Mary Ann Booth

Other Events and Attributes:

• Age at Death (Facts Pg): 14 days old

Other Events and Attributes:

• Age at Death (Facts Pg): 40 yrs
• Occupation: Labourer, (24.8.1868);
• Residence: Greenough WA, (1861);
• Emigration: Oct 1851, "Minden' Arrived as a convict. Shipped from England to the Swan River Colony. Arrived as a part of the first lot of convicts.
• Occupation: BEF. 4 Jun 1861, Farmer, - 100 Acres Tillage lease 120 acres Tillage Lease (1862); Farmer, Agricultural labourer, (1873);
• Death Reference: 1873, 6612

Notes:

I have just finished reading (on inter library loan ) "The Logbook of John
Gorman" which has been transcribed by FH Broomhall..from the original
manuscript witten aboard the Minden on its voyage to Australia in 1851...

It was interesting that John Gorman conducted a School after his
arrival...(the book is not clear on dates..schooling occured) .
Charges were 6d and I guess that may have been per week,..when we look at
the pension of 1/- per day or thereabouts as most pensioner's were paid.
There were apparently two sessions...Day School 12 students and Night
School...7 students.. (Lookups for this week only..the book must go back at
the weekend)
The seven night school students must have had some sort of work during the
day..which kept them from attending day classes..
John Campbell, (most probably the son of John Campbell EPG of Minden) was a
Night School student In 1851/52 he would have been 13/14 atr the time..
It would be interesting to find out what sort of work these young boys did .
Cheers
Gay



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George Booth is thought to have ben born in 1826 at Huddersfield in Yorkshire, England. His father's name was John Booth a Blacksmith and it is thought that his mother's name was Hannah.

On the 3rd December in the 12th Year of the rign of Queen Victoria (1848), George Booth, Henry Jackson, George Storey and Thomas Turner in the Borough of Manchester 'feloniously did break and enter" the Warehouse of Thomas Hallam and 'in the said Warehouse feloniously did steal, take, and carry away", -

"Two Coats of the value of one penny each,
Two pairs of trousers to the value of one penny each,
Two yards of woollen cloth to the value of one penny each, and
one yard of cotton cloth to the value of one penny each".

Thomas Turner and George Booth had both been convicted of 'several felonies; at the General Sessions of the Peace at Salford on the 31.05.1846 ans so both were sentenced to seven years transportation. Henry Jackson and George Storey received a sentence of 12 months hard labour at Lancaster Castle.

On 05.04.1849 George was removed from "The House of Correction, Salford, to the County Gaol and House of Correction, Leicester on his way to the Convict Huck "Warrior: anchored in the Woolwich Dockyard on the Thames River.

The ship he was to be transported on was "The Hired Convict Ship Minden" of 916 tons drawing 16ft of water. It was built at Sunderland in 1848 and was chartered on 06.06.1851 for "The Conveyance of 196 Male Convicts to Western Australia".

The ship's Master was Captain R.D. Crawford and the Surgeon Superintendant was John Gibson. The "Minden" was to embark convicts at Woolwich, Portsmouth, Cowes (Parkhurst Boys), Portland and Plumouth, the total number being 302.

On 05.07.1851 late in the afternoon the "Minden" sailed from Woolwich, with a steady fair wind in tow of a steamer which continued with it for three hours". When the breeze freshened the cast off, but about 09:00 o'clock, when the wind died the anchor was cast.

At 09:00 am on 21.07.1851 the "Minden" cleared the breakwater at Plymouth. It was a delightful morning with a light wind.

With the loading of the last convicts at Plymouth, George Booth and his 301 fellow convicts aboard the hired convict ship "Minden" were about to become a part of an era in WA history, an era that many wished to forget and indeed concealed for many years. It was September 1981 before the grandchildren or great grand children of George Booth were to discover his mode of "Transport" t this country.

On the lenghty vouage of the "Minden" a strict routine was maintained by the Surgeon Superintendent, John Gibson, to ensure discipline and the good healt of all aboard the ship.
Each day the convicts awoke before daybreak. On alternate days a division of convicts were, in regular succession, to be on deck at daylight with beds lashed and ready for stowing. When on deck they exercised and washed and were ready for inspection with bare arms and legs. This all had to be completed in time to allow the rest of the prisoners to come on deck, stow their bed, wash their face and hands and comb their hair in good time before breakfast which was as soon as possible after 08:00 am.

