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Rose Sparrow was transported on the Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann, departing 31st Dec 1790 and arriving 9th Jul 1791 with 1265 passengers.
The Third Fleet consisted of 11 Vessels. Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Gorgon, Mary Ann, Matilda, Queen (from Ireland) Salamander and William and Ann. These vessels were provided by a private company; Camden, Calvert and King to ship convicts to the colony.
Active, Albermarle, Atlantic, Barrington, Britannia, Mary Ann, Matilda, Salamander And William And Ann (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 150 |
| 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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Family connections for Rose (Sparrow) are: SPARROW Ann (Sparrow) & ??? (Sparrow?) produced 1known child:>>> [Some details taken from this Website] 1.Rosamond (Sparrow) was born about 1763. She is thought to have produced 1child:>>> [Some details taken from this Website] ..1.Edward (Sparrow) was tried at Northampton Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW or VDL as a convict about 5 4 1820 after a voyage of about 5months on COROMANDEL. An Edward (Sparrow) is recorded in 1828 as lodging with Ann (Sparrow) & James (Oliver) at Wilberforce. ..[Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Rosamond (Sparrow) was convicted of stealing cotton garment etc of Nathan (Blakey) of Bedale at Northallerton North Yorkshire Quarter Sessions of Peace on 13 4 1790 (the same sessions as her mother), sentenced to 7years, maybe held at York Castle & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a journey of 6months on Fleet ship MARY ANN/E; she was Protestant. She had a first relationship with Joseph (Hatton his first relationship) whom she married on 4/18 3 1792 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. In 1795 she stabbed her husband with knife in jealous rage. She was soon convicted of receiving stolen property and sentenced to have her head shaved, wear an iron collar for six months & spend twelve months in Parramatta goal. She was sent to Norfolk Island in October 1799 after theft of clothing. She is recorded in 1828 as liviing with James (Oliver) in Wilberforce & his lodger Edward (Sparrow) who may be her son. She produced 1known child in her lifetime. [Joseph (Hatton/m) son of Joseph (Hatton) and Hannah (Ramsden) was born about 1740 at Worsop Cheshire & christened on 2 Oct 1748 age about7 in Mirfield, Yorkshire; he became a hawker/peddlar. He was tried for breaking entering & stealing cotton etc of Benjamin (Clay) & Abraham (Hutchinson) of Dewsbury at York Castle Assizes on 24 7 1784, sentenced to 7years in America, held at York Castle for 3years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH; he was 5'8" grey & stiff bearing flaxen hair left thumb missing scars on right side of head, just below the hair, on right cheek & on right temple. He worked in Port Jackson brick kilns. He was convicted in Sydney of possession of stolen goods & sentenced apparantly to 800lashes, receiving 500 of them. Late in 1792 he was granted 50acres at Easter Farms, east of Parramatta (Kissing Point-Ryde). He was stabbed in the stomach with a knife by his wife in a jealous rage in 1795. In 1799 he is recorded as subscribing to building of first bark schoolhouse & chapel (CofE) at Kissing Point. He was Free by Servitude by 1800 & sold his property & purchased 30acres at Top Ryde where he is recorded in 1802 & 1806 as having 30acres at Kissing Point. He was robbed of all his possessions in 1804. He was recorded as a settler when he died on 1 6 1828 age about80 at Field of Mars father of 4children in his sleep at Ryde & was buried at St Anne’s CofE Kissing Point; many landmarks exist with his name.] [Some details taken from this Website] .. >>>Ann (Sparrow) was tried for stealing oats etc of John (Johnson) of Fingall at Northallerton North Yorkshire Quarter Sessions of Peace on 13 4 1790 (the same sessions as her daughter), sentenced to 7years, maybe held at York Castle & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a journey of 6months on Fleet ship MARY ANN/E. She died on 9 1 1792 & was buried at St Johns CofE Parramatta. Reference: 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.
In the 1828 Census of New South Wales: [Ref S2088] Rose Sparrow, 65 FS, Mary Ann, 1791, 7 years, Protestant, lodger with Jas. Oliver. Edward Sparrow, 41 Coromandel, 1820, 7 years, lodger with Jas. Oliver of Wilberforce. (I have been unable to identify any relationship between the two 'Sparrows' but Edward could have been a child - left behind in England, when Rose was transported and then subsequently transported himself.
In the colony, Rose married Joseph Hatton (First Fleet Convict, Scarborough, 1788), March 18th 1792 at Parramatta. This solemnization of matrimony by Banns between Joseph Hatton and Rosomand Sparrow this 18th day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand even hundred and ninety two by me Richard Johnson. Joseph signed the register in the presence of Richard Robinson and John Taylor. The couple were only together for a short time and did not have family. They separated after a so called incident. There was at this time under the care of the surgeon Joseph Hatton, a settler at the Eastern Farms, an elderly man, who had been dangerously stabbed in the belly by his wife, a young woman (named before their marriage Rosamond Sparrow), in a fit of jealousy and passion. On his recovery, he earnestly requested that no punishment might be inflicted on her, but that she might be put away from him.
At the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at Northallerton, in and for the North Riding, of Yorkshire, on Tuesday the 13th April 1790, Rose, otherwise Rosamond Sparrow, a daughter of Ann Sparrow, found guilty of stealing at Bedale one striped cotton gown-piece, and three yards and three quarters of checked muslin, the property of Nathan Blakey; Ann Sparrow, the mother, found guilty of stealing at Fingall four sackweb pokes, six bushels of maslin, and one peck of oats, the Property of John Jobson; and David Hatton, found guilty of stealing at Fingall one stubbing hack, the property of Robert Auton, and at Hawxwell, one tin japanned scale-box, and a pair of seales and weights, the property of James Metcalf, were severally sentenced to be transported to parts beyond the seas for the term of seven years. Rose and her mother Ann were both transported on the "Mary Ann".