There are convicts in our family

Aussie sheep drovers standing in an 

There are convicts in our family, marines and "ladies" too. All these lively elements, make up me and you.

William Nash

- Royal Marine - 58th (Plymouth) Company - 1st Fleeter - Prince of Wales - Port Jackson - Captain Shea - Maria Haynes - Norfolk Island - Mulgrave Place -

William NASH was a private marine of the 58th (Plymouth) Company. He sailed on the First Fleet aboard Prince of Wales and served at Port Jackson in the company of Captain Shea. William was married to Maria Haynes, who had accompanied him to NSW on the First Fleet, on 13th February 1789, then both went to Norfolk Island on Sirius in March 1790. He returned to Port Jackson to enlist in the NSW Corps on 13 April 1792. He received a total land grant of 205 acres at Mulgrave Place. Five children were born to William and Maria, but by 1802 Maria was living at the farm of Robert Guy with only two of her children. It is not clear whether William gained custody of the other two or three older children, but they remained in the colony when he left in 1804. Robert Guy died in December 1820 and Maria was living alone in 1828, a householder with 30 acres, 25 of them cultivated; and she owned two horses. Her son George and his family lived nearby. Maria died in November 1844.

Reference

The Nash/Williams families were squatters with horses and cattle and lots of children..Convict book lists...Buried Alive etc http://www.redcliffenow.com.au/library/documents/Dconvicts.pdf case studyhttp://vcp.e2bn.org/case_studies/case11208-henry-catlin-age-14-deported.html*************************************************************************************The U.S. was not the first to put masks on prisoners. The British were just as brutal.

 Pentonville prisoners exercising wearing masks

http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/ships/toausp01.shtml Convict and ships lists to Australia .

 Millbank Prison main entrance

New arrivals were bathed and then sent naked to the prison surgeon’s room for a full examination to make sure that they were free from contagion. A description of each prisoner’s physical appearance and any distinguishing marks was entered in the records. A note was also made of their literacy skill, which in the case of Ward Swale was described as ‘imperfect’. They were issued with a uniform of a blue shirt, a cravat which was blue with a narrow brick-red check, trousers in brown flannel with a thin red stripe, a grey jacket, and a grey Scotch cap. Ward Swale was given prison number 14183 and was locked up in penitentiary number six, ward B, cell 16. At some stage he was moved to cell 4 in the same ward, possibly at the completion of his six month’s solitary confinement. http://www.ihgs.ac.uk/competition/ward_swale.php WILLIAM NASH I don't know what became of my gr gr gr grandfather William Nash. I do know that John Macarthur was his superior officer and he had to obey and salute him. My gr gr grandfather John Williams, I believe died in a snowstorm or from causes of exposure. My great grandfather John Williams (jun.) died under a wagon- wheel, when his horses bolted. My grandfather Henry Inglis Williams died in his eighties, natural causes. My father Hector Griscom died at 79 in a nursing home where he had been put because he was losing his memory and reason. It was Parkinson's probably.I am 77 in March 2009 and might last a few years yet, but one never knows.(Ric) ******************************************************************************John MuckAfter, early colonist, politician and member of the Rum Corps.(out of uniform).http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/themes/96/96370.htmlResidents of Parramatta Female factory:"We must get you girls all cleaned up proper. The officers of the N.S.W. Corps will be here to choose you tomorrow!" ***************************************************************************************************8I follows the fleet, where the pickings be sweet. Give me a shilling and I would be willing.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The styles of Europe about the time of the First Fleet,"These garments may be in vogue but they are awfully cumbersome when you want to wee-wee.-->" but the convict women would not be so richly endowed. It is hard to find drawings of them, but the reports were that they were dressed in patched dresses and sometimes rags. I am sure the sex-starved men of the colony were not particularly concerned about what the women wore or if they wore anything. Many females were cloistered in the Female Factory at Parramatta where officers would indulge in some frivolity with the inmates. It was said even the comliest lass would give comfort for a tot or two of rum, some lace or an extra ration of flour. It should be remembered that these officers had power over them as the women were convicts and had no rights, so a refusal may bring on a whipping. By the laws today this would constitute non-consexual rape. It would have been almost impossible for a women to remain chaste in those circumstances. "I declare, to attempt to couple with such a woman dressed in many voluminous petticoats and undercoats would exhaust even an ardent wooer. He would be liable to enter the wrong shift and suffocate before he might extricate himself. That is why I prefer females of the lower class, who rarely afford but a flimsy robe and oftentimes wear nought beneath but their own skin." Lord Dudley at a meeting of the London Top Cocks.(Presumably Cocks are the barnyard variety.) *

Most Southerly Town in Australia

The small town of Southport is situated on the south coast of Tasmania, 100Km (60 miles) south of Hobart. A wildlife sanctuary and a thermal pool.http://www.convictcreations.com/culture/facts.htm unusual facts about Australia.Did you know that the longest official geographical name in Australia is "Mamungkukumpurangkuntjunya", and one of the shortest is "Me"?
Did you also know that "Spring Creek" is the most common geographical name in Australia, and there is a town in Tasmania called "Nowhere Else" and a homestead in South Australia called "Didyabringyagrogalong".

