Richard Ridge

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iain Frazier on 5th October 2024

Amends to this entry: Richard (Ridge) was deputy Provost Marshall in 1809. James (MacDonald) was a labourer in 1821.

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iain Frazier on 20th May 2024

Family connections for Richard (Ridge) are: Some amendments added Jul & Oct 2025. RIDGE Richard (Ridge), maybe son of James (Ridge) & Mary (???), was born in 1766 in Sussex or Oxfordshire & baptised on 1 12 1771 at Horsham West Sussex. He was tried for breaking & entering w/4others, on 21 8 1789, & stealing clothes etc from house of Susannah (Dowell) at Old Bailey on 9 9 1789, sentenced to 7years, held probably at London/Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 24 3 1791 after a voyage of 5months on Fleet ship ATLANTIC. In 1801 he is recorded as living in a first relationship with Jane (Poole her second relationship) on 60acres owned jointly & by 1806 they were on 250acres at Hawkesbury-they were also recorded as having 305acres & stock.>>> [Some information taken from this Website] Jane (Poole) was born about 1768. She was tried for breaking & entering & stealing silver watch & more at Wells Somerset Assizes on 19 8 1886, sentenced to death by hanging reprieved to 7years, held on prison hulk DUNKIRK & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 12 1788 after a voyage of 5months on First Fleet ship CHARLOTTE. On 20 1 1789 she gave evidence against 2convicts. In November 1789 she travelled to Norfolk Island on SUPPLY. She married firstly James (McManus) in September 1791 on Norfolk Island (sic because the marriage is recorded in November 1791 in a joint ceremony on Norfolk Island) & produced 4children. She left Norfolk Island on 21 9 1792 with her family-to Sydney. She was Free by Servitude by 1794. She was granted 60acres in May 1797 after death of her military husband & 160acres more in March 1800 (in trust for her children). In 1801 she is recorded as living in her second relationship with Richard (Ridge), with whom she produced 3more children, on 60acres owned jointly & by 1806 they were on 250acres at Hawkesbury-they were also recorded as having 305acres & stock. Before 1809 she moved to George St Parramatta. She died on 26/8 11 1826 age58 mother of 7children & was buried, as Jane (McManus), at St Johns CofE Parramatta. [Some information taken from this Website] [James (McManus) arrived in NSW as a marine on 26 1 1788 on First Fleet ship CHARLOTTE. On 26 8 1790 he was placed under arrest at Sydney, discharged as a seaman in October 1791 & was sent to Norfolk Island on 26 10 1791 with NSW Corps arriving on 4 11 1791. He was granted 60acres on Norfolk island which he accepted later in 1796. He left Norfolk Island on 21 9 1792 with his family & enlisted in the NSW Corps on 24 6 1793 as a private in Sydney. He was posted to Hawkesbury in 1795 & was discharged on 6 4 1797 with a grant of 62acres at Mulgrave Place Hawkesbury?. He became a settler & died on 15 4 1798 & was buried at St Phillips CofE Sydney.] [Details of James (McManus)s & Jane (Poole)s families are given in entry for Jane (Poole CHARLOTTE 1788) on this Website.] .. Richard (Ridge) & Jane (Poole) Free by Servitude by this time produced 4children: maybe girls 1.??? (Ridge) was born unknown recorded 1st child born <1801 2.Catherine (Ridge) is recorded as born in 180x's-no parents given-maybe just above. She married James (MacDonald) on 9 4 1821 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. ..James (McDonald) was born in 1789 & baptised on 5 9 1789 at St Phillips CofE Sydney Cove. He went to Norfolk Island with his mother on HMS SIRIUS on 4 3 1790. ..Details of James (McDonald)s family are given in entry for Mary (Phillips CHARLOTTE/FRIENDSHIP/PRINCE OF WALES 1788) on this Website. ..Catherine (Ridge) & James (McDonald) produced 1child: ..1.Daniel (Macdonald) was baptised in 1818. 