William Green

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iain Frazier on 2nd May 2025

Apologies for my earlier misplaced contribution-see now William (Green ATLANTIC 1791). Family connections for William (Green) are: GREEN William (Green) was born about 1774 in Devon & became a miller & carpenter. He was tried for being at the same place & same time as a burglary at Devon Assizes on 20 3 1797, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 5 1798 after a voyage of 8months on BARWELL. He married Mary (Rose her first (1of3) marriage) on 7/15 2 1800 at St Philips CofE Sydney. In May 1802 he purchased a farm at Wilberforce Hawkesbury near Thomas (Rose) & Jane (Jones). He died on 22 3 1806 age32 drowned while helping others in Hawkesbury River floods & was buried at Greens Burial Ground Windsor. [Some details taken from this Website] Mary (Rose) was born about 1781. She arrived in NSW with her parents on 16 1 1793 after a voyage of 6months on BELLONA. She married secondly (2of3) Henry (Murray) on 9 2 1807 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She married thirdly James (Singleton) in 1814 at St Matthews CofE Windsor & produced perhaps 7children. She died on 25 1 1838 age about56 mother of perhaps 10children at Wilberforce. Details of Mary (Rose)s family are given in entry for William (Williams ALBEMARLE 1791) on this Website. William (Green) & Mary (Rose) produced 3children: 1.Elizabeth (Green) was born on 21 7 1801 baptised on 21 4 1811 age9 w/Thomas, William at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She married Richard (Kelly) on 11 5 1818 at St Matthews CofE Windsor & produced at least 5children. He died on 20 7 1870 age59!. ..Richard (Kelly) was born on 30 3 1800 & baptised on 15 7 1804 age4 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He was recorded as a farmer in 1824 & 1829. He died on 31 10 1878 age78. ..Details of Richard (Kelly)s family are given in entry for James (Kelly ROYAL ADMIRAL 1792) on this Website. .. 2.Thomas (Green) was born on 10 7 1803 & baptised on 21 4 1811 age7 w/Elizabeth, William at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He married Sarah (Douglas) on 22 6 1829 with her parents consent at St Thomas CofE/Wesleyan Sackville Reach. He died on 24 10 1880 age77. ..Sarah (Douglas) was born on 22 8 1810 & baptised on 13 9 1812 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 23 12 1892 age82.iiff ..Details of Sarah (Douglas)s family are given in entry for Thomas (Douglas CANADA 1801) on this Website. .. 3.William (Green) was born on 8 5 1805 & baptised on 21 4 1811 age5 w/Elizabeth, Thomas at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He married Rosannah (Richardson age14 her first marriage) on 8 9 1828 with her parents consent at St Thomas CofE/Wesleyan Sackville Reach. He was recorded in 1830 a a farmer He died on 16 12 1846 age41. ..Rosannah (Richardson) was born on 8 2 1814 at Wilberforce & baptised on 13 3 1814 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She apparantly married again after her husbands death in 1846. She died on 21 10 1892 age78 mother of 1known child. ..Details of Rosannah (Richardson)s family are given in entry for Anthony (Richardson SURPRISE 1790) on this Website. ..William (Green) & Rosannah (Richardson) produced at least 1child: ..1.William Thomas (Green) was born on 15 12 1828 at Sackville Reach & baptised on 28 3 1830 age15m w/2nd cousin William Henry (Rose) at St Thomas Wesleyan Sackville Reach. 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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iain Frazier on 26th April 2025

Family connections for William Edward (Green) are: GREEN William Edward (Green) was born about 1771. He was tried w/1other for stealing linen cloth, on 15 5 1790, from shop of John (Thwaits) in Holborn at probably Old Bailey, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship ATLANTIC. He was Free by Servitude by 1811. He died on 3 2 1824 age53 at Richmond & was buried at St Peters CofE Richmond. [Some details taken from this Website: where information previously provided seems to apply to William (Green BARWELL 1798) Elizabeth (Curtan) was born about 1780/3. She was tried in September 1800 at Morpeth Northumberland & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 12 1801 after a voyage of 6.5months on Fleet ship NILE. She, as (Curten), is recorded in 1806 Free by Servitude-&, as (Curtin), a concubine no children-working for John (Griffiths). She was an emancipist when she married Robert (Williams his second marriage on 11 5 1807 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She is recorded in 1811 as (Curtain). She married secondly-a third relationship-, as (Elizabeth (Curtin/Williams emancipist), William Edward (Green) emancipist on 8 3 1813 at St Matthews CofE Windsor & produced a child. She produced 1known child in her lifetime. [Some details taken from this Website; but Elizabeth (Curtan, Curten, Curtin, Curtain) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me] William (Green) & Elizabeth (Curtin/Williams) produced 1 child: 1.William Edward (Green) was born on 23 11 1811 & baptised on 2 5 1813 age18m at St Phillips CofE Sydney. 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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Karen Nieuwendyk on 24th September 2022

William Green was buried at Green Hills Burial Grounds, Windsor.

