David Brown

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iain Frazier on 5th May 2025

Family connections for David (Brown) are: BROWN David (Brown) was born in 1772 & became a soldier with 74th Highland Regiment of Foot. He was tried for housebreaking at Glasgow Court of Justiciary in 1788, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 2 1792 after a voyage of 8months on PITT; much fever & attempts to escape from the ship resulted in deaths of convicts-of the 450convicts on board only 29 were alive at muster in May 1792 (or perhaps only this many could be mustered. He was made a constable. He was Free by Servitude by 1798. His work as a constable earned him an Absolute Pardon in 1799 & a land grant at Hawkesbury (where he was once speared in the throat by an aboriginal spear). In 1800 he also became assistant grain assessor for Andrew (Thompson) & on 21/31 12 1800 married Eleanor (Fleming) with permission (although he has an Absolute Pardon & she is Free-perhaps because she is <21) at St Johns CofE Parramatta. In 1809 he resigned as constable to pursue farming on available land of 150acres, followed by purchase of >200acres on 14riverfront blocks & 200acres Wellsend Creek/Hunter River; he also gained 35rods in George St Windsor & 4acres near Wilberforce. He died on 10 1 1826 age54 at Wilberforce with 1,000acres, which passed to his son Joseph, & was buried at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. [Some details taken from this Website] Eleanor (Fleming) was born about 1780. She arrived in NSW presumably with her father (or maybe neice etc) on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN. Details of Eleanor (Fleming)s presumed family are given below. David (Brown) & Eleanor/Margaret (Fleming) produced 12children: 1.Ann (Brown) was born in 1798. She died on 15 8 1810 age about12. 2.Isabella (Brown) was born in 1802. She was Free by Servitude by 1819. She was living in Wilberforce when she married Paul (Bushell his second marriage) emancipist of Wilberforce on 3 6 1822 at St Matthews CofE Windsor & produced perhaps 11children. She died on 14 8 1883 age about80. ..Paul (Bushell) was born about 1766 & baptised CofE. He was tried for burglary at Warwick Assizes, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SURPRIZE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. He became a farmer. He had a first relationship with Jane (Sharp/e) with whom he helped found the Ebenezer church (Scots/Presbyterian Kirk Portland Head?) with the Coramandel settlers group of Calvinistic Methodists in 1795; he also pledged contributions to the Minister. He was Free by Servitude by 1800 & was issued his Conditional Pardon on 1 8 1801. He may have married Jane (Sharp) in the period 1806-10 (not shown in Smees records). In 1807 he helped establish the Wilberforce school. In the 1820s he became a member of the CofE at Wilberforce. He was an emancipist living at Wilberforce when he married secondly Isabella (Brown) of Wilberforce on 3 6 1822 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He was described as a farmer in 1824, a settler in 1825 & a farmer in 1828 & 1830. He died on 5 2 1853 age87 father of 12children. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. 3.Joseph (Brown) was born in 1804. He was living in Wilberforce when he married Izette/Isetta (Lisson age15) of Wilberforce on 21 3 1825 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. In 1826 he inherited his fathers estate including 1,000acres of land. He was one of the first settlers at Liverpool Plains-near Toddworth. He was recorded in 1828 & 1833 as a farmer. He died in 1862 age about58 father of perhaps 3children. ..Izette/Isetta (Lisson) was born on 25 9 1810 & baptised on 4 11 1810 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She is recorded in Wilberforce in 1825. She died on 12 10 1888 age78. ..Details of Izette/Isetta (Lisson)s family are given in entry for Hannah (Andrews MARY ANN 1791) on this Website. ..Joseph (Brown) & Isette/Izetta (Lisson) produced at least 2children: ..1a.Noted an Eleanor (Brown) daughter of J (Brown) is recorded as born in 1822. ..1.Isabella (Brown) was born on 21 12 1827 at Wilberforce & baptised on 21 1 1828 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. ..2.Jacob (Brown) was born on 5 11 1830 at Hunters River & baptised on 1 2 1833 age2 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. .. 4.Ann (Brown) was born in 1806. She died suddenly on 17 8 1819 age12 at Wilberforce & buried at St Matthews CofE Windsor. 5.Mary Ann (Brown) was born on 23 4 1807 & baptised on 19 6 1807 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 3 9 1807 age4m. She is mentioned as marrying William (Waterford MINERVA 1821) on this Website. 6.David (Brown) was born on 7 9 1810 & baptised on 14 4 1811 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. It may be he who married Mary (McGinnis) on 11 5 1828 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. He died on 10 11 1857 age47. ..Mary (McGinnis) was born on 9 3 1810 & baptised on 7 4 1811 w/Agnes at St Matthews CofE Windsor. ..Details of Mary (McGinnis)s family are given in entry for George (McGinnis BRITANNIA 1797) on this Website. .. 7.Eleanor (Brown) was born on 14 12 1812 at Windsor & baptised on 15 8 1813 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She married Thomas (Chaseling born 1806) with consent of her parents on 15 12 1829 at St Johns CofE Wilberforce & produced at least 1child. She died in 1866 age about47. ..a Thomas (Chaseling) was born on 7 1 1807 & baptised on 29 11 1812 age5 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 30 10 1878 age71. ..Details of this Thomas (Chaseling)s family are given in entry for Thomas (Chaseland ROYAL ADMIRAL 1792) on this Website. .. 8.Elizabeth (Brown) was born on 24 2 1815 at Wilberforce & baptised on 23 7 1815 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. 9.Sarah (Brown) was born on 5 9 1817 at Wilberforce & baptised on 4 10 1818 age13m at St Matthews CofE Windsor. 10.Henry (Brown) was born on 29 3 1820 at Wilberforce & baptised on 17 6 1821 age14m w/William H (Rowe) st Matthews CofE Windsor. He died in 1881 age about63. 11.William (Brown) was born on 10 8 1821 & baptised on 27 11 1827 age6 w/John at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. 