Dinner was at 01:00 pm and supper not later than 04:00 pm. Decks were swept after each meal with two convicts from each Mess to attend and see all rations issued.
Water closets were cleaned daily and inspected personally by John Gibson, these convicts were allowed freedom for the day, if the closets met the strict standards required.
Clothes washing days were Tuesdays and Fridays, to wash on other days was forbidden. Special Lines were erected for clothing, "as accidents had occurred by doing so in the rigging".

Wednesdays and Saturdays were shaving days, while Sundays was divine service.

All were to be in bed by 08:30 pm when noise must cease. It was forbidden for convicts to communicate with ships company or guard.

Four deaths occurred on the voyage of 85 days. The total number of the ship when it arrived in Fremantle was 459.

After breakfast each day, half the convicts were at school in the "Prison", while the other half were on the upper deck making up garments and shoemaking. These were reversed in the afternoon, to ensure each person had the benefit of fresh air daily.

Their day concluded after supper at 04:00 and then beds were made up and all convicts were allowed on deck and actively encouraged in "diversions such as dancing, music, leap frogs and the boxing gloves". The roll was called each night.

To combat scurvy lime juice and wine mixed together with water and sugar were regularly served after dinner and each man was personally checked by John Gibson to ensure it was drunk. A bilge water odour caused great discomfort to all, but after pumping dry the bilges and after a liberal application of chloride of zinc down the pumps and air holes it disappeared.

On 14th September with the sun streaming through the stern ports the "Minden" sailed on without motion, but 23rd September as the ship sailed south it became bitterly cold with sleet and occasional squalls. On 30th September the Captain calculated that they were 10-12 days from Fremantle, people were hoping that the voyage would soon end. The cramped conditions and cold were troubling some passengers.

As the voyage was drawing to a slose the weather improved and everyone was experiencing for the first time the pleasant weather associated with that time of the year in the Swan River Colony. By 13th October they were 96 miles from their destination. John Gibson was busy distributing clothing to the convicts. One blue shirt, fustin trousers, jacket and waistcoat, bluecap, two handkerchiefs, one pair of socks and a pair of stockings.
Those aboard the "Minden" showed their appreciation of the attitude of John Gibson to all by drawing up and signing a petition thanking him for his care and assistance during the voyage. His guidance must have been sought by many as to the state of the "Swan River Colony", for his was in charge of the first convicts to arrive d on the "Scindian" in 1850. In sixteen months he had seen the Port of Fremantle altered from a "dead, deserted looking fishing haven, to a busy bustling nucleus of commerce" and he had "no doubt that WA will in the long run become as flourishing as her sister colonies".

On 14th October 1851, George Booth and his fellow convictw were granted a Ticket of Leave. When ashore this would allow them to seek work in an approved district and be free of prison walls and strict discipline, but had to report regularly to the authorities. Prior to leaving a district they had to obtain the permission of the Resident Magistrate and must produce hisTPL to anyone who requested to see it.

The convicts started to make their way ashore on 18th October 1851 and it was to start another era in their lives. A life so contrasting to their previous ways.

Greenough - Irwin Farmer 1862 - 100 Acres Tillage Lease 120 acres Tillage Lease.

George married Ellen Amelia Hunt on 4 Jun 1861 in The Usual place of Worhsip according to the rites and ceremonies of the English Church, Geraldton, Western Australia. Ellen (daughter of William Hunt and Eliza Kezia Stickland) was born on 7 Feb 1846 in Worth Matravers, Dorset, England; died on 1 Jun 1899 in Strawberry, Western australia; was buried in Jun 1899 in Dongara Cemetery, Western Australia - Methodist Section Plot no. 201. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Residence: Greenough WA, (1861, 1876);
• Baptism: 8 Feb 1846, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England
• Census: 1851, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England - Ellen aged 5 -born Worth Matravers
• Emigration: 8 Aug 1857, "City of Bristol" with family and parents
• Occupation: BEF. 4 Jun 1861, Farmers Daughter

Other Events and Attributes:

• Age at Death (Facts Pg): 71 yrs old
• Occupation: Labourer, (29.10.1849); Yeoman, (04.06.1861); Farmer, (11.04.1866, 8.1.1876);
• Baptism: BET. 29 Sep 1810 - 1811, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England
• Residence: 29 Oct 1849, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England
• Census: 1851, Worth Matravers, Dorset, England - William Hunt - aged 40, born Worth Matravers, Dorset, England
• Emigration: 8 Aug 1857, "City of Bristol" with wife and children

Notes:

William Hunt was one of eight children born to Robert and Margaret Shepherd. He was christened at Worth Matravers Dorsetshire, England on the 29th September, 1811.

