury, but on the Baptism cert for Emma it says ship’ 5 Islands’, this is a mystery, but no record of a ship of that name appears to have existed. It could have been the journey they came on as the Broxenbornbury did pass islands and pick up some stranded people, and it is not unlikely that a child of ten would mix up the name of a ship later on. Her parents were Patrick McNally and Judith Kilfroy McDermott, he was convicted for desertion from the 100^thregiment whilst serving in Canada and sent out for life.

Albert was a convict, convicted and sentenced for life at Worcester on the 8/3/1828 and sent on the ship Eliza. Records in the Sydney gazette of mid 1833 show an Albert Whitehouse, printer up on charges of forgery. He got off, due to lack of evidence, but others where charged, at the time he worked for a lithographer ( Henry Allen) in Pitt St as a printer. He was described as an artist on Emma’s death certificate, and a printer on her baptism certificate.

A comment was made in the court of being sent out for inappropriate use of printing skills.

Records show that an Albert Whitehouse died in 1833, it hasn’t been confirmed that that was him, but it seems a strange coincidence that Emma was baptised in July 1833 after having been born in 1831. Maybe he died and Elizabeth then baptised her a catholic. There is no record of any other children born to them.

There is a record of an Elizabeth Whitehouse death in 1857 at age 68 in Sydney, and also an Elizabeth Whitehouse appears on the 1841 census living at Surrey hills. Not yet proven that this was Emma’s mother but, Emma was born at the Sand Hills which later became part of Surrey Hills. To date no marriage record for Albert and Elizabeth has been found.

Another coincidence is that Emma and Thomas’s son James was also involved in the printing business, being a compositor. Moya Britten (William Bollard’s granddaughter, James’s grand niece) remembers James coming to visit her grandparents, at the Captains Flat Store, with all his newspaper friends.  William would take them to the river on fishing trips, leaving Bedelia to mind the store.  She also has vivid memories of visiting James when she was a child when they lived in Stanmore, after they moved from Chippendale. She can recall the smell of gas from cooking and perhaps lights etc of that area. She was terrified of a lady in the street who would go out into her front yard in her night dress.

James served in the 1^st Pioneer Battalion, 5^th Reinforcement, from Oct 1915 to July 1917 at the Western Front from August 1916 to July 1917.

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MENTION OF THE TERM 5 ISLANDS

http://www.walkabout.com.au/locations/NSWWollongong.shtml

 

The Five Islands was the name given to the Illawarra region by the explorers of the late 1700’s and early 1800’s.The earliest reference to this has been traced to Bass (of Bass and Flinders fame) Journal in the Whaleboat.

ILLAWARRA IN THE 1830S AND 1840S

 

From the Sydney Gazettes of the late 1830s and early 1840s, there appears to be a period of land sales in Balgownie and Fairy Meadow. At this stage, research is indicating that William and Mary McNally had 50 acres of land each at Fairy Meadow or Fernhill. Unfortunately, some of this information comes from unexplained sources and/or from Mrs Hamilton-Grey with familiarly emotive deductions. Nevertheless there is enough legitimate evidence to suggest that there were adjoining grants belonging to William McNally and James and Mary(McNally) Martin which were acquired in 1830. There is a later suggestion that in app 1840, James Martin sold the grant of 50 acres which had been either his and Mary’s or Mary’s alone and vanished then without further record. It is at this time that Dr Cox appears in the story and Patrick McNally is listed as his tenant. Be that as it may, here are some aspects of the situation in the Illawarra in the 1830s and 1840s. Background again.

FROM MR ALICK OSBORNE SURGEON ROYAL NAVY Preston Chronicle (Preston, England), Saturday, October 5, 1833; Issue 1101.

ON 25 JUNE 1829, Sydney Gazettte and NSW Advertiser – Twenty pounds Reward was advertised WITH A TICKET OF LEAVE – to anyone who lodged the following in gaol or gave information leading to their arrests. The felons were two black natives BROGER and GEORGE MURPHY. They were suspected of being involved in the murder of  JOHN RIVETTS and were at large and committing various depredations in the ILLAWARRA DISTRICT. _____________________ Freeman’s Journal and Daily Commercial Advertiser (Dublin, Ireland), Friday, July 19, 1839 On the 23 January 1839  a son was born to the lady of Captain Raitt 80 Regiment at the ILLAWARRA STOCKADE. ____________________________ THE MCNALLYS being Irish Catholic; ____________________ In the Illawarra: 1830, JOHN WYLLIE had a grant of 4000 acres bounded on the south by his own land on the north by a chain of hills and on the east by Mrs Jenkins. ________________________

IMPOUNDED, at Illawarra, on the 2d of December, 1829, one red and white Cow, white tail, snail horns, branded on the near hip IS. If not owned within fourteen days from this date, will be sold at the Pound, to defray expenses. By Order of the Resident Magistrate, JAMES PIERCE, Poundkeeper. Wollongong, Jan. 8, 1830. [12s. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article2194289 The Sydney Gazette and… Thursday 14 January 1830,

RATIONS FOR TROOPS AND MOUNTED POLICE STATIONED AT WOLLONGONG OR AT ANY OTHER DISTRICT OF ILLAWARRA. NOVEMBER 1829 daily for each soldier 1lb of bread or biscuit or; 14 2-7 oz flour from which 20 per cent has been deducted in Bran and Pollard and; 1lb fresh or salt beef women one half and children one quarter of the above. daily for each horse

THE CONVICTS WHO DIED ON THE SURRY I

FROM SYDNEY GAZETTE AND NEW SOUTH WALES ADVERTISER SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 1814 PAGE 2.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628980

FROM THE SECRETARY’S OFFICE SYDNEY SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 1814

The contagious and diabolical disease which prevailed on board the Male Convict Ship SURRY, on her late passage hither from England having been fatal to thirty-six of the Convicts destined for this Place, His Excellency The Governor, deems it expedient that the Names of the unfortunate Sufferers shall be published in order that their Friends shall be officially apprised of their Decease.