12.John (Brown) was born on 7 7 1824 & baptised on 27 11 1827 age3 w/William at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. FLEM/MING presuming Joseph & Eleanor to be related, as this family on same ship as Eleanor (Fleming) Joseph (Flemming) son of private Henry F (Flemming) married Mary Ann (Lay her first marriage) in 1788. He enlisted in NSW Corps (perhaps as penalty for a military conviction) as a corporal on 3 12 1789 in UK & arrived in NSW as a soldier with his family on 28 8 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN; he was raised to sergeant. In 1793 he was demoted to private. He was discharged on 25 11 1794 (sentence expired); he received a grant of 25acres at Concord. In November 1794 he was granted land, which passed to his wife when he died in 1795. Mary Ann (Lay) arrived in NSW with her family on 28 8 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN. She received land from Will of her husband in 1795.>>> Joseph (Flemming) & Mary Ann (Lay) produced perhaps 3children: 1?.Eleanor (Fleming) was born about 1780. She arrived in NSW presumably with her father (or maybe she's a neice etc) on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN. She married David (Brown) on 21/31 12 1800 with permission (although he has an Absolute Pardon & she is Free-perhaps because she is <21) at St Johns CofE Parramatta & produced 11children. ..David (Brown) was born about 1772 & became a soldier with 74th Highland Regiment of Foot. He was tried for housebreaking at Glasgow Court of Justiciary in 1788, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 2 1792 after a voyage of 8months on PITT; much fever & attempts to escape from the ship resulted in deaths of convicts-of the 450convicts on board only 29 were alive at muster in May 1792 (or perhaps only this many could be mustered). He was made a constable. He was Free by Servitude by 1798. His work as a constable earned him an Absolute Pardon in 1799 & a land grant at Hawkesbury (where he was once speared in the throat by an aboriginal spear). In 1800 he also became assistant grain assessor for Andrew (Thompson). In 1809 he resigned as constable to pursue farming on available land of 150acres, followed by purchase of >200acres on 14riverfront blocks & 200acres Wellsend Creek/Hunter River; he also gained 35rods in George St Windsor & 4acres near Wilberforce. He died on 10 1 1826 age54 at Wilberforce with 1,000acres which passed to his son Joseph, & was buried at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. ..[Some details taken from this Website] ..Details of David (Brown)s family are given above. ..[Noted an Eleanor (Flemming), who came free, is recorded as having a relationship with Thomas (Costello 1817 LARKINS with 48th Regiment) & produced a child:] ..[1.John Thomas (Costello) was born in 1820 & baptised on 16 10 1820 at St Marys RC Hobart.] .. 2.Henry (Flemming) was born at sea on 11 8 1791 & arrived in NSW with his parents on 28 8 1791 on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN. He was baptised on 16 9 1791 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. In 1797 (age6) he was granted land. He married Elizabeth (Hall) on 18 2 1810 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He was recorded in 1821 as a settler, in 1824 & 1827 as a farmer & in 1831 he was a farmer. He died on 11 12 1838 age47. ..Elizabeth (Hall) was born on 2 4 1797 in Northumberland. She arrived in NSW with her parents on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7months on COROMANDEL. ..Details of Elizabeth (Hall)s family are given in entry for William (Pantony MATILDA 1791) on this Website. ..Henry (Flem/ming) & Elizabeth/Sarah (Hall) produced at least 9children: firstly boys ..1.Joseph (Fleming) was born on 6 1 1811 & baptised on 14 4 1811 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. ..2.James (Fleming) was born in 1812. ..3.George (Fleming) was born in 1813. He died on 30 8 1888 age about75. ..4.John Henry (Fleming) was born on 27 3 1816 at Pitt Town & baptised on 1 2 1818 age22m at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 28 8 1894 age78. ..5.Mary Ann (Fleming) was born on 4 6 1817 at Pitt Town & baptised on 4 10 1818 age16m at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 6 5 1887 age59. ..6.Elizabeth (Flem/ming) was born on 26 11 1820 at Upper Pitt Town & baptised on 28 1 1821 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 20 7 1825 age4 at Pitt Town & was buried on 21 7 1825 at Pitt Town-recorded at St Matthews CofE Windsor. ..7.Margaret (Fleming) was born on 18 4 1823 at Pitt Town & baptised on 12 1 1824 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. ..8.Elizabeth (Fleming) was born on 11 7 1827 at Upper Pitt Town & baptised on 26 8 1827 at St James CofE Pitt Town. She died on 29 4 1911 age83. ..9.Jane (Fleming) was born on 12 12 1830 at Lower Branch & baptised on 13 2 1831 at Lower Hawkesbury. .. 3.Margaret (Flemming) was born on 1 12 1793 & baptised on 25 12 1793 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She had a relationship with John (Ri/yley) & produced 2children. She died on 26 7 1813 age19 at Pitt Town childbirth & was buried at St Matthews CofE Windsor. [Smees records show a Margaret (Flemming HMS GLATTON 1803) dying on 27 7 1813 age21-may be a different person or misrecorded?.] ..John (Ri/yley/Reilly) was born about 1780 & became a labourer. He was tried at Dublin Ireland, sentenced to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 11 1 1800 after a voyage of 4.5months on MINERVA. He was Free by Servitude by 1811. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. .. >>>Mary (Lay) married secondly Benjamin (Jones) on 20 4 1796 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 5children. She produced perhaps 8children in her lifetime. CCONVICTdone [Benjamin (Jones) was born about 1772. He was tried at Warwick Assizes on 8 8 1789 to March 1790, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship BRITANNIA. In 1802 he is recorded as working his wifes & his stepsons land grants at Hawkesbury & in 1803 he was granted 200acres nearby. In 1815 he travelled with his wife (Elizabeth?) & 5children to England on SYDNEY PACKET & returned with one less child to Van Diemens Land in 1816 where he was granted land at Hobart. In 1817 he operated a store supplying materials, grazing properties in Oatlands & Jericho areas & a grain farm at Pittwater. In 1823 he was Foundation shareholder of VDL Bank & owned 2,128acres. He died on 13 4 1837 at Hobart age65 & was buried at St Davids CofE Hobart.] [Some information taken from this Website]. Noted that a John (Flemming) was tried at Worcester Assizes, sentenced to Life & also arrived in NSW on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship WILLIAM AND ANN - & could perhaps be father of Eleanor (Fleming) above. [This information taken from this Website]. References: 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. Pamela Statham 'A Colonial Regiment-New Sources Relating to the New South Wales Corps-1789-1810'

