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Harriet McCARTHY 1789-1860.

Parents - John McCARTHY/ Ann BEARDSLEY.
Born - Feb.1789, Sydney Cove, New South Wales.
Baptised - 1 Mar.1789, Sydney Cove.
Died - 21 Mar.1860 Brighton, Tasmania.
Buried - Unknown.

MARRIED. (1)

13 Jun.1808, John DEVEREUX, St.Davids C of E Church, Hobart.
(Witnesses - Robert HAY/ Francis BARNES)

1. Dianna McCARTHY.

   Born - 29 Jun.1791, Norfolk Island.
   Baptised - Unknown.
   Died - Norfolk Island.
   Buried - Norfolk Island.

2. Francis McCARTHY. (Registered under BEAZLEY).

   Born - 29 Jul.1791, Norfolk Island.
   Baptised - Unknown.
   Died - 1 Oct.1796, Norfolk Island.
   Buried - Norfolk Island.

3. Mary Ann McCARTHY.

   Born - 4 Jun.1793, Norfolk Island.
   Baptised - Unknown.
   Married - Thomas Britiffe SKOTTOWE, NSW.
   Died - circa 1832, England.
   Buried - England.

4. Charles McCARTHY.

   Born - circa 1795, Norfolk Island.
   Baptised - Unknown.
   Died - Norfolk Island.
   Buried - Norfolk Island.

5. James McCARTHY.

   Born - Norfolk Island.
   Baptised - Unknown.
   Married - Unknown.
   Died - Unknown.
   Buried - Unknown.

Notes.

HARRIET McCARTHY (1789 - 1860) was born at Sydney Cove and baptised, on Sunday, 1 Mar.1789, as Harriot BEADSLEY, most likely in the presence of his Excellency, Governor Arthur Phillip.
Her parents JOHN McCARTHY (a Marine) and ANN BEARDSLEY (a Convict), arrived at Port Jackson with the FIRST FLEET (26 Jan.1788).
The First Fleet comprised of 11 ships and 1,034 persons (756 Convicts).
First landing in Australia at Botany Bay between the 18th.and the 20th.Jan.1788, New South Wales.
This site was discovered (29 Apr.1770) by Captain Cook and recommended by him, but was found unsuitable.
A more suitable site was found just north at Port Jackson and named Sydney Cove.
The date of this landing was 26 Jan.1788 and is commemorated as Australia Day.

ANN BEARDSLEY (1766 - ????) was born in Derby Derbyshire England, to parents JOHN BEARDSLEY and ANN KEELING.
On the 5 Aug.1786, Ann (aged 21) was sentenced at the Derby Assizes to 5 yrs.transportation, for having in her possession, a black satin cloak and other goods, stolen from the house of Elizabeth Woodhead in Apr.1786.
On the 24 October 1786, Ann was sent to the Port of Plymouth and imprisoned on the hulk Dunkirk. Transferred to Southwark gaol on the 24 Nov.1786, Ann was finally discharged (11 Mar.1787) for transportation to Australia, on the Friendship.
Sailing from Portsmouth (13 May 1787), at Rio de Janeiro (11 Aug.1787) she was transferred to the Charlotte, as a reward for good behaviour, arriving Botany Bay (22 Jan.1878).
Ann shared with one other convict woman the distinction of having the lightest sentence of all the First Fleet.
She was ordered to Kingston, Norfolk Island (4 Mar.1790) on the Sirius, taking with her infant daughter Harriet.
Due to bad weather, the passengers were unloaded at Cascade Bay, N.I.(13 March).
Several days later (19 March) the Sirius, attempted to unload its cargo at Kingston, but a sudden wind change, wrecked the Sirius on a reef.
Ann and daughter, had the infamously, of being on the last voyage of the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet.
Because of the dreadful starvation at Sydney Cove, the colony was equally divided between Sydney Cove and Norfolk Island, approx.500 at each settlement.
The Second Fleet of 6 ships arrived June 1790 in a deliberated state, many dying on the Voyage. Of the convicts who arrived, many were starving and feeble with dysentery, scurvy and fever, further burdening the small colony.
No record of the marriage of Ann to John McCarthy can be found.
However the Rev.Richard Johnson, Chaplain of the First Fleet and the Colony, spent 48 hours (circa 5 Nov.1791) on Norfolk Island, and is said to have married upwards of 100 couples.
Of 4 children born to the Couple on N.I. only one appears to have survived, Mary Ann McCarthy.
In 1805, the British Government decided to abandon N.I. as it was too expensive to maintain, and its Pine and Flax proving unsuitable for Ship Masts and Sails respectively.
Circa 12 Apr.1809 Ann with daughter Mary Ann, departed N.I. on the Estramina arriving Sydney (22 Apr.1809).
No further trace can be found of Ann, but Mary Ann McCarty is recorded as living with Lieutenant Thomas Skottowe of the 73rd.Regiment and Commandant of Newcastle (1811-1814) in the 1814 Muster of NSWs, taken between 17 Oct. & 16 Nov.
There are also two children recorded.
Variations in the spelling of BEARDSLEY include BAIZLEY, BAZELY, BEADLEY, BEAZELY, BEAZLEY, BEAZLY etc.

