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Benjamin Granger was transported on the Ann Or Anne, departing 31st Jul 1809 and arriving 27th Feb 1810 with 200 passengers.
1800/1810 Journey Ship Anne, Captain James Stewart. Left Cork 26 June 1800 with 147 men and 24 women. There was a mutiny on board on the 29th July 1800, but the ship’s company overcame the insurgents. The ringleader, Marcus Sheehy, confessed his guilt, and was immediately executed on board in the presence of all the convicts. Another convict, the leader on deck, Christopher Grogan, was sentenced to 250 lashes. The ship arrived at Port Jackson, New South Wales on 21 February 1801. (Source - https://www.jenwilletts.com/convict_ship_anne_1801.htm 1809/1810 voyage carried supplies, a detachments of the 73rd Regiment and 197 male prisoners. Also Rev. Samuel Marsden and his wife, Rev. Robert Cartwright & family, William Hall, John King and Duaterra (a New Zealand native).
Ann Or Anne (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 430 NSW Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Special Bundles, 1794-1825 p58 Newcastle Christ Church Burial Register p4 entry 45 New South Wales, Australia, Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Petitions To the Governor from Convicts for Mitigations of Sentences p73 & 73a Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Memorials to Governor, 1810-1826 p497 Sydney Gazette 28 Nov 1825, 15 Dec 1825 |
| 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 |
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Colonial Secretary Index. GRANGER, Benjamin. Per "Anne", 1810; overseer of miners at Newcastle 1812 Dec 21 Sent to Newcastle to assist in opening of new mines (Reel 6003; 4/3492 p.188) 1813 Jul 31-1819 Aug 24 Salary paid from Police Fund; also appears as Samuel (Reel 6038, SZ758 pp.401, 491, 518; Reel 6038, SZ1044 pp.12, 58, 90) 1815 Jan 28-1818 Nov 28 On list of salaries paid from Police Fund (Reel 6038; SZ759 pp.34, 96, 124, 155, 180, 201, 273, 317, 348, 377, 414, 444, 477, 495, 528) 1820 May 13 Re Memorial for Leave, Conditional Pardon, Wages and Spirit allowance (Reel 6007; 4/3502 p.224) 1821 Petition for mitigation of sentence (Fiche 3208; 4/1862 pp.73-73b) 1822 Oct 1 Resigned because of ill-health (Reel 6067; 4/1808 p.249) 1822 Oct 7 Memorial (Fiche 3057; 4/1833 No.20) 1824 Memorial (Fiche 3090; 4/1837B No.392 pp.493-502). Replies, 22 Jul 1824 & 21 Apr 1825 (Reel 6013, 4/3512 p.56; Reel 6014, 4/3514 p.135) 1825 Mar 7 Re intention of Granger to settle in area (Fiche 3133; 4/1842A No.321 pp.129-32) 1825 Apr 6 Re enquiry from the Governor as to freedom of (Fiche 3133, 4/1842A p.133; Reel 6014, 4/3514 p.7) 1825 Apr 21 On list of persons who have received orders for grants of land (Fiche 3266; 9/2652 p.91)
James Richards and Benjamin Granger, for horse at Dudley, were remanded til next Assizes Shrewsbury Chronicle, 24 July 1807. At Stafford assizes, ... and James Richards and Benjamin Grainger, for stealing a horse, were found guilty, and received sentence of death, but were reprieved before the Judges left the town. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 10 Aug 1807.