3.Charlotte (Ridge) was born unknown. 4.Martha (Ridge) was born on 14 7 1803 & baptised on 25 8 1811 age8 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 17 6 1821 age17. .. >>>Richard (Ridge) was at Hawkesbury in 1809. He was Deputy Provost Marshall when he married secondly Margaret (Forrester age14) on 7 11 1809 at St Phillips CofE Sydney & produced 8children. He became district constable before 1811 & in 1812 he became provost marshall's bailiff & on 15 6 1816 he he was appointed bailiff for the colony. On 30 3 1811 he purchased a house in Windsor. He was recorded in 1821 as in 1822 as a settler & in 1822 as a settler/farmer. He was dismissed as constable on 25 8 1824 for improper conduct at Portland Head. He was recorded in 1826 & 1829 as a farmer. He died on 1 1 1842 age about76 father of at least 15children, by apoplexy in his sons house at Windsor. Margaret (Forrester) was born on 20 4 1795 & baptised on 25 9 1795 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She died on 18 7 1873 age78. Details of Margaret (Forrester)s family are given in entry for Robert (Forrester SCARBOROUGH 1788) on this Website. .. Richard (Ridge) Free by Servitude by this time & Margaret (Forrester) produced at least 11children: 1.Thomas (Ridge) was born in 1810. 2.James Bligh (Ridge) was born on 19 7 1811 & baptised on 29 9 1811 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 22 9 1886 age75. 3.Richard Charles (Ridge) was born on 29 7 1813 at Windsor & baptised w/John, Isabella Jane & Robert on 1 5 1821 age7 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 27 5 1892 age78. 4.John (Ridge) was born on 25 6 1815 at Windsor & baptised w/Richard Charles, Isabella Jane & Robert on 1 5 1821 age5 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 11 10 1867 age78. 5.Isabella Jane (Ridge) was born on 12 5 1817 at Windsor & baptised w/Richard Charles, John & Robert on 1 5 1821 age4- at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died on 5 5 1888 age71+. 6.Robert (Ridge) was born on 26 6 1819 at Windsor & baptised w/Richard Charles, John & Isabella Jane on 1 5 1821 age22m at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He died on 31 5 1888 age69. 7.Martha (Ridge) was born on 25 7 1821 at Lower Portland & baptised on 14 10 1822 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. She died in October 1866 age45. 8.Elizabeth Lucy (Ridge) was born on 2 6 1824 at Sackville Reach & baptised on 13 8 1826 age2 w/William Bligh at St Thomas Wesleyan Sackville Reach. She died on 8 9 1835 age11. 9.William Bligh (Ridge) was born on 6 6 1826 at Sackville Reach & baptised on 13 8 1826 w/Elizabeth Lucy at St Thomas Wesleyan Sackville Reach. He died on 19 6 1851 age25+. 10.Mary Ann (Ridge) was born in August 1828. She died on 27 2 1906 age77. 11.Margaret (Ridge) was born on 6 2 1829 at Sackville Reach & baptised on pn 12 7 1829 at St Thomas Wesleyan Sackville Reach. She died on 27 9 1906 age77. 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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Julia Perry on 23rd September 2020

