Ann Forbes - I6618 - Individual Information - Lynne and Grayemes Genealogy at Kinpendium

Ann Forbes (I6618)

Name:
Ann Forbes
Married Name: Ann Dring

Gender: Female

Birth: C1770
Death: 29 December 1851 Lower Portland Head, NSW

Personal Facts and Details

Notes

Note

Ann has her own website at http://www.annforbes.org/

Born c 1768, Ann Forbes was tried on Thursday morning 5th April 1787 at the Surrey Lent Assizes, which began at Kingston upon Thames on Monday 2nd April before Sir Henry Gould and Sir Alexander Thompson. " Ann Forbes, late of the Parish of St Olave within the Borough of Southwark in the county of Surrey, Spinster, and Lydia Munro, late of the same, Spinster, on the 28th day of October in the 27th year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George 3rd ‎( ie 1786)‎ with force and arms at the Parish aforesaid in the County aforesaid, ten yards of printed Cotton of the value of 20shillings of the goods and chattels of James Rollinson in the shop of the said James Rollinson then and there being found privately and feloniously , did steal take and carry away against the peace of our Lord the King, his Crown and his Dignity."
A brief handwritten note written upon the indictment record, tells us their fate - 'Guilty, No Chattels, To be hanged'. However on the 16th April for Lydia, and the 17th April 1787 for Ann, both girls were reprieved, being sentenced to 14 yrs and 7yrs respectively, transportation. They were sent from New Gaol at Southwark, where they were being held, to Newgate Prison where they joined a group of women being sent to Portsmouth for embarkation on the "Prince of Wales".
The "Prince of Wales", built in The Thames in 1786 weighing 350 tons, was one of the 11 ships of The First Fleet, under the command of Captain Arthur Phillip which set sail on 13th May 1787 to establish a new Penal Settlement at Botany Bay. There were 49 female and one male convicts on board, as well as the new colonys Surveyor-General, 2 Lieutenants and 29 Royal Marines. They arrived in Port Jackson on 28th January 1788.
About January of 1789 Ann Forbes formed an association with George Bannister. A daughter of this union was baptized Sarah Bannister on Sunday 15th November 1789. George Bannister had arrived on the First Fleet per the "Alexander". The stores of food and supplies were becoming desperately short at Port Jackson, so a decision was made to send 116 male, 68 female convicts and 27 children to Norfolk Island. A small group had already established a settlement there on 13th October 1788. Ann Forbes and George Bannister were amongst the group who left Sydney Cove, aboard the "Sirius", on Thursday 4th March 1790. Their daughter Sarah was not part of the contingent, so it is assumed she had died prior to this time.
On Norfolk Island, Ann Forbes formed another relationship, this time with William Dring who also came in the First Fleet per "Alexander". William had arrived on Norfolk Island on 13th October 1788 aboard the "Golden Grove". It is thought that Ann & William married in a mass wedding held on Norfolk Island on 5th November 1791, although no records remain. They had two children on the island, Anne born 1792 and Elizabeth born 30th August 1794. Ann & William returned to Sydney from Norfolk on 6th November 1794 aboard the "Daedalus". Daughter Anne, died on 24th January 1795 whilst another child, Charles Dring, was born to them on 20th August 1796 in Sydney.
On 24th August 1798, Jane F Dring was born to Ann Dring with the father being recorded as unknown. This tells us that Ann & William had separated and adds weight to the thought Ann & William had indeed married on Norfolk Island. It is commonly regarded that Jane was the first child of ten, born to Ann Forbes ‎(Dring)‎ and Thomas Huxley aka Jones. Although Ann & Thomas Huxley spent the remainder of their lives together, they never married.
Ann Forbes ‎(Dring / Huxley)‎ died at the age of 80, on 29th December 1851, most likely at Lower Portland Head and was buried in St Thomas C of E Cemetery at Sackville on 31st December. Ann Forbes was the last of the First Fleet convicts to die in NSW.

Note

The likelyhood of Charles WINDSOR being the father of Charles DRING has been discussed on the Ann Forbes website, but without us being "there" at the time nothing can be confirmed.

http://members.optushome.com.au/myplace/gen/tree/nti/nti00757.html

Notes for Charles Windsor
Charles, an unskilled labourer, enlisted as a private in the New South Wales Corps in London on 18 September 1789 and arrived in Sydney on the transport 'Neptune' in 1790. He went to Norfolk Island on board the 'Kitty' in February 1793. He was ordered 200 lashes in March 1793 for "irregular and disorderly behaviour" , but as the offence was his first, was forgiven. In June 1793 he was ordered 400 lashes for "unsoldier-like behaviour in refusing to come to his Superior Officer, Sergeant Whittle". He received 150 lashes before Lieutenant Abbott remitted the remainder. He was involved in a dispute with William Dring in December 1793. William accused Charles of having an affair with his wife, Ann. Commandant Phillip Gridley King wrote that Dring had 'found Windsor repeatedly connected with his wife'. Dring complained to Leiutenant Abbot who ordered Charles to keep away from Dring's wife. Dring confronted Charles and struck him, this action resulting in him being fined and placed on a good behaviour bond. King blamed Charles' conduct for causing the dispute between emancipist and soldiers which erupted into a near riot on the island on Christmas Day. Charles left Norfolk Island for Sydney aboard 'Francis' in February 1794. He was promoted to corporal about 1748 and, by 1800, to sergeant. He was later demoted and on September 1st 1808, was a corporal a gain, described as 38 years, 4 months, 8' 81/2" in height, dark brown hair, hazel eyes and a long, swarthy complexioned visage. He returned to England with his family when the Corps was recalled in 1810 and took his discharge on July 5, 1812. He was listed as a Chelsea pensioner in 1812 In 1817 he applied for permission for himself and his family to return to the colony. They arrived again on ' Minerva' in 1818 and were living at the Brickfields Sydney in 1822. He was described in 1828 as 56, a labourer employed by William Ikin, innkeeper of Liverpool . He died at Sydney Hospital on April 6th, 1840 and was buried the same day.
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Philip Gidley Kings Private Journals have been transcribed and digitised.

Philip Gidley King - private journal, Vol. 1, 24 October 1786 - 12 January 1789
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=safe1_16/a1296;toc

and
Private journal of Philip Gidley King ‎(Vol. 2: Continuation Of A Daily Journal Of The Transactions & Cc On Norfolk Island In The Pacific Ocean For The Years 1787,1788,1789,1790, with additional material, 1790-1792)‎
http://image.sl.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/ebindshow.pl?doc=safe1_16/a1318;toc

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	Events of close relatives
Birth	C1770
Marriage	5.11.1791 William Dring - Norfolk Island
Occupation	First Fleeter
Death	29 December 1851 Lower Portland Head, NSW
Burial	St Thomas' C of E Cemetery, Sackville, NSW
Last Change	16 July 2006 - 04:45:20 Last changed by: Lynne