Richard (The 1st) Shrimpton (Convict 2nd Fleet)

  General Notes:

(S2) RICHARD (1st) SHRIMPTON (ID: 3)
Who arrived on the 28th June 1790 at Port Jackson, N.S.W. as a convict on the "Scarborough 2" 2nd Fleet.
(1st Son, 1st child of Edward Shrimpton (Labourer) and Jane Sparrowvil)
Born: -c1762/1764 England, U.K.
Thought to be baptised on the 25 Mar 1764 at Ramsbury, Wiltshire, England, U.K.
(S1)NSW BDM # D1827 - 466 - 11: - Died: - Jul 1827, at Wilberforce, N.S.W. Australia.
Buried: - 12 Jul 1827 at Wilberforce, in the County of Cumberland, New South Wales. Australia.
Occupation: - (On sons baptism certificate) Richard occupation states, March farmer Wilberforce in the County of Cumberland. N.S.W. Australia.
(S3)Richard Shrimpton "Burial Certificate"


(S3) Richard Shrimpton "Gravesite" Wilberforce Cemetery, N.S.W.
(He is buried in a Unmarked Grave.)

Other significant dates of interest: -
(S2)1768: - Richard's father Edward, died when he was aged 4 or 6.
26 Aug 1787: - Richard stole a black gelding in Hungerford, Berkshire.
Sep 1787: - Richard was committed to reading gaol Berkshire charged with stealing a black gelding.
Mar 1788: - Richard was sentenced to death.
May 1788: - After nine months under suspended death sentence, Richard was reprieved and to be transportation for life.
11 Jun 1788: - Richard was sent to the prison hulk the Lion in Portsmouth. (Age given as 22)
29 Nov 1789: - Richard embarked on "Scarborough 11" Second Fleet.
26 Jun 1790: - Richard arrived at Port Jackson, N.S.W. Australia.
(S3)24 Jun 1792: - Richard first married Ann Keys/Hayes
(S2)Nov 1797: - Richard was a servant at eastern farm grant with no stock.
Nov 1797: - Richard was granted a conditional pardon.
Nov 1799: - Richard received a land grant of 50 acres at eastern farm district.
(Boundary by modern day Quarry Road, Bridge Road Ryde N.S.W. Australia, a creek in the area bears the name Shrimpton's Creek.)
(S7)1802: - Cultivating an acre of wheat, 6 acres maize, holding 10 bushel's of wheat and 20 maize,
employing, 2 free men and a convict. He was also managing an additional 50 acres, owned by a naval lieutenant William Kent of which he had sown 30 in wheat and maize.
He cared for 7 horse's 125 sheep and 20 hogs belonging to the officer.
(S3)20 Jan 1805: - William Garrett and R. Shrimpton. On a charge of obtaining permits for the issue of
sprits by fraudulently making use of the names of other persons, were committed to the goal gang"
(S2)1806: - Richard was described as a labourer, employed by Simeon Lord.
1807: - Richard sold his land at Ryde, to James Jenkins for 17 Pounds.
1807: - Richard moved to Hawkesbury.
1814: - Richard had improved his position and was a Landholder in the Hawkesbury district.
(S3)16 Jun 1818: - Richard's first wife Ann Keys/Hayes died at Windsor/Wilberforce, N.S.W.
9 Aug 1819: - Richard secondly married Charlotte (nee Bishop) Crabb at Parramatta.
(S7)1820: - Richard was recorded as a tenant on 20 acres in Wilberforce.
1822: - Richard had 14 acres sown in wheat, 4 acres in maize and 2 in orchard and garden.
He owned 2 horses, 50 hogs, and held 10 bushels of maize and 30 of wheat.
(S3)Jul 1827: - Richard remained a farmer and died at Wilberforce, N.S.W.
12 Jul 1827: - Richard was buried at Wilberforce Cemetery, age given as 65.

