William Pincham, Convict "Duke of Portland" 1807

Ann Patfield was the second child of George and Mary, born 28th March, 1796 and baptised at St. Philips, Sydney Cove on 2nd July, 1796. She married William Pincham in 1812 at St. John’s, Parramatta when she would have been about 16. William Pincham, a Wool Comber, had arrived in the Colony as a convict on the Duke of Portland in 1807 after receiving a sentence of Transportation for Life at Plymouth in 1806 and would have been about 48 at the time of their marriage.