Summary
Personal Information
Voyage
Transportation
Francis Garland was transported on the Charlotte, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 22nd Jan 1788 with 111 passengers.
Being 335 tons, 105 ft long and 28 ft at the beam, The Charlotte held 88 male and 20 female convicts. Built in 1784 and Skippered by Master Thomas Gilbert, her return to England saw her doing the London - Jamacia run until she was sold to a Quebec merchant in 1818 and was then lost off the coast of Newfoundland that very same year.
CharlotteReferences
| Primary Source | NSW Marriage Transcription (Early Church Records) Ref Vol 147A No 168. New South Wales Marriages (Garland-Bartlum Vol 4 No. 147; Sullivan-Bartlam Vol 147A No. 168). |
Claims
"Francis is my 7x great-granduncle"
Photos
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Convict Notes
After marrying Francis in 1791 (less than 6 months after her arrival on the "Mary Ann"), Sarah Bartlam married John Sullivan by Banns on 11 April 1797 in the parish church of St Johns Parramatta. Thus Francis must have left or died by this time. (I think that Sarah Bartlett mentioned above was probably a different person.)
Francis married Sarah Bartlum on 24 December 1791 in St Philips Sydney. Sarah later married John Sullivan on 11 April 1797 in St John's Parramatta. Presumably Francis had died or gone elsewhere by this time.
Francis GARLAND was one of six men (including John LEARY, Joseph MORLEY and Henry ROACH) who committed a highway robbery stealing twelve yards of muslin and other goods valued at £5.13s., for which they were sentenced to death at Winchester, Hants, on 3 March 1783. GARLAND, reprieved to seven years transportation on 21 April, was sent to a Thames hulk and thence, with MORLEY and ROACH, to the Mercury transport on 26 March 1784. GARLAND escaped after a mutiny on board and was recaptured at Plymouth Dock [Devonport] with William ROBINSON (q.v.) and William CASEY and lodged in an Exeter goal (probably the Bridewell, his name not on the Devon Gaol Calendar). Tried by the Special Commission on -- May, GARLAND was sentenced to death again and was not reprieved until 9 August. He was sent to the Dunkirk hulk, aged 23, at the end of the month. His behaviour was "troublesome at times" until embarked on Charlotte on 11 March 1787. GARLAND's first and seemingly only record after landing at Port Jackson in 1788 was his marriage on 24 December 1791 to Sarah BARTLAM (Mary Ann 1791). No record of his death has been found. In 1806 Sarah "BARTLUM" was a housekeeper to John BAYLEY, in 1814 as Sarah BARTLETT she was living with Abraham KEMP (Barwell 1798) and in 1828 a servant to George HALL at Pitt Town. GARLAND was either dead before 1806 or left the colony without his wife. She died as BARTLAM on 2 January 1848."