Ann (Pugh) Nichols (abt. 1785 - 1849)

Born about 1785 in Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England [uncertain]

Wife of John Nichols — married 25 Aug 1803 in St. Phillip's, Parramattta, New South Wales, Australia

Descendants

Died 10 Jul 1849 at about age 64 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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Biography

Ann (Pugh) Nichols was a convict after the Third Fleet transported to New South Wales

Ann Pugh was born at Lyonshall, Herefordshire, England in about 1785^[1][2][3].

Anne Pugh was a convict who had been convicted at the Hereford Assizes on 16 July 1799, aged 14 years, and was sentenced to be transported for 7 years. She left England aboard the "Earl Cornwallis" in August 1800, and arrived at Sydney Cove, New South Wales on 12 June 1801^[4][5].

She began a relationship with John Nichols, a First Fleet Convict^[6], soon after her arrival, and their oldest son John was born in 1802 and their daughter Ann was born in May 1803.

Ann and John were married on 25 August 1803 in St. John's Church of England, Parramattta, New South Wales, Australia^[7][8]and went on to have a further ten children. Their children were John (Pugh) Pugh Nichols, Ann (Pugh Nichols) Kellick, Charles Nichols, Sophia (Nichols) Philp, Mary Nichols, Martha (Nichols) Windley, Amelia (Nichols) Hughes, Susannah (Nichols) Kinsela, Joseph Nichols, Thomas Nichols, Eliza (Nichols) Williams and Sarah (Nichols) Johns

Ann died on 10 July 1849, aged 75 years^[9][2]

For anyone interested in reading an interesting, concise and extensive history of the John Nichols Family, the following website is well worth reading^[2].

The John Nichols Family Society has erected a memorial to John and Ann Nichols at the Pioneer Park, Botany Cemetery in Sydney. [1]

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Sources

1. ↑ Unconfirmed
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2} John Nichols Family Society
3. ↑ State Library of Queensland. Convict Transportation Registers Database 1787-1867 [database on-line]
4. ↑ Ann Pugh-Earl Cornwallis-August 1800: Notes: Sentence details: Convicted at Hereford Assizes for a term of 7 years on 16 July 1799. Vessel: Earl Cornwallis. Date of Departure: August 1800. Place of Arrival: New South Wales. Source: Australian Joint Copying Project. Microfilm Roll 87, Class and Piece Number HO11/1, Page Number 277 (138)
5. ↑ Convict Records Earl Cornwallis Ann Pugh:
6. ↑ List of Convicts on the First Fleet
7. ↑ Marriage: New South Wales Australia Marriages: Registration number 243/1803 V1803243 147A Groom's Family Name NICOLAS Groom's Given Name(s) JOHN Bride's Family Name(s) PUGH Bride's Given Name(s) ANN District CB
8. ↑ "New South Wales, Australia, St. John's Parramatta, Marriages, 1790-1966" [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Citation details: 1803 p. 30 no 108. Text: "John Nicolas [sic] of the parish of St John's and Ann Pugh of ditto were married in this church by banns this twenty fifth day of August in the year one thousand eight hundred and three by me Samuel Marsden. John Nicolas and Ann Pugh both made their X marks in the presence of Timothy Hollister who signed the register and Amelia Evans who made Her X mark"
9. ↑ Death: New South Wales Australia Deaths: Name: NICHOLLS ANN Registration number 348/1849 V1849348 34B Father's Given Name(s) AGE 75

• Bateson, Charles. The convict ships 1787-1868. 2nd ed. Glasgow : Brown, Son & Ferguson Ltd., 1985 ie 1969

• Source: Gillen, Mollie. The Founders of Australia: a biographical dictionary of the First Fleet. North Sydney: Library of Australian History, 1989

• The Story of John Nichols First Fleeter and Five Generations of His Family by K. Purnell, S. Tuck, S. Draper, B. Coleman, J. Marden. Sydney, John Nichols Family Society, 1988. 30 cm, ill., 328 pp. (ISBN 0 7316 4096 9). (Out of Print but available in NLA (Canberra) and elsewhere (See link)

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