Richard Ridge is thought to have been born in Hardwick, Oxfordshire and christened at Ducklington in Oxfordshire on 21 December 1766, the youngest of eleven children. His parents were Catherine Hewett and William Ridge.

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Maureen Withey on 5th July 2020

Colonial Secretary Index. RIDGE, Richard. Per "Atlantic", 1791; of Hawkesbury 1802 Apr 10 - Particulars of arms in possession of (Reel 6041; 4/1719 p.93) 1804 Aug 11 - On list of all grants and leases of land registered in the Colonial Secretary's Office (Fiche 3268; 9/2731 p.146) c.1805 - On list of settlers, formerly prisoners, nominated as witnesses by Martin Mason in his complaint against Denis McCarty (Reel 6040; ML Safe 1/51 p.62) 1807 May 21-Aug 29 - On statement of capital advanced by John Blaxland in his concerns from 3 Apr 1807 to 14 Sep 1808 (Reel 6043; 4/1727 pp.199, 201) 1809 Mar 7 - On list of claims against John Palmer as Commissary (Reel 6041; 4/1722 pp.50, 53) 1809 Apr, Aug, Sep, Oct - Produce received from at the Hawkesbury Stores (Reel 6040; 9/2673 pp.31, 76, 85, 87, 99) 1811 Jan 21 - Constable. To be rewarded for information re clandestine distillation (Reel 6002; 4/3490D pp.84-5) 1811 Feb 11-25 - Purchased goods at auctions by John Howe at Windsor (Reel 6040; ML C197 pp.3-5, 13-5, 17, 22) 1811 Mar 30 - Purchased house from James Metcalf at an auction by John Howe at Windsor (Reel 6040; ML C197 p.25) 1812 Apr 18 - Paid from the Police Fund for seizing two stills (Reel 6038; SZ758 p.290) 1816 Nov 16 - On list of persons who came as convicts and who claimed they were free at the last General Muster, without supporting documentation (Reel 6038; SZ759 p.283) 1820 Dec 24; 1821 May 24 - Store receipts of for wheat and fresh meat (Reel 6049, 4/1745 p.354; Reel 6051, 4/1748 p.173) 1823 Sep 22-Oct 15 - Elizabeth Bundle convicted by the Court of Criminal Jurisdiction of stealing from (Reel 6023; X820 p.111) 1824 Aug 25 -Constable, Lower Portland Head. Dismissed for improper conduct (Reel 6039; 4/424 p.261)

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Darryl Buley on 18th June 2020

Name: Richard Ridge Gender: Male Baptism Date: 1 Dec 1771 Baptism Place: Horsham, West Sussex, England Father: James Ridge Mother: Mary FHL Film Number: 0416743, 0416749, 0918272-274, 416755

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Phil Hands on 16th July 2017