He met Eliza Stickland (bapt on the 23rd July, 1820 Kimmeridge in Dorsetshire England dtr. of Henry Stickland bp: 22nd April, 1792 in Steeple Dorset and Mary (nee Crumpler) bp 14th February, 1796 Turners Puddle Dorset). Henry married Eliza on the 5th April, 1838 in the Parish Church of Steeple Dorsetshire in England.

On the marriage certificate there is a Robert Hunt stated as being the father of William Hunt and his occupation being a labourer. William Hunts occupation is also stated as being a labourer.

William Hunt arrived at the Swan River Colony in Western Australian on the "City of Bristol" 8th August, 1857 with his wife Eliza Stickland and 7 of there 9 surviving children. The two eldest had died as infants and were buried in Worth Matravers, Dorset, England.

All the children of William and Eliza were born in Worth Matravers Dorsetshire in England except for daughter Eliza who was born at sea on there way to the Swan River Colony in 1857 . There youngest child Robert Henry Hunt was born in Western Australia.

William Hunt was a labourer, and the first yeoman to purchase land at Greenough flats. Champion Bay district in 1861 - 26 acres & 100 acres in 1866 - Greenough. William Hunt by 1862 had several tillage leases and pastoral leases around Greenough. William's son in law George Booth had joined him in his leases. They were not producing much wheat, but in 1864 and 1866 the crops flourished as they were continually at Malley's Mill. Constant reference is made to "Hunt's Team" bringing or taking produce from the Mill.

Mark Fripp also an exconvict was a Teamster and had married William Hunt's first daughter. This all suggests that William Hunt was the Squire, with George Booth a Farmer and Mark Fripp the Teamster.

There was no fertilisers available. Every drop from the animals would have been prudently used, but because they had to continually crop their 100 acre tillage leases each year, the rich soil was only tilled a few inches the first year, then deeper the next and so on over the years until the fertility was depleted.

One of the problems experienced by the farmers because of the size of the block was that after continual cropping, which they would have hd to do to exist, the corp yields would drop off to non economical proportions. To this day, even twith modern fertiliser, the land is experiencing similar characteristics. The heavy soil of the land also is difficult to farm with modern equipment becuae when it becomes wet the rotating wheels of motor vehicles collects the clay and layer after layer of clay build up on the tyres until they can no longer rotate properly.

On the 28th September 1866, William Hunt and George Booth applied for a tillage lease on Lot 211 of 100 acres at Yardarino. It was forfeited by non payment of monies owed on 25th May 1868. William and son in law George farmed an area of about 500 acres in this area south of Yardarino Reserve, a rich fertile area called by the Aborigines "Moola-Moolatha". The area was a mixture of open flats and York Gum Forest. William Hunt was the first Yeoman to tak up land in this area and it was named after him. To this day it still bears his name, Hunts Flat, Hunts Farm Road.

A large pile of lime stone marks the site of William Hunt's farm house and it would have been a regular stopping place for people travelling along the road to Perth. The well on the north side of Hunt's house was fed by a spring of crystal clear beautiful water and would have been a welcome resting place for many a thirsty traveller.

A huge river gum tree grows beside the site of William Hunt's house, being solitary and far distant from others suggests that it was planted there to shelter the house from the hot summer afternoon sun.

The sits of Hunt's farm house in on a very slight rise which afforded him views across his cleared land to the south and on to George Booth's adjacent farm. To the west of their farms about 1.5kms distance are some low hills laced with limestone ridges, from these ridges they carted the stone to build their houses.
The first telegraph line to Perth crossed east to west just south of Hunts house.
George took up his final tillage lease No. 5010 (later changed to No. 1246) of 120 acres, this was just south of lease No. 4412 and had a common boundary with leases of his father in law. The whole area was on what was then the main road to Perth, a road whose direction was basically controlled by available water sources as water was so essential for the weary traveller be it on foot or by horse or cart. The road to Perth ran south through Hunt's Flat then south west to Arrowsmith, south through the Lakes of Eneabba and onto the established farms at Walebing.

