Joseph Wright - First Fleet 1788 Joseph was born in Chelsea, London in 1767 to Joseph and Elizabeth Wright. In 1784, when Joseph was 17 years old, he was charged with stealing 218 lbs (100kg) of lead to the value of 40 shillings ($4). Joseph was tried and found guilty of theft and was sentenced to 7 years transportation. As the jails in London were overcrowded, he was transferred to a hulk on the Thames, the Censor. Joseph and other convicts were taken ashore during the day in working parties and returned to confinement on board at night. He was to spend 3 years in these deplorable conditions. After 3 years on the Censor, finally on 24th February, 1787, Joseph was dispatched by open wagon for the three day journey to Portsmouth in the bitter cold. He boarded the Scarborough on 27th February 1787, one of 11 ships making up the First Fleet. The fleet finally departed from Portsmouth on 13th May 1787 arriving Botany Bay 26th January 1888. He was 20 years old when he arrived here. Nothing more is recorded of him for the next two years so he must have been well behaved and stayed out of trouble. It was during this time he met fellow convict Eleanor Gott. Eleanor Gott was a Second Fleeter. Born about 1765 in Liverpool England, Eleanor was the daughter of John Gott and Ann Caugley and was the eldest of six children. On 3rd August, 1789 was charged with stealing some items of clothing from her employer, and she was sentenced to three years transportation, an unusually short period. After serving three months of her sentence, she embarked on the 2nd Fleet ship, Neptune bound for Sydney Cove. She arrived at Sydney Cove on 27th June, 1790 after 159 days at sea. There she met Joseph Wright and they were given permission by Governor Arthur Phillip to marry on 13th December, 1790 at St. Phillips Church, Sydney. In 1794, now free by servitude, Joseph was given a grant of 30 acres of land at Mulgrave Place on the Hawkesbury River. He is listed among the first 22 settlers to receive land grants. Joseph and Ellen’s neighbours were William and Mary Douglas on one side and John Fenlow on the other side. The Douglases were congenial neighbours, good family people like the Wrights. Later intermarriage of their families and also with the nearby Butlers, would cement this early association on the river. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joseph and Eleanor Wright (nee Gott) Had 7 children:- (1) Joseph Wright born 1792 Sydney, married Sarah Griggs 1811 Sydney (2) Robert Wright born 1794 Sydney, married Mary Ann Holland 1816 Windsor (3) Mary Wright born 1797 Pitt Town, married Robert Allen 1812 Windsor (4) John Wright born 1800 Pitt Town, married Sarah Huggins 1827 Pitt Town (5) Sarah Wright born 1802 Pitt Town, married Robert Hobbs 1817 Windsor (6) Samuel Wright born 1805 Pitt Town, married Elizabeth Pierce (date and location unknown) (7) Thomas Wright born 1809 Pitt Town, married Mary A. Harcourt 1832 Pitt Town -------------------------------------------------------------- (1) Joseph Wright and Sarah Griggs moved to Tasmania children:- Sarah Wright born 1812 Sydney, married Charles Sutton Joseph G. Wright born 1814 Hobart, married Jane Higgins 1839 Tasmania John Wright born 1816 Hobart, married Mary Ann Tew 1857 Sydney James Wright born 1818 Hobart, married Jane Burt (Butt) 1848 (location unknown) Eleanor E. Wright born 1820 Hobart, married John Felmingham. Eleanor was killed when hit by a falling log on 2nd February 1844 (aged 24) Thomas Wright born 1822 Hobart, married Mary Thomas 1848 Kooringa (S.A) Robert W. Wright born 1825 Hobart, Robert apparently had a child, Eliza Sarah, who lived three weeks. Who the mother was and if he was married is not recorded Eliza Wright born 1830 Tasmania, married William Flynn 1846 (location unknown) (2) Robert Wright and Mary Ann Holland children:- Eleanor Wright born 1818 Pitt Town, married George Buckridge 1834 Pitt Town Joseph Wright born 1822 Pitt Town, married Ann Daley 1841 Windsor Sarah Wright born 1825 Pitt Town, married Richard Weaver 1843 Pitt Town Mary A. Wright born 1825 Pitt Town, married Henry Pike Pitt Town Robert Wright born 1830 Pitt Town, married (spouse unknown) (3) Mary Wright and Robert Allen children:- (unknown) Robert Allen, at the age of 36, married Mary Wright who was 14 years of age. no other history of the couple is available since then (4) John Wright and Sarah Huggins children:- Sarah Wright born 1828 Pitt Town, married John Wright born 1831 Pitt Town, married Thomas Wright born 1836 Morpeth, married Joseph Wright born 1839 Morpeth, married Bridget Martin 1860 Raymond Terrace Jane Wright born 1843 Pitt Town, married William H. Wright born 1846 Maitland, married Eliza S. Waddell 1902 (location unknown) William also married Maria (Broughton) Outhwraite 1910 Lochinvar George Wright born 1849 Morpeth, married Robert Wright born 1852 Morpeth, married Elizabeth Wright born 1855 Morpeth, married Eleanor Wright born 1862 Patricks Plain, married (5) Sarah Wright and Robert Hobbs children:- Joseph Hobbs born 1817 Windsor, married Elizabeth Douglass 1832 Pitt Town Sarah Hobbs born 1820 Windsor, married James Wilbow 1844 Pitt Town Robert Hobbs born 1824 Windsor, married Ellen Longmoor 1851 Portland Head Susan Hobbs born 1828 Pitt Town Elizabeth Hobbs born 1830 Pitt Town, married William Kilpatrick 1845 Pitt Town Catherine Hobbs born 1832 Pitt Town, married Thomas Hartley 1852 Pitt Town Mary Hobbs born 1836 Pitt Town, married William Grono 1856 Windsor John Hobbs born 1838 Pitt Town, married Elizabeth Sheens 1857 Windsor Harriett Hobbs born 1840 died 1843 (aged 3yrs) Wilberforce Jane Hobbs born 1843 Pitt Town Edward Hobbs born 1846 Pitt Town (6) Samuel Wright and Elizabeth Pierce children:- Samuel Wright born 1841 Morpeth, married Ann Flinn 1858 Maitland Eleanour Wright born 1844 Morpeth, married John Sinclair 1885 Muswellbrook Daniel Wright born 1845 Morpeth, married Sarah Ann Ross 1863 Muswellbrook Joseph Wright born 1847 Morpeth, married Sarah A. White 1865 Morpeth James Wright born 1851 Morpeth, married Elizabeth J. Selfe 1881 Gunnedah Mary Ann Wright born 1854 Morpeth, married Henry William Green 1876 Morpeth (7) Thomas Wright and Mary A. Harcourt children:- Jane Wright born 1839 Raymond Terrace, married Matthew Sheiles 1859 Morpeth Ellen Wright born 1841 Raymond Terrace, married John Ward 1866 Clarence Town Mary Ann Wright born 1843 Raymond Terrace, married Francis Lee 1864 Port Stephens Thomas Wright born 1844 Raymond Terrace, married Marianne Maher 1864 Morpeth Joseph Wright born 1847 Raymond Terrace, married Sarah A. White 1865 Morpeth Sarah Wright born 1849 Raymond Terrace
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