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Phil Hands on 20th March 2018

Tried and convicted in Devon in 1797, sentenced to 7 years transportation. Left Portsmouth on 7th November 1797. Ship:- the 'Barwell' sailed with 296 male convicts on board of which 9 died during the voyage. Arrived on 18th May 1798. William Green was born in 1774 in Devon, England. His occupation was that of Miller and Carpenter. He was convicted, at the age of 22, on the 20th March 1797, for "being at the same place and time as a burglary' - the term given was 7 years. A little over a year after his arrival William married Mary Rose (daughter of free settlers Thomas Rose & his wife Jane) on the 15th February 1800, they had 3 children between 1801-1805. William died as a result of drowning in a Hawkesbury river flood that was called the "Great March Flood' on the 22nd March 1806 at the age of 32. It had been raining for three weeks. The Hawkesbury River had flooded again, but this year in 1806 it had risen quickly to over 47 feet and had washed away crops, stock and many houses. Earlier in the day the Rose family had been rescued from the roof of their cottage on Farm on the river flats of the Hawkesbury River that they had purchased from Lawrence May in 1802. William Green and his wife Mary nee Rose and young family were living on the same property as Tom and Jane Rose who had arrived some years earlier in 1793 on the Bellona. Both families lost everything they owned. William married Mary Rose in 1800 at St. Philips Church in Sydney. He had arrived in the colony just 10 years previously he was a Carpenter by trade and was doing well, he had obtained a land grant, was a free person, and was a respected member of the small community at Wilberforce. William Green, along Thomas Reiby and John Chapman Morris (a convict who narrowly escaped drowning on the Guardian some 16 years previously), with 5 other men took out a small craft in the hopes of retrieving some of their possessions and stock that had been swept away. Thomas Reiby was the only man who could swim, and he had been, prior to his marriage to Mary Haycock in 1794 a junior officer on the store ship Britannia. Morris was steering this small craft and accidentally drove her against a submerged branch of a tree that had fallen into the river causing a gash through which water poured. Reiby would have stopped this leak with his handkerchief and thus gained time to get on shore as it was only a short distance away, but he was prevented because the others on board panicked and rushed forward which resulted in weighing down the front of the boat and she tilted and started to sink. They all called on Thomas Reiby for assistance and were all about to grasp hold of him but Thomas aware that death of all, including himself, would be inevitable, jumped overboard and passed under the boat. He expected that if they saw him they would leap towards him as they were all still in terror. Tom rose under the bow and got hold of the end of the craft and struck off towards the nearest bank and towed her within a few yards of shallow water, but due to being fully clothed and with his boots till on had to relinquish his hold. Once on shore, Thomas assured them he would save them all if they could summon a few moments patience, outcries were at this moment dreadful as they were all standing in the boat which was gradually sinking. Thomas Reiby tore a sapling from the earth and wadded into the water as far as he could and presented the end of the sapling to four of the men separately, thus saving four lives. The fifth man managed to get ashore without his assistance. Thomas again plunged in and both John Chapman Morris and William Green had kept above water until the other four were saved; Reiby made towards Morris, whose cries for help had not yet ceased, but unfortunately assistance was a fraction too late. His hat alone was seen floating on the surface of the water & William Green could not be seen. The bodies of William Green and John Chapman Morris were not found for some days and the body William was found near the riverbank near Simpson's Farm. William Green and John Chapman Morris were buried in the Burial Ground which was established in the area before Macquarie designated the 5 Macquarie towns in 1810 and it is located on a patch of underdeveloped land behind the Windsor's Jolly Frog Hotel (Bridge & Macquarie Streets). William left his wife Mary and his children Elizabeth 5, Thomas 2 and William 8 months. William was just 32 years of age and life was just starting to look up for him in this colony and he lost his life assisting others in time of need. Mary then married free settler Henry Murray in 1807, he commited suicide by hanging himself in 1812, Mary then married another free settler, James Singleton in 1813. Mary died on 25th January 1838 at Wilberforce age 56.