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Transportation
Elizabeth Stirling was transported on the Britannia Iii, departing 31st Dec 1797 and arriving 18th Jul 1798 with 102 passengers.
Third voyage to Australia. Arrived in Sydney Cove on 18 July 1798 1814 voyage departed from Bengal with 10 male convicts. All tried in India.
Britannia Iii (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 239 (120) |
| 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 |
Claims
"Sarah Stirling Reynolds was my 4 x Great Grandmother"
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Convict Notes
Family connections for Sarah Elizabeth (Stirling) are: STERLING/STIRLING Sarah Elizabeth (Stirling) was born about 1776/9. She was tried for stealing a watch etc, on 17 5 1797, of Henry (Foreman) at Old Bailey on 31 5 1797 (quick justice), sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 18 7 1798 after a voyage of 6months on BRITANNIA. She had a relationship with Richard Beel/Beale-alias William (Reynolds his second relationship) & produced 11children. She was Free by Servitude by 1806. She married Richard Beel/Beale-alias William (Reynoldsabout 1812 (not shown in Smees records). She died on 30 11 1826 age50 at Wilberforce & was buried, as (Reynolds), at St Johns CofE Wilberforce. [Some details taken from entry for Elizabeth (Stirling) on this Website] Richard Beel/Beale-alias William (Reynolds) was born on 9/19 11 1769 & became a millwright. He was indicted with his brother Edward (seemingly by their father) of stealing lead etc by force of arms from Jeffrey (Jackson) of Woodfood Bridge Essex & Sarah (Clayton), tried at Chelmsford Essex Sessions on 19 4 1788, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 20 8 1791 after a voyage of 5months on Fleet ship ATLANTICalso. He had a first relationship with Mary Ann (Hipwell her first relationship) from about 1793 & married her on 19 11 1810 at St Matthews CofE Windsor. He was Free by Servitude by 1801. In 1802 he is recorded as renting 10acres at Mulgrave Place Hawkesbury; in 1804 being granted 50acres at Flat Rock Reach which he sold in 1810; in 1813 as possibly a storekeeper at Windsor; from 1814-27 as District Constable & poundkeeper; in 1824 as being a farmer & as being granted 50acres at Upper Colo which he sold to grandson Thomas (Gosper) jnr; & in 1828 as labourer working on his brothers farm at Wilberforce. He died on 26 8 1837 age67 father of 12children & was buried at St Johns CofE Wilberforce; 'Little Britain' was recorded in the Register. [Some details taken from the entry for his alias-William (Reynolds)-on this Website] 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.
Old Bailey Transcript: 17970531-37. Trial of Elizabeth Sterling held 31 May 1797 by the Middlesex Jury, before Mr Recorder. Elizabeth was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 17th May 1797 a silver watch value 3/- and a steel watch chain value 6d. The property of Henry Foreman. Henry met Elizabeth at a bar called the dark-house and there grabbedhis watch and put it into her bossom and made good her escape. Three weeks later Henry managed to trace Elizabeth and with a constable and detained her. Her defence was that it was Henry who put the watch down her bossom! She was stated to be aged 18 at the time of the trial. Was found GUILTY and sentenced to Transportation for seven years.
She was in a long term liason with the convict, Richard (William) Reynolds (Atlantic 1791) and married him in about 1812. She and he had a large family 11 traced so far.