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Phil Hands on 17th December 2017

David, a 17 year old ex soldier of the 74th Highland Regiment of Foot, was tried & convicted in Glasgow Scotland in 1788 for House-breaking, he was sentenced to transportation for life. Left England on 17th July 1791. Ship:- the 'Pitt' sailed with 352 male & 58 female comvicts on board of which 20 male & 9 female convicts died during the voyage, including 15 infected with smallpox, and 27 crew had died of fever. At one stage prisoners had been coopted to help sail the ship, also 5 males escaped. Arrived in sydney on 14th February 1792. Soon after his arrival in NSW he was made a constable. In 1798 he received a Hawkesbury land grant where he survived an Aboriginal spear that struck him in the throat. He was pardoned absolutely in 1799 for his diligence as a constable, and in the following year he was made an assistant grain assessor to Andrew Thompson. Married free settler Eleanor Fleming on 31st December 1800 at St. Johns' Chrch, Parramatta, they had 11 children between 1801-1824. Citation details: Year 188, p. 22, No 79 David Brown of the parish of Hawkesbury and Eleanor Fleming were married by permission of His Excellency Governor King this thirty first day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred by me Samuel Marsden. David signed the register and Eleanor made her X mark In the presence of Samuel Young and Ann Young who both signed the register. He resigned from his duties as constable in 1809, so that he could concentrate more on his own business interests. David became a farmer and in this pursuit he became quite successful and helped meet the colony's desperate need to feed the growing population of Sydney Town. He had one hundred and fifty five acres granted to him and he purchased fourteen other river front blocks including Owen Cavanaugh's and John Howe's original hundred acre grants. He owned thirty five rods of land in George Street, Windsor, later purchased by Thomas and John Tebbutil, and another four acres near Wilberforce. In 1820, he had a substantial stone house when he applied for further land to pasture his five hundred head of cattle and as a result was granted two hundred acres at the Wellende Creek – Hunter River junction on 31st March, 1821. He died intestate in January 1826. Widows having no legal rights at that time his eldest son, Joseph, inherited the estate. This Joseph was among the first squatters of the Liverpool Plains and the explorer Mitchell stayed with him, near where Taddworth now stands, during his trip north in 1831. Through both grants and purchases, David's landholdings grew to beyond 1000 acres by the time of his death at Wilberforce on 10th January 1826, at the age of 54. Eleanor died on 10th April 1865 at Wilberforce age 85.

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Keith South on 1st June 2014

Married Eleanor Fleming 31-12-1800 at St Johns Parramatta. Absolute pardon 1899 for his work as a constable. First land grant 1799. Died Wilberforce NSW. Buried St Johns Wilberforce.