ANNE MORAN AND THE HERCULES IN 1801

 

FROM BELL’S WEEKLY MESSENGER LONDON ENGLAND SUNDAY JAN 4 1801 ISSUE 245

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(from PHIL READY’S READY OR NOT )

ANN MORAN.

Ann had been tried in Meath,Ireland, during the the Spring of 1800. Found guilty, sentenced to seven years transportation to New South Wales, she too was held in custody to await a ship. On Sunday the 28th November 1801, two vessels , Hercules with Ann aboard  and Atlas , sailed from the Port Of Cork. The Hercules , a two deck square masted vessel of three hundred and ninety five tons burthen, built in Newcastle England was armed with ten guns , carried a crew of between 32 and 35 men , 140 male and 25 female prisoners and several passengers- among them Major Johnston who was alter to figure prominently in the history of the Colony. the ship also carried a detachment of the New South Wales Corps, under captain Ralph Wilson. ( pro reel 413 wo 12/9901 folio160 ML)

On Tuesday 29th December in the vicinity of Cape Verdes, there was a mutiny aboard ship and thirteen of the convicts were either killed during the mutiny or afterwards died from their wounds. One was later shot by Captain Betts. ( PRO 10 p 260)

At Rio after a disagreement with Captain Brookes who commanded the ATLAS Thomas Jamieson , the acting Surgeon General, with his wife and five children transferred to the HERCULES which arrived in Sydney Town on  Saturday 26th. June 1802. Thirty convicts beside the mutineers died on the journey and forty three were sick.  On landing Captain Lukyn Betts gave his report of the mutiny. He was later charged with killing the mutineer after he had surrendered and was fined several hundred pounds. Five seamen charged with assisting the mutineers were acquitted.

 

MELINDA KENDALL : HER LIFE AND WRITINGS

BOARDING HOUSES IN SOUTH WEST ROCKS

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AGNES SANDERS TAYLOR AND BARRY TAYLOR AT ELLADALE, APPIN

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AGNES JANE SANDERS WAS BORN 9-7-1869 AT KINCHELA CREEK NSW. AGNES WAS A DAUGHTER OF WILLIAM AND MARY ANN ( SKIVINGS) SANDERS.

SHE MARRIED CHARLES HENRY WILLIAM TAYLOR AT WILLOUGHBY  ON 25-11-1891.

Thanks to her Granddaughter Jan Maurice for a wealth of SANDERS INFORMATION.

http://www.myheritage.com/site-29656891/lynne%27s-heritage-web-site

OUTRAGE ON BOARD THE "INDIAN" EMIGRANT SHIP : DAILY NEWS 1850. SATURDAY FEB 16: LONDON

CONDITIONS ABOARD EMIGRANT SHIPS VARIED GREATLY. THE CRAIGS SAILED ON THE BEEJAPORE IN 1853 AND THE LOSSES WERE HIGH.

BELOW IS THE CASE OF THE “INDIAN” - AN EMIGRANT SHIP OF 1859 WHICH BROUGHT IRISH EMIGRANTS. THE “OUTRAGES” WERE RAISED IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS. WHILST OUR EMIGRANTS ARE APPARENTLY SCOTS AND ENGLISH , ( OUR IRISH HAVING ALREADY ARRIVED AS CONVICTS) THE ARTICLE BELOW IS CONTEMPORANEOUS WITH THE MCELODS, MACKAYS, SANDERS’ ,JACKSONS AND CRAIGS.

 

EMIGRATION IN THE 1850s

Ancestors Known to have arrived as EMIGRANTS are

YEAR	SHIP	EMIGRANTS
1839	JAMES MORGAN	WILHEMINA MCLEOD WITH HER MOTHER JANET MACKAY AND HER SIBLINGS
1849	VICTORIA	WILLIAM AND MARY ANN SANDERS
1853	WILLIAM BROWN	WILLIAM JACKSON AND ELIZABETH JOHNSON (HIS WIFE) WITH ONE DAUGHTER.
1853	BEEJAPORE	THOMAS CRAIG WITH HIS PARENTS AND SIBLINGS

 

 

The Sanders are marked on their disembarkation papers as “assisted emigrants”. The 19th century newspapers fill in a good deal of my lack of understanding of emigration in the 19th century. I have images of William Sanders and of Mary Ann Skivings Sanders but none of the other ” emigrants”.

