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Mary Bryant formerly Broad

Born 1765 in Cornwall, England

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Daughter of William Broad and Dorothy (Gelef) Broad

Sister of Elizabeth (Broad) Puckey

Wife of William Bryant — married 10 Feb 1788 in Port Jackson

Mother of Charlotte Broad and Emanuel Bryant

Died after 1794 after age 29 in Cornwall, England

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Mary Broad was born about 1765 in Cornwall. She was convicted of theft and was transported to Botany Bay on the First Fleet. Mary and her husband William Bryant along with their 2 children and seven other convicts escaped from Port Jackson penal colony in a small open boat and made an incredible and hazardous journey. After travelling 3254 miles (5237 km) in 69 days they landed at Koepang in West Timor but that is not the end of Mary Bryant's story.

Mary Bryant

Cornwall Fishing Village

1 Biography
2 Research Notes
- 2.1 James Boswell's journal and papers
- 2.2 Mary Broad's birth
3 DNA
4 Source

Biography

Mary (Broad) Bryant was a convict on the First Fleet.

Crime - Assault and theft

Convicted at - Exeter Assizes

Sentence term - 7 years

Ship - Charlotte

Departure date - 13th May, 1787

Arrival date - 22nd January, 1788

Place of arrival - New South Wales

Passenger manifest - 84 male, 24 female Convicts, 6 Convict’s children, 30 Crew, 32 Marines & Family, and 1 Civilian

Early Life

Mary Broad was christened on 10 March 1765 at Lanlivery, Cornwall, parents William and Dorothy Broad, who moved to Fowey in the 1770s. Her father William Broad was a farmer, coppicer and traded as a "collier".^[1]^[2]^[3] (Note that several biographies have her place of birth Fowey and parents William Broad and Grace Symons - this is incorrect, see "Research Notes" below.) Mary Broad was five feet and four inches (162 cm) tall with grey eyes and brown hair,^[4] and was later described as "marked with the small pox", walking "with one knee bent inwards, but is not lame", and she spoke "with the strong west country accent".^[5]

When Mary Broad was 13 her mother died and was buried in Fowey. By 1783, Mary Broad's eldest sister Elizabeth was married to Edward Puckey, a tailor, and living at Stoke Damerell near Plymouth Dock. This may be why Mary Broad was in Plymouth in 1785.^[1] She was referred to as "Mary Braund" when she was committed by J Nicholls, Mayor of Plymouth, to gaol, with two other women Cathrine Fryer and Mary Haydon. At the Exeter Assizes which were held on 20 May 1786, the three women were convicted of highway robbery, "for feloniously assaulting Agnes Lakeman Sp[inster] in the King's Highway feloniously putting her in corporal fear and danger of her life ... and feloniously and violently taking from her person and against her will in the said Highway one Silk Bonnet val. 12d. and other goods value £1. 11s. her property." They were found guilty and sentenced to death. Their sentence was commuted to transportation for seven years.^[6] Mary was taken from Exeter jail to the Dunkirk hulk off Plymouth then moved to the convict ship Charlotte in the First Fleet ^[7] bound for Botany Bay.

Botany Bay

The Charlotte

On the voyage to Australia Mary had a little girl whom she named Charlotte after the ship. Charlotte was born on 8 September 1787 not long after the ship Charlotte had left Rio de Janeiro, and she was baptised Charlotte Spence at Cape Town on 28 September. The father of Charlotte is not known but given the circumstances it could have been a prison guard on the Dunkirk hulk.

After the First Fleet arrived at Port Jackson Mary married 31-year old William Bryant. ^[8] Mary and William Bryant were the fifth of five couples whose marriage was conducted by chaplain, Reverend Richard Johnson on 10th February 1788 at Sydney and entered in the St Philip's Church of England (Anglican) register; they were the first Christian weddings in Australia.^[9]^[10]. Also from Cornwall and a fisherman, William ^[11]had been convicted at the Launceston Assizes in March 1784. William was sentenced to transportation for seven years to America.^[12] However convicts were stopped being sent to Americia after the Americian War of Independence. His destination was changed and he was sent to the Charlotte, where he was given the job of issuing provisions to other prisoners.^[13]

The landing of the First Fleet Port Jackson 1788

Convict Life

Once William and Mary were married in Port Jackson they moved to a hut and William grew his own food. William was a highly prized convict as there were not enough skilled labourers sent to Australia on the First Fleet, and he was put in charge of the fishing boats in Port Jackson. In February 1789 William was convicted of selling some of his catch. He received 100 lashes. We can only guess how bad it was with the shortage of food in the new colony. They were waiting for a ship to arrive from England with provisions, and he was no longer in charge of the fishing boats, so it would have been very hard for William to find food for his family.

