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Hi
Can you help me please? I am looking for my great great great grandfather Andrew Martin/e born in about 1806 in Carluke, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the south side of the Clyde River. Like his father, he was a Stonemason, and probably completed an apprenticeship in that trade in the early 1820s. His father died when Andrew was young, and for a period, he lived with his grandfather outside of Glasgow. Early records indicate that Andrew was able to read but not write.
On 10 June 1822, at the age of fifteen, Andrew was convicted at the Burgh Court of Glasgow for the petty theft of a loaf of bread, and sentenced to three months hard labour.
By 1826, Andrew Martin (e) had returned to Glasgow. On the night of Wednesday 15 February 1826, Andrew in the company of John Mathieson and his wife were accused of stealing a Dutch cheese and a Ling fish from the shop of John Leggat in King Street Glasgow.
By 30 June 1826, Andrew was being held on the Retribution Hulk at Sheerness. Prisoners were typically held in hulks (floating prison barges) for often months at a time until space on departing ships became available. His bodily state and behaviour were both reported as good.
Andrew was transported to Sydney New South Wales on the ship “Albion”. Built in Bristol in 1813, the “Albion” was a second (E1) class ship of 479 tons. It departed Plymouth on 4 October 1826 via the Cape of Good Hope and arrived in Sydney on 14 February 1827. This was the second of three such voyages for the “Albion”. The journey took 133 days and 192 male convicts were transported. The master of the ship was James Ralph, who first mastered a convict ship in 1811.
John Mathieson, who was also transported to New South Wales on the “Albion” and served part of his sentence in Port Stevens, died on 28 April 1838 as the result of a fall from a cart.
At the age of 20 years, Andrew was 5 feet, 1.5 inches tall, with a ruddy complexion, light brown hair and hazel eyes.
On arrival, Andrew was immediately assigned to the Engineer’s Department where he worked as a Stonemason. By 1828, Andrew had been reassigned to the Hon Robert Campbell, born in 1769 in Greenock Scotland. Robert Campbell was a merchant of George Street, Sydney who owned and operated Campbell’s Wharf at Dawes point. He also built the Duntroon homestead in Canberra in the early 1830s. The original homestead is still standing.
The 1828 census of New South Wales shows Andrew living in Sydney.
The 1837 Muster of Convicts shows Andrew Martin (e) living in Sydney and still holding a ToL.
By 1835, Andrew was still in the employ of the Campbell family. On 15 October 1835, Duncan Campbell, a son of Robert Campbell, sent the following letter to the Colonial Secretary:
This is to certify that we the undersigned agree to employ Andrew Martine as a stonemason for any length of time should his indulgence be granted for Sydney. We understand that he is of sober and industrious habits.
Signed George Potou (?)
Duncan Campbell
By 1836, Andrew was working at Berrima as a stonemason, after having received his first Ticket of Leave (ToL) in the district of Berrima, New South Wales.
On 6 April 1836, Duncan Campbell wrote:
The Honourable
The Colonial Secretary
Sir
With reference to a former letter on the subject of Andrew Martin, stonecutter, who was in my service until he received his ticket of leave. I have now the honour to request that he may be permitted to stay in Sydney so long as he may be employed by me.
I am induced to make this application by the earnest solicitation of the prisoner, who represents that at Berrima, for which station he has received his ticket of leave, he can only obtain from his employers nothing but spirits in payment and that he feels he cannot long continue to conduct himself with propriety if compelled to remain there.
Your most obedient servant
Signed Duncan Campbell
On 20 May 1836, Andrew received his second ToL. This allowed him to seek employment or be self employed, to get married and to acquire property on the condition that he resided within the district of Sydney. The original ToL was destroyed in 1844.
The ToL butt states:
Allowed to remain in Sydney so long as he continues in the service of the Hon Robert Campbell of George Street on the authority of a letter from the Colonial Secretary no. 36/237 dated 16 April 1836.
In 1836, Andrew lived in Lower Sussex Street, Sydney. On 27 September 1836, Andrew married Catherine Moriarty (aged 21) at St Andrews Scots Church Sydney in the County of Cumberland. Their application to marry was approved by the Governor on 13 September 1836 and the ceremony was conducted by the Rev John McGarvie (1794-1853 also from Glasgow). They were married by banns, which meant they had their intentions proclaimed over the pulpit for three consecutive Sundays. Their wedding was witnessed by Hannah Jane Rogers and James Hubbard (who had married Catherine’s sister, Mary Moriarty, in 1835).
St Andrews Scots Church was opened on the 13 December 1835 in Kent Street near the corner of Bathurst Street. Rev John McGarvie’s sermon was based on II Samuel 7, verse 29: “therefore let it please Thee to bless the house of thy servant that it may continue for ever before thee”. The font was crafted by stonemasons from local sandstone – in fact the stonemasons formed the first recognised trade union in Australia in the early 1830s. The church was fitted with gas lights in 1834-35. Unfortunately, it was demolished in 1911 and rebuilt at Rose Bay where the original font and hand-carved cedar pews from 1835 are still in use, “bearing signs of many who sat and doodled their time through a sermon”.
