Mary Ann (Wells) Freebody (abt. 1768 - 1855)

Born about 1768 in England

Descendants

Died 17 Feb 1855 at about age 87 in Windsor, NSW Australia

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Biography

Mary (Wells) Freebody was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

Convict Indents 1788-1842

Name: Mary Wells

Date of Conviction: 19 Mar 1792

Place of Conviction: York

Vessel: Royal Admiral

Port of Arrival: New South Wales

Date of Arrival: 7 Oct 1792

Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current

Name: Mary Freebody

Death Date: 17 Feb 1855

Death Place: New South Wales, Australia

Cemetery: Saint Matthew's Anglican Church Cemetery, Windsor

Burial or Cremation Place: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia

Spouse: Simon Freebody

Children: Mary Ann Search

Died aged 88

Name: Mary Ann Freebody. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]} Born abt 1768. York, York Unitary Authority, North Yorkshire, England. ^{[6] [8]} Died 17 Feb 1855. Windsor, Hawkesbury City, New South Wales, Australia. ^{[1] [2] [6]} Buried Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. ^[6] Residence 1828 Windsor, New South Wales, Australia. ^[8] Australia ^{[4] [7]} Australia ^[4] Australia ^[3] Arrival New South Wales. ^{[4] [5]} New South Wales. ^[4] Oct 1792. New South Wales. ^[3] Emigration: Arrived on the "Royal Admiral" in 1792. She had been tried at York, was transported for 7 years. Mary Wells on her person did hide Yards of calico, but alas, she was spied She came here in tears And served seven years "A free body at last" she cried. 1792 Hawkesbury district. Convicted 19 March 1792. York, England. File File: Media Format: jpg. Simon and Mary FREEBODY 1. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=04595b0e-afab-4795-9be2-c20d49bd2241&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: doc. THE ROYAL ADMIRAL 1792. File: Media Format: jpg. home-1-8 File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=1ab9eb47-6c62-448e-8b10-4f429193cfc8&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Mary Ann Wells. File: Media Format: jpg. Simon and Mary FREEBODY 2. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=2e21529f-12c6-4dc2-b2a9-d4c7b0c35d08&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. convict and transportation. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=4a5f2ebf-d095-4e15-b158-c65716ed3ef3&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Transportation File: Media Format: jpg. Simon and Mary FREEBODY. File: Media Format: jpg. Simon and Mary FREEBODY 3. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=8f17b024-d6cd-47e7-9c76-2c577f36aa86&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Mary Wells. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=98be00d4-4303-4a06-bacd-6eaf592b6bbf&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. SION AND MARY. File: Media Format: jpg. Mary Wells Grave. File: Media Format: jpg. home-1-9 File: Media Format: jpg. Simon and Mary FREEBODY 5. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=b4d2d508-3351-464e-af03-1550a775bf04&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Mary Wells. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=b80b9a38-0cc2-4346-b653-10296d87c67e&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: doc. Mary Wells 1792. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=c1f9867d-d3f2-4922-b34f-585831ad4a17&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. trial File: Media Format: jpg. Burial Transcription for Mary Wells. File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=d8279f0e-f22a-4cc2-a0a8-39509d11fe6c&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Royal Admiral. File: Media Format: jpg. MaryWellsChargesandVerdict File: http:/trees.ancestry.comrd?f=document&guid=dc0c9d91-849e-49ca-869e-9fafa70ab245&tid=38529835&pid=1558. Format: htm. Simon Feebody.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Source: #S-1385966741 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ausdeathindex&h=4395277&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt death date: 17 Feb 1855 death place: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia Ancestry Record 1779 #4395277
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Source: #S-1385966741 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ausdeathindex&h=4351996&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt death date: 17 Feb 1855 death place: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia Ancestry Record 1779 #4351996
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2} Source: #S-1313809848 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ho10lists&h=391682&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Residence date: Residence place: Australia Arrival date: Oct 1792 Arrival place: New South Wales Ancestry Record 1183 #391682
4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4} Source: #S-1313809877 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=ho10musters&h=291608&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Residence date: Residence place: Australia Arrival date: Arrival place: New South Wales Ancestry Record 1185 #291608
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Source: #S-1303275075 Source Citation: State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1150; Title: Indents First Fleet, Second Fleet and ships; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 623 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=nswconvictindents&h=12740&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt Name: Mary Wells arrival place: New South Wales Ancestry Record 2024 #12740
6. ↑ ^{6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3} Source: #S-921879544 Note: http://trees.ancestry.com/rd?f=sse&db=findagraveaustralia&h=664621&ti=0&indiv=try&gss=pt burial place: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia death date: 17 February 1855 death place: Windsor, New South Wales, Australia Name: Mary Wells Ancestry Record 60528 #664621
7. ↑ ^{7.0 7.1} Source: #S-920060208 Ancestry Record 1251 #4319
8. ↑ ^{8.0 8.1 8.2} Source: #S-922260597 Ancestry Record 1224 #37623
9. ↑ Source: #S775740423 Reference Number: REG/COMP/1; Description: Vol 01, Baptisms, 1790-1825; Marriages, 1789-1823; Burials, 1790-1825; Parish: St. John's Anglican Church Parramatta Ancestry Record 60622 #3028871
10. ↑ Source: #S757352942 Ancestry Record 9776 #1325612

• State Archives NSW; Series: NRS 1150; Item: [SZ115]; Microfiche: 623
• Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current [database on-line].

