Richard Beel Reynolds (Convict 3rd Fleet)

  General Notes:

RICHARD REYNOLDS


Richard born 1769 the son of Thomas - a Millwright of Poplar - and Hannah Reynolds. was committed for trial 19th April 1788. by John Staples Esq, on the oaths of Richard Saks. Thomas Reynolds and others. He was charged with

"Having feloniously stolen taken and carried away three hundred and twenty four pounds weight of lead upwards of the value of fifty shilling the properly of Mr. Jeffrey Jackson of Woodfood Bridge on the Country of Essex. and one pair of Cotton Stockings value one shilling the property of Sarah Clayton

He was convicted and sentenced to seven years transportation, arriving in Port Jackson on the Third fleet vessel Atlantic 20th August 1791
Richard first appears in Colonial records as the father of Edward, his son to Mary Ann Hipwell. Richard possibly came to the Hawkesbury with his elder brother Edward. This proved to be a fateful decision for, as we know, Mary Hipwell was to desert him for Thomas Gosper prior to 1798

By 1802 Richard is renting a ten acre farm at Mulgrave Place, with a child and Sarah Sterling/Stirling/Starling. Sarah Sterling arrived, as a convict on the Britannia 18th July 1798.
Richard received his first land grant, of fifty acres to 1804 at Flat Rock Reach near the junction of the Hawkesbury and Colo rivers. This grant was sold circa 1810 and by 1813 he is thought to have been a Storekeeper in Windsor.
He was a District Constable from 1814 until 1827, and for a period the local Poundkeeper In 1824 Richard received a further land grant of fifty acres at Upper Colo, later sold to Thomas Gosper jnr

Richard and 8arah had eleven children:- Thomas, William; Hannah Beale; Catherine; Richard; James; Elizabeth; George; Sarah; Archibald and Jane. Of these Hannah Beale was to marry John Gosper (page 203)

Sarah died 30th November 1826 and Richard. 26th August 1837. Both were buried at St John’s Wilberforce where their headstones can still he found Sarah’s headstone bears the following sad inscription.
“SARAH REYNOLDS

who departed this life
November the 30th 1826 Aged 50 years
0 cruel Death thou would not spare a loving
wife A mother
Dear but she is gon left me in
Grief and nine children behind the
World to try and friends to find”

  Noted events in his life were:

• Convict: Richard, was convicted of stealing 324 pounds weight of lead, valued at about 50 shillings, and a pair of cotton stockings, valued at I shilling, 2 Jul 1788, Chelmsford, Essex England.

• Occupation: Storekeeper.

• Ship, "Atlantic".

• Killed in Action, 20 Aug 1791, Sydney Cove, NSW Australia.

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Richard married Sarah Elizabeth Sterling (Convict 3Rd Fleet) on an unknown date. (Sarah Elizabeth Sterling (Convict 3Rd Fleet) was born in 1776, died on 30 Nov 1826 in Wilberforce, County of Cumberland, NSW Australia and was buried in 1826 in St Johns, Wilberforce, NSW Australia.)

Richard had a relationship with Mary Ann Hipwell (Convict 3rd Fleet). (Mary Ann Hipwell (Convict 3rd Fleet) was born in 1765 in England UK, died on 23 Aug 1837 in Upper Colo, NSW Australia and was buried on 23 Aug 1837 in Private Cemetery, Upper Colo/Sylvan, Colo Valley, NSW Australia.)