The 1837 Muster of Convicts shows Andrew Martin (e) living in Sydney and still holding a ToL.
Andrew Martin (e) died on Sunday 8 October 1854 aged 48 years (the parish register shows 50 years) and was buried on 10 October by Rev Robert Boag (1813-1891), probably in the Presbyterian section of the Sydney Burial Ground in Devonshire Street, which operated in the years 1819 to 1888. The Coronial Inquest held on 15 November 1854 listed the cause of death as “Felo Dese In-Temperance”, which literally means “self-murder, intoxicated”.
About Catherine Moriarty - We don't know whether Catherine's father Thomas Anthony Moriarty/Morearty was born in Yorkshire or Ireland, can anyone find him? Catherine Moriarty was the second daughter of Thomas Anthony Moriarty (a bricklayer) and Eleanor Sympson, both born in 1792, the latter at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire. Thomas and Ellen were married in the town of York (Parish of Saint Lawrence) in the County of Yorkshire on 2 May 1812. Catherine was born in 1815. She had three sisters and one brother; Mary was born in 1814, Ann in 1816, Thomas in 1824, and Jane in 1825 in the town of Leeds, although Jane died before 1832.
The Moriarty family departed Liverpool on 12 February 1832 on the ship “Sophia” with 123 other male and female free settlers and their children via the Cape of Good Hope (22 May) and arrived in Sydney on 16 July 1832. Built in Calcutta in 1819, the “Sophia” was a second (E1) class ship of 243 tons.
Thomas and Ellen Moriarty were assisted immigrants, whose passage was wholly or partially paid for by the Colonial Government. Under the scheme, a bounty was paid to recruiting agents in England to find suitable skilled trades people, as well as single females. A bounty of 8 pounds each for the three daughters was paid to a Mr Morgan. Thomas received a 20-pound advance when he arrived in Sydney.
Thomas and Ellen later lived in Castlereagh Street South, Sydney in 1839, and South Sussex Street in 1844. They moved to Victoria in the early 1850s. Eleanor Moriarty (nee Sympson) died on 26 December 1862 in Victoria Street, Melbourne. She is buried at the Boroondara Cemetery in Melbourne. The grave is no longer marked.
Mary Moriarty married James Hubbard (a wireworker of George Street) in Sydney in 1835 and they had nine children. Mary died in Sydney in 1862. Ann married James York in Sydney in 1838, some time after which they moved to Victoria, where they had six children. James York later operated the Victoria Hotel in Victoria Street, Melbourne. Ann died in 1864 in Melbourne, and is buried in the same grave as her mother, Eleanor Moriarty (along with six other family members!). Their younger brother, Thomas (also a bricklayer) married Margaret Mather in Melbourne in 1848 and they had nine children. Thomas and Margaret lived in Tylden in the late 1850s, and in Bendigo from 1863. Margaret died in Bendigo in 1909 aged 76 and Thomas on 21 May 1911 aged 87. Both are buried at the Bendigo Cemetery. Their headstone reads:
In loving memory of Thomas Moriarty 1824-1911 arrived in Australia 1832 and his wife Margaret Moriarty (nee Mather) 1833-1909 arrived in Australia 1843.
After Andrew’s death, Catherine was alone with 7 children to raise ranging in age from 10 months to 16 years. In 1856, the family moved to Victoria, where both Catherine’s father and brother had been living since the early 1850s. The 1856 Victorian Electoral role shows two electors with the name Thomas Moriarty living in and around Melbourne at that time; one a farmer of Simpson’s Road (Eleanor Moriarty’s maiden name), the other a carter of Queensberry Street.
Several of the Martin (e) children might have lived and worked on a farm owned by the younger Thomas Moriarty in the later 1850s at Tylden, before they moved to nearby Spring Hill. The farm was located north-west of the town on the main road to Kyneton. At least two of the Martine children continued to live in the Tylden region long after Thomas Moriarty (Jnr) had moved to Bendigo.
By 1877, Catherine Martin (e) was living in Rokeby Street, Collingwood in Melbourne. She died at 82 Derby Street, Collingwood (the residence of her daughter Isabella) on 23 July 1882 aged 67 years. She had suffered from paralysis for 4 years and was buried on 26 July 1882 at the Melbourne General Cemetery. The grave is no longer marked.
Can anyone help me please I have traced Catherine's mother's line Simpson / Sympson to Peter Simpson / Sympson b1735c at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, England and Sarah Hardcastle b1739c at Pateley Bridge, Yorkshire, England this is as far as this goes, but I do not have anymore information on Andrew Martin/e b1806c at Carluke, was his father's name Andrew? Did Andrew have any siblings? Can anyone help me please, I am in Australia, I have Andrew's court records but their is no relevant names of parents/siblings only mention of grandparents living in the country on a farm (with no names). Don't know where to go from here. Thank you for your time!
Kind Regards
Kathleen Wickens
kathleenwickens@gmail.com
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