List of thirty six convicts who died at sea on board the Ship Surry on her voyage from England to New South Wales with the names of the Hulks from whence they had been embarked and the dates at which they died

NAME	FROM WHAT HULK	WHEN DIED
ANTON JACKSON	RETRIBUTION	9 JUNE 1814
SAMUEL SMITH	“	13 “
CHARLES GAMES	“	15 “
JOHN EADES	“	2O”
JOHN OLIVER	“	22″
WILLIAM HASEL	“	27
WILLIAM BROWN	“	27″
JOHN PARSONS	“	28″
WILLIAM BOURNE	“	30″
THOS WHEELER	“	6 JULY 1814
Wm EDWARDS	“	11″
JAMES PHILLIPS	“	19″
JOHN PE?S	“	19″
CARTER TUCK	ZEALAND	10 JUNE 1814
JOHN MOTT	“	21″
TIMOTHY REAGAN	“	23″
WILLIAM BATTY	“	13 JULY 1814
JOHN RANSOM	LAUREL	12 MARCH 1814
HENRY PAGE	“	21 JUNE 1814
JAS GLADDING	“	22″
JAMES CLARKE	“	1 JULY 1814
CHRIS. RAPPS	“	2″
WILLIAM DAVEY	“	3″
SAM ABRAHAMS	“	5″
THOMAS HADLEY	“	7″
WILLIAM BAKER	“	22″
ISAAC GILES	CAPTIVITY	22 MAY 1814
JOHN JOTCHAM	“	25 JUNE 1814
WILLIAM BROWN	“	27″
THOMAS MOTT	“	28″
JOHN COOPER	“	29″
JOHN  LACEY	“	1 JULY 1814
RD. WILKINSON	“	4″
JOHN JONES	“	5″
CHARLES BALL	“	19″
RD ALIARTON	“	25″

 

BY COMMAND OF HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR

J T CAMPBELL SECRETARY. 

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 ; SYDNEY GAZETTE SATURDAY 30 JULY

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628955

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 ; SYDNEY GAZETTE SATURDAY 30 JULY

JEOFFREY H BENT Esq arrived on the 28^th July to be Judge of the SUPREME COURT of JUDICATURE. This court had been recently established for the Territory of New South Wales. As we know, Judge Bent had come per the BROXBORNEBURY. (He kept a diary of the voyage which is available for reading at NLA but which I do not have access to much as I would like to.)

On the 30^th July the Broxbornebury was at anchor in Sydney Cove. Judge Bent was to land in the forenoon of the 30^th and to be greeted with a 13 Gun salute from Dawe’s Battery. This was a command of his Excellency the Governor ( LACHLAN MACQUARIE) and H C ANTILL was major of Brigade.

Under GOVERNMENT AND GENERAL ORDERS from HEAD QUARTERS, GOVERNMENT HOUSE, SYDNEY came this mention of the SURRY.

“ The male convict transport , SURRY, which arrived in this harbour from England on the 28^th instant, having brought a malignant fever of a very infectious nature of which the Master ,first Mate, and forty other men have died during the voyage, previous to the arrival of the ship in this port; His Excellency the GOVERNOR had deemed it expedient to use every possible precaution to prevent the danger of the Contagion extending from her to the population of the Colony; and with this view he has given orders to institute the most rigid Quarantine Regulations in respect to the Ship herself and all Persons on board her until such time as the Fever has entirely subsided and the People now infected are recovered,

It is therefore the Governor’s most positive Orders that no Persons whatsoever ( the Medical Quarantine Officers and their Attendants excepted) shall have any intercourse or Communication of any sort with said Ship or the Persons now on board her until such Time as she is relieved from Quarantine which will be announced in Public Orders; and the Governor further directs and commands that no Person shall visit or have any intercourse whatever with the Military Detachment, Sailors and Convicts who are about to be landed from the said Ship on the North Shore of Port Jackson; where they are to remain encamped under strict Quarantine Regulations until further orders:- There will be a Guard on board the Ship Surry and also on the North Shore; to enforce these Orders; and any Person detected in attempting to act in Disobedience of them will be confined and most severely punished”

By order of his Excellency,

The Governor.

J T CAMPBELL Secretary.

The Governor was greatly agitated in the matter of the runaways and Bushrangers . He directed that any person known to be harbouring them or holding intercourse with them would forfeit EVERY INDULGENCE on the part of the Government. They would also be PUNISHED “with the utmost rigour of the law”.

