Mary Mullet

Level 75

iain Frazier on 25th August 2025

Family connections for Mary (Mullet) are: MULLET Mary (Mullett/Mollet) was tried at Southhmpton Assizes Hampshire & arrived in NSW as a convict on 30 4 1796 after a voyage of 7months on INDISPENSIBLE. She had a first (1of3) relationship, as (Mullett/Talmarge), with William (Wilkinson his second relationship).>>> [Some details taken from this Website] William (Wilkinson) married Elizabeth (???). He arrived in Australia as ships master with his wife on 30 4 1796 after a voyage of 7months on INDISPENSIBLEalso. He may have produced 2children in his lifetime. [Elizabeth (???/Wilkinson) arrived in Australia with her husband on 30 4 1796 after a voyage of 7months on INDISPENSIBLE.] [William (Wilkinson) & Elizabeth (???/Wilkinson) produced 1child:]>>> [1.John Sebastian (Wilkinson) was born on 1 9 1801 & baptised on 22 1 1802 at St Johns CofE Parramatta.] .. Mary (Mullett/Talmarge) & William (Wilkinson) produced 1child:>>> 1.Sarah (Wilkinson) was born on 17 9 1796 & baptised on 8 10 1798 age2 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. >>>Mary (Mullett) was apparantly sent to Norfolk Island & produced a child with an unknown: She was granted, as (Mollett) on 1 1 1810, 48rods to build a house.>>> 1.Lucy (???/Mullett) was born in 1801 on Norfolk Island. ++ Noted a Mary Ann Wilkinson (Talmarge), born in the colony in 1794, married Charles (Rushton came free) settler on 23 12 1826 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. & a ??? (Tabride mariner MARY ANN) died on 12 10 1827 age29 at Wilberforce & was buried at St Johns CofE Wilberforce ++ >>>Mary (Mullett) was Free by Servitude by 1812. She had a third relationship with George Marriott (Woodhouse his second (2of3) relationship). She produced 3known children in her lifetime. George Marriott (Woodhouse) arrived in Australia as a clerk with his wife in 1809 on HMS DROMEDARY.>>> Mary Ann (Mullett/Talmidge) & George Marriott (Woodhouse) produced 1child: 1.George Marriott (Woodhouse) was born on 26 6 1812 & baptised on 11 12 1812 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He died on 18 12 1812 age5months & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney. .. .. >>>George Marriott (Woodhouse) married thirdly Elizabeth (Aik/cken age15 her first marriage) on 23 12 1811 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He had a farm near Mt Gilead when he died in 1827-described as late of 73rd Regiment-no mention in NSW Corp reference- father of 6children. ..Elizabeth (Aicken) was born in 1796. She was recorded in 1828 with 5children. She had a second relationship with Thomas (Rose his fourth (4of5?) relationship) & produced 2children. She died on 17 8 1843 age abot47 mother of 7children. ..Details of Elizabeth (Aic/ken)s family are given in entry for Thomas (Rose BARWELL 1798) on this Website. ..[Thomas (Rose) was born about 1773. He was tried w/2others for breaking entering & stealing a boat at Shrewsbury Shropshire Assizes on 19 3 1793, sentenced to death commuted to Life & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 5 1798 after a voyage of 8months on BARWELL (as was his father in law Thomas (Bartlett)). In 1801 he, Richard (Perkins) & others were convicted of stealing a boat, sentenced to death & pardoned by the Governor. He became a baker in 1804. He married firstly (1of5?) Elizabeth (Bartlett) with permission on 13 4 1806 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. He was issued his Conditional Pardon on 4 6 1806 when he received a publicans licence & granted land at Chapel Row where he built a bakery & Rose & Crown hotel-both opened in 1810; here he eventually owned all the land bounded by King, Elizabeth, Market & Castlereagh Streets. He receved his Absolute Pardon on 1 12 1809. In 1813 he was granted 40acres at Evan district (cancelled in 1816). His Absolute Pardon was continued on 31 1 1814. He sold his bakery in 1815. In 1816 he was accused of seditious conduct & sufferred penalties as mentioned on this Website. About 1819 he bought 400acres 'Mount Gilead' on Appin Road. He was an innkeeper in 1826 & was looking after 6other children ages6-19 when his wife died. He commenced living at 'Mount Gilead' in 1827 where he experimented successfully with water conservation & ground flour in his 60' windmill. He had another (his third 3of5?) relationship with Sarah (Burgess/Perkins her second (2of3) relationship) before 1828. He had increased his landholding by 1828 to 2,460acres when he was recorded as a farmer at Appin with 6children. He was a stockholder of Bank NSW, trustee Sydney Public Free Grammer School, treasurer Sydney Reading Room, stock/land agent, owner race horses & clerk Sydney Race Ground as mentioned on this Website. He married fifthly? Sarah (Pye) on 21 9 1829 at St Peters CofE Campbelltown. He was recorded in 1830 as a settler/farmer. [Noted a Thomas (Rose) is recorded as dying on 3 3 1829 age about56] This person seems to have died on 3 3 1837 age about64 father of perhaps as many as 14children & was buried at Mt Gilead. Later his remains were removed to St Peters CofE Campbelltown; he left a large estate=farms on the Nepean, at Airds, the Murray District, and Botany Bay, houses at Richmond and Windsor, as well as property in Market and Castlereagh Streets including the Rose and Crown Inn and the estate at Mt Gilead. Upon his death, his estate, at Campbelltown, was managed by trustees, until his son Charles Henry Jacob took over Mt Gilead in 1858. In 1864 the mortgagee foreclosed and Henry Rose was forced to sell Mt Gilead. In 1867, Mt Gilead was purchased by his stepson banker Edmond (Woodhouse), son of Elizabeth (Woodhouse) of Appin, who established a very successful dairy. .. ..George Marriott (Woodhouse) & Elizabeth (Aicken) produced 5children: ..1.Eliza Orr (Woodhouse) was born on 15 7 1816 & baptised on 28 3 1817 at St Lukes CofE Liverpool. She was recorded in 1828 with her mother. She died on 17 7 1842 age26-. ..2.George James (Woodhouse) was born on 7 2 1819 & baptised on 30 12 1822 age3 w/Mary Frances at St Peters CofE Campbelltown. He was recorded in 1828 with his mother. He died on 19 1 1861 age41. ..3.Mary Frances (Woodhouse) was born on 19 5 1822 & baptised on 30 12 1822 w/George James at St Peters CofE Campbelltown. She was recorded in 1828 with her mother. She died on 19 7 1864 age42. ..4.Edmund Hume (Woodhouse) was born on 20 5 1823 & baptised on 6 2 1825 age20m at St Peters CofE Campbelltown. He was recorded in 1828 with his mother. In 1867 he was a banker at Appin & purchased Mt Gilead from his distant cousin Charles Henry Jacob (Rose) & established a very successful dairy. He died on 21 10 1875 age52. ..5.Emma (Woodhouse) was born on 6 12 1826. She was recorded in 1828 with her mother. She died on 6 4 1871 age44. 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' Pamela Statham 'A Colonial Regiment-New Sources Relating to the New South Wales Corps-1789-1810'

Level 116

Tony Beale on 5th December 2020

New South Wales, Australia, Registers of Land Grants and Leases, 1792-1867 for Mary Mollett Granted 48 rods (0.3 of an acre) of land on 1/1/1810 on condition she build a house. Lease was for 14 years at 5/- per year