| Name |
William Andrews |
| Birth |
9 May 1817 |
Stoulton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom  |
| Baptism |
13 May 1818 |
Stoulton, Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Abt 1835 |
Whiington, England |
| Farm Servant |
| Convicted |
27 Nov 1835 |
| 7 year sentence for larceny (stealing chooks). Poor bloke was probably hungry. |
- Age 18, William, a farm servant, together with George Pratt, were charged with stealing 2 ducks, 2 drakes and 4 hen fowls from John Green a farmer at Whittington on the night of 27 November 1835. A second indictment charged them of also stealing a fowl from George Dyson of Norton. William and George Pratt were subsequently convicted at Worcester Quarter session for a term of 7 years and transportation to the Colony.
In the last week of July 1836, 270 male convicts were embarked on the "Bengal Merchant" at Woolwich and Sheerness after inspection on the hulks. They were mainly middle-aged men with a large proportion of lads, mostly in good health. Some of the older men were emaciated and pallid in appearance. The Bengal Merchant departed the Downs, England on 8 August 1836 and sailed via Tenerife.
In the early part of the voyage there were fevers, mostly from prisoners who embarked from the Justitia hulk at Woolwich where the disease was prevalent. Most of the illness experienced during the voyage were cases of slight catarrh, diarrhoea, dyspepsia. On reaching hotter climates, cholera appeared.
There was only one death, a man already ill and who according to the ship’s surgeon should never have been embarked. The ship arrived in Port Jackson (Sydney) on 9 December 1836 by which time the convicts had been on board for a total of 140 days.
William was granted his Certificate of Freedom on 30 July 1845 in Sydney, NSW. He married Hannah "Anna" Reilly on 24 February 1847 in Brisbane. They had six children during their marriage. Andrew died on 26 June 1874 in Warwick, at the age of 57, and is buried in the Church of England section of the Warwick cemetery.
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| Residence |
1836 |
| Wroughton, Wiltshire, England |
| Departure |
4 Aug 1836 [2] |
| Arrival |
9 Dec 1836 |
New South Wales [3] |
| Age: 19 |
| Immigration |
9 Dec 1836 |
New South Wales On Board Ship Bengal Merchant |
- William Andrews together with George Pratt were convicted of stealing 2 ducks 2 drakes and 4 hen fowls from John Green farmer of Whiington on the night of 27th November 1835. Second indictment charged them of stealing a fowl from George Dyson of Norton.
lianne_power Information on the convict transport ship the Bengal Merchant: BENGAL MERCHANT (1812)
The British ship BENGAL MERCHANT was built at Calcua, India, in 1812. The 1820 edition of Lloyd's Register (the only edition before 1834 to which I have direct access) indicates that she was 464 tons, her master's surname was Gordon, she belonged to Boehm & Co., she drew 18 feet when loaded, she was last surveyed at London, at that at the time of publication her intended voyage was to Bengal. Between 1829 and 1832, the BENGAL MERCHANT made two voyages between India and Great Britain as an "Extra Ship" for the Honourable East India Company. The annual volumes of Lloyd's Register from 1834/35 through 1855/56 give the following information):
Tonnage: 503
Master:
1834/35-1842/43 - Campbell
1842/43-1844/45 - Ross
1844/45-1847/48 - Thornhill
1848/49-1851/52 - P. Lowen
1852/53-1855/56 - Faldo
Owner:
1834/35-1839/40 - J[oseph] Somes
1839/40-1855/56 - Haviside
Port of Registry: London
Port of Survey (1834/35-1853/54): London
Destined Voyage:
1834/35-1839/40 - New South Wales
1839/40-1842/43 - [not given] [*]
1842/43-1844/45 - Madras
1844/45-1847/48 - Calcua
1848/49-1851/52 - Bombay
1852/53-1853/54 - Adelaide
1854/55-1855/56 - [not given]
[*]
The BENGAL MERCHANT sailed from Greenock on 30 October 1839, with 160 passengers and dropped anchor off Petone Beach, Wellington, New Zealand, 21 February 1840. Ian Hawkins Nicholson, Log of logs; a catalogue of logs, journals, shipboard diaries, leers, and all forms of voyage narratives, 1788 to 1988, for Australia and New Zealand and surrounding oceans, Roebuck Society Publication Nos. 41, 47 (2 vols; Yaroomba, Qld: The Author jointly with the Australian Association for Maritime History, [1990]-1993).
