Convict. Crime: Feloniously & Burglarious Break and Enter with theft of goods. Tried: 5 Mar 1792, Hornsby trial Reading England. Sentence: 7 years transportation.
Priscilla LOVERIDGE b. Berkshire England
She arrived as a convict aboard the Royal Admiral 1792 with her sister Mary Loveridge who married Royal Admiral Seaman Thomas Dargin.
Priscilla had relationships with:
William Davis: Convict Abermarle 1791
Thomas Goodman: Convict Pitt 1792
William Rayner, Convict Albemarle 1791. (William Rayner, William and Ann 1791 died in February 1792 and William Rayner, Convict Scarborough 1790 was on Norfolk Island)
The birth of Prudence Loveridge in 1798 is last record of Priscilla in the Colony, no death record has been found.
Children:
- Female LOVERIDGE b. 3 Sep 1792, Lat 38.50S Long 29.56E on board the Royal Admiral, Bap: 19 Sep 1792, Royal Admiral by Captain Bond. No record of this child has been found in the Colony
Children by William DAVIS:
- William LOVERIDGE b. 7 Dec 1794, Sydney Cove NSW, Bap: 11 Jan 1795, St Phillips Sydney NSW. No other record of this child has been found in the Colony
Children by Thomas GOODMAN:
- Thomas LOVERIDGE b. 7 Oct 1796, Sydney Cove NSW, Bap: 28 May 1797, St Phillips Sydney NSW, d. 0 Jul 1798, Sydney NSW, buried: 30 Jul 1798, Old Sydney Burial Ground NSW.
On 4 Aug 1798 his mother Priscilla Loveridge was committed for further exam on suspicion of murdering her infant son “by administering a certain Quantity of Spirituous Liquor”. There was no evidence to incriminate her, but Priscilla was imprisoned for one month in the goal for keeping a riotous and disorderly house and concealing suspected wrongdoers in it. Judge Advocates Office, William Balmain Esq. SRNSW COD 76. Priscilla was 7 months pregnant with her daughter Prudence (1798 – 1816) at the time
Children by William RAYNER:
- Prudence LOVERIDGE b. 11 Oct 1798, Sydney Cove NSW, Bap: 24 Mar 1799, St Phillips Sydney NSW, d. 30 Jul 1816, Sydney NSW, buried: 31 Jul 1816, Old Sydney Burial Ground NSW. The birth of Prudence is the last known record of her mother Priscilla Loveridge in the colony.
Prudence may have attended the Sydney Female Orphan School.
