BIRTH: IGI Batch: P009631
IGI: AFN: 21JD-LTP Batch: 7007823 / 72 (for sealing to Jane MOULTON)
BURIAL: Tasmanian Pioneers Index - Burials: 1835/4308 Aged 73.
OCCUPATION: Carpenter's Mate upon arrival in Australia aboard the Sirius
(FIRST FLEET)
MARRIAGE: Tasmanian Pioneers Index - Marriages: 1810/63 (Marriage #2: Jane
MOULTON)
BIOGRAPHY: From "Land Grants 1788-1809" (1981):
Jan 3, 1792: Granted 60 acres on the South side of the Cascade Run. Rent: 1
shilling a year commencing after five years.
May 1, 1797: Granted 60 acres on Norfolk Island. Rent 1 shilling per year
after five years from 16 March 1791. "Sold for 100 pounds on 13 Oct 1798 by
the grantee to Arthur Robinson. Sold again by William Mitchell in parcels on
1st November 1802. viz. 10 acres for 18 pounds to Richard Wilson; 5 acres
for 35 pounds to William Hazelwood; 15 acres for 55 pounds to Zacharia
Spoonsfer; 25 acres for 75 pounds to Robert Cox. This grant on which is
endorsed "The grant given by Governor Phillip to be cancelled", torn up on the
5th October 1821. (Signed) F. Goulburn
Aug 26, 1800: Bought 10 acres on Norfolk Island from Samuel King which Samuel
had been granted on 1 May 1797.
BIOGRAPHY: Granted 65 acres at Gloucester, Tasmania in c.1819-1821
BIOGRAPHY: From "The Forgotten Generation"
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p.58 Settlers/landowners. No. 85 status cf. Wm. Hambly p.60 Previous
occuptions of Norfolk Island Residents. (as recorded 1794 for 83 people) --
William Hambley, Gardener.
p.68 Proprietors of Allotments at Norfolk Island. 1796.
Lot no. 45. 60 acres. William Hambly.
p.108 People who boarded H.M.S Porpoise at Norfolk Island. Dec 26 1807 for
the Derwent, Van Diemen's Land. No. 104. William Hambly* * = First
Fleeter..
p.118 The Norfolk Islanders recieved land both up and down the river from
Horbart. Although all settlers are not covered, the following list gives the
geographical distribution of the settlers' holdings.. Clarence Plains/Roaches
Bay. William Hambly.
p.176 General Muster of the whole of the free men, women and children, off
and on the stores in his Majesty,s settlement at Horbart Town, Van Diemens
Land, under the immediate inspection of his honour Lieut. Governor Sorell
assisted by Mr. Actg. Depty. Assist. Commy. General Archer commencing on
the 7 Sept. and ending on 2 Oct. 1818 inclusive. William Hambly cf off N.I.
Res.
BIOGRAPHY: From the Adelaide Advertiser of Nov 20, 1999. Under ISSUES, an
article titled 'Back to our roots' by Dr Tim Flannery he recounts an
incident after the women convicts were allowed ashore for the first time.
'800 convict men tangled with 200 female convicts; "What a scene of whoredom
there was in the convict women's camp," he reads from one historical
account.
As the melee was sorted out, the cabin boy,. (wearing a petticoat), and a
free carpenter and his lady love, a female convict, were frogmarched out of
the settlement.' Flannery does not elaborate further in the article.
BIOGRAPHY: From "The Founders of Australia" by Mollie Gillen (p.157):
William Hambley joined Sirius on 23 Jan 1787 as carpenter's crew from Truro, Cornwall, aged 23.
[William] Hambley had worked as carpenter at Port Jackson from the end of January 1788 and continued his work in the community at Norfolk Island after Sirius was wrecked, receiving payment for this work. Deciding to become a settler at Norfolk Island, he was discharged from Sirius on 7 March 1791, and on 5 march held a lease of 60 acres.
...listed alternately as carpenter and gardener in the community.
[William] Hambley's original grant was cancelled and a new one issued on 29 November 1794 for Lot No. 45.
...elected a member of the Norfolk Island Settlers Society at the end of 1793, and of his 60 acres (50 of them ploughable, the other ten hilly), 17 were cultivated, and he was selling grain to the government.
In May 1794 [William] Hambley rented 22 acres in small lots to three settlers and another grant of 60 acres on 1 May 1797 was sold on 12 October 1798 for 100 pounds. Various land transactions found him classed as a second class settler at 1805 with 21 acres cultivated and 16 hogs. At 2 August 1807 13 of these acres were in grain, seven in pasture for 16 hogs, one acre fallow, and he had 150 bushels of maize in hand.
With the children, he left Norfolk Island for VDL by Porpoise as a first class settler on 26 December 1807. His vacted property consisted of a boarded and floored house (18x12ft.) a log barn, thatched (12x12ft.) and one log outhouse.
At VDL, [William] Hambley took up 65 acres at Gloucester, and (in April 1809) 30 acres at Risdon, Clarence Plains. On 21 December 1810 he married Jane MEECH widow of William MOULTON at Hobart Town. Both [William] Hambley and his son William signed the 1815 petition for a Court of Criminal Judicature at VDL.
[Then from page 200]:
Thomas Jones on July 9 1790 was said to have stolen clothes from William Hambley. He said he had received various articles from Hambley for clearing 80 rods of his land
[From page 208]...bought 10 acres from Samuel King in August 1800.
[From page 248]...in 1802, William Mitchell acquired the 60 acres originally owned by William Hambley.
BIOGRAPHY: William Hambly was a carpenter's crew on the naval ship Sirius, the flagship of the Third Fleet. He was 23 years old and came from Long Reach, Truro, in Cornwall. The ship's carpenter had three mates and 6 crew allocated. His role was to care for the ship's structure and other wooden machinery and keep the ship watertight.