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Transportation
William Sly was transported on the Moffatt, departing 5th May 1836 and arriving 31st Aug 1836 with 404 passengers.
Moffatt (generic)References
| Primary Source | Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 90, Class and Piece Number HO11/10, Page Number 272 |
| 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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William Sly married Sophia Westbrook on 19 Mar 1844 at Richmond, New South Wales, and had thirteen children.
William Sly worked as a groom and was later the outdoor manager of the Black Horse Inn, Richmond. nsw. He worked for Margaret Seymour and later married Sophie Westbrook. They went on to own and manage the Black Horse until his death in 1874.
Sick List of the Moffatt 1836: William Sly, Convict; disease or hurt, cynanche tonsil. Put on sick list, 1 June 1836. Discharged, 3 June 1836. 1844: TOL Windsor 2/4/1844: Married Sophia Westbrook (1825-1900) (see below) – they had 13 children. 1/5/1849: CP The following extracts are taken from: http://hawkesburyheritage.blogspot.com.au/2013/07/richmonds-black-horse-inn.html Richmond's Black Horse Inn During the early days, the colony was teeming with hotels that provided meals, drinks and sometimes accommodation for travellers. Located in Richmond, the first license was issued 15 Feb 1819 to Paul Randall and recorded in theColonial Secretary's Papers, 1788-1825 and issued for the ‘Black Horse Prince.’ In later years it became known as the ‘Black Horse.’ A copy of the exact certificate was transcribed in the Windsor & Richmond Gazette in 1919. Paul Randall was a convict who arrived in NSW in 1791 on board the “Admiral Barrington” Back in England, his brother William was involved in a robbery while his wife Mary was also implicated. Mary arrived on the “Bellona” in 1793. It appears their daughter Margaret (born in 1799) took over the operation of the Black Horse in the late 1820s leading the hotel into its heyday. Margaret had married in 1820 to Dr Henry Seymour, a convict who arrived in 1817. Following the death of her parents, Mary (1832) and Paul (1834) Margaret inherited the inn. Her parents are both buried at St. Peter’s, Richmond. It was during the 1830s that Margaret had constructed, in Windsor Street, a more established two-story building. It is thought that the original single-storey residence remained adjoining the new structure and certainly surviving photographs correspond with this theory. Margaret ran the Black Horse for forty years. As Henry and Margaret did not have any children they adopted Sophia Westbrook who was a daughter of James Westbrook and Eliza Phipps. Sophia married in Richmond in 1844, William Sly a convict who had arrived on the “Moffatt” in 1836. She inherited the Black Horse from the Seymour’s and the Sly’s operated it for many years. Sophia died in 1900 and son William became the licensee. Over the next twenty years or so, William Sly Jnr leased the hotel to a number of individuals including Sportsman O’Keefe who was a champion cross country rider. In the late 1920s the license was transferred to a newly established hotel at Kurrajong Heights. In the early 1930s the old inn site on the corner of Windsor and Bosworth Streets, was purchased Mr Grimwood and operated as a garage for many years. 4/10/1874: William died and was buried at St Peters Church, Richmond, NSW.
Assigned to work as assistant Hotel manager to a Mrs Seymour at the Black Horse Hotel, corner of Bosworth and Windsor streets Richmond