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Henry Taylor was transported on the Friendship, departing 13th May 1787 and arriving 21st Jan 1788 with 107 passengers.
This convict ship, being 274 tons and 75 feet long was one of the light weight ships in the fllet and was skippered by Master Francis Walton. Built in Scarborough in 1784, she carried 76 male and 21 female convicts. During her return voyage to England her crew came down with scurvy and with insufficient crew to man her, she was scuttled in the straights of Macassar. The survivors were transferred to the Alexander.
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Family connections for Henry (Taylor) are: TAYLOR Henry (Taylor) was born in 1754 & became a stocking weaver. He was tried for stealing iron bars at Old Bailey on 14 1 1784, sentenced to 7years, held probably at London/Middlesex Gaol Delivery, shipped on MERCURY heading to American colonies & returned after a mutiny, held on DUNKIRK Hulk & arrived in NSW as a convict on 21 1 1788 after a voyage of 6months on First Fleet ship FRIENDSHIP. He is recorded as arriving on Norfolk Island on 2 3 1789. He associated with Hannah (Hawkins her first (1of4) relationship) & may have married her on 5 11 1791 in group ceremony on Norfolk Island-but not on list of such marriages. He is recorded as having been a weaver before 1794. He was also recorded in February 1805 as Free by Servitude sentence expired, invalid & on stores on Norfolk Island. He died on 30 5 1806 age52 on Norfolk Island. [Some details taken from this Website] Hannah (Hawkins) was born in 1767. She was tried at Stafford Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 7months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. She was sent to Norfolk Island arrivimg there on 7 8 1790. She left the island on 3 9 1803. She separated before 1801 when she returned to Sydney. She (as Hannah/Mary) was in Tasmania when she had a second (2of4) relationship with Henry (Cohen/Crehan/Cone his second relationship). She had a third (3of4) relationship with Archibald (Kane) whom she may have married. In 1822 she is recorded as Free by Servitude at Windsor with E (Kaine). In 1825 she is recorded as a widow at Richmond where she is recorded as still living in 1827. She was in a fourth relationship with John William (John his second relationship). She died on 1 6 1837 age70 mother of perhaps 2children. [Some details taken from this Website] 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'
In the colony, Henry formed a de facto relationship with Hannah Hawkins (Convict, Neptune, 1790). This relationship must have commenced in about July 1791 at Sydney and continued when they were transferred to Norfolk Island in December 1791. A list in Jun 1794 designates Hannah as the wife of Taylor. The couple had no children and they had separated by 1801 when Hannah returned to Sydney.
Henry Taylor was tried at Old Bailey, London on 14 January 1784 for stealing iron bars and railing with a value of 15 shillings. http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/browse.jsp?id=t17840114-41-defend408&div=t17840114-41#highlight He was sentenced to transportation for 7 years and left England on the Friendship aged about 33 at that time (May 1787). His occupation was listed as stocking weaver. He died in 1806. Guilty of return from transport following the Mercury mutiny.Report from Dunkirk hulk was “troublesome at times”.