Elizabeth Wishaw

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iain Frazier on 22nd April 2024

Family connections for Elizabeth (Wishaw) are: WISHAW Elizabeth (Wishaw/Whishaw) was tried for stealing a cotton gown, on 4 8 1788, of Michael M'Guire at Old Bailey on 10 9 1788, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on Fleet ship LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover; & was sent to Norfolk Island arriving on 7 8 1790. She lived with James (Shears/Sheers/Shiers his second (2of3?) relationship) after 1791 (married on Norfolk Island) & produced 3children. She became Free by Servitude about 1792.>>> [Some details taken from this Website] James (Shears/Sheers/Shiers) was born about 1735or47 & became a butcher. He was tried for highway robbery on 2 7 1784 & assaulting Charles (Wright) by First Middlesex Jury at Old Bailey on 7 7 1784, sentenced to death by hanging at Tyburn, held probably at London/Middlesex Gaol Delivery & at Newgate prison until sentence remitted to Life in Africa on 19 3 1785, transferred to hulk CERES at Woolwich London on 5 4 1786 & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 1 1788 after being on board for 12months on First Fleet ship SCARBOROUGH. He married firstly (1of3?) Mary (Smith) at St Phillips CofE Port Jackson Sydney Cove on 20/1 2 1788. He arrived on Norfolk Island with his wife on HMS SIRIUS on 13 3 1790. He became a butcher for the Government. He separated from Mary (Smith) before 1791. He is recorded in July 1791 as supporting Elizabeth (Wishaw) & Mary (Tuck also from LADY JULIANA & future wife of John (Cropper ALEXANDER 1788)). He became Free by Servitude about 1792. He was issued his Conditional Pardon (sentence expired) on 23 3 1796, was off stores & had 60acres (lot12 near Phillipsburg eastern side of the island), which he sold on 14 1 1800 to Thomas (Fowles); an Absolute Pardon came later. His sentence expired in 1805 & he was recorded as butcher off stores. He is recorded with the clean-up party of Norfolk Island from 1813-14 after the final evacuation (as is Mary (Wilson). He left NI on 14 2 1814 to Port Jackson with wife Mary (Wishaw or Wilson) indicating 3wives in his lifetime. He died in 1838 age91 (103 according to Ref:'Forgotten...') father of 5children at the home of Capt (Piper) at Bathurst. [Some details taken from this Website] .. [Noted Ref:'Forgotten...' suggests James (Shears) had returned to Port Jackson with a supposedly second wife Mary (Wilson).] [A.a Mary (Wilson) is recorded as sentence expired on stores on Norfolk Island in February 1805. A Mary (Wilson) is recorded with James (Shears) in the clean-up party of Norfolk Island from 1813-14 after the final evacuation.] [The Ref:'Forgotten...' & this Website tell us that this Mary (Wilson) was tried probably at Old Bailey, sentenced to 7years, held at Middlesex Gaol Delivery & arrived in NSW as a convict on 3 6 1790 after a voyage of 12months on LADY JULIANA-a ship with 228females who easily entertained the whole crew & also sailors at Teneriffe stopover. She arrived on Norfolk Island on 7 8 1790 & left on 6 11 1794.] [Some details taken from this Website] [B.a Mary (Wilson) was tried at Carlisle city Quarter Sessions Cumberlandshire, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 26 6 1790 after a voyage of 6months on Fleet ship NEPTUNE. She left Norfolk Island on 6 11 1794 also.] [Some details taken from this Website] [C.a Mary (Wilson) arrived on PRINCE OF WALES 1788 & married John (Owles) on Norfolk Island] .. >>>Elizabeth (Wishaw) (was she Elizabeth/Mary (Wiselaw?)) also had a relationship with George William (Genders his first relationship). She produced perhaps 5children in her lifetime. [George William (Middleton/Jenders) was born about 1758. He was tried at Maidstone Kent in 1787, sentenced to 7years & arrived in NSW as a convict on 9 7 1791 after a voyage of 7months on Fleet ship MATILDA; & was sent straight to Norfolk Island, arriving in August 1791.>>>] [George William (Middleton/Jenders) does not have an entry on this Website as yet.] [Details of George William (Middleton/Jenders)s family are given in entry for Edward (Garth SCARBOROUGH 1788) on this Website. .. [>>>George William (Middleton/Jenders) was an emancipist when he married secondly (2of3) Mary/Sarah (Benon/Bond convict perhaps her second relationship) on 3 11 1802 on Norfolk Island. He is recorded in February 1805 as butcher Free by Servitude on Norfolk Island. He married thirdly Mary Ann (Garth/Gough age16) on 28 7 1805 on Norfolk Island. On 3 9 1808 he went to to Derwent as part of the final evacuation of NI on CITY OF EDINBURGH with his wife & 2children, arriving on 3 10 1808. He is recorded on 2 10 1818 as onn stores with his family at Hobart Town. He was Free by Servitude by 1820. He died on 6 7 1825 father of 3known children.] 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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C H on 22nd February 2024

Old Bailey Online ELIZABETH WHISHAW. Theft; grand larceny (to 1827). 10th September 1788. Text type Trial account Defendants ELIZABETH WHISHAW Offences Theft > Grand larceny Session Date 10th September 1788 Reference Number t17880910-101 Verdicts Guilty Punishments Transportation 560. ELIZABETH WHISHAW was indicted for stealing, on the 4th of August last, one cotton gown, value 10 s. a shift, value 3 s. a shirt, value 3 s. an apron, value 10 s. an handkerchief, value 6 d. and a bonnet, value 6 d. the property of Michael M'Guire . The prisoner slept in the next room to the prosecutor and his wife, and went off on Saturday night, the 4th of August, with the things mentioned in the indictment; she was taken the next morning with the body of the gown upon her back without the skirt. GUILTY . Transported for seven years . Tried by the first Middlesex Jury before Mr. RECORDER