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Voyage
Transportation
Rachael Richards was transported on the Lord Wellington, departing 30th Apr 1819 and arriving 20th Jan 1820 with 125 passengers.
Lord Wellington (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 88, Class and Piece Number HO11/3, Page Number 165 (84) |
| Source Description | This record is one of the entries in the British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database compiled by State Library of Queensland from British Home Office (HO) records which are available on microfilm as part of the Australian Joint Copying Pro |
| Original Source | Great Britain. Home Office |
| Compiled By | State Library of Queensland |
| Database Source | British convict transportation registers 1787-1867 database |
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Convict Notes
ADM 101/45/1 1819-1820 Diary for the Lord Wellington female convict ship sailing from England to New South Wales, covering 27 April 1819 to 27 January 1820, by Edward Foord Bromley, MD, Surgeon, Royal Navy and Superintendent of Convicts. (Described at item level) Folio 3: Mary Blackmore; Mary Smith; Maria Jones; Rachel Richards; Elizabeth Bamford; Margaret Hennessy. All these women were dreadfully scalded on the 28th May 1819 (when the ship was in the Queens Channel) by the coppers capsizing in a sudden squall. The [Ag Calais?] was applied to the scalded parts and kept wet. Their bowels were kept open with saline purgatives and when such inflammatory action took place they were bled and kept on low diet several of them got well in the course of a month but Maria Jones who was by far the worst was not cured for three months. The remainder of the women were discharged in July [1819].
1/4/1818 Hereford Journal Herefordshire, England HEREFORD, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1. Rachael Richards, for burglary in the house of Mr. J. Jones, of Llanavan Vechan, was sentenced to seven years' transportation.... (Rachael is listed with a 14 years sentence, no other Rachael Richards mentioned in 1818**) Rachel applied for permission to marry two men, a John Haslam & James McCurdy. The 1828 census has Rachel living with James McCurdy and some of their children in Cumberland Street, Sydney. The thinking is that James McCurdy is an alias for John Haslam - There was no McCurdy on the Tottenham - also no convicts called McCurdy listed on the Naional Records of Scotland or the Irish convict database. 4/11/1822: Permission to marry John Haslem (Totteham 1818) - no marriage registration found. 1012/1823: Permission to marry James McCurdy (Tottenham 1818) - no registration found. (No James McCurdy listed as a convict) 1828 Census: In the 1828 census, Rachel is 28 years old, Free by Servitude, Catholic and under other names is McCurdy. McCurdy, James, 28, free by servitude, Tottenham, 1818, 7 years, Catholic, baker, Cumberland Street Sydney McCurdy, Mary A., 7, born in the colony McCurdy, Catherine, 5, born in the colony McCurdy, Caroline, 3, born in the colony McCurdy, John F., 1, born in the colony Richards, Rachael, 28, free by servitude, Lord Wellington, 1819, Catholic, Ux, Jas. McCurdy, Cumberland Street Sydney Her Certificate of Freedom, given in 1832, states "wife of John Haslam, per "Tottenham" (1818). There were 11 children born in all, - James/or John died in 12/7/1844 and was buried in the Berrima Cemetery. 1845: Rachael married Thomas Jones who is recorded in the newspapers as a storekeeper in Berrima. Thomas died in Berrima in 1863. 1873: Rachel McCurdy nee Richards died in Lane Cove aged 72.