William Hunt (a farmer) died on the 16th July 1883 at the age of 72 of natural causes and was buried at Greenough Cemetery Western Australia.

Eliza Hunt possibly went to live with one of her children until she was possibly put into a home where she died on the 10th February, 1904 of Senile Decay in Tower St Leederville Perth Western Australia aged 84. She was buried at Karrakatta Cemetery Perth on the 11th February, 1904 in the Salvation Army Section AA Plot 47.

Hunt William: b abt 1813 d 16.0.7.1883 (Greenough) Arr: City of Bristol 8.8.1857 with wife Eliza (nee Sticklan) b1820 & 6 children, Elizabeth b1844; Ellen b1846; Leah b1850; Margaret b1852; Mary b 1855; Eliza b1857(at Sea); Robert Henry b1861-1941. Labourer First Yeoman to purchase land at Greenough flats, champion Bay Dist 1861 - 26 acres and 100 acres 1866 Greenough 1868 had 4 x 100 acre blocks.

Source: Dictionary of Western Australians 1829-1914 Vol 5 (The Golden Years 1889-1914)
Compiled by Rica Ericson

William married Eliza Kezia Stickland on 5 Apr 1838 in Parish Church of Steeple, Dorset, England. Eliza (daughter of Henry Stickland and Mary Crumpler) was born in ABT. 1820 in Kimmeridge, Dorset, England; died on 10 Feb 1904 in 10 or 104 Tower Street, Leederville, Western Australia; was buried on 11 Feb 1904 in Karrakatta Cemetery, Perth, Western Australia - Salvation Army Section AA Plot 47. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Age at Death (Facts Pg): 84 yrs
• Death Certificate No.: 6/04
• Baptism: 23 Jul 1820, St. Laurance Church, Parish of Steeple, Dorsetshire, England
• Emigration: 8 Aug 1857, "City of Bristol" with husband and children

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: labourer, (05.04.1838), Agricultural labourer, (1851); Parish Clerk, (1871); Farm labourer, (1904 );
• Baptism: 22 Apr 1792, Steeple, Dorset, England
• Census: 1851, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - age 59 - occ: agricultural labourer, born Steeple, Dorset, Eng.
• Census: 1861, The Cottage in Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - aged 69, Agr. labourer, born Steeple, Dorset
• Census: 1871, The Cottage in Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - aged 76, Parish Clerk, born Affpuddle, Dorset;
• Census: 1881, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - aged 87

Notes:

1881 Census for Dorset

Henry STICKLAND Head M Male 86 Steeple, Dorset, England Parish Clerk (Ch Off)
Mary STICKLAND Wife M Female 84 Turnerspuddle, Dorset, England
Kezia STICKLAND Daur U Female 44 Steeple, Dorset, England Farm Servant

Henry married Mary Crumpler in BET. 15 - 16 Oct 1815 in St. Laurance Church, Parish of Steeple, Dorsetshire, England. Mary (daughter of John Crumpler and Elizabeth Betty Hayes\Hays) was born in ABT. 1796 in Turners Puddle, Dorsetshire, England; died in BET. Oct - Dec 1890 in rego. Wareham, Dorset, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Baptism: 14 Feb 1796, Turners Puddle, Dorsetshire, England
• Census: 1851, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - age 55 born Affpuddle, Dorset, England
• Census: 1861, The Cottage, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - aged 65, born Affpuddle, Dorset;
• Census: 1871, The Cottage, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England - aged 74, born Steeple, Dorset;
• Census: 1881, Steeple, Dorsetshire, England, aged 84

Notes:

Mary

Christening: 14 FEB 1796 Turners Puddle, Dorset, England

Parents:
Father: John Crumpler
Mother: Betty




Re crumplers - I haven't had any connection with the Crumplers of the other places you mention but I bet they would be. All of the info I had traced them through Almer and Turners Puddle and Affpuddle. The other places are close by though.

R Mary Crumpler. I have Mary Crumpler baptised on 14 Feb 1796 in Turnerspuddle, Dorset from the parish register PE/TPD RE2 1745-1812. She married Henry Stickland in 1815 in Turners puddle 16 October (same reference). She was the daughter of John Crumpler and Elizabeth Hayes. He was the son of Thomas Crumpler and Mary Smith. I thought I sent you the information I had. Let me know and I can send more detail.

Nona