The Governor also reflected ‘with the greatest abhorrence’ on the unparalleled depravity of DENNIS DONOVAN. Donovan had been recently executed. The Governor was horrified that Dennis, instead of repenting and praying to his ‘offended creator’ went out of his world ‘protesting in the most solemn manner his total innocence of the murders of the two unfortunate men, JENKINS and EDWARDS at the Parramatta Turnpike. Hmmm! Two innocent men had apparently been accused of the crimes and almost met an early end on the Gallows –the Governor considered that Dennis Donovan from ‘detestible malignity to his fellow creatures and to life itself’ would not confess even at the cost of the two innocent men’s lives

(THE DETAILED ARTICLES AS WRITTEN AT THE TIME CAN BE SEEN IN NATIONAL LIBRARY AUSTRALIA ONLINE HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS – http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628955)

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AND FROM THE BROXBORNEBURY:

THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE TO EVERY PERSON THAT CAPTAIN THOMAS PITCHER OF HIS MAJESTY’S HIRED STORE-SHIP BROXBORNEBURY, WILL NOT PAY OR CAUSE TO BE PAID ANY DEBTS THAT THE SEAMEN OR ANY OTHER PERSON UNDER HIS COMMAND MAY CONTRACT WITHIN THE COLONY OF NEW SOUTH WALES.

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• WEBSITES OF INTEREST:Tracing the history of citizenship and rights for Indigenous people

http://k6.boardofstudies.nsw.edu.au/go/hsie/background-sheets/tracing-the-history-of-citizenship-and-rights-for-indigenous-people/

IN THIS YEAR 1814: WEBSITES OF INTEREST

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628955

 

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WEBSITES OF INTEREST:

MACQUARIE ROOM DATABASES MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY SYDNEY

http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/databases/

• William Temple (1779 – 1839)

http://www.lib.mq.edu.au/lmr/temple.html

Track the history

 

The history of the separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children

from their families

 

Francis Murphy

http://members.southernphone.com.au/warwick_taylor/family_history/f11.htm

 

Many deeds of terror’: Windschuttle and Musquito

Naomi Parry

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lab/85/parry.html

 

• THE HISTORY OF MATT

http://thehistoryofmatt.blogspot.com/2008/05/ewers-in-colonial-nsw.html

Devon Family Historian

Published quarterly by the Devon Family History Society.

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/DevonFHS/FamHistorian.html

 

• STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA

http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/index.html

 

• KINSELLA FAMILY TREE

http://www.nkmphotography.com/family/kinsella.html

 

• JESSE UPTON of WINDSOR NSW 1806 – 1873

http://www.familytreecircles.com/journal_8533.html

 

Emmeline Ann Susannah GAUDRY1

also known as Emaline Ann GAUDRY

24th May 18141 – 31st Jan 18861

http://www.users.on.net/~moore/Moore/indiI09426.html

 

• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN ANTHONY BARKERS CHRONOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA

 

Joseph Douglass 1782-1865: First Settler at Kurrajong Heights NSW

 

http://members.pcug.org.au/~pdownes/douglass/index.htm

 

• SIMEON LORD’S CHILDREN

 

http://belindacohen.tripod.com/lordfamily/simeonschildren.html

 

• BERKSHIRE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY

http://www.berksfhs.org.uk/index.htm

 

NEWCASTLE FAMILY HISTORY SOCIETY INC
New South Wales, Australia

http://www.nfhs.org.au/NFHSConvictResources.html

 

Zoological Catalogue of Australia

By Gary C. B. Poore, James K. Lowry, Australia

• The compilation of the Zoological Catalogue of Australia is conducted under the auspices of the Australian Biological Resources Study [Canberra

 

The Blue Mountains

http://www.bluemts.com.au/tourist/about/history-detail.asp

A Remarkable Road

In 1814, William Cox, an extraordinary engineer, assembled a team of thirty convicts and eight guards to build a road across the Blue Mountains.

Starting at Emu Plains on the 18^th July 1814, in just four months the team had completed a road covering a distance of 47 miles to Mount York.

In just six months, Cox had crossed the Blue Mountains with a road of one hundred and one miles all the way to Bathurst. (The Bathurst Road).

 

• THE INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR CONVICT STUDIES

http://iccs.arts.utas.edu.au/data/convictmaids.html

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 . THE SHIPS HAVE DOCKED

Jeffrey H Bent had arrived on the Broxbornebury along with Judith and the children on July 28 1814. The Broxbornebury carried some very prestigious people. Judith is not likely to have been one of them with her husband a convict.

Known to have been on the Broxbornebury in the ” upper classes “were :

BARBER, George (c1795-1844) came free to reunite with his mother in Sydney in 1814, when he travelled on the Broxbornebury. His mother’s second husband , Charles Throsby was a surgeon and Magistrate.

SIR JOHN JAMIESON.

J.H BENT. MAGISTRATE OF THE SUPREME COURT

JOHN HORSLEY.

MRS MARY GREENWAY

GEORGE WILLIAMS

JOHN STILLWELL

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It seems that nine of the convicts on the Surrey I had free wives on the Broxbornebury most with children. That means that Judith travelled for months in close company with them. Through deaths, births, illnesses and all the attending circumstances of such a voyage. The voyage lasted 5 months and app 200 people were on board.

For me, I am now wondering what connections might have continued between the McNallys and the other Voyagers once they had arrived in NSW. Most of the Female convicts were sent to the FEMALE FACTORY at PARRAMATTA.