There is a suggestion that Ann and her daughter, Mary Ann, returned to Sydney from N.I. circa 1803, living under the assumed name of SULLIVAN.
An Ann SULLIVAN and daughter, Mary Ann SULLIVAN, were sentenced in Sydney, for stealing from an I.Cosgrove, and sentenced to 14 years & 7 years respectively, again returning to Norfolk Island.

THOMAS BRITIFFE SKOTTOWE (c.1787 - 1820) joined the British Army (73rd.Regiment) in 1807.
The 73rd.Regiment were based at Stirling Castle, Scotland.
He was born circa 1787 to parents, Thomas Britiffe SKOTTOWE (1767 - 1841) and Lydia POCOCKE (c.1770 - ?).
His father died 27 Dec.1841 Marylebone London Middlesex.
The 73rd.Rgiment was ordered to the Colony of NSWs with its Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Lachlan Macquarie, sailing from St.Helens on 25 May 1809, arriving at Sydney on the 1 January 1810.
It replaced the NSWs Corp.(102nd.Regiment) and while stationed in Australia the Regiment assisted Governor Macquarie in cleaning up the corruption left after the Rum Rebellion in 1808, under Governor Bligh (of Mutiny of the Bounty fame).
Thomas has been referred to as one of Macquaries Right Hand Men and on arrival in the Colony was appointed a Lieutenant. (Lachlan Macquarie was appointed Governor).
Thomas was appointed Commandant of the Penal Settlement of Newcastle, on 25 July 1811, and Justice of the Peace and Magistrate of the area.
While at Newcastle he observed the Flora and Fauna of the district and with the cooperation of Richard Browne, a Convict Artist, produced a Manuscript which became an Australian Classic.
His association with Mary Ann McCARTHY produced two sons.

1. Augustus John SKOTTOWE - b.28 Aug.1811.

2. Thomas Britiffe SKOTTOWE - b.circa.1814.

Augustus John Skottowe was baptised (28 Sept.1811) at St.Phillips, Sydney and registered as an Illegitimate child.
No Birth or Baptismal records could be found for the younger child.
His term at Newcastle ended in March 1814 with the arrival in New South Wales of the 46th Regiment, while the 73rd Regiment was ordered to Ceylon (Sri Lanka) where it served until 1821.
Thomas embarked on the ship Kangaroo under his command, departing Sydney 19 Apr.1815, arriving Colombo, Ceylon 25 Jul.1815.
It is said that Augustus John Skottowe with the aid of some of his fathers soldiers, stowed away aboard his fathers ship.
While in Ceylon, the boy was given a baby elephant and a monkey, by the captured King of Kandy.
Circa Dec.1817, Thomas departed Ceylon (it is assumed with his son) bound for England.
On arrival in England, they went to the house of the father of Thomas, in Lisson Grove, Paddington London and shortly after resided at Tweedmouth, Berwick-on-Tweed, Northumberland, on the river Tweed.
Berwick-on-Tweed is the most North Easterly Coastal town in England, virtually on the Border between England and Scotland.
Thomas (Scottowe) was buried on the 18 Nov.1820, Aged 33 and was resident at Tweedmouth, on his death.
After his fathers death, Augustus John Skottowe was sent to a boarding school called Bowes Academy at Greta Bridge, Yorkshire.
This School had a reputation for taking boys that were unwanted and a product of social indiscretions. It was remote enough, so boys could be out of sight and in most cases, out of mind.
Run by an One-Eyed Tyrant, William Shaw, was prosecuted in 1823 by the parents of two boys who went blind due to Malnutrition and ill Treatment.
Although fined 500 Pounds, he continued running the School.
Between 1810 and 1834, twenty-five boys aged seven to eighteen years old, died at the School.
Charles Dicken in his novel, Nicholas Nickleby, modelled his Yorkshire School on Bowes Academy.
Later Augustus worked at his Uncles bank in Dublin.
Adopting his mothers Surname, (it appears his parents were never married) he was sent to Perth County, Ontario, Canada by the Canada Company to assist the first settlers during a Cholera Epidemic.
In Perth County, Augustus married Pauline Izard and had Ten Children.
He became the First Chief of Police of Stratford, Ontario from 1872 to 1876.
He died on 9 Oct.1898 in Stratford.