(S2)Richard™s court hearing: -
"ASS 1 5 108 2 BERKSHIRE EXAMINATIONS AND INFORMATION'S 1788 LENT OXFORD ASSIZES CIRCUIT Berkshire
The several information of Robert Coster of Erdington Mills in the parish of Hungerford and county aforesaid Miller, Isaac Matthews of Woolhampton in the said county Inn Keeper and Ann the wife of Robert Holloway of the parish of Chilton in the said county Yeoman touching a vislaus? Suspicion of Richard Shrimpton now in custody for horse stealing taken before one of his Majesty's justices of the peace 3rd September 1787 and first this informant Robert Coster for himself saith that on Saturday the 25th day of August last he this informant put his gelding out to departure in the parish of Hungerford and county aforesaid. That he this informant the next morning missed the said horse and in consequence there of made the accessory?. Inquiry after the said horse provided and distributed hand bills of the said horse being stolen and presently afterwards thus informant heard of a horse being at the Angel Inn at Woolhampton which answered the description of his own horse where upon he this informant went to Woolhampton and found the said horse in the possession of Isaac Matthews an Inn keeper there who suspected the same up to the informant and the said informant Isaac Matthews for himself saith that on Sunday the 26th of the said month of August about the hour of seven o'clock in the morning of the same day the prisoner Richard Shrimpton came to this informant's house with a black gelding and personally after he came into the house he asked this informant to buy the said gelding alleging to this defence that he bought the same from Circeucber in Gloucestershire where he lived and asked nine pounds or guineas for the said gelding which this informant at last bought for five pounds and ten shillings which sum he paid the said prisoner and on the Thursday following the said informant Robert Coster came and cleared the said gelding of this informant as before stated by him and the said informant Ann Holloway for herself saith that about two of the clock in the afternoon of Sunday the said 26th day of August the said prisoner came to the White Hart Inn in Charlatan Street in the county of Wilts in a post chaise hired by herself from the Castle Inn at Shrean Hill which he said for at said White Hart Inn to the driver of the said chaise that the said prisoner appeared very much in liquor and declared in the informant presence that he had spent a guinea and a half that morning have he had come from Woolhampton and this informant further saith that he hath probable cause to suspect and saith suspect the said informant of the said history in stealing the said gelding as art". End quote

(S2) [Apparently Charnham Street near Hungerford though I have never heard of the place] Wiltshire [There is no Chilton or Charalan Street in Wiltshire so I'm not sure where precisely he was arrested].

(S14) "History of Australia Volume 1"
Author Manning Clark describes the arrival in the following words: -"On 26th June, the transport "Surprise" arrived with 218 male convicts as well as various officers, non-commissioned officers and privates of the newly formed New South Wales Corps. It was followed on the 28th June by the transports "Scarborough" and "Neptune" with 188 male convicts on the former, and 286 males and 67 females on the latter, and the remainder of the New South Wales Corps. At least 36 had died on the "Surprise", 73 on the "Scarborough", and 158 on the "Neptune", a total of 267 of the 1026 who had sailed from England, while 488 arrived sick and unfit for work - victims of the cruelty and greed of the commanders of the ships. For days after the landing the West Side of Sydney Cove afforded a scene truly distressing and miserable; more than thirty tents were pitched in front of the hospital, all of which we quickly filled with people suffering from scurvy dysentery, or infectious fever. Naked, filthy dirty lousy wretches, many of them unable to stand to creep, or even to stir hand or foot were moved from the ships to the improvised hospital.
The Reverend Richard Johnson spent so much time amongst them that he became quite ill". "End quote"