(This is also the year in which John READY came as convict on THE THREE BEES and was assigned to GOVERNMENT HOUSE WINDSOR where his mother, JOHANNAH, was HOUSEKEEPER. JOHANNAH had been transported on the ARCHDUKE CHARLES in 1812.  At the same time ANN MORAN and JOHN CURTIS were in the PARRAMATTA area. )

http://lynnesheritage.wordpress.com/?s=parramatta

FREE WOMEN WITH CHILDREN WHOSE HUSBANDS WERE ON THE SURRY I OR HAD COME ON OTHER SHIPS AS CONVICTS.

I am listing them as a group on the presumption that they would have shared quarters or been in very close contact and that they would have had at least slightly different conditions from the convict women.

The CROSS and BOGG families were on board and

• JANE CROSS later lived with JOHN HORSLEY and had 8 children to him. ROBERT CROSS was on SURREY I.

JANE DAVIS and her children.

ANN THOMPSON and son WILLIAM. The Pitt Town connection comes in here. Ann’s husband who was an educated convict set up a school at Pitt Town – and Ann joined him on her arrival in 1814.

JOSEPH FERNANCE AND HIS MOTHER MARY. Mary and her husband John had a large number of children once they were reunited and five of these children were born in PITT TOWN as was Melinda.

• ANNE GAINS and her child JANE. Her husband died on the SURREY I.

MRS GREENAWAY and 3 children.

• HANNAH HINSHAW ( Henshal/Henshaw) and children. the HINSHAWS were living in KENT STREET in the 1828 Muster ( as were the MacNallys) Husband JOHN on SURREY I.

The GREGORY family who travelled with a convicted mother. In later year Mr Bogg, shoemaker, apprentices one of the Gregory boys. Following the death of their mother and the return to England of their father the Gregory Boys were placed in the MALE ORPHAN SCHOOL- but in 1826, Mr Bogg takes on George. Young Edward is apprenticed to the Institute of Shoemakers, perhaps with some influence from Mr Bogg. Mr Gregory was on the SURREY I as a free settler.

(These are the kind of connections I am seeking. A trip of that nature under the circumstances existent in the lives of the Voyagers – What are the later connections ? What bonds formed during the Journey? How did they overlap on the ship and in the Colony ? Of what import were these people in the lives of the McNallys in after years – if any ? )

ELIZABETH HOWELL and her 3 children.

• SARAH BLADES. Husband THOMAS on SURRY I.

MARIA COWAN and her son.

MARY MCPHERSON and 3 children.

SUSAN NEWSHAM with 3 children.

• HANNAH RAE ROBINSON and children. Husband RICHARD on SURREY I.

ELIZABETH TOFT and children.

SARAH TOOL and child. With her husband SARAH and family lived at Castlereagh and Windsor and when defeated by farming. they .like the McNallys came into Sydney to live in Kent Street.

THE WHEELER FAMILY , JANE and children. IN 1828, they were living in Castlereagh street as was Melinda. One of the daughters Maria had married JAMES MORRIS JNR and her sister had married one of the BOGGS.

• ANN WHITTAKER and her two sons. Her husband THOMAS was on SURRY I with Patrick and in the Colony they went on to run a hotel in the ROCKS.

ELIZABETH WISE and children

DOROTHY WOOD and her daughter.

• MARY WRIGHT whose husband was on the SURRY I.

 

• SOPHIA KINGSMORE a convict woman later marries JOHN KING from the SURREY I.

Some of the Broxbornebury voyagers owned or managed hotels in the Colony. An easily accessible meeting place for the Sydneysiders.

Harriet Horne, one of the convict women, made a second marriage to a Mr Drinkwater and they also were living in Kent St in the 1828 Muster.

Norah Murphy one of the convict women was living in Kent St in 1825 Muster.

ANN WILSON married a Mr Hilliard and she died in Kent street in 1839.

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see also these sites :

• CONVICT WOMEN ON THE BROXBORNEBURY. http://members.iinet.net.au/~perthdps/convicts/confem46.html

 

• Female Family Founders Database – List of Records  

          http://www.femalefactory.com.au/FFRG/pdfs/D.pdf.

• THE GREGORY FAMILY : ACROBATS, CONVICTS AND CRICKETERS.  http://www.janetreakesgenealogy.com/MemorialAward/2005JRMA3.pdf

 

• http://www.geocities.com/heartland/park/2283/vessels/broxbornebury.html

 

• THORNTONS

Sarah THORNTON, now a convict, arrived Sydney Colony on 28th July, 1814 with two of her children, Sarah and Samuel Jnr (who was born on the sea, dated 23rd June 1814), leaving a kid behind in England. They sailed on the “Broxbornebury” while Samuel THORNTON was abroad on the “Somersetshire” as a free settler, arrived on 16th October on the same year. In the shipping records, Samuel THORNTON was stated as 31 years old free settler.

