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About Mary Mary's children Mary's descendants |
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Mary's first daughter..... Sarah Mary Wade was born on 22nd September 1793 at Mt Pitt Settlement, Norfolk Island, the first daughter of Mary Wade. Both Edward Teaque Harrigan and Jonathon Brooker, fellow convicts, were there at the time and Mary had children by both these men though it is uncertain who Sarah's father was as the early records aren’t available. Sarah assumed the Brooker surname. (Only one of Mary’s children went by the Harrigan surname.) Sarah died on 5th July 1887 at Picton, NSW and is
buried at St Marks, Picton. Sarah had a daughter, Mary Ray.
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Before the First Fleet sailed to found a convict settlement in New South Wales, Governor Arthur Phillip's final instructions, received less than three weeks before sailing, included the requirement to colonise Norfolk Island to prevent it falling into the hands of France. When the fleet arrived at Port Jackson in January 1788, Phillip ordered Lieutenant Philip Gidley King to lead a party of fifteen convicts and seven free men to take control of the island and prepare for its commercial development. They arrived on 6 March 1788.
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