Ann Faye
(1754-1843)

 

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1. William Bellamy

Ann Faye

  • Born: 1754, Dublin, Eire, Ireland UK
  • Marriage (1): William Bellamy on 10 Jul 1797 in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia
  • Died: 1843 at age 89 831

  General Notes:

Peter Morris notes:
Anne Faye was tried in May 1795 at Kilmainham Q5, Co. Dublin, Ireland and received a seven-year transportation sentence. The Kilmainham gaol was the prison in the County of Dublin for debtors and felons. The charge had been that she and one Catherine Byrne were guilty of felony on a dwelling-house to the value of 4s 9d. She arrived in Port Jackson on February 11, 1796 aboard the Marquis of Cornwallis.. The ship had sailed from Portsmouth on August 7, 1795 and two days later it departed from Cork with 163 male and 70 female convicts. Her guard, a detachment of the New South Wales Corps … proved unreliable and mutinous.' When a month out to sea 'the master received a note from the prison' advising him that a 'plot to seize the ship had been formed by the prisoners and some of the soldiers'. 'The prisoners plan was to seize the master when he was making one of his weekly inspections of the prison … [and] they were to be killed with their own swords'. The master, however, was informed of the plans and eventually put down the uprising.
Soldiers as well as convicts were involved in the plot and an eye witness later gave this account, which is taken from the surgeon's report: -
"On the 11th September we discovered a most desperate plot formed by the men convicts, who, to the number of one hundred and sixty three, are the most horrid ruffians that ever left the kingdom of Ireland. They were on the point of putting the captain officers, and ship's company to death, when one of them, either through fear of punishment or from a hope of reward, discovered the whole affair. It was a common practice for Capt. Hogan and the officers of the deck to go down and see that their births were clean twice a week, at which time they were to watch an opportunity to seize the captain, surgeon, and such other officers as went down with them, whom they were to put to death with their own swords, and force their way upon deck, where they were to be assisted by the serjeant, corporal, and some of the private soldiers, who were to dispatch the officers upon deck, and also to supply the convicts with arms.
got upon deck the ringleaders, to the number of forty, who, after a severe punishment, confessed the whole. We thought this might put a stop to any further proceedings; but in this we were much mistaken. About two nights after they made an attempt to break out. They began by strangling the man who discovered the plot, whilst the rest were to force down the bulkhead, force their way upon deck, put those not in the plot to death, and take possession of the ship, or die in the attempt. The captain and officers did all in their power to appease them by fair words, and also by threats; but all would not do. They were desperate. Capt. Hogan rushed down the fore hatchway, followed by Mr. Richardson and three more of the officers and myself, armed with a pair of pistols and cutlass each, where began a scene which was not by any means pleasant. We stuck together in the hatchway and discharged our pistols amongst them that were most desperate, who, seeing their comrades drop in several places, soon felt a damp upon their spirits. Their courage failed them, and they called out for quarter. I broke my cutlass in the affray, but met with no accident myself. There were none killed upon the spot, but seven have since died of their wounds. The serjeant (Sergeant Ellis) was severely punished, and is since dead.

The vessel arrived in the colony on February 11 in 1796 and quite soon after Anne was living with a Stephen Tollis and had a child to him, although it died soon after. It should be remembered that it was generally necessary for an unmarried female to have a form of protection and this was the reason for many de-facto relationships. Nevertheless, on July 10, 1797 at St. John's, Parramatta, Anne married William Bellamy and lived with her husband and her four children and their large extended families for the remainder of her life eventually dying on the June 2, 1843.
Her age when she died, as indeed the actual year of her death are somewhat of a mystery. Various documents list her age as being either, 87, 90, 100 or 103. If she was born in 1753 as seems likely she may have been too old to bear the children. A number of family researchers have concluded that the actual person who gave birth to William's off-spring was, in fact, a servant working for him. Nevertheless, it is highly unlikely that we will ever find a satisfactory answer to the mystery.
Notwithstanding, there is a headstone and footstone commemorating Anne Bellamy in St.Patrick's cemetery at North Parramatta and the inscription reads:
Sacred
To the memory of
ANN BELLAMY
Who departed this life
2.d January 1843
aged 100years

The sandstone headstone is (4ft 7ins x 2ft 1in x 4½ins), Norman with cutaway shoulders, decorated with HIS above a Calvary Cross.
The footstone extant: Courtyard R2/10.
The burial register: Anne Bellamy, Pennant Hills, 5-1-1843, 103 yrs.


Ann married William Bellamy on 10 Jul 1797 in Parramatta, Sydney, NSW Australia. (William Bellamy was born in 1772 in London City, Middlesex England and died on 14 Nov 1850 in Pennant Hills, Sydney, NSW Australia 831.)


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