More information can be found at Augustus John McCarthy 1812-1898 and Family in Canada

The Skottowe Name is Scandinavian in Origin and means lot on the hill. The Skottowe family in England appears to come from the area just north of Norwich in Norfolk. There is a village named Skottow in this region.
Sometimes the e is dropped from the Surname and sometimes the k is replaced with a c.
Apparently the Skottowe Family inherited the Britiffe Lands.
Captain James Cook (1728-1779), Founder of Australia, as a child moved with his family to live on Aireyholme Farm, near Great Ayton, Yorkshire, owned by the Grandfather of Thomas Skottowe, also Thomas.
Thomas soon noticed the bright young James, and arranged for him to attend the local village school, where he quickly showed an aptitude for Mathematics.

What happened to Mary Ann McCarthy and her younger son ?
Remaining behind in Sydney after the departure of her eldest son and his father, Mary and her younger son moved to Hobart mid-1816.
Returning to Sydney, the younger son embarked on the Laurel (18 Apr.1818) bound for Calcutta via Batavia, accompanied by Lt.William Hicks, of the Royal Navy and First Lieutenant on the First Fleet Ship, Friendship.
Mary followed on the ship Mary departing Sydney 14 Jul.1819, bound for Calcutta.
It is said that Mary and the younger son enroute to England were attacked by pirates off the coast of Africa and were never heard of again ?

JOHN McCARTHY (c.1746 - 1846) was born in Killarney, Co.Kerry Ireland, circa 1746 (parents Unknown).
A shoemaker by trade, he enlisted in the Marines (21st.Plymouth Company) 22 Jun.1777.
He was described as 5ft.8ins.tall, thin faced, fair in complexion, blue eyes and dark brown hair.
He had more than two years of service in the West Indies before volunteering for service with the First Fleet, coming to Australia on the Friendship.
He took his Discharge in Oct.1791, as his 3 years of tenure with the First Fleet had expired.
Deciding to settle on Norfolk Island, departing Port Jackson 26 Oct.1791, on the Atlantic, arriving N.I. 4 Nov.1791.
John was granted 60 acres of land at Cresswell Bay.
A 1796 map of Norfolk Island shows his grant as Lot 71.
He re-enlisted in the NSW Corps on Norfolk Island on 23 Dec.1801.
John departed N.I.(3 Sept.1808) via Sydney, for the Derwent River, Van Diemens Land (Tasmania) on the City of Edinburgh (without family), in total 242 Settlers.
After an ardous voyage in which the ship was blown out to sea for 2 weeks, suffering gale damage, arriving 5 Oct.1808.
He settled at Bridgewater on the Derwent River near New Norfolk, being credited with 30 pounds for a two storey house, a barn, two outhouses and 50 acres of land (28.5 acres cleared), left on Norfolk Island, later being granted 80 acres of land at Melville, Tasmania.
John appears to have joined a Veteran Company (24 Apr.1810) attached to the 73rd. Regiment, which was made up of aged volunteers from the NSWs Corps, on its formation.
Crossing over to Melbourne on 1 Nov.1839 on the Industry from Hobart, to live with his Grandaughter (Ann Devereux) who had married William Hartley BUDD, circa 1838, Tasmania.
In 1842 to commemorate Foundation Day (Australia Day), 26 Jan. the government decided to award John McCarthy a pension of 1 shilling a day for the remainder of his life.
At the time John was said to be 94 years old and only one of three First Fleeters still alive in Australia.
John died on 24 July 1846 at the residence of W.H.Budd, the Kinlochewe Inn, Kinlochewe (near Donnybrook) Victoria.
The Argus Newspaper on 28 July 1846 reported him of being upwards of 100 years of age and being able to read without spectacles and retaining all his faculties, until 10 minutes before his death, he remarked he was going to lie down and die.
He was buried as a Catholic by the Rev.Patrick Bonparte Geoghegan (Burial Place Unknown).
(Unfortunately before 1853 in Victoria, the Births, Deaths and Marriages, were recorded by the Churches and in the case of Deaths, they did not record the place of Burial).
He had the rare distinction of being among the first settlers of 3 colonies, New South Wales, Norfolk Island and Tasmania.
(John McCARTHY is often recorded as John McCARTY).

