Isaac Lancaster

Isaac LANCASTER was a labourer of Buttermere in the Parish of Brigham when charged on the 19th April 1814 at the Carlisle Quarter Seesions with stealing a silver snuff box and on other box valued at 10 pence belonging to Joseph Robinson. He was sentenced to 7 years transportation and on the 20th April 1815 sailed from London on the "Baring". This was her maiden voyage. He arrived in Port Jackson on the 7th September 1815. The voyage took 140 days coming via Maderia and Rio. There were 300 convicts on board when the "Baring" left England and 2 died during the voyage. The ship's master John LAMB. Besides the convicts there was a detachment of 34th, 46 Regts mil/mrch. In 1816 convict Isaac was assigned to work for William ATKINS. By 1820, Isaac was being maintained at no expense to the crown by William COX, the man who had built the road over the Blue Mountains. By 1822 he was "free by Servitude"and wrking as a labourer at Windsor. On the 14th February, Isaac in the company of Thomas PRIEST, was permitted to pass from Windsor to the farm of Phillip THORLEY at Patrick's Plain. (Reel 6012; 4/3510 p.333) By 1825 Isaac was working for Mr John BLAXLAND at Newcastle. The 1828 Census states Isaac was working for Mary HUNT at Wallis Plains (Maitland). In 1848 Isaac at the age of 59 years married Rachel Mary Ann SHAW aged just 15 years, the eldest daughter of convicts John SHAW and Lydia MATTHEWS. Isaac was employed as a blacksmith on John BLAXLAND's property - Forwick via Broke. John was the eldest brother of explorer Gregory BLAXLAND. Isaac and many of the LANCASTER families are buried in the Anglican Cemetery just outside the village of Broke in the Hunter Valley.