Mary Hide

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Maureen Withey on 25th March 2025

On Thursday last, Mary Hide was committed by our Magistrates to Warwick goal, charged with stealing linen and, wearing apparel the property,.of her the property, of her Master, F. Deakin, of this town. Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 30 Birmingham, 1795. Warwick Assize. Mary Hide for robbing Mr. Deakin, of Harborne, … Aris’s Birmingham Gazette, 28 March 1796.

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iain Frazier on 2nd January 2024

Family connections for Mary (Hide) are: Some amendments added Jun 2025. HIDE Mary (Hide) was born on 1 2 1779. She was tried for stealing clothes of her employer at Warwick Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 7 1798 after a voyage of 6months on BRITANNIA. She had a first relationship with John Henry (Black). She was issued her Absolute Pardon on 7 9 1801.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] John Henry (Black) arrived in NSW as the purser on INDISPENSABLE in 1798. He died in 1802, lost at sea on FLY on which he was Captain on journey Calcutta to Sydney. John Henry (Black) & Mary (Hide) produced 2children: 1.John Henry (Black) was born on 31 5 1799 & baptised on 2 9 1799 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He may have become cashier of the Bank of New South Wales, From 1825 he managed his step fathers hat making business. He married Louisa (Armytage/Skinner) on 14 6 1827 at St James CofE Sydney.. He was recorded as a clerk in 1828. He died on 9 6 1867 age68+. ..Louisa (Armytage perhaps originally being given the surname (Skinner)) was born on 19 4 1808 & baptised on 19 4 1812 age4 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. ..Details of Louisa (Armytage)s family are given in entry for Charles (Armytage FORTUNE 1806) on this Website. ..John Henry (Black) & Louisa (Armytage) produced at least 1child: ..1.Mary Ann (Black) was born on 15 7 1828 at Macquarie Place Sydney & baptised on 14 8 1828 at St James CofE Sydney. .. 2.Mary Ann (Black) was born on 1 10 1801 & baptised on 20 7 1807 age5 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She married Prosper (de Mestre) on 1 3 1821 at st Phillips CofE Sydney. She died in 1861 age about60. ..Prosper (de Mestre) was born about 1793. He arrived in Australia as a merchant in 1818 on MAGNET. He became prosperous. He was recorded as a merchant in 1827 & 1829. He was insolvent in 1844 & died at Terara after a short illness on 14 9 1844 age about55. ..Mary Ann (Black) & Prosper (de Mestre) produced at least 5children: ..1.Prosper John (de Mestre) was born on 29 12 1821 & baptised on 13 2 1822 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He died on 24 4 1863 age41. ..2.Andrew Cotrell (de Mestre) was born on 3 9 1823 & baptised on 1 10 1823 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He died on 15 12 1917 age94. ..3.Helen Mary (de Mestre) was born on 23 6 1825 & baptised on 28 7 1825 at St James CofE Sydney. ..4.Sarah Louisa (de Mestre) was born on 28 6 1827 at George St Sydney & baptised on 28 7 1827 at St James CofE Sydney. ..5.Melanie Isabella (de Mestre) was born on 14 8 1829 at George St Sydney & baptised on 10 9 1829 at St James CofE Sydney. .. [>>>Mary (Hide) had a second relationship with Simeon (Lord) Esquire from 1805, whom she married on 27 10 1814 (both emancipists) at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 9children. After her husbands death in 1840 she managed the family estate & became a wealthy woman. She died on 1 12 1864 age85 mother of 11children. [Simeon (Lord) son of Simeon (Lord) & Ann (???) was born on 28 6 1771 at Dobroyd Yorkshire. He was tried for stealing cloth of Robert (Peel) at Manchester Quarter Sessions in April 1790, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 20 8 1791 after a voyage of 5months on Fleet ship ATLANTIC; he was Anglican; he was assigned as servant to Captain Thomas (Rowley) of 102nd Regiment. He apparantly adopted a daughter: why? benevolence? result of relationship? He worked as auctioneer, banker, landowner of many acreages including a property named 'Dobroyd', grazier, hat manufacturer, leather goods manufacturer, litigant & perhaps unscrupulous businessman, magistrate, sealer, shipowner, shoe/boot manufacturer-much of this in partnership with Henry (Kable FRIENDSHIP 1788) & James (Underwood ALEXANDER 1791); they also owned the convict ship SYDNEY COVE. He also had involvements with Auxiliary Bible Society, Bank of NSW, Benevolent Society NSW, Waterloo Fund, Sydney College, International Trade. In 1803 he partnered with his step son in law Francis (Williams) in International Trade. He seems to have travelled to UK on SYDNEY COVE with James (Underwood), departing in October 1807-after which the partneship was dissolved with much litigation. In 1811 he was involved in hat making. In 1803 he also built a large house near Tank Stream bridge. He died on 29 1 1840 age about68 father of perhaps 9children. ] [Some details taken from this Website] [1.Joanna Henrietta (Short) was born on 29 9 1792 & baptised on 28 12 1792 on Norfolk Island & later adopted by Simeon (Lord). She married at age14 Francis (Williams) marine on 17 11 1806 at St Phillips CofE Sydney.] [.Details of Joanna Henrietta (Short)s family are given in entry for Joseph (Short SURPRISE 1790) on this Website.] [..Francis (Williams) was born about 1786 & became an officer (ships or military?). After arriving in Australia he became partner of father in law Simeon (Lord), travelling the world to originate trade deals in 1807 & in hat making in 1811. He went to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) in 1813. 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. Irene Schaffer & Thelma McKay 'Exiled Three Times Over! Profiles of Norfolk Islanders Exiled in Van Diemens Land 1807-1813' James Hugh Donohoe 'Norfolk Island 1788-1813-The People and Their Families' Reg Wright 'Forgotten Generation of Norfolk Island & Van Diemens Land'

