Ann Cocutt

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Penny-Lyn Beale on 30th January 2025

FIND A GRAVE Ann Calcutt Beckett Birth 1 Jan 1771 Staffordshire, England Death 1821 (aged 49–50) Toongabbie, City of Parramatta Council, New South Wales, Australia Burial St. John's Cemetery Parramatta, City of Parramatta Council, New South Wales, Australia Plot Unmarked, Location unknown Memorial ID 214027269 ·

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iain Frazier on 18th December 2023

Family connections for Ann (Cocutt) are: COCUTT CCONVICTdone Ann (Cocutt/Calcut/t) was tried for stealing silver tablespoon etc at Stafford Assizes on 13 8 1788, sentenced to 7years, held at Stafford gaol & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE. She married James (Beckett) on 30 1 1791 at St Johns CofE Parramatta & lived at Rose Hill & produced perhaps 6children. She was Free by Servitude by 1795. After her husband died in 1808 she worked the 30acre property at Toongabbie. She is recorded in 1814 at Parramatta with one child off stores. She died in 1820; at this time the 30acre property at Toongabbie probably passed to son Samuel. [Some details taken from this Website] CCONVICTdone James (Beckett) son of James (Beckett) & Esther (maybe) (Evans) was born perhaps on 5 10 1757 at Shrewsbury Shropshire & baptised on 25 10 1757 & became a brickmaker. He was tried for highway robbery & stealing Hempen bag etc of Joseph (Tipton) at Shropshire Assizes Shrewsbury on 26 7 1788, sentenced to death reprieved to Life, held at Shrewsbury gaol & STANISLAUS hulk (from November 1789) on the Thames & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SURPRISE. He was soon working as a master brickmaker at Rose Hill. He was Free by Servitude by 1795. He is recorded in 1802 on 30acres at Concord. In 1806 he was granted 30acres at Toongabbie. He died in 1808 age50sic. [Some details taken from this Website] At the 1806 Muster, Ann Calcut (Becket) was listed as having 2 legitimate sons and 3 legitimate daughters. 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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Robin Sharkey on 12th December 2016

