Mary (Randell) Carroll - Nichols - Thompson [Convict "Lady Penrhyn" "Friendship" 1788]

Mary RANDELL was born 1751 Stepney and was baptised on 27/5/1751 (daughter of Benjamin RANDELL and Ann ?)

Mary married James CARROLL on 2/12/1782 in London

Mary was convicted of stealing and sentenced to 7 years transportation. She left England on "Lady Penrhyn" and arrived in Sydney Cove on 26/1/1788 on "Friendship"

Mary married John NICHOLLS on 24/3/1788 at Sydney Cove

On 2/10/1788 was sent to Norfolk Island on "Golden Grove"

Mary had a relationship with William THOMPSON on Norfolk Island

Mary returned to Sydney on "Francis" in July 1794

Mary died in June 1803 at Sydney and was buried 8/6/1803

married 24/03/ 1788

Mary Carroll, c1751-1803, was sentenced to be transported for 7 years at the Old Bailey on 15.10.1786 for theft of a linen sheet and line shirt. On 6.1.1787 she was embarked on Lady Penrhyn, aged 36, a mantua maker.

At Sydney Cove a Mary Carroll married John Nicholls on 24.3.1788, both signing the register. The woman convict at the Old Bailey had been described at her trial as the wife of James Carroll and the marriage of a man of his name to a Mary Randell took place in London on 2.12.1782. A Mary, daughter of Benjamin and Ann Randell, baptised at St Dunstans Stepney on 27.5.1751 may have been the First Fleeter.

Mary was sent to Norfolk Island on 2 October by "Golden Grove" but Nicholls did not go with her, and at 16.7.1794 she was living with William Thompson 1st. She was ordered returned to Port Jackson on 26 June and left by "Francis" in July.

A Mary Carroll married Michael Gay at Parramatta on 28.11.1796 ( but by this time there were several women of this name in the colony who are difficult to distinguish). Mary Carroll (identified as the First Fleeter in an 1801 return of landholders) received a grant of 30 acres at Mulgrave Place on 1.1.1798. The Mary Carroll, wife of John Carroll, London October 1786, who died at Sydney aged 60 on 8.1.1814 matches the First Fleeter details but may in fact erroneously refer to a later arrival.

Her estranged husband John Nicholls married Ann Pugh 25.8.1803, so if Mary was alive at this date the marriage would have been bigamous. But two and a half months earlier on 8.6.1803, the burial of a Mary Carral had been recorded in Sydney. If this woman was the First Fleeter Nichols would have been free to marry. The 1814 burial details are probably wrong. (The Founders of Australia. A Biographical Dictionary of the First Fleet. Mollie Gillen)

LINKS

• http://www.australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I8510&ged=pu...
• http://www.convictrecords.com.au/convicts/carroll/mary/67820
• http://www.australian-english-genealogy.com/friendship%20convicts.html
• http://www.historyaustralia.org.au/twconvic/366
• http://firstfleet.thruhere.net/convict.php?id=118
• http://www.fellowshipfirstfleeters.org.au/john_nichols.htm
• http://www.the1788-1820pioneerassociation.org.au/Mary%20Carrol.html
• http://australianroyalty.net.au/individual.php?pid=I8510&ged=purnel...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Randall-3105
• https://triffitt1.wordpress.com/first-settlement-march-1788/
• http://www.firstfleetershunter.com.au/uploads/John%20Nichols%20Fami...
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_convicts_on_the_First_Fleet
• https://firstfleetfellowship.org.au/convicts/trades-first-fleet-con...
• http://firstfleet.uow.edu.au/details.aspx?-db=ff.fp3&-format=detail...
• https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/carroll/mary/67820
• https://www.ourfamilypast.com/article/person/10866/john-nichols-haa...

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Birth about 1751

Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989

Marriage James Carroll - View family 2 December 1782 (Age 31) London, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom

Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989

Immigration 26 January 1788 (Age 37) Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989 Text: Mary was tried at the Old Bailey on 25 Oct 1786 and sentenced to seven years transportation for theft of a sheet and a shirt. She arrived in the colony aboard the ship 'Lady Penrhyn', described as a mantua maker aged 36.

Source: Cobley, John, comp., The Crimes of the First Fleet convicts. Sydney Angus & Robertson: 1970 Text: Tried by the First Middlesex Jury before Mr Rose at Justice Hall in the Old Bailey at the Sessions which began Wed 25 Oct 1786. Her crime was that "Mary (the wife of James) Carrol [sic] was indicted for feloniously stealing on the 29th day of September last, one linen shirt, value 5s. and one linen sheet, value 10s. the property of Charles Dobinson. She was found guilty and sentenced to seven years transportation. Her occupation was mantua maker aged 36 in 1787.

Marriage John Nichols - View family 24 March 1788 (Age 37) Port Jackson, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989 Text: Mary was sent to Norfolk Island in Oct 1788.

Death June 1803 (Age 52)

Burial 8 June 1803 (Age 52) Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989

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Mary married John Nichols (Scarborough) on 24 March 1788, then she was transferred to Norfolk Island from October 1788 -1794. Mary died in June 1803 and was buried on 8 June 1803 in Sydney City, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.