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Ann Fay arrived in Sydney on board the "Marquis of Cornwallis" in 1796, having been tried at the Quarter Sessions of Dublin at Kilmainham in May 1795.
The Charge and Sentence was: "Ann Fay and Catherine Byrne, found guilty of felony on a dwelling-house, to the vale of 4s. 9d were sentenced to be transported for seven years."
-Source Barbara Hall, 'A Desperate Set of Villians'( The Convicts of the Marquis of Cornwallis) published by B. Hall, 2000.
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Parramatta St Patricks Catholic Cemetery - Inscription for Ann Bellamy
Cemetery: Parramatta: St Patricks Catholic
Family Name: Bellamy
Given Names: Ann
Birth Date:
Death Date: 2 Jan 1843
Age: 100y
Remarks:
Portion:
Row:
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Anne Faye arrived on the 'Marquis of Cornwallis' 1796 (transported for 7 years - Charged: 1795, Kilmainham Dublin Guilty of a felony on a dweling house value 4 shillings and 9 pence transported for 7 years).
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Data from Lorraine Croft - Lorraine Goold (Member No. 3529342) = Genes Reunited 2008-05-06
Anne Faye was convicted in Kilmainham QS Dublin 1795 and sentenced to 7years . she was transported on the "Marquis of Cornwallis" in 1796. Anne had a son Stephen Tollis(Lollis?) born 18th Feb 1797. He died 3 months later and was buried at Parramatta. She then married William Bellamy In the 1828 census, Anne was listed as 74 years old. She was buried at St Patricks cemetery in Parramatta, Her tombstone states she was 100 or 103 yrs old, but was more likely about 70?.
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From Ray Morris (Genes Reunited) - 2008-07-17
Arrived in Sydney as a convict on the ship "Marquis Cornwallis" in the fourth fleet on 11 February 1796. Came from Dublin. Ann FAY was born in 1775 in Dublin, Ireland (Convict). She died in Jan 1843 in Parramatta NSW. She was buried on 4 Jan 1843 in St Patricks Cemetary Parramatta.
Name sometimes spelt - Faye or Foy. CONVICT - Court documents show Religion Protestant.
Offence: Committed a felony in a dwelling house to the value of 4 shillings and 9 pence. Trial May 1795. Convicted and sentenced to 7 years. Transported on Ship "Marquis Cornwallis" (built 1789 in India. 654 tons). Departed 9 Aug 1795 from Cork arrived Sydney 11 Feb 1796. Duration 186 days.
This was the first ship to carry known Political prisoners from Ireland (168 male & 76 female). They were known as the "Defenders" an agrarian secret society active in the North Louth/South Armagh area. Ann Fay was probably not one of this group, however in later years in the Colony she was witness to a number of their marriages.
On 18 Feb 1797, William, son of Ann Fay & Stephen Tollis (or Lollis) was born. This child died three months later & was buried at Parramatta. Later that same year she married William Bellamy. In 1800 William and Ann rented 100 acres in the Dundas/Pennant Hills region which they farmed. They were both free and off the stores. In 1802 she was officially granted her Certificate of Freedom. The book - "A Desperate Set of Villains" (The convicts of the Marquis Cornwallis Ireland to Botany Bay 1796) provides more information. Ken Morris has a copy.
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In 1794 Colonel Peterson gave William an absolute pardon which took effect on May 10, 1795. He settled on land at Freemans Reach in the Windsor area where he was given a grant of 90 acres. The 1806 General Muster indicates that by then he had 232 acres. His Wife died in 1813 and was buried at Wilberforce. In 1817 his son Benjamin was with Howe's second party that explored the Patrick's Plains in the Hunter Valley. It was there that the Singleton family settled after 1824. This area became known as "Singleton".
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Arrived 14 February 1792 via 'Pitt' - convict.
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William, then a warehouse porter in London, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on 8 June 1791 to transportation for seven years. With his wife Hannah and two sons, Benjamin and Joseph, William arrived at Port Jackson in the "Pitt" on 14 February 1792.
Five years later the family settled on a ninety-acre (36 ha) grant at Mulgrave Place (District of Mulgrave Place, bounded on the west, east and south by the river and on the north by a line west 20degs south 36 chains), where another son, James, then aged 30, joined them.
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TRIAL OF WILLIAM SINGLETON AT THE OLD BAILEY Trial Fifth Session July 1791 Major J.A.C. Boydell Case 257
William Singleton was Indicted for feloniously stealing on 30 th May last, 27 yards of Callice (sic) the property of Matthew, Pickford & Thomas Pickford. The case was opened by Mr Garrow.
Joseph Buckley sworn. I am porter to Mr Miller, Manchester Warehouseman No 28 King Street, Cheapside: I picked up some goods and delivered the goods at the usual place, The Swan with Two Necks, Lad's Lane, at the warehouse door: I delivered them Monday 16 of May.
John Martin sworn. I am head porter to this wagon, they have several packages: on the 30 th May last I was at the Crown in Lad Lane, having a pint of beer and the prisoner went up the Swan Yard and turned to the righthand: I went up in about two or three minutes and could not see him. In half an hour he was coming down the yard with a bundle under his arm: I said, Singleton, what have you got ?. He says some linen: Says I let's see: they were tied up in his apron: I said, pretty linen, indeed: says he, Master be as easy with me as you can: I said damn me, where did you get them ? He said I took them out of the wrapper.
COURT Did you promise that in case he would confess, you would show him favour ? No Sir, I sent for a constable and carried him to the compter: on the Monday, we rummaged the warehouse and between the warehouse and the stable there are some iron bars to give light: behind some straw in another house we found the wrapper, that was a place it should not have been in: it had been opened and sewn up again. (the wrapper was produced and disposed of)
Benjamin Dixon sworn I received these goods from Martin, this is the same apron, I saw nothing of the wrapper.
Court to Miller That is the same wrapper you saw in the stable ..........Yes
Robert Manton sworn You are in the employ of Mr Miller .......... I am
Look at some of these things and tell us whether they are the property of Mr Miller ? When I took it out of the sheet that contained the goods, when it came up from and ? I saw this remarkable stain upon it: I called ? to show it to me. Are you sure it was one of those delivered John ? sworn I prove that the names are properly spelled in the indictment
The prisoner called four witnesses to his character
GUILTY ---- transported for seven years tried by the London Jury before ? Merrin William arrived 1792 on the ship "Pitt"
His wife & children came with him except son James who arrived in 1809 on ship "Aeolus"
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from http://www.users.bigpond.com/mcashman/gene-convicts.htm#William%20Sing leton - Mary-Ann Cashman [2008/07/13]
TRIAL OF WILLIAM SINGLETON
Trial Fifth Session July 1791 Major J.A.C. Boydell
Case 257
William Singleton was Indicted for feloniously stealing on 30 th May last, 27 yards of Callice (sic) the property of Matthew, Pickford & Thomas Pickford.
The case was opened by Mr Garrow.
Joseph Buckley sworn.
I am porter to Mr Miller, Manchester Warehouseman No 28 King Street, Cheapside: I picked up some goods and delivered the goods at the usual place, The Swan with Two Necks, Lad's Lane, at the warehouse door: I delivered them Monday 16 of May.
John Martin sworn.
I am head porter to this wagon, they have several packages: on the 30 th May last I was at the Crown in Lad Lane, having a pint of beer and the prisoner went up the Swan Yard and turned to the right hand: I went up in about two or three minutes and could not see him. In half an hour he was coming down the yard with a bundle under his arm: I said, Singleton, what have you got ?. He says some linen: Says I let's see: they were tied up in his apron: I said, pretty linen, indeed: says he, Master be as easy with me as you can: I said damn me, where did you get them ? He said I took them out of the wrapper.
COURT
Did you promise that in case he would confess, you would show him favour ? No Sir, I sent for a constable and carried him to the compter: on the Monday, we rummaged the warehouse and between the warehouse and the stable there are some iron bars to give light: behind some straw in another house we found the wrapper, that was a place it should not have been in: it had been opened and sewn up again. (the wrapper was produced and disposed of)
Benjamin Dixon sworn I received these goods from Martin, this is the same apron, I saw nothing of the wrapper.
Court to Miller: That is the same wrapper you saw in the stable? ..........Yes
Robert Manton sworn: You are in the employ of Mr Miller? .......... I am Look at some of these things and tell us whether they are the property of Mr Miller? When I took it out of the sheet that contained the goods, when it came up from and? I saw this remarkable stain upon it: I called ? to show it to me. Are you sure it was one of those delivered
John ? sworn
I prove that the names are properly spelled in the indictment The prisoner called four witnesses to his character
GUILTY ---- transported for seven years tried by the London Jury before ? Merrin
William arrived in Australia on 14 February, 1792 on the ship "Pitt". His wife & children came with him except his son James who arrived in 1809 on the ship "Aeolus".
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From Kay Adams email 23/03/2012
WILLIAM SINGLETON
Birth: About 1752 in Cheshire, Lancashire, England.
Death: 25.05.1835 in Singleton, NSW. Unable to locate a registration.
Burial: Whittingham Cemetery, 3km south of Singleton.
Parents: William Singleton Snr and Elizabeth Unknown.
William was a porter to a London Warehouseman and a dispossessed farmer. He spent a short time on a coal hulk on the River Thames.
He was charged on 30.05.1791 and tried at Old Bailey in London 08.06.1791 with stealing 27 yards of calico (callice), the property of Matthew and Thomas Pickford. Despite calling 4 witnesses to his character he was found guilty and sentenced to 7 years transportation. See trial transcript after the tree.
He left Yarmouth Rds England on 17.07.1791 with his wife Hannah and 2 sons Benjamin and Joseph on the ‘Pitt’ with 352 males and 58 females on board. His son James arrived later in 1809 on the ship ‘Aeolus’. Hannah was not a convict and was one of seven free women on board. There were 29 deaths on voyage. The ship arrived in Greater Sydney, Australia on 14.02.1792 with 319 males and 49 females. The Master was Edward Manning and Surgeon was Mr Jameson.
Five years after arriving the family settled on a 90 acre grant at Mulgrave Place where another son James (then aged 30) joined them in 1808. William and Hannah received a grant of 90 acres in 1799 on the River near Freeman's Reach, which they farmed. By the 1806 muster they had 232 acres. William was a signatory to various petitions that circulated during the Bligh period. He was shown as a landholder at the Hawkesbury in 1827, although he sold much of his land owing to indebtedness caused by floods.
c.1805: William was on list of settlers, formerly prisoners, nominated as witnesses by Martin Mason in his complaint against Denis McCarty.
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