Marine Private Thomas Bishop

  Research Notes:

source: Jon Heppell who notes:
Mary Davies, aka Davis, born in Diddlesbury Parish, Shropshire, England; convicted and condemned at Salop Lent Assizes for multiple burglaries on 12 March 1785 (later commuted to 7 years transportation); journeyed to NSW on the First Fleet's Lady Penrhyn, settled on Norfolk Island with Marine Private Thomas Bishop in March 1790, bore his daughter Charlotte Bishop in July 1791 (Norfolk Island), returned to Sydney with Thomas and Charlotte on board the Kitty, 9th March 1793. Recorded as Mary Bishop, widow (common law wife, no record of a formal marriage) of Thomas Bishop, on the indenture of conveyance of the deceased (d.10 Dec 1793) Thomas Bishop's 110ac grant (Bishop's Farm) at Hen & Chicken Bay to James Squire, colonial brewer, dated 11th August 1794

Thomas married Mary Davies Davis Bishop (Convict) 1st Fleet, daughter of John Davis and Sarah Bridgwater, in 1791 in Norfolk Island Penal Settlement, NSW Australia. (Mary Davies Davis Bishop (Convict) 1st Fleet was born in 1761 in Diddlebury Parish, Shropshire England, died on 1 Jan 1839 in Kurrajong, NSW Australia and was buried in St Peters C of E, Richmond, NSW Australia.)