Mary had a second child, Emanuel, who was born and baptized in April 1790. Emanuel was probably named after William Bryant's younger brother Emanuel.^[14]

William and Mary decided they needed to escape for the sake of their children. Watching friends and their children starve was not something they wanted for their children. On October 1789 the The Dutch snow Waaksamheyd arrived at Port Jackson with long awaited provisions. The Captain was Detmer Smith (Smit). William was being watched as it was known he was planning an escape; even so, he managed to obtain a chart, compass, quadrant, two muskets, ammunition and food from Captain Smith.

It wasn't until the 28 March 1791 that William, Mary and the other 7 convicts decided to make their escape. The time was perfect. It was six days after the Supply was sent to Norfolk Island. As well, the Waaksamheyd had sailed for England that night, so there were no ships at Port Jackson to chase them and it was a night with no moon so they could escape in complete darkness. William, Mary and their two children and seven convicts escaped in the governor's cutter that had new masts, sails and oars and a supply of provisions. Thus would begin one of the most remarkable journeys in seafaring history, one that is still talked about today.^[15]

The Escapees:

Sent to Australia on the first fleet:

William Bryant: his sentence was expired - Charlotte

Mary Bryant and two children: she had 2 years to serve - Charlotte

James Martin: he had 1 year to serve - Charlotte

James Cox: he was transported for life - Charlotte

Samuel Bird: he had 1 year and 4 months to serve - Alexander

Sent to Australia on the second fleet:

William Allen: he was transported for life - Scarborough

Samuel Broom: he had 4 years and 4 months to serve - Boddingtons

Nathaniel Lilly: he was transported for life - Scarborough

William Morton (Moreton): he had 5 years and 1 month to serve and was an experienced navigator - Neptune

There was some sympathy and admiration for Mary and the escapees. John Easty, a private in the Marines, wrote:

Today 8 men with 1 woman and 2 Children Convicts toke a kings boat of 6 oars with a large quantity of provisions... it was Supposed that they intinded for Bativee but having no vessell in the habour thare was no Pursueing them so thay got Clear of, but it is a very Desperate attempt to go in an open Boat for a run of about 16 or 17 hundred leags and pertuclar for a woman and two Small children... but the thoughts of Liberty from Such a place as this is Enough to induce any Convicts to try all Skeemes to obtain it as they are the same as slaves all the time thay are in this country

Hazardous Voyage

On the 5 June they landed at Koepang in West Timor, after travelling 3254 miles (5237 km) in 69 days on a hazardous voyage where William, Mary and the other convicts discovered many of the unexplored Great Barrier Reef islands, crossed the Torres Straits and sailed across the Arafura Sea. Their escape and journey have been compared with William Bligh's journey in an open boat two years earlier after the mutiny on the Bounty .

Timor and recapture

Once they reached Timor, William, Mary and the rest of the convicts said they were survivors from a wreck on the Australian coast but they were found out and they were held in the local castle. Captain Edward Edwards arrived at Koepang on 17 September. He questioned William, Mary and the convicts who admitted they were escaped Convicts from Port Jackson. It wasn't until 5 October that they were arrested when Captain Edward Edwards was ready to set sail for England.

The convicts reached Batavia in November where Mary and William's 19 month old son Emanuel died on 1 December and William Bryant died three weeks later. After everything Mary had been through it must have been heartbreaking when her 5 year old daughter Charlotte also died on the 6 May 1792 at sea, five weeks from England. One of the main reasons for Mary and William to make that hazardous journey from Port Jackson was the lack of food and the worry that their children would starve. For both of Mary's children to die and the loss of her husband, Mary must have been devastated to think they survived that dangerous uncharted journey only to die anyway. William, Emanuel and Charlotte all died from fever.

Mary and the four surviving convicts Allen, Broom alias John Butcher, Lillie, and Martin arrived back in England on 18 June 1792. They landed at Portsmouth and were sent to Newgate. Mary Bryant, and the four other escapees were delivered into the custody of the Bow Street Officers on Saturday 30 June 1792. Their hearing was at Bow Street on 30 June 1792, and sentencing was on Saturday 7 July 1792 at the Old Bailey.^[16]^[17]^[18] The punishment for escaping from transportation was death but they were ordered to remain on their former sentences until they should be discharged by due course of law.

Newgate Prison England

The English press and the people sympathized with Mary and the other convicts, and James Boswell took up their case on 2 May 1793. Mary Bryant was released from Newgate Prison with a free pardon. In the official records is the notice His Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant a free pardon to Mary Bryant, who, accompanied by several male convicts, escaped from Botany Bay and traversed upwards of 3,000 miles by sea in an open boat, exposed to tempestuous weather. Allen, Broom alias Butcher, Lillie, and Martin were released on 2 November 1793 .

Mary Bryant returned to Cornwall, to her sister Elizabeth Puckey who lived at Fowey. Boswell sent Mary £10 a year until his death.^[19] James Boswell must have had a lot of sympathy for her. He received from Mary a packet of Botany Bay tea leaves. In 1930 the tea was found with papers at James Boswell's Malahide Estate in Ireland. The rest of the tea and the papers are today at Yale University.^[20]Two of the leaves were presented to the Mitchell Library in New South Wales by Yale University Library In 1956. The leaves were from the plant Smilax glyciphylla, commonly known as Sweet Sarsaparilla, a small vine found on the east coast of Australia.

It is not known what happened to Mary Bryant after she returned to Cornwall. She was a remarkable woman who had a remarkable life. After being sent to Australia as a convict, her escape, that incredible journey and losing her husband and children, one would hope that maybe Mary found some peace at the end of her life.

Leaves from Botany Bay used as tea 1791 given to James Boswell by Mary Bryant

The Australian Dictionary of Biography
has Mary Bryants Death Date as 1794 Mary's acknowledgment to James Boswell
for the £10 he was sending her in 1794 was the last anyone had heard from her.
I have not added that date as there are no records to prove this is when she died

Research Notes

A fictionalised version of her time at Botany bay is in Thomas Keneally's book "The Playmaker" where she performs in a play organised by Lt Ralph Clark (abt.1762-1794), https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Clark-52666 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Clark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Playmaker In the book she is referred to as "Dabby" Bryant

James Boswell's journal and papers

Research by Heather Stevens, June 2021
Following are some references to Mary Broad in James Boswell's journal and papers:

Boswell asked his friend the Reverend William Temple then at Cornwall to invite subscriptions on Mary's behalf. However Temple wrote on 18 July 1793 that he was discouraged in his collecting by reason of the allegation that Mary Broad's family were "eminent for sheep-stealing".^[21]
18 August 1793: "This morning there called on me Mr Castel ... a Glazier, who told me that he was a native of Fowey and knew all the relations of Mary Broad very well, and had received a letter from one of them directing him to me; that he wished to see her and inform them about her, and also to introduce her sister Dolly to her, who was in service in London. He mentioned that a large sum of money had been left to Mary Broad's Father... Called on Mary on the way home and found that Castel had actually brought her sister Dolly to her, a fine girl of twenty, who had been in great concern about her, and shewed the most tender affection.^[22]
25 August 1793: "It was now fixed that Mary should go by the first vessel to Fowey to visit her relatives, her sister there having written to me that she would be kindly received".^[22]
12 October 1793: "I had fixed that Mary Broad should sail for Fowey in the Ann and Elizabeth, Job Moyse, Master, and it was necessary she should be on board this night, as the vessel was to be afloat early next morning.... I assured her of ten pounds yearly as long as she behaved well, being resolved to make it up to her myself in so far as subscriptions should fail; that being therefore independent, she might quit her relatives whenever she pleased. Unluckily, she could not write. I made her leave me a signature 'M.B.' similar to one she carried with her, and this was to be a test of the authenticity of her letters to me, which she was to employ other hands to write.^[22]
16 February 1794: A letter from Edward Puckey to Boswell: His handwriting is difficult to read, and the letter is about the Pope fortune that the family was hoping to inherit. Unfortunately the family had difficulty with their claim on the will of Mr James Pope. Apparently it started when they noticed an advertisement in the London Chronicle in March 19 to 22 1791, about unreceived dividends of Mr Isaac Barrett. They found that in James Pope's will, most of the wealth was to "young Barett" who had died aged seven, and since Barett had not come of age at the time of his death, the money was to return to the Pope family. "Young Barett" was a nephew of James Pope (his wife's sister's son), and Isaac was his relative. Mr B Redstone and Mr Rosevear were helping them, but they had not heard from them and Edward Puckey was hoping that Boswell will look into it and "see us rited if possibel you can". "Our brother Joseph Broad" is also mentioned in the letter which was signed "Edward Puckey". The letter was also signed "Marey Brion Broad", with Mary's mark "M.B.", and Puckey added "Sir my sister in law is now with me in fowey and remembers to you with thanks for the favors she hath received from you." (see below for more about James Pope's will).^[23]
6 May 1794 Letter from Boswell to "Mr Edward Puckey Taylor Fowey": "I was very glad to receive a letter from Mary Broad informing me of her safe arrival at Fowey and agreeable reception among her relations. I hope her behaviour will always be such as to deserve their kindness, I have this moment received very favourable accounts of her from the Reverend Mr Baron of Lestwithiel who was so good as at my request to convey five pounds to her on the first of this month. Let her know this and assure her of my kind regard and tell her that I expect to hear from her every half year. The state which you in your letter of 16 February gave me of the money left to the Popes is not distinct enough to enable me to be of any service to you in that matter But if you will let me know any person of the profession of the Law with whom I can converse or correspond on the subject you may depend on my best assistance".^[23]
1st May 1794 a letter from the Reverend John Baron of Lostwithiel to Boswell, per William Temple, advised Boswell of the receipt by Mary of five pounds.^[21]
On 13 October 1794 Boswell wrote to his brother David and asked him to pay the five pounds into the account of the Reverend John Baron of Lostwithiel, Cornwall, who was in charge of paying "the gratuity to Mary Broad".^[21]
In Boswell's papers there is a receipt dated 1 November 1794 with Mary's mark. This is the last known record about Mary.^[21]
Boswell died seven months later on 19 May 1795.

Mary Broad's birth

Research by Heather Stevens, June 2021
Mary Bryant nee Broad's profile in The Australian Dictionary of Biography begins with the following sentence: "Mary Bryant (b.1765), convict, was baptized on 1 May 1765 at Fowey, Cornwall, England, the daughter of a mariner named Broad, whose family was 'eminent for sheep stealing'." ^[24] This was written in 1966 by C. H. Currey and is also in his excellent book "The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (nee Broad" of 1963. Every biography about her since then is based on Currey's book. Currey probably sourced Mary's birth record from an earlier book by Frederick A Pottle, Professor of English Literature at Yale University. Pottle, when he was looking at James Boswell's papers in the 1930s, asked the Vicar of Fowey, Reverend W Raveley Guest to look at the church register of Fowey. Reverend Guest found the following: "Mary, Daughter of William Broad, Mariner, and Grace his wife, of Fowey, was baptized in the Church on May 1st 1765, by Nicholas Cory, Vicar."^[22] Boswell's journal shows that Mary returned to her family in Fowey, so it would be logical to assume that her birthplace was Fowey, or at least that would be the first place to look for her birth.

