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Mary Martin was born circa 10 June 1772 in England and died 17 September 1847 Pitt Town, New South Wales, Australia of unspecified causes.

Mary Martin - convict on the Neptune in 1790

Mary Martin was born on 10 June 1773. At age 16, Mary had been indicted of stealing 4s 10d worth of muslin shawls from a shop owner. She was tried at the Old Bailey on 9 September 1789 and sentenced to 7 years transportation to Australia. She sailed from Plymouth on 19 January 1790 and arrived in Port Jackson on 27 June 1790 aboard the second fleet vessel Neptune. More than one third of the convicts died on the voyage. The ship's master Donald Trail deliberately starved the prisoners, kept them in irons and refused access to the decks for the entire five months voyage. On 4 March 1792 Mary married Thomas Smith at Parramatta and bore a daughter Catherine in 1793. She had a son James born in about 1798. Mary next lived on James William Wilbow's farm and married James in 1807.

James moved to Sydney and began a relationship with ex-convict Elizabeth Ship/p (also Shipley) who had arrived on the Northampton in 1815. They had 4 children between 1817 and 1823, two surviving childhood: Margaret and another James.

According to the November 1828 NSW Census, James Wilbow resided on property at Pitt Town with his wife Mary, having returned to his wife after leaving his partner Elizabeth Ship (who died later in 1831).


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Offspring of Thomas Smith and Mary Martin
Name Birth Death Joined with
Catherine Wilbow (1793-1872) 17 June 1793 New South Wales, Australia 1872 Portland, New South Wales, Australia Matthew Andrew Elkin (1780-1834)
James Wilbow (1798-1839) 1798 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia 20 April 1839 Pitt Town, New South Wales, Australia Elizabeth Mitchell (c1802-1882)



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