| Maybe he (or she!) is on a Victualling List in
the Colonial Secretary's Papers kept at the Archives Office of NSW. (Colonial Secretary's
Papers. Location 4/5781, pp. 55 - 122.) On Saturday, 8 September 1821 a total of 4,388 men, women and children received rations from the Commissariat Stores in Sydney. Names and occupations are recorded in the "Nominal List of all Persons victualled from His Majesty's Magazines under charge of Deputy Commissary General Wemyss." Many of these are convicts but a number of free settlers were "on stores" and also received rations. The list is 68 handwritten pages and all 3,217 names on the list have been put onto a database. You can check if your ancestor is on the database by going to "Convict Gangs" at this web page. You may be able to get more information from this site. Of course, you can always check the actual list at the Archives Office of NSW and some selected libraries but be very wary of some commercially produced indexes. These may have mistakes and the owners often charge a fee. A Preliminary Analysis of this database, which shows the location of some convicts, is available at the NSW State Library and the Archives Office of NSW. (for free!) Maybe you can even find what your ancestor was doing in September, 1821 ! The list includes some interesting people: Ambrose Bryant, who became the grandfather of “Lady Tichborne" (AKA Mrs. Mary Ann Castro). Mary Ann Bryant, who became the grandmother of "Lady Tichborne", John Bryant, who became the father of "Lady Tichborne" And a young convict, William Sampson, who became "Lady Tichborne's" father-in-law. Just for interest, the list shows Ambrose was the overseer of the stone masons who were building Saint James Church, William was a member of his gang and both were housed at Hyde Park Barracks. Ambrose's family were living in Philip Street. |
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