However, recently the historian Dr Charlotte MacKenzie pointed out that Mary Broad's parents were not William Broad and Grace Symons and she had not been born in Fowey.^[25]^[1]^[2] Her parents are more likely William Broad (1709-) and Dorothy Gelef or Juleff (1728-78) who married at Ladock in 1748,^[26]^[3] and their daughter Mary was born at Lanlivery in 1765.^[27] They also had daughters Elizabeth (b. Braddock, 1756) who married Edward Puckey at Fowey in 1779; and Dorothy (b. St Veep, 1769). Mary's parents moved to Fowey where her mother Dorothy died in 1778.^[28]

The evidence for William Broad and Dorothy Gelef/ Juleff being her parents are in James Boswell's papers and journal in the Boswell Collection, at Yale University Library (See excepts above). Here can be identified Mary's sister Elizabeth's husband Edward Puckey, and Mary's younger sister 'Dolly' or Dorothy. Mary's father William Broad was still alive and they are hopeful of inheriting some of the Pope fortune (William Broad's mother was Prudence Pope). Mary's brother Joseph may be her brother Josiah Broad b.1751.

Note also that the family (parents William and Grace) of the other Mary Broad who was born at Fowey in 1765, had moved to Stoke Damerel, Devon by the 1770s! (see William Broad mariner). Presumably, it was this family which had the "sheep thief"

It would be interesting to know if the Broad family were able to claim the Pope inheritance.

The will of James Pope, merchant of the Island of Madeira
Here are some bits and pieces about James Pope, in case anyone wants to continue research:

In the Will of James Pope (Merchant of Island of Madeira) Written 20 April 1742, Proved London 20 Feb 1746. Estate to nephew John Barrett native of ?throsley?. His wife Margaret is John Barrett's aunt. "In case my said nephew dies without legitimate heirs then to go to the family of the Popes my relatives". Also leaves an estate in Wales to cousin Francis Pope of Rhode Island.^[29]
Some of James Pope's estate was still in the Chancery Court in 1852, according to a newspaper report which has the years of death of James Pope (died 1743), his nephew John Barrett (d.1746), John Barrett's mother (d. 1752), and mentions that John Barrett's aunt was Margaret Pope.^[30]
The description of an auction at Christies of the Portrait of Margaret Pope (?-1750) has the following: "Mrs Margaret Pope the widow of James Pope of the Island of Madeira [?] Merchant. She was sister to ... Mrs Susanna Barett of Kingseley [?] Madeira [?], and lived and died with her the 26th August 1750, aged 69".^[31]