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A collection of England and Wales Birth, Marriage and Death records indexed from 1837 to 2005. http://www.blogger.com/www.ancestry.co.uk/s31660/t10429/rd.ashx%20-%2015k- ************************************************************ Mrs Ewe-nice Baa, spokesanimal for Ovine Rights: 

No No No! We had enough convicts already! Ewe would never put up with what we suffer.I must protect my little lambs from sexual predators.  The woman shortage in early Australia was drastic and caused many unnatural alliances ...no female missed out, tho' the she-kangaroos just hopped away. **************************************************************** We can't take it any more! It is interfering with our milk production. *******************************************************

There were documented cases of bestiality with sheep and cows. No doubt without the consent of the animals. (It still goes on.) 

"Woman found naked with excited horse. Horse refuses its oats when woman arrested and taken away...." police report

 From the Australian. A NSW north coast woman has been charged with bestiality and offensive conduct after allegedly being involved in an indecent act with a horse.

Police said they found the naked woman with the horse when they were called to a paddock in Wilson Street, Lismore at 9am (AEDT) on Monday. "Police will allege a 35-year-old Casino woman was engaged in an indecent act with a horse,'' a NSW police spokesman said. "The woman was arrested and charged with bestiality and behaving in an offensive manner.'' The woman was granted conditional bail and is due to face Lismore Local Court on December 18. The horse was not charged because it had already discharged. A female onlooker stated "She has done nothing wrong, except that she should have kept it in her bedroom and not in a paddock" Onlooker would not give her name but hurried away with her pet male poodle. (Reporter on scene.)*****************************************FleetFleet 

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The fleet set sail from Albion's shore. Those souls aboard would see no more, For many long years their native land And most would never touch the hand Of them they knowed before.

Adieu me mates from Billingsgate. So long, ye big fat whore. You was ever willing for me lucky shilling To pluck ye knows what’s for. Yeah, I allwus knew what I shouldn’t do, But life were tough and my road so rough While breaks if you’re poor were few. When you work half dead for a thruppence and bread You don’t think nought of a price on yer 'ead. You look for a way to make life pay, To scratch out a living any which way So your missus and young’uns be fed *********************************** No help was me habit to fitch Squire’s rabbit or nick a wandering hen. When me luck got short and I were caught And shoved in this pigsty pen (I'll ne'er see England again.) Where are me mates of yesteryear? Be they sitting, drinking malt beer, With a lusty song and jolly fine cheer Patting a barmaid's buxom rear? Be I forgotten, chained to a rail, While they are achugging cider and ale? *********************************** Beware young matey, they’ll catch ye too… Then ye will be sailing the ocean blue, On maggotty pork and weevly stew, Enough to make any landsman spew. I thank me stars that I weren’t topped. Yet near to my topping, the hanging got stopped. They give me life and a flogging instead. But I swear by the devil, I’d be better off dead.

********************************** Below dank decks on rotting sails, I’m bound to die in New South Wales. (I hid a razor if all else fails.) Though I rue me acts and pray for me sins, Yeah, I be lost, now Hell begins. Too late, mate. This be me fate. Got to eat what’s on me plate. Soon long years with a ball and chain, A pick and shovel in heat or rain, (I'll ne'er see England again.) I be the soul that God denied, Lost of family, health and pride. Why suffer I yet though others have died? Hark young larrikins, mark me well! If ye follow this road, you’ll end up in hell.

by Ric Williams)("This settlement of Sydney Cove will wither within a score of years and the convict scum will perish. Good riddance, I say!") Lord Halifax.

an 18th century

illustration of a captive Portuguese sailor forced to run through "the sweats".

******************************************** Reader you may think I am demeaning the pioneers we came from, on this web page. It is not so. I have tried to tell the truth, warts and all about what our ancestors were like and in some ways they were ignorant, wayward, primitive and without finesse. The important point is that they were survivors. The weakest perished by disease or misadventure in the terrible conditions of Britain of those brutal times, or in the prison hulks awaiting transportation, or finally during the voyage in cramped conditions, often in irons, in quarters that had been for African slaves. Now these convicts were the slaves. Yet after all this, the survivors, thrived and in several generations became prosperous law-abiding citizens of the new land Australia, which our forefathers built in chains. Now Australians are renowned world-wide for their sporting abilities, their high standard of living and their mateship. G'day mate!

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Great great great(etc) grandfather, William Nash had the unenviable duty of keeping order among the convicts , which he carried out, no doubt(?) with a minimum of brutality. He, himself was flogged on board while at sea for "conduct unbecoming"... and what transgression he effected, is not known. His mistress was a seventeen-year-old, with whom he took up we know not when. She may have been a convict herself, but was listed as "marine's wife." There is a mystery about what happened to him in later years. Did he really die in Castlereigh? The Williams/Nash/ O'Keef(fe)/ Wooton/McKilpatrick and the hundreds of other names that are intertwined in this vast genetic mosaic, are almost all just ordinary people. This is a collection relevant to the descendants of William Nash and Maria Haynes of the First Fleet to Australia, 1788. We have spread out and filled various walks of life, and everyone has his/her story. Anyone related may put on a story even just a few paragraphs, (or as long as you like) on this web. Please email me at:cwok66@hotmail.com * This web site is in addition to other websites, dealing with the same descendants. I hope my efforts and those of my son Brian will add to general family knowledge. Unfortunately there is a bit too much about me, but as more articles occur, my dubious exploits might fade from dominant view. I recommend that anyone starting a website, do it through "blogstop.com" It is so easy, that even I (with a bit of help) can manage it. Thank you... (Ric)