Ellen Wainwright

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iain Frazier on 7th October 2024

An addition to the above is: The James (Wilson mentioned here was a gardener when he married Ann (???/Richards COROMANDEL 1802) on 23 4 1811 at St Phillips CofE Sydney, and [Noted this (Ann (???/Richards) arrived in NSW on the same ship as Edward (Warr convict) & may have been a relative of his] .. Noted therefore: CONVICTdone Edward (Warr) was tried at Buckinghamshire Quarter Sessions, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 8 1802 after a voyage of 7.5months on COROMANDEL. [Some details taken from this Website] Details of Ann (???/(Richards perhaps previously Ann (Warr))s family are given in entry for Margaret (Darnell PRINCE OF WALES 1788) on this Website.

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iain Frazier on 18th June 2024

Family connections for Ellen (Wainwright) are: WAINWRIGHT Eleanor (Wainwright) daughter of ??? (Mainwright sic) & ??? (Eccles) was born in 1769. She was tried for stealing clothes at Preston Lancashire Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 9months on First Fleet ship PRINCE OF WALES. She associated firstly (1of4) with James (Wilson his first relationship.>>>] [Some details taken from this Website] James (Wilson) arrived in NSW as a seaman in 1788 on First Fleet ship HMS SIRIUS. He arrived at Norfolk Island on 26 8 1792.>>> Eleanor (Wainwright) & James (Wilson) produced 1child: [Noted several unidentified births & deaths named (Wilson) before 1810 & in 1810s are shown in Smees records 1.Mary Ann (Wilson) was born in 1789 & baptised on 24 5 1789 at St Phillips CofE Sydney. She was taken to Norfolk Island with her parents on 13 3 1790. She died on 4 4 1792 age2 on Norfolk Island. .. >>>James (Wilson) associated secondly with Elizabeth (Mitchell nee Dixon her first relationship) whom he married on 20 2 1805 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. He produced 2children in his lifetime. [Elizabeth/Betty Sarah (Dixon/Mitchell) daughter of Sarah (Mitchell nee Dixon?) was born about 1770. She was living at Westbury when tried for breaking entering & stealing, with her mother & others in January 1790, cheeses etc of John (Helps) of Studley at Wiltshire Assizes, sentenced to 7years, held at Fisherton Gaol (her mother was held at Devizes Bridewell) & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 5months on Fleet ship MARY ANN/E. She was assigned to corporal Edward (Fields). She became Free by Servitude before 1801. She associated secondly with Edward (Field) whom she married on 20 2 1805 at St Johns CofE Parramatta & produced 8children. She died on 24 6 1837 age67 mother of 9children.] [Some details taken from this Website] [Edward (Field) was born in 1769. He enlisted in NSW Corps on 27 7 1789 as a private & arrived in NSW as a soldier on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH; a voyage noted for extreme brutality of prisoners with a high death rate. In 1794 he was granted 25acres at Iron Cove Creek. In 1798 he was detached to (McArthur)s company until he was discharged on 8 5 1801. In 1803 he was granted 100acres at Evan. He was described at his marriage in 1805 as formerly with NSW Corps. He was granted a further 100acres at Evan in 1809. He is recorded as alive in 1811.] .. [James (Wilson) & Elizabeth (Mitchell) produced 1child:] [1.Sarah (Wilson) was born on 19 5 1792 & baptised on 10 6 1792 at St Johns CofE Parramatta. She married at age15 James (Morris) on 24 6 1807 at St Johns CofE Parramatta & produced 13children. She died on 8 8 1876 age84. ] [.James (Morris alias Riley) was born in 1763or73. He was convicted at Warwick Assizes, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 14 12 1801 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship MINORCA. He was free by Servitude before 1808.] [.Some details taken from this Website ] [.Details of James (Morris)s family are given BELOW. ] .. .. >>>Eleanor (Wainwright) arrived on Norfolk Island on 13 3 1790 with her daughter Mary Anne-see Mary Ann (Field) above. She associated secondly (2of4) with an unknown & produced a child:>>> [1.Henry (???/Wainwright) was born on 25 8 1791 on Norfolk Island.] .. >>>Eleanor (Wainwright) seems to have had a third (3of4) relationship with Nathaniel (Lucas his second relationship) & produced 1child.