William LAMPRILL

Born 1801 at South Ockendon in Essex. His parents were William Lamprill and Mary Buttell
Although not an ancestor, I am on this fellow's tail. He was married to Mary Ann BISHOP when convicted of sheep stealing in Essex in 1827. He arrived in Hobart Town per Asia and was assigned to David Reynolds near Brighton in 1834 and was with him when he drowned on the Derwent. He married David's widow, my great-great grandmother, in 1836, although permission to marry was delayed. Four sons were born by 1843 but two died in 1843 and in January 1846 he returned to England. Mary and the two remaining boys went to London in July 1846 but returned in 1847. William remarried in Essex in 1854 to his third wife, Sarah COTTON and died at Colchester six months later. In his will he left Tasmanian property and this does not seem to have been contested in Hobart.

Mary Ann STANFIELD

Born on Norfolk Island in 1799, youngest child of Daniel Stanfield and Alice Mansfield. Her family arrived in Hobart Town in City of Edinburgh in 1808. They lived at Green Point on the Derwent near Bridgewater.
She married David Reynolds in 1866 and they had six children, one dying as a child. In 1834 he was drowned on the river and she married their convict servant William Lamprill in 1836 and had four more sons. Two of these children died in an epidemic in 1843. By this time three of her older children had married.
William returned to England in January 1846 and she followed him with their two children in May that year, returning to Tasmania with the children in July 1847. She was known as Granny Lamprill until she died in 1881. She was buried at St Marks in Pontville.