The book was printed in 1985 published by Kangaroo Press.
There is also a photo/drawing of Margaret Catchpole as well, if I can scan
it and send it to you privately, if you would like that as well.
Early Hawkesbury Settlers by Bobbie Hardy
Catchpole, Margaret 1762?-1819
Of lowly Suffolk farmhand origin, small, dark and sturdy, daring with
horses; trained as a domestic and taught to read and write by kindly
mistress Cobbald of Ipswich. She left the Cobbald service before stealing
their horse in May 1797 to ride to London to help her sailor-smuggler
lover, so the story goes. Caught and convicted, she scaled her prison walls
to be reunited with her sailor, it continues; he died on a Suffolk beach in
the course of her recapture: Suffolk 1800, (death) life: Nile 1801.
On board, it is said, she nursed Mrs. Rouse and the baby born at sea.
Association with the Hawkesbury also came of her assignment as cook to
Commissary Palmer's household. She wrote to her relatives in England and to
Mrs. Cobbard, who always remained her friend, describing her status as
Palmer's servant, her good fortune to be mixing with free people, her
constant care to avoid bad company, the marriage proposal refused, her pass
to travel to 'Parormata, towen Gabbey, or Oxberrey'.
She re-established her shipboard connection with the Rouses and became a
midwife to the respectable ladies of Richmond Hill, arranging a wet-nurse
service between them as required. Working for the Rouses in 1805, on
Rouse's appointment to Parramatta, she acts as 'overseer' of their Richmond
farm. She was paid in livestock, and before she finally rented her own
small farm, Mr. Rouse gave her pasturage for her sheep and goats. The 1806
flood saw her sharing a disintegrating house with Mrs. Dight; the she went
to nurse Mrs. Faithfull of the 'very good' Pitt Family that was related to
Lord Nelson. 'Mrs. Pitt' is very fond of me, wrote Margaret modestly. Mrs.
Palmer too had not wanted her to leave, but the work was too hard; one
long, hot walk had made her very ill and 'under doctor Massone's keear'.
'I have a piece of ground and am thinken to build a house'. she told her
uncle and aunt in 1807. If only they could see this place, the wheat in
ear, the loaded peach trees, and yet so wicked! Living alone, she had to
watch her company. She minded some children now and then; a hired man came
in to farm her land. A front tooth was missing but she still looked young,
they said, and she kept supple and nimble. Parcels came from Mrs. Cobbald,
and she in turn sent mountain 'feasants', newspapers, a little 'seddar'
case. Once she walked to Sydney with a package that Mrs. Palmer minded in
her store until it could be shipped.
As land holder at Richmond in 1808 Margaret signed the new year address to
Bligh, but she still had her homesick moments. She was as fearful of
Aboriginals as of snakes; she hated the extremes of heat and cold, the
hailstorms and sandy-blighted eyes, the awful flood of 1809. Terrible it
was, with water over the 'housen', the crying out for boats, 'firen of Guns
in distress... shocken to hear'.
Her own flood losses dashed her hopes of saving to return to England. By
1811 she begun to feel her age, with failing eye sight and all her front
teeth gone. But she still had friends, ' ... such as I have nurse when they
lay in, they Cannot do without me, I am Loked upon very well thank God'.
When pardon came at last in 1814 she no longer aspired to leave the colony,
but opened a little Richmond store, continuing to lend a helping hand when
needed. Her last job was nursing a sick shepherd at the Pitts'; from him
she caught the influenza from which she died.
Sources.
Lynravn, J., ADB, vol. 1; Catchpole letters 1802-11 (Mutch) uncat. Mss 426,
ML; Catchpole papers A 509, ML.
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From: kerry prentice <kerry(a)kprentice.fsnet.co.uk>
To: CATCHPOLE-UK-L(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: Re: [CATCHPOLE-UK] Re: Margaret Catchpole
Date: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 11:47 PM
Hi Ann
Yes ! please do.......
Once I have seen the details of Margaret I will see what I can find on
her.
I have an extensive database on the Catchpole's including several
"Margaret's !
What year was this book written / published ?
Regards
Kerry (list admin)
----- Original Message -----
From: Ann Sayer <saycom(a)bigpond.com>
To: <CATCHPOLE-UK-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Friday, June 21, 2002 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: [CATCHPOLE-UK] Re: Margaret Catchpole
> Hello everyone on the CATCHPOLE mailing list.
> I have a book called Early Hawkesbury Settlers by Bobbie Hardy
> ISBN 0-86417-037-8
>
> Margaret CATCHPOLE is listed in that book. If you would like me to
> copy/type the information that is in the book about Margaret, to the
list,
> let me now and I will do so.
> I have wondered if she was connected to this family.
> Regards Ann
>
>
> ----------
> > From: G & D Pianta <guidop(a)bigpond.com>
> > To: CATCHPOLE-UK-L(a)rootsweb.com
> > Subject: [CATCHPOLE-UK] Re: Margaret Catchpole
> > Date: Thursday, June 20, 2002 3:57 PM
> >
> > Dear Kerry,
> >
> > Do you know if the imfamous Margaret Catchpole (Suffolk) who was
sent
to
> > the colony of NSW in 1801 is connected to our Catchpole Family? Her
> > father's name was John Catchpole and she had a couple of brothers.
> > She is buried in Richmond NSW.
> >
> > Would love to hear from anyone who can enlighten me.
> >
> > Regards
> > Denise Pianta
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "kerry prentice" <kerry(a)kprentice.fsnet.co.uk>
> > To: <CATCHPOLE-UK-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, June 19, 2002 10:20 AM
> > Subject: [CATCHPOLE-UK] Great Whelentham, Parish Records 1557-1850
> >
> >
> > > Great Whelentham, Parish Records 1557-1850
> > >
> > > Baptisms
> > >
> > > 17 May 1719. Abraham son of William & Susan Catchpole
> > >
> > > 26 Feb 1720 Thomas son of William & Susan Catchpole.
> > >
> > > 12 May 1728 William base son of Susan Catchpole widow & William
> Alderton.
> > >
> > > 1 May 1848 Caroline dau. of Thomas & Sarah (Catchpole) Bruce,
domestic
> > servant.
> > >
> > > 23 Jun 1850 Douglas Wallace son of Thomas & Sarah (Catchpole)
Bruce,
> > butler.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Marriages
> > >
> > > 13 Jan 1834 Robert Cox single & Susanna Catchpole single both of
this
> > parish. B.
> > >
> > > 16 Sep 1843 Richard Catchpole, son of John Catchpole, labourer,
> Elizabeth
> > Grimwood, dau. of John Grimwood, shoemaker.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Burials
> > >
> > > 04 Aug 1722 William Catchpole.
> > >
> > > 02 Nov 1728 The widow Catchpole.
> > >
> > > 25 Jul 1728 Rose Catchpole
> > >
> > > 15 Feb. 1730 William Catchpole infant
> > >
> > > 12 Feb 1715 John Catchpole
> > >
> > >
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