 

• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-CONVICTS/2000-12/0976251288

 

• http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2008-08/1219981646

 

• http://www.ozigen.com/p30790.htm

 

• BROXBORNEBURY PASSENGER LIST  http://members.optusnet.com.au/evhook/Brox%20Pass.htm

 

East India Company Ships http://www.eicships.info/index.html

 

• http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2004-09/1095108116

 

• http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/read/AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS/2004-09/1095140283

 

• http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1801679

 

• http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.lilbemont/1.2.1.1.1.1.1/mb.ashx

 

• ARK . http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/searches/subjectView.asp?ID=O93778

 

• ANN SMITH IN LINCOLNSHIRE ARCHIVES

Convicts Details

SMITH, Ann of Southrey

Alias:  WARDLE, WARDELL

Age: 31

Crime: Breaking into the shop of William Holland and stealing 7 pieces of print, a web of Irish linen, 36 handkerchiefs, a part of a web of calico, 3 pairs of women’s cotton hose and sundry other articles

Place of crime: Southrey

Court: Assize

Trial date: 31/07/1813

Sentence: Death, commuted to life

Ship: Broxbornebury

Destination: New South Wales

Transportation Date: 1814

Sources Used: Calendar of sentences

Other Remarks: Single woman

Document Ref: MISC DEP 560

http://microsites.lincolnshire.gov.uk/archives/ConvictsResults.asp?court=&destination=&ship=Broxbornebury

 

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(Elizabeth Hook’s CD Book JOURNEY TO A NEW LIFE , carries many details of the Vessels, Crew, Passengers and their lives in the Colony. ) We purchased this early on and it is valuable and available. Check Google for purchase details. It verifies some of the information we have been locating and, of course,provides much more for those interested in the BROX, the SURREY, the GEORGE HEWITT.

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NAMES OF CONVICTS ARRIVING IN AUSTRALIA 1811-1813

http://jamesmc.pinewoodrecords.com.au/bk27.htm

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Highlights and lowlights in the lives of the convict women of Van Diemen’s Land

http://www.notoriousstrumpets.com/Strumpets%20page/Highlights.htm

Louisa Atkins [Broxbornebury] was aged 14 years when transported for larceny.

Alice Robson [Broxbornebury] was forced to walk the 35 miles from George Town to Launceston wearing a 6¼lb iron collar, as punishment for being a ‘profligate adulteress’

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JUDITH MILLARD

http://www.flamstead-herts.co.uk/mag/apr2001.html

Judith was delivered, shamed and ironed in an open cart to Northfleet and placed aboard the convict ship BROXBORNEBURY, and with 119 other female prisoners and settlers, sailed on 22 February 1814 in convoy with the SURRY, carrying 200 male convicts and settlers, for Port Jackson.

• http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628971

 

• CONVICT CONNECTIONS http://home.overflow.net.au/~vicval/index.htm

 

• http://members.pcug.org.au/~ppmay/ships.htm  SHIPS LISTS MAYBERRY

 

• http://www.williamsfamilyoz.com/ WILLIAMS FAMILY

 

• Greenway, Francis (1777 – 1837) http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010434b.htm

 

• History of Cricket THE GREGORYS http://historyofcricket.blogspot.com/

On the 25 May, 1835 Reverend John McGarvie married Edward to Mary Ann Smith at the Scot’s Church in Elizabeth Street, Sydney.

• Sir John Jamison (1776 – 29 June 1844)

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Jamison

 

• http://www.weymouth-dorset.co.uk/sutton-poyntz.html

 

Mary Lawrence, a widow, residing at Sutton Poyntz and late of Melcombe Regis, otherwise called Mary Butt was indicted on 24th March 1813 with feloniously stealing a watch with chain and key, the property of Thomas Courtin, from his dwelling house in Melcombe Regis.

Mary was aged 22 years when she was tried at the Summer Assizes in August that year and after spending several months in prison, she was transported to Australia for seven years. She left on board the Broxbornebury which arrived in Sydney in July 1814.

 

 

JANE JONES STILWELL WEBSTER
1795 -1868

Jane Jones grew up in the Soho district of London, the daughter of William Jones a glassmaker. She was 4’10 ½” tall, of fair complexion with black hair and hazel eyes. On 16th May 1812 aged 17 she and her friend Ann Rogers aged 15, robbed a public house of 4 loaves of bread, 1lb butter, 5 eggs, 1 fowl, a cheese, silver cutlery, plates, basin, tinder box and the entire till holding 140 pennies, 2,124 halfpennies & 463 farthings. A Beadle and Constable caught them coming home and they were locked up in the Watchhouse. Two months later in the Old Bailey they were found guilty and sentenced to death, but because of their young age the sentence was commuted to transportation to the colonies for life.  READ ON

• Thomas Blade(s) born about 1780 http://genforum.genealogy.com/blades/messages/475.html

 

http://home.vicnet.net.au/~dcginc/convictsEK.html

 

• SOMMERS AND FERNANCE GENEALOGY  http://www.markbutz.com/genealogy/sommers_fg.html

 

• Matthew Pearson Thompson

 

 

• http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/church/stjames_pitttown.html

 

• Lawrence Convicts to Australiahttp://phoenix.meccahosting.com/~a00027cb/convicts.html

 

• http://www.jenwilletts.com/colonial_events_14.htm COLONIAL EVENTS 1814

 

• http://maxpages.com/ourlostfamily/Convict_Ships

 

• http://www5.geometry.net/scientists/cocker_edward.html

 

• RELAND family – Tasmania, Victoria and New South Wales http://www.flexi.net.au/~rkbt/more_research.html

 

• Female Convicts on Broxbornebury 1814

 

• MORE WILLIAMS FAMILY http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Ronald-Ralph-Williams

 

 

IN THIS YEAR : 1814

AS noted before this is the year in which the McNallys arrived in NSW. Judith was on board the BROXBORNEBURY with Mary, William and Eliza. Patrick on board the SURRY I as a convict. With access to the historic newspapers , I have been able to locate further details of the Colony in the year of their arrival.  Here are some of the stories.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628832

SYDNEY GAZETTE 12 FEBRUARY 1814.

