Taylor family - Letters received from Richard Taylor and Simon Brown, 1840-1858, together with related papers (Lancashire Record Office, UK)

MLMSS 7204

fonds

1840-1858

421792

Photocopy : MLMSS 7204.
Microfilm : M 2802 (copies of papers held in the Lancashire Record Office: DDX 505/1-35).

1 folder - 0.02 Meters
Textual Records - (manuscript, photocopies)

Richard Taylor, sentenced to ten years transportation in early 1840, was imprisoned at York Castle and on the hulk ship Fortitude at Chatham Docks, Kent. He arrived at Sydney on HMS Eden in October 1840 and was employed as a cook at Sydney Hospital and later set up business as a bootmaker in Narellan. He married, had 3 children and died in 1855. His stepbrother[?] Simon Brown, also sentenced in 1840 to ten years transportation, was imprisoned at Preston and on the hulk ship Warrior at Woolwich, Kent. In 1855 he was living with his wife Margaret in Tasmania at 'Lovely Banks', the property of his employer Edward Bisdee.

1840-1858; Letters are mainly addressed to George Taylor of Burnley, Lancashire, the father of both correspondents. Simon Brown writes also to his sister care of Henry Rawlinson [her husband?] of Burnley. Letters are written from York, Chatham, Preston, Woolwich, Sheerness, Plymouth, Sydney, Narellan and Tasmania. Subjects include: trial and sentence; conditions in prison and on hulks; requests for money and supplies for voyage to Australia; description of Sydney; prices; no intention of returning to England as doing well; Richard's death; employment in service of grazier Edward Bisdee in Tasmania. A copy of an index to the letters compiled by the Lancashire Record Office is included. (Call No.: MLMSS 7204/Item 1)
1849, 1856, undated; Replies from the Secretary of State's Office regarding applications from George Taylor for information regarding transported convicts, 30 May and 12 November 1849; 'Notice to Applicants for information regarding Transported Convicts', undated; letter, 6 March 1856, from Isabella Risley of Camden, NSW, to Simon Brown informing him of Richard Taylor's death; list of Richard Taylor's debtors, undated; genealogical notes prepared by David Wiseman (Call No.: MLMSS 7204/Item 2)

Chronological

Originals held by Lancashire Record Office (DDX 505/1-35); AJCP microfilm copy located at M2802 in Mitchell Library; Guide (17pp.) at Micro.Ref.Bks. 2.3/277, vol. 22.