(Grandfather of William Hartley Budd 1812-1888 first wife.)
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John McCARTHY c.1746-1846.
Parents - Unknown.
Born - circa 1746, Killarney, Co.Kerry, Ireland.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - 21 Mar.1860 Brighton, Tasmania.
Buried - Unknown.
MARRIED. (1)
5 Nov.1791, Ann BEARDSLEY, Norfolk Island.
Witnesses - .
Ann BEARDSLEY.
Parents - Unknown.
Born - 1766, Derby Derbyshire England.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - Unknown.
Buried - Unknown.
Children. (5)
Born - 29 Jun.1791, Norfolk Island.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - Norfolk Island.
Buried - Norfolk Island.
Born - 29 Jul.1791, Norfolk Island.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - 1 Oct.1796, Norfolk Island.
Buried - Norfolk Island.
Born - 4 Jun.1793, Norfolk Island.
Baptised - Unknown.
Married ? - Thomas Britiffe SKOTTOWE, NSW.
Married(2) ??? - 5 Nov.1823, Henry CRITCHLEY, Bengal.
Died - 18 May 1879 (aged 89, a Widow)), Darling Pt.Rd. Darling Point, Sydney.
Buried - Waverley Cemetery, Sydney.
Born - circa 1795, Norfolk Island.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - Norfolk Island.
Buried - Norfolk Island.
Born - Norfolk Island.
Baptised - Unknown.
Died - Unknown.
Buried - Unknown.
Notes.
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.
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), with 241 other 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 on its formation (24 Apr.1810), attached to the 73rd. Regiment, which was made up of aged volunteers from the NSWs Corps.
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), north of Melbourne, Victoria.
He had lived with W.H.Budd for nearly 7 years in 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 Civil Registration (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.
Burial Place of John McCarthy.
ANN BEARDSLEY (1766 - ????) was born in Derby Derbyshire England, to parents JOHN BEARDSLEY and ANN KEELING. Christened 8 Feb.1766, Kirk Hallam, Derbyshire.
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.
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.
Addendum.
On Sunday evening last, the Chief Constable at Parramatta received information, that H. B. Hayes had been robbed of property to some considerable amount,and in consequence of such information searched the house of I.Cosgrove, where he found a number of articles in a box, and afterwards, between a bed and mattress perceived a Seal skin bag, upon examining which, a quantity of goods were found, which Ann Sullivan, a woman who cohabited with Crosgrove, acknowledged to have received from her daughter, the servant to H. B. Hayes at Sydney. Some property that had been stolen from the house of Mr. Williamson was also discovered, which can only be accounted for as having been purloined by the above Ann Sullivan, while she lived as servant in Mr. Williamson's family.
Mary McCarthy, and Ann Sullivan her mother were indicted, the first for stealing sundry articles of value from Henry Brown Hayes, the latter for receiving the same knowing them to be stolen.
Both Guilty, Mary McCarthy 7 Years Transportation; Ann Sullivan to to be transported 14 years to Norfolk Island and to be kept at hard labour until she may be sent hither.