>>> Nathaniel (Lucas), maybe son of John (Lucas) & Mary (??? maybe Bradford) of Thames Ditton Surrey & maybe brother Thomas (Lucas) [see under], was born about 1764 & became a carpenter/joiner boatbuilder millwright. He was tried for stealing an apron etc (possibly unjustly) while employed in London at probably Old Bailey, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 22 1 1788 after a voyage of 12months on First Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH (the same ship as marine Thomas (Lucas); he was a teetotaller. He was quickly sent to Norfolk Island as a first settler on SUPPLY, arriving on 6 3 1788. He associated firstly with Olivia (Gascoigne) & married her in November 1791 in group ceremony on Norfolk Island & produced 13children. On 2 2 1792 or August 1792 he accidentally caused the felling of a tree onto his wife & 3of his children. He is recorded as going to Port Jackson in June 1795. He built many houses on Norfolk Island, became constable & had a water supply contract; he had 15acres (he is recorded with plot no.52 of 60acres in the centre of the island) on Norfolk Island in 1796. He was suspended on 5 9 1800 for impertinence. On 28 2 1805 he travelled to Sydney with his family on INVESTIGATOR. He became a patroller of Greenville Vale in 1806 to maintain order & afterwards building a windmill at Church Hill Sydney Cove; later becoming Superintendent of carpentry; they lived at The Rocks. In 1810 he moved to a land grant farm at Liverpool. Some of the family moved to Port Dalrymple Derwent Tasmania, facilitating trade of their produce between states. In 1815-17 he built St Lukes CofE Liverpool. He was recorded as off stores in Hobart Town on 2 10 1818 & was instrumental in establishing, with others, Tasmanian Hop & Barley Industry in Launceston. In 1817 he may have become estranged from his wife. He died on 5 5 1818 age54 father of 14children, found dead near Moore Bridge George River Liverpool; considering his affliction of painful hereditary Haemacromatosis/cancer of the face/neuralgia, treatment by alcoholic drink despite his abstinence, his marriage separation & differences of opinion with & accusations by the architect of his last project, his death could have been by his own hand or by design-some unfortunate circumstances in the life of an apparantly skillful & resourceful man.] [Some details taken from this Website] Eleanor (Wainwright) & Nathaniel (Lucas) produced 1child: 1.Mary Ann/Mariane (Wainwright) was born on 14 1 1795 on Norfolk Island. She, as Ann (Wainwright/Guy), travelled with her mother to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) on 3 9 1808 as part of the first evacuation on CITY OF EDINBURGH. She married firstly at age16 Dennis (McCarty) on 8 12 1811 at St Davids CofE Hobart.>>> ] ,,Dennis (McCarty/Mccarty/McCarthy) became a police constable farmer roadmaker. He was tried as a political rebel at Wexford Ireland & arrived in NSW on 16 2 1800 on FRIENDSHIP. His Conditional Pardon was issued by 1800 & he was issued his Absolute Pardon by June 1810. He became Superintendent Government stock Hobart & was appointed as such for Derwent Tasmania on 10 10 1810; Provost Marshall Hobart & landholder at New Norfolk. He was recorded as off stores at Hobart Town on 2 10 1818. In 1818 he organised a party which captured bushranger Michael (Howe) & later reported to Lt Governor & inquest. He died on 25 3 1820 drowned at Tamar Van Diemens Land (Tasmania). .[Some information taken from this Website] ..Mary Ann (Wainwright) & Dennis (McCarty) produced 1child: ..1.Sophia (McCarty/McCarthy) was born on 27 1 1815 & baptised on 2 12 1816 at St Davids CofE Hobart. .. >>>Mary Ann (Wainwright) married secondly Thomas Allan (Lascelles) on 25 7 1820 at St Davids CofE Hobart. She died on 1 2 1865 age70 mother of 2children. ..Thomas Allan (Lascelles) was born about 1884. He arrived in NSW as an officer on 19 10 1812 on INDEFATIGIBLE. ..Mary Ann (Wainwright) & Thomas Allan (Lascelles) produced 1child: ..1.Edwin Lascelles (McCarthy) was born in 1818. .. >>>Eleanor (Wainwright) was Free by Servitude by 1795. She had a fourth relationship with Thomas (Guy), with whom she produced 3children & later married. As Hester (Wainwright) she travelled with her family including 3children to Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) as part of the first evacuation on 3 9 1808 on CITY OF EDINBURGH, arriving on 5 10 1808. She married Thomas (Guy) of New Norfolk on 24 5 1812 at New Norfol-recorded at /St Davids CofE Hobart. She died on 8 11 1839 age70 mother of 6children & was buried at Black River New Norfolk.] Thomas (Guy) arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship MATILDA. He arrived on Norfolk Island on 4 11 1791. He was Free by Servitude by 1800. In February 1805 he is recorded as a landholder sentence expired off stores on Norfolk Island. He travelled with his family (spouse name Hester (Wainwright)) to Van Diemens Land (Tsmania) on 3 9 1808 as part of the first evacuation (for which volunteers apparantly had been called with appropriate compensation offerred & for which he may have tried to decline as some successful farmers were asked to stay) on CITY OF EDINBURGH, arriving on 5 10 1808. On 21 5 1809 he signed fealty to William (Bligh) Esq. On 2 10 1818 records show he may be at Hobart Town. Thomas (Guy) does not have an entry on this Website as yet-added by me. 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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Angelica on 29th April 2017

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