The BENGAL MERCHANT was last surveyed in 1852. The last voyage of the BENGAL MERCHANT for which I have a record departed from London 1 April 1852, arrving at Melbourne on 2 September; she cleared for Adelaide 22 October, sailed 28 October, and arrived 1 November 1852 [Marten A. Syme, Shipping Arrivals and Departures; Victorian Ports, vol. 2: 1846-1855, Roebuck Society Publication No. 39 (Melbourne: [Roebuck Society], 1987), p. 122]. The entries for the BENGAL MERCHANT in Lloyd's Register for 1854/55 and 1855/56 give only her master and owner, but omit her port of registry, port of survey, and destination, often a sign that the vessel in question had ended her sailing career and had been either lost, broken up, or hulked. It is therefore possible that this 1852 voyage from Lottndon to Melbourne was her last.
I have no picture of the BENGAL MERCHANT, but I know that at least one representation of her exists, since there is a modern wall drawing of the BENGAL MERCHANT, by Roger Palmer, modelled after a contemporary engraving, in the Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh. Contact in the first instance the ANMM in Sydney, which maintains several indexes to pictorial representations of vessels that sailed in Australian waters. If the ANMM has no record of a picture of the BENGAL MERCHANT, contact the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, http://www.nmm.ac.uk/, which also has an extensive collection of prints and drawings, as well as copies of surveys undertaken by Lloyd's Register of Shipping.
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| Occupation |
Agricultural Labourer |
| Occupation |
Farmer |
| Occupation |
Mason |
| Occupation |
Mason |
| _AMTID |
192683706328:1030:204653251 |
| _COLOR |
11 |
| _FSFTID |
LVX8-5NM |
| _UID |
52D7CB83CBF043CAE001EC9B2EE8622948F9 |
| Death |
26 Jun 1874 |
Warwick, Queensland, Australian Colonies |
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WilliamAndrews_grave.jpg
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| Burial |
27 Jun 1874 |
Warwick, Queensland, Australia |
| Person ID |
I55680 |
World of Hyde |
| Last Modified |
2 Aug 2024 |
| Father |
John William Andrews, b. 1777, Stoulton, Worcestershire, England, Great Britain d. Jul 1847, Pershore, Worcestershire, United Kingdom (Age 70 years) |
| Mother |
Elizabeth Petford, b. 1789, White Ladies Aston, Worcestershire, England, Great Britain d. Jan 1879, Kings Norton, Worcestershire, England (Age 90 years) |
| Marriage |
17 Apr 1808 |
White Lady Aston Worcestershire Uk [4] |
| Family ID |
F17780 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Hannah Ann Reilly, b. 29 Aug 1814, County Cavan, Ireland d. 27 Feb 1889, Warwick, Queensland, Australian Colonies (Age 74 years) |
| Marriage |
24 Feb 1847 |
Saint John, Brisbane, New South Wales, Australia |
| Children |
| | 1. Jane Andrews, b. 1 May 1851, Warwick, Queensland, Australia d. 12 Jun 1943, Pittsworth Cemetery, Pittsworth, Queensland, Australia (Age 92 years) |
| | 2. John Andrews, b. 21 Jan 1853 d. 14 May 1916, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia (Age 63 years) |
| | 3. Frederick Andrews, b. 17 Nov 1854, District of Darling Downs, New South Wales, Australia d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 4. Arthur Andrews, b. 17 Nov 1854, District of Darling Downs, New South Wales, Australia d. Yes, date unknown |
| | 5. Benjamin George Andrews, b. 20 Nov 1856, Australia d. 29 Jun 1905, Queensland, Australia (Age 48 years) |
| | 6. Robert Andrews, b. 24 Feb 1858 d. 1920, Queensland, Australia (Age 61 years) |
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| Family ID |
F17779 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
5 Sep 2025 |
1817 - 1874 (57 years)
