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James Squire

September 19, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Was sentenced to transportation for seven years at the General Sessions of the Peace for the Town and Hundred at Kingston upon Thames on 11 April 1785.  His crime was theft of four Cocks, five Hens and divers other Goods and Chattels the property of John Stacey.  He was held in Southwark gaol until the end of March 1787, when he was sent to Portsmouth, ordered to Friendship but embarked on Charlotte.  This was the second time James Squire/s had been transported. James Squire's Continue Reading »

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Ann Daly : John Seymour

April 10, 2017 by Cheryl Timbury

Port Jackson November 1788, convict girls Ann Daly (Warburton) and Amelia Levy were sharing a hut together.  A fire was kept lit between their hut and Ann Farmer; sometimes in the evenings John Ryan and Bartholomew Reardon took advantage of the warmth from the fire. During the evening of 11 November a man had come into the girl’s hut and taken some clothing.  Ann claimed that she was lying awake in her hut when the door opened and a man came in. She thought the man had come in after Continue Reading »

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Thomas Prior : Rebecca Davidson

October 20, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

In the Anglican Section of the Old Sydney (Devonshire/Sandhills) Burial Ground, was a very small headstone that marked the grave of Thomas Prior.  The stone was embellished with several Masonic emblems and inscribed with the wording: Sacred to the memory of THOMAS PRIOR, who departed this Life, July 24th, 1836, Aged 88 Years, who Arrived in the first fleet 1788.  Freemasonry has been associated with the British discovery and settlement of New South Wales from the beginning. Thomas Prior Continue Reading »

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Walter Batley : Martha Baker

May 29, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

Convict Walter Batley whose aliases were Walton Batley or John Rowse, Rouse or Rous, was aged 28 when he was discharged into Friendship.  Ralph Clark noted that he was a bricklayer born in Norfolk. At the Old Bailey Sessions which began on Wednesday 29 October 1783, Walter Batley was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 24 September 1783, seven woollen sailor’s jackets value 20s, two woollen sailor’s jackets value 10s, seven white flannel jackets value 3s, six pair of breeches value 12s, Continue Reading »

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John Baughan : Mary Cleaver

April 5, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

John Bingham or Baughan, alias Innis Baffin, cabin maker, was convicted at Oxford England, in 1783 for having stolen five woollen blankets being the goods of John Shorter.  Sentenced to seven years transportation to America, he was delivered aboard the ship Mercury on 22 March 1784 with 21 other convicts.  The ship was seized by the convicts off Torbay Cornwall; he was one of 66 recaptured and held on Dunkirk Hulk until being transferred to the First Fleet transport Friendship.  The Reverend Continue Reading »

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The Second Fleet

January 25, 2016 by Cheryl Timbury

The Second Fleet Arrives at Sydney Cove Horrifying Conditions says Chaplain Richard Johnson Long awaited ships from England have arrived bringing with them a load of problems far outweighing their aid to the Colony. Lady Juliana arrived June 3, 1790, was found to carry not food but female convicts, mainly elderly and infirm.  Justinian, arrived June 20, brought food and news that the principal store ship, Guardian, had founded off the Cape of Good Hope. The ships carried the Continue Reading »

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John Arscott : Catherine Prior

November 28, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

John Arscott was a carpenter and a native of Truro, Cornwall, England, being baptised on 22 March 1767, as the probable son of Samuel Arscott and Mary Barnes.  John was sentenced at Bodmin Assizes Cornwall, on 18 August 1783 to seven years’ transportation to America, for three crimes: (a) For burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Philip Polkinghorne about 1 in the night and stealing 2 silver watches value 40s.  (b) For burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Continue Reading »

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Joseph Wright

September 2, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 6 May 1784, two-hundred and eighteen pounds weight of lead, value 40s belonging to William Rothwell.  Tried in the Old Bailey on 26 May 1784, he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years transportation.  Joseph spent the next three years on the Censor Hulk before embarkation aboard Scarborough; he was then aged around 20.  The next recorded entry on Joseph was when he married Eleanor (Ellen) Gott (Neptune 1790) at St Phillip Church Sydney on 13 Continue Reading »

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John Martin

July 29, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

Our Caribbean Negro convict John Martin, was born circa 1755 and died with is family around him as his time came to an end in 1837.  Nothing is known about him prior to his conviction, nor is it likely we will ever find more. By following history, the African Negro, 'Caribbean' at that time, with his parents or grandparents, would have been slaves sent to the American colonies.  In those days and later many Negroes joined ships as sailors or as stowaways, during the American War. This Continue Reading »

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John Randall

July 29, 2015 by Cheryl Timbury

John Randall, a 6 foot high, well-made black American Negro labourer, came to Australia aboard the transport ship Alexander with the First Fleet on 26 January 1788. John was sentenced to seven years transportation on 14 April 1785 at Manchester Quarter Sessions for stealing a steel watch chain, the property of Joseph Wardle.  Sent to the Ceres Hulk early in 1786, aged 21, he was delivered to the transport Alexander on 6 January 1787, mustered on board by Major Robert Ross in March as Reynolds, Continue Reading »

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