Richard Palmer

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Christine Hogg on 1st April 2022

Children are: George - born 7 November 1802 bapt 23 January 1803 Edwin - born 4 March 1804 bapt August 1804 Harriet - born 15 May 1806 bapt 28 August 1806 Henry - born 9 February 1809 bapt 19 February 1809 Elizabeth - born born 14 May 1811 bapt 9 June 1811 Jane - born 2 July 1813 bapt 17 September 1813 William - born 18 July 1815 bapt 6 August 1815 Thomas - born 22 November 1818 died 2 Dec 1818 source - "T D Mutch Index of Births Marriages & Deaths, K-P, 1787-1814" St Philip's Church, Sydney William Palmer arrived Port Bunn (Preservation Inlet), NZ February 1832 on "Caroline". His first wife was Titi, a Ngai Tahu Maori, she died 1846, he married Te Haukawe (Titi's full sister) she died 1847, and in 1853 he married Ann Taimaraki Holmes who was Pakeha/Moriori. William died at Henley, NZ 27 March 1903.

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Gail Robyn Newman on 10th March 2022

Trial at the Old Bailey 132. RICHARD PALMER was indicted for stealing, on the 2d day of February last, one pair of shoes, value 2 s. a pair of plated buckles, value 6 d. a knife, value 1 d. a hat, value 1 s. four keys, value 1 s. and three shillings and six-pence in monies , the property of Thomas Motherly . THOMAS MOTHERLY sworn. I am servant to the Duke of Northumberland. I went out on the 2d of February, with one of our chairmen, to get a pot of beer, about three in the afternoon, to the sign of the Ship, below Charing Cross; we got a little tossicated with liquor; I lost my hat and shoes and buckles, coming from Spring-Gardens ; I cannot tell whether I fell down or lay down, or was knocked down; I cannot say how I was robbed; it was about half past eight at night; I swore to one of my keys. ESTHER BLACKMAN sworn. I take in washing, and go out to work; I live in White-lion-street, Seven-Dials; I was going towards Spring-Gardens; I saw the prisoner, and asked him what he was doing to this man; and he said one Jack left him with him, and gave him a glass of gin; I went to Northumberland-House, and brought one of the footmen, and he did not know him in the condition he was in; I suspected the prisoner, and I turned back, and saw him take off his shoes, and run round the corner; I never saw the prisoner before. How long was this transacting? - There was a light in the shop, and I looked at him very hard, and he looked at me; I am sure he is the man; I saw him about ten minutes after: I told a patrole, and he ran after him and took him at the Horse Guards; and he knocked the patrole down; and he ran as far as York House, and there he was stopped and secured; I did not see him searched. Was there any person with this man beside? - No. JAMES CHEW sworn. I am a patrole. The last witness told me a man was robbed in Spring Gardens, and gave me a description of the prisoner; I pursued him, and overtook him at the Horse Guards; I saw something under his arm; I asked him if he had any shoes? then he gave me a blow, and made off; I called after him; I ran, and a person kicked his heels up; I found a key and a knife in his pocket; there was nothing else that the prosecutor knew. (The knife and key produced.) Prosecutor. I can swear to the key, but not to the knife; I had such a knife. JOSEPH NIBLOW sworn. I heard the cry of stop thief! and I tripped up the prisoner's heels; and going along, he said he could lick a dozen of us. PRISONER's DEFENCE. I came off guard at twelve, and went out with a friend; and I was coming home, and I found a key and a knife; and this man came up to me, and asked me if I had got a pair of shoes? and I said I had not, and I struck him. Serjeant Mayne gave the prisoner a very good character, and said he was a good soldier . GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. COMMON SERJEANT.

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Jennifer Beacham on 29th April 2021

An unconfirmed report says Richard was regarded as a good prisoner as he could read and write and was assigned a wife Elizabeth Titley in 1801.Soon after he became the owner of his own pub, the ‘Black Swan’ in George Street Sydney. We do know he paid one pound on 1 January 1810 for a block of land on the South side of Brickfield Hill 121 feet on the East,265 feet North side, 180 feet west side and 240 feet on the South. Elizabeth Titley and Richard Palmer’s first child Edwin was born in 1802, followed by George Thomas in 1803, Harriet in 1806, and Henry in 1809. Then Elizabeth and Richard formally married at St Philip’s Church Sydney on 23 October 1810. Elizabeth was born in 1811, and Jane Luxmore was born on 2 July 1813. William McClure Palmer was born in 1815, and the last son Thomas in 1818. But their father Richard died in November 1819 a week before the last born Thomas died. Their mother Elizabeth died a few months later on 5 March 1820, with the consequence that five of the remaining children went to the Sydney Orphanage. Edwin in 1819 and George both went to Hobart, but Edwin obviously kept in touch with the other children and mostly they continued to be connected for the rest of their lives.

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Winnitta Watts on 15th April 2020

Wikitree

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Sharon Renfrew on 9th December 2014

Married Elizabeth Titley/Tetley

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Jay Stagpoole on 6th October 2013

married Elizabeth Tetley (or Titley)in NSW two sons and a grandson involved in sealing on the southern islands of NZ married into the local Ngai Tahu Iwi (tribe)