Maria Garner

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Beth Taylor on 4th February 2026

TIMELINE NOTES: BC: 1787 Sentenced: 04/09/1813 at Lancaster Summer Assize to transportation for 7 years, same day as Peggy Barrow Crime: Larceny (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM) Previous Occupation: Servant Age on Convict Indent: 27 [1806 Muster: Michael Clapstone, per ship Minorca, FBS, rent & purchase 50 acres, 30 acres in pasture, 1 male hog] Certificate of Freedom 2636 (indent) 1814 Muster: Maria GARDER (?), Brox, con, on stores, FF, Parra (3303) [Michael Clapson (?), free, Minorca, off stores, bricklayer, Parra (1898), also Ann Redman, per ship Experiment (2), wife of Michael] 1822 Muster: Maria GARDENER (?), FBS, Brox, 7 years, wife to J Whitehead, Parra (A07879) & spouse – John WHITEHEAD, con, Morley, 14 years, grave digger, Parra (A22484) & children – aged 4, aged ? & aged 1 – all BC 1823-1825 Muster: Maria GARDNER (?), FS, Brox, 7 years, wife of John Whitehead, Parra (21851) & spouse – John WHITEHEAD, con, Morley 1818, 14 years, sexton, Parra (45244) & children – Mary WHITEHEAD, 4, BC, daughter of John Whitehead [& 2 others listed, no names, children of Maria] 1825, Nov. – John Whitehead, per Morley 1818, was to receive his CP. (Source: SRNSW Col Sec Papers, Special Bundle Fiche 3292; 4/6974.1 pp47 & 71) 1828 Census: Maria WHITEHEAD, 41, Brox, FS, 7 years, prot, (W1218) wife to – John WHITEHEAD, 50, Morley 2 1818, GS, life (?), prot, parish clerk, Parra (W1217) & child – Mary WHITEHEAD, 8, BC Sarah CLAPSTONE, 13, & Eliza 10, both BC, prot, children of Maria Whitehead, Parra 1829 – DARLING TO MURRAY. [Appendix No. 11.] “Statement by Mr. John Whitehead. John Whitehead, Parish Clerk of St. John’s Church, Parramatta, stated to the Archdeacon of New South Wales that, on Sunday, the 12th of this month, the Revd. F. Wilkinson read the morning and evening Service and Preached in the evening, the Revd. Mr. Marsden having preached in the morning. At the close of the Service in the afternoon about four o’clock, Mr. Wilkinson baptized four children and registered them; that, before five o’clock, he buried a corpse but did not register it; that, upon pressing the Revd. Mr. Wilkinson two or three times to register the Burial in consequence of having been reprimanded before by the Archdn. for omitting to procure the signature of the Revd. John Vincent to two Burials, Mr. Wilkinson replied that he was in too great haste to do it then, or to that effect; but that, on being asked if he passed the Church that evening or on the following morning he would call and sign the Register, he replied that he would do so. That Mr. Wilkinson, in going from the burial Ground to the Town being on horseback, rode within three hundred Yards of the Church wherein the Register was lying and always is kept. That the Revd. Mr. Wilkinson has not since been to sign the Register up to this day. John Whitehead, Parish Clerk. Parramatta, this 20th July, 1829. Before me, T. H. Scott, Archdeacon.” (Source: HRA, Series 1, Vol, XV, pp232-3 re Neglect of Rev. F. Wilkinson to register burial) NSW BDM: 1) Michael Clapstone married Ann Redman in 1813 at Parra (she died in 1815). 2) Michael Clapstone married Maria Garner on 26 Dec 1815 at St Johns Parra. Michael Clapstone, Free, Abode: St Johns [Parramatta], Signed X; & Maria Garner, aged 34, Prisoner, arrived per Broxbornebury, Signed X; married 26 Dec 1815, registered St Johns Church of England Parramatta by Banns by Samuel Marsden; Witness: Abel Simpson, Signed X; Witness: Margaret Barrow, Signed X (V1815-1872-3A & St John's Church of England, Parramatta NSW: Church Register - Marriages; ML ref: Reel SAG 55-56) [Note: Margaret was “Peggy” Barrow, convict per Brox.] Children born to Michael and Maria CLAPSTONE: • Sarah CLAPSTONE born 11/06/1816 Parramatta, marr 1) 1832 Parramatta to William Lewthwaite & 2) 1852 