Caroline Laycock

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susan smart on 7th June 2026

sarah is a half sibling i just found out in my family tree , mother is caroline my 3rd great grandma.

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Maureen Withey on 15th August 2024

Melissa Williams added Date of birth: 5/1/1766.

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iain Frazier on 22nd March 2024

Family connections for Caroline (Laycock) are: LAYCOCK Carolin/e/yn (Laycock/Hancock/Haycock/Haylock) was born in 1765 & became a servant. She was tried for petty larceny at Westminster London Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 10months on First Fleet ship PRINCE OF WALES; she was 5'1" dark sallow complexion brown hair hazel eyes. She had a first relationship (1of6) with Robert (Hosburn) in January 1788.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] Robert (Hosburn) was a sailor on First Fleet ship PRINCE OF WALESalso which arrived in Australia on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 10months. Carolin/e/yn (Laycock/Hancock/Haycock/Haylock) & Robert (Hosburn/orne) produced 1child: 1.Sarah (Hosborne) was born in 1788 & baptised on 30 9 1788 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She married Richard (Barton) emancipist labourer on 10 7 1810 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 1child. ..Richard (Barton) was tried at Kent Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 2 1792 after a voyage of 8months on PITT; much fever & attempts to escape from the ship resulted in deaths of convicts-of the 450convicts on board only 29 were alive at muster in May 1792 (or perhaps only this many could be mustered). He was Free by Servitude by 1810. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Carolin/e/yn (Laycock/Haycock) had a second relationship (2of6) with Robert (Bruce).>>> Robert (Bruce) was born about 1774. He was tried for assault & theft w/2others of silk purse etc of John (Cutler) at Winchester Castle Hampshire on 29 7 1783, sentenced to be hanged reprieved to 7years, held at Southampton Gaol Delivery [he escaped custody at Exeter Devon in 1784] & arrived in NSW on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 6months on First Fleet ship CHARLOTTE. He was sent to Norfolk Island on HMS SIRIUS. He is recorded with 1acre in Sydney in 1791. He may subsequently have left the colony. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Caroline/yn (Laycock married thirdly (3of6) Mark (Turner) in 1792 (not shown in Smees records) & produced 6children. Mark (Turner) was born about 1759. He was tried for stealing a bleach near Norwich Norfolk before 1790, escaped & was apprehended at Dover; he was issued a pardon. He was later tried w/his brother John & 2others with poaching pheasants in Norford near Swaffham Norfolk & possible house breaking at Surrey Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years, held at Swaffham Bridewell gaol & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH. He was Free by Servitude by 1796. He died on 2/26 2 1802 age43. [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Carolin/e/yn (Laycock) was Free by Servitude by 1796. She is recorded in 1806 as employed by William (Shepherd), with whom she had her fourth (4of6) relationship.>>> William (Shepherd) may not have been a convict. .. >>>Carolin/e/yn (Laycock) had a fifth relationship (5of6) with William (Smyth). William (Smi/yth) may not have been a convict. Carolin/e/yn (Laycock) & William (Smi/yth) produced 2children: 1.Ann S (Laycock) was born on 7 11 1803 & baptised on 25 12 1803 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She died on 6 10 1811 age7. 2.Charlotte (Smith/Laycock) was born in 1807. .. >>>Carolin/e/yn (Laycock) married sixthly Henry (Heatley his first marriage) on 7 5 1810 at St Matthews CofE Windsor & produced 1child. She is recorded in 1814 as wife of Henry (Heatley). She was issued her Certificate of Freedom on 4 12 1823. In 1828 she is recorded as with Henry (Heatley) with 1child. She died on 17 3 1830 age65 (Smees records show age44) mother of 9known children & was buried at St James CofE Sydney. Henry (Head/tley/Hately) was born in 1784 & became a groom & house servant. He was tried for horse theft at York Assizes, sentenced to 14years & arrived in NSW on 27 7 1807 after a voyage of 6months on DUKE OF PORTLAND. In 1807/8 he was employed by John (Palmer). He was issued his Conditional Pardon on 1 3 1811. In 1814 he absconded & was returned from India on GREYHOUND arriving in NSW on 4 4 1818; incurring cancellation of his Conditional Pardon & sent to Hobart on MINERVA, recorded on 23 5 1818. He had a second relationship with Mary (Hogan her second relationship) in Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). He died in 1853 age69 father of 4children. [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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Michael Hately on 1st April 2015

Married Henry Hately, brother of Joseph Hately of George St Sydney, in 1810

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D Wong on 28th March 2015

Caroline was 5’1” tall, dark sallow complexion, brown hair, hazel eyes. She was transported for ‘petty larceny”. C January 1788: Lived with or married Robert Hosburn – was a sailor who arrived in the colony aboard the ship 'Prince of Wales'. They had 1 daughter Sarah Hosburn b 1788. On 25 July 1789 received a sentence of 50 lashes for helping William Boggis to steal a shirt. C 1789: Lived with or married Robert Bruce. Robert Bruce - b1754. Convicted in 1784 at Exeter for escaping custody. They had 1 daughter, Elizabeth Mason Haylock b 1790. C 1792: Lived with or married Mark Turner 1759-1802 (Scarborough 1789). They had 5 children, George Turner 1791–1792, Mark Turner 1793–, William Turner 1794–, Eleanor Turner 1796–1867, Thomas Turner 1799–. Cohabited with William Shepherd. Cohabited with William Smyth. Daughter Ann S Laycock b1803. Married Henry Heatley in 1810 at Windsor. 4/12/1823: Certificate 17/3/1830: Caroline died aged 66.