Tried and convicted of burglary and theft at the Old Bailey on 9th September 1789, sentenced to transportation for 7 years. Left Portsmouth on 27th March 1791. Ship:- the 'Atlantic' sailed with 220 male convicts on board of which 18 died during the voyage. Arrived on 20th August 1791. By 1801 he was living with convict Jane Poole ('Charlotte' 1788) they had 1 child and jointly held 60 acres of land. He married Margaret Forrester (daughter of convicts Robert Forrester, 'Scarborough' 1788 & Isabella Ramsay, 'Mary Ann' 1791) on 7th November 1809 at Sydney, they had 11 children between 1811-1831. Richard became the provost-marshal's bailiff and was the district constable in 1812. In 1816 he was appointed bailiff for the whole colony which, added to constabulary duties reaching from Portland Head to the Colo River and management of his farms, was quite a handful. Sydney Gazette Saturday 15th June 1816 p. 2 PROVOST MARSHAL'S OFFICE, Sydney, June 15, 1816. THE Public are hereby informed, that I have appointed Mr Richard Ridge to act as my Bailiff throughout the Colony. WM. GORE, Provost Marshal. In 1822 he appears in Muster records as the master of 10 convicts. Richard died on 1st January 1842 in Windsor NSW. Sydney Herald Wednesday 5th January 1842 p. 3 DIED. At his son's residence, Windsor, on the 1st instant, Mr. Richard Ridge, in the 76th year of his age,a very old and much respected Colonist. Australasian Chronicle Tuesday 4th January 1842 p. 2 WINDSOR. - An inquest was hold yesterday on the body of Richard Ridge, who died suddenly on the previous morning while at breakfast. Upon inquiry, it was found that death was caused by apoplexy. A verdict was returned accordingly. Old Bailey Trial Transcript. Reference Number: t17890909-10 583. RICHARD RIDGE , GILBERT BAKER , WILLIAM LLOYD , WILLIAM SHAW , and JAMES M'CAULEY , were indicted, for feloniously and burglariously breaking and entering the dwelling house of Susannah Dewell , on the 21st of August last, about nine in the night, and burglariously stealing therein, a stuff coat, value 1 s. two cloth waistcoats, value 4 s. a child's cotton ditto, value 2 s. a cotton bedgown, value 2 s. a flannel waistcoat, value 3 s. a shalloon ditto, value 3 s. and one cloth coat, value 2 s. her property . SUSANNAH DEWELL sworn. I am a sales-woman at Brentford , a widow ; on the 21st of August I was at work in the evening between eight and nine; it was quite dark without candles; I am sure I could not have seen anybody's face, without a candle; I am very sure the door was shut, I heard the latch lift up; I asked who was there; there being no answer made, I got up; the shop was in the front towards the street, and the kitchen behind it; I missed from the shop the several articles in the indictment; some had been hanging without and some within, but they had been all taken down, and laid on the counter; I saw them afterwards on the Wednesday, at Bow-street. Prisoner. She said at the justice's, that her child might touch the latch? - I thought it might have been one of my children, but asking who was there, and they not answering, I got up immediately. WILLIAM COLE sworn. I lost nine geese, and I went in pursuit of some persons on the road; I took in my company, a man of the name of John Street; overtook the prisoners at Acton, at nine in the morning, they had two asses, loaden with hampers, there were many articles of wearing apparel in the hampers, and a crow. ELIZABETH SPACE sworn. I live three miles the other side of Brentford; on Saturday, the 27th of August, about five in the morning, I observed the prisoners, they are the men to the best of my knowledge; I saw four men and a boy, and I told Mr. Cole which way they went, towards Hessham. CHARLES JEALOUS sworn. I was at Bow-street when these men were brought in; a person came to me, and gave me information, and I took this waistcoat off M'Cauley, at Bow-street, and this coat I took off Ridge; I never saw Shaw or M'Cauley in my life, I am not the apprehender of any one of them. Prosecutrix. This is my coat and waistcoat, and all these things; they were on the counter a few minutes before I got up, I am sure they are my property. PRISONER RIDGE's DEFENCE. I had been seeking for work, and could not get any, I saw some men coming over Hounslow Heath, and they asked me if I had lost a jack-ass; they gave me a jack-ass, loaded with hampers, and they desired me to take and find an owner for it, so I drove it along, and I overtook this lad; the waistcoat and coat were at top; it rained, and I took the coat and put it on to keep off the rain; before I came to Acton, I overtook the other prisoners, and when we came to Acton, we were stopped, the man came to the jack-ass, and owned it at the justice's. PRISONER BAKER's DEFENCE. I went to Brentford, my father was extremely ill; I went with two of the other prisoners, I arrived there the Friday afternoon, I slept at the Bull, and got up about four in the morning, I was very ill, and came to Town, and I met these men, and this boy, driving a jack-ass and hampers; he asked what it was o'clock, it was past five; he said, which road are you going? I said, towards Acton to go home; then I went into the Red Lion, to get a pot of beer, and some bread and cheese, we came out, and Mr. Cole stopped us. PRISONER M'CAULEY's DEFENCE. I got up to go to work about three in the morning; I went to the Bull, at Hounslow; I could not find my aunt's, and the man overtook me; says he, here is a jackass strolling along, it was the gentleman in blue, that overtook me; but it rained, and he said, as it rains, we may as well put on these things; so I put on the waistcoat. Court. How far is Acton from Brentford? - Rather better than three miles. Court to Cole. Did any conversation pass about this business? - They owned one ass; Ridge owned that which was loaded, but not the others. Did the others take any part? - Two of them tried to make their escape; that was Shaw, and Baker (the boy), they were all together, before I overtook them. The prisoner Lloyd called two witnesses to his character. The prisoner M'Cauley called four witnesses to his character. ALL FIVE, GUILTY of stealing , sentenced to transportation for 7 years Tried by the second Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER.

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donald mc dougall on 11th November 2014

Occupation Richard became the provost-marshal's bailiff and was the district constable. In 1816 he was appointed bailiff for the whole colony which, added to constabulary duties reaching from Portland Head to the Colo River and management of his farms, was quite a handful. 1809 married Margaret Forrester daughter of Robert, 1st fleeter