(S2) A Pardon: - From the Society of Australian Genealogist, # 4/10/65 states that
RICHARD SHRIMPTON
"WHEREAS His Majesty by a Commission under the Grant Seal of Great Britain bearing the date the eight day of November in the thirty first year of His Majesty reign hath been graciously pleased to Give & Grant full power & authority to the Governor (or in his death or absence the Lieutenant Governor for the time being) of His Majesty's Territory of the Eastern Coast of New South Wales & the Islands thereinto adjacent by an Instrument or Instruments in writing under the seal of the Government of the said Territory or they respectively shall think fit & convenient for His Majesty's Service to remit either absolutely or conditionally the whole or any part of the time or term for which felons or either offenders shall have been or shall hereafter be respectively conveyed & transported to the Eastern Coast of New South Wales or to the Islandands thereunto adjacent.
BY VIRTUE of the authority vested in me as aforesaid. I JOHN HUNTER Esq (His Majesty's Captain General & Governor in Chief in and over the said Territory & its dependencies) taking into consideration the good Behaviour of RICHARD SHRIMPTON at the recommendation of Captain Paterson do herby in consequence of these circumstanced & to enable him to become a settler CONDITIONALLY remit the remainder of the term or the time which is yet unexpired of the original sentence or order of transpiration passed on the said Richard Shrimpton provided & on condition that if the said Richard Shrimpton do return to & appear within any part of the Kingdom of Great Britain or Ireland during the term of his respective sentence the remission of such sentence so to him herby conditionally granted shall in such case be wholly null & void.
GIVEN under my hand & the seal of the territory at Sydney in New South Wales this 15th day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & ninety seven.
(Signed) JNO, HUNTER". End quote.

(S3) "An Early map showing the land grant", given to Richard Shrimpton.
(Boundary by modern day Quarry Road, Bridge Road Ryde N.S.W. a creek in the area bears the name Shrimpton's Creek.)




(S3) "Land Grants 1788-1809"
Author R. J. Ryan B. A. Page 125 states: -
Lot 878, Richard Shrimpton was granted 50 acres in the district of Eastern Farms.
Rent 2 shillings per year commencing after 5 years.

(S3) "Sydney Gazette Sunday dated January 20. 1805"
Clipping from paper states: -
"Andrew (?), William Garrett and R. Shrimpton. On a charge of obtaining permits for the issue of sprits by fraudulently making use of the names of other persons, were committed to the goal gang"

(S3) "Sydney Gazette Sunday dated February 1. 1807"
Clipping from paper states: -"To be sold by Private Contractor."
""A good Fifty acre Farm, situated at Kissing Point and known by the name of Shrimpton Farm, with excellent new singled Dwelling house, substantial sheep sheds, and other out buildings, large brick yard, well supplies with whole alone water. Six acres of land all cleared, and Six more ready for burring off. For further particulars apply to William and James Jenkins, the proprietors at their Residence on the Rocks; and by whom three months accommodation will be given on approved security"".

