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Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Mary Ayton was transported on the Surrey Or Surry, departing 28th Mar 1840 and arriving 13th Jul 1840 with 214 passengers.
Built at Harwich in 1811 a square-rigged transport ship of 443 tons and copper lined she had two decks with a height between decks of 5 ft. 8 ins. In 1818, she had a major refit increasing the decks (and convict carrying capacity) to three. She was owned by the London firm of F. & C.F. Mangles.
Surrey Or Surry (generic)References
| Primary Source | State Archives NSW (Indents: NRS 12189; Item X642A; Microfiche 744). Ancestry. Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 91, Class and Piece Number HO11/12, Page Number 181 (92) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
Claims
"27 grandchildren of Sarah Taylor-McCann are 5TH GENERATION of GreatAunt Mary Ayton."
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Convict Notes
Highway Robbery near Brighouse. On Saturday night last a robbery took place on the Wakefield turnpike-road, about half a-mile on the other side of Brighouse in which the villains succeeded in making clear off with their booty. The Brighouse policeman being speedily made acquainted with the circumstances, made good use of his time as in two or three hours to capture two of the thieves ; and a third was afterwards taken in Halifax. The prisoners were brought up at our Magistrates’ on Monday, but were then remanded until Thursday. On Thursday, J. Warehouse, Esg., W, Bricos, Esg., and J. Rawsox, Esq. being on the bench, the case was fully gone into. The prisoners gave their names Mary Ayton, John Wilson, and Thomas Keighley. The woman appeared to be Irish and had a ring on her marriage-finger; Wilson was a middle aged man ... of light complexion and red hair; Keghley was an old man, who appeared ...on behalf of the prosecutor, Mr. Brearley, formerly the naval service, who resides at Mirfield. Mr. E. M, Wavell appeared for the defence, principally of the elder person, Keighley…. was the evidence on the part of the prosecution : — Mr George Brearley, being sworn, stated—l left Halitax by the car to Brighouse about eight o'clock ...; we arrived at Brighouse about half-past eight; and I left Brighouse on foot for home after having called at “The Wellington'’ for a basket which I had left there. I went along the Wakefield turnpike road, and had got past the well under Habearr wood, about half a mile from Brighouse, when | met with one woman and four or five men. … I can scarce be sure whether there was a fifth. As soon as I got up to them, the woman threw her arms round me, and putting her hand into my pocket took out the silver there was in it. I suppose it was about £5 10 l had been receiving some cottage rents; the -other was in my right hand trouser's pocket. The men then immediately closed upon me, and getting hold of me by the collar threw me down upon my back, and one man knelt upon my breast ; they put a handkerchief in my mouth and tied another handkerchief over my eyes. While the man was on my chest, they rifled all my pockets. … they took my purse out of my left hand trousers pocket; it had about twenty sovereigns in it; they also took out of the watch fob, my gold lever watch : it had a common metal chain with three small padlock keys and a metal watch key to it. They also took from my other pockets, two silver pencil cases, my keys, a pair of gold eye-glasses, a white hafted knife with three blades in it, a pair of nail scissors, and my pocket book which contained various memorandums, amongst them a valuation made by Mr. Chadwick for some land belonging to me in Mirfield. Mr. Brearley, (who is very deaf) was then requested by Mr, Higham to look at the prisoners. He was led to the woman Ayton and said, “This is the woman, I am certain it was her that seized me. I can swear to the man with the blue coat (Wilson.) There was also a man with a jacket on with sleeves, and I believe it was him who knelt upon my breast.” Keighley, who had on a huge coat, had been requested to take it off ; it was then seen that he had a jacket of this description, and on Mr. Brearley again looking at him he said— I can swear positively to that man being him.’ He then proceeded— After they had robbed me they left me and went forward in the direction of Brighouse and I followed after …. Halifax Guardian 13 July 1839. John Wilson, Mary Ayton, and Thomas Keithley, were charged with having assaulted George Breary, of Mirfield, and stolen from his person £20 and other articles.—To be transported for fifteen years. Hull Advertiser, 26 July 1839.