Mary Ann Skivings Sanders and the elderly gentleman seated is BlackBerry Bill Sanders:

NSW STATE ARCHIVES REEL 58.

ASSISTED IMMIGRANTS INWARDS TO SYDNEY PER SHIP ” VICTORIA” ARRIVED 2nd SEPT 1849.

SAUNDERS, William. 26 years. Butcher. Born Kenton Devonshire. Son of William and Elizabeth SAUNDERS- still living in Kenton. C of E  - reads and writes. No relations living in Colony. in good health. Complained of short issue of rations during early part of voyage.

SAUNDERS, Mary Ann. 19 years - farm servant - born Silverton Devonshire - daughter of George and Grace Skivings. Still living in Silverton. C of E - Reads and Writes - no relations living in Colony - in Good health.

The Researcher (whom I think may have been Dick Sanders) has added - ( SAUNDERS should read SANDERS )

THE JACKSONS. from READY OR NOT - compiled by PHIL READY.

On 17th May 1853 a sixty ton ketch, WILLIAM BROWN, had arrived in Sydney from Honolulu. Aboard were immigrants WILLIAM JACKSON and his wife ELIZABETH and one daughter. William who had been born in Nottinghamshire in England was a Coppersmith by trade. On 26th November 1849 , in London he had married EIZABETH JOHNSON who had been born in Norfolk England.

In 1853 William whose trade was very much in demand set up in business in Steven Street, Ultimo. The following year his address appeared in SANDS directory as BAY STREET GLEBE. Julia from whom I descend  was born on 5th June 1860 - listed as Newtown.

THE OTHER 2 FAMILIES OF EMIGRANTS SO FAR TRACKED ARE :

• WILHELMINA MCLEOD who came from SUTHERLAND SHIRE with her mother and siblings : JANET MACKAY.
• THOMAS CRAIG a lad of 8 and his family.

 

DAILY NEWS OCTOBER 7th 1850 LONDON ENGLAND

 

 

 

http://melindakendall.wordpress.com/

 

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A LETTER FROM PRESTON - 1737

The SANDERS have been traced in a direct line back to Kenton, Devon, UK. from those of us living in 21st Century Australia. Below is an extract from the Country Journal or The Craftsman , a London Newspaper of the 18th Century. My week buried in the SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS’ free trial of UK HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS from THE BRITISH LIBRARY has provided me with many snippets which I will gradually add to the site. Some, like this one, are simply background - reflections of the times in which our ancestors lived. This letter is in the period when John Sanders and Susannah Kerswell were living in Devon. It is from the COUNTRY JOURNAL or THE CRAFTSMAN . SATURDAY APRIL 9 1737. LONDON ENGLAND. ISSUE 562. I thought the Kenton referred to in this edition was OUR KENTON in Devon but on reflection think it likely to refer to the Kenton which is now a neighbourhood within London. I have left the articles in as they do provide such vivid images of the times in England.  In addition I spent hours looking at miniscule print to locate these obscurities and I am not wasting them.

http://www.british-towns.net/en/level_4_display.asp?GetL3=10109

 

  This one is the Sanders Kenton in Devon.

AND THESE ARE THE EXTRACTS FROM 1737

    

Yep. The wrong Kenton. This is the one near Harrow. Fires and burning seemed  a common occurrence. We read in the SYDNEY HERALD of 1831 of wee servant lasses running screaming from their workplaces with skirts afire. Melinda McNally was already in the service of Rev Richard Hill at the age of 9 . I myself am fond of the GREY HORSE called COW and would have bet on him. Izzy is of Polish Descent and doesn’t fancy encountering the spectres arising from “the Scarcity of Provisions ” .

other KENTONS : http://www.rahul.net/kenton/OtherKentons.html

 