Parramatta to Thomas Gough, died c1872 Glebe • Elizabeth CLAPSTONE born 07/03/1819 Parramatta, marr 1837 Sydney to James Barlow, died c1840 Parramatta 3) Michael Clapstone, free of Parra, aged 49, died in 1819 & was buried on 1 Feb. The service was held at St Johns. (Michael Clapson, Free; Abode: St Johns parish [Parramatta]; Died [1819] [Parramatta district], Aged: 49; Buried 1 Feb 1819 [Parramatta] by [Reverend] Joseph Kenyon; Registered at St John's Church of England Parramatta. Source: St John's Church of England, Parramatta NSW: Church Register - Burials; ML ref: Reel SAG 55-56; Vol Entry# 1134 & V1819-4233-2B & 2361-3A) 4) Maria Clapson (?) married John Whitehead at Parra on 24 May 1819. John Whitehead, aged 45, Prisoner, arrived per Morley, Abode: Parramatta [NSW AUS], Signed; & Maria Clapson, aged 28, Prisoner, arrived per Broxbornebury, Abode: Parramatta [NSW AUS], Signed X; married 24 May 1819, registered St Johns Church of England Parramatta [NSW AUS] by Banns by Samuel Marsden; Witness: Richard Leonard, Signed; Witness: Jane Leonard, Signed. (V1819-896-147B & 2361-3A, also St John's Church of England, Parramatta NSW: Church Register - Marriages; ML ref: Reel SAG 55-56) Child born to John and Maria WHITEHEAD: • Mary WHITEHEAD born 11/07/1821 Parramatta, marr 1) 1842 Parramatta to William Buist & 2) 1856 Sydney to John Francis Peers, died ? 5) Maria Whitehead, aged 64, died in 1849 & the service was held at St Johns Parra. (V1849-1074-34B) 6) John Whitehead, aged 86, died in 1858 at Windsor. (DC 1858/5731) Jess’ Girls – SAG:  1814 – Muster  1818 – as Gardiner, FF, Parra  1822 – Muster  1825 – as Whitehead, aged 41, FS, prot, husband John (Morley), parish clerk, Parra, also Mary, 8 years  Mutch – m Michael Clapson  Children born to Maria & Michael Clapstone – Sarah b 11 June 1816; Elizabeth b 7 March 1819  Mutch – Michael died in 1819  Children born to Maria & John Whitehead – Mary b 11 July 1821 Trials, Convict Indents, COF & Pardons for Michael Clapson and John Whitehead: 1) Michael Clapson (sic) (& William, his brother?, also a John Clapson aged 49 tried 14/03/1796), came to NSW on the ship Minorca on 14 Dec 1801. Michael, aged 24 & William, aged 26 had been tried at Sussex GD (Horsham) on 13 March 1797 & given a 7 years term. Michael had CF #652 2) John Whitehead arrived in Sydney on the Morley (2) on 7 Nov 1818. He was sentenced at Lancaster Assize on 23 March 1817 & had a 14 year sentence. John was from Manchester, aged 46, a weaver, 5’8” tall, dark ruddy complexion, with brown to grey hair & hazel eyes. John per Morley 2 was listed as having received a CP in 1825. [This is not shown in SRNSW Convict Pardon index & must be incorrect] (Sydney Gazette, 28/11/1825, p3). John Whitehead received his COF on 26/03/1831. Arr per Morley (2) 1818, a native of Manchester, a weaver born 1772, tried at Lancaster Assize on 22/03/1817, & a 14 year term for uttering forged notes, 5’7¾” tall, with fair complexion, black to grey hair & hazel eyes. (Source: SRNSW Certificate of Freedom, NRS 12210, Item 4/4304, Roll 987) [Note: Whitehead had also been tried at Lancaster January Sessions in 1810 for uttering counterfeit money & had received a sentence of 3 years in gaol. Possibly released early for good behaviour. In 1812 John appeared in the Lancaster Court accused of larceny but the case was “no prosecution”. At the July Sessions at Liverpool in 1816, the same charge and the same finding of “no prosecution”. (Source: HO 27 Criminal Register Index 1805-1816 Lancashire, Vol. 23, by Stuart Tamblin, CD-ROM)] Notes from the book “Journey to a New Life…” the story of the ships Emu & Broxbornebury by Elizabeth Hook (3rd ed. 2014). I am the author & can be contacted on tbeth3370@gmail.com for further info

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jennifer burgess on 28th July 2022

married Michael Clapstone 1815 Ann Clapstone died 1815 no age