JOHN DEVEREUX was born circa 1777 at Shelbaggan, Co.Wexford in the South East of Ireland (near Ramsgrange, Parish of Rathroe) to a family of Wealthy Landowners.
The house where the family lived still stands and is occupied by a Mrs.Casey.
As a Captain in a Yeoman Battalion, he was charged with Treason for aiding and assisting in the 1798 Irish Rebellion at Vinegar Hill in Wexford, against English Rule.
It was alleged, he was part of a group that locked English sympathisers in a Barn, and then after setting fire to the Barn, waited for any of those that escaped with Pitch forks and Scythes.
This was probably the dreadful massacre at Scullabogue, near New Ross, 5 Jun.1798, that resulted in the death of upwards of 100 prisoners and their families.
After a much publicised trial at Cork (27 Nov.1799) he was sentenced to Hang, but instead transported for Life.
His father (also John Devereux) petitioned the Government in Dublin, on two occassions (21 Jun. & 28 Jul.1800), requesting mitigation of the sentence, stating he was blind and had a wife and four daughters to maintain, and they depended on the support of their son.
Departing from Cork (30 May 1802), John arrived in Sydney (30 Oct.1802) on the Atlas 2.
He was recorded on the Altas 2, as Jno Devneaun, aged 27, trialed Cork, and transported for Life.
The Atlas 2 carried 188 male prisoners and had the rarity of no loss of life during its voyage.
He is recorded as arriving at Norfolk Island, 23 June 1804. The Lady Nelson arrived on this date.
John probably was involved in the Irish Uprising (4/5 Mar.1804) at Castle Hill, north of Parramatta, and despatched to N.I. where it was considered there was less chance of doing any harm and NO chance of escape.
This is where John Devereux met his future wife, Harriet McCarthy.
Harriet as an infant, had accompanied her mother (Ann Beardsley) to N.I. in 1790.
On the Conclusion of the Settlement at N.I. Harriet now pregnant, departed N.I.(25 Dec.1807) on the Porpoise bound for the Derwent River, Tasmania, arriving 17 Jan.1808.
John followed on the Estramina, departing N.I. (15 May 1808) arriving Derwent River (5 June 1808).
Eight days later, on the 13 June 1808, the couple was married by the Rev.Robert Knopwood at St.Davids Church of England, Hobart.
A baby daughter, also called Harriet was born in August.
(Seven more children were born to the couple, all in Tasmania).
John came to Tasmania as a free man, being given a Conditional Pardon, on the condition he never return to Ireland.
He was granted 65 acres of land at Herdsmans Cove near Green Point, Bridgewater in the Derwent Valley.
A Devereux house still stands on the corner of Cobbs Hill Rd.and Sorrell St.Bridgewater.
Circa 1820 the family moved to Black Brush, a few miles south of Green Ponds (Kempton) on the Northern Hobart-Launceston Road.
On 19 June 1832 their house and land at Black Brush was sold for 600 pounds.
No trace could be found of the death of John Devereux.
His wife, Harriet appears to have remarried twice.

WILLIAM MULLIGAN, the third husband of Harriet McCarthy, was trialed in County Down, Ireland, on 8 March 1847 for larcency (stealing linen) and was sentenced for 7 years.
His age at the time of the trial was recorded as 40 years and his occupation as a Weaver. He had been previously widowed.
Transported as a convict to Tasmania, William departed Dublin on 20 Sept.1848, on the Pestonjee Bomanjee, arriving 2 Jan.1849.
As a convict, William had to obtain permission to marry Harriet (Campbell).
Both were recorded as residing at Brighton, when they married.
William died after a long and painful illness, aged 82 yrs. and was resident at North Bridgewater (Hobart Mercury, 15 Mar.1887).

NORFOLK ISLAND.

Norfolk Island lies approx.1000 miles due east of Coffs Harbour, in the South Pacific.
Volcanic in nature, it lies approx.midway on a subterrain ridge that runs between New Zealand and New Caledonia.
Discovered by Captain James Cook (10 Oct.1774) on his second voyage around the world, in the ship Resolution, it was found to be unhabited at the time.
Cook assumed its Pines, would be ideal for Ship Masts, and its fertile soils would be suitable for growing flax, which was used for making sails.
When England lost its colonies in America, after the American War of Independence (1775 - 1783), it was looking for somewhere to send its convicts, hence the First Fleet to Australia.
In the origin plan, it was also proposed to colonise Norfolk Island, as the American War of Independence, had also denied England access to timber for ship masts and flax.
On the 15 Feb.1788, the First Fleet Ship, Supply, left Sydney and arrived at N.I. on the 6 March, establishing a penal settlement at Kings Town, later called Kingston.
In 1790, due to the dreadful starvation at Sydney, the colony was equally divided between Sydney and Norfolk Island, which due to its more fertile soils, was better for cultivation.
N.I. was disbanded in 1814, all buildings (mainly of timber) were totally destroyed, to discourage any other nation from using N.I.
The ruins that remain today at Kingston, are from the second penal settlement 1826 - 1856.
In 1856 the Pitcairn Islanders (descendants of Bounty mutineers) were resettled on N.I. arriving on 8 June.