BELLETT, Ann

1796 - 1896  (99 years)

• Name	BELLETT, Ann  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	30 Apr 1796	Norfolk Is New South Wales, Australia   [1, 2, 3]
  Christened	18 Mar 1810	Hobart, Van Diemen's Land, Australia   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Died	29 Apr 1896	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia   [1, 2, 3]
  	On April 29, at 170 Liverpool street. the residence of her grandson, Ann Garth, , widow of the late Edward Garth, in the 100th year of her age.
  Buried	1 May 1896	Sandy Bay Cemetery, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia   [1, 2, 3]
  Person ID	I19940	My Genealogy
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023

  
  

  Father	BILLETT, Jacob,   b. 24 Jan 1765, Webs Square, Shoreditch, London, England ,   d. 2 Dec 1813, Hobart, Van Diemens Land, Australia  (Age 48 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	HARPER, Ann Harrison,   b. 10 Sep 1772, Bristol, Somerset, England ,   d. 10 Sep 1842, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 70 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Married	5 Nov 1791	Norfolk Island, Tasmania, Australia   [4]
  Family ID	F3107	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	GARTH JR, Edward George,   b. 1 Sep 1794, Norfolk Island, New South Wales, Australia ,   d. 21 Jul 1873, Sandy Bay, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 78 years)
  Married	4 Nov 1816	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia   [3]
  Children	1. GARTH, Ann,   b. 18 Jun 1817, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 6 May 1867, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 49 years)  [natural]   2. GARTH, Elizabeth,   b. 20 Apr 1820, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 17 Jul 1861  (Age 41 years)  [natural]   3. GARTH, Mary Susan,   b. 19 Jul 1823, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 1848, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 24 years)  [natural]   4. GARTH, William,   b. 24 Dec 1824, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 10 Oct 1894, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 69 years)  [natural]   5. GARTH, John Richard,   b. 28 Nov 1826, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 12 Mar 1878, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 51 years)  [natural]   6. GARTH, Esther Jane,   b. 30 Jan 1829, Hobart Town, Van Dieman's Land, Australia ,   d. 4 Jul 1877, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 48 years)  [natural]   7. GARTH, George Edward,   b. 9 Nov 1830, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 7 Jun 1914, Port Cygnet, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 83 years)  [natural]   8. GARTH, Henry,   b. 28 May 1832, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 30 May 1835, Sorell, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 3 years)  [natural]   9. GARTH, Emma,   b. 17 Nov 1834, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 2 Mar 1894, Spring Bay, Tasmania  (Age 59 years)  [natural]   10. GARTH, Henry,   b. 14 Nov 1836, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 5 Sep 1889, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  (Age 52 years)  [natural]   11. GARTH, Edward,   b. 6 Oct 1838, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. Jun 1918, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia  (Age 79 years)  [natural]   12. GARTH, James William,   b. 26 Apr 1841, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia ,   d. 27 Mar 1870, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia  (Age 28 years)  [natural]
  Last Modified	16 Sep 2023
  Family ID	F1366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  3 September 1808 Norfolk Island 5th Embarkation. Jacob Billet (Bellett) family boarded "City of Edinburgh" for the Derwent, Van Diemens Land. 255 people boarded (plus 4 listed in victualling book) City of Edinburgh The City of Edinburgh was an immigrant ship used to remove settlers and convicts from Norfolk Island to Hobart in 1808. It was not the convict transport later used to ship convicts from Ireland to Australia, a ship of 366 tons which was built at Coringa in 1813. The City of Edinburgh was a ship of upwards of 500 tons burthen. She arrived in Hobart Town on 2 October 1808, under the captaincy of Simeon PATTERSON, carrying 83 settlers and free persons, 39 women, 96 children and 8 male prisoners; a total of 226 persons, comprising 28 families. By all accounts the journey was miserable – cold and wet. The City of Edinburgh in September 1808 carried twenty-eight families to the Derwent, in Van Diemen’s Land, where, according to Governor Bligh, ‘she left them, in a state of wretchedness, almost naked’. (Nobbs, 1988) A letter sent on 23 October 1808 per City of Edinburgh by Lieutenant Governor COLLINS from Hobart to Lieutenant Colonel FOVEAUX in Sydney, who acknowledged receipt on 10 December 1808, stated: … I have now to inform you that, on the 2nd instant, the City of Edinburgh arrived from Norfolk Island, having on board 242 Persons belonging to that Settlement. They arrived in some distress with respect to dry provisions, their passage hither having been longer than they expected at their sailing. Several of the settlers complaining – some, that their property had been plundered on the voyage; others, that it was not forthcoming – I directed an investigation of their claims to be entered into by a bench of magistrates, the result of which is herewith enclosed. It has been found necessary to hold a survey upon some part of the provisions and slop clothing received by this ship, a copy of the report which is likewise enclosed, together with the Commissary’s return of the several articles of Provisions and stores he has received, and a general statement of the inhabitants within the settlement with an account of the time the provisions now in store will last for their support at the established ration … On 10 May 1809, Lieutenant Governor COLLINS sent a letter from Hobart Town to Viscount CASTLEREAGH, London. … In continuation of my former reports to your Lordship on the subject of the evacuation of Norfolk Island, I have the honour to acquaint you that early in the month of October last, a ship, the City of Edinburgh, which had been chartered for the purpose by Major Johnson, arrived here, having on board the greater part of the remaining settlers and inhabitants from that settlement; and as I have reason to suppose I have now received the whole of these people that will be allowed to come here, I beg leave to enclose, for your Lordship’s information, a general return of the numbers landed from the several ships and vessels employed in the removal. Of the settlers there are but very few who are not at this moment occupied in the cultivation of their new farms, and erecting habitations of some kind for their families. The few not so employed are troublesome, discontented characters, who refuse the trifling assistance I can give them, because they cannot obtain the whole to which they have a claim …

  
  

• Sources

  Database online. Record for Ann GARTH http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=13485072972&indiv=try Database online. Record for Jacob BELLETT Database online. Record for Edward Garth http://search.ancestry.com.au/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=pubmembertrees&h=32362388947&indiv=try Database online. Record for Jacob Bellett