The Surry I and Broxbornebury arrived on July 28, 1814. Earlier in the year, Mrs McArthur found it necessary to caution all persons against trespassing upon any part of her grounds. The Grounds were in the vicinity of PARRAMATTA and Mrs Mac was offering a reward due to the destruction which had been caused by trepassers.

Mr Jenkins ( to whose son Melinda writes the memorial poem many years later) was auctioning a variety of goods. These included a large and valuable collection of BOOKS. He also had some excellent drawing paper,pencils and Paints.

Several thousand Prime Salted Seal Skins were also being sold. Richard Jones was selling them by Private Contract  but if they didn’t sell that way, they were to be auctioned by Mr Bevan.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628869 In March , 1814, a soldier of the 73d regiment was bit on the hand by a snake. He was out at Windsor. The wound was immediately incised and the poisoned bit taken out – nevertheless the soldier underwent several hours of extreme illness which included a  ” debilitating stupor”.

Richard Carr , a landholder at Nepean was bitten on the foot in the same week but his fate had not been ascertained by the Gazette at the time of printing. “One of the most dangerous species of the viper tribe” was the description of this snake.

Snakes it was. One was seen in Mrs Reibey’s warehouse. Right in the city that was. The snake escaped down a small aperture in the floor. Another was seen in the yard of 96 George Street. That one vanished but an old man mixing mortar “felt a severe stroke upon the instep”, looked down, saw a snake and severed its head from it body promptly with his spade.  He didn’t know whether or not he had bitten but suffered no ill effects.

All this is happening while the McNallys are in England and then on board the ships. The Surry I , as it will turn out is affected by a terrible disease. They have come from Canada at war, through court martial and transportation – and when they reach this end – its likely to be SNAKES !

The Gazette looked for an explanation of the sudden influx of snakes into the City and came to the conclusion that they were being brought in in the hollow parts of trees coming from the country as fuel. A strong suggestion is made to a) examine the trees carefully and b) keep them stored at a great distance from the ‘frequented parts of inhabited premises”. Good advice to this very day ! In addition, it seems the elderly mortar making gentleman gad thick worsted stockings worn loosely about his ankles. An other good idea !

 

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628869

The McNallys are also en route to a country with a very warm climate. The Gazette has some tips for

“PREVENTION OF THE FATAL EFFECTS OF DRINKING COLD WATER OR COLD LIQUORS OF ANY KIND IN WARM WEATHER OR WHEN HEATED BY EXERCISE OR OTHERWISE”

Here are some of the lifesaving ideas.

• Avoid drinking whilst warm
• Drink only a small quantity at once.
• Let the liquid remain a small time in the mouth before swallowing it.
• Wash the hands and face and rince the mouth with cold water before drinking

 

Should these precautions have been neglected and the effects of drinking cold water are showing, then ” the only remedy to be administered is 60 drops of laudanum in  spirit and water, or warm drink of any kind ”

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SYDNEY GAZETTE 2 JULY 1814 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628941

The Rev Henry Fulton:

(in whose school Charles Tompson Jnr ( Poet) was educated  and who was deeply involved in the incidents of 1822-23 which led to Patrick McNally being gaoled for a time and tried for Pig Stealing prior to removing himself and his family from the Castlereagh area and taking up residence in Kent Street in Sydney proper )

In July of 1814 Mr Fulton is Chaplin of Castlereagh and Richmond. He advertised that he would be opening his school on 11 July 1814. The School was situated in the Parsonage House. The school was for the “Accommodation of a few young gentlemen not exceeding twelve.”

The good Rev was planning to teach Latin, Greek Classics, French and English grammatically, Writing and “such parts of the Mathematics both in theory and practice as may suit the taste of the Scholar”.

This is the dedication Tompson wrote for the Reverend Gentleman in his book WILD NOTES: FROM THE LYRE OF A NATIVE MINSTREL.

TO THE REV HENRY FULTON

CASTLEREAGH-HOUSE.

Dear Sir,

   To you beneath whose kind and fostering tuition I lived the rosy hours of childhood and imbibed those qualities which were erewhile the early promptures of my muse, i respectfully inscribe these buddings of my fancy; considering that, in acting thus, I am but perfomring a small part of that grateful duty I owe you, as my former tutor  with which title your paternal behaviour always blended the joint idea of father and friend.

Believe me dear Sir

   with the highest respect and veneration

       your obedient and grateful Servant,

            CHARLES TOMPSON Jnr.

Clydesdale March 1 1826.

 

Terms were 50 pounds sterling per annum.

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In the Rocks area of Sydney , Richard Archbold had just arrived in the Colony and he, too, was opening a school. In his case he was planning to instruct children of both sexes. A SEMINARY OF INSTRUCTION he called it. No 7 Gloucester Street, The Rocks. Richard proposed to teach READING WRITING AND ARITHMETIC. He offered bookkeeping if required and assured parents that he would pay attention to the MORAL as well as the other “duties of his avocation”.

Richard also offered and Evening Academy for the improvement of those at a more advanced stage and whose occupations may interfere  with daily attendance. Terms were said to be moderate.

IN THIS YEAR : 1814 FROM THE NLA

THE NATIONAL LIBRARY HISTORIC NEWSPAPER ARTICLE REPORTING THE ARRIVAL OF THE SURRY i AND THE BROXBORNEBURY IN DETAIL.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article628954

The Sydney Gazette and… Saturday 30 July 1814, page 2.