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Source

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 Charlotte MacKenzie. Mary Broad the documentary (2021).
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 MacKenzie, Charlotte. "Mary Board's Family." Journal of Cornwall Family History Society, Issue No.181, September 2021, pp 14-15.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 Dr Charlotte MacKenzie, "Mary Broad's origins in Cornwall", Untold Lives Blog (10 March 2022), The British Library https://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2022/03/mary-broads-origins-in-cornwall.html
↑ Description from Register of Newgate Prison quoted in Currey, C. H. The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (nee Broad),
↑ ‘Description of Convicts who have absconded from Sydney’, enclosure no.4 in Governor Arthur Philip to Lord Grenville, 5 November 1791, quoted in Tim Causer (ed.), Memorandoms by James Martin: An Astonishing Escape from Early New South Wales. London, UCL Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781911576815
↑ Both John Cobley, The Crimes of the First Fleet Convicts (1970), and Charlotte MacKenzie. Mary Broad the documentary (2021) have £1. 11s, citing NA ASSI 23/8. Strangely, some biographies have jewellery value 11 guineas which is incorrect.
↑ First Fleet Wikipedia Convicts transported on the First Fleet
↑ Australian Colonisation 1788
↑ New South Wales Marriage Index #5/1788 V17885 3A
↑ Cobley, John. Sydney Cove 1788, Angus & Robertson, Sydney, 2nd ed 1962
↑ Convict Records - Name - William Bryant
↑ Early American Crime
↑ William Bryant Wikipedia
↑ Emanuel Bryant, parents William and Jane was baptised 04 Sep 1763 at St Ives: Cornwall baptisms search, Freereg database, accessed 9 July 2021
↑ Free Settler or Felon The remarkable journey of William and Mary Bryant
↑ The Ipswich Journal 14 July 1792 gave a summary of trials at the Old Bailey on 7 July, "After which, James Martin, John Butcher, Wm. Allen, Nath Lilly, and Mary Bryant, who escaped from Botany Bay, were put to the bar, when the court ordered them to remain on their former sentence, until they should be discharged by due course of law." British newspapers, Find My Past https://search.findmypast.com.au/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000191%2f17920714%2f011&stringtohighlight=mary%20bryant
↑ London Chronicle, 30 June – 3 July 1792, p. 2 and 7 – 10 July 1792, p. 27.
↑ Although according to several biographies they were seen at the Old Bailey on 7 June, that is clearly impossible because they landed in England on 18 June. Pottle has 7 July at Old Bailey (no source given), Currey has 7 July in his book, probably sourced from Pottle, but Currey in the ADB has 7 June! (accessed 22 April 2022) Gillen has "On 30 June, Mary Bryant was 'Delivered into Custody of ye Bow St Officers' for trial at the Old Bailey". Causer has: "They appear to have been admitted to Newgate on 5 July and were brought to the bar at the Old Bailey two days later".
↑ Botany Bay Medallion After the death of James Boswell his family stopped the £10 he was sending to Mary in 1795.
↑ N.S.W .gov.au - Leaves from New South Wales used as tea
↑ ^21.0 ^21.1 ^21.2 ^21.3 Currey, C. H. The Transportation, Escape and Pardoning of Mary Bryant (nee Broad) / C. H. Currey. Sydney: Angus and Robertson, 1963.
↑ ^22.0 ^22.1 ^22.2 ^22.3 Pottle, Frederick A. Boswell and the Girl from Botany Bay / by Frederick A. Pottle. New York: Viking Press, 1937. https://search.sl.nsw.gov.au/permalink/f/19q252h/SLNSW_ALMA21106762020002626
Digitised book: https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.123069
Transcription: https://archive.org/stream/in.ernet.dli.2015.123069/2015.123069.Boswell-And-The-Girl-From-Batany-Bay_djvu.txt
↑ ^23.0 ^23.1 Puckey, Edward (L 1088) letters Published / Created: 1792, 1793, and 1794 Call Number: GEN MSS 89, Collection Title: Boswell Collection, Yale University Library’s digital collections https://collections.library.yale.edu/catalog?search_field=all_fields&q=puckey
↑ C. H. Currey, 'Bryant, Mary (1765–?)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/bryant-mary-1843/text2131, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 9 August 2019.
↑ Dr Charlotte MacKenzie, correspondence to Wikitree, Australia Project, June 2021
↑ Marriage 18 July 1748 at Ladock: William BROAD of St. Neot and Dorothy GILEFF of Cornelly https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=marriages&id=1105469
↑ Baptism of Mary Broad at Lanlivery, 10 March 1765 https://www.freereg.org.uk/search_records/5817e81fe93790ec8b5efea1/mary-broad-baptism-cornwall-lanlivery-1765-03-10?locale=en
↑ Burial of Dorothy Broad 14 Jun 1778, Fowey https://www.cornwall-opc-database.org/search-database/more-info/?t=burials&id=4348579
↑ Ancestry.com, England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 for James Pope, PROB 11/745/69: Will Registers1744-1749 Piece 745: Edmunds, Quire Numbers 48-96 (1746) https://www.ancestry.com.au/imageviewer/collections/5111/images/40611_311611-00181?usePUB=true&_phsrc=BFm727&_phstart=successSource&usePUBJs=true&pId=453259
↑ "A Chancery Suit of a Hundred Years Standing Wound Up : Beckford vs Jasper" in Worcestershire Chronicle 11 August 1852 https://search.findmypast.com.au/bna/viewarticle?id=bl%2f0000350%2f18520811%2f003&stringtohighlight=james%20pope
↑ Christies auction https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5189337

Parish registers for Fowey, 1803–1970. Microfilm of original records in the Cornwall Record Office, Truro, Cornwall. Cornwall Record Office call nos.: DDP/66/1/9, 18, 21–23.
Cornwall parish registers, marriages. Vol. 8, p. 1–54 Phillimore, 1905
Devon Quarter Sessions. Epiphany 1786, DRO-QS32/73, Christmas Session 1786. Gaol Calendar.

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