May thanks Lesley and Rosalee for your prompt replies! Back to the drawing board... Kind regards Helen On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Rosalee <rosaleeshaw@ozemail.com.au> wrote: > Hi Helen, > According to Elizabeth Hook's book on the Broxbournbury, Elizabeth Male > married William Sibley in 1815 in St Phillips Church. William was 10 years > older than Elizabeth, and had already been in the colony 16yrs., arriving > on > the Hillsborough. > > According to this, they had no children. > > The marriage was not a smooth one, William wrote to the governor for advice > when she sold his property while he was away on business.It seems they had > been before the court on previous occasions (details not given) however he > said she had 'eloped" with a man. > > She was an inmate in the Female Factory about 1820., and in 1825 William's > wife was listed as "Charlotte" > > In 1828, Elizabeth wa sin Bathurst, trying to bigamously marry another man. > > There are no records of Elizabeth's death, but William died in Sydney in > 1842 aged 67. > > There are more details re crime, sentences etc, and also about Charlotte, > who also arrived on the Broxbournbury > > Rosalee > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Helen Thompson" <hmtmartini@gmail.com> > To: <aus-pt-jackson-convicts@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, December 26, 2008 3:50 PM > Subject: [PJ] Siberry / Sibrey / Sibley / Sibraa > > > > Hi Lesley and everyone > > > > > > > > I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, and have great family history > > researching in 2009. > > > > > > > > I am a descendant of Thomas Siberry/Sibrey who arrived as a seaman about > > 12 > > years of age on the "HMS Porpoise" in 1800 (he was born in Yorkshire > about > > 1788). He married Sarah Maria Singleton in 1811 at Windsor NSW [they > were > > both illiterate, marking their names with an X], and had the following > > children: Joseph, Ann, Sarah, and Reuben. Thomas Siberry died aged 30 in > > 1818. [His name on his son Joseph's baptism was Thomas Sibrey, and > > Joseph's > > children had the surname Sibraa]. I have having trouble finding much > > information on his life. > > > > > > > > I noted on Ancestry.com.au today that the following people were listed > in > > the NSW & Tasmania Australian Convict Musters in 1825 as having arrived > on > > the convict ship "Hillsborough" 1798/1799 as children: Ann Sibrey born ca > > 1786, Joseph Sibrey b ca 1790, Reuben Sibrey b ca 1792, Elizabeth Sibrey > b > > ca 1793, Catherine Sibrey b ca 1795, and Sarah Sibrey b ca 1797. > > > > > > > > As some of their names are the names that have been given to Thomas > > Siberry/Sibrey's children, I was wondering if there might be a family > > connection to these children (possibly his siblings??). > > > > > > > > I haven't been able to find any other information about these Sibrey > > children, or find them listed on the "Hillsborough" shipping register > > [which > > apparently was a typhoid/typhus "fever ship" with 95 of 300 convict > > passengers dying on the voyage]. > > > > > > > > There was a William Sibley listed as a convict on the "Hillsborough" > [who > > may have been their father??]. From the webpage > > > http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/405/9/adt-NU2000.0005karskens04.pdf > "William > > Sibley, a mariner who had arrived a convict on the > > *Hillsborough *in 1799, married Elizabeth Male (or Meal), a young woman > > off > > the *Broxbournbury *in May 1815. They had had a child two months before, > > but > > it appears to have died. William seems to have steadily built up property > > and possessions, including a house in Prince Street by 1820, and then > > built > > Geranium Cottage at 6 Cumberland Street in 1821." > > > > > > > > I was wondering if anyone might have any information on these other > Sibrey > > children, or the convict William Sibley, to see if there might be a > > connection to Thomas Siberry. > > > > > > > > Kind regards > > > > Helen > > > >> > >> > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' > >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-PT-JACKSON-CONVICTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >