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 »
Andrew Goodwin : Lydia Munro
Andrew Goodwin and William Bulter were tried in the Old Bailey for feloniously stealing, on the 22 June 1784, two hundred pounds weight of lead, value 20s, the property of Thomas Wells. Both found guilty. Each received transportation for seven years and arrived Sydney Cove aboard Scarborough. Lydia (Letitia) Munro and Ann Forbes were tried on 5 April 1787 for stealing in the shop of James Rollinson ten years of printed cotton of the value of 20s of the goods and chattels of Continue Reading »
Jacob Bellett
a Silk Weaver, made off with 51 ells of half-ell lining, one pound of unwound black silk, and 32 ounces of double black silk would, and was chased by the worker who missed them. Found later by searchers, he was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 12 January 1785 to seven year’s transportation. Following time spent in the prison hulks he embarked on 24 January 1787 on Scarborough. In March 1790, Jacob was sent to Norfolk Island, where he successfully farmed and was selling grain to the public 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 »
Daniel Stanfield : Alice Harmsworth : Edward Kimberley
Daniel Stanfield was a Private Marine, 55th (Portsmouth) Company. He served at Port Jackson in the company of Captain James Campbell and was to have a well-documented history in the colony. Alice Harmsworth accompanied her husband Thomas, a Private Marine and their two children, arriving aboard the Prince of Wales. On the 25 February 1788, a few weeks after arriving in Sydney Cove, Alice lost her son Thomas who had been born on the voyage followed by Thomas in the April. Two years later Continue Reading »
Philip Gidley King
was born at Launceston Cornwall on 23 April 1758. He was commissioned lieutenant in the navy on 25 November 1778, having served in the East Indies and in American waters since 1770. In October 1786 he went on Sirius as 2nd lieutenant for the voyage to NSW. On arrival at Port Jackson King was appointed commandant of a group going to settle Norfolk Island. On the Island he formed an association with Ann Inett by whom he had two sons, Norfolk and Sydney. Both boys received a good education in Continue Reading »