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Mary adopted as Charlotte Bishop Davis (Pentley)

1792-1851
Born: Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia
Died: Kurrajong, New South Wales, Australia

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  • Story: Mary Davies

    <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">&bull; source.&nbsp;<sup>5098</sup>&nbsp;&amp; Jon Heppell who notes:</span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;"><br>Mary Davies, aka Davis, born in Diddlesbury Parish, Shropshire, England; convicted and condemned at Salop Lent Assizes for multiple burglaries on 12 March 1785 (later commuted to 7 years transportation); journeyed to NSW on the First Fleet's&nbsp;<em>Lady Penrhyn.</em><br></span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;"><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Mary married Samuel Day (Convict) 1st Fleet, son of William Day and Sarah Allen, on 2 Nov 1788 in St Philips Church of England, York St, Sydney, NSW Australia.<sup>1904</sup>&nbsp;(Samuel Day (Convict) 1st Fleet was born in 1767 in Gloucestershire England&nbsp;<sup>3266</sup><sup>,6749</sup>, christened on 5 Apr 1767 in Dursley, Gloucestershire England&nbsp;<sup>3266</sup>&nbsp;and died in 1846 in Launceston, Tasmania Australia&nbsp;<sup>6750</sup>.)</span></span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Mary settled on Norfolk Island with Marine Private Thomas Bishop in March 1790, bore his daughter Charlotte Bishop in July 1791 (Norfolk Island), returned to Sydney with Thomas and Charlotte on board the&nbsp;<em>Kitty</em>, 9th March 1793. </span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">Recorded as Mary Bishop, widow (common law wife, no record of a formal marriage) of Thomas Bishop, on the indenture of conveyance of the deceased (d.10 Dec 1793) Thomas Bishop's 110ac grant (Bishop's Farm) at Hen &amp; Chicken Bay to James Squire, colonial brewer, dated 11th August 1794.</span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;"><br>Mary and Charlotte settled eventually in Parramatta, where Mary was employed by Governor Philip Gidley King as The Housekeeper at Government House, Parramatta, a position she held for over 10 years from 1800 until some nine months into the incumbency of Lachlan Macquarie. She acquired by grant and lease some 30 odd acres of land, both for tillage at Bringelly (Bishop's Farm), and a town lot in George St Parramatta, which she held until her death at Kurrajong on 1st January 1839, possibly as old as 87 years.</span></p>

  • Story: Mary, Housekeeper At Government House

    <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;">source: &amp; Jon Heppell who notes:<br><br>Mary and Charlotte settled eventually in Parramatta, where Mary was employed by Governor Philip Gidley King as The Housekeeper at Government House, Parramatta, a position she held for over 10 years from 1800 until some nine months into the incumbency of Lachlan Macquarie. She acquired by grant and lease some 30 odd acres of land, both for tillage at Bringelly (Bishop's Farm), and a town lot in George St Parramatta, which she held until her death at Kurrajong on 1st January 1839, possibly as old as 87 years.</span></p> <p><span style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino; font-size: medium;"> Charlotte at age 14 (on 1st Jan 1806) received a 100ac land grant (Bishop's Farm) from King contiguous with and later absorbed into the King pastoral empire "Dunheved" on South Creek in western Sydney. She bore at least 10 children to six partners, three of whom she married. Charlotte died in 1851, also at Kurrajong, and she is buried in the cemetery of St Peter's at Richmond, in the same grave as her mother Mary.</span></p>

  • Story: Charlotte Bishop

    <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;"><strong>Charlotte Bishop</strong></span><br><br><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Charlotte Bishop was born on Norfolk Island in 1791, the daughter of Mary&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Davis/Bishop a convict on the First Fleet, and an unknown Father ( possibly&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Samuel Day ). &nbsp; With her mother, Mary, she came to Sydney on board the "Kitty" in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">March 1793. Her Mother was then sent to Parramatta and this is where&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Charlotte spent her childhood. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">In 1806 she was with her mother who was&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">working at Government House as a servant, and living by 1809 in the main</span><br><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Street of Parramatta. In 1808 when Charlotte was 17yrs she had a daughter&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">which she called Susannah ( father unknown ). It was in Parramatta that&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Charlotte met James Crabb, a soldier in the 73rd regiment.</span><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">On the 1811 muster she was shown as Charlotte Bishop born in the colony and&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">free, at Parramatta. On the 10th March 1811 at St John's Church of England ,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Parramatta she married James. Their two children were born at Parramatta-&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Alexander William in 1813 and Mary in 1814. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Following the birth of Mary the&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">family moved to Sydney. On the 1814 muster Charlotte is shown as Charlotte&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Crabb, free and on stores with three children and the wife of James soldier&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">of the 73rd regiment. James seems to disappear from records just after that,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">and it is not known if he died and his death unrecorded, or if he deserted&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">his family and returned to England at the end of his tour of duty, which is&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">quite possible.</span><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Charlotte moved back to her mother's home in Parramatta, and that is where&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">she met Richard Shrimpton, whom she married at St John's Church of England,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Parramatta. Apparently accepted as a widow on the 9th August 1819. &nbsp;</span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">To Richard she was to have four children, their first child was born at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Parramatta, Edward Francis in 1819, they then moved to the farm at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Wilberforce were their other three children were born, Charles 1822, Leah&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">1824 and Richard in 1826. </span></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Age was to take its toll on Richard and he died on&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">his farm on the 11th July 1827 and was buried at Wilberforce.</span><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">On the 22nd December 1828 at St John's Church of England Charlotte married&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">for a third time to John Pentley.(shown in register as Pintla) They moved to&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">North Richmond and their daughter Susannah Jane was born in 1829.</span><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">In 1833 Charlotte had a daughter Margaret Elizabeth to Frederick Allsop, at&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">this point John no longer seems to be living with Charlotte. It is at this&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">time she moved her family to Kurrajong and her mother Mary Bishop moved in</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">with her probably to help with the small children and to give her comfort in&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">her old age.</span><br></span></p> <p><span style="font-family: monospace; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">John died in 1843 and Charlotte lived until the 5th September 1851,when she&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">died in her home at Kurrajong. She was buried three days later at St Peters,&nbsp;</span><span style="font-family: 'book antiqua', palatino;">Richmond, interred with her mother.</span><br></span></p>

 
 
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