Whittingham Cemetery attendance..Fence sign: Snakes sighted in the area..The plot beside childless Mary Eaton is for "Alice Dawson,the adopted dearly beloved child of Mary and John Eaton of Singleton",..ALICE DAWSON would be aka Mary Eaton Durmons niece-Ellen Charlotte (Taylor) Durmon "who died in the 14th YEAR OF HER AGE on 31 December 1859".. Obviously George Durmon ,husband of Mary Eaton has also adopted one Ellen Charlotte Taylor-Durmon, a twin freely given by her birth mother my Ellen Doyle and Samuel Taylor from Fordwich. Ellen Charlotte was born June 1847 at Clarencetown. So 1859 is actually the 13TH YEAR of her age. But she was buried at the start of 1860 which was the 14TH YEAR of her age. Samuel Taylors wife left in Lancashire when he was transported, I believe was ALICE HOLDEN....ALICE DAWSON = ELLEN CHARLOTTE DURMON=ALICE HOLDEN. Further the sister of Ellen Charlotte, was a Kerry Taylor who is recorded as buried at Whittingham Cemetery 4 months died 1854. She lies in that joint grave too. The suspicious,strange gravestone inscription "HERE ARE ALSO THE REMAINS OF HER MOTHER MRS ALICE DAWSON DIED AUGUST 16TH 1854 IN THE 46TH YEAR OF HER AGE. I decipher those words as HER SISTER kERRY TAYLOR DIED IN THE FIRST YEAR OF HER AGE (FORTYSIX = FIRST).. .....Her sister Kerry Taylor is officially recorded as buried at Whittingham and it seems that above wording is for Kerry Taylor. The Taylor nieces and nephews of Mary Eaton-Durmon (baptised Ann Doyle) had decided to reveal Mary Eatons identity and close family by directing the stonemason to add some scratchmark letterage to reveal the fate of Kerry Doyle and her sister Ellen Charlotte. There appear at least four small written etched words on the headstone... ellen above (Mrs) A in Alice and taylor above LICE (Dawson).. kerry taylor scratched in above 46.... 4 chiseled in the stone betweenthe obscure 46 and th...a rough insertion of ellen charlot scratched on the stone below Here (are).1869 was when Samuel Taylor,the 4 Doyle convict siblings being their parents,aunt, uncles and 3 partners have all died.
THE FOUR DOYLE CONVICT SIBLINGS LEFT BEHIND THEIR STORY THRU THE WHITTINGHAM CEMETERY HEADSTONE OF THE LAST SURVIVOR ,THE YOUNGEST DOYLE, ANNE BORN IN COUNTY KERRY....The gravestone is for Mary Eaton, baptised after Irish birth as ANNE DOYLE, who applied to marry under another convict alias Mary Ayton. She requested a govenment permit to marry George Durman in the Hunter Valley which was registered as Mary Eaton on 1843 marriage record.This headstone is a PURPOSEFUL partial anagram (it seems using the maximum 3 missing letters rule) message identifying and providing details -the four Doyle names transported on recorded convict ships,their families-partners,children and 2 infant deaths,faith,birthplace,origins and Hunter Valley residences.
On the Whittingham Gravestone of Mary Eaton there is this sentence. MARY EATON THE BELOVED WIFE OF JOHN EATON OF SINGLETON.As per the 4 Doyle convict siblings penchant for anagram messages.The above highlighted sentence with rearranged lettering gives forth ANNE DOyLE, BORN AT ( place of the rose in county kerry) IRELAND to MicHAEL DOYLE AND MARgARET WEST...BApTISED AT LISTOWEL cATHOLIc cHURcH kILLARNEY,....SISTER OF ELLEN, FRANcIS, WILLIAM DOYLE....WIFE OF gEORgE DuRMON; MAcHINE BREAkER FROM WILTSHIRE ENgLAND...AuNT OF JOHN, JOSEPH ,BRIDgET, ELLEN cHARLOTTE,THOMAS,JAMES,FRANcIS TAYLOR and INFANT kERRY TAYLOR DIED FORDWIcH , WILLIAM cHAMBERS DIED MuRRuRUNDI. The following phrase on the headstone...... WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE. Again with rearranged lettering the message displays.... TRANSPORTED: mARy AyTOn -AnnE DOyLE ON SHIP SuRREy, gOERgE DuRmON ON SHIP ELEAnOR, ELLEn DOyLE ON SHIP HEnRY WELLESLEy, SAmuEL TAyLOR ON SHIP ROSLIn cASTLE, FRAncIS DOyLE ON SHIP SuSAn, ELEAnOR DOugHEy ON SHIP EDWARD, WILLIAm cHAmbERS-DOyLE ON SHIP mARy ANN, ELIzAbETH FORD ON SHIP mARy ANN.
That would make aka Mary Ayton 50 given born 1818. Ellen was 48. William Chambers(William Doyle) was 50. Daniel Doyle at Tenterfield in 1864 so 51 years of age. Samuel Taylor and the bub Kerry Taylor are buried separately at Whittingham Cemetery. Mary Eaton-Durmon probably was residing on the Taylors 5 acre communal bush block called "Killarney",caring for Joseph Taylor,22 and the 4 younger adolescents-Thomas James Bridget and Miss Francis 16. Joseph did remember Mary in subtley choosing the names of some of his grandchildren borne by his daughters, my Sarah McCann and her sister Nell Nell.
