Isabella Barnes

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iain Frazier on 4th December 2025

Family connections for Isabella (Barnes) are: BARNES Isabella (Rankeller/lier/Barnes) was born about 1772. She was tried for stealing a frock, on 2 4 1805, of Sarah (Stevens) at Old Bailey on 29 5 1805, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 12 7 1806 after a voyage of 6months on ALEXANDER; she was Protestant. She had a first relationship with Joseph (Wards her second (2of4) relationship) & produced a child.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] CCONVICTdone Joseph (Ward) was born about 1780. He married firstly (1of4) Eleanor (Taylor) on 17 1 1798 in Scotland. He was tried at Worcester Assizes, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7months on COROMANDEL. He was Free by Servitude by 1809. He was at Liverpool when he married thirdly (3of4) Ann (Uren/Ewrary her first marriage) on 12 6 1813 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He married fourthly Bridget (McCarthy her second marriage) emancipist on 13 5 1810 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He is recorded in 1820 at Richmond. He produced perhaps 6known children in his lifetime. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Isabella (Barnes) is apparantly recorded in 1814 as wife of W (Burbid); she married secondly William (Burbridge his first (1of3) marriage) on 26 12 1828 at St James CofE Sydney. She was recorded in 1828 with her husband at Castlereagh St Sydney. She died on 9 3 1831 age59 mother of 1known child. William (Burbidge) was born about 1771 & became a carpenter. He was living at Salisbury when tried for stealing woollen cloth, on 5 10 1790, of Arthur Skier (Lofty) & William Martin (Everitt) at Old Bailey on 27 10 1790, sentenced to death commuted to Life, held at London or Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ALBERMARLE; he was Protestant 5'5.5" dark ruddy complexion black to grey hair hazel eyes. He married secondly (2of3) Elizabeth (Long) on 3 7 1796 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He was issued his Absolute Pardon on 31 1 1814. He was recorded in 1828 as shopkeeper at Castlereagh St Sydney. He married thirdly Elizabeth (Bullard) on 10 8 1833. He died in 1837 age61 father of 0known children. [Some details taken from this Website] Elizabeth (Long) was born about 1767. She was tried at Southampton Portsmouth Quarter Sessions Hampshire, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 4 1796 after a voyage of 6months on INDISPENSABLE. [Some details taken from this Website] Reference: Craig James Smee 'Births and Baptisms Marriages and Defacto Relationships Deaths and Burials New South Wales 1788-1830' ..a complete listing from church & other records in the early colony.

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Denis Pember on 14th April 2016

Sainty & Johnson; 1828 Census of New South Wales: Page 70... [Ref B3145] Burbridge, William, 57, conditional pardon, Albermarle, 1791, life, Protestant, shopkeeper, Castlereagh Street Sydney. [Ref B3146] Burbridge, Isabella, 57, free by servitude, Alexander, 1806, 7 years, Protestant.

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Denis Pember on 14th April 2016

In the colony, Isabella had a de-facto relationship with Joseph Ward (Convict, Coromandel, 1802). This relationship took place C1811 and the couple had 1 son, Joseph, born June 29th 1812 at Parramatta. However, in the 1814 Muster Isabella is listed as:- Barns, Isabella, Alexander 2, free, off stores, wife to W. Burbid. This would be William Burbridge (Convict, Albermarle, 1791). The couple had a long term relationship and were married at St James, Sydney in 1828. They seem to have had no children.

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Denis Pember on 14th April 2016

Old Bailey Transcript (t18050529-35) (www.oldbaileyonline.org) 29 May 1805: ISABELLA BARNES, alias RANCALIER, was indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 2d of April, a frock, value 1/6d. the property of Sarah Stevens. SARAH STEVENS sworn. - I get my bread by selling things in the street. Q. Are you a single woman ? - A. Yes, I am not married: On the 2d of April I sent my two children on an errand, at six o'clock at night; the oldest is six years old, and the other is three; the young child had a dark cotton frock on, when she left me; they had been gone twenty minutes when the woman, who sits at the corner of Leg-alley, Shoreditch, said that my little girl had been taken from my boy by a woman. MARTHA NASH sworn. - I had been on an errand; I heard that a woman had ran away with the child; I ran down Bishopsgate-street after it, and could see nothing of the woman; coming home, I met the child in another woman's arms; directly the child saw me she cried to come to me, I brought the child home, and went down Bishopsgate-street with a piece of the child's frock, to see if I could find it at the pawnbroker's; I went to Mr. Clarke's, and Mr. Parsly said he had just taken it in, and if I had come five minutes sooner, I should have seen the woman. I found the frock at Mr. Clarke's. - PARSLY sworn. - I am servant to Mr. Clarke, a pawnbroker; the prisoner at the bar, on the 2d of April, brought me a frock, which I now produce, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, a very few minutes before Nash came; I lent her one shilling on it; I am certain she is the person. THOMAS HART sworn. - I am a constable; I had the woman in custody; she acknowledged to me in the watch-house, that she pawned a frock at Mr. Clarke's. Q. Did she say when? - A. No, I asked her how she came by it; she told me she could not tell; she was stopped in the street by Mr. Matthews, he being present. JOHN MATTHEWS sworn. - I am a pawnbroker; I was headborough at the time this happened: I took this woman into custody; I had her at Worship-street-Office when I was informed of this; I went and saw this frock at Mr. Clarke's; I have known her these three or four years, she has been in the habit of using my shop; I had taken her up on another charge. (The frock produced and identified by the prosecutrix.) Q.(To Parsly.) Had she pawned any other frocks at your house? - A. Yes, about three weeks before this. Prisoner's defence. I really believe I did pawn the frock I cannot disown it, how or which way I came by them I know not. GUILTY, aged 33. Transported for seven years. Second Middlesex Jury, before Mr. Recorder.