MELINDA KENDALL

THE WEEK OF UK NEWSPAPERS IS OVER

     Well the week of access to the BRITISH LIBRARY HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS IS OVER. Now I am left bereft. Now I am left with rather a lot of cut and pasted articles to sort through. I will begin putting them up on this site and on MELINDA KENDALL . They range from 1812 U.S. - CANADIAN WAR where Patrick McNally was court martialled through to MELINDA MCNALLY’S name in an English Newspaper following the death of Henry. I have collected snippets on all manner of background matters so bear with me and we will see what I have found amongst this mass of British Newspaper materials. Some might not directly appear to relate to my own family but I shall include them because they are era appropriate and act as a diorama illustrating the world as it was in their time and a telescopic view of the Colony from the ” Mother Land “. They include HANNAH HUTCHINGS’ sentence of death and the details of the BEEJAPORE bringing the CRAIGS here in 1853.  There are background images of KENTON, DEVON where generations of SANDERS’ lived and from which MARY ANN SKIVINGS and WILLIAM SANDERS came in 1849. The SUTHERLAND SHIRE of WILHELLMINA MCLEOD and her mother JANET MACKAY is featured. I KNOW there were many more GEMS in there but time and poor Vodafone 3G connections beat me. Nevertheless, lets see what we have amongst all this hastily gathered information.  

DEVON AND THE SANDERS

The Sanders came to Australia from DEVON in England. I had some information about this but now thanks to Jan and Barry Maurice I have a good deal more as well as some padding. A visit to the Macleay District Museum is on the Books . I went there once but was looking at the memorial for my Fathers Uncle Bert who was killed in WWI. I was surprised then when the Assistant recognised the family look and told me a little about BlackBerry Sanders . I now know a good deal more about that too. I am doing research for Izzy on Melinda McNally Kendall and despite the Literary nature of the family and the established Kendall identity in the Illawarra have had very little feedback - but when it come to SANDERS - there seem to be a lot of us with the same passion for detail and inquiring minds. My Father Bruce who was the son of John George who was the son of Frederick John who was the son  of BlackBerry Bill - kept a diary throughout his entire time of service in WWII and thereafter chronicled his daily life with detailed accuracy  . I have the letters he wrote home almost weekly during the war -  http://www.blognow.com.au/BRUCESANDERS/ - still a little messy but I will get to them and now thanks to equally pedantic cousins - I have Images and anecdotes in abundance. Well- being a Sanders Myself - I could always do with MORE details. I am adding what I can here in the confidence that those who have given me these things wish as I do for the Sanders not to be lost in a box, or disposed of inadvertently.

The lad on the left is the handsome Uncle Bert of my childhood legends - Herbert Burdett Sanders , who died overseas. He is with his father Frederick John Sanders , Sister Maude ( who never married) and Grandma Sanders ( Lucy Jane Hurrell).

 

John George Sanders  with an English relative during WWI. John George was gassed in WWI and left without a sense of smell . Nevertheless he endeavoured to enlist for WWII but was refused . Both his sons - Bruce and Clyde served overseas. 

http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/Kenton/Gaz1868.html

( I am aware that I would do well to be providing source notes and references and will do when able. This however is not an official site for anything so here we are with info from Jan and from the Macleay River Historical Society. Its our family . If you locate any errors - that will be my transcribing - please let me know and I will do something about it. If you have anything to add - it would be appreciated .)

Thomas Sanders was born in 1686 app at Kenton Devon England. In Kenton On 29-9-1707 he married MARTHA BOND who was born app 1689. Detailed dates and notes can be found on http://www.myheritage.com/site-29656891/lynne%27s-heritage-web-site

Thomas and Martha had 5 children all born in Kenton Devon.

1. Thomas 28-7-1707
2. JAMES 2-11-1711
3. SAMUEL 8-3-1713
4. JOHN 20-4-1716
5. THOMAS ? 1-12-1719

JOHN married SUSANNAH KERSWELL who was born app 1732. They in turn bore all their children in KENTON, DEVON. They had 10 children

1. RICHARD
2. JOHN
3. WILLIAM
4. BETTY
5. THOMAS
6. MARY SUSANNAH
7. MARIA
8. ELINOR
9. SARAH
10. RICHARD ?

BETWEEN the years 1758 - 1779 . Check

http://www.myheritage.com/site-29656891/lynne%27s-heritage-web-site

for dates of birth.

