Frances KESWICK

In August 1829, Edward HODGSON applied for his wife and family to join him in Van Diemen's Land. It was eighteen months after he had arrived and two years after he had been convicted for uttering forged notes.
Frances Keswick was born in Whitehaven in Cumberland in 1792. She had married him when she was nineteen years old and had borne him seven children, two of whom had died in infancy.
On 3 May 1830, the Secretary of State's Office at Whitehall, sent a letter to Rev. Stanley at the Rectory House in Cumberland notifiying him that the family should be on board the ship Mellish at Woolwich on or before the 15th May, cleanly and properly clothed and with additional articles of wearing apparel for the voyage. The letter arrived on the afternoon of the 7th of May.
Rev. Stanley duly dispatched Frances and her five children aged from 3 to 15 years and they arrived in time for the ship's departure. They travelled on board with 115 female convicts, 13 other free women [convict wives] and 40 more children, arriving in Hobart four months later.
Her husband served as an overseer on the roads and may well have been transported for his road building experience. Once he received his full pardon in 1841, it seems likely that the family moved to Victoria.
Frances died from asthma at Belfast [Port Fairy] in 1856. She was living with her daughters, one of whom had married a solicitor. She was a widow but all five children were still living.

Sarah GOODSON

I know very little of this ancestor. In fact I am not even sure of her surname. I understand that other researchers have suggested that it may have been BURGESS.
She was born about 1765 and married Edward REYNOLDS around 1787. They had five children that we know of, four of whom accompanied her on board the female convict ship William Pitt, which arrived in Sydney in April 1806. The eldest son, Edward, remained in England.
As well as 120 female convicts, the free passengers on this ship included Gregory Blaxland and his family. It has been suggested that Sarah and perhaps her eldest daughter Mary Ann, were the two servants listed as travelling with the family.
Sarah must have had a liaison during the 220 day voyage as she had another daughter born in July 1806.
In September 1808, Sarah Reynolds advertised in the Sydney Gazette -
CAUTION - It having been reported to me that Edward Reynolds of Hawkesbury, has tendered a security in his own behalf upon a House situated on the Rocks at Sydney, the same being my property, I do hereby warn all persons against accepting any security whatever thereupon, as the said Edward Reynolds has no title to, or property in the said house, which was purchased on my account, of and from one Michael Keaton, and so registered in due form.
Her two elder daughters married in Sydney in 1807 and 1812. Her son David sailed for Hobart Town in 1813. In 1814, Sarah auctioned her house at 58 Gloucester Street in The Rocks and returned to London with her two younger daughters on board the whaler Seringapatam. Her elder son had married in 1812 so perhaps she returned to live with him.

Sarah Louisa Maria DENHOLM

My great-grandmother Louisa was born in Bothwell, Tasmania, in 1867. I have vague memories of her as she died in 1954. Her parents were George DENHOLM, a farmer, who died when she was 16, and Mary Ann STEVENS, whose father was a builder and carpenter in Bothwell.
Louisa was the second of eight children. She married Walter PATTERSON of Snake Plains in 1889. They had eleven children, all of whom survived to adulthood. Unfortunately their second son, Walter was lost in France in 1916.

Elizabeth BULLOCK

Elizabeth Bullock was born in Windsor, Berkshire around 1826. According to a tree submitted to the Wigmore mailing list in December 2004, her father was Thomas Bullock and she married on 6 February 1849 in The Parish Church, New Windsor, the witnesses being Thomas Bullock and Hannah Maria Lewis.
To date, the only information sources I have for her are the 1851 census, when she was living with her husband Richard Wigmore, their one year old daughter and his widowed mother Sarah at Biles Green near Bucklebury in Berkshire. They had a son, Richard, born in Bucklebury in 1852, then they moved to Reading where their third child, my great-grandmother Elizabeth Mary, was born in 1856 at 18 Somers Town, Reading. I have her birth certificate.
Her next child, Harriet, died in infancy in 1859 and her last child Louisa, was born about 1861.
It seems that Elizabeth Bullock died in 1869.

Mary SPRINGHAM

Mary was baptised at St Leonard's Shoreditch, parents Robert and Mary SPRINGHAM of ye old artillery ground, in 1768. She was a hawker when she was convicted of stealing in 1787 and transported on Lady Penrhyn, one of the ships of the First Fleet, which arrived in New South Wales in 1788.
At Port Jackson she formed a relationship with William HAMBLY a carpenter's crew on HMS Sirius and they had a son William in 1790. They accompanied him to Norfolk Island on Sirius when it was wrecked in 1790. William chose to remain when the crew was relieved and returned to England. He farmed his land grant of 60 acres, supplying the government. Mary probably cared for the two breeding sows, six hens and one cock which they were supplied with, while her husband cleared the land and erected a hut, with the help of two assigned convicts. They had a daughter Elizabeth in 1794, and another Mary who died in infancy in 1795. Mary died in 1796, so her daughter probably did not remember her.

William HAMBLY

Born about 1763 at Truro, Cornwall, William was a carpenter's crew on the naval ship Sirius, flagship of the First Fleet, which arrived at Port Jackson in 1788. He formed a relationship with Mary SPRINGHAM and they had two surviving children, William and Elizabeth. They went to Norfolk Island on Sirius when it was shipwrecked in 1790 and he elected to remain as a settler when the crew was able to leave the following year. They married in November 1791 when Rev. Johnson visited the island. He obtained a grant of 60 acres at Little Cascade and farmed successfully. Mary died in 1796.
The family of three left Norfolk Island for Hobart Town in 1807 on HMS Porpoise and William received a grant of land at Sorell.
He remarried another First Fleeter in 1810, Jane MEECH, the widow of First Fleet convict William MOULTON, but she died in 1812.
His son William died in 1817, and he died at Sorell in 1835.

Elizabeth HAMBLY

Born on Norfolk Island in 1794, she was the daughter of William HAMBLY and Mary SPRINGHAM. Her mother died in 1796. Her father was farming on 60 acres and she had a brother who was four years older. The family left for Hobart Town on HMS Porpoise in 1807 after the government decided to abandon the Norfolk Island settlement.
Elizabeth married John DUNCOMBE in Hobart Town in 1808 and they had three daughters. After he was sent to Sydney in 1819, she formed a new relationship with William STEER and had five more children. They moved to Launceston around 1825, leaving her DUNCOMBE daughters at Pittwater, where they all married. They returned to Sorell around 1838. She died there in 1853.
For more information see Trish Wood's book The Convict and the Carpenter.