Robert Springham

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English Surnames (Revised Edition), the surname originated at Springham Farm, Hellingly, Sussex.

Robert and Mary Springham appear to have married circa 1760 and had three sons and a daughter between 1764 and 1771. They were living at the old artillery ground when their daughter Mary was christened at St Leonards, Shoreditch in 1768. In 1786, the Old Bailey records show that Mary's mother was living at Baker's Row, Whitechapel. It also mentions that she had breakfast at her brother's. There was no mention of her father.

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.
There is an old headstone on Norfolk Island with initials MH and a cross, which may have been Mary's.

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.
"There is no headstone to mark William Hambly's grave. He is recorded as the only First Fleeter to be buried at the old Graveyard on the edge of Pittwater at Sorell. It is said that many of the graves there were marked by wooden crosses and that these were lost in bushfires." [Trish Wood - the Convict and the Carpenter]

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.