Ann Calcutt (Cacutt or Cacott on indent) transported for 7 years on “Neptune” arriving January 1790. Convicted 13 Aug 1788, Stafford Summer Assizes, Staffordshire, England Crime was theft of a silver table spoon, a fan, a bonnet, an apron, a handkerchief and a pair of shoe buckles. Was in Stafford gaol, probably until the time to take her down to the transport ship. Departed on “Neptune” on 19 January 1790. Arrived 28 Jun 1790, ‘Neptune'. MARRIED James BECKET in NSW on 30th January 1791 at St Johns Church of England, Parramatta. Both made their marks. Shortly before this, in November 1790, James Becket was recorded as the Master Brickmaker oversighting 52 men working making bricks at Rose Hill (Parramatta). FAMILY First child born nine months after marriage: (1) Samuel Beckett, son of James Beckett, Convict & Ann Beckett, Convict, Baptised 2 Oct 1791, Registered at St John’s Church of England Parramatta. Samuel died aged about 2 in 1793. (2) James born 15 July 1793 and baptised 11 August at St John’s Parramatta. Elder brother Samuel may have died after this. (3) Samuel (second one) Born 18 Jul 1795, Baptised 9 Sep 1795, at St John’s Parramatta. (4) Ester - Born 2 Apr 1798, Baptised 29 Apr 1798 (5) Mary - Born 31 Jul 1800, Baptised 6 Apr 1801, 1806 Muster, Ann Calcut Becket was listed as having 2 legitimate sons and 3 legitimate daughters - but only 2 daughters above. WORKING LIFE Somewhere between marriage and last child, the family acquired a farm: In 1802 James Becket was listed as having 30 acres at Concord, with 7 acres cleared & cultivated, and 4 children and his wife off the stores. 1803 -map drawn around 1803 showed eighty-four allotments at Toongabbie, including a holding for Beckett - referred to by Doris A Sargeant in ‘The Toongabble Story’. This 30 acres was formally re-granted to Becket in 1806 after having been taken away from Edward Kelly for disposing of it to a third party (terms of grant said no selling). The re-grant by Governor King to James Becket did not happen until 1806. WIDOWHOOD It was recorded in a document in the Bigge Inquiry of 1820 that James Becket had died in 1808. There is no other record of his death. So, from 1808 - WIDOWED Ann Becket, nee Calcot had four children aged from 15, (James jnr) to 8 yrs (Mary) The family remained on the farm at Toongabbie: Daughter Ester: 1812, 20 January 1820 - MARRIAGE of DAUGHTER Ester aged 13 years & 9 months to JOHN HENDELL (aged 22) Recorded as HESTER married to John Hendell (or Hendle) at St John’s. Witnesses were Rachel and John Liquorish. Hester could only make her mark on the marriage register, John signed. John Hendle was Born in the Colony, mother Mary Pike on First Fleet and father was John Chew of 29th Plymouth Company with First Fleet (with Watkin Tench’s company). John Chew departed on “Gorgon’ in 1792. John Wendell was next raised on Norfolk Island for a couple of years, with his mother. 1814 - John Hindle, BC, Labourer, mustered at Parramatta, Free, with wife Ester Hindle. 1815 - Son Joseph Hindle born. John Hindle died in 1823 at Parramatta. Ester re-married in 1832 to William James. IN 1814 John Hendle (sometimes Hendall) was of Seven Hills, receiving cattle from the government herd, and received more by 1819. In 1820 he wrote a memorial to the Governor. In 1822 he was a publican in Parramatta and in 1823 he was on the list of persons receiving allotments in parramatta. 1815 -19th Feb, son John Hendle born 1814 MUSTER - Ann Calcot, arrived per Neptune, (now) free. Widow. Mustered at Parramatta. Victualling - one child off stores (probably others are out working) * Mary aged 14 was at home on stores with Ann * Son James Becket was a labourer, mustered at Parramatta, aged 21. * Ester was married to John Hendle, mustered at Parramatta. * Son Samuel was a labourer, mustered at Parramatta (probably still on the farm, aged 19) 1818 - 6th February 1818 - MARRIAGE of DAUGHTER Mary, aged 17 & 1/2, to THOMAS BEST. Mary was around seven months pregnant, she made her mark on her marriage certificate. Her sister, Mrs Esther Hindle was recorded as a witness, and this time signed her name. THOMAS BEST of Parramatta, who was BC in 1799, one of ten children of George and Martha Best. Mary & Thomas Best’s daughter, named Hester for her aunt, was born two months after the wedding, on 7th April 1818. They would have another daughter, Mary, 1820 the year that the baby’s grandmother, Ann Calcot Becket, died. Altogether their children would be: Hester, Mary, Thomas (1822), George (1824), Peter(1827), Sarah (1829), Elizabeth (1832) 1820 - MARRIAGE of son Samuel Becket (who made his mark) to HANNAH DALTON, at Parramatta. Ann Calcutt died in 1820. She may have lived to see the March 1820 birth of a second Best granddaughter ; and the May 1820 marriage of son Samuel to Hannah Dalton ANN CALCUTT’s CHILDREN Samuel Beckett got tied up with a man named John Mills and accused of being involved in bushranging. He would have met him through his sister Mary’s in-laws, the Bests. John Mills brought trouble to the Best and Becket families. He was assigned to the farm of George Best (1814 muster) and ended up marrying the eldest daughter … Mary Best aged 15, at Parramatta in 1818. Mary’s brother Thomas was already married to Mary Becket. When the Mills’ married, they moved on to the farm of Thomas Best and Mary nee Becket. Then, in 1820 when John Mills was free he got his own land grant of 50 acres and moved on to that. 1821 - Criminal Court trial on 14 Aug 1821 of a number of men, including Samuel Becket, and John Mills, accused of being bushrangers in a gang led by William Geary ( a violent man, who had escaped from Newcastle - second time - in 1819). The gang had been robbing people on the Windsor Road north of Parramatta. In this case, Thomas Best gave evidence against some of the accused, although notably he dd not implicate his wife’s brother, Samuel Becket, nor his sister marks husband John Mills. His evidence was “ .. that on the 25th of March last, the prisoners Geary, Cochrane, Smith, Whiteman, Young, and the deceased Butler, paid a depredating visit to his house, and forcibly took from thence a gun and some wearing apparel. The gang remained there the whole day, and in the evening went off. The prisoner Hilson declared to witness that he had been impelled, from apprehension of serious consequences in case of refusal, to join them -- the number and strength of the party being supposed sufficient to carry all before them. This was on the 25th, of March last ; and they (the prisoners) returned on the following day with bundles, &c. the contents of which the witness declared he was totally ignorant.” John Mills was hanged for bush ranging on 24th July 1821, together with William Geary. Samuel Beckett was acquitted. In 1823, the remaining Becket son, James, married Mary Mills, nee Best, widow of the hanged John Mills, She had one surviving child, William Mills aged about 2. 1823 MARRIAGE - 31 March 1823 - of son James Becket to Mary Mills, nee Mary Best born 1803, eldest daughter of George & Martha Best, widow of John Mills. The marriage witnesses were Thomas Best (her brother) and his wife Mary nee Becket (James’ sister). The couple went on to have eleven children together:

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Denis Pember on 3rd June 2015

Married James Becket (Convict; Surprize, 1790). 30 January 1791, Rose Hill, Sydney, NSW. 5 children