WILLIAM SANDERS on 8-10-1790 married SARAH STARK ( dob 1768 app) In KENTON.

They have 3 Kenton children

1. WILLIAM
2. ANN
3. JANE

In 1792,1798 and 1800.

WILLIAM SANDERS then married ELIZABETH GREEN ( dob 1793 app) They were married in DAWLISH, DEVON.

Their children were all born in KENTON.

1. WILLIAM
2. ANN
3. JOHN
4. THOMAS

Between 1823 and 1832.

WILLIAM SANDERS ( dob 15-4-1823) married MARY ANN SKIVINGS at EXETER DEVON on 20-8-1848

WILLIAM AND MARY ANN THEN EMIGRATED TO AUSTRALIA. ARRIVING PER THE SHIP VICTORIA ON THE 4 SEPTEMBER 1849 in Sydney.

This is the world they left behind and I have some 19th century newspaper clippings to add later.

 

KENTON. below are some Kenton Links : and perhaps other parts of Devon we are known to have stemmed from.

[Description(s) from The National Gazetteer of Great Britain and Ireland (1868)]

“KENTON, a parish in the hundred of Exminster, county Devon, 8 miles S.E. of Exeter, its post town, 5 N. of Dawlish, and 1½ from the Starcross railway station. It is situated at the junction of the rivers Ken and Exe, and contains the villages of Cofton and Starcross. It was formerly held by the Heles, Hungerfords, Monk, Duke of Albemarle, &c., and subsequently passed to the Courtenays of Bordenham. It was once a borough and market town, and is still a populous village, extending along the road from Exeter to Dawlish. About two-thirds of the land is arable, the remainder pasture. The surface’ is hilly, and the soil rather light. Courts leet and baron are held annually by the lord of the manor. The living is a vicarage* in the diocese of Exeter, value £265, in the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Salisbury. The parish church, dedicated to All Saints, is an ancient redstone structure, with a pinnacled lofty tower containing six bells. In the interior are a carved pulpit and screen. In addition to the parish church there is a district church at Starcross, the living of which is a perpetual curacy,* value £210, also a district church at Cofton, the living of which is a curacy The tithes have been commuted. The parochial charities produce about £16 per annum. The Wesleyans have places of worship. There is a National school for both sexes, in which a Sunday-school is also held. The Earl of Devon is lord of the manor.”

• A VISION OF BRITAIN THROUGH TIME : KENTON
• POWDERHAM CASTLE

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• LYNNE BELL SANDERS

OLD BRITISH NEWSPAPERS 19TH CENTURY

FOR THE WEEK JULY 4-11 - I AM LOCKED AWAY LOOKING AT OLD BRITISH NEWSPAPERS ONLINE. AND WRITING ON THE NELLIBELL49 BLOG.

 

http://nellibell49.wordpress.com/

 

SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIAN GENEALOGISTS HAS PROVIDED AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT GALE CENGAGE LEARNING’S  OLD UK NEWSPAPER FILES AND I AM TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY. http://www.sag.org.au/ http://find.galegroup.com/

 

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3rd FLEET 1791

THOMAS SANDERS/SAUNDERS WAS TRANSPORTED ON THE MATILDA IN THE 3rd FLEET AND APPEARS TO BE THE BROTHER OF WILLIAM SANDERS/SAUNDERS WHO MARRIED SARAH STARK.  IT SEEMS THAT WILLIAM SANDERS AND MARY ANN SKIVINGS WENT TO HIS HOME AT APPIN BEFORE MOVING TO THE MACLEAY. ALSO ASSOCIATED WITH THE 3rd FLEET ARE :

 

• http://www.tasmaniacs.net/INSIDE/SamuelBaker.html   

BEDFORD CONVICTS—1789 LENT ASSIZES

by Rhonda Cole

 

• http://www.familytreecircles.com/journal_8145.html

 

• http://jamesobrien.id.au/genealogy/john-love-and-martha/