Tag Archives: Sarah’s grave

Accentuate the positive: 2014

Posted on December 31, 2014 by rebelhand

Happy New Year! Once again Jill Ball at GeniAus has inspired us to look back on the positive things that have happened in our genealogy journeys during the year that’s gone. I took part in the previous two and find … Continue reading →

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The Factory above the Gaol – women convicts in 1818

Posted on March 31, 2012 by rebelhand

When my great-great-great grandmother Sarah Marshall stumbled off the convict transport Friendship on January 14, 1818, she emerged from a traumatic journey of confinement and scurvy which became notorious for ‘indecent and licentious intercourse’ to find herself in an alien … Continue reading →

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Tombstone Tuesday: Sarah’s haunted grave

Posted on November 14, 2011 by rebelhand

At last I’m posting a photograph of the grave of my great-great-great grandmother, Sarah Simpson, who arrived in New South Wales as a convict on the Friendship in 1818. Sarah Marshall, as she was then, was lucky to be sentenced … Continue reading →

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Was Sarah murdered? Is she a famous ghost?

Posted on October 14, 2011 by rebelhand

For a change from thinking about Nicholas, I typed Sarah Marshall into Google. She’s my g-g-g grandmother, a convict who arrived in New South Wales on the Friendship in 1818. She married* John Simpson (Ocean II, arr 1818) and later … Continue reading →

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