The convict shipping Indent fact that Mary Ayton listed Ellen as her sister, leads me to conclude that Mary Ayton was Ellens sister Anne Doyle,born 1818 in Kerry. The proposal and deflection stories that Anne Doyle-O'Brien the immigrant residing at Wellington/Bathurst/Carcoar NSW is the sister of Ellen Doyle-Taylor at Clarencetown/Fordwich is farcical and nonsensical. Carcoar burial records for Anne O'Brien list Margaret Welsh as her mother. Mary Ayton is on assignment at Dungog in 1843 before she marries later Pardoned machine-breaker George Durmon. Ellens son Joseph Taylor names his twins Ellen and Mary(a nun). That twin Ellen(Nell Nell) had 4 Coleman granddaughters, my 2nd cousins- MARY,ANNE, twins?-HELEN and Sally and 3 Grandsons, one being JOHN.. A George Durmon listed as Henry Dawson died 1857 at 53 at Singleton NSW.
Mary Ayton has told the police in UK that she and my ancestor Ellen Doyle were protestant sisters from Jersey and catholic Daniel Doyle was her brother. So several fibs from the poor four irish petty thieves in UK. Michael Doyle their father was catholic as were colonial convicts Anne, Ellen, Francis aka Daniel Doyle and brother aka William Chambers. Paul McCanns' pop Joseph Taylor indicated his mum Ellen as Irish,"she came from where the famous rose was .....that place." So she came from County Kerry. The Doyle family madeup anagram-type identities,locations,changed birthyears to avoid harsh sentencing. Jersey is a partial anagram of Kerry. Ayton takes 4 letters YTON from COUNTY kerry. Taking aliases and false details was a normal thing for the struggling people in UK. It was not their fault that they were poor and starving without property. I suspect Mary may have been unable to have children given the rampant disease and lack of medical help for poor pregnant women in UK. I do not expect that any direct descendants of Anne Doyle, aka Mary Eaton will surface as claimants to a relationship with descendants of Ellen Doyle and Samuel Taylor. I am the only OPEN PUBLIC genuine one it seems willing to speak out and record my family relationship to the Doyle convicts including Mary Ayton. I am not part of any current ongoing family group DAD games of silence,runaround and ridicule,acting like Maxwell Smart reporting in a cone to a faceless controller. There must be others who are dismayed at this activity and have silently withdrawn. Mary Ayton was assigned to the Hunter Valley by 1843 so near to Ellen Doyle. Siblings Ellen died from natural decay in 1864 at 49, William in 1871 at Fordwich aged 57. Daniel, baptised in 1812 as Francis Doyle lit out for California together with his LIFE sentence convicted wife Ellen Snell, leaving without a permit in 1850. They returned and remarried at East Maitland Catholic Church in 1855.Daniel died in 1864 at Tenterfield NSW.Three of Ellen Doyle's Taylor sons in the Colony also used anagrams to hide their convict heritage. A COMMON PRACTICE in the colony listed on the Hawkesbury convict notes.
It is clear that the surname AYTON has been formed from the YTON in ""County". Historical convict and colonial documents refer to the practice of convicts changing identity. In late 1849 husband Samuel Taylor gets 5 years for stealing a moocow near Seaham. So in 1850 a badly depressed mum,Ellen Doyle of 6 kids aged 8 and 5 kids under 4, was again gaoled for drunkenness...depression using name Healy. She formed the name HEALY from her dad,micHAEL and doYle.Thats what the Doyles did to hide their identity and shame. It seems May Ayton becomes the Taylor infants foster mum-carer again...
Non-Annotated Printed Indentures No. 180/40: Mary Ayton aged 24 Can read & write Protestant Single Native Place: Jersey Trade: General servant Tried: 11 July 1830 for Highway Robbery 11 previous punishments Remarks: Eyebrows partially meeting, scar between the same, scar inside right wrist, scar inside right thumb; sister, Ellen Doyle, transported five years ago; brother, Daniel Doyle, out same time
IMO Mary Ayton was Anne Doyle, born 1818 in Kerry and a sister of Ellen Doyle as she stated on her Ship Indent. I know that Ellen came from Kerry and was Catholic. Both girls listed Jersey as location. Just fibs from the Doyle family trying to deceive the Law. k..ERRY/j.ERsEY were both islands. Mary made up Ayton from letters in COUNTY kerry. Ellen Doyle-Taylor was the mum of dads pop Joseph Taylor,drover of Singleton/Liverpool Plains 1852-75.Joseph spoke of his mum Ellen. He also named his twins-Mary and Ellen Taylor.Mary Ayton married under false maiden name EATON to George Durmon in 1843 at Dungog. A Henry Dawson anagram for George Durmon died 1857 at Singleton.No trace of Mary after marriage but died Fordwich 1869. Have seen no DNA evidence of "genuine"descendants to 2022. THE LEVEL OF MATCHING DNA CENTIMORGANS WITH DESCENDANTS OF MARY AYTON WOULD BE VERY LOW.... ABOUT 10 CM ANYWAY !!!