Rachael Hoddy

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iain Frazier on 16th December 2024

Family connections for Rachel (Hoddy) are: HODDY Racha/el (Hoddy) was born about 1767. She was tried w/1other for theft, on 7 6 (1786?), of cloth coat etc of Nimrod (Blampin) at Old Bailey in April 1787, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover; she was sent to Norfilk Island, arriving on 7 8 1790. He associated with Isaac (Williams) & produced 8children. She was Free by Servitude by 1798. She is recorded as sentence expired off stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805 & in 1806. She left Norfolk Island with 6children as part of the first evacuation (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which she may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on CITY OF EDINBURGH on 3 9 1808, arriving on 2-5 10 1808-where she became a successful business woman. She is recorded in Hobart in 1811. She is recorded as off stores at Hobart Town with 4children on 2 10 1818. She died on 4 4 1836 age69. [Some details taken from this Website] Isaac (Williams alias Thomas (Horeditch) William (Allis)) was tried for horse stealing at Stafford Quarter Sessions on 14 3 1787, sentenced to death commuted to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 7 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship MATILDA; he arrived on Norfolk Island in August 1791. He was Free by Servitude by 1798. He is recorded in 1802 at Norfolk Island. He is recorded as convict labourer on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805 & in 1806. He left Norfolk Island with his family to Derwent on 3 9 1808-though not recorded as such in Norfolk Island Refs. [An Isaac (Williams) is recorded as dying in 1805] [Some details taken from this Website] 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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Denis Pember on 2nd March 2016

Baxter, Carol; Muster of New South Wales and Norfolk Island: 1806 [Ref D0535] Sentence Expired, Rachel Hoddy, Off Stores. Norfolk. and also.... [D0624] Thomas Hoddy, child over 2 On stores. [D0634] Hannah Hoddy, child over 2 On stores. [D0651] Elizabeth Hoddy, child over 2 On stores. [D0863] Mary Hoddy, child Off stores. [D0864] Catherine Hoddy, child Off stores. Baxter, Carol; General Muster of New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Van Diemen's Land 1811: [Ref 2816] Rachsel Hoddy, Lady Juliana, Tried April 1787, Middlesex, 7 years.

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Denis Pember on 2nd March 2016

In the colony, Rachel lived with Isaac Williams (Convict, Matilda, 1791). The couple had 8 children, 5 daughters and 3 sons over the period 1792 to 1805. Isaac died in 1805 and fairly soon thereafter, Rachel must have moved to Tasmania. She is recorded in Norfolk Island in 1806 with her children and then in Hobart in 1811.

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Denis Pember on 2nd March 2016

Old Bailey Transcript: t17880625-15 ANN HARDIMAN and RACHEL HODDY were indicted for feloniously stealing, on the 7th of June , a cloth coat, value 10. a velvet waistcoat, value 5 s. a pair of leather breeches, value 6 s. a man's hat, value 4 s. a pair of leather shoes, value 12 d. a pair of plated shoe buckles, value 4 s. a base metal knee-buckle, value 2 d. a base metal tobacco box, value 2 d. and 3 s. in monies numbered , the property of Nimrod Blampin . NIMROD BLAMPIN sworn. On the 7th of June, about eleven o'clock at night, I met the prisoner Hoddy in St. James's Park. What was you doing there? - I was going home, I had been into Oxford Road. Where do you lodge? - In Gravel Lane. So you took St. James's Park in your way? - Yes. You were very drunk I suppose? - I was not sober, nor I was not very drunk, I went home with Hoddy. Did you know her before? - No; I gave her money to get salmon and beer for supper, and then we went to bed. Did you undress yourself? - Yes, I put my breeches under my head, and the rest of my clothes on the bed, and my shoes and buckles and hat under the bed, I waked about seven o'clock in the morning, and found all my clothes gone, and I was locked into the room; I could not tell what to do, I would have jumped out of window, but I could not get down; I found a poker in the room, with which I broke open the door, and a soldier that lodged in the under room lent me some clothes to go home in; he and I went about to try to find my clothes but could not find them; as I was going home I was told that the woman was taken, I went back and found the prisoner Hardiman in custody; she owned where Hoddy was, and then Hoddy was brought to the office. You only saw Hoddy the night before? - No, I went with Hoddy to a woman's where she had sold my shoes and hat; the Justice gave her the shoes and hat till the trial came on, and she has since run away, I found all the other things and they were produced before the Justice the next day. Was you sober enough to know Hoddy again, think you? - Yes. Are you sure of that? - Yes. Thomas Hyndes , a pawnbroker, produced a pair of buckles; and deposed that he took them in pledge of the prisoner Hoddy. James Kember , a pawnbroker, produced a coat, waistcoat and breeches, and deposed that he took them in of the prisoner Hardiman. JAMES PAGAN sworn. I am a constable, I had information of this robbery, and apprehended the prisoners in two public houses; I found upon Hardiman a tobacco box, two duplicates, the key of the room in which the man was locked, and a half crown, and five pence in half-pence, I found seven shillings and a penny half-penny upon Hoddy, which I gave to the landlord of the house for things that were broke, and rent that was owing. (The things were all deposed to by the prosecutor.) HODDY's DEFENCE. This man went home with me, he was so much in liquor he could scarce stand, he told me to make away with the things for he had no money. HARDIMAN's DEFENCE. I never saw the man, this young woman told me a man had given her some clothes to pawn, and I went with her to pawn them. BOTH GUILTY . Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. Justice Wilson.

She had 6 children and became a successful business woman in Hobart, Tasmania.