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=123855778&ref=acom

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Birth about 1768

Source: Ancestry.com. 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (TNA Copy) [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.

Immigration 7 October 1792 (Age 24) Sydney Cove, Greater Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Source: State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]. Citation details: Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 189 (95) Text: Mary Wells, one of 325 convicts transported on the ship Royal Admiral, May 1792. Sentence details: Convicted at York City Assizes for a term of 7 years on 19 March 1792. Vessel: Royal Admiral. Date of Departure: May 1792. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. Source: Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969 Text: The ship 'Royal Admiral' arrived in the colony 7 Oct 1792 Source: British Newspaper Archive [database online] Citation details: Leeds Intelligencer Mon 12 Mar 1792 p. 3 Text: Leeds, March 12. On Monday next the assizes will be opened at York, by the Hon. Sir Francis Butler, before whom the following prisoners are to take their trials:-... Mary Wells, for stealing a piece of printed calico from Mr. Robson's shop, in York. Source: British Newspaper Archive [database online] Citation details: Leeds Intelligencer Mon 26 Mar 1792 p. 3 Text: ...Mary Wells, for stealing 27 yards of printed calico out of the ship of Mr. James Robson in York - Guilty, to be transported for seven years. Marriage Simon Freebody - View family after 1794 (Age 26)

Source: Hardy, Bobbie. Early Hawkesbury settlers. Kenthurst: Kangaroo Press, 1985 Census November 1828 (Age 60) Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia

Source: Census of New South Wales November 1828, ed. by Malcolm R. Sainty and Keith A. Johnson. Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1985 ie. 1980 Text: Freebody, Simeon, 60, free by servitude, Surprize I, 7 years, Protestant, farmer, Windsor Freebody, Mary, 60, free by servitude, R. Admiral, 7 years, Protestant Freebody, John, 24, born in the colony Death 1855 (Age 87) Windsor, Hawkesbury, New South Wales, Australia

Source: Ancestry.com. Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010. Text: Name: Mary Freebody Death Date: 1855 Death Place: New South Wales Registration Year: 1855 Registration Place: Windsor, New South Wales Volume Number: V18551323 43A

• NSW death registration #1323/1855 V18551323 43A
• Source: S-1303275075 New South Wales, Australia, Convict Indents, 1788-1842 Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. This collection was indexed by Ancestry World Archives Project contributors.Original data - Indents First Fleet, Second Fleet and Ships. NRS 1150, microfiche 620–624. State Records A Note: Record Collection 2024
• Source: S-1313809848 New South Wales, Australia, Settler and Convict Lists, 1787-1834 Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 1-4, 6-18, 28-30); The National Archives of t Note: Record Collection 1183
• Source: S-1313809877 New South Wales and Tasmania, Australia Convict Musters, 1806-1849 Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - Home Office: Settlers and Convicts, New South Wales and Tasmania; (The National Archives Microfilm Publication HO10, Pieces 5, 19-20, 32-51); The National Archives of th Note: Record Collection 1185
• Source: S-1384748778 Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members. Note: This information comes from 1 or more individual Ancestry Family Tree files. This source citation points you to a current version of those files. Note: The owners of these tree files may have removed or changed information since this source citation was created.Ancestry Family Trees Ancestry Family Tree 38529835
• Source: S-1385966741 Australia Death Index, 1787-1985 Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Compiled from publicly available sources.Original data: Compiled from publicly available sources. Note: Record Collection 1779
• Source: S-920060208 Australia, List of Convicts with Particulars, 1788-1842 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc Record Collection 1251
• Source: S-921879544 Australia and New Zealand, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.Original data - Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi.Original data: Find A Grave. Find A Grave. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi. Note: Record Collection 60528
• Source: S-922260597 1828 New South Wales, Australia Census (Australian Copy) Ancestry.com Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007.Original data - New South Wales Government. 1828 Census: Householders’ returns [Population and Statistics, Musters and Census Records, Census, Colonial Secretary] . Series 1273, Reels 2 Note: Record Collection 1224
• Source: S757352942 Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Note: Australia, Births and Baptisms, 1792-1981 Record Collection 9776
• Source: S775740423 New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Baptisms, 1790-1916 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Record Collection 60622