Evidence Before Commissioner J.T. Bigge EVIDENCE OF BENJAMIN GRAINGER, SUPERINTENDENT OF COAL MINES 23 JANUARY, 1820. 1. How long have you been employed in superintending the coal mine at Hunter's River? Seven years and upwards. 2. Did you acquire your knowledge of mining in England? I did, in Staffordshire. 3. Did you sink the colliery at Hunter's River? 1 did about two years and a half ago, 4. Where did you get coals before and how? Down by the sea shore at the bottom of the cliff, by a drift made at the level of the shore, where the seam of coal appeared at the day, [i.e., when the coal seam was exposed].^ 5. Is it the same seam that you are now working? It is. 6. What is the depth of the seam? Three foot and an inch, [hence the name. Yard Seam]. 7. What is the depth of the present shaft? Thirty seven yards. 8. Is there much water in it? There is, but we make a dam for it. and bucket the water into the drift [mine workings] by which it is,carried to the sea. 139 9. Is it the same seam of coal that appears on the coast? It is. 10. Which way does it dip? Southwest from the coast and about half a mile to the southward it appears at its old level. 11. Which way are you now working the seam? About west in the direction of the church. 12. Do you prop up the roof as you proceed? we do at certain distances. 13. What quantity of coal do you raise in a day? We raise twenty tons when all hands, viz., 27 men, A 3 are employed. 14. How much is each hewer required to do? Each hewer gets two ton and a half. 15. Can they finish their task before evening? They can by working hard finish it at noon and formerly they used to go home after that but for the last three or four months they remain at the pit's mouth with nothing to do. 16. Why are they not allowed to go home after they have finished their work? For fear of plundering the houses of those who are at work. 17. The miners are allowed an extra ration? Eight of them are who are hewers [i.e., those who 140 remove the coal from the seam]. 18. Do you think that their healths suffer by coal mining? I think they do on account of the wet and remaining in their wet clothes after they come up from the pit. They suffer also from want of a change of clothes. 19. How far have you worked from the bottom of the pit? About a hundred yards in a south west direction. Source Jen Willetts Free Settler or Felong Item No. 162328
12 Aug 1822 Benjamin Granger Emancipated married Mary Arthursway (Hathaway) TIL by banns at Newcastle Christ Church. Rev George Middleton & witness Thomas Acton. Newcastle Christ Church Marriage Register No 24.
Granted conditional pardon 28 Nov 1821. It was noted he had 'hunched right shoulder' which might be related to his ill health & unable to continue work at Newcastle. Convict Registers of Conditional and Absolute Pardons, 1788-1870 for Benjamin Granger Absolute 1821 p183
September 1825 21 year old convict Daniel Leary forced his way into the Grainger’s cottage, threatened both with a pistol and raped Mary in the presence of her husband. Leary was tried in Sydney, found guilty and hanged on 11 December 1825.
On 21 April, 1825 he was listed to receive a grant of 50 acres. - Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Special Bundles, 1794-1825 p91
In July 1824 a further petition to Governor Brisbane stated he had worked for the government for ten years in the mines and helping build a breakwater to Nobby’s Island receiving £20 p/a. He had assisted the Commission of (Bigge) Inquiry with information and accompanied Bigge to Reads Mistake (Swansea) and Port Stephens. Thereafter on Governor Macquarie’s last visit to Newcastle (November 1821) he ordered Grainger’s Conditional Pardon. Grainger now owned 3 or 4 head of cattle which were grazing on a farm at Hunter River, namely Joseph Hunt’s (aka Thomas Hunt, husband of Molly Morgan). Granger asked for ‘a grant of a vacant spot of ground at the settlement’ to build a house as he was now married. In support of his petition attached is a small weathered note which Grainger appears to have carried for some years, ‘Benjamin Grainger, miner, employed at Macquarie Pier (Nobby’s Breakwater) to receive on the work being finished and completed are emancipation, and if he wishes, a farm on Hunter’s River to settle on.’ Signed by James Wallis, Commandant 30 December 1819.
In October 1822 Grainger resigned his position at Newcastle due to ill health. - Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Main Series of Letters Received, 1788-1826 p249
Petition to Governor Macquarie in 1821 from Grainger requested a conditional pardon for his work as mines overseer and on Nobby’s breakwater. Stated he had been promised by Captain Wallis in return a grant of cleared land on the Hunter River. - Colonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1856 Petitions to the Governor from Convicts for Mitigations of Sentences p73 & 73a (Ancestry p2641-2)