(S7) "The Second Fleeters"
Author Matthew Flynn written in 1993.
""Richard Shrimpton was sentenced to death at the March 1788 Reading (Berkshire)
Assizes: - For the theft of a black gelding. The property of Robert Coster Edington Mills, Hungrdford, he had missed the horse from a pasture on the morning of 26th August 1787.
Richard Shrimpton sold the gelding to Isaac Matthews, keeper of the Angel Inn at Woolhampton, claiming to have bought it from Cirencester, where he said he lived.
After initially asking for 9 guineas he settled for 5 pound 10 shillings and hired a post chaise, which he drove to the White Harts Inn, Chilton, and Just across the Wiltshire border. His drunken bragging they're that he had spent a guinea and a half since coming from Woolhampton that morning arouse suspicion. The horse was traced and Richard Shrimpton was arrested after handbills were distributed by the owner.
In May 1788, after nine months under a suspended death sentence he was reprieved to transportation for life and on 11th June he was sent from Reading Goal to the Portsmouth hulk Lion, age given as 22.
On the 29th November 1789 he was embarked on the "Scarborough 2" transport.
He was probably the child of Edward and Jane Shrimpton Baptised on the 25th March 1764
At Ramsbury, Wiltshire, whiten 10 km of Chilton and Hungerford. His father died in 1768.
At Parramatta on the 24th June Richard Shrimpton married Ann Keys (or Ann Hayes, "Pitt" 1792, tried Hampshire), both by singing with a (X) mark.
In November 1797 he was granted a conditional pardon and in November 1799 he received a fifty-acre land grant in the eastern farm district. *** (Boundary by modern day Quarry Road, Bridge Road Ryde N.S.W. a creek in the area bears the name Shrimpton's Creek.)
By 1802 he was cultivating an acre in wheat and 6 acres in maize, holding 10 bushels of wheat and 20 of maize.
He and his wife (Ann Keys) were childless and employed 2 free men and a convict.
Richard Shrimpton was also managing an additional 50 acres owned by the naval lieutenant William Kent of which he had 30 sown in wheat and maize. He cared for 7 horses, 125 sheep and 20 hogs belonging to the officer.
On the 20th November 1807 Richard Shrimpton sold his farm to James Jenkins for 17 Pounds.
In 1806 he was described as a labourer employed by Simeon Lord.
By 1814 he had improved his position and was a land, holder in the Hawkesbury district.
In 1820 he was recorded as a tenant on 20 acres at Wilberforce of which in 1822, 14 acres were sown in wheat, 4 maize and 2 in orchard and garden. He owned 2 horses, 50 hogs and held 10 bushels of maize and 30 of wheat.
In 1818 Richard Shrimpton wife (Ann) died and at Parramatta on the 9th August 1819 he married Charlotte Crabb (born in the colony c1794-?), who had been married to a soldier in the 73rd regiment and had several children by 1814. She bore Richard Shrimpton four children, late in his life, Edward Francis (1819), Charles (1822), Leah (1824), and Richard (1826).
He remained a farmer at Wilberforce until his burial there on the 12th July 1827, age given as 65.
"NOTES" Richard Shrimpton naming his eldest son Edward suggests that he may well have named the child for his own father at Ramsbury although only aged 4 when he died;
Trial details from PRO ASSI /15/108 boxes 2 & 3; L.T.O. old reg. no. 1 p90; ML. MSS;
On 20th January 1805 the Sydney gazette reported that a man named Richard Shrimpton and two other men had been committed to the goal gang for fraudulently obtaining permits for the issue of sprits by the use of other person's names; some details contributed by Valda Shrimpton and Maxine Shrimpton. "" End quote

He married first Ann Keys on the 24 June 1792 at John's Church of England Parramatta, N.S.W.
No children from this marriage.
He married second Charlotte (nee Davies Davie Bishop) Crabb on the 9 th August 1819 at John's Church of England Parramatta, N.S.W.
They had four children
(1) Edward Francis Born: - 2 Jan 1819.
(2) Charles Born: - 24 May 1822.
(3) Leah (Lia) Born : -30 Dec 1824.
(4) Richard (the 2nd). Born: -17 Nov 1826.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Convict: Stole a black horse, 26 Aug 1787, Hungerford, Berkshire England.

• Arrived on the Ship: On board the "Scarborough 2" 2nd Fleet sailed from Portsmouth on the 19 Jan 1790, 26 Jun 1790, Sydney Cove, NSW Australia.

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• Christened: Thought To Be Baptised On The 25 Mar 1764 At Ramsbury, Wiltshire England.

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Richard married Charlotte (Nee Bishop) Crabb Shrimpton Allsop, daughter of Samuel Day (Convict) 1st Fleet and Mary Davies Davis Bishop (Convict) 1st Fleet, on 9 Aug 1819 in St Johns C of E, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Charlotte (Nee Bishop) Crabb Shrimpton Allsop was born in Jul 1791 in Norfolk Island Penal Settlement, NSW Australia, died on 5 Sep 1851 in Kurrajong, NSW Australia and was buried on 8 Sep 1851 in St Peters C of E, Richmond, NSW Australia.)

Richard next married Ann Keys Convict 3Rd Fleet on 24 Jun 1792 in St Johns C of E, Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (Ann Keys Convict 3Rd Fleet was born in 1765 in Surrey England, died in Jun 1818 in Wilberforce, County of Cumberland, NSW Australia and was buried on 16 Jun 1818 in Wilberforce, County of Cumberland, NSW Australia.)