Marine and settler, Daniel Stanfield is reputed to have come from an English naval family. He arrived with the First Fleet at Port Jackson as a private in the marines. Promoted to corporal, he married Alice, widow of Thomas Harmsworth, on the 15 October 1791 at St Phillip’s Church, Sydney. In less than a month he was on duty at Norfolk Island. In 1794 he was discharged from the marines and sworn in as constable and started to farm. Stanfield talked of enlisting in the NSW corps and in 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 »
William Nash : Maria Haynes
William Nash was a Private Marine in the 58TH (Plymouth Company). He had served in 1784-86 on the Plymouth guard ship Bombay Castle, before embarking aboard Prince of Wales. William served at Port Jackson in the company of John Shea, Captain of the Marines. Maria Haynes / Nash accompanied William as his ‘common law wife, despite not being legally married to him at that time. As the baptismal record for their son William on 25 May 1788 indicate that she fell pregnant to William during the Continue Reading »
John : Hannah Beresford
The Berefords and Undine In December 2004, my husband Peter and I were very fortunate to be able to travel to Tasmania and stay in a bed and breakfast accommodation called Undine Colonial Accommodation. This is just out of Hobart in the suburb of Glenorchy. The right side of Undine, which appears to be the single storey, had been built about 1817 by my ancestors John and Hannah Beresford. The Continue Reading »