MUDIE ON CONVICT AND THEIR LADIES

MUDIE WAS DILIGENT IN PURSUING A MAN BY THE NAME OF WATTS. HERE IS AN EXTRACT OF THE ISSUES WHICH INCENSED SAID MUDIE. THESE COVER THE PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH MELINDA MARRIES BASIL.

The date of Mr. Cavanagh’s first application to’Mr.
Hely, relative to Watt, was 7th January, 1835; and, a
document published in the Sydney Monitor of September
12, 1836, certifies, in the usual wav, that Jemima Chapman
was delivered of a female child in the factory, on
the 17th of April, 1834, and that the said child was the
offspring of her (the said Jemima Chapman, a convict),
and of William Watt, also a convict.
This certificate is of the birth of the first of the children
born by Chapman to Watt ; and Mr. Cavanagh, in
his charges, and also in his affidavit, declares that Watt
and Chapman were actually cohabiting together at the
time that his (Mr. Cavanagh’s) charges were preferred, and
that they had been so cohabiting together for years, and
had issue !
These dates are very important; for, about six months
afterwards, when the author of this work, then a justice
of the peace, at length succeeded in bringing Watt before
a bench of magistrates, justice was again defeated, —
and one of the pretexts for defeating justice was, that the
alleged offence of the cohabitation had taken place so
long ago, that it was not fit that it should now be entertained !
The circumstances attending the second ineffectual
attempt to bring Watt to justice are still more extraordinary
than those which have just been narrated.

PATRICK WAS ASSIGNED TO HIS WIFE JUDITH MCNALLY. ONCE AGAIN MUDIE HAD STRONG OPINIONS ABOUT THESE MATTERS AND THE POWER AS MAGISTRATE TO ACT UPON SOME OF THEM.

Indeed, the more knowing ones, — that is, the very
worst characters amongst the convicts, — seldom undergo
any real punishment at all.
Whether thieves, burglars, receivers, forgers, swindlers,
or mail coach robbers, if they are ” well up to the
trick,” they bring out with them letters to some of the ”
old hands” in the colony, so as to ensure their being
applied fort as assigned servants by persons of the right
sort.
If they have secured a portion of the plunder they
had acquired in England, they easily make themselves
comfortable ; for in that case they enter into copartnery,
under the rose, with some one or other of the
emancipated felonry, who, being enabled by the funds of
their convict partners to take houses or enter into business,
apply to have their partners assigned to them as
servants, and the gentlemen convicts fall upon a bed
of roses at once !
If a wife has been left in England with the charge of
the spoil, she follows her husband in the first ship ; —
on her arrival she takes a house, and then petitions the
Governor to have her husband, — the father of her children,-—
assigned to her as her servant, — in which petition

her husband of course joins. If she has no children of
her own, three or four brats are easily borrowed in Sydney
for the purpose of stage effect ; and off she sets for
government-house, where the sight of the affliccted
lady and her little ones of course has a wonderful influence
over the sympathetic Governor Bourkc.
In short, having brought with her a supply of the “
saag,” as the convicts call their ill -gotten cash, a wife
seldom fails of having her husband assigned to her, in
which case the transported felon finds himself his own
master, in possession of all the present wealth his past
nefarious courses may have procured for him, — and on
the road to future fortune.
For the very worst characters who are transported,
therefore, it appears that New South Wales is not any
punishment at all, or at least that it is easy for them,
owing to the careless laxity and childish leniency of the
colonial authorities, to evade the punishment which their
crimes have merited.

 

it
appears from the census, taken in September, 1833, published in
the next Government Gazette after the 1st December, 1833, that
it was then estimated that there were in this colony, free males
above twelve years of age, 18,878; convict males, 21,445, and
that he had been informed that the number of free emigrants since
arrived, up to November, 1835, has been 2800, of whom 905 are
men, the rest being women and children ; and that the number of
convicts airived since the same time, has been 8163, of whom

7357 are males.

MUDIE ON HIS DISMISSAL AS A MAGISTRATE

The author treats his dismissal from the magistracy by
Governor Bourke, or any other attempt at putting an
affront or indignity upon him, by such a. government as that
of New South Wales now is, with as much contempt and
scorn as he treated the accusations of his convict servants,
to which the colonial government listened, or were disposed
to listen, with so much eagerness.
He does not exaggerate, when he declares that he considers
the good or bad opinion of the convicts themselves,
or the good or bad opinion of their convict-loving governors,
as being precisely of the same value, or rather as
being equally insignificant and worthless.
Nay, considering who the gentlemen are, along with
whom the author was dismissed from the magistracy, he
looks upon his dismissal as a positive honour conferred
upon him, instead of an indignity.

BRINGING IN JOHN MCGARVIE AND THOMAS BARKER

Of these operations General Darling says, (referring
to a time at which, while governor of the colony, he had
done the author the distinguished honour of visiting him
at his residence on the Hunter) ” My stay at Castle Forbes
was so short that I had not an opportunity of going over
your grounds : but, judging from the farm-yard, there
could be no doubt that they were well cultivated, and
I remember remarking that the stacks of wheat were very
numerous, and on a larger scale than I recollected to
have seen on any former occasion.”
The Rev. John M’Garvie, minister of St. Andrew’s
Church, Sydney, says, “The estate of Castle Forbes
presents one of the most extensive and best conducted
agricultural establishments in New South Wales ; and,
as you were the first settler in that vicinity calculated to
get an example of spirited enterprise to your less opulent
neighbours, I feel confident that the extent and judicious
management of that estate have tended, in a most material
degree, to give that pleasing, comfortable, and
British-like aspect to the whole district, for which it is
remarkable.”
Thomas Barker, Esq., a mag-istrate, and the most ex-

tensive purchaser of grain in the colony, says, ” I have
had opportunities of informing myself of the numerous
difficulties a settler contends with, in bringing a tract of
country into cultivation ; and having visited your late
estate of Castle Forbes,” ” my opinion of your agricultural
exertions is formed from seeing the state of your
farm in 1834, with the barn yard full of the largest wheat
stacks I ever witnessed ; doubtless your exertions must
have been : very great, and you must have expended a
considerable sum of money in improvements, for amongst
the settlers in that respectable district, I do not know
any who cultivated so extensively, and sent so much
wheat to the Sydney market.”

 

A LETTER REGARDING JAMES MUDIE FROM JOHN MCGARVIE WHO MARRIED MELINDA AND BASIL ON AUG 1 1835

From the Rev. John M’Garvie, Minister of St. Andrew’s
Scots Church, Sydney. .
Sydney, 30th March, 1836.
Dear Sir,
I have this moment received your letter, in
which you request me to state, whether I ” have heard or
known any thing to affect your character, as a private Gentleman,
or as a Magistrate ;” and also, what I ” know respecting
the extent of your agricultural exertions, and your mode
of treatment of the convicts in your employment.”
It gives me much pleasure to state, that,
during a personal acquaintance of more than seven years, I
have neither known nor heard any circumstance that could
affect your character, as a private Gentleman or as a respected
member of society. I have had occasion to sojourn in your
house at Castle Forbes ; I have repeatedly exercised the

duties of my sacred calling, in the family of your nearest
relatives, where you resided, and I have often met you in
private life ; and I have not the slightest hesitation in adding
to that of your numerous friends, my humhle tribute of
testimony to the correctness of your deportment and excellence
of your character.
The estate of Castle Forbes presents one of
the most extensive and best conducted agricultural establishments
in New South Wales; and as you were the first settler
in that vicinity calculated to set an example of spirited enterprise
to your less opulent neighbours, 1 feel confident that
the extent £nd judicious management of that estate have
tended, in a most material degree, to give that pleasing, comfortable,
and British-like aspect, to the whole district, for
which it is remarkable.
It also comes within my own knowledge,
that you have given encouragement to the performance of
divine service, in your own house, when opportunity offered ;
that you have proposed to set apart a portion of ground on
your own estate, for the erection of a church ; and in every
instance in which ministers of our communion (and of these
I speak with perfect certainty) have expressed a desire to
exercise their sacred functions, at Patrick’s Plains, or Castle
Forbes, you have forwarded their views, and opened your
hospitable mansion for their reception. When I attended at
Castle Forbes, I was particularly gratified by the appearance
of comfort, regularity, and respect, presented by the convict
portion of the audience.
As I have not been present on any occasion
when you have exercised the office of Magistrate, I do not
feel so competent to give an opinion, as other friends perfectly
acquainted with the subject. But your firmness, discrimination,
urbanity, and strict love of justice and truth, in
private life, enable me to judge that upright and honourable

feelings only have actuated your conduct, in dispensing justice
and law, impartially, to Bond and Free.
On the eve of your departure, I cannot
close this letter without an assurance of the happiness it will
give to your numerous friends, to hear of your safe arrival
in England and speedy return to Australia. For your future
happiness, I can only add my most fervent wishes.
I am,
Yours truly (
Signed) JOHN M’GARVIE.

 

AND FROM THOMAS BARKER EMPLOYER OF THE KENDALL BROTHERS AND PATRICK MCNALLY

From Thomas Barker, Esq., a Magistrate for the Territory,
and the most extensive Purchaser of Grain in the Colony.
Sydney, 2dth March, 1836.
My Dear Sir

 

have had opportunities of informing myself of the numerous
difficulties a settler contends with, in bringing a tract of
country into a state of cultivation, I having visited your late
Estate, Castle Forbes, you request my candid opinion of the
extent of your agricultural exertions.
With regard to the first question I can only
reply by reiterating the sentiments of every respectable Colonist, —
that I most sincerely believe you have at all times conducted
yourself as became a Gentleman, a greater proof of
which cannot be, than the estimation in which you are held
by persons of respectability, and the very close intimacy that
subsists between you and them.
With respect to your Magisterial capacity,
I have every reason to believe you have acted most conscientiously
in the discharge of the various arduous duties imposed
by that office.
My opinion of your agricultural exertions
is formed from seeing the state of your farm in 1834, with the
barn yard full of the largest wheat stacks I ever witnessed.
Doubtless your exertions must have been very great, and you
must have expended a considerable sum of money in improvements ;
for amongst the settlers in that respectable district, I
do not know any who cultivated so extensively, and brought so
much wheat to the Sydney market.
I cannot close this without an expression of
regret, that you should feel compelled to leave us. I trust,
however, we may shortly have the pleasure of again enjoying
your society. Believe me you carry with, you every good
wish for your safety and speedy return.
Yours very truly, (
Signed) THO. BARKER.