SUSANNAH’S STORY Susannah GARTH/GRAH/GRATES/GOUGH Born c.1763, died June 1841, Hobart, Tasmania. Her Crime Feloniously stealing, on the 19th day of August 1783, nine guineas, value 91. 9s. and one half guinea, value 10s. and sixpence. Susannah was drinking with Elizabeth Dudgeon and a man thought to be a seaman who had just returned from Plymouth, possibly with his wages in his pocket. The man, William Waterhouse was warned to be more moderate, but replied “I mean to be gay”. Some of Continue Reading »
Edward Garth : Susannah Gough
Edward Garth was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 29 October 1784, two live cows, being the property of Thomas Rhodes the younger. He was reprieved on 3 March 1785 to transportation to Africa for seven years. Following time spent in the prison hulk he was sent to Portsmouth for embarkation on Scarborough. Immediately on arrival at Port Jackson, Edward was selected to go with the first group to settle Norfolk Island, which included six female and eight male convicts. One of the female Continue Reading »
Thomas Arndell : Elizabeth Dalton
Thomas Arndell was appointed as an assistant surgeon to the settlement of NSW on 25 October 1786 and made the voyage aboard Friendship. Through an apprenticeship at a young age, Thomas would late practice apothecary in St Martin’s Le Grand. He had five legitimate child with his wife Susanna but neglected her for Isabella Francesca Foscari, a Jewish Italian singer. By this time he had qualified at the Royal College of Surgeons on 6 September 1781 he abandoned both women and signed on the East Continue Reading »
William Hambley : Mary Springham
Mary Springham was tried at the Old Bailey for feloniously stealing, on the 5 March 1786, two guineas, value 21. 2s. and nine shillings in monies numbered, and an iron japanned snuff box, value 1d being the property of William and Mary Reynolds. Found guilty, Mary received a sentence of 7 years transportation, and was delivered to Lady Penrhyn on 6 January 1787. In Sydney Cove on 15 January 1790 a child William, by convict Mary Springham and William Hambly was baptised. William Hambly was Continue Reading »
Thomas Chipp : Jane Langley
Thomas Chipp was a Private Marine 42nd (Plymouth) Company. He arrived into Sydney Cove aboard the convict ship Friendship and served there in the detachment of Watkin Tench. At the end of his marine service Thomas decided to become a settler and left Port Jackson on 26 October 1791 by Atlantic for Norfolk Island. He settled on 60 acres at Cascade Stream, Phillipsburg. He was selling grain to stores in 1794, when he was listed as married to Jane Langley with three children. Jane Langley Continue Reading »
Ellen Wainwright
(alias Ester Eccles) was 17 years of age when she was tried at the Preston Quarter Sessions in January 1787, and found guilty, for having stolen a scarlet woollen cloak, a blue stuffed quilted petticoat and a black silk hat. Many years later Ellen’s daughter Mary Ann claims that her mother said very little about the Old Country, however she felt that her mother did not steal the goods at all, she felt that Mr Standen gave her mother the articles, but when the return on his investment was not Continue Reading »
Jacob Bellette : Edward Garth : Susannah Gough
Jacob Bellett was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 25 December 1784 one ells of half-ell manufactured lining, value 31. 8s. two pounds of unwound black silk, value 20s. thirty-two ounces of double black silk would value 31. 12s. the property of John Gearing, John Vaux, and Thomas John Taylor. Jacob was tried at the Old Bailey in 12 January 1785 and sentenced to seven years transportation. Arrived in Sydney Cove aboard Scarborough. Edward Garth was indicted for feloniously stealing on Continue Reading »
Elizabeth Hayward
was the youngest female convict, at 13, on the First Fleet. She received seven years transportation at the Old Bailey in January 1787, for being accused of stealing clothes from the clog maker she was working for. Elizabeth was on board the Lady Penrhyn for about three and a half months before the Fleet set sail. Read more on Elizabeth’s life story under Stories Honouring her WW1 Descendants 5133 Ronald Davie Private 12th Infantry Battalion, 18th Reinforcements, 13th Rifts Continue Reading »
Ellen Wainwright
Our First Fleet Connectionis the story of Ellen Wainwright, compiled by her descendant Lawrence Kauffman who gleaned the information from the historical record entitled Her Blood in Our Veins, as researched and recorded by Irene Donald also a descendant of Ellen Wainwright. To begin we need to go back to the year 1770 when Ellen Wainwright was born and to the year 1787 when at 17 years of age she was tried and found guilty of having stolen a scarlet woollen cloak, a blue stuffed quilted Continue Reading »
Convict Women
The First Woman Ashore Elizabeth Thackery was charged at the Manchester Assizes in 1786 of stealing a silk handkerchief. She was charged with theft and sailed for Botany Bay aboard Friendship with 97 other convicts. During the voyage, Elizabeth contracted several liaisons with various members of the Friendship’s crew. Elizabeth must have had some spirit for she was known as one of the fighting five a group of convict women who fought against their imprisonment at every step of Continue Reading »
