Golden Grove to Norfolk Island October 1788

HRA Series 1: Volume 1: Page 88: The Golden Grove is now ready to sail with one midshipman, for Norfolk Island one serjeant, one corporal , and five privates , twenty men and ten women convicts. These will make the number on Norfolk Island sixty, and I send eighteen months’ provisions. The Fishburn will be ready to sail by the time the Golden Grove returns, and both ships shall sail immediately for England. I have, &c., A. PHILLIP. ….

Page 97: The Golden Grove store-ship sailed for Norfolk Island the 2nd Detachment for of October, with provisions and some stores, and carried a mid- Norfolk Island.Shipman, two seamen, a serjeant, corporal, and five privates, with twenty-one men and eleven women convicts.* Their numbers will be increased in the course of the summer.

John Hunter: A Historic Journal of the transactions at Port Jackson and Norfolk Island.
Chapter 12: On the 13th (October), at day-light, we saw the Golden Grove transport lying at an anchor in the road, and soon afterwards, Mr. Donovan, a midshipman belonging to the Sirius, came on shore, and delivered the governor’s letters: by this gentleman I also received a letter from Mr. Blackburn, the master of the Supply, informing me that he sailed from Port Jackson on the 24th of September, being ordered by Governor Phillip to conduct the transport to this island; that he had brought Mr. Donovan, a serjeant, (sic) a corporal, and five private marines, two gardeners, who were seamen belonging to the Sirius, and twenty-one men and eleven women convicts; also the Supply’s jolly-boat and boat’s crew, to assist in unloading the Golden-Grove.
Chapter 13: As I was very much in want of a carpenter, a man who had been discharged from the Sirius, and was on board the Golden Grove as a sailor, offered to remain on the island on any terms, but I could make no agreement with him, not being impowered to take any step of that kind; I therefore informed him, that if he chose to remain he must take it on himself: this he with great readiness consented to, and I found him a great acquisition.
The Golden Grove sailed for Port Jackson on the 29th.
As an encouragement to the convicts who came by the Golden Grove, I gave them from the time of their landing until the 30th to build houses for themselves, and to clear away a little garden ground. The huts were very soon built, being composed of logs, and thatched with bullrushes and flaggs, which made them very comfortable; and as a farther encouragement, I gave some of them (who had the best characters) permission to build their houses in the vale, and to clear away ground near them for their own use.

Arrivals on Norfolk Island, Golden Grove, October 1788: 21 Male and 11 Female Convicts
Male Convicts
1.    ALLEN, John – Alexander
2.    ANDERSON, John – Charlotte
3.    BLACKHALL, William – Alexander
4.    BRYANT, John – Charlotte
5.    DAVIS, James – Scarborough
6.    DRING, William – Alexander
7.    DYER, Leonard – Alexander
8.    FRANCIS, William – Alexander
9.    HUMPHRIES, Henry – Charlotte
10.    HUSSEY, Samuel – Friendship
11.    JONES, Thomas – Friendship
12.    LONG, Joseph – Alexander
13.    MARNEY, William (MARINER) – Scarborough
14.    PEAK, Joshua – Scarborough
15.    PIGGOT/PICKETT Samuel – Charlotte
16.    PRICE, John – Alexander
17.    RICHARDSON, James – Alexander
18.    ROBINSON, Joseph – Alexander
19.    SMITH, Edward – Scarborough
20.    THOMPSON, William – Scarborough
21.    WATSON, Thomas – Charlotte

Female Convicts
1.    ANDERSON, Elizabeth (HENDERSON) – Lady Penrhyn
2.    BURKITT, Martha (DAVIS) – Lady Penrhyn
3.    BRUCE, Elizabeth – Lady Penrhyn
4.    CARROLL, Mary – Lady Penrhyn
5.    COOMBES, Ann – Charlotte
6.    COLE, Elizabeth (MARSHALL) – Lady Penrhyn
7.    DUTTON, Ann – Lady Penrhyn
8.    EARLY, Rachael – Friendship
9.    GABEL, Mary – Lady Penrhyn
10.    ROLT, Mary – Prince of Wales
11.    TRIPPET, Susannah – Lady Penrhyn

Two free men, as gardeners, from the Sirius
Carpenter: LIVINGSTONE, John – Ship’s Carpenter – Sirius
Corporal: GOWEN, John – Sirius
Midshipman: DONOVAN, Stephen – Second Mate Alexander
Sergeant: SMYTH (SMITH), Thomas

Five Marines – Privates (5)
1.    DUKES, Thomas – Sirius
2.    KING, Samuel – Sirius
3.    WIGFALL, Samuel – Sirius
4.    WILLIAMS, James – Sirius
5.    WILLIAMSON, James – Sirius

Cathy Dunn
Feb 2012