Rose Ellen Maria Dunn, Free Settler "HMS Buffalo" 1799

Arrived in Australia aboard the sailing ship "Buffalo"in (1799), a free citizen. (Married) Thomas DUNN. There were nine children

Links

• https://australianroyalty.net.au/tree/purnellmccord.ged/individual/...
• https://www.australian-english-genealogy.com/Thomas%20Dunn.html
• http://www.hawkesbury.net.au/claimaconvict/convictDetails.php?convi...
• http://butlerfamilyhistoryaus.blogspot.com/2012/08/walter-butler-ch...
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Bean-483
• http://www.ausigen.com/familygroup.php?familyID=F397&tree=tree1
• https://convictrecords.com.au/convicts/dunn/thomas/65462
• https://austcemindex.com/inscription?id=15559621
• http://www.the1788-1820pioneerassociation.org.au/Rosetta%20Bean.html

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The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser Sat 5 Mar 1803 Page 3 Fugitives.

Fugitives.
On Tuesday, the 15th ultimo, Fifteen Labouring Men fled from the Agricultural Settlement at Castle Hill, after having committed many acts of violence and atrocity. They at first forcibly entered the dwelling house of M. DECLAMB, which they ransacked, and stripped of many articles of plate, wearing apparel, some fire and side-arms, provisions, spirituous and vinous liquors, a quantity of which they drank or wasted in the house. They next proceeded to the farm houses of Bradley and Bean, at Balkham Hills. Mrs. Bradley's servant man they wantonly and inhumanly discharged a pistol at, the contents of which have so shattered his face as to render him a ghastly spectacle, in all probability, during the remainder of his life. In Mrs. Bean's house they gave a- loose to sensuality, equally brutal and unmanly. Resistance was of no avail, for their rapacity was unbridled. Numerous other delinquencies were perpetrated by this licentious banditti, whose ravages, however, could not long escape the certain tread of Justice. Two of the depredators were taken into custody upon the second day after their flight near the Hawkesbury road, by Mr. JAMIESON, junior, assisted by A. Thomson, Chief Constable at Hawesbury, and a party of the Military, who had been dispatched in pursuit of them. Upon these men were found several articles of property that had been taken from the dwelling-house of Mr. Declamb; as were also two muskets. On the day following they underwent an Examination before a Magistrate, by whom they were fully committed, and sent to Sydney under an escort. On the 23d ultimo, Eleven more of the desperadoes were secured, by a party of the Military and Constables, between Hawkesbury and the Mountains. Information had been given of their haunt by a body of natives, shortly after they had broke into the house of a settler, where they had stopped to grind a quantity of wheat at a steel mill, having previously secured the family, and afterwards stripped the house of all such provision as they could conveniently carry off, together with two stands of arms. They were also taken before a Magistrate, fully committed, and brought to Sydney under a sufficient guard. Justice to the Prisoners at large in the Colony requires that we should here observe, that this banditti is entirely composed of Irish prisoners, brought by the Hercules and Atlas.

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NB. The rape victim was Rose Bean, the 17 year old daughter of James and Betty Bean of Toongabbie. The rape was perpetrated at the Bean home, reportedly in front of her mother. Rose would marry Thomas Dunn the following year, and their daughter Margaret married Laurence Butler’s son Walter Butler in 1825.

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In 1803, fifteen Irish convicts broke out of the Government Farm at Castle Hill, and broke into several nearby farms looking for arms and food etc. Two of them, Patrick Gannon and Francis Simpson, broke into the farms belonging to the Bean and Bradley families at nearby Toongabbie. They proceeded to shoot one of their servants in the face with one of their captured guns, grossly disfiguring him for life, and then committed the outrage of pack raping the 18 year old daughter of James Bean, named Rose, in front of her horrified mother. When captured, the fifteen all faced harsh punishments, and these two in particular would be executed- hanged near the spot where this outrage was committed, outside the Bean Farm, supposedly so the Bean family could see justice carried out. Simpson had been transported on the ‘Atlas 2’, while Gannon arrived on the ‘Atlas 1’.

The ‘Sydney Gazette’ Saturday 5 March 1803 page 3 described:
They proceeded to the farm houses of Bradley and Bean at Balkham Hills. In Mrs Bean’s house they gave a loose to sensuality, equally brutal and unmanly. Resistance was to no avail, for their rapacity was unbridled.
Rose Bean would marry the convict Thomas Dunn within a few months of the rape and it has been suggested that she gave birth to a daughter, a result of the rape. One of their younger daughters, Margaret Dunn, would marry Laurence Butler’s son Walter, ancestors of author’s Butler family. The Bean and Bradley families were free settlers who arrived in 1799 on the ‘Buffalo’. Rose Bean’s father James Bean, a carpenter by trade, was contracted in 1811 to build the Rum Hospital, now comprising the NSW House of Parliament building and the old Mint Museum.

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Robert Mote Website at http://www.ozigen.com/

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Robert Mote Word document received by email 23 Jan 2003 "Ancestors of Ann James" Bean-James.doc

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Robert Mote Website at http://www.ozigen.com/

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First Families Website, Information submitted by Barbara Butler http://www.firstfamilies2001.net.au/

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Parramatta Family History Association Parramatta Pioneers Register

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