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Beth Taylor on 31st July 2019

Mary Hyde was convicted of stealing clothes from her employer, and was sentenced to seven years transportation. She arrived in Sydney in 1798 aboard the Brittania. She formed a relationship with a ship's officer, John Black. They had two children before he died on a voyage back from India in 1802. Mary was granted an absolute pardon on 7 September 1801. In about 1805, Mary started a relationship with Simeon Lord, a former associate of Black's. In 1806 she bore the first of their eight children. They married in 1814. After her husband's death in 1840, Mary continued to manage the estate and was one of the wealthiest women in the colony. She died on 1 December 1864. (Source: 'Lord, Mary (1779–1864)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/lord-mary-23101/text32372, accessed 1 August 2019.)

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Greg Stephenson on 19th February 2019

Mary Hide cohabited with ship's captain, John Black, in Sydney Cove with whom she had 2 children, John Henry Black in 1799 and Mary Ann Black in 1801. Captain John Black was lost at sea onboard his ship, the "Fly", enroute from Calcutta to Sydney in 1802. Mary Ann Hide then had an association with Simeon Lord and had a number of children with him, beginning with Louisa Lord in 1808 (NSW BDM: LORD LOUISA 1848/1808 V18081848 1A SIMON MARY (HIDE). Also recorded: LORD EDWARD 110/1814 V1814110 6 SIMEON MARY: LORD SIMEON 321/1810 V1810321 6 SIMEON MARY HYDE) A number of the children's births appear to be not recorded. These include Francis Alan Lord in 1812; Thomas Lord in 1816; George William lord in 1818 and Robert Lord in 1821. All of the above children are named in the November 1828 census (reference:Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980). Mary Hide married Simeon Lord on 27th October 1814 in St Philip's Church of England in Sydney. (NSW BDM 131/1814 V1814131 7 LORD SIMEON HIDE MARY CA) CA is St Philip's Church of England,